David Futrelle has an information-loaded post on MRAs on Reddit explaining that and why “cunt” is not a sexist word via an equally compelling explanation that and why Rebecca Watson is -
you know the rest.
Mar 06 2012
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Ms. Daisy Cutter, Gynofascist in a Spiffy Hugo Boss Uniform
March 6, 2012 at 3:56 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I’ll go make popcorn…
'Tis Himself, OM
March 6, 2012 at 4:11 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
What an asshole Futrelle is.
julian
March 6, 2012 at 4:13 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I’d click the link but am to busy watching MLP. Have fun y’all.
Steersman
March 6, 2012 at 4:17 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Ms. Daisy Cutter (#1),
I’ll go make popcorn…
Large bag; could qualify as the longest-running theatrical: “Take it away, Adam and Eve (or Steve as the case may be)” ….
But, N-KB3 ….
mr_subjunctive
March 6, 2012 at 5:09 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
@2 ‘Tis Himself, OM:
Where are you getting that? Did you click the link? David Futrelle is not explaining why “cunt” isn’t a sexist word; the MRAs about whom he’s writing, whom he quotes at length, are.
Ms. Daisy Cutter, Gynofascist in a Spiffy Hugo Boss Uniform
March 6, 2012 at 5:10 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
‘Tis, what’s your beef with Futrelle? I’m curious. He’s not perfect, but IMO he does a public service by dragging this putrescence into the light.
Big Red Dress
March 6, 2012 at 5:32 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
The page is blocked by the nanny filter at my school. I’m wondering if I’ll be glad about that when I get home and check out the page.
I don’t know how Rebecca Watson carries on. I would have moved to whatever tiny corner of the world has no Internet by now.
Stacy
March 6, 2012 at 6:13 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I was afraid to click the link, lest reading the Boobz make me feel all stabby, but that was actually funny.
Earlier this morning I saw a long reply to a post on the Cracked website. This MRA was explaining how feminism is as bad as Nazi Germany (really. Not just a mention of Hitler a la Godwin’s Law, but full on for several paragraphs about how feminism=the Third Reich).
A whole movement full of self-caricatures. How do they do it?
'Tis Himself, OM
March 6, 2012 at 6:37 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I misread what was going on. Okay, so Futelle is an okay sort of guy.
Josh Slocum
March 6, 2012 at 9:02 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Steersman, what are you doing here? Aren’t you the one who calls people cunts?
Agent Smith
March 7, 2012 at 12:25 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I hate, very much, the mindset that treats the complaint “It hurts” as encouragement.
The man-shaped effluvia who insist on using That Word have a snap-lock fit to that way of thinking.
Philip Legge, coolest of the bunch
March 7, 2012 at 2:04 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Hmm. Looks like ManBoobz’s regulars have as low an opinion of Steercupcake’s dictionary definition diarrhea as say, the commenters and blog-owners of Pharyngula and Butterflies and Wheels. Must be that feminist echo-chamber hive-mind thingy in operation. (One of them even noticed the fully-deserved ban-hammering which Steersy received from PZ. Dix points.)
dirigible
March 7, 2012 at 2:46 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
“This MRA was explaining how feminism is as bad as Nazi Germany”
If it was, he wouldn’t be able to.
Self-refutation. He has it.
(Also, who does he think published those “mutter und kind” posters in the 30s? Oh, feminists. Of course. Silly me…)
Ophelia Benson
March 7, 2012 at 6:26 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Oh my god, Steersguy is still at it. Unreal.
Philip Legge
March 8, 2012 at 8:45 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Update: 36 hours later, Steersguy is still at it. Surreal.
Ophelia Benson
March 9, 2012 at 1:21 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Yikes.