So Return of Kings, which seems to be working hard at becoming the most abhorrent publication known to man, has a post up by regular contributor “strongsloth” titled 5 Lines That Potential Wives Cannot Cross — that is , five rules that Mr. Sloth thinks men should enforce with any woman they want to make their wife.
These rules are, naturally, horrific. So horrific, in fact, that they essentially provide us with Five Reasons You Should Not Marry, or Date, or Rent Apartments to, or Probably Even Live in the Same City With Anyone Who’s a Fan of Return of Kings.
So let’s go through them one by one. Do not date or marry a ROK fan because:
1) He will insist on being the supreme dictator.
[A]ll decisions about things outside the house are in your sphere. If she wants some responsibility, it’s ok if she chooses how to cook the eggs.
2) He will isolate you from your family and friends. You know, like abusers do.
Just make it clear that her family and friends from before are not important to you. Their opinions do not matter. Don’t spend a lot of time with them. … They will turn on you the moment there are problems between you and your wife. When that happens, the less influence they have the better.
3) He will get you pregnant in order to make you more dependent on him.
Contraceptives and abortion are murder
Why? Immediate children, more children, short gaps between children. These all increase her dependence on you and the loyalty that comes with it. …
If she is marriageable don’t be afraid to make her pregnant before marriage. There is nothing like a baby on the way to increase your bargaining power. … You are helping her by overcoming her female propensity to waste her fertile years on a career, bad boys, and antidepressants.
4) He will insist that you devote all of your time and attention to raising the children that result from his no-contraception or abortion decree.
He will do this in part because he doesn’t want to bother with the hassles of childrearing, and in part because forcing you to be a stay-at-home mother will allow him to restrict your life and control you more effectively:
Being a mother is a full-time job and her first priority. Any work, sport, church, or whatever that she can’t handle just has to go.
He’ll even insist on controlling how long you breastfeed the children:
Breast feeding is good for children and increases her bond with your children, so make her do it for one year. Then make her stop. Otherwise it might delay the next child and make her search for alternatives to being a wife and mother.
5) And last but certainly not least: Because he will rape you.
Under no circumstance can you accept the idea that she gets to choose if or when to satisfy you or choose to sabotage your joint fertility. …
You control the time and frequency of sex, not her. … [A] woman who will deny you sex early on will only use it to gain greater power over you in the long run. …
The obvious exception to this is the first time you have sex. Typically she will control the timing of that for obvious reasons. From the second time onward, any poorly-reasoned denial is a red flag.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s not the real red flag here.
As strongsloth sees it, enforcing these rules will make it impossible for your future wife to ever “stray.”
Just imagine the situation. Wedding. Pregnant. Child born. Full time mother. No career. Breast feeding. Stop breast-feeding. Constant sex. Pregnant again. Repeat. There is little opportunity for her to get away from the children and her commitment to you, let alone consider alternatives to marriage. By the time the youngest child is in school her SMV [Sexual Market Value] relative to yours will have dropped, and you are safer.
You see what I was saying about how hard ROK is trying to become the worst publication in the world?
I couldn’t bring myself to look at the comments.
Nah. Cockroaches take care of their offspring and don’t abuse their mates.
Stomach churning.
Also, Five Reasons ROK Fans Are Single, Will Always Be Single, and Will Definitely Die Alone.
To paraphrase Tolkien, the PUAs can fence themselves in, but they can’t forever fence the world out. That’s why they’re afraid.
@Bina
TW: misogynistic slurs.
I think their obsession with virginity and hymens (which they don’t seem to know much about) has a lot to do with the historical obession with female virginity as a synonym of “purity” somehow.
As if your purity could be defined by something physical that will eventually not be there anymore (or maybe never even was there to begin with).
As for the gag reflex related to deep-throat in oral sex, besides them having a porn overdose, maybe it has to do with their hypothetical thought: “I have such a huge penis that I’m making her gag!”.
Remember that these guys think that their whole identities are somehow reafirmed if they believe they have gigantic dicks. And, no, gigantic dicks don’t equal more pleasure to sexual partners (maybe a slight pain), much less more “manhood” or anything.
But, then again, women are not even human to them, so they couldn’t care less about how “cum dumpsters” feel, right?
I’d pity them if they didn’t represent any real danger and if women were not assaulted all around the world by others like them.
Anyway… where are my “slut rays”?
PS: I apologize for using slurs, most of which were in reference to the every day misogynists.
I meant “obsession” and wrote “obession”. Sorry for that.
Unless, of course, they’re lucky enough to get their own reality TV show like the Duggars to help pay for it all.
And in practice the older daughters get forced to help care for the younger children, because nobody else has time.
Nuh. In societies where many hands make light work, a woman’s fertility is a much more important attribute. Some societies dealt with that by making it easy for a man to divorce an infertile wife or to marry an additional wife.
Other communities had a much simpler solution. A woman was not eligible for marriage until she’d proven her fertility by producing a child. Of course, a lot of these children were the first product of a relationship that was headed towards the long-term anyway. But it certainly removed any doubt that there would be children.
Exactly. Virginity and “purity” aren’t real things here, they’re non-things. They’re states of inexperience that most people pass through, at some point or other. The thing that stands out most in my mind about the time I doffed my own virginity is how, the next day, it felt like NOTHING had really changed. I was still the same old me, I didn’t feel “defiled” (a little let down by how passionate and exciting it wasn’t, maybe, but not “impure”), and I wasn’t even walking funny. Nobody would know, to look at me, that I had reached what is supposed to be such a huge turning point or milestone. It wasn’t, really — and that was the great revelation behind it all. I ended up breaking up with the guy a year and a half later, and to this day, I don’t miss him. Even though he dumped me, I didn’t pine, and in fact I got back in the saddle before he did. All the things they think happen when a woman has her first PIV…didn’t, with me. I wasn’t tainted, I wasn’t marked for life, I don’t feel any attachment to him at all. In fact, the next time I saw him, a couple of years after the breakup, I didn’t even recognize him! He had prematurely aged, a LOT. And meanwhile, I still looked more or less the same.
I guess having sex doesn’t change a woman as much as it does a man. Or as much as some men would like to think it does. Ha, ha.
Wait, lots of children will prevent antidepressant abuse, have these guys never heard of postnatal depression?
Elektra Kenway,
Yup.
They also don’t seem to know much about fellatio. It’s almost as if they haven’t been on the receiving end of it all that much (or never thought to consult the givers) and have not even bothered to read up on it. The entirety of their sexual education seems to come from porn. When you make claims about vagina size, spunk facials or how fellatio works that are patently untrue, it’s pretty telling.
I’m not virgin shaming. There are well informed virgins who know plenty about sex. It isn’t like information on getting it on is kept in a locked vault on top of a mountain that only sexually active people can reach. But these guys seem to know as much about sex as they do about history and science: Nothing.
They seem to think all oral is deep throating, all women start with the same level of sensitivity to their gag reflex, which always gets duller with every beej, more sexual experience automatically means more lovers and oral can only happen in one position.
That’s alot of wrong.
mildlymagnificent,
There are also tribes today that value a pregnant woman as a bride over one who is not.
I think I’m thinking of the Mek.
It was one of the tribes from the “Living with the…” series.
Wow, these guys must be the saddest fucks in the whole world. They’re so scared of women — and scared women will judge their dicks.
Elektra – slut rays makes me think of a truly awesome super science weapon. “General! The enemy has deployed the Slut Ray! Our troops are rutting uncontrollably!”
These bozos are absolutely terrified by the thought of someone female considering them less than godlike. What goes wrong in your life that you turn out like that? Could a constant input of cultural pressure telling you that you are, in fact, godlike be a factor?
Odd that they seem to be unaware of the superstition among men that celibacy i the only way to maintain their power. Everyone from fantasy writers to priests to boxers practice this superstition.
Which, in turn, reminds me of this song:
“Initiating slut mode, all space cadets on deck–
There’s a calculator in my pocket, got you all in check!”
All the scenarios mentioned in that article would be anyone’s worst nightmare.
In other sexism news, a male news presenter wears the same suit for over a year to see if people would notice and criticize, the way his female colleagues’ clothes was critiqued. They did not. He was inspired by a tabloid publishing photos of a female friend of his wearing casual clothes… because.
http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/karl-stefanovics-sexism-experiment-today-presenter-wears-same-suit-for-a-year-20141115-11ncdz.html
PUAs want a “high value female”…who they will then proceed to abuse and mistreat as if she had zero value. Yes, that makes perfect logical sense. I know the first thing I do after acquiring a Rembrandt is to deface it, then stick it in a drawer. Stupid HB10 painting, thinks it’s so great? I’ll show it!
When you lavish more TLC on your toaster than your wife, something has gone deeply wrong with your life choices. “Asshole” is not a synonym for “manhood”.
Robert, you owe me a new keyboard!
Teeth in vaginas is too standard–see if you can get them to believe that feminists are seducing men and surprise! sticking razor blades up there instead. Hits all the standard mra fears. (Oh work in how it’s a plot to get paternity money and you have a solid meme.)
The US government actually did try to create a slut ray:
http://gizmodo.com/the-u-s-military-once-proposed-a-gay-bomb-1443813176
Only with added homophobia.
On the other hand, the would have studied cats and tried to weaponize the sleep rays that certain cats put out. Now that would be a non-violent weapon.
On the other hand, THEY COULD have studied cats. Cats are experts at sleep rays.
Why would they bother with game once they’ve harnessed the broodmare?
I would just like to point out that apart from the vetting process (which involves a literal vet), the lives of broodmares bare little resemblance to what these assholes propose. The social dynamics of horses is such that the mare has the final say in reproduction, which is potentially incredibly dangerous to the stallion. Before expensive studs are ever presented to the mare, a “teaser” stallion is used (the poor beta!) to make sure she’s receptive to the real deal, but ultimately it’s her decision to allow him near her or not. Plus, everybody knows that a good mare is more valuable than a good stud because she can only have a dozen or so foals at most, whereas the stallion can have hundreds. I suppose it says a lot that the go-to analogy animal for abused housewives is actually treated BETTER than them…
Asshats like these make me long for the invention of an artificial womb. They can have all the male babies they want (and raise them) without having to bother icky, evil women! In fact, they could really go their own damn way and found a dudes-only colony. Maybe on another planet! I think I need to reread Ethan of Athos…