Siren Song
The following is lifted from an article titled Why Are So Many Smart, Gorgeous Women Single? It’s Almost An Epidemic:
7. We’re Becoming Our Own Husbands.
Thanks to feminism and our ability not only to work but to take on positions of leadership in our careers, women are now able to provide ourselves all the benefits husbands used to provide us. We don’t need a guy to spoil us or buy us a house – we’ve got that locked down already. We don’t even need a husband for kids; if we really want to become mothers, there are ways to achieve that without having to tie the knot with someone we’ll just end up divorcing a few years later.
As Damian Counsell quips in reply,
And you know the worst thing about men these days? Their seemingly endless sense of male entitlement.
Oh, and from the same publication, this.
women are now able to provide ourselves all the benefits husbands used to provide us.
If you think someone spoiling you and buying you a house = ‘all the benefits’ of marriage, then you’re doing it wrong.
If you think someone spoiling you and buying you a house = ‘all the benefits’ of marriage, then you’re doing it wrong.
Well, quite. And note the implication that said house is bought for the woman, as if it were a bribe, rather than, say, a home for both parties, an indicator of a mutual promise.
The phrase that came to mind was fishing with no bait.
’…we’re strong, ambitious and totally self-sufficient. Meanwhile, guys seem to have thrown chivalry and romance out the window…’
Wait, I thought chivalry was what feminists didn’t want? Not for the first time, I’m confused.
Why Are So Many Smart, Gorgeous Women Single? It’s Almost An Epidemic:
a) The entire article is a gigantic exercise in projection;
b) because despite your self delusion this
is neither smart nor gorgeous, and;
c) the cis-white male who invented toilet paper shows it was intended to go over.
Why Are So Many “Smart”, “Gorgeous” Women harridans.
That’s the answer for all these narcissistic, un-self-aware, inflated self view entitled gold digger, social justice warrior all men should shut-up snowflake, metoo my-body baby-killing hypocrite, matriarchal misandryst shrews.
There are women of my acquaintance who declaim, in mixed company, that the reason they are single is that they earn a ‘shit load’ of money and this scares men off.
And all the men are thinking, ‘the reason you’re single is you’re as mad as a snake and your personality is like a toxic waste dump.’
c) the cis-white male who invented toilet paper shows it was intended to go over.
It is the only sane toilet paper orientation. Anything else is madness.
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Smart and gorgeous are terms used to describe attractiveness. Single is a status that, when involuntary, suggests a shortcoming in the realm of attractiveness.
Naturally if a person of a certain stripe thinks of themselves as both smart and gorgeous, yet they find themselves also involuntarily single, the problem must be a shortcoming among the opposite sex.
The only alternatives, after all, are that they aren’t really so smart or gorgeous, or that they cling to certain qualities that are not attractive, or, most dreadful and unthinkable of all, “all of the above”.
It is interesting that there are no comments allowed on the article, which is a tell all by itself
Am I the only one who doesn’t care which way round the sodding toilet paper goes, just as long as there’s some there?
Am I the only one who doesn’t care which way round the sodding toilet paper goes,
We’ll have none of that heresy, if you don’t mind.
Aren’t cats more likely to unravel TP when it’s over and not under?
We’ll have none of that heresy, if you don’t mind.
Heresy? The word you’re looking for is logic.
I picture the author of this piece looking around and seeing all of her “smart, gorgeous” friends being happily married with families and dove into a half-gallon of mint chocolate chip. She’s not explaining a new anthropological phenomenon; she’s trying to talk herself off a ledge.
Heresy? The word you’re looking for is logic.
They are also more likely, as they go for a second round, to have contaminated their walls with fecal matter grabbing with their filthy hands the paper hanging right next to it.
There is your logic.
Heresy? The word you’re looking for is logic.
[ Summons henchlesbians. ]
Intrasexual Competition and the Strong Independent Woman.
Reading the (short) article, I came away confused.
Is the author complaining, bragging, or both?
The tone of the article is reminiscent of the strident feminists who complain concurrently of the glass ceiling and rape, demand that everyone believe any woman about any accusation, and are then baffled that men in business settings will not meet with a woman alone in a closed room.
“Why don’t these potential rapists want to be alone with me?”, they wonder.
Likewise, the author here talks about men solely in terms of them being providers for women. Going out on a limb, perhaps “Why aren’t men interested in being walking wallets for us anymore?” is not the most compelling argument for getting married, in the male view.
’…we’re strong, ambitious and totally self-sufficient. Meanwhile, guys seem to have thrown chivalry and romance out the window…’
No, harpy, you’re brash and aggressive, defensive and thin-skinned, opportunistic and craven, bloodless, and have taken those lovely virtues from fifty years of political manipulation powered by intimidation and caterwauling. Given the social decay in that, comparable guys are apparently only too happy to treat you as the slugs you are. Why shouldn’t they? They’re slugs too.
Enough with the noble integrity of your Great Cause, sister, that sexist superiority and hubris, that false victimhood and spiritual flatness. But, you’ll get what you want, which is a self-absorbed life in only two dimensions.
For hundreds of years men gave you everything. You had one job and with it came one enormous benefit: love. So you threw them both away. The evident fact you hadn’t the character and vision to grasp that is on you.
Yeah but what if there’s a spider.
Bloody roll unders, probably open their eggs from the big end too.
3. OUR STANDARDS ARE HIGH AND THEY’LL STAY THAT WAY.
Apparently they’re blissfully unaware that men have standards too.
if we really want to become mothers, there are ways to achieve that without having to tie the knot with someone we’ll just end up divorcing a few years later.
Wow. She sounds nice.
Wow. She sounds nice.
It doesn’t exactly suggest a congenial personality, no. And I suppose that’s the thing. If you approach dating almost as a chore, with the attitude that men in general are superfluous and disposable, a now-obsolete source of housing and sperm, or worse, as seen here, then it’s likely that any quality suitors will detect that attitude and respond accordingly.
It doesn’t sound like a recipe for a solid relationship, or any kind of lasting happiness.
women are now able to provide ourselves all the benefits husbands used to provide
So we can repeal all those pro-woman laws and programs like Title IX and the EEOC and WIC and the AFDC? It’s not like women need the government to step in and make sure they can get jobs and degrees and such, right?
Apparently they’re blissfully unaware that men have standards too.
Men having standards is misogyny.
if we really want to become mothers, there are ways to achieve that without having to tie the knot with someone we’ll just end up divorcing a few years later.
Not if you’re going to take your mark for everything he has, sweetheart.
More Kavanaugh-inspired hysteria:
The Handmaid’s Tale cosplay is, like so much of postmodern feminist outrage, a dystopian fantasy in search of a reality. Its imaginary universe, of the book and the show, in which men are innately predatory, validates their conviction that Brett Kavanaugh must be guilty, because he is a conservative white Christian man. And they’re all rapists. Just like the oppressors of Gilead in The Handmaid’s Tale… The Handmaid’s Tale is to postmodern feminists what Birth of a Nation was to white nationalists. Both are fantasies by which the powerful justify their oppression by imagining themselves to be powerless…
But The Handmaid’s Tale, a bad book, has always been tainted with pious hypocrisy and bad faith.
Who said love was dead?
https://twitter.com/svershbow/status/1048286595017834496
Men having standards is misogyny.
Heh.
Pour Mr. Piper P a double on my tab.
Pour Mr. Piper P a double on my tab.
Large Babycham coming up.
>Why Are So Many Smart, Gorgeous Women Single?
Because being smart and/or gorgeous does not necessarily make a woman a good partner.
Steve Sailer’s Law of Female Journalism holds true;
“The most heartfelt articles by female journalists tend to be demands that social values be overturned in order that, Come the Revolution, the journalist herself will be considered hotter-looking.”
But
The Handmaid’s Tale, a bad book,Margaret Atwood has always been tainted with pious hypocrisy and bad faith.FTFY.
jabrwok
women are now able to provide ourselves all the benefits husbands used to provide
So we can repeal all those pro-woman laws and programs like Title IX and the EEOC and WIC and the AFDC?
Women are able to provide for themselves because the patriarchy has its thumb on the scales. That would be one of them there “inconvenient truths”.
Men having standards is misogyny.
Men aren’t supposed to think.
Feminism is Islam for Western women.
You will never hear me call myself a Strong Independent Woman (TM), because, as men learned the hard way, that’s code for “I’m crazy.” I’ll just come right out and tell you if I should happen to go crazy. 🤪
Now on to something of real importance. A skunk has moved in under our porch. I can’t ambush and shoot him because we are in town. Do mothballs really persuade them to move elsewhere? If not, can anyone recommend something that does work? I would like to make the area undesirable to skunks in general rather than hiring trappers every year.
re: skunk under the patio.
Beer? It works on slugs, though that might not be relevant. If nothing else, a drunk skunk would be funny! You could record it and put it up on YouTube!:-D
Slugs like beer. I’m looking for something skunks DON’T like.
Large Babycham coming up
Heh…is that anything like Olde Frothingslosh?
http://www.rustycans.com/HISTORY/oldfroth.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regis_Cordic#Olde_Frothingslosh
And mostly just because I was curious, having a second home in the mountains…
https://m.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Skunks
However as we’re veering OT anyways, any advice on bullet caliber that would hold off black bears? Not grizzlies, mind you. Just the eastern USA, usually docile but just to be safe, black bear. Saw one on our walk this morning after being warned by a neighbor last night. We used to have a neighborhood dog who would patrol the neighborhood, known not quite affectionately as Dawg, a shepherd mutt of sorts who didn’t really belong to anyone. Different people would feed him and one nieghbor mostly looked after him but didn’t really own him. But since he has had to go away to the happy, happy doggie farm, far far away we’ve had deer moving in and eating garden plants and such and now this black bear is scavenging. Not necessarily looking to kill it but the wife walks the neighborhood alone a good bit and I’m thinking it might be good for her to have something more than a stick, just in case.
Not necessarily looking to kill it but the wife walks the neighborhood alone a good bit and I’m thinking it might be good for her to have something more than a stick, just in case.
Your choice is killing it, or pissing it off. Opt for killing it. That said, almost any center fire rifle cartridge (except maybe .30 M1 Carbine) will work depending on where you hit it, so go for the biggest thing in the arsenal, and no FMJ. A handgun against anything but a bear but a cub is a last ditch thing, but the caliber best start with a 4 and not be in millimeters.
Totally OT but squeee time for me as my inner 12 y/o delighted while I watched SpaceX launch online then running out to the front lawn and watching it in the western sky!!
if we really want to become mothers
If you’re rejecting that the best way to raise children is in a home with both a MOTHER and FATHER, then get your tubes tied. You failed the test.
It is the only sane toilet paper orientation. Anything else is madness.
When one has very small children and kittens, the over position is an invitation to madness.
(kids are grown, cats are seniors & more interested in naps in the sun so over-position has resumed its rightful place)
Your choice is killing it, or pissing it off.
FWIW, I second Farnsworth on this. Further, I’d question going the firearms route at all if you don’t want to kill it. Better to just get some cayenne pepper bear spray which is more likely to be effective against black bears anyway. (I carry both Counter Assault Grizzly spray and an S&W 69 Combat in .44 mag when we’re out west. I’ve had two bear encounters, the closest (black) at 20 feet in Glacier N.P. The bear walked across a trail I was on in front me, looked at me and then kept walking, so I didn’t use the spray or the S&W. )
The real problem is that your bear is getting used to or is already used to scavenging food from human areas. Better to get a larger dog which is well-trained to accompany the missus on her walks. But, YMMV as the cool kids say.
I think sporting-goods stores in bear areas sell a bear-repellent spray.
Darleen, the video is very cool. In 1969, my dad was employed by Military Industrial Complex and worked on the space program. He pulled my brother and me out of school because he scored an invitation to watch Apollo 10 lift off from the VIP section. We were several rows behind Spiro Agnew and I got to shake hands with Jimmy Doolittle. After we left for Florida, my teacher told the class where I was for a week. When I got back, I was the class hero. It was as if I’d flown into space myself.
Blasey Fraud’s Palo Alto University. Heh.