Jennifer Lawrence is, in case you didn’t know this already, an incredible goofball, almost as famous for her hilariously unfiltered comments as she is for her film roles.
“If I don’t have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on,” she once confessed to Glamour. “I’m the fastest pee-er ever,” she told Rolling Stone. She’s compared her dancing ability to “Gumby getting electrocuted.” She’s talked about diarrhea on David Letterman.
A quick Google search reveals scores of web pages with titles like 61 Hilariously Honest Jennifer Lawrence Quotes That Will Make Your Day, from which I took the example above, and The 10 Most Jennifer Lawrence Things J-Law Said at Comic-Con.
But now she’s said something so unbelievable, something so outrageous and terrible that it has Men’s Rights activists in an uproar.
Brace yourself. In an interview with Vogue, Lawrence confessed that she’s been having trouble finding a boyfriend.
I am lonely every Saturday night. Guys are so mean to me. I know where it’s coming from, I know they’re trying to establish dominance, but it hurts my feelings. I’m just a girl who wants you to be nice to me. I am straight as an arrow. I feel like I need to meet a guy, with all due respect, who has been living in Baghdad for five years who has no idea who I am.
Well, to the Men’s Rightsers of the world, this is apparently the equivalent of someone announcing that in their spare time they like to dress up as a Nazi and murder puppies. How DARE a famous actress — whose stolen nude pics they’ve undoubtedly all seen — complain that men have been “mean” to her.
A Men’s Rights Redditor calling himself Ovendice took it upon himself to explain to J-Law just why men are mean to women. (SPOILER ALERT: It’s because women are terrible.)
I don’t doubt men are [mean] as fuck to her. For about the last ten years I have become more and more mean and cold to women in general and today I pretty much talk to them all like they’re garbage, idiots and less than nothing. I’m short with them, have zero patience and at best I’m indifferent.
Hmm. I’m thinking that “indifferent” is not exactly the right word to describe how you feel about women. But why are you so mean to women, dear Redditor?
WHY? I’ll TELL YOU WHY. Most women have become so unbelievably arrogant, so SMUG, cold as a razor blade, zero empathy, creepy, virtually inhuman, a lot of them just seem like emotionless robots, the only time I see women today acting human in the movies, as well as spiteful and CONFRONTATIONAL out of nowhere INSTANTLY!
Huh. That seems like an awfully confrontational thing for a guy complaining about women being confrontational to say.
[Women] go out of their way to TRY to hurt your feelings and another huge percentage of them will lead you on a little ONLY JUST so they can later, not just reject you, but shit all over you like you’re some kind of idiot for even thinking there was a chance with them and women get a HUGE amount of ENJOYMENT out of rejecting men and saying ‘no’ – they GET OFF on it, the bizarre behavior, the FLAKINESS, complete unaccountability, zero character, entitlement, the ‘fuck you’ attitude, the snide cattiness, the threats, trying to get fired from your job if you defy them, trying to act like they have God like power over you, the false accusations, the ‘superior’ attitude when their contribution to the world is less than nothing, the complete, absolute IGNORANCE OF EVERYTHING.
That was all one sentence.
I could go on ALL DAY listing why American women are so horrendous and why I wouldn’t want to be kind to them or even want to lift one finger to do anything for them.
I’m sure you could go on all day. I’m guessing you regularly do.
I can’t even think of the last time a female did ANYTHING for me at all. It’s prob been decades. I don’t owe women one motherfucking thing and with the way they are, that includes kindness and graciousness.
Gosh, why wouldn’t a woman — sorry, a “female” — want to do nice things for prickly here?
Another Men’s Rightser suggested that J-Law’s problem was that she didn’t want to date a “regular guy.”
She’s hanging around the crowd of wealthy, extremely good looking guys, who can have basically any woman they want. If they hear excessive whining, well if you have an option to upgrade (in their opinion) to another woman, well being a wealthy good-looking man, of course they have that option and of course they’ll upgrade. She should give a regular guy a go.
He graciously offered to be that regular guy. So long as he got to divorce her later and take a good chunk of her sweet, sweet cash.
I can pretend to be that Baghdad guy she’s searching for. Hopefully I won’t sign any prenups, last long enough and get a fat piece of her stash when things go south. Then she’ll be equal to men in that regard.
Still another commenter suggested some real-world activism MRAs could do to solve the problem of women wanting men to treat them like actual human beings.
Haha. I love it.. lets stop holding doors and being kind to females like we were taught to do..and wait until they get upset and then we get the power back.
It’s good to know that there are such dedicated Men’s Rights Activists out there doing their best to bring about a better world. As Lao Tzu once observed, “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single unheld door, because fuck you, bitches, especially that one from Hunger Games, I hate her, she’s so stuck up!”
H/T — r/AgainstMensRights
Silly is not the term I would use.
Ohhhh I have totally thought “Man Going His Own Way” when I’ve gotten the “I turned to look at you but let the door close anyway” thing!
Also, did you see what Belgians did during the terror raids over the weekend? Police asked people not to tweet about any police activity they saw so that the suspects wouldn’t be tipped off. Belgians responded with pictures of cats.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/22/national-emergency-belgians-respond-with-cats?CMP=fb_gu
Sun Tzu here has convinced me that Tony Montana was wrong
First, you stop holding doors open. Then you get the power. Then you get the woman.
Money also fits in somewhere in there. But it all starts with being rude to women. That’s the important part.
Paradoxical Intention: Little Green Footballs is a blog. It really, really liked bombing Iraq and defending Israel — but IIRC was generally not completely devoid of reality and logic like the general political discourse has gotten of late. I haven’t read any of it in at least 10 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs
What’s that first guy quoted in the OP so pissed about? He’s pretty much saying “yeah, she’s totally right – that BITCH.”
On the plus side, LGF was the one who figured out that Trump’s racist shitty meme was literally the work of a literal Neo Nazi.
Do not let anyone forget: Trump got 6000 rt’s of a literal fucking Nazi meme.
Only one level? I’d say there’s a lot more, based on the things you’re trying to associate it with.
What a strange comparison. If anything, we’re more like Daily Kos, not LGF. We’re the ones patiently cataloguing and deconstructing the lies, propaganda, and dirty tricks of the other side. We’re also very unlikely to have the Saul-on-the-road-to-Damascus moment that LGF did, when it switched from being a megaphone for Bush administration war propaganda to criticizing right wing extremism.
If you read WHTM for any length of time, you’ll realize this isn’t simply an ideological spat over “boy-girl stuffs”. It addresses larger issues that stem from patriarchy and right-wing beliefs: racism, homophobia, transphobia, income inequality, and yes, even politics.
If you don’t care to know, then you have no grounds for assuming anything is “wrong” with anybody. You’ve now just admitted you don’t know anything about us. What makes you an expert on our supposed dysfunctions?
No. How about you admit that this is a loaded question designed to help you feel superior to the heterosexuals?
For dhag:
http://36.media.tumblr.com/3ea8e53359a0f9ea0af411bc69d712be/tumblr_n9yc6rEuLs1qz8z2ro1_500.png
I had the distinct pleasure of drinking one night with an actor from a popular TV show in the early nineties. He was an amazing dude. He complained about the exact same thing that J-Law is complaining about here. I’m pretty sure if these idiots were around they would’ve patted him on the back and complained about ‘bitches’ who can’t appreciate how awesome he is and how if he can’t find a nice ‘female’ how do they stand a chance?
@Heinz D
Nah, if they were around, they would glare broodingly from the opposite side of the room at Mr. Popular Actor and mumbled shit like “Fuck, why can’t he just leave, he’s monopolizing all the attention from the women in this place. What an ASSHOLE.”
Then when Mr. Popular Actor finally did leave they’d stand awkwardly next to each other and say shit like..”You go talk to one…”, “No YOU go!” and then at 2am while the women are heading out to go home suddenly they get all loud and proud with…”BITCHES…We didn’t want any of your American sluttiness anyway,”
@msexceptiontotherule
So, they’re an SNL skit from the 80s come to life? Seems about right.
So one sector of the Manosphere criticises the refugees for being male and leaving behind their “womenfolk” and kids, seeing the men in particular as a threat, while this was a headline at AVfM: “Canada’s Syrian Refugee Plan Limited to Women, Children and Families”.
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/canada-refugee-plan-women-children-families-1.3330185
@Heinz D
Everything should be the 80’s to early 90’s by the wonders of time traveling police boxes. 😛 We’re talking about a bunch of guys whose television and movie watching is ‘the only place they see women acting like humans’, or whatever.
Little do they know, some are actually robots, and prefer to keep it on the down low so they don’t have to deal with some MGTOWs yelling at them to be sexbots.
The Diabolical and mostly human Katie.
@msexceptiontotherule
…or in other words, movies are “the only place I see women acting the way I think women should act”…
…which actually isn’t human, considering how often women in TV and movies are cast as flat eye candy/trophies/manic pixie dream girls, there solely for the purpose of being the hero’s prize and redeeming him into adulthood…
…and then MRAs be all “They LIED to us!!! Women aren’t like that!!”…
…but then they decide women are actually more terrible, and jump down the rabbit hole.
The End.
I don’t know about men, but they do go out of their way to slam it in women’s faces. Once in a while, not often, I’ll come across a man with an attitude that will make it a point to go out of his way to not to assist me or another woman in any way. It’s pretty comical. Holding open the door for someone is just a matter of flow. I’ve seen a few literally pull the door closed.
@Buttercup Q. Skullpants
Yes. And yes. Probably. There are still robots though, and they’re entirely ok with the dudes jumping down through city street manholes to take up residence in the sewers. Best place for them, and convenient! Rabbit holes might involve rabbits, you wouldn’t want to subject a poor, highly nervous and adorably fuzzy bunny to a MGTOW would you? That seems just cruel. For the bunny.
In related news, Breitbart is reporting Mockingjay pt. 2 bombed because Jennifer Lawrence was mean to Donald Trump. Having had the 6th biggest opening weekend of the year, with $101m domestically and $257m worldwide, it is apparently the most successful bomb of all time.
Correction; 5th best.
@msexceptiontotherule – Heck no. Sewers would be a better option. I’ll even hold open the manhole covers for them as they jump.
How odd that interactions should take a hostile turn WHEN I SHOUT at people RANDOMLY! I just can’t figure it out.
Story I will always remember:
Friend’s BF on the phone: Can I come over?
Friend: OK, but you need to leave by 10 because I have an important work meeting early tomorrow.
FBF: OK, see you soon.
F, 9:30: you need to get ready to go
F, 10:00: it’s time you left, I need to go to bed
F, 10:30: remember I told you I had to get up tomorrow?
F, 11:00: really, it’s time for you to go–I need to get some sleep
F, 11:30: GET THE FUCK OUT, I NEED TO GO TO BED
FBF: gee, why are you so CONFRONTATIONAL out of nowhere INSTANTLY?
“who has been living in Baghdad” – wut? Definitely the female liberation hub of the world. I don’t understand why she even needs a boyfriend. Women just don’t get it. Even the nice ones are mean if you don’t conform to what they want. Ah, she’s young. She’ll figure it out eventually.
As I just commented on another post, but it is relevent here : women, try holding doors open for men. Every so often you will get one of them who is baffled, even angry about it. Then you will see how truly “nice” the gesture is.
I’ve held doors opened for men and they take the door away from me instead of going inside themselves.
One day, I’m just gonna stand there, holding the door open with them until they go in first, goddamnit.
Huh, nobody has ever been at all upset when I’ve held a door open, man or woman. I even opened Munich U-bahn doors for a man with three large boxes in his arms once, and he was thanking me profusely, even after he’d left the train and was walking down the platform.
Plenty of people have been upset in my presence when somebody says they just want to be treated like a human being, though. Shakes one’s faith in humanity. Or it would, if I’d had any to begin with.
Dumb question of the day: which album is that Pink Floyd song _One of my Turns_ from? The only album of theirs I’m aware of that was made into a movie was The Wall, but I don’t recall the scene with Character Pink’s* wife someone on the last page described. (The scene with Pink and the one Fangirl of the Apocalypse**, on the other hand, did have a bunch of destruction in it that that song would fit well with. YMMV on that point, though.)
So was this The Wall, or another album?
My thanks for an answer in advance.
*Character Pink, to distinguish him from the band’s name.
**My private title for the four fangirls/groupies who literally sleep their way to getting access to rockstar Pink in the movie. I have no idea what the PF fans officially called that quartet.