Reddit’s Ovendice, rapidly becoming my favorite MGTOW, is on a meme-tear today, filling up the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit with amazing works of meme art.
I don’t know if he’s “designing” these himself, or if he’s found some secret goldmine of misogynistic memes as graphically painful as they are intellectually ridiculous.
Either way, I felt obliged to share some of the, er, “best” of them with you all. Consider them an early Memeday present.
Another meme:
http://m.quickmeme.com/img/d5/d5dfe57b1f3e972b4c7c550ce6fe6b9cf8d4015f8e8fd5565bea8c5630325ed8.jpg
In their version of the constitution, the woman gets the house at divorce, so they already marry checking if the guy has a nice house.
I am doing womaning ALL wrong. What with jobbing, hobbying, charity work, and care-taking of elderly family members. Obviously I need to sit my ass down somewhere and eat bonbons and drink booze, or frolic through the vacant lots…er, meadows, near my house.
Well which is it dudes? Sitting or frolicking? Or should I frolic through a meadow while drinking?
http://youtu.be/dF9OLZKSC5k
@Orion,
Sorry that I missed this!
You could count our lab amongst the critics of g as a useful concept. We aren’t directly critical of it, mind you – we aren’t publishing literature against it, we just don’t find it a fruitful direction of study. Intelligence isn’t singular enough to be boiled down to a single value. We prefer the view that learning and intelligence are distributed out on a map of related domains and subdomains, and suggest that it’s better to study each of these domains in particular before drawing back to make conclusions about the whole.
Maybe g is valid as a concept; maybe there is a view of intelligence that can be accurately summed up as a variable. But even if this is the case, a domain-specific view is very useful in finding out whether that is the case, too! It’s a win-win, I figure.
Does that explain?
Enough brainpower here to toast a slice of bread.
Lightly.
Thanks, @Paul! You’re too nice. It’d take huge brains to get to the 4500+ joules needed to toast that bread!
Paul:
I’d be jazzed if I could heat bread with just my mind. Even just a little. It’d actually pretty good if it’s only a little, honestly… I would probably abuse my power.
Off topic: I don’t know if anybody remembers this post, but I can give the final updates regarding that horrid episode.
Alexander Kozak’s trial was moved out of town in order to have a fair jury and was held over the last few weeks. His defense attempted to argue that he had diminished responsibility for the killing due to intermittent explosive disorder and/or borderline personality disorder, and that he should not be charged with first degree murder because of that. The prosecution, led by our county attorney, contested that he knew what he was doing: Kozak parked where there were as few cameras as possible to catch him as he made his way to kill Andrea Farrington, and he threw the gun that he used away in a garbage compactor as he fled.
The jurors’ decision was that Kozak acted willfully, deliberately, and with specific intent when he shot Farrington, and that Kozak was guilty of first-degree murder.
In short: justice was served. I don’t think that this news is noteworthy enough to merit its own post tomorrow, but I will leave this here so that there is some sense of closure to that event.
Oh jees, great super power. Never have a cold cup of tea, or have cold feet! Dinner’s always hot! It would be lovely.
I wish I could control things with my mind. Whenever I disassociate (is that the right term for thinking about stuff so hard you stub your toe and barely notice it?) I’m thinking hard, maybe I could use my newfound psychic powers to stim somehow?
Also, I wonder WHICH tiddy mousepad I would want to get…
@Biot,
Thank you. I recall that horrible event, and I’m glad that justice was served. It does bring closure, and I hope it does for everyone involved, too.
I just wanted to point out that the bloody font in the first graphic is literally the font used for The Rocky Horror Picture Show and that is an hilarious choice.
When I was a child, I looked quite a bit like Firestarter Drew Barrymore.
http://images-cdn.moviepilot.com/images/c_scale,h_714,w_1272/t_mp_quality/jlchlxvulkdjvt6lnlgb/bronstein-s-lookback-firestarter-559803.jpg
Just saying.
Doesn’t the last meme contradict the first one? Or am I just… not logical enough to get it?
I’m just wondering why that first woman appears to be in a field of canola if she’s doing nothing. Farmers don’t do nothing often and they pretty much never do nothing in a blooming canola field…
the flowers don’t smell as pretty as they look
@Blerkathon: Not really! The things in the last one are metaphorical nothings. Women don’t do literal nothings, because that would make them inanimate corpses. Gotta breathe and such, ya know. Actually, I’m not sure if it would be true even then. Does rotting count as doing?
(Okay, that joke went a little darker than I intended.)
She’s trying to win a Nobel Prize. She heard you had to be outstanding in your field.
But they don’t hate women, just feminists! /s
I wish I had time to frolic around fields but working a 46 hour week, being a single mum to 2 boys plus the charity work and activism leaves me with no frolicking time. And my sister who is a nurse, training to work in palliative care while also being a single mum also has no time to frolic. Do we need to put in a complaint to Katie?
You’d think that “American women” would be a bit ridiculous given that there are over 150 million of us – so the chances of us all being exactly alike would be vanishingly small.
But no, these blokes buy it. My ex has accused me of being a gold-digging, lazy and selfish like “all American women”. Because he reads these sites. Because it plays into a narrative where he is good and I am bad, even though I supported him through more years of low income/ no income than he supported me. Never let facts get in the way of a good meme.
This stuff is all great to poke fun at, but this stuff really damages the lives of real women and men. (I know I’m preaching to the choir and I think the poking fun at is a great tactic, but ffs, this shit is serious.)
QFT
I saw a pretty good explanation of this somewhere (forgot where). It pretty much stated that there are two kinds of respect. One kind was treating other people like fellow human beings and not being a horrible asshole towards them. The second type was respecting somebody as an authority of some kind. And some people take ”I won’t treat you as an authority” as ”I won’t treat you with respect as a person”, so they feel it’s okay to be shitlords, because, hey, you don’t respect them either.
She’s frolicking in a canola field because canola is just another word for falserapeaccusationseed.
I’ve gotten used to their misogyny, but I’ll never get used to their font choices.
It might be Stephen Darwall’s paper ‘Two kinds of respect’; recognition respect is the ‘baseline’ respect we generally talk about in ethics (so, when Kant says that one ought to respect rationality in oneself and others). ‘Appraisal’ respect is respect for someone on grounds of their authority, achievements, etc. The paper’s on JStor at http://www.jstor.org/stable/2379993 – looks as though it’s available online without a subscription (possibly).
But yeah, I totally agree that MRAs and other authoritarians often equivocate between the two modes of respect.
Yes you can, all you have to do is realize the only ones who are half decent at photoshop and graphic design are typically the types to post their edits on 4chan.
Maybe the stock photo crew thought the canola field was a flower meadow. Or maybe they had no choice because the job description said “in flower meadow” but the area was heavily cultivated.