By David Futrelle
For years I’ve been chronicling the manosphere’s obsession with the so-called “cock carousel,” that wondrous merry-go-round of endless zipless sex allegedly enjoyed by every twentysomething Western woman, but off-limits to all Western men except the Chadliest top twenty percent.
Well, it looks like I’ve finally found the first rider of this sex-go-round, and she’s a bosomy fictional slattern named Elaine, brought to life in the 1963 pulp novel This is Elaine by someone called Jason Hytes. If the front cover is any indication, Elaine was not really that into shirts.
I have not read the book — which you can purchase used for $28.50 on Amazon — but the back cover gives a bit more detail on the perverse world of Elaine and her naughty friends.
Wait, wouldn’t the carousel have to still be working for anyone to get off?
H/T — @pulplibrarian, whose tweet was pointed out to me by former regular WHTM commenter @pecunium; I found the back cover on Pop Sensation.
Bonbons are redeemed as weapons by the fact that they can often survive impact, meaning that if you’re fighting in a fairly clean space then you can eat them afterwards.
@fishy goat
I am 100% sure Brian Blessed wins that fight. If only because he chews everything flung at him.
Also, who back in page 1 came up with the idea of “Cock Dodgems”? Because I am still giggling about it and will be giggling about it for days to come.
Who’s the gang of assholes
That are toxic through and through?
Em! Gee! Tee! Oh! Dou-ble Yew!
@Weird Eddie
A quick look at the modern political climate suggests that in order to go be correct from the general point of view of the electorate you’ll need to work on your unreasoning bigotry and general white nationalism. People who whine about political correctness seem not to have noticed this, and so have it all backwards…
Zephkiel:
My work here is done.
Also, Eastport sounds like such a generic name: I’m guessing that it’s meant to be an Everytown, not the real Maine town. Like Springfield or Townsville (Townsville is a real place in Queensland, which is not protected by the Powerpuff Girls).
@Moggie
But how do they deal with the monster attacks?
@Axe “Danger” Calibur:
They’re from Australia.
They’re raised to deal with monster attacks.
Peripherally related to the ‘women at work’ theme, someone just sent me this and I thought it might make a nice trivia quiz for you.
What was this woman’s profession?
(She’s at work in the picture)
Trap and relocate, generally.
(CW for photo of 4.8 metre python)
http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/news/townsville-snake-handler-wrangles-monster-48m-scrub-python/news-story/118c1f30dd95e77e3ff5b58cd6dc0ef0
@dslucia
Yeah, you right. Spiders with health bars, giant possums who can kickbox, Imorton Joe’s War Boys. Stay strong, Aussies!
@Croquembouche
O.o I’d be afraid to look that thing in the eyes. Might turn me to stone…
@Weird Eddie
You’re 100% correct about the P.C. culture thing. When did it become acceptable to be rude to others? It’s almost as if, today, common courtesy towards others is taken as a sign of weakness.
It reminds me of an old NYT Cheeto interview I read awhile back. Anyway, His Orangeness mentioned that, in his opinion, “most people simply aren’t deserving of respect”. I suppose it’s a sign of my age, quaint beliefs, and liberalness, that this truly shocked me. I’ve always felt that everyone deserved a certain –
rock-bottom in some cases – degree of respect.
Sorry to bring up the Tangerine. I’m obsessive by nature, and I can’t stop ruminating about the disaster that he is for the US and the world.
S@ Axe, our pythons are pretty chill actually, as long as you are larger than a wallaby or toddler. I’m pretty sure one is living in our ceiling right now, and that’s why rats aren’t chewing through our wiring up there any more. I refuse to consider the possibility the large heavy slithery thing I hear moving up there is a venomous, aggressive snake.
ETA: Alan, I assume I heard about knocker uppers via Pterry Pratchett, but didn’t realise some used peashooters. Would not work for me.
@Croquembouche
Of course it’s not. Ceiling snek is just nice, shy snek 😀
@Croquembouche
Reminds me of a situation in Florida, years ago, where a very large snake, a python or boa constrictor, I don’t remember, was removed from underneath someone’s house. The snake was an escaped pet. I seem to remember it as being thicker than the snake in your link. Cats were missing from the neighborhood. I wonder if small children were missing, as well, seeing how huge that thing was.
The “snake catcher” who finally captured it was thrilled. He talked about it like he’d won the lottery, or had the sexual experience of a lifetime.
I remember reading an article about how in the 18th or 19th century (this was years ago so I’m fuzzy on details), a trendy game for young upper class people was to find inventive ways to tease and harass homeless disabled people.
Anyway, point is, it’s tempting to engage in nostalgia for a past when people were more polite and to view people these days as more mean, but it’s a total myth.
I don’t think whines about PC culture have much to do with people not wanting to be polite. It’s a backlash against hateful language becoming much less socially acceptable. People aren’t mad that they have to be polite. Most of the people who complain about PC are perfectly willing and able to be polite to people they perceive as either their equal or their better. People are mad that they have to disguise their bigotry a little bit.
@ Weird Eddie:
“What it means, what “Political Correctness” means, at least the way trump, the trumpanzees, and other mean-spirited people use the phrase, it means TREATING OTHERS WITH DIGNITY!
THAT’S ALL!
It means, “no, it’s not acceptable to demean someone because they don’t look like me, aren’t a member of my church, aren’t as able as me, and on.” ”
I totally agree.
What I don’t get, however, is where the connection with the concept of Free Speech is derived.
I mean, as far as I seem to understand it (please correct me if I am mistaken) doesn’t the Free Speech concept apply only to the restriction of the U.S. Government from dictating what an American citizen should hold as personal opinion, or speak about publicly?
Or does it have something to do with more than individual liberties vs. Government directive?
Or, to put it another way, can one individual (in a wholly private capacity) impinge or restrict the Free Speech of another?
Sorry, that should read:
“impinge upon or restrict the Free Speech of another?”
@WWTH,
Unfortunately it never went out of fashion (see: “Bullingdon Club”)
seconding Croquembouche re knocker-upper.
I personally never bought “for the lulz” as an excuse for any of these chucklenuts’ behaviour. It’s always been a figleaf of plausible deniability, basically just another way of saying “The normies can’t prove I was serious, so I’m going to just tell them it was a joke, even though my fellow Pepes know I was pretty much serious about my contempt for those different than me! So long, suckers!”
What’s key is how much they’re willing to risk in whatever lives they have. It’s never a good sign when they’ve been emboldened to the point of marching in broad daylight, but now that a lot of them are feeling the heat in their lives, I think the social ostracism will have them questioning whether its worth it.
@ croquembouche & opposablethumbs
Congratulations!
Maybe it’s like those alarm clocks that get progressively louder. She starts with the pea-shooter and if that doesn’t work she just lobs a brick?
@ big head
In human rights law there’s a distinction between ‘vertical effect’ and ‘horizontal effect’. The former is where a government body restricts the relevant freedom. That’s always actionable.
The latter is when a right is inhibited by a non state actor. That’s less vigorously scrutinised by courts; but it can be subject to judicial review.
I can’t think of any first amendment applications off hand though. It’s usually stuff like one group of citizens killing or persecuting another group. Then you can bring a claim against the government for infringing your rights by omission as a result of them not intervening to prevent that.
Alan:
Can’t swipe left on a brick.
Dormousing_it:
Could this be the answer for incels?
I actually think it goes deeper than that. People like to think they have life figured out by a certain point. They settle into a rhythm where they can say to themselves that they’re fundamentally “good people.” But then here’s a bunch of people coming along to say “yeah, life’s rhythm ain’t so good for us and you’ve been participating in a system that’s been oppressing the shit out of us.” What they hear is “white people are evil” and that’s perceived as an attack on that sense of goodness they’ve built up. The default reaction is to dismiss this new information in a kind of “Don’t you tell me what to do!” whine. Unfortunately, there’s an entire apparatus willing to exploit that default reaction and that’s what gives rise to deplorables, but my point is that more than just the need to express bigoted thoughts, their fragile senses of selves feel under attack by the mere existence of those they’ve felt license to ignore for all this time.
@Moggie
Heh. Poor snakes! No one should have to put up with those guys.
I find the whole idea of the ‘cock carousel’ to be one of those points where the Manosphere just parts company with morality. I saw it in some Red Pill glossary once: the idea is that women in their prime years (generally assumed by these assholes to be under 30, if not younger) will bounce from one ‘alpha’ to the other (as many as possible) before either snagging a ‘beta provider’ and settling down, or hitting ‘the Wall’ and living out some half-life as a used-up…ya get the picture. As with lots of these attempts by Manospherians to describe Reality, it’s important to remember that ‘women’ does not describe actual real women, but ‘how the guy who wrote this thinks the women he finds attractive behave, in his head’.