Here’s a funny – if rather controversial – article from Cracked.com. It’s David Wong’s list of “5 Ways Modern Men are Trained to Hate Women”. I can’t say I agree with it in its entirety. After all, fifty percent of the human race can’t be such sensitive, pathetic, knob-driven little creatures, can they? And if individual chaps are such weeping chodes, nurture rather than nature must surely be at fault, as the don’t blame me, my penis made me do it excuse should always be greeted with scepticism (and sometimes a long jail sentence) by anyone who encounters it? And aren’t fast cars, skyscrapers and other phallic paraphernalia just for the benefit of other insecure gentlemen, not ladies*?

Still, there are some very entertaining bits. To mock the male with Cracked.com, click here.

*I stopped at Thurrock services on Saturday night and its car park was filled with boys in souped-up cars, revving a lot, making their tyres smoke and admiring each other’s paint jobs. There were no women. It was dogging without the pretence of sex: just a lot of blokes showing off their possessions and prowess to other blokes.

I don’t normally post links to individual videos here, but this week’s Clips4Sale piece of NSFW gender-norm subversion is the exception. I’m cross-dressing again. I’m a Mafia Don, wearing a strap-on and getting a handsome henchman to suck it. Such is the life of a Dominatrix. Go here to see the video.

Today, I learned a new word. If you haven’t heard of “negging”, it’s grim.

Wiki Answers defines it thus: “Negging is a term used by pick up artists such as in the book ‘The Game’ and ‘The Mystery Method’. It means to insult a girl playfully to increase her interest in you.” The instructional douchebaggery website So Suave tells its desperate readership that a “neg hit” is “a remark, sometimes humorous, used to point out a woman’s flaws.” The top rated entry at Urban Dictionary calls negs “Low-grade insults meant to undermine the self-confidence of a woman so she might be more vulnerable to your advances.”

Oddly enough, a similar thing happens to Pro-Dommes, albeit in a financial context. We’ve all had it many times. A demanding stranger will insist that we give him free sessions, claiming that we can’t be real lifestyle Dommes and must surely be money-obsessed, gold-digging materialists if we refuse to do our actual job for free, for him.

When we were newbies, some of us were hit by a sudden moment of self-doubt when faced with the first influx of negging subs. The doubts quickly evaporated: “Do I deserve the title of Dominatrix?” we would all think for a fraction of a nanosecond. “Can I call myself a lifestyle and Pro-Domme if I don’t give this random clinger off the internet my undivided attention during a recession and then inevitably won’t be able to afford to buy myself food or heat my home? Wait… yes. Yes I can. That’s that settled then.”

Here’s a gem from my Adultwork inbox this week:

From: op90

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Click here to see today’s XKCD’s comic strip where a negging man gets his comeuppance: