Scenes from yesterday’s anti-Roosh, anti-rape rallies. With bonus Jemaine Clement

Imaginary Petal-“You can never predict what an animal will love.

Agreed!

Third wave feminism, and it’s demonizing hateful rhetoric is what birthed guys like Roosh, and the MRA movement. It’s no help either that we’ve seen a rise in feminism at the exact same time as we’re experiencing a depressed economy and labor market, and men are feeling marginalized and seeing jobs and wealth go to young women.

Boo fucking hoo, women are doing better than you…because they’re more qualified for the damn job. Yes, that’s right, owning a penis is no longer sufficient as a qualification! And women have brains, imagine that!

If you want that job, you have to work for it. And now you have to work as hard to get it as women have had to do in the past — which is twice as hard, and for half the recognition that men get, if that. But hey! At least you’ll never know the ignominy of having to blow your boss for a promotion, so shut the fuck up and stop being such a whiny suck-ass already.

I suppose what I just said here will be classified as “demonizing hateful rhetoric” too. Tough luck, Joe…it’s only the terrible truth. Suck it up, cupcake.

Now let’s be fair, Roosh never destroyed his reputation as a human being, mostly because he didn’t have one.

My childhood cat liked to hunt ALL the lizards and leave them out as presents. My mom stepped on one once. It wasn’t pretty.

One of my cats really likes to suck on blankets, kneed them, and sleep under them.

My other cat likes donuts. One time, my dad bought a box of donuts and she licked off all of the frosting and nibbled every one of them and they were full of cat hair. We’ve kept donuts that were to be eaten in the morning in the microwave ever since.

A cat who died last year liked to be outside when it rained, probably because she had a skin condition.

My childhood cat was pretty normal, except she put dead mice in people’s beds… and she liked to lick and bite human hair…. okay, maybe she was weird.

authorialAlchemy-“My other cat likes donuts. One time, my dad bought a box of donuts and she licked off all of the frosting and nibbled every one of them and they were full of cat hair. We’ve kept donuts that were to be eaten in the morning in the microwave ever since.”

LOL! So many cats seem to like donuts! I wonder what is it about donuts that appeals to them?

Alan-I know, right? I hate it when cats do that. It’s so disgusting. :-/

When we lived in Bahrain, we had a ginger tomcat. He was very enthusiastic when he was young, bless him. The problem is that Bahrain isn’t well stocked with small animals for cats to hunt. He solved this issue by attacking anything that moved; in particular feet under the blankets.

As he got older, he also developed a taste for bread, even though it was very unhealthy for him. He was quite a large fellow (as are many ginger toms) so he worked out a way to open the kitchen cupboards using his body mass, and would infallibly locate the cupboard where we had stowed the bread in order to tear open the bag and devour it.

I miss him.

@ Paradoxy

“Here, hooman. Eat. You’re too dumb to catch your own food, so I did it for you.”

Yeah I’d heard that too; but do they not notice we eat all time? And where do they think all the cat food comes from!

@ dhag

It’s sooooo funny you should mention that just now. I’m currently transitioning to 99.9% vegetariansim. The person responsible has tried for decades to get me to do this (through persuasion, she respected my ‘carnist’ ways)

She’s tried every tactic, so I’m very used to the pictures of gorillas laughing at people asking where they get their protein.

(In the end what swung me was a combination of her logical arguments and the fact she’s the woman I love, so any sacrifice worth it)

@ dhag

Yeah, sneakily using logic and facts is pretty much the definition of misandry. Although the thing that really got to me was a plaintive little message saying “Please stop eating piggies”. She really knows what buttons to press.

ETA: Ah, just received today’s latest encouragement from her. Some vegan arm wrestling champ, three guys from veganbadass.com and a pic of her with the caption ‘no animal died to build this body’.

@ dhag

That was one of the main clinchers. “Would you eat Sassy (that’s my fur kid)”? is a pretty effective rhetorical question. And there was the obvious double standard of what I’m willing to get involved with in relation to stopping whaling and dolphin drives versus happily tucking into a little baa-lamb.

I don’t have any problem with other people eating meat. I have some issues about cruelty in farming but I don’t think there’s anything inherently evil in the practice. But for me personally I’ve been swayed by a number of factors. The undeniable health benefits. The fact that in the West it’s unnecessary to eat meat and that generally our meat eating has knock on effects that really fuck things up for people in the rest of the world (that’s part of our general tendency for over consumption and bugger the consequences to anyone else attitude generally of course)

@authorialAlchemy

One of my cats really likes to suck on blankets, kneed them, and sleep under them.

My sister had a cat like that when she was a little kid – Reesa had been found with the rest of her litter, abandoned, and she was still a little thing. She never weaned properly, so she sucked on things (blankets, the front of your shirt, your flipping pillowcase, etc) when she was feeling safe and comfortable. One part adorbz, one part disgusting.