# Please Join Me for the Pitting of LinusK **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 20, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722 "2015-07-20T20:14:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 22
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/421 "2015-10-20T00:30:02Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > My point is that I have introduced a new term for **a very intensive and angry emotional online outburst by feminists at something they consider offensive.** Having introduced it, can you now please remove it? It’s stupid and demeaning, and mostly makes you look like a schmuck. > [@](#): > > It is a metaphor. No, it isn’t. “Metaphor” doesn’t mean, “I said something that I think sounds kind of clever.” It’s a comparison between two seemingly unrelated concepts that reveals unsuspected commonalities. “Cybermenstruation” isn’t a comparison between the concepts of “menstruation” and “cyber.” It certainly isn’t relevatory of anything, except the paucity of your own imagination and vocabulary. It’s a cheap, ugly portmanteau, demonstrating nothing but a lack of creativity, humor, and good will on behalf of the man who coined it. I think it suits you. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/422 "2015-10-20T00:45:01Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Having introduced it, can you now please remove it? I apologize for using that term on this board. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/423 "2015-10-20T03:14:51Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > I’m a cybercrone.🙂 … Hear me snort In derision, that’s my forte … (Do we jave a fist bump smilie available?) ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/424 "2015-10-20T03:17:17Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > A tsunami – sized wave of male bashing has swept the English Speaking World since early '90s. There are countless male–specific insults from any Greeting Card section to The Pit. > > **As a Libertarian I see only one way to fight offensive humor – by more offensive humor.** Can you give me three examples as a reference? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/425 "2015-10-20T06:35:49Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > **As a Libertarian I see only one way to fight offensive humor – by more offensive humor.** Then I think we can all agree that it’s acceptable and appropriate to describe people who complain about being subjected to “cybermenstruation” as “cybertampons”. (Or the somewhat coarser version of the term I used a few posts back.) However, if by common consent the expression “cybermenstruation” is evicted from these boards, I’m perfectly content to have the word “cybertampon” disappear along with it. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/426 "2015-10-20T15:21:07Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > **As a Libertarian I see only one way to fight offensive humor – by more offensive humor.** You seem to be really proud of this idea, although it has nothing to do with Libertarianism. But I’m game: When do we get to see the “more offensive humor” you’ve promised? It hasn’t happened yet… ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/427 "2015-10-20T17:27:06Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > However, if by common consent the expression “cybermenstruation” is evicted from these boards, I’m perfectly content to have the word “cybertampon” disappear along with it. Thank you – now I am wearing a cybermuzzle. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/428 "2015-10-20T17:29:39Z")
I cyberbarfed ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/429 "2015-10-20T18:01:59Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Then I think we can all agree that it’s acceptable and appropriate to describe people who complain about being subjected to “cybermenstruation” as “cybertampons”. (Or the somewhat coarser version of the term I used a few posts back.) > > However, if by common consent the expression “cybermenstruation” is evicted from these boards, I’m perfectly content to have the word “cybertampon” disappear along with it. I think it’s too late. The meme is born. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/430 "2015-10-20T18:05:32Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > I think it’s too late. The meme is born. But on this forum I am wearing a cybermuzzle – an order from moderators to abstain from using certain words on a forum where I have invested energy and time resources in building my cyberprofile. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/431 "2015-10-20T18:06:48Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/432 "2015-10-20T18:11:09Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > A tsunami – sized wave of male bashing has swept the English Speaking World since early '90s. There are countless male–specific insults from any Greeting Card section to The Pit. Do you feel that there is more male-bashing in the world than there is female-bashing? ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/433 "2015-10-20T18:13:18Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Do you feel that there is more male-bashing in the world than there is female-bashing? By about a factor 10:1 in the Mainstream Media. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/434 "2015-10-20T18:29:00Z")
Oh my god, shut the fuck up CCitizen. Maybe this is why you have no goddamn friends. Since the beginning of fucking time you men have put us into menstruation huts, blocked us from going to temple or church, made sure we know we were goddamn second class citizens and somehow we took this shit. We raised your sons and your daughters. We kept your homes clean. When you couldn’t defend us - cause remember, you told us not to take up arms cause it wasn’t feminine - we got raped by your enemies. When we tried to protect ourselves we were told we were someone else’s property. When we tried to enjoy sex we were called sluts. When we didn’t, it was frigid. Our fathers and then our husbands were the keepers of our virginities and our sexualities. And even nowadays you try to keep us home, you don’t like public breastfeeding, you don’t want us to work, you take away our birth control and our right to an abortion, you try to make it as difficult as you can with our careers, since we kind of HAVE to take time off to have babies, you run the whole goddamn world! And a few of us have stood up and said NO MORE and you somehow think the tides have turned and now men are the abused sex. I will tell you what you have been telling us - toughen the fuck up, Princess! Nobody promised you a bed of goddamn roses. Live the life you have been making us live. And let us live without calling us angry militant feminists just for wanting the same thing you do. And that goes for your little dog too! Ugh. That was brewing up for a long time. /rant over ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/435 "2015-10-20T18:39:09Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > But on this forum I am wearing a cybermuzzle – an order from moderators to abstain from using certain words on a forum where I have invested energy and time resources in building my cyberprofile. You haven’t been muzzled. If Miller were issuing instructions as a moderator, he would have made that clear. Your martyrdom will have to wait. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/436 "2015-10-20T18:41:16Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > Your martyrdom will have to wait. I am not a martyr – I am a Homo Interneticus. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/437 "2015-10-20T18:46:20Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > I am not a martyr – I am an inventor of new words. Actually, I hope you’re a troll. Otherwise, I’m forced to believe that you’re actually as miserable and pathetic a human being as you purport to be, and that gives me a major sad. Note that this is a gender neutral insult.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/438 "2015-10-20T18:47:25Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > I am not a martyr – I am a Homo Interneticus. Please, this is a family website. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/439 "2015-10-20T19:33:33Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > I am not a martyr – I am a Homo Interneticus. You’re an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/440 "2015-10-20T19:39:37Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Having introduced it, can you now please remove it? It’s stupid and demeaning, and mostly makes you look like a schmuck. > [@CCitizen](#): > > I apologize for using that term on this board. **Snowboarder Bo**? Have you been reading this thread? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722.md?page=23)