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Has Babble Been Laid Off By Disney?

Babble, the content mill that seems to employ pretty much every blogger out there, appears to have been cut loose by Disney Interactive. According to the “cupcakemag” instagram:

I have made some of the best friends from babble. and when I heard that this family of mine had all been laid-off by Disney, I shed tears and I haven’t been able to think straight. i’ve been morning a loss, a terrible loss. they helped shape me as a writer in so many ways, they have given me amazing opportunities and pep talks that I will never forget. as of now babble continues without them + honestly, I can’t imagine not having them by my side. my heart is so heavy for all of them, it’s been a sad day.

When asked what happened, she replied she has “no idea” but writers were “told to continue with biz as usual, just don’t know how”. There seems to be no confirmation on what exactly is going down anywhere on Babble’s official social media or website. But if Disney has indeed put Babble out on an ice floe a lot of “professional bloggers” will probably be needing a new income stream soon.


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Alpha Game Says Coding Is Too Hard For Girls

Alpha Game, a site for all those ‘red pill’ MRA’s, wants to clear up a mystery of the tech world – where are all those women programmers that graduated 10 years ago? Well, they have the answer:

They dropped out because programming demands single-minded focus, mathematical skill, logic, and most of all, individual accountability. They dropped out because they didn’t belong in the field and encouraging them to pursue it was doing them a serious career disservice.

AG then explains why we should stop telling dem uppity wimmins to explore careers in tech:

As a general rule, women don’t like competitive jobs where they are held to an objective standard, particularly when they cannot easily pass off their work to others and still take credit for it.

He adds that even if women get CS degrees, once they get out in the real world of code monkeying they “look at their prospects for competitive success and promptly go in for marketing, human resources, and management”.

This is why Girls Who Code and Black Girls Code will fail, just like every other women-in-technology initiative before it has failed…Throw in the fact that male programmers tend to be competitive and socially graceless, which means that relatively few of them are inclined to do a woman’s job for her in return for the well-practiced flash of a big smile and a few smug coos of appreciation, and it should be no surprise that even intelligent and well-trained women don’t tend to last long in the industry.

Yes, apparently men actually write code, and women just go around smiling and flirting in order to get the nerdy codeb0yz to do their work for them. Seriously, what company is he working at? Because all I’ve experienced is women having to work twice as hard for half the respect. If there’s a place where I can call myself a ‘woman in tech’ while sitting around leveling up in Tetris then please, sign me up. Otherwise this all just sounds like typical male whining about icky girls invading their He-Man Woman Hater’s treehouse.



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Jordan Reid Continues To Dress Appropriately

Look into pants.

Jordan Reid, pregnant again, is once more blathering on about how she will bravely flash her vagina while pregnant. You may remember during her last incubation she insisted on wearing platform shoes and coochie cutter shorts – even banning a commenter who said she might want to stop trying to dress like a groupie. Well this time around she’s eliminated pants altogether:

So, yes, the dress I’m wearing here is actually an H&M button-down I bought a few sizes too big. And ok, yes, this is the second time in a week I have worn dresses that are not dresses at all but rather shirts. But that is a) what tights are for and b) my prerogative, am I right?

Jordan spent most of her first pregnancy being the Norma Rae of maternity fashion rights, and it looks like we are in for another round of Jordan trying to justify her idiotic attention whoring clothing choices. Because running around a playground in February wearing nothing but a too big flannel shirt and some hosiery is totally fine and nobody should side eye for that, people. Jordan needs to feel sexy and stylish no matter what! Girl power!

For someone who claims not to care what people think about her outfits she sure spends a lot of time getting preemptively defensive  about her “prerogative”.


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Kathryn Skaggs Says Disney Is Trying “Normalize Homosexuality”

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In a blog post worthy of a tin foil hat, “The Well Behaved Mormon Woman” takes Disney down for their “gay agenda”.

The gay agenda to normalize homosexuality is woven into Disney’s movie Frozen not just as an underlying message – it is the movie. In a liberal culture tenacious at normalizing immorality, stripping those of faith from their ability to speak out in opposition, this needs to be taken seriously.

Kathryn rambles on for several paragraphs about how omgthegays are taking over, before claiming she is “not anti-gay”. She then goes on to wave her pitchfork at Disney for trying to make your children accept same sex love with their subtle messages – even the lyrics to “Let it Go” are “intended to indoctrinate your children, and/or grandchildren, contrary to faith-based teachings”.

Kathryn then provides an excruciating scene by scene breakdown of the entire movie, complete with her insights into how each scene is cramming the “gay agenda” down the throats of your innocent, God fearing children.

The kicker is, it seems Kathryn has a daughter who is herself gay. l wonder what she thinks of this post?


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Vincent Vinturi Says No Means Yes

Vincent Vinturi, ugh, is apparently famous in the world of online alpha males for his advice on how to treat women like dirt. Now he is apparently cutting straight to the chase and telling men to ignore the word “no”:

Women say “no” to me in one way or another on a regular basis, e.g. “no, you can’t have my number”, “no, I should go home”, “no, I’m not coming into your apartment”, and of course, the classic, “no, we’re not having sex”.

Yet somehow, when it’s all said and done, the woman is invariably happy that I didn’t listen to a single word of protest she uttered; that I barreled through her resistance nonchalantly and drove the ball to the basket. Women RESPECT this sexual insistence even if they aren’t acutely aware of it.

Saying the “consent crowd, however, would like for men to believe that anything short of a written statement, notarized and signed by the soon to be fornicated party, is rape”, ole Vinny goes on to explain how women really do want it, and saying no is just a feminine power play:

It’s in the nature of beautiful women to resist, test, protest, sabotage and make your job of craping them difficult. And of course, by the time you wrestle their panties off, they’re dripping wet.

Captain Charming then goes on to whine that “[w]ith rape laws the way they are in countries like the US and Canada, it’s downright scary to be a man and act with natural disinhibition in the company of beautiful women”, and advises men to “get out of the Anglosphere so you can relax and get down to business without concern for your freedom”. I assume that’s rapist code for “go to another country with loose laws where you can rape women with impunity” or something.

I am so happy with humanity’s progress, aren’t you, ladies?


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Someone Actually Publishing The Ramshackle Glam Book Because Why Not

dis gon be wtf

Jordan Reid, having another baby and still trying to be famous, is apparently just about done with her shillshackle sham book. The galley is out and it’s less than game changing. The book seems to be broken down into sections:

  • 1. new motherhood – where Jordan uses a things-nobody-tells-you format to act as if no one until Jordan has provided real maternity style advice or been truly honest about adjusting to life with a newborn
  • 2. fashion – which is basically Jordan going on and on about how she’s going to dress however she wants, and blathers on far too long with tips for postpartum dressing, again acting as if this is information available nowhere else (wrap dresses, how groundbreaking)
  • 3. beauty – in which Jordan instructs you to get “quality rest”, “drink water”, apply eye cream “every single night”, and use shampoo and conditioner suited to your hair before providing a tutorial on false eyelashes
  • 4. home – which includes several pages on how to make an inspiration board, and a retelling of her meeting and marrying Kenny before sharing revolutionary information about how to set up a nursery in a small space
  • 5. recipes – with half the contents being pasta instructions and the other half being roasted chicken and crock pot ideas

After that there’s a whole bunch of crap about how to travel with a baby because she’s an expert I guess, and how to stay married and keep romance alive and yada yada. Throughout the book she also mentions her website – she has a website, by the way this happened on my website, I post about myself on the internet – about 900 times in case anyone missed it the first 700 times in the introduction. Then there’s a “Conclusion” chapter where she mumbles on about some car she owned 15 years ago and reminds everyone she used to be an actress.

TL;DR, it’s pretty much just 186 pages of her blog in book format, so the contents are just about what you’d expect – a whole lot of Jordan defending her choices under the guise of girl power sympathy and solidarity, and a bunch of meandering stories about Jordan and Jordan’s life that segue extremely awkwardly into the topic at hand. As this is a proof I’m really hoping she has some good editors, because if this goes out as is they might as well title it 50% Off: I Got A Book Deal So Here’s The Book and save booksellers some time.


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Margery Reminds You That You Don’t Deserve Your Man

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Margery, femininity warrior, has some real talk for all you ladies. It seems too many women are doing submission wrong:

In our current culture women “deserving” a good man and relationship is so beat into us that it becomes hard to separate our sense of entitlement from ourselves.

Well, all that being ‘entitled’ to a good man simply won’t do. You women need to remember one thing – you’re not worthy:

Submissive wives, we do not deserve the men we have. I don’t care if this statement is true or not (meaning, don’t bother debating this with me- it’s irrelevant) this is what we are to believe. We are not worthy and we must always seek to be worthy.

Margery wants you to kill your inner ‘shrew’ – in fact,  you must ‘kill her and then…kill her all over again’ in order to remain properly submissive. While she tries to explain that a ‘shrew’ is actually just a passive aggressive drama whore, the real message is simple – Margery is better than you. Margery ‘can stand strong all by myself, shrews are cruel’.

Look, it’s a great message that there’s no need to be passy assy or an attention vulture. But does it really need to be based on being a good wife? Why can’t anything just be about being a good person for these anti-feminists?