We Hunted The Mammoth
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“Sick of Weird?” the promo email from the failing Daily Wire asked. “Us Too. It’s Norming Time.”
The link led to a video called “It’s Norming in America,” a sort-of tribute to Reagan’s famous “Morning in America” campaign ad.
Today on We Hunted the Mammoth we explore Donald Trump’s apparent use of hypnotic techniques in his speeches, looking at Trump’s recent comments about women and abortion, and uncovering four hypnotic tricks that may be influencing MAGA’s collective unconscious.
Embedded Commands: How Trump disguises orders as predictions
Confusion Technique: Using incoherence to bypass rational thinking
Repetition: The power of rhythmic, incantatory speech patterns
The Hypnotic Voice: Trump’s sometimes unusually smooth speaking style
We examine Trump’s recent speech in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and dissect his controversial statements about being a “protector” of women and his claim that “You will no longer be thinking about abortion.” Is this just political rhetoric – or is Trump working actual hypnotic suggestions into the mix?
Is Trump a “master persuader” as Dilbert guy Scott Adams would put it, literally trained by one of the founders of Neurolinguistic Programming” (NLP)? Did he pick up some tricks from renowned “conversational hypnotist” Milton Erickson? Or are these techniques simply the result of an intuitive understanding of crowd psychology?
BONUS POINTS go to the first person who can provide the timestamp of one of my cats adding her hypnotic voice to the video.
We Hunted the Mammoth is BACK from its hiatus. Only we’re looking a bit different, because now we’re a misogyny-busting YouTube channel instead of a blog. Yep, WHTM has awoken from uneasy dreams to find itself transformed in its bed into a gigantic insect. By which I mean a pretty butterfly rather than a dung beetle.
If you liked the original blog you can expect more of the same Mammothy goodness, as we take apart everyone from incels to dating coaches. Expect a little less of a focus on the denizens of the manosphere and a broader focus on the ways in which red pill misogyny and creepy transphobia have spread into wider cultural discussions on YouTube and elsewhere. Plus, now I can use weird filters and sound effects.
When I put the blog on hiatus, I really needed a break from tracking the manosphere–and from daily blogging. But it’s been more than a year, and now I’m itching to get back on the misogyny beat. And really looking forward to making videos, though it may take me a little while to get the hang of it. The more positive way to frame this is that my upcoming videos will be a lot better than the slightly awkward one I pasted in above. I’ll be putting up new videos roughly once a week, though my next one may go up sooner than that. I’ll be posting the videos here as well as on YouTube itself, and if you’re inclined to offer some comments you can do that here or on YouTube, whichever feels most comfortable for you. I miss you! Please let me know what you’ve been up to over the last year, or if you have any video ideas or requests for me. Or anything else you want to comment about.
Also, I have finally at long last done the maintenance that I needed to do on the blog archives, so all the thousands of old posts I’ve done over the year are available again.
So hello again, from the (entirely imaginary) WHTM doomsday bunker. This should be fun.
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Incels have something of a love-hate relationship with porn. They love it, because they think it’s the closest they’ll ever get to having sex. And they hate it … because they think it’s the closest they’ll ever get to having sex.
Check out my new blog, My AI Obsession, and my latest post there, There’s a culture war brewing over “woke AI” but The Atlantic can’t see it
One semen-retaining Twitterer recently managed to score himself a viral hit with possibly the dumbest Twitter take ever, his newfound fame–and 2.3 million views–driven in part by less-than-complimentary quote retweets like the following:
On Monday, The Conversation ran an article by two anthropologists titled “Women work harder than men – our anthropological study reveals why.”
Back in its heyday in the early and mid 2010s, A Voice for Men was one of the more obnoxious sites on the internet, not just attacking women on a daily basis but doing so in the crudest language its writers could think of, regularly castigating women as “cunts” and “bitches” at the same time site founder Paul Elam claimed that AVFM was the flagship site for a so-called “Men’s Human Rights Movement.”
Incel story time! Today’s story is called “STACY ROOMMATE ATE MY CUM,” and it was recently posted on the Incels.is forums by someone called HiddenUzer.
The guys in the Semen Retention subreddit are just really, really, really into their own semen “the real Elixir of the human body.”