There’s nothing funnier than lonely, unloved feminists stewing in their angostura bitters. They bring out the sadist in me.
Down with couple-talism!
A reader forwarded a link to a website called Occupy Valentine’s Day, created by an ur-feminist who is the executive editor of Feministing.
[V Day] puts pressure on couples to be a certain way, it privileges one type of love (think heteronormativity!) and it makes single people feel incomplete.
Like most outcasts nursing grudges, she has a thing against normal people behaving in normal ways.
we can use Valentine’s Day to raise awareness about the limited ways we think about romance.
In the past, petulant sophists like this would be ignored and allowed to fade into obscurity. Today, they get a platform and a sympathetic media treatment.
When the degenerate is elevated to a voice of wisdom
and the customary and ordinary subverted
confusion arrests the strongest hearts
until weakness is to excellence inverted.
The goal of the OVD website, near as a sane person can tell, is a hodgepodge advocacy of the usual rainbow coalition and femcunt agenda crap, plus a general lashing out at love and anything that smacks of romantic gestures shared between a man and a woman (romantic gestures between man and man, woman and woman, and spinster and cat are perfectly fine, though).
Blog about how traditional ideas of romance perpetuate gender inequalities and hurt people of all genders
If taking my girl out to a romantic nighttime spot for heavy petting under the silver moon manages to perpetuate gender inequalities and make life miserable for the rejects who post on Occupy Valentine’s Day, I consider that a successful two-fer.
Have a sexy conversation by candlelight with your partner about structural inequity
You think this is a parody, but then you remember that feminists have no sense of humor. All real, all retarded.
Commit to never settling for anyone who is not good enough for you just because you are afraid to spend another Valentine’s Day alone
Ever notice how women with the fewest reasons to feel entitled are often the ones who most loudly proclaim their refusal to settle?
These are just a few ways we can use Valentine’s Day to raise awareness about the limited ways we think about romance.
Maxim #210: If you are using a romantic holiday as a pretext to raise awareness instead of raise erections, you are probably a fat loser.
Celebrating love is wonderful and romance can be great too. But we don’t need corporations to dictate how we should do it, a mainstream media chastising us for not doing it right or traditional ideas touted over and over by our friends and family.
Hey, I’ve got not problem with skipping out on the corporatized aspect of V-Day. I’ll be the first guy to tell men they don’t need cards and chocolate to inspire girls to feel love. Nothing kills romance faster than dreary obligation. The difference between me and this feminist loser is that I don’t make a capital case out of traditional romantic gestures as being somehow symbolic of hatred for weirdos, dweebs, fatties and fuglies who can’t get a date.
That shit is oppressive and hurts us more than helps.
You can pinpoint the exact moment in history when the West began its decline as the moment when we started caring what spiteful losers think. A little oppression and hurtfulness is a healthy society’s cleansing mechanism. Time to reoccupy the icy wastelands with society’s waste product.
‘we can use Valentine’s Day to raise awareness about the limited ways we think about romance.’
If she had a high-value man (or even a man period…she works for Feministing so we can rightly assume that she is both ugly and intolerable; if that’s her in the picture then her hair is shorter than mine), her way of thinking about love would be ‘limited’ to dinner at an upscale restaurant, a gift of no less than $300 and sex on a bed of rose petals.
And hey, I despise the corporate merger of many religious holidays (Christmas, Vday, Easter) too and do what I can to skip it (I take girls out on the 12th, the 13th, fall off the earth on the 14th and resurface on the 15th) because if you care about someone, you should show it on more than one day out of 365, but let’s call a spade a spade here; if you’re a girl and you’re alone on Vday, you’re probably ugly, so pin the blame on your parents and yourself and not the corporations who have given you so much.
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“a man period”?
I find this phrase to be ambiguous in this context. Its either missing a comma or its a physiological phenomena of hermaphrodites and the man-ginese I have not heard about.
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I can assume that a Man Period would have heavier flow, far more pain, would last longer and would stop absolutely 0% of men from getting their required shit done.
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Well it really just looks like pathetic losers trying to show they don’t give a shit, yet take the time to articulate it in oh so many words for the world to see. Textbook passive aggressive.
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There it comes again, this time with a noun derivation.
“(think heteronormativity!)”
Arghhhh!
Thor
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Early on in the dating process nothing can help you cement your Alpha creed than by not taking the girl your dating out on Valentines day. If you blow it off…..she will wonder…..”who is he sending flowers too on Valentines Day?”
And as we know, “The defensive crouch is were tingles are born.”
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‘Hey, I’ve got not problem with skipping out on the corporatized aspect of V-Day’
if she had limited her critique to this, i’d have been totally on board. businesses having to make money by inventing traditions rather than let lovers dictate how they should evolve always struck me as despicably intrusive. which is why thanksgiving is my favorite holiday– corporate meddling in its nature-a feast- is very limited.
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St. Pattys’ Day is another religious holiday that has thankfully escaped corporate influence, and its my favorite.
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In high-school this fat short-haired menopausal dean announced in assembly hugging – between lovers or friends, didn’t matter – will no longer be tolerated on school grounds because it might make lonely onlookers feel bad.
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What about grabbing your g/f’s ass? Did she have a problem with that?
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So how will girls make other girls jealous? Your principal will have her orders ignored, and will be unable to do anything about it since girls are the ones breaking it.
“Sisterhood is powerful!”
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When one can’t rejoice in the happiness of others, one is truly lost 😦
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i don’t agree. i become extremely jealous and angry whenever i see a happy couple and i don’t think i’m lost because of this. i’m just sick of people who are happily in love.
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You are the personification of lost.
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And, I must say, the singing telegram I just received was pretty enjoyable!
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That’s not always correct; 15% of all women send flowers to themselves on Valentine’s Day. I’d call that less “happiness of others” and more “deception to secure an advantage”
http://listphobia.com/2012/02/05/10-weird-facts-about-valentines-day/
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How can one say they want love but reject it when they see it in others? Valentine’s Day is a day devoted to love: all kinds of it. I started the day madly helping my daughter decide which Valentines cards she wanted to give to which of her friends at pre-school today. Then I celebrated just like we did when we were kids: with EVERYBODY. Not with one person I felt should “complete” me, but nearly every single person I came in contact with.
The morning continued and I was corresponding with a guy in South Africa. Throughout the day, I wrote with people in Denmark, Amsterdam, Australia, L.A., England, Canada, the U.S., and to each of these friends (men and women) I wished them a happy Valentine’s Day. Not one had anything but a positive response.
I got a card from my sister, an e-card from a friend, a text from another, thanked the co-worker for sending the telegram, oohed at my department chair’s flowers from her husband, complimented my co-worker on his heart decorated tie. And not once did I worry about getting an expensive gift or who I would have dinner with. I just ate some delicious leftovers from yesterday by myself and I am incredibly happy!
Long story short: share love when you have the opportunity with all those who are dear. It is the only thing worth having and it doesn’t cost anything but your time and effort 🙂 Love with only one person is unsustainable. Each little act of love adds up to more than one person alone could ever give. That romantic love with one person is simply the cherry on the sundae of life!
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The tears will come right around 11pm.
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lol- no 🙂
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I get what you’re saying and agree to a point. Valentine’s day for me has always been a day to celebrate love in all its forms. That it has become too much about couples for some, is a shame.
However, and maybe I’m spoiled for saying this, romantic love is very common. If a person isn’t too stuck up, love is pretty easy to find. It might not always be convenient, but it is everywhere loving people are.
This time last year, I was in a pretty dark place. One of my “not good enough because you’re not Jewish” ex boyfriends tried to get back in, and this brought back a lot of pain. It might sound sappy, but that Valentine’s day was nearing actually helped me to keep things in perspective and not wallow in the darkness. Celebrating the love of my legal husband, my bros, and on the downlow the love of two guys who I can’t be with because they’re taken in a way that could lead to fatal drama certainly took the edge off even though I slept alone.
For Maya, when you’re seeing those other happy couples, take a good look at them. They’re certainly not all objectively beautiful people. They’re not even all optimally functional people. What they are doing though, is loving each other. If you want some, you have to give some.
What that means in practical terms is to be open to someone getting in there and loving you. When you meet guys, smile at them. Give them an opening. If they’re exploitive or screwed up, you can always reject them once you know, but I assure you that they won’t all be.
I am in hostile territory, among clusters of largely homogenous cultures to which I am an outsider to all of them. I’m old and fat…and yet when I was young and fat, someone here cared enough about me to bring me here to be with him. After that went platonic, others of varying levels of convenience have cared, one enough to risk literally being honor killed by his family.
All you have to do to be loved is love. Love like a kamikaze, and if it crashes and burns, gather up the ashes, regenerate, and go do it again. The only thing really keeping you from being half of a happy couple is fear and maybe too high standards in things that don’t matter.
So quit your bitching and get off your ass.
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Nicole,
thank you for your kind comment.
“All you have to do to be loved is love.”
But I don’t want to annoy anyone with my love. I have a really boring and annoying personality which I can’t change. When I was younger I had good looks and guys were hitting on me despite my huge personality flaws. But now I feel invisible. I don’t really have anything to offer to anyone.
“The only thing really keeping you from being half of a happy couple is fear and maybe too high standards in things that don’t matter.”
My standards are not too high, I just have my hypergamous brain that I can’t change.
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Maya, let the men decide what you have to offer and don’t. I might catch some hell for saying this, but that isn’t something you can really decide for yourself.
What you can do is take care of your body, mind, and if you believe in it, soul. All you really need to offer a man is yourself.
Anything else you have, to some degree including beauty above a certain basic floor of attractiveness, means very little next to giving yourself. Not many western women are doing that nowadays.
Men don’t have a checklist. They have the boner test and whatever personality and timing issues they have. Find a guy whose boner test you’ve passed, who is ready to deal with the responsibilities of owning you, who you trust and respect, and you’re fixed.
Then, all you need to deal with your hypergamous instincts is a social group who will keep you in check, like this one. If you can do like I did, and gather some bros who will help you do that offline as well, you’re fixed.
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Nicole, thanks a lot for talking to me,
“Find a guy whose boner test you’ve passed, who is ready to deal with the responsibilities of owning you, who you trust and respect, and you’re fixed.”
Passing a “boner test” is not enough … I’m still fuckable (I’m only 27), my problem is that I’m not lovable. I think men would also sleep with women they can’t fall in love with. So passing the boner test doesn’t help, you need to be lovable and for that you have to be young and pretty, I believe.
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Maya, you’re speaking in statistician and yet you’re one of the few women in the English speaking world who has been able to withstand being around here more than a couple of weeks.
The only thing stopping you from at least having someone around to keep you busy is you. You keep putting yourself down as an excuse not to have a life. The minute you actually want to get out there, you will.
Maybe there is something about you that makes you unlovable. I used to have issues around that. Mine was that I was so afraid of being viewed as vulnerable that I prevented men from feeling protective towards me.
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I think you are both blind. And I feel for you.
True romantic love between a man and women is a deep mystery. It is sought for by most of us all of our lives and not everyone gets it.
However, you can’t demean it by saying you don’t need it and you can’t ignore it by simply saying you are not loveable.
True marital love is a reflection of the love the Lord has for us, it is a constant reminder of what Jesus the Christ did for us when we were all unloveable.
It is centered on commitment. And there is no substitute. And you cannot have it unless you are trustworthy and willing to lay down your very life for your love.
This is what inflames onlookers. It isn’t beauty, it isn’t youth. It is love. And you cannot see what my Husband and I see when we look at each other.
It is between just us. And our Savior who gave us new eyes to look at each other with, taught us how to die for each other and made a way for our love to last past this test of a life.
Exclusive. And it is beautiful.
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I got laid. That’s how I celebrated.
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hahaha- Hooray!
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Not lost…. just with no more moral energy to feel happy when their problems are too big. But it can be fixed by removing their problems.
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When does anyone ever have their problems removed? It starts within a person. No one is coming to rescue anyone.
How much moral energy does it take, for instance, to smile once a day more than they did the day before. When you project that energy out, it’ll start getting reflected back at you, which, in turn, gives you more energy to share again.
Its definitely a process. One shouldn’t expect an overnight transformation that’s for sure. Only the progress is important anyway.
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I used to believe that, but was proven wrong. Some things you really can’t solve with just thinking positively enough, and it consumes energy to pretend to feel good. True, it’s impractical to wait for someone to rescue you, but then you are either doomed or you have to solve your problems practically. Sometimes being more positive is a practical solution, sometimes a futile one.
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Well, I agree you can’t smile your way out of a box 🙂 First you’re going to have to want to get out, then you’re probably going to have to apply some force to make that happen.
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Your comment made me remember Candide, Emma. Thanks for that!
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BINGO !!!
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Geez, I would have bet money this urfeminist would be some Jewess… turns out she’s some Indian (dot, not woo-woo) femcunt….
Sheesh… no Valentine’s day gandhi for you, slumbitch.
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Feminists in India have already have their men firmly by the balls.
In a quarter-century, that country will be unrecognizable.
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Well that’s good for population control I guess.
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The children of our physicians and technocrats, particularly their daughters, adopt SWPL with a speed, ferocity, and unswerving zealotry no Jew, RC gentry, nor Boston WASP girl could match.
Heteronormativity? What sort of tortured breed of Ivy League, Title IX Princess would coin such a term?
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The womyn at Feministing. #foreveralone
I was watching this makeover show about this chick who painted half her face like a skull. In the beginning she said it was to “express herself” and that “she didn’t want to look normal”…but finally she admitted that she didn’t want to try to look pretty because she didn’t want to be called out for it, or to fail at looking good.
I think the women at these feminist sites are similar.
It is easier to be ugly,crass and mean and pretend you are doing it for some grandiose cause, when really they’re masking (poorly) desires that every normal woman has.
People don’t need to preach it, when they’re actually happy in their lives.
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I told my woman that I don’t believe in obligated romance – that every day should be a VDay with me. So as to tell her friends about our romantic evening tonight, my woman hocked some of her old jewelery to buy dinner for me tonight at a nice restaurant. I will order surf and turf.
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I hope she’s really hot, because she sounds materialistic and status obsessed.
Also, couldn’t she just lie?
You should get the turf and turf.
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She may be materialistic and status obsessed, or perhaps just socially dependent like the rest of us. I like to fancy myself an independent thinker, but I do see the use of traditions and holidays.
In my opinion, the person to whom these things are important, in the event of a discrepancy between partners, should be the one doing the paying. If it was important to me to have the fancy dinner or whatever, but not important to my boyfriend, I would expect to pay.
My worry would be that the girlfriend was dick sizing with other women about their man’s level of supplication. If the point of the fancy dinner is not quite to tell about the wonderful night, but to tell about how much was spent to imply that she has you by the balls, that is bad.
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“my woman hocked some of her old jewelery to buy dinner for me tonight at a nice restaurant. I will order surf and turf.”
I present to you the Alpha of the Thread Award.
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“I present to you the Alpha of the Thread Award.”
Returned to the committee for someone more worthy: I’m 12 years older, and make twelve times what she does. I folded after the proof of the effort and paid for din-din.
Beta by nature, when I knew it would be another night of O-A-V (correctly!), I made her stop as she brought out the crumpled bills. Plastic was quicker and there’s nothing alpha about humiliating a pretty girl for finances.
And I let her pay for bkfast at 1/12 the price.
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Funny she,or he,or it,is so militant on the topic of a man being “good enough” for “you”. being forced to be good enough–isnt that a structural inequity or something??
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Christ. Must these joyless harpies politicize everything?
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Yes. They are empty inside.
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They have a term for it. “The personal is the political.”
Know your enemy. Keep your friends close, your enemies closer. Etc.
The principles are all part of the same leftist-atheist-hedonist-materialist-feminist-multiculti carcinoma, each feeding differently on their assigned parts of the body politic — civics, religion, culture, science, sex, ethnicity. When seemingly disparate “movements” share the same underlying world-view, they ally naturally and without organization. Discern what political philosophy unites them under the carapace and you locate the vulnerable hive-mind. (Or, if you prefer: examine the stolen Death Star schematics and find the thermal exhaust port. You have to know where to drop the torpedo.)
You can’t make a consistent, sustained effort against these malignant forces if you don’t know what originally animated them. At least read Marx.
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From the article:
“In feminist terms, the ‘personal is political’ refers to the theory that personal problems are political problems, which basically means that many of the personal problems women experience in their lives are not their fault, but are the result of systematic oppression.”
And there you have it. Feminist insanity clear as day. It’s everyone else’s fault – remember, you’re the victim!
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I’m an atheist. Doesn’t make me a marxist or feminist or anything.
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Why do these people care so goddamn much what everyone else is doing? If you’re gay just bone each other in the ass til kingdom come, I don’t care, but why do you need to constantly try to compel society to tell you that it’s normal and great?
They need to be shouted down for godsakes. Their views represent an extreme minority but are controlling the majority of mainstream conversation.
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Because they themselves don’t think it’s normal and great.
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What is it with modern causes and “raising awareness”? What a vague impossible to define (or fail) objective. Anytime somebody tells me they’re “raising awareness” for something, I respond “I’m already aware. Leave me alone” or something like that.
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We raise awareness in order to empower each other- and foster a culture of understanding. Our community needs a safe space to to allow vibrant self expression.
Namaste.
😀
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Damn, you speak “leftist” fluently. What was your major?
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Doubled majored in a science field and a business field…lol- but I’m friends with a lot of flakes (makes for good parties), lol. I don’t think Eric got the joke, but I am pretty proud I was able to be so convincing.
Anna, we’re all goddesses, you just have to believe it. One Love.
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That sounds good on the surface, but doesn’t objectively demonstrate any progress. “Raising awareness” doesn’t really do anything. How do you objectively define “fostering a culture of understanding”? What is said culture supposed to do?
If I started a movement, it would be to actually do something. “Cure cancer” rather than “raise awareness of cancer”. “Stop x behavior” rather than “foster understanding of x behavior”.
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Well that’s just your opinion, man.
Be Well.
Namaste.
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It’s amazing how people are whining about corporate oppression in the US. Nobody holds a gun to anybody’s head and makes them buy Hallmark cards and chocolates. It’s that simple. These few “oppressed” probably never considered quietly abstaining from spending money on Hershey’s, watching TV or viewing internet sites sponsored by Hallmark or Disney. That’d require too much personal sacrifice, and not enough noisy self-righteousness.
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That’s what I was thinking too. Noticed something similar when I talked about the “pressure to become a housewife” with some feminist-minded people. I said I didn’t see any such pressure; and if you choose to become one due to social pressure, despite having all the legal rights and opportunities to do otherwise, and not being threatened, then you’re responsible for that choice. Was called “victim blamer” for that… That’s the thing – all this social pressure makes free choices impossible, people are oppressed.
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Norge er temmelig ille når det gjelder denslags. GRUPPEPRESS!
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The greatest thing about spending Valentine’s day as single guy is that there is no other night during the whole year in which women are as easy as VD
[heartiste: true, except for new year’s eve. i think it’s a toss-up between those two nights.]
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Nope.
Thanksgiving Eve is where it’s at boys.
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Ugh, I still remember blowing a 2/14 opportunity due to serious anti-game. Her: “That’s cause I fuck really well.” Me. “der…” then wondering why she lost interest after that.
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Good writing, you can be the next generation’s PJ ORourke.
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Yes, the poem was good enough to make me wonder where he cribbed it from.
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“You can pinpoint the exact moment in history when the West began its decline as the moment when we started caring what spiteful losers think”
This, a thousand times. By my estimate, that was some time in 1967, but I’d be willing to give five years leeway either way.
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More like 1954… 1957 at the latest.
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For me personally, 1984 was the year I began to sense that something had gone terribly wrong in the world.
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Did people care what spiteful losers thought in 1957? I’m not sure, I was very young in the 1950’s. I’m sure that it started sooner than a lot of people think – the rot goes deep.
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They cared enough to send federal troops to invade a state… so that Negroes could insinuate themselves into and disrupt classrooms containing the children of so-called White men… many of whom would strip their own fair daughters naked and present them to the biggest, blackest simians on Friday, if they thought it would help the latter score more touchdowns for their alma mater on Saturday.
Feh.
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“Commit to never settling for anyone who is not good enough for you just because you are afraid to spend another Valentine’s Day alone.”
See that’s exactly what I question about these women. Who even does that in the first place besides inherently weak, desperate people? Before I met my husband I was fine spending Valentine’s Day alone; I knew my worth as a woman and didn’t need some interchangeable accessory boyfriend for validation. If they were really such strong, independent single womyn, they’d be able either participate or not participate in this VOLUNTARY holiday without trying to force everyone else to change to protect their feelings. I love how the all-important “woman’s right to choose” only applies selectively when it comes to chopping your fetus into pieces and throwing it in the garbage. The rest of us, women included, should forgo our right to choose participation in a goofy, harmless holiday because it might make someone feel excluded (as though there’s a law preventing gays or single people from buying Valentine’s Day crap!)
It’s always Opposite Day for feminists. They claim to be about empowering women, and yet their whole MO is about instituting this suffocatingly bland universal groupthink so nobody anywhere will get their feelings hurt ever. Doesn’t sound very “empowered” to me.
“That shit is oppressive and hurts us more than helps.”
I would love to introduce these chicks to some child brides in Afghanistan, to let them explain how a voluntary holiday involving pink teddy bears is such oppressive patriarchal shit.
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You’re far too reasonable to be here
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@ thespiral@kmba.com
“It’s always Opposite Day for feminists.”
Best summary of feminism I’ve ever read. Seriously, that’s it, right there.
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Thank you! This is Spiralina btw.
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Wow. The fatter the hamster the faster the spin, till the vortex-vagina spins all truth away.
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If that sign were a riot shield, we would still be riddled with shrapnel. That bleach red bowl cut and eyebrows is still deadly ugly without looking down the barrel of her beady, blood shot eyes.
This goes beyond spinsterhood into erection cable cutter.
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It’s Singles Awareness day…
So lets go out to the bars and fuck some chicks.
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I would actually feel kind of sorry for these awful women, well, if they weren’t so awful. I don’t hate ugly, fat, women. I hate entitled, ugly, fat women.
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I hate ugly, fat women. Full stop. If they’re entitled on top of it, that just keeps them ugly and fat.
We have to re-cultivate a healthy hatred for the monstrum in fronte because it is the emblem for the monstrum in animo that created and sustained this unholy epochal clusterfuck between the sexes. In other words, feminists are fat & ugly and the fat & ugly are feminist insofar as their repulsiveness was incubated/explained away by feminist mythos: make the sexual marketplace safe for the homeliest chicks at all costs.
It’s not a coincidence that “spearhead” of the counterrevolution begins in the instinct-driven precincts of the sexual transaction. That’s why websites ostensibly established just for game eventually find themselves drifting to political matters, like the post above. The fight drags them there.
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“In other words, feminists are fat & ugly and the fat & ugly are feminist insofar as their repulsiveness was incubated/explained away by feminist mythos: make the sexual marketplace safe for the homeliest chicks at all costs.”
And the irony is they’ve done just the opposite. Marriage rates are dropping and divorce rates are rising, with more and more single women left adrift to face old age with no romantic prospects. The original marriage contract was meant in part to protect women from spousal abandonment. The idea was that a woman would give her fertility to one man exclusively, and in exchange for faithfully bearing and raising his children he was expected to care for her as she aged out of attractiveness. It was a contract based on loyalty, mutual convenience, and hopefully love and companionship.
Because feminists wanted to destroy that institution in favor of a societal free-for-all, they instead left millions of women exposed to the cruel vicissitudes of the sexual market. And most of these women are discovering that you can be strong and independent, OR you can be part of a familial unit that protects you into your old age. Not both.
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Great comment. I’ve been trying to describe marriage succinctly for myself, but your formulation is much better.
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[…] Apparently, this thing was for real! […]
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A linkback from Kathy Shaidle at Five Feet of Fury? Never expected that.
Too bad she’s disabled comments on that post. I’d like to ask if she’s a regular reader here.
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heteronormativity
Wtf is this shit? Just hearing this word makes me want to punch someone in the face. The word sounds inherently smug/pseudo-intellectual.
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That’s an OWS way (i.e., unemployable) of saying “normal”
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“heteronormativity.”
Even as a supporter of gay rights, I hate this word because it’s based on non-reality. The reality is this: 98 or so percent of people are straight. Thus, heteronormativity SHOULD be the default setting. That said, can we accept the small percent of people who identify as gay or trans? Sure, no problem. But don’t try to claim the 2 percent is the “norm.”
The thing is, it’s mostly the collegiate pseuds, not actual gays who push this bullshit down everyone’s throats.
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I completely agree.
People can get gay all they want but don’t expect to be exalted for it.
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homodeflectiveinventitivity.
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heteronormativity
Wtf is this shit? Just hearing this word makes me want to punch someone in the face.
100% Ditto. It is a shaming tactic aimed at people who are normal, because it is so uncool to be normal. Feminazicuntism and/or fagtivism run wild.
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It is fitting and funny that the gnome holding up the sign has obviously bad skin and uncombed hair.
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I call Valentine’s Day “Beta Day”. My wife laughs. I have to set a good example for my son, so I wished her a Happy Valentine’s Day. Then I wished him one. And then the dog. We treat it like any other made up holiday.
She was relating to me last night about how sorry she felt for the losers in Costco buying flowers on Feb 13. And today we were joking about all the busy flower delivery vans. I’m going to make sure to tell her all about the idiotic stuff my beta coworkers are doing to dry up their wives’ vaginas.
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If I didn’t know better, I’d swear this whole ‘Occupy Valentine’s Day’ deal was copied line for line from the front page of The Onion.
Say, does anyone else read the word “Feministing” and automatically think of the word “fisting”? Seriously. I don’t know if they intended that or what. But “Feministing” has a very cacophonous feel to it.
[heartiste: yes they intended that. you know, grrlpower. it is to laugh.]
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The OVD website gives yet another alternative way to celebrate this oppressive/patriarchal/traditional Valentine’s “holiday”: “Raise awareness about domestic violence and sexual assault like others have.”
So that’s exactly what I’m going to do:
Domestic violence is bad, m’kay? You shouldn’t partake in domestic violence, m’kay? Also, sexual assault is bad, m’kay? Don’t do sexual assault, m’kay? M’kay.
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Totally! These things are bad, very bad! We should replace all our fun holidays with campaigns to “raise awareness” about bad things in society. Here’s my proposal:
Christmas – raise awareness about the scourge of colorblindness (how chromanormative of you to put up red and green decorations when some people can’t even see them!)
Easter – raise awareness about the horrors of lactose intolerance (you insensitive bastards, some people can’t even eat milk chocolate!)
Fourth of July – raise awareness about people who can’t enjoy fireworks because they’re afraid of loud noises (ligyrophobia is a very serious condition!)
Halloween – raise awareness about the shameful way we discriminate against ghosts, werewolves, vampires, and other mortality-challenged individuals (garlic and silver are racist!)
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Maybe the OVD’s can raise awareness of my ass.
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Fucking briliant post. hear, hear
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Fcking 10/10 post today, lol’d hard at the maxim
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“In the past, petulant sophists like this would be ignored and allowed to fade into obscurity. Today, they get a platform and a sympathetic media treatment.
When the degenerate is elevated to a voice of wisdom
and the customary and ordinary subverted
confusion arrests the strongest hearts
until weakness is to excellence inverted.”
No, unfortunately, this is just the ancient revolt of the slaves continuing. If you think you’re worthless, why not try to make this very worthlessness a value? Hence Christianity. Hence Socialism. Hence Feminism. Hence Green Fascism.
Read Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals. – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Genealogy_of_Morality
“Slave morality in feeling ressentiment does not seek redress for its grievances by taking revenge through action, as the noble would, but by setting up an imaginary revenge. It therefore needs enemies in order to sustain itself, unlike noble morality, which hardly takes enemies seriously and forgets about them instantly having dealt with them. The weak deceive themselves into thinking that the meek are blessed and will win everlasting life, thereby ultimately vanquishing the strong. They invent the term “evil” to apply to the strong, and that which proceeds from strength, which is precisely what is “good,” according to the noble, aristocratic valuation. These latter call their inferiors “bad”—in the sense of “worthless” and “ill-born” (as in the Greek words κακος and δειλος)—not “evil.””
Hm, “hardly taking enemies seriously” – who does that make you think of…?
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Not such a fan of v day. I explain to long term girls that she will get nothing on v day. I see no good reason to engage in corporate consumerwhorism on an arbitrary day to prove my affection for someone I allow into my life. If they don’t like it, the door’s over there. Girls that aren’t long term, well I don’t even mention it to them. If they’re expecting something…lol. All of them have at least pretended to be okay with it.The last girl I dated actually bought me some steaks and came over and cooked them. But then again she did that almost every week.
Back to the topic at hand though, what right do the freaks on the edges of society have to complain about something like this? Public mockery should be their only reward.
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Feminism: The nagging feeling that somewhere a woman is happy and content with her man and that this must be stopped.
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haha- YES!- Why the jealousy? Sorry, ladies, we can be friends, but I actually want to be with a man.
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Valentine’s Day – one of my favorite days of the year… It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. The great thing about when it falls on a work night is you can hit it and take off without any bad feelings, and she’s feeling lucky for not having had to spend an evening alone. 🙂
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The states has degenerated into a country of entitled whiners and victims. I’m just so tired of solipsistic losers trying to change all of society to align with their views rather than changing themselves or accepting their low social status. How one deems it an easier task to transform everyone else but their self boggles my mind.How selfish.
Of course as mind-boggling as it seems, it’s clearly working seeing as the political left will entertain and coddle the sensibilities of every single marginalized group for the sake of preserving self esteem and furthering the dream of their egalitarian utopia. I’m sorry, but low self esteem is at times necessary as it allows one to confront their weaknesses and even inspire change for the better.
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I predict that by the end of the decade, the city of San Francisco will ban Valentine’s Day. (Probably sooner.)
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I second that prediction, AND I’ll add that they’ll also ban anything having to do with Santa Claus, too. And I’m not joking about that.
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A-romantic
A-sexual
A-sshole
Seriously who gives a fuck what dipshits like this chick stick on the interFacetubes?
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The sad thing is even women of this caliber have men white-knighting them and vocally defending their honor.
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BRING BACK THE GULAG!
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The rule stands:
1. Pick some aspect of normal, healthy adult life. In this case, Valentine’s Day: a celebration of romantic and sexual love, the oldest and most important human drive.
2. Deliberately invert it. Check: spending Valentine’s Day alone and criticizing everyone who doesn’t.
3. Demand to be celebrated for your bizarre inversion. Check.
Liberalism in action! No actual thought required.
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Amen. Fantastic piece.
Anyone catch CNBC last night? They aired, love at first byte, it was so stupid. Zero knowledge of game outside of market value. Lotsa hypergamy, irrational women, beta men…Depressing.
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Fine, don’t settle but what’s good for the goose is good for the gander, right. So, men should not settle either.
In other words, in addition to everything else, you must bring something to the table so that you are attractive to the 20 per cent of the population that 80 per cent of the population is after.
Remember, you’re trying to attract a high value mate. The high value ones have the ability to choose so why should they choose you? If you’re answer is ‘I’m fatter AND hairier than the other women’ then you may want to re-evaluate your choices.
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They say it’s what’s inside that counts…
While I don’t entirely buy it, among the countless examples of strident, self-righteous and bitter bitches, I see few candidates that radiate at least a hint of charm and sweetness of disposition. I’m hardly asking for subservience to my macho imperative, but few of these sad cases look like they are capable of overcoming their own self-centered egos (eating chocolate alone? nuturing “relationships” with 100% dependent “pet” anmals?)
Emotionally stunted women going their own way. Narcssism and solipsism indeed.
If they can’t have “feminist Ryan Gosling” then a hot solo date with tub of Ben n’ Jerry’s from Costco topped off with a mararthon encounter wth a tireless purple saguro.
She’s a perfect match for a MGOTW like me.
We both just realized that old witch was right, we really do need each other like a fish needs a bicycle.
Independent women and men are our world’s future!
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What a sad way to advertise your bitterness at not having a heteronormative significant other (assuming the femcunt is not lez).
If not for the damage these femcunts inflict with their tripe I would feel sorry for them instead of complete utter disdane.
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Occupy Valentine’s Day seems to have a strange way to convey love… love thy self. It is never about the other person. I think every man agrees that Valentines Day is bad. It is an obligation that women expect. I suppose I should jump on the feminist bandwagon to get out of VD jail, but I know better.
There are so many holidays that are just bad for ugly and lonely women. Many of these holidays are for couples and families. It doesn’t accommodate angry feminists.
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Here’s a handy translator for the feministing website:
http://lfw.org/jminc/moo/http://feministing.com
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I decided to check out “feministing” and noticed the following response to some email:
http://feministing.com/2012/02/15/anti-feminist-mailbag-feministing-edition/
Please pay special attention to the following quot: “Yes, of course straight women fist too! ” I guess if you have a gaping hole from riding the cock carousel you would need a fist to feel anything!!!!
That little double entendre is too much to resist!!!!
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When the degenerate is elevated to a voice of wisdom
and the customary and ordinary subverted
confusion arrests the strongest hearts
until weakness is to excellence inverted.
Is this a play on something? A Rush lyric, perhaps? Do tell!
[heartiste: i made it up. *takes a bow*]
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I ended up asking this chick i’ve been seeing for a meal because i was literally too exhausted to cook. Once i realised it was v-bullshit, i asked her to come to mine and instead cooked for myself rather than eat out.
It was satisfying not to pay a single penny. Needless to say, she took a taxi home in the morning.
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Slave morality. The revaluing of existing values, reversing them for purposes of subversion.
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same old sour grapes shtick,
If-I-can’t-get-any-I’ll-pretend-I-didn’t-really-want-it.
Grrreat post, great comments, a lot to learn here fellas!
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My names Kieran Black, I’m Editor-in-chief for Way of the Player, we really like your style and were wondering if you were interested in working with us, maybe as a guest writer?
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“A little oppression and hurtfulness is a healthy society’s cleansing mechanism.”
I’m sure Hitler thought this too.
[heartiste: this might be the funniest invocation of godwin’s law on the entire internet.]
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Oh, and what is this, 1882? Nobody uses the word spinster anymore.
[heartiste: who cares of its provenance? it works to get under the skin of femcunts like you.]
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