My post yesterday about #HowToSpotAFeminist— which is still going — didn’t even begin to scratch the surface of the ugliness and absurdity of the hashtag.
So here are some more brilliant insights from the antifeminist squad, including blatant transphobia, rape jokes, shout-outs to Elliot Rodger, several honest-to-goodness “we hunted the mammoths,” and a truly astounding lack of self-awareness.
https://twitter.com/Sizzle75Ian/status/596287503579025408
https://twitter.com/TheDrMindbender/status/595728017722322946
https://twitter.com/ShawnJames_25/status/595696763740237824
Calls men dicks all day long, gets all cunty and cunthurt when called a cunt. #HowToSpotAFeminist
— Andrew DiKaiomata (@Dikaiomata) May 7, 2015
https://twitter.com/SuperiorTrigg/status/596015203919224832
https://twitter.com/Sizzle75Ian/status/596147931540926464
https://twitter.com/SiliconNooB/status/596291360098914305
#HowToSpotAFeminist shaming men's physical needs and power while destroying him with her emotional needs and strength.
— ن Washingtons Ghost (@ValiantDefender) May 5, 2015
https://twitter.com/gopthinking/status/595814972128665602
https://twitter.com/Sizzle75Ian/status/595923385089032192
https://twitter.com/ElizabethHobso6/status/596300196998455297
https://twitter.com/USAlady21/status/595791578121281537
https://twitter.com/MylesLive_/status/595705095133757440
#HowToSpotAFeminist They Dont Suck Your Dick They Just Bitch About Shit
— FuckHerInTheAss (@CancerForPres) May 6, 2015
#HowToSpotAFeminist They didn't help build the skyscraper but think they deserve an office at the top.
— Cocaine Bear Bob. (@FunBobFatPants) May 6, 2015
look for pussy so #rekt her stepdad doesnt even want it anymore
— Bisex Master (@bisex_master) May 6, 2015
https://twitter.com/BrandonOhler/status/596069571527737344
Ask him, I hear he knows pic.twitter.com/AtiiAu9I0i
— Bisex Master (@bisex_master) May 6, 2015
https://twitter.com/KnightFlat/status/595772499167698945
https://twitter.com/Synthovine/status/595759400020742144
I don’t about the UK, but in the US the more taxes are cut and the more deregulation there is, the more huge corporations benefit and are able to squeeze local/smaller business out. The main thing that hurts small business is lack of demand for what they’re selling. Low taxes are a deadly siren song used to lure small business owners and middle class people into supporting policy that only benefits the super wealthy. This stuff is why income inequality and poverty are so much higher in the US and UK than they are in the wealthier countries who never had a Thatcher/Reagan revolution.
Awwww. The first white doggy looks like one of my doggies. Such a face! Mine is currently laying on her back with her feet in the air hoping I’ll notice that there is an unrubbed belly at my feet.
I needed that. Wow. So much stupid. So much hate. I honestly hope it eats at them from the inside out.
Yeah, most of my comments are a bit long-winded, but this time…
I can’t. I just can’t even.
Is there a sound effect for laughcrypunch?
@WWTH
I’ve found that even with strict tax laws in place the mega-companies have the resources to find loopholes. Not so much for smaller ones. But you make a good point. On that note, out of curiosity, how much Competition Law does the USA have? http://www.out-law.com/page-5811 In the UK there are laws against abusing your place of market dominance.
I guess I also just haven’t forgiven Labour for plunging the country into debt last time they were in power – and by the looks of the polls, I guess I’m not alone. When it came to the previous election the two parties had two clear, different plans for getting back into the black. Tories wanted to cut government spending while Labour wanted to increase taxes. The public chose to cut spending. This time, even though a lot of people don’t like Cameron (and I admit someone else could do a better job) I guess they trust Miliband even less? I don’t know, I obviously can’t speak for the voters.
UK election – I’m with the “pretty pissed off right now” group. I may facepalm at some of Labour’s decisions, but I have a firm Nope for the party that punishes the weak in the name of “the economy”, then offers to take us out of the EU.
We have antitrust laws but they’re not always well enforced. I don’t know. The US voters have been picking low taxes for awhile and things just get progressively shittier.
Don’t look at me, I didn’t vote. And if I had I would have chosen the Lib Dems anyway.
That said I don’t want us to leave the EU. D:
@David
If you want to give me credit, that would be great. Thanks!
The candidate from his party in Boxtrowe also lost spectacularly (with only 63 votes).
http://www.nottinghampost.com/Election-2015-Anna-Soubry-speaks-delight-Broxtowe/story-26463992-detail/story.html
I vaguely remember there being one other candidate from the party in Nottinghamshire, but I can’t find it and I don’t recall the exact location.
I’m really curious to see how Mike will try to put a positive spin on this dismal performance.
I must admit, a lot of the election sentiment I’ve heard as been anti-Tory. In which case, where the hell did all the Conservative votes come from? Scotland went for SNP and south Wales voted for independent parties, I think.
Also, Buchanan apparently got 8 votes more than the local standing-at-the-back-dressed-stupidly-and-looking-stupid-party candidate. And that *really* tees me off.
Also, my feelings towards companies and taxes may be coloured by the fact that I live in an area where there is little big business and a LOT of small independent shops. It’s a tourist town, and tourists don’t really like to go to places where the high street is identical to their own.
ej, thanks! I added the info about the other candidate and an little h/t to you in the post, which is up now.
I’m not sure there was a 3rd candidate — I could have sworn I read somewhere that they only put up 2 candidates, but I could be wrong.
@hgallagher50 – Oh yeah. female living on disability here so…yeah,
That last one wasn’t projection, no way!!!
Reblogged this on Dead Wild Roses and commented:
Just another gentle reminder to those who believe we are totally post Feminism…
I wish I could show each of those tweets to the respective Mother of the tweeter and see how long they spend on the naughty step. Feminism for the win.
Reblogged this on The Monster's Ink and commented:
More of this fuckery: “They didn’t help build the skyscraper but think they deserve an office at the top.” Try and find some men in those top-floor offices who helped build the skyscraper. And when you’re finished with that, go find some women who’ve worked in construction and ask what it’s like for them.
Is the horrendous ‘stepdad’ tweet a reference to this sad and terrible story? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/05/to-make-a-10-year-old-give-birth-isnt-just-horrifying-its-life-threatening
@Drspacejunk
The. Fuck.
Clearly these people have it mixed up. Women’s greatest fantasy is to be eaten by sharks and the hairiest part of a feminist is her earlobe.
@Drspacejunk – I hope not, though the fact people often use rape/incest as a joke isn’t much better. (Especially when there’s an undercurrent of racism, as in “This place is so ‘ghetto’ that…” etc.)
wants an office in the skyscraper they didn’t help build? aren’t we thinking of the mostly whtie cis het male CEOs? cuz most of the people who actually built it are probably underpaid, lack in health care benefits while working dangerous and physically demanding jobs and will never see the inside of that office. many of them are men, too. and they deserve better.
most of these are just too goddamn disgusting for me to even want to grace with a response.
I think it was in that Mike Buchanan article’s comment thread, I saw someone blaming “single mothers” for “stepdads” who abuse children. But how can there be a stepdad if the mother is single? Is this #MaleLogic again?
I can’t help noticing that all these male superstar athletes want to play sports in arenas they didn’t help build. For example. This might be the dumbest argument ever.
@sascha
That tweet really gives away their belief that any and every man deserves credit for what other men have accomplished. By virtue of having a penis.
Either that or the tweeter in question is just dumb.