It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => Entertainment => Topic started by: Pandora on January 30, 2013, 02:31:14 PM
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Yah, real "entertaining" (http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/01/29/boyfriend-trainer-app-encourages-users-to-whack-boyfriends-into-shape/)
Fran Porretto hates this and explains why it's a very bad thing: http://bastionofliberty.blogspot.com/2013/01/courting-calamity-dept.html (http://bastionofliberty.blogspot.com/2013/01/courting-calamity-dept.html)
And he's right.
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?! What have we got here?! :o
Yeah, Sir Francis as usual nails it with his gifted prose.
Me? I still have Belgian spewing out my pie hole!
::gaah::
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I'm just sick of the whole trope that a man, vis-a-vis the woman in his life, is basically some oafish version of Clifford the Big Red Dog. A socially and intellectually stunted overgrown child, incompetent at anything of consequence much to the chagrin of his long suffering wife. Virtually every commercial on TV is some iteration of this. It also ties into the credentialism that our technocrat overlords like to promote. "Look at this absolutely foolish husband, with his 5 day facial growth and untucked shirt, attempting to perform a minor plumbing repair. Fortunately his hip, chic, and witty wife-slash-surrogate-mother is here to open the Yellow Pages and phone an expert."
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Francis wrote quite well about this "app" works right into that cultural mischaracterization. And it presents another false trope to how girls/women *ought* to think, similar to "every woman has a 'right' to feeeeel safe", in that it's reasonable to be able to batter the men in their lives and they won't end up with the living daylights slapped out of them once they draw blood or cause bruises.
It's sick. And dangerous.
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Francis wrote quite well about this "app" works right into that cultural mischaracterization. And it presents another false trope to how girls/women *ought* to think, similar to "every woman has a 'right' to feeeeel safe", in that it's reasonable to be able to batter the men in their lives and they won't end up with the living daylights slapped out of them once they draw blood or cause bruises.
It's sick. And dangerous.
I'm soooo glad my wife doesn't suffer from that incurable disease.
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I'm just sick of the whole trope that a man, vis-a-vis the woman in his life, is basically some oafish version of Clifford the Big Red Dog. A socially and intellectually stunted overgrown child, incompetent at anything of consequence much to the chagrin of his long suffering wife. Virtually every commercial on TV is some iteration of this. It also ties into the credentialism that our technocrat overlords like to promote. "Look at this absolutely foolish husband, with his 5 day facial growth and untucked shirt, attempting to perform a minor plumbing repair. Fortunately his hip, chic, and witty wife-slash-surrogate-mother is here to open the Yellow Pages and phone an expert."
My wife treats me like a bank, that's all I'm good for. She treats me worse than anyone she knows (even her good for nothing brother who she has had many disagreements with and has shut out of her life numerous times) and she has the nerve to call me mean.
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I'm just sick of the whole trope that a man, vis-a-vis the woman in his life, is basically some oafish version of Clifford the Big Red Dog. A socially and intellectually stunted overgrown child, incompetent at anything of consequence much to the chagrin of his long suffering wife. Virtually every commercial on TV is some iteration of this. It also ties into the credentialism that our technocrat overlords like to promote. "Look at this absolutely foolish husband, with his 5 day facial growth and untucked shirt, attempting to perform a minor plumbing repair. Fortunately his hip, chic, and witty wife-slash-surrogate-mother is here to open the Yellow Pages and phone an expert."
My wife treats me like a bank, that's all I'm good for. She treats me worse than anyone she knows (even her good for nothing brother who she has had many disagreements with and has shut out of her life numerous times) and she has the nerve to call me mean.
Shades of Atlas Shrugged. Sorry to hear that, ben.
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My wife treats me like a bank, that's all I'm good for. She treats me worse than anyone she knows (even her good for nothing brother who she has had many disagreements with and has shut out of her life numerous times) and she has the nerve to call me mean.
This makes me sad. So sorry.
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Thanks for the sympathy, it is my cross to bear.
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Thanks for the sympathy, it is my cross to bear.
Well, I hope you are able to do it with dignity and as an example to others because right now I suck at that. My dh lost his job and I'm short tempered right now and impatient and just plain mad.
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Canoeing, there's a canoe rental at the state park, it works for me. Anything that will burn it off. A row boat is better.