Max KennerlyConservative men have made themselves unfuckable with their abhorrent views, but somehow this is a problem liberal women should solve by lowering their standards.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/22/marriage-polarization-dating-trump/
Thom@maxkennerly wow, just wow. Can't believe the editorial board signed that drivel.
Jeff Cutsinger@maxkennerly here's an archived link if you don't want to reward ragebait: https://archive.is/WcTNd
Corvid Crone
Dan Morgan 
@maxkennerly @vmstan AT LAST MY TIME HAS COME!
Molytov@maxkennerly "It's feminism's fault my hatred of women isn't getting me laid!"
B. A. Balackus
John Gordon@maxkennerly It’s an odd editorial - and it’s signed by the editorial board. The sorry state of American men gets a quick mention, but then they pivot to a focus on politics and the implied need for “liberal” women to lower their standards.
Quite odd.
Darwin Woodka@jgordon @maxkennerly then they wonder why we won't pay for their crap "news"
Liz Ellis She/Her🌳@maxkennerly
~ laughs in demonic feminist ~
~ laughs in demonic feminist ~
Not a Spring Onion"Being conservative considered disadvantageous for procreation."
Finally some good news.
CassandraVert
Jim E-H 🇺🇦@maxkennerly Ah, "polarization," the mainstay of both sides opinion pieces! It's always about people having "different" views and not being willing to deal with that, never about what those actual views are...
Jargoggles@Redshift42 @maxkennerly
Centrists love acting as though political ideologies are purely intellectual exercises, as objectively arbitrary, equivalent, and interchangeable as rooting for a sports team.
A woman not wanting to date a man on the grounds that his political worldview is fundamentally incompatible with hers? Why, that's as absurd as an Eagles fan refusing to date Cowboys fans. Lighten up, toots. Am I right, fellas?
What a privileged, egocentric mindset. No wonder they love fascists.
Oggie@maxkennerly Clearly I need to just suck it up, find a closeted MAGA guy, drag him kicking and screaming into the land of sense while his friends call for my death.
It feels like this isn't a serious article, but who knows.
jz.tuskSay what you will about Trumpism, at least it's an ethos.
@jztusk @maxkennerly
You want a husband? I can get you a husband by this afternoon. With abhorrent, misogynistic beliefs.
You want a husband? I can get you a husband by this afternoon. With abhorrent, misogynistic beliefs.
So, it's a movie reference. And the problem with those is that eight people get it, and enjoy being in on the joke, and one person doesn't, and (justifiably) thinks you're advocating something awful.
I'd rather you didn't think I'm advocating something awful, so here's what it's a reference to:
@jztusk @maxkennerly
What I said was a reference to the same movie (and the same character, no less) haha.
What I said was a reference to the same movie (and the same character, no less) haha.
Yup. I'm so embarrassed. 😳 I gotta rewatch it - it's been too long.
Shit, I missed *your* reference!!!!
(I was so worried that someone thought I was an asshole that I didn't even consider that you were "yes, and"-ing me. 🤪)
@jztusk @maxkennerly
If someone thinks you're an asshole, then that's just, like, their opinion, man.
If someone thinks you're an asshole, then that's just, like, their opinion, man.
Nicole ParsonsConservatives are advocates for views that homeless POC deserve to freeze to death or be shot because their wages don't pay the rent
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/4-found-dead-north-carolina-homeless-camp-3-105164596
Advocates for views that climate refugees should starve in famines in their home country. Famines caused by their GOP oil donors.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/democraciaabierta/venezuela-immigration-crisis-en/
Advocates for views that children birth their rapist's child & women miscarrying should bleed to death in hospital parkades
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/man-gets-life-sentence-for-raping-9-year-old-girl-who-sought-abortion-in-indiana
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/25/1171851775/oklahoma-woman-abortion-ban-study-shows-confusion-at-hospitals
SofaKingHigh@maxkennerly anyone wanna post a nonpaywalled link? Looks like a funny read
Tappin Lisa@Buthowhighishigh @maxkennerly
Since it's almost the end of the month, I'll share a #GiftLink
https://wapo.st/49SfEWl
Since it's almost the end of the month, I'll share a #GiftLink
https://wapo.st/49SfEWl
martin lentink 🇪🇺 🇺🇦📎Conservatives are people who have views that tax evasion is fine, if it's being done by a hateful anti-LGBTQ church.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mormon-church-jesus-christ-latter-day-saints-funds-charity-1.6630190
Conservatives are people who have views that public corruption is fine as long as the pork & patronage scheme is in their hands.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-ken-paxton-verdict-is-not-the-vindication-republicans-want
Conservatives are people who have views that the oil industry should be allowed to end democracy & fry the planet.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/788056/us-oil-and-gas-lobbying-spend-by-party/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/30/tory-partys-35m-dirty-donations-revealed-by-desmog-analysis
Mormon Church in Canada moved $1B out of the country tax free — and it's legal | CBC News
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has used $1 billion it collected for charity in Canada to finance its own private university in the United States, an investigation by CBC’s The Fifth Estate has found.
John Infante@maxkennerly If you are going to write this editorial, at least call out the views that have created this situation. Liberal women aren’t refusing to date conservative men because of disagreements over top maginal tax rates and social spending. They’re refusing to date conservative men because those men would try to stop them from getting an abortion if they got pregnant or would purposely misgender their trans friends.
My camera shoots fascistsAs well as take away their right to vote, slash their wages, rape them with impunity or, on a bad day, just murder them. Baffling, why they can't get dates, innit?
KC-DOZConservatives are people who believe that folks should ignore a pandemic and let 1.18 million Americans die of covid.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/dan-patrick-coronavirus-grandparents
Conservatives are people who believe that folks should ignore the violent overthrow of their government so a twit's cronies can get rich.
Trump wanted Congress slaughtered.
https://www.citizen.org/article/tracking-trumps-corporate-cronies/
https://www.wgbh.org/news/commentary/2021-01-07/moderate-toleration-of-trump-depredations-is-responsible-for-capitol-assault
Conservatives are people who believe health care should be withheld & medical debt is ok
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-medicaid-expansion-decisions-interactive-map/
horen
legraLeGra“People whose body autonomy is threatened by one political ideology increasingly lean the other way. “ better title?
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@maxkennerly note how the article skirts around the issue of abusive partners, hinting that one side has to compromise (and it's not going to be the dangerous men)
Hmmmm... I'm pretty sure that research shows that marriage is only beneficial to men. I think us women do fine as singletons.
C.S.Strowbridge@maxkennerly
"By Editorial Board."
At least the person who wrote this is smart enough to not attach their name to it.
James RyanThis was probably better in the original Chinese...
Or so it would appear, considering what's going on over there now:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/26/opinion/china-women-reproduction-rights.html
CheapPontoonA political dating mismatch certainly threatens my marriage. The girl I keep asking out has threatened to tell my wife I'm pro-choice.
Chris@maxkennerly Kind of appreciate the ridiculous note buried in the article that kind of makes this whole opinion piece pointless. Like, this is exactly why some of us aren't excitedly leaping into opposing arms.
Chris RealI'm glad they have a paywall, it keeps me from being tempted to read the whole thing.
Wash Post and NY Times articles are easily summarized with one sentence anyway. The rest is padding to get paid more.
RAK@maxkennerly: That article's title is the epitome of "don't threaten me with a good time".
Klaus Vink Slott@maxkennerly So we "just" need to keep them at bay until the current generation dies out.
Princess Unikitty@maxkennerly
People just keep writing this article, don't they?
People just keep writing this article, don't they?
Σειληνός (Seilēnós)@maxkennerly I'm thinking that society would be much better served if fewer Trump-supporting men were given the opportunity to pass on their genes to another generation of misanthropes. The article calls for "compromise." Maybe it should've more honestly called for conservative men to not be such sociopathic shitheels.
Allpoints@maxkennerly That's the funniest whine I've read in a while. Also, without irony, they assume the options are "single" or "married".
For those of you blocked by the paywall, using Firefox and selecting "reader view" before the page is fully loaded will let you read it. (that trick works for lots of sites)
@jgordon @maxkennerly Nice. Thanks
craftycat@maxkennerly Fascists don't need to procreate, in fact I think women should raise their standards further 😊
Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧It’s the incel trope, not even half-heartedly concealed.
SusanAnd endorsed by the entire editorial board. Ladies & Gentlemen & Everyone, I give you rape culture.
Colin Rafferty MOVED@maxkennerly liberal women view themselves as equals to men, and conservative men view themselves as superior to women. Why can't they just compromise?
🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦I'm not saying this isn't true, but this issue seems to be of very little importance.
It seems like the issue is resurrected into fresh articles on what is called a "slow news day"
No offense to the OP.
Urzl@maxkennerly Conservatives, and the newspapers that are so keen to support them, don't that believe women have genuine agency.
As such, they blame "liberal media" for women's continued disinterest in destroying themselves.
Dr. Redfern Jon Barrett@maxkennerly The article even says women who do as they say will be less happy (as mixed political marriages report less satisfaction) but they should do it anyway because... no one will date the writer's son?
@maxkennerly Also men with misogynistic views are statistically much more likely to beat or even kill their partners, but hey, at least you aren't contributing to 'polarization'!
David Gerstein@maxkennerly Golly, It’s as if values were not central to personhood. Well, it does seem to capture the essence of a career in political journalism. So no surprise there, Max
Adam CafollaIsn't this just evolution at work?
Be a better guy or you won't get laid and won't pass your genes (and awful views) on.
The last thing we need is this bunch of incel, conservative nutjobs raising another generation.
Seems to be life working as intended, feature not bug.
Francisca Sinn@maxkennerly This exactly.