Hey guys, I joined this site yesterday, so I’m still exploring. I wasn’t sure if my input should go in this forum, “MGTOW Central”, or “Blue Pill Hell”, but eventually decided that if I’m new to the club, then I should enter it as such. It’s just plain good manners. Although heads-up, there is a long (and rant-filled) post ahead.
I’m not fully comfortable going into my own personal history yet. Some of my experiences are still a bit too recent, and I’ve always been kind of shy – that’s why it’s taken me so long to join. For what it’s worth, I’m 5’9″, Pisces, and have a hero in Pete Townshend. But more to the point, I found something on Imdb recently that really angered me, and wanted to see if anybody else finds it as infuriating as I did. Might be an interesting way to get acquainted with all of you. I’ll be the first to say that it hardly matches some of the horror stories that I read before I joined, but thought that I’d start off with something moderate, then work my way up to the hottest topics once settled. At any rate, it certainly p~~~ed me off. The other night I watched What Happens in Vegas and hated it. I know, I shouldn’t be feeding into some idiotic rom-com, as if that genre has ever known jack-s~~~ about real life. And I’m not feeding into the movie itself, it was stupid. Same old tiresome garbage – we’re expected to root for two complacent morons who wouldn’t know real love if it socked them in the jaw, and don’t deserve happiness of any kind by running’s end. You’re probably wondering what I was doing watching such slop, but in spite of myself, I rather enjoyed Ashton Kutcher’s performance in Spread. He’s far from my favourite actor, but it was a surprise to see him at least trying. And feeling rather bored, I finally decided to see if his more frivolous choices were worth giving the time of day to. I know now that I was committing the same dire mistake that I’ve already paid dearly for committing: giving someone too much credit. Call it a moment of weakness I guess, I am generally tying to knock those on the head. Rest assured that I got what I deserved, given that it’s 101 minutes that I could’ve spent on something more productive, like driving a rusty fish hook through my eye socket.
Anyway, from now on I’m going with my gut – if it looks s~~~, chances are it probably is. Afterwards, I decided to see what kind of rating it got on Imdb, as I sometimes do. I’m currently studying film and television at university because I want to be a movie critic, so interest in the Hollywood network is kind of imperative. When I arrived at its homepage, I was annoyed that its rating was a lot higher than I expected (6.1), so decided to check the message boards instead. It may sound weird, but every once in a while, somebody on there has a fair point to make. Perhaps they’d have the same kind of issues with the movie that I did, and threads like those can make for pretty delicious reading. I can’t help it, I have a soft spot for listening to people bitch about terrible films. It’s partly the reason why I want to get into the business myself – to vent, although I am painfully aware that there will be days when I’ll have to sit through the kind of movie that I just did.
While patrolling the board, I found THIS. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1033643/board/thread/143346222
I applaud the main guy for voicing an opinion that I’ve aways harboured, but take a look at some of the responses – or all of them, if you’ve got the time. Though you probably won’t need to. After just four or five ramblings, you’ll get the message. I mean, spoiler alert, they’re pretty much all the same. But note the second one down. Zen_the_Mighty tells a horrible story about his TWELVE-YEAR-OLD BROTHER getting badly hurt by some vindictive little bitch for no reason. He also said, “It wasn’t the first time she’d done it” – which heavily implies that she didn’t even get punished for it on the first occasion, marking the seven billionth example I’ve seen of two parents who don’t seem too flustered by their daughter growing into the perfect arsehole (assuming, of course, that both parents are in the picture).
Now here’s what really got me. If I was told an upsetting story about that happening to their younger brother, my response would be “Sorry to hear it. Hope he’s OK, and that you’ve taken the girl’s parents to task on the matter, because she shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it. If she does, she’ll immediately start wondering how many other things she’ll be able to get away with.” I’d feel inclined to add that the original poster had definitely made his point, though I wouldn’t have challenged it to begin with. But not only does Zen receive no such words, THEY DON’T ACKNOWLEDGE HIS STORY AT ALL. They completely ignore him and go back to blathering on about how hitting a guy in the nads is so funny and it’s all just jesting anyway, so people shouldn’t be so sensitive. That patronising arsehole Kmerian even gives the original poster a small lecture on the definition of slapstick. I mean S~~~. This is after Big_Jim_Slade SAYS IN ONE OF HIS POSTS that he likes slapstick as much as the next person, meaning that he CLEARLY KNOWS WHAT IT IS.
I know that I shouldn’t be getting too worked up about Imdb nerds (after all, I’m one of them – or I was), because those message boards are a breeding ground for every kind of inanity imaginable, but I couldn’t believe how everybody there just BLATANTLY IGNORED both Zen’s story, and every last one of Big_Jim_Slade’s completely valid points. They say that the joke’s punchline shouldn’t be taken too seriously, while systematically demonstrating just what a serious issue it is. I mean, this is a textbook display of how normalised the double standard has become, to the extent that you can literally shove it under people’s noses and they won’t even acknowledge it. My rule of thumb is always put the shoe on the other foot and see if your argument remains. If a twelve-year-old boy put a twelve-year-old girl in terrible pain just for a giggle, not only would everybody go nuts, but they’d…be…BLAMING THE MOVIES. Imagine if a comedy showed this scenario. There’d be cries of “How dare you feature such a scene! D’you know what kind of message that will send to young boys? You’re basically telling male pre-teens that punching a woman in the tit is OK!” The second that it’s back to the norm, the movie shouldn’t be taken too seriously? The fact that this imbalance exists amongst adults is bad enough, but a kid? You’re telling me that something like this can now happen to a child, and not only does nobody care, they don’t even consider it worth addressing? I myself am ambivalent on the issue of whether violence in movies causes violence in real life. But in this case, I’d be willing to bet safe money that that girl got her idea after seeing it performed in a film. Given that it’s so often condoned and portrayed as heroic in movies, she probably got it in her thick little head that not only is it harmless fun, but socially appealing too. I’d call that the seven trillionth example I’ve seen of “strong independent women” being a code word for teaching girls that popularity must always come, even at the expense of causing somebody terrible pain.
Oh, and I simply love how Nicoleskye (the twelfth response) pulls the manipulative old “We can take childbirth, it’s only fair that you take a hit every now and then” for pleading her case. Apparently, women choosing to have children makes getting his nads skewered a reasonable turnabout for a twelve-year-old. Hm.
So…remind me why women think it’s silly for men to be wary of them?
Think I’ll stick to these message boards from now on. Looking forward to the benefits of membership.
To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle. -Orwell
Atton 4 years, 1 month ago.
