misogyny no reason if you feel like reading a list from a misogynist asshole (who wouldn't, really?), read this: http://elitedaily.com/life/the-100-things-every-20-something-needs-to-realize/ my comments to most of his points are along the lines of "no. you are stupid and an asshole." but a few specific ones make me wonder how something like this could ever get published (there are a few true points, but most of them are obvious cliches). 32 is one of them. i can't even form a comment on this one -- it's so wrong on so many levels, which i think are pretty obvious. 34 and 35: i could write an angry book about this kind of thinking. slut-shaming needs to stop 17,000 years ago. when people (men OR women) are attracted to each other, things happen. if they like each other, things will continue. get over it. and if you can't, you're an asshole. 38. oh, okay! thanks for clearing that up for anyone who's held those beliefs their whole lives. things are clear for them now! 64. huh? this is condescending, and stupid. who expresses elitism about DJ-ing? and most of others, but i'll stop. even though it's just one guy and one article, the fact that people think this way is disheartening. i wonder if/how it will ever stop. 131003 ... raze wow. yeah. that "article", if that's what it's calling itself, is pretty disgraceful stuff. a few things do ring true here and there, but the kernels of truthiness are blotted out by the disgusting and wrongheaded ideas surrounding them. i'm not even going to touch the sex-related things, which made me want to punch the computer screen. some of the comments that follow the article feature better insults to the writer than anything i could think up. but this one right here: "it is morally wrong to be obese." seriously? so, in a nutshell, anal rape is justifiable, women who like sex are basically all sluts, if guys don't have porn star dicks they're pretty much useless, and overweight people should be given no respect based solely on the fact that they're overweight. because they're "wrong". even if they're overweight due to health problems they have little or no control over. also, getting drunk does get old for some people. it got very old for me quite a while before i left my twenties behind. in my last romantic relationship, with a bipolar ex-stripper, i thought she looked great without her makeup, but things didn't work out (shocker! how could the relationship fail when it passed the no-makeup test?). they did NOT stop making good music in the 90s. i'm as cynical about current music as anyone. more cynical than most, really. and even i think that's a load of shit. from my experience, size is actually not the be-all and end-all some people make it out to be. and i disagree that nothing good happens after 3:00 am. i've had great conversations, read great books, watched great movies, and written some of the songs and not-songs i'm most proud of at 5:00 or 6:00 in the morning, while on vampire hours. if this guy got paid to write this list, i will kill myself. twice. 131003 ... no reason i have no doubt he got paid. the so-called true or good points about the piece are pretty much cancelled out by the contradictions he's made against them in the rest of his points. on the bright side, this is one of the few internet things where the comments are much better than the article. i think this is my favourite: "Fuck sakes, it's like Patrick Bateman read all these obnoxious how-to-be-an-adult trend pieces that are clogging up my news feed lately and decided to take a crack at ghost-writing one himself. Own at least one suit! The world owes you nothing! Fat people disgust me! Pressure your girlfriend into butt stuff! Use an aftershave with little or no alcohol! Social media! Jogging! Travel! Satan worship! NO, PUT IT IN THE CARTON!" 131003 ... epitome of incomprehensibility I must admit I laughed at the juxtaposition of 45 and 46 (that is, orgies and chess). 131003 ... e_o_i ...but you're right it seems misogynist, not to mention inconsistent. If a guy can handle seeing his significant other without makeup, why not with hairy ankles? Ah! but that explains everything. The Austrian Grad Student broke up with me because he saw my ugly cold feet and hairy ankles that day at La_Fontaine_Park when we came in from skating. When he said "Are your feet getting warmer?" it was clearly code for, "If you don't shave your legs every day in winter you are clearly a disgusting person and I don't like you any more." Of course, the disgust took three months to settle in, as disgust usually does. 131003 ... raze the whole idea that women need to shave anything that isn't growing on top of their head in order to be attractive is absurd. i want to hit men who think that way, in the face, with asparagus. that'll show them. 131003 ... e_o_i I was just being sarcastic - he was concerned about my feet being cold, not how they looked. 131003 ... e_o_i Wait, no, you're still talking about the article. Gah. Silly me. Oh, and I like how this author assumes everyone is straight. I mean, I'm at least half straight and, y'know, some of my best friends are straight, but still. 131003 ... e_o_i (In sum, the Austrian Grad Student compares favourably with Mr. Elite Listmaker. And I take into account said AGS's own elitism and distancey-ness. Of course, I don't know Mr. Elite Listmaker personally, and I'm sure things I've said in jest have been misunderstood... Still, I bet I could beat him in a game of Scrabble. Chess, pshaw.) 131003 what's it to you? who go blather from