Make sure that women are given to these men
Solution to the problem of violent men found at last.
Make sure that women are given to these men – like so many apples or hats or tennis rackets.
Of course that is the arrangement in all too many places, like Afghanistan for instance, but that doesn’t mean we like to see men saying it as if it were just common sense.
And given to them for what purpose? For the purpose of sticking the penis is. Without a living breathing female human to stick the penis in, the man is too likely to step outside and kill some people.
You’d think by now the engineers could have come up with a reliable replacement, a nice programmable vagina to stick the penis in without having to get an actual woman from somewhere.
Gatley’s Account has been suspended. It’s good to know you can cross a line with misogyny, I guess.
That assumes it was the misogyny that got him suspended. He might also have said men aren’t women in 2009, or something.
Delivering a woman to fulfil some guy’s sexual urges against her will is itself several violent crimes. Kidnapping, imprisonment and rape.
Who the fuck is this manbaby??
Exactly what I was thinking.
They could have a fleshlight, but they aren’t interested. No domination / possession of a human that way.
They have, but it doesn’t solve the problem. Evidence suggests the availability of dolls and toys does not reduce male use of prostitutes, for example, and may make the situation worse by changing the expectations of real male-female interactions, similar to what happens with prostitution.
Campaign Against Sex Robots
Latest, well I have to live in hope. Especially as I contemplate what is happening to millions of Afghan women and girls at the moment. 20 years of spent lives and the wealth of nations and the only thing that has changed is that a generation of girls were briefly given hope before it was snatched away from them.
Sigh. Latsot. Apologies, after however many years it’s been, autocorrect has just decided to kick in on your name.
Rob,
You also miscapitalised me, but given what else is going on, I don’t feel like complaining.
miscapitalization kills.
Time for all the TWAW crowd — the trans women who really really really are too women, so there! — to step up and volunteer to be an incel’s pacifier. There’s validation aplenty for you; all you need to do is apply.
Oh no, I bet I’ve been miscapitalizing you all this time too.
@9 and 10 – I know, I’m a terrible person (although I do always think of latsot with an ‘L’ for some reason).
@ 11, snort-laugh. Dammit, now you’ve made me be a bad person all over again. Will no-one think of meeeeee.
Ugh. latsot and bell hooks. Hold on, I’mm’a capitalize as I see fit. Latsot and Bell Hooks.
Nyah-na nan-na boo boo! Phbbbbbt!
Miscapitalization sounds like an accusation one would level following the quarterly report of a poorly managed investment portfolio.
On the other hand latsot, at least I didn’t disemvowel you. That would have been literal violence.
Y ls mscptisd m, bt gvn wht ls s gng n, dn’t fl lk cmplnng.
-ltst
I depreciate this comment.
It’s just another cross we transcase people – as the most marginalised community in the world – have to bear with grace and dignity. Which involves a surprising amount of hyperbole, expecting people to know our capitalisation without telling them what it is, trapping people into miscapitalisation on social media and then more hyperbole when they fall for it. You see, marginalised. All this takes so much more effort than you ciscase people have to put in.
Well, this is blessing in disguise. I keep thinking “lowercase L, or uppercase i”? and it seemed intrusive to ask. But now, we can all put our capitals in our comments, and nobody has to feel singled out or embarrassed or anything! It’s sooo inclusive!
(Uppercase C / lowercase atwhisperer)
I’m guilty too, I know I have miscapitalized latsot and iknklast. I will try to do better. I have however validated your marginalization in my error, so for that, you’re welcome! :D
What a lot of finance smarties here! I assumed miscapitalisation would be thinking New York is the capital of the USA, Sydney the capital of Australia, Auckland the capital of New Zealand, Rio de Janeiro the capital of Brazil, Istanbul the capital of Turkey and so on.
Oh those sly tricky capitals – pause to shed a tear for us in the USofA who have to keep 50 state
capitolscapitals distinct from the big cities – it’s a tragedy. Surely Seattle is the capital of Washington state, yes? No! Nor is Chicago that of Illinois or St Louis of Missouri or Los Angeles OR San Francisco of California. It’s a damn outrage.No no no. It’s like this. The capital of USA is U. The capital of Australia is A; conveniently, it is also the capital of New Zealand, because who can keep track of the difference between those countries in the South Pacific. The capital of Brazil is B. The capital of Turkey is T. You’re welcome.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10648225-tell-me-how-pickles-are-made-yes-bebe-in-london
“tell me how pickles are made? Yes, Bebe.” “In London,” said Bebe. “I suppose they make some pickles in London,” said Mrs. Jewls. “Okay, let’s start again. Calvin, what’s the capital of England?” “Could you write England on the board?” asked Calvin. “I can do a lot better when I can see the question.” Mrs. Jewls wrote England on the board. “Oh, okay,” said Calvin, now that he saw the question. “The capital of England is E.” “Yes, that’s one capital of England,” Mrs. Jewls had to admit. “Okay, I will say it one more time. The capital of England is London.” “Isn’t that where they make all the pickles?” asked Jenny.”
Or this:
“I’m sure I’m not Ada,” she said, “for her hair goes in such long ringlets, and mine doesn’t go in ringlets at all; and I’m sure I can’t be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh! she knows such a very little! Besides, she’s she, and I’m I, and—oh dear, how puzzling it all is! I’ll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is—oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate! However, the Multiplication Table doesn’t signify: let’s try Geography. London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome, and Rome—no, that’s all wrong, I’m certain! I must have been changed for Mabel! I’ll try and say ‘How doth the little—’” and she crossed her hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it, but her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come the same as they used to do:—
As long ast you don’t try to teach our kids about Critical Capital Theory, or that we are all systemic capitalists, I’ll maintain that all cases matter.
Minneapolitans tend to think of St. Paul is some quaint little town rather than the capital of Minnesota. Everyone knows that most of the capital in Minnesota is in The Tall Buildings in the Bigger City.
OB#22 – I suppose this figures in American Trivial Pursuit?
(I don’t suppose pub quizzes are a thing in the USA.)
Wait, Los Angeles and San Francisco aren’t the same as each other? Geography is hard!
I have it on good authority (make that terrible authority, but he was a blowhard) that Walla Walla is the capital of Washington!
One of my students wouldn’t believe me when I said Oklahoma City was the capital of Oklahoma, because they knew New York City wasn’t the capital of New York and assumed you could have a capital city named after the state.
twiliter #20, I appreciate the validation, but would you PLEASE use the proper capitals? If you don’t, I might jump off the Nebraska state capitol building in the capital city of Lincoln. But it would require capital to get to Lincoln, so I might have to content myself with dogpiling on the Twiitter account I don’t have. Which would marginalize me more, having to do all that work typing in 140 characters at a time on a non-existent account!
Uppercase W, lowercase hat a, uppercase M, lowercase aroon. Any other combination is literal violence.
Also, the capital of Massachusetts and, by extension, the universe, is Boston.
Reminds me of the guy who tried to convince us that Argentina was the largest country in the world. (He was a Spaniard who thought that life was better under Franco. Hard to choose your relatives, even if they’re in-laws of in-laws.)
And there’s Nawlins, too. How can it possibly not be the capital of Louisiana?! It’s an outrage. We’re a very confused and bumbling people.
“We’re a very confused and bumbling people.”
Indeed. Dates with the month before the day; recipes in cups instead of grams or ounces. (Shakes head sadly). Oh and calling herbs “errbs”.
Damning, very very damning. On the other hand we don’t hold our forks upside down. [snerk]
I live in Montgomery AL, which is the capital, and which contains the capitol, and which is home to a lot of businesses are named Capital This or Capitol That, as if the words are completely interchangeable. I see lots of references to Montgomery as the “capitol”, supporting my conclusion that a lot of people really have no idea of the difference.
There’s a neighborhood in Seattle called Capitol Hill despite the fact that it has nothing whatever to do with any form of capitol or capital.
@29:
Did you just spell Twitter with two letters i? (Two eyes?) Isn’t that appropriative of the identity of our friend twiliter?! How could you?!!
That’s capitolism for you.
That’s because you hold them like shovels!
ikn @29 I shall honor your request. :D
GW @37 They appropriated me, I was around with my handle long before Jack invented the “social” sewer of the interwebs, and also before the Twilite Saga (eyeroll)… Ophelia (who used to be Kassandra) can confirm. (sorry for ‘deadnaming’, omg) :D
Sack @35 If you have to live in The South, the capitol ain’t a bad choice, unless it’s Charlotte, Charlotte is pretty dreary. ;)
That’s because they are miniature shovels! They’re scoop-shaped, just as spoons are, for a reason. Turning them upside down just drops all the food back onto the plate. That’s why with the upside-down method you have to hold the fork in one hand and the knife in the other and squash the food forcibly onto the upside-down fork, like a plasterer spreading plaster on a wall.
I used to think it was Raleigh, because of Andy Griffith, but decided that was the TV capital of NC. :D
@41 How uncouth! :O
OMG!! They have pointy bits. Use them!!!11!!1!!
:-)
Well, fair point, I do turn the fork upside down for eating stuff I have to cut, which is foolishly considered Bad Manners here. But it’s items like mashed potatoes that I don’t turn upside down. I probably seem Rude On Two Continents.
Also to be fair, I (used*) to get accused of ‘eating like an American’ because I would hold the fork in my right hand and use it in preference to a knife (except where required obviously). I typically use the tine end (curve always facing down), because that is what forks were invented for, but I have been known to ‘shovel’.
Top tip – layer of mashed potato on the outside of the curve, turn curve away from you and use knife to press peas onto the mash, hopefully picking up a smear of gravy at the same time. ‘Good manners’ and you don’t pea on the floor.
* It’s so common now that no-one cares.
Peas, now…It ought to be perfectly good manners to eat them with a spoon, but of course it isn’t. Table manners are a kind of obstacle course.
I tried to deal with that by using peas only in stir fry, but then you also have rice to deal with. So I decided when I’m eating by myself I can eat peas (and rice) with a spoon. When I’m eating with someone else, I just won’t eat peas.
I do ALL the bad things when I’m eating unobserved.
maddog1129
I nominate Grace Lavery to go first.
“I eat peas with honey,
I’ve done it all my life,
It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on the knife.”