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sydbarrettsaves, emissary of hell
11/09/09

In reply to Daily Mail Writer Claims He's Earned His Male Privilege After Dealing With "Powerful" Teenage Girls
Classic douchebag. #dailyfail
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
11/09/09

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This article only makes sense if you assume boys and men do the living and girls and women are merely pawns that go through puberty and only exist when a man's in the room, then disappear when he closes his eyes. #dailyfail
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galtor
11/08/09

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Where the fuck is this tool's sense of entitlement coming from?
I have a friend like this and he simply refuses to make any effort to get to know anyone. People should want to know him and approach him because he's soooooo interesting, and soooo witty and blah blah blah. #dailyfail
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
11/08/09

@galtor: Sadly, I think you just answered your own question. #dailyfail
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whynotshesaid
11/08/09

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Once a loser, always a loser, right, Leith? #dailyfail
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MsFeasance
11/08/09

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I just have to share this lol-worthy moment with you. I have the Daily Mail-o-Matic Greasemonkey script on my browser. It goes through and replaces the headlines of all the articles on the Daily Fail with random, unrealistic scare-tactic bogeymen, such as "COULD HOODIES HAVE SEX WITH HOUSE PRICES?" I find it a never-ending source of amusement.

The headline that came up when I clicked this article was "WILL FEMINISM IMPREGNATE THE QUEEN MUM?" I laughed for about three minutes.

Seriously, Daily Mail-o-Matic. Best Toy Ever. #dailyfail
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sydbarrettsaves, emissary of hell
11/09/09

@MsFeasance: #dailyfail
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MsFeasance
11/09/09

@sydbarrettsaves, emissary of hell: ? #dailyfail
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mypsychoticself
11/08/09

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Wait, what about the geeky girls? What about the girls (like me) who preferred books to "boyfriends with cars and jobs and money"? At that age I would have been more than happy to hang out with the geeky boys, were it not for the fact that the geeky boys were asses. #dailyfail
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Furface
11/08/09

@mypsychoticself: Just what I was going to say... when he says he was upset when all the girls started getting too "cool" for him, he just actually means that he wishes the cool girls were into him, not that he wanted a girlfriend like him. #dailyfail
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
11/09/09

@Furface: I htink this is the case any time a guy, especially a geek or a 'nice guy,' complains about how all girls are gold diggers who pass him over. They don't mean all girls. They mean the girls they, specifically, want to fuck (and usually know little to nothing about, bra size aside). #dailyfail
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south2nd
11/08/09

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When I was a cocktail waitress, guys would fire the same 5 or 6 weird questions at us and then storm off in a huff when I said, "No, my dad is amazing, why would you ask if he walked out on my mom? No, I don't hate this job, and well, of course I'm in college and don't spend all my tips on "bling." What are you talking about?"

Then found out FHM had a feature on picking up "slutty" women, and the section on cocktail waitresses stated that girls working in bars all had low self-esteem, were abandoned by their dads, felt hopeless about the future and were too dumb to get a regular job, so it listed the stock responses a guy should use when she bitched about those problems.

So I guess they were trying to expedite the process by asking me those questions. Save time, so they didn't have to listen to some chick TALK.
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Kajj
11/08/09

@south2nd: Oh my god, you just cleared up the weirdest part of my short-lived cocktail waitressing gig. They all asked those questions like they were reading from some script, and I never knew why! Seriously that really confused me at the time. What creeps. #dailyfail
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yvanehtnioj
11/08/09

@Kajj: @south2nd: I'm horrified that this actually happened to you. But at the same time, every time there's criticism of men's magazine articles, a bunch of dudes show up to inform the ladies that: 1) we don't have any sense of humor, and 2) no guys take that stuff seriously anyway. So it's good to know what I've always suspected is true: I was right and those dudes were wrong. #dailyfail
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
11/08/09

@yvanehtnioj: Aaand ... you're still on fire, near twenty-four hours later.

(P.S. I was actually eating an apple too. So it's something in addition to that, unless it's a specific variety. I had a Golden Delicious. What did you have?) #dailyfail
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yvanehtnioj
11/08/09

@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: Alas, Macintosh. They're the siniest! #dailyfail
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boxspelunker
11/08/09

@south2nd: That is SO creepy. I didn't think anyone actually followed that kind of shit! Who DOES such a thing?

I can't wrap my mind around what you have just written, it is the strangest thing ever. #dailyfail
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
11/08/09

@yvanehtnioj: Ahaha. That would explain it. I'm always accused of being too PC. ;-) #dailyfail
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BytheSea
11/08/09

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I do find it interesting that this apparently explains why nice boys grow into utter assholes as men. When Ally Sheedy sad, "When you get old, your heart dies" in The Breakfast Club, that line always struck me as off -- beacuse it's a man's line to be said by a boy.
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LikeChai
11/08/09

In reply to Daily Mail Writer Claims He's Earned His Male Privilege After Dealing With "Powerful" Teenage Girls
Hmmm I'm glad that I was actually the one in control and holding the power over those guys in high school (geeks and 'popular' boys alike) who would say 'ewwww' EVERY TIME I walked past. Go me!

Actually I believe I now hold the power over those same boys who haven't gotten on with their lives and still trace everything back to their roles in high school.

Dude grow the frick up, high school had social problems for everyone, this guy sounded like he had some friends at least. #dailyfail
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coffeeandtv
11/08/09

@LikeChai: Me too. I guess i had the power when all of those guys threw their shoes at me. Who knew? #dailyfail
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LikeChai
11/08/09

@coffeeandtv:
At least you have their shoes! And we all know that shoes = power.

Maybe this is what he meant. #dailyfail
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Mary Ratliff
11/08/09

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I would just like to point out that I would have LOVED to have dated the geeks and nerds when I was in high school. I would have been all about helping build a fort in the woods.

But alas, since I also wasn't into make-up and handbags, and getting all prettied up for the boys, they simply weren't interested.

This guy wants it both ways, he wants girls to be gorgeous little dolls that love him for being not perfect and geeky.

Well, my geeky husband and I will go play Warcraft and this guy can sit and stew. #dailyfail
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JilliefromChile
11/08/09

@Mary Ratliff: Also, The universe owes him a hot girlfriend as soon as he becomes interested, and the idealized gorgeous dolls owe him sex just by virtue of existing near him, and if it and they don't deliver the goods, it's his goddamn right to get angry and bitter. Stupid universe! Stupid girls having their own lives, plans, thoughts and desires!

He seems like a Nice Guy (tm). #dailyfail
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
11/09/09

@Mary Ratliff: Same here. But as soon as you get breasts you turn into an alien. And they're the ones with the No Girls Allowed sign, fer chrissakes. #dailyfail
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Harpalyce
11/07/09

In reply to Daily Mail Writer Claims He's Earned His Male Privilege After Dealing With "Powerful" Teenage Girls
The picture chosen for this is absolutely, wonderfully perfect.

Also, I pity Leith's adolescence. I was having fun building pillow forts and running around to catch green anoles in high school with both male and female friends. How depressing it'd be to have to exclude them. In that light he sounds like he's justifying giving up 'childish' things he really likes by broadly blaming it on women and claiming that he likes it better this way anyway. #dailyfail
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MargaretMoony
11/07/09

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Heh, the Lockhart picture is perfect for this article.
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queen_caribbean
11/07/09

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I always wondered what Beavis and Butthead would have to say once they were all grown up. Now I know. #dailyfail
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elaborate bacon (princessprissypants)
11/07/09

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I could swear an ex of mine wrote this. He's famous for still "being in love with" and hating the girls we went to high school with because they never loved him back and are all married. #dailyfail
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whynotshesaid
11/08/09

@elaborate bacon (princessprissypants): That might be one of the most pathetic things I have ever read in my life. And I've read part of a Tucker Max book. #dailyfail
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gargamel
11/07/09

In reply to Daily Mail Writer Claims He's Earned His Male Privilege After Dealing With "Powerful" Teenage Girls
one of the commenters to the original article says it well:

"Instead of projecting your sad insecurities on women, you could take the time to get to know them as PEOPLE. Yes, we are actually human beings, not mythological creatures who denied your attentions because you didn't know the secret password.

You are angry (20 years after the fact) that girls didn't share your interests and weren't attracted to you. But of course it would never occur to you to try to understand their interests. YOU are the one entitled to attention, not them. I wager that your bitter, hateful attitude was what kept women away from you

- Donna, TX, 08/11/2009 00:55" #dailyfail
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