A We Hunted the Mammoth reader was inspired by this post yesterday to do a dramatic reading of one of the more melodramatic 8chan posts from my list of 22. I’ve pasted the original screenshot of the post below if you would like to read along.
Enjoy!
RAAAAAAAAAGGHHHHH!!!!!11!!!
@Nequam That is a hilarious/scary thought. I’m now super curious if any of the MRAs actually have made tracts to hand out or just leave them around grocery stores like evangelicals or anti-choicers do.
So this is about Republican conspiracy/asswipery, not New Misogynist conspiracy shit, but i thought you’d all get a kick out of this:
http://i.imgur.com/b85Csed.png
It is from my facebook feed. It is connected somehow to Clint Didier, who is a Teaparty extremist, and one of two Republicans on the ballot to represent me to congress (at least the state gov is deep blue, but still).
Actually, I do pledge to vote: I pledge to vote against Didier, and as blue as possible.
Nequam:
Beware of being the neckbeard when there’s nothing left to shave.
@ wordsp1nner – that’s really funny, because my Christian Biblical-literalist brother and his family get really freaked out when someone says ‘Bless you’ when someone sneezes for some obscure ‘we’re really doing the Lord’s will not like the rest of you heathens’ reason that I don’t grok. They also don’t celebrate birthdays, Christmas, New Year’s, Thanksgiving, or Halloween because PAGANS!!!!11!!!1
Because I’m an ass, I always say ‘Bless you’ when one of them sneezes.
@boobury: I suspect it’d take more effort than they’re willing to put in. And given what their infographics and such look like, it’d make a Chick tract look like Watchmen.
I’ll bet that quote would be even more impressive done in an Elmer Fudd voice. “The fiwah wiw neva stop buwning”
wordsp1nner: I looked at that and thought it was a healthcare thing at first.
@katz,
The irony there is that the candidate associated with that… thing is promoting his promise to repeal Obamacare. Yeah.
Also OT, but Shaenon Garrity, brilliant artist and Mammotheer, is doing and episode-by-episode illustrated recap of the X-Files. One of them involves the phrase “Death Neg.”
http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/2012/09/14/09142012/
And now I need to go watch the X-files.
Thus Spake Zarawordsp1nner:
This is absolutely the best thing of any kind ever. Thanks!
@wordspinner: Thanks for that link. Oh man, early season X-Files. Wow.
Also, props for using slang I first heard about in For Better or For Worse:
She’s roadside.
More Shaenon goodness: Gamergate edition!
http://www.shaenon.com/ladygaming.html
http://www.shaenon.com/ladygaming2.html
wordsp1nner,
What is that meme even supposed to mean? Is it saying evil atheist Muslim Democrats will no longer allow people to say “bless you” because war on Christmas?
Why then are they showing a picture of a girl who ostensibly just sneezed? She’s not the one who should be saying “bless you.”
Also, it’s my understanding that the saying predates Christianity. It used to be that people were afraid your soul left your body when you sneezed and was left vulnerable to possession by evil spirits so they would say something to ward them off. My high school Latin teacher told us that. She would say “abesit omen” (not sure I spelled that correctly) whenever someone sneezed in class. Why people are still so attached to saying “bless you” when someone sneezes is beyond me. It’s not like anyone really believes sneezing puts you in danger of possession anymore.
I think the ad is trying to say that if the EBIL SECULAR DEMONCRAPS run the country, schoolchildren will not be allowed to acknowledge God in school, even to say the rote post-sneeze ritual even third-generation secularists like my Mom use.
Which, now that I think about it, the ad is weird because if she’s sneezing, she should be saying “Excuse me.” Or “‘scuzeme”.
Personally, I think it is just a weird social ritual everyone does because they’ve always done it. As weird social rituals go, it is pretty harmless and makes a social occasion out of bodily functions.
I like it when people say “bless you” after a belch or fart instead of or in addition to after a sneeze.
But yeah, I’m quite far left politically and an atheist and secularist and even I have no desire to see “bless you” banned. That’s just silly.
It’s irrational tribalist fearmongering. The political campaigns pushing that particular flavor of manure know it’s bollocks; the jury’s out on whether the target audience is credulous enough to believe it, or whether they just pretend to believe it because feeling hard done by is the sweetest of drugs.
I thought these guys had their identity too heavily tied up in video games. Now I know they think they’re actually in one.
I say “bless you” when people give me coffee. They seem to find that a little strange, but I mean it from the bottom of my heart.
Ahahahaha! I am dying laughing. Haha. I love how women’s issues are all just people whining about nothing but they’re so very concerned if someone gives a good or bad review of a video game and it’s soooo epically important. Life or death of the new GTA gets 4 or 5 stars. Give me a break.
So, um… apparently gamergate made themselves a Nazi mascot? https://t.co/JMFxrsbHKi
Of course she’s a Nazi but also a Japanese schoolgirl (as explained in the comments). 4chan’s eternal struggle not to be mocked as completely fucking ridiculous by the rest of the internet is real.
You’re losing, guys.
And they’re already swapping ideas of porn scenarios for her and Vivian James. Colour me unsurprised. Gamergate, you suck.
“Porn that we made ourselves of these two presumably underage girls that we created to fap to totally represents how the public should see us.”
Yeah, actually, it pretty much does.
But they’re totally for equality, guize. No misogyny here. /ahem
No racism either.
I started reading the comments on Katz’s link. Don’t read the comments. Was there a vomit fountain around here? I need it.