I hate this book

Nothing remotely interesting, believe me.

Oh shit, I’m still reading Spreading Misandry, aren’t I? Christ, where was I? Page 109? God, that’s less than a third of the way through. Do I have to?

This Christmas, I bring you all the gift of laughter

After paying another visit to my bottomless pile of moldy VHS tapes found in charity stores, here is episode one of The Ghost Busters. The proper one with the gorilla.

What struck me the first time I saw it was that, despite this being the first episode, they’ve already resorted to a plot that hinges on one of the main characters inexplicably being an identical duplicate of the villain. Then I watched the rest of the series and discovered that this happens roughly every second episode.

Against our better judgment, let’s read “Spreading Misandry”, Chapter Four

LET’S READ SPREADING MISANDRY

CHAPTER FOUR
BYPASSING MEN: WOMEN ALONE TOGETHER

The bonds of “sisterhood” were heavily promoted in the 1990s, and only because political gains would have been impossible without solidarity. That solidarity was reflected in popular culture. Among the more obvious examples, in music were the Spice Girls, promoting “grrrl power”, and the annual Lilith Fair, developed to celebrate the music of female artists.

Should people who get the Spice Girls’ catch phrase wrong really be writing a book about 1990’s popular culture?

Let’s briefly read “Spreading Misandry”, Chapter Three

LET’S READ SPREADING MISANDRY

CHAPTER THREE
LOOKING DOWN ON MEN: SEPARATE BUT UNEQUAL

After the civil rights movement in the United States and the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, few would declare, at least publicly, that racial segregation – under the heading, in the United States, of “separate but equal” – had been a good thing. Even if it could be argued that separation were morally acceptable, which is highly debatable, the fact remains that the ancien regime in both cases had failed to provide equality. In fact, though not in theory, the races had been separate but unequal. And many have argued that racial inequality is inherent in the whole notion of racial segregation because of its focus on the differences between whites and blacks.

Racial segregation: Possibly racist!

Let’s Read “Spreading Misandry”, Chapter Two

LET’S READ SPREADING MISANDRY

CHAPTER TWO
LAUGHING AT MEN: THE LAST OF VAUDEVILLE

As well as the first, middle and penultimate bits of Vaudeville. That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, it’s the crotch-deadeningly inevitable “But look at all the men on television! Why, they’re bumbling idiots!” chapter.

My Christmas present arrives early! Let’s Read “Spreading Misandry”, Chapter One

“It will come to no surprise that I have spent some time thinking about what it would be like to live as a woman”, says liar.

Dear God, what have I done?

Yes, thanks to my patented Zany Sidebar Widget, this blog was, for one accursed day, Exiern’s #9 source of traffic. I’m assuming that this means most of you have now read it, but on the offchance that you didn’t: Exiern is neck and neck with The Wotch as the most dreadful not-actually-transgender comic on the internet. There is an important distinction to be made between the two, however: The people behind The Wotch live in a crazy sexy femocracy where female privilege actually exists, so turning the male characters female as often as possible isn’t just a pretext for poorly-drawn wank material, but a humanitarian gesture on par with Christ healing lepers. The dude behind Exiern, on the other hand, wants you to pay him money to see drawings of nipples.

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.