By David Futrelle
So this little blog of mine (and yours!) got a nice writeup in the New York Times today by fellow Illinois writer Peter C. Baker. Check it out! Nice to see the Paper of Record take note of what we’re doing here.
Or old friend Mike Cernovich, quoted in the piece, has decided that you commenters here are a bunch of sock puppets. Which makes about as much sense as the rest of his nonsense, I guess. And dear old Paul Elam, whose idea of helping men consists of charging them $90 an hour to talk to his unqualified ass on Skype, sputters that what we do here is like making fun of cancer patients. Nah. It’s more like making fun of cancer itself.
Big thanks to Jaclyn Friedman for her kind comments in the piece.
And speaking of thanks, this seems like a good opportunity to once again offer my humble thanks to all the (extremely real) commenters on and supporters of WHTM for making this blog possible in the first place!
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Grrr… edit window fails to embed youtube, but doing it all at once and not editting ever works.
Echo chambers should be reserved for the important research into whether ducks’ quacks echo.
Inb4 people claiming that three of us expressing our surprise that David is >50 proves that we’re sockpuppets.
It couldn’t possibly be that I’m an ageist piece of shit* who expects people who make their livings online to be in their mid thirties at the oldest. No, I must be a sock that David wears on his hand while stroking his… ego.
* used facetiously, plz save any sympathy for someone who needs it
Not directed at you, just an observation: Ageism is so fucking gross. It is literally some Nazi Germany ideology.
No, we don’t all have to be perennially young, strong, athletic, sexually vigorous superbeings, sorry.
There is absolutely no reason for this whatsoever.
So, Mikey knows we’re all socks, even though he totally doesn’t read the blog guys, because it is so boring. But how WOULD Mikey know this about us without reading, unless he is really……………………………..another sock of David Futrelle!
The plot thickens my fellow socks.
Congrats David. And huge thanks for your blog. I admire you for being able to read through all that ….. every day. Brightest blessings to you 🙂
Wooooo, nice, David!!
While we are passing out congratulations I must congratulate all of you, like I do every day, on knowing that there are misogynists on the internet. Bravo.
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@Viscaria
Why, thank you! I really don’t know what to say!
I’d like to thank YOU for enabling me to realize Internet misogyny exists! Without you guys I would never have achieved my success!
Let’s hear it for Viscaria! Hip, hip, HURRAH!
Can I be the blue and green argyle ones?
Dave, thank you for making my sock one that likes to post cute animals for people here. ??
@PaganReader – Misandrist Spinster
I love how David has ‘you’ posting itty bitty kitty pics lately 😀 Insofar as I can love anything, being a sock.
*Runs away chanting “I’m a sock, you’re a sock, everyone’s a sock sock”*
We are all David Futrelle.
@Francesca
(I’m done with gifs now, I promise.)
Did he really just compare men who can’t get laid because there busy acting like jerks on the internet to cancer paitants? Is that what happened there? XD
I am furious that I’ve been accused of being a sock puppet. There is *no* way that David looks half as sexy as me when dressed up as a parakeet. I should make that the subject of my next Budrigar Video on youtube.
I admit it – im the sock account! I am david actually. Also i made from socks. And in my brain is one sock who operates everything.
@Valentine
Huh, I think I have one too.
That must be why I make so many poor life choices. 😀 It’s not my fault, I literally have a sock for a brain, not an actual functioning brain. It all makes sense now!
Fran, i only hope your sock is not dirty ))) but in my experience socks are very sensible…my sock always tells me correctly…has your sock gone rouge? Or maybe it not a sock at all! Maybe it is stockings.
I hate it when my socks get holes in the big toe. It happens so often.
@Valentine
For some reason my sock decided I should be a gorgeous trash fire of an individual, leaving me powerless to watch as I do the exact opposite of what should actually be done very single time, and just indulge in self destructive and outright dumb behavior. It’s amazing.
For what it’s worth, I blame nobody but myself and my sock for myself being a trash fire. That was all on me.
Why is my sock like this? It is a mystery.
Also, it may actually have been a stocking all along, which would mean my problems are, once again, amusingly enough the product of my inability to just recognize what I really want to do and should be doing, but am idiotically choosing to ignore.
Looks like your operator is definately stockings. They are always very excited but really it seems like they not having any plan, but secretly they do. Your stockings would never betray you ))))
I have no idea what i saying. Is it late for you? For me 0235…
@Valentine
It is here, yes, and I am doing a bad life choice and not sleeping. I will probably sleep about five hours total. I did say I was notoriously good at managing to make terrible life choices, eh? You’re witnessing it in action! Behold! 😀
I will probably sleep about three hours today. Insomnia is an old friend of mine.
One day I will tell you the stories of when I stayed up for over three days when you are less tired. I may probably have also done myself interminable damage to my mind by doing that. I am totally focused right now.
I like to think that if you assigned me to a sniper team in some military outfit, I’d be able to track your target for days without getting tired.
Don’t feel bad if you have to go sleep. I will go find out what wackiness Drumpf and his merry band of thieves got up to.
Or I will take two of these sleeping tablets I got off the local Invisible Hand Of The United States Free Market. My insomnia is so bad they barely have an effect, but I sure as hell won’t take more than two. Overdosing on sleeping medication never has a happy end and it’s not a pleasant story for anyone.
For me i am not tired now – i working. Maybe i should not be on my phone, i bring on the brigde for the good internet and for play music. When it night and all crew but me and watchkeeper are sleeping it becomes better. Not best because it can be never. We on this thing called FBB, which so slow (( and then sometimes have v-sat which little bit less slow. But all slow.
I working normally 0000 to 0400 then wake up 0940 then work to 1600 or 1700 if i really busy.
But i understand too what you say about insomnia. I never had 3 days long before. I struggling sleeping even if i work very hard. Usually i just sleep maybe 2100 to 2340 and then 0440 to 0940. But obviously im im not a robot so no one can sleep directly.
You have this experience where you cant remember if what you thinking was really happen or if it was a dream? My dreams sometimes very boring and if i only sleep for short time i think is it real or is it not )))) i think this one coming when you not getting enough sleep.
@Valentine
That’s cool, what kind of music do you like?
I know just what you mean.
Sometimes I have dreams about driving down a road nearby my house. That’s all. Nothing happens. It’s just me alone on a nighttime drive.
And it feels like I really did just drive around aimlessly.
I also dream about shopping at supermarkets.
Honestly, I don’t mind so much. I used to get horrible nightmares all the time once, until the Invisible Hand Of The United States Free Market gave me drugs to blunt myself with.
I like russian music )) and english rock and roll. I also like rap music but on russian because i cant understand when it on english – it too fast. My favourite band though this one called Rotfront – they german but lead singer is from ukraine.
You sound almost like you describe my dreams! I had one dream where i went to captain’s cabin and he eating cake. Even now i dont 100% know if it really happen…and also like you i having boring or very scarey or strange. Is it easy in USA to get medicines for everything?