We are all Slave now.

[Not Bob]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Um, he was talking about something else.

TBH, I like his version better.

[Not Bob]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I don’t have my panties in a twist on this. I thought it demanded something ludicrous and offered it here to see if I was right.

TM said we misunderstood its broader point.
Ty said it was frivolous in its demands men concede positions.
You defended its silly demand, but when confronted backed down and now say it was just a good way to get men talking about feminism. In other words, you happily engaged in virtue-signaling. Until flagged for it.

You forgot to mention that I used a line from one of Bob Seger’s finest songs as a relevant re line. (Which was based upon an aspect of Gloria that pissed Betty Freidan off.)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Adder

Or I could realize that she's a literate adult.

I'm not sure you're literate. She wrote, "Pledge to vote for feminist women only." You have decided to read the word "only" out of what she said.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Not Bob

TBH, I like his version better.

Well, sure, not least because it didn't actually happen.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I don’t have my panties in a twist on this.

That's a terrible expression. Almost as bad as what you called the piece's author earlier.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

That's a terrible expression. Almost as bad as what you called the piece's author earlier.

I didn’t call her that. It’s a Tropic Thunder reference.

“Never go full retard.”

She went full retard.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I don’t have my panties in a twist on this. I thought it demanded something ludicrous and offered it here to see if I was right.

TM said we misunderstood its broader point.
Ty said it was frivolous in its demands men concede positions.
You defended its silly demand, but when confronted backed down and now say it was just a good way to get men talking about feminism. In other words, you happily engaged in virtue-signaling. Until flagged for it.

I have backed down from nothing.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Not Bob

You forgot to mention that I used a line from one of Bob Seger’s finest songs as a relevant re line. (Which was based upon an aspect of Gloria that pissed Betty Freidan off.)

Now that is well, no - perfectly, done.

And I always thought it was about Jane Fonda!

Fuck was she hot in Barbarella. How many times did I try to freeze that to see a nipple?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Adder

I have backed down from nothing.

Then you are going full retard.

I applaud the commitment.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

That's a terrible expression. Almost as bad as what you called the piece's author earlier.

I switched from commando to thong a year ago.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I didn’t call her that. It’s a Tropic Thunder reference.

“Never go full retard.”

She went full retard.

OK, but that's terrible too.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

OK, but that's terrible too.

It’s actually very funny dialogue. And a meme. Galifinakis used it in the Hangover flicks also, though not as well.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Adder

I have backed down from nothing.

I'll alert the media.

CONF to T: better?

[Not Bob]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Now that is well, no - perfectly, done.

And I always thought it was about Jane Fonda!

Fuck was she hot in Barbarella. How many times did I try to freeze that to see a nipple?

You are correct - I misremembered that. Apologies. It’s now a slightly less relevant re line.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

“A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think everything was possible and that nothing was true. The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynicism the vice of superior and refined minds. Mass propaganda discovered that the audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”

The Origins of Totalitarianism