Roosh V warns: “Pussy Inflation is starting to force men out of the market”

I mean, I sure as hell don’t mean that in a “FRIENDZONED OWED BLARGH” kind of way or anything, it just didn’t really mesh with the rest of the movie and glossed over its own message, you know?

Does Esmerelda die in any of the films? Because in the book she’s hanged, thanks to Quasimodo’s mistaken intervention on behalf of the troops who were out to arrest her, not save her, and Quasimodo starves himself to death by her corpse (after pushing Frollo to his death from the tower of Notre Dame). Dark doesn’t begin to describe it.

@ contrapangloss – I think little kid you sounds adorable, actually! What you’ve related here sounds like some of the conversations at my house. And, from a parent’s perspective, there’s lots of worse things to deal with than an intelligent, inquisitive child!

My favourite Disney princess is Merida. She just seems like a believable person, and watching her grow from a wilful teenager into a strong woman is awesome! Brave’s actually a movie about the mother/daughter relationship, and I love to watch it with Little Miss Grump. I didn’t (still don’t) have the greatest relationship with my mom, and I’ve often worried about how that will affect my parenting, especially with regards to my daughter. I also love, love, love the scene where Elinor sees the bad bear about to eat Meida and bursts out of the bonds that she was unable to break before to go all mama bear smash! And, I’m tearing up just talking about it.

I missed the troll, but I’m gonna take a potshot at him anyway. I’m fond of shooting fish in a barrel sometimes.

Now you claim there must be 3 men for every women in MC for what I say to be true, but your premise needs that these 3 men are assigned to each women.

The same 3 men that are courting a woman will be courting another.

So… what you’re saying is that every woman in Mexico City has approximately 3 suitors, and each of those suitors are presumably pursuing ~3 different women. Possibly more, due to the apparently overwhelming number of men who are tragically bowing out of the dating pool.

To sum up, you describe a scenario where women have a shot at 3 men, and men have a shot at 3 women, yet this is a system that is unfairly stacked against men. And it is the fault of the women, who have absolutely no say in what dickwads decide to come after them, and not that of the men, who are the ones ACTUALLY TAKING ACTIONS.

Unless the unfairness you’re implying is that the women might actually turn down their suitors, while the men would jump at the chance at any of their targets. I can see how this might be confusing for you, poor dear. You see, the false dichotomy you’re seeing here is because the men look at ALL the women and pick out a handful that they think they’d like. The women also get to pick the people they might like, and these prefered folks don’t necessarily have to be the same ones as the dudes that come after them. I know, it’s a difficult concept.

Whole lotta Disney content just dropped on Netflix.

We streamed parts of Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 for our kiddos. F2K has a Rhapsody in Blue sequence that just absolutely makes me grin, although it’s got problematic elements (a Walter Mitty character, complete with humorless spendthrift wife and pampered poodle, for one).

Oh, and the Dance of the Hours in the original strikes a blow against the patriarchy! All the dancing ostriches are male, and they’re wearing bows and ribbons and pink ballet slippers. And then, when the rest of the troupe is full of African animals, the elephants are Asian.

The kiddos could take or leave the Fantasias, but when I showed them the original Disney Winnie-the-Pooh they just sat on my lap and watched it reverently. Oh dear.

Back in the old newspapers. From 1920, on the opposite of pussy inflation (dick inflation?)

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article102246805

DO YOU WISH TO MARRY?

The girl of to-day is in a very different position to her pre-war predecessor as re gards matrimony. To begin with she lives, luckily for her, in a franker age, and, therefore, there is no necessity for her to start her grown-up career by loudly announcing that she never means to marry. To-day, if she wishes to marry she says so, and no one is shocked. In the old days people would have wondered if she was ‘quite nice’ had she done that and then decided that she wasn’t. To-day, as I have said, things are different; for one thing there are, as we all know, many fewer men. Then, for another, men and women meet on far more intimate terms than they have ever done before, and a great deal of the illusion both sexes cherished as regards the other has been destroyed, and a good thing, too! But there is another change which it is even more important that the girl of to-day should realise if she wishes to get married, and that is this: In the old days, when a man and a woman married, I think the first conscious step towards that end was generally taken on the part of the man — now I think the position is reversed and it usually occurs on the part of the woman. For example, before the war, man went perhaps to a dance and met a girl he took a fancy to— he cultivated the friendship and ultimately proposed. In that case the initiative was certainly on his part, the girl simply acquiesced. Even in little things the procedure was the same. The man asked the girl to go to a dance or to the theatre — now invitations are issued to the girl ‘and partner,’ and she asks the man. Nowadays, in everything but the actual proposing of marriage, it is the custom for the girl to do the inviting, and as far as the one exception goes I shouldn’t like to say that to all intents and purposes it isn’t by now a pretty empty form. She marries him to-day I fancy far more often than he marries her, and it is only natural, for the sex which is greatly in the minority is bound to be the one pursued. So the girl to-day who takes a fancy to a man had better remember that she won’t go far wrong by letting him see it if she wishes him to propose. I don’t suggest that she should fling herself at head, or write him by every post or in any way make a fool of herself, but it’s no use her doing what girls did in her grandmother’s day and sitting at home waiting for him to ‘come and call’ — be- cause it’s more than likely he won’t come! Men expect encouragement these days. One man I know is very much in love with a pretty girl, but he never goes near her. ‘Why, she’s never taken the slightest notice of me — never even asked me to come and see her!’ he said when I wanted to know why he was so retiring. And that pretty well expresses the matter. He expected Her to take notice of Him — and, no doubt, if she had liked him much she would have. So the girl of to day who wishes to marry had better take that fact to heart. Things have changed, you know, and she must change with them! — ”Woman’s Life.”