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March 22, 2014 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
10:54
The Tale of Mickey, the abusive husband
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Hi everybody.
Hi Sale.
I'm really looking forward to hearing about why MRAs don't understand privilege.
Well, I want to talk a little bit about a little bit of a critique of something that I heard on an MRA say.
Sounds sexy.
Go on.
But first I want to say that I'm doing well and I hope everyone's having a happy Hanukkah.
Yeah, yeah, I didn't ask, but yeah, I'm having a great Hanukkah.
Thanks.
I'm in a bit of a hurry, so can you get to your point?
Yeah, it's very early this year.
It's kind of strange how quickly it just crept up.
It usually, you know, every once in a while it falls this early, so yeah.
Yeah, yeah, it does.
It does.
Can you stop having small talk with yourself and get to your point?
Anyway, one of my mice, Peanut, I haven't seen Peanut for two weeks, and he finally showed up tonight, so he's still alive.
That's a no, then, is it?
Sorry, I'm having a bit of trouble following here.
Are you saying your pet mouse escaped two weeks ago?
And he's much bigger now.
He's been raiding somebody's apartment for food.
And at first I didn't recognize him because I had a little small mouse, a baby male mouse, come in about a week ago.
Sorry, what do you mean come in about a week ago?
Are you saying a wild mouse just wandered into your house and you were okay with it?
I mean, are you aware that wild animals carry diseases?
That I saw skittering around, and I actually fed him and named him Squeaker, and he's really young, and he's in his little popcorn-y climby stage, and he's climbing on everything, and it was funny.
He was climbing on my boots.
I have my winter boots, and he's climbing on my boots, and he's going down into the boot and sticking his little head up, and he's adorable.
You know, he was probably looking for a place to go to the toilet, right?
So you can imagine my surprise when I'm sitting there tonight watching, I don't know, a documentary that I'm not really totally paying attention to because I'm doing origami at the same time.
I don't think I understand anything of what goes on in the head of someone who runs a mouse hostel.
So no, I can't imagine it.
And I just see this little flash out of the corner of my eye, and I look down and I'm like, oh, it's a little male mouse.
And of course, the first thing I thought was, oh, it's Squeaker.
He wants some peanut butter.
Dude, it's not a pet.
It's a wild animal.
He's foraging for food and he comes to you because you give him food.
What are you doing?
These are vermin.
These are unhygienic vermin.
Let's back up a minute, Sale, because I think that you think that this is okay and normal and it's not.
It's fucking weird.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
Get a fucking cat.
And then I watched him and as I talked to him, I'm like, oh, you're such a good boy.
And he'd hop around like he'd do his little dancing.
Because my mice know how to beg.
They're wild, but they know how to beg for food from mummy.
They know how to sit and stare.
Sail?
Sale.
Sale, this is really freaking me out, man.
Can we just talk about the MRA stuff?
And just sit there, or they know how to run back and forth in a very little...
Jesus Christ, Sal!
Have you been sharpening your nails into talons?
Like an area that I can see kind of easily, and that's how they get my attention.
And then they sit there when I speak to them, and they're like, Look at me, look at me, I want some food, look at me, mom, give me some peanut butter, get your ass down here.
Sale, look, they don't your I tell you, yeah, they are definitely saying, Look at me, mom.
Definitely, definitely.
Yeah, so, um, and I saw this, you know, this little mouse just doing these quick little movements, and that was peanut, right?
Peanut was that's how I recognize my mice is their body shape, the way they move, um, their coloring, etc.
Yeah, I identify stuff by looking at it too.
And so, and I went, I know who you are.
I'm like, that's my little guy, that's little peanut.
And he got all excited and he started running back and forth and back and forth about, I don't know, a foot and a half.
He'd just do this little pattern.
And every time I'd mention his name, he'd get excited and move again.
And I'm like, oh, you cute.
Then he was begging.
He was sitting in his spot.
And I'm thinking, I haven't seen you in two weeks.
I wonder if you're going to remember the signal to come and eat.
I would put my hand out.
He's the only mouse that consistently likes to sit in my hand while I'm feeding him.
So I put peanut butter like right here at the top of my palm.
And he comes running onto my hand and he sits there and I get to touch his tail and his little bum.
Just to be clear, you're saying that you lure wild mice onto your hand using peanut butter so you can touch their tails and bums.
So I'm like, I wonder if he's going to remember after two weeks.
Sure enough, I did the little signal.
I went like this with visuals so he can see that it's okay.
And he came running onto my hand like he had just seen me the day before.
I'm like, no wonder.
I mean, these mice are so intelligent.
And he knew his name.
He knew that I was talking to him.
He knew the signal to get on my hand.
I'm just, they just floor me with just how beautifully intelligent they are.
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure they're going to be inventing a cure for cancer soon as well.
That MRA video that we mentioned.
How he's so gentle.
And he's the only mouse that likes to look up into my face.
He'll sit there and you know he's getting full, right?
And he's licking peanut butter and he's getting full.
He's not, you know, he doesn't really want too much more.
and he stops he gets really slow licking and he looks up at my in my face so you seem like you've got quite a lot going on I'm just gonna, you know, just get on with a few things myself.
Oh, he's just the most adorable thing.
And tonight he almost tried crawling up my arm.
So, yeah, who knows?
I think he might like you.
I don't know when I'll see him again.
Oh, don't be silly.
He'll call.
A girl like you is a catch.
He'll know it.
They just visit every once in a while and they know how to beg, you know, if I've made a relationship with them.
And then they go on their way and I don't see them for two weeks.
Man, just typical.
You know, he's only using you, don't you?
He's coming around here because he knows you'll give it up and then he'll go on.
And because he turns up on his motorcycle with his leather jacket and his cool hair.
And wait, are we still talking about mice?
So it was good to see my little peanut.
He's such a good boy.
He's such a good little mouse.
Sale, I'm telling you this as a friend.
That mouse is bad for you.
He's just a bad boy.
He comes and goes as he pleases.
He takes advantage of you.
You need to show some self-respect and kick him to the curb.
You can find a nice mouse who treats you right, who takes care of you, who cares about your feelings.
You deserve that, Sale.
You deserve it.
Yes, so I want to talk about something that I heard on one of the radio shows that just happened a couple days ago that a voice for men had.
No, no, don't change the subject.
You brought up five minutes of wittering nonsense about your abusive mouse boyfriend.
So, no, let's deal with this.
It was Dean Esme talking about white privilege.
And this is how ignorant these guys are.
He said, you know, I do understand that there's such a thing as white privilege.
Yeah, that sounds totally ignorant.
But getting back on track here, Sale, right?
You've got some serious problems.
You seem really sad and lonely.
And I'm feeling quite bad about taking the piss.
But this has been such a journey into the mind of a fruitcake that I don't know what else to do.
Apart from actually stop taking the piss and try to actually say this seriously, because you're not the only woman I've seen like this.
You're just funniest.
It really seems like Sale is really filling the void where a husband and children would be.
She talks about this mouse as if he is her boyfriend and he is not taking care of her feelings by going for two weeks, not calling or writing, and then just coming back.
She doesn't know anything about what he's been up to.
But, you know, he then shows her some love and she gets a bit of reinforcement for that.
So, no, it's okay.
And then he goes off again and she's sad again.
And then he comes back and he's happy.
And it's weird.
It's really fucking weird to see you project this onto this mouse.
And then you do the same thing with children by saying, you know, look at me, mummy, look at me.
They're not thinking that.
They're not thinking, mummy.
They're thinking, give us some fucking food, bitch.
We've got places to be.
You know, they're wild animals.
They don't care about you.
It's really sad.
And you've built up these sort of feminist defenses where you've had to portray all men as monsters.
Otherwise, I think that this would be the end of your psyche.
Because if they weren't, you'd realize that maybe you could have found love and that it's too late.
That would probably be quite soul-destroying.
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