Tiger Beatdown is on a vacation! Or, "blogcation." Or, no, "vacation," actually. What does this mean for you? It means that I will be summering in exotic Queens and trying to figure out some basic junk about how to move the site over to a different location, etc. But not posting things on the blog itself! Until Friday!
Anyway, since I will not be here to share my very important reflections on the Ladybusiness, I figured you should meet my substitute. His name is... oh, let's say Chet. He is Hal Sparks' weirder-looking cousin, and he has thoughts to share. Here are his thoughts!
Do you know why Chet does not have a girlfriend? Did you guess FEMINISM? Yeah, okay, me neither. It turns out to have something to do with toasters and his grandma, in the long run.
Anyway, since I will not be here to share my very important reflections on the Ladybusiness, I figured you should meet my substitute. His name is... oh, let's say Chet. He is Hal Sparks' weirder-looking cousin, and he has thoughts to share. Here are his thoughts!
Do you know why Chet does not have a girlfriend? Did you guess FEMINISM? Yeah, okay, me neither. It turns out to have something to do with toasters and his grandma, in the long run.
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Wow. WOW.I just cannot understand why Chet's girlfriend left him.
ReplyDeleteLuckily for Chet, since he "gets better as he gets older" (unlike the ladies, who lose their looks, which is, let's face it, all they had going for them in the first place) he is sure to snare a lovely young toaster, er, Lady, soon, even if he does indeed need to "move to another country" to do so. America's loss...
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ReplyDelete"which is" --> "which ARE", duh.
and, happy Vacation Sady.
Oh, shit! I spent my teens and early twenties running around becoming used goods! Now, no man will have me! Except, wait, I'm married. Well, then, it's totally sad for my husband that we're only going to be together for seven years before I leave him for someone else. Except, wait, I won't be able to get anyone else because I will have passed my use-by date and he will just have gotten better with age, so even if we did get divorced he'd be totally fine. I'm confused!
ReplyDelete...so he wants a toaster?...
ReplyDeleteOh fiddle sticks. I lost my comment I just wrote. :(
ReplyDeleteSo we have both "but what about teh menz?!" and "I'm a nice guy! Why don't women want to have sex with (or I guess in his case marry) me?!" Quite an awesome and potent combo there.
And really, only people from non-divorced families can have those keys to a good relationship? Communicating is something ONLY learned in a non-divorced family? Soooo I guess my only child/from a divorced family boyfriend was lying to me all this time about being from a divorced family? *gasp!* He's got a secret loving together family somewhere he's hiding from me?!
Or does this only apply to women, Chet? Because, you know, women are SOOOO DUMB and SOOO FEMINIST that we just can't overcome anything that happens to us at all. Unlike you awesome, independent, and totally faultless men. -_-
Lol, and sadly it took me a few minutes to catch onto the sarcasm in the paragraph above about Chet being your sub. About three minutes in I was like "Oh... I see what you did there." :P
Oh crap Sady, you just lured me into a comment-battle with some dude on myspce called tmotofga who made a videoresponse to our friend Chet where he basicly says that all women ever want or should want is marriage and if they sleep with you the first night they skanks and oh he can totly say that cuz sociaty made the rules about who is a skank and who just got some.
ReplyDeleteHe probably just wants a nice toaster as well.
That is quite possibly the least organized rant that I have watched. I will gladly buy the guy a toaster, break it, and then fix it if he'll write an outline and follow it for his next spiel.
ReplyDeleteThat was a hot incoherent mess.
ReplyDeleteThings I Can't Believe He Said:
"Feministic"
"I'm already disadvantaged in this country"
"[Women] become used goods"
His paranoia & trust issues shine brightly. It's also amazing his answers his own question talking about doing things that he was TOLD women want. He did not ever consider that the things he told might not apply to all women? So then he is surprised that this is not what she wants....so it must be her fault?
It's cool though. It's like a huge "DO NOT DATE" flashing neon sign.
HEY, CHET!
ReplyDeleteMaybe she was just not that into you?
I'm frankly astonished that Chet's ex failed to grasp the fundamental principle that relationships are supposed to LAST FOREVER. Like toasters and TVs, and Herpes. You make the decision to be with someone and you STICK WITH IT. When you have a problem, you SIT DOWN. You don't stand, dammit. Standing never solved a thing.
ReplyDeleteThe saddest thing of all is that these MRA-types, if you really listen to what they're saying, you can tell that they're imprisoned in a mental torture chamber of their own making, unable to deal with their heartbreak like rational, mature adults, unable to deal with reality on reality's terms, unable to move forward. Chet honestly believes that committing to one another for ETERNITY is the solution to any relationship problems that may arise. He can't face the fact that it sometimes takes people a while to figure out that they're with the wrong person, that when women commit infidelity it's often an easy out of a dysfunctional and/or dissatisfying relationship. That doesn't make it any less despicable as a means of ending a relationship, but not all women are mature enough to disengage from their relationships with dignity and grace, just as not all men are mature enough to confront their emotional pain head-on rather than lash out misguidedly at a convenient target.
Have fun on vacation! Just don't go getting any funny ideas about running away and never returning because everyone knows that once you start a blog, you are committed to it FOREVER AND EVER. Remember, once you are over 30, no other blog will have you, you decrepit, unsightly old hag.
He's disillusioned with the whole "woman subject"?
ReplyDeleteWhat a coincidence! I am disillusioned with the whole "Chet subject!"
Long-time reader, first time commenter (because I usually read at work, which won't let me comment):
ReplyDeleteFirst, your blog is Love, Sady. I adore it. Second, this "used goods" thing drives me up the wall. My grandfather told my mother that, and she's the most awesome, talented, brilliant woman in the world (not to mention an awesome second-wave feminist, carving out a serious journalism career in the '50s through to today while raising three kids on her own). Women have nice ladybits, to be sure, but guys that think those ladybits should be encased in sterile wrapping with a "sanitized for your enjoyment" sticker on them until said guy is ready to play with them are, to put it mildly, fucked in the head.
I stopped listening after he referred to women as "used goods."
ReplyDeleteI don't think that's entirely fair to Hal Sparks, he's much cuter than this guy.
ReplyDeleteI'd comment on what he said but I couldn't tolerate more than about a minute. I tried to stop the video but my browser chose that moment to freeze. But the video kept playing! And I was like AAAARGH! for a second until I had the presence of mind to hit the mute button on my speakers.
What the heck is "feministic"
ReplyDeleteSo what was preventing Chet's grandma from running off and taking grandpa Chet for half of everything if she wanted to anyway? Lack of a no-fault divorce option and paid employment prospects? So she was trapped then. Just like we like our wimmin. Sweet.
ReplyDeleteSo what was preventing Chet's grandma from running off and taking grandpa-Chet for half of everything if she wanted to? Lack of a no-fault divorce option and paid employment prospects? So she was trapped, then. Just like we like our wimin. Sweet.
ReplyDeleteSady, thanks to your love advice, I now know that Chet is my soulmate! Had I not known that aversion to a man indicates compatibility, I would have thought that Chet was simply a misogynist who bases his hostility toward all women on a single bad experience with one woman, as if women are a monolithic, inhuman mass of groupthink rather than individual human beings with unique qualities and experiences. Because of your advice, I now realize that Chet is simply misunderstood (and very well read!), and that the men I am attracted to have certain unspecified flaws. I can't wait to hear more about Chet's vampire puppet musical.
ReplyDeleteThank you for bringing us together.
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I'm sorry, WHAT?
"Once you finally understand feminism." He should maybe work on that a little more, because no matter how traditionally or aggressively you live feminisim, nothing he said sounded REMOTELY like feminism. From any point of view. Stupid, whiny little boy. Not to mention how he doesn't seem to realize that what he is saying is that YOUNG(er) women (teens-20s) don't want to commit. Men are never "expected" to settle down young (even though he apparently wants to), but I guess WE should, especially with some old guy who has just gotten better with age. Why shouldn't women of any age have fun/experience life when and how they want to? But no, apparently it is all women's fault (AGAIN) for destroying the moral fabric of our society. (Mild off-topic: does he realize that men being against marriage is not a new concept? Eternal bachelors vs. spinsters?)
Another thing, since he is so "disillusioned" with women/feminism, it's odd how at the end, he still manages to "preach" to the women, warning us that it will be our loss once we have squandered our good looks in our young, wild flings.
If our loss is him, good riddance. Moron.
I thought he started off making a good point or two, at least, illustrating a perspective that wasn't completely retarded. Once he picked up steam though, it quickly deteriorated into a confusing, nonsensical mess. I think if he wrote down his thoughts carefully, edited them, edited them again, sat on them for a month, edited them again, thought about them some more, and then released them. There'd probably be a worthwhile argument in there somewhere. As it stands, I think he is too near the blast radius of a 'failed' relationship to be given much credibility.
ReplyDeleteBut I don't think he's an idiot outright, he just kind of sounds like a guy who has a hyperactive brain, thinks too much, and is probably in earnest just trying to figure this shit out. I'd be willing to bet that 6 months from now, or a year from now, once he's had some more time to think and refine his thoughts that he won't come off sounding so weird and disjointed.
I think he's just someone who is too close to a situation that made him hurt and he's struggling to find a belief system that enables him to get through it. Between now and the time when he is back on his feet, videos like this(unflattering babbling nonsense) will be common.
I lost my comment too, but I suppose the comment-losing might have something to do with why you're looking to move the blog.
ReplyDeleteMy comment was about Chet's grandma being trapped by a lack of no-fault divorce laws and prospects for paid employment. I forget it all now, but I'm sure it was very illuminating.
I just hate this. This..."Oh, I'm such a NICE guy, I have a RELIGION, I have MORALS, bitchy slutty women made me FORSAKE MY GOOD-NESS and now I treat them like CRAP cause that's what it takes to get LAID"
ReplyDeleteOnce again, women have all the responsibility of creating well balanced men (USING OUR INHERENT NICENESS) and the men themselves aren't even remotely responsible for the way they treat the women around them
My dad's first wife left him while he was overseas serving in the U.S. Airforce. She took their only daughter, all their money, and split.
I have never, NEVER heard him speak ill of women. If I ever heard him use the word "slut" or "whore" I'd die of shock. He loves my mother. He loves me. He believes that women are PEOPLE.
If he, from a much more conservative generation than ours, can do it, why can't these guys?
Oh, wait, because they FAIL AT LIFE.
I think I will take my 49/60 odds in America. ;)
ReplyDelete@Ashley: "I can't wait to hear more about Chet's vampire puppet musical."
ReplyDelete...for the Win.
It's the FEMINISTICS, people! Chet knows, because he had one 2.5 year relationship which included much down-sitting, although also lines not to be crossed, with an individual morsel of the ginormous monolithic woman-thing, and from this experience he learned that if woman-morsels are not trapped in marriage by discriminatory practices in education, jobs, and credit, as well as draconian divorce laws, the FEMINISTICS will just naturally corrupt the ginormous monolithic woman thing, and all the morsels will rot and become total sluts. BE WARNED!
ReplyDeleteAlso, toasters used to last a lot longer. It's hard out here for a disadvantaged dude.