How much of modern conservatism is traceable to being offended by something a woman said and then obsessing over it for decades - ThreadSky

kenwhite.bsky.social • 169 days ago

How much of modern conservatism is traceable to being offended by something a woman said and then obsessing over it for decades

Reposted from Michael Hobbes

lmao
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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midatlantica.bsky.social•169 days ago

I can kinda emphasize if it was a guy in the middle of nowhere who was spurned by one of the dozen women he’d ever meet in his life, but this guy’s in New York City. All he’s saying is he won’t pay the ferry to date anyone from Staten Island

toddaago.bsky.social•169 days ago

"But I don't think they're hot enough for me to date."

smogget.bsky.social•169 days ago

Ah, so this is what happens to single cat lads

amari.bsky.social•168 days ago

maybe more like obsessing for millennia…

thewesterhazys.bsky.social•169 days ago

I think the amount is off the charts.

I regularly post examples of how "the right hates and fears women" but there is so much implicit and explicit resentment towards women in policies and words that I still get shocked at how naked the anger is.

tsmcicero.bsky.social•168 days ago

100%

orivandewalle.bsky.social•169 days ago

I've said it many times, but while my therapist insists there are downsides to crippling self-loathing, at least it prevents me from ending up a woman-hating incel.

luminosity.bsky.social•169 days ago

I wish I had paid closer attention to the fish/bicycle thing

momerathe.bsky.social•169 days ago

no joke, this is how the literal witch burnings started.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Kramer

mrquindazzi.bsky.social•169 days ago

It's all about getting laid.

blakeyrat.bsky.social•169 days ago

What's crazy is that he didn't even TALK to this woman... just saw her. For all he knows she didn't even take the button seriously, she thought it was a joke.

mbillips.bsky.social•169 days ago

“I took offense to a wry joke, and that has made all the difference.”

gojira1000.bsky.social•169 days ago

Thinnest-skinned snowflakes on the planet

leosmith.bsky.social•168 days ago

So, he thinks it's a critical role of government to convince women they need men.

andersosu.bsky.social•169 days ago

Liberalism is much healthier. It’s all traceable to waking up in the middle of the night decades later, still embarrassed over that awkward thing you did as a teenager, trying to impress a woman.

kenwhite.bsky.social•169 days ago

I WENT TO A POETRY READING

A POETRY READING

larelli.bsky.social•168 days ago

Ha! I can see you in yr element at a slam poetry event😂

subpoenis.bsky.social•169 days ago

it's all of it

tzed250.bsky.social•169 days ago

dougwar40k.bsky.social•169 days ago

It's like Doctor Doom's origin story, except Doctor Doom is a "conservative" guy, Reed Richards is any normal woman, and the magic-infused chemistry experiment that blows up in your face is the woman not particularly wanting intercourse with a white guy who orders "flied lice" at the Chinese place.

dtwyman.bsky.social•168 days ago

So, no childless cat incels for Kamala?

infamousunknown.bsky.social•169 days ago

You have to start with entitlement though.

If you don't have an expectation that you will be adored by all just for being you maybe you can take some rejection.

yeahjeetsyeah.bsky.social•169 days ago

It's denotes massive level of weakness and insecurity.

Men who obsess over masculinity are often the most insecure in their masculinity.

mattferrel.bsky.social•169 days ago

Yes, but replace often with always

jitteryraptor33.bsky.social•169 days ago

Fragile male egos. These are the men who run around thinking the world owes them something. Most people read something they don't like they blow it off, not these men it will haunt them and their fragile egos for their entire lives. Such sad lives.

olliemcclellan.bsky.social•169 days ago

Or, in this case, did not actually say out loud but merely silently displayed on a button this weirdo saw when he was presumably evaluating her value as breeding stock.

dbernat.bsky.social•169 days ago

Couldn’t handle the prejection

olliemcclellan.bsky.social•169 days ago

"She doesn't even know me. How could she possibly know it isn't her life's destiny to be my broodmare?"

4thstringer.bsky.social•169 days ago

Imagine googling your date and them coming up a national review writer.

olliemcclellan.bsky.social•169 days ago

Unlikely to happen to me for a panoply of reasons, but I think I now have an innie just from briefly pondering the hypothetical.

amyamybobamy.bsky.social•169 days ago

great googly moogly

poguemahon.bsky.social•169 days ago

It’s incels all the way down

wetluzinski.bsky.social•169 days ago

Man pictured on his bed getting p*say whenever he damn well feels like it (or the cat cooperates)

dbernat.bsky.social•169 days ago

Yes, and, didn’t Bono say that though?

mteson.bsky.social•169 days ago

I once saw a woman on the subway with a backpack that had a U2 button and I remember completely disagreeing with that

mteson.bsky.social•169 days ago

Bono took it from the feminist movement in the 70s, apparently it came from Australia.

dbernat.bsky.social•169 days ago

😉

mteson.bsky.social•169 days ago

I will never allow Bono to take credit for anything.

dbernat.bsky.social•169 days ago

Fair. Doing gods work lol

mteson.bsky.social•169 days ago

Not god's work I do it...

🙂😎

...in the name of love.

jlroberson.bsky.social•169 days ago

Not even how bad HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOIMIC BOMB is?

ericreder.bsky.social•169 days ago

Irina Dunn of U Sydney. I looked it up because I thought it was Gloria Steinem.

michaelwhiteshoes.bsky.social•169 days ago

this woman coined the phrase...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina_Dunn#:~:text=but%20was%20unsuccessful.-,Dunn%20as%20writer%20and%20filmmaker,writing%20for%20pleasure%20or%20publication.

amyamybobamy.bsky.social•169 days ago

Thank you kindly; I'd been under the impression that it originated with Gloria Steinem.

michaelwhiteshoes.bsky.social•169 days ago

i have a research kink...i have to know & then feel compelled to share🤓

amyamybobamy.bsky.social•169 days ago

Ah, same.
Never fully understood why people get upset when you debunk an old chestnut like that--I'm just as happy to unlearn something (fact-check me, baby).

michaelwhiteshoes.bsky.social•169 days ago

same...i gotta know

allengarvin.bsky.social•169 days ago

There was also a Guinness ad in the uk in the early 90s with a cgi fish on a bycicle.

eileenfiona.bsky.social•169 days ago

Bono got it off a button in 1990 and you could reasonably interpret his lyrics to mean he came to a similar conclusion as this dude

gojirademonstah.bsky.social•169 days ago

Bono says many things. It’s even his name.

dbernat.bsky.social•169 days ago

Well that’s true.

cdbrow1.bsky.social•169 days ago

Obviously the problem here is not the mens, but the women and all their speakings.

mostlymartha.bsky.social•169 days ago

And

karin.kallmaker.com•169 days ago

Wow. He's triggered by a 50-year-old feminist meme that was in answer to Phyllis Schlafly's sentiment that all a woman needs is to be in her husband's home as a wife and mother.

Dude. Put on some sunblock if you're that easily burned.

jeannetteblue.bsky.social•169 days ago

Truer words were never said.

booond.bsky.social•169 days ago

And it is always the same thing... no.

cloudyvapor.bsky.social•169 days ago

My god, that poor cat!

michaelspins.bsky.social•169 days ago

it's even dumber than that, it was something on a woman's button

krystolla.bsky.social•169 days ago

I thought they were finding Ayn Rand at an impressionable age. Instead it’s obsessing over button slogans. Button slogans.

One way to avoid the ultimate fear of a woman laughing at him is to be so cringe that laughter is impossible.

drdepth.bsky.social•169 days ago

Is this about Murphy Brown?

digitalwatches.bsky.social•169 days ago

Probably most of the subset that isn't traceable to having said something that resulted in a woman losing interest and/or trust in the speaker, who then doubled down rather than self-reflecting about it

clpolk.com•169 days ago

I wish I was sure that this guy harped on and on about being needed because he knows deep in the marrow of his bones that if he's not *needed* then he will have to be *wanted* which means he has to actually be a benefit to a person's life and he couldn't meet that standard

davidmack.bsky.social•169 days ago

Precisely. He doesn’t seem to grasp that it’s his responsibility to first make himself interesting, likeable, and desirable. He’s trying to date in NYC, a place that draws some of the best, brightest, and most independent people. Mediocre doesn’t cut it here. “Need” ain’t enough.

word-geek.bsky.social•169 days ago

His entire section is basically "I have a sad boner"

If he gets turned down, he assumes it's his politics, or they googled him. And OMG, stop thinking one conversation is the start of your picket fence life🤦

rational.bsky.social•169 days ago

Hinted at this earlier but I think his mother paid for this article (without telling him)

ratherodd.bsky.social•169 days ago

They are literally still calling women they don't agree with witches. So at least that long.

meatbuns.bsky.social•169 days ago

this is why calling them wierd worked

they were the weird creepy dudes in school and a pretty girl called them that, and they've been macerating in it ever since

airbudddwyer.bsky.social•169 days ago

a like double digit percentage of getting mad about pronouns is old guys who have been living in fear of a woman saying "it's MIZZZZ" when they called her "miss" since like 1968

toomanyrichies.bsky.social•169 days ago

“This move toward saying we don’t need each other and we could just be these totally individualized beings… I reject that idea.”

So can we count on you to support higher wages for teachers, farmers, nurses, factory workers, & others we all depend on?

Conservatives & libertarians: “LOL LMAO.”

bastiatt.bsky.social•169 days ago

How long is a piece of a string?

radix4801.bsky.social•169 days ago

GOP ✋
GIP 👈

Grand Incel Party

mattferrel.bsky.social•169 days ago

Brings new meaning to “win one for the Gipper"

boteball.bsky.social•169 days ago

Wul, the O and I are right next to each other on the outdated QWERTY keyboard, so...

annabellelecter.bsky.social•168 days ago

Whatever women said no to his advances were making good decisions, based on his expression and what he expressed.

uniondesign.bsky.social•169 days ago

Traumatized by a button he saw a decade ago 😂😂😂😂😂

larklatroy.bsky.social•168 days ago

The joker in this article doesn't want a connection with family, he wants to OWN a woman. Another in the long list of alpha snowflake, NeedleDick, dudebros that think they are supposed to rule. Some people just want to keep living in the 10th century.

nclud.bsky.social•169 days ago

are my conservative opinions misogynistic?

kipwilliams.bsky.social•169 days ago

"So, what did you do? Get a button that contradicted it?"

"No! I struggled for years to build THIS! (dramatic reveal of Fishcycle Nexus!!) It's just this conceptual artwork for now."

arkanjil.bsky.social•167 days ago

The Baffler had an article a dogs age ago about how one of the first things the Moral Majority did was snap up the mailing lists of the John Birchers, who’d been grifting & and prostelgzing to for decades. It was a very fertile field for them…

banannav.bsky.social•169 days ago

omg, YES

dmvbizman.bsky.social•169 days ago

I imagine you ask any conservative why they're a conservative and no matter what origin story they give you it will be entirely petty and childish and entirely divorced from reality or the normal reasons people align to political policies.

cizeta8088.bsky.social•169 days ago

"divorced" 🤭

eunacis.bsky.social•169 days ago

"Girl won't touch my peepee" is the origin of most fascists...

pursuinghoppiness.bsky.social•169 days ago

Someone has probably already posted this....but that is a lyric to a U2 song FFS!

pursuinghoppiness.bsky.social•169 days ago

On a button on someone's backpack! Is that the only (BS) rationalization he could come up with?

signalthirteen.me•169 days ago

It's mind-blowing the intricate belief system, conclusion shopping, and thinking the 1st amendment covers being an asshole when it's just so, so much easier to just go to therapy.

Guys, get therapy. Please.

dallas-taylor.bsky.social•169 days ago

Or just had as a button on her backpack!

fincoot.bsky.social•169 days ago

"and I guess that's what makes me a conservative"

Nah brah. That ain't it.

srboisvert.bsky.social•169 days ago

I dunno but if I ever run into that guy I'm going to call him Fishbike.

nightscotsman.bsky.social•169 days ago

Cat looks like a hostage

kc-momkin.bsky.social•169 days ago

They are still mad about the bear in the woods, which is why RFK jrs bear cub fiasco wasn't as terrible for him as it could have been.

scohoe.bsky.social•169 days ago

This is the formula Naomi Klein came up with.

theneilcave.bsky.social•169 days ago

The button wasn’t that edgy to begin with right? No one should need another person as a tool. These people are nuts.

strtrklvr.bsky.social•169 days ago

Interesting. I never thought of that

jfpgaffney.bsky.social•169 days ago

I believe we're all connected, so I vote for the "everybody get theirs/Social Darwinism" candidates!

baumer.bsky.social•169 days ago

Like half of it. Unless maybe that woman was black or brown. Then I guess it could be responsible for all of modern conservatism.

sunnieskye.bsky.social•169 days ago

Like “no, I have to wash my hair tonight”?

geetnerd.bsky.social•168 days ago

"Look at me now, Amy! I have ALL the money! I don't need you! I don't need you at all!"

"Please call me."

mjr1.bsky.social•169 days ago

HAHAHA! The NYC Young Republicans Club is incel central!

jmcrowell.bsky.social•169 days ago

Also, Frodo has really taken a heel turn and let himself go.

adenalbert.com•169 days ago

Jesus, this guy is what happens when Mr. Bean’s clone gets out of the tank too early

jmcrowell.bsky.social•169 days ago

This is a self-loathing, closeted character from a Bret Easton Ellis novel who thinks he's Algonquin-level funny but one whom other characters tolerate/pity because he's so annoying (also fantastically rich and connected).
May also secretly be an devotee of Patrick Bateman's work.

annabellelecter.bsky.social•168 days ago

Is he still around? What an exhausting person.

rvdshadyglenn.bsky.social•169 days ago

Is that a shitty portrait of himself in a Speedo with a speargun behind him?

jmcrowell.bsky.social•169 days ago

In his "Homage to Wes Anderson (and myself)" room which is likely the guest house on his parent's lavish estate.

joshksky.bsky.social•169 days ago

many such cases

(though few will recall that this one was originally co-reported by @adamserwer.bsky.social with Katie JM Baker)

astrophic.bsky.social•169 days ago

I did not see that last line coming

mfreeman.bsky.social•169 days ago

Convinced Alito got snubbed by a hippie and here we are.

jlroberson.bsky.social•169 days ago

The fact he's a young man who uses the word "consternation" might be more a clue as to his problem ;)

cardinalsigns.bsky.social•169 days ago

He's offended at the notion that a woman doesn't "need" a man. Why is the reaction never that they should make themselves desirable and valuable enough to be "wanted" by women?

thebaroness.bsky.social•169 days ago

Probably all of it. It never occurred to me until now, but I’ll bet the guy I laughed at for wearing red boxers is full MAGA, now.

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