Reddit’s Trump army is furious Amy Schumer is invading the sacred male space of … Barbie

Can I just say how happy I am to hear that this movie is going to be a thing? I mean, I don’t really watch movies at all so likely won’t see it. But the fact that there’s going to be a movie about something so stereotypically girly, and the lead is going to be played by a non-supermodel snark machine like Amy Schumer? Troublesome commentary from her aside, the fact that it sounds like the story’s going to be an actual story and not some sort of pablum about riding horses is brilliant.

(If the horses were pastel-coloured marshmallow ponies I’d be okay with that, though)

… oh, were some reddit assholes commenting on this? Gosh, I wonder what the Kings of Rationality there have to say about –

– yeah, that’s about right, exactly what I f –

– hah! wow. There’s your problem, jerks. Clearly, these guys are offended because they think Original Barbie’s proportions are actually possible in real life, and that women lose weight by thinking about it. Gotta wonder why every man isn’t a pillar of muscle and chiseled physique, if all it takes is fuckin’ social pressure to change your body.

(Oh, wait, it’s because men are judged by their actions but women are judged by their looks, my bad)

((as a first approximation. Back of Mark, I know my social psychology on this))

Anyways. Cool! I hope this does as well as Mad Max, and angers the Minions of the Pumpkin just as much.

Isn’t it fun how they’ve all started to talk like Trump, too? Ending their sentences with “Sad!” and talking in sentence fragments. Seems to be on the uptick, or maybe that’s just confirmation bias on my part. Either way, I’ve noticed it on the rise. Gosh, I hope so. They’ll all dissolve into unintelligible phonemes by 2018 at this rate.

EDIT: Hi Knitting Cat Lady! Welcome to the show.

I think Trump’s popularity partially has to do with a backlash against increased public feminism. When Bill Clinton became president, he limited his support for feminism to passing the Violence Against Women Act and supporting reproductive rights. The Obama Administration took much more of an activist stance, especially with campus sexual assault and sexual harassment regulations (before the new system there were even a few public universities where non-employee students couldn’t be disciplined unless they got physical or made violent threats). In places like Ohio there was a huge disdain for the increased concern over sexual harassment.

Are men oppressed because it’s near impossible for an average Joe to get laid while average Janes can fuck anyone so they join alpha male harems? Or is a fairly conventionally attractive but not supermodel looking woman so hideous that she is permanently unfuckable?

Yes.

See, to them, the fairly conventionally attractive but not supermodel looking woman is unfuckable, and that’s why they’re so angry that she can get laid whenever she wants even though they can’t.

And then they still complain about how women can’t be attractive if they have short hair, dyed hair, piercings, tattoos, cats, children, thick-rimmed eyeglasses, too much make up, too little make up, unshaven legs and/or armpits, cosmetic surgery, a 26th birthday… the list is just never-ending

Let’s see…10. Bingo!

From plastic playthings stored under beds
To images in public heads
Forms we can’t precisely replicate
Pushed by those who want to make a nation “great.”

And a woman who isn’t thinner than a willow stick
Is playing the role (oh, it makes these folks sick!)
A symbol of feminine stereotypes
Commence complaints from these asswipes.

@Weird Eddie

Hey, if you wanna drop ’em around, go ahead.

Did some of them imprint on Barbie as the ideal of what women look like, and are lashing out at reality itself for betraying them? That’s the only thing I can think of to explain all this. I hope I’m wrong, because that’s one of the saddest things imaginable.

@Jenora

Hmm…I may be doing more than just re-drawing Handsome Jack’s silly picture over the 5-week break. Research into folk music may not be the core of the curriculum, but it couldn’t possibly hurt.

It kind of makes me wonder if they think that dental braces and contact lenses are lies too?

Probably only if they thought that dental braces were a cosmetic enhancement and that glasses were a natural part of the human body, either of which would be bizarre even for them.

That picture is unflattering? Really?

Well, anything that makes these fuckers angry is good news for the rest of us.

@Snowberry
I was thinking contact lens use more along the lines of “You aren’t wearing glasses so I can’t outright tell that you need visual aid, which means you are hiding it therefore being fake” kind of thinking.

And dental braces do have a cosmetic effect, so it could go “Your teeth aren’t that straight naturally, yet you go on about your life smiling like they are”.