Scott Adams.
Adams believes U.S. men are under the yokes of women, as evidenced by v-neck sweaters which are a “uniform” they are forced to wear, according to the Daily Dot.
The website cited a June 23 post on Adam’s blog, “The Humiliation of the American Male in 2016.”
“Perhaps the biggest unreported story of this presidential election is the humiliation of the American male. Unless I’m blinded by confirmation bias – which is entirely possible – it seems to me that the humiliation of American men is now institutionalized in the media,” Adams writes. “Check out this commercial for dishwasher detergent. And take careful note of the American man’s v-neck sweater. That’s the uniform of a man who is owned by a woman.”
Don’t worry about Adams, he’s on to the ploy.
“You’re laughing because you know it’s true,” he writes. “How many of the married men reading this blog have received those same sweaters as “gifts” from women? Personally, I’ve received about 25 over the years. None from men. I received three of those sweaters so far this year. I throw them away. Nice try.”
However if the Daily Dot’s Cale Weissman is successful, Adams may soon have a lot more offending v-neck sweaters to throw away.
Yes, Adams truly believes these v-neck sweaters are cozy symbols of Male Oppression. Through this we may have figured out a way to remedy his constant humiliation: Get men to buy Scott Adams v-neck sweaters. Lots of them.
You may be asking, “Cale, what would that accomplish?” Well, maybe if Adams had a real male—that is, a manly man who does manly things like not being controlled by women and obsessively drawing nerdy cubicle workers’ mundane hellscape—buy him some v-neck sweaters, maybe he would form a new association with the knitted garment. Perhaps he would see v-neck sweater-wearers in a whole new light. They are not “men” owned by women but “people” leased by J. Crew.
To that end, Weissman has launched a GoFundMe account where he is raising funds to buy Adams male-sanctioned v-neck sweaters. As of Wednesday morning he’s donated $350 — enough to buy about four or five sweaters from J. Crew.
Full Story Here.
“On social issues, I lean Libertarian, minus the crazy stuff.” -- Adams in 2008
I think Adams has his arithmetic operations mixed up.
All I know is that every time I see Rick Santorum, he’s wearing one. Ban them. Or ban Rick Santorum.
When I saw this reported on another blog, one of the commenters was able to find a picture of the manly Trump wearing a V-neck sweater. I guess all is lost for those masculine men who plan to vote for Trump.
On the GoFundMe page, there’s a photo of Adams, wearing a v-neck T-shirt. Guess those aren’t emasculating.
I haven’t read any of his dribble, but WHY is a V-necked sweater a symbol of his penis inadequacy? Did some icky cootie-carrier say “BOO!” to him that last time he wore one or something?
(For what it’s worth, I dislike the fecking things, for the simple reason I wear a sweater to keep warm, so if half of it is always open, it doesn’t do a very good job of its job.)
Blf:
According to Adams, women buy them for men, therefor, if a man is wearing one, it’s a sign he is owned by a woman.
I’m flabbergasted. I just thought it was one of those currently-in-fashion things, you know, soon to be out, replaced by low-cut roundneck sweaters (let’s see some pecs for once, eh?). It’s startling to realize how wrong I was about that. I’ll put it on the shopping list, though, because clearly I’ve been doing it wrong by not buying my husband’s clothes for him. Does Mr Adams have any advice on what underwear is appropriate for the truly underheeled man? (In Latvian we say ‘under the clog’, so I supposed ‘underclogged’ would be a better word.)
Also, funny, haha, apparently even putting one of those sweaters on will make you into a slave to women. Must be something programmed into the knitting.
I gather his mother never went shopping with or for him?
A lady once bought me an espresso, which I drank. Does that mean I am now under her voodo—(thee chimes in thy head ring and he lurches off to do something…)—oo-like control?
Codpiece?
V-necks have been a subtle code for FemDom this entire time?!?!
I google image searched “v-neck sweater men”.
I don’t care about the sweaters any more.
About a third of the models wore their sweaters pulled down in back and arranged to show their belt in front. Sometimes with one wee corner of their shirt exposed.
WTF is up with that?
Chigau@#11:
Fashion!!!
They can’t really think of anything new, so they’ve decided that wandering around with your shirt untucked is “edgy”
Shiv@#10:
V-necks have been a subtle code for FemDom this entire time?!?!
Sure. Its so you can see the dog collar in the open neck. You know, where the leash goes.
What’s more interesting is that Adams has
(a) turned off comments to his blog and
(b) started backtracking on his cast-iron prediction of a Trump landslide, which is what has been spiking traffic to his blog since last year.
(a) came before (b), but not by much…
He’s supposed to be on a leash??? Ohmygawd, I’ve been doing it so wrong all this time!
blf@9: A codpiece in the form of a large brass rooster.
Well, it works at the renfair anyway…… :D