News Quiz: What is the “one thing” American women are good for, according to Return of Kings?

Jumping 100x my height and producing a toxin that paralyzes my prey…yeah, I’ll take it. But I’d also like to have to power to convert sunlight and CO2 to food–would totes save me lots of money at the grocery store.

@Alto Fronto – I thought of a bowling ball too! Also trinuts, grounded electrical outlets, old-style cross country ski boots, and three ring binders (full of women, if you’re Mitt Romney).

At this point, there’s not many animals or objects left that they haven’t equated women to.

@Sunny – I can’t even with people who dump on single moms. It comes from a place of total ignorance, and lately it’s become a dogwhistle.

I’m still waiting for my government handout and free Segway. *tum te tum*

WRT to top chefs being overwhelmingly men, it isn’t so much that men are better cooks, it’s that men have an easier time becoming celebrity chefs. Men get lauded by the media for being technically innovative, while women get praised more for being traditional (think Julia Child and French cooking, Joyce Chen and northern Chinese cuisine, Alice Waters and the slow food movement). Chefs have to work long hours at night and on weekends, which takes a toll on family life, unless they have an available spouse to help out with child care. (Note, however, that you only ever hear manospherians crow about how women achieve literally nothing without men, but never one peep about the wives and partners who make building a celebrity chef empire possible.)

In addition, kitchens are notoriously tough places for women to work, with rampant misogny, harassment and disrespect of female chefs being common features. Haute cuisine is an antiquated hierarchy based on rules written by men, and it’s hard for women to break in.

So yeah, this is yet another circular example of sexism being used to justify sexism.

It’s as though MRAs are so determined to win each individual exchange that they give no thought whatsoever to the overall message they send. There’s no wider philosophical consistency, which shows how deeply they’ve thought about it.

They also project it all back to feminists.

They have no clue about how an organization works (just look at AVFM trainwreck), they just feel feminists are assholes to them, so they proceed to out-asshole them.

(Note, however, that you only ever hear manospherians crow about how women achieve literally nothing without men, but never one peep about the wives and partners who make building a celebrity chef empire possible.)

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Because in that case, women get the sweet sweet deal of staying at home doing nothing and spending the man’s hard-earned money, duuuuuh…
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Sarcasm!

@ej the reason for child bearing nostrilks ius to sniff the stinky little buggers out when their young… Didn’t you know women of child bearing age are genetically hard wired to detect sprogs by scent alone. They can also tell the biological father through heat detection… Don’t ask me how, I’m not an evo-bio-psycho-ologist, but I’ve been told they can, by that fella in the boozer, and he read it on the internet, so it’s deffo true.

I only wish I had a specialized toxin-producing gland. Nothing deadly, but perhaps something that could produce a temporary paralysis or unconsciousness. No cutting in line in front of me!

@sunnysombrera

Lookin’ fabulous, hon.

When my first wife and I separated — it wasn’t supposed to be a permanent separation, just some time with her parents — she took our four-year-old daughter with her, and our ten-year-old son stayed with me. (After all, he was in school, she wasn’t.) And when her parents decided that she should live with them permanently, my son decided to stay with me. It wasn’t difficult — he was an independent kid; I had to go to work early, so he ate breakfast with my father, and other meals too when I had to be away for some reason.

I was always impressed with the fact that people seemed to think I was doing something wonderful by being a single dad. There were times when the reaction was almost insulting, as if a man taking care of a pre-adolescent son were like a talking pig or a dog that can do math. Genitalia don’t have much of a role in child care after the child is born. When our daughter was a month old my wife had a psychotic episode and it looked like she was going to need to be hospitalized. My father commented, “Well, [daughter] will have to go into the hospital too.” “Why?” I asked. He looked at me like I was out of my mind. “You can’t possibly take care of a month-old child.” And that mindset is fading but not entirely gone. I tried to point out that taking care of an infant is time and energy consuming but simple: you feed, burp, change, rock, and bathe when necessary. Admittedly breasts are useful for feeding, but otherwise there is nothing a man can’t do approximately as well as a woman as long as he’s willing to put in the effort.

When it became clear that my wife and I weren’t getting back together, I went to a group for recently separated and divorced people. Naturally I was the only man in the group — Real Men don’t go talk these things out with a group of people..All of the women had been left by their male partners for another woman — in two of the three cases he’d left a previous woman for her, so there was a Pattern there. And what was the most important regret for the women? Not that they’d been dumped for a “better model”, but that their failure to hold on to the guy had deprived their children of their father’s presence in the home.

The way society looks at single parents is sort of like this. A woman starts out with a grade of “C” (she lost the guy or even tossed him out, after all) and can only go down — if she does well, well that’s what mothers do, but if anything is sub-optimal, whether or not it’s her fault, she gets docked points. Unless he was an abusive shit, a man starts out with a C but anything good he does gains lots of points and failure or neglect don’t cost him any, because what can you expect from a man anyway. So the game is seriously rigged in favor of men — big surprise. I have known a couple of bad single mothers — one who was given the money for infant formula by Welfare, then mixed it half-strength so she could use the rest of the money for cigarettes. But the vast majority of single mothers are true heroes who do the best they can, with social attitudes often making it much harder than it needs to be.

NicolaLuna | July 24, 2015 at 1:29 pm
I’m a single mum and when my kids were tiny I didn’t get any child support as the dads would quit their job any time the Child Support Agency caught up with them.

I sold all my valuable belongings to buy them food and pay bills (including jewellery that I’d inherited, which broke my heart), I didn’t even buy myself new clothes or shoes until they were falling apart, my dinner was whatever was left on the kids’ plates when they were full from their dinner. I made so sure that they never went hungry or cold and that they never saw how terrified I was of the next upcoming bill. I worked what hours I could fit around college.

That sounds a lot like my mom too. My biological father modern day Henry the VIII’d her by ditching her when she didn’t have a first-born son. (The sad thing is, she almost did, but miscarried him.) We never got any child support from him, because he hid and lived off of his father’s money.

My mom did get together with another guy when I was four, but he was lazy and would spend all his money on good food for him, and cheap food for us kids, and he had to be pressured by everyone around him to get a job, and he was abusive as fuck towards me and his kids.

Needless to say, my mom’s a wonderful person for sticking through all of that, and understanding that her kids came first (most of the time. She’s only human, after all).

@Falconer – I live in Edmonton, Canada. We use freeze rays to blow dry our hair.

David I have to say you are also wrong about the number of holes. You forgot skin pores. :p.
also the pupil of your eyes which are holes. 🙂

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