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XOJane Will Adjust Your Comments Section

After India-Jewel Jackson, Holocaust expert, caused an internet flurry of WTF with her pro-tips on how to survive genocide XOJane decided to promise to work on community guidelines. Janestowners quickly filled up disqus with comments about how XOJane is the most awesome and welcoming community like omg ever u guyz. One commenter even wishes all the other websites on the internets were XOJane, saying “Recently I tried commenting on slate and then–and this is true– I got sad that you guys weren’t there to back me up and I just left.”

In order to prevent such a lack of Janestowncentricity in the future, the commenter suggested a solution – an XOArmy roving attack unit that will help keep the comment sections of other sites the same tone as XOJane:

We need to start some sort of xo street team to head to other web sites and add some civility and facts to their discussions…We could have a hashtag to use on Twitter or something and people could use it if they felt alone in a foreign comments section…And Madeline could help us or Jane could share articles in her weekly thing.

XOJane staffer Corynne quickly responded: “you should definitely email madeline about this idea and cc me. I LOVE it!”

I’m sorry, but wtf? This is something the open minded, anti-bully hugcircle of XOJane really thinks is acceptable – you disagree with someone on the internet and call a posse from another website to come crapflood their comments with the XOJ POV? If you like the atmosphere of XOJane so much, why not just stay there rather than trying to turn the rest of the internet into XOJane?

I hope XOPratt has enough sense to tell her staffers “hole no, leave xojane out of that” before a migratory XOCommenter lynch mob turns her brand into “Mad Max 5: Beyond Stipe’s Dome”.


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“Time Warp Wife” Wants You Women To Stop Tempting Men

Darlene, the “Time Warp Wife”, is tired of the modern world being the modern world, full of displays of flesh that constantly tempt every man. I mean her friend Lisa’s poor son can’t even go shopping:

Temptation can be found anywhere.

Even in Target.

Target? Yeah, I know. That’s what I thought too. Until one day we popped in to pick up some flip-flops for the summer and I remarked how he kept bumping into things.

What is your problem, Son??

“I’m just looking down, Mom,” And with a nod, he indicated the ads placed strategically above us. Billboards for the lingerie department. Yikes. I’d not seen them.

Disgusting, isn’t it? A retail store that sells bras and panties having displays right out in the store? She is even appalled at the women attending a Christian family camp because most of the women “were dressed for a hot summer day”:

I noticed a pretty girl nearby and wondered if she realized how difficult she was making it for a guy…She might have dressed differently. For his sake. For the sake of all the men out there who want to walk in purity.

Her commenters seem to agree that it’s the job of women to make sure men don’t have sinful mind sex with some woman who decides not to sweat through the summer heat, saying “It is also important, and rarely taught, that you are at risk as well by the way you dress”. Because obviously if you show any skin you are basically inviting a man to eyesex you.

I don’t care about anyone’s religious beliefs telling them how to dress, but I think it’s pretty offensive that the reason given here is less about Biblical text or tradition and more about men being perceived as lust filled animals who can’t be held responsible for their own thoughts or behaviors. Men are such simple, penis controlled creatures that it’s up to us women to make sure they can control their raging urges – because they can in no way be counted on to see a girl in a pair of shorts and not wonder how she is in the sack.

It’s just insulting to both sexes to imply that if a man has a sexual thought about a woman it’s because some woman left him no choice. Frankly I find this attitude to be one step away from “look at how she dressed, she was asking for it”.



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MFAMB Thinks You People Need To Relax And Learn To Take Jokes And **** And ****

Jenny, of the He-Man can’t-you-people-take-a-joke club, is not sorry for her previous post. What previous post, you didn’t ask but I’m going to tell you about anyway? This post:

you know what i think sucks? that paula deen got fired. i think it’s bullCrap is what i think. i am not a paula deen groupie, so let’s get that out of the way. nor am i a racist. and i don’t think she is either. in fact, I KNOW she isn’t. i don’t believe saying the ‘n’ word in a joke makes one a racist.

She blathers on for far too long about how racist jokes don’t make you a racist, and basically a whole lot of other crap proving she has no idea what the whole Paula Deen scandal was really about. When people started trying to enlighten her, she decided to issue a non-apology for her non-racism – complete with an image of her in crude blackface:

we incorrectly stated that during the learning process that we actually were sad that people were no longer receiving the mfamb gazette and it’s affiliates: pinterest, twitter, facedick and instagram. it has since come to our attention that we aren’t sad. in fact we will be sending you all a giant, steaming, oozing, pulsating bag of (racist) dicks to choke on.

Because nothing says classy non-racist like the words “bag of dicks” and claiming “we love black people” underneath a pic of yourself in blackface. This is a grown woman raising a child. Why do people think this behavior is cute?


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Sunshine Mary Thinks Rape Culture Is Created By Paranoid Feminists

Sunshine Mary, “a concealed-carry kind of a girl”, is taking a stand against colleges creating a “rape culture” – but not in the way you might think:

Sexual assault centers and programs have only increased in visibility and campus involvement in the years since I’ve been out of college.  And oddly, according to them, campuses are even rapey-er than ever before.  They say there is an entire rape culture on campus.

I don’t believe it, though.

According to Mary there’s not really that much rape happening on college campuses. Apparently it’s mostly just drunk girls feeling bad about boozey sex, and being tricked into thinking they were raped by the aggressive anti-man campaigns of campus feminists:

…are the young women lying about it or are they just misled by campus sexual assault programs run by feminist professors who are also keeping one eye open for ways to advance their own careers?

Dismissing one woman’s story of assault with the reductive declaration “The fact that he was only assigned a book report makes one wonder how serious the situation could really have been”, Mary goes on to claim “We already know that women lie about sexual assault all the time.”

She sums up with dramatic proof that women aren’t really being assaulted by saying “Ladies, if you were sexually assaulted, what would you do?  Personally, I would be on the phone to the police the moment I had gotten away” – because obviously there is nothing easier than dealing with the fallout of a sexual assault accusation, so if she isn’t on the phone to the police within seconds then she probably wasn’t really assaulted. Well, I’m convinced!

Seriously, she could have saved me 10 minutes of scrolling by just posting “Stop acting like drunk whores and men won’t try to have sex with you! Regretting passing out and a guy having sex with your unconscious body isn’t rape, you slut!” I mean, that’s basically what her post amounts to.


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“Blog Advice” Giveaway Will Let You Ask Nobodies How To Be A Successful Blogger

Erin of Two Thirds Hazel, has “throw on a tutu” in her “about me”, wants to do a giveaway like every other blogger on earth. But since she is a bold pioneering type, she decided to do a different kind of giveaway:

I rounded up a group of ladies who have been around the ballpark a time or two when it comes to blogging in order to put this one of a kind giveaway together. We all have some tips, tricks, advice, and guidance that we’d love to shole out in order to help you grow into the best blogger you can be. Whether this be through a Skype session, a back and forth email exchange, a blog critique, a Q&A session, a phone call, a personal jet to pick you up for a private meeting, etc – we’re covering all the bases.

And who are these super successful internet superstars? First on the list is Erin herself, because there’s no point in doing a giveaway if you can’t sneak in some self-promotion. Other ‘”big gun” bloggers’ include Raven (man and weight loss expert), and  Mama Laughlin (I guess she lost some weight and is famous now).

So…basically a bunch of bloggers maybe 20 people have heard of are going to let you win the privilege of their advice on how to make your blog a Big Deal On The Internet. Which honestly seems a little like asking Amanda Bynes for tips on how to be coherent on twitter. But hey, if it makes them feel important more power to them.


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Frank Swift Can’t Seem To Find A Woman

Frank Swift, on a journey for truth, is also apparently on a journey for a woman. On his blog he mostly details his  complaints about women who are not interested in him (or refuse to entertain his attempts to pick them up).

In his search for a wife he even makes use of online dating, evidently with limited success:

This is why online dating is such a difficult endeavor for men, even when you’re gorgeous like me… If you don’t look good and your profile is badly written and generic, it’s out with you.  And since I’m a dude and thus especially visually oriented, if the photos don’t depict even a mildly pretty girl, it doesn’t matter what their profile says, I quickly click on to the next profile.

Gee I can’t imagine why women aren’t lining up for this winner. But don’t get the wrong idea, ladies! He’s not a jerk, he’s just a real man looking for a real woman:

I understand that there are men who are willing to stay home while the women work.  I personally think these men are girlie boys who should be ridiculed, scorned and flogged mercilessly with a rusty barbed cane, but hey, if the relationship works, more power to them…I’m not a nurturer though.  My drive is to protect and provide, because I like protecting things, and I like providing for others.  It’s a man thing, and I’m not going to apologize for it.

Even the God fearing, active church going women who seem to be his desired brand of lady aren’t spared his criticism:

It seems they were spreading their charity around to the extent that they had nothing left over to give to a man, or more specifically, a husband…Finding a husband was still a priority, but only secondary to their primary focus of  ”serving the church.”  To me it seemed backwards, that a husband should be their first priority…

Since this paragon of a man seems to think he deserves a “hot” girl with a “quiet nature”, maybe he should just look into one of the buy-a-bride sites and be done with it. It might serve him better than creating a blog full of complaints about how he is awesome and women are just a bunch of jerks.


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MODG Will Sell You Her Things

Martinis Or Diaper Genies, aka “Modg“, is selling a bunch of her things on Poshmark. In between haggles about pricing (apparently she will lower the price if you just bypass Poshmark and paypal her money directly), she is defending herself against accusations of inaccurate descriptions and “false claims”. For instance, in her listing for a “Rachel Pally never been worn maxi with deep V”, the recipient of the item says:

 That’s right, “dude”: “it’s never been worn”! Except, oh wait:

Gee, this dress from a post in November of 2010 looks an awful lot like the “never worn” dress in the listing. So…does she own two of the same dress, or do we have a budding Anthroholic?