Today’s POST-VALENTINE’S DAY 50% OFF SALE ON BELATED VALENTINE’S DAY POSTS continues with a little peek into the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit, where the locals have declared war on flowers, men who give women flowers, and of course the women who have flowers given to them.
In the waning hours of Valentine’s Day, a MGTOW calling himself davisyoung posted a photo of a man buying flowers at a supermarket — traditionally the most romantic place to buy last-minute Valentine’s day flowers because you forgot it was Valentine’s day.
“Suckers!!!!!” davisyoung crowed. “And Happy Int’l MGTOW Day to everyone.”
International MGTOW Day is the alternate holiday that MGTOWs celebrate every Valentine’s day. Traditional International MGTOW Day activities include posting bitter misogynistic tirades on Reddit, posting bitter misogynistic tirades on places other than Reddit, and muttering bitter misogynistic tirades under one’s breath.
Naturally, the MGTOW subreddit regulars were happy to share their holiday spirit.
Someone called dot_dot_beep won dozens of upvotes for this lovely sentiment:
Women and consumerism are complementary parasites on the backs of the beasts of burden that are men. Look at those simps–psychologically broken there hoping some flowers will gain their master’s approval.
Andreas-mgtow agreed, declaring that these pathetic flower-buying men only “do it [so as] not to elicit the wrath of their live-in she monsters.”
Really? My live-in she-monsters prefer catnip, or even just a fresh can of cat food. (Note for extremely literal-minded readers: That’s because they are cats. That’s the joke. Not because I live with a group of women who demand I feed them Friskies.)
TheCommentMutilator offered a little field report:
This year was my first in 17 years of not going through these motions. Went to the grocery this evening to grab some things for dinner and it felt so good to not have to search for the obligatory Valentine’s Day gift.
No ring on my finger, no chocolates or flowers in the cart. Just me and my steaks and vegetables. The vacant, hollow eyes that gazed at my cart bolstered my pride in being a single man on this day.
The “vacant, hollow eyes that gazed at your cart?!” Where the hell are you shopping anyway?
I’ve never been a big fan of Valentine’s day myself, but jeez guys, get a fucking grip.
I’m 56 and started using cannabis for pain about four years ago. Before that, I tried it a few times in my twenties and never got much out of it. I get a nice high nowadays, so these things change, I guess.
I’ll happily admit to enjoying the ‘side effects’ of cannabis use; besides the high, I’m enjoying more energy and less lethargy from the dramatic cut-back in OTC analgesic use. I generally use once or twice a week.
Husbeast is my designated driver since the only substance he uses is caffeine, which has to be delivered via either Coke or Barq’s root beer. Otherwise, he could be a Mormon. He had to get over his discomfort with being around people who are high, but that pretty much was sorted before I started using.
I also have a vape pen for when I can’t wait an hour for pain relief. It looks like a regular cigarette (with a short cigarette holder) and is activated by drawing on it. My pen only uses cartridges with cannabis oil, but you can get pens that can be used with oil, wax (wicked potent stuff!) or herb. I’m looking into getting one of these.
Cannabis stops my migraines dead in their tracks. I haven’t had good luck with edibles, they tend to make me stay high for so long that I find it unpleasant. I’ve been meaning to try a vape pen, any recs?
@Frickle
Thanks for owning that.
The others have adressed pretty much everything, so I don’t have much to add. On being a meat engine though, I find that it’s a lot easier to come to terms with if you put it in the right perspective.
Here’s an example : I’m a meat engine that can love and wear bathrobes with style. How cool is that ? I’ma tell you, it’s pretty cool is what it is.
@Axe
This a hundred thousand times. I mean you had to remind me of that a while back, but it goes to show how important yet easy to forget it is.
@Purveyor
Did I really dodge that bullet though ? :/
I mean she was a reactionnary when I first met her and we still somehow managed to fall in love. I didn’t have much hope that she’d change but she still did. And I thought that at least it would stick, y’know ? Now it just feels like wasted time, like said bullet’s just gone straight through me and is flying again, ‘cept even worse than before.
Like, okay, so really I could’ve done something better with those years instead of sacrificing any semblance of a social life in meatspace to spend more time on a relationship that was long-distance most of the time and emotionally draining because of those arguments. Seems like in the end all it was good for was to make my depression worse and waste her time on an ideological side-track that she’d end up rejecting anyway.
That’s, like, dumb. It feels like dumb. That’s the only word I have left to describe the whole mess. Dumb dumb dumb.
CleverForAGirl – I use Bloom Farm’s Highlighter. The color of the pen is tied to the cartridge it comes with; white for sativa, gray for hybrid, and black for indica but all of the cartridges are interchangeable, of course. I like that it’s small and elegant. I bought mine at a cannabis expo last year; it cost less than $50 US and came with an extra cartridge of my choice, but that was an expo special.
For all of the Pratchett fans here, my Highlighter is going to be part of my goddess Anoia costume!