Worth A Try

I'll say it again:

Women will save us. And all we have to do is shut up

and stay out of the way.

Overheard

Not to offend anyone, but I was raised to take care of my husband. Cleaning up, washing his clothes, wearing gloves and an apron while handling the body, and acting very sad at the funeral.

About Those Lonely Men

Man vs Bear

Notice how the bear hears "No!" and fucks off.

Are we clear on this now, guys?

The Women

Dale Spender

1943 - 2023

Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets, for child care, for social welfare, for rape crisis centres, women's refuges, reforms in the law. If someone says, "Oh, I'm not a feminist", I ask, "Why? What's your problem?"

Overheard

If it was actually possible for women to sleep their way to the top, women would be running the whole goddamned show by now - you dumbass.

The far more likely reality is that men have been engaging in sexual extortion, withholding the rewards and promotions women have earned in order to get sex.

Look At Yourself

• When a young girl is raped, and you defend the rapist.
• When a guy shoots and kills a woman on the street, and you defend the shooter.
• When a guy is being totally disrespectful of the women around him, and you say nothing.

• Your cynicism doesn't make you interesting.
• Your smug dismissal of anything that moves normal people to feel sorrow doesn't make you manly.
• Your support for somebody who gets a kick out of pushing people around sure as fuck doesn't make you strong.

Women see and hear your reactions to the shitty things going on all around us - especially when you cheer it on, or you just shrug it off with some stupid epithet that you think is cute.

You're not being clear-eyed and pragmatic - you're being an asshole.

So the "crisis of male loneliness" isn't because there's a problem with women - it's because women are very much aware of what a big fuckin' jerk you are.

Leopards Are Eating His Face

"You need a man's protection from the monsters. And never mind that men have pretty much always been the monsters you need protection from. But hey - you think it was bad before? You ain't seen nuthin' yet, sister."

Dude - the Plutocrats are the ones beating you down. It's the billionaire parasites and their coin-operated politicians.

This is not Men vs Women, any more than it's Red vs Blue, or White vs Brown, or Libs vs MAGA. If you'd figure that out, and stand up against it, you'd find plenty of women fighting at your side. Because women have been fighting that battle for millennia, and they've got plenty to teach us. So shut the fuck up and learn, dumbass.

Overheard

Women don't owe the world babies.

They don't owe men babies.

And they don't owe anyone

an explanation for any of it.

Maybe we could all just

mind our own fuckin' business.

The Supreme Strength In Perceived Weakness

Nobody's coming to save you with a flag and a casserole.

Today's Monte

Women's standing in just about any segment of any society is a pretty good barometer of the overall health of that society.

And if my goal is to subjugate people in general, why not enlist half the population to help subjugate the other half?

Divide-n-Conquer works wonders, and there are so many different ways to apply it.

Today's Today

Happy International Women's Day

Questioning

I've said (on more than a few occasions), "Women will save us - all we have to do is stay the fuck outa their way and let 'em do it".

My intention was to acknowledge women's strength and capabilities. But apparently, in some quarters, it's not welcomed as any kind of encouragement, and has garnered some clapback.

So I'm having to reassess and recalibrate.

I didn't mean to put anything extra on your shoulders, ladies. You owe me exactly nothing.

Like I said, I've been hearing quite a bit about this. And though it's not aimed directly at me, I take their meaning. So I'm sorry. I'll try to be more mindful, and do better.

Today's Belle

In 2008 they told McCain that if he was more than 5 points underwater with women, he was gonna lose. He was, and he did.

And I'll say it again:

Women will save us. All we have to do is stay the fuck outa their way and let 'em do it.

Go get 'em, ladies.

I'll hold your stuff

while you fuck 'em up.

I'm right behind you,

and I'll be here when you're done.

A Poem

... by Danielle Coffyn

If Adam Picked The Apple

There would be a parade,

a celebration,

a holiday to commemorate

the day he sought enlightenment.

We would not speak of temptation

by the devil, rather,

we would laud Adam's curiosity,

his desire for adventure

and knowing.

We would feast

on apple-inspired fare -

tortes, chutneys, pancakes, pies.

There would be plays and songs

reenacting his courage.

But it was Eve who grew bored,

weary of her captivity in Eden.

And a woman's desire

for freedom is rarely a cause

for celebration.

She's Gonna Need It

Women Will Save Us

and I'll be

standing right

behind them

holding their stuff

while they fuck you up. 

Dear Mr Butker

The Yankee Farm Wife would like a word

Mic Drop, Bitch

... like 3 or 4 times.

Get Wise

I wasn't fully aware of it back then, but I do remember the time when women were all but invisible outside the confines of their marriage, and their kids, and managing their households.

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