Today, a food metaphor that won’t make you hungry, courtesy of the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit:
Men Are Hamburger. Women Are Hamburger Helper.
Does hamburger need Hamburger Helper? Of course not. Hamburger can be made into a simple hamburger, or a hearty meatloaf. Bachelors and MGTOW are hamburgers and meatloaves.
Hamburger Helper, on the other hand, is nothing without hamburger. It will sit in the pantry, collecting dust and mites and attracting mice, while the clock ticks closer to the expiration date. Where’s the beef?
Cat ladies and single mothers are boxes of stale Hamburger Helper.
Now, Hamburger Helper is nice to have, if you like Hamburger Helper, and don’t mind all the salt. But hamburger doesn’tneed it. There’s a million other things we can do with hamburger.
Well, if nothing else I think this gives us a little insight into the MGTOW diet.
@Alan
We live in all those homes and then some.
McMansions and log cabins. Cottages by the lake. Suburban tract homes. The White House.
I myself live in the Empire State Building. With my gorgeous white horse. I ride every day in Central Park.
@Axe
Sorry! I was channeling Trump’s own nasty bigotry for a moment and took an ill-advised descent into crude, insensitive language. Poe’s Law strikes again. And now I’m going to go shower.
@Alan – Don’t all of you live in half-timbered cottages named Hazeldene? I’m going to be very disappointed if that turns out not to be true.
Orion:
Huh, maybe he had some half-understood reading about Germanic peoples and Arian Christianity in late antiquity. Like, Arian Christianity was some primeval white people Christianity and it was named after white people and later people confused Arian with Aryan because everyone pronounces these words like English speakers.
Jack:
I recall there was “instant sushi” as a joke in the anime film Cowboy Bebop.
To be fair, everyone south of the Mason Dixon line lives in exquisitely crafted, Gone with the Wind style, plantation homes 😛
@Buttercup
Sounds like you’re in too deep, Officer Skullpants 😀
I think it’s just that the trolls of yesteryear were more persistent. They spent half their lives here. I’ve been slowly working my way through the archives and for every gem like NWO slave’s Spanish and Cyrillic use the same alphabet or MRAL’s morning and evening height, there were herds of boring and derailing teal deer. Then there was Brandon, the most tedious person to have ever internet posted. I’m not sorry to have missed him.
Anyway, I love how the troll thinks women are the ones who can’t adapt. In my experience, the opposite is true. Women are socialized to change our needs and behaviors around others and women seem to accept societal change faster. Men are socialized to believe that they should be catered to and some can’t take it when that doesn’t happen. Hence this week’s viral posts about forcing headphone wearing women to talk to you and the misogynistic meltdown over being turned down by a teenaged coworker. Or the fact that so many mass murders are committed by men with some kind of grievance about his life or the world not being exactly how he wants it.
@ buttercup
That’s an outrageous stereotype. I’ll be telling the Queen about you next time I see her. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to sip Earl Gray and stare out of the window at Big Ben until I’ve calmed down enough to write a stroppy letter to The Times.
Why are so many of these trolls named Mark?
Because they’re all the same guy.
Or a tank evolution ?
@ occasional reader
Ah tanks, the most bewildering of gendered products.
(Seriously, there are boy tanks and girl tanks depending on the armament)
I’d like a troll who writes like that Nice Guy. That would be fun.
“I volitionally came here of my own choice to tell you why I as a deontologist, that is, one who recognizes the intrinsic value of women, won’t sleep with you.”
ETA : @occasional reader, Alan
And Tank Girl too.
(I have no idea what this is, I just thought it would be a fun thing to google for, and lo and behold, an actual result)
> Alan and John
Yeah, and there is also “him”, but not a tank in the military meaning of the term…
But no worries, tank top are for anybody !
@reader
See, feminazis!?!?!? Tank dimorphism is reeeeeeel!!!1!!!
BTW, James is the best Tank Engine
I like how a troll led to this statement.
@Axe
(whispers) The horror…the horror….
I felt really bad for James when he got bricked into a tunnel because it was raining and he didn’t want to get his new paint job wet. Harsh, man. “Hey, kids – do what you’re told and don’t get ideas above your station, or you’ll be punished for it.” The feudal robber baron in the top hat MUST be obeyed.
Or maybe I’m just reading too much into it. My kids enjoy the choo choos and clanking machinery.
My favorite troll was “DIRECTLY ON THE BEACH” Mikey. SPINSTERS!
> Axecalibur
Meanwhile, in Japan… Yeah, from an extreme to the other… Anthropomorphism but still with the graphic codes of manga. Ah, well, it could be worse, i guess.
Wasn’t it Henry that got bricked into the tunnel? I always called him “Handsome Henry” because, uh, I thought (and still do think) he was the most handsome of the engines…
@Buttercup
If it was James, he probably deserved it. I love him, but he’s a right asshole
@reader
So… Kantai Collection on land? Not the worst idea I’ve ever heard
The one WHO randomly put WORDS IN capslock FOR NO clear reason AND QUOTED Ayn Rand ?
He definitely was a lot more fun.
Oh hi, Mark.
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwp5qhL8fW1qipzp7.gif
Isn’t there a theory that Thomas the Tank Engine was written as an allegory about the benefits (or evils, can’t remember which) of capitalism versus socialism, or is that an urban legend?
Bagpuss is definitely about Marxism though. The mice are trade unions, Professor Yaffle is Jewish intellectualism, Rosemary the rag doll is the bourgeoisie and Bagpuss is the lumpen proletariat (see how he ‘awakens’ from his false consciousness every week).
Either that or Emily is running that shop for money laundering purposes (it never bloody sells anything yet still somehow still makes a profit).
Catalpa said
And WWTH said
He tried calling himself Terrance, didn’t relaunch his career, so he’s going back to the classic name.
Thank you, occasional reader, for another link way more interesting than Timmarence’s would have been. I had not previously considered whether tanks have gender, and now I know that they do. Useful to know.
Sinkable John: Tank Girl was actually a pretty cool comic, the 1995 movie had an excellent cast and awesome soundtrack, pretty good script, funny as. More Whedonesque than the Buffy movie, and I think came out before the TV series did.
Post apocalyptic Australia setting: no worse than every Mad Max movie after the first.
Thank you for reminding me to seek this out and watch it again. The Bjork Army of Me sequence alone justifies this.
Now, Mark, we’ve all been waiting for the apocalypse all our lives, and I’m really tired of people saying that shit is going to end and then the “end time” comes and there’s no end and it’s just a disappointment for everyone.
Stop it, stop raising our hopes and dashing our spirits.
I thought that Marks go up in elaboration in the arms race of Internet arguments, instead the designers of Marks have opted for a more streamlined and easy to produce schematic. See for example this latest model of Mark. Like other Marks he uses a poorly produced and poorly written video and assumes it’ll work like a silver bullet to a werebeast, changing everyone around him into agreeing with NOT-MRA. And as a current trend of late Mark models seems to be less interested/capable of making more than a drive by comment. Should these trends continue it’ll be nothing more than a spam bot typing LOOK AT THIS ONE TECHNIQUE: FEMINISTS HATE HIM.
Thomas the Tank Engine; or, A Series of Bad Decisions.
Whether or not they can move on their own depends on how the plot needs to get them in trouble.
Henry won’t budge unless he wants to, and Thomas ignores the signs around the mine, so that’s their fault that they get bricked up or tipped down a sinkhole.
But when Thomas gets a big head and tries moving on his own, it’s only because the crew have left his throttle open. Regardless, they aren’t blamed when Thomas interrupts the station master’s breakfast.
I far prefer Bob the Builder, who never seems to refuse to help his team out of a jam.