Men's Memes: Please say hello?

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Please say hello?

If you enjoy reading this blog, would you do me a favour? Please just post in the comments of this posting your age, and the country your from.

If you have the time, also post how long you've been reading it for, where you heard about it, how often you come back, and why you like reading it.

Sometimes it feels like I'm speaking out into the dark, with no-one listening, but I know you are out there!

Thanks in advance.

12 comments:

Monad said...: 35, Australia.

I originally discovered your blog about 2007. I remember when some bastard stole your old domain name because you let it lapse by a few days.

Not sure where I first heard about you, but you're on of the original manosphere blogs, and back then there weren't so many so word got around quick.

I come back partly for nostalgia and also because it is a nice change to read about men's issues without the angst or Game undertones (though I know they have their place).

Do you use a programme like Statcounter to keep tabs on visitors, pageloads and keywords?

Many thanks and Keep it up Darren.; 10:03 pm
Darren said...: Thanks!

I use blogger, and I just discovered today that it has an integrated stat-counter now.; 10:06 pm
Anonymous said...: HOLY FUCK

Mirror Of The Soul is BACK!

....mind = detonated; 5:58 am
Ray Manta said...: Hi Darren, I'm from the US, and I've been reading your blog for many years. If you want more traffic and comments, please consider submitting an article or posting to the Spearhead.; 4:26 pm
Darren said...: Anonymous: Mirror of the soul is not back. I have posting rights there and I wanted to update my site link. Sorry for the confusion.

Ray, thanks. I may do so, although I'm more interested in bringing in new men to the 'movement', perhaps from users of sites which haven't heard of these ideas yet.; 6:53 pm
Anonymous said...: @ Darren.

Aww man. Hopes were up. Then dashed. Loved his work.

Whatever happened to him? Srs.; 10:58 pm
Anonymous said...: 22 and in New York.; 10:57 am
Christian J. said...: Good to see this site up and active. Added your link to my International section as requested. All the best. Don't forget to add a counter..; 11:56 am
Anonymous said...: 33, Minnesota; 2:52 am
Anonymous said...: 22, Puerto Rico.; 12:08 am
Eman said...: 33, Houston, TX USA.

Welcome back, Darren!

Eman; 8:37 pm
Daimyo said...: 26 from UK, but made in Poland :)

I think I read about your blog in the Book of the Pook.

I've just started to read you few weeks ago.

Cheers!
Wojciech; 6:44 am

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."