Oh, honey. Worried about female servicemembers having to see naked men in the field. https://t.co/OZ61Kk97tG
— Loren D Schulman (@LorenRaeDeJ) July 8, 2017
To the fainting couches! This was Phyllis Schafly’s best argument against the ERA, back in 1973: “Your daughters will be drafted and forced to share showers with naked men!”
I had four brothers, so the sight of male genitalia once I was old enough to… shall we say… have joined the Army, didn’t come as a nasty shock. My female friends without male siblings had all done enough babysitting (changed enough diapers) to have a working idea of the relevant anatomy. And we didn’t even have the internet to educate us!
Hats off to any dude obsessed enough with the blue cord that he'll seek gender reassignment rather than just work on his push-up strength.
— Bob (@DoHoBOB) July 8, 2017
Maybe high school graduation should come with a seminar on 'your naked body does not actually send people into a frenzy, please chill.'
— Loren D Schulman (@LorenRaeDeJ) July 8, 2017
FlyingToaster
“Wow, that looks like a human penis, only smaller.”
Neldob
Maybe they need to make Ken dolls more, um, interesting and naturalistic?
scav
Is “accept” the new military-speak for not pointing at and laughing?
FlyingToaster
@Neldob: Why? It’s not like Barbie dolls look anything like human women.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
Phyllis Schlafly is still dead. Her son Andy is still around. You want some cheap laughs? Go check out his “Conservapedia”. It’s like a cross between 1984 and the Christian version of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Psycho and sycophantic sysops galore. The expulsion of rationalist forces countering the bullshit led to http://rationalwiki.org. They entered into a cold war until Rationalwiki moved on to debunking conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and bs RW politics. Check them out
mai naem mobile
Colberts monologue is very funny tonight. He had the blackboard out so you know it’s going to be extra hilarious .
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@mai naem mobile: A parody of Glenn Beck?
Major Major Major Major
I swear, the only people who give a shit about genitals are the people who assume everybody gives a shit about genitals.
Mike in NC
Yes, Phyllis Schafly is still dead, for which we can all take some small comfort.
TriassicSands
According to the Google, the average age for American girls to have their first sexual intercourse is 17.2 years old. That means that the average female enlistee in the US military has done more than just seen the goods. They’ve sampled the goods (but maybe not seen them?).
trollhattan
@mai naem mobile:
Watching it right now, the “figureitoutatron.” He’s wiping the floor with the whole crew.
NotMax
Who knew that the slogan “An Army of one” referred to inches?
TriassicSands
@NotMax:
Donald Trump.
Bone spurs my butt. He got out of serving because his organ was too small. All the other men would have laughed at him. Bad for morale.
NotMax
mai naem mobile
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: yes,ofcourse about Donnie Dum Dum.
NotMax
Viva BrisVegas
I nominate this for most egregious animal cruelty of the year.
Betty Cracker
@Viva BrisVegas: This cat though…
Villago Delenda Est
@TriassicSands: If he went to ‘Nam, at any pay grade, he would have come back in a body bag. If Charlie didn’t get him, his buddies would have.
“Bob” up above is a dipshit. This is the precise military term, used by infantrymen, to describe morans like Bob.
SWMBO
@TriassicSands: His morale? Or theirs? Might boost the average soldiers’ confidence.
Steeplejack
@Betty Cracker:
God, that’s way worse. Cats hate being fucked with like that.
Joey Maloney
One year we dressed our 23-pound tortie as Pyanfar Chanur (sparkly red pants and a drop earring) at an sf con masquerade. She spit and snarled all the way to a “Best Costume By A Non-Human” prize.
Patricia Kayden
@NotMax: You’d think that after what Bush and company did to Iraq, the U.S. would be willing to let Iraqi nationals stay in this country. That’s the least we owe them.
NobodySpecial
@Joey Maloney: That is tremendous.
Anne Laurie
@Viva BrisVegas: Oh, that poor Sheltie! He looks so abused…
Some dogs actually like costumes — and it’s not always the dogs you’d expect. Many years ago, for our AKC obedience club’s Halloween party, we brushed (child-safe) blue temporary coloring into our papillon Galliard’s fur, and designed a harness so he could wear big nylon buttefly wings and LED-flashing deelybobber ‘antennae’. Which he put up with, because that dog was a Bodhisattva. His friend Cleome the black Standard Poodle was dressed in a very dignified top hat & white collar, but she sulked all evening. On the other hand, an evil-minded Scotty best known for offering to nip anyone who attempt to befriend him came dressed in an angel costume — full white toga & glitter-festoon halo — and he was so fekkin’ pleased with himself, you could see him looking around for a lampshade to put on his head!
raven
@Anne Laurie: My dog IS the Bodhisattva (except I’ve always spelled it wrong!)
Anne Laurie
@Villago Delenda Est:
Nah, Bob’s mocking the Federalist dipshit who’s warning his fellows that some male soldiers might take advantage of the proposed new transgender-neutral Army rules to pretend that they’re gender-dismorphic, just so they won’t have to do as many push-ups. Any guy willing to go that far… well, I personally wouldn’t want him running loose with a gun, no matter which bathroom he was using. But I don’t think that’s a realistic scenario, it’s just a RWNJ weenie sharing his perverse fantasies with his twisted little friends.
Elizabelle
@raven: love that Baby Bohdi pic.
Someone on an overnight thread thought you’d gone missing. No idea why.
raven
@Elizabelle: I guess I can’t get interested in bitching about a newspaper day-in-day-out.
NorthLeft12
I think the people who really need this are the “adult” school administrators who are constantly redefining the rules as to what female students can wear so that they will not set off the mating instinct of male students.
debbie
@raven:
I’m with you there. Like it would do any good anyway.
weaselone
@Villago Delenda Est:
I’m not sure you’re getting what Bob is saying. In the original tweet, he’s quoting or at least paraphrasing The Federalist article. The 2nd is snarking that same comment because it’s ridiculous to think someone would have a sex change instead of working out to make the requirements.
ruckus
@Villago Delenda Est:
If he went to Nam he would have been assigned point. In boot camp. It would have been in his orders. Like anyone would have to be told.
ruckus
@NorthLeft12:
Like we could have been stopped.
JDM
@scav: Close to what I was going to say. I suspect the average young woman’s reaction to most naked males is to try to shield her chuckling. Or as Elaine said on Seinfeld: “I don’t know how you guys walk around with those things.”.
Raoul
From what I can tell at the Y-dub these days, many men cannot stand the idea that anyone see them naked, even for the, what 2 or 3 seconds from towel removal to underwear pull-up, so they do this absurd under-towel undie dance.
I suppose it’s partly because men now know that us gays are, in fact, everywhere. But, newsflash, we’re not going to lunge because your little wiggler is wiggling for 3 seconds. Or even the entire duration of a shower (though said Y-dub had remodeled two of three facilities to eliminate communal, single gender showers).
And if a brief, discreet leer from a homo makes you that uncomfortable, straight guy, I hope you never do that boob-stare-while-chick-talks-to-you thing. Sheesh.