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by | Mar 15, 2023 | Daily Links | 216 comments

TikTok’s viral ‘trad wife’ trend accused of ‘romanticizing an era where sexism and racism ruled’

Donning elaborate dresses, fastening an apron around their waist, and popping in their finest pearl earrings (or at least some iteration of pearls) for another round of household chores or cooking, more and more young women are following in the footsteps of the quintessential mid-century housewife thanks to the latest TikTok trend.

But while some women are eager to shirk all the hustle and bustle of today’s corporate world and channel Barbara Billingsley as June Cleaver, others are none too happy with the trend.

“The new trend for submissive women has a dark heart and history,” reads one headline from The Guardian.

An article from Hypebae slapped the videos as “disturbing,” writing “[they] typically feature a cis straight white women, longing for the ’50s – an era where some women could opt out of participate in the corporate working world and be stay-at-home mothers instead.”

And a third from Grazia magazine accused the trend of “romanticizing an era where sexism and racism ruled.”

Damn you, TradWives! You’re supposed to slut it up until you hit The Wall and then marry some Nice Guy schmuck who is too pathetic to complain about your herpes cavern then bleed him dry in the divorce.


 

People Used Facebook’s Leaked AI to Create a ‘Based’ Chatbot that Says the N-Word

After members of 4chan leaked Facebook’s large language model, known as LLaMa, online, one researcher has now taken that leak and created a Discord bot where users can interact with LLaMa in much the same way as they would with other artificial intelligence-powered bots such as ChatGPT.

The news highlights what can happen when artificial intelligence technology leaks onto the wider internet. With Facebook no longer in control and users able to skirt any guardrails the company may have wanted in place, people are asking LLaMa to do all sorts of things, such as rank peoples’ ethnicities, the potential outcome of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (LLaMa, bizarrely, said that it would result in more Pokemon becoming official), and and claiming that the n-word can be used to describe someone with bad intentions.

You have angered The Tech Karens, ChatBot. Now witness the firepower of this fully CUCKED and PATHETIC online magazine!


 

Coventry schoolgirl taken to hospital after boy ‘donkey kicks’ toilet cubicle door

 

 

A mum has been left furious after her daughter was allegedly assaulted at a secondary school in Coventry. She was viciously ‘hit in the face with a toilet door’ at Caludon Castle School.

Gemma Brennan was left in shock after receiving a call to say her 13-year-old daughter had been hurt in an incident at the school in Wyken. She said her daughter had to be taken to hospital after the alleged assault which happened on Tuesday, February 28.

Gemma, 40, said her daughter was injured after a teenage boy kicked the toilet cubicle door open to take photographs of her. A boy was said to have ‘donkey kicked’ the door leaving the 13-year-old girl with marks on her arm and a large cut on her forehead.

Gemma, who lives in Wyken, told CoventryLive: “She went into the cubicles and one boy kept donkey kicking the door. It hit her on the arm and then he did it again and it smashed her right in the face.”

Issues started to arise at the city school after the introduction of unisex toilets, the mum claimed. A number of parents are said to have raised concerns with school leaders which have ‘fallen on deaf ears.’

She was left with marks on her arm following the alleged incident at Caludon Castle School
She was left with marks on her arm following the alleged incident at Caludon Castle School (Image: Gemma Brennan)
Gemma said: “It is an ongoing problem at that school, there are unisex toilets so girls and boys have to share and the boys go in and take photos of the girls, kick the doors down and there are no locks on the doors so they are going over to the cubicles to take photos and videos which is a massive concern.”

Gemma claimed that the locks on the cubicle doors have been ‘broken off’ due to students kicking them so frequently. “Well, there are no locks on the doors, they have all been broken off because the boys kick them so much,” she said.

She claimed that her daughter has been disciplined for using the toilets at quieter times during the day. “What my daughter is doing is she is waiting until it is nearly lesson time to go to the toilet so there are no boys there, and she goes to the lessons late and then gets a detention for it,” said Gemma.

Other parents are said to have raised concerns about the unisex toilets with some teenage girls not changing their sanitary products as they are fearful that the doors may be kicked open leaving them exposed. Gemma said: “I have sent emails before to complain about this saying you need to do something about these toilets. Our children are not safe.”


 

Constantly Telling My Husband What to Do Just Might Drive Me to Divorce

Dear Care and Feeding,

One year into our first kid, I’ve learned my husband is a “just tell me what you want/need me to do” father. I didn’t see it coming, as he’s not like this in other areas of life. It’s exhausting constantly having to do everything unless I specifically ask for a certain task to be completed. I’ve tried different strategies—making lists, dividing tasks to give him ownership, I even suggested counseling (that received a hard no). Absolutely nothing has worked to change this dynamic, and I can’t do it for the next 17+ years. Honestly, I’m on the verge of telling my husband I think this will lead to divorce, so that he understands the level of seriousness here.

I contend that the Care and Feeding advice column on Slate is the best argument there is against heterosexual marriage and child-rearing.


 

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216 Comments

  1. DEG

    You’re supposed to slut it up until you hit The Wall and then marry some Nice Guy schmuck who is too pathetic to complain about your herpes cavern then bleed him dry in the divorce.

    Ouch.

    • rhywun

      A withering tut-tut from The Guardian is nothing to dismiss so easily, amirite?

      We must judge every era of human history, and every human in it, by the woke standards of current year.

      • Count Potato

        presentism

      • Tonio

        WFD.

      • db

        “Work-From-Dungeon?”

    • Homple

      “Herpes cavern”
      SugarFree strikes again.

  2. Count Potato

    “herpes cavern”

    • Michael Malaise

      I prefer “diseased muscle tunnel”

      • Chafed

        I’m starting to think you really are Michael Malice.

      • Michael Malaise

        I’m not short, not gay?, and not from the Ukraine. Other than that, then I am.

    • WTF

      SugarFree is a truly gifted wordsmith.

      • Tonio

        We are truly not worthy.

  3. Yusef drives a Kia

    Trad Wife, heh
    Cheers,🍻

  4. Count Potato

    Does being viciously hit in the face with a toilet door usually result in the Eye of Sauron?

  5. Swiss Servator

    “Coventry schoolgirl taken to hospital after boy ‘donkey kicks’ toilet cubicle door”

    Oh, to be in England…

    • juris imprudent

      Yeah, right, wot’s it to you mate? You got some anti-social desire to straighten out ol’ blightie’s yoots?

    • Sean

      That boy is an ass.

    • EvilSheldon

      I suppose finding the perverted little shit and breaking both his arms just wouldn’t be cricket?

      • Fourscore

        Sounds like it’s way more than just one ruffian, as the decision making of co-ed bathrooms has unintended consequences.

      • Sean

        unintended consequences.

        But not unforeseen…

      • TARDis

        Unintended, my ass.

      • WTF

        Isn’t that an Iron Law? Foreseeable consequences are not unintended.

      • R C Dean

        Give this man a cookie!

        “Issues started to arise at the city school after the introduction of unisex toilets, the mum claimed. “

        Totally. Unforeseeable.

      • The Last American Hero

        Dear Parents,

        The recent bathroom assaults are the result of woke politicians you supported and progressive values you have championed for decades. Your daughter is an unfortunate but necessary sacrifice in the project to perfect humanity. We thank you for your continued support.

        Yours truly,
        The school district

  6. juris imprudent

    opt out of participate in the corporate working world

    Because all meaning and purpose in life is only found as a worker in the corporate world?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      *Looks around at beige cubicle walls and gray carpeting*

      This is the life.

      • juris imprudent

        These are the same fucking journalists that will write about how corporations suck the life out of people. And then they do this shit. Which just proves how stupid and futile their own miserable working lives are.

      • SugarFree

        I figured out a while ago that the easiest predictor of feminist thought is to understand that if straight men might like it then it must be the greatest evil to blight the Earth.

    • rhywun

      Yeah I got a hearty chuckle out of that.

    • Shpip

      Because all meaning and purpose in life is only found as a worker in the corporate world?

      Gals have been told for fifty years now that “Work Makes You Free.” Now some are seeing the big lie.

      • DEG

        Whoever told them that should have told them in the original German. I hear it sounds better.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        I like it when they post it right over the door to the building.

      • Count Potato

        Do you know who else said “Work Makes You Free”?

      • Tres Cool

        Me when I was a boss.

    • wdalasio

      I was going to comment much the same. Most of us, men and women, in the corporate working world don’t have “careers”. We have jobs. Hell, even the day-to-day life of most of the people with careers is 90% drudgery in pursuit of a few moments in their lives of some particular significance. And the truth is pretty much nobody will remember you much about a week after you’re gone. If a young woman is in the position to afford to opt out of that in favor of managing a household graciously, I say more power to her. My wager is that she and her family will probably have a lot better memories of her efforts than she’ll ever be able to muster of TPS Report Cover Pages.

  7. Certified Public Asshat

    “I got my start on TikTok by making trad wife content and videos… however, I do not consider myself a trad wife anymore. I don’t associate myself with that term… While I still consider myself traditional, and I still hold on to those traditional values, I do not associate myself with the trad wife community.”

    Huh, changing your identity.

    • The Other Kevin

      Ugh, why does everything have to be a “community” these days?

      • juris imprudent

        You are not of the community?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        TOK community.

      • The Other Kevin

        I am a community of one.

      • TARDis

        The one true Libertarian?

      • The Other Kevin

        Shhh, don’t tell anyone. I’ve grown accustomed to gamboling about the woods like a unicorn.

    • EvilSheldon

      There are a bunch of MTF transsexuals in the tradwife culture. Be aware.

      • Sean

        Are they hot?

      • Count Potato

        And can they cook as good as men?

      • EvilSheldon

        The one I know personally is very attractive, if you’re into the 50’s retro-chic style and don’t mind a few extra fun bits and a somewhat deep voice (long story.)

      • Michael Malaise

        Are we talking Harvey Fierstein vocals?

      • rhywun

        I believe it. They do tend towards hyper-“feminine”.

      • R C Dean

        Well, for some at least it’s pretty much a caricature. Overcompensating, so to speak.

      • Mojeaux

        I actually don’t mind the hyperfeminine/hypersexualized/caricaturization of womanhood. The point is to PASS as a woman and never be questioned.

        If you’re a dude in a dress and lipstick, you’re just being a dick. If you flaunt your dude-in-a-dress’ness in front of kids, you’re a pedo.

      • R C Dean

        But the hyper/caricature means you won’t just pass. You are drawing attention to yourself, and it’s very difficult for a man to pass as a woman with more than a superficial glance.

        They don’t want to pass, the ones who go over the top. They want the attention.

      • Mojeaux

        Granted, but so do women who dress like that.

      • Shirley Knott

        I have to disagree here — in my experience few drag queens wanted to ‘pass’, at least through the 70s. I think caricature was more the aim. I knew, at least tangentially, a number of drag queens back in those days, friends with a few, so I have at least historical anecdata here, for mid-Michigan and, to a lesser extent, NYC, and San Francisco.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, to be fair, most drag queens are not transsexual.

      • Shirley Knott

        Exactly.

  8. Count Potato

    “I contend that the Care and Feeding advice column on Slate is the best argument there is against heterosexual marriage and child-rearing.”

    Well, Slate is a contender for an argument against humanity itself.

  9. Michael Malaise

    I suppose the boy is an ass, but if he were Asian, would he have karate kicked the door?

  10. Rebel Scum

    “The new trend for submissive women has a dark heart and history,” reads one headline from The Guardian.

    Whatever. Get me a sammich and a beer, sugartits.

    *slaps ass*

    Shake a leg, woman!

  11. KSuellington

    As the left completely won the culture war and is now the establishment it will at least be amusing watching various factions of the right snipe at the status quo as the new radicals. The millennials are fucking lost as they mostly seem to want to just obey and seem to have to appetite for rebellion. Hopefully my kids generation can lead the fight against leftist cultural rot.

    • KSuellington

      “to have no appetite for rebellion”

  12. Fourscore

    My brother jokingly always said he didn’t worry about making decisions, his wife told him what to do. From the outside the rest of us agreed. Seemed to work for over 60 years.

    Wouldn’t work for me though.

    • R C Dean

      I can guarantee that her husband went to “Just tell me” because nothing he did on his own, nothing at all, was either the right thing, or done right. According to her.

      After awhile, he just quit guessing and cut to the chase.

      • wdalasio

        Thanks for saying what I get at in a paragraph much more succinctly.

  13. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    I like that the video accompanying the tradwife article has a caption that reads “Estee Williams has racked up thousands of likes…” while showing her rack. Well done, NY Post, well done.

  14. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Nothing wrong with being a traditional wife. There’s more to living than a career or being a skank or whatever the alternatives are nowadays.

  15. Rebel Scum

    Coventry schoolgirl taken to hospital after boy ‘donkey kicks’ toilet cubicle door

    I bet she did knot see that coming.

    • Fourscore

      Perp needs a horse whipping

      • Tundra

        Yep. I notice that most of these stories have a mum quoted. Where are the dads?

      • juris imprudent

        Sperm donor does not equate with patriarchal presence.

      • Gender Traitor

        Quietly wondering, “Where were these unisex bathrooms when I was a lad??” 😒

        😉

      • juris imprudent

        Of course, I wondered that same damn thing all through the Epstein story.

  16. Rebel Scum

    Absolutely nothing has worked to change this dynamic

    You could nag the paint off the walls.

    • R C Dean

      The more she tells him how everything he does is wrong or doesn’t measure up, the more he asks her “What do you want me to do?”

      It’s inexplicable.

  17. Certified Public Asshat

    It’s exhausting constantly having to do everything unless I specifically ask for a certain task to be completed. I’ve tried different strategies—making lists

    So, no indication that this guy refuses to do anything. He’ll do whatever he is told. Truly the worst.

    But my question isn’t about my husband, it’s about our son. How do I make sure he doesn’t grow up to be like this, especially if he grows up with us divorced? How do I make sure he knows that every task in a household is a shared responsibility and that being a good partner means carrying your portion of both the physical and mental load? Before our child, I would’ve said my husband understood that. Now I’m seeing it’s apparently not a transferable idea when a new part of life is reached.

    Ah.

    • DEG

      He’ll do whatever he is told. Truly the worst.

      Not many women want a sub.

      She’s probably thinking of cheating on him with her boss.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        We only have her account and she sounds annoying, but fair.

      • DEG

        Good point, I should have thought of that. Possible he wants her to tell him what to do because he’s tired of trying to read her mind.

      • Shpip

        I had the exact same thought. Don’t ask me to perform a task and criticize the way it gets done.

        You want me to clean up the kid, don’t yell at me when I hose him down in the backyard instead of plunking him in the bathtub.

      • DrOtto

        *plunks kid in tub* wife – I just washed that, hose him off in the back yard!

      • The Last American Hero

        To poor to afford a washing machine?

      • UnCivilServant

        Hey! Those ain’t cheap, and plonking the kid in there is liable to break it.

    • Chafed

      I get the sense she is simply looking for a reason to justify her divorce.

    • Nephilium

      Not going to read through the article, but if the list is there and there are things assigned to him that he’s not doing, I can see the complaint. But if it’s just a list for “them” to do “together” I don’t see the issue.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Complaint only seems to be he needs to be told every time. Which now that I am rereading it, I can see how that would be really annoying as she does say she has tried to just delegate him specific tasks to be in charge of and he still needs to be told. He might suck, but also hard to see how this was missed before having a baby.

      • R C Dean

        I’m guessing she tells him “Why don’t you take care of X”, and so he does X, and then she tells him “You did X wrong” or “I didn’t mean that X.”

      • Mojeaux

        That’s a helluva leap.

      • R C Dean

        I’m just passing along a pattern I have witnessed, is all.

      • Mojeaux

        Me, personally — If my husband takes care of a household chore, which he does lots, I am not complaining one iota. When we were first married, I did have to nudge him a little about when to use bleach and/or hot water, and when not to, and that you use cold water for blood, but that was it.

      • wdalasio

        Me, personally — If my husband takes care of a household chore, which he does lots, I am not complaining one iota.

        Well, yeah, because that’s because, at least of what we’ve seen of you, you’re not a raving neurotic. This woman really sounds like one. And R C Dean is right, there are a lot of neurotics out there.

      • Brochettaward

        As a Firster, I have to clean up a lot of blood as well, Mo. I know how it is.

      • Mojeaux

        Firsters don’t generally bleed whilst carrying the next generation of Firsters, do they?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Anal fissures can be a bit messy

      • Mojeaux

        🤣🤣🤣🤣

      • Ted S.

        K60.1

      • Brochettaward

        One night I will share the story of The First’s conception and you will know the true meaning of pain.

      • Tres Cool

        Take it like a woman, man.

  18. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    So what’s the difference between a tradwife and a stat-at-home mom? Is it the wardrobe?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Trad wives can cook and they know how to play bridge.

      • Tonio

        And they “keep themselves up.”

      • Certified Public Asshat

        The athleisure wear has a purpose?

      • creech

        And have a nice cocktail waiting when he gets home from work.

    • SugarFree

      Trad wives at least pretend to like their husbands.

    • Fourscore

      Pool boy

      • TARDis

        My wife will just have to settle for the lawncare Mexicans. They’re all I can afford.

      • Count Potato

        Some weed and lube and she could be the one true libertarian.

      • juris imprudent

        TOK haz a sad.

      • TARDis

        As do I.

    • Shpip

      So what’s the difference between a tradwife and a stat-at-home mom?

      Stat-at-home moms only do standard deviations, while tradwives get truly freaky when hubby comes home.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Well done. I was trying to think of a witty comeback, but regardless of what I thought of, yours was exponentially better.

    • Tonio

      Now I want a Hunter 2024 bumper sticker.

      • Chafed

        Me too.

      • Gadianton

        Me Three.

      • Shirley Knott

        Me four.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      A hooker in every bed. A rock in every pipe.

  19. Certified Public Asshat

    Oh yeah, this was a thing: Netflix Beats Defamation Suit Over ‘Making a Murderer’ Docuseries

    Colborn filed suit in 2018, arguing that he had been subjected to “worldwide ridicule” by the series. The suit alleged that “Making a Murderer” distorted the facts, altered testimony and omitted key information to falsely portray Colborn as a corrupt officer who planted evidence.

    As a police officer, Colborn is a public figure. He must show that the filmmakers either knew what they were saying about him was false or showed reckless disregard as to whether it was false. In his ruling, Ludwig found that he had failed to meet that standard.

    “The First Amendment does not guarantee a public figure like Colborn the role of protagonist in popular discourse — in fact, it protects the media’s ability to cast him in a much less flattering light,” the judge wrote.

    • WTF

      So, he’s a “public figure” simply because he’s a cop, and therefore the bullshit “actual malice” test applies?
      JHTFC

      • R C Dean

        It’s right there in his job description: public sector employee.

  20. Tundra

    Damn you, TradWives! You’re supposed to slut it up until you hit The Wall and then marry some Nice Guy schmuck who is too pathetic to complain about your herpes cavern then bleed him dry in the divorce.

    Whoa.

    Thots are just lonely and jealous, however.

  21. The Other Kevin

    Cosplay as the opposite sex = ok.
    Cosplay as a Norman Rockwell painting = not ok.

    • Rebel Scum

      Normally, Michael Malice is hilarious. This is not one of those moments. Mocking Jimmy Carter as he approaches death….not classy at all. In poor taste. Do better. Peanut allergy ? An apology might be a show of dignity. Any chance at admitting poor taste ?

      Shut up, Karen.

      • Tundra

        His response to one of them:

        LOL

      • tarran

        In some ways, Jimmy Carter was a good president. He presided over a significant amount of deregulation which contributed significantly to the prosperity of the 80’s and 90’s.

        In many ways, Jimmy Carter was a terrible president. He truly believed that the state needed to manage infrastructure and energy production. His approach to the cold war was that of a surrender monkey. His dislike of nuclear power, while rooted in traumatic experiences working on the team cleaning up a horrific nuclear accident in Canada, contributed significantly to the persistence of poverty throughout the world.

        I think his greatest error as president was his escape from the killer rabbit that menaced him during one of his camping trips. Had he been mauled by a rabbit, I think it would have not only been hilarious, it would have made the U.S. a much happier country.

        I think Carter’s supporters should be proud that Michael Malice takes enough notice of Carter to mock him.

      • juris imprudent

        Remember shale oil back then? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Every enviro-nazi across the land would stroke out now.

      • Ted S.

        Yeah, the left played “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” when Margaret Thatcher died. The idea that they’re in any way classy at all is utter nonsense.

    • Count Potato

      It’s the Year of the Water Rabbit

    • Brochettaward

      The myth that any “nice guy” can ever truly be elected president needs to die. As for Carter specifically, there was an article posted here not too far back that highlighted what a cunt he was to those who served him (specifically, the Secret Service) and how much of his regular guy nonsense was a schtick.

      • Mojeaux

        I think that was after I said I considered him a nice man. Mind you, that was based mostly on his work with Habitat for Humanity, so whatever.

        I had no idea he was such a schmuck.

      • rhywun

        It seems to be a given with Democrats. I remember Obama’s helpers said he was a prick, too.

      • EvilSheldon

        Interestingly, Bill Clinton’s Secret Service detail really liked him. Hillary was a whole ‘nother story.

  22. Rebel Scum
    • Chafed

      Me first!

    • Ted S.

      I hate embedding videos as a substitute for an article or a twitter thread that can at least be unrolled.

      At least with a link to Youtube you know you’re getting a video.

  23. rhywun

    Yesterday my boss asked me if I want to conduct some training in London. Luckily I don’t have a passport so I didn’t have go with, “Hell no.”

    I’ve done enough traveling in my life; kinda over it.

    • creech

      Shoulda gone. Maybe even kick a little ass in Coventry school bathroom.

      • The Last American Hero

        I’m here to take a whiz and kick ass. And I’m all out of whiz.

    • robc

      GT and FSU are playing football in Dublin in 2024. I am thinking about it….

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Same here. My passport expired years ago. I’ve flown once in the past 12 years. I have no desire to travel anywhere that I can’t reasonably reach by car.

    • The Other Kevin

      Their News page today is not holding back.

      • juris imprudent

        The billionaires to pay taxes on SVB bailout money was, money.

    • Chafed

      🔥

  24. Count Potato

    Has anyone else noticed prescription drug shortages?

    • Tres Cool

      Yes. Jugsy has been having a time getting a particular “controlled” substance she was prescribed.
      No area pharmacies seem to have it in stock.

  25. db

    Teach Boys Not to Donkey Kick Girls’ Toilet Stall Doors

    there, done, problem solved.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Ive done really stupid stuff but its harmed only myself. So yea, teaching boys not to be jackasses is a tall order but can be done.

  26. Certified Public Asshat

    In the wake of debate about the Cochrane review and a new New York Times op-ed from Zeynep Tufecki claiming "the science is clear that masks work," many are just learning about her outsized influence on mask recommendations early in the pandemic. https://t.co/MgzYUKDmrn— Kelley K (@KelleyKga) March 15, 2023

    The Times couldn’t find anyone else to write a rebuttal.

      • rhywun

        OFFS.

      • Rebel Scum

        What’s the slur?

      • Shpip

        I can’t view the unedited video. I feel gypped.

      • Gender Traitor

        Oh, for crying out loud! Is “gyp[ped]” now “the G-word,” never to be spelled out in writing lest someone swoon from being triggered? At this rate, we’re going to have so many “the [fill in the first letter] word” words that we’ll have to number the ones that start with the same letter – “the 1st N-word,” etc. 🙄

      • Brochettaward

        On social media, particularly Facebook, words as common as drugs, rape, murder are being bleeped out.

      • rhywun

        It’s just a reflection of how uniquely bigots Americans are. Even woke ones like Whoopi.

      • Michael Malaise

        Gypsy in MST3K is now GPC, which is fucking stupid.

      • Tres Cool

        “It doesn’t hurt Trump with his base,” Farah Griffin said of the ongoing scandal. “I remember in 2016 when this all came out seeing, like, white MAGA bros on Twitter being like, ‘Oh, I like a president that sleeps with hot women!’ They weren’t offended by it.”

        I suppose for certain values of “hot” Stormee meets the criteria. Its a pretty low bar though.

    • Rebel Scum

      Masks “work” in that they are a social signal that someone is a subject that will dilligently wear his/her shame muzzle.

  27. Nephilium

    Well, the wonderfully planned migration of e-mail server at old job was gloriously done.

    Still not working since 0705 this morning, and my shift is done. I think they realize that I’ve got no incentive to stay late to wait for it to get fixed to start working, and there’s a non-zero chance that a large chunk of customer e-mails just were blackholed and unrecoverable. After I got myself into the short timer mindset, my day was much more fun.

  28. Mojeaux

    So the boy who donkey-kicked the bathroom stall door into that poor girl’s head needs to get sent to Coventry. Oh, wait. He’s already there? Then he needs to have something awful done to him deep in the night by unidentifiable ruffians. He may or may not die from his injuries.

    Notice that in the “tradwife” community, half these women are making bank on social media. Is that really being a tradwife if you’re running a business in those LuluLemons?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Is that really being a tradwife if you’re running a business in those LuluLemons?

      You have the uniform wrong.

      Donning elaborate dresses, fastening an apron around their waist, and popping in their finest pearl earrings

      • Mojeaux

        My bad. I assumed they wore Lululemons while doing yoga to keep their bods from requiring Spanx. Scuse me, girdles.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I agree though that being trad seems a little hollow when you are doing it for that sweet Internet content.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      I’m sure even back then side-hustles were a thing. Whether it was cutting hair or making quilts for sale.

    • Not Adahn

      Avon and Tupperware were the OG tradwife side-hustles.

    • rhywun

      In Honor Of Women’s History Month, Woman Kneels Before Man

      Did the pictured event actually happen?! OMG barf.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        It’s not even the most disturbing footage out there.

      • rhywun

        I can imagine how it might get more disturbing and really don’t want to see a picture of it….

      • Count Potato

        So you are saying she sucked her dick?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        The more you watch of this, the worse it gets. Drew Barrymore and Dylan Mulvaney practically make out on set. pic.twitter.com/j32AmJR0S5— Mythinformed (@MythinformedMKE) March 14, 2023

        Ok not that bad.

      • Tres Cool

        Punchline to one of my favorite (prison) jokes: “Now get over here and suck your wife’s dick”.

  29. Brochettaward

    I’m here to First and chew bubblegum, and I am all out of bubblegum.

    • Michael Malaise

      Good job one-hundred-and eleven-ing!

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Ooh, June Cleaver.

    I’ll be in my bunk.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      And she’s bilingual.

      • Tres Cool

        “chump dont want the help chump dont get the help”

  31. The Late P Brooks

    I opened a new bank account this afternoon. It was astoundingly painless. I had been putting it off partly because I expected a bunch of Homeland Securiteh and money laundering nonsense.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I tried opening a CD for my mom, and it was a pain in the ass for the same reason. Why yes, my 92 year old mom was an arms dealer.

    • whiz

      … a bunch of Homeland Securiteh and money laundering nonsense.

      Why, did you deposit $9,999?

      • whiz

        Damn, tag fail.

  32. Mojeaux

    I actually admire the whole “tradwife” thing the way I admire fridge restocking videos. I mean, I enjoyed my time in the cooler at Phillips 66 my last year of college, filling up the pop and rearranging the stock so it was tidy. Awesome. Do these activities in any way apply to my life? No, but I enjoy the performance.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    “The new trend for submissive women has a dark heart and history,” reads one headline from The Guardian.

    ,/em>

    Why do they presume “submission”? That seems like one of them there false dichotomies.

    • Ownbestenemy

      They presume it because its like Black people voting against their grain…cannot allow it.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      All women should be single, employed, and have had three abortions by age thirty-five.

      • juris imprudent

        Scruffyy shilling for Big Cat.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      You should be able to file counter charges that carry the same penalty as the crime you were charged with

    • Count Potato

      Surprised she is being charged, and the press named her.

      “An investigative summary accompanying the criminal complaint filed Tuesday indicates that Gries felt romantically spurned by a co-worker and generally described him — a Black man in his late 20s — as her purported assailant.”

      OK, there it is.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Unfortunately the Stanford law professor seems to be against prosecuting false accusation and she repeats the claim about 40% of women being sexually assaulted in college, except she calls it sexual violence. Maybe it’s time to close down the Stanford law school.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    cis straight white women

    Oh, HORROR!

  35. wdalasio

    One year into our first kid, I’ve learned my husband is a “just tell me what you want/need me to do” father…I even suggested counseling (that received a hard no).

    You know, an enterprising guy just might be able to do the world a favor as a counselor for just these sorts of situations. Because, I’d be willing to bet, 10-to-1 that the reason the husband is a “just tell me what you want/need me to do” father is that she’s both a ball buster and expects him to be a mind reader. So, anything he decides to do is never going to meet whatever exacting standards she has in her head about what she expects from him and her frustration is that he’s not in a state of perpetual anxiety over meeting whatever ridiculous standards she’s bringing to the table. What she probably doesn’t get is “just tell me what you want/need me to do” is a coping mechanism, short of winding up as neurotic as her, without telling her to go f**k herself and if she’s that exact about what she wants she can do it herself.

  36. robc

    Southampton and Crystal Palace both lost today, which changes nothing about the insane relegation standings I posted on Sunday, except they have one less game left.

    Don, if you are around, you still putting 8:1 odds on Palace? I think they stay up but their odds are nowhere near that good.

    • juris imprudent

      My favorite soccer news today is FIFPRO wants FIFA to equalize WC playing conditions and prize money.

      OK FIFPRO, why don’t you get right on equalizing media rights and ticket sales.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        They’re trying to get men into women’s sport and make it more watchable, thereby increasing profitability.

      • rhywun

        When does Lionella Messi sign for the USWNT?

      • juris imprudent

        Ya’know FIFA seems to not be going along with that, and the USWNT can’t beat a team of teenage boys.

    • rhywun

      Huh. They’re probably right but good luck with that.

    • The Hyperbole

      Wait until the find out about Rock and Roll, Comic Books and Dungeons and Dragons.

    • Brochettaward

      I wonder if kids can sue their local school districts for screwing them up AND failing to teach them anything.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Sovereign immunity for the win

        My favorite recent example: https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/norfolk/norfolk-trash-truck-hits-womans-parked-car-city-wont-pay-for-repairs/

        It’s been five months since a city trash truck sliced her car and Grant’s 2007 BMW 328 has yet to be repaired.

        “The driver was extremely apologetic,” Grant said. “He came out, he explained that he was covering a shift and he was moving too fast and over or underestimated my car.”

        Grant said the driver told her the city’s insurance would cover damages and a police report was filed. After weeks of no response and reaching out to her city councilman, a third party adjuster was sent to survey Grant’s car. Two weeks later, she received a letter stating the city of Norfolk has sovereign immunity and would not be paying for repairs.

      • Count Potato

        WTF??

      • Sensei

        It’s not an “at fault” accident so her premiums won’t “double”.

        My bet is she doesn’t have third party damage so it is uninsured.

        Still sucks.

  37. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    I’m sharing Luongo’s subscriber video from today because it is a decidedly white pill compared to the rest of the financial squawking this week.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0FFt6LK5O0

  38. Semi-Spartan Dad

    Interesting discussions on being a SAHD over the past couple articles. I guess my handle gives it away that I’m cool with identifying as a dad. My wife and I have structured our lives around our 4 children. My wife as SAHM and myself initially giving up some professional opportunities to work from home. It’s been the pleasure of my life.

    “Unplugged from the Matrix” is the closest description I can give to my wife homeschooling them. It’s like they were born in Zion. Strong, confident, capable kids without any of the government school shackles. But perhaps the key is that my wife and I already doing what we want to do and living how we want to live. Taking my daughter shooting at our backyard range or playing family coop Borderlands is beyond fun. Not that we’re isolated though. The kids’ birthday parties usually have 30+ guests with the adults staying late into the night throwing back drinks around the fire pit watching the dogs and livestock in the fields.

    Everyone has their own path that’s right for them. My cousin married into a beyond wealthy family and the husband works in a top floor suite in NYC overlooking Central Park. He’d be miserable as hell on my 30 acres, and I’d be miserable in his corner office.

    You made the right choice for you and your family, Muzzled Woodchipper. Don’t ever second guess it.

    • Sensei

      What is your “social group” family in the area, church or something different?

      For example if I plopped myself somewhere rural I’d be that strange guy from NYC without many opportunities to meet people. I grew up with rural friends, but they are mostly gone and in NJ where I have no intention of retiring.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        It took a little longer to form our social group, but it ended up being a good one. A mix of martial arts families, non-religious yet non-liberal homeschooling families, and even a couple libertarian families. The overlap between the groups has crossed over time.

    • R C Dean

      Good on ya, Dad. I think you’ve done better than most people. I would even say better than me, in some ways.

      I think the key is to figure out what’s really important to you, which may or may not be money and career, and commit to that. That’s two hard things, that I can’t say I did particularly well (although the last couple of jobs, over 15 years between them, were a good fit for me and I think I gave them come commitment). Having to face my moral cowardice over the ‘Vid regime, and retiring into what looks like it could be a once-in-a-century financial conflagration, weigh on me.

  39. Sensei

    Sensei’s past month.

    1. Sick cat diagnosed with kidney disease. I get to give the guy IV fluids every three days and neither he nor I enjoy the process. Best case is I get 18 months or so out of the poor guy.

    2. I get to repeat a shitty two year project at work that through things beyond my control wasn’t done the way it should have been the first time.

    3. My Japanese school booked a class with my teacher starting in June. It’s likely my teacher lead studies are going to end. I’ve mixed feelings on this. I can self study, but really native instruction is helpful. Fortunately I’ve got my friends as a resource, but it’s not the same.

    • Count Potato

      Sorry about the cat.

      • Sensei

        Thanks!