The Enrage Aunt Alice by Posting Anything Thread...

I held the door for a woman and an old man.

That is some sonnofabitching aunt alice shit there.

I indulged the pathetic fantasies of trick or treaters.
They also asked for candy, and I complied.

I indulged and complied.

I had unprotected sex without consulting a financial advisor.

At seventeen.
Eighteen.
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I had unprotected sex when my credit score was below 800. So I hear ya. Phew.

I'm on Medicaid, and I used to get food assistance.

I owe $30,000 in federal student loans that I don't plan on repaying, and I received about $20,000 in Pell grants. I dropped out of school without any sort of degree and have continued being useless to this day.

Every poor performance review I've ever had at work was at least 75% management's fault, either by setting unrealistic goals, failing to give me proper training, or causing me to doubt my abilities by being an asshole all the time.

All of the problems I currently have are 90% the fault of my parents and society.

Try contactless delivery next time.

Record profits are unpaid wages

People are responsible for their own actions.

so when the proletariat rebels, the comfortable classes will accept it as the only reasonable outcome?

Non sequitur. Your facts are uncoordinated.

You forgot to log into your UA account, and to fuck @Jenee .

I get a lot of leeway in life because I have pale skin and a penis.

I look back at the history of our species, and sigh. It’s not a contented sigh. More an exasperated one, because I fear we’ve not learned many lessons. True matriarchies have almost never existed. It’s men who have run the world, and we’ve frequently fucked things up. Another common theme in history is that as society slowly improves, many men get their knickers in a twist over the threat to the status quo.

I mentioned my penis. It is true that I’m more likely to die young because of that penis. This does not mean there is a war on men. Rather, I’m part of a gender more prone to violence, high-risk behavior, and a lack of self-care. This is not the fault of women. What’s more, women asking the men who engage in brutish behavior to please stop is the opposite of a war on men. It’s about trying to help men.

I would say there is a war on douchebaggery. It’s a war that’s been fought since the dawn of civilization. That’s what “civilization” is: being not a bag of douche. You know, things like banning slavery, expanding the vote beyond those with the pale penis, laws against discrimination, expanding of civil rights …

When a man says there is a war on men, what he’s really saying is he’s upset that the world is making it harder to get away with being a doucheknuckle. Hell, the southern states were willing to fight an actual war, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives, to maintain their right to keep slaves.

One thing I will say is that there is tremendous profit to be had in proclaiming this war on men, regardless of how ridiculous the claim. It’s made Incel Kermit aka Jordan Peterson a lot of money, and it bought Rapey Caillou aka Andrew Tate a Bugatti.
Anthony Synnott, a professor of sociology and psychology at Concordia University, wrote about this alleged war for Psychology Today. He proclaims to not be against feminism, but makes a big deal about how misandrist society supposedly is and how men are continually “victimized.” In so doing, he brings out the usual men’s rights activist (MRA) talking points.

For example:
• It’s mostly men dying in war. Yeah, well, look at gender representation in politics. Who is starting these wars? Who is running the military industrial complex that makes continual war so ingrained in the economy that it is just part of doing business? Who is pushing men to think that war is some grand adventure?
• The high rate of male suicide. It is a problem. Women attempt suicide more often, but men are much more likely to succeed, because we’re much better at killing, and this includes killing ourselves. It is the whole perpetuation of the macho stereotype that contributes to suicide. This toxic idea that we have to “man up” and have a big dick and be able to fight and be rich and drive fancy cars and bang lots of hot chicks … That’s some serious bullshit; few men can live up to this “ideal.” And when we fall short, we’re made to feel like failures. And forget asking for help. Don’t be a wimp! It’s not women perpetuating this, it’s other men.
• He talks about homicide and how men are both mostly the victims and the perpetrators. Okay. What’s your point then? Men kill each other. Great. How do we fix this? The whole “war on men” message you perpetuate implies it is women who are the enemy in this war. This author once wrote that feminist writers such as Simone de Beauvoir and Better Friedan created “Female Supremacism.” The fuck?
• Workplace accidents. Also true. And also the fault of the macho culture that tells these guys to man up and not complain about unsafe work environments or fear taking risks on the job. Most MRAs and Jordan Peterson fans vote conservative, and loathe the idea of unions that would fight for safer work environments, dismissing it as some Marxist bullshit.
It goes on from there, and the author contradicts the shit out of himself with his closing. After providing myriad examples of how men suffer, and showing that it is men creating this reality, he writes, “Some of my friends blame men for the wars against men, and blame the victim: ‘It's their own fault!’ and in classic double standards, they also tend to blame men for the wars against women. It is time to re-think these things.”

Uh, wait. You just made the case that men do this to themselves with your examples, and now you want us to “rethink” how we “blame men”? So, if we don’t blame men, who does that leave to shoulder this responsibility other than women? Also, it’s definitely men committing the vast majority of violence against women too. No need to “re-think” that one, fuckface. I can bury you in statistics.
The American Psychological Association proclaimed, based on 40 years of research, that “traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly.” The primary issues are with the promoting of “stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression.”

Those first two aren’t necessarily bad in all circumstances. But the problem with stoicism is that it can lead to a lack of self-care because we’re taught to suck it up. And competitiveness can be done in a healthy manner because it can lead to accomplishment and mental wellbeing via the joy of testing oneself. But it can also take one down a rabbit hole of despair by feeling like a failure for somehow not measuring up.

From the summary:
“Because of the way many men have been brought up—to be self-sufficient and able to take care of themselves—any sense that things aren’t OK needs to be kept secret,” Rabinowitz says. “Part of what happens is men who keep things to themselves look outward and see that no one else is sharing any of the conflicts that they feel inside. That makes them feel isolated. They think they’re alone. They think they’re weak. They think they’re not OK. They don’t realize that other men are also harboring private thoughts and private emotions and private conflicts.”

I was born in 1968. I was raised like this. I FEEL this.

But it’s not just my generation. As Tim Winton wrote in The Guardian, “I see boys having the tenderness shamed out of them.” He sees them being told to “smother their consciences” and “submit to something low and mean.”
And just like it’s not all men, I need to be clear that it’s not all women.
Margaret Wente (Ugh) wrote in the Globe and Mail of the masculinity study that “The APA [American Psychological Association] would basically like us to treat boys as if they were defective girls.”
Oh, Jesus Christ. Way to miss the point, Margaret.

She then goes on to write, “don’t let some psychologist tell you the problem with your son is that he’s too masculine. His problem may be that he needs to man up.” Yeah, no. Constantly being told to man up is what has helped create these problems.
Those who proclaim there is a war on men aren’t afraid of losing their masculinity or its associated expressions, they’re afraid of losing the power over others they believe their masculinity gives them. When you’re at the top of the hierarchy, you’ll fight to maintain it, because equality will seem like oppression. This desire to maintain the status quo has been a prevalent and injurious theme throughout the history of our species.
Again: It’s not a war on men. It’s a war on douchebaggery. It’s a fight to continue the civilizing mission of all humanity, to drag us forward out of the muck, to suck less.
If you look at the fight for equality as a personal attack on your masculinity, as a war on men, it says a lot about what you value as masculine. And that type of toxicity isn’t beneficial to men, it’s a burden.
Let go the burden. Humanity will be better for it.


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"Red Dawn" was on yesterday, and it oddly got me thinking about "Batman: Venom".
It never got as popular as the biggies like "The Dark Knight Returns" or "Year One" or "The Long Halloween" or "The Killing Joke" or even the second tier down like "A Lonely Place Of Dying" or "The Cult".
Sadly, because of this, its fallen out of physical print.
You can Kindle it though.

Broadly, it's about the origin story of Bane's secret sauce steroid before Bane actually shows up.
Batman actually gets hooked on it, and the bad guys get their hooks into him with it.
So, the main A-story is Batman beating addiction.
But the B-story is more interesting, and sticks with me more.
An evil general on the baddie team turns his sensitive nerdy son into the prototype for Bane, and we see his personality morph into a 'roid raging douche-bro Frankenstein monster.
It's kind of an evil opposite Captain America.
Its clearly an allegory for toxic masculinity, as this sweet nerdy kid is turned bad with a literal poison.

In broad strokes, it's a lot like Homelander's origin, but "The Boys" does it with a satiric wink, while "Batman: Venom" gives it all the bleakness and gloom it deserves.

I think it's more relevant than ever, and deserves a revival.

"Tch, nerd, you've got a comic for everything ".

Yes, I do.
Yes, I do.

Isn’t Red Dawn about a commie invasion of Midwest America?

Yep.
It's meta-meaning is dads of 80's Eagle Scout football players really, really, really wanted World War 3 to happen.
One third of America has always been dangerously mentally ill.

Going with the tererune length slam post. That is not good for getting a response from auntie alice, but it reads these things and it makes him punch his @Jenee waifu pillow a few times.

I had to read that a couple of times too. I think @Diacanu was looking at another track when he started on his trip and then switched tot he one he was on which had absolutely nothing to do with Red Dawn. I couldn't even figure out if he was watching the original or the anti-china remake.

Dear dicky, some of us in the backseat were all about your red dawn discussion, and that point was completely irrelevant. Way toi troll us onto the wrong path, and fuck you.

The "avenge me!!" dad, the evil general dad, you don't see the crossover?
I do.

When I watched red dawn I was always well aware of the reality in NY the football team would never have survived because none of them knew how to hunt. They were all the prissy little retard jocks from revenge of the nerds who never camped anywhere. The survivalist kids were all in the NJRTOTC and we were at war with the jock class. YMMV depending on the culture you grew up in.

I didn't see the turn at all and I fell out of the car and hit a fucking tree or something. Maybe I was too sober?

Some life coach advice for @Uncle Albert

1. Quit your job, the people around you will appreciate your compassion.
2. Set @Jenee free because she is too stupid to do it herself and maybe she dies without another dick to suck her down.
3. Go die in a fire because carbon is good for the plants. It is the most useful thing you can do.

Ok. But, what does it have to do with Batman Venom?

Tell me about it

*Sees the FF rep*
Well, that saved me valuable seconds.

I am pretty sure @Ten Lubak is playing the long game and waiting for FF and UA to be banned or die so he can be our new dayton. Presently he is our new fleshlight so he will consolidate two roles when that happens.

I farted earlier and then told everyone it was the dog who farted and not me, thereby not taking responsibility for my actions.

I wish every intersection was a roundabout named after teachers who teach kindergarteners about sexuality and transgenderism.

housing is a human right and should not be subject to the whims of "the market"

Aww... Feddy disagrees because he thinks the bankers and investors should be running society.