Some married men like to jokingly refer to their wife as “the boss,” generally in a patronizing manner that suggests she’s nominally in charge of the boring everyday stuff in the household that he doesn’t really care about anyway.
But our old nemesis Vox Day isn’t having any of it. To refer to your wife as the boss, even as a joke, is to threaten to loose the forces of anarchy and chaos and feminism upon your family. Also, women are dogs. On his Alpha Game blog, he writes,
If you let a dog think he’s the boss, he will cease to defer to you and begin objecting, violently, when you interfere with what he now believes are his prerogatives. Women are no different.
That’s right. Give in an inch to your wife, and the next thing you know she’ll be sitting on the furniture and insisting on eating “people food” at the table.
It’s a tad ironic that Vox here has decided to degrade women by comparing them to dogs, when his whole “alpha” schtick is based on misguided notions about the behavior of “alpha dogs” and wolves.
It’s one thing to turn over your social calendar to your wife due to a lack of interest in the various social obligations of the family. But checking in to see if there is scheduling conflict, or simply being courteous enough to see if your wife minds if you go to the football game does not make you an employee or a child. Therefore, it does not make her the boss. And what might have been an ironic jest in the days of Mad Men is often taken quite literally now.
Marriage: an endless power struggle in which the wife must always lose.
What a lovely vision of the world!
I should also add that you should never ever, even jokingly, refer to Bruce Springsteen as “the boss” either, because if you do he’s going to be hounding you to hand in your TPS reports and forcing you to work on Saturdays. You don’t want that.
EDITED TO ADD: In the comments on Alpha Game, cailcorishev expands a bit on the whole “women-as-dogs” thing in what he evidently thinks is a humorous way:
Since you mentioned dogs: virtually everything about disciplining a dog and being the pack leader applies to leading a woman (or children). I’m convinced that, if you took a woman on a 45-minute walk every day, as Cesar Millan recommended for dogs, it would eliminate a lot of her problems. Just make sure you lead her, having her take your arm and follow you where you want to go — or use a leash if she’s into that kind of thing.
I can only hope his wife — if there is an unfortunate woman holding this position — pees on the rug and chews up all his important paperwork.
Dear “man boobz”,
Dear “man boobz”, you are a serious moron. I can even tell you’re not a male, because no male would stoop this low to make fun of the art of chauvinism and misogyny, you can’t just deny statistically proven facts. Everything that women use in their daily lives, us men did it. You don’t provide valid arguments, instead you try to be like The Onion, seriously, just stop.
I wonder if it’s okay to turn your social calendar over to your dog? I wonder what our social calendars would look like if they were designed by dogs?
Social calendar as organized by a cat
9AM – Sleep
10AM – Groom
11AM – Sleep in different spot
12PM – Demand treats
1PM – Nap in sunbeam
2PM – Groom again
@cloudiah I can imagine it would be a bit of a dog’s lunch.
I will make sure to remember this post when he calls feminists humorless for not liking rape jokes.
I laughed my ass off at that post yesterday. You have to have a few chemical imbalances going on in order to take that kind of nonsense seriously. I almost feel embarrassed for the author.
I wonder if he has too much personal experience of this – maybe his wife controls everything?
“Some married men like to jokingly refer to their wife as “the boss,” generally in a patronizing manner that suggests she’s nominally in charge of the boring everyday stuff in the household that he doesn’t really care about anyway.”
This. I’ve been trying to figure out what I hated about that phrase and I think you summed it up perfectly. There doesn’t seem to be any real power there, just (more “unglorious”) stuff he lets her do because he doesn’t want to. -facepalm-
Dogs are a man’s best friend. Let them get married!
But I like how he says that if you don’t discipline the dog it will turn on you. Yeah, more like “man’s best slave”. Dog’s are simple, food equals obedience in most cases, no need to be harsh with them.
Most times I hear guys calling their wife “The Boss”, it’s casting them as the buzzkill. “I’d like to go out drinking with you, let me check with the boss”, “I’d love to buy that expensive geek fetish, but The Boss says no.”
If I’m going to be a dog, can I be this one? http://www.flickr.com/photos/niera/5751297052/
Once Vox Day starts making valid arguments, we’ll reply to them. Until then, we continue to point and laugh at the monster as it shambles through life like a low-grade horror movie effect.
Yes, because valid arguments WILL CHANGE THE WORLD!
@sawbirst Nope. Everything that women use in their daily lives other people “did it”. You were too busy whining on the Internet.
Do any woman or girl live with Theodore Bael? I’ve found he has three children.
I’m working on my statistical refutation of the statistically proven fact that women are just like dogs.
But it’s difficult because I’m a woman and math is hard.
“Everything that women use in their daily lives, us men did it.”
Putting aside how false that is for a second, I guess you’re okay with being associated with the bad things other men have done over the centuries up til now as well…? I mean, you’re so quick to take credit for the good things a minority of men do…
Whenever I feel statistics being misused like by that piece of work in the first two comments, I feel the need to forcibly feed someone with Legos. You don’t use inequality to justify inequality! “Oh yeah, men are clearly superior to women and that’s why we must fight tooth and nail to deny them equal opportunities! It’s not like our pretensions of superiority would be threatened, no way!”. Ugh.
blanktie, opium4themasses was being sarcastic, I’m pretty sure.
Just because your courteous to her it doesn’t mean your wife isn’t still your dog.
“I guess you’re okay with being associated with the bad things other men have done over the centuries up til now as well…? I mean, you’re so quick to take credit for the good things a minority of men do…”
That also sticks in my craw. First, because of the implicit racism in that the same “argument” can be turned around against any disadvantaged group. Yeah, women have won less Nobel Prizes than men coming from Trinity College, but the same is true for Latin Americans.
Second, statistically, the overwhelming majority of men did NOT do anything of note. So, we can conclude that humanity as a whole is completely mediocre and no human should be allowed to try inventing anything ever.
According to Islamic law of Iran atonement of one woman is less than atonement of left ball of man. he may love this law
Serrana:
“blanktie, opium4themasses was being sarcastic, I’m pretty sure.”
I was replying to sawburst, who seemed to be being “serious”
I’ve been clumsily typing this up on my phone and don’t really have the quoting thing down yet, sorry
Since the day has passed that raping your wife is illegal ,the wife is the boss. Whether she allows him to do her “doggy” style or not is completely up to her .
She is the gate keeper ,she controls the sex .
Or have they already forgotten that part ?