This is my second Valentine's Day with a wench... and my last as an unmarried man. To those single people out there, I empathize and bring you a link to Wilson's list. Even if you've read it before, I encourage you to read it again... the list is very worthwhile.
And for those of you unfortunate enough to not have known me back in the day when I was a more verbal chauvinist, I bring an excerpt from the forum flame-war that more or less led to my close friendship with Anna, which in turn led to where I am now... but anyways, here you are:
Being as that the Shadow Council more or less runs itself these days, I have decided that I will be pursuing other things in addition, so that I don't get slow or dull on my rhetoric.Posted by Vengeful Cynic at February 14, 2005 01:11 PM | TrackBackThe idea of returning to the halcyon days of yore when men ruled the land as they should and women held their tongues has always appealed to me. Recently, I have begun to explore the feasibility of making such a change and it occurred to me that even should I control the government in an autocracy, I would need something more. Just because women are relegated to their proper state as second-class citizens doesn't mean that they won't continue to stir up dissension and create problems for my regime.
And then, as is with all problems, the solution came to me. The control of all forms of media would be my tool. Primarily, the constant barrage of the news media and entertainment would reinforce my message of truth. Feminist literature and the like would be banned and burned. As a cautionary measure, women would be forbidden to read, but this would take some time to implement. In the meanwhile the state-run media would pervade all of life. I honestly don't think it would take much to return peoples' minds to the proper frame of reference with the use of that media...
And so we see the end result of Scholl's chauvinism: marriage. :)
One wonders if men will ever stop insisting that they want nothing to do with women, when even so eloquent a spokesman for singleness has so little chance of doing so.
Posted by: Toad at February 14, 2005 05:59 PMFace it. Women rule.
Posted by: Ma Hoyt at February 14, 2005 06:54 PMActually, Ma Hoyt, it might be more accurate to say that hormones rule.
Posted by: A Single at February 14, 2005 10:43 PMTo assert that women rule, one might have to follow that up with an inquiry as to what exactly they rule. I suppose we will allow that women rule the kitchen, the mopping, and the child-birthing. Does that suffice? I believe that to be enough ruling for women... more than enough, in fact. Maybe we ought to redistribute the power and outsource the mopping to a foreign country.
Posted by: Vengeful Cynic at February 15, 2005 12:08 AMI need to find the matching response.....
Posted by: banana at February 15, 2005 12:35 AMI don't think we can let you do that...
Posted by: gallagher at February 15, 2005 09:19 AM