So the fellas in the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit are trying to figure out why women visit their horrid little subreddit and sometimes even post mean things about them there. A fellow called VanDerVaart has an explanation. Well, two of them:
Yes, that’s right. Some of the women who seem on the surface to despise the whiny misogynistic shits who populate the MGTOW subreddit are actually really into them, or at least really into all the cool shit MGTOWs own because they don’t have to waste their money on, I dunno, buying women lobster dinners in hopes of scoring some sex.
And so these wily resource-hungry ladies are going to try to slime their way into their lives in hopes of … scoring a lobster dinner in return for sex. Or maybe these evil females will just sneak into their apartments to steal their cool-ass gaming chairs or something. Because LL Cool C: ladies love cool chairs.
@Hambeast
Huh, I was able to see the tweet. Wonder if she made it private after? Here’s a link to her book on Amazon: http://a.co/2KdcCje
Sinkable John, that is so absurd that I…can’t even.
And they called you racist?
Please.
Hambeast, the book is called Among The Red Stars, by Gwen C. Katz.
Ooops, ninja’d by Kupo.
Ninja link!
http://img00.deviantart.net/cfcf/i/2006/053/e/4/link_ninja_by_cetanu12.png
Edit: whoa, that’s a huge image. Not very stealthy. 😉
Ninja Link is adorable, stealtht or not.
If they did accept that women invented beer it would probably be only so they could twist it into women invented it so that men would become alcoholics and drink them selves to death.
@kupo
I’ve never tasted red wine jelly, but if it involves spiced wine it must be good.
@PeeVee
It is absurd but it’s lost even that shine long ago. Used to be only the really faaar far-right in France (I’m talking far enough to get expelled from the FN for being too extreme) complained on and on about “racism”, but I guess this is 2017.
On another note, one of the few gaming teammates I had left voted for the FN. And then came to me to defend his choice. Then complained ’bout I was mean. It was like a voice dub of the clusterfuck in America.
I guess stupid truly has no borders and sounds exactly the same on both sides of the Atlantic.
@John
I’d never heard of it before I got this new cookbook, but it’s pretty good. It’s just spiced wine with pectin and sugar. It pairs well with cheese (of course) and isn’t overly sweet. I want to try it with some richly flavored meats like duck or beef, similar to how lamb is often served with mint jelly.
Thanks so much, kupo and Pee Vee! I’ll be clicking through to that from this site later today or tomorrow (every little bit helps to stave off those Taboola ads!) because Husbeast and I are off to Ikea.
I know, but Ikea has loads of things with drawers and I have a bit of a drawer fetish. It’s severe enough that a two hour drive just to ogle them is a nifty day’s outing, in my book!
ETA – The reason I can’t see the tweet could be the settings Husbeast has on my ‘puter; it happens this way every now and then for no apparent reason with the twitter and tumblr.
Some brave MRA bought a ticket to the women only showing of the new Wonder Woman flick.
http://www.avclub.com/article/defiant-hero-defends-mans-world-buying-ticket-wome-255993?utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing
I like how this works.
MRAs: “Boycott this filth!”
Women: “We don’t want you there anyway.
MRAs: “Must. Buy. Ticket.”
@Alan
Knowing what I know now pertaining to MRA/Alt-Reich propensities for violence, I’d have a tight security detail set up around the theater offering the woman-only viewings.
@ fran
Hmm, hadn’t even considered the possibility of violence.
(It’s great being a straight white bloke; you never have to)
He does seem more in the sad sack mould though. I look forward to his report from the trenches about how he bravely sat in his seat whilst women flicked peanuts at him.
Sorry Hambeast!
Here’s the Goodreads link for anyone who’s curious: Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz
@ Alan
Hopefully there will be no peanut flicking or any thing else. any sort of harassment will just reinforce this guys belief that he is a modern day Rosa Parks.
Also has there been any MRA out cry against the movie
Fabe,
I hope they don’t let him in the door.
Francesca,
Amen.
@Lea
That would be nice. I do wounder what would happen if they offered a mens only viewing of the movie? would it sell out as fast as the womens only view or will they not even sell half of the tickets?
Hambeast, one of the things I would love to have is some piece of furniture basically made of drawers. Of different sizes. And with at least one secret or semi-concealed compartment. With more drawers in it. ::wants::
In the absence of which, we did once get some cheap little sets of Ikea drawers (the plywood ones that measure about 30 x 20 x 7 and 35 x 20 x 20) and cut them up and joined them together to make sort-of-custom-units to fit into odd corners (where we live is pretty much made of odd corners).
(sorry, just had to share a love of drawers there)
The MRAs who are getting their knickers in a twist over the WW screening are taking pathetic to a whole new level, aren’t they. The whole world being so full of events and places exclusively or mainly for women (except they probably believe it really is. It’s hard to pull off sarcasm about the beliefs of people so utterly divorced from reality).
Better Ikea drawers than MRA twisted knickers any day.
@hambeast
Looks like my comment not show up? Strange. But anyway, i said you forgot soft sign for очень but anyway no problem ?
Seems like every day i am making software update myself ? now version 2.0.2 because my first disappearing comment!
@Valentine
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@kupo
Now please! ))) how i make this one? ?
@Valentine
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@kupo!
Oчень большое, огромнейшее спасибо! It will take long time for me because slow internet here, but i will do this one! Thank you! )))
@KatieKitten
But talking about ‘honouring their service’, or, as the post I initially replied to put it, ‘they died for freedom’ is the standard frame for any discussions of the military. That frame is part and parcel of the brainwashing you mention. Further, it all acts to enable further wars of aggression abroad and and creeping fascsim at home.
The comments policy here prevents me from answering that.
No. Because there is no part of that argument that could not equally apply to Daesh and the Waffen-SS. Which, in fact, is exactly the point that I’m trying to make here.
From Umberto Eco’s classic essay, 14 ways of looking at a Blackshirt:
All this stuff about how they’re really kinda heroic, honour their service/sacrifice, all that crap, that is low level fascist rhetoric, and its acceptance nearly across the political spectrum pushes the Overton Window well to the right.
Then stop valorizing the results of it. Acknowledge that you’re talking about victims not heroes.
They were fighting to make slaveholding planters a full landed aristocracy and to allow thefts of Native land west of the Appalachians. So, no, it does not count.
There should be an enter key in the same place on your virtual keyboard as on a regular one, and the formatting here recognizes it; you should be ok just hitting enter twice when you’re starting a new paragraph.
@kupo
Sympathies; layoffs suck.
I think it might be considered impolite in some traditions, but my knowledge of military etiquette is second and third-hand and out of date to boot. It is my understanding that in many cases, that type of memorial is considered the prerogative of people who actually fought alongside the dead person(s) in question, or at the bare minimum in the same unit or war.
@Axe
Neither was WWII, really. But both of them did actually cause some freedom, so I’ll give them that credit.
@Valentine
Пожалуйста! (My dad used to speak some Russian with us when we were little, and I remember Спасибо but didn’t know the Cyrillic spelling until I looked that up just now.)
@Dali
Agreed on that. It struck me as weird for a business to do, as I’ve only ever seen a moment of silence on the actual day, not a toast on the day after the holiday.
The chief of our lab when I worked at the VA hospital was a veteran – his entire career had been military and VA. When he died, his family gave us the bottle of whiskey he’d been keeping for the occasion.
So we, his colleagues, could stand around in a circle with (small) glasses of (good) whiskey and share memories of having worked with him all those years.
I think it meant as much to us as he had hoped it would.
Regarding military service – my paternal grandfather was in the Spanish American War (Navy), a great uncle was in WWI (Army), Dad and my uncle were in WWII (Army and Marines, respectably), one of my brothers was career Air Force, and I was career VA. And yet we never thought of ourselves as a military family. One thing I did grow up knowing was the terrible cost of war. The small scar on my father’s chest – where the bullet went in – and the big scar on his back – where it was hastily removed by a medic – they told me that.
My dad was a very forgiving man, but he told all four of his sons that he would NOT forgive us if we joined the Army of our own free will.