Me thinks teh menz doth protest too much..

Everyone in the shop has been working a lot of overtime for the past couple of weeks, because it seems that someone — probably Dan — didn’t make their parts right and when they sent the product to [Major Oil  Drilling Company], apparently it blew up one of the oil wells.  Millions of dollars literally down the hole.  The shop has been butthurt ever since and scrambling to try to make it better, working everyone for long hours often doing jobs they aren’t supposed to do, in order to get the replacement parts out.  Nigel’s refused to work both days last weekend, but being a machinist, Dan had to.  That made fourteen days with no day off, and so…

Dan:  I said fuck it and took Monday off.

Nigel:  I wasn’t here Monday, either.

Dan:  Good for you man.  Because this is bullshit.

Nigel:  I was sick.

Dan:  Oh.  Well, anyhow I took the day off, and  I was really looking forward to sitting around, drinkin some beers, watching some porn… and so Sunday my old lady tells me:  *in mocking falsetto* ‘Guess what, honey?  I decided to take Monday off so we could spend some time together!’  That fucking bitch!  I didn’t take the day off for her, I took it off for me. Instead of jerkin’ and drinkin’ I had to spend all goddamned day runnin’ around with her.  Fucking bitch.

Nigel:  Why didn’t you just tell her that’s how you felt about it?

Dan:  Oh, I told that bitch.

Nigel:  And yet, you went anyway.

Dan:  … Well… yeah.  Like I said, she’s a bitch.

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This is what makes me start to think that Dan is a puppy at home, and all of this is sheer bloviation.  If he is talking like that to his wife, then really, I fear that she is so far drowned in the mire of patriarchy that she may die before anyone could save her.  But, I’m starting to think it’s more likely that she has no idea that he talks like this, referring to her as his “cumbucket” to the other fellas at work and such, and would be shocked to find out that she’s married to a misogynist who is so bad that he warrants his own website.

This is what makes Dans so sinister.  Is your husband a Dan?  Your boyfriend?  Your brother?  It’s enough to make a girl think of shooting them all and letting Kali sort them out.