By David Futrelle
The lady haters on Reddit and elsewhere are reliably outraged every time they discover that some e-girl they’re probably secretly obsessed with is making money selling their used underwear online.
How unfair it is that women can rake in the big bucks for doing nothing more than wearing a pair of panties — yet there’s no demand for the slightly soiled boxers of dudes who spend their lives hanging out on the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit.
Dudes, maybe the problem isn’t that no one wants used dude underwear. Maybe it’s just that the underwear you want to sell isn’t sexy enough.
Well, problem solved, because I have discovered the WORLD’S SEXIST SEXIEST UNDERWEAR — combining the ball-swinging freedom of boxers with a Men’s Rights message!
Head on over to the Non Feminist store on Zazzle and pick up a pair (or ten) of these “Men’s Rights Are Human Rights” boxer beauts.
And yes, they’re also available in black!
Exquisite tailoring, even more exquisite graphic design. How can you — and all your future used-undies purchasers — go wrong?
And while you’re at the Non Feminist store, why not pick up this exciting refrigerator magnet with a slightly blurry quote from our old non-feminist friend Fidelbogen on it?
You could probably rub it on your butt and sell it, too!
BRB, starting a new business.
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I’m also getting sick of how after every mass shooting someone brings up mental illness. We don’t have shootings because of mental illness. We have shootings because of white male entitlement, radicalization of bigots, and it being way too easy to get guns.
OT: Drumpf whistleblower has been endangered by his comments. because of course.
Can’t help suspecting these two ‘supporters’ have views familiar to readers of this blog…
@WWTH @Nequam
I know of no reason why Trump couldn’t have both malignant narcissism and Alzheimer’s, just as you can have arthritis and flu at the same time.
Trump has always been an asshole, but he used to be a much more coherent asshole.
@Sheila Crosby Oh, no doubt.
Nequam:
Trump’s dad was, what, 96? I wonder if he had a very long-drawn, slowly advancing Alzheimer’s combined with genes for excellent cardiovascular health. Trump himself seems physically reasonably healthy for his age, despite having reportedly unhealthy habits.
Amanda Marcotte recently argued that Trump’s incoherence can be explained by him being a congenially lazy thinker who, due to extreme privilege, never had to practice thinking, learning things or expressing himself. It’s a sort of cognitive atrophy from a lifelong lack of training your brain. Then again, I’m not sure if this is distinguishable from slowly advancing dementia.
I’m not an expert in dementia, but I’m the daughter of a man whose brain turned into metaphorical mush in the final years of his life. Like Trump, Dad had certain keywords he’d repeat over and over again. He lost vocabulary. It was like watching a former master poker player lose cards until he could barely play Go Fish.
ETA: Dad, fortunately, had never been a lazy thinker. Unlike Trump, he had a doctorate, and had to think nimbly in his vocation (pastor and later pastoral psychotherapist). I still don’t like thinking about the last 5 years of his life. But unlike the Trump family, we made sure he got the peace and care he needed.
I mean, my illness causes me to forget words quite often. Am I then unfit to work?
It doesn’t matter whether he has an illness or not, what matters is whether he’s capable of doing the job. I would say he’s not, as demonstrated by how he’s a FUCKING FASCIST RUNNING CONCENTRATION CAMPS. A corrupt, easily bought, bigoted, mean-spirited bully of a man. Those things are way more important than whether he has an illness. Please stop trying to diagnose him.
Ordinarily I’d agree with you, but diagnosing Trump may have strategic value, inasmuch as it could furnish grounds for 25th Amendment removal of Trump from office. Getting rid of him that way might be like getting Al Capone on tax evasion … but it would be getting rid of him.
Of course, now that there’s an impeachment inquiry in progress, as well as an election coming up where his poll numbers look rocky, that might now be moot.
Might.
I have little faith in the electorate after 2016 and equally little, if not less, in McConnell to deliver the votes for the needed Senate supermajority. On the other hand, last I checked 25th Amendment removal requires only a bare majority plus the veep … and there’s a big promotion in it for the veep if he plays ball.
Diagnosing Trump has strategic value – for Trump supporters. It provides an excuse for Trump’s behavior so that people don’t focus on the effects of white supremacy and inherited wealth, and how those combined to create a monster.
It makes it easier for a more articulate white supremacist to get elected in the future, by blaming the wrong thing.
It also alienates people who SHOULD be on our side through casual ableism.
Don’t be a dirtbag leftist, based on the false hope of Pence doing the right thing.
@Surplus
In fairness, I just got back from a mini-vacay to Kingston (Ontario, not Jamaica). Very neat place, Kingston. I was there to help move a friend in to Queen’s a decade back, but didn’t remember much about the city. Going back as a tourist is a very different experience. The guides there know the history of the city inside and out, including old ghost stories and legends. There seemed to be a more concerted effort to preserve the old city of Kingston than there was in Toronto. Old Toronto is a city of red-brick clay, while Old Kingston is a city of limestone, and a lot of those old structures have been repurposed as restaurants and retail stores.
And yes, I did visit the infamous Kingston Pen, Canada’s Alcatraz. The tour was expensive ($35 CAD), but it is worth every penny to get the inside view of the prison that housed Canada’s most notorious criminals from the people who actually worked there. (The Privacy Act meant they couldn’t tell us anything about specific prisoners save a few who had consented to sharing their stories, but the stories they could tell were spellbinding.) If you get a chance to make your way to Kingston, definitely take that tour because I have no idea how much longer that facility is going to be there, having shut down as an operating prison in 2013.
Also read this amazing book about The Ward, a long-gone poor immigrant neighbourhood of old Toronto. I figured I’d recommend it to Jenora and other Toronto Mammotheers. It’s essentially a collection of essays about the community, its history, what happened to it and who lived there. You’ll see a lot of the nativism they faced echoed by Tories and PPC members today.
@Surplus
People on this blog’s comments section diagnosing him will do that? How, exactly?
@Katamount:
The Ward looks interesting. I’ve got a book on Toronto street name history around here somewhere as well.
Having lived a few blocks away from Reggae Lane long enough to watch the gentrification slowly creep westward from the subway station, with gas stations turning into townhouses and the rebuilding that’s going to follow the Crosstown construction… fortunately, some chunks of that area are already historical sites in the city.
And yes, Toronto is a city of red brick to a very large extent. Including most of the houses in my neighbourhood. And while people still buy houses to rebuild them, at least these days most of the houses have been renovated just by adding another floor, while keeping the original brick around.
I would love if we could get the entire administration to go, because every one of them scares me just as bad as Trump and some of them are unfortunately more capable and experienced* in government procedure.
*not much experience or capability, but that’s all it would take to be an even bigger threat than trump.
@Yutolia
That was my fear with Pence. Pence is awful, but I feel like a) he would never win reelection because he doesn’t have the same personality cult and b) he would be unlikely to start WWIII, which Trump seems likely to accidentally start. OTOH, Pence is repulsive on his own and I fear for what would happen to LGBTQIPAN+ rights under his administration seeing what he did in Indiana. I’m not sure if he’s worse or better than Trump.
As the son of a father who (1) was a malevolent narcissist and (2) got senile dementia in his last year of life I can vouch that the dementia may impact lucidity, but it doesn’t change personality nor does it make the person some sort of vulnerable, helpless puppy.
My father was an asshole before the dementia and an even bigger asshole afterward. Heck, he was confined to a wheelchair, in his 80s and still managed to pick up a chair over his head, in a crowded restaurant, and throw it, because the table he wanted was already occupied by an 90 year old lady. Naturally I wheeled him out as he threw his tantrum.
So I’d like to echo the sentiment that Trump’s alleged cognitive decline shouldn’t be relevant to whether or not he deserves to get impeached.
Ahhh, thank you Katamount! I was trying to remember the name of that book! I’m going to put a hold on it at the library.
OFFTOPIC:
W00t! Our president just dissolved the most corrupt Congress in the history of our nation! THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER!
The far Right in Peru is officially DEAD!
Sorry, had to get that out of my system.
BUST OUT THE DRINKS!!!
Congrats, Peru! It’s heartening to hear that the far right is having a bad time of it in at least some parts of the world!
I hope that the positive trend continues for you guys!
So, r/braincels is gone.
@Katamount – I was in Kingston with my aunt & cousin earlier in September and we passed an impressive building. I was all, “Ooh, what’s that? It looks like a castle,” and turns out it was the current jail. We also passed the former jail, the one you took a tour in – it looked less like a castle, but the inside of the dome structure looks both fancy and forbidding. At least from the pics on Wikipedia.
On a lighter note, I recommend the restaurant Saigon Delights just off of Princess Street. They had a really good soup, not too $$$.
The book about The Ward reminds me of Africville in Halifax, which was demolished in the 1960s. Earlier this month I watched a short film about it called “Welcome to Africville” from 1999 (ooh, it’s awesome that I can find it online! I saw it at a small university event and didn’t think it’d be widely available.)
@Diego Duarte, Ariblester – Good news!!!
@Diego Duarte,
Congratulations! I hope it does function as a clean sweep of some sort. Thanks for sharing! I hadn’t realized what has been happening in Peru because Brazil seems to dominate the news out of South America. I hope your President can succeed in disrupting the status quo.
Thanks guys!
In essence, we already have two presidents in jail, one killed himself right before he was arrested, two more are on their way, and the presidential candidate, Keiko Fujimori, and leader of the far Right has been in jail since Halloween of last year.
Essentially, they were discovered to be part of several mafias, corruption, bribery, among others. Just now they pathetically attempted to impeach the president and appointed a new one, but what they just did has no validity.
It’s delicious because evangelical christians, like always, threw in with these people and so they’ve gotten destroyed at the polls because of their mounting impopularity.
And now it looks like the jailed ex-presidents are going to have 73 congressmen to keep them company :)!!
Good riddance!!
Nice!
I once had a roommate who was Peruvian-Canadian, but I have to say that I unfortunately learned very little about Peruvian politics during that time. 🙁
Very happy, though, that things are looking up!
@Crip Dyke
Interestingly enough, the Peruvian flag and the Canadian flag are almost the same, except instead of a leaf we have a shield.
Btw, the army is currently meeting with the president regarding his “impeachment” and the attempt by congress to usurp functions.
Looks like some people are heading to jail :)!!
Hopefully the same might happen in the US some day! The memes are getting lit!
@Diego Duarte
Semi-related question: Is the “j” in “Fujimori” pronounced as in Japanese (i.e. closer to English “j”), or as in Spanish (i.e. closer to English “h”)?