You may think you know everything about the terribleness of women that there is to know.
But do you know about Hike Misandry?
Over in the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit one outdoor adventurer clues us in on this insidious new form of feminine evil.
Damn those FAKE HIKER GIRLS!
One MGTOW suggests that men should also be wary of women who claim to exercise. (As if!)
Stay safe, men, stay safe. It’s a treacherous world out there.
NOTE: This post contains
I want a pack goat! I think I’ll have to make do with a pack dog instead though. I already have a dog, and she won’t share affection or space with anyone else.
Every day MGTOWs seem to discover a new evil thing that women do. They constantly get distracted by the next conspiracy theory and never stay with the old one for more than a few minutes.
http://i.imgur.com/WwyLm0s.gif
“OMG a ball! A leaf! My foot! The leaf! Ball! CAMERA”
Oh well, at least this one has a hobby. Though when he goes off hiking his own way, I hope he takes a compass and a map, assuming it isn’t just a one mile loop around the park that is.
PI:
This strikes me very funny, because when I was a kid, born to a Baby Boomer mom, she took photos of everything where we went. Her own mother was pretty much the same when my mom was a kid. It did not matter that film was expensive and developing that roll of film even more so. If we were there, it had to be documented, with all of us in a group in front of whatever she wanted to photograph. She gave me a camera of my own, bought film for travels, and told me to snap photos at will. Mine were less posed, though — I preferred spontaneous snaps and pictures of people who weren’t my family going on about their business, if they happened to be in frame when I was shooting my stuff.
Does a walk along the beach turn into a hike if it involves clambering over a LOT of rocks at one point, sometimes at risk of falling into the water?
PI: I could stare at that gif all day. 😀
@ Emmy Rae
Yes! We don’t always need to go walking on a high mountain top. I have found many a time that just wandering around one’s home town can be of great pleasure.
You really can learn something new on every occasion and it keeps me coming back for more.
And it has been said also that walking thoughts are the best thoughts. I for one can agree wholeheartedly with that.
Someone should tell this guy about Ashima Shiraishi, the 14-year old girl who is considered one of the best rock climbers in the world (male or female). I bet his head would explode.
Back in the day I was an avid hiker/camper, ranging from overnight trips in the White Mountains to a 19,000-ft. peak. My best friend (also female) worked for the AMC and regularly packed 60-lb. loads of food up and down the trails to restock the huts. I don’t recall any selfies or expensive yoga clothes. Just breathtaking views, and an appreciation for the world.
Hiking seems like an awkward sort of first date. You’re sweaty, you’re going single file, you’re focusing on where to put your feet. It’s hard to carry on a sustained conversation. There are distractions (bugs, heat, wind, blisters, etc.). If the other person turns out to be a jerk, as is very likely when hiking with a MGTOW, there’s no graceful way to cut the date short and leave (see: Katz’ post). You’re stuck with them for at least a few hours.
I could see going for a nice walk around a park loop, though.
*complains about women*
*posts on Reddit*
@ ej
Do you still get the badge? I think they discontinued it for a bit a while back because it supposedly encouraged people to be reckless, but people pointed out that that’s part of the fun (most of our goes started out with ‘carb loading’ in the Ingleborough Inn. Beer is full of carbs.)
Re: refugee camps
For a first hand account here’s my friend’s blog:
https://kthavocblog.wordpress.com
@Buttercup Q. Skullpants
You’re a goddamn treasure. Also: propers for the Strindberg & Helium avatar.
Oh my god everyone this post might be the best thing the red pill subreddit has ever produced. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/4hv7vt/the_viability_of_the_red_pill_in_the_future/
I’m never quite sure whether “hiking” means something different from what I do, which is go for a long walk in the country, usually on footpaths or trails – anyway, trying to avoid paved roads as much as I can.
We try to do that once a week: we don’t always manage it.
So I may be a “fake hiker” but I’m absolutely 100% sure I’m a genuine walker.
From Orion’s link:
Why must they ruin everything? Time to shave, I guess.
@Orion
Jesus fucking Christ these guys have a lot of free time. What’s the teal deer version of that? It would take me several days to read through. :/
@ bluecat
You got me wondering, so I did a bit of googling.
Seem that there’s an old word ‘hike’ (or ‘yike’) which means to walk vigorously.
But there’s also a suggestion that it’s a 20th century invention based on hill. walking
Personally though I rarely trust anything I read on the internet, so who knows?
Darn, I was gonna upload some pics but for some reason the same photobucket I successfully posted from before randomly decided to make their address end in “jpeg” instead of “jpg”, and now it won’t post properly. I’ll get this figured out.
There’s a place about an hour away from me called Colorado City, along the highway where Arizona borders Utah, that continues to operate as an FLDS compound mostly without interference despite the horror stories that have trickled out of there over the decades. They also practice something called “Blood Atonement” for disobedience. If you ever drive along that stretch, seriously give the hitchhikers a chance.
(Major Trigger Warnings)
http://listverse.com/2014/04/19/10-polygamist-wives-who-escaped-unbelievable-abuse/
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/feb/22/i-was-17-and-he-was-50/
So glad that my upcoming five-day hike up a mountain is going to be comprised of rad women! MTGOW can go his own way away from my mountain. He wouldn’t like it anyway as there’s no internet access.
Hello.
Yeah. And of course, there are aboslutly no fake hiking/climbing guys…
After all, “Holy shit, Batman, this woman pretends to like climbing !”
Because all men are natural climbers, of course…
Have a nice day.
Omg, that TRP post.
http://www.countingcats.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Oh-Wait-Youre-serious-Let-me-laugh-harder.jpg
I love that they complain that we pick apart their premises instead of their conclusions. If you start with a faulty premise, any truth to any conclusion you draw from it is entirely coincidental.
@bluecat: I mostly hike on trails as well–I definitely don’t mind a bit of clambering over rocks and roots and logs and such (and I’ve done a bit of that with a guide), but my sense of direction is absolute garbage and I need a clear trail I can follow. It can be a half-climby, half-walky trail, but I have to be able to clearly see and follow it.
But I love hiking so, so very much, whatever intensity. Long walks do a lot to clear my head in any case, but long walks through nature refresh me like few other things do.
Lack of good hiking is the main thing I dislike about living in the Great Plains.
@IP
tl;dr: tl;dr
@occasionalreader
Word. I went kayaking on the Saco River a few years ago, and there were a couple of long stretches of campground along the banks that were wall-to-wall boom boxes, beer bottles, coolers, grills, and loud catcalling guys in baseball hats. The litter and noise were unbelievable. Frat boys were hurling themselves into the river and dousing me with SuperSoakers. The river was shallow and crowded, and it was impossible to pass. At one point I got stuck behind three kayaks that were lashed together with an entire crate of vodka aboard. It was like an episode of MTV Spring Break.
Yep, real hikers.
@Mike Hisandry
Aww, thanks! Love your new username. 🙂
Helium seems appropriate, given how much these guys sound like Strindberg moaning about the terribleness of the world, and their im14andthisisdeep essays.
Yeah. There is no, absolutely not a single one, record to be found of people of my boomer generation, and my parents’ generation, moaning about visiting friends or relatives only to find themselves trapped in front of a two hour long slideshow of the host’s latest trip to wherever. Never happened to me. Never happened to anyone else. Never.
Just as well the expression TL:DR was already invented. Otherwise, some stunned person faced with that whatever-it-is would have to invent it. But their brain would be too mangled to manage anything more than a desperate demand for coffee.
There is some truth in the theory that there’s a growing trend of taking photos just to look good on social media. Of course that’s not confined to any particular gender. And there’s a lot of money to be made from it.
We’ve been having some dealings with the Tough Mudder people and one of their execs explained it thus:
Seems a bit cynical but they did turn over $75,000,000 in 2014 and of course there are still lots of people who do things just for the sheer joy of it and not because they want to impress other people.
Complaints about fake gamer girls: weird, unpleasant quirk in a subculture
Complaints about fake gamer girls, and this guy: unfortunate coincidence
However, I still intend to keep an eye out for complaints about women pretending to enjoy some other hobby (watching NFL games? Poker?) and see if a trend emerges.
@Imaginary Petal:
That puppers is adorable.
@Orion’s link:
I scrolled past the first post to see the responses, which were immediately full of biotroofs about how all women are like… something, and they’re “all creatures of emotion”.
…
I’ve said this before in an unrelated place about an unrelated subject, but do they realize that we, the human species, are not in fact Vulcans and/or robots?
@post:
I love how this guy’s first explanation at the idea of a woman taking pictures while hiking is “selfies for attention!!!!” rather than “I really like this area and want something to remember/show other people”. How selfish of someone to want to share their experiences with someone who wasn’t physically there.
I like the outdoors. Or more specifically, I like the scenery. Living in Vermont, there tends to be a fair bit of it, though we don’t have anything particularly enthralling if you’re used to lots of mountains and trees. Fjords, canyons, waterfalls, little hidden streams and creeks, caves, all of that stuff fascinates me, and I’d love to be able to see tons of them.
I hate bugs. Doesn’t really matter what kind; mosquitoes are the worst, they’re as obnoxious as flies and leave itching welts like horse/deerflies, and have the added bonus of always hovering right by your ear rather than just zipping around you in circles while trying to find somewhere to land on you. I have a phobia of bees/wasps/hornets/etc., and there are loads of creepy crawlies and airborne assailants that we don’t even have here.
Also, I can’t really do hiking anyway. I have an extreme dislike for being sweaty, to the degree that being particularly sweaty tends to make me feel like I’m actually just a pile of garbage, and I’m a naturally sweaty person. EDIT: My lungs aren’t great, either. Walks are cool, though on particularly hot/sunny days they tend to take more out of me than I’d like, but the sort of vigorous exercise usually associated with “hiking” tends to be beyond my capabilities.