In a sort of rebuke to men who complain that they’re “too big” to wear condoms, one Swedish gal pulled a condom over her leg and up nearly to her knee, and posted a pic documenting this feat to Instagram. This pic:
Naturally, some men have reacted with outrage. When the pic was posted recently on WomensRightsNews, a host of dudes popped up in the comments to point out that not all men are comfortable in regular sized condoms. (Uh, I’m pretty sure that’s why they make bigger sizes, dudes.)
And then there was this guy.
Yes, this is his response to a picture of a woman’s leg with a condom stretched over it.
But as it turns out, he was just getting started. Responding to one commenter who took issue with his, er, analysis, he spat forth these giant gobs of text. I won’t summarize them, because, honestly, my eyes glazed over after about the third word in ALL CAPS.
Another commenter raised an interesting point:
Huh. That must be a reference to the legendary Agent Orange files. I guess Jayme is a reader of A Voice for Men?
He then moved on to some, er, art criticism, I guess?
For what it’s worth, dude, Andy Warhol made a painting using his own semen, as did Marcel Duchamp. And this guy made a portrait of Justin Bieber out of other people’s pubic hair. So go wild, dude, stick wool up your urethra in the name of dude art!
Jayme then went on to address the wage gap issue, and then that whole “turning men into nothing more than egg fertilizers” thing that is apparently the grand aim of feminism.
I just have a couple of questions.
How exactly did Jayme Crandall become a “Top Commenter?” I think something might have gone wrong with the selection process here.
Also, why are so many angry dudes reading something called WomensRightsNews?
Ok, that’s last question was a joke. OF COURSE angry dudes are reading WomensRightsNews. Hell, there’s probably no more effective way to reel in the angry dude demographic than to mention feminism online. They are drawn to articles about feminism with the same powerful mystical force that draws cats to paper bags:
H/T — Sunnysombrera, who posted a link to this whole wondrous discussion in the comments here. Thanks!
Too big huh?
Bullshit. We used them as emergency water carriers as well as a “piss jug” during winter warfare. Pee in condom, tie off, throw out of tent to freeze, pick up in morning.
I was going to comment on the subject of the post, but my brain melted at ‘portrait of Justin Bieber out of other people’s pubic hair’.
Because wherever three women are, there an MRA is also.
They imagine they are some badass brooding vigilante, crashing through warehouse windows to bust up secret feminist hate meetings, their battle cry intended to shake women to their bones: “NOT ALL MEN!!”
But really they’re just sea-lioning and it’s kind of sad.
You know, women who don’t want to become pregnant probably should use IUDs. I am pro-IUD for women who don’t want kids (at all, or right now). That doesn’t exempt men from using condoms. Condoms are for more than birth control, fool. They also inhibit the transmission of most STDs, in both directions.
Hmm, someone should hand one of those portable cat traps to Jayme so he can breath into it a few times and calm down.
I wonder if anyone on that comment thread raised the fact that condoms aren’t just to protect against unwanted pregnancy, but they are also the most effective protection against STIs?
Wait a minute, I thought is was us feminists who had no sense of humor.
I love how he claims, with absolutely no sense of irony, that women who don’t have children don’t experience wage gaps. Yep, no problems here!
O_O
How would you even go about obtaining other people’s pubic hair? Wouldn’t it be much easier to use your own? “Hey, could I get some of your pubic hair? What? I need it for a portrait of Justin Bieber! Hey, where are you going?”
As for the subject of the post, I can’t even. Sometimes you just need to sit back and gaze at the marvelous rage-fueled train wreck before you.
In today’s world, a man who tells a woman to be safe and to not get raped is a “rape apologist, victim blamer”
I mean, look at this. He even uses the words “get raped” and yet somehow can’t imagine why telling someone to not have something be done to them by someone else they cannot control is a bad thing.
Kirbywarp:
Once you’re willing to suffer the embarrassment of asking, socially awkward questions like that aren’t that hard. It’s not like it’s going to kill you.
If you’re going to make a public art display out of them, you have to be confident enough in your ideas to talk to people about them.
Aww, my blockquotes ran away. 🙁
@ikanreed:
I guess…
It’s hilarious that he whines about men working themselves to death to provide for their children (because apparently mothers don’t work hard at all ) in response to a woman demonstrating that there’s a condom to fit every penis. Apparently both pregnancy and pregnancy prevention are misandry.
“The so called ‘wage gap’ is largely caused by the fact that in nearly every corner of the world, childcare is unpaid drudge-work that is almost universally considered women’s responsibility. We also refuse to do anything about this, because biotruths and freedum. Ergo, there is no wage gap.”
“Also, in unrelated news, women who get divorced and are granted spousal support are proof that society gives women cash and prizes for no reason.”
“and daresay, aborted fetuses and miscarriages”
Yes, because most women definitely have multiple abortions and miscarriages per month. Does this guy have any idea whatsoever how a uterus even works?
You would figure the types of people who rage against child support and advocate for a man’a ability to disown a an unwanted pregnancy would be all about any birth control they could get their hands on.
But nope. Safe sex is MISANDRY!
So much concentrated fail….
I can’t comment on the fool who threw some sort of hissy as I couldn’t even make it through his posts, but there is a problem with the idea of one-size-fits-all condoms. And before you say “well buy the bigger sizes, dumbass”, larger sized condoms are largely a marketing ploy and are the same girth at the base and usually not much longer than regular sized condoms.
I can’t comment much on the comfort of too tight condoms as I’m a woman, but i can say that it seemed to be genuinely uncomfortable for the guy. The condom would start out fine and then tighten up as we went along, and then if we ignored it, the condom would snap. I thought we were doing something wrong, or not using enough lube, or the wrong kind of lube, but when I researched this I found out this was actually a thing. Just because you can fit a condom over your head doesn’t mean that it will be comfortable to do so or that it won’t be more likely to break or tear.
Of course, the issue is that some men just don’t like being told “no glove, no love”. Reproductive coercion is a real problem for women. As for my partner and I, we eventually found that female condoms worked well for us.
Anyone else think it hysterical that Jayme’s (or whatever the fuck his name is) misogynist rants are now a public record, complete with his picture, and existing in perpetuity through the magic of screen caps?
Maaaaan, I would LOVE to be a fly in the wall during his next job interview. Heh. Heh. Heh.
I went to an art exhibit once where the artist used hair from her husband’s legs in some of the pieces. None were of Justin Bieber, though.
This is why I so highly value moderated comments sections.
Policy of Madness:
It’s so weird to me that so many men are apparently so cavalier about their own sexual health that they genuinely don’t understand that condoms are not just for contraception. Maybe it’s because the “sex will make you a dirty infected slut!” narrative is directed more pointedly at young girls, so we learn to become more paranoid about our sexual health from a young age?
Story time:
Once upon a time, I had a one night stand with a guy who kept complaining about how he “didn’t like condoms” as though this was a relevant piece of information that might make me willing to risk pregnancy with someone I had met less than eight hours ago. I was pretty bluntly like “Well, I don’t like getting pregnant, so we’re using condoms.” We woke up later in the night and started making out again, and then I realised he was trying to enter me and asked if he’d put a condom on. His response was “um… well… no.” To which my response was a resounding “WTF DUDE!?” Like, whatever about having literally no respect for my body or clearly-stated boundaries, do you not even care about your own penis health? Once again, we had met earlier that day. He knew nothing about my sexual history. For all he knew, I was letting random guys pressure me into having condomless sex every other weekend.
In any case, no more sex was had that night and I kicked him out pretty early the next day.
But seriously, dudes of the world, what the hell? CONDOMS EXISTS FOR YOUR PROTECTION TOO.
As is your questioning of their reasoning.
Oh, thanks to sunnysombrera, who posteed Jayme’s first quote in another thread here. (Sunnysombrera, I’ll happily add that to the post if you’d like.)
And the pube guy apparently asked his fans on YouTube to send him their pubes (he does videos of himself making art on youtube, I guess).
I am constantly marvelling nowadays, in a depressed, wtf kind of way, at how a lost soul, a person with no direction, no way to get engaged with life, an empty vessel if you like, can be manipulated to the point of such foaming frenzy over…nothing…nothing real. A made up, fad of an enemy, the great hordes of spectral ‘feminazis’. How bored I am with that silly portmanteau word. But at least they can tell themselves they used a word with 3 syllables
And I hear men say all the time that they don’t mind the sensible moderate feminists who just want equal pay (so big of them to give us permission) but won’t stand for those extreme feminists who want to dominate men. I have been a feminist for many decades now, even as a child, yet I have never met a single woman who expressed such a thing. Nor anything like it.
They are children who want to scare themselves for a bit of excitement. Or like the kids that used to cry too long in the playground when they fell over because the teachers would fuss over them. And I clearly remember noticing, as a child at primary school, that it was always the boys who pulled that trick. It intrigued me. I used to do the opposite.
Paul Elam is living off women. He is a pimp of sorts. His ‘partner’ (am presuming female, but not necessarily) is ‘supportive’ and at his age writing stuff to stoke the aimless indeterminate frenzies of lost young men like this is his last gasp at a ‘job’ to make enough money for his old age. He’s trapped. What else is there for him? But this is one of his many victims. well, him and many other glory-hunting men.
I too am slowly losing the ability to react to this wailing from the depths of nowhere.
You called?
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My favorite post is where he claims he is “not bitter.”