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Off Day

1.  A blogger named Matt Forney smacked Paul Elam around for being a sensitive wuss after ol’ Snot and Spittle became angered at a PSA featuring actress Katherine Heigl was deemed misandrist.  Forney put MRA into perspective by pointing out that the most vocal wing of the movement plays into the victimhood trap.  Elam responded to Forney in typical fashion.

2.  A dog rescue caught on film in Detroit.  The film is part of a documentary supporting firefighters in the city that is burning, figuratively, as we speak.  How telling is the interaction between the dog owner and the firefighters?  I’m sure the man will now aspire to become a firefighter or a public servant of some sort.

3.  Changes in America’s grocery budget.  Processed foods make up a larger portion; meat has declined over time as meat has become less expensive. On that note, one chart shows the decline of meat prices over the past three decades.

4.  Baby dies after contracted herpes from mohel during ritual Orthodox circumcision.  Author uses this to make a case against circumcision – or at least suggests that this would fuel the anti-circ movement – but it actually lends support to the anti-suck-the-blood-from-babies’-penises-to-preserve-the-Old-Way movement.

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17 Responses to Off Day

  1. Firepower 06/11/2012 at 11:41 am

    mra’s are whiners?

    Confound it, I could swear somebody wrote all about that before, but I can’t remember who.

  2. C.R. 06/11/2012 at 11:45 am

    Gold star for Firepower!

  3. whydoesFirepower 06/11/2012 at 12:39 pm

    can someone explain why Firepower trolls CR so much?

  4. Matt Forney 06/11/2012 at 1:16 pm

    Thanks for the link, Chuck. My response to Elam will be up tomorrow.

  5. Laguna Beach Fogey 06/11/2012 at 1:37 pm

    Beta bitch-slap?

    Rescued dog?

    Grocery budget?

    Circumcision?

    Slow news day.

  6. C.R. 06/11/2012 at 1:48 pm

    Fogey,

    I am absolutely indifferent to what you post on your blog and wouldn’t even think to comment on its content. Is there a reason why you won’t do the same here?

  7. Ryu 06/11/2012 at 4:18 pm

    It doesn’t work like that Chuck. That’s the libertarian in you coming out – you’d like to leave people alone.

    Unfortunately, your enemies are liberals who very much interfere with the lives of others. You cannot combat liberalism by going your own way. We see this manifested when Californianians ruin their own state and decide to go to Oregon, Idaho or another whitopia, where the cycle repeats.

    That’s why people against liberalism get out of their comfort zones. You lack to conviction to go out and conquer territory, which is why the conservatives/libertarians always lose.

  8. C.R. 06/11/2012 at 4:29 pm

    More vague bullshittery from Ryu. I’ll need hard evidence that you’ve performed any sort of meaningful activism ever in your life.

  9. Average Man 06/11/2012 at 4:37 pm

    “The solution of MRAs isn’t to laugh off these phony pussies, but to clamor to join their ranks. They want to make men into victims.”

    I’ve long thought that groups seek victim status, because it works. It worked for women and African-Americans in gaining political and societal favors and now other groups, e.g. subsets of Christians, Republicans and men are trying to use that tactic as well.

  10. Average Man 06/11/2012 at 4:43 pm

    However, I’ve noticed a new media narrative being formed, at least among white women. There’s a string of triumphalist articles, mostly in The Atlantic and Slate, that herald the new power of women and describe the uselessness of men. See “Sorry, Young Man, You’re Not the Most Important Demographic in Tech” or “The End of Men”, both in the Atlantic, among other articles.

  11. ThomasD 06/11/2012 at 5:14 pm

    See “Sorry, Young Man, You’re Not the Most Important Demographic in Tech” or “The End of Men”, both in the Atlantic, among other articles.

    The funniest thing about those sorts of columns is that the writers know, when all is said and done, when push really comes to shove, when the asteroid hits the earth or the bomb knocks out the power grid, that gender roles will abruptly and naturally click into their traditional places: i.e., that men will be the ones taking care of shit.

    If we truly are facing “the end of men,” it’s because we happen to live in a luxurious blip in human history that allows for it. And any such “end” is temporary. These folks can rhapsodize all they want about this stuff; they know it’s not really real.

  12. Lara 06/11/2012 at 6:23 pm

    Regarding the video between the firefighters and the dog owner: the interaction between them was strained. I was happy to see the man was concerned for his dogs, but of course they had to be pit bulls. The firefighters are tired of dealing with people like him, and he is angry that white men are needed to get anything done right in his city.

  13. Nikos 06/11/2012 at 6:33 pm

    I’ll need hard evidence that you’ve performed any sort of meaningful activism ever in your life.

    He does plenty. He helps WNs (who tend to be whites with black-level IQs) get their GEDs by helping them study highschool-level STEM subjects.

    Of course, his problems would be solved if he studied Game instead of STEM.

  14. doug1111 06/11/2012 at 7:23 pm

    I think meat, vegetable and fruit prices were generally at their lowest about five years ago and have been going up since.

  15. Raybury 06/12/2012 at 1:16 am

    My problem with “funny or die” clips is, based on their name and my experience watching them, they are probably approaching a Mao-level body count.

  16. Camlost 06/12/2012 at 10:00 am

    OT: Chuck, didn’t you do a post on Urban Prep in Chicago?:

    http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/550528_424784810894944_600866958_n.jpg

    Hilarious

  17. Pete 06/12/2012 at 11:01 am

    “groups seek victim status, because it works. It worked for women and African-Americans in gaining political and societal favors and now other groups, e.g. subsets of Christians, Republicans and men are trying to use that tactic as well.”

    This will never work. Women and blacks used victim status to promote themselves, because they appealed to white males’ sense of fairness. White men can be dicks like everybody else, but if you present a reasonable case that you’re being screwed over, they will change things to accomodate you. This is why societies run by white males are (well, were) so great – it’s a high-trust society.

    Blacks and women don’t have that sense of fairness; they just want to get what they can get, screw how it impacts anyone else. Places run by nonwhites are thus low-trust societies.

    It’s kind of like how Gandhi was able to use nonviolence to defeat the British. If he’d tried that bullshit on Saddam or the Chinese, he’d have died in minutes.

    For shits and grins, just try posting on any feminist board about some issue that screws over white men. The best you’ll get is an eyerolling icon and “Aw, poor widdle white dude.” Just doesn’t work.

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