Men's Memes: Tramp Secrets

Friday, May 05, 2006

Tramp Secrets

On one of the secret members-only forums that I read, a guy from London made this post which I thought was quite interesting:

I was waiting for a bus on London's Oxford Street a couple of years ago. There had been some kind of accident, so no buses were coming - but that afforded me the opportunity to watch a street beggar at work for 40 minutes.

It was astounding.

He sat on the pavement (sidewalk) outside Macdonalds, wrapped in a dirty blanket and with a small dog sleeping by his side. His torn piece of cardboard read 'We are hungry and homeless, please help."

He had a few low value coins in a hat in front of him.

Every time someone threw a coin in his hat (and 9 times out of ten it was a Pound coin ($1.75)) his hand immediately darted out and removed the high value coin to under his blanket. It was like watching close up magic he did it so fast!

In 20 minutes I counted up that he was given around £50 ($87) - making his hourly rate £150 or about $260. Not bad.

The funny thing was that near the end of my watching time a kindly old lady took it upon herself to go into Macdonalds and bought him a Big Mac and a cup of coffee. Then she stood and talked with him while he had to eat it.

That well intentioned meal must have cost him a huge amount of revenue because nobody gave him any money all the time she was there. She must have cost him at least £25 ($44)!

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Turn of the tide: feminists begin to regret

Cosmopolitan (The women's magazine that urges women to use men for sex) Editor Lorraine Candy has a change of mind and now urges women not to have "Soul-less sex":

"We didn't feel ashamed about one-night stands...this, we thought, is what feminism is about."

70s feminist Fay Weldon now says:

"It is the fault of me and my like, who... got it wrong.

So were we wrong, we feminists, setting women free? The results have been devastating – greater than we ever imagined.

We steamed ahead, changing the world with too little caution, and I hope the future will forgive us.

The pendulum has swung too far over. But it may yet swing back again. Societies, thank God, tend to be self-righting."

"Once a man could look forward to starting a family and the dignity that came from being the provider. Forget it. At best as a man you're decorative, look after the kids and earn a bit sometimes; at worst you're a write-off. Women are elbowing the men out. The boys get anxious, the girls swagger. The male suicide rate goes up, female down. Twenty-eight per cent of us now live in single person households - a lonely and unnatural state - and most of the 28 per cent consist of young men. It is strange that it is left to a woman to suggest, in the normal nurturing way, that men start some kind of movement to promote their gender's status and self-esteem - call it masculinism, brotherism, machoism, what you want - and some mark of the success of the feminist movement, that it needs to be done."

60's feminist Doris Lessing now says:

"It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests.

Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did."

An excerpt from an interview with Joan Rivers:

"She's not with the feminists when it comes to matters of the heart. For her, they're to blame for the current parlous state of our relationships, as depicted in these television Shows (Such as Sex in the city) and films. "I saw this coming. You cannot be equal to a man, you cannot make a man feel 'I don't need you' or 'I'll take my sex when I want it'. All these shows are so sad."

Camille Paglia :

"Women have been discouraged from genres such as sculpture that require studio training or expensive materials.

But in philosophy, mathematics, and poetry, the only materials are pen and paper.

Male conspiracy cannot explain ALL female failures.

I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant.

. . . Even now, with all vocations open, I marvel at the rarity of the woman driven by artistic or intellectual obsession, that self-mutilating derangement of social relationship which, in its alternate forms of crime and ideation, is the disgrace and glory of the human species."