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  1. Li
    Li February 6, 2012 at 12:05 pm |

    Rob, for the “most straight men” qualifier. I mean, it’s almost like he’s realised that men aren’t a monolith, yeah?

  2. William
    William February 6, 2012 at 12:08 pm |

    Where the fuck did he learn the definition of “chattel?!”

  3. Nahida
    Nahida February 6, 2012 at 12:15 pm |

    superman for the smiley.

  4. Brennan
    Brennan February 6, 2012 at 12:15 pm |

    Had to go with Rob. The others are trying too hard, whereas Rob’s “even in my workplace” screams of true, deep-seated butt-hurt.

  5. Katie
    Katie February 6, 2012 at 12:16 pm |

    Ugh, I didn’t vote on this one. These aren’t even funny or weird. They hit that oh-so-sweet spot between perfectly mundane and plain horrifying. Bring back the intellectual contortionists!

  6. Sera
    Sera February 6, 2012 at 12:23 pm |

    I have decided to vote for whoever trolls using the fewest words and greatest number of !!!!!!!s, however Rob’s “Men are BETTER at making food, but us men have to pay for your bags, which men never buy.” which is completely incomprehensible really made me a bit sad that I limited myself…

  7. Mztress
    Mztress February 6, 2012 at 12:41 pm |

    “you bitches need to shut the hell up and do what your men say before you piss him off and then he will be forced to smack ya’ll around bit.”

    Hmm…actually, I think that reading such terrible spelling & punctuation gave me enough bruises.

  8. altarego
    altarego February 6, 2012 at 1:00 pm |

    Rob. Because men are BETTER at making food (but not spelling, apparently…)

  9. Jadey
    Jadey February 6, 2012 at 1:26 pm |

    Tricky, but I had to go with superman, because I think we already covered how ending with an emoticon is a stereotypically “female” thing to do, so I love the mixed message.

  10. annajcook
    annajcook February 6, 2012 at 1:46 pm |

    Rob, for “Woman are only good for two things. Fucking, and making food. Men are BETTER at making food.”

    Because oh DAMN.

  11. LC
    LC February 6, 2012 at 1:57 pm |

    William, I think he just copied “chattel” and doesn’t know what it means.

    These are mostly just boring and horrible, but Rob wins for the “Men are BETTER at making food, but us men have to pay for your bags, which men never buy.”

    That dig followed by weird non sequitur wins for me.

  12. Jane
    Jane February 6, 2012 at 2:39 pm |

    Yup, I’m going with superman for the smiley too.

  13. Cat
    Cat February 6, 2012 at 3:19 pm |

    Rob, because he’s SERIOUS. And clearly that is BETTER than some silly little smiley face emote.

  14. Emolee
    Emolee February 6, 2012 at 3:19 pm |

    Woman are only good for two things. Fucking, and making food.

    What, no making babies and cleaning?

    But, yeah, I voted for Rob for the weird rantings that never exactly explain why men are better at making food, or why women are still “good for” it.

  15. Tim
    Tim February 6, 2012 at 3:51 pm |

    THE MAN for the whiplash-inducing switching between singular and plural case, leaving me trying to figure out how many people were doing which thing to how many others.

  16. Jane
    Jane February 6, 2012 at 3:52 pm |

    It’s not just the smiley face — it’s the mental dissonance between, “Here let me say this horrid thing, BLARGH all over your comment board” and “smiley face! cutesies!”

  17. Past my expiration date
    Past my expiration date February 6, 2012 at 4:03 pm |

    Billy Bober, because he’s concise.

  18. Donna
    Donna February 6, 2012 at 4:06 pm |

    Being a POWERFUL WOMAN WRITER myself (or, at least aspiring to be one), I’m tempted to vote for superman (extra points for multiple overly long/stupid fake websites/email addresses. And pointless smiley). But how could I resist Rob’s dead-serious belief in an antiquated, cartoonish stereotype (one that probably wasn’t taken seriously in its day) of cavemen dragging their cavewomen around by the hair?

  19. Deborah Lipp
    Deborah Lipp February 6, 2012 at 4:14 pm |

    Rob is the only one who smacks of actually meaning what he says and not just laughing to himself at how clever he is for “getting a rise.”

  20. SecondJen
    SecondJen February 6, 2012 at 4:28 pm |

    Iron my shirts (!!!!!!) was the only one that I could actually deal with here without feeling icky, so I went for him. Everybody else was too close to home, too the “charming” guy-next-door. Creeptastic.

  21. Iam138
    Iam138 February 6, 2012 at 5:29 pm |

    Rob, again, apparently, in a landslide. Cavemen speaking–indeed.

  22. Kelly
    Kelly February 6, 2012 at 5:52 pm |

    I was really going to vote for Rob, but then the use of the word “chattel” swayed me. I’m a sucker for a good vocabulary.

  23. Argenti Aertheri
    Argenti Aertheri February 6, 2012 at 6:05 pm |

    “IRON MY SHIRTS!!!!!!!!” because the rest seem like they’d be rather scary in real life (in superman’s case, it’s the “website”, not the comment)

    Emolee @ 14 –

    But, yeah, I voted for Rob for the weird rantings that never exactly explain why men are better at making food, or why women are still “good for” it.

    I *think* his point about making food was that he’s a great cook, but too lazy to actually cook, so go make him a sandwich! But of course he wouldn’t explain if the reason is “because I’m a lazy asshole”, that’d kinda hurt his argument about how horrid women are.

    Also, I thought women were good for “doing the childbirth”?

  24. Amanda
    Amanda February 6, 2012 at 6:50 pm |

    Had to go with superman on that–if only because I hear McLovin’s voiced…bitchessss

  25. Natalia
    Natalia February 7, 2012 at 12:33 am |

    superman for the smiley face.

  26. Daisy
    Daisy February 7, 2012 at 11:19 am |

    I had to go with superman, both for the smiley and the equal-opportunity gender essentialism.

  27. Arielle Karp
    Arielle Karp February 7, 2012 at 12:11 pm |

    Rob because I bet any sane woman would have to be knocked unconscious in order to have with his ugly, obviously small-dick having ass!! Seriously though, I thought everyone knew that caveman stereotype had been disproven years ago- men and women were the same size back then & both sexes did the same things in order to survive. It was over time that the size difference between men & women evolved… Well, apparently only women evolved– Rob’s still stuck in cavemen land with caveman style Internet access!!! :)

  28. Vertigo
    Vertigo February 7, 2012 at 1:12 pm |

    Billy Bober was short and to the point, ze got my vote.

  29. Jjuliaava
    Jjuliaava February 7, 2012 at 3:10 pm |

    Here are some of my favorite highlights:

    Necklaces, and other misc. which most straight men never buy.

    Right, Rob knows just exactly what Gay men prefer: beautiful jewelry!
    “MISC.” = uhcuz can not figga howta dowitt.

    We also got to pay emotionally to put up with your bitching everyday… bitching.

    Sure, Rob, it is da bitchs who do the ‘bitching’! Good times!

    back in the old days, cavemen speaking, we used to drag bitchs by their hair and fuck them wherever and whenever.

    Like in Saturday morning cartoons? Rob thinks cartoons are based upon actual history! It’s Rob for the win!

    Also, “Fair rights” is a nice touch. I like it.

  30. Jjuliaava
    Jjuliaava February 7, 2012 at 3:12 pm |

    AARRRGGGGGGHHHH! BLOCK QUOTES!

  31. Thomas MacAulay Millar
    Thomas MacAulay Millar February 7, 2012 at 3:32 pm |

    Three of these men live in their parents’ basement, not because they can’t get jobs, which is common enough in this economy, but because they can’t handle adult responsibilities, and their mothers still cut the crusts off their sandwiches. Their comments express a self-hate externalized to their moms, and by extension all women. The other two are divorced and their ex-wives are doing just fine without them, a development that leaves them crushed. They, too, express rage that is the product of self-loathing. It’s tough to tell the two groups apart, which is unfortunate because the former will probably always confine their expressions of rage to drive-by bigotry, while the latter may one day kill their exes or their children.

  32. LC
    LC February 7, 2012 at 3:50 pm |

    I thought everyone knew that caveman stereotype had been disproven years ago- men and women were the same size back then & both sexes did the same things in order to survive.

    Arielle, I’ve never heard this. I thought sexual dimorphism among various proto-humans varied somewhat, and that certainly by the time we get to early humans living in caves, we were already pretty much split in physical size to about the ratio we have today. Do you have a cite on this somewhere?

  33. Stacy
    Stacy February 7, 2012 at 10:50 pm |

    Billy Bober, because he seems to have a laundry emergency on his hands!

  34. Miriam
    Miriam February 8, 2012 at 1:07 am |

    Rob, for reminiscing about his glory days as a caveman.

  35. RyanRutley
    RyanRutley February 8, 2012 at 2:30 am |

    Superman. Partly for the smiley, partly because there’s a certain elegance to his phrasing. He doesn’t mess around with particulars like preparing food or ironing shirts, he goes straight in with a fundamental analysis of gendered power relations, and rides it all the way to Moonbatville.

  36. librarygoose
    librarygoose February 8, 2012 at 3:59 am |

    Seriously though, I thought everyone knew that caveman stereotype had been disproven years ago- men and women were the same size back then & both sexes did the same things in order to survive. It was over time that the size difference between men & women evolved…

    Are we talking Neanderthal? That’s generally what people mean by “cave man”. Neanderthals had pretty much the same amount of sexual dimorphism as modern humans do. Anthropologists think that Neanderthals worked generally in the same way as other small hunter-gatherer bands, which is women gather, men hunt. BUT the caveat to that is the attitude towards the importance of either has changed drastically. Gathering provides vast amounts more of the diet than hunting, though both take time and skill.

  37. librarygoose
    librarygoose February 8, 2012 at 4:00 am |

    Superman, because that fucking smiley face.

  38. outrageandsprinkles
    outrageandsprinkles February 8, 2012 at 7:30 am |

    Rob, for the extensive list of silly lady things that we force our men to buy for us.

  39. Jamie
    Jamie February 8, 2012 at 5:34 pm |

    Rob. He sounds very in touch with his emotions.

  40. Sarah Harper
    Sarah Harper February 9, 2012 at 2:21 am |

    Rob, for his insistence that men are BETTER at making food. I’m getting this weird picture in my head of cavemen dragging women by the hair into their caves and cooking awesome meals for them, only now they can’t because they’re too busy buying bags for them, and of course you can’t do both.

  41. Peter
    Peter February 11, 2012 at 12:49 pm |

    That’s odd. All the talk of masculine power and superiority, doesn’t appear to comport with hiding behind fake email and fake websites. Why, it’s almost as if these manly he-men are cowardly and ashamed of themselves!

    These were all pretty lame, and the only one even worthy of considering is the Rob dude. He obviously spent a lot of time and thought on his post – and the only conclusion I can draw from that blather is that he is emotionally traumatized by constant rejection by females, and his is bummed that he can’t sexually harass at work!

  42. lorobird
    lorobird February 13, 2012 at 1:07 pm |

    Billy Bober because IRON MY SHIRTS!!!!!!!!

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