Scott Adams says something misogynist; news at 11


Scott Adams thinks rape is a natural instinct of men, and that asking them not to rape is oppressive. Seriously:

If a lion and a zebra show up at the same watering hole, and the lion kills the zebra, whose fault is that? Maybe you say the lion is at fault for doing the killing. Maybe you say the zebra should have chosen a safer watering hole. But in the end, you probably conclude that both animals acted according to their natures, so no one is to blame...

The part that interests me is that society is organized in such a way that the natural instincts of men are shameful and criminal while the natural instincts of women are mostly legal and acceptable. In other words, men are born as round pegs in a society full of square holes. Whose fault is that? Do you blame the baby who didn’t ask to be born male? Or do you blame the society that brought him into the world, all round-pegged and turgid, and said, “Here’s your square hole”?

Won't someone think of the poor, erect penises? How will they exercise their God-given right to have a hole to occupy, if the person attached to the hole is allowed to say "no"?

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	herongale 2011-06-17 09:47 pm UTC (link)
	Lol if we were LIONS maybe he'd have a point. But since we're not, that is a truly stupid and offensive argument, and Scott Adams remains a creepy asshole. News at 11. XD (Reply to this)

	galateus 2011-06-17 09:52 pm UTC (link)
	Wat. natural instincts Yeah, no, what? /reads the comments on the blog post: gr8hands: I love people who feel qualified to lecture professional comics and cartoonists on humor (or satire). I particularly think it amusing that they don't see how stupid it makes them look No, seriously, WAT. (Reply to this)(Thread)

(no subject) - ymfaery, 2011-06-18 03:27 am UTC

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	jira 2011-06-17 09:53 pm UTC (link)
	I refuse to believe he's not trolling. (Reply to this)(Thread)

(no subject) - were_lemur, 2011-06-19 01:18 am UTC

(no subject) - jujubee, 2011-06-19 02:56 am UTC

issendai 2011-06-17 10:07 pm UTC (link)

If rape is a natural instinct of men, then it's a natural instinct of gay men as well as straight men. Hey, Scott--are you cool with this? Willing to admit that if you were assaulted, you probably should have chosen a safer watering hole, and the guy who attacked you isn't to blame because he's just acting on his nature? For that matter, Scott, I notice that you're living in a place where it's highly unlikely that another man will act on his natural instincts to beat you, steal from you, murder you, or do any of those other things that evolution has enabled humans to do to increase our evolutionary success. Why is that? Do you find these natural urges offensive, for some reason? Are you implying that you find these urges "shameful and criminal"? Or have you noticed, on some level, that you do have a dog in this fight, and it's not the Rottweiler you want it to be? (Reply to this)

harrylovesron 2011-06-17 10:11 pm UTC (link)

Or do you blame the society that brought him into the world, all round-pegged and turgid, and said, “Here’s your square hole”? No, you asswaffle, you blame the society that tells men that it is their right to have sex whenever and with whomever they want to, regardless of whether or not the person consents to begin with or later withdraws that consent. You blame the culture that has to codify into law that consent is not possible when someone falls unconscious. You blame rape culture, in other words. But I'm sure he'll try to weasel his way out of it and go J/K J/K I WAS JUST BEING SATIRICAL GOSH YOU PEOPLE JUST HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOR ABOUT ANYTHING. (Reply to this)

	cyndra_falin 2011-06-17 10:25 pm UTC (link)
	Be more disgusting, shit weasel. (Reply to this)

	simplefaith 2011-06-17 10:46 pm UTC (link)
	Something I don't get: if men are, allegedly, slaves to their instincts, why is it that it's always women that are told that they're "illogical" and can't be in charge because of it? That seems like a hell of a lot of dissonance. (Reply to this)(Thread)

(no subject) - spacelogic, 2011-06-17 11:40 pm UTC

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(no subject) - cmdr_zoom, 2011-06-18 06:28 pm UTC

	sepiamagpie 2011-06-17 11:10 pm UTC (link)
	well, there's my flying heebies for the day. (Reply to this)

	the__ivorytower 2011-06-17 11:27 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, and I was having such a good day. I'm going out for dinner with my male friends, who despite being male, have managed not to rape anyone. Perhaps they are not animals whose need to feed is important, but FUCKING HUMANS BEINGS YOU ASSWAFFLE. (Reply to this)

	chikane 2011-06-17 11:45 pm UTC (link)
	I don't think the male friends I have would appreciate being told that their "natural instinct" is to rape, no. (Reply to this)(Thread)

(no subject) - cie_anthy, 2011-06-18 12:26 am UTC

(no subject) - chikane, 2011-06-18 07:09 am UTC

(no subject) - rosehiptea, 2011-06-20 01:12 am UTC

	fools_game 2011-06-18 01:35 am UTC (link)
	I have a natural urge to maintain my bodily integrity by not getting raped. And society should indulge me, you total utter nithling. You disgusting piece of excrement, you failure of a human being, you trumped-up, puffed-up, fucked-up shit-for-brains, cock-juggling thundercunt. ... *cough* Sorry, I'll clean that up. (Reply to this)(Thread)

(no subject) - footsie, 2011-06-18 02:01 am UTC

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(no subject) - seiberwing, 2011-06-18 03:23 am UTC

	twinno 2011-06-18 01:40 am UTC (link)
	I think the important question here is did the lion put a roofie in the watering hole while the zebra was in the bathroom with her friend? Did the lion take the zebra out first, or did they meet at the watering hole? Or were they total strangers when the moment the lion violated the zebra? In other words, I don't think his analogy works very well. (Reply to this)(Thread)

(no subject) - rowanberries, 2011-06-18 02:17 am UTC

	ayala_atreides 2011-06-18 02:16 am UTC (link)
	I bet this asshole buys into that evo-psych bullshit. (Reply to this)(Thread)

(no subject) - quantumreality, 2011-06-18 06:55 pm UTC

	ahiru 2011-06-18 02:29 am UTC (link)
	I bet that zebra was totally asking for the lion to eat it, wearing that miniskirt and all. If the zebra didn't want to be eaten, why did it come so close to the lion while wearing those alluring stripes? Zebras are such hussies. As for Scott Adams, I would have no problems if he would like to go get eaten by a lion. (Reply to this)(Thread)

(no subject) - taktuk, 2011-06-22 04:37 am UTC

sandyclaws68 2011-06-18 02:58 am UTC (link)

My natural instinct at this moment is to apply my foot quite forcefully to the "round peg" of Mr. Adams. Does this mean I get a pass on the assault charge? Do you blame the baby who didn’t ask to be born male? Or do you blame the society that brought him into the world, all round-pegged and turgid, and said, “Here’s your square hole”? I blame clueless fucking doucherockets like you, Scott, for not understanding that an animal with a brain as large as a human's can - oh, I don't know - EXERT CONTROL OVER THESE SO-CALLED NATURAL INSTINCTS? In short, death by fire is too good for you. >:( (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	cmdr_zoom 2011-06-18 03:46 am UTC (link)
	what the FUCK?? (Reply to this)

	eleutheria 2011-06-18 03:58 am UTC (link)
	So wouldn't that also mean that asshole managers and corporate CEO's who behave like Pointy-Haired Boss are following their "natural manly instincts" to be aggressive and abusive, and so therefore underling office drones like Dilbert have no reason to be upset by it? (That made sense in my head...) (Reply to this)(Thread)

Since baboons always seem to be Evolutionary Biology's moral exemplars... - full_metal_ox, 2011-06-18 10:32 pm UTC

Erratum: - full_metal_ox, 2011-06-18 10:33 pm UTC

Fuck Scott Adams and Internet Evolutionary Psychology Too tehrin 2011-06-18 04:39 am UTC (link)

The part that interests me is that society is organized in such a way that the natural instincts of men are shameful and criminal while the natural instincts of women are mostly legal and acceptable. Society is organized more for women? That's why we get lower paying jobs, are less likely to get promotions unless they are in traditionally feminine, are victims of violent crime more often, aren't allowed control of our reproductive rights, and are still treated as secondary citizens and denied education in some regions of the world? Where it is even criminal for a woman to learn how to read or criminal to wear what she wants or go outside alone? Golly gee. I never realized it's a global matriarchy and not a global patriarchy. Woe is men with their lack of female privilege! Isn't it delightful sad to have a penis. ;_; If he didn't believe this shit for real, I would say he's doing it to be edgy because no one cares about Dilbert anymore and this is the only way he gets people to talk about it. (Reply to this)

	finchbird 2011-06-18 04:57 am UTC (link)
	NO. (Reply to this)

	sistercoyote 2011-06-18 05:10 am UTC (link)
	P.Z. Meyers is occasionally troubling to read, but I was deeply pleased by his response: Scott Adams is being a self-indulgent, self-pitying dinkwad, again (Reply to this)(Thread)

(no subject) - sisterelwood, 2011-06-18 06:11 am UTC

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(no subject) - sistercoyote, 2011-06-18 07:15 am UTC

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(no subject) - sistercoyote, 2011-06-22 12:28 am UTC

	ruslan 2011-06-18 07:23 am UTC (link)
	You know, this guy just consistently has some seriously weird opinions. (Reply to this)

	duraniedrama 2011-06-18 08:57 am UTC (link)
	Dear Scott Adams and rape apologists everywhere: YOUR COCK IS NOT A GOD IN NEED OF SACRIFICE. Thank you. (Reply to this)(Thread)

(no subject) - yattara, 2011-06-18 01:52 pm UTC

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	female_fanboy 2011-06-18 05:35 pm UTC (link)
	Shit, Scott, if you need to indulge your urges that badly, use your goddamn hand. You get to satisfy your supposedly evolutionarily-ingrained need to constantly stick your dick in things, and women never have to talk to you again. Everyone wins! (Reply to this)(Thread)

(no subject) - cmdr_zoom, 2011-06-18 06:31 pm UTC

(no subject) - were_lemur, 2011-06-19 01:14 am UTC

	lyrangalia 2011-06-18 06:56 pm UTC (link)
	Will somebody please take away Scott Adams' access to a keyboard? or the Internet? (Reply to this)

ealusaid 2011-06-18 09:55 pm UTC (link)

And women don't have an innate drive for, I don't know, self-defense? Since an individual woman's ability to fight off an individual man is not always a failsafe, they accomplish this by recruiting other members of society to protect them. The patriarchy may suck, but it's supposed to work as a mutually beneficial relationship where women do stuff for men in return for not getting beat up and raped. I mean, not that it actually works that way. Often it's "not getting beat up and raped by anyone but her husband". But that's the idea. (Reply to this)(Thread)

(no subject) - emily_goddess, 2011-06-19 07:30 pm UTC

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