By David Futrelle
So over in the Men Going Their Way subreddit, the fellas are talking about what to do with “leftover” — i.e. unmarried — women after men finally step up and take the vote away from women, who are always voting for the wrong things anyway.
Apparently unable to understand that most women have jobs, the MGTOWs naturally conclude that in their version of utopia the single ladies — deprived not only of husbands and their resources but of Big Daddy government as well — won’t be able to support themselves. But the MGTOWs, kind ghouls souls all, don’t want to let them starve!
One brave MGTOW has a solution:
(Note: in the preceding quote “CC Rider” refers not to the famous song but to the infamous “cock carousel.”)
Naturally, other MGTOWs are enthusiastic about Mr. BCPrepper’s ingenious proposal.
BCPrepper goes on to praise himself for his “humanitarian” solution to the Leftover Woman Problem.
Such thoughtful fellows these MGTOWs are!
Everything we Statesians have done in the name of liberty, other possessions of the Empire managed to do without being so Extra.
If we’d waited another 100 years, we’d have had abolition in the 1830s and probably voted ourselves independence around the same time as Canada. At the very latest, we would have had to wait until 1945.
But no, we couldn’t be patient. We had to go and dress up like natives and chuck tea in the harbor, then shoot each other over whether some people got to own other people.
We’re such a bunch of Drama Presidents.
IKR? The whole thing could have just said “everyone fights everyone else.” But people talk about it like it’s 1984.
@Rhuu
No need to apologize! Thanks for the resources–and the advice!
*peers in while munching on Rhuu’s links*
All this talk of tea reminds me of an exchange I saw on a rerun of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In some years back (show originally ran in the late 1960’s, I believe). From memory:
Rowan: How long do you British seep your tea?
David Niven*: Do you recall that tea your country’s founders tossed into the harbor?
Rowan: Yes.
Niven: It should be about ready now.
*I think this was the actor in question.
Some of the posts here make me want to enroll to some survival skills course, to not be completely useless after an apocalypse. 🙂
Some way back some people mentioned suspicious fans of fictional tyrannies. While I completely understand why defending SW’s Empire is worthy of side-eye, I think it’s kind of justified in the case of Eragon:
1) The author decided to go the dark and edgy way with its protagonists. Brutality, war crimes, nepotism, fraud, the “good guys” have it all, and unbearably glamorized. Makes one wonder if the Empire could feasibly be any worse; at the very least it kept the peace.
2) By the time the Empire really is shown doing something evil towards its people (and not just the protagonist personally) it’s like book 3 or 4. Before that, the Empire is evil because its ruler rebelled against some possibly equally despotic order a long time ago, which is pretty esoteric compared to all the “justified” evil things we see the protagonists do along the way.
It’s as if Star Wars took out both the Republic and Death Star, and then had Luke murder a bunch of Ewoks that got in his way.
There’s hardly anything I could add about the repulsive MGTOW “plan”, but don’t they realize they’d need a big daddy government to help keep their slaves in line? There’s a reason Handmaid’s Tale describes a totalitarian setting.
I wonder if they really believe this would totally happen, or is this just a pure, masturbatory fantasy for them. I wonder if it matters.
Katz : IKR as Iron Kingdom ? Or something else ?
@Ohlmann:
I think she means IKR as an abbreviation for “I know, right?”
@ EJ
Did you see that documentary about ants a while back? Some amazing stuff about the algorithms they use to navigate and decide where to live. Which they then applied to the Voyager route calculations. With surprising results.
@ Kat
I’m sorry – it breaks me up too when I think of it.
If you can, absolutely.
One great advantage of today is that tribes can be elective, if you’re lucky.
I had been wondering whether I could pop into the embassy and take tea with yr Excellency.
@EJ : make more sense indeed.
@Katz
It used to take itself a lot less seriously. Games Workshop went through some fairly substantial changes in the early nineties, and again in the early noughties and they’re a very different company these days.
That said, isn’t the modern meaning of “satire” something more like “what you claim your hate speech actually was when you’re called out on it”? Sounds like modern games workshop would fit right in 😉
Wow. I think my uterus just decided that in case of emergencies, it WILL VACATE MY BODY BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
Should I inform the mister that he’s to change his name to “Chad”? Do they count if they’re the only pony on the carousel? Any prior ponies have been removed and sent off to wherever they send them!
@bluecat
Sugar or honey? Cream or lemon?
Plus we have tiny sandwiches, with or without crusts.
All Mammotheers are welcome.
No trolls. Make your own damned tiny sandwiches.
@Katz
Either that or the Branch Davidians. His post-apocalypse fantasies need work.