"I Am Man-Pussy, Hear Me Apologize"
A vomitus of new-age apology for being male. So ridiculous, creepy and awful that it's both ridiculous, creepy and awful and utterly, pathetically hilarious:
Newsflash: Men have been murdered, circumcised, and abused throughout history. (Most recently, by appearing in this video deballing.)
I second the creepiness of the dialogue. Also, were I a woman who thought men needed to apologize for being born with penises, a video of guys with questionable eyebrows standing in front of pictures of cats, spliced with what looks like stolen footage (is that Winona Ryder in The Crucible?), wouldn't cut it.
While I am aware that women have been subjected to male violence throughout history, I have to think that with all the warring and conquering and seizing and land-grabbing and inheritance-stealing and what have you, male-on-male violence wins just with sheer volume. But apparently that's okay? Not to diminish the fact that violence against women does exist and is horrible, but there are so many more kinds out there that don't get the attention, while there are ridiculous "solutions" like this getting cranked out.
Dear men who put this video together, if you really want to help with violence against women, you should, you know, do something other than apologize for being men. 'Cause that's not stopping clitoridectomies in Africa.
NumberSix at April 11, 2011 11:48 PM
I think that they're trying to trick earth women into returning to their planet with them.
seymore at April 12, 2011 12:33 AM
Where did they find all these guys? In a gay bathhouse? I dont think there is one straight man in this entire video. They are all "girlie men" ha ha ha ha
dragonslayer666 at April 12, 2011 12:34 AM
Well, I managed to get 14 seconds into the video before giving up. Sheesh.
Simon Proctor at April 12, 2011 12:59 AM
First I'd like to point out that at 0:39 we can see General Zod. Second Man-pussy? What sort of comment is that? I hope you're not Gay bashing.
(That's the chief man-pussy's name: Gay Hendricks.)
PARENTS BE CAREFUL ABOUT HOW YOU NAME YOUR KIDS!
jerry at April 12, 2011 1:02 AM
Ack! I've never had a gag relfex induced by sound before and I listened to the B.E.P. Superbowl halftime show this year. And for guys who are all about conscious masculine energy there isn't a masculine looking guy in the bunch. Every single one of them has pinged my creep-meter.
I gotta go wake up my fiance and tell him he needs to throw me down on the bed now. I need some conscious masculine energy after watching this.....
Elle at April 12, 2011 1:40 AM
Are these guys for real? Why do I keep thinking they appear for only a few seconds at a time because that's as long as they can keep a straight face?
I made it all the way to 1:41 before I gave up.
gharkness at April 12, 2011 3:09 AM
dragonslayer666: Where did they find all these guys? In a gay bathhouse? I dont think there is one straight man in this entire video. They are all "girlie men" ha ha ha ha
Hey, don't even think about blaming this on gay men!
Patrick at April 12, 2011 4:08 AM
That aside, apologizing on behalf of all men is about as phony as it gets. You're free to apologize for your own actions all you care to, but you don't apologize for me or any other man.
Patrick at April 12, 2011 4:17 AM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!! I suffered through this whole thing because I was on the floor laughing the whole time. I simply couldn't reach my mouse to make it stop!
The sad fact is that each one of these guys probably got laid because of this video. That's clearly the reason that they did it. There are just enough dumb women that would fall for this to get them all a nice and proper piece of ass. Good on them.
On behalf of conscious men everywhere, allow me to apologize for the men in this video who have primitively used a callous and shallow ploy to surgically target and appeal to a stupid woman's sense of superiority in order that they could shove their filthy penis as deeply as possible into their hallowed vagina.
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!
whistleDick at April 12, 2011 4:22 AM
I swear I will have to do my girlfriend 20% rougher than usual next time to feel like a guy again. And I'm not remotely sorry. Neither is she :)
Jesper at April 12, 2011 4:38 AM
If I were single, and desperate, I still wouldn't fuck a single one of those "men" (I use that term loosely). Not one. I want a MAN. A man with balls. Not a pussy.
Sabrina at April 12, 2011 5:11 AM
Oh wow.... their website indicates that they "worship women". I think they have the wrong name for their website. Should be doormats.com.
Am so glad for my man with rough hands, broad shoulders, and pair of brass...well, you get the idea.
Juliana at April 12, 2011 5:15 AM
I'd like an apology from feminists for aborting one third of my generation. Feminism has taken more lives than all the wars the US has been in combined.
Josh at April 12, 2011 5:19 AM
If we make captured jihadi's listen to this, is that considered a war crime?
I R A Darth Aggie at April 12, 2011 6:13 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/04/12/i_am_a_man-puss.html#comment-2035496">comment from I R A Darth AggieThere is one good thing about this video. It makes me even more grateful to have my man's-man boyfriend, and I bet a lot of lucky (and smart, nice, unpsycho) women feel exactly the same way.
As for these guys, perhaps we could grow little sets of balls for them in a lab somewhere.
Amy Alkon at April 12, 2011 6:23 AM
Let me guess, the lead in the video brings his wife breakfast in bed every morning while wearing a unicorn horn affixed to his forehead and a custom made saddle as well? And offers to "breastfeed" the eight year old son so that she can sleep in....
Juliana at April 12, 2011 6:50 AM
Where's the "I'm not sorry" website?
I never had a slave. I work for a living. I served. I (reluctantly) pay my taxes. I discriminated against nobody, except on the basis of ineptitude.
I make my own apologies. Feel free to outsource yours.
MarkD at April 12, 2011 6:54 AM
There's room for only one pussy in my relationship, and I have it.
MonicaP at April 12, 2011 6:55 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/04/12/i_am_a_man-puss.html#comment-2035567">comment from MonicaPThere's room for only one pussy in my relationship, and I have it.
Hah - love that.
Amy Alkon at April 12, 2011 7:06 AM
Yeah Amy a female friend sent this video to me last week and told me how it made her cry tears of joy. It really made me question her sanity. And it gave me the creeps. Really, as a guy who writes about manhood a lot this is exactly the kind of thing that gets in the way of any real discussion of what it means to be male.
Tom Matlack at April 12, 2011 7:10 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/04/12/i_am_a_man-puss.html#comment-2035583">comment from Tom MatlackYeah Amy a female friend sent this video to me last week and told me how it made her cry tears of joy.
Wow, Tom. Any woman like that...I find creepy. I love men and the differences between men and women and accentuate them in my own relationship. And the notion that the world would be perfect and wonderful if it were run by women is just a steaming load. We're all human and self-interested individuals. It is just completely disturbing to see all these men apologizing for being male. This is one of the ickiest videos I have seen in the longest time.
Amy Alkon at April 12, 2011 7:14 AM
I bet none of the men in this video clip:
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/afghanistan-gen-petraeus-honors-fallen-battle-kunar-province/story?id=13351201&page=2
would ever utter these words. My skin crawls listening to it. (My cousin is one of these bronze star soldiers. Go Jon!!)
momof4 at April 12, 2011 7:28 AM
Tell me this is a hoax aimed at the feeble-minded, or an outtake from FUNNY OR DIE! YEESH!
DorianTB at April 12, 2011 7:43 AM
This video indicates it may be necessary to carpet bomb parts of northern California before this zombie virus spreads further. Or maybe it is a self-limiting virus that will leave the species when these wuss-bags can't find any women to breed with.
David H at April 12, 2011 7:50 AM
My first reaction was that all these "not gonna get laid in a room full of blind nymphos" losers made this to somehow suck up to all the patchouli scented hippie chicks. Especially after the Harlequin Romance cover wanna-be gave his little "wanna fuck?" grin after his schtick.
Then I thought about it some more, and now I actually feel kinda bad for those poor, abused, beated down creatures. I think they've got Stockholm Syndrome, how else do you explain the glassy eyed, fawning adoration of females that would rather kick than kiss them? Between Mommy, and Suzy the cute cheerleader, women have held their poor little hearts captive and tortured them for so long, they just broke, ans what we see in the video are the pathetic remnants.....
/sarc off
Kat at April 12, 2011 7:52 AM
just a bunch of guys trying to con their way into the panties of broken women.
joelg at April 12, 2011 7:54 AM
Thanks Amy- now I have to watch "Fight Club" just to get this out of my brain.
Eric at April 12, 2011 7:57 AM
These guys need an intervention. They have that look in their eyes that say "I feel guilty for wanting to fuck you. I am a nice guy, so please fuck me."
Unfortunate for them, one of these types of seminars will be more effective than their mewling apologies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n2IVF9a2IA
David H at April 12, 2011 8:02 AM
Thanks Amy- now I have to watch "Fight Club" just to get this out of my brain.
Shove over, Eric, I'm bringin' the popcorn!
eeeeesh.
o.O
Flynne at April 12, 2011 8:03 AM
I apologise for running clean water, for a sweage treatment sytem, for the laws that give you legal equality. I apologise for hunting for your dinner, for creating an infastrutre that allows you to spend your time not having enough kids to run a familly farm, wash clothes by hand and acctually churn butter. I apologise for vacinations, anti bacterial soap, hot water on demand, and electricity. I apologise for art, music, national parks and no fault divorce. I apologise for NOTHING!
Comments pending "approval"
Any one beating it does get approved?
Also anyone else get a canabalistic serial killer vibe from the guy on the left?
lujlp at April 12, 2011 8:08 AM
I believe the actual term is "mangina."
Unfortunately, the men who use that accusation are all too likely to use it unfairly - for example, they're likely to throw it at almost any man who dares to praise any woman or who makes fun of the men's rights' movement.
lenona at April 12, 2011 8:14 AM
They deserve all the scorn they get. Especially from women.
lsomber at April 12, 2011 8:16 AM
I got to about 1:15, then couldn't watch any more. Christ, I can be a doormat sometimes and accept all sorts of unacceptable treatment, but even I draw the line at this. It's sickening and pathetic.
Hey, don't even think about blaming this on gay men!
I agree with you totally Patrick - all the gay men I know are self-confident and secure (and find me cute, which is nice, and aren't scared to say so). I couldn't imagine them acting like this.
Ltw at April 12, 2011 8:46 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/04/12/i_am_a_man-puss.html#comment-2035795">comment from LtwI can be a doormat sometimes and accept all sorts of unacceptable treatment,
Ltw, feel free to write to me. All you have to do to not be treated badly is to refuse to be treated badly. I grew up with no friends and I was a doormat in my early 20s and just started standing up for myself and being the real me, and I found that I got real friendships and felt good about myself and my life that way.
Amy Alkon at April 12, 2011 8:51 AM
They've all got the same disturbing look in their eyes. Maybe they're on some weird diet, or were really stoned when them made this. They all look zonked.
polo at April 12, 2011 9:44 AM
That's very kind of you Amy. I will think about it. Reading your columns is enough to tell me smarten up my act! And you're right, you have to stand up for yourself when people treat you badly - even if you want to do whatever it takes to make them happy. I'm going through that recently.
Fortunately I do have real friends, and know who they are. It's taken me a couple of years to work it out.
Ltw at April 12, 2011 9:44 AM
They all look zonked.
I'll bet it's because they're vegans and they're deeply craving bacon.
Jen Wading at April 12, 2011 9:53 AM
I think that they're trying to trick earth women into returning to their planet with them.
That would explain their book!
How To Serve Women.
polo at April 12, 2011 10:05 AM
I nearly barfed.
DaveG at April 12, 2011 10:12 AM
I was thinking that I was about to see a lot of future bitter old men, and then the first two were already old...:shrug:
The only thing I can think of is that this is an amazingly cynical ploy to get into somebodies pants... but I'm betting it ends poorly. Seems like women who like this sort of thing end up resentful, even if they don't know why.
I understand the impulse, though. Women often will cry on your shoulder and demand these things. I've been the guy friend over many years, that they went to after they had been crushed by some guy. When I was young I figured out what they hated, and tried not to be that. And yet they went right back to that kind of guy. They will tell you loudly what they want and don't want... but what makes them hot and bothered may be quite different.
I'd think by now these guys would have figured out how to stand alone... if you find someone that accepts your existance, great, and if not you will walk alone. Changing yourself to make someone else happy never works in the longrun.
I'll have to go over and find out what roissy thinks of this, it will be good for a laugh to see the diametrically opposed...
SwissArmyD at April 12, 2011 10:36 AM
Sin! That was creepy.
Maybe someone should remind them that without women men would not be civilized and without men civilization would last only until the oil needs changing.
parabarbarian at April 12, 2011 11:05 AM
Whiskey.
Tango.
FOXTROT????
The sad violins only screw the coffin shut.
I must now go wash every part of me. Or perhaps just go roll in the mud and get very, very drunk and put the moves on my wife.
mack at April 12, 2011 11:32 AM
Voluntary castration is difficult to watch.
Feebie at April 12, 2011 11:48 AM
I hear you Amy. I used to put up with more than I will now, much to the dismay of a guy I was attempting to date. LoL.
:)
Refuse to be treated badly!!
Melody at April 12, 2011 12:09 PM
I agree Feebie.
The best part of this laugh fest of a video has been the near condemnation I've seen of it in 90% of the places I've seen it reported/linked.
Sio at April 12, 2011 12:16 PM
This video is proof that men will say anything to get laid.
Thad McConchie at April 12, 2011 12:24 PM
These wusses should disembowel themselves in front of the national headquarters of NOW in order to show proper remorse.
DADvocate at April 12, 2011 12:57 PM
I bet these guys apologize to their hands after masturbation...
Eric at April 12, 2011 1:15 PM
There has been much discussion lately on the theme, "Why do women prefer jerks and get turned off by nice guys?"
If "nice guys" means "guys like the ones in the video," then the sentiment seems understandable...
david foster at April 12, 2011 1:22 PM
I find this revolting rather than funny. They keep making excuses ("the grip of lust") for everything, and then they actually forgive themselves toward the end of the video -- what kind of apologies are those? And who requested these apologies, anyway? Are there women who demand apologies from men for Joan of Arc's demise before putting out? And what an air of condescension. Reminds me of the god-awful book The Da Vinci Code with all the blather about the "divine feminine." I hope this movement doesn't catch on.
Sue at April 12, 2011 3:54 PM
Yeah David F, there nice guys and then there's "nice guys". Actually, though, I'm pretty well convinced this video is some kind of April Fools joke. Next I expect they'll do one apologizing to Gaia.
Cousin Dave at April 12, 2011 3:57 PM
Cousin Dave: It's already happened....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJFYwRtrH4&feature=player_embedded
Feebie at April 12, 2011 4:18 PM
I think I made it twenty seconds before I barfed.
Daghain at April 12, 2011 4:43 PM
PATHETIC!
Ha!
I love being a guy. I can't Imagine asking forgiveness for it.
I LIKE being an apex predator at the top of the worlds food chain.
These pansy ass fucktards aren't worth the balls they apologize for having.
I respect my women, but not for merely being women.
Most average women annoy me, but these "men" disgust me.
I'm proud of my father, and his father, and the bloodlines that carried our name through centuries of violent conflict. I would no more make apology for them, and spit on their legacy, than I would do so for wearing a uniform.
Robert at April 12, 2011 4:55 PM
Didn't watch the video, but can't stand guys like this. Girls do it too, more along the lines of whining, "I hateeee girls, they're so full of drama, I'm so totally one of the guys," etc. Both cases seem like a cheap ploy to look "special" and get attention and accolades from the opposite sex. Well I don't want to be around anyone who's that uncomfortable in their own skin that they have to disassociate with their entire gender. Either get a sex change or shut up already!
Shannon at April 12, 2011 5:27 PM
The strident feminist attitude towards men is incredibly tiresome. Nobody likes a nag. Yes, we've committed most of the evil throughout history. We've also done most of the great deeds, invented the modern world, and kept women and children safe to ensure each next generation. Ironically, women enjoy precisely the rights (including the right to complain at us) that men grant to them. Consider: who enforces the law? How effective would an all female police and military be? Women who think they are owed an apology from me for simply being a man can go straight to my complaint manager, Helen Wait.
Obdurate at April 12, 2011 5:43 PM
Ewwwww, Feebs! That was something I never needed to see - how pathetic! Those people have issues!
(Daghain, I made it to the 30 second mark, I just couldn't believe what I was seeing!)
o.O
Flynne at April 12, 2011 5:46 PM
I laughed so hard that I cried.
These "men" cannot be serious. This is an SNL skit, right? Right?
Chris at April 12, 2011 7:55 PM
Such a sexist video.
As if women have never exhibited malignant attitudes and engaged in destructive practices towards other women???
Davis at April 12, 2011 9:40 PM
I get your point and think you're right, but using such phrases as "man pussy" and "deballing" cheapens your argument and makes me less inclined to listen and more inclined to roll my eyes. Luckily I've been reading you a while so I know you bring up interesting points and are very intelligent. But your phrasing in this post is not worthy of you.
NicoleK at April 13, 2011 5:21 AM
They are just angling for a sympathy/pity fuck. At least I hope they are. If they are sincere they need to report in so they can be issued their vaginas
SGT Ted at April 13, 2011 7:15 AM
Jesus-goddamn-Christ. These are the most pathetic people I have *ever* seen. They have no balls.
This makes me so, so happy that I'm becoming more and more unapologetically manly.
Collin at April 13, 2011 11:32 AM
Eunuchs have feelings too!
Feebie at April 13, 2011 12:44 PM
Per Team America...
JEEZUS
TITTYFUCKING
CHRIST!!!!!
These guys have absolutely NO chance of getting laid, at least by any woman I have ever met -- even the women who think they'd want one of these... these... whatever they are. When said women actually MEET such a person, they typically go running to arms of the first knuckle-dragging ex-con they can find!
Subservient chores? Is climbing around in the crawlspace to fix a plumbing leak, or under the car to change the oil somehow a glorified task? Is mowing the lawn in August FUN?
Barry D at April 13, 2011 1:29 PM
Oh well, I guess I was just sort of dumbfounded by the whole thing...
Barry D at April 13, 2011 1:44 PM
So you really think either of these "Men", actually has ever experienced a women?
TTTCOTTH at April 13, 2011 3:07 PM
Wow, the SNAG* is still with us. That guy on the right at the beginning looks a bit like Terence Stamp's "Mind Head" guru character from Bowfinger.
* Sensitive New-Age Guy, per a 1990s song by Christine Lavin.
Alex at April 13, 2011 3:07 PM
As an habitually underachieving male, I'd rather cling to my moral fantasies than overcome the pointlessness of my own pathetic, wasted life.
Gordon at April 13, 2011 3:09 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/04/12/i_am_a_man-puss.html#comment-2040989">comment from TTTCOTTHSo you really think either of these "Men", actually has ever experienced a women?
"Experienced," yes, if by that you mean passing them in the street.
Amy Alkon at April 13, 2011 3:14 PM
Anybody else have the suspicion they used Megan's list to cast the guys in this video?
Seriously, while I think Stranger Danger is largely overblown heading for hysteria, I'd call the cops if I saw these guys hanging around the local playground.
SCSIwuzzy at April 13, 2011 3:16 PM
They strike me as two guys that have had more experience with each other then with a women.
TTTCOTTH at April 13, 2011 3:19 PM
Metromen, is the nothing they can't conflate into oblivion?
monkeyfan at April 13, 2011 3:33 PM
Throughout history it is power, not 'male energy' that is at issue. For most of human history, most men had the right to be cannon fodder and pack mule to whoever held power.
Camille Paglia wrote a great piece years back when some NYT op-ed piece wailed about how the refugees from the then current African crisis were all women and children and how awful that was. Paglia pointed out that the escape of women and children was only possible because the men stayed back in a rear guard that made becoming a refugee possible and that most of the men were probably already dead.
Such is the superiority of maleness.
Robert at April 13, 2011 3:37 PM
Thanks, Amy. And my balls thank you.
Warren Fahy at April 13, 2011 3:38 PM
I got about two minutes into it and that was all I could take...I skipped to the end but it didn't get any better.
The whole thing might have been worth it if it had finished up with the whole crew saying in unison, "Now get in the kitchen and fix us a sandwich, woman!" THAT would have been awesome.
Sloan at April 13, 2011 3:45 PM
Oy. After having a recent gastrointestinal disturbance, I had to bail before the 30 second mark.
Not In My Name.
snork at April 13, 2011 4:14 PM
The guys in that video only did it to score with women.
jcrue at April 13, 2011 4:17 PM
But the most important question you leave unasked, Amy, is: will it help them get laid? ;-)
Harry at April 13, 2011 4:30 PM
I think the the whole point of the whole video is getting laid. Kind of a passive/passive approach to picking up chicks. I don't think it will work, but probably nothing else has either.
Kazinski at April 13, 2011 4:36 PM
Someone find the proof that this was an april fool's joke on snopes or some shit. This can't be real, I don't care how long ago these eunuchs were gelded, no adult can say these things with a straight face without there being a third purpose being served.
Right?
Right?
...bourbon. Neat.
Drew at April 13, 2011 4:36 PM
I don't think they did it at all to score with chicks, girls, women, or womyn - I think they did it for each other and for their own utter self-satisfaction - or as the Gemans say, selbstbefriedigung.
DirtCrashr at April 13, 2011 4:45 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/04/12/i_am_a_man-puss.html#comment-2041605">comment from jcrueThe guys in that video only did it to score with women.
No woman you'd ever want to have sex with would have sex with you for saying that stuff. Doubtful if even women you wouldn't want to do would. Some pretend to be for that sort of thinking, but I believe those that say they want this sort of thing (you'll find them on feministing, pandagon, etc.) generally have so much pent-up animosity toward men that they don't have sex with them. A woman who wants a man like this wants an obedient pet bunny, not a man.
Amy Alkon at April 13, 2011 4:51 PM
When a man lives with a feminist woman, this is what Stockholm Syndrome looks like.
And WTF is up with that douchebag's hair? He made it go like that on purpose?
Otis B. Driftwood at April 13, 2011 4:57 PM
that video makes me want to sexually use a woman, like a hot woman wants
(use, not abuse)
joe in nc at April 13, 2011 5:29 PM
oh yeah, and I don't apologize for it
but u ladies can thank me for what i give to you
joe in nc at April 13, 2011 5:31 PM
You really need to force yourself to watch the whole thing to appreciate the full depth of derangement to which the anti-masculine movement in the so-called Western world has come.
Victor Erimita at April 13, 2011 6:10 PM
This is the result of reductionist obsession. Men, the masculine, reduced to their worst pathological extremes. But this is only one form of this disease. Anti-capitalism is just a variation on the same thing: capitalism is NOTHING BUT its pathologies. Angry atheism too: Bill Maher, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, reducing all religion to nothing but its pathologies or shortcomings. Anti-discursive thinking. Anti-agency, symbolized by things like near-religious opposition to cars and other symbols of agency---a masculine principal.
This manifesto claims to lead to integration of masculine and feminine, but it glorifies, romanticizes and reduces femininity to just its highest forms, while reducing masculinity to just its faults. It is therefore just as reductive, just as oppressive, just as tyrannical, disrespectful and boneheadedly narrow minded as the masculine it imagines.
Victor Erimita at April 13, 2011 6:23 PM
Yikes, I did not make it thru yet but.....is this a joke that no one knows is a joke like the friday cover by bob dylan?
iceman at April 13, 2011 6:32 PM
I showed my girlfriend without warning her, and she thought these guys were rapists or wife-abusers trying to make amends. It *would* make more sense.
clazy8 at April 13, 2011 6:53 PM
I can't understand why any straight man would appear in this video. Come to think of it, I can't think of any reason a gay man would do it either.
If these guys think this is going to get them laid, they're seriously mistaken.
John D at April 13, 2011 8:24 PM
True to the soul of the progs, they have begun censoring comments. The only comments making it up on the page have to be "approved". Ah, you gotta love that leftist imperative to the iron fist.
I am left with one big question: How can men who truly believe that males as a gender are the cause of every bad thing that has ever happened to women, from prostitution to rape, to PMS, how could they possibly justify their continued existence? Seriously. How can their obviously superior, micrometer-fine senses of gender-justice allow them to live?
I ache to see their obvious pain and shame end. So I've come up with a way for them to put a stop to their terrible suffering, and at the same time make a statement about the truth of their apologies. As a measure of their sincerity, and a mark of their commitment to the views they express, every one of the males appearing in that painful display of guilt must...immediately kill himself. Today. Now.
It's just too painful for you to live. Give yourself permission to release your beautiful souls in an expression of solidarity with your sisters, and become honorary wo-Men. We who remain behind, the ones with a less finely developed sense of gender-justice, will just have do the best we can struggling with all that guilt.
sardondi at April 13, 2011 8:58 PM
They are all creepy with manipulative glare in their eyes. It's not just that they want to get into your pants, they want to suck all the joy out of your life. Watch you back with people like that.
Also, it feels about 40 years too late. Weren't we through the whole "Woman Is the Negro of the World" thing in the 70s?
eots at April 13, 2011 9:42 PM
George Lopez does a much better job of apologizing on behalf of men:
http://www.lopeztonight.com/episode_recaps_and_highlights/our_bad_ladies.php#content
Jen Wading at April 13, 2011 11:50 PM
"We've also done most of the great deeds, invented the modern world, and kept women and children safe to ensure each next generation."
Seems to me we did a pretty OK job of that ourselves....
Angel at April 14, 2011 8:44 AM
those freaks ain't had pussy since pussy had them. and that puke fest of a video ain't gonna get'em none either. my wife would leave me yesterday if i acted like them. i'd call'em nuts but they ain't got any.
joe in houston at April 14, 2011 11:09 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/04/12/i_am_a_man-puss.html#comment-2044751">comment from joe in houstonmy wife would leave me yesterday if i acted like them
Right on.
Also, people sometimes ask me if I "make" my boyfriend do this or that. If I could "make" him do anything, he wouldn't be my boyfriend.
Amy Alkon at April 14, 2011 11:11 AM
Amy I think I lost 7 IQ points and whole shitload of testosterone even listening to that load of garbage.
People( I cannot call them men) like that are so dellusional its unreal they live on the same planet as I do.
The Other Mike D at April 14, 2011 12:11 PM
Just to add another voice of agreement with Patrick, aint no way any of these guys are gay. This is a transparent appeal to manipulate through pity. They so desperately hope that MAYBE if they're pathetic enough, some woman will let them touch a boob. Gay dudes would have no desire to trick women this way.
Steve at April 14, 2011 12:27 PM
How is it that English accents can, on one hand, sound so distinguished - but on the other hand sound so irretrievably cowardly and effete?
My bet is that not one of those douchebags is over 5'6" tall. When your working with the tools these morons are (no pun intended), I suppose you have to resort to tricks like these.
Tim at April 14, 2011 1:34 PM
I am going to have my wife watch this tonight, then I am going to just hold her.
JOEZ at April 14, 2011 1:45 PM
Please tell me this video is a parody :/
I truly hope this represents the low point of the modern male, and that the self-parodying nature of this video will tip men off that this trend has reached its conclusion and that it's time to reclaim the masculine and the rational.
"Just to add another voice of agreement with Patrick, aint no way any of these guys are gay."
I think they're just poor folks someone hired through 'Cheap Wanna-be Actors Inc' to read some lines for cash. The way this is produced suggests to me it's been created by some agency with an agenda for anti-male propaganda purposes, not really a bunch of actual men spontaneously producing a video of this nature.
Lobster at April 14, 2011 3:04 PM
Unfortunately, I don't think this is a parody. Out of curiosity, I did some Googling on one of the makers of the video, Arjuna Ardagh. He is 100% in earnest and he is 100% married to a female who is just as kooky as he is: Chameli Ardagh, a self-proclaimed "passionate feminine embodiment practitioner" (her words from her website.)
I watched one of her videos and was stunned that people would take this stuff seriously. After about 5 min of watching her affected speech, I was still unsure as to what she said - I'm not skilled enough in New Age-speak to make heads or tails of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0J3u0zdpWk
Davis at April 14, 2011 3:34 PM
Team America, World Police had something apt to say on the issue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdq577iClbU
Richard at April 14, 2011 4:08 PM
Antidote: http://wetmen.provocateuse.com/show/tom_selleck
thoughts2 at April 14, 2011 5:16 PM
I hope there are more men out there like this ... and more gay men ... maybe that is a redundant statement.
Regardless, the more men like these, the more women that are left for me!
LoboSolo at April 14, 2011 6:22 PM
Because I am a masochist as well as a crazy person, I signed up for their emails. I have recieved two so far, inviting me to watch something or other on the web. Both times, they have told me that the thing would be at 6:00. They may not have specified am or pm but I am absolutely certain they didn't specify a time zone. I sent an email the first time suggesting the do that. When I replied to the second announcement, the answer I got back said "mailbox full." I have the oddest feeling that the mailbox is full of comments like those of the readers here.
Tonestaple at April 14, 2011 9:04 PM
What do all of these homos know about women? The only thing they need to apologize for is being jealous of women. How creepy... these men have no shame... or testicles.
C Mac at April 14, 2011 10:29 PM
Now I understand what my dad meant when he used to say, "We need a war"..
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Verdopple Deine Dates at April 15, 2011 3:28 AM
"Regardless, the more men like these, the more women that are left for me!"
Heh, maybe Darwin will automatically help fix this problem.
Lobster at April 15, 2011 5:48 AM
"While I am aware that women have been subjected to male violence throughout history"
This may be true, men have also provided women throughout our evolutionary history with enormous benefits, often at great risk or cost to themselves, selflessly sacrificing and taking risks to provide food, shelter, defense etc. to their women for millenia. I would go so far as to say, none of us would exist today were it not for men. Men are heroes. Seriously.
Lobster at April 15, 2011 6:00 AM
"This may be true, men have also provided women throughout our evolutionary history with enormous benefits, often at great risk or cost to themselves, selflessly sacrificing and taking risks to provide food, shelter, defense etc. to their women for millenia. I would go so far as to say, none of us would exist today were it not for men. Men are heroes. Seriously."
Not so selflessly, because men wouldn't exist without women, either. And besides, who would they have sex with on those long cold nights?
Women risked everything, their very lives, to follow their men to help build this country, many learning how to use guns, defend themselves, and skin a wolf. Men are heroes, yes. But don't minimize the contribution of women, and don't assume we can't take care of ourselves. It was a woman who stopped the American invasion of Canada.
Angel at April 15, 2011 6:57 AM
Somewhere a cult is missing a leader.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at April 15, 2011 9:50 AM
WOW!!! I'm surprised that men would take the first step to admitting their mistakes, and voice their feebleness. Since, up until now women were always the first to take upon themselves the mistakes of husbands, fathers, brothers, male relatives and men known to them and those that are unknown, as to procure, initiate and sustain peace by apologizing for them. Maybe, we can be equal...
Kate at April 16, 2011 1:34 AM
Yeh. Women have always had to pay for their husband's mistakes. That's why there were so many women in debtor's prison paying for their husband's debts.
That's why there are so many depictions of women begging forgiveness from their men, usually with expensive gifts.
That's why whenever an argument is shown, the women are always at fault.
That's why there's that popular saying of "if Poppa ain't happy..."
Paul at April 16, 2011 2:24 PM
One of the reasons to buy a newspaper (or get out of bed) is the hope that Leroy will finally apologize to Loretta for everything he's done in the comic strip "The Lockhorns". That would be a miracle. But today was another depressing day. At the dinner table, Leroy onced again sniped at Loretta's cooking by asking if what he was eating was called "chicken tartare?". *sigh*
It would do Leroy Lockhorn some good to watch this video.
Jason S. at April 16, 2011 9:17 PM
Wow! Interesting reactions.
So, first off, I don't know how someone can watch only 10, 20, 30 seconds of something and then criticize it. If we are going to render our opinion on something then let's actually watch the whole thing. I was creeped out initially, too, but kept watching and, well, it got less creepy as it progressed and I listened to what they were trying to convey.
Second, I am a woman and I completely love my very manly man, and I don't see these guys as wimps. I consciously choose to use the word wimp instead of pussy because I choose not to have the slang term for my genitalia used as a derogatory term- and I think that is a crucial point here: Men and women who choose to use the word pussy to deride, denigrate, demean...cannot begin to relate to what these men are saying.
I have worked with women who were used as sex slaves and THEY get and appreciate this message. It is cathartic for them to hear these men own responsibility for the acts of others, recognize what they have endured, and offer an apology.
Someone commented that they ought to go DO something to help women. From the video we know nothing of what actions they perform in their daily life. Perhaps they do volunteer in programs that help women. Just because they took time to utter 10-20 seconds of dialogue doesn't mean that is all they are doing, or that they think that this video alone makes up for all the atrocities against women.
To the commenter who brought up feminism and abortion, I quite agree. When we all stop reacting and start really thinking and looking into things, we find that all of these social reactions are very much intended, programmed, and serving a purpose. There is so much information out there on this stuff. Perhaps some of you will enjoy Dr. Henry Makow's www.savethemales.com
I hope we can have a bit more patience to listen to others sentiments and consider them without such knee-jerk reactions. These guys aren't hurting anyone and they are helping some.
Dionne at April 18, 2011 8:22 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/04/12/i_am_a_man-puss.html#comment-2054212">comment from DionneI'm on deadline, so I can't comment on the numerous ridiculous notions in the post above, but this " hear these men own responsibility for the acts of others" is especially ridiculous.
I hate all this new-age language about "owning," etc., first of all. And nobody can "own" any action by another person. This is videotaped bullshit by men who ultimately are desperate to get laid and think that the pussyboy angle will get them there.
(I also sometimes call somebody "a dick." Wooo!)
One of the ridiculous things about feminism is how it focuses on language "ouchies."
What men mainly need "saving" from are the abuses of the court system and programs that discriminate against them simply because they're male.
Amy Alkon at April 18, 2011 8:26 AM
Know what this video needed?
TED NUGENT.
GeorgeFromNY at April 21, 2011 2:58 PM
I'm going to take out my shotgun and shoot something. Then. I'm going to drink a 12 pack of Pabst and then piss on a tree.
Organic Panic at April 24, 2011 9:32 AM
The guy in the hoodie at 7:19 looks like he has a lot of rage in him due to women not liking him. We need to find out if he has access to guns and a university.
These guys all look exactly like recovering sex addicts. This must be something that they added to their 12 step program. This video must be a part of the 12 step program that makes them impotent and turns them away from sex forever. Their graduation video perhaps. This video would have proven useful in A Clockwork Orange.
In all, I think that there were some good points made by these men. But they chose to put their articles forward in this mousey ass declaration, with gay ass music and gay ass visuals. It comes off as a con.
And finally ... I don't feel that I pay more attention to data than feelings and intuition because I am trying to move humanity away from animalism and superstition (4:06).
I pay more attention to data because learning about how the body repairs damaged DNA or reading about how metals are mined and formed into product is much more interesting than ... listening to a woman tell a story about how she called the Sears Customer Service Department ... and the service representative was so rude to her ... but then she spoke to the manager ... and got the service representative in trouble ... and also got a partial refund on the product that she bought ... and now she feels so much better ... and ...
But then, this woman tells this exact same story to everyone she talks to on her cell phone that day right in front of me. So, I get to actually hear it 10 times.
Ummm ... pass me some data about electronics please.
David at April 30, 2011 8:32 PM
This video is the biggest joke ever - I've known Gay Hendricks (the guy on the right in the beginning) for over 30 years. He's never once apologized to anyone for anything, never mind even trying to make amends. Most interestingly, if he's a self-proclaimed expert in relationships, why do neither of his children want anything to do with him? His credibility rating is zero. This video is just blatant pandering to get views so that he can sell you on his voodoo programs.
JohnQP at May 2, 2011 6:48 AM
I watched this video, and at the end, my balls fell off onto the floor. OH NO!! WTF!!!
Luckily I had a rusty needle and some fishing line, so I sewed them back on like Rambo.(no anesthetic)I also added an air valve from an inner tube, and now have balls inflated to 3 times their original size.
Thank you guys for giving me bigger balls!! Now go in a corner and cry!!
Val at June 2, 2011 2:52 PM
While I am aware that women have been subjected to male violence throughout history, I have to think that with all the warring and conquering and seizing and land-grabbing and inheritance-stealing and what have you, male-on-male violence wins just with sheer volume. But apparently that's okay?
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It's not ok, but that's a bit of a strawman. Members of the opressive class, so to speak, fighting one another is not the same as institutionalised violence towards women because they are women.
The video is hilarious though. :D
Alex at August 17, 2011 9:17 AM
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