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MeTa post:
Misandry and Ask Metafilter.
Second Account For Making Jokey Comments - you're a guy, right?
(coz it's obvious that you've bottled those emotions up for way too long)
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 7:09 AM on August 6, 2008
I'm not sure what - if anything - this reveals, but I note that my ironic, sexist, throwaway line "you're a guy, right? (coz it's obvious that you've bottled those emotions up for way too long)" didn't attract one jot of criticismn that I saw, and even scored a favourite, when an almost exactly structurally analogous one "hardwired for hysterical overreactions" in another thread caused a pile-on.
My best guess is that it's OK to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 6:25 PM on August 6, 2008
Damn, Turgid Dahlia must've made me drunk with his thoughts. A guy making a sexist joke about guys is *not* structurally analogous to a guy making one about girls. I give up now. Another drink, barkeep!
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 6:40 PM on August 6, 2008
even I love me some football and alcohol. Have we discovered the metafilter unifier? To the sports bar!
Your favourite football team sucks.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 7:09 PM on August 6, 2008
Mine won the Super Bowl last year! Suck it Haters!
Well, mine are bunnies! No arguing against that.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 7:55 PM on August 6, 2008
MeTa post:
Misogyny Filter (?)
I am specifically tired of Afroblanco coming into these threads midway through to poke fun at people who are trying to have a serious conversation about topics that are important to them.
To be fair, Afroblanco made a number of serious contributions to this thread, so you're probably a bit off the mark in this case, onlyconnect.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 9:37 PM on August 3, 2008
I was confused by your mention of "orthodox feminists," above, because I'm not aware of a feminist orthodoxy.
Orthodox feminists are presumably on the other team to their heterodox sisters.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 9:46 PM on August 3, 2008
You want to know why the feminist movement has failed to attract men in great numbers?
That's a really terrible case of begging the question.
As the saying goes, "Any woman who refuses to be treated like a doormat but doesn't call herself a feminist has simply got her terminology wrong"
Along those lines, any male who agrees with that sentiment could be considered to be a part of "the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 10:04 PM on August 3, 2008
I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of women can't feel the difference.
And I'd be willing to bet against you. Who'd like to adjudicate?
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 11:14 PM on August 3, 2008
i have no idea if you were trolled, AV, but you're making it hard for me to want to keep up my current period of celibacy
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 11:56 PM on August 3, 2008
was it my comment, dnab?
all i meant was that all this talk of sex is making me want some. is there anything wrong with that?
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 2:14 AM on August 4, 2008
Nah, I posted a relationshipfilter question once that was deleted as chatfilter.
I do think that they are judged to a softer standard, though, because there's rarely a clear objective answer - humans being as complex & squishy as we are - so they tend to be chattier.
(which is one reason why i like them)
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 3:28 AM on August 4, 2008
To be fair, none of the women I've slept with have reported feeling any differences. Actually, most of them have said that they didn't actually feel anything aside from vague embarrassment and a lot of pity.
Is that really you, T-Rex?
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 1:59 PM on August 4, 2008
Yet another nail in the coffin of intelligent design.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 5:26 PM on August 5, 2008
Paternity insurance! That's absolute genius, MPDSEA!
And at long last, it would be an insurance product I'd actually be interested in, as opposed to the monthly offers of life insurance I receive now - as if I'd care in the slightest, being single with no kids.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 7:05 PM on August 5, 2008
This is not misandry. It is not an expression of hatred for men as a gender.
Well, if we're going compare geese with ganders, plenty of things are labelled as misogynist that are not actually expressions of hatred for women as a gender.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 7:53 PM on August 5, 2008
must be born mutually
if that were possible, the whole issue would disappear.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 10:05 PM on August 5, 2008
do you honestly think that *anybody* could be bothered reading this whole thread?
i'd bet that one could take, say, two dozen random comments & have a perfect microcosm of the entire thing. for slightly different odds, i think about eight random comments would almost do the trick.
it's basically a Pareto thing, but instead of an 80-20 rule, it's probably closer to 96-4.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 6:51 AM on August 6, 2008
If you think this thread is a waste of time then why did you post 13 comments in it?
oh, the topic & the thread themselves aren't a waste of time. there's just no point in reading the whole thing when even a quick skim shows that it's just the same thing over & over & over & over again.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 2:47 PM on August 6, 2008
oh, actually answering the question: why 13 - now 15 - comments? that's a factor of keeping a Recent Activity tab open & refreshing every half hour or so, as a headcleaner between other activities. if a thread goes on long enough & one adopts that kind of approach to the site, the busiest thread usually ends up first in your Recent Activity, and from time to time something will stand out that you feel like responding to.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 3:02 PM on August 6, 2008
Well then, perhaps consider calling out these general issues, rather than specific comments without context.
Yeh, sorry about that. I'm down about 6hrs sleep over two nights, which makes me snarkier than usual, and more lacking in judgement, too. Not a great mix.
On the bright side, I was thinking this thread would make an excellent resource for anybody researching an essay on contraception & paternity rights (etc) so I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 5:46 PM on August 6, 2008
MeTa post:
SLYT? WTF?
sounds like you're trolling.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 2:17 PM on August 4, 2008
Satan's little young terrors.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 2:58 PM on August 4, 2008
still longboating yon thread?
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 7:13 AM on August 5, 2008
MeTa post:
Suddenly Nicky
My heart leapt when I saw you had added someone to your contacts.
Same here :)
That's about all I can write sensibly right now coz I'm all torn up with happiness.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 5:30 PM on August 3, 2008
Yes, there is a daily limit which has I think been reached twice before, ever.
Only twice? Then tehloki's not as prolific as I thought.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 6:55 PM on August 3, 2008
*also raises drink to Mefistan; chooses not to toss glass into three-bar-fire*
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 3:10 AM on August 4, 2008
MeTa post:
Pompous bands do not make good questions.
jessamyn to the rescue! it's deleted now.
this also solves the question on everybody's lips: "who wears the pants?"
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 8:12 PM on July 31, 2008
The question on my lips now is "where can I get some of this part-metallic, part-medicinal, part-fishy goodness?"
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 9:31 PM on July 31, 2008
MeTa post:
hugs all round
yes, that largely sums up what i can make of every bjork song i listen to.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 6:09 AM on July 30, 2008
feminine-to-Anglophones first name
well, i'd read Kára as feminine, but Kári as masculine. do icelandic names follow that kind of pattern?
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 2:28 PM on July 30, 2008
MeTa post:
Metafilter in the Globe and Mail
And all the threads it leads you to are winding.
And all the links that light the way are blinding.
There are many things that I would like to post to blue,
But I don't know how
I said maybe
You're gonna be the one who faves me?
But overall -
Always wonderful.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 6:59 PM on July 28, 2008
Tonight is gonna be the night
That I'm gonna be murdered by you
By now you must've somehow
Realised what you gotta do
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the fear I do about you know
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 7:53 PM on July 28, 2008
Black day - the word was on the grey
That the secret of my whoring's out
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 8:16 PM on July 28, 2008
"overeducated and over-opinionated geeks"
This guy obviously knows nothing about the etymology or shifting intercultural and historical semiotic signification of the term "geek", especially when mapped against an adaptive model of meme diffusion within a non-prescriptivist virtual metacommunity.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 9:50 PM on July 28, 2008
MeTa post:
Too much steampunk?
Why do you hate greasy nanofarads of turkey bacon?
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 3:38 PM on July 23, 2008
It's singalong time!
When I first came to MeFi I was only sixteen
With a fiver in my pocket and my ole classic Mac
I went down to the front page to check out the scene
But I soon ended up on the old grey drag
There from emails and memails they flamed out in style
And the old man with the money would ban them a while
For a sockpuppet alias they'd fork out a fiver
For... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 11:47 PM on July 23, 2008
take your hammer and hit 'em with all of your might
we've to ban a few tons of these trollish gobshites
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 5:49 AM on July 24, 2008
I think Poet_Lariat just netted the pigeon.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 2:12 PM on July 28, 2008
MeTa post:
Thought or not
This'll be a cunt of a rule to follow, but you have my unqualified support.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 6:47 PM on July 25, 2008
MeTa post:
History from a witness.
I agree with you, Matt. I think it would cheapen it to sidebar that story.
I felt the same way about favouriting it.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 3:49 PM on July 23, 2008
MeTa post:
Musings
Social ineptworking? eMos.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 9:53 PM on July 21, 2008
Cybernetic cows? eMoos.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 9:54 PM on July 21, 2008
A good fluffy chocolate dairy dessert recipe site dating site for Canadian furries would be eMoose.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 10:00 PM on July 21, 2008
It's true! Here's the hat in action!
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 8:22 AM on July 22, 2008
And I was afraid the plural of moue was something like mieaux
No that's the French collective noun for kittens.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas
at 7:10 PM on July 22, 2008
