Hey famous dudes who are betas! Watch the heck out! If some comely lass wearing an I HEART Dworkin t-shirt starts whispering sweet nothings in your ear, she could be a SECRET RADFEM trying to seduce you into SJWism so she and her RadFem comrades can take advantage of your fame in order to spread evil SJW lies.
But you don’t have to take my word for it. You can take the word of a couple of random Redditors instead. In Kotaku in Action, the main Gamergate hangout on Reddit, azriel777 sadly reports that
But it is Earl_of_sandwiches who CONNECTS THE DOTS and somehow manages to work French Trotskyists and polyamory into the mix.
This conspiracy theory strikes me as being roughly as convincing as one of Ralph Wiggum’s tall tales on The Simpsons
Nonetheless, lets take a few moments to unpack some of the most egregious nonsense in Earl’s comment.
“Entryism” is a tactic pioneered by French Trotskyists in the 1930s, acting at the behest of Mr. T himself. The wily Trots joined a larger social democratic group en masse, hoping to sneakily nudge it towards Leninism. While the strategy “successfully raised the group’s membership to 300 activists,” as Wikipedia notes, the social dems figured out what was going on and started throwing the Trots out.
You may wonder what on earth this has to do with Earl’s little conspiracy fantasy. I do too, as I’m pretty sure that the notion of using sex to manipulate people predates Trotskyist “entryism” by many thousands of years.
Ok, but what about all that non-exclusive relationship stuff? Well, you know how obsessed these guys are with “cucking.” In their imaginary world, one of the prime life goals of women today — including the evil RadFems — is to have sex with as many cocky Alpha Males as possible, preferably while married to some hardworking beta schlub unaware that the children he’s raising aren’t really his own, spermwise.
Apparently, “It’s Raining Men” is the secret RadFem anthem.
Ok, but isn’t it true that Jim Sterling — the longtime Gamergate foe mentioned in the comment — actually is a big ol cuck? I mean, didn’t his wife ADMIT this????
Apparently she did in fact once say that she and her husband had an open marriage in which they both were allowed to see other people. I’m not sure why that would be relevant to anything, but the Gamergaters have assembled one of their famous infographics on the subject, complete with little arrows and stuff underlined in red.
I’ve now officially run out of evens for today, so while we’re on the subject of The Simpsons, which we were a little while ago, here’s 5 minutes of Homer getting horribly injured in every possible way and then some.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_bOeIreLms
@ scildfreja
Whilst I do conform to a lot of male gender stereotypes, knowing anything whatsoever about football isn’t one of them. 🙂
@pitshade: IIRC, that’s in the live-action film too– something they got right (I also was impressed by Rick Baker’s makeups, but the more clips of the film I see the less interested I am in seeing the whole).
Fair enough. I don’t watch many films and that one looked like one to avoid at any rate.
Oh, you’re not prying! That tag just means I’m on my phone, instead of on my laptop. I felt it best to differentiate the two, because my phone’s much harder to type on. :3
@EJ and SFHC: The copyright block also keeps anyone from monetizing his videos, because, to paraphrase: “If I can’t make any money from my videos and the work I did that went into them, no one else is going to”. Of course, he has his Patreon, so he doesn’t even monetize his videos in the first place, iirc.
Another thing Jim (Fucking) Sterling, son has done: Taken shitty game developers to task for abusing the copyright system.
Hell, he’s got a list of devs who have decided to abuse the system to get his bad reviews of their games taken down, and there’s a handful of them who thought they had enough spine to take him on directly. Muxwell (Earth: Year 2066) and Digital Homicide (The Slaughtering Grounds) come to mind.
And I figure if this happens enough, YouTube might just take notice and finally penalize shitty people for abusing their system.
Of course, that would require YouTube to get off their collective asses and do some work, instead of just leaving it up to an automated system that is very clearly broken.
This is the second time in nearly as many days that I’ve seen GobbleGoops accusing Jim Fucking Sterling, Son of not actually being polyamorous. The other day, somebody was saying that he and a few other “SJWs” just said they were poly to score progressive points, because apparently there’s no such thing as a progressive person who isn’t polyamorous? (I’m not really into polyamory, myself, but all power to you if you are.)
I’m just like, do you guys actually pay attention to his videos? Of course the answer is “no”, because why would they pay attention to anything made by a damn SJW, but he’s not terribly shy about expressing how open and willing he is to have sexy funtimes with people.
@Chiomara
You’d not have had any reason to know, it’s really context specific. Just a handy note for talking to Yanks in future. 🙂
Radical feminism’s hardly a monolith; there are multiple schools of thought within the broad umbrella. Among the disagreements are whether it’s the concept of gender itself that’s the problem vs the concept of gender roles being the issue. It sounds like most of the radfems in Brazil subscribe to the TERFier schools of thought, but I wouldn’t care to hazard a guess as to why that might be. I’m sorry that all the radical feminist groups near you are full of assholes.
Usage and semantics vary, but going by an impression here, beta is the low status, nice enough guy who supplicates to women instead of treating them like shit and supposedly gets used in the process. In contrast, Omega is meant to refer to a man no woman wants for anything, not even as a meal ticket, being too ugly, awkward, poor etc. Invisible, perpetually alone faceless worker drones in other words.
No idea what Gamma means.
Seems like Omega might also mean the rejected outsider who’s given up seeking the approval of society/women; the ‘loser’ who does their own thing, as in how MGTOWs like to see themselves.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=omega%20male
Explanations for ‘Gamma’ vary quite a bit, from clingy passive-aggressive loser, to having both Alpha and Beta traits.
Sigma is similarly vague: some sort of introspective outsider with certain Alpha qualities but an aversion to aggression. (Feel free to laugh now.)
occasional reader: Hi-5 for Fallout references! Rad-Away and Rad-X are essential to wandering around in the wasteland. 🙂 Not sure how that fits with radfems, but it’s interesting to think about.
Bryce: If that’s true, these guys are just avoiding admitting they’re Omegas per your first definition, then?
> Scildfreja
I do not know if it is meaningful, but if there is a difference between Alpha and Sigma, it must be Delta. Often a difference, a Delta. Sometimes also a river fork till a big pond, but still. So you may write Alpha = Delta Sigma. The reverse is still possible : Sigma = Delta Alpha.
Is is clearer now ?
@Chiomara
@DaliLlama
DL’s definition of radical feminism is the one I’m familiar (and identify) with too. I’ve certainly heard people express TERF-like ideas, but I’d been thinking of them as essentialist (albeit within the broad wing of rad fem).
Isn’t this a lovely website, where we can talk about these issues without screaming at each other?
@occasional reader
So α = Δσ or σ = Δα
Makes more sense than their wolf-society model based on outdated understandings of how wolf pack members interact.
Well, yes, but Δ→0 ? Or, ΣΔ ∀(α=Δσ | α>0)? Or is this non-boolean?
(Sorry, i do not have access to the greek characters here).
Well, actually Delta tends to Rhô Pi, making it non-boolean. Rhô Pi is a constant proper to the manosphere, which has the particularity, as a constant, to be constant at an instant Tau, but to be different at Tau + 1, meaning this is the first constant inconstant.
So, to know itself, Sigma has to wait to know what is Delta and what is Alpha. It must know Delta before Alpha, though. Once it knows Delta, Sigma can expect Alpha, like Juliet expecting Romeo at her balcony. Thus, Delta Sigma Juliet = Alpha Romeo.
QED
I would be wary of proposing that a social constructivist understanding of gender is opposed to trans rights, in particular since the idea of a gender binary based in some form of biological essentialism often denies non-binary and agender identities.
TERFism is basically a misunderstanding of social construction theories of gender and an embrace of a fake materialism based in the idea that sex is biological (which is somehow seen as “truer” than the social) rather than itself being a construct.
Many within the materialist/dialectical tradition, particularly anarchist branches of such, have no such issue with understanding non-binary, agender or transgender folks within the context of a social constructivist view of gender. TERFs assume that gender socialization is some sort of process that takes place in vacuums for two categories of babies born with different genitals. When in fact we are all socialized 24/7 into an understanding of genders and their roles together as a society, not separately. And is it so complicated to say that if society defines a gender class that is typically assigned to provide cheap/free domestic and sexual labor to a different gender class, it is possible that the ideological conception of that gender as, say: caring, loving, self-effacing, etc… might resonate with some folks who were born with a penis, and that they may therefore be socialized as women even as the whole of cisheteronormative society tries to (violently) refuse them the right to that identity?
If we are materialists, we can actually look at empirical evidence rather than ideological spooks, and see that trans women are typically overrepresented in the same fields of work as women, they tend to also suffer sexual violence at a rate that is in line with women (worse because of intersectional oppressions based on cis supremacy) rather than men, and so forth. This should tell us how society treats them as women, and a particularly marginalized group of women at that.
@Ouraboros13:
Our emotionally stunted friends at KiA do often refer to “SJWs” as cultural Marxists. You should have seen the fit they threw when Wikipedia moved the article on cultural Marxism to a subheading under The Frankfurt School as a conspiracy. Their cries of “sensor ship!” were loud and shrill.
They will also tell you that the definition of “SJW” is intersectional feminism.