Her Meter Is Running

I think we might have another Hugo Schwyzer on our hands
It doesn’t instil great confidence, let’s put it that way. But it’s an impressive contortion. By indulging in ostentatious self-abasement, he’s signalling his elevation above the likes of thee and me.

On Elfwick’s tweet it also has “#RespectSexWorkers”, so I think what he is saying is that he believes he should pay his hookers up front, as those are likely his only interactions with women, rather than after whatever acts have been agreed to, and that if he fails to perform adequately, or at all, the hooker gets to keep the money. The problem with this, of course, is that payment up front leaves no incentive for the party of the second part to perform adequately.

“Men” should have to pay a deposit?
Hee, hee, hee, hee, heee….. What a funny little thing he is.

You always have to pay upfront, dont you know. No pay, no play.

What did Brandon’s mom do to him.

https://empathological.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/the-man-the-tylenol-and-the-toyota/

I don’t know about being a self-hating man. I do know why he writes what he does. He is still chasing the lift. Adolescent boys will say anything to adolescent girls to get the lift. They will try to convince the girls that they are “not like other guys”….so that she will raise up (the lift) and allow her trousers to be removed, and he can get what he has convinced her is was not after. Its a facade anyway because they both wanted the same thing from the start. She just needed some hamster food and he knew the preferred flavor.
The lift takes on other forms as the man ages, yet remains stuck in that phase of adolescent wonderment for women, keeping them on pedestals. The lift may still involve trousers, but less so. The lift he now seeks is emotional, like inclusion in the right groups, the affirmation of others, and most especially the openly expressed agreement by women that he REALLY is not like other guys….that he is harmless and safe… which is the utmost compliment. The approval he receives fro women via comments and email I will call the cyber lift, and it feels very good. In the company of men and women stuck in this group think, the experience is a second cousin to the empathogasm….”yes, I feel the same about this issue and have you considered that……?” Make no mistake, beneath all the machinations, when the dust settles, it is still sex drive motivated and primal. Insidious is as insidious does. No, he is not a self-hating man, he is a man like the rest but a damned sneaky one.

He is still chasing the lift.
Reminded me of this, spotted by Joan recently.

I blame the Russians. And George Bush. And fluoride. And the unmarked UN helicopters.

If such groveling gets him laid then hats off. Well done, sir.

Is this a reciprocal arrangement?

Is this a reciprocal arrangement?
I’m guessing it’s another one of those non-reciprocal principles so beloved by the left.

Most blokes I know, when they interact (as Mr Evers delicately puts it) with a woman, aren’t interested in paying a deposit. They are more interested in leaving one.

Oh, there’s more.
“I appreciate you reading it… would you like to come back to mine and put it into practise?”
*bowchickawowow*”
Is Godfrey Elfwick actually Iowahawk in disguise???

the Jezebelites
I think the preferred nomenclature is “Jezbians”, actually.

Related.
I’m sure the courses on how to purge oneself of “toxic blackness” and “toxic femininity” will be along in no time.

The series is showing signs of having outstayed it’s welcome. Perhaps it should have learned from ‘Fawlty Towers’..?

Yes, now John is going to be angry with Sherlock again but for a longer time. It’s become a bit soap opera-ey.

“It’s rare for something to be so thoroughly misunderstood.” (from the Risdon article)
90% of David’s website refutes this statement, no? Of course, intentional misunderstanding designed to mislead others may be a different thing.

Meanwhile in the Clown Quarter of Academia:
Subject: Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues
Dear all,
With apologies for cross-posting and self glam promotion….
Due to PHENOMENAL demand and following packed out shows at the CCA and Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 3 – Commune is back for one night and one night only!
7.30pm Friday 3 March
Gilmorehill Theatre, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
The Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues is an attempt to “perform thinking” in front of a live audience, and mixes Brechtian techniques with a glam rock aesthetic. During the performances David Archibald and Carl Lavery from the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow channel the spirits of Marc Bolan and Suzi Quatro, Karl Marx and Peter Kropotkin, to approach pressing issues facing the world today. In the Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues, the aim is not to teach but to provoke debate, whilst sporting spandex trousers and feather boas.
Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 3 – Commune is a dialogic performance which takes the Paris Commune as its starting point. Carl and David will explore commune as a theoretical concept, the specificities of the Paris Commune and its lessons and afterlives, the role of radical art and culture, and then think through possible futures for communism and capitalism in a twenty-first century context.
There will be song. There will be poetry. There will be mascara.
Written and Performed by David Archibald and Carl Lavery

Robert the Bruce probably didn’t mind a bit of song or poetry. Pretty certain he didn’t have a lot of truck with Mascara, or for that matter, feather boas and spandex.

oooh, Brandon is a hard-core “nice guy.” If he puts in so many compliment tokens, he’ll receive sex. See?

Spiny Norman, it’s the hope of the sex.
David, I thought I was the only one who was just tired out from the wedding episode.

Men should have to pay a deposit at the start of any interaction they have w/ a woman.
Insert joke about sperm bank here.

Robert the Bruce probably . . . . didn’t have a lot of truck with . . . spandex.
I imagine a distinct general lack of central heating may have contributed to a preference for something else.
That and also the lack of applicable chemistry.

Oh it’s the “only women can decide if I’m a feminist” guy. Yeah I knew about him. Craven, self-abasing pillock.
He even manages to abase the rest of us, sometimes from huge distances, so in a way he’s a force to be reckoned with

dicentra: And I’m wondering why they don’t confine themselves to mind-bending mystery-solving instead of everyone playing head games with everyone else. And not very good ones, at that.
David: Yeah, Sherlock has pretty much blown all of the goodwill it had accumulated through series one and two. I found the wedding episode so aggravating … that I haven’t watched it since. By most accounts the latest series has been unimpressive too.
I am a huge Holmes fan who enjoyed the first two seasons of Sherlock, but was somehow put off by the third season, and have not been able to summon any interest lately.
This explains what put me off: instead of telling interesting self-contained stories in a reimagined canon style, the series has become all about the backstory arcs. Which are filled with head games and weirdness.
The Sherlockian allusions remain mildly amusing, but are not enough to cover the odd base flavor of the material.

i too gave up on Sherlock long ago.
give Elementary a go. if you don’t smile when Watson says “You named a bee after me” then i don’t want to know you anymore.