Says French, "women making more is bad for marriage and must be reversed (“a strong marriage culture is indispensable to our national health, and our marriage culture can’t be strong if men continue to fall behind”)."
Yeah, the only was to ensure a long-lasting and stable marriage is to hold your spouse as an economic hostage. Nothing says "I love you" like the threat of homelessness.
As for their aspirations to manliness, I wish each of these guys would go get an actual job like, say, removing old fiberglass insulation or hanging sheetrock. They would end every shift sobbing hysterically.
"Furthermore, the linear ridges of the Asiatic's skull makes him less susceptible to depression and explains their superior aptitude to math. However, the sloping angle at the temple of their skull decreases his aptitude in operating an automobile."
"Used ta be a man went to war, did his job, and came home to drink and smoke himself to death by forty-eight. If it was good enough for my grandpappy, I figure it's good enough for me."
French: “...a strong marriage culture is indispensable to our national health, and our marriage culture can’t be strong if men continue to fall behind.”
Let's all do that--make up shit about "our national health." I'll start: The Eagles repeating in the Super Bowl--or, failing that, the Rams going all the way--is indispensable to our national health. Oh, and so is Donald Trump being indicted, tried, and imprisoned, his three eldest children being likewise sent to the pokey, Costco halving its price for prime steaks, and someone paying me a million dollars to write a third middle-grade novel. Indispensable. To our national health.
All right, then, let's do it the Wikipedia Random Article way! "Okhre, a village development committee in the Himalayas of Terhathum District in the Kosi Zone of eastern Nepal, is indispensable to our national health".
Rightwing extremists come in both sexes, of course, but there's no doubt that wingnuts and conservatives generally have always thought of themselves as the "daddies" and liberals and progressives as the "mommies". So, being a so-called libertarian or individualist and rejecting any communitarian values is associated with manliness in their twisted logic while common-sense labor, safety, health and environmental regulations are regarded as weak femininity and so must be rejected. (Conservatives' rejection of civil and human rights, I feel, are the result of straight up racism, which is a related but a different syndrome of the right.)
Never, ever trust these fuckers to cite statistics in good faith. The APA report states "Men commit 90 percent of homicides in the United States and represent 77 percent of homicide victims." Dreher completely ooga-boogafies the subject with "True, but misleading. Homicides in the US are disproportionately committed by black men." He then talks about homicide RATES among ethnicities, which have nothing to do with absolute numbers of homicides or the gender categorization of the APA, but, being a racist, that's what Dreher needs to talk about. He concludes, "I bring this up only to point out that it’s not just 'men' committing murders, but overwhelmingly it's black men." The FBI table he links to lists the race of the 17,251 homicide offenders in 2017 as 5,125 white, 6,444 black, and 5,682 "other" or "unknown." In other words, that year blacks comprised 37% of total homicide offenders, which is not even close to "overwhelmingly". However, like I said, he's a racist so I guess that explains it.
Interesting side note that would drive Dreher to hours sweating over his Pantone color charts: A 2013 global study on homicide by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found that males accounted for about 96 percent of all homicide perpetrators worldwide and 79% of the victims.
Sorry to bore y'all with this shit, but it just bugs me when these assholes fuck with the numbers.
Now that I have that off my chest, thanks for another excellent post, Roy and the much needed laughter. I love this metaphor: "like a Catholic masturbator trying to mitigate his sin by stopping just short of climax"—— but as an ex-Catholic masturbator from way back (ex- only for the Catholic part) it never occurred to me to undermine the entire purpose of the exercise in such a frustrating, even painful manner. Of course, now that I think about it, it sounds like something right in Rod Dreher's wankhouse.
Says French, "women making more is bad for marriage and must be reversed (“a strong marriage culture is indispensable to our national health, and our marriage culture can’t be strong if men continue to fall behind”)."
Yeah, the only was to ensure a long-lasting and stable marriage is to hold your spouse as an economic hostage. Nothing says "I love you" like the threat of homelessness.
As for their aspirations to manliness, I wish each of these guys would go get an actual job like, say, removing old fiberglass insulation or hanging sheetrock. They would end every shift sobbing hysterically.
Periodic reminder that Edger French put his wife in an electronic chastity belt while he was deployed, so no surprise there.
He, like the rest of them, is a walking, growling example of Atwood's Law: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/188039-men-are-afraid-that-women-will-laugh-at-them-women
"the white male suicide rate is six times higher for white men than for black men"
Indeed, it's even higher than that! Infinitely high, one might say...
"Furthermore, the linear ridges of the Asiatic's skull makes him less susceptible to depression and explains their superior aptitude to math. However, the sloping angle at the temple of their skull decreases his aptitude in operating an automobile."
"Wank Like a Man" - now I'm going to hear every Ben Shapiro screed as sung falsetto by Frankie Valli.
And I thought just having the ear-worm was bad.
So you're saying it should be dropped down an octave or so?
"Used ta be a man went to war, did his job, and came home to drink and smoke himself to death by forty-eight. If it was good enough for my grandpappy, I figure it's good enough for me."
The apparent extent to which men have been willing to fight for the right of their sons to die of black lung disease is apposite.
French: “...a strong marriage culture is indispensable to our national health, and our marriage culture can’t be strong if men continue to fall behind.”
Let's all do that--make up shit about "our national health." I'll start: The Eagles repeating in the Super Bowl--or, failing that, the Rams going all the way--is indispensable to our national health. Oh, and so is Donald Trump being indicted, tried, and imprisoned, his three eldest children being likewise sent to the pokey, Costco halving its price for prime steaks, and someone paying me a million dollars to write a third middle-grade novel. Indispensable. To our national health.
All right, then, let's do it the Wikipedia Random Article way! "Okhre, a village development committee in the Himalayas of Terhathum District in the Kosi Zone of eastern Nepal, is indispensable to our national health".
See? It's fun! Everybody--!
Four more seasons of "Girls" is indispensable to our national health.
Rightwing extremists come in both sexes, of course, but there's no doubt that wingnuts and conservatives generally have always thought of themselves as the "daddies" and liberals and progressives as the "mommies". So, being a so-called libertarian or individualist and rejecting any communitarian values is associated with manliness in their twisted logic while common-sense labor, safety, health and environmental regulations are regarded as weak femininity and so must be rejected. (Conservatives' rejection of civil and human rights, I feel, are the result of straight up racism, which is a related but a different syndrome of the right.)
"As counterintuitive as it may seem, honoring the wifely loyalty and maternal devotion of Magda Goebbels is indispensable to our national health".
What, too soon?
(Eww, now I've grossed out my own self. BTW, great piece Mr. Roso; a gem in every paragraph.)
Never, ever trust these fuckers to cite statistics in good faith. The APA report states "Men commit 90 percent of homicides in the United States and represent 77 percent of homicide victims." Dreher completely ooga-boogafies the subject with "True, but misleading. Homicides in the US are disproportionately committed by black men." He then talks about homicide RATES among ethnicities, which have nothing to do with absolute numbers of homicides or the gender categorization of the APA, but, being a racist, that's what Dreher needs to talk about. He concludes, "I bring this up only to point out that it’s not just 'men' committing murders, but overwhelmingly it's black men." The FBI table he links to lists the race of the 17,251 homicide offenders in 2017 as 5,125 white, 6,444 black, and 5,682 "other" or "unknown." In other words, that year blacks comprised 37% of total homicide offenders, which is not even close to "overwhelmingly". However, like I said, he's a racist so I guess that explains it.
Interesting side note that would drive Dreher to hours sweating over his Pantone color charts: A 2013 global study on homicide by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found that males accounted for about 96 percent of all homicide perpetrators worldwide and 79% of the victims.
Sorry to bore y'all with this shit, but it just bugs me when these assholes fuck with the numbers.
"hours sweating over his Pantone color charts"
I see Brer Drer trying to figure the exact right shade of purple he doesn't care if you might be he can't be a raciss': "Is it a puce? Or a lavender?"
Not boring at all. Ooga-boogafy is a wonderful expression.
Now that I have that off my chest, thanks for another excellent post, Roy and the much needed laughter. I love this metaphor: "like a Catholic masturbator trying to mitigate his sin by stopping just short of climax"—— but as an ex-Catholic masturbator from way back (ex- only for the Catholic part) it never occurred to me to undermine the entire purpose of the exercise in such a frustrating, even painful manner. Of course, now that I think about it, it sounds like something right in Rod Dreher's wankhouse.
That ad on the Charles Atlas ad was a great read-- thanks!
*That article. Oops.
"the white male suicide rate is six times higher for white men than for black men"
Actually, the white male suicide rate for white men is infinity times higher than the white male suicide rate for black men, which would be zero.