We Have an Admirer!
This is in reference to the previous post, which as you know consisted of naught but a link and a couple of sardonic phrases. The link pointed to a blog called PumaPAC, which purports to be feminist in some way, and seems to be populated by political junkies and gasbags pontificating on a dunghill. Boy, these people sure do know a bunch of stuff (in certain categories) which I do not! Anyhow, I posted the link casually, not thinking much of it, but knowing it would serve as illustration for certain points of discussion I sometimes bring up.
Lo and behold, Darragh Murphy (the blog owner) was gazing into her Wordpress admin stats, and saw the incoming traffic from my link! She quickly surfed over to CF, and what she found made an impression. That impression was non-trivial, and Murphy felt moved to "share the experience" by announcing it, as follows, on a comment thread:
Something else: I wonder if Darragh Murphy is aware that Trent13 is a woman? From what I can gather, Darragh has no idea. Yet it would surely be a point of significance, or so you might assume. (Trent13 is also Catholic, which could explain the affinity toward Aristotle—by way of Thomistic philosophy, of course!)
So, according to Darragh Murphy, my commenters called her a "dumbass"— although none of them use that actual word. Now, whether Darragh Murphy veritably IS a dumbass, is a separate question. But Darragh very clearly stands accused—or thinks she does. This event, of being imputed a dumbass, was a point of some importance in her day or she wouldn't have brought it to her readers in quest of communal reinforcement. Surely, if it meant nothing to her, then her response would have been . . . nothing. Or at any rate, noblesse oblige. Also, 'dumbass' is rather a schoolyard choice of words, which observers of a psychological bent will not fail to consider—the kind of word that might pop out as a reversion to the primitive, under the duress of emotional agitation.
Interestingly, Murphy makes the following remark further along in the thread:
But here is a link to the original comment on PumaPAC:
http://pumapac.org/2009/08/05/damn/#comment-360012
As you read further along the thread, you'll find one or two short quips by some other people, one of whom takes exception to the photo gallery along the right side of this page, and pretends to find something irregular or "off" about the phrase "we males" which occurs in the caption. I am still trying to fathom the mentation behind that! Seriously, what IS that person on about?
Well, I don't know if Darragh wants the attention or not, but she's getting it anyway. You see how very thin-skinned these people are: thin enough that we can easily get under it! Something tells me it isn't easy to be Darragh Murphy, when more and more people like us are popping up everywhere, everyday!
You might wonder why I should be at the trouble of writing this. Well, I want to provide some entertainment for "onside" readers. And not just entertainment, but practical instruction and useful insight to boot. Other than that, I think it is a good idea to use your claws once in a while, just to keep them sharp.
If Darragh Murphy wants to do the adult thing, the "cool" thing, then she will simply ignore this little zinger which I have composed in her honor—and it's mild salsa; I could make it way the hell hotter! But yes, the grown-up response would be to ignore this, as it would have been to ignore my earlier post instead of making such an easy target of herself.
On the other hand, if Darragh Murphy wants to be an ignoramus and a jackass, and go another round or three, then she will get sucked straight into the vortex and pinned to the bottom like a gasping, drowning, flailing fool. What else can I say? ;)
Really Darragh, the wise plan is to tuck, and turn your back, and walk straight away from this dinky little blog, and carry on with your serious, important political business! ;)
Lo and behold, Darragh Murphy (the blog owner) was gazing into her Wordpress admin stats, and saw the incoming traffic from my link! She quickly surfed over to CF, and what she found made an impression. That impression was non-trivial, and Murphy felt moved to "share the experience" by announcing it, as follows, on a comment thread:
admin 08.05.09 at 1:45 pmNow, I feel bound to raise an objection. I do not feel dedicated to "eradicating" feminism—neither ironically, un-ironically or otherwise. No! I would much prefer to cut feminism's legs off, and then mock it while it crawls around on bloody stumps! Do I make that clear enough? Can you picture it?
heh. some blogger linked to my “All Women Are Feminists” post. Apparently he runs an utterly un-ironic blog dedicated to eradicating feminism. His post has 3 comments calling me a dumbass. Each one is special in its own delicious way, but I like this one the best by far:
” trent13 said…
yeah, she’s pretty much an idiot. I’m not one to call names, but that’s just a fact.
If one is saying that being a part of the female sex = feminism than it would go the same way for men and mysogony (right?) Whatever – I don’t really see how one would even be able to have a rational conversation with someone who decides to come up with things that are so far out in left field as to be entirely out of touch with objective reality.
Oh, and another thing, if she can’t appreciate Aristotle… well, like I already said, she’s an idiot.”
Something else: I wonder if Darragh Murphy is aware that Trent13 is a woman? From what I can gather, Darragh has no idea. Yet it would surely be a point of significance, or so you might assume. (Trent13 is also Catholic, which could explain the affinity toward Aristotle—by way of Thomistic philosophy, of course!)
So, according to Darragh Murphy, my commenters called her a "dumbass"— although none of them use that actual word. Now, whether Darragh Murphy veritably IS a dumbass, is a separate question. But Darragh very clearly stands accused—or thinks she does. This event, of being imputed a dumbass, was a point of some importance in her day or she wouldn't have brought it to her readers in quest of communal reinforcement. Surely, if it meant nothing to her, then her response would have been . . . nothing. Or at any rate, noblesse oblige. Also, 'dumbass' is rather a schoolyard choice of words, which observers of a psychological bent will not fail to consider—the kind of word that might pop out as a reversion to the primitive, under the duress of emotional agitation.
Interestingly, Murphy makes the following remark further along in the thread:
"that dinky little blog and its 3 comments just convinced me beyond a shred of doubt that i am so fucking right it’s not even funny.Possibly it's my imagination, but something in the tone of this makes me wonder. Something profoundly hollow is happening here: can you feel it? Darragh Murphy wants very, very badly to be convinced or reassured of something, and in these words she reveals her conflicted state of mind with painful clarity for all the world to read. Again, note the agitated language. Clearly, the dinky little blog made more than a dinky impression or Darragh would have promptly forgotten all about it.
But here is a link to the original comment on PumaPAC:
http://pumapac.org/2009/08/05/damn/#comment-360012
As you read further along the thread, you'll find one or two short quips by some other people, one of whom takes exception to the photo gallery along the right side of this page, and pretends to find something irregular or "off" about the phrase "we males" which occurs in the caption. I am still trying to fathom the mentation behind that! Seriously, what IS that person on about?
Well, I don't know if Darragh wants the attention or not, but she's getting it anyway. You see how very thin-skinned these people are: thin enough that we can easily get under it! Something tells me it isn't easy to be Darragh Murphy, when more and more people like us are popping up everywhere, everyday!
You might wonder why I should be at the trouble of writing this. Well, I want to provide some entertainment for "onside" readers. And not just entertainment, but practical instruction and useful insight to boot. Other than that, I think it is a good idea to use your claws once in a while, just to keep them sharp.
If Darragh Murphy wants to do the adult thing, the "cool" thing, then she will simply ignore this little zinger which I have composed in her honor—and it's mild salsa; I could make it way the hell hotter! But yes, the grown-up response would be to ignore this, as it would have been to ignore my earlier post instead of making such an easy target of herself.
On the other hand, if Darragh Murphy wants to be an ignoramus and a jackass, and go another round or three, then she will get sucked straight into the vortex and pinned to the bottom like a gasping, drowning, flailing fool. What else can I say? ;)
Really Darragh, the wise plan is to tuck, and turn your back, and walk straight away from this dinky little blog, and carry on with your serious, important political business! ;)
posted by Fidelbogen at 8:13 PM
5 Comments:
So, as an European outsider here, do I get this right? PumaPac/-sphere is a bunch of disgruntled Democratic white feminist Hillary-worshipping women against Obama? How pathetic can it get?
Have you seen this, fidelbogen? Must be satire, I hardly can imagine someone being so deranged as to truly believe such nonsense. Saying there's an "anti-woman bias in the media" is like saying "The sky is green because I say so! If you can't see it, I'll tell all my colour-blind friends you're an idiot."
It's a bit of a miracle that anyone so out of touch with reality (especially our Western world media reality) still has the mental capacity to put up blogs and websites. I suppose that's their "quest for communal reinforcement" at work here (to borrow your perfect phrase, fidelbogen!).
Funny also how they call for "equal rights for all", but at the same time make it clear that by all, they especially mean women, women, women.... oh, and women! They can't even be coherent within one and the same sentence. No wonder they also support Sarah Palin, the new archetype of the egomaniac, stupid princess.
When the comment on that site was made:
"Yaknow . . . dinky and little probably describe more than his blog."
That is indicative of just how mentally deficient some of those posters are. Again, can't come up with refutation of anything here, but go right for the ad hominem penis attacks. Nice to see the grown ups are out and blogging.
E. Steven Berkimer
www.falserapesociety.blogspot.com
Hi Fidelbogen,
Thought you might be interested in a study a couple of us have just completed, comparing the well-being of men on a country-by-country basis. We collected statistics on male life expectancy, years schooling, male suicide rates, male unemployment, male incarceration rates and divorce. We also compared men against women with regard to higher education participation, life expectancy, suicide and imprisonment rates.
The figures you'll see are all standardized ranks, ie what rank that country has compared to all other countries in the study, scaled so that the worst country for men gets a score of zero, and the best scores 100. What this means is that the figures can be read as the percentage of countries a particular country performs better than. (eg Ecuador has a score of 68.4 for male incarceration, meaning it is better than 68.4% of all countries studied).
The final figure for each country - what we have called the Status Of Men Index - is an average of these 10 factors, and allows us to then rank all countries against each other (no great significance should be read into this final figure for a country other than that it means it scored better or worse on the 10 factors we included).
As far as we know, no other study has attempted to rank countries with regard to how well men are faring, though we had no difficulty locating similar such studies for women. It seems remarkable that of the thousands of universities around the world, this rather obvious line of inquiry should fall to two private amateurs.
The full link is:
http://www.vcclan.org/forum/view.php?pg=someni_best_country
or click here.
mrc
mrc,
Nice analysis and the Asian tigers are at the top, just as I suspected.
How about taking income tax rates into consideration in your analysis. Men pay most of the taxes, and a large percentage of the tax money finds its way into anti-male government schemes. A high taxation regime is, thus, a burden on men.
Taking it into account could push the Netherlands and its 52% income tax rate off the #3 perch!
Thanks for the suggestion and the link Davout. I'll list it as another statistic to factor into next year's index.
mrc
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