The charming Man Going His Own Way who calls himself Rex Patriarch has written up a short treatise entitled “Women Are Incapable of Love.” (He’s also posted a video by another MGTOWer making the same point, but we’ll just ignore that for now, because I didn’t bother to watch it.)
Anyway, here’s Rex’s argument, such as it is:
Look guys, women are like pets.
Do pets love you?
No, of course not but they do feel the warmth which is the love you may have for them. At a minimum you are their meal ticket. That in of itself is why they stick around.
Same same with women. As long as you are their meal ticket they “love” you but the very moment you can’t provide for them. The very moment they find a better deal, find some higher status.
Watch how fast that “love” goes out the window.
The reason being is it never was there to begin with. It was just something they were telling you to keep the goodies coming. Up until they could find something better. If they can.
The thing is men can love women all they want or none at all but don’t expect them to love you back in the same measure. They simply do not have the ability.
What’s interesting about this argument, insofar as anything about it is interesting, is that he’s not just, you know, wrong about women. He’s also wrong about pets.
Now, anyone who’s bonded with a pet certainly feels that their pet loves them back. (Or at least some pets do; I’m pretty sure the turtle my brother had as a kid didn’t really love anything other than worms.) Still, some skeptics insist that we’re just anthropomorphizing when we look at our pets and see love in their eyes.
But researchers are increasingly seeing harder-to-dismiss signs that animals may have emotions remarkably like our own — and that they can indeed feel love. By scanning the brains of dogs, Emory University neuroeconomics professor Gregory Berns has found that dogs and humans are alike in some key ways:
All in all, dogs and humans show striking similarities in the activity of an important brain region called the caudate nucleus. So, do dogs love us and miss us when we’re gone? The data strongly suggest they do. And, those data can further move humanity away from simplistic, reductionist, behaviorist explanations of animal behavior and animal emotions and also be used to protect dogs and other animals from being abused.
You can read more about his research, and what he sees as its implications, here.
More on animal emotions here and here.
You can also learn a lot about how animals — including the animals called humans — think and feel by just fucking paying attention to them and having a tiny bit of empathy. This is apparently a bit too much for some people to manage.
Alice — now that needs to christen our humor section!
Btw, I should be done breaking it now. A few CSS tweaks so the admin options in posts aren’t so flippin’ annoying (might hide them with JS and have them display on hover), and the header image, since I didn’t even think to check the copyright on that loach as. I hadn’t intended it as more than a placeholder. And just a wee bit of sidebar stuff, like finding the recent comment plugin used here, or similar, we need images over there. Also, I need an image for myself…I’m going back to my ninja, because I haz skillz.
Good’s explanation:
Sorry, dude, that doesn’t answer any of my questions.
Why were you and “Dana” posting with IPs that map to literally the exact same physical location? As in, what appears to be the same store in a strip mall.
Now, IP locations don’t necessarily map to where people are exactly, so I might even let that slide with a good explanation, but then there’s this:
Why are both of your email addresses in the form of:
[color] [synonym for man] [two digit number beginning with the same digit]?
And why was “Dana’s” email associated with a male name elsewhere online?
If you’ve got some brilliant explanations, I’d like to hear them, otherwise you are banned.
I mean, I’m not exactly a brilliant cyber-detective, But I think maybe you’re an even worse sockpuppeter,
I’m so glad I stayed online for this. I think Good’s minions are so numerous that we should be shocked if there weren’t multiple supporters posting from the same strip mall!
🙂
Also, why do people sockpuppet? What is it that they hope to achieve?
YAY!
Oh David, you know Goof is never going to answer your questions. He’ll just try to look clever in his retorts to what he wishes you were saying to him, and skirt around the subject as usual. Kicking him to the curb is the best thing for him, I think.
@CassandraSays: I think they get so desperate for someone else backing up what they have to say that they think it’s worth the risk.
But do they think that if one other person appears to agree with them everyone else will go, oh, OK, he must be right then? That’s the part I don’t get.
They live in a bubble. Whoever backs up what they say can live in the bubble and confirm that their views are a-okay. Confirmation bias. Fox News. Call it whatever. They only need one other person to say, “good job!” To continue their campaign of total bullshit.
Rogan, I’m so sorry you cop all the shit. But totally seconding what Unimaginative said. I hope you get your home and a rest, a proper REST, a sleep-in vacation.
Since we were talking about the dudebros and how like Tweedledum and Tweedledee they are … anyone recognise this?
(apologies to Tenniel)
@kittehs: Wow! Did you draw that yourself?
I mean, the alterations to the original picture. Stupid brain, thinking that first sentence was at all clear.
Glad you like it, Falconer!
I didn’t draw the alterations. My mouse-drawing skills are next best thing to nonexistent. 🙂 I just ran Paulyboy’s beard and goggly eyes through a couple of effects on Photostudio.
Well, that’s even creepier, somehow.
It was creepy having a picture of him on my computer, even for a few minutes, that’s for sure!
kitteh: You made that? That’s awesome!
Kitteh: Make sure to add that to our DeviantArt group.
I will, if I can remember a) my login and b) how to join groups! 😀
“And why was “Dana’s” email associated with a male name elsewhere online?”
Isn’t Dana an unisex name
It is, but it’s also SOP for trolls here to pretend to be women when sockpuppetting.
Hey Viscaria! I am doing great! how are you! I haven’t checked for a few days and I missed a troll….oh well It is better without trolls anyway!
What is kind of interesting and actually depressing in many ways is nether men or women are that great at sticking around during hardships….women are more likely to leave if a man is unemployed and a man is more likely to leave if their SO is sick. So perhaps we should look at human flaws instead of acting like men are oh so much better…..they are just as human as women
This is actually a decent post, especially the links to pet emotions. I know I’ve always felt a special connection the animals I’ve owned and love. The big difference between pets and women, however, is that pets have nothing to gain by manipulation, either emotionally or sexually; do women love men for who they are, or for what men can do for them? I have found the latter to be true, especially for friends who have been in more than a few relationships.
It is easier to love an animal than a woman, because an animal offers unconditional love, because they have nothing to lose. Women have everything to gain in undermining men.
“…pets have nothing to gain by manipulation…emotionally…”
Says someone who has clearly never seen an animal beg!
Clearly Dubs is unaware of what the word manipulation means. Apparently he thinks that manipulation = something the ebil wimmen do to the poor menz. I have a hunch that the Furrinati laughs at him at least as much, if not more so, than women do.
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