By David Futrelle
Sometimes the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit seems like a neverending contest to see who can describe (cis) female bodies in the creepiest way.
I don’t know when if ever the MGTOWs will get around to tallying up the results of this context, but I do know this guy deserves some kind of award for this contribution. I’ll start the ball rolling by naming him today’s MGTOW of the Day.
Yes, the lady grapes are definitely very sour.
@JS
Oh man, when they get to Heretics of Dune and the Honored Matres… gonna be picking up the remnants of a lot of blown minds.
@Everyone, re: muscles
Thank you!
Also:
I stopped for a while because I’d injured myself in one of my martial arts classes, then I got disillusioned with the whole fitness/martial arts scene because of all the toxic brodude shit.
Now that Nazis are attacking us, however, I decided to get back into it. I’m gonna go back to improving my martial arts proficiency as well, once I find a nice, friendly place that isn’t infested with tapout-shirt wearing brodudes.
I am currently in the best physical condition I’ve been in in years. Our washer and dryer finally wore out, and until we can get new ones I’m taking the laundry to the local laundromat. About a mile each way, including a hill.
At the same time, the family diet has been pared back, as both my husband and son have been diagnosed prediabetic. So I’m down to 150 lbs/ 66 kilos, and my upper body strength and cardiovascular health have improved. We’re in a program set up by the local children’s hospital that will provide us with a variety of fresh local vegetables and whole grain products, as well as cooking suggestions and weekly check-ins. I am hoping to get both of them to start doing more walking as well.
Regarding the OP – sweet corn on the cob, these men are seriously conflicted. I’ve said it before, but the body horror they seem to perceive in the very people they profess to be attracted to reminds me of the g0ys.
It reminds me of the unfortunate story of John Ruskin and his wife Effie Gray; depending on the source, either her pubic hair or her menstruation caused him such distress that the marriage was never consummated.
@Robert Walker-Smith
This is a big problem in the black community, along with cardiovascular issues and obesity.
I’m a black woman and I am desperately afraid of diabetes, so I barely eat anything sweet and am extremely weight-conscious.
So it’s good of you to keep this in mind.
When I was a nipper I kept fit by swimming and was an award-winning swim team member, so if you have the opportunity to get your little one into swimming, please consider it.
Has anyone else seen Swiss Army Man? I just saw it last night. It’s extremely good, Daniel Radcliffe is hilarious, and all this talk of bags of fat and bags of farts reminded me of it.
So this is essentially just them trying to feverishly deny that they’re attracted to women, talking themselves out of it, as it were.
Now vaginas do have super powers, they can fit a whole human through them, that’s more than a little intimidating.
And the badly proportioned bags of fat just sounds like they’re trying to talk trash about breasts, which is lunacy.
@Francesca I as well (was European medieval martial arts IMCF) and had to leave for similar reasons. But I miss having muscles. Course, I also miss being able to walk/run properly so I have to be very gentle with upping the intensity.
@Bina, Mish and Hambeast,
A friend has suggested I try BB cream because I’m fairly pale and don’t wear make-up, but might need some sort of sunscreen. If you have the time, can you advise me please?
(34 and knows nothing about this stuff!) What brands do you use? What would you recommend? I try to use Lush moisturiser, shampoo and shower gel, because I have sensitive skin, so something similar would be good.
R.e. muscles
Not my thing, just nah. Doesn’t matter the gender of the person, I just don’t like them. I blame my dad making us watch Arnie films as children. The terrible acting put me right off body builders.
I remember hearing, probably on QI or No Such Thing As A Fish, that although bodybuilders have more muscles in total, the individual muscles are weaker than someone with less total muscles.
Brienne is amazing; I love Brienne for her wit. She’s probably my favourite character in the Game of Thrones series. I haven’t read enough of even one book to say what I think about her as a book character.
R.e. OP
My body is quite well-proportioned, actually. Fat maybe, but in proportion. And definitely not weak or babyish. I can probably swim further and walk further, and recover faster, than this twit, despite having nerve damage to my lower spine. So get knotted you ignoramus.
I’ve got some questionable yogurt in the back of the fridge. Hoping I can rejuvenate it with a little eyeliner.
@Fran
Maybe look into a Capoeira class? At least it lowers the probability that the dudes in class will be white assholes, though I can’t speak for reduced toxic masculinity overall.
There’s actually a definable reason for that, and it’s racism and bad agricultural policy. Which is to some extent also based on racism. The short (ish) of it is that a) Policy changes under Earl Butz, Nixon’s Secretary of Agriculture, led to a centralization and industrialization of American agriculture, focused on vast monocropped fields of corn(maize) and soybeans. These in turn are processed into a variety of things which are collectively called ‘Junk food’, as well as additives to foods that traditionally weren’t. Some of it is also fed to animals in Confined Animal Feeding Operations, CAFOs/factory farms, which produce fatty and poor quality meat. Put together, this has lead to the dramatic increases in diabetes and other diet-related diseases in all sectors of the population. These problems are worse in PoC communities because of a generations long history of preventing PoCs from accessing capital to build things like grocery stores, as well as long-term poverty assured by other policies, means that PoCs are particularly likely to live in a so-called ‘food desert’, a place where McDonalds and minimarts are the only accessible sources if nourishment if not nutrition. Poor infrastructure maintenance/lack of infrastructure in the first place means few parks or places for physical recreation and laughable disability accommodation, which doesn’t help.
The long form gets into a whole lot of detail, but it really boils down to the government being run by racist fucking white guys, for what white supremacists call the benefit of the white race and people who aren’t malevolent chumps call a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
@Nanny Ogg’s Bosom
Bodybuilders work out for purely aesthetic purposes; bulging muscles aren’t necessary for strength, and don’t actually enhance it. They also tend to deliberately starve themselves for competition, which doesn’t help. Functional muscle is a whole other matter, and often coexists with body fat.
@ Buttercup Q. Skullpants –
You might be able to use that eyeliner pencil to aid in the making of a (mock) Tequila BLT sandwich also.
I had one the other day. This is exactly the same as a regular BLT but you will want a head of lettuce with a worm in it.
And this did make me realize that I am more optimistic than I believed myself to be. Because I was so hoping that the little round hole in the lettuce might’ve been from….
Well, maybe they’re tossing them along with meat hooks or ice picks these days?
Or maybe – someone stuck an eyeliner pencil in it! Yes! That could be it!!!
In the back of my head – it’s probably a worm…
And it was.
Anyway, cooking tip for ye’s. The Manly Men demand sammiches? Make them one of these 😀 (The authentic worm in kind.)
Tequila BLT, Your Majesty! Yummy!
(For those who would want to split hairs and say this does not actually include Tequila – my response to that is – FAKE NEWS!)
@ dalillama
It’s axiomatic that bodybuilders are as weak as kittens (but less cute) at the height of competition.
I could bang on for ages about the difference between aesthetics and functional strength. But I’ll just refer you to the difference between say, an abs model on the cover of Men’s Health magazine and an MMA fighter. Or a bodybuilder and the competitors in those world’s strongest man competitions.
Don’t bodybuilders also dehydrate themselves before competitions and photo shoots to lose water weight and look more ripped? That’s never good.
@Dalilama,
I read a great deal about these issues too. I would maybe understand more of the technical angles, environmental degradation (from factory farming), and those issues.
What seriously disturbs me is that the US (and other big agra regions) – are exporting fresh water. Said water being contained in the meat and grain bags of exported agra products.
Not to mention that the soil is becoming depleted. As well as all sorts of pesticides, chemicals, and too much genetic modification.
I do not work in this field but I read a great deal about it. And it seems to me that we’re about *this close* to gravely serious issues if not regional and total collapse.
@Z&T
It’s actually much worse than that, but that part of the problem isn’t causing diabetes so I skipped it.
There is no reason for muscle if it is not effective muscle. Bodybuilding is dangerous. Nothing wrong with muscle with little bit of fat on top but when you down to 3-4%, starving and dehydration, taking steroid something very wrong…these competitions give rewards for damaging your body.
When we used to do sound and lighting at raves we’d often find random bags of pills when we were packing up. Our procedure was we’d all put whatever we found into a mortar and pestle and grind them all up. Then we’d divvy up the resulting power between ourselves and neck it to see what happened.
And I still wouldn’t go near steroids with a bargepole.
Fuck, alan, how you even still alive?
When i go to gym at home, it is for boxing but i dont fight because i am weak and scared ? i just use equipments. But there in changing rooms you know people are taking these drugs but no one cares. I see no benefit from this behaviour. I might be skinny but least i honestly skinny and honestly making exercise. And also, why would any man take drugs which shrink your parts? I prefer my small muscles and normal body instead of big fake muscles and malfunctioning penis….???
Luckily my worst drug related incident was when I thought I could dance like the guys from the Prodigy; and broke my ankle. Ironically all the ketamine meant it didn’t really hurt.
(It’s wasted on horses, they don’t appreciate it)
Still maybe you wouldnt need ketamine if you didnt take ketamine because you wouldnt dance and then wouldnt break your ankle. )))
Funnily enough it was on that Russian submarine. So technically it’s your fault 😀
Russian submarine? And my ship flag is hong kong anyway. But i had UA chief engieneer from nuclear submarines.
There was an old Russian sub moored on the Thames. We used to hire it for parties. She’s looking a bit worse for wear now. Mind you, she could probably say the same about me.
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I cant load that picture. ? but i will look on it later when all are sleeping and internet will be faster.
@Dalillama: I remember that story! I laughed my poorly proportioned, fatsack, babyish ass off!
Also…we may be fatsacks but at least we ain’t sadsacks like MGTOWs tend to be. I would feel sorry for them if they weren’t such disgusting fuckers.