# 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:** 28
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/541 "2015-11-07T01:38:42Z")
> [@BrightSunshine](#): > > Awwww that’s so cute. 😃 Like ebola! ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/542 "2015-11-07T02:33:30Z")
> [@Jack\_of\_Words](#): > > Strange the things that stick in the mind. In an idle moment, I went and counted them. I made it 25 (twentyfive). So “six or so”, give or take nineteen. But hey, feminists and statistics, what can you do… > > I’ve also got at least as many posts in non-‘angry’ threads, as I have in the ones where you want to paint me as ‘angry’. But hey, feminists and facts, what can you do… Welcome to the Pit. This is not where we bring data to bear in our arguments. That, ostensibly, happens elsewhere. And the absolute last thing I’m going to do is count your fucking haikus. No scratch that, the absolute last thing I’m going to do is act as though we’re debating feminism. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/543 "2015-11-07T03:08:13Z")
**LK** ’s at it again. Some gems from his current thread. > [@On Feminism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-feminism/736801/37): > > I only link to what actual feminists are actually doing. If the slutwalkers and claims that maleness is a genetic defect reflect the views of extremists, then “mainstream” feminists would denounce them. That’s doesn’t happens though. Look, freakshow, you are really conflating a few things here. I don’t even know how you managed to pull these two thought streams together, but you did. Congrats. > [@](#): > > In the last thread, feminists said maleness was in fact a defect. (Albeit, a common one.) (I’ll be expecting my Social Security disability check anytime now.) …and this one didn’t happen, which was mentioned in the thread itself. > [@](#): > > As far as STEM goes, I find it odd that men are falling behind in every area but one - and that’s the one feminists are concerned about. > > My own opinion is that there’s no “need” for women in STEM fields. If they want to pursue those subjects, great. If not, there’s no need to force them into it. Personally, I’ve always been better at verbal than math. Trying to force myself into something I’m not good at, and not interested in, would be kind of pointless. 1. cite and 2) damnit I’m sure I can hear my blood vessels rupturing. I know there’s absolutely NO fucking point in explaining to him that women are not interested in STEM because they are bad at it (or something, weird reasoning there) > [@](#): > > **What you should understand is the driving force behind bias against men in domestic violence is feminism.** Again, I can go into it in more detail, if you want. What feminists want people do believe is that domestic violence is always - or almost always - a male on female phenomenon. Despite the fact it’s not true. Google “Duluth Model” if you’re curious. My emphasis. And what the fuck?! The driving force against ANY domestic violence is that it’s abhorrent and wrong. **LK** now has this packaged as if women are causing domestic violence. His denouement: > [@](#): > > But feminism has been bashing and undermining men for 50+ years. They’re not going to stop. They’ll stop only when they are stopped. I think he’s unbalanced. Each time he posts a thread he gets more and more out there. This isn’t a conversation about feminism. This is a conversation about putting women back in their place. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2015, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/544 "2015-11-07T03:23:59Z")
Is it just me, or does that phrase “they’ll only stop when they are stopped” cause a bit of a chill? ---
**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:** [November 7, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/545 "2015-11-07T03:28:27Z")
Unbalanced… ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/546 "2015-11-07T04:20:44Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > Is it just me, or does that phrase “they’ll only stop when they are stopped” cause a bit of a chill? Likely intentional. A lot of misogynists like to flirt with vaguely creepy-sounding or darkly dire phrasing, hoping that somebody will challenge them on it so they can act all shocked and butthurt at the very _idea_ that they might have been trying to imply any kind of physical intimidation or threat. ---
**Author:** ![camille](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@camille](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/camille)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/547 "2015-11-07T04:48:32Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Likely intentional. A lot of misogynists like to flirt with vaguely creepy-sounding or darkly dire phrasing, hoping that somebody will challenge them on it so they can act all shocked and butthurt at the very _idea_ that they might have been trying to imply any kind of physical intimidation or threat. Yes, I thought the same thing. He’s playing it up on purpose. But still, he gets more and more out there with each new thread. Deliberately lying about child custody laws in the last thread, and ignoring other lawyers calling him out on it? He’s broken. I really hope he’s not still actively practicing law. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_of\_Words](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@Jack\_of\_Words](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_of_Words)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/548 "2015-11-07T09:44:08Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > Good move. There’s a lotta money in poetry and unproduced screenplays. If you rate people by their wealth, that’s your problem. I never claimed to be wealthy, by anybody’s measure, and attempting to insult someone by _your_ standards is unlikely to have any impact on someone who measures themselves by their own. If you had any artistic talent, you’d be aware that there are plenty of ‘fringe benefits’ 😉 The issue was one of ‘ability to communicate’ - that is, Moody Moddy Miller had brazenly asserted as ‘fact’ his woefully ignorant opinion that I can’t communicate (from which we only learn that MMMiller has no understanding of communication). Paying audiences disagree with a random internet user with an axe to grind…hold the front page! But hey, feminists and thinking, what can you do… ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_of\_Words](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@Jack\_of\_Words](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_of_Words)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/549 "2015-11-07T09:49:28Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > the absolute last thing I’m going to do is act as though we’re debating feminism. I know, I’ve seen your posts in the feminism threads. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/550 "2015-11-07T12:44:14Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > Unbalanced… Increasingly so. I imagine hanging out at MRA sites in a state of constant outrage would do that to a person. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/551 "2015-11-07T15:12:20Z")
> [@camille](#): > > Yes, I thought the same thing. He’s playing it up on purpose. > > But still, he gets more and more out there with each new thread. Deliberately lying about child custody laws in the last thread, and ignoring other lawyers calling him out on it? He’s broken. I really hope he’s not still actively practicing law. Do we have any particular reason to believe he ever did practice law? **LinusK** wasn’t really on my radar before he became obsessed with the evils of feminism, but I don’t remember him being in the habit of showing up in threads on legal issues to make informed-sounding posts. That I don’t remember this doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, but I can easily think of other posters who don’t just _claim_ to be lawyers but have made an impression on me as people who actually know something about the law. If nothing else I’d expect someone who managed to get through law school to be able to comprehend the meaning of reports and articles written for the general public and form a coherent argument in support of his own views, and **LinusK** has demonstrated repeatedly that he can’t do either. ---
**Author:** ![camille](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@camille](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/camille)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/552 "2015-11-07T19:55:14Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > Do we have any particular reason to believe he ever did practice law? **LinusK** wasn’t really on my radar before he became obsessed with the evils of feminism, but I don’t remember him being in the habit of showing up in threads on legal issues to make informed-sounding posts. That I don’t remember this doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, but I can easily think of other posters who don’t just _claim_ to be lawyers but have made an impression on me as people who actually know something about the law. > > If nothing else I’d expect someone who managed to get through law school to be able to comprehend the meaning of reports and articles written for the general public and form a coherent argument in support of his own views, and **LinusK** has demonstrated repeatedly that he can’t do either. I don’t know him or any posters personally, but I remembered reading it somewhere a few months ago (I like to read the lawyers who post here): > [@How accurate is 'Law and Order'?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-accurate-is-law-and-order/315078/70): > > I stopped watching Law and Order and all criminal law shows after I became an actual lawyer. They’re so stupidly ridiculously inaccurate, they became painful to watch. He started a thread last year asking if he should go to grad school for economics because he wasn’t happy practicing law: > [@Should I go to grad school?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-go-to-grad-school/685491/85): > > I’m sort of an introverted, intellectual type. Success in my field - financial success - depends a lot on marketing, advertising, and salesmanship. (Something they definitely don’t tell you in law school.) And some would say, just outright lying. These are things I’m not good at. And part of why I think what I’m doing is probably not a good fit for me. And why I’m looking to make a change. I can see my future walking the halls of the courthouse, and it’s not where I want to be. > > Here’s some good elevator jokes lawyers like to tell each other: > > What did the criminal defense lawyer say when he won the lottery? > _I guess I’ll keep practicing until I run out of money._ > > What’s your retirement plan? > _To be dead when I hit the ground._ > > The Zambia/Peru issue may be a problem at some of the other schools, other than UMKC, I mean. He’s also answered some legal questions in a few threads. And he wasn’t always an anti-feminist, apparently: > [@Scott Adams: Men's Rights Activists are Pussies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-adams-mens-rights-activists-are-pussies/672081/66): > > If fathers are getting fairer outcomes in custody decrees, I’m happy to hear that. It doesn’t surprise me, if it’s true. I think things _are_ moving in the right direction. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/553 "2015-11-08T15:27:39Z")
[Butter-scented hormones in vaginal secretions allow women to control men’s minds](https://constantsupervision.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/the-chemistry-of-copulins-vaginal-fluid/). Before you know it, we’ll be lathering the stuff on men’s toast. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/554 "2015-11-08T16:22:59Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > [Butter-scented hormones in vaginal secretions allow women to control men’s minds](https://constantsupervision.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/the-chemistry-of-copulins-vaginal-fluid/). > > Before you know it, we’ll be lathering the stuff on men’s toast. Brilliantly and hilariously dissected at the [We Hunted the Mammoth](http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/11/07/zombifying-vagina-goo-part-two-all-your-questions-answered/) blog. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/555 "2015-11-08T18:55:52Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Brilliantly and hilariously dissected at the [We Hunted the Mammoth](http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/11/07/zombifying-vagina-goo-part-two-all-your-questions-answered/) blog. Baby powder and we’re airborne! I plan to enslave numerous men and put them to work as house elves. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/556 "2015-11-08T20:49:42Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > [Butter-scented hormones in vaginal secretions allow women to control men’s minds](https://constantsupervision.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/the-chemistry-of-copulins-vaginal-fluid/). > > Before you know it, we’ll be lathering the stuff on men’s toast. I have been doing it all wrong. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/557 "2015-11-08T22:02:34Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > I have been doing it all wrong. ☹ Feminist. Duh. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2015, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/558 "2015-11-08T22:11:39Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Brilliantly and hilariously dissected at the [We Hunted the Mammoth](http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/11/07/zombifying-vagina-goo-part-two-all-your-questions-answered/) blog. That’s a fun blog, thanks for linking to it, **Kimstu**. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/559 "2015-11-09T00:14:07Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Brilliantly and hilariously dissected at the [We Hunted the Mammoth](http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/11/07/zombifying-vagina-goo-part-two-all-your-questions-answered/) blog. Wow. I learned so much from that article. I think I’m just as attracted to actual butter as the butter-scented vagina gas though. Could explain a great deal in my marriage. Could be a delicious new fetish for us too. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/560 "2015-11-09T00:42:16Z")
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