April 24, 2014

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Western Feminists Life Safe, Soft Decadent Lives, and Focus on the Trivial at the Expense of the Profoundly Important
— Ace

My words, not hers, but that's her point.

"The white man is held to a moral standard that, in the West, men [who have immigrated] from other cultures are not held to," she told the Herald. ''If a white man sold his daughter into marriage, most people would be appalled and there'd be an outrage in any national context in any country in the West. But when it's a man from Pakistan or Somalia or Yemen or India, then what you see is this: 'Oh yes, but Â…'"

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Hirsi Ali, who lives in the US, believes women in developed countries are distracted by issues like work-life balance when they should focus on big-picture issues, such as women's safety. She says it is the responsibility of Western feminists to push these issues onto the public agenda - but only if the movement returns to its original values.

This is a several-weeks-old story, but I'm revisiting it on my way to discussing a newer story.

The letter demanding that Hirsi Ali be dis-invited from speaking at Brandeis was, get this, largely signed by women in the Women and Gender Studies program, and more-or-less-explicitly stated that Ali's focus on genuine repression of women took the focus off the trivial microagressions they prefer to gab about.

The Brandeis professors who demanded that Ayaan Hirsi Ali be "immediately" dis-invited wrote that "we are filled with shame at the suggestion that (Hirsi Ali's) above-quoted sentiments express Brandeis's values." The professors also castigated Hirsi Ali for her "core belief of the cultural backwardness of non-western peoples" and for her suggestion that "violence toward girls and women is particular to Islam." The professors note that such a view "obscure(s) such violence in our midst among non-Muslims, including on our own campus."

Well, they're not practicing forced clitorectomies at Brandeis, nor are they practicing forced marriage (which is essentially family-arranged rape for life), so I take their complaint to mean this:

Hirsi Ali's own story of genuine oppression, and her agitation about important, fundamental rights of, and dignities owed, to women, makes our own neurotic prattlings seem rather silly and fluffy by comparison.

One of the most important ideas in Post-Feminist philosophy (it's post-feminist now; this is just a degenerate, decadent, silly thing) is the concept of "rape culture."

"Rape culture" is crucial because it is the means by which the trivial is transmogrified into the profound. The fact that a man might commit a "microaggression" against a woman by opening the door for her is, in a series of logical steps, rapidly connected to something serious -- rape -- and thus invested with seriousness itself.

Even though it is by no means serious itself.

But the quick silly skipping "logical" steps go like this:

1. A man commits a "microaggression" against a woman by holding a door open for her, "Otherizing" her and suggesting she is infantile and unable to accomplish small tasks on her own.

2. This is a microaggressive power play which reifies the assumptions of the Patriarchy, about woman's role in society as essentially that of Object or Ornament even Trade Good.

3. This dehumanization of women -- the conscious microaggressive stripping of dignity, agency, and autonomy from women -- makes it more easy for a member of the Patriarchy to treat them as inhuman things.

4. This increases the likelihood of rape and in fact reinforces a "rape culture."

That's the reasoning, such as it is, and this reasoning is assumed (rarely spelled out for the listener) whenever a Post-Feminist attempts to invest some absolutely trivial, bubble-headed cultural complaint (such as Tina Fey's character on 30 Rock not being a real feminist) with some imaginary weightiness.

No one can argue that rape isn't a crime of great weight, and so whenever a Post-Feminist senses she's saying something so absurd and trivial it may make her look absurd and trivial, she knows to go through the "Rape Culture" Algorithm to insist that what she's saying isn't absurd and trivial at all, but Very, Very Important.

But of course I can play the same game with any subject and connect it to rape, murder, or Hitler, as you like.

I can connect, if I wanted, a movie I didn't like to Hitler in four steps or fewer; that would not make my whining about The Hobbit 2 any less trivial or any more "political." (But seriously, it was the worst movie I've seen in years. I literally said aloud, "I hate this f***ing movie" about halfway through. I think it might be worst than the Holocaust, but I'm not sure.)

This is a silly game, indulged by silly people.

Hirsi Ali's story is a threat to this version of Post-Feminist trivial pursuits, as that letter readily admits. Hirsi Ali is speaking of real rape -- not "rape culture" -- and real, physical aggressions, clitorectomies, daylight murders, all of which have the inevitable effect of making the pet obsessions of the Brandeis Women and Gender Studies Department seem rather more ridiculous than they already might appear.

Charles C.W. Cooke discussed this some weeks back:

Prepossessed as he was with the all-encompassing wars of his era, George Orwell complained that political language was “designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” Unlike Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the culture warriors of America’s pampered campuses are unlikely to be dealing in murder or in warfare or, for that matter, in anything of much consequence at all. Nevertheless, they enjoy playing assassin, painting glowing targets onto the backs of any idea that threatens their power and, one by one, seeking the bullseyes.

So, here's my point. Slate is a magazine much-devoted to the trivial and silly -- until recently, they were the proud (?) publisher of the mindthoughts of Matt Yglesias, now of Chuckleheadz.com -- and never is Slate more trivial and silly than its embarrassing, woman-shaming "XX Factor" column, aka "Politicz for Grrls."

And so here's he latest masterpiece from the XX Factor brain trust.

It comes -- appropriately enough -- from a junior in high school.

This is what Post-Feminists would rather talk about than Ayaan Hirsi Ali's first-hand encounters with real-world oppression of women.

McDonald's Gave Me the “Girl's Toy” With My Happy Meal. So I Went to the CEO.

By Antonia Ayres-Brown

We found that 92.9 percent of the time, the store simply gave each child the toy that McDonaldÂ’s had designated for that childÂ’s gender.


In the fall of 2008, when I was 11 years old, I wrote to the CEO of McDonald’s and asked him to change the way his stores sold Happy Meals. I expressed my frustration that McDonald’s always asked if my family preferred a “girl toy” or a “boy toy” when we ordered a Happy Meal at the drive-through. My letter asked if it would be legal for McDonald’s “to ask at a job interview whether someone wanted a man’s job or a woman’s job?”

A few weeks later, I received a short response from a McDonaldÂ’s customer satisfaction representative claiming that McDonaldÂ’s doesnÂ’t train their employees to ask whether Happy Meal customers want boysÂ’ or girlsÂ’ toys, and my experiences were not the norm.

This response was unsatisfying, so I began visiting more than a dozen local McDonald’s locations with my father to collect data. Ultimately, we brought a complaint to the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities against McDonald’s for discriminating on the basis of sex. Despite our evidence showing that, in our test, McDonald’s employees described the toys in gendered terms more than 79 percent of the time, the commission dismissed our allegations as “absurd” and solely for the purposes of “titilation [sic] and sociological experimentation.”All in all, this was a pretty humiliating defeat.

When a Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities tells you you're being absurd, you're probably doing something wrong.

But I still couldnÂ’t let it go.... So this past summer, we decided to test this assertion.

In a series of 30 visits, we sent boys and girls, ages 7-11, into 15 McDonaldÂ’s stores to independently order a Happy Meal at the counter. We found that 92.9 percent of the time, the store, without asking, simply gave each child the toy that McDonaldÂ’s had designated for that childÂ’s gender...

In the most egregious instance, a McDonald’s employee asked a girl, “Would you like the girl's toy?” The girl responded, “No, could I have the boy's toy?” When the girl opened the container a moment later, she learned that notwithstanding her explicit request, a McDonald’s employee had given her the girl’s toy. This girl went back to the counter with the unopened toy and requested, “May I have a boy's toy, please?” The same McDonald’s employee replied, “There are only girl's toys.” We then sent an adult male into the store who immediately was given a boy’s toy.

"The most egregious incident" involving cisnormative distribution of Happy Meal toys, she means. I suppose, within that particular set, this might indeed be "the most egregious incident."

Oh by the way, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is not permitted to discuss her own experiences of genital mutilation and attempted forced marriage because that might "distract" from the important agenda items being pushed by Post-Feminists.

I will say one thing for this Junior Member of the Women and Gender Studies Social Justice Committee -- she is a more lucid writer than Matt Yglesias, and her piece actually contains information.

Not important information, but still, better than Yglesias.

By the way...

The precocious inquiry yielded a series of communications between Ayres-Brown and the fast-food chain. It also led to some serious data collecting by the girl and her dad Ian Ayres — who is, unsurprisingly, a heavy-hitting Yale law professor and economist who has previously collaborated with his daughter on research — about McDonald’s employees and the Happy Meal gender bias.

Sounds like maybe someone is acting Paternalistically in helping someone get their Ivy League application essay together.

Yay feminism, I guess...?

Posted by: Ace at 01:10 PM | Comments (340)
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1 A bold move.

Posted by: Kerrigan at April 24, 2014 01:12 PM (fOLwM)

2 Multi-culti says they can be as depraved as they like because culture, but we have to live by the rules our liberals deem for THIS culture.

Posted by: --- at April 24, 2014 01:13 PM (MMC8r)

3 Is that a boldfaced lie?

Posted by: dantesed at April 24, 2014 01:14 PM (88xKn)

4 liVe safe lives

Posted by: J at April 24, 2014 01:14 PM (JyjXt)

5 Our women suffer profound degradation and humiliation on a daily basis. Just this morning one of our faculty was offered a discount car wash on odious patriarchal premise that Thursday was "Ladies Day."

Posted by: The Brandeis Womyn Warrior For Righteousness and Social Justice at April 24, 2014 01:15 PM (8ZskC)

6 American women must be treated a certain way, but other women don't. Isn't that racist?

Posted by: --- at April 24, 2014 01:15 PM (MMC8r)

7 After reading that McDonalds story, I may not be able to sleep tonight. The horror. The horror.

Posted by: WalrusRex at April 24, 2014 01:15 PM (wTgwx)

8 AosHQ: Going boldly where no man has gone before!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 24, 2014 01:16 PM (wtvvX)

9 She's brillant and correct. So the liberals hate her

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 24, 2014 01:16 PM (t3UFN)

10 The horror of gender specific toys myst be stopped!

Posted by: steevy at April 24, 2014 01:16 PM (zqvg6)

11 That Bold Wheat Goodness on One Side.....

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 01:17 PM (LJ7Ze)

12 A clitoris here, and a clitoris there, and pretty soon you're talking about real misogyny.

Posted by: Stuff Confucius Said, Large Print Edition at April 24, 2014 01:17 PM (8ZskC)

13 This is easier to read. No italics.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 01:17 PM (LJ7Ze)

14 Yale professor doesn't abort daughter to use her as prop for anti-patriarchy paper, film at 11.

Posted by: --- at April 24, 2014 01:18 PM (MMC8r)

15 Allies never let their    partners     be attacked.         

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 24, 2014 01:18 PM (sBUAE)

16 Reminds me of Tacitus;

Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset"

Posted by: Marcus T at April 24, 2014 01:18 PM (wzWSd)

17 Antonia Ayres-Brown is going to ride her little McDonald's Happy Meal crusade to a nice scholarship at the college of her choice, where she will major in (natch) gender studies and then head off to a beautiful and probably lucrative career of telling everyone who will listen how men f*ck up everything.

Posted by: Hamilton at April 24, 2014 01:18 PM (oMYHY)

18 Whenever I go to McDonald's to buy a Happy Meal toy, they always ask me "for a boy or a girl"?  That may be because I'm a grown man and I ask to see all of them so I can get the one(s) I want, but I always feel microagressed and Other'd.

Posted by: Sam Hill at April 24, 2014 01:18 PM (e15Qx)

19 "The Brandeis professors who demanded that Ayaan Hirsi Ali be "immediately" dis-invited" Bwhahaha! Brandies professors. If you could invent a nom de guerre that was more irrelevant, let me know. liberal insignificance tries to be significant.

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 01:19 PM (x3YFz)

20 This font is giving me the creeps for some reason.

Posted by: Cliven Bundy at April 24, 2014 01:19 PM (5UteM)

21 yes, yes, there's four t's in "tit-a-lay-shun"


not three, you tit-ignorant clowns

Posted by: J at April 24, 2014 01:19 PM (JyjXt)

22 so whenever a Post-Feminist senses she's saying something so absurd and trivial it may make her look absurd and trivial, she knows to go through the "Rape Culture" Algorithm to insist that what she's saying isn't absurd and trivial at all, but Very, Very Important. Sure thing sugartits. When you get your clit hacked off, get back to me.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 01:20 PM (uVkIH)

23

Whenever I go to McDonald's to buy a Happy Meal toy, they always ask me "for a boy or a girl"? That may be because I'm a grown man and I ask to see all of them so I can get the one(s) I want, but I always feel microagressed and Other'd.
****

LOL. Nephews got My Little Pony toys the other day. Thank you Antonia! Toys for me to steal. Hope they have Twilight Princess Sparkles!

Posted by: Lea at April 24, 2014 01:20 PM (lIU4e)

24 These people have become so isolated in their liberal utopias that they can not function in a wider more rational society.  In days gone by we called people who could not function in society insane.


That firs this idiot to a "T".

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 01:20 PM (T2V/1)

25 Hmmm.... opening doors for a Lady is a Microaggression?? Then I will no longer put down the toilet seat either.... for that would also be a Microaggresion!

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 24, 2014 01:20 PM (84gbM)

26 I understand that the toy companies are being pressured to end gender specific toys.

Posted by: steevy at April 24, 2014 01:20 PM (zqvg6)

27 you tit-ignorant clowns Posted by: J at April 24, 2014 05:19 PM (JyjXt) You're evidently new here....

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 01:21 PM (x3YFz)

28 Derbyshire is right.  We are doomed. 

Posted by: Benji Carver at April 24, 2014 01:21 PM (K2XO3)

29 They always give me the trans-gendered toy without even asking.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at April 24, 2014 01:21 PM (+lsX1)

30 It also led to some serious data collecting by the girl and her dad Ian Ayres — who is, unsurprisingly, a heavy-hitting Yale law professor and economist who has previously collaborated with his daughter.....


Hey sweetie, your dad's a f@g.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 24, 2014 01:21 PM (5UteM)

31 Chelsea Manning-offended as a youth by boy Happy Meal Toys

#1stWorldIssues

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 01:21 PM (TE35l)

32 This thread contains an abundance of triggers and should be accompanied by a Chill Groove.

Posted by: Andy at April 24, 2014 01:22 PM (2OaXr)

33 Then I will no longer put down the toilet seat either.... for that would also be a Microaggresion! They need it down. We need it up. Deal with it.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 01:22 PM (uVkIH)

34 BTW, that last comment was not directed at Hirsi Ali.  It was directed at the women in the Brandeis Women and Gender Studies Department

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 01:22 PM (T2V/1)

35 Father was a plagiarist too, but protected by skin color or something.

Posted by: Schwalbe: The Me-262© at April 24, 2014 01:22 PM (9Bdcz)

36 These people are not fit to clip Ayan's toe nails let alone lecture her on tolerance!

Posted by: Kreplach at April 24, 2014 01:22 PM (MVGKx)

37 I understand that the toy companies are being pressured to end gender specific toys. JT Marlin upgrades Generic Gray Rubber Ball Manufacturing Co. to STRONG BUY

Posted by: JT Marlin at April 24, 2014 01:22 PM (8ZskC)

38 Posted by: Hamilton at April 24, 2014 05:18 PM (oMYHY) Look at the bright side. She may just end up like the woman who was putting herself through college doing porn because it is just terribly empowering for woman to engage in rape video fantasies and bondage. :^(

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 01:22 PM (XyM/Y)

39 I want to mock these women mercilessly, but how?

Posted by: eleven at April 24, 2014 01:22 PM (VhqUZ)

40 Not having to continually forage for food breeds the kind of lackadaisical society that allows idiots like these to not only exist, but receive tenure.

Posted by: --- at April 24, 2014 01:22 PM (MMC8r)

41 Yes, but ... You have to add con-text. I've been pointing out to some people on Twitter that Muhammad was Islam's ideal man. Therefore you can't judge his 9yr old child bride against the backdrop of his day. That event is the pattern against which a humble and penitent Muslim should form his life.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at April 24, 2014 01:22 PM (8ifMA)

42

Holding    open a door  -   rape culture.

 

Malmo,    Sweden  (with a 500% increase in rapes after muslim immigration) - no rape culture.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 24, 2014 01:22 PM (sBUAE)

43 And I  would bet next month's salary that not a one of those harpies has read any of Ali's books.  They can go f*ck themselves.

Posted by: Infidel at April 24, 2014 01:22 PM (cojT9)

44 Also, Ace, you're microagressing and Othering me by implying that I shouldn't've enjoyed The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as much as I did, I will microagress and Other back and say that you should really see Captain America 2 if you haven't already, even if your review is super-pithy.

Posted by: Sam Hill at April 24, 2014 01:23 PM (e15Qx)

45 I'm very sad Chuckleheadz.com isn't a real site.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at April 24, 2014 01:23 PM (8ifMA)

46 I was humiliated and now I bang like a screen door.

Posted by: Ayres-Brown at April 24, 2014 01:23 PM (WCnJW)

47 Darwinism says that women are vaginas. And that women who have few or no children are not only vaginas, but stupid vaginas.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 24, 2014 01:23 PM (9W+0f)

48 ...and why are there no urinals in the women's room!?

Posted by: garrett at April 24, 2014 01:23 PM (QqpZd)

49 You can remove my clit, but, don't you dare give me girl toy. Fuckin gender specific moron. I want boy's toy and I want it now! Whah whah whah.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at April 24, 2014 01:23 PM (Q8vlx)

50 Hey sweetie, your dad's a f@g. Posted by: Dr Spank at April 24, 2014 05:21 PM (5UteM) eh. Don't sweat the @ thing. I say "fag" here all the time. I also use dyke, fucker, shitbag, etc etc. The horde is thick skinned.

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 01:24 PM (x3YFz)

51 Yikes, take a look at her dad : http://tinyurl.com/myu6rvd


Explains a lot.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 24, 2014 01:24 PM (5UteM)

52 JT Marlin upgrades Generic Gray Rubber Ball Manufacturing Co. to STRONG BUY Posted by: JT Marlin at April 24, 2014 05:22 PM (8ZskC) Uh.... Balls.... boys.... just sayin...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 24, 2014 01:24 PM (84gbM)

53 Feminism is mostly just rich chicks bitching about stupid shit.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at April 24, 2014 01:24 PM (ZPrif)

54 Feminism is a joke. Has been for some time. If Mary Wollstonecraft was alive today, should would tell women to STFU and obey your man.

Posted by: Observer from the watchtower at April 24, 2014 01:24 PM (yRZAE)

55 An Elaborate, Scientific Darwinian Analysis of Feminism.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 24, 2014 01:24 PM (9W+0f)

56 I want to mock these women mercilessly, but how? Tell them to make you a sammich.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 01:24 PM (uVkIH)

57 Is she related to that boxer who drools everywhere?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 01:24 PM (LJ7Ze)

58 Vaginas trying to draw attention to themselves.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 24, 2014 01:25 PM (9W+0f)

59 George Washington's wife Martha was just as oppressed as the slaves she owned!!!

Posted by: WarOnWomenz! at April 24, 2014 01:25 PM (ZPrif)

60 Opening doors for women, murder, arson, and opening doors for women.

Posted by: eleven at April 24, 2014 01:25 PM (VhqUZ)

61 hey remember when Hilary! was all "Stand By Your Philanderin' Man" good times

Posted by: samwing plover at April 24, 2014 01:25 PM (e15Qx)

62

I've mentioned it before, but about 80-85% of McDonald's restaurants are not owned by the McDonald's corporation but by independent franchisees.  Going to a dozen of them could mean 1 to 3 completely different companies.

 

The whole thing is still stupid, but you can't hang the actions of one of these employees around the neck of the big company.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at April 24, 2014 01:25 PM (WvXvd)

63 Matt Yglesias, now of Chuckleheadz.com Hey, you might need to check spelling there. GoDaddy is showing it available.....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 24, 2014 01:25 PM (TIIx5)

64 41 Posted by: bonhomme at April 24, 2014 05:22 PM (8ifMA)

That's ABSOLUTELY true.

The other issue is that perversely the Big Mo's lack of divinity means the Imamas say "be like HIM!" in a way it is understood by Christians we simply cannot BE Christ.

We may strive to walk the path but we understand due to His Godhead that he has some advantages on the path.

Boy day in 'ghani pisses a lot of GIs off/.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 01:26 PM (TE35l)

65 Beginning to think letting the idiots out of the attics and basements and into mainstream society was a catastrophically bad idea. Just spitballin'.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at April 24, 2014 01:26 PM (rt3TY)

66 I usually slam her head into the door.

Posted by: Ike Turner at April 24, 2014 01:26 PM (DzGw9)

67 I want to mock these women mercilessly, but how? Or tell them to "Hush now. The adults are talking".

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 01:26 PM (uVkIH)

68 Somebody tell me how this level of stupidity managed to escape a million years of evolution? I think Satan is involved. Its the only thing that makes sense. These idiots need a biblical sized calamity to pop their heads from their asses. They don't need to be breeding.

Posted by: maddogg at April 24, 2014 01:26 PM (xWW96)

69 Guess who's not getting asked to the Senior Prom? Either that, or she'll go with her girlfriend....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth (@Teresa_Koch) at April 24, 2014 01:26 PM (PZ6/M)

70 I want to mock these women mercilessly, but how? Tell them to make you a sammich. Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 05:24 PM (uVkIH) "wow, did you gain weight?" heh.

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 01:26 PM (x3YFz)

71 Call them Pumpkin.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 01:26 PM (LJ7Ze)

72 Hyphenated last names are for shitbags.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at April 24, 2014 01:26 PM (Q8vlx)

73 There is not greater injustice than a female executive VP of Marketing who makes $250k a year not being promoted to CEO making $500k a year. The Glass Ceiling is basically a Holocaust every year for rich, white women!!

Posted by: WarOnWomenz! at April 24, 2014 01:27 PM (ZPrif)

74 titillating rhymes with carbon dating


heh


and there's only three t''s; I'm the tit-ignoramus after all

Posted by: J at April 24, 2014 01:27 PM (JyjXt)

75 The Feminist movement has succeeded in reducing the birth rate considerably. That is an act of Darwinian war.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 24, 2014 01:27 PM (9W+0f)

76 #$! Your comment isn't fare off the mark. You know how many leftists-including woman-have said when I'm complained about the real war on woman by Islam say, "We can't criticize them. America hanged witches in the 1600s." My response....So let's just allow them to stone women and cut off their clitorises for another 350 or so years until they grow up?!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 01:27 PM (XyM/Y)

77 73 Yes they are.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 01:27 PM (LJ7Ze)

78 Whe I was growing up, my older brother would always walk in to the room where my friends and I were hanging out (all guys) and say "Hi Girls." Was he committing a micro-aggression?  I'm confused.   

Posted by: Benji Carver at April 24, 2014 01:28 PM (K2XO3)

79 I want to mock these women mercilessly, but how? Life mocks them enough. They'll only get older and uglier.

Posted by: garrett at April 24, 2014 01:28 PM (QqpZd)

80 Biology is heteronormative.

Posted by: --- at April 24, 2014 01:28 PM (MMC8r)

81 Matt Yglesias, now of Chuckleheadz.com you might need to check spelling there. GoDaddy is showing it available..... Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 24, 2014 05:25 PM (TIIx5) no clicky. He's on the list of people I'd strangle in public and gladly do the 30 days in county over.

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 01:28 PM (x3YFz)

82 Feminists don't care about "brown" women. They really don't.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 24, 2014 01:28 PM (9W+0f)

83 "Rape culture" is crucial because it is the means by which the trivial is transmogrified into the profound. It's just social justice by another name. If you're in the female class, you're in the "raped" class. If you're in the male class, you're in the "raper" class. (If you're in the fencing class, you're in the "rapier" class.) Anyway, this way, without having to suffer any injustice, they are owed by people who have never committed any injustice. Socializing justice.

Posted by: AmishDude at April 24, 2014 01:28 PM (T0NGe)

84 I used to work at McD's. When we had a split toy we were told to ask. Actually I think it was mostly because they male kids complained at getting a princess whatever toy more than anything. Making the original mistake is just someone not paying attention (it happens when you have to clear an order every 30 seconds.) Lying to the kid is shitty customer service, nothing more.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) [/b] [/i] [/s] at April 24, 2014 01:28 PM (HDwDg)

85 "...her dad Ian Ayres — who is, unsurprisingly, a heavy-hitting Yale law professor and economist who has previously collaborated with his daughter on research — about McDonald’s employees and the Happy Meal gender bias." Her dad? Her dad!? What the hell is The Patriarchy doing driving this pre-Feminist to perform such absurdity and embarrassment? Pretty sickening of the lawyer to sic his kid on McDonald's for a buck and not at all unexpected. Because lawyer.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at April 24, 2014 01:28 PM (1CroS)

86 the two local McDonalds are owned by a woman;  a not-poor woman


probably bossy, tho.  But she own's them, not McD

Posted by: J at April 24, 2014 01:29 PM (JyjXt)

87 You know how many leftists-including woman-have said when I'm complained about the real war on woman by Islam say, "We can't criticize them. America hanged witches in the 1600s." Yeah. And then we grew up!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 01:29 PM (uVkIH)

88 80 I want to mock these women mercilessly, but how? Life mocks them enough. They'll only get older and uglier. Posted by: garrett at April 24, 2014 05:28 PM (QqpZd) But you must have the courage... to laugh....

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 24, 2014 01:29 PM (84gbM)

89 I had a "Womens Study" major come in for a job. A job, by the way, her degree she was clearly not prepared for. She was recommended for an interview by someone who met her at the "Women's Network" our company sponsors.

I thought- how could someone recommend I see this obviously under qualified person. Based on what- their common gender and a cocktail conversation.

It's a bit ridiculous to say you are "discriminated against" because of your gender. Then attempt to gain a job for which you are clearly unqualified, which you fail at because you are...not qualified. Then use that as evidence there is discrimination. This of course, ended badly.

Certain groups in society have created an entire grievance subculture. They are taught this contra-intellectual philosophy and then go our into the world with more grievances to keep it alive. They mostly lack skills to do anything and blame their personal failure on everyone else. Meanwhile, they never actual tried to make a meaningful contribution and generally abhor hard work.

By the way, I am not just picking on Women s Study. There are probably a hundred other that contribute to the grievance subculture. 

Posted by: Marcus T at April 24, 2014 01:29 PM (wzWSd)

90 I want to mock these women mercilessly, but how? Posted by: eleven at April 24, 2014 05:22 PM (VhqUZ) Quote them accurately?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 24, 2014 01:29 PM (TIIx5)

91 Listening to Ayaan Hirsi Ali would men they'd actually have to take on an enemy that fights back. It's all fun and games and grandstanding when bitching about white American men. No one is going to threaten to do you harm. Not so when you take on you know who.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2014 01:29 PM (8zTpe)

92 77  "We can't criticize them. America hanged witches in the 1600s." My response....So let's just allow them to stone women and cut off their clitorises for another 350 or so years until they grow up?!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 05:27 PM (XyM/Y)



America did not exist in the 1600s.  And if I am not mistaken the MA colony only hung 2 or 3 of them.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 01:29 PM (T2V/1)

93 47 Darwinism says that women are vaginas. And that women who have few or no children are not only vaginas, but stupid vaginas. Darwin is cisnormative.

Posted by: AmishDude at April 24, 2014 01:29 PM (T0NGe)

94 82 Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 05:28 PM (x3YFz)

He'd apologize and refuse to aid the investigation if you're the right ethnicity....

true story

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 01:29 PM (TE35l)

95 I want to mock these women mercilessly, but how? Check out MWR's epic rant on this from a couple of days ago. More satisfying than fapping. Comment 196. http://tinyurl.com/lwfs98h

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 24, 2014 01:30 PM (8ZskC)

96 It's always bitchez you wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole that are whining about rape culture.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 01:30 PM (LJ7Ze)

97 "We can't criticize them. America hanged witches in the 1600s." Only when we couldn't get them to burn.

Posted by: garrett at April 24, 2014 01:30 PM (QqpZd)

98 If you're in the female class, you're in the "raped" class. If you are female muslim, you will be hung if you don't apologize for being raped.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 01:30 PM (uVkIH)

99 Actually, fucking Yankees hanged women as witches in America. They haven't grown up, just want to hang a different group.

Posted by: maddogg at April 24, 2014 01:30 PM (xWW96)

100 These are the same dolts who tell me how oppressive and Patriarchal Christianity is when I bring up violence against woman in Islam.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 01:30 PM (XyM/Y)

101 Feminists believe that "brown" women deserve to be abused. That it is normal for "brown" women to be abused.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 24, 2014 01:31 PM (9W+0f)

102 Shouldn't McDs have 58 kinds of gender identification toys?

Posted by: MJ at April 24, 2014 01:31 PM (oari7)

103 All of this lefty feminist stuff is just so much crap. I don't have the time nor the patience for their pretend angst. Woe is me woe is me I am woman hear me whine. Grow up. Get married. Have babies. Make a meatloaf. Put on some mascara. Go to church. Boom. Happy life.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 24, 2014 01:31 PM (oMKp3)

104 It is somewhat ironic that this chick who hates a paternalistic society has to get her dad to help out on her article.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 24, 2014 01:31 PM (sBUAE)

105 Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at April 24, 2014 05:28 PM (HDwDg) yup.... the toy thing is not driven by corporate... its driven by the Kids... Boys want boy toys... girls usually want girl toys... and if a girl wants a boy toy, all she has to do, is ASK...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 24, 2014 01:31 PM (84gbM)

106 It's been said many times: Feminism is an excuse for white women - who historically have had it extremely well - to pretend they are oppressed.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at April 24, 2014 01:32 PM (gvWL9)

107 I reckon I'm inoculated against charges of sexism.  I'm married to a professional woman who outranks me, and I have 4 daughters and 2 professional sisters. 


What?  I'm not?


Well then, WTH.  Show me yer bewbs there, sugar!

Posted by: pep at April 24, 2014 01:32 PM (4nR9/)

108 I had a female boss who was a complete idiot. I'd approach her and act all concerned: "you feeling ok? You don't look like you're getting enough sleep." Kept at it for a year: criticism couched in faux concern. I think I destroyed her soul. heh.

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 01:32 PM (x3YFz)

109 It's always bitchez you wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole that are whining about rape culture. Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 05:30 PM (LJ7Ze) Why use so short a pole?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 24, 2014 01:32 PM (TIIx5)

110 Sorry; leftist feminist dolts are also found in places in the South too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 01:32 PM (XyM/Y)

111 she forgot the hyphen Bitch

Posted by: X at April 24, 2014 01:32 PM (KHo8t)

112 It's amazing that the left calls us anti-– science. When in realitythese feminists are so anti-science that they ignore all the scientific study showing that male and female roles are genetically inbred

Posted by: Avi at April 24, 2014 01:32 PM (Mwbb7)

113 >>I want to mock these women mercilessly, but how? <<

Tell them to do something meaningful- like raise a family.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 24, 2014 01:32 PM (wzWSd)

114 Boys want boy toys... girls usually want girl toys...


Ahem.

Posted by: Bradley Manning at April 24, 2014 01:32 PM (4nR9/)

115 "Opening doors for women, murder, arson, and opening doors for women. Posted by: eleven at April 24, 2014 05:25 PM"

You said 'opening doors for women' twice....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 24, 2014 01:33 PM (knoK7)

116 "Womens Study" = How to bother normal people so you can feel better about yourself while you pop antidepressants like they're going out of style.

Posted by: Dang at April 24, 2014 01:33 PM (MNq6o)

117 >>Grow up. Get married. Have babies. Make a meatloaf. Put on some mascara. Go to church. Boom. Happy life. Well said.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2014 01:33 PM (8zTpe)

118 111 Sorry; leftist feminist dolts are also found in places in the South too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 05:32 PM (XyM/Y)


Almost all are transplanted Northerners.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at April 24, 2014 01:33 PM (T2V/1)

119 Speaking of witches, has anyone watched the 1st episode of that Salem series on cable?

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 24, 2014 01:33 PM (5UteM)

120 Tell them to do something meaningful- like raise a family.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 24, 2014 05:32 PM (wzWSd)

 

Kaboom !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: The Jackhole at April 24, 2014 01:33 PM (nTgAI)

121 Feminists define women as angry cows, and therefore don't really consider most "brown" women women at all.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 24, 2014 01:33 PM (9W+0f)

122 I want to mock these women mercilessly, but how?

"Yes, it does make your ass look fat. But so does everything else."

Posted by: tu3031 at April 24, 2014 01:33 PM (1Hxgp)

123 America did not exist in the 1600s. And if I am not mistaken the MA colony only hung 2 or 3 of them. Nineteen women were hanged on Gallows Hill. One old man was pressed to death with stones.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at April 24, 2014 01:33 PM (8ifMA)

124

"We can't criticize them. America hanged witches   in the 1600s."

 

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Now that we have progressed as a society, we burn babies to generate electricity.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 24, 2014 01:33 PM (sBUAE)

125 I can't wait for that time , and it's coming , it always does ,"when the troopships on the tide" ,, and Mr. Atkins , and GI Joe , say to the ever offended pomos , male and female , ,,, fuck off , I'll look after me and mine .

Posted by: awkward davies at April 24, 2014 01:33 PM (whqez)

126 115 Posted by: Bradley Manning at April 24, 2014 05:32 PM (4nR9/)

AHEM!

//Chelsea Breanna Manning-Obama

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 01:34 PM (TE35l)

127 Well, they're not practicing forced clitorectomies at Brandeis, nor are they practicing forced marriage (which is essentially family-arranged rape for life), so I take their complaint to mean this:

I've heard of two kinds of arranged marriages: the kind where two families arrange for the marriage of their children. That is, both the bride and the groom are children, and the marriage doesn't take place right away, but is being planned for the future. The other kind is the one where one family arranges for their young daughter to be married to an older man. Many times, though not always, I don't think, the young girl's wishes will not be considered. The family makes the decision and the good daughter is expected to do her part.

"Rape for life" is a fair description of the 2nd kind, but what of the first? If two children are pushed into an arranged marriage, is one a rapist and the other a victim?

I don't know if it is the case that the 2 children kind is just something out of the past. In the parts of the world where this kind of thing is still going on, is it almost always the case where the male is an adult buying himself a bride, or is it the case that the 2 children variety is frequently happening?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 24, 2014 01:34 PM (IN7k+)

128 115 Boys want boy toys... girls usually want girl toys... Cougars also want boy toys.

Posted by: AmishDude at April 24, 2014 01:34 PM (T0NGe)

129


They do this shit because they are afraid of being women, and all that entials.

Just as metrosexuals are afraid of being men.

They unconsciously move themselves towards that creepy sci-fi idea of no gender.

It is totally fucked up.


Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Bonehead liberal at April 24, 2014 01:34 PM (xggaJ)

130 You said 'opening doors for women' twice.... I like opening doors for women.

Posted by: eleven at April 24, 2014 01:34 PM (VhqUZ)

131 Now most witches have columns. Ann Coulter.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 01:34 PM (LJ7Ze)

132 I want to mock these women mercilessly, but how?

Posted by: eleven

Well, they admit to being overcome by the merest of comments and actions that others overlook on a daily basis.

They are weak and fragile self-admittedly, which is odd coming from the cadre that brays about being 'empowered' and 'self-fulfilled.'

They are weak, stupid children.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i][/b] at April 24, 2014 01:34 PM (ujux6)

133 125 Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 24, 2014 05:33 PM (sBUAE)

Maybe we can have a group prayer on Sunday's Open Thread?

I am VERY pissed off on the matter.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 24, 2014 01:34 PM (TE35l)

134 @80 garrett "Life mocks them enough. They'll only get older and uglier." True. I spot them enough while shopping. Usually the old crows scowling at the younger, happier women with the families in tow. It must dawn on them while laying alone in their beds, probably shared with cats, that they have wasted their chanes at happiness. Avoid these women at all costs.

Posted by: Observer from the watchtower at April 24, 2014 01:35 PM (yRZAE)

135 All is prattling vanity of self-importance for the pampered liberal elites who call themselves feminists.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 24, 2014 01:35 PM (L8umz)

136 On the other hand, Somali women have some/a lot of Black blood in them, so adopting that attitude toward them is "racist."

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 24, 2014 01:35 PM (9W+0f)

137 I want to mock these women mercilessly, but how?


"Yes, it does make your ass look fat. But so does everything else."\

Especially the Starbuck's Crappucino you suck down your gullet in 3 seconds flat.

Posted by: pep at April 24, 2014 01:35 PM (4nR9/)

138 I was in college when all this "post-feminist" crapola was being developed. I took the requisite classes like "feminist literature," (talk about a non-sequitur!) and the rest of the tripe. More than once I got the dirty look for asking, "Fine, but what does that actually mean?" when they made stuff up and applied it whole hog. Then the same thing happened in my art history classes. We would look at a piece of art, and the prof would make stuff up about it, and be considered oh-so-intellectual. Hell, my kid makes up more interesting stories while playing with the toys in his bathtub. Intellectualism is no longer about learning and processing--it is about make believe. And it is a joke.

Posted by: tcn at April 24, 2014 01:35 PM (3kDQa)

139 "We can't criticize them. America hanged witches in the 1600s." If they were witches, they should have been hanged. Or did you mean "accused witches", sugar-britches? /snerk

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at April 24, 2014 01:35 PM (8ifMA)

140 The same McDonald’s employee replied, “There are no girl's toys. Only Zhuul.” We then sent an EPA official into the store who had no dick but did have a court order.

Posted by: The Way It Should Have Gone at April 24, 2014 01:35 PM (WX3R9)

141
Even more heartening, DoSomething.org just posted a photo of a manager's notice on the wall of an actual McDonald's store instructing employees: "When a customer orders a happy meal you must ask 'will that be a My Little Pony toy? Or a Skylanders toy?' We will no longer refer to them as 'boy or girl toys.' "
Antonia Ayres-Brown




"So how about a My Little Pony toy, Sonny.  You look like the type of boy who'd like a pretty pony sparkle toy.  Hey everyone, look at the boy that plays with rainbow horsies.  Haw Haw Haw!"

Yeah, let's just ignore the pscars this policy going to leave on little Egbert.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 24, 2014 01:36 PM (kdS6q)

142 Dave in Texas: "Going to a dozen of them could mean 1 to 3 completely different companies." Shhh. Don't let your wimmen-hating facts get in the way. Besides, math is bossy. Quit using it.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at April 24, 2014 01:36 PM (1CroS)

143 Speaking of witches, has anyone watched the 1st episode of that Salem series on cable? Yes. Looks pretty good for the first episode.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 01:36 PM (uVkIH)

144 The women in my family would outshoot, outdrink, outcook and kick the asses of every one of those Brandeis fools. That's before breakfast.

Any yes, they all have advance degrees. Some Ivy League.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 24, 2014 01:36 PM (wzWSd)

145 Srsly. Just call them fat. That's the nuclear option.

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 01:36 PM (x3YFz)

146 I hold open the door for people above me in the company, as a sign of respect for authority. I need to tell this guy that every time I hold the door for him, he is secretly being ass raped.

Posted by: wooga at April 24, 2014 01:37 PM (/Ido6)

147

I want to mock these women mercilessly, but how?

 

--

Point out that     they are radical feminists because they don't have the looks or intelligence to get a man.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 24, 2014 01:37 PM (sBUAE)

148

Womyn's Studies= studying half of the population on the planet.

 

 

but conservatives are anti-science

Posted by: The Obvious Sock at April 24, 2014 01:37 PM (q+zA9)

149 The women in my family would outshoot, outdrink, outcook and kick the asses of every one of those Brandeis fools. That's before breakfast. Any yes, they all have advance degrees. Some Ivy League. Posted by: Marcus T at April 24, 2014 05:36 PM (wzWSd) That's what I'm talking about, right there.

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 01:37 PM (x3YFz)

150 what's up with Ian Ayres having only one last name?

Posted by: X at April 24, 2014 01:38 PM (KHo8t)

151 "136 All is prattling vanity of self-importance for the pampered liberal elites who call themselves feminists. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 24, 2014 05:35 PM (L8umz)" Hey, Anna, you're around? :-P

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 24, 2014 01:38 PM (9W+0f)

152 It must dawn on them while laying alone in their beds, probably shared with cats, that they have wasted their chanes at happiness.

It's easy to mock them, and Lord knows they ask for it, but I do feel a bit of pity for those who listened to the zeitgeist and simply assumed they'd always have choices. 

Posted by: pep at April 24, 2014 01:38 PM (4nR9/)

153 My only hope is that all  women's studies professors and acolytes  will be the first ones introduced to muzzie rape rooms.  AND,  may  the stones be small, numerous, and well-aimed.

Posted by: Soona at April 24, 2014 01:38 PM (zhmsH)

154 women have some/a lot of Black blood in them, so adopting that attitude toward them is "racist They also have Caucasian features.

Posted by: Avi at April 24, 2014 01:38 PM (Mwbb7)

155 I want to mock these women mercilessly, but how?


Don't bother.  My new mantra is, "They will never, ever be happy."  Seriously,  if you're going to get that upset over a door being held open for you or being asked if you want a boy's or girl's McDonalds toy,  you will never,  ever be happy.  And ya know what?  That makes me happy.  Very happy,  actually.  They are wasting the lives that they were given by bothering other people and their only reward is the boomerang of self-inflicted misery.  Deep,  dark,  soul killing misery.

I revel in that.

Posted by: Dang at April 24, 2014 01:39 PM (MNq6o)

156 Posted by: rickb223


Thanks rapist.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 24, 2014 01:39 PM (5UteM)

157 Most of the harpy class is ugly as hammered sin and their asses have their own zip codes.

Posted by: maddogg at April 24, 2014 01:39 PM (xWW96)

158 Opening the door for a woman is a courtesy, not an aggression. Their view of reality is upside-down.

Posted by: whoever at April 24, 2014 01:39 PM (pjMym)

159 They have the baffling desire to make superficial and shallow ideas profound and meaningful , While ignoring Hard Truths and Real Harm they assure themselves they are subjected to . They ignore the Real Ugly Reality Because it points out How Superficial their ideas, wants and desires have become.

Posted by: willow at April 24, 2014 01:39 PM (nqBYe)

160 For more fun along this line, read the sidebar story about the Hugos.

Posted by: --- at April 24, 2014 01:40 PM (MMC8r)

161
McDonald's hamburgers only have meat from cows.  This is gendered protein micro-aggression.  We demand 50% bull meat be added to the mix.

Yee gads. That idea is just loony enough that some dippy dame might give it a whirl.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 24, 2014 01:40 PM (kdS6q)

162 >>That's what I'm talking about, right there.

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 05:37 PM (x3YFz)<<

Brother, my wife grabbed my ECC. I was like WTF you going with that??

I love that woman.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 24, 2014 01:40 PM (wzWSd)

163 I am _so_ wanting to do a version of the liberals' "Life Of Julia" nonsense.

Except this time, Julia has her clit cut off without anesthesia at age seven, is forced to marry an ugly crudely mannered cousin at age twelve, is being punitively cut, burned and scarred by her family at age seventeen for her failure to produce any male children, and then is offed by that cousin-husband when she is twenty in an "honor killing" for her having gone out in public without wearing her burka.

Predicted response to this from liberal feministas?

::: crickets :::

Posted by: torquewrench at April 24, 2014 01:40 PM (noWW6)

164 147 I hold open the door for people above me in the company, as a sign of respect for authority. I need to tell this guy that every time I hold the door for him, he is secretly being ass raped. Posted by: wooga

Okay, but tugging your forelock and kowtowing is a bit much.  Stop it.

Posted by: pep at April 24, 2014 01:40 PM (4nR9/)

165 I want candy and i want it Now! If you don't give it to me You are an evil ass! If you do give it to me, You want all women to grow Fat!

Posted by: willow at April 24, 2014 01:41 PM (nqBYe)

166 Modern liberals are the kind of people actual oppressors could easily oppress.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at April 24, 2014 01:41 PM (gvWL9)

167 Speaking of witches, what's Hilliary up to lately?

Posted by: dantesed at April 24, 2014 01:41 PM (88xKn)

168 "155 women have some/a lot of Black blood in them, so adopting that attitude toward them is "racist They also have Caucasian features. Posted by: Avi at April 24, 2014 05:38 PM (Mwbb7)" Since Caucasian doesn't mean Polar Bear, a lot of people have Caucasian features.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 24, 2014 01:41 PM (9W+0f)

169 Who opens doors for ugly women that aren't really old?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 01:42 PM (LJ7Ze)

170 women have some/a lot of Black blood in them, so adopting that attitude toward them is "racist They also have Caucasian features. Posted by: Avi at April 24, 2014 05:38 PM (Mwbb7) Race ain't really a thing (and I think I speak for the majority of the Horde). I love asian women, black women, American girls, Brazilian babes, arab sexies. Shit, I'm a kid in a toybox surrounded by fun. English women? No. Ugly as hell. Can't. Won't. Ergh.

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 01:42 PM (x3YFz)

171 All this McDonald's talk is makin me hungry

Posted by: tu3031 at April 24, 2014 01:42 PM (nsQhi)

172 Intellectualism is no longer about learning and processing--it is about make believe. And it is a joke. Posted by: tcn

See also, "science"

Posted by: Dang at April 24, 2014 01:42 PM (MNq6o)

173 The only reason men open the car door for women is to see if they're wearing panties.


Oops, maybe I kept that between us guys.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 24, 2014 01:42 PM (5UteM)

174 There were less than dozen women hanged as witches in colonial America. But that's apparently the same as hundreds of millions of muslim women having their clitoris scraped off with a rock.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 24, 2014 01:42 PM (ZPrif)

175 English women? No. Ugly as hell. Can't. Won't. Ergh. Posted by: tangonine

Yeah, you've got a chance.

Posted by: Kate Beckinsale at April 24, 2014 01:43 PM (4nR9/)

176 My new mantra is, "They will never, ever be happy." I have heard a theory on the secret of happiness that is actually pretty good. You need: 1. Something to do. Hobby, job, whatever. 2. Someone to love. Actual love, not just attraction. 3. Something to look forward to. (Not with dread). As a LDS guy I'd add 4. Follow Christ, but the above list does a lot to get you pretty happy.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at April 24, 2014 01:43 PM (8ifMA)

177 I got chastised a few weeks ago when I said "Why, thank ya, ma'am" in a jokey cowboy voice to some humorless scrunt, who proceeded to read me the riot act for about 5 minutes. I was stunned.

And I'll stop opening doors for women the day I'm no longer physically capable of doing so.

Posted by: jakeman at April 24, 2014 01:43 PM (vH4YP)

178 If they were convinced of their convistions They would have staunchly defended the treatment of Palin her daughter and her helpless baby. They would never protect someone actually attacked, unless the person atttacked agreed with abortion, and any left cause.

Posted by: willow at April 24, 2014 01:43 PM (nqBYe)

179 175 In The British Colonies?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 01:43 PM (LJ7Ze)

180 silencing someone from talking about forced clitorectomies and honor killings advances feminism? what? I really really hate these women. Most sincerely. They have fucked up their own lives, and not content to stop there, insist on fucking up female childrens lives as well. Male children to for that matter. They have blown up the family and scarred generations of children out of some pathetic need for attention They could not be more destructive to the lives of women and children if they tried.

Posted by: thunderb at April 24, 2014 01:43 PM (zOTsN)

181 175 There were less than dozen women hanged as witches in colonial America. At the behest of...other women, let's point out.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at April 24, 2014 01:43 PM (gvWL9)

182 Meh. I learned 40 years ago that at least 50% of American women are spoiled princesses, If the Huns invaded they would be the first to sell the men out. Would not hesitate. The other 50% are the best on the planet. The love of my life was born elsewhere as it turned out. She didn't give a fuck about politics.

Posted by: Daybrother at April 24, 2014 01:43 PM (MW+Pw)

183 I think Antonia might have some "Daddy" issues.


Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 24, 2014 01:43 PM (JS0vr)

184 English women? No. Ugly as hell. Can't. Won't. Ergh. Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 05:42 PM (x3YFz) Oh thank goodness, dodged a bullet there.

Posted by: Kate Beckinsdale at April 24, 2014 01:44 PM (TIIx5)

185 In addition, the people who make these complaints about the patriarchy of the early Christian church don't even know the history-that women flocked to Christianity because it more egalitarian than the religions around it. That's why Roman writers referred to disparagingly to Christianity as a religion "only for for slaves and women. And then of course when you talk about Paul speaking about how a husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church and gave his life for her, they're gobbsmacked. Yeah, let's compare the early christians church or even modern Evangelicalism to Islam, Dolts.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 01:44 PM (XyM/Y)

186 "175 There were less than dozen women hanged as witches in colonial America. But that's apparently the same as hundreds of millions of muslim women having their clitoris scraped off with a rock. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 24, 2014 05:42 PM (ZPrif)" No. It's not the same. No one cares about Arab women.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 24, 2014 01:44 PM (9W+0f)

187 Some of them were probably witches anyway.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 01:44 PM (LJ7Ze)

188 Posted by: Daybrother at April 24, 2014 05:43 PM (MW+Pw)

Only 50%?

I must have some bad luck then. I would place it higher.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 24, 2014 01:44 PM (JS0vr)

189 Yeah, you've got a chance. Posted by: Kate Beckinsale at April 24, 2014 05:43 PM (4nR9/) She's aussie or canuck? I forget.

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 01:44 PM (x3YFz)

190 There is a reason they wear bags over their heads.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 01:45 PM (LJ7Ze)

191 188 Some of them were probably witches anyway.

Or ducks.

Posted by: pep at April 24, 2014 01:45 PM (4nR9/)

192 There were less than dozen women hanged as witches in colonial America. Are you sure about that? Smithsonian Magazine says 19 were hanged due to the Salem witch trials. I don't know how many others were hanged in other instances.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at April 24, 2014 01:45 PM (8ifMA)

193 meant "fit only for slaves and women"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 01:45 PM (XyM/Y)

194 I sense a career path for young MISS Ayers-Brown. And my mind seems to shut down when I see hyphenated last names.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at April 24, 2014 01:45 PM (lbN/1)

195 >>English women? No. Ugly as hell. Can't. Won't. Ergh. <<

I met Kate Beckinsale in person. Trust me. The movies don't even do her justice. Not only is she beautiful, but absolutely charming.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 24, 2014 01:46 PM (wzWSd)

196 English women? No. Ugly as hell. Can't. Won't. Ergh. ====== Elizabeth Hurley?

Posted by: --- at April 24, 2014 01:46 PM (MMC8r)

197 She's aussie or canuck? I forget.

Wiki:
Kate Beckinsale was born on 26 July 1973 in England, and has resided in London for most of her life.

Posted by: pep at April 24, 2014 01:46 PM (4nR9/)

198 193 There were less than dozen women hanged as witches in colonial America.

Are you sure about that? Smithsonian Magazine says 19 were hanged due to the Salem witch trials.
Posted by: bonhomme


Some were hung, some sunk.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 24, 2014 01:46 PM (5UteM)

199 I mean. I really really hate them. These evil scrunts have taught that men are evil, fathers are unnecessary at best and violent rapists and murderers at worst. And the children suffer Is there a more selfish and silly creature on the planet?

Posted by: thunderb at April 24, 2014 01:46 PM (zOTsN)

200 Are you sure about that? Smithsonian Magazine says 19 were hanged due to the Salem witch trials. I think the Kennedy clan has raped/drowned/lobotomized that many.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at April 24, 2014 01:47 PM (gvWL9)

201 Don't listen to that tart who's socking me.

Posted by: Kate Beckinsdale at April 24, 2014 01:47 PM (TIIx5)

202 I met Kate Beckinsale in person. Trust me. The movies don't even do her justice. Not only is she beautiful, but absolutely charming. Posted by: Marcus T at April 24, 2014 05:46 PM (wzWSd) I reserve the right to make exceptions.

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 01:47 PM (x3YFz)

203 All this McDonald's talk is makin me hungry
Posted by: tu3031

No kidding.  And I had to bring up onion rings in an earlier thread today.


Wait... why doesn't McDonalds have onion rings?  Because they look more like vaginas than those paternalistic phallic French fries?!  Where's my lawyer?

Posted by: Dang at April 24, 2014 01:47 PM (MNq6o)

204 Beckinsale is English and Oxford educated.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 24, 2014 01:47 PM (wzWSd)

205 Posted by: Daybrother at April 24, 2014 05:43 PM (MW+Pw) Only 50%? I must have some bad luck then. I would place it higher. Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) Psssst! Xnay. The ettesnay.

Posted by: Daybrother at April 24, 2014 01:47 PM (52L3O)

206 They couldn't have weighed the same as a duck?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 01:47 PM (LJ7Ze)

207 Link to source RE 19 hanged at Salem. http://preview.tinyurl.com/mlnuzyf

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at April 24, 2014 01:48 PM (8ifMA)

208 >>I reserve the right to make exceptions.

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 05:47 PM (x3YFz) <<

Provided you are not wearing those yoga pants you get a pass.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 24, 2014 01:48 PM (wzWSd)

209 thunderb, yes the men that support the idea for power.

Posted by: willow at April 24, 2014 01:49 PM (nqBYe)

210 I met Kate Beckinsale in person. Trust me. The movies don't even do her justice. Not only is she beautiful, but absolutely charming. Posted by: Marcus T at April 24, 2014 05:46 PM (wzWSd) AND she's a solid girl. Has kids, faithful, doesn't stray. I like her. She's great eye candy, for sure, but she's also solid.

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 01:49 PM (x3YFz)

211 All were guilty of being Yankees.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 01:49 PM (LJ7Ze)

212

hot English girls for 100

 

Rosie Hunnington Whitely

 

Posted by: The Obvious Sock at April 24, 2014 01:49 PM (q+zA9)

213 Posted by: bonhomme at April 24, 2014 05:43 PM (8ifMA) My pet theory on why a LOT of people are unhappy? We have Genetic programming... whether from God or evolution, its there. When we are told that our base feelings are BED... Are EVIL.... are Wrong... it causes conflict and stress... which causes unhappiness. By Acknowledging those feelings as natural... but NOT necessarily ACTING on them... we lessen that stress. Because the truth is we cannot control our Feelings.... but we CAN and should control our Actions. Thus... Men and Women ARE different... but I will do my best to treat Women as equals... Thus... although Gay mannerisms give me the willies... and I have a true instant dislike for Flaming homosexuals... I won't try to LIKE them... but I will treat them with respect... Realizing this has made my life a whole lot more pleasant...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 24, 2014 01:49 PM (84gbM)

214 for instance Clinton.

Posted by: willow at April 24, 2014 01:49 PM (nqBYe)

215 That douchebag that got the girl's toy when the McDonalds employee said it was a boy's toy is wrong. The toy can declare the gender that it identifies with. What a bigoted little girl.

Posted by: Roy at April 24, 2014 01:49 PM (tiOTz)

216 LSD Ergotism? Was there anything to that?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 01:50 PM (LJ7Ze)

217 "193 There were less than dozen women hanged as witches in colonial America. Are you sure about that? Smithsonian Magazine says 19 were hanged due to the Salem witch trials. I don't know how many others were hanged in other instances. Posted by: bonhomme at April 24, 2014 05:45 PM (8ifMA)" 19? How many people died during the Thirty Years' War?

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 24, 2014 01:50 PM (9W+0f)

218 Some of them were probably witches anyway. Or ducks. Can we burn her?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 01:50 PM (uVkIH)

219 The fact that we even need to talk about this crap is proof positive that the Left has won and completely dominated us.

Posted by: Dan at April 24, 2014 01:50 PM (COpZ4)

220 Provided you are not wearing those yoga pants you get a pass. Posted by: Marcus T at April 24, 2014 05:48 PM (wzWSd) ...just by saying that you know that I'm donning yoga pants with no undies. It's a party!

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 01:50 PM (x3YFz)

221
Meh. I learned 40 years ago that at least 50% of American women are spoiled princesses, If the Huns invaded they would be the first to sell the men out. Would not hesitate.
Posted by: Daybrother



"So you've raped and pillaged most of Eastern Europe?  That's SO interesting. You must have just hoards of loot.  Tell me, is there a Mrs The Hun?"

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 24, 2014 01:50 PM (kdS6q)

222 124 America did not exist in the 1600s. And if I am not mistaken the MA colony only hung 2 or 3 of them. Nineteen women were hanged on Gallows Hill. One old man was pressed to death with stones. Posted by: bonhomme at April 24, 2014 05:33 PM (8ifMA) And I don't think any were burned at the stake. Now in Europe oh yeah the lit those "witches" on fire. But not really in Spain.

Posted by: Buzzion at April 24, 2014 01:50 PM (z/Ubi)

223 There's nothing wrong with living single. There's nothing wrong with living with cats. There's nothing wrong with not having children. Just don't pretend that married women or women with children or women who choose a different path than that are necessarily oppressed and secretly unhappy. Don't project your misery onto me, whatever the reason for it. It is your responsibility to love a satisfying life. No one else can do that for you. Don't find your meaning at the expense of other women.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 24, 2014 01:51 PM (oMKp3)

224 1. A man commits a "microaggression" against a woman by holding a door open for her, "Otherizing" her and suggesting she is infantile and unable to accomplish small tasks on her own. I was talking to a young lady, colleague of mine and she was telling a story about someone she knew who worked in a corporate job and that the men who were this woman's co-workers treated her like shit - not open doors or be for lack of a better word "chauvinists" (in the positive sense) because, hey, you wanted to be treated equally. Nice. First you bitch about not being treated like one of the guys then you bitch when you are. Sheesh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 24, 2014 01:51 PM (CMkNk)

225

The Brandeis professors who protested her speaking say that they are filled with shame regarding Ali's comments.

 

No you fermented twats, you have no shame. 

 

 You think that Ali's statements about the violence and degredation of women and girls in other countries takes the focus off of the violence against women in the US and even on your own campus?????

 

So I guess that there are stoning deaths, acid in the face, genital mutilation, forced marriages of young girls to men, and beatings of women going on at Brandeis U?

 

If there are any woman that do need a serious slap down it is these demented injustice mongers.

Posted by: Cheri at April 24, 2014 01:51 PM (G+Wff)

226 The fact that we even need to talk about this crap is proof positive that the Left has won and completely dominated us. Posted by: Dan at April 24, 2014 05:50 PM (COpZ4) don't mistake derision for retreat.

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 01:52 PM (x3YFz)

227 Don't project your misery onto me, whatever the reason for it. It is your responsibility to love a satisfying life. No one else can do that for you. Don't find your meaning at the expense of other women. THISSSSSS so very wise happiness is a choice

Posted by: thunderb at April 24, 2014 01:52 PM (zOTsN)

228 "I got chastised a few weeks ago when I said 'Why, thank ya, ma'am' in a jokey cowboy voice to some humorless scrunt, who proceeded to read me the riot act for about 5 minutes."

I still open doors for women, but have never been dressed down over it.

This is most likely due to the fact that in most public spaces, my presentation is on the intimidating side, due to physical build, facial expression, facial hair and choice of clothing."Leave me the hell alone or else" is the general air I strive for.

They hence tend to scurry past quickly without saying anything at all.

If I ever do get any indignation, I expect I'll reply by saying that I thought based on her appearance that she was "developmentally disabled" and was going to have trouble figuring out how the door worked.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 24, 2014 01:52 PM (noWW6)

229 Grow up. Get married. Have babies.

And those of us born so hideously deformed that those things were never a "choice"?  (You can't "choose" them without a man choosing you first, unless you're a lesbian...and don't lie, none of you have ever given an ugly woman more than routine courtesy.)  

I really should have killed myself when I was 15, but I believed the "it gets better" lie.  Pfft.

Posted by: HR at April 24, 2014 01:52 PM (ZKzrr)

230 >>AND she's a solid girl. Has kids, faithful, doesn't stray.

I like her. She's great eye candy, for sure, but she's also solid.

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 05:49 PM (x3YFz)<<

All true and also a great mom. There are plenty of people who could learn a lot from her.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 24, 2014 01:52 PM (wzWSd)

231 Burn the witches and roast the ducks.

Posted by: eleven at April 24, 2014 01:53 PM (VhqUZ)

232 Here's a little Georgia 404care "success" for ya: http://tinyurl.com/pz2mcb2


"Georgia insurers received more than 220,000 applications for health coverage in the Affordable Care ActÂ’s exchange as of the official federal deadline of March 31, state officials said Wednesday.


Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens, though, said premiums have been received for only 107,581 of those policies..."

Posted by: Country Singer at April 24, 2014 01:53 PM (vn9w4)

233 146 Srsly. Just call them fat. That's the nuclear option. Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 05:36 PM (x3YFz) Go even meaner. I've heard this suggested by a comedian. "You look fat when you cry"

Posted by: Buzzion at April 24, 2014 01:53 PM (z/Ubi)

234 Governor Ritt Momkey had binders full of witches to burn, per the NY Times.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 24, 2014 01:53 PM (5UteM)

235 Don't find your meaning at the expense of other women.

Half the comments on this thread are just that.

Posted by: HR at April 24, 2014 01:53 PM (ZKzrr)

236 How many people died during the Thirty Years' War? All of the dead ones.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 01:54 PM (uVkIH)

237 178 I got chastised a few weeks ago when I said "Why, thank ya, ma'am" in a jokey cowboy voice to some humorless scrunt, who proceeded to read me the riot act for about 5 minutes. I was stunned. And I'll stop opening doors for women the day I'm no longer physically capable of doing so. Posted by: jakeman at April 24, 2014 05:43 PM (vH4YP) LOL... my usual comeback for that is... "oh... I'm sorry... I thought I was helping a Lady"... then I leave... I will not stand around and be castigated, by ANYONE...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 24, 2014 01:54 PM (84gbM)

238 >>I really should have killed myself when I was 15, but I believed the "it gets better" lie. Pfft.

Posted by: HR at April 24, 2014 05:52 PM (ZKzrr) <<

Life is always worth living. It's what you do with it that counts.

It's never to late to be or do what you wanted to. As long as you are breathing you have choices.

don't quit.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 24, 2014 01:54 PM (wzWSd)

239 Posted by: --- at April 24, 2014 05:46 PM (MMC8r) Ding Ding Ding. We have a winner.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at April 24, 2014 01:55 PM (/djtm)

240 well the end result is they look like the silly inane women they are. They could have used Ale's experience as What has happened, What must never be condoned, what solutions can make themselves available to help women and children all over the world yet, yet, They saw their ideas in comparison were shallow nothings and THAT could not be subjected to honesty

Posted by: willow at April 24, 2014 01:55 PM (nqBYe)

241 Don't find your meaning at the expense of other women. Posted by: grammie winger at April 24, 2014 05:51 PM (oMKp3) Spot on.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 24, 2014 01:55 PM (IXrOn)

242 "You look fat when you cry" lol...

Posted by: eleven at April 24, 2014 01:56 PM (VhqUZ)

243 Could shaving one's twat while high lead to an unwanted clitorectomy?

Posted by: the littl shyning man at April 24, 2014 01:57 PM (tmFlQ)

244 "You look fat when you cry" Posted by: Buzzion at April 24, 2014 05:53 PM (z/Ubi) Would not work on my wife. Married 16 years. Never seen her cry. Ever (ok, sad movies notwithstanding). Ice queen, this one.

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 01:57 PM (x3YFz)

245 HR, aren't called morons for nothing. do what i do ,snort behind my screen at it.

Posted by: willow at April 24, 2014 01:57 PM (nqBYe)

246 The hell with micro aggression. I'm just going to start knocking random women over and walking on them. If they're going to accuse me, I might as well start acting like it.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 24, 2014 01:57 PM (NtHdR)

247 Ann Hershey Ali. How come third world savages can't spell?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 01:57 PM (LJ7Ze)

248 Dante failed to mention in Clerks that many of those practicing Egg Endurance Testing were also Womyns Studs Majors. http://youtu.be/3a3zXJ7biqI

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at April 24, 2014 01:58 PM (dvRYt)

249 Go even meaner. I've heard this suggested by a comedian. "You look fat when you cry" That's funny as hell.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 24, 2014 01:58 PM (NtHdR)

250 104 All of this lefty feminist stuff is just so much crap. I don't have the time nor the patience for their pretend angst. Woe is me woe is me I am woman hear me whine. Grow up. Get married. Have babies. Make a meatloaf. Put on some mascara. Go to church. Boom. Happy life. Posted by: grammie winger at April 24, 2014 05:31 PM (oMKp3) And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why I love this place! Although I don't usually post I spend way too much time here. Thanks grammie, I needed that.

Posted by: Passerby at April 24, 2014 01:58 PM (sOlwy)

251 When we lost Niel? I wept. When Glen died? I sobbed. When I lost my trooper 3 years ago? Cried like a baby. Her? Never. Ever.

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 01:58 PM (x3YFz)

252 "214 Posted by: bonhomme at April 24, 2014 05:43 PM (8ifMA) My pet theory on why a LOT of people are unhappy? We have Genetic programming... whether from God or evolution, its there. When we are told that our base feelings are BED... Are EVIL.... are Wrong... it causes conflict and stress... which causes unhappiness. By Acknowledging those feelings as natural... but NOT necessarily ACTING on them... we lessen that stress. Because the truth is we cannot control our Feelings.... but we CAN and should control our Actions. Thus... Men and Women ARE different... but I will do my best to treat Women as equals... Thus... although Gay mannerisms give me the willies... and I have a true instant dislike for Flaming homosexuals... I won't try to LIKE them... but I will treat them with respect... Realizing this has made my life a whole lot more pleasant... Posted by: Romeo13 at April 24, 2014 05:49 PM (84gbM)" People are unhappy because society is degenerate, repressive, and abusive.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 24, 2014 01:58 PM (9W+0f)

253 233 Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens, though, said premiums have been received for only 107,581 of those policies..." How many of those paid were Medicaid? (Assuming the Feds are that competent)

Posted by: Golfman in NC at April 24, 2014 01:58 PM (/djtm)

254 children or not, married or not, stop looking for outrage in happy meal toys, or doors being opened for you, or any of the million other manners that make the world more civilized

Posted by: thunderb at April 24, 2014 01:58 PM (zOTsN)

255 "Sounds like maybe someone is acting Paternalistically in helping someone get their Ivy League application essay together." Loved this line. I guess some women do in fact need men to get what they want.

Posted by: Hairy Reid at April 24, 2014 01:59 PM (A98Xu)

256 some are princes and some are toads.

Posted by: willow at April 24, 2014 01:59 PM (nqBYe)

257 Posted by: HR at April 24, 2014 05:52 PM (ZKzrr) My original comment was directed at that young girl who sued McDonalds with the urging of her father, which led me to believe they were probably feeding her a bunch of other lefty imaginings as well. That was my counterattack of traditional grandma advice 101. It was insensitive. I apologize.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 24, 2014 01:59 PM (oMKp3)

258 No, you shouldn't have killed yourself at 15, HR. There are people who love and like you a great deal and if you thought of doing that now would be devastated. As I believe I have mentioned before the 90 woman in the first church I served had the place packed when she died. She was never married but she was beloved by friends and family and people in the church. She had what I called the ministry of little notes because she was sending out birthday cards and anniversary notes 10 years after I had left. Another single woman without kids woman knits prayer shawls for cancer patients. You have a lot of gifts and talents and I can tell from being on here with you that you are also a very smart woman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 02:00 PM (XyM/Y)

259 "220 The fact that we even need to talk about this crap is proof positive that the Left has won and completely dominated us. Posted by: Dan at April 24, 2014 05:50 PM (COpZ4)" Yep.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 24, 2014 02:00 PM (9W+0f)

260 I still open doors for women, but have never been dressed down over it.

Posted by: torquewrench


Around Christmas this last year I was walking into a store and barely wiggled into a door that was closing without touching it (flu season and it was raining and cold - had my hands in my pockets) and then realized a woman was standing there waiting for me to hold it open for her.  By the time I realized it it was too late.  No turning back.  I looked like the biggest bastard in town.  Made me laugh.  And feel kinda bad.  But mostly it made me laugh.

Posted by: Dang at April 24, 2014 02:00 PM (MNq6o)

261 How many people died during the Thirty Years' War? Large percentages of several countries populations; eg Germany. Then the plague got a bunch more of them.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at April 24, 2014 02:00 PM (8ifMA)

262 Lincoln said it best for me: "People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be".

Posted by: eleven at April 24, 2014 02:00 PM (VhqUZ)

263 Basically we, all of us, have too dang much time on our hands. Idle hands/minds are the Devil's playground

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 24, 2014 02:00 PM (DmNpO)

264 Bibi Netanyahu on with Bret Baier now

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 24, 2014 02:01 PM (DmNpO)

265 263 Lincoln said it best for me: "People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be". Posted by: eleven at April 24, 2014 06:00 PM (VhqUZ) Unless they suffer from clinical depression.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 24, 2014 02:01 PM (NtHdR)

266 Rape culture? Cry me a river, princess.

Posted by: The Chicken at April 24, 2014 02:01 PM (PAplM)

267 Lincoln sucked cock and his wife(beard) was a junkie.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 02:01 PM (LJ7Ze)

268 Neidermeyer, let me know how the onversation goes, please.

Posted by: willow at April 24, 2014 02:02 PM (nqBYe)

269 By the by, the reason we don't "describe the toy" is because honestly, in the frantic pace of a fast food restaurant, half the time I didn't know what the toy was. When I grabbed my drive through headset I'd ask the manager "we got one toy or two this week?" And then get to work. Oh and the register had 2 fuckign buttons "Boy" and "Girl." Tough shit.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) [/b] [/i] [/s] at April 24, 2014 02:02 PM (HDwDg)

270 "224 There's nothing wrong with living single. There's nothing wrong with living with cats. There's nothing wrong with not having children. Just don't pretend that married women or women with children or women who choose a different path than that are necessarily oppressed and secretly unhappy. Don't project your misery onto me, whatever the reason for it. It is your responsibility to love a satisfying life. No one else can do that for you. Don't find your meaning at the expense of other women. Posted by: grammie winger at April 24, 2014 05:51 PM (oMKp3)" Well, women who have cats would probably prefer children.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 24, 2014 02:02 PM (9W+0f)

271 LMAO, ESPN is guffawing over the Swaggy P (who the fuck is that?) ceremonial opening pitch. What are the odds they'll put up video of their beloved Barky when they list the worst opening pitches ever?

Posted by: logprof at April 24, 2014 02:03 PM (v6uvG)

272 As long as you are breathing you have choices. don't quit. Posted by: Marcus T at April 24, 2014 05:54 PM (wzWSd) Never quit. /nod

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 02:03 PM (x3YFz)

273 These womyn aren't women and don't speak for women.

Posted by: eureka! at April 24, 2014 02:03 PM (q7DBM)

274 and some that have teens might prefer cats instead. at least for a few mths to a couple of years. loling

Posted by: willow at April 24, 2014 02:03 PM (nqBYe)

275 Posted by: torquewrench at April 24, 2014 05:52 PM (noWW6)

I usually resort to telling them that "MY mother taught ME manners".

That usually will cut off all BS.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 24, 2014 02:03 PM (JS0vr)

276 By the by, the most unstable, hateful and oppressive people in my life have all been women.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 24, 2014 02:04 PM (NtHdR)

277 sigh.

Posted by: willow at April 24, 2014 02:04 PM (nqBYe)

278 Posted by: HR at April 24, 2014 05:52 PM (ZKzrr)

I don't know about that. I've seen some UGLY pregnant women.

That had to happen somehow.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at April 24, 2014 02:05 PM (JS0vr)

279 That was Lincoln's predecessor who liked the dick iirc. But yes, Mary Todd Lincoln was the worst First Lady in history until maybe Hillary.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 24, 2014 02:05 PM (oerr2)

280 and some that have teens might prefer cats instead. at least for a few mths to a couple of years. Isn't that the truth? ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 02:05 PM (XyM/Y)

281 279 Turkey basters?

Posted by: steevy at April 24, 2014 02:05 PM (zqvg6)

282 Basically we, all of us, have too dang much time on our hands. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 24, 2014 06:00 PM (DmNpO) heh... ok, everyone point and laugh at the not married guy who has time on his hands. In between posts I'm out spreading mulch and running a tractor. Why? Becuase the Ice Queen will be unhappy if I don't, and no one, NO ONE, wants that.

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 02:05 PM (x3YFz)

283 Nood.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 02:05 PM (uVkIH)

284 Actually, disposition -- like basically all human traits -- has a large heritable component. Some people are naturally happier than others, they didn't choose it, they are just happier the way others are taller or skinnier or smarter or prettier or more trusting.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 24, 2014 02:06 PM (ZPrif)

285 I have a married sister with no children I have a divorced sister with one child I am married, with children It is up to each of us to find what gives our live meaning and get the fuck on with it and none of it has anything to do with a happy meal, or having a door held open

Posted by: thunderb at April 24, 2014 02:06 PM (zOTsN)

286 anyway I wish i had the courage of Ayaan Hirsi. and the intelligence and the ability to articulate her story well.

Posted by: willow at April 24, 2014 02:06 PM (nqBYe)

287 OT
Boehner on the Tea Party

"I've gone to hundreds of tea party events over the last four years. The makeup is pretty much the same. You've got some disaffected Republicans, disaffected Democrats. You always have a handful of anarchists.They are against everything. Eighty percent of the people at these events, are the most ordinary Americans you've ever met. None of whom have ever been involved in politics..."

I guess I am 'Disaffected' and 'against everything'.

Keep winning those hearts and minds, Bonehead.


Posted by: noone, really [/i] [/b] at April 24, 2014 02:06 PM (5ikDv)

288 Posted by: torquewrench at April 24, 2014 05:52 PM (noWW6) If I hold the door for man or lady and don't receive a thank you, they'll get a curt "You're welcome" regardless. I guess it's a southern thing. Or upbringing. OK mostly the upbringing. Conversely, if someone fails to hold the door for me they'll get a sarcastic "Thanks". Manners are gender neutral.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at April 24, 2014 02:07 PM (lbN/1)

289 LMAO, ESPN is guffawing over the Swaggy P (who the fuck is that?) ceremonial opening pitch. Pro basketball player for the Lakers. 17.9PPG last season. Throws a baseball like Sparky Obama.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at April 24, 2014 02:07 PM (8ifMA)

290 "230 Grow up. Get married. Have babies. And those of us born so hideously deformed that those things were never a "choice"? (You can't "choose" them without a man choosing you first, unless you're a lesbian...and don't lie, none of you have ever given an ugly woman more than routine courtesy.) I really should have killed myself when I was 15, but I believed the "it gets better" lie. Pfft. Posted by: HR at April 24, 2014 05:52 PM (ZKzrr)" Really? Or was it more a matter of hating intelligent men? Later, all. God bless. :-)

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 24, 2014 02:07 PM (9W+0f)

291 I think Mary Todd lincoln was mentally unstable (probably bipolar), but I think she also got got kind of an excessive bumb rap for political reasons and it can't have helped her mood to lose several children.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 02:07 PM (XyM/Y)

292 "Well, women who have cats would probably prefer children."

Damn. Whole lot of "fallacy of hasty generalization" going on in this thread.

I have known a number of perfectly pleasant and happy women who honestly did prefer not to become mothers. Not everyone wishes to do so.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 24, 2014 02:09 PM (noWW6)

293 I think Marry Todd even got thrown out of the country for drugs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 24, 2014 02:09 PM (LJ7Ze)

294 I really should have killed myself when I was 15, but I believed the "it gets better" lie. Pfft. Posted by: HR at April 24, 2014 05:52 PM (ZKzrr) fnord (ZKzrr) I don't believe the lie, but I won't give them the satisfaction.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at April 24, 2014 02:09 PM (qyfb5)

295

The feminazis have no credibility whatsoever.

 

They supported the sexual predator, Bill Clinton.

And they turn a blind eye to things that are done to conservative women in politics. 

 

It's clear that the Leftist feminazis' first priority is forwarding leftism...and  actual feminist principles are disposable in the service of their politics.

Posted by: wheatie at April 24, 2014 02:09 PM (la7X9)

296 Taking a child to McDonald's with such alarming frequency is a form of child abuse.

Posted by: whoever at April 24, 2014 02:09 PM (pjMym)

297 284 Nood. Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2014 06:05 PM (uVkIH) fnord (uVkIH) Oh, hell.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at April 24, 2014 02:10 PM (qyfb5)

298 It was a short interview: Iran must not get the bomb. It's a joke that Iran has seats on the UN Human Rights Council

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 24, 2014 02:10 PM (DmNpO)

299 Paging MWR, MWR to the white ranting phone. You know what's Otherizing? Telling women such as Ayann Hirsi Ali that they *do not exist*. Seriously, that's what this is about. Her very existence threatens some core Leftists beliefs therefore, in order to avoid confronting actual reality, lalalala I can't hear you. You want an actual chain of micro aggressions leading to true aggressions? Woman says something that is discomforting to Western Leftists. Western Leftists demand that said woman no longer speak in civilized society. The less civilized portions of the world observe this and conclude that said woman will not receive the full protections of civilized society. Woman must live in constant fear of being actually killed for real.

Posted by: alexthechick - Oh save us mighty SMOD at April 24, 2014 02:11 PM (dMSj2)

300 A good woman should scare the shit out of you.

Umm. Not like sleep with one eye open scared or boil your pet bunny scared. But just enough to stop those stupid impulses we all have.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 24, 2014 02:11 PM (wzWSd)

301 Speaking of witches, has anyone watched the 1st episode of that Salem series on cable?

Wait, you mean, there's a TV series with religion as its central core produced by a bunch of writers, directors and actors who have absolutely no clue about the religion the series is supposed to be about? I can't wait to miss it.

Posted by: OregonMuse at April 24, 2014 02:12 PM (I8YZX)

302 "I've gone to hundreds of tea party events over the last four years. The
makeup is pretty much the same. You've got some disaffected
Republicans, disaffected Democrats. You always have a handful of
anarchists.They are against everything. Eighty percent of the people at
these events, are the most ordinary Americans you've ever met. None of
whom have ever been involved in politics..."

I guess I am 'Disaffected' and 'against everything'.




I think he's saying that the handful of anarchists are against everything.  He's also saying that 80% of the tea party people are "the most ordinary Americans you've ever met. None of whom have ever been involved in politics..."

I don't have a problem with that.

Posted by: Dang at April 24, 2014 02:13 PM (MNq6o)

303 As I've been saying, every single "grievance" a Western feminist concocts is a First World Problem. They have nothing real to fight against, so they have to invent things to whine about in order to convince themselves they're still relevant without having to actually do something beyond navel-gazing on Tumblr.

Posted by: Saber Alter at April 24, 2014 02:14 PM (R/KIS)

304 "A man commits a 'microaggression' against a woman by holding a door open for her, 'Otherizing' her and suggesting she is infantile and unable to accomplish small tasks on her own." The stupid runs deep in this argument. When you have to make up words and construe a motive using nothing but your own prejudice as the basis you've pretty much lost before you started. I don't suppose the possibility exists that the man is just being polite, doing what gentlemen do out of courtesy...if the man were holding the door for another man would that be considered a 'microagression'? If so, what should the response be? So much stupid; and they (well...their parents) pay top dollars to learn this garbage but then wonder why they cant get laid, or find a job when they graduate.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 24, 2014 02:15 PM (60Vyp)

305 Posted by: alexthechick - Oh save us mighty SMOD at April 24, 2014 06:11 PM (dMSj2) Well said; Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 24, 2014 02:16 PM (XyM/Y)

306 This post needs to go into the ebook with all the other nuggets of wisdom Ace has published here.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at April 24, 2014 02:21 PM (L02KD)

307 Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 24, 2014 06:07 Never in the history of the blog has there been a dipshit more deserving of a ban than this bigoted unlikeable insane little turd.

Posted by: Buzzion at April 24, 2014 02:22 PM (z/Ubi)

308 The only thing I took in from this diatribe is that Hobbit 2 is somehow worse than The Counselor.

Posted by: FoxHunt at April 24, 2014 02:23 PM (VF4lD)

309 You can't "choose" them without a man choosing you first, unless you're a lesbian...and don't lie, none of you have ever given an ugly woman more than routine courtesy. ___ Incorrect. No one rings the bell on my watch. #neverquit

Posted by: tangonine at April 24, 2014 02:24 PM (x3YFz)

310 Actually, fucking Yankees hanged women as witches in America. They haven't grown up, just want to hang a different group. --- Usually the Red Sox.

Posted by: whoever at April 24, 2014 02:33 PM (pjMym)

311 139 - Intellectualism is no longer about learning and processing--it is about make believe. And it is a joke. Posted by: tcn at April 24, 2014 05:35 PM (3kDQa)   The entire lib/dem/ghey/fem sthick IS about make believe. Us Gheys (libs, dems, etc.) are playing LET'S PRETEND, and the law says YOU are REQUIRED to PLAY ALONG! Let's pretend we're getting married! YOU have to make us a cake, take our pictures, enroll us in free insurance, benefits, etc., or suffer the consequences of being OTHER, a H8er, a RETHUGLIKKKAN!!!

Posted by: OK, Thanks, Bye at April 24, 2014 02:34 PM (uopHF)

312 Ace -- spot on.  Someone here put it best, that until we as a people are starving, naked, and running from something larger and MORE hungry, we won't stop fixating on the asinine (paraphrased).

The "feminists" of the US complain about the most trivial things because the lion's share of the important ones are already won, but they have no idea what to do with their forced anger and outrage.

Again, well said, and thank you for saying it.

Posted by: acethepug at April 24, 2014 02:35 PM (VHuBk)

313 but I believed the "it gets better" lie. Pfft. Posted by: HR at April 24, 2014 05:52 PM (ZKzrr)" Me, too. That's why I drink.

Posted by: kathysaysso at April 24, 2014 02:39 PM (6H6o8)

314 Never in the history of the blog has there been a dipshit more deserving of a ban than this bigoted unlikeable insane little turd. Posted by: Buzzion at April 24, 2014 06:22 PM (z/Ubi) What about rhymes-with-razor?

Posted by: kathysaysso at April 24, 2014 02:41 PM (6H6o8)

315 "They are taught this contra-intellectual philosophy and then go our into the world with more grievances to keep it alive. They mostly lack skills to do anything and blame their personal failure on everyone else." They are of the middle class who believe that they should not have to work for their living, work is for the illegals they employ to look after their trophy offspring (singular). The upper middle class women of Edwardian England had a worthy cause and some of the more dedicated of them even ventured out into Africa and Asia as missionaries. Even as recently as the 60s earnest do gooders joined the Peace Corps. What do today's feminist as do? They lead a charge on McDonalds. That stupidity alone disconnects them from ordinary women with children who simply want to feed a child and distract it with a toy while she dies other things. Today's feminists - over-bred idiots.

Posted by: Decaf at April 24, 2014 02:41 PM (e8J31)

316 what do you call someone who insists on keeping her male FATHERS last name when she gets married ? Feminist ?

Posted by: JeffC at April 24, 2014 02:42 PM (TR6Cq)

317 Duh, in my last comment "dies" is " does".

Posted by: Decaf at April 24, 2014 02:43 PM (e8J31)

318 Today's feminist are actually harmful to women in the sense that they are trivialising our lives and confirming the impression that women are so weak that we need constant protection. They are infantilising women by doing that. This is undoing all the good work of the first wave of feminist. At some point you must admit that equality has been achieved. Looking for micro-infractions just makes all women look small. Cease and desist.

Posted by: Decaf at April 24, 2014 02:50 PM (e8J31)

319 grammie winger is on a roll today. Very wise and memorable comments.

Posted by: whoever at April 24, 2014 02:58 PM (pjMym)

320

I'm the victim, not YOU! Shut up shut up shut up about your stupid genital mutilation! SHUT UP! You're taking away attention from my analysis of the Vagina Monologues, you filthy bitch!

Posted by: Warden at April 24, 2014 03:05 PM (HzhBE)

321 The ironic thing is that modern feminists are the only women who live up to the stereotypes of females being irrational, emotional, hapless creatures who need to be cared for lest they hurt themselves or others.  No group hates women as much, or does them as much damage, as feminists do.

Posted by: Thatch at April 24, 2014 03:11 PM (qYvEa)

322 Just saying, Hirshi Ali has said some things about islam that you wouldnt accept on christianity.  She doesnt deserve an award.

Im Norwegian lurker, but we had that anti-jihadism, "all muslims are salafis-and-the-people-helping-them-are-traitors" up close. Hirshi Ali got invited to speak, but didnt get an honorary award. I think thats fair enough. She really really is pissed at islam, for a good reason. But still, saying that there is no moderate islam is not, in my eyes, constructive and worthy an award. On behalf of a fuck of a lot of local translators who helped out allied force during the last years.

Posted by: Fnord at April 24, 2014 03:16 PM (SMHx7)

323 Brandeis' board and President should resign immediately, especially after the stark contrast of today's news that the Rwandan war lord, with the stains of so many people's blood on his very own hands, was welcomed with open arms while Hirsi Ali was sent away. It disgraceful on an almost cosmic sort of level.

Posted by: MTF at April 24, 2014 03:17 PM (Px4PF)

324 Posted by: Fnord at April 24, 2014 07:16 PM (SMHx7) ================ Could it be that your saying she said bad things about Islam and doesn't deserve to be honored says more about you than her? What did she say about Islam that you find false? Nothing. She speaks. for the good of women victimized every day in Africa by barbarism and she speaks truthfully.

Posted by: MTF at April 24, 2014 03:23 PM (Px4PF)

325 She has stated clearly that she sees no moderate muslims. I know moderate muslims from my everyday life. This is a cognitive disonance, I can not see that such a failure of analysis should be awarded an honorary award. As an interesting voice, sure.

Posted by: Fnord at April 24, 2014 03:28 PM (SMHx7)

326 Hirshi Ali has said some things about islam that you wouldnt accept on christianity.

Posted by: Fnord


Since when do Christians kill little girls for going to school?  Strap bombs to their children?  Make their women cover their faces in public?  Believe me,  as a Christin,  you would hear a lot of Christian denounce anyone who claimed to be a Christian and did those things.  Islam,  not so much.  Pretty fucking quiet with those moderate islamic folks.

Posted by: Dang at April 24, 2014 03:34 PM (MNq6o)

327 1.  Microaggression
2.  ???
3.  Profit

Posted by: teh wymins at April 24, 2014 03:42 PM (z+4T3)

328 test test *test* test

Posted by: rdbrewer at April 24, 2014 03:49 PM (Iyg03)

329 I've met lukewarm muslims, fallen-away muslims and apathetic muslims. Never met a moderate muslim.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at April 24, 2014 03:51 PM (a5ljo)

330 I often wonder if the goal of college for first generation students is, increasingly, to prepare them to serve prep school brats in the manner that they are accustomed to. A servant class trained to speak in the new "polite" way.

Posted by: bleck at April 24, 2014 03:52 PM (ruoPh)

331 I denounce "Miss" as part of the patriarchal enslavement.

Posted by: Little Spellcheck at April 24, 2014 03:54 PM (a5ljo)

332 Oh, and "little" is the system infantizing me.

Posted by: Spellcheck at April 24, 2014 03:56 PM (a5ljo)

333 "Spellcheck" is dead white European males imposing their warped correct/incorrect value system on my soul.

Posted by: a5ljo at April 24, 2014 03:59 PM (a5ljo)

334 My wife's mother-in-law always had to explain to the McD's cashier that her daughter (now my wife) wanted the boy toy. In spite of that micro-oppression and marrying me, her life is still pretty good.

Posted by: Steven at April 24, 2014 04:01 PM (bVXba)

335 Hirsi Ali is my heroine.

Posted by: baldilocks at April 24, 2014 04:19 PM (36Rjy)

336 Not to get all Godwin on everyone but the little girl and her dad would be the one's keeping 'statistics' on 'gold from females or males teeth' as they are shifted out of the furnace ashes.

Posted by: bobbymike at April 24, 2014 09:44 PM (hY7Vw)

337 The subtext I get out of Brandeis is "How dare that uppity ******r expose the triviality of our existential pain?"

Posted by: perturbed at April 25, 2014 04:48 AM (TXq4O)

338 But the quick silly skipping "logical" steps go like this: Women like that, I wouldn't have sex with them, even using Ace's ewok dick. I'll hold the door for men, women, children, dogs, but not cats. But if you get in my face and lay that microaggression bullshit on me, I'm liable to slam the door in your face. How's that for some aggression? you might even label it as macroaggression.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie © at April 25, 2014 05:47 AM (1hM1d)

339 Over 40 years ago I was one of the first women who went to Princeton. I was SO thrilled/honored/excited and felt lucky to be allowed to go there. At no point, even when a professor asked me if I was living a dissolute life (LOL) or when another told me my paper was the best in the class for a woman (faint praise since there were only three), did I think of myself as a victim or a second-class citizen, and never did I think I should or had the right to ask for a change in how the university operated. WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THESE WOMEN? It doesn't even occur to me to think as they do. They take offense at everything. Where did they get these egos that they think the world owes them a perfect life without any kind of problems.

Posted by: Marta Richards at April 25, 2014 07:27 AM (GVA22)

340 The day cisnormative became a word is the day college started becoming worthless.

Posted by: Kevin at April 25, 2014 11:44 PM (IbauB)

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