So today’s object lesson in obliviousness comes, as it so often does, from the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit.
The regulars there are discussing the important topic “Women are worse than a backyard full of cackling hens,” and one of the fellas pipes up with this, er, observation.
MGTOW dudes, I don’t know if you know this, but men do sex work too. I recommend you take it up for a week and see how “easy” it is.
@M:
I’ll defer to you on the matter. Thanks for the correction.
Not to shill hard but good author/cause combo
Friday BandCamp is giving their cut of Neil Gaiman audiobooks to the ACLU. It’s pretty extensive. American Gods is my favorite work of fiction and I don’t say that lightly.
Hello.
Well, it is well known that the persons who have the financial power are the best to speak about those who have not it. Also, the ones who, as they say, avoid women at all cost are the best to speak about them.
Being something make you de facto the best at speaking and understanding the opposite.
Let us take an example : me (because it is also well know that to look scientific and provide arguments, the best thing is to use your own unscientific unproven anecdotes). Well, as a professional avoider of white bear (MGOOTWOWB – Man Going Out Of The Way Of White Bears) (I even have a super technologic device that repulse white bears in a 5 meter radius around me. And it works perfectly because no white bear ever has approach me !), can tell you with certainty, that white bears are lazy ball of fur and muscles (even more than cats, imagine !) who are smoking marijuana day long on the arctic ice while drinking cocacola, thus participating to the global warming. So, i suggest to hire as many white male hunters to hunt those bears and thus help to fight global warming.
And i will conclude with a quote from a movie : “The poors exist to be very poor, and the richs very rich”.
Thank you for your attention, and have a nice day.
What a disgusting screed. Paradoxical Intention nailed it.
Regarding the autism discussion: for what it’s worth, I have ASD, and it causes me numerous problems in social situations, but I’ve never noticed myself acting particularly entitled (at least not once I hit age sixteen).
Uh, yeah, one person with autism saying “this is how people with autism are” =/= fact. Lots of others with autism have a different experience, and those of us who know people with autism don’t recognize this stereotype.
And, like Axe said, there’s also a difference between saying “people in group A are likely to display X” and “if a person displays X they’re probably in group A”. The former is still BS, but the latter is even more BS than regular BS.
Men Growing Their Own Weed
…is a movement I would support.
@ occasional reader
Fun fact: Polar bears aren’t white. They do usually look white, but their fur is actually transparent. It scatters light though in a way that generally appears white (although they can look different colours in other environments).
If you shave a polar bear their skin is actually black. I would not recommend shaving polar bears though as it would be cruel, and I suspect you might not survive the process anyway.
ETA: I went searching for some nice pictures of different coloured polar bears for you. I got distracted though by finding out that polar bears are invisible in the infra red.
Because of that though some reindeer have evolved the ability to see into the ultra violet. Like that scene in Predator 2.
Isn’t nature amazing?!
Here are some orange ones though.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/11/05/article-2487679-19336BD900000578-519_964x643.jpg
Let me see if I can put this debate into formal syllogism form:
Some people with autism are people who have misogyny problems.
All people named penisassociate are people who have misogyny problems.
Therefore:
All people named penisassociate are people with autism.
This takes the form
Some P are M
All S are M
Therefore:
All S are P
This is invalid logic. Let me demonstrate why by switching out the terms:
Some cats are black
All black molly fish are black
Therefore:
All black molly fish are cats
Your premises are both true but your conclusion is absurd. This is a clear sign that there is a problem with your logic. You can even take it out of formal syllogistic form and say your conclusion is “This black molly fish is probably a cat” and your conclusion is still absurd.
This logic you’re using is simply bad, Croosters, and that’s why we don’t internet diagnose people. There is splash damage involved, and the logic is so incredibly bad that the splash damage isn’t worth it. Just stop digging and stop insisting that what you’re doing is okay. It’s not okay, and it’s not even good reasoning.
“WhiteBear” provokes mixed emotions bc that’s a fucked up but really interesting Black Mirror Episode.
Polar bears always look pale yellow to me.
Me too. Mainly I suspect because they’re so often photographed in a bluish white environment of snow-ice-water.
I went to some lectures once about colour perception (hooray colour museum!). It was explained that our brains generally interpret the lightest thing in our field of vision as white and the darkest as black, regardless of their actual colour.
My mind was a bit blown by the question “What colour is black on a cinema screen?” (or rather by the answer). It is of course white (well, silvery white). So if you put up a piece of actually black paper on the screen during the opening crawl of Star Wars space suddenly doesn’t look right.
ETA: that’s why cinema decor is never actually black.
Now I’m picturing a polar bear leaning back against an ice shelf, smoking a joint and drinking Coke. Oh, and wearing sunglasses.
I was a bit dissapointed to find out that when polar bears cover their noses with their paws, it isn’t to hide; it’s just to keep them warm.
That’s pretty cute though.
@ epitome
This was a popular drink when I was a kid (basically sugar, food colouring and industrial strength foaming agent)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qQ-H5FLAKW8/TNbTdFeBu0I/AAAAAAAAAAc/gcL-wG6ja_Y/s1600/cresta.jpg
WWTH:
Oh fuck, here we go again.
Incidentally, any westerner who can say “I’ve never seen a woman do an honest day’s work” has never set foot in a hospital.
@Whomever-made-the-interalized-ableism-mention
There’s a difference between saying “autism causes assholishness” and saying “A lot of autistic dudes are assholes, especially on the Internet.”
I have far more experience in autistic circles than most of you. Most are misogynistic either implicitly or explicitly. I’ve been sexually harassed by them far more often than by neurotypical men (I’m a female-presenting genderqueer). Many say “But you’re autistic! You can’t reject our poorly construed, borderline creepy advances like that!”
I think I have a much better view of what it is than you do. Than all of you do really. You need to realize that most of the gators you criticize tend to come from these circles. I have no compunction making that association.
“You,” not “We.” One little slip says so much.
@SFHC
I treat them more like shitty nuisances. I don’t engage them at all. Because that’s essentially what would’ve prevented them from getting that much attention.
Silence is agreement.
And it’s something entirely different to say, “he’s an asshole, so I think he might be autistic.” That’s the thing people are objecting to.
@Alan
I’m taking this as “polar bears are invisible” and you absolutely cannot convince me otherwise. We see polar bears because we choose to.
Edit: A lot of dudes are assholes? Like, I don’t think I’ve ever walked into a room full of men and not felt a sense of entitlement rising from many of them.
Viscaria, you’re onto something there. I’ve seen polar bears, even in my part of town, but only in zoos. I conclude that polar bears are indeed invisible, but zoos dye them. This is why people say that zoos are cruel.