By David Futrelle
“Van Life,” as I understand it, is a growing trend in which young and often quite photogenic people, er, live in vans — hence the name — and post a lot of arty pictures to Instagram documenting their travels.
Over on the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit today some of the regulars are discussing the trend, which many of them see as very amenable to the MGTOW philosophy.
But some worry that the trend has gotten popular with the very women these guys say they’re going their own way from. So what’s the appeal to these women?
Cock, of course. Just listen to Beavis and Butthead here:
Those sneaky, sneaky ladies!
But not all MGTOWs are opposed to the idea of “bitches” driving from city to city in an endless quest for geographically diverse dick. Even if the owners of said dick have to pay a little to get, er toured.
Dude, I feel fairly safe in asserting that no one, not even one of those horny nomadic van ladies, wants to touch your gross MGTOW dick. Regardless of whether the van is in a state of motion or not, don’t go knockin’.
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This calls to mind a reinterpretation of the infamous Money Python lumberjack sketch, TBH.
“… Leaping from cock to cock! The great California hipster pipe! The mighty long dong of the Texas panhandle! The delectable Massachusetts mushroom!”
I haven’t heard the term cock carousel in a while. Has it been replaced by the cock van? They both are unsupported by evidence and reek of sour grapes.
Now that I think of it, maybe MGTOWs could take a cue from it and buy their own vans and go their own way by van, far away from everyone else.
Ahem: cock au van.
“Van life” = romanticization of Millennial poverty.
Yes, sure, prostitution is such a famously profitable endeavor that prostitutes all have their own cars and get their houses with spa.
Saw that mgtow on the bluepill was redubbed men getting triggered over women lol. It fits them quite nicely
@Naglfar
With their terminology, I wonder how of many are just incels needing to complain about women existing since reddit is cracking down hard on all incel/__cel subs.
Whoops the “Cyborg” above was me. Grr autocorrect.
@Tokha
A much more accurate descriptor.
I’d imagine there is some overlap, but I think the two are somewhat different demographics. Incels mostly seem to be younger men, while MGTOWs seem to generally be older. Incels also are much more self-pitying while MGTOWs generally claim to be happy even though they’re obviously not.
Saw Star Wars 9 last night, good ending to the saga, kinda (to me), brought the story arc back to its roots of the “Hero(ine) With 1000 Faces” myth. No spoilers, tho….
I also enjoyed a subconscious game of “Trigger the Miggie Bingo”, seeing the amount of human diversity the series has acquired in the 22+ years. The emotional rollercoaster of fear/ambivalence/strength Rey went thru.
Fuck the bigots… with everyone’s help, history is leaving them behind
@Moggie:
You must go, now… sorry. 🙂 🙂 🙂
I’ve watched a few van life videos. I’ve always been intrigued by compact living spaces, so that life has some appeal to me. At the same time, though, I really like modern comforts, like plumbing and being able to stand up. So, for a week’s holiday? Sure, I can see that. But permanently? I think it would get old very fast, for me.
Like ABars said, I think in many cases these videos and articles are an attempt to make a virtue of the unreachability of conventional property for many young people. And, while I don’t begrudge a van dweller’s attempts to make the lifestyle seem desirable, or to monetise it, I kinda wish that effort went instead into anger at what modern capitalism has done to their chances of a boomer standard of living.
@Weird Eddie:
I was considerably less satisfied! While it’s fresh in your mind, I’d like to suggest watching Jenny Nicholson’s funny (and spoiler-packed) video:
Maybe I’m an old fuddy-duddy fighting a losing battle here, but would it be possible for us to avoid using “trigger” to mean “upset” when it should properly refer to the symptoms of trauma?
None of these guys remember this?
http://i.etsystatic.com/14406053/d/il/a7d3fb/1498467557/il_340x270.1498467557_s1cx.jpg
This would actually sound like a fun road trip if i didn’t have touch aversion problems lol
@Moggie
I didn’t watch Rise of Skywalker, but Jenny’s videos are always great. Knights of Jen for life!
@Diptych
I liked episode 9, but there were a bunch of things that low-key bugged me. My sister (who watched it with me) absolutely loved it though.
SPOILER ALERT; using ROT13
Not bad, solid film, had a lot of ground to cover to be a satisfying conclusion, and it did okay.
@kupo, Diptych
Understood. I’ll make sure going forward to use it appropriately.
LOL the dude saying he wouldn’t mind paying for a “vangirl blowjob” sure does a crap job of living up to miggie “ideals”…
@Moggie – I had that vid recommended to me by the YouTube algorithm, but since I tend to get recommended a lot of alt-right crap by it (such as the ever cringeworthy TheQuartering), especially regarding movies, comics and videogames I was a bit afraid she might simply be a female example of the type (I have seen those before on YouTube). If she’s considered fine by the people here I’ll give the vid a try.
Oh, and my personal view on Episode 9 remains a pretty resounding “Meh”. It’s pretty middling, and retroactively makes the whole trilogy pretty mediocre. Changing tack, themes, tone, pacing, and plotlines all the time over all three movies sure didn’t help. Not the worst movie of the series though.
“Dude, I feel fairly safe in asserting that no one, not even one of those horny nomadic van ladies, wants to touch your gross MGTOW dick.”
I’d be very interested to know what, precisely,, makes you so sure that MGTOWs are physically unattractive. If you’re just trying to get a nomadic woman to touch your dick, you don’t even really need to have good personality with solid pinko social views to get her pussy since she’s just gonna get in the car and drive away when she’s finished anyway.
Have you ever actually SEEN a MGTOW? Fact: MGTOW are physically attractive, especially compared to the malnourished masses of dickless blue pilled salad lads. It’s true that MGTOW don’t put the most effort into their appearances, since they’ve decided to drop out of the yoga pants-wearing game of Blind Man’s Buff known as “romance” but you have no idea what MGTOW is capable of doing with his appearance when necessity strikes.
In a contest to see who is the most dashing man, nobody waddles backwards like you. That’s the difference, MGTOW could get women based solely on appearance. You can’t, so you pretend to be progressive hoping that some pathetic woman will be swayed by your insincere babbling and she will feel her good have your abortions right in the vagina. But that doesn’t matter, because she’s looking for the top 20 percent of men, that being the place where you’d most likely find MGTOW. Just the thought of some common horny hag trying her luck with a MGTOW and getting shown the door – she would probably call him gay, accuse him of indecent exposure, even.
The oddest things get through the troll filter sometimes.
The only person I know personally who is doing it on this side of the Pond is an old colleague of mine from many years ago, who hit the road with her husband when they retired. As it happens, they are quite conservative in outlook, any miggies/MRA types looking for the kind of experience they are fantasizing about would get short shrift from them.
I do worry about how this couple will take it when they are first mistaken for members some of the established Traveller communities though.
Someone tell the vangirls that there are MIGTOWs out there looking for bjs from them. It’s the proper thing to do. 😉
don’t rub, honestly I was thinking the major woman repellent is that dude’s personality and/or his MGTOW ideas, I have no idea what he looks like.
@numerobis,
Yep, can’t argue with you there.
If anyone’s still playing troll bingo, I’m pretty sure a few squares just got checked off!
BAD MOGGIE! GO TO YOUR ROOM!