Quiz: Who’s responsible for the Newtown shootings, according to commenters on The Spearhead?
A quick one question quiz, which all regular readers of Man Boobz should be able to ace.
Question: Over on The Spearhead, commenters have been offering their opinions about the Newtown school shootings. All but one of the following quotes have been taken word for word from the Spearhead, and reflect who or what the quoted commenter blames for the shooting. Can you identify which statement is NOT from a Spearheader?
A) “Guns don’t kill, the culture kills. A culture of out of control children. A culture of child neglect and abuse brought about and driven largely by the feminist philosophy of the fulfillment of women comes before ALL else, including their children, born or unborn. It wasn’t a hard sell because women already have a dark and selfish nature.”
B) “[A] sick person who may have been turned into monster with the help of a selfish and thoughtless woman.”
C) “I wonder to what extent did the shooter’s mom and female teachers have in motivating his actions? what if the shooter is the victim? what if more and more evidence (or strong implications) of the women using their authority as mom and teachers to manipulate a mentally unstable young man keeps coming out? … Of course it’s not actually paranoia if ‘they’ really are out to get you, is it?. And ‘they’ being a feminist police state, well, they really are out to get me!”
D) “Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Actually, in many ways, feminism is Munchausen syndrome by proxy.”
E) “The problem is women running things. Even after all the massacres, the dearies continue to insist the solution is to disarm all the law abiding citizens.”
F) “A Feminized Culture.”
G) “Lifelong sworn conspirators, murder incorporated, organized feminism, the police and judges, the deadly sneak parroting puppet gangsters, using all the gangster deadly Frankenstein-feminist controls—these hand and rope sneak deadly feminazi-gangsters, the judges and the police, trick, trap, rob, wreck, butcher and murder the people to keep them terrorized in in gangster Frankenstein earphone radio slavery from the Communist-feminazi-gangster government and con artists parroting puppet gangster feminist scum.”
BONUS QUESTION: Did anyone on The Spearhead blame the actual killer? Y/N
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ANSWER: A through F are all from The Spearhead. G is the ringer, from a rant by famous paranoid ranter Francis E. Dec, Esq, with the words “feminism” and “feminazi” worked into it here and there to make it sound a little more Spearheadish.
BONUS ANSWER: Surprisingly, yes. This guy.
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Posted on December 20, 2012, in antifeminism, evil women, imaginary backwards land, oppressed men, paranoia, playing the victim, the spearhead, victim blaming and tagged antifeminism, men's rights, misogyny, newtown, newtown shooting, sandy hook, the spearhead. Bookmark the permalink. 267 Comments.
“Also, I’ve lost track of the many cuts and burns I’ve gotten from cooking, so this notion that cooking is for fragile people that recoil at the mere thought of pain really baffles me.”
*looks at hands, seconds that* I seem to have a fundamental inability to remove a cookie sheet without banging my knuckles into the top rack (to the point I’m not even sure what half the scars on my hands came from)
“I recommend DINOSAURS ON A SPACESHIP?! Because its cooool.” — this is true. I think that’s my problem with 11 though, he’s just too damned angry, I can’t see 10 doing what he did there (then again, 10 would’ve ranted about “making this domestic”) — in any case, triceratops on a spaceship.
…are you kidding me internet, I’ve got .1g left, that’s like…100mb-ish…why do you claim this will take an hour?! This should take like 5 min with the supposed 6-fucking-mps we’re paying for! *scolds zir DSL*
Actor who played Bifur, why the axe in the head, what it means, etc.
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/12/13/hobbit-william-kircher-speaks-dwarvish-talks-bifurs-injury/#/0
The movie(s) are definitely not lighthearted children’s novel (but then only about half of Tolkien’s original novel was!).
I’m blathering away at great length about it all on my Dreamwidth journal so will link to the tag rather than derail over here.
At great length.
Of course, this is all work (snirks) since I’m teaching an online course on the film.
http://ithiliana.dreamwidth.org/tag/the+hobbit+%28jackson%29
Or, in the absence of MEN AND HUSKY BOYS, the schools with their infinite funds could hire ARMED GUARDS.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/21/nra-lapierre-armed-guards-schools
So saith the NRA president.
Whose head does belong onnna stick.
“I always used to wonder about that as a kid when I’d see footage of nudist resorts and people would be using a BBQ. If you had to go to the ER because your pubic hair caught on fire that would be a little embarrassing.”
Ok, nudity positive culture or not, there are certain times where particular garments are not optional: radiation suits, various safety related footwear, eye/ear protection as needed, aprons when frying/BBQ/other things that might get hot things on you suddenly…
@Ithiliana, I read that as “whose head is a dick.” Works either way tho.
“Whose head does belong onnna stick.”
While I understand the sentiment, we’re supposed to be the non-violent ones, doesn’t really work that we get to call the MRM violent while saying the same veiled violent things.
Fired though? Preferable because the NRA ceases to be able to fund its existence? Yeah, that works for me.
A lot of people recommend Blink, but after consideration, perhaps something a little less prone to make you jump at everyday objects is in order.
Blink is scary, even for grownups. I’d go with Fires of Pompeii. It explains the whole Time Lord thing pretty well.
Blink was the first one I watched and it got me hooked. I had been resistent up until that point because I did not want it to turn out to be a campy mess like the old version.
Its all Beloveds fault.
I congratulate Mr Pillow on a job well done.
IDK on Bifur — on one hand they do all kind of blend into a dwarf collective in the book, on the other, this could really be done terribly wrong.
There is one change I like — they put Galadriel in the movie, were the book has an amazing total of 0 women (well, excluding “the women an child fled in boats” type stuff…and even that’s about a paragraph).
Oh, I watched Cloverfield earlier, despite having a main cast of like 6, it passes the Bechdel test. (Also, nice job on the big baddie, just the right amount of showing us wtf it is versus horror lying in the unknown.)
My yardstick for camp is Batman (1966). Old-school Doctor Who may be camp but it’s well within my tolerances.
See, I’d recommend Blink, but I basically had to force Pompeii on the not-an-ex when we were not-dating because ze’d started with Blink and found it too campy (in a way, the weeping angels are fairly predictable — see an angel, RUN AWAY!! — it is rather cliche) — ze’s smart enough that the timey-whimey bits just didn’t make up for that. And has taken as much Latin as I have, so Pompeii got real world interests involved.
The weeping angels still scare me more than the daleks or cybers though, both are at least kind enough to kill you quickly, with no “maybe I can escape this *blink* OH GODS!!” going on.
Could also start with werewolves, vampires, or ghosts XD (Tooth and Claw [10th], Vampires in Venice [11th], and The Unquiet Dead [9th] — that last one is with Dickinson, on Christmas, with ghosts, which is rather fitting for the season)
*kicks DSL* My gods you stupid piece of shit, 30mb should never EVER take 20~ min, that’s barely over 1 mb per minute // 1000 kbs = twice dial up. Is it the 90s again?!
This is absurd, I’ll be back with tea, maybe by the time the kettle boils this will be done.
I will take the Doctor Who recommendations under advisement. Oh, here was a funny exchange from my Thanksgiving dinner, just remembered:
My sister: [blah blah blah] soccer hooligans.
My mother: [mishearing] Doctor?
Me: Doctor Who-ligans!
Okay, so it really wasn’t that funny. There may have been wine involved.
@Argenti: I find it helps to sit back and let the Doctor’s blarney slide past. Just be calm and let it flow over you like the gentle ocean waves.
@Cloudiah: … you don’t get on certain parts of Tumblr very much, do you? There are parts of the Whovian Tumblr that I don’t recommend because of all the drama.
Blink is great but scary. You could go oldschool and start with “Rose”, the first ep of the new series. Doctor #9. Or “The Christmas Invasion” with Doctor 10, and a Christmas special on top of it! Go with that one.
Which is to say, Doctor Who-ligans certainly exist.
@ hellkell
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‘Also, I’ve lost track of the many cuts and burns I’ve gotten from cooking, so this notion that cooking is for fragile people that recoil at the mere thought of pain really baffles me’
This is relevant, since I just burned my hand on a pan. Ow. My delicate lady-hand is burned.
Oh, and yeah, it baffles me that men are apparently both vastly superior and completely under the control of women, but I know that’s been covered over and over again before.
I like the idea of Doctor Who fans running amok. I also like how there are at least 3 separate conversations going on here, only one of which is related to the OP. (I mean that, I am not being sarcastic.)
You could go really old-school and start with “An Unearthly Child,” although I’d like to say that the show’s dynamics all the way back in 1963 were somewhat different than they are now.
I have yet to scald myself with popping oil, although I have turned around time or two and found the oil far hotter than I had anticipated.
Mummy? I want my mummy!
There was a show to make my hair stand on end.
And I could totally understand the doctors wrath on dinosaurs on a spaceship. I’d have felt the same way. It was a cowardly and sadistic thing to do.
BLOCKQUOTES! I WILL HAVE MY VENGEANCE!
Cassandra: I’ve tried the first, it’s good. I haven’t had the Melikalikimocha, but cute name. Royal coffees are good.
I once got splashed by cooking oil, and had a bracelet of blisters across my wrist. Looking back, I probably should have gone to the ER for that one because the pain was excruciating. You can’t even see the scar(s) now, those aqua bandages are the shit.
Funny how “those bandages are shit” and “those bandages are the shit” have completely different meanings, all down to a single definite article in the right place, huh?
Utterly OT, but I’m watching the second Jurassic Park and have this to say to the MRM — real men risk being eaten by T-Rex parents to set a broken leg on a baby T-Rex (I was kinda hating Mr “give me the Pulitzer now” until right now)
In cooking oil stories — my best friend and I where making something or other, and I don’t remember how it happened, but suddenly the frying pan of sizzling oil was headed for the floor — he tried to catch it, I managed to yell “your feet!” just in time for him to jump back. Couldn’t resist pointing out how stupid it was to attempt to catch a falling pan of hot oil (yes yes, my frying pan dented, but seriously, who cares?)
Falconer: yes, English is fun!
You guys, I am so proud of my once Republican, NRA member, ex-Marine father. He not only got rid of his NRA membership 3 years ago because he couldn’t stand their rhetoric any longer, but yesterday he wrote an email to the President telling him not to get bogged down by the NRA’s bullshit semantics (I’m paraphrasing), and to not back down and do something about this issue.
If you’d told me 20 years ago he’d be doing any of the above, I’d have laughed you out of the room.
The worst burn I ever got cooking was from tomato sauce splattering on my hands. That stuff is like lava when it’s really bubbling.
Hellkell, which is better, the Royal Coffee or the Lion? I’m going to get one of the 10% Kona blends.
I still have a scar from a hot cheese burn that I got like four years ago when I was working at Starbucks. Those tornado ovens get cheese REALLY hot, let me tell you.
Well, “The Timey-Wimey of Doctor Who” is on BBC America right now. I like most of the doctors and most of the companions, except I always found Rose’s puppy love for the doctor kind of corny. Don’t know why.
Cooking injuries? Got ‘em, like most of you. Mostly knife accidents that leave behind tiny scars on the tips of my fingers.
It’s snowing here, and the wind is howling like a banshee. My cat is nestled on top of the cable box where it’s very warm. Hmm, “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” is also on…I may have to switch over…
My only kitchen mishap was when our coffee plunger exploded and sprayed my feet and Mum’s arm with boiling water. I came off much better, the water had cooled just enough as it fell that it didnt do too much damage, but Mum was badly scalded. It was Christmas eve, and so we had Christmas in the burns ward…
Cooking mishaps? I’m in Texas. We have a lovely confection here made from brown sugar, butter, heavy whipping cream and pecans, and while the sugar and cream are cooking, it has the consistency of napalm. It sticks while it burns.
Pralines. You take your life in your hands.
And it is worth it. Om nom nom.
I imagine they’ll have to talk as fast as the Doctor to try and explain everything.
I learned long ago that Doctor Who does not have a canon. It’s impossible to reconcile every serial with every other serial. So at this point I’m used to episodes contradicting each other.
I second the tomato sauce experience. I manage to burn my mouth on DiGiorno’s every. time.
Mmmmmm, pralines. I did not know of them before moving to TX.
Cassandra: I like the Lion better.
@hellkell
I salute your father. Personally, I’d be happy if I could get the people around me to stop saying Obama’s a socialist. Baby steps, you know.
I was at a family BBQ this summer when my MIL asked for volunteers to cut the watermelon. I said yes, and she said “I found this brand new ginsu knife in my closet last week. You can use that!” Remember those? I have never, ever cut myself badly while prepping food until the As Seen on TV Knife From Hell. It managed to be very dull and very sharp at the same time - on the third slice, it slipped and took a wedge-shaped chunk out of my thumb. I grabbed a paper towel to wrap my thumb in and Mr. Dammit cut the rest of the watermelon, which I miraculously managed not to bleed on (I don’t think I bled on it. I ate that piece, just in case.). I spent the rest of the evening pretending like it wasn’t that bad by sneaking fresh paper towels into the bathroom with me and flushing the bloody ones away. I even went to the emergency room that night but the line was too long and I left (we couldn’t find any urgent care clinics that were open). We just wrapped it up in lots of gauze and tape and I slept with my hand propped up in the air. My thumb bled for two days.
Here’s a ginsu knife commercial.
Oh, hey, here’s a ginsu knife commercial!
Hellkell, that’s heartening to hear that about your dad. There is hope.
I have some super-sharp Japanese knives and when I first got them I kept slicing the top layer of skin off my fingertips, until I learned to keep them out of the way. I think it’s because the edge is really thin.
Still more scared of cleavers, though. Too many years of watching Chinese chefs use the big one to whack their way through bones.
Now I want pralines. Why you torture me so, freitag?
I barely know anything about Dr. Who, but I like that even though I’ve only watched the one episode with the weeping angels, I understand about 50% of what I see people casually mention about it.
I’m basically coasting through life, is what I’m saying.
Ginsu knives are splendid for splitting bamboo! Not much else.
So, yanno, if you ever want to make a fifty foot dragon kite split the bamboo with the ginsu and bend the bamboo on the barbque and you are half way there!
And this is why I love you all.
Well, I’ve never made a fifty foot dragon kite, but I did once help make a human-size papier mache Mr. Peanut costume. It’s not really relevant to the ginsu knife discussion, I just wanted to brag.
Reason enough!
Got a picture of it?
I just emailed my friend, in whose basement it lives, to see if she had one she could scan. It was a thing of beauty, and a joy forever. We also made another human size papier mache pig costume that was even more popular, and a 15-foot tall puppet-woman that got lots of compliments at an anti-war march in SF. Hell getting it over there from Oakland on public transport, though.
Hell yeah! Was the PT train or bus? Bus’d be a nightmare.
That pig costume sounds the best.
It was on BART. The puppet took up 3 seats, but we didn’t need to pay her fare. Go figure.
::does quick Google of BART::
Okay, trains!
- Hey, does looking it up make me intellectually dishonest?
Yes! It would have been much more honest (funnier) if you’d tried to guess what BART stands for.
Bruised Apples Reclamation Terminal?
(Not quite sure how that fits in with Cloudiah and puppet travelling, but I’m sure the Intellectually Honest and Brilliant could twist it around somehow.)
It was actually the Bruised Apples Reclamation Terminal, and they seemed really surprised when we showed up with a big puppet and demanded fare-free transportation to San Francisco.