I’ve been thinking about setting up an online store on The Spearhead for some time now. In fact, writing about Eddie Bauer’s demise made me more determined to do so. From what I understand (and really, it is self-evident if you think about it), the best way for a website to support itself is to offer products that its readers want. Third party ads, although capable of providing some supplemental income, are rarely enough, and as I’m sure my readers have noticed they still haven’t perfected the art of tailoring ads to readers through keywords.
Of course, I’ve already been offering books for sale on The Spearhead, so I’ll probably start with a bookstore. We’ll feature the books that are already on the sidebar plus quite a few more. Most of them will be offered through the Amazon affiliate program, because Amazon sells pretty much every book in print these days. However, I’d like to offer more self-published books that are relevant to our interests, such as Roosh Vörek’s e-books, but I’ll need to go out and find them (any readers who know of such books, please let me know so that I can contact the authors). Eventually, as I’ve mentioned previously, I plan to publish some here through The Spearhead and sell them directly from the site.
But books are not the only things worth selling/advertising online. As I see it, there’s a big gap in marketing when it comes to men. When we turn on the TV, even products that should appeal to men are often sold with the same offensive message, that is, the “stupid husband clever wife” type ads that are ubiquitous on TV. Rather than do nothing but complain about this, I figure I might as well make my own effort, however small, to change this and advertise/sell goods that men like in a positive way.
Because I know that my own tastes are not shared by everyone, I’d appreciate it if readers would let me know what they like so I can get a good idea of what to offer. Personally, I am something of an electronics enthusiast, and I like well-made clothes and shoes, like Danner boots, Alden shoes, Jonathan Richard hats, etc. If I could have my way, I’d also be perfectly happy to sell things like this, this, and this, but I’m afraid I might run into some trouble with the boys at the ATF, so our selection will necessarily be limited by certain legal realities.
So with that in mind, suggestions from readers as to what they would like to see for sale and might consider buying would be most appreciated. Once I get a good idea of what appeals to our regular readers and visitors alike, I’ll begin building a store worthy of our readership here at The Spearhead.
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Don’t you think it’s a little early to be milking this cash-calf?
It’s either start now or give it up, to be honest. Being a minority custodial father, I’m not exactly in a position of great freedom.
Anyway, as per John Chow’s advice, I should have been doing so from the beginning. Chow knows what he’s talking about.
Some ideas…
Relevant Books…
The Game
Bang
The Myth of Male Power
Sex and Culture(good luck finding this…it’s out of print)
Relevant Movies…
Fight Club
doesn’t have to be all relevant but it helps…
I support your capitalistic endevours. The MRM ain’t gettin no government grants anytime soon! Know what I mean! Right! Right! Okay, I’m done. It probably sounds funnier in my head.
Make me a T-shirt (Make sure they are high quality, thick cotton, with tight necks. It matters.).
OT- Not that I’m not ususally OT, but where is Arbitrary, or Codebuster for that matter?
I’m not sure of the details, but it seems that Amy Alkon has some sort of arrangement (Amy’s Mall) with Amazon to link her readers to recommended items available through Amazon.com. I’m guessing there is some financial consideration therein.
Re Jabherwochie’s comments, think about a Spearhead store on Cafepress. http://www.cafepress.com/+real_men_are_feminists_ringer_t,17139941
ebook : Womens Infidelity by Michelle Langley. Not sure how you’d get an affiliate relationship to this book, but it should be required reading for any male adult or adolescent. Hell maybe even for females.
You’re on the right track with Alden shoes, and the idea of selling high-end, quality men’s clothing. I’d look into styleforum and trying to get in with their aesthetic – it seems there’d be a lot of overlap between those two communities.
I’d look at Context Clothing’s online store for an idea of the kind of brands you could carry, and the aesthetic you’d want to pull off.
Jabherwochie – “Make me a T-shirt”
…With the Spearhead logo. Might make a great conversation starter. I’m always looking for way’s to work Men’s issues into conversations. A “muscle shirt” or tank top that I could wear at the gym would be ideal for that purpose. Or, a tie for work. I don’t do bumper stickers on my cars, but I’d love to slap one on my laptop – people are bound to ask…
There is a great way for you to cut out the middle man and keep more of that profit, without having to store your own inventory or expend time and money in getting it shipped. It’s called drop shipping. You just have to identify distributors that will ship single, individual items to people (rather than requiring you to buy in bulk). The distributor only needs to receive an e-mail from you along with payment, and they’ll ship the items directly to the recipient. They also handle returns. People in e-commerce have even automated a lot of this, but if that sounds like too much work, all you have to do is set up a Paypal account, and when you get an order, fire off an e-mail to the distributor.
Be careful that you don’t just choose any distributor who self-identifies as a “drop shipper.” Some drop shippers are actually just middle-men who bought their products from another distributor 2nd hand, or even 3rd hand. If you want to ensure that you’re dealing with the very first distributor in the chain, you’ll be asked to supply that distributor with a reseller’s permit. You can usually obtain a reseller’s permit for free from the appropriate agency in your state (I seem to remember that you’ve written that you live in Washington State; if so, you can apply for a reseller’s permit online from the Washington State Department of Revenue). Once you have a reseller’s permit, you’re allowed to do business with distributors and wholesalers of any kind — not just drop shippers — and you don’t have to pay taxes on the products until the end of the year. This dramatically lowers your costs and improves your profit margins.
Once you have that reseller’s permit, the challenge is to find a list of drop-shippers that are not middle men themselves. For that, the best resource that I can recommend — a reputable resource that I have used personally — is the Drop Ship Source Directory by a company called Worldwide Brands. They have personally interviewed and selected 8000 distributors who are NOT middle men, and those distributors will all drop ship individual items without the need for a bulk order, and they’ll ship them direct to the customer. All told, these 8000 distributors have a combined total of 8.2 million products for you to choose from, according to the Web site of Worldwide Brands:
http://www.worldwidebrands.com/
So what all this boils down to is that you, the Web site owner, need only advertise the products of your choice on your Web site. So long as you have a means of receiving payment (Paypal), all you need to do is sit back and wait for the orders to come in. When Paypal or your payment processor notifies you that you’ve been paid for a particular item, simply forward the message to the distributor who ships that item. The distributor will charge your credit card on file, and ship the product directly to the buyer. Total work on your part: 2 minutes per order, the time it takes to look up the distributor and e-mail them the details of the transaction.
If you use Paypal, they even give you a Mastercard/Debitcard. You can then provide that credit card number to the merchant. That way, the money that the buyer deposits into your Paypal account (the greater amount) is ready and waiting for the distributor to collect (the lesser amount). You keep the difference. Just remember to keep enough of your profits to pay your sales taxes at the end of the year, and you’re good to go.
Contact me if you need help setting this up.
If you wouldn’t be adverse to displaying some children’s books in your amazon links, there are some quality books that are very positive about daddies and the important role they play in the lives of their children. I have a whole basketful, including a nice assortment of titles geared towards military families, and had to look high and low to come up with the entire bunch. Books about fathers are just not as easy to find as books about mothers. Providing such a link might only make you a bit of money through Amazon but could help “indoctrinate” little ones in the way they should go, knowing that fathers are important too. Two birds, one stone.
I can offer only one guy’s POV. Although I am interested in both Game and MRA, I am only spending money on Game. In books, I have recently finished The Game and started on Built for Sex by Scott Hays. The next book I buy will probably be Violet Blue’s Kindle ebook How to Kiss to read on my iPod Touch. I also recently bought a subscription to Esquire magazine from Amazon for their articles on men’s fashion. (I’m 51.)
In fashion I recently bought a Ralph Lauren trenchcoat and I’m planning on buying a rose gold Pulsar watch next week. Both of these were offered at deep discounts on websites, Macys.com and Ashford.com respectively. However, I usually buy store-brand knockoffs at Target or cheap Chinese-made shoes at Payless Shoesource.
I’ve never spent money there, but in the spirit of the three links you posted I’d like to point out that StrategyPage.com has an affiliate store at US Cavalry.
Well I keep seeing all this save the animal crap on tv and how thousands of animals are being cruelly treated in the us and how for only 19 dollars a month you can help one of these poor poor animals. Well how bout the poor poor men. Set up a house where divorced guys can go who have lives that have fallen apart can go and be bussed to work from this house. Cubicle it out with bunkbeds to maximize space and let them have the opportunity to get on their feet without having to break the bank. Do a 19 dollar a month campaign and bust some coin. Then give yourselves a stipend off of that you know like leaders of the spca or whatever give themselves nice fat checks. Actually make a diference in the world and all that good stuff.
@John Dias
Looks fascinating, John. I will get in touch.
Oh yea then get yourselves on that government charity campaign thing so that people can choose you. Buy some add space. I think could become big. Safehouses for those guys that lose it all. You know locked out of house with the clothes on their backs and such.
@Welmer:
Here’s a little overview of drop ship directories, like Worldwide Brands:
http://www.ryansreview.com/dropshipping.php
Monetizing fame is quite OK, as long as you do not overdo it. It is a fine line, you know.. In any case, paris hilton and kim kardashian are famous and making money because of their sex tapes, so the bar for social acceptability is pretty low, nowadays.
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Welmer – what sorts (genres) of books are you looking to sell? I’ve been thinking of writing a book for a long time now, but didn’t have enough time to look heavily into marketing and selling it (and I’m not very interested in writing a book that will never see the light of day). I’d be interested in talking to you about working something out, if you’re interested. (Depending on the cost to publish, I may also be able to help self-fund the book as well.)
jjdurden AT gmail DOT com if this piques your interest.
I want spear-head brand condoms with spermicidal lube please.
This site is hardly “famous” yet but the content is only going to get better if it is monetized and more time can rationally devoted to working on it.
People want everything for free these days, and the word “copyright” is becoming a bad joke, so any time any writer–especially one who writes unpopular things–can find a way to make a few bucks off of the hours that writing requires, he should do it–providing that what he’s hawking doesn’t conflict with his “message.”
Monetizing a site, at least in the early stages, is a way to try to break even, not greedy profit seeking or “selling-out.” I’ve had a book on shelves in Borders/Barnes & Noble that has basically sold through its first printing in 2 years, and I can tell you I haven’t even begun to break even as a writer kin terms of either time or financial investment.
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You were doing fine until this last paragraph. There’s nothing wrong with making a profit as long as you provide VALUE in accordance to what you’re selling. It’s the American Way, right? Nothing “sell out” about it. Besides, The Spearhead provides tremendous value and the site’s got to bust a nut. Remember, Econ 101 isn’t “Supply and Demand”; it’s “There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
How much of a contribution would it take to get you to lose the Google ads? I don’t think anything Trailer Trashes up a site as fast or as thoroughly.
Hehe. The Google ads are more of a test than anything else. I’m trying to figure out the CTR and CPM from Adsense. It’s essentially benchmarking, and I will lose them as soon as I get enough data.
When I saw the Scientology ad I had to laugh, but it’s all part of figuring out how this stuff works.
Welmer,
Just an opportunity to thank you ( and the contributors ), for your site.
I think I’m pretty typical when I say that I would like buy items thru here, knowing that I am getting value AND helping keep a top site going……
If you sell products with the Spearhead Logo you can count me in for support.
That goes for me too. I´d even recommend you in the Scandinavian dept. -Like slwerner wrote, especially T-shirts are great “icebreakers” when it comes to discussions of Men´s Issues.
Besides that, the logo is really cool!!
First off, thanks for the great content and thought provoking articles.
As far as The Tip (my name for your store) goes, I happily buy from a good collection of items that are meant to educate and improve my life. As a younger guy (21) who has been raised to be a beta by a beta I’m finding it hard to get going as fast as possible and would love a single resource to show what it is to be alpha.
(Aside: I realize the hypocrisy in my statement but I’m a firm believer in fake it till you make it.)
To that end, I suggest you put up anything that you think embodies the spirit of the site. I think it will help to further the sites goals and provide at least a nice starting point for people in shoes similar to mine.
Spears and spearheads.
“The War Against Boys” by Christina Hoff Sommers.
“No More Mr. Nice Guy” by Dr. Robert A. Glover
“The Manipulated Man” by Esther Vilar
An interesting proposition.
I’d suggest cheap items with a decent mark up, that still retail fairly cheaply, so buyers know they are subsidising the site.
1/ Tee shirts are always good, except for the need to stock many sizes, the only way to do tee shirts and not get a bad name is find a local to you bricks and mortar tee shirt shop that uses quality shirts, you do sales, he does production and shipping.
2/ Mouse mats were always good, one size fits all, but the cheap ones tend to be crap, and now most people use optical mice, but there is nothing wrong with drink mats, same rule as tee shirts.
3/ Calendars work too, see tee shirts and drink mats for production.
Having said all that, these are generic promo things, they aren’t gender related.
If I was in your shoes, in addition to the (cheap) stuff above, I’d be doing the following, more expensive, but proper quality stuff.
a/ Custom engraved Buck knives. (110fg has always been my favourite)
b/ Open razors and shaving gear, Steve over at http://www.theinvisibleedge.co.uk would be glad of the business.
c/ Tools, there is a UK company that has been making quality tools for 150 years… http://www.kingdicktools.co.uk/
you get the idea.
Baseball caps and bats.
Mugs.
Coasters.
Stickers.
Badges.
Lunchboxes.
Beltbuckles.
Tool -and tackleboxes.
Leather Jackets.
Collarpins.
Moneyclips.
Necklaces.
Rings.
Ashtrays.
Beer glasses.
Mouses.
Posters.
Cigarette/Cigar boxes.
“As far as The Tip (my name for your store)”
Seconded.
“The Tip” has a lot of interesting connontations. I tip my hat to it, as it was a great tip, and tips the marketing outcome in your favor, as its easy to say, “I got it at “The Tip”, and it subtly suggests your products are tip top. Of course, the stupidity of it repetitive use might already have reached its tipping point, which is tip-ical of me, as I’ve tipped my hand again as being little more than an attention whore who uses lame jokes to hide my own insecurities. I’m going to go cry in a corner now. Let me know when the T-shirts are ready.
If you display Amazon books then the only money you will make is from someone who has never bought a book from Amazon before. This may have changed, but I know it’s the case from a few years back.
As I see it, there’s a big gap in marketing when it comes to men.I’ve noticed this too. I think there is massive money making potential for a website selling (non politically correct) man stuff. Also I see this as a big growth market.
Kave, that is not true and has never been true (unless it was some sort of experiment that they implemented and quickly turned off “a few years back”). (Source: I used to work at Amazon, have been buying stuff from them since 1998, and Welmer recently made a few bucks when I bought some stuff from them after clicking on the Warren Farrell ad in the right column.)
HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS December 29, 2009 at 19:52
“I want spear-head brand condoms with spermicidal lube please.”
Winner for comment of the day for me.
Welmer,
if I may make a suggestion for your consideration. Amazon and others do a great job of selling everything known to man. 99% of which is rubbish to be sold to wimmin. The trouble with these places is that the crap obscures the really good stuff. I specialise in the business of promoting products to people. It is what I do most of. I do other things as well.
Occasionally I come across a ‘hit’ product. Something so good, it’s really something other men should have. For example, when iRiver came out with their hard drive music players I got the largest electronics store in Ireland to try buying some simply so I could get my player! Inside a few months iRiver hard driver players were outselling creative in that store.
I think starting out with forum sections on products that are owned and used by registered forum users that are ‘hit’ products and then the links to buy them off amazon or where ever that earns you a commission would be a great way of readers contributing their recommendations that helps pay for the site. Selling generic stuff like logoed t-shirts etc seems too common. Bernard has a great idea promoting the Tshirts from his buddies that run a politically incorrect tshirt store.
Example of a hit product? When I was going to go to my court hearing I wanted to be able to record what happened. I looked at upgrading the OS on my blackberry, getting a full blown video cam etc. I searched around and found the flip mino.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flip-Video-Mino-Digital-Camcorder/dp/B0016BXRB6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1262196303&sr=8-1
There was one on sale at amazon so I bought it to try it out. This is one cool little device. As we are living in more and more of a police state carrying one of these in your pocket for those run ins with police or carrying one into a court to record the court hearing is a really good idea. I intend to have quite a few run ins with the police pretty soon and I intend to record them all. This device is ‘idiot proof’, no, not ‘wimmin proof’, and it connects directly to the usb port and can send vids direct to youtube. You can get a little stand with it or an action mount etc so it is really good for making mid quality vids for youtube or other things. It has some dis-advantages to be sure.
But I think an area where men buy things that they REALLY like and are prepared to put their name against the recommendation and then you make a bit of commission for the click through might be a good way of earning a little on the side. I would suggest that ‘value’ be generated by guys submitting reviews only of products that they think are real ‘hits’ so that we do not have to wade through the garbage. That way the number of products remains very low and is rather easier to go through. And pretty soon some guys will develop a reputation for recommending only the best of the best in their area of interest.
My opinion would be that if you try and run a store yourself or try to have too many products that they will just get lost in the maze of other stuff.
Perhaps an area of the forum where men could ask about other products as well would also work. On my own sites I recommend books that I have read for free since there is no real money in recommending books. To make real money I write software.
So long as The Management recognizes the disparity between posts of “DeLuxe Adirondack Quilted Goose Down with Super-DeLuxe Wolverine Fur Collar Trim failure” versus “Obama ist ein Fascist” high post counts, it’ll be OK here.
I humbly suggest Obama joker face have an addenda of a swastika plastered across his face for a ‘high impact!’ t-shirt or, comfy scarf.
Not the standard black swastika, mind you – but a dripping blood-red one.
Did you notice that google is presenting an add for ‘marry a millionaire’ today?
Non-PC T-shirts would be awesome, along with some books. Mystery Method comes to mind.
Yeah, Welmer, make me a T-shirt that goes: “Women are stoopid-Throw tampons at them!”
-Idea courtesy of Jabherwochie..
The funny thing is that I’ll bet people would actually buy that. Can’t think of a better name for a condom than “Spearhead Brand Condom.”
“Kimski December 30, 2009 at 10:41
Yeah, Welmer, make me a T-shirt that goes: “Women are stoopid-Throw tampons at them!â€
-Idea courtesy of Jabherwochie.”
Actually, it was “Women are yucky! Throw tampons at them!”, but I appreciate the props.
I heard a joke once, something along the lines, “Never trust something that bleeds for a week straight and doesn’t die.”
As far as intelligence goes, how about, “Some men are smarter than any women.” I like them when they take an extra second or two to sink in.
I found out I was somewhat funny early in life when I would point out the truth to people ( I have a feeling my speech impediment helped a little). I wasn’t trying to be funny at first. I was just making observations. Essentially, that is what comedians do. They often simply reveal truths that hide behind our intellectual blind spots, preconcieved ideas, conventional wisdom, polite social facades, or political correctness. The fact that the truth is often funny, is paradoxically scary. It shows how much of our social fabric is made up of, and maintained by, white lies and half-truths. (While society as a whole is managed and manipulated through big lies and outright scams. Preach Globie. Lets hear the song and dance K-Fedrz. (That was a low blow Fedrz. You know I love and respect you. I just couldn’t pass up the pun.)
””””””There was one on sale at amazon so I bought it to try it out. This is one cool little device. As we are living in more and more of a police state carrying one of these in your pocket for those run ins with police or carrying one into a court to record the court hearing is a really good idea.”””””””””’
When I was arrested they never read me my rights unless that is only supposed to happen on tv.
Guys – Happy 2008!
No I didn’t do any time travel this morning. I am referring to the latest US Marriage Rate statistic, this time with 2008 data, released by the National Marriage Project last month.
In one year alone, 2007–>2008, the US marriage rate went down from 39.2 to 37.4. Almost two basis points in only one year! Put this in perspective of the rate back in 1970 of 76.5. The decline was edging along at an average speed of 1 basis-point/year these last four decades. Now it is gathering steam with 2 basis-points/year.
The Marriage Strike has now passed the halfway mark. Half the women who would have otherwise hitched husbands back in 1970 WILL NOT, statistically speaking, find any husbands 2008 onwards. The Marriage Strike is not only alive and well, it is roaring on like the great Niagara Falls !!!!!!
The full year by year chart of the ongoing four decade crash, now with 2008 data, can be seen on page 64 of this year’s report:
http://www.virginia.edu/marriageproject/pdfs/Union_11_25_09.pdf
Note: Starting this year, they have moved the National Marriage Project over to the better funded and more prestigous University of Virgina. (Rutgers U. we hardly knew ye!)
Thanks for the info Puma. You do good work.
Hm. The trend is obvious either way they would do it, but I think they should start the age at 18, not 15, just for a more realistic number. Although some still marry before 18, it would be miniscule. Seems odd, that even in 1970, only about 1 out of 13 women were married (with it now 1 out of 27). Is my math right? Number crunchers, do your thing.
Thanks Jabherwochie!
I suspect they use 15&older as the benchmark because the US-Census/CDC used to keep the stats that way back in the 19th&20th centuries. Particularly in the 19th century the US was a much more agrarian and rural society back then, and many people used to be already married off in their late teens. They keep using this metric, so that an apples-to-apples comparison can be made with historic data without losing continuity.
Regarding the actual rate, the 1/13 and now 1/27 numbers do make sense. Keep in mind that’s not the total married rate, but the rate of “weddings per unmarried women per year”. I.e. 1/27 for 2008 means that only 1 out of 27 unmarried chicks got hitched that year. The other 26 chicks were sh*** out of luck.
Back in 1970, 1 out 13 unmarried women were able to get hitched that year (in the middle of the Vietnam War no less), and only 12 had to wait for their chance next year.
The data tell us that the odds of the Anual Marriage Lotto are getting longer and longer. 1/13 was decent odds. 1/27 is starting to stink … that is if you are a girl waiting for her prince charming.
Is it wrong to delight in the fact that so many of these overgrown children / female hack journalists who bitch about the dearth of ‘good men’ and denigrate us ALL as ‘manchildren’, will NOT get their fairytale wedding, much less a single marriage proposal from a man?
Well, I delight anyway.
HA FUCKING HA FUCKING HA FUCKING HA FUCKING HAAAA!!!!
Just as women expectations become EVEN MORE irrealistic, men are taking the Don’t get Married advice. Ball-ripping divorces all around do that.
Even Celibacy is preferable to be with a Has-Been, sloppy Alpha seconds, 30 year old woman. Specially with her Cunterrific personality that hates the poor idiot that she had to settle instead of the long list of Alpha males that used her as a sperm receptacle when she was hot.
Gloating is always a good Christmas present.
Hey Jabher, don’t you do some design?
I could use some help tweaking the Spearhead logo for t-shirts through cafepress.
There would be a free t-shirt in it for you.
I would love to get recommendations from other men about men related products and then buy them through this site. I’d also buy a branded product or two.
Sure thing. My good computer died about half a year ago, so I lost all my bootleg photoshop type programs, but I needed an excuse to get some again anyways (In fact, I’m writing this on my new Christmas laptop. Yaaay! We even hooked up a wireless router. What’s next, a psychic mouse? Hey, someone write that down, thats an idea, maybe it tracks your eye movement, blink twice to click) I’m not a computer geek, but boy are many of my friends. In fact, one reason I’m so computer illiterate is that I’m always surrounded by geeks who take care of that stuff for me. I didn’t even set up my own ebay and paypal accounts. How lazy is that. You know, now that I’m already off topic, how do people stay on topic so easily? Imagine how boring school was for me. Where were we? Logo. Tweaking. Tell me what your vision is and I’ll put it on paper, or digitize it, whatever an artist does now and days. Sometimes I wish I just had some charcoal, yellow and red ochre, and a cave wall. (Thats an idea! A cave wall version of the logo. Men did invent art back then.) I assume Cafe Press just needs an image file, so once I know what tweaking you want, this should be a snap. For simple graphic design stuff like logos, I’ll normally produce several variations to choose from, so don’t be afraid to have multiple ideas. I’ll give my buisness/art partner, Shaggy, a heads up. We go by Mere Aesthetics. We’ve made zero profit so far. However, the last T-shirt I did for my local gaming store, (original gaming, the geeky stuff; Card floppers, dice chuckers, video games, and a little gambling. LARPing was too much for me, but god bless people who can tap into whatever childlike whimsy that enables a grown man to act like and 17th level dork while wearing a cape of idiocy. My people go too far, too often. It’s painful for me sometimes. I’m half dork, but the other half is cool, so I walk a fine line. You can imagine the fun I had when my trouble making cool friends stopped by during D&D night wanting to party. Those two groups couldn’t stand each other. They didn’t even try.) …..was a big hit. Focus Jabber, focus. Let me know how we should contact each other if or when you want to pull the trigger.
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/ConsumerActionGuide/dunleavey-why-it-costs-more-to-be-a-woman.aspx
Check out this load of bile. Its about women spending more for stuff like shampoo and skin cream then men. Supply and demand ladies. Supply and demand. Its not men’s fault that price has become synamimous with value. Just because a 30$ pair of jeans is often just as good to us as a 130$ pair, your wasteful spending isn’t our fault. Not to mention much of these women’s products are bought with their husband’s, I mean the family’s, money. No one mentions all the tools men buy either to keep the car, home, and entire infrastructure of society running smoothly. Although they might not always get used a lot, they are not for show. When the toilet breaks or a door knob comes loose, be glad Mr. Husband has
that wall of power and steel in the garage.
Jabberwochie, you are fast becoming my favorite commenter.
And I think a cave painting version of the Spearhead logo is a neat idea. T-shirts and coffee mugs would work for me.
Happy New Year!
Dude…to help our cause, I would buy a gift rapped turd, if it meant educating, harboring, and protecting boys from growing up in a world that hates us ! There is little in this life I enjoy as much as company of my male buddies. Theres little I wouldn’t do to remotely protect ,defend, and enhance their survival and well being. If there is one thing missing in the mens movement right now is a focal point to economically send vote-cash to.I know allot of these mens rights sites ask for donations , but I not going to give hard earned money away to the effemeral ether, and have used at someone elses secret discretion…to hell with that !which brings me to another point.Any profits should be made public at all times so that those of us wishing to up the anny could do so buy purchasing even more useless shit and sending the message to retailers that “Male issues matter and are a profitable boutique market hughly underserved.without this appoach, your going to be 100% competing across the board with the entire world without a customer base ADHiERED TO YOU…Who gives a rats ass how rich you become as a result…good…is our cause getting richer as a results ? Then I say , godspeed to both endeavors, minus the ususal business secretcy-cloak of profit margins.try to think like a club / charity, not like a typical yawnful business model. I would recommend an online scholarship fund attached with the balances posted online, and they be visable at all times as to encourage as much team spirte thru purchases to drive up the wealth and cause that that would bring. I have paid my bills off 1 year in advance and would and could easily drop $5000.00 in one purchase with you for my next 6 months worth supply of brooms- mops and ironingboard covers (so to speak ) if only such an alternative existed, instead of the misandric outlets that offer me little choice but support them , being , against me and my buds..I have no problem with making you rich…thru me..thats called charitable-capitalism…and its the most effective way to get tax write offs and to effectivly get things done ,while making youself rich in the process…there’s more power in this model, than all the others, plus you have a larger control over the dynamics of what gender can be employeed for what reasons…but if you chose to model this endeavor like all the others, I will treat you like the others…and you see where that gets them…dependent on 3rd party ads.Zzzzzzzzzz
Gee…sorry…jaber…didnlt notice you there…and thanks for your ” magic comments , sometime back. I agree with your critique of me ,by the way…just didn’t get back to you til now. Off to rant the wizard…the wonderful wizard of id ? P.S. like ” Laikastes ” your one of my favorite reads , as well…
To sweetD…wow…dude…I feel for you and your message…True Alfa traits aren’t just in sports, though sports a good close 2nd place, runners-up…true UNIQUE- ALFA MALE QUALITY : IS FOUND IN BEING ….INVENTIVE….CREATIVE….NEST BUILDERS….PROBLEM SOLVERs…THE FIRST OF THE FIRST…ALFA BENEFIT ALL OF HUMANITY IN ONE SWOOP FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS AT ONE MOMENT OF TIME….AND YOU CAN BE A NICE GUY WHILE BEING THIS TYPE OF ALFA MALE…take for example…SIR Wilmer..our fearless leader of this website…he dared to be FIRST to mention merchadising $ with mens rights issues, and look at all the support he’s getting for free merely by being an ALFA….AS DEFINED AS I HAVE ABOVE….= HE’S INVENTIVE ( this website testifies to as much )…HE’S CREATIVE ( he’s currently in the creative-public-pursuit of $elf $uffientcy with this site and its underserved supporters ) HE’S A NEST BUILDER (currently providing safe habor for us men to congress on and around topics that the the femenist mass media deliberatly ignor to a males detriment ) HE’S A PROBLEM SOLVER ( currently attempting to iron out the funding issues involving his personal long term financial viability as well as this sites viability…for they are the same ) it is in my opinion son you have stumbled onto where your most likly to find the support a young tad as yourself is sorely lacking into todays vagina-centric world..an that’s good ole fashion boy to man support and advice from older men as us, freely giving to young men as you…and your correct in the fake it to you make it bit…but never be affraid to ask for good advice, from a few good men who actually care about your future and your…preserved…well being .All ALFA’S START AS BETA’S until the smart betas move up by asking questions & watching closely an established ALFA AT WORK….THIS SITE, IS SUCH A PLACE…RAGGED / but / RIGHT ! Your well on your way kid..stay tuned & watch..your timing is impecable !
I just watched “Gran Torino” for the first time tonight, with the end happening just as 2010 kicked off. Wow.
Top three MRA movies:
3. Fight Club
2. Gran Torino
1. ???
Top three really bad 80′s movies I can’t help but enjoy:
3. Teen Witch (Look, I like redheads, and I could relate, leave it alone…plus, that rap they do, pure cheese gold, they even had to use it in a 30 Rock episode) (Watch at your own risk. I can’t give you that time back. It will be lost forever. Just remember, it was the 80′s.)
2. The Wizard (Nintendo world championships! The power glove! plus, some of Fred Savages best work. It makes me feel like a kid again. Anyone who didn’t grow up with a Nintendo may not get it.)
3. Red Dawn (Patrick Swayzee and Jennifer Grey pre Dirty Dancing! WOLVERINES! Just watch the movie and yell that a few times the next time you play paint ball. Nuff said.)
“The Marriage Strike is not only alive and well, it is roaring on like the great Niagara Falls !!!!!!”
You should see it here in Germany…I swear the women are getting more desperate by the year. The more I talk to the women I am dating and the better I get to know them the more desperate are the stories they tell me.
I was getting a massage(at a health spa guys) the other day from a woman in her 40s and she told me how terrible it seemed from her point of view.
She was telling me young women simply can not find a man wanting to marry. I’d be interested to see the marriage rates in germany…but some cities have seen birth rates decline as far as 80% and they say they need 500,000 immigrants to come in each year just to be able to keep various industries running.
RE: Globalman..
But hey…they can always get a ” love ” injection from the sperm bank…what funky creatures women have disolved into being…I’m embarassed to say I can from one, truth be said…somehow, I feel as soiled by that fact, as they are soiled. It must be the gender based differences that biologically separate me and my malenesses FROM their psychological differences. This is still true, even with a lifetime of media and K-16 school of overvalued-female indoctrinationing crammed down my throat at every turn. Sorry, but they, ain’t all THAT ! After their.” human-copy-machine-like-quality ” has been utilized there’s little or no value left !…They invent nothing for a males benefit ( unlike males do for ALL OF HUMANITY ) and are. ” self-placing ” at the foot of almost every mans problems…but maybe its a syndrome similar to tring to read a poison lable that’s been placed at the tip of your nose…you can’t see it accurately or vaguely, ..but to see it clearly one must distance himself away from the object, to obtain clarity…if allowed this opportunity…the smart amungst us are either shocked by what they can now clearly see and continue to back away from the item for self-preservation purposes…or become brazingly stupid …by pulling the object back…hence bluring and muting the danger signs. The closer it gets, the more the danger signs blur and the less the risk are likely to be headed. The closer the message comes, the more unintellagible colors become and end up being blissfully ignored until a drunkined fool dies of self suffication and or self poisoning…and at that point …its to late….call em like you see em…your life depends on it… MGTOW
How about a MGTOW friendly hostel/hotel in Thailand or some such? Some men simply get tired of being lonely and there is no reason not to make money out of it if we can.
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