Having introduced it, can you now please remove it? It’s stupid and demeaning, and mostly makes you look like a schmuck.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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
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.
