My Lovely Horse posted:

In the 80s in Switzerland there was a group of feminist men who would regularly submerge their balls in hot water as a method of contraception. It had to be kept at a constant 113°; as you can't enter a full bath that hot, they'd use special chairs and immersion heaters. They had to weigh their balls down so they wouldn't float.

My Lovely Horse posted:

In the 80s in Switzerland there was a group of feminist men who would regularly submerge their balls in hot water as a method of contraception. It had to be kept at a constant 113°; as you can't enter a full bath that hot, they'd use special chairs and immersion heaters. They had to weigh their balls down so they wouldn't float.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Why are so many self-proclaimed "feminist men" always really, really weird and performative?

My Lovely Horse posted:

In the 80s in Switzerland there was a group of feminist men who would regularly submerge their balls in hot water as a method of contraception. It had to be kept at a constant 113°; as you can't enter a full bath that hot, they'd use special chairs and immersion heaters. They had to weigh their balls down so they wouldn't float.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://www.20min.ch/schweiz/zuerich/story/Hodenbaden---Eine-Retrospektive-15704741&prev=search posted:

Testicle bathing - A retrospective
On Saturday was World Men's Day - and no one went there. Still high time to squirm the man a wreath for his fight against patriarchy and unwanted pregnancies. Time for a visit to the former activists of the Hodenbader Group Zurich.

The terms "system" and "movement" often fall when one sits opposite the Zurich Altlinken Beat Schegg. "You know, we were doers. Not just political theorists, "says Schegg. And Schegg did. He was a founding member and the driving force of a men's club mystified with time and lore. A men's club, about which gray-haired '80s revoluzzer at Turbinenbrau General Meetings recount to younger attendees:' Weisch, formerly, that's the hodebader group. They are in the chancellery center in the Chreis ghocket, where their Hode bathes and d'Abschaffig are planned by the Patriarchate, "goes the narrative. Endo Anaconda also wants to have had a say, as he boasts in a column ("To pay for it to fight patriarchy and conception, I suffered from being a man").

A serious thing
The testicular bath group seems ridiculous in retrospect. Schegg knows: "I will not be involved in such a comic article." The testicle bath group was a very serious matter. With lectures at the Volksuni and own newspaper. "We thought about what we can do to make gender equality concrete. Political discussion groups and also the pressure of the friends have led us to the feasibility study of bathing, "explains the testicular bather of the first hour, who in the wake of the 80s movement in 1984 with eleven friends from the left-autonomous scene, the group has initiated.

Painful practice
The implementation of anti-sexist theory - "Contraception is not just a woman's thing!" - has sometimes hurt. The testicular baths experimented with immersion heaters in specially designed testicle bath chairs. "Extremely sensitive, to get the temperature right on 45 degrees, the skin on the penis and thighs had to be protected, that would otherwise be burned," says Schegg. The picture of the testicle-twinning, discussing twelfth round is often wrong. "We did that at home. Every man for himself. Twice we bathed in pairs. It was too tedious to drag the chair, and every evening it took an hour and a half to do the testicle bathing, "says Schegg.

Target: infertility
Part of the testicle bath group has jumped from theory to practice even before the step. Heat the water to the right temperature, weigh the testicles so that it does not float on top of it, put on special underpants, then heat the water at night. The same procedure every night for three weeks. That was not for everyone. But it worked. Although the total equality of women and men was not quite achieved, but the temporary infertility.

The laboratory
The testicle baths regularly checked the number of their sperm under a microscope in their specially created "Men's Preventive Laboratory" in a toilet room of the law office. Normal are between 80 and 120 million per milliliter of seminal fluid. After three weeks of testicular bathing, the sperm count drops to zero. And stays there for about six weeks. Schegg is a professional. Still. He does not do it anymore, the testicle bathing, but he still knows exactly how to walk. "Before we started, we had our fertility tested in the unispital. But they have calculated by a factor of 10. We only noticed that later, "says Schegg. The testicle bath group had a Stromer and a laboratory technician. One was responsible for the correct installation of the immersion heater, the other taught all in the group the correct execution of the sperm analyzes.

Jokes on Radio LoRa
For a while, everything went well with the Hodenbadergruppe, the alternative radio LoRa has in the morning show "dead-jacked" on the testicles, as Schegg puts it. Some accused them of "wanting to get hold of contraception," while the others laughed their bellies round. But most of them would have found it "exciting" according to Schegg. On the weekly open house day in the "Men's Preventive Laboratory", those interested were introduced to the method.

The thing with Endo
By the end of the 80s, the testicles had then bathed. The HIV / AIDS discussion was in full swing, the time-consuming testicular bathing lost its legitimacy. "The added value is not very big, if you have to cover a rubber for safety anyway," says Schegg. Since then, there's talk of the testicle bathing group and every now and again one of the boys tells the story, who have bathed in a circle and planned the abolition of patriarchy. Most of it is fictional. Only one thing is certain: Endo Anaconda is a slicer. He was never in the testicle bath group. Schegg would know about it.

Maurice Thiriet, 20minutes.ch

Solice Kirsk posted:

It's because they're weird and performative that they declare themselves "feminist men" at all instead of just not being a poo poo bag.

Crocoswine posted:

Bertrand Hustle posted:

Hodenbaden is my new favorite German word.

fedallah posted:

I'm not about to dignify some washed-out realpolitik idiot with my time. Your neuron misfires are unintelligent and insofar as the whole of your wasted brain continues to produce questions like this, you'll be a third cousin, twice removed to reality.

(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Why are so many self-proclaimed "feminist men" always really, really weird and performative?

pangstrom posted:

I think some of them are basically "nice guy" emotional cripples (manipulating friendships into romantic relationships, failing and getting mad about it, and worse). Their final form is a little different--and more accurate--in that they end up hating themselves instead of women, but it's all still very performative. Gotta pump in those tokens to earn intimacy!

pangstrom posted:

I think some of them are basically "nice guy" emotional cripples (manipulating friendships into romantic relationships, failing and getting mad about it, and worse). Their final form is a little different--and more accurate--in that they end up hating themselves instead of women, but it's all still very performative. Gotta pump in those tokens to earn intimacy!

Father Jack posted:

Also, regressive types loving hate it if they try sounding you out with some 'feminists amirite' poo poo and you say 'I'd consider myself to be a feminist', so worth it just for that imo.

Father Jack posted:

Its not a label I yell about on twitter, but I think men identifying as feminist is probably a good thing for breaking down the dumb but sadly prevalent idea that all feminists are men hating harpies.

EorayMel posted:

Bertrand Hustle posted:

This conversation fragmented weirdly.

PirateDentist posted:

Another fabulous use for your Sous Vide machine.

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

Re: Funny Forums Quotes: Endo Anaconda is a slicer. He was never in the testicle bath group.

tangy yet delightful posted:

I thought to myself this is a funny and good post why would you be banned for it? Clicking thru leads to D&D so welp

Blue Footed Booby posted:

Honestly, that post doesn't read like a joke to me so much as trolling a person trying to have an actual conversation. You can make jokes in D&D, you just have to actually, y'know, discuss. Low content shitposts go in c-spam.

Mayor Dave posted:

trump

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1162458697064439813 posted:

BREAKING: Medical examiner rules Jeffrey Epstein's death a suicide, says he hanged himself in his jail cell

InsertPotPun posted:

Dude, just do the autopsy, you don't need to do a reenactment.

Sir Lemming posted:

21 Muns posted:

Okay, I'm going to be real with y'all, this is a gimmick account and my heart really isn't in it anymore. I'm a fringey conspiracy-inclined Republican who believes in Pizzagate, and several years ago, back at the height of that whole drama, I got mad at the dismissive way Something Awful discussed it, and decided that the best way to counter that would be to pretend to be an extremely unappealing and dense skeptic (because openly stating my position would presumably just get me mocked and banned). In retrospect, this was a piss-poor plan, and even if it had been good, I put very little effort into implementing it and all I've really accomplished is making GBS threads up the forum and wasting everyone's time, including my own. I am sorry for having done this. I have often been wracked with guilt over it, as I despise lying and am simply a hypocrite here.

You have no reason to trust me or listen to me in any way, because I have been a stupid and disingenuous internet troll, but I would encourage everyone here to take a serious deep dive into the Pizzagate evidence. I see a lot of cognitive dissonance here about Epstein and Pizzagate: as it becomes more and more obvious that Epstein's existence implies an enormous child sex trafficking institution among the elite, people are struggling to reconcile this with their earlier knee-jerk view of Pizzagate. Some of the justifications are sad and desperate grasping - for example, trying to maintain that elite child sex abuse remains absurd in a stereotypically "normal" place like a pizzeria (even one at the center of many powerful people in DC), and that elites would only do such things in their gaudiest mansions, islands, private planes and so on. Others, though, are completely predicated on a failure to understand what evidence existed to support Pizzagate in the first place, or of what Pizzagate was claiming (which is reasonably forgivable, seeing as media sources at the time were, to say the very least, extremely loath to report honestly on it). It was "debunked" in the same sense that the interested parties could have "debunked" the allegations about Epstein if they so desired - claims that it was debunked all eventually trace back to the MPDC (the DC police department), who openly admit that they performed no investigation and simply rejected the premise out of hand. Frankly, the shooting at the pizzeria stunk as much as Epstein's death.

Most Pizzagate believers idiotically went on to become Q believers, despite Q's being, best I can tell, genuinely evidence-free. I was scratching my head wondering why so many people were going along with an obvious psyop like Q a long time before it actually became notable enough to get media attention. In retrospect, it's obvious why - it was designed to appeal to their hero worship of Trump and the hopes they had for his presidency. I was riding the partisan Trumper rush myself back in 2016, so I drank the Kool-Aid and tried not to think about it, but it's still very clear: Trump is himself among the elite, there is very little chance that he doesn't rape children, lots of them, probably including his daughter, and it's really obvious, because the dude's a loving creep. I am not smarter than you - the same partisan blinders in the brain that made you go along with the dominant narrative on Pizzagate also made me believe that Trump must have had good reasons for associating with Epstein.

It will not surprise me if I am perma'd for this post, and if I am it will be well-deserved, as I am a very bad poster whose presence on this forum amounts to an ill-conceived attempt to false-flag my political opposition. It's me, I'm the conspiracy, the conspiracy to make Something Awful a worse place. No more.

My Lovely Horse posted:

quite honestly if the piss tape goes up on pornhub and it turns out there's little kids in it also I'm just gonna be like "yeah sure, makes sense"

Outrail posted:

The real shock would be if there wasn't video evidence of the president committing some heinous crime.