At last, a website that does not degrade my worth and dignity!

Today we begin with this “Introduce Yourself” post on the Antimisandry forum, which is accompanied by the traditional ad for online Muslim dating as well as a rarer, more collectible one for the Charles Atlas bodybuilding program:

Hello I ran and operate Heavenly Devils – A Men’s Lifestyle and Entertainment Magazine and came across this site recently. It has become an inspiration for a new section and has helped me in my attempt to make a site for men…

At last!

…that’s both entertaining and informational especially when it comes to issues that degrade men’s worth and their dignity.

Belated Hallowe’en

This was meant to be up yesterday, but it took a lot longer to make YouTube-able than I’d anticipated. I couldn’t link to someone else’s copy, either, because this is – as far as I’m aware – the first time that Lumpkin the Pumpkin has been available in a medium other than VHS.

But the stupidest part…

Is probably their own response. It relies on my favourite ever internet debating style, in which you reproduce your opponents’ arguments verbatim, say something along the lines of “Hahaha, that is so stupid I do not even know where to BEGIN!” and then act as if the entire thing is beneath you without ever actually providing a cogent rebuttal. It’s no surprise that it’s most popular among the sort of people who’d write and read a blog like The Spearhead, because it’s the kind of response they get from everyone else, and if it works for them, then it’ll work for us too, right? Right? It’s best to think of them as the debating equivalent of ten year olds who believe that watching Dragonball has taught them ninjitsu.

“How many heterosexual Doctor Who fans does it take to change a lightbulb? Both”

Thanks to his bevy of male sci-fi role-models, ProMaleAntiFeministTech will one day develop time travel, escape the matriarchal apocalypse and attempt to change the course of history by writing strongly-worded letters to Thrilling Wonder Stories.

Blogger’s opinion of variety television not low enough: “I’m as surprised as you are”

I need to catch a train in 15 minutes, so this is going to be brief.

Lesbian Vampire Killers: Highlights From The Imaginary Commentary Track

What I think the creators were thinking, probably.

Posting something on behalf of Lesbian Gamers (despite two obvious drawbacks)

Two playable characters of different race, gender and age appearing simultaneously on screen in the fifteen year old DOS game One Must Fall 2097. X-Box 360: Not enough RAM?

Angela from Lesbian Gamers would like you to read “Halo 3: One Discourse on Sexism and Tolerance“. She would also have liked Feminist Gamers to be the one telling you this, but they’re still on haitus.

There will be a proper post tomorrow, sort-of-coincidentally about Lesbian Vampire Killers, a film that isn’t about lesbians who kill vampires. It’s about something much, much worse.

Joke about rape only offensive to stupid people, says hilarious man

Today’s spectre at the e-feast: Is there a more irritatingly whiny defense than “But that wasn’t the intention…” ?

We were wrong! The University of Mary Washington Mothering Study does not actually want you after all.

So.  Mea maxima culpa.  I posted a link to the UMW Mothering Study without having actually investigated it, largely because the purpose of the study was “to learn about how women today feel about the relationship between mothering and feminism”, and this would seem to preclude my involvement. It also made me feel important, something I’m more fixated on than I’d like to think. But hey, the professor who sent me the link is a woman who works at a university which started off as a women’s college and is itself named after a woman, so how likely is it that she’ll screw up a survey aimed at women? Hah ha ha. Hah. Ha. Hoo.

The University of Mary Washington Mothering Study wants you!

Direct from inbox. I like it when stuff like this happens because it lets me pretend I’m part of the A Team.

Hi, my name is Mindy, merchull[at]umw.edu, and I am a teacher and researcher at the University of Mary Washington, in Fredericksburg, Virginia.  I am researching attitudes about mothering and feminism with my colleague Miriam Liss.

We are collecting data from women over the age of 18.  We are looking for feminists, non-feminists, mothers, and non-mothers.  Your blog seems to target women who might be interested in our study.  Would you be willing to post a link to it on your blog?

If so, please post the following link (along with our permission for people to repost the link elsewhere if desired) along with anything else you choose to say:

http://ff5umw.com/motherconsent.html