Althouse: "WAS THE DISEASE MEN?????"

July 25, 2019

"WAS THE DISEASE MEN?????"

WAS THE DISEASE MEN????? https://t.co/rEmrCoP2JH
— Busy Philipps (@BusyPhilipps) July 25, 2019

91 comments:

Char Char Binks, Esq. said...: She's an actor, not a writer.; 7/25/19, 12:30 PM
rehajm said...: Given his current popularity with women Affleck must have drawn from his own reality.; 7/25/19, 12:30 PM
rehajm said...: They kicked around the idea of a world without men because women nagged them to death then realized they were talking about Miami.; 7/25/19, 12:32 PM
Darrell said...: No.

Limitation-blindness syndrome.; 7/25/19, 12:32 PM
reader said...: Era of that’s not funny; 7/25/19, 12:33 PM
Rick said...: Imagine going through life with such a single minded hatred you bring it into every conversation.

Boring.; 7/25/19, 12:35 PM
Lucid-Ideas said...: Now the movie Children of Men makes more sense to me, especially its film adaption from the earlier treatment.; 7/25/19, 12:36 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Come on, we laugh at Titania McGrath.

Who's to say Busy Philipps is not a comic talent?; 7/25/19, 12:39 PM
Automatic_Wing said...: That would be an M. Night Shamalyan twist. Really makes ya think! ��; 7/25/19, 12:42 PM
tim maguire said...: Lucid-Ideas said...Now the movie Children of Men makes more sense to me, especially its film adaption from the earlier treatment.

I had issues with the plot of Children of Men (why did he continue to follow the plan of the crazy terrorists even after they were exposed as crazy terrorists?), but one thing it got right was how fast society would break down. They had gone only 20 years without any new babies so there were still plenty of young people and yet everything was falling apart.; 7/25/19, 12:44 PM
Automatic_Wing said...: A world without men sounds great, until someone needs a pickle jar opened.; 7/25/19, 12:44 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Bill Clinton is gonna see it.; 7/25/19, 12:46 PM
Xmas said...: The Affleck movie sounds a bit like "The White Plague" by Frank Herbert (the "Dune" author).

That book would actually be a great movie if it was made now. Well, the first 2/3rds of the book. The end of the book is just a bit 'meh'.; 7/25/19, 12:47 PM
Nonapod said...: That movies seems totally ripped off from "Y: The Last Man", except the sexes are reversed. I remember there was talk about making "Y" into a movie, but whatever.; 7/25/19, 12:47 PM
tim maguire said...: Ann Althouse said...Who's to say Busy Philipps is not a comic talent?

It so didn't occur to me that this was anything other than a joke that I didn't understand the up-thread posts until I got to this one.; 7/25/19, 12:52 PM
readering said...: Not much to work with here.; 7/25/19, 12:53 PM
Richard Dolan said...: It's a woman's world but it would be nothing without a man or a boy.; 7/25/19, 12:55 PM
Meade said...: "Who's to say Busy Philipps is not a comic talent?"

Easy test: Is there a younger man at the center of the show, who would be a source of inspiration and self-knowledge?; 7/25/19, 12:55 PM
John Borell said...: Ahhh, the old 'banana in a tailpipe' joke.; 7/25/19, 1:00 PM
Mr. Groovington said...: I like the premise a lot. A new idea.

But I'm a Sci-Fi nut. Iain Banks is missed. When Musk named one of his drone retrieval ships the "Of Course I Still Love You" I nearly blew a load in my jeans.; 7/25/19, 1:01 PM
Gahrie said...: Who's to say Busy Philipps is not a comic talent?

I don't see much comedy, or attempt at comedy on her Twitter feed, just lots of Leftwing politics.; 7/25/19, 1:11 PM
Robert Cook said...: Good question!; 7/25/19, 1:12 PM
FullMoon said...: Speaking of that's not funny:

WASHINGTON—Greenpeace released a statement today lauding the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy for its “courageous and necessary” decision to seize two British-operated oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.

https://www.duffelblog.com/2019/07/greenpeace-supports-irans-seizure-of-oil-tankers/; 7/25/19, 1:13 PM
Caligula said...: The classic novel in this space is "The White Plague," by Frank Herbert.

The novel postulates an engineered plague that kills only women. Although it doesn't quite kill all of them.

The novel is dated, but, it remains an interesting read.; 7/25/19, 1:20 PM
Paddy O said...: Now we know what happened to all the Ent-wives.; 7/25/19, 1:24 PM
Michael K said...: I remember reading years ago a book about a radiation incident that sterilized all the men in the world except one guy who was in a lead mine at the time of the event. It was pretty funny. The title was 'Mister Adam."; 7/25/19, 1:26 PM
Yancey Ward said...: That tweet by Philipps is hilarious. Well done!; 7/25/19, 1:28 PM
Gahrie said...: The classic novel in this space is "The White Plague," by Frank Herbert.

John Ringo takes it one step farther in his Troy Rising series. Aliens attack the Earth and wipe out most of humanity. They use several plagues. The first kills the slow and the slovenly. One of the following ones kills almost everyone who isn't blond or blonde. The last one causes women to go into sexual heat, and increases their fertility.; 7/25/19, 1:29 PM
HoodlumDoodlum said...: Not even worth the effort; when one of the leads of White Chicks plays woker-than-thou it's best just to roll your eyes and move on.; 7/25/19, 1:30 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Yes, Michael K, I read that one, too. Same author wrote the better known "Alas, Babylon".; 7/25/19, 1:30 PM
Nonapod said...: @Michael K: Yeah, I think that must have been the inspiration for that goofy "Hell Comes to Frogtown" movie with Roddy Piper.; 7/25/19, 1:31 PM
Rick.T. said...: Automatic_Wing said...
A world without men sounds great, until someone needs a pickle jar opened.

Yeah, that's what I used to think until my wife bought one of those KitchenAid jar openers with the extendable arm.; 7/25/19, 1:35 PM
stlcdr said...: Why was it terrible?; 7/25/19, 1:35 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Also, in regard to Mister Adam, there was another novelf from sometime in the 60s or 70s, whose title eludes me at the moment, where a form of birth control has caused a cessation in the birth of males altogether, and as the males die off, the remaining males are kept as breeding stock until there is a single one left, and then he also dies. The women eventually learn to procreate without a male.; 7/25/19, 1:36 PM
Robert Cook said...: "Speaking of that's not funny:

"WASHINGTON—Greenpeace released a statement today lauding the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy for its “courageous and necessary” decision to seize two British-operated oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.

"https://www.duffelblog.com/2019/07/greenpeace-supports-irans-seizure-of-oil-tankers/"

Looks like a satire site to me.

"The environmentalist group thanked its fellow ecoterrorists for taking direct action to disrupt the oil trade that is responsible for 'destroying the ocean’s ecosystems, causing global warming, and providing a distribution channel for Taylor Swift.'”; 7/25/19, 1:38 PM
Robert Cook said...: Pat Frank lived in a little house on the beachfront two blocks east and and one block north from our house in Florida. He died a year after we arrived.; 7/25/19, 1:44 PM
Dave Begley said...: My pitch for Frankenstein in Love is below.

Logline: Following the death of his creator and alone in the world, the civilized Frankenstein’s creature is determined to find a mate and love despite being pursued for murder by obsessive London private investigators.

It is The Fugitive meets Beauty and the Beast.

Marketing tagline: Frankenstein is not the monster. Her husband is. A love story.; 7/25/19, 1:46 PM
Dave Begley said...: My movie sounds way better than Affleck's.; 7/25/19, 1:47 PM
doctrev said...: Somebody's going to make a version of The Stepford Wives played as a zany robosexual romantic comedy, and that shit will be MCU-level money.; 7/25/19, 1:48 PM
n.n said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 7/25/19, 1:48 PM
Dave Begley said...: Franz Frankenstein: It was self defense!

John Booker: Bollocks!; 7/25/19, 1:48 PM
n.n said...: No, men and women are antigens, or anthropogenic vectors, jointly, and, with social progress, separately. The disease is evolution (e.g. unplanned parenthood), a burden on Mother Gaia, Her flora, fauna, and lower constructs.; 7/25/19, 1:49 PM
Achilles said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 7/25/19, 1:55 PM
rhhardin said...: Men don't mind. They are just amused. It's just like women, they think.; 7/25/19, 1:58 PM
FullMoon said...: Robert Cook said...

Pat Frank lived in a little house on the beachfront two blocks east and and one block north from our house in Florida. He died a year after we arrived.

7/25/19, 1:44 PM

Coincidence?
As Inga explains, I cannot prove your family was complicit but you cannot prove they were not.; 7/25/19, 2:01 PM
FullMoon said...: Blogger Robert Cook said...

"Speaking of that's not funny:

"WASHINGTON—Greenpeace released a statement today lauding the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy for its “courageous and necessary” decision to seize two British-operated oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.

"https://www.duffelblog.com/2019/07/greenpeace-supports-irans-seizure-of-oil-tankers/"

Looks like a satire site to me.

Oh, sure, but can you prove it is not true?; 7/25/19, 2:04 PM
traditionalguy said...: Wow! Another attempt to visualize a planet with no humans on it. The Globalists certainly are focused on that goal for all but a few.; 7/25/19, 2:09 PM
traditionalguy said...: Final Solutions are as Final Solutionists want them.; 7/25/19, 2:11 PM
rehajm said...: SDaly said...
rehajm's line is much funnier than Busy's.

Waka Waka! I'm here all week...; 7/25/19, 2:19 PM
Lucid-Ideas said...: @Tim McGuire

A joke, but yes, not very linear. My biggest complaint was the name of the baby. "Froley". Everyone acted like they knew what that was. What is a "Froley"? Who is a "Froley"? Is it a Jamaican thing?; 7/25/19, 2:22 PM
Anonymous said...: "Blogger Ann Althouse said...
Come on, we laugh at Titania McGrath.

Who's to say Busy Philipps is not a comic talent?"

Have you ever seen her work? My wife used to watch some TV show she was on. "Talent" is not a term I'd associate with her.; 7/25/19, 2:48 PM
Narr said...: Who can forget Zardoz, Boorman's dystopia with Connery, Rampling and Ludwig van's Seventh?

Narr
Not me; 7/25/19, 2:50 PM
Laslo Spatula said...: I would agree that men like Jessica Yaniv are a disease, but thankfully women have to claim him now.

I am Laslo.; 7/25/19, 3:03 PM
Known Unknown said...: Women Aren't Funny Part Deux. ; ); 7/25/19, 3:10 PM
mccullough said...: The antidote to the disease is for women to identify as men; 7/25/19, 3:11 PM
Known Unknown said...: Duffelblog is satire.; 7/25/19, 3:12 PM
Known Unknown said...: "A world without men sounds great, until someone needs a pickle jar opened."

There will be no pickle jars in this utopia. Pickle will be free-range and won't cost a dime!; 7/25/19, 3:13 PM
bagoh20 said...: M.D.S.; 7/25/19, 3:18 PM
FullMoon said...: She seems to have a lot of common sense..

@BusyPhilipps
Jul 19
a chicken nugget got more rights than my pussy

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@GregAbbott_TX
· Jul 18
Today I signed the ⁦@ChickfilA⁩ law in Texas.

And, had a great lunch.

No business should be discriminated against simply because its owners donate to a church, the Salvation Army, or other religious organization.

Texas protects religious liberty.; 7/25/19, 3:23 PM
FullMoon said...: Duffelblog is satire.

It's not satire if you believe it.; 7/25/19, 3:24 PM
DanTheMan said...: >>There will be no pickle jars in this utopia. Pickle will be free-range and won't cost a dime!

In the socialist utopia, pickles will be free, and everyone will get the same amount of pickles.
Zero.; 7/25/19, 3:26 PM
Lucid-Ideas said...: Gene Rodenberry was a savant. There are so many technological things that debuted in Star Trek that ended up becoming reality, and several cultural things as well.

I anticipate more to come. I've really got my fingers crossed for green Orion dancing women. How will Earth girls ever compete...; 7/25/19, 3:27 PM
DanTheMan said...: >>Gene Roddenberry was a savant.

He was also a real prick.

Did you know there are lyrics to the original Star Trek TV show theme? Roddenberry wrote some so he could take half the royalties from Alexander Courage.

Like I said. A real prick.; 7/25/19, 3:36 PM
Known Unknown said...: "@BusyPhilipps
Jul 19
a chicken nugget got more rights than my pussy"

This would be relevant if Busy lived in Texas. She lives in Los Angeles.; 7/25/19, 3:41 PM
FullMoon said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 7/25/19, 3:47 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: There are lots of SF stories about birth dearths for whatever reason. One of the nastiest is "The Screwfly Solution" by Raccoona Sheldon (aka James Tiptree Jr.), although the proximate end there will certainly come more with (the lack of) a bang than a whimper.

See also Philip Jose Farmer's "Seventy Years of Decpop" which is more optimistic (and, I think, invents the e-book).; 7/25/19, 4:01 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Oh, and how could I forget that charming bit of 70s feminist hate: Walk to the End of the World by Suzy McKee Charnas.

Honestly, how did we survive the 70s?; 7/25/19, 4:05 PM
Robert Cook said...: "Gene Rodenberry was a savant. There are so many technological things that debuted in Star Trek that ended up becoming reality, and several cultural things as well."

What makes you think those were all Roddenberry's doing, rather than that of the writers who wrote for the show?

(Whoever invented it, the monitors that are common now showing real-time electronic readouts of body function--pulse, respiration, etc.--were an invention of the show.); 7/25/19, 4:07 PM
Robert Cook said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 7/25/19, 4:07 PM
stevew said...: "A Boy and His Dog" comes to mind.

Busy Phillips, that name indicates to me that it is a joke twitter account, though I first read it as Busty Phillips and had a whole different image in my mind.; 7/25/19, 4:20 PM
stevew said...: Well, Wiki tells me she is an actress and even publishes a photo. IMDB lists her too.

Doesn't mean she's not joking though...; 7/25/19, 4:22 PM
jerpod said...: rehajm said...
SDaly said...
rehajm's line is much funnier than Busy's.

Waka Waka! I'm here all week..
************************************

I liked the pickle jar joke better, but I know nothing about Miami.; 7/25/19, 4:30 PM
jerpod said...: "A Boy and His Dog" comes to mind.

Busy Phillips, that name indicates to me that it is a joke twitter account, though I first read it as Busty Phillips and had a whole different image in my mind
**************************
I saw the movie “A boy and his Dog” with the then-unknown Don Johnson at a drive-in theater sometime in the early 70s. It was just creepy and the weirdest movie I’d ever seen till I saw Eraserhead in college.

Maybe she’s called Busy cause that’s how she likes to get?; 7/25/19, 4:43 PM
elkh1 said...: All the women who accused Affleck of unwanted groping died. The disease is Affleck.; 7/25/19, 4:50 PM
Josephbleau said...: (Whoever invented it, the monitors that are common now showing real-time electronic readouts of body function--pulse, respiration, etc.--were an invention of the show.)

USAF and Navy flight surgeons had plenty of heart rate monitors and thermocouples up the wazoo before the date of OST. They used 32 track tape recorder telemetry. Wireless computer linked hand held instrumentation was a novelty though, the tricorder. Kirk did not have google maps to take him thru the tunnels of the silicon life form.; 7/25/19, 5:07 PM
Josephbleau said...: And the red shirt security folks always died, data analytics should have convinced those folks to be big titted yeomen or engineers.; 7/25/19, 5:10 PM
Josephbleau said...: Computer, who has the highest odds ratio of death conditioned on away team hours? ... You.; 7/25/19, 5:15 PM
HoodlumDoodlum said...: I should mention: Busy has a podcast with Steve Agee called "We're No Doctors." I listened to a couple--wasn't great, ok funny but she's not very original. She did several episodes of Spontanenation (Paul F Thomkins' improv podcast) but I don't remember her being either good or bad.; 7/25/19, 5:46 PM
Mark said...: Do the women with penises die too?; 7/25/19, 5:54 PM
gilbar said...: Dave Begley said...
My pitch for Frankenstein in Love is below.
Logline: Following the death of his creator and alone in the world, the civilized Frankenstein’s creature is determined to find a mate and love despite being pursued for murder by obsessive London private investigators.
It is The Fugitive meets Beauty and the Beast.
Marketing tagline: Frankenstein is not the monster. Her husband is. A love story.

didn't they already Do this? Wasn't it called: TRAINSPOTTING ???; 7/25/19, 6:02 PM
gilbar said...: It sure Sounds a LOT like Trainspotting; 7/25/19, 6:03 PM
Josephbleau said...: Sounds like a Norwegian movie,

1. You are crazy- but also funny.

2. You are placed in a nice apartment with a guy who wants pussy.

3. You decide that you like pussy.

4. Hilarity ensues.; 7/25/19, 6:34 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: There was a episode of Sliders that was the reverse of this back in the mid 1990's. They slid into an alternate reality where the Iraqi's had set off a biological weapon in the US that killed only men. Somehow, it spread wold wide and killed of almost all men on the planet. Australia was the only place that escaped.

So, now, men were a protected natural resource and the male sliders ended up in a heavily guarded Federal facility waiting. The government was running a lottery among women of child bearing age, the prize being a night with one of the few remaining men.

Don't remember how it ended, but it's too bad someone doesn't re-run that just so we could watch certain heads explode.; 7/25/19, 7:09 PM
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Narr said...: Boy and His Dog, yes--the great Ellison. I was disappointed with the adaptation (I usually am).

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Get thee behind me, Illuminati!; 7/25/19, 10:30 PM
NEO-FIDO said...: Who's to say Busy Philipps is not a comic talent?

Men?; 7/25/19, 11:16 PM
NEO-FIDO said...: On the other side was 'No Men Beyond This Point', where women spontaneously had babies and none of them were men and how that changed society. Now the youngest man on the planet is 37.

Haven't seen it yet and I would probably find it horrible, but hey, it might be interesting.

What would such a society be like? Probably not as pleasant as women envision.; 7/25/19, 11:32 PM
NotWhoIUsedtoBe said...: "The White Plague," Frank Herbert.

He wrote more than just "Dune."; 7/26/19, 3:03 AM
NotWhoIUsedtoBe said...: It's not a new idea at all.; 7/26/19, 3:05 AM
Leland said...: I can see a bit of humor. I get the insult. However, the premise of the movie is so dumb; the insult is rather mild. I'm still trying to figure out how the Affleck's made it through the #MeToo movement. This is another "nobody to root for" story.; 7/26/19, 6:15 AM
grog said...: @Yancey Ward
Regarding the novel you were trying to remember, perhaps you are thinking of "Alph" by Charles Eric Maine (Copyright 1972).; 7/26/19, 8:36 AM