Welcome to today’s episode of “wait, did Scott Adams really say that, Scott Adams the Dilbert guy, really?”
And the answer to that question is, as always, “yes, yes he did say that.”
In a post on his blog yesterday, Adams continued his evolution into a living Men’s Rights subreddit comment by lamenting what he sees as the MAN-DESTROYING MISANDRY of the Democratic party.
“On the surface, the convention is going great,” Adams wrote.
Michelle Obama made a speech for the ages. Bill Clinton was his masterful self. Bernie gave a full-throated endorsement of Clinton. The whole affair has been a festival of inclusiveness. The media is eating it like cake. All good, right?
Not so fast! Because beneath the sunny surface of the DNC lurks the testosterone-destroying monster that is the inadequate appreciation of dudes!
[I]f you’re an undecided voter, and male, you’re seeing … a celebration that your role in society is permanently diminished.
Adams followed this with, well, tell me if this line of thought sounds vaguely familiar to you:
And it’s happening in an impressive venue that was, in all likelihood, designed and built mostly by men. Men get to watch it all at home, in homes designed and built mostly by men, thanks to the technology that was designed and built mostly by men.
WE BUILT THE WELLS FARGO CENTER TO … er … seat you?
I mention that as context, not opinion.
Ok then.
To Adams, the most diabolically anti-male portion of the DNC so far has been … Alicia Keys.
I watched singer Alicia Keys perform her song Superwoman at the convention and experienced a sinking feeling. I’m fairly certain my testosterone levels dropped as I watched, and that’s not even a little bit of an exaggeration.
And he’s not making a joke here. He literally thinks his testosterone level dropped while he listened to Alicia Keys sing this:
Even when I’m a mess
I still put on a vest
With an S on my chest
Oh yes
I’m a Superwoman
Adams continues:
Science says men’s testosterone levels rise when they experience victory, and drop when they experience the opposite. I watched Keys tell the world that women are the answer to our problems. True or not, men were probably not feeling successful and victorious during her act.
Just how fragile does Adams think the male ego is, anyway?
Let me say this again, so you know I’m not kidding. Based on what I know about the human body, and the way our thoughts regulate our hormones, the Democratic National Convention is probably lowering testosterone levels all over the country. Literally, not figuratively.
Well, at least he’s using “literally” correctly.
Naturally, Adams thinks this will lead to the election of REAL MAN Donald Trump.
And since testosterone is a feel-good chemical for men, I think the Democratic convention is making men feel less happy. They might not know why they feel less happy, but they will start to associate the low feeling with whatever they are looking at when it happens, i.e. Clinton.
Wait, wouldn’t they associate it with Alicia Keys? I’m a little confused.
On an emotional level – where hormones rule – men have left the building…that they built.
Adams ended his post by reminding us all again of his fake “endorsement” of Hillary Clinton, whom, he explained, he fake-endorsed
for my personal safety, because I live in California where it is dangerous for people to think you are a Trump supporter. My political views don’t align with either candidate and I don’t vote, in order to protect my objectivity.
Yeah, I don’t think you quite understand how “objectivity” works, you human Men’s Rights subreddit comment.
H/T — @malki on Twitter, via @clinicboss
@Lleke35
I’m actually really worried about what will happen if she gets elected and if she doesn’t–I really hope that she’ll be elected and that the sexism aimed at her won’t be any worse than the racism aimed at Obama when he was elected
Well hey, if it’ll bring back my hair and stop me from masturbating like a lab monkey with a shorting electrode in my skull, bring on the estrogen!
why can’t Adams make his insipid comic, rake in the dough from its inexplicable success, and shut the fuck up?
@Alan, as usual, the reality is not as wonderful as the picture :(. They look like jetpacks but they were actually incendiary devices.
https://uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/a-rocket-cat-early-modern-explosives-treatises-at-penn/
Sort of like those WWII ‘bat bombs’. I fool myself into thinking they’re jetpacks, though, rather than military strategies involving extreme animal cruelty.
I hate how he constantly speaks for Men. All Men. The Tribe of Man apparently elected Scott “Fucking Dipshit” Adams as our spokesman. Can we get a recount?
@Leftwingfox
Yoooo… Strumming my pain with your fingers, singing my life with your words…
@sparkalipoo
I see your excellent link and raise you this one:
https://thepolicy.us/thinking-about-hillary-a-plea-for-reason-308fce6d187c
Edit: link fixed, I hope
@Bogotano
So sorry for your loss <3
The Democratic party is addressing the cartels. Fixing our gun laws will have an affect on the ability for the gangs to carry out their violence. They are also against the drug war and the criminalization of marijuana, the legalization of which in Colorado reduced drug smuggling (cartel activity) there by up to 70% since 2014. Obama's DEA has stepped up border patrols. I don't expect you to trust them, but they are doing something. And, again, sorry
I’d like to remind Scott that those men who built the Wells Fargo Center, indeed, the Masonic Temple, City Hall, etc, were themselves built by women at great inconvenience, pain and risk to their lives. Quit yer whining, Dilbert.
Just checked to see what else Scott has had to say lately. Surprisingly, his election coverage has not been completely onesided. A while back the Donald was “the master persuader.” But it seems he’s promoted Clinton to the same rank, when he’s not concern trolling her. He even considered her idea to call Donald “dark”-what else – a “a linguistic kill shot.”
Then again it seems almost everything is a linguistic kill shot, in his eyes.
“When you’re used to priveledge, equality feels like oppression.”
This sentence is haunting me.
Ref: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/9460662
@Alan Robertshaw
Jetpacks (and free lessons on how to use them safetly) for all!
@Mish
Those pics are reminding me of that ye olde picture editor.
@Axecalibur: Middle Name Danger
Regarding gun laws, if the DNC just took advantage of the media and the cold truth that statistically the majority of people, gun owners included, who are with the NRA, also want some restriction, they can easily override the hardliners.
@Bogotano
I am sorry for your loss.
Even though I’m almost 70 and have been around for what seems like forever, I have to continually be reminded how fragile male ego are — inexplicably, mine seems to be less fragile than average.
Scott Adams — sheesh.
Alicia Keys and my testosterone get along just fine.
We need jetpacks to fight the mole people!
A little more on topic, I have a feeling that the way Hillary Clinton destroyed Trump in her speech is going to induce some hilarious male tears. A woman talking about how small, petty, temperamental and shall we say hysterical her male opponent is? Not going to go over too well in the manuresphere/alt right.
http://33.media.tumblr.com/2e92429cc7466ee231cc259b4c9156ae/tumblr_n0tbmiGWZS1rl6c79o1_500.gif
I’d get used to that.
I don’t mean that in a cruel or gloating way — honestly, I don’t. But that’s the writing on the wall here, bro. Sorry that this is apparently as close as you can get to understanding how privileged you’ve always been.
@Oogly
They have used that fact. The problem is, ‘most people agree with us’ ain’t exactly good enough. The Republicans don’t care who agrees with them. Their mantra is ‘the scary, brown dude is coming to take your freedom away’. That’s a way better argument than the Dem’s ad populum. It’s bullshit, but it moves polls
The red team has hatred and fear, the blue team has consensus and, in the days after another shooting, sympathy. Then, the Republicans stall til the news cycle moves on, and that sympathy is lost. The Democrats need a better message, but, more importantly, they need a stronger emotional appeal. I don’t know what that would look like, but they better hurry up and find it
@Axe
I’d argue that if they had portrayed the GOP as being undemocratic by going against the people’s will and continually hammered that point it might have worked. Then again, there is a ridiculously huge list at this point. They even failed when they had the majority power in both house and senate. To me it seems more of a failing of strategy.
Or we can pull a Reagan, take their rhetoric to its natural conclusion, call their bluff and see more gun laws by playing to the racist fears of brown people also being people who can also own guns. That usually works. Plus if the peaceful but armed demonstrations between the New Panthers is going, I’m more willing to bet the racist fear is going to push more bills.
No, he’s convinced Bill came up with it for her.
Look at all that rhetoric that has very little to do with reality. Here is an interesting review about testosterone that is more sex and gender balanced. Yes it has to do with dominance behavior, but in both sexes. Beyond that brief puff early in development that pushes development towards male there is not much that is useful beyond stereotype. I rather think they want to prevent the existence of women with higher T from victories.
Yeah, I’m sure a lot of guys’ testosterone levels ROSE when they saw Alicia Keys perform. That actually is scientifically proven; seeing or talking to attractive women does that.
I had to see a doctor yesterday about some second-degree burns yesterday. I hope he wasn’t basing anything on what Scott Adams knows about the human body. :-p
@Jamesworkshop:
That explains everything!
So, men are emotionally controlled by their hormones.
Pompous male chauvinists really have changed their tune.
Not sure if it’s acceptable to say it round these parts, but I concur with Alicia Keys having the opposite effect.
Isn’t the presence of a dominant male supposed to reduce testosterone levels in other men? (Assuming one buys Trump’s masculine appeal bullshit.)
“Feminism didn’t teach me to hate men, but it did teach me to stop prioritising them over women. And it turns out a lot of men think that’s the same as hatred“. I don’t know the original author of this quote, but it’s pretty accurate.
The unfortunate thing is that equality is a zero-sum game. There are a finite number of Fortune Five Hundred CEO positions. There are a finite number of government positions for each country. There can only be so many heads of respected media outlets, or Ivy League professorships, or any other kind of prestigious and lucrative career opportunity. And there is only one POTUS, with the power of the world’s largest military at their back.
There was a time when these golden opportunities were reserved solely for straight white cis men. People of colour, women, queer people and those with disabilities were firmly locked out. It was a small pool, but it allowed every man in it to feel like a very big fish indeed.
Now the pool is expanding. We’re catching glimpses of a world where some SWC men will miss out on being CEO of a big company, because a queer person will be appointed instead. Or they’ll lose out on that Senate seat, or that Harvard law professorship because a person of colour, or a person with a disability, or a member of some other formerly marginalised group, was a better candidate. Or they won’t get to be POTUS – the person with all the testosterone-y war toys – because they were beaten by a woman. Some SWC men live in terror they will be revealed as the little fish they truly are. The only way to prevent that is to keep the pool small. They can’t achieve this but, by god they’re trying.
Decent SWC men are willing to accept what they’re truly worth, because they admire merit. Men like Scott Adams…not so much.