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

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

But, the worst part of all this is that I know people like him, who think that pulling this bullshit is okay. And we're stuck in this stupid culture that makes women feel like complete crap about themselves. Yes, exactly. I would hope that any woman he treated like this would leave him...but I know that there are women who are so broken down by what everyone is telling them that they would put up with it because they think they can't get better/don't deserve better. I know women like that, and it just shatters my heart.


I wish this Mr. Penis a future full of very strong, very angry women. I second this.

[eldritchowl.livejournal.com]

jfdlksajfa the more I think about this, the angrier I get. I mean, when a magazine is basically instructing readers on how to get away with emotional abuse, something is severely wrong with the world.

It's like, hmm, before you go about sabotaging chairs and emotionally abusing your partner maybe, JUST MAYBE, a warning bell should go off in your head telling you that the problem in this "relationship" is maybe not with her weight but with your fundamental lack of respect for another human being?

...and when I break out the quotation marks of ballooning anger, I know that it's probably time to stop ranting.


I just want to take those women (men too) and somehow tell them that they're always, always worth it. And take the abuser and rattle some tiny bit of sense into them. :|

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

the quotation marks of ballooning anger This is my new favorite phrase ever.



I just want to take those women (men too) and somehow tell them that they're always, always worth it. And take the abuser and rattle some tiny bit of sense into them. :| Me, too. Me, too.