Clock Ticks Regardless
I found myself despising all men.
In the pages of the Guardian, a dissatisfied feminist howls at the Moon:
Life isn’t going how we thought it would. We’re being left behind and without the financial ability (or housing) to freeze eggs or go it alone, or adopt… The idea that single people in their 30s are all having fun is a lie. We are the have-nots and we are sad. What now?
In response to this mournful noise, the Guardian’s resident agony aunt, Mariella Frostrup, informs us that “society has not yet shape-shifted enough to fully integrate us,” by which she means unhappy feminists, and that “the seismic changes needed to make the world more bearable… aren’t happening fast enough.” The possibility that feminist expectations may not be entirely realistic – and that “despising all men” isn’t necessarily a great way to attract a male partner and live a happy life – are oddly unexplored.
Instead, Ms Frostrup rambles about “social justice” and “universal childcare” as “issues that matter.” Because feminists are so thrusting and empowered that they expect the care of their own children to be organised and paid for by some other sucker.
Via Joan.
No one perpetuates the stereotype of the dingbat woman the way a feminist does. No one.
Taken as a group, they do seem quite determined to give the impression that women shouldn’t be allowed near children, or be allowed to attend university, or be permitted to wander the streets without an adult care-giver.
In the article, I see the pull quote is “You’d be astounded at what you can achieve before you are 40”.
I agree: I’d have some professional success, got married, bought a house or two and had two kids. I started working towards that at 18, when I met my wife. There was a whole bunch of dicking around that I didn’t do, so I could be happy, healthy and settled at the age of 42.
I have friends (of both genders) who skipped the first twenty odd years of that process. These folks now feel their lives are lacking some of the things I have, and whenever we have a beer together (or a glass of white), they say things like “Well, it’s OK for you! You are married/have kids/have a home” like I woke up one day and it was all there, having been delivered by the unfuckyourlife fairy overnight.
My wife (who is still in her 30’s) regards herself as a feminist. On occasion, I show her what feminsim actually entails these days, often through snippets from here, or by emailing her the link to everyday feminism. To say she is surprised is an understatement.
Instead, Ms Frostrup rambles about “social justice” and “universal childcare” as “issues that matter.”
How about *you* look after your own kids?
I really think that the only mentally challenging thing to be found anywhere in the Guardian is their Monday to Friday cryptic crosswords. And they give those away free on their web site. Says it all really.
I come for the social critique, but being newly single after the end of a 12 year marriage, I am going to start getting my dating advice here too!
[writes down “avoid the angry feminists”]
[underlines twice]
I am going to start getting my dating advice here too!
No refunds. Credit note only.
Speaking of howling at the moon, today’s exciting installment of “Everything is Racist, Xenophobic, and Misogynistic”…
the unfuckyourlife fairy
*Checks Disney catalog. Notes remarkable resemblance to Angela Lansbury.*
I have friends (of both genders)…
Both? Don’t you mean all tovarisch ?
@Muldoon
Oooh. Crap…
*Coughs*
I mean all my friends are all genders, but because I only have two friends, the grammar sometimes escapes me, and it makes it sound like I accidentally thoughtcrimed.
Can I go now?
Also:
Ref The Atlantic tweet-
All white men look the same? Really? Isn’t that just an invesion of a racist trope?
All people of [insert race here] look the same?
“Well, it’s OK for you! You are married/have kids/have a home” like I woke up one day and it was all there…
This brings us back to an observation which pops up on these pages regularly: Some people are incapable of understanding the relationship between “cause” and “effect.” Certainly, Everyday Feminism has provided numerous examples, but the problem isn’t limited to the chubby distaff members of our society. I’ve noticed over the years the same disability among most of the petty criminals I’ve represented. That inability combined with poor impulse control usually doesn’t bode well for one’s prospects in life.
…it makes it sound like I accidentally thoughtcrimed.
Thinking you could have an accidental wrongthought is a wrongthought thoughtcrime in of itself.
Report to Sector 9 for re-grooving.
“…Life isn’t going how we thought it would. We’re being left behind…”
I felt this way in my late 30s. I got a dog and things started to change for the better after that.
Nothing too large or rambunctious. I got a Westie. He liked classical music.
Awwww. 🐶
OT but,
“The Campaign Against Sex Robots, led by U.K.-based robotic ethics professor Kathleen Richardson, is sympathetic to an outright ban,”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/calls-mount-for-regulation-of-sex-robots?_amp=true&__twitter_impression=true
The Campaign Against Sex Robots…
I’ll just leave that there, I think.
You’d think feminists, of all people, would be in favor of sex robots—they mean no one ever has to touch one of those icky men again.
“Fifth Circuit judges later overturned Texas’ sex toy ban, rejecting then-state Solicitor General Ted Cruz’s 2008 contention that “there is no substantive-due-process right to stimulate one’s genitals” for non-medical reasons outside of a relationship.”
Land of the free, home of the brave.
You’d think feminists, of all people, would be in favor of sex robots—they mean no one ever has to touch one of those icky men again.
Oh, no, no, no. The advent of the sex robot, as opposed to the wholly non-threatening blow-up doll, could give a not-insignificant group of men the means of a bit of sexual release so as to detach themselves from otherwise unattainable societal expectations, and thus potentially making themselves immune from the constant harping and demands by (and the concomitant paying attention to) the feminists. And that, my dear, simply will not do.
It’s not that feminists particularly want to touch teh icky menz, but they do absolutely insist on those men’s attention. “You WILL, you MUST listen to me while I berate you and all like you who refuse to worship me as feminism dictates I must be worshipped!”
the unfuckyourlife fairy
*Checks Disney catalog. Notes remarkable resemblance to Angela Lansbury.*
Here y’are.
https://genius.com/Stephen-sondheim-a-little-priest-lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4z9i3R7UAQ
What?
Angus,
You may wish to add “avoid bitter divorcees with school-age children”
Trust me on this.
You may wish to add “avoid bitter divorcees with school-age children”
At the risk of being accused of bitterness myself, for all practical purposes if you live in a Western nation you’re probably just screwed.
Or, er, not. You know what I mean.
What does that mean “24 people have been to the moon”?
Six missions landed men on the Moon, so six times two is twelve that actually walked on the surface. There were nine manned missions that went around the moon and returned safely to the Earth, so nine times three is 27. Am I missing something?
No, you’re not missing anything, but you ARE guilty of using patriarchal math, insisting that one + one = 2 (or 3 x 9 = 27). You are also committing the equally patriarchal offense of assuming words mean things. Knock it off.
Knock it off.
Violent imagery!
[Unless you’re advocating a gender change, that is, in which case it’s post-modern wisdom]
“You WILL, you MUST listen to me while I berate you and all like you who refuse to worship me as feminism dictates I must be worshipped!”
Imagine the scene from 1984 wherein Winston was being lectured and questioned while his face was strapped to a rat cage, minus Winston. How big a man could O’Brien appear to be sans someone trapped there with him?
And, of course, unfollow all the smug marrieds on Insta who, behind the scenes, are probably ruing the day they shacked up as often as you wish you could join them!
Sure, that’s it — just pretend that all the pictures of happy families and successful children are nothing but lies, and your so-called happy friends are really every bit as miserable as you.
I’ll admit that nobody is as happy and successful as they make themselves appear on Instagram, but that doesn’t mean they’re all miserable wretches who regret the day they took their vows.
Am I missing something? Some of the astronauts flew more than one mission.
Unfit for a real relationship
Pearl of wisdom: Life is not as perfect as it appears on Facebook (or Instagram), nor as wretched as it appears on Tumblr.
nor as wretched as it appears on Tumblr.
Heh.
Am I missing something? Some of the astronauts flew more than one mission.
None flew more than one moon landing, so 12 total, unless zem identify as binary then 24, unless zer have multiple personalties, then countless people of any gender, race, or species, may have walked on the moon.
Quillette sides with me on Big Tech, and for the same readons:
https://quillette.com/2018/09/13/is-it-time-to-regulate-social-media/
Very intelligent, the people at Quillette.
Am I missing something? Some of the astronauts flew more than one mission.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_astronauts
Thirty-two astronauts were assigned to fly in the Apollo manned lunar landing program. Twenty-four of them left Earth’s orbit and flew around the Moon on nine missions.
Jim Lovell, John Young, and Eugene Cernan flew more than on mission, so Apollo 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 = 9 missions that got to the moon, so 9*3 – 3 = 24 people who were on missions that got to the moon. Twelve people landed on the moon, but a total of 24 flew around the moon.
Some of the astronauts flew more than one mission.
Ah. Did not remember that, though I should have known as close as I followed it back then. I even worked STS. My bad.
Well looks like it’s a Japanese guy. Thank God for that, amirite?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/7283062/elon-musk-spacex-yusaku-maezawa/
Well looks like it’s a Japanese guy.
He is going to die.
The possibility that feminist expectations may not be entirely realistic – and that “despising all men” isn’t necessarily a great way to attract a male partner and live a happy life – are oddly unexplored.
This reminds me of something in a recent posting by Sarah Hoyt. In a podcast that she watched, “The Lie Behind Getting A ‘Career'”, Jordan Peterson asserted that being forty and not having a social network or a family or a spouse and children means being a lost soul. There were thousands of vitriolic comments in response from single women who insisted they were happily “married to their careers” (which is why they are so enraged at Peterson…)
In short, another case of “modern” women defecating on traditional ways and somehow are still miserable.
He is going to die.
I believe the criterion is “been to the moon”, so the question is whether a splat on the bottom of a man-made crater counts. Of course “been to” implies came and went, so unplanned permanent residence, wouldn’t count. Does he get partial credit for a near miss ?