Steel Magnolias Can Eat Shit.

When us men want to sink our teeth into only the very manliest (and therefore best) of cinema, we turn to the greats: Die Hard, Tremors, Caddyshack. Then, after we’ve whet our appetites with those warm-ups, we turn to one of the man-est movies of all of time: Dr. Strangelove.

This movie is everything that a great movie should be, because it is itself the very apogee of all things man.

Firstly, it’s good because it was written by a man. That can’t be said for all movies — only good ones. Men are better than women at writing movies because men have a firm grasp of reason and chronology whereas women have a firm grasp of fuck-all. That’s a British way to say “fucking nothing”. As a man I know how people talk all around the world, while women can barely pronounce “nuclear”.

If you want to hear a story as told by a woman, try listening to her tell you about her day. Surprise, surprise! You can’t because it’s completely impossible. It’s like listening to a Madlib backwards. You wouldn’t think a woman’s actions could make less sense, but somehow when she retells them to you, they actually fucking do.

Events in women’s stories happen in orders that are wildly implausible. And even worse, you know that nothing funny is going to be coming up because she wouldn’t have even noticed it in the first place.

Women never notice anything funny. If you want to get away with something a woman doesn’t want you doing, just do it in a giant foam cowboy hat. To any woman in the vicinity, you’ll go from “about to be busted” to “totally fucking invisible” in like two seconds — because those hats are hilarious and her mind will block you out.

Dr. Strangelove takes a good hard look at things through this lens of man-reason, putting women in the sole role of answering a phone while the man of the house is otherwise occupied (keep in mind that this movie was invented years before the answering machine), and letting men do what men do best and way better than women: run everything and tell everyone on Earth what the fuck to do and how they’re doing it the fuck wrong.

All women have to offer in response is the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

Dumbo’s magic feather didn’t make him fly. Just like a bunch of women getting together and pretending they don’t secretly hate the fuck out of each other isn’t going to make it magically happen.

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92 Responses to “Steel Magnolias Can Eat Shit.”

  1. Dustin Says:

    To be honest, I wasn’t even going to read this, and possibly stop visiting the website altogether when I saw “Steel Magnolias” in bold type. Much to my testosterone-laiden joy, I read the following “Can Eat Shit”. That was a close call, but my God-given man-reason allowed me to read the entire title as opposed to a woman who would have read a mere 40% of the title and assumed it was a Woo-Hoo Circle Jerk of all things grand about Steel Magnolias. I was surprised to read about the notion of listening to a woman tell a pointless story- seriously dude, what the fuck? Why even listen to a woman in the first place (or should I say second place, where a woman would no doubt be when in competition against man; unless, of course, it was the Bitching Olympics)??

  2. Nicole Says:

    I find it unbelieveably pathetic that the ‘better’ gender has nothing better to do than bitch about women. If you hate us so much why arn’t you all gay? The reason you dont enjoy films written by women is because surprise surprise they contain some emotion, sensitivity and shock horror an actual plot line. Something which you men deem unessicary and seem to replace with lots of blowing people up and jokes that are racist, sexist, homophobic or offensive to anyone even slightly diffent to you. I think the reason men on this website hate women is because we hate men like you. Self centered, arrogant pricks who would need a map and directions (if you can manage the humiliation of having to ask) to find out how to please a woman.

  3. Dick Masterson Says:

    Don’t confuse films written for women with films written by women.

    -Dick

  4. Nicole Says:

    Surprise surprise you can get both, and sometimes films written by women ARE for women too

    wow doesnt that make your small brain turn

  5. Dick Masterson Says:

    Films written by women ARE for me to poop on.

    -Dick

  6. Nicole Says:

    Why how many films have you written?

    You really shouldnt critisize people for doing something your not capable of.

  7. Dick Masterson Says:

    I’m not criticising people. I’m just saying that there have never been any women who could write anything other than a check that was worth a damn.

    -Dick

  8. Nicole Says:

    Excuse me but I’ve won awards at my school for my poems, Im considered the best, better than the 600 boys at my school.

    I’m also predicted A’s in English and Media.

    Explain that?

  9. jeff Says:

    Poem awards? Maybe this one would win a poem award.

    Your poems will never be as good as ones written by a man
    No matter how much time you prepare and plan
    You cant pay the rent with awards and a ribbon
    You probably won them because your teachers are all women

  10. Nicole Says:

    What makes you feel you have to genralise women like that?

    Are you so insecure about your own intellegence you have to say half the people on the planet are less inteligent than you just because there women?

    Guess what, there are women more intelegent than you out there. And judging by the way you’ve confused assonance (ribbon and women) with rhyming, I’d say I’m one of them.

    P.S. a piece of advice to you: dont become a poet

  11. Dick Masterson Says:

    Men don’t do things because we “feel” them Nicole. We act on logic and reason.

    You’re right about Jeff though. He shouldn’t become a poet. He should become the best poet ever. Also, you know what they say about “assonance”. It makes an ass out of a bunch of people. I don’t remember how exactly the riddle works, but it’s clever.

    -Dick

  12. Nicole Says:

    Maybe if you actually knew what assonace means, you would have a more intelegent answer.

    And poetry is about feeling and emotion. A logical poem would be pretty pointless.

  13. The Duster Says:

    Your lucky poems dont require proper grammar and punctuation,.

  14. Gigi Says:

    punctuation,.

  15. The Duster Says:

    Oh my God, I can’t believe you didn’t get that.

  16. Badkitty Says:

    lol I love how they try to make up for shit like that! lol I’ve almost totally given up on leaving comments. Just watching and reading is absolutely hilarious! My group of girls agree!

  17. Nicole Says:

    Oh my god I cant believe you dont no what assonace means, anyone with the ability to flick through a dictionary knows that. And no poems do not require punctuation, otherwise there would be no suc thing as enjamberment.

  18. The Duster Says:

    you, ma’am, are a poseur

  19. Nicole Says:

    How am I a “poseur”? Because I no things you don’t? Thats hardly surprising.

  20. jeff Says:

    because you no things? To bad you dont really know

  21. Nicole Says:

    Come on then jeff educate me on what I really don’t know.

    How exactly am I a poseur?

  22. Beatrice Says:

    “Nicole” You are too incredibly stupid to be a poseur. You are embarrassing yourself. I would educate you if it were humanly possible, you’re too far gone…
    P.S your spelling…oh, dear. For example, what is enjambeRment? Does it have something to do with a poem about lumberjacks shouting “Timberrrrrrrrrrrrr” onto the next line?

  23. Caveman Says:

    Good question Beatrice, but I do have a little more sympathy for Nicole because of what we have been doing. Nicole I suggest you go back to Nature’s Filibuster and read the rest of it and you will realise you have just been caught up in a big set-up and none was really interested on what you were saying, you see really we were all Radleians…

  24. Cavegirl Says:

    Hello Caveboy! My name is Cavegirl. You sound interesting. Do you come from the same family?

  25. Caveman Says:

    No but maybe we should make one. I’ve been looking for Cavegirl my whole life…

  26. Caveman Says:

    Nicole is write about punctuation in poetry, just look at some of e.e. cummings’s later work.

  27. Caveboy Says:

    Do i get a say, or would that be too controversial, Dad….. Seriously though, don’t let that Nicole woman into the family, even by women’s standards she whines a lot, and the disturbing thing is that she has got hold of the idea, a tragedy which occurs when women venture out of the kitchen, that any of us actually care what she has to say, O dear Nicole…..finish the washing up, drive the kids to school, cook me a three course supper, then we might perhaps maybe think about considering what you have to say which is of any worth, which shouldn’t be very time consuming. This would benefit all of us as it would allow me to get back to the paper, and you to get back to the washing up. Happy Now?……… or shall i continue? O no wait, i can’t because, like all men, I’m the bread winner in the family, and am far too busy to listen to you, though we could do lunch, hows 7 o’clock on sunday?

  28. Caveboy Says:

    Posting ’sorry Nicole you are obviously more intelligent than i am’ is not only unfounded, but is also inherently wrong. This site is devoted to the humiliation of the opposite sex, not the underhanded knavery of posting under some else’s name, so whoever is doing it- its an old gag, not even a funny one back then. If you are going to say something, at least have the balls to do it under your own name, or perhaps you are a woman and therefore lack the testicles t to do it?

  29. your mama Says:

    Caveboy why don’t you and Nicole just exchange phone numbers. Please!!!!!!!!! Or is it caveman, caveboy’s father.

  30. Caveman Says:

    I am going to beat you with my club when I get back tis evening Caveboy, and I don’t mean the noramal club I mean the fuck off club with nails pointing out of it that I keep in the closet.

    Someday you’ll have to learn like your father. No wait that can’t be me I don’t have any children because I’m 16. So how you are my son and already the breadwinner for some family is a long way beyond my comprehension.

  31. Caveman Says:

    I think Nicole would be more interested in my phone number than Caveboy’s, Caveboy is an idiot.

  32. your mama Says:

    Well give it up caveman even though we are the LESSER sex you all still want us. Well almost all of you.

  33. Nicole Says:

    Hurm I think I’ll pass on caveboys number. But thanks anyway. LOL

  34. Caveman Says:

    What about Caveman’s? He could be a useful ally now he’s going to argue on your side and all…

  35. Caveman Says:

    I don’t really want to post my number on here ‘your mama’ because then you would keep calling me. You’re the one that wants it really…

  36. Nicole Says:

    Ahhh caveman your sweet, but your probably right you would end up with unwanted stalkers.

  37. Dick Masterson Says:

    Caveman,

    I would like to commend you on your use of chivalry as a first class ticket to About To Get Laid Town — in theory anyway. I would never let either of you actually exchange information here because I don’t want to be a facilitator to a woman’s first steps into wanton promiscuity, but I do want you to know that I support whatever beliefs you claim to have or not have while knocking at the brothel doors. Nice work.

    -Dick in London

  38. Nicole Says:

    Ha ha Dick

    You may need the internet to get laid but I find dating a much better source.

    I understand it must be hard for someone like you to get laid any other way than on the internet, but us good looking people have a chance of getting on face to face.

  39. I Hate Chicks Says:

    Youre all freaking insane. Youre all idiots…You people cant accept that as different as both genders are, were virtually the same. How many movies do you think rock that you dont know a woman made. Actually, an icelandic woman is making a new BEOWULF movie..If you ask me, Beowulf is pretty damn manly. Another thing, for books…Frankenstein totally kicks Dracula’s ass.

    Nicole, youre a poseur because youre a girl pretending to be a REAL woman.
    Also, this site is really faggy, the opinions are so far from being the least truthful its sad but people like Nicole arent helping their cause, theyre perpetuating the stereotypes….

    Oh yeah, my new name is Creb, Cave Mog-Ur since the Cavemen are everywhere…I love cavemen, this time Im not being sarcastic, I really do like cavemen.

  40. I Hate Chicks Says:

    “women getting together and pretending they don’t secretly hate the fuck out of each other isn’t going to make it magically happen.”

    I can’t believe you said that, women don’t pretend to like each other, they rip each other’s throats out and leave trails of vital organs of their female predecessors behind them. In the world of women, dominance is key, the old “Im better than every other woman alive and I am always right” viewpoint. This is the shittiest website I’ve ever seen, but since I feel the need to be oh so superior over every other human being alive, just like everyone else here, I’ll spend my time writing politically incorrect comments spewing with utter hatred and ultimate amusement.

    Viewing the faults of humanity is an awesome feat. Even if youre an idiot.

  41. Jenny Says:

    HELLO! When will people get it through their thick skulls that were the BLOODY SAME RACE!! You think all women are the same? You think were all obsessed with feminism? THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK! In reality we are not what you people seem to think we are, and i think you should actually talk to a real woman before you start making judgements!

  42. Caveman Says:

    See Dick it is because of people like you that the world is such a fucking awful place. You have no respect for humanity let alone women so I don’t think you are in any position to judge me. You don’t know anything about me, so to pretend you understand my philosophy or what makes my mind tick is a foolish, conceited and puerile thing to say. The fact is I don’t want to get laid by some woman whom I have never met, but rather I wish to befriend her, I start out wishing to befriend all people but people like you I cannot abide. Friendship is a far more important thing than getting laid, as you so eloquently put it for “love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name” - OVID. If I have just a few friends who I trust implicitly, that is far more important than knowing one woman who will screw me. Don’t you think? The trouble is you don’t think that, you don’t want to know, trust and love people, all people, you want to insult, offend and hurt people, every person ‘friend’ or stranger, and that is no way to live. No one knows who I truly am, not even I (”only the shallow truly know themselves” - Oscar Wilde), but it seems that everyone truly knows you because you are so shallow and pathetic. Nicole is a far more valuable person to society than you can ever be, I don’t want to know her to lure her into “wanton promiscuity,” I would like to know her because she is the kind of person that one could trust and as I have explained that kind of person is far more valid than your kind of person. I am not talking about men being more valid and important people than women or vice versa, I am talking about good people being far more valid and important than arseholes like yourself.

    ‘I hate chicks’ I couldn’t count the number of times you contradicted yourself even if I had an abacus the size of london, so I wont make a comment, I’ll just leave you and you’re sarcasm to entertain yourself, because even you’re sarcastic comments contradict one another.

    Hello, ‘Jenny,’ a noble sentiment indeed but exclamations like those above will not change the views of some pig-headed arsehole with nothing better to do than spew forth abuse at women without actually talking to them. Yes at the end of the day we are the same race and gender aside each person has particular merits, society should endorse each individual on the basis of her or his own merits, for those particular individuals with their particular virtues and crucial to the survival of our society. Men are not more important than women nor vice versa, one cannot survive without the other and therefore to rank males and females in terms of importance is a totally invalid argument.

  43. Dick Masterson Says:

    Caveman, again I commend your valorous charge into action. You have slain me with wit and derring-do. Claim your prize already, man! Wink.

    -Dick at the airport

  44. Nicole Says:

    Dick, the concept of friendship seems to have gone completely over your head. For that I pity you, you must be very lonely.

  45. Dick Masterson Says:

    Hey look at that, a post from Nicole that isn’t based on her debauched and also very imaginary sexual promiscuities.

    -Dick

  46. Nicole Says:

    The only time I have commented about sex is when it has been a part of the topic.

    If you have nothing relevant to the current argument then I suggest you shut up and go and run another one of your “men’s conferences�

  47. The Duster Says:

    There she goes again, talking about her sex, that isn’t sex, but is virgin sex, but not really. Nicole , I suggest you find a new hobby outside of writing poems and do somethign more useful with your life than getting passed around like a doobie.

  48. Nicole Says:

    Ew Duster, talk about something you know more about.

  49. The Duster Says:

    I am a man, therefore it is obvious that I know absolutely everything. I would elaborate on some of my personal areas of expertise, but Dick has a great site here making an infinite cornucopia of truth and great philosophy that I’m afraid I could not improve the wealth of knowledge that already exists here, thanks to Dick.

  50. Nicole Says:

    To say all men know absolutely everything is simply pompous.

    I suppose your going to say no man has ever got a single test question wrong next. After all you men know everything don’t you?

  51. Dick Masterson Says:

    Oh Nicole. You and your precious tests.

    The Duster’s comment is based on man’s ability to know everything — to learn and better himself. Women do not have this ability. They can only learn about things that come with perfume samples.

    -Dick

  52. Nicole Says:

    Once again you have made unbelievably biased comments with anything remotely resembling facts to back them up. Yes surely that’s the way to prove your superiority…

  53. Charli-Dragon Says:

    Dickhead wrote- “The Duster’s comment is based on man’s ability to know everything — to learn and better himself. Women do not have this ability. They can only learn about things that come with perfume samples.”

    Perhaps you should base you assessment on ALL women and not just gender steriotypes? A suggestion that you would do well to follow.

  54. E Says:

    Dick, the expression is “derring-do”.

  55. Dick Masterson Says:

    Thanks for the correction, E. I’ve changed the mistake because that’s just what men do when we make mistakes. We admit it and then make it right.

    -Dick

  56. Evil Pundit Says:

    It’s good of you to explain that, Dick.

    It’s so rare for men to make mistakes that most people simply don’t know what happens on the few occasions when we do.

  57. Nicole Says:

    Oh really Dick, is that why when I corrected you on the number of female presidents you neither admitted it nor made it right.

    Or do you just have selective reading syndrome?

  58. The Duster Says:

    selective reading syndrome? So original, so unbelievably immature. Get over yourself already and lean to cook and be useful.

  59. Nicole Says:

    Yeah that’s what I thought, instead of Dick doing the intelligent thing, admitting his mistake and correcting it, The Duster has shielded him from hurting his fragile ego by insulting me about something completely irrelevant.

    Bravo men. Really…

  60. Evil Pundit Says:

    I’m offended that a girly movie even uses a manly word like “Steel”.

  61. W-Hortencia (likes the ladies) Says:

    Girly movies? Do all women like girly movies? I don’t think so, my favourite film is ‘A Clockwork Orange’, why make a film resonant of the feminine gender?

  62. Not Thomas. Says:

    my favourite movies are split, showing how this idea of girly and manly movies are wrong - sure i like die hard, beverly hills cops and the rambos and matrix trillogies. Howeer i also like the green mile and (something which people i know have branded a girly movie) “Feild of dreams” which have completely different subtexts and romantic and “soppy” themes.

  63. Nicole Says:

    I notice Dick still hasn’t admitted he was wrong, apparently he isn’t capable of it.

    Well Dick, got anything to say?

  64. W-Hortencia (likes the ladies) Says:

    Hello Tom. I like the green mile too, not as much a girly film as Bridgette Jones or something but it has a degree of emotional sentimentality to it, so you could call it ‘girly’.

    Dick only admitts he’s wrong after half a bottle of Jack and a slapping from his Mrs/Mr/random person who he came onto on the street.

  65. Not Thomas. Says:

    bridgette jones was ok, not great tho.

    oh no i just admitted watching it :(

    have u read my theorm that dick is actually a woman?

  66. W-Hortencia (likes the ladies) Says:

    Yes. Does it matter? Some people still truely believe that men are superior to women so what I have to say still has worth. Bridgette Jones was crap.

  67. The Duster Says:

    Men-
    Note that the womn have totally changed the topic of this thread into a steaming pile of shit about chick flicks. Way to go ladies, you’ve managed to vandalized the MANley brilliance of this website yet again.

  68. Evil Pundit Says:

    That’s just typical. Whenever men create a magnificent thing of true beauty, women will come around and try to vandalise it.

  69. Megz Says:

    # The Duster Says:
    June 27th, 2005 at 9:33 pm

    Men-
    Note that the womn have totally changed the topic of this thread into a steaming pile of shit about chick flicks. Way to go ladies, you’ve managed to vandalized the MANley brilliance of this website yet again.


    All-
    Note that The Duster (ok, seriously, DUSTER? As in something you use to wipe dust off antique vases? Oh, real manly! *rolls eyes*) has managed to show that he’s actually incapable of using correct grammar. Scrolling through and reading all of The Duster’s posts, I found ONE that had proper grammar, punctuation, spelling and the like.
    An example from the above post by him: Way to go ladies, you’ve managed to vandalized the MANley brilliance of this website yet again.
    A verb was required - it should have been ‘vandalize.’
    And really, how hard is it to press “shift” for an upper case letter? 7/16 of an inch is how far you’d have to move you pinky finger! I know you’re using up most of your energy trying to think (c’mon, you can do it, you’ve almost managed to put a whole sentence together), but surely there’s a little bit you can spare for that?
    I don’t mind the occasional left out capital letter…but time after time? Please, we covered all that in year 1 at school!

  70. Nicole the near-retarded poetry writing sixteen year old (get it) Says:

    Guys, we are having a pleasent conversation, would you mind not butting in.

  71. Undergroundpatriot Says:

    I hate that damn movie, whatever retard made it needs to be shot in the head !

  72. Abaddon_fff Says:

    Everyone likes different movies, however I won’t be the first to say that Steel Magnolias sucked ass.

  73. Biff Says:

    Megz, actually a duster (as I know it) is a long cowboy trench coat. Quite manly.

  74. Christian J Says:

    Biff said:

    Megz, actually a duster (as I know it) is a long cowboy trench coat. Quite manly.

    Too complicated for em! Biff.

    If it’s not covered in flowers, is pink, has lace or does not come from a therapist.
    Then it’s just too difficult.

  75. Dirk Diggler Says:

    You know men, I absolutely love the comment about the duster. It’s true that any man would know that a duster is like a trench coat. However, I find it truly typical that a woman would associate it with a household cleaning device. This proves that, no matter how independent a woman may seem (aka Megz), she is still subconsciously dependent upon her true meaning in life…cooking and cleaning. Apart from these things, she is nothing. She can’t even insult us without showing her true colors. So go on all you independent women out there, keep opening your mouths and proving to us men how dependent you truly are.

  76. Dick Masterson Says:

    Well said.

    -Dick

  77. Arielle Says:

    I love dusters - referring to the item of clothing, of course, not the cleaning tool. I think I prefer a duster to a trench coat, actually - a duster still has that hard edge to it, without the associations of teen angst and posers which the trench coat has sadly been accumulating over the last few years.

    I own a copy of Bridget Jones’ Diary. What can I say? I’m a sucker for Colin Firth. (Convinced that I’m a woman now?)

  78. corpsman108 Says:

    I too wholeheartedly concur that Steel Magnolias is a film of epic homophile content. Not just this particular movie but all “chick flicks” with plots focused entirely around touchy-feely emotionalism. I’m sure all us men remember having to go see Titanic for the 3rd time that week with our wives and girlfriends. To your surprise you discovered that most of the men in the theater with you decided they couldn’t hold back their laughter over the display of mascera running madness while the ship was sinking and went to the bathroom to wait it out with all the other guys.
    Pearl Harbor should actually be titled Titanic 2. They took a tragic event in history and twisted it into a fucking romance! Have some couth from Christ’s sake!