seems to be some weird shit in the water when it comes to male/female relations in the 2010s. now that women can take care of their own business, it seems like men have not only given up trying to take care of women, but themselves too. why are there so many unemployed, unambitious, non-committal 30+ year old ‘men’ in Halifax? it’s bizarre and unusual. meanwhile, women are really ramping it up, buying homes and advancing careers and having families on their own, but alone. it’s too bad. it seems like a combination of bad economics and a few decades of telling men not to be men. the modern male identity has been vilified to the point of rendering men fucking useless. i am in favour of equality but i am still a woman and it would be nice to encounter a male-identifying person who wasn’t a selfish immature slack-off loser who has no idea how to 1. date a woman and 2. provide for her or himself. how will i spread my seed and find a suitable mate when i’m more successful than almost every man i know? it’s too bad really. for them. —fix it, you fucks
This article appears in Mar 20-26, 2014.
“it’s too bad really. for them”
No. Really, it isn’t.
Putin is always looking for poontang?
This sounds like it was written by Larry David.
I got item #2 down, but #1 eludes me. Oh well.
White guys don’t have any employment equity points so they don’t get jobs.
That’s why I only date temporary foreign workers from the Philipinnes, jgoreham.
Many of these “unemployed” men are likely replacing the unpaid services that have traditionally been provided by women. Also sample selection: quality men and women in their 30s are already paired off. You must wait 10 years for leftovers via divorce, and hope you’re still fertile by then.
Either way, the hidden cost of gender equality in the workplace is the growth in number of hypocritical shitbags like you.
I thought it was the men who had the seed.
Yours truly.
If what you are saying is true, OP, could it be that you have identified a fundamental flaw with the patriarchal vision of society? While engaging in “tradional” management of the affairs of both genders males have done/do themselves a huge disservice. Instead of a model where both sexes enjoy equal autonomy of self and gender, a harmony of humanity if you will, we have one now where males, no longer in a position of authority over females appear to have lost their direction and purpose in life. This purpose of superiority of gender was a false one to begin with. According to Rousseau, the earliest female encounters with males were likely sporadic and brief, long enough to faciltate ovum/sperm contact. Perhaps it is only natural the pendulum veers in that direction again. Only now in an enlightened, complex society we supposedly should be able to figure out how to achieve balance that benefits both genders.
“traditional”
If I were a man, I’d pretty much sum up adult life as:
1. Get married
2. Have kids
3. Have ball-breaking divorce
4. Spousal & child support payments
5. Living in a van down by the river
So, while you may want to be pollinated, OP, there are many men out there who aren’t willing to risk the above scenario happening.
I have unmarried nieces and nephews because their parents were always worn out from work and, when they weren’t working, did nothing but complain about how hard they had to work – these kids are now in their 30s and perfectly happy to be single. They’ve also seen what’s happened to their friends who settled down, some of it downright ugly.
And, as Wheels indicated, if you’re so fucking smart, why don’t you know simple biology?
Better keep your flaps closed for now, Fertile Myrtle.
You do not have ”seed.” Maybe that is your trouble.
I wonder if Patrick Bateman is on Tinder? OP sounds perfect for him.
it must be something in the water that is infecting too many people with a really ass-backwards style of expressing themselves.
TTF, a slight amendment to your chart. Insert 2 (a) after wife has kids and no longer has porn star body, bang random rebound skank, get caught and move onto item 3. Insert 4 (a) car repo’d, forced to take bus and enjoy Wheels witty banter, consider ginza knife and slitting your wrists. In between items 2 through 5 copious amounts of alcohol should be consumed causing you to turn into a bloated, fat fuck with rheumy eyes, but still incredibly attractive to aforementioned skank at the 1 remaining Legion in Halifax. After item 5, you see the error of your ways turn to the ROP and Ivan leads a gang of Spetznas on a raid on your van which cannot move as the tires have been stolen as the river is in Fairviewistan.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archiv…
Don’t worry, guys in their thirties leave with the same sour taste in their mouth when they meet you too, only difference being, because you come across as a narcissistic, egotistical, bitch. I highly doubt there is a man in HRM shedding a tear because he can’t knock your uppity ass up!
So, basically, OB, you’re looking for a man to ‘look after you’ while bitching about gender roles and ‘impairities’…
Ok, then.
Good one, Basil.
This isn’t on topic, but! I just watched the fucking evening news, why the fucks of all fucks do criminal filth get to live in taxpayer subsidized housing? They showed a couple of corn row mutants being placed in cop cars to be interviewed about turning buddy into Mr. Crispy, Jellybean square was their address.
I think all convicted filth and their families should, upon the verdict being guilty, have the bailiffs chuck their possessions out onto the street.
Pat Condell says it best.
http://www.patcondell.net/message-to-offen…
“how will i spread my seed and find a suitable mate when i’m more successful than almost every man i know?”
See this is what drives a lot of men nuts. You want to make as much money as a man, but you want YOUR man to make more than you.
If you make enough money to afford your own life, why are you worried about what a potential mate does for a living? This could even be an advantage for you, you could have your very own man-bitch. Imagine, after a long day doing whatever you do all day, you come home to a clean house, cooked meal and a foot rub. there would also be an advantage when it comes to deciding who gives up their career when/if you have kids.
just admit it, you would be embarrassed to introduce a man that doesn’t do better than you to your friends.
“quality men and women in their 30s are already paired off”
Um, there are plenty of losers in their 30s who are paired off, too. It so happens the biggest losers I know are married/common law and the most successful 30-something I know is single.
Thanks for the Past Condell post, Bazzer, That’s like having a Guinness for breakfast, so it is.
Then you have those people that are too lazy to use a shift key or know what the purpose of a Shift Key is.
50 years of fymynysm have liberated wimmin from the patriarchal tyranny of the phallocentric keyboard, since pressing a key to capitalize a letter from an alphabet invented by a bunch of dead white guys is, in itself, a symbolic manifestation of rape culture.
Lady, I couldn’t have said this shit better myself. I can’t speculate or begin to philosophize what the fuck be wrong wit men deese days. Somethin in the water, the advent of the skinny jean for dudes, sites like POF offering an abundance of pussy… All of the above has turned men into lazy complacent bitches. I keep sayin’ I just wanna be single. But these relationships keep finding me. At first, these dudes act like they all that, they sucker me in acting like a real man with manners, they take a bitch to dinner a couple times but then they get comfortable and start to show their ass. Instead of showing up with a bottle of wine, they now call ahead and ask you “should I bring anything?” Wel Durhh I sure as hail ain’t gonna be lookin at you all weekend stone sober! They ask what you want for your birthday and of course bitches be like, “oh don’t be silly, you don’t have to get me anything”… of course we want a damn birthday gift, but the fool listens and doesn’t buy you shit! Meanwhile, they showing up to your crib ain’t even took a damn shower and want to push your face all up in they dick cheese? A bitch done shaved her legs, pits, and bush, got her hair did, cleaned the whole damn house, cooked dude a nice dinner to have dis bum show up empty handed hugging my damn couch from Friday night till Monday morning? Oh hail no, I work 40 hours per week, my free time PRECIOUS. When you start to show ya azz, ya gotz-ta go!
I’m launching a Fatwah on the infidels who do not use the Shift Key, off with their heads.
“50 years of fymynysm have liberated wimmin from the patriarchal tyranny of the phallocentric keyboard, since pressing a key to capitalize a letter from an alphabet invented by a bunch of dead white guys is, in itself, a symbolic manifestation of rape culture.”
Ivan, that’s the funniest comment I’ve read on this site.
THINKING ABOUT GENDER IDENTITY: A CONTESTED CONCEPT
“the modern male identity has been vilified to the point of rendering men fucking useless.” fix it, you fucks
Presupposed in the assertion is possession of what, in fact, gender identity consists. Note the word “identity.” It is who you are. But is this the case or is the nature of gender identity a “contested concept” as we say in philosophy? Clearly, further reflection on the matter is called for.
Two general views currently prevail. The first, resting on a foundation of philosophical realism, is usually embodied in the expression, “Biology is destiny.” The appeal is to the ontology of gender identity, the view that gender identity, its essence if you like, is unavoidably rooted in our natures. In a fundamental sense, our identity and our gender identity are co-extensive. One’s world-view, including one’s economic activities, are determined by the possession of either a penis or a vagina. Note the word “determined.” The ontology of gender identity appeals to a philosophical determinism which rules out any “across-the-board” choice as to who we are. In effect, who we are is determined by our nature and our nature is determined by our bodies.
But here we encounter the second general view of gender identity. It rests upon a post-modern foundation, one in which “choice” and not determinism is the operative concept. The appeal is not to to some ontology of gender identity but rather to the claim that gender identity is a “social construct,” an “artificial” product of our various cultures. Social constructivism rejects all “essences.” As Sartre famously said, “Existence precedes essence.” We are who we are not on the basis of natural determinism but rather on the basis of what we do and what we do is shaped by the culture into which we are born.
But then the question arises: “Has not social constructivism simply replaced natural determinism with its own? Has it not just replaced a biological determinism with an equally all-embracing cultural determinism? Is not some account of who we are prior to our membership in a culture equally as incoherent as an account of who we are independently of our nature, of our bodies? Or is the question of identity itself incoherent, the object of a feat of reflective introspection that is doomed from the start?
Could it then be the case that the poster’s assertion to the effect that the modern male identity has been vilified to the point of rendering men fucking useless be equally incoherent?
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A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Glad I could give you a chuckle on a friday morning, James. But, let’s not overlook the heroic work done by all those, academics, writers, scholars, theorists, ideologues, activists and students over the decades who have laboured mightily to make fymynysm the punchline it is.
Treat yourselves to a pat on the back and a pint of Haagen-Dasz, Laydeez!
feck you all and your puling insistence on using the shift key, i am not lazy (altho i am sure some who omit it are) i just don’t give a crap
wait a minute, i am also lazy and don’t give a crap.
but mostly, i don’t give a crap. i am a 2 finger typist.
capitalizing certain letters when i am in haste makes far less sense than where one finds ones salad fork by the plate. at least with cutlery placement it follows logic. what you reach first you use first.
You get a pass Molly, cuz I hear yer a pretty good cook. >; )
damn straight. errr. not.
and since i am now a crone, and cannot get preggers, i opted for barefoot.
anyway, i still think it is a fake bitch
The bitch is about as fake as no_fool.
about the only spark of interest for me in this contrived pos is wondering if op deliberately made a play on ‘impair’ but probably not. disparity could masquerade as ‘despair-ity’
decisions, decisions. no, op is just stupid.
hey ivan, wasn’t it a bunch of dead *arab* guys who did the alphabet?
D’OHHHH!
They also invented algebra, incentive enough for the average 17 year old to want to enlist.
>; )
Zzzzzzed the snore-inducer: Was that sposed to hurt my feelins? Ya might as well push my azz down on the playground. It ain’t happening, fool, surrender the fantasy already. I’m taken (even though I wish I waddn’t) and besides you ain’t my type. REAL TALK. Don’t be jelly.
A college friend of mine, a beautiful blond woman, is on her second ‘wife.’ She works for the gov’t + has independent income. Her men keep the house clean, the dinners hot and her ‘nug jug’ is always full. The one she threw out gets alimony: $3,000 a month. NSPBA.
which way do you want it? i know many women around here that arent content without having to lie around all day doing nothing while their men slave over every detail of their life, financially, emotionally etc…here clearly it is not okay for a man to do that while being cared for by his lover in the same manner…hypocritical? im sure OB that you will find any manner of way to “spread your seed”, since you obviously are against men being cared for by women, though, you might take a REALLY long time to do so. Whats the opposite of mysogyny? misandrist…OB you are it.