I found this amazing pic of “Husband Libber” Harry Britton posted to the Blue Pill subreddit; it was taken in 1972 by the father of Blue Piller smileybird.
According to Cape Girardeau History and Photos, which has another pic of him,
New York Magazine wrote that he was a fixture who had been supporting himself wearing placards, carrying signs and selling his leaflets for 25 cents each for several years. “Harry makes only $2,000 a year [roughly $12,000 today –DF]. He’s not in this for the money, though; he says his only goal is reconciliation with his wife, from whom he is, not surprisingly, separated.”
Another account said he was the “president (and probably sole member) of the National Association of Dissatisfied Husbands subsisting on sales of publications extolling ‘Husband Lib.(‘It’s not men’s lib,it’s Husband Lib. The Bachelors are not oppressed yet’).”
Here’s that pic, and a couple of others; thanks to SquashedBananas in the Blue Pill for tracking all this down. (And thanks to the reader who emailed me about all this.)
I would like to nominate management science as a field where two words bearing no relationship to each other in theory or practice have been put together. Today’s contribution: http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/10341196/Do-men-or-women-have-bigger-egos
Another example of a male with Dr in front of his name pulling out assfax and trying to pass them off as objective.
*arsefacts. I tried the US spelling and it stuffs me up. Back to NZ spelling!
Because the workplace is clearly like high school! Actually, not even high school, but a bad imitation of a John Hughes movie.
I also dig the “woman screaming at laptop” stock photos. 😆
Right… the men would have accepted a woman getting a perk they were denied. Just glanced at it and shrugged.
Pull the other one, it’s got bells on.
I was born the year JFK was murdered.
IT’S ALL OUR FAULT
I got my first period on my dad’s birthday which is also the anniversary of John Lennon’s death. Therefore my menses was even more misandrist than usual, right?
Or maybe I shouldn’t post while drunk, stoned and up all night.
I remember my parents helping to vote Reagan in…
For their trouble? Reagan allowed the domestic steel industry to collapse, and guess where my parents had just mortgaged a house at? Ohio river valley, steel country.
Though exporting jobs has been totally bipartisan. Considering that the poorer we get, the less stuff we can buy? Eviscerating the middle class is a really dumb move on the part of the elites. I don’t blame baby boomers so much…it’s not the 1%, it’s the .1% that is really causing the problem.
My ex pointed out that after ww2 we were unusually prosperous because we got to rebuild Europe. To that I add domestic oil production peaked in 1970.
That latter’s a really big deal the more you think about exactly how vital petroleum is.
Hey wait, um, feminism…I think men scapegoat feminism for their losses in some cases. The fact is that rich elites, predominately white males, made the decisions that are making most peoples’ lives a lot harder. Not women.
Ok, sleepy time.
@Sarah,
Ooh, I just assumed he was approving of the message. But I like the idea that he was being a champion hipster: ~ironically~ appreciating men’s lib before all those stupid Red Pillers even heard of it.
Many rae,
Thank you. I just cringe now when I think of what I put up with. I had such a low self image.
Argh,
I can’t even when it comes to talking about student loans, healthcare, kids ready to go into college, the lack of decent jobs and what the future holds. I just know I’m pretty screwed no matter what happens at this point in my life. I just make the best of it and don’t worry, but I know how bad it is. The way things stand now are not so great financially and I do not foresee them getting better. At one time we thought we might get ahead, but a series of unfortunate events, including Hubby having jobs for businesses that either moved away or sold to companies that did not want to keep the existing staff, killed those hopes. You can only go back to square one so many times and still hope to get ahead. We’re always one or two financial hiccups away from disaster. As much as we struggle now, I’m pretty sure these are the best days of our lives. At least we have access to healthcare now. That’s a major boon.
I wish we could afford to leave this area, but the cost of living being low is how we’re making it and we will never be able to afford to move. The economy here is dismal. In my neighborhood, house after house sits empty from foreclosures, bringing the resell value of our house steadily down. Ice storm damage can still be seen and people are still living in homes with tarps pulled over the holes in their roofs. This tells me how hard those families are struggling. Some of the fallen trees from years ago were only just removed by the city this spring. Schools cannot afford to ask back some of their teachers. Hospitals are laying off award winning staff, overworking the bare bones staff that is left, DCBS is understaffed in the extreme and the plans to build a marina on the river for rich people’s yachts is still going forward. Priorities! Gotta entertain those rich folks!
Meanwhile homeless people live in a tent city in a little clump of woods right here in our small town. Occasionally the cops try to throw them out, but the guy who owns the little plot of land and a small volunteer ministry won’t have it. Even H4H homes have been foreclosed on. At least we have a roof over our heads. We’ll never take a family vacation. We’ll never be out of debt or know financial security, but we’re the lucky ones. It’s the next generation I worry about.
Lee,
I was born in 77 too and IM not pushing forty! Am not! Am not! Am not! ::plugs ears and shouts”la la la can’t hear you!”::
*emmy Rae. Sorry. I didn’t catch that agouti correct.
I was born one week after Nixon resigned. Does that make me good or bad?
This also means I’ll be 40 in two weeks, so yeah, Nitram, you don’t know what “pushing 40” means quite yet. 🙂
Is this site serious? I came here thinking it was a group of intellectual people.I was obviously wrong.
Is this latest troll trying at all? I read the comment thinking it might have a troll score of greater than 3 out of 10. I was obviously wrong.
Troll is surprised that people on a misogyny mocking site are mocking misogyny? Why, I do declare! I have never heard that before. So exciting and original!
I don’t know how intellectual I am but I do have enough fancy book learning to know that after a sentence ending punctuation mark you’re supposed to hit the space bar twice. So there’s that.
I am cut to the emotional core that random troll considers me not intellectual. The pain, it hurts so bad.
This is an intellectual site. We simply engage in high-quality mocking of people who think they are god’s gift to the life of the mind.
IMO, snark is as serious as you can get.
Believe it or not, I don’t utilise sites dedicated to mockery, snark and teh lulz for SRS INTELLECTUAL BSNS. I had to send to the ER someone in acute renal failure and someone else dying of cholangiocarcinoma yesterday. I needn’t anymore serious business today, thank you!
Right? If I was an oligarch, I’d want the masses to be too content and focused on their small lives to pay any attention to what I was doing with my unlimited power. I’d be providing all kinds of free benefits and perks to keep them happy and distracted, and consider it an investment in maintaining social order and therefore my unlimited power. (Aren’t you all grateful I use my power for good instead of evil?)
The current tools seem to get some kind of psychosexual charge out of inflicting unnecessary pain on people, in addition to stealing all our money and rights.
Sooner or later, a line will be crossed, and a HUGE NUMBER of people with nothing left to lose are going to take violent exception to the shenanigans of the 1%.
Men’s rights wasn’t necessary in the 1970s. Now we are in a time in which it is- and that’s the difference.
Just because I’m procrastinating at taking a shower (don’t ask), tell me, Woody. What rights do men need that they don’t currently have?
That’s nice, Woody.
Oh, look, it’s Woofy again. I guess Paul still didn’t give him a bone to chew on.