Warning: the following link may make your eyeballs melt and then bleed out of your eyesockets

[lirazel]

You know how people can just be awful? Like horrifically, horrifically awful, so much so that you want to go beg the Cylons/vampires/Romulans/Dalek/Reavers to adopt you so that you will no longer be associated with humanity and can then dare to hold your head up in public?

Yeah. This article will make you feel that way.

My friends and I have been having quite a discussion about this on facebook, mostly full of expletives and ellipses, as nothing less can convey our rage/disgust/horror/fury. More and more people keep popping up to rant about it where the link is posted on my wall, and only the fact that all of my (lovely, lovely) friends are as enraged/disgusted/horrified/furious as I am is keeping me from spontaneously combusting.  Also, the Jezebel article writer refers to the readers of the original article as "Mr. Penis," which makes me giggle (I am twelve.  So sue me).  I thought I would share the experience with y'all.

So, go forth, my innocents, and let your minds be corrupted by the ways in which a magazine entitled Ask Men advises the men of the world to tell their girlfriends that said girlfriends are fat and should lose weight.

I'll be here, waiting for you to come back with your fury.


Oh, look!  How convenient!  I have an "enraged" option on my moodtheme!  And it involves shirtless!Hyde!  Well, that made my night slightly better.

Comments

[callmepatsy.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, for some reason I'm not filled with incoherent, blinding rage. I mean, is it news that there are some men out there who are assholes and who really only want to date Barbie? Any woman who needs a boyfriend so badly she would put up with any of those things needs to maybe not be in a relationship until she gets her own head in order.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

No, you're right. I know there are lots of terrible, awful men (and, for that matter, women) out there. It's just that rarely do I see such a consolidation of passive-aggressiveness, manipulation, control issues, and misogyny in one place. It's the sheer intensity of it that blows my mind. I could easily see many guys (including guys I know) pulling maybe one or two or even three of those things, but the fact that one human being came up with all ten? Kills me.

Any woman who needs a boyfriend so badly she would put up with any of those things needs to maybe not be in a relationship until she gets her own head in order. Well, you're right on the one hand. But I know a lot of women who have been so broken down by society that they really believe they deserve all this. That's what makes me the saddest.