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This is a picture of A Voice for Men’s new commemorative coin. No, really, they have a commemorative coin. It was designed by Peter Vinczer, father of A Voice for Men’s Attila Vinczer, possibly — I suspect — with the help of Judy Chicago. The coins cost $58.88, and will be issued in a first edition of 10,000.
In the comments to AVFM’s announcement, six people have proudly announced that they’ve purchased a coin. So get yours quickly, because there are only 9,994 left before the first edition runs out!
The only real question is what exactly is being depicted on the coin:
Is it:
1) An otter in a manhole
2) A man levitating a carrot over a milkshake
3) A vagina
4) A vagina
5) Come on, it’s obviously a vagina
ANSWER: I have no fucking clue. Seriously, I’ve been staring at this for like ten minutes and I have no idea what on earth this could be. What is the round thing? Why is there a tiny hand? If that thing above the circle thing is a raindrop or a teardrop or whatever, why is it upside-down? Why would AVFM issue a goddamn commemorative coin in the first place.
I do know one thing, though: If you can afford to waste $$58.88 on this piece of crap, you are not oppressed in any way. And you should probably have your right to vote stripped from you.
Just kidding about that last bit. You should still be allowed to vote even if you buy vagina coins from a dude named Attila.
Same here. I don’t light candles at all – too sensitive to smoke, too much chance they’d get knocked over, and no reason to light them anyway, earthside. Plus pretty well any candles you buy here are made in China, and I have no confidence that there isn’t lead in the wicks.
I’m also paranoid about starting a fire. You know those “romantic” scenes where they have candles and normally billowing drapes, I just sit there thinking “fire hazard”. And then I don’t notice what’s going on in the scene.
I tend to look at night scenes where everything’s lit by one candle and wonder why anyone bothered to use other forms of lighting when candles are so amazingly powerful. 😛
I’m generally allergic to incense – it sets me off sneezing instantly – but I was in a shop & commented that their incense hadn’t set me off. The owner said that she had heard this from a lot of people and understood it was the impurities in commercial incense. She only stocked very pure ranges. I. wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the same for scented candles and that a lot of the commercial ones are filled with similar impurities to commercial incense,
Hmm… I will look into that, that’s a very useful point.
Wha? Who said what about watching bras?
Ditto, plus having had a fire in my college dorm makes me never want to repeat the experience. LED for me please, when I even use candles. And also, yeah, the scents tend to make my sinuses hurt (as do many perfumes and any smoke, even my beloved campfire smoke). I never used to have these problems, and my allergist thinks it’s ’cause I spent most of my life in the countryside, but you’d think four damn years in the city would be enough time to adjust.
Re Gretchen/Dikotome, her comment as Gretchen was posted first and probably went into moderation, which would explain her second comment (the one in this thread) asking why. Still doesn’t explain the “but I’m a thinking woman!”, the name change, or why she jumped threads to ask, but so far none of that adds up to “troll” to me.
Also, putting MOD in my nym didn’t trigger moderation. But you have the option of changing either your username or your display name, and I chose the latter. Kittehs?
Dunno if the “guess what it is” convo has moved on or not, but I had a sudden realization. Its a condom turned inside out, with the hand ready to sperm jack. Its a symbol of men’s oppression (lol)
Mr. Al was once pretending to be a girl but gave the game away when he excitedly talked about seeing a bra in the dorm laundry room once.
Emilygoddess — if you changed your nym in the admin panel, and kitteh changed hers in the little box below the comment box, then I would imagine WP would mod queue her and not you. Cuz WP (when in doubt, blame wordpress)
RE: Argenti
I think Cassandra’s been here longest, but I have no idea who came first with her, Katz, cloudiah and pecunium.
That sounds about right. I know kirbywarp and emilygoddess predate me too.
(Also, the plants you gave Sneak are doing well! Where did you get those little fertilizer sticks, zie wants to get some for zer other plants.)
I was asking in another thread about getting a scented fucking candle waiver. I think a small stamp that says “sfc waiver” to be stamped on the back of the card would do.
I especially hate candles scented to smell like food, which is unfortunately a thing now. I also get headaches just walking down the laundry detergent aisle at the supermarket.
This makes no sense. It’s not horrible artificial chemicals that give me hayfever – it’s the pure natural flowers. I can believe that whoever designs/makes her incense takes care to choose ingredients that aren’t allergenic, but to say it’s because they are more pure is just silly.
It reminds me of a sign I saw on some pink Himalayan rock salt, saying it was better for you because it was more pure. Er dude – if it were pure it’d be white – it’s the impurities in pink salt that make it pink.
end rant. Sorry, I just don’t like the naturalistic fallacy, especially when it’s used to market things.
I’ve been lurking for years, commenting sporadically as job and family life permit. I found this blog when Ami and Cliff Pervocracy were still commenting and I’m pretty sure Cassandra, Pecunium and Cloudiah were all there. Then I dropped off the radar due to new baby and when I came back, there had been a massive upheaval and a mostly new crowd.
I think the design looks like a puddle of extra-runny diarrhea going down a drain. The hand is throwing a plug into the drain to stop it, just like AVFM exists to keep the mental diarrhea of the MRAs from swirling down the drain of the internet.
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Same here. And my bedroom window is next to five floors worth of dryer exhaust and my neighbors all seem to love extra scented dryer sheets. No, seriously, they make those. They should be illegal along with plug-in air “fresheners.”
I’m fine with scents but it has to be in moderation I guess. Or maybe there are specific ingredients I react poorly to. I’ve never had a problem with using scented candles, shampoo, deodorant or lotion. But if I go into a whole store full of scented stuff, like Bath and Body Works my eyes get runny, red and itchy. The same thing happened when I went to opening night of – this will piss of the trolls – the Sex and the City movie and it was crammed full of women wearing various perfumes and scented products because a lot of people dressed up for it for some reason.
Yeah, I don’t get it either. I don’t get hay fever as badly as I used to, but Spring used to turn me into a snot factory. I’m allergic to most perfumes and perfumed products, but I can handle essential oils just fine.
Yeah, me too. Minus the baby. I missed the mass exodus (possibly because I never figured out how to get on the forums), but there are a lot of regulars I recognize from back then.
In the last few years, Shoppers Drug Mart (humongous pharmacy / beauty / everything chain in Canada) redesigned their stores such that you HAVE to enter through the expensive makeup & perfume section. I hold my breath the whole way in.
emilygoddess – what Argenti said; I just changed my name on the comment box here.
What gets me with Gretchen/dikotome is that I saw her Gretchen comment first, complaining about being modded; checked the pending list and found nothing (ie. no pending comments at all); then later saw her dikotome comment making the same complaint. So where’s the comment that got modded and led to the complaints? It made no sense to me.
Myer in Melbourne (big department store) have done that for years. Not only all the odours, but freaking loud music as well.
I like things that stink pretty.
Incense, candles, perfumes, you name it, I like it. I have to be careful what brand I use, because some of them do irritate my husband’s sinuses, but not all of them bother him. I even rub scented oil into the dogs’ fur after each bath.
I have a friend who is horribly allergic to almost all scents. Perfume, hairspray, carpet cleaners etc. The brand does not matter. The chemical that he’s allergic to is some kind of popular preservative that is found in nearly everything with a scent. Poor guy.
I hold my breath when I walk by Holisters. I cannot handle that stink.
Scents in general don’t bother me too much, and I’m certainly not allergic to any. But smoke – I hate breathing smoke. Irritates my eyes and while I can’t say it triggers an asthma attack, it sure as hell makes my lungs feel like they’re seizing up. Woodsmoke is bad, cigarettes are the worst – I cannot express how much I hate those things. Some idiot on the train the other day had obviously just had one, and REEKED. I spent the whole trip with my scarf over my nose and mouth, trying to block it out.
@Kim: if some of the commercial brands contain extra additives, e.g. to help them stay burning, then it could be that. It could also be the difference in scent chemicals. But I’m really sensitive to certain things, like we buy the cheap soap because all the more expensive ones with their mosturisers etc give me eczema. I also have to be really careful with clothing washing powders – basically avoid anything scented. So I wouldn’t discount the effect being some sort of manufacturing difference.
I know where you’re coming from with respect to the purity comment, but I don’t think any of us are going to argue that most/all forms of incense are “pure”.
Or candles for that matter.
Beeswax or not might make a difference too. I’m OK with scents in general, but even for me whatever it is they put in Axe that’s also sprayed all over certain stores makes my eyes itch and sneezing fits happen.
Also, “watching bras in the laundry” makes me picture someone sitting in front of a dryer at the laundromat, just watching the bras spin round and round.