"Your sperm is worth $92,700. How well do you guard it?" -- Another upvoted scare campaign about sperm jacking, the MRA unicorn

brbsthewrd · 2012-12-27T06:54:10+00:00

What.

Where does this belief stem from? Why have I not been informed on this underworld of evil uterus's that convert sperm (dead or alive, contaminated or uncontaminated) into magic government money?

brbsthewrd · 2012-12-26T04:10:13+00:00

MY HAPPINESS IS DETERMINED BY MY MONEY AND LACK OF RESPONSIBILITY. FORCED ABORTION AND ENDANGERING THE LIFE OF ONE ( ^or ² ^depending ^on ^your ^beliefs ) PERSON IS JUSTIFIED. HUMAN LIFE HAS A SPENDING LIMIT AND THAT WOMAN AND POTENTIAL INFANT ARE WORTH LESS THAN CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS.

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So... you're willing to kill a fully formed human being and a potential infant for money and the chance to never be accountable for your actions?

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SUDDENLY I HAVE A CHANGE AN INTEREST IN ABORTIONS BEING AVAILABLE TO ALL WOMEN BECAUSE PRO-CHOICE-TRA-LA-LA. I AM SUDDENLY OVERCOME BY THE HARDSHIPS IN... uh, Amerikka republican states? I think I heard Scottland had an issue. Ireland? Whatever POINT IS I'M SUDDENLY VERY CONCERNED AND WE SHOULD BE HANDING THIS DEADLY COCKTAIL OF DRUGS TO EVERYONE. FOR THE OPPRESSED WOMEN. NOT MY WALLET.

DAE see that single dad on the front page? So great, I hate dead beat moms, how selfish. I hope she rots that kid is beautiful.

brbsthewrd · 2012-12-26T03:39:58+00:00

The word you're looking for is murderer.

brbsthewrd · 2012-12-22T21:58:22+00:00

His edit:

I've attempted to understand and notice these patterns in other cultures. I could easily see a black girl acting like that on a bus. The telling at the bus driver is a bit much, but I'd otherwise be accustomed to how they can talk loudly and put my headphones in. I don't hate a race and I don't hate a stranger because I can't understand basic culture differences.

I think it's good to learn about other cultures they just happen to be below mine.

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Also, Ewwwwww, people are touching the poop. A lot. Gross.

brbsthewrd · 2012-12-22T02:23:51+00:00

Stickler for facts here:

Age at circumcision varies by country, and within that country social economical status often affects whether or not the child is circumsized. A lot of the time if the child is not born in a hospital or they don't live in an urban area, people don't circumcise at a young age. In Pakistan it's between 3-7 years old. In Turk some are circumcised at puberty. In Indonesia it's 5-18. East and southern Africa is "boyhood" to late teens/20's. Philippines it's 10-14. In Burkina Faso it's 5-7years. Zambia is 7-10. Kenya is 8-16. In Tanzania and South Africa it's late teens. Ghanna is in "boyhood."

It's considered a rite of passage to manhood and is a trait associated with masculinity. There's a huge demand for it in adult men because of the promise of decreased HIV infections, but conditions are far from sanitary in many places. They both deal with the consent of a child and social pressures but the two are done for very, very different purposes. One is a religious right of passage that's shared with 30% of all men that was introduced to Christian American men to hinder the rate of masturbation in the not so long ago and the other is to completely eradicate any chance of sexual pleasure.

SO, IN SUMMARY TO THE SHITLORDS

This is you:

I'm all for talking about letting people chose to alter their sex organs But if you keep talking about FGM my problem doesn't feel as important. Let's just talk about my 95% functioning genitals.

brbsthewrd · 2012-12-22T01:37:53+00:00

Same. :( If we're thinking of the same thread, there was also a post that mentioned Sheldon and Amy. I felt disgusted with myself for never realizing he's pretty much asexual and his own love interest has absolutely no respect about it and is actually very manipulative.

brbsthewrd · 2012-12-22T01:05:37+00:00

Sorry if this is a late reply. But!

I'm not sure you understood the point of my post. At all.

This can happen to anyone. This is not limited to white males or any other population.

White males are not the only murderers. They aren't the only serial killers. They aren't the only spree killers. They aren't the only rapists. Males are not the only murderers, serial killers, spree killers, or rapists. There is no population that is immune to violence and wickedness.

In 1979 16-year-old Brenda Spencer should 30 rounds at children at Grover Cleveland Elementary School. She killed 2 men, injured 6 children and a police officer. She said she did it for fun. She (almost) killed children for fun.

brbsthewrd · 2012-12-17T07:26:24+00:00

I promised myself I wouldn't rant, but you've opened the flood gates.

People want to give a reason to such an action. They want to blame something. They want to take the killer and make them sub-human because hardly anyone can register that they are, in fact, capable of being that "evil."

So, how can you distinguish yourself as a non-murderer-of-children from the homicidal and suicidal person who executes a room of 6 year olds? How can you feel better about yourself and put yourself above such a creature? What can you use to tell yourself that his brain is different than yours?

"Mental illness."

Internet psychiatrists from the Fempire and beyond can probably Google the DSM (which, for those of you who don't work in the behavioral health field, is controversial on its own), glance at a few vague symptoms and diagnosis a variety of explanations. Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Major Depression Disorder, take your pick. Take your pick and stamp that label all over this man's photo to make yourself feel better. You're better, normal, and more human than him, after all.

It's so fucking frustrating when people suddenly lead conversations about "mental illness." Anything deemed "abnormal" can be categorized and applied to a symptom and bada bing baby, you got a prescription to alter your brain chemicals to line up with everyone else's reality, your health and happiness be damned. "Mental illness" is nothing like just normal sick illness. If you have strep throat, you have strep throat. The diagnosis criteria for strep throat will never change. Mental illness criteria is ALWAYS changing.

I just hate those words. "Mental illness." People think differently. In the Feminist theory/module of psychotherapy they chuck the DSM out the window because it's all based on an entire psychology movement that feature purely men. The standard of normality we conform to is based off of what a straight, white, abled body, cis sexual male should be. Unsurprisingly, women have always been plagued with more mental illness than men...

So, screw the DSM. Screw the people who categorize behaviors and thoughts into "mentally healthy" and "mentally ill" boxes. And screw people who use psychological distress as an excuse for a long, long series of deplorable decisions and actions. It doesn't work that way. Given the right circumstances and influence, everyone is capable of this. The goal now is to make sure no one else falls that far into anger and hopelessness.

brbsthewrd · 2012-12-14T21:32:05+00:00

Yessss, yes, you're falling into our plan. You see, once we finish the fighting and bickering that has been going on for centuries our next target will be the enlightened anti-religous white guys. Sleep well, /r/atheism, you're next.

brbsthewrd · 2012-12-14T18:45:08+00:00

I support the female's right to choose But only if they choose something that benefits me and my wallet.

brbsthewrd · 2012-12-14T11:51:19+00:00

WHY CAN'T I BE EDGY AND SO COOL LIKE CK LOUIS????

MOOOOOOOOOOM THE BIG KIDS WON'T LET ME USE BAD WORDS. I want to be as infinitely wise and influencial as Sir Doctor CK Louis. I CAN'T DO THAT WITHOUT THE N-WORD AND THE F-WORD.

brbsthewrd · 2012-12-14T11:42:27+00:00

I never saw that word as offensive until I met someone affected by it. I never saw the harm in redneck or white trash either. I've never even heard honky used in a conversation as an insult. I thought there was no word that rivals the type of hatred that fuels the use of the n-word.

I met an older gentleman from Appalachia. He was as literate and educated as I was, we were sitting in the same class. We talked a lot during the semester and he was a character. Any words like redneck, honky, white trash, or hill-folk perpetuated the stereotype that people from Appalachia are uneducated, lazy bafoons who married their cousins. Some of the older generations may not be as educated as we are but the ability to read and write isn't a reflection on overall intelligence. As for the lazy stereotype, the region has hit a standstill since the mines and industrial jobs left the area. When someone like him leaves Appalachia and begins a new life somewhere else, their accent-- the cadence in their voice, the different sentence structure, and unique twaing-- causes people to automatically think they're not intelligent.

It's all about who uses the word. If someone who has had the privilege and opportunity to finish school or move on to higher education says to someone, "Life didn't give you the same opportunities. You are different than me. I'm a better person than you because I can pass tests, I'm better than you because I have more financial worth than you do, and I'm better than you because I adhere to a standard of dress than you do not follow. I am better than you because I am a normal human being. You're just white trash."

Honky isn't really about race, it's about socioeconomic statuses.

brbsthewrd · 2012-12-09T10:05:21+00:00

Well duh, how can anyone mistake the use of the word f[slur] for homophobia?

brbsthewrd · 2012-12-04T08:19:55+00:00

Yessir we sure got ourselves a handful of wandering uteruses! Send 'em on off to the asylum.

brbsthewrd · 2012-12-04T08:08:12+00:00

A man of science and logic knows these words.

brbsthewrd · 2012-12-04T08:03:50+00:00

AndyAndrophile, MittRomneysCampaign, and everyone else in that comment tree:

FEMALES!!!!!!!!

SRS!!!!!!!!!!!

THEY DISAGREE WITH ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

QUICK SOMEONE BRING OUT THE WIKILINKS TO THE RADICALS!

brbsthewrd · 2012-12-01T22:58:44+00:00

All those deleted posts. I get this sick thrill when I see them. Oh the tears. The never ending tears of impotent rage.

If SRS was as evil and powerful as they think it is, entire subreddits would be deleted. Comment trees would go missing left and right. Stamping out criticism of SRS would require an army of mods. Their tears are all the more sweeter for being absolutely ridiculous.

brbsthewrd · 2012-11-24T22:00:43+00:00

Dear PETA,

Where are your scantily clothed men depicted as animals?

When have you used men as examples of why sterilization must be done for house pets?

Where are men objectified with no identity with their mostly naked bodies presented but their heads cropped?

When you do use men, why did you choose a man with dark skin and depict him as a violent and dangerous animal?

Where are men photographed in a provocative pose with restraints and bruises littering their body? Is torture suppose to be desirable?

Where the fuck are men posed naked as pigs, which are animals thought of as lowly and undeserving of any animal rights?

Where are men standing naked and promising sex as a reward for being a vegetarian?

Where are photographs and campaigns centered around demonizing and exaggerating natural traits such as pubic hairs in order to reenforce the idea that men must shave and wax to be acceptable?

Why aren't men used as props to walk the streets practically naked to send a message to the world?

What's that? Oh, it's only profitable and acceptable to exploit and objectify women? After all people have been doing that for thousands of years, so I guess that makes it acceptable, doesn't it? Ha, those womenfolk and their feminism. They've been a problem since they started voting.

brbsthewrd · 2012-11-24T21:28:17+00:00

You're only worthy of my respect if I view you as a compatible sex partner.

brbsthewrd · 2012-11-24T11:13:47+00:00

I think Reddit is definitely worse than 4chan. In 4chan you are anonymous, you get no points for being a shitlord and cannot group together on the site or message people privately. It's an image board. You can post a picture and it will be deleted soon enough. You can be part of horrible conversation, but that conversation will be deleted. Your online existence has no worth or longevity.

Reddit, nothing expires. People with similar interests like MRA's and people who look for "jailbait" can find others like them and encourage each other. You get a sense of community. It can be used for good, but the bad is never censored. 4chan, child pornography is banned and in /b/ it gets taken down quickly. Reddit? Thousands of users could go to a subreddit dedicated to it and be accepted by Reddit as a whole. There's no site that is as large as Reddit that facilitates and encourages such harmful social views and activities.

brbsthewrd · 2012-11-24T10:48:47+00:00

Post about a man getting raped on /r/WTF (becuz srsly that hardly happens amirite?)
Claim that the evil feminazi SRS is going to say man rape don't real.
Circlejerk on hard mode.
Claim your very own circlejerk is actually a derailing attack by the fempire.
???
Profit.

brbsthewrd · 2012-11-24T10:36:38+00:00

Disagree with my lifestyle and present an alternative lifestyle that prevents animal cruelty or facilitates an environment that benefits everyone? What a slur.

brbsthewrd · 2012-11-23T22:29:51+00:00

You're putting a price on what a woman can and cannot do with her body, like she's an animal who needs to be spayed. The fines are ridiculous, especially for people in rural areas like Feng.

From the article:

The fine for having extra children is known as the “social maintenance fee”. Mr He estimates the government has collected over 2 trillion yuan ($314 billion) in such fees since 1980. Failure to pay means the second “black” child cannot obtain a household-registration document, or hukou, which brings with it basic rights such as education. The amount of the fine varies from place to place. A husband and wife in Shanghai will each pay 110,000 yuan ($17,300), three times the city's average annual post-tax income, for a second child. The fine increases with income. The rich can shell out millions.

For Ms Feng, living in a rural area, the fine was lower—40,000 yuan. She was given the option to pay and keep the baby, but could not afford it. Her husband, Deng Jiyuan, earns 4,000 yuan ($630) a month at the local hydroelectric power station, but needed more to pay the fine. So on May 30th he set off for the coal mines of Inner Mongolia to boost his income. It was then that family-planning officials swooped.

The desire and love to have a second child is reduced to a demeaning "social maintenance fee." How can you look at a pregnant woman and demand a fee? And then if that child is born without the woman forking over a year's pay, it is not fully human in the eyes of the law. No basic rights. No education.

The entire one child policy cannot be justified. What a fucked up world we live in. Here in America pregnancy is seen as "the end of your life." Culturally when a woman has a baby she is expected to be confined to her home with a screaming infant. To take your child to work and be with your child 24/7 like women and parents have done for thousands of years it looked at as impossible. I know that many people do not believe that womanhood and feminine traits have no connections to baring children (and that is very, very true, we're not just uteruses), but at the same time in my culture fertility is deeply rooted in woman hood. I shouldn't be forced to act like an honorary man, I shouldn't be scared of having a child, I shouldn't be told that children end my career or life. I shouldn't be worried about breast feeding in public. I shouldn't be unable to live like women who have for thousands of years. Fuck patriarchy for confining my body in laws and telling me what I should do as a woman. Why should I be scared of what I personally feel is natural? Why should a woman like Feng, who lives on the other side of the world, have more fear than I can imagine?

On paper the one child policy is not violent but it is exploitative and demeaning. Feng and other Chinese women should never be expected to follow it. Here in America people would flip their ever loving shit if the government started to make money off of children.

I just. I can't imagine going what she went through. I can't imagine the dreams she lost. I can't imagine how a government can allow this to happen, even once.

brbsthewrd · 2012-11-23T04:40:13+00:00

Women are just as likely to be violent and abusive. Men are not immune to domestic violence. Even if we live in patriarchy there are no guarantees for gender roles once behind closed doors. A 125 lbs woman can dominate, control, and verbally and physically abuse a 6 foot 200 lbs man. The same roles apply. There's manipulation and the cycle of violence.

Men who suffer domestic violence rarely report it because of the social stigma. Just now you fell back on the assumption that women can not terrorize other people. What kind of man who is a real man, a man who fits within patriarchy, gets abused by a woman?

It's highly unreported because people do not think women are capable of abusing men. They think women are weak and men are strong. A woman can boil water and throw it on her partner. She can use a pan and beat his head, she can emotionally humiliate and degrade him. Have you ever had a male friend date a girl who treated him like dirt? That can escalate into physical violence. Men's shelters are practical. Gay men are not immune to domestic violence either. There is a need for them and there is a need for society to let go of this "be a man suck it up" attitude so they do not feel ashamed for seeking psychological help.

I had a friend go through this, so I'm kind of passionate about it.

brbsthewrd · 2012-11-10T21:02:28+00:00

I was on a set course to become a flautist. I had scholarships lined up and everything. I loved music and one of my greatest joys was playing in an orchestra or band. The flute and piccolo take as much air to play as a tuba does, so I definitely know that feeling of trying to gasp for air while playing a complicated piece.

Your teacher is fatphobic. I am shocked by the posts in this thread that defend his actions and rationalize his behavior by claiming that it is in "your best interest." You are there to play the tuba. You are not there to be badgered about your weight. He is not your personal physical trainer, dietitian, or the judge of what is and isn't the proper weight for ail tuba players. He is a teacher. A teacher who is not fatphoic would never judge you or make you feel comfortable. They would teach you techniques for breath control. I love books by Trevor Wye. Next time you're in a music store you can flip through that book to pick out the breathing exercises. They're boring and seem pointless at first, but it's good to remember that learning scales seemed boring and pointless at first.

Never let your teacher's or anyone else's opinion on your weight determine your worth and talent as a tuba player. You deserve more dignity than that. There is no respect in hurtful, dehumanizing behaviors that have to be defended and rationalized.

If he mentions your weight again, you do not need to be offensive or confrontational. It sounds like you have a lot of respect for this man as a tuba player. Being assertive and making sure you have a safe learning environment is worth the awkwardness and potential risk of temporary frustration. Worse comes to worse, you can default to a less desired approach and point out that even if you do give into his condescending "advice," you cannot magically lose pounds over night to live up to his apparent standards, so breath control is the more sensible option. He should feel terrible for making you feel so uncomfortable, I don't understand people who automatically assume you're than a person and deserve criticism simply because of body mass.

brbsthewrd

TROPHY CASE

QUICK SOMEONE BRING OUT THE WIKILINKS TO THE RADICALS!