JD Vance Discussion Thread

Me too. You can want to fuck women and still see them as sub-humans you want nothing to do with and begrudgingly accept as having a few uses.

Dudes like this see penetration as inherently degrading. They have nothing but contempt for women who are willing to submit to penetration to manipulate men, and a weird, very limited respect for women who are willing to submit to it out of what they see as love. They don’t think women like penetration, both because no one could, and because they don’t think of women as people, and liking or disliking things is something people do.

It all makes me think of Raccoona Sheldon/James Tiptree, Jr.'s story “The Screwfly Solution.”

(Aside: @susan , I take it you just changed your avatar? Right now, I’m seeing the South Park avatar on post 340, and the rose avatar in @MandaJo 's reply in 341 and your post 342. It’s a bit disorienting. I’m guessing that this is due to the way that Discourse continually updates open threads.)

Interesting! Yes, just changed my avatar.

It’s pretty.

Thanks! Sometimes I get just a small inkling of how a bee might see it with a range extending into ultraviolet.

Yes. That’s a lovely new avatar that suits you. Despite the disorientation of the change.

As to HS girls I never understood them, but was far more afraid of them rather than any amount of contemptuous of tbem.

HS is a hard time regardless of gender. The problems are quite different, but IMO not that different in magnitude vs one’s capability to surmount them.

TGTO: Thank god that’s over.

Sing it, Sister!

That’s a good way of putting it. Incels don’t stop hating women just because they find a “female” who’ll give them the time of day. They’re still mysogynistic assholes who think they’re entitled to have sex with supermodels and constantly have paranoid fantasies about “Tyrone at the club” stealing “their” women from them.

Well put.

In other news: Republican Vice Presidential hopeful JD Vance had another stellar interaction with human beings at [checks notes] a UAW picket line in Toledo today.

He shook a woman’s fist while greeting her in a way that should in no way be described as “weird” or “awkward” or “lip-bitingly cringey.” After the perfectly normal interaction with the woman, he immediately shoved his hands under his armpits and walked off camera, presumably so he could sniff his clammy, flop-sweat-covered fingers. More from today’s photo op in the clip below.

Transcript:
Vance: Nice to see you Marcy. Ha ha ha ha.
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-Toledo): Good to see you…first time here?
Vance: First time here. Yep. First time here.
Kaptur: Thanks for coming.
Vance: Of course.
Kaptur: [Turning to Vance’s cameraman] All right, what can we do for you?

I’ll put the “awkward fist-grab” moment in an imbedded video for convenience; it’s part of a longer news broadcast but I’m starting the video at the point he has the “oh no I humaned wrong” glitch.

Best comments:
“Three failed hand shakes!!”
“The fat bearded guy sure moved fast!”

There’s nothing there. No passion, no empathy. He’s just a one-dimensional being ambling about. What’s on his sweatshirt?

“Ohio State”.

Which is obvious pandering, but not exactly the best idea in Toledo (so close to Michigan).

This nonentity in manform should have a permagrin on his stupid face. He’s having a grand adventure, flying all around and having his ass kissed, on the party’s dime. There really is zero pressure on him- win or lose he’s a rich senator who never dreamed of being in this situation. He was plucked from the obscurity to which he will hopefully return.

Maybe he can get one that says “Music :zap: Band”. Same energy, except it’s “fellow humans”.

“Hello to you normal people of which I am one as well, let us discuss the performance of the local sports team.”

And the Pulitzer Prize for closed captioning goes to…