Man Boobz Party Time President’s Day Pledge Drive!
Party on, dude!
If you aren’t too worn out by all the Presidents’ Day revelry — and the ritual Donning of the Fake Lincoln Beards — I would like to welcome you to the first edition of the 2013 Man Boobz Pledge Drive! (There will be 3 in all.)
I’ll try to keep this brief and repeat what I said last time: If you enjoy this blog, and can afford it, please click on the “donate” button below and sending a few bucks my way. Or, if you’d prefer, a massive quantity of bucks. You don’t need a PayPal account to donate; you can use a credit card, and I think there are other options as well.
There’s a bit more urgency to my request this time: I’m really and truly broke at the moment. Things should get better later in the year, but right now I could use all the help I can get.
I appreciate any and all contributions. And I’d also like to do a quick shout-out to the those who send me much needed $ between pledge drives, whether these are one-shot deals or regular infusions.
That said, if you’re also broke and can’t swing a contribution now, I completely understand. There are lots of ways to contribute to this blog besides cold hard cash, and lots of you contribute enormously every day with smart and funny comments and cartoons and silly parody MRA posters and so on and so on. Which is awesome. It’s the community here that keeps me going.
So thanks!
Oh, and if you need more persuading, here’s Tom Baker (no, really) begging for bucks during a PBS pledge drive.
Posted on February 18, 2013, in announcements, pledge drive. Bookmark the permalink. 270 Comments.
Is going on my business cards. Do you think Marketing will notice?
Soft bark dog, you are ridiculously cute.
I like how “this isn’t a social justice site” transmuted first to “you don’t want your awfulness to reflect badly on social justice” and then to “you hate social justice.”
sonichu reminds me of a cat with its head stuck in a bag running around the house making weird noises.
Kitteh, I don’t give a shit about MRAs. Though if they are the opposition of you then they can’t be as bad as David portrays them.
Squeak, squeak, squeak!
hellkell, your analogy is an apt analogy. Weird noises = squeak, squeak, squeak!
Can’t we get a new troll? Recycling is great and all, but I’m not sure that socks are among the list of things that need to be recycled.
sonichu I’m gonna be honest SUPER confused about what your problem is with us. People continually tell you things and you don’t seem to be responding.
You’ve been told that david did not post the link you are upset. The folks you are arguing with did not post the link that you are upset with. Yet, you are flipping out and calling us monsters and awful people.
And frankly your logic in regards to MRMs is very flawed. I’m sure there are many individuals that don’t agree with us, but that doesn’t mean they are great people.
I’m fairly certain I’ve seen several white supremacists get their panties in a bunch over opinions similar to ours. Does that mean that you don’t think white supremacists are as bad as we think they are.
You are getting sidelined on an issue that wasn’t even brought into conversation by the rest of this thread. You are stuck on an issues that nobody is arguing about. Nobody has said that they think class segregation is a good thing. You are arguing with a phantom. That makes me think you a troll. And a badly done troll.
Sorry again for errors. Ipod isn’t the best to type on.
Aww, trolly doesn’t want to see that the SPLC and us know what we’re talking about.
“I don’t care about MRAs! I’ll just defend them without knowing anything ‘cos you mean nasty people are picking on them! I really really don’t know anything about them or share their attitudes or anything! I’m just too fucking lazy even to look!”
LOL
If old trolls are going to keep socking can’t they at least change it up a bit? Try a new tactic, vary their writing style. Do something so that the comment sections they get involved in feel less like Groundhog Day.
Troll:
I totally don’t care about MRAs
HOW DARE YOU SAY TERRIBLE THINGS ABOUT MRAS
We’re all monsters, here? That’s a strange thing for a pile of 300 babies to say. And how did you make that determination, anyway? Is it the same logic that says one ambiguous comment in an article means a whole organization is riddled with classism?
I’m short on sleep today and short on patience, and Sonichu’s argument (for want of a better word) is just turning into blah-blah-blah meaningless fuzz. What’s the point of a troll if they’re simply no good at trolling? WHAT IS THE POINT OF YOU??
Hey sonichu! sonichu-who-I-totally-believe-knows-nothing-about-MRAs-because-that’s-super-credible! Since you’ve never ever ever been exposed to MRAs and what they have to say, maybe this would be a good place to start. Yes, yes, it’s a Man Boobz page, and Man Boobz is written by a mean meanie, but the part I think is interesting is the part that is directly quoted from MRAs. Take the following, about Big Brothers/Big Sisters:
There! Now you’ve read something an MRA has written! Your first experience with MRAdom! Does it bother you? Because if you can read that, and shrug, and not give a damn, but you can’t deal with us not liking MRAs, your impartiality might fall a little bit into question.
Not that it has already. Because I totally believe you don’t have a vested interest in this. You just happened to drop by.
@ Spleeny Damage
I guess it makes him feel better to vent his bitterness at us? Kind of like popping a zit, allows him to get all the internal pus out.
Would be nice if he could find a way to vent that didn’t involve spraying pus all over other people, but that’s true for most trolls, and hey, at least this one is too incompetent to hurt anyone’s feelings.
SpleenyBaggage, sorry.
I’m not poor. I am not swimming in dough but I have a pension (from a career in the Army), and I have a part time job (because it makes my life easier, though I can survive without it).
What I am, at present, is a bit tight for money. Why? Because I do things. I am paying my way to Calif. to speak at a conference, where I’ll be discussing interrogation/torture (because I am a subject matter expert). This conference can’t afford to pay for my airfare/accommodations; much less the usual fee I get for such engagements. Because I care (and because there are other; intangible recompense I’ll get for this trip), I’m paying for it out of pocket; and taking a hit for not working for a week or so.
But Dave is working (anyone who thinks doing the research, and spending the time Manboobz requires has never had a regular column to fill, nor moderated a web-based forum). That he does it for free (which he does, this is a request for donations of appreciation; not a subscriber-based model) speaks volumes. It means he cares; as much as I do about torture and interrogation.
Both are deserving of recompense, and sometimes they generate it.
99% of the population who disagree with them.
Spleeny - that kitteh in your gravatar looks like it’s being the trapdoor spider of the cat world!
Just a note to say thanks again to all the donors, but don’t feel bad if you didn’t donate, I still love you all too, except maybe sonichu and the other trolls. Also, welcome, new commenters!
BTW, I just reread the thread from the top. The number of people defending SPLC “rabidly”? Pretty close to zero.
A number of people have said it was a problematic phrasing, essentially agreeing with poor sonichu. (including me)
But we’ve repeatedly asked for citations for their ‘class-based attacks’ that are apparently something they are so HUGE on.
Zip from sonichu.
Now, do they take potshots at poor white men all the time? So far as I know, most of the Klan is poor white men. Is it classist to call them a hate group?
Show your work, sonichu. Otherwise what you’re doing is utterly transparent trolling. Trying to take the focus off, y’know, the hateful dreck posted in every post but this one.
“They can’t be so bad if David’s against them.”
For realz? And… the post before this one? The post after this one? You DEFEND that?
Ha! I just read sonichu’s entry in the other thread.
To sum up:
Here: “I never heard of MRAs before, but if you’re against them, they must be okay.”
There: “David virgin-shames people ALL THE TIME.”
So… if he’s familiar with David’s writing, then he heard of them before. There’s a word for people who misrepresent like this. What was it again?
Liar.
I’m gonna have to disagree with you here, because David certainly did post a link to, and comment on, that SPLC report when it came out. The real question is, does Sonichu actually care about classism, or are they just using it as a stick to beat the “SJWs” with?
I mean, a person who complains that people here are ~so mean~ to people they disagree with, while calling everyone (here and at the SPLC) names and accusing them of things without evidence doesn’t exactly have a lot of credibility, you know?
This “THE SPLC IS EVIL” line seems to be freshly in the minds of some MRA, as someone recently necroed another thread with this line of gibberish.
There! Donated. I meant to do that the other day but it’s taken forever to catch up on all the comments. I see Arks is back and making an early, if insipid, bid for the 2013 troll of the year. And this new jack-ass.
Thanks for everything, David!
sonichu is just a sad tone troll and a painfully dull one at that. He needs to go spend some time scouring 4chan and youtube and come back with some high quality trolling, not this lame shite.
If anyone was curious how my first attempt went…well…the chicken did not bake like I wanted but the rest was awesome. I threw the cheese on for the last ten minutes and that melted it properly without being too crackly.
Looks like he gave up. Whew.
@inurashii
It has got to be hard to be that boring for more than a day or so.
Please only send comments on how to acquire a female when the guy is broke.
William Heck: You could try thinking of women as women (y’know, people) instead of talking about “acquiring a female” like we’re property.
Troll quality has plummeted of late.
Wow, William Heck is necroing old posts too:
http://manboobz.com/2011/12/20/homeless-girls-a-frugal-alternative-to-pricey-prostitutes/comment-page-8/#comment-258742
Try reading for comprehension, dude.
He seems to be another of the women-are-commodities trolls. “Oh but I neeeeeed to have sex!”
How is it that guys who are total wankers seem never to have heard of masturbation? It is a mystery.
Have you tried being awesome or, alternatively, not being an asshole? Works for a lot of people.
How hard is it to say the word “woman”? From William Heck, we’ve had “girl to screw” (in the necro-thread) and “female.” It’s gross and creepy (and that is leaving aside the “to screw” and “acquiring” bits).
Zie actually said that more or less outright earlier, by saying that the SPLC disproportionately targets poor people.
Well, let’s all take a moment to shed a tear for those poor KKK dudes. Oh wait, I have a better idea.
XD
@katz, exactly. If you want to talk about the Klan without talking about the economics of it-how the mindset is fueled by privilege denied leverage, by people promised the world and given shit, then you can’t really talk about the causes and the mindset very much at all, can you?
And if acknowledging that is classism… what is attempts to help deal with that poverty? TOTALLY CLASSIST TO TRY TO END POVERTY, BRO?
Done. Money’s a little funny right now so it’s not as much as I’d like, will try and donate again when things improve.
Can’t stop laughing. I can’t recall a more bemusing introduction
His request has now been illustrated.
I kind of want to do an elaborate piece of performance art by making that into a zillion postcards and then mailing them to random addresses.
A female what? Female mice are free at PetMart with purchase of a cage.
katz, if the number was smaller than a zillion I might kick in some postage.
OMG, so glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read this. I bow before your mastery of snark.
@Bostonian that’s terrible. I hate it when people treat mice - or any other animal - like cheap, disposable toys.
@Go To Heck
I think I see your problem.
And I will “send” any comments I goddamn want (provided David lets me). You don’t control the discussion here just because you say so.
(Wouldn’t really do it, of course, because I wouldn’t want to traumatize all the recipients. But I’m really curious as to what, if any, replies I’d get.)
@Katz you would probably get either PUA/bitter misogynist nonsense, or feminists yelling at you because that question is gross. So, this blog, basically
BUT IRL!
I really, really wanted to make poster-size posters of some of our MRA posters and put them up on campus, and install a hidden camera to film the reactions.
Hey David, if we made you a t-shirt out of the poster of your choice, would you wear it around Chicago for a while and report what happens? XD
Of course the folks that want to know how to acquire a female are often the folks that don’t understand what we mean when we say entitlement.
It is the same concept as the friendzone: entitlement. Don’t get me wrong I’ve fallen for friends and been rejected, but I don’t throw a hissy fit and whine on the internet because I don’t feel entitled to the men I like bodies or love.
Cute new pic, melody!
The picture is Ileta and she is my dads dog. She is in love with my dad. Super jealous.
No wonder, she’s a cutie! What breed(s) is she?
I met the sweetest Doberman this morning. Great big boy who’s a professional Everybody’s Friend dog.
Aww, that is a cute doggie melody. What a happy face.
Missed that before - thank ‘ee! I iz training to be mistress of the snark dungeon.
Sheltie and who else knows. Shes a mutt. We aren’t entirely sure, but our vet says sheltie is in there.
And she is a happy dog. She is 5 years old.
We found her in a fred meyer parking lot. Stole my dads heart. His first dog (we’ve had others, but he wasn’t emotionally invested).
::slaps forehead:: I should have guessed sheltie was in there somewhere! She’s a bit like my sister’s boy Laddie (yeah, as in Lassie) is a sheltie-mystery cross. At least we think he is!
*who is a
Ya, she most assuredly has some sheltie traits. She really is too adorable. I miss her. She is always super excited when I come visit or when she comes and visits me. I’m thinking next month I’ll put up Carmen. She is a chihuahua I never thought I’d like a chihuahua, but she is the exception. She can only use 3 of her legs. The other one is tucked up under her body….
Whats your kitties name?