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give her a bandaid when she gets a booboo
― cause i'm close to the edge of glory i'm trying not to lose my hair (zachlyon), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
i've had several lady friends tell me that they like it when men make them feel small, or whatever
oh sure, i've heard this too and kinda understand the sentiment, and as a big guy who gives awesome hugs I've heard this too. but there are also women out there who do not like to be lifted off the ground because they do not like to be made to feel small or overpowered and just maybe if they've been sexually assaulted such show of manly strength might be a potential trigger. so i mean unless you know they like it then it is definitely Not Okay, gentlemen, no matter who tells you "she'll love it."
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
some of these rules are all "respect the lady at all times" while others are suggestions for things that are totally disrespectful in their presumption of what that lady wants / likes. taking a swing at your lady with a pillow might seem fun and spontaneous and silly to you -- pillowfight! squeeee -- but it's also a good way to get cursed out by a lady who doesn't like feeling assaulted!
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
h8 this shitt so bad
― brad whitford, witchfynder general (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:52 (5 hours ago)
yeah, it's totally offensive. all these rules should be "work through your own insecurities then get over yourself" imo. then maybe you can have a relationship that isn't full of bullshit. so many of these for dudes are like "she has daddy issues? then be her daddy!" sex can be so much more than that. "advice" like this objectifies men as much as it objectifies women.
― hippy borthday, free wings for u (Matt P), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
so i mean unless you know they like it then it is definitely Not Okay, gentlemen, no matter who tells you "she'll love it."
yeah, ironically this flavor of "respect" seems to be outside the consideration of this blog
― creme de cassie (donna rouge), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
respect your woman, give her an allowance for dresses that aren't too tight or too loose every week, she'll love it.
― hippy borthday, free wings for u (Matt P), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
i love the tight/loose woman/lady dichotomy. for when you're too refined to just come out and say "virgin/whore."
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
feel pretty comfortable judging anyone who buys into this bullshit
<3 u max
― brad whitford, witchfynder general (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
all these rules should be "work through your own insecurities then get over yourself" imo. then maybe you can have a relationship that isn't full of bullshit.
truthbOTMb
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
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Just don't forget that being attractive is the motivation for your behaviors.
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
Is parallel construction also unattractive?
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
No kidding about asking first when picking up a woman and whirring them around. Once did this for fun and got screamed at pretty hard. Didn't mean anything by it.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:56 (twelve years ago) link
She calmed down once I got her back in her wheelchair though.
Major guilty lols
― “this dog won’t hunt” doesn’t appear in the Book of Proverbs (Trayce), Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
sorry i haven't read this whole thread but the "rules of a gentlemen" one reads as if its written by one of those 'sensitive' 23 year old virgin types, whereas the 'rules for my unborn son' is pretty clearly written by someone who reads 'esqure' obsessively
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 9 June 2011 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
i would like judith butler to write a rules tumblr blog
― daria-g, Thursday, 9 June 2011 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
"rules of a gentlemen" one reads as if its written by one of those 'sensitive' 23 year old virgin types
'sensitive' tucker max variant imo
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 9 June 2011 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
hey honey aren't your boobs sore.
― Bert Macklin, F.B.I. (thebingo), Wednesday, June 8, 2011 10:31 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark
lol
― (.づ☀‿☀)づ ~da post-modernist struggle~ (.づ☀‿☀)づ (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 9 June 2011 04:19 (twelve years ago) link
i wonder what ben rofflesberger thinks about these
― daria-g, Thursday, 9 June 2011 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
spirit of Marc Loi lives on itt
― badg, Thursday, 9 June 2011 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
would reblog
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
It's days like today that I am super thankful for my commute, which involves very limited exposure to the elements. It pays to work in the same building as your train station.
200. There's actually only one woman. She has been replicating herself for untold millennia. Across the ages, her characteristics and needs and desires are exactly the same across all iterations of this single extant woman, incarnated in billions of variable forms. A man is a person. "Woman" is a breed.
This is so OTM I want to give you a medal. Elmo also OTM over and over. Also, good odds that whatever horseshoe is thinking but hasn't posted is also 100% OTM.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
Hahaha okay that bit about my commute is for the Chicago thread. Or maybe it is my advice on how to be a lady:
Never get wet while commuting to work.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that aero post is a+
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
THENo. 891 RULE OF A GENTLEMAN
Women can smell your fear.Compensate by acting like a fucking jackass.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
not all of this is idle male fantasy. there are women that buy into old-fashioned gender roles/codes and shit.
I don't think the point is that ALL of the advice is stupid or that NO people are ever like "this" or "that", the point is that IF YOU ARE LIKE THAT, THEN BE LIKE THAT, AND STOP READING ABOUT HOW TO BE LIKE THAT. Anyone and everyone who has said that this is about constructing a self made of outside advice because of your crippling insecurity otm.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
ok so there is also this:
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what in the world
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
THENo. 322RULE OF A GENTLEMAN
Put a towel on the floor by the two-inch gap under the door.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
i mean okay i guess i can read a positive message in that but uh -- xp
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
How to Have Sex Like a Man
1. Engage in intercourse.
2. Stand up.
3. Hold out your hand.
4. Say “Thanks!” and “Goodbye.”
5. Gather your things.
6. Walk to the door with confidence.
7. Open the door.
8. Walk away.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
loll
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
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hmmmm...
fuck you girltips
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
also lol Tracer
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*sigh*
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
"...bitch!"
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
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this is a pretty clear indicator of a borderline personality, y/n?
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
those kind of sound like random Facebook status updates TBH
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
I thought those girltips were ironic and meant to point out the craziness of the How to be a Lady ones, but I guess not???? I like that there is NO man worth a girl's virginity. None.
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
oh maybe they are!
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
yeah girltips is definitely not the same sort of advice but still horrible and disgusting, also pretty certain they have no satiric intent
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
oh jeez, these are all so, so fucking ridiculous, but I almost can't bring myself to get upset over them bcz it's only a niche thing that only ppl who already feel this way are going to seek out, not some huge widespread mainstream publication. Though OTOH this is, of course, just perpetuating all of this bullshit, and very few things set me off like queer/gender politics (reinforcement of dumb gender roles being a big one). Is it unfair to say that the ladies who eat this kind of shit up are probably just as dull and as the guys?
This is just really fucking stupid, I guess.
― cheese wiz khalifa (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
just, thank heavens for @feministhulk
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brb gonna shoot myself in the face
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like the ladies who eat this kind of shit up are probably 12. maybe the guys, too.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
OH GOOD
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
that last one cannot be serious
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
I was just looking at the rest of the site and yeh, the context suggests that it's probably not satire :(
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
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FOR SHAME
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
ya dude that jersey shore one is the one where you stop being upset and just ryde and walk away; these probably aren't changing anyone's mind or "teaching" anyone anything in the first place
― cheese wiz khalifa (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link