A Day Without a Woman General Strike

[Guest MormonGator]

5 minutes ago, unixknight said:

In the case of the sandwich jokes, to me there's a subversive element in there that makes them funnier.  It's like, I know if some SJW heard me laugh they'd be up in arms, and that tickles me.  Maybe it would be less funny if the thought police weren't out there, but they are, and it is, and this is a way to fight back.

Oh I know exactly what you mean there. I like to laugh at things just because I KNOW right wing and left wing SJWs find it offensive. In fact, that sense of humor kept me alive in my college because we were flooded with SJW types. 

 

[Guest]

You're funny, anatess. Do another one.

[anatess2]

I got an entire repertoire.  But then you'll get heartburn and I'm merciful.

[Blackmarch]

10 hours ago, Eowyn said:

I mean society in general, not just couple by couple.

Frankly I can't see any kind of general authority making sandwich jokes, either.

well not any of the current living ones anyways....

[NeedleinA]

"Why don't I make a comment on this thread topic?" -Needle thinks to himself.
Then you realize what @MormonGator has done to the guys...

Edited March 9, 2017 by NeedleinA

[Guest MormonGator]

16 minutes ago, NeedleinA said:

"Why don't I make a comment on this thread topic?" -Needle thinks to himself.
Then you realize what @MormonGator has done to the guys...

LOL. You caught me bro. Busted!  

[anatess2]

And then there's this:

http://www.dailywire.com/news/14238/feminist-author-young-girls-dont-read-books-men-hank-berrien

Because if I had one piece of advice for young girls, and women, it would be this: girls, don’t read any books by men. Don’t read them. Stay away from them. Or, at least, don’t read them until you’re older, and fully-formed, and battle-ready, and are able to counter someone being rude to you, in conversation, not with silent embarrassment, or internalised, mute fury, but a calm, “<expletive> you very much, and goodbye.”

Because if there’s one thing that has made me, perhaps, happier in myself, and more confident about writing the truth, and less apt to run myself down for my appearance, weight, loudness and unusualness than many, many other women, it’s that I never read books by men when I was younger.

-Caitlyn Moran

Edited March 9, 2017 by anatess2

[Mike]

On 3/8/2017 at 8:29 AM, anatess2 said:

Anyway, you say you're not a feminist.  But you've perfected the feminist virtue signaling routine down pat.  Even doing the highest form of virtue signaling - invoking the name of moral leadership of the highest order - to support your taking offense.  Congratulations!

Hmmm, virtue signalling. Guess it's a sign, but a I had to google this term. Leaves me wondering, though, whether by saying this am I automatically suspect?

[Ironhold]

So - 

Mom spent much of the day dealing with the aftermath of a can bursting. Most of the cabinets where we have our food storage are alongside exterior walls, and those walls appear to be poorly insulated. As a result, just about every time the seasons change, we have a can burst. 

While she was doing that, I spent the morning mowing the lawn.

We both stopped for a while to brush my cat, and then spent a bit admiring a rather large butterfly I saw outside. 

Then we went back to what we were doing. 

[Guest]

3 hours ago, Mike said:

Hmmm, virtue signalling. Guess it's a sign, but a I had to google this term. Leaves me wondering, though, whether by saying this am I automatically suspect?

I've never heard that term either and I don't read teal deer posts or long rants, especially from people who have decided to despise me... Life is too short... so I didn't see it before. There's a stupid name for everything, apparently.

I guess any evangelical Christians (Mormons included) are virtue signalers? (See, I can even outdo myself.)

[Mike]

41 minutes ago, Eowyn said:

I've never heard that term either and I don't read teal deer posts or long rants, especially from people who have decided to despise me... Life is too short... so I didn't see it before. There's a stupid name for everything, apparently.

I guess any evangelical Christians (Mormons included) are virtue signalers? (See, I can even outdo myself.)

I noticed a writer named James Bartholomew of The Spectator claims to have coined the term because it " ...fulfills a need. For years, people have noticed the phenomenon but did not have a word or phrase to describe it." This fascinated me because I disagree that no word or phrase already existed. The so-called phenomenon has been well known for thousands of years and was even identified by the Savior criticizing Pharisees and the like for praying on street corners and making show of their self proclaimed righteousness. I suppose we are all guilty from time to time, and need to watch ourselves without the need for a new phrase which in my opinion ironically represents its own sort of political correctness--and from what I've observed in my little google adventure seems to be more useful for finding fault and suppressing discussion

Edited March 16, 2017 by Mike

[Guest]

On the money.

[Mike]

On 3/8/2017 at 7:30 AM, Eowyn said:

You don't have to be threatened by sandwich jokes to find them immature or offensive.

Kind of like how neither my husband nor I is threatened by TV's image of the inept, bumbling father figure, but we find it pretty stupid and offensive. Harmful, even, because it perpetuates a stereotype that does no one any good, and drives a wedge between men and women.

My kids teased me because I couldn't stand Steve Carell's character on the sit-com "The Office". They said it was because the character's name is "Michael". They were probably right, hahahaha.

[anatess2]

14 hours ago, Mike said:

Hmmm, virtue signalling. Guess it's a sign, but a I had to google this term. Leaves me wondering, though, whether by saying this am I automatically suspect?

Nah.  I have teen-agers.  I get the new add-ons to the dictionary from them. 

Sometimes they're talking and I have no clue what they're saying so I write them all down and then tool around their social media to figure out what they meant.  Like, my son told me I'm dank.  In my day, dank is something you use to describe illicit drugs so I went digging to figure out what the kids mean by that.  There's more, like "red pill", "cuck", "kek", etc. etc. etc.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Mike said:

My kids teased me because I couldn't stand Steve Carell's character on the sit-com "The Office". They said it was because the character's name is "Michael". They were probably right, hahahaha.

I can't blame you. Especially if they started tattling like Dwight. "Michael!!"

[Mike]

28 minutes ago, anatess2 said:

Nah.  I have teen-agers.  I get the new add-ons to the dictionary from them.    

... Like, my son told me I'm dank.  In my day, dank is something you use to describe illicit drugs so I went digging to figure out what the kids mean by that.  There's more, like "red pill", "cuck", "kek", etc. etc. etc.

Right? I do remember being the age where everything revolved around me and the adults had to scramble to keep up. I realized not long ago that I now occupy that space where one debates internally about whether to continue adapting, or rather to what extent one's stamina will hold up. 

[anatess2]

35 minutes ago, Mike said:

Right? I do remember being the age where everything revolved around me and the adults had to scramble to keep up. I realized not long ago that I now occupy that space where one debates internally about whether to continue adapting, or rather to what extent one's stamina will hold up. 

The minute I realized my kids have joined the next generation was when I called their music noise... hah hah.  I thought I was a pretty hip mom as I enjoy today's pop music and the new stuff on the radio.  Well... my kids don't listen to pop music on the radio.  If they do listen to radio they listen to rock music from the 80's channel.  But they mostly listen to this music from internet sources and they're nothing like pop and nothing like rock... My son played this wierd jazz music where all the instruments were doing something completely different and discordant from the rest of the instruments and it was about to make my head explode...

Edited March 16, 2017 by anatess2

[NeuroTypical]

1 hour ago, anatess2 said:

There's more, like "red pill", "cuck", "kek", etc. etc. etc.

The discussion between anatess and Eowyn is definitely worth at least .

 

 

[anatess2]

Just now, NeuroTypical said:

The discussion between anatess and Eowyn is definitely worth at least .

 

 

Pepe is pleased...