Month: May 2019

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Yesterday, I pointed you to an embarrassing self-own on Twitter by one Brad Anderson. It was in response to a discussion about the “sex strike” proposed by Alyssa Milano as a means of protesting the rather draconian anti-abortion laws recently proposed or passed in 20 states.

Brad’s response was to a Twitter thread by Lara Witt, who wrote that one of the reasons why the sex strike concept is problematic is that it perpetuates the Victorian notion that sex is something done to women rather than being something in which they actively participate. It’s based on the idea that women really don’t like sex, but tolerate it as a means of attracting and keeping a good male provider.

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Today’s self-own, pictured above, is by one Scott Gurstein, who says pretty much the same thing as Brad Anderson.

However, unlike Brad, Scott knows that a solution to his problem is coming in the form of MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way — here’s a quick summary of this sad-sack movement)…and sex robots!

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The 21st century is a weird place.

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Brad Anderson provides today’s Twitter example of what happens when mansplaining goes embarrassingly wrong.

It would seem that Brad’s tweets venture into areas worse than tragic self-owns (surprise, surprise), as his Twitter account has been suspended.

Thanks to Mandi Vale Dragland for the find!

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Hello from Toronto! Anitra and I are here on a last-minute business trip of hers which also gave me the chance to catch up with my family (I’m originally from here) for Mother’s Day.

For the couple of days when Anitra will be attending the Discovery Conference at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, we’re staying at the Toronto Marriott City Centre hotel, conveniently located next door. It’s the hotel attached to the Rogers Centre (which I still refer to by its old name, “SkyDome”).

She’d booked a room at the conference rate, and when we arrived mid-afternoon yesterday, the front desk said that they’d just finished cleaning up a room that we could occupy immediately. It turns out that it was one of the rooms facing the stadium interior.

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You can even open the windows to hear the crowd or catch a lucky fly ball:

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It should make for a pretty nice office today.

This is a last-minute trip, and we’re around only until Thursday afternoon, after which we fly back to Tampa. Drop me a line if you’d like to catch up, and we’ll try to make it happen, what with work and family commitments.

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