The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam celebrates the simple pleasures of
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou
Reddit’s MGTOW contingent has a somewhat different notion of what constitutes the good life. It involves a motorcycle in one’s bedroom.
Last week, one Man Going His Own Way proudly posted the photo above to the MGTOW subreddit, where it received more than 80 upvotes and pretty much universal acclaim.
“People always ask when I would leave this ‘narcissistic immature lifestyle’ behind and just man up and get married already,” he wrote. “Why would I want to wake up to anything other than this in my bedroom???”
Replacing the wine, bread, and poetry of Omar Khayyam’s little scene we have:
- An air mattress
- A motorcycle
- A bigass flat-screen TV
- A Playstation 4
- Two video games
Replacing the tree, a Minecraft poster tacked to the wall.
Replacing “thou?” Whatever … that is on the bed, I guess.
You go, boy.
Can he be a true MGTOW if he considers his motorcycle female though? Doesn’t that open him up to the risk that if he ever sells his motorcycle, a random judge will decide to reward it with half of everything that he has? Inquiring minds want to know.
Being involved in cosplay has made me a but less critical of sexy comic charters. I still hate what happened to starfire for example but Harley, poison ivy, and catwomen bug me alot less because I have friends who see them as something fun and liberating to dress up as, which made me realize that while the sexy bit can be taken to far, it isn’t always bad in the first place, not if it helps some people feel more comfortable with who they are themselves. (Although their poses are ridiculous, my friend threw out her back trying to copy a cover :p )
@Fruitloopsie
http://bikiniarmorbattledamage.tumblr.com/post/115940109447/so-there-is-such-thing-as-too-sexy
From the rest of his reddit comments, he does seem to straddle the line between pitiful and contemptible, but for me the fact that he posts hate online is outweighed by the fact that he is avoiding women IRL.
Ok that link was quite a bit more then I was talking about, and has given me more ideas on what not to do in the comic I’m trying to write (if I ever can lol)
And sorry I’m jumping around so much, it is a flaw I have :p
This is just so sad and terrible. If you have to rev yourself up and talk yourself into hating, maybe you ought to just choose not to hate? Why does he see hate as something really desirable?
@WWTH
Cause sadness, happiness, loneliness, fear, disappointment, empathy, cheeriness, envy, jealousy, carelessness, timidity, openness, sensitivity, pain and sorrow are for GIIIIIIIIIIIIIRLS.
The only emotions for manly mayuns are anger, apathy and arousal.
Robbed
Sorry about all that. I have seen ridiculous poses as well and I understand that sexy does go too far. Cosplay conferences can be very scary sometimes because of creeps and apologists but I’m really glad cuz I heard there are women/girl only spaces now.
Panda
…Un-frickin-believable????
Women/girls- “We find this sexist because there are countless of women and girls objectified including being decorations and killed. We think it’s alright for men and boys to look at women and girls and we just hope we will have less offensive games with more men catering to women and even gay men.
GamerDouches: “stop complaining about women being sexualized! Stop overreacting you don’t hear us complain! Don’t censor! Don’t take my sexy feeeeemales away! Freeze Peach! Down with Anita!” And etc, etc, etc and etc to several paragraphs long.
:sexy man comes out:
GamerDouches: “Noo! Eww! There is a man being sexualized! My ego! My masculinity! My precious game! Misandry! Sexism goes both ways! Oh what a world! Waah! Down with feminism! I’m going to create games that are misognist with sexy ladies see how they like being treated like objects!” And etc, etc, etc and etc to several paragraphs long.
I hope companies won’t take them seriously and just do what they want and I hope we get more male characters like that. I wish I can create my own games that would be cool.
I want a Dead or Alive game but with guys instead of girls. And lots and lots of homoeroctica.
And I want it to be the best damn fighting game ever. Best controls, best graphics, best story, best voice acting–EVERYTHING so it has HUGE competitions and stuff.
Panda
Maybe I didn’t look hard enough but all I found is this guy who is supposed to be sexy I guess.
http://www.capsulecomputers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/dead-or-alive-5-sexy-pack-2-4.jpg
We can only hope or we can start working on it right now oh I’m getting excited thinking about it! 😀
Wait, only Vaan was the worst designed Final Fantasy hero? Did that guy seriously forget about Reks who wears what can only be described as a sports bra. Not to mention the thigh highs and short shorts. In fact for those wondering what Reks looks like. http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080225081631/finalfantasy/images/thumb/3/35/Reks.jpg/175px-Reks.jpg This was a guy in an army by the way.
@Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
No worries–it was clear that you hadn’t seen my comment before posting yours. I can see why you’d anticipate a lot of people arguing in bad faith (being that they just want to counter any and all opposition to MGTOW’s) calling out this post for similar (apparent) reasons to mine. I mean assuming manosphere types still bother coming over here and also get through the moderation.
Man, young misogynists are the worst. There’s just no excuse.
@Fruitloopsie
He’s pretty sexy. He just needs to be in a sexier pose with sexier clothes, that’s all. Just not objectified enough.
@Micharion
FF9 – Kuja
http://www.famitsu.com/game/coming/__icsFiles/artimage/2007/12/27/pc_fc_n_gs/071228dis01.jpg
@Panda Kind of embarrassing that I actually did forget about him. Which is weird since Queen Brahne even makes mention of his rather androgynous looks with her girly man comment. Still have no idea where he hides that tail though since that outfit really doesn’t leave much to the imagination.
I’m a guy, well physically at least, like I said confused. But I have been groped at cosplay events, more often by girls then guys. Last year was really bad but no problems this year 🙂 so yay for more security
@Fruitloopsie
I think that is a dynasty warriors character (or samurai or one of the spin offs)
those games has some overly sexual female characters but are getting better with new outfits, not some much dlc but the men also fit into various fantasy roles. They are roles with more clothes but I think it’s supposed to be classic Japanese manly roles. And modern sex appeal roles. Sometimes the two are shown differently, especially with games from other countries.
Ps: Oh and that would be a kill massive waves of grunts with no blood game, not a fighting game.
http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/creepster.gif
“I have recently learned that people uncomfortable with their own life tend to worry about others. The man who enjoys himself and his life frets not about the life of others.”
Says the guy whose psychic engine is apparently powered by hating the way women live their lives.
Just wouldn’t be complete without the total self-awareness fail, eh?
These are great examples. I don’t remember playing any final fantasy games except I played some kingdom heart games with final fantasy characters in them. I’m not much of a person who likes to brag but I did defeat maleficent when I was only 8 when my brother couldn’t defeat her. He was 18.????
Robjec
Gross, sorry that happened and happy there were no problems this year. Yay security! And thanks for the info.
Getting around to actually read Robjec comments and my choice of joke and gif probably wasn’t timed the best. Sorry about that. >>;
“Methinks the m-gto- doth protest too much.” (certain letters excluded on purpose).
@kellyrtillson,
thank you. I am currently indocrinating Snork Junior (aged 4) into the wonderfulness of the Moomins.
As for the OP, I certainly don’t fret about his life choices, but I do feel profoundly sorry for someone who uses hatred as a motivating force in their lives, how can he experience joy and contentment when he seems to regard any positive emotion as a weakness? That said, I feel even more sorry for his coworkers, he must be hell to deal with on a daily basis.
I didn’t know it was possible to rent an above ground apartment without windows, being deprived of natural light in his home is going to make his depression a lot worse.
But as for fretting? No, I’m busy fretting about other people, whom I would genuinely like to help but can’t, like the Syrian refugees or the citizens of Greece.