His blog post in March was about how life is unfair to dudes, and it was just as ridiculous as you’d think. How does male life suck? Let me count the ways:
We have to hold doors open for women, and they get served first in restaurants.
I know he’s starting off weak, but I feel stupid thinking up a feeble reply. “Men can pee standing up, nyah nyah”?
How about the higher rates for car insurance that young men pay compared to young women?
How often do you see chicks in turbocharged Camaros racing each other to the next stoplight? And how about hairstylists: does the smell of estrogen make scissoring more difficult? What about dry cleaners: is it harder to clean shirts with flower patterns?
[E]xamples of unfair treatment of men include many elements of the legal system, the military draft in some cases, the lower life expectancies of men, the higher suicide rates for men, circumcision, and the growing number of government agencies that are primarily for women.
The last one is my favorite: “the growing number of government agencies that are primarily for women.” Honestly, I have no idea what he’s talking about. Is there a new branch of Congress that deals strictly with menstrual cramps and Manolo Blahniks? And what about all the government agencies that are strictly for men, like the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or Death Row?
Generally speaking, society discourages male behavior whereas female behavior is celebrated. Exceptions are the fields of sports, humor, and war.
Yeah, the business world is totally female. In fact, as a teenager I was fired from my job painting street signs because I wasn’t nurturing enough.
After a lengthy whine, Mr. Adams claims the double-standard doesn’t bother him. “The reality is that women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently,” he says. “It’s just easier this way for everyone.”
Yeah, he said it. Dudes ignore chicks’ infantile bullshit because they want to get laid.
It’s called a strategy. Sometimes you sacrifice a pawn to nail the queen.
Mr. Adams deleted this post after it went viral, but it seems like he hasn’t learned his lesson. I’ll let Gawker tell you what he whined about today:
Huffington Post blogger Keli Goff wrote a column slamming Gwyneth Paltrow's suggestion that "everything in my life that's good is because I worked my ass off to get it and to maintain it." Goff noted, correctly, that a large part of what's good in Gwyneth Paltrow's life comes from the fact that she was born with a brace of silver spoons in her perfectly-shaped mouth and calls Steven Spielberg "Uncle Steven."
Mr. Adams immediately drops all semblance of gallantry, but I guess he doesn’t want to fuck Ms. Goff. Apparently her path to prosperity runs straight over poor Gwynie. She’s “ambitious and unscrupulous” “[b]ut at this point in her career she needs to fatten up her credentials to take the next leap.” “[S]he needed a hot social theme,” and “cleverly picked class friction between the rich and the poor.”
Yeah. That’s right. The only reason a non-rich black woman would criticize a dense, overprivileged white woman is because she wants to hop on that train to Blogging Superstardom. Take out the races and it's just insulting. Like the saying goes, Ms. Paltrow was born on third base but repeatedly, exhaustively claims she hit a home run.
Now that we’ve established a pattern, we can deduce what’s wrong with Mr. Adams. Wikipedia says he grew up in Windham, New York, the "Gem of the Catskills," population 1660, black population 6. Anybody who’s been to Orange County knows the problem: rich white neighborhoods breed bad behavior just as easily as slums. The residents set privilege as their baseline. They hear complaining so they join in, without realizing that, really, their problems communicating with the gardener don’t compare to trying to keep the rats away from your TV dinner.
I don’t want to fuck Mr. Adams, so I don’t have to put up with his bullshit. But maybe somebody who never saw a black person until he was 18 should think twice before attacking one. And as a final note let’s say, all gallantry intact, that if society truly favored female behavior, somebody'd make Mr. Adams stuff a sock in it.
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Egads! What a ... wanker! I see a wedding ring on his finger. He's married to a woman or that standee of Dilbert?
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