Apparently this whole “Make America Great Again” thing isn’t quite going as planned. Our #SecondPlacePresident, facing massive resistance and beset by scandals that won’t go away, is throwing temper tantrums in the White House. Pro-Trump rallies across the country are drawing embarrassingly tiny crowds.
Oh, and his supporters are having trouble getting anyone to care about the latest challenge to #MAGA-style machismo — the temporary transformation of the Brawny Man into the Brawny Woman.
Yep, as a sort of tribute to Women’s History Month, the makers of Brawny paper towels have temporarily replaced the iconic Brawny Man on their packaging with a Brawny Woman sporting a red flannel shirt with lipstick to match. But those outraged by this gender switcheroo can’t even get #BoycottBrawny trending on Twitter.
It’s not for want of trying.
https://twitter.com/TeaPartyOne1/status/837828563940212736
Oh, wait, that’s a parody account.
How am I supposed to explain the Brawny woman to my children
— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) March 4, 2017
Oh, wait, that’s a former Jeopardy champion making a joke.
https://twitter.com/MommiesGoneBad/status/838178752416841728
I can’t tell if this account is a complete joke or only a partial joke, though I am a bit concerned to learn that he wipes his ass with paper towel packaging.
Now even paper towels are virtue signaling. pic.twitter.com/NtGOL1iicV
— Stefan Molyneux, MA (@StefanMolyneux) March 4, 2017
Finally! This guy, at least, is serious.
And a handful of others have joined this lonely crusade.
https://twitter.com/TrumpGal7/status/838043131887161345
https://twitter.com/zacharydolan121/status/838172116998631424
Wow too bad businesses can't stick to just advertising their goods Instead of their political views Time to #BoycottBrawny https://t.co/aF9fl6QcxI
— TalentsMomMlg 🇺🇸🗽✝ (@TalentsMomMLG) March 4, 2017
https://twitter.com/JRtheDeplorable/status/838121087783305216
https://twitter.com/1luckymom17/status/838181852519133187
This person is so mad that anyone could possibly suggest that “strength has no gender” that they posted a little manifesto on Brawny’s webpage.
.@Brawny I will #BoycottBrawny over your ill-conceived ad campaign #StrengthHasNoGender and urge others to do so. Here's why. pic.twitter.com/mvHWAIcQZc
— SCLaw (@_SCLaw_) March 4, 2017
Hey, some transphobia!
its bruce i mean katelyn on the brawny paper towel lol
our sin has blinded us to reality in the USA
— binky barnes (@realynsh1) March 5, 2017
@brawny? When are we going to see tranny paper towels?
— Russ Larrivee (@rjlarrivee) March 5, 2017
This critic, meanwhile, was bothered only by Brawny Woman’s hair.
does strength also have no conditioner bitch if you don't use this brawny money on some Pantene Pro-V then ima be out for ya life. pic.twitter.com/OQ5p6LHucO
— ♡♪!? (@SkyWilliams) March 5, 2017
The weird thing here is that Brawny is a Koch Bros. brand; it’s already being boycotted, but by progressives.
But but, think of the menz! I mean..what if they had to get rescued by a girl? Can you imagine the horror?! Their macho dick would forever wither and all the other man-dudes would make fun of them!
Disclaimer: The above may not apply to all male dominated job types.
@ dalillama
I had to set up a rather convoluted network of companies for a project recently and at one stage the Companies House computer flagged up that I’d managed to arrange for two companies to mutually own each other.
For the history of how it came about that corporations rather than humans could own companies I’ll defer to guest.
@ LeeshaJoy
Yup. Though I’m reminding myself that a movie isn’t a movie until it’s scripted, cast, and shooting has begun. I am, after all, married to a Terry Gilliam fan. But have some articles:
http://www.avclub.com/article/hit-comics-series-lumberjanes-becoming-movie-220188
http://screenrant.com/lumberjanes-movie-emily-carmichael-director/
http://www.cbr.com/lumberjanes-movie-finds-its-director-in-emily-carmichael/
there’s an “alt-left” now?
I actually thought the lumberjanes movie was a joke. Is it loosely based on Brawny paper towels like the Battleship movie is “based” on the game?
In other news, the Suspiria remake is being shot right now
http://mrwgifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Benedict-Cumberbatch-Noo-Gif-On-Sherlock-Holmes.gif
Lumberjanes is a rather cool comic book series wherein some rather cool girls have fun and adventures at summer camp:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumberjanes
Can I just point out that a simple, obvious, fact “Strength has no gender”, is being taken as a fucking political statement by some people, and now they’re whining that their paper towels are all “POLITICAL” and shit?
Like, apparently just acknowledging the fact that women are strong too is fucking cause for these assholes to whine about “politics”.
Here’s another obvious fact for you tender little blossoms: Just about everything in your life is somehow related to politics.
The food you eat is regulated by politicians, who make laws saying your food can’t be sprayed with poisonous chemicals.
The water you drink is regulated by politicians who make laws saying people can or can’t dump toxic waste into water sources.
The air you breathe is regulated by politicians who make laws saying that factories can’t just belch out horrific amounts of toxic gas into the air.
As for women/LGBT+ people/PoC/[insert right-wing bugbear here] existing in a way you don’t personally approve of (that is, where you can see them and have to acknowledge that they exist), that is NOT politics. That’s just you being a triggered little snowflake.
Not really, but there are those on the alt-right who desperately want the “alt-left” to become a thing because they want to divorce themselves from their own movement that became so awful. This is a new thing that the alt-right troll brigade is trying to bring back some legitimacy to the alt-right. I’ve seen it in other comment sections.
how does insisting on the existence of the made-up “alt-left” help the actual alt-right separate themselves from others in the alt-right and bring it (back? did it ever actually have it?) legitimacy?
So huh, this is OT, following up on wednesday’s OT.
So I said that at first glance, Horizon Zero Dawn looked great. Two hours into it, it still looked great.
Well, five days into it, I can finally say it : it’s a fucking masterpiece.
I’m not saying this because of how it looks and plays though, ’cause there’s probably more than enough material on that out there anyway. There’s one thing you might not find in just any old review though, and it’s a pretty important thing, so I’ma leave it out here :
It’s a masterpiece in the writing itself. I won’t expand on that ’cause that’s subjective but I found it very cleverly and subtly written, and I found it so powerful that I may or may not have teared up at several points in the main story (which I haven’t even finished yet).
But more importantly, it’s an SJW’s wet dream, and I bet the gators will start howling anytime soon if they haven’t already. The feminist undertones aren’t flukes, they’re all over the whole damn thing. It’s full of jabs at things like religion (especially fanaticism, very cleverly depicted), the supposed superiority of one culture over another, the weight of tradition and its reactionary impact, and the like. It never takes the easy road about it either, and avoids all the gross dumb pseudo-progressive clichés.
It’s like someone took all the lessons from the “Sarkeesian criticism” and applied them to their game to try and avoid all those potholes of shit… and then decided not to stop there, and to actually make a point and a statement. Sure, that’s nothing new, been done before. Bear in mind though, we’re talking a really big project with a lot of money and time invested in it, on which Sony hanged a lot of its marketing : they can’t afford it to fail, yet they tried in spite of the old “appeal to everyone” mentality. How many AAA titles, especially ones that are meant as killer apps for their console, have politics like this one does ? Not too fucking many, and I’m hoping this one kickstarts a trend and shows that “appeal to everyone” was never necessary in the first place.
Long story short : I absolutely fucking love it, and not just because GIANT ROBOT DINOSAURS YO.
Yep. Which is why I hate it when people say they don’t vote or follow politics because they don’t like politicians and it’s boring and blah, blah, blah. Just about every aspect of our lives is tied up in politics and by disengaging, you’re just giving up control of your life to people who don’t care about you or your life.
That’s not to say we need to think about it 24/7, but to pretend like you can excise the political from your life is stunningly naive. I saw a speaker, can’t remember his name who said “if you don’t do politics, they’ll do you.” That’s very true.
Plus, insisting that only men be called strong is very much a political statement.
Ha! Great point.
By pretending they were never actually alt-right in the first place.
It’s neither convincing, nor logical.
One day, I am certain, the collective members of the alt-right are going to die from asphyxiation due to having boycotted oxygen.
Yeah how dare we indoctrinate people into not being shitty to each other.
Shame on us >_>
@abars01
They’re petty enough to use gas guzzling cars when environmentalists said not to kill the environment. It’s not that much of a stretch.
“Yeah let’s continue to make the air unclean and give our kids lung cancer, that’ll show them liberals.”
OT(ish):
http://globalnews.ca/news/3289120/oklahoma-muslim-day-questionnaire-john-bennett/
I’m wondering if he’s ever heard of this place called Russia..?
Just building onto this: The idea is that since we forced the name “Alt right” onto them during the election, they can force the name “Alt left” onto us now. Which would almost make sense, if only in a “Turnabout is fair play” sort of way, except
Nazi McPunchedFaceRichard Spencer coined it, Andrew Anglin popularised it and it’s been in regular use by neo-Nazis in general since at least 2012. So.Both Sides (TM)! Liberals are the real fascists, you know.
@weirwoodtreehugger
The uproar over the ACA repeal, even by foolish Trump voters who wanted to get rid of ‘Obamacare,’ has tragically highlighted why politics matter. It seems a lot of Americans who have no trouble throwing marginalized groups under the bus suddenly take an interest when politics affect them personally.
Funny, that. I’m a physician and although acute lifesaving isn’t part of my job any more (though it could still come up again because of Good Samaritan laws), none of the manly men whose lives I have helped save have objected in the slightest. I may not be a weight lifter, but everybody tires after 2-3 minutes of proper CPR. Maybe these super-strong, high lung capacity males could do effective compressions for another minute compared to me before we would swap. So?
I was kind of thinking along the lines of a MRA/MGTOW type having to be rescued by a female fire-fighter, slung over her shoulder type of thing. I’m guessing I didn’t communicate my intention/sarcasm very well.
SFHC: yep. And the cute little logo that Spency Wency designed…? Sure, that was forced on them, too.
Eyeroll.
@weirwood
Those people who consider themselves “apolitical” will just say that none of the candidates support their interests.
The Marine who blew the whistle on this group is, predictably, being threatened, as is his family.
Marines Shared Nude Photos Of Female Colleagues Via Secret Facebook Page
http://jezebel.com/marines-shared-nude-photos-of-female-colleagues-via-sec-1792996258
A horrible thought has occurred to me:
Do you think the reason for this MRA outrage is linked to -you know – what they mostly use paper towels for?
As in, while they’re cleaning up, if you see what I mean, perhaps it unnerves or humiliates them to have some ‘brawny’ women staring at them. Perhaps they would find themselves looking into the eyes of the women on the packs and seeing there, only contempt.
Second, more pleasant thought:
Paper towels with no packaging other than the words ‘Don’t Panic’ The perfect towel for hoopy froods. Maybe I should market them!