The erratic adventures of shay & jax
Whilst having a bit of lunch on Thursday I listened to an interview with Arsenio Hall where he pointed out that he thought Vanilla Ice was a fantasist and a bit of a bellend. No great shocks there then. But, for reasons best known to themselves, some clown had posted a rant about 'some chick' who gets naked and then doesn't want to have sex. His complaint seemed to be that if you don't rape her she'll tell all your girlfriends that you're not a real man, and if you do rape her you will, quite unreasonably, be arrested and thrown in jail.
And then someone called him a beta fag. *le sigh* Now let's put aside the fact that any woman that changes her mind during a sexual encounter is probably quite unlikely to be sitting around drinking coffee with friends the next day going "and the fucking little beta fag didn't even slap me around and rape me! Where have all the real men gone?" What exactly does being an alpha/beta male have to do with being a bit rapey? And yet it was brought up because certain kinds of men feel the need to constantly make out that they are peak of masculinity. And it does my fucking head in. Now look, I don't have any problems with masculinity. I'm a short, fat hairy dude with a beard - no-one is ever likely to accuse me of metrosexuality. I grew up listening to hip hop and hardcore punk, two musical styles not exactly renowned for for being overwhelmed with touchy-feely New Man types. Even so, it seems that cult of the alpha (and the closely linked cult of the Dominant) is everywhere at the moment, with a small but vocal collection of numpties opining on how all women are bitches and sluts (presumably this does not include their mums, but I suppose you never know) and the relative merits of creatine brands, brah. That'll push humanity forwards then. And yes, the cult is alive and well in Popmundo. Think about it: how many male characters are handsome, sauve, dominant, infallible and hung like a babies arm? Too many, that's how many. And it doesn't seem to matter whether the writers are male or female. At least we are, thankfully, relatively free of the more aggressive kind of meatheat - small mercies. Okay, rant over I guess. There's nothing wrong with a well written alpha male, although they are probably going to be an pretty unlikable character. But, hey, it worked for 50 Shades and Banshee, right? The problem (in inverted commas - it's probably only a problem for grumpy bastards like me) is when they are presented as good guys rather than deeply flawed. That's having your cake and eating it. Right! Enough of that! First person to call me a beta fag gets a biscuit. Shay and V have been a little sleepy the last few days because I have either been drunk or asleep (or lifting, or fucking bitches brah!*) Those 'let's pop out for a quick pint' evenings are deadly... I promise to be a little more talkative next week. You must all be over-joyed... :P * If the boss sees that, I'm going to get such a whithering look...
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Rice
8/6/2014 06:27:00 am
I thought this was going to tie in with Elliot Rodgers. I guess I don't take it seriously when I see it on Popmundo, since Joni is in the Alpha Cult... sort of.
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Bagel
8/6/2014 08:50:57 am
MRA bullshit makes me gag, and not in a good way. It used to be confined just to selected shady corners of the internet, but now it, and the pathetic scum who promote it to the insecure, has infiltrated the mainstream and it's setting everyone back decades. And most important of all, they've RUINED fedoras.
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Bread
8/6/2014 09:02:22 am
Yeah, the two are unrelated. :P
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Rice
8/6/2014 09:39:16 am
It's too bad the MRA "movement" focuses more on hating feminists and women instead of what they were supposed to: men's rights. I tried my hardest to find cases of this and came up empty after several searches. They're no better than misandrists / straw feminists / feminazis. I'm sure there are "genuine", decent MRA activists, but they are far too few and not nearly loud enough.
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Rice
8/6/2014 09:42:55 am
While looking for decent MRA activists, I came across this...
Bread
8/6/2014 05:14:47 pm
MRA is, imo, slightly different to cultism because the act of moaning about things on the interwebs surely makes you a beta by default? :P
Rice
9/6/2014 01:45:43 am
...*peer*
Bagel
8/6/2014 11:34:18 pm
I remember the Scott Adams thing from lurking at Metafilter. Massive arsehole and I've never looked at Dilbert the same way since.
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Rice
9/6/2014 01:46:08 am
*burns bras*mkjn
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Rice
9/6/2014 07:35:00 am
mkjn... my cat added that, just noticed now
feely
8/6/2014 11:58:00 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycOpOqukQek
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Bread
9/6/2014 12:30:57 am
Feely wins.
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Rice
9/6/2014 01:34:28 am
That was beautiful...
feely
9/6/2014 03:19:00 am
by default
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Bread
9/6/2014 05:22:16 am
But of course.
Bagel
9/6/2014 08:42:35 am
*waves* That'll be me :D Leave a Reply. |
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