Do MGTOWers get their notions of modern romance from old Smurf cartoons? I’m beginning to think they do. As you may remember, the world of the Smurfs was an all-male bastion until evil Gargamel created the creature he called Smurfette from a mixture of
Sugar and spice but nothing nice…A dram of crocodile tears…A peck of bird brain…The tip of an adder’s tongue…Half a pack of lies, white, of course…The slyness of a cat…The vanity of a peacock…The chatter of a magpie…The guile of a vixen and the disposition of a shrew…And of course the hardest stone for her heart…..
Initially an evil, deceitful brunette, Smurfette was transformed by Papa Smurf into a glamorous (and less obviously evil) blonde. At which point Smurfs young and old began falling in love with her, supplicating themselves before her Smurfy beauty. Even Papa Smurf himself had the Smurfs for her, as you can see in the video above – even though, as her co-creator, he was basically her father. Ick. Sometimes Smurfette played her smurfy suitors against one another, inspiring them to even greater depths of supplication.
MGTOWers, and a lot of MRAs, basically see this as the basic paradigm of romance: men jumping through hoops to even get noticed by stuck-up women who need do nothing but exist in order to garner male attention. In the Smurf world, this was because there was only one Smurfette in a village full of lonely Smurfs. In the real world, in which men and women balance out more evenly, well, MGTOWers and MRA recreate the weird Smurfy imbalance by simply declaring most women undateable – too old (if they’re over 25 or 30) or too fat (with BMIs over 25). Hey presto! Now men, much like Smurfs, can compete against one another for the same small number of women, making almost everyone miserable in the process, especially themselves.
In Smurf world, of course, Smurfette is chaste and pure; she may kiss the boys but that’s about it. This hardly comports with the MGTOW notion that women are all slutty sluts, bedding down with every thug-boy and alpha male who makes their ‘ginas tingle, to use the peculiarly offputting parlance of the misogynist set. Natually enough, a few creative internetters have reimagined Smurfette as a Smurfslut. Warning: this video may destroy your image of Smurfette forever. This one’s worse.
Oh, and for an interesting discussion of the misogyny and apparent anti-Semitism of Smurf creator Peyo, see here.
Jesus fucking christ, kid: get your eye fixed.
You have money because you’re not a “fat lazy fuck,” and your parents have money because they aren’t “fat lazy fucks,” so take some of your money, consult a cosmetic surgeon and Get. Your. Eye. Fixed. If it can’t be fixed, get rid of it and get a glass eye. It worked for my great grandfather and Sammy Davis, Jr. And they were both swimming in babes.
Seriously, get it fixed. At least then you’ll know that women don’t want you because you’re a deeply unpleasant asshole and not because of some minor deformity.
Sheesh.
Why should they when you won’t acknowledge theirs? Calling them “alpha fucks and bitches” is not exactly respect. Yeah, ok, you don’t say it to their faces but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t show in your attitude. IT DOES. I really do not know how one gets over a victim complex like yours, I wish I did. But, really, things will not get better until you do.
MRAL Translated: “I am socially maladjusted and I expect women to fix this! WAH! Also I have a crush on Brad Pitt, apparently.”
You know who I’d like to smurf? Kristen Schaal. Adorable, sex positive, and hilarious. She’s basically awesome.
“It’s an acknowledgment of my humanity.”
Why should every woman you pass on the street be expected to acknowledge you at all, let alone your so-called “humanity?” You certainly don’t acknowledge THEIR humanity, you disrespect their decisions and refer to them as “bitches.”
Believe me, bitterness is an obvious and not at all flattering cosmetic. If you think no one can tell you have a bad attitude and that it doesn’t show on the outside, you’d be wrong. I think you need a serious, SERIOUS dose of antidepressants, like, YESTERDAY.
The thing is, based on your story, she *did* acknowledge your humanity and responded to your greeting. Even though it seems like she didn’t want to. No one is required to want to talk to you.
How many smurfin’ times do we need to say this, MRAL? Get some smurfin’ therapy. You’ve got a smurfload ton of issues, smurf.
So basically, you’re saying that women are entitled to be rude and spit on men and then have people not think of them as rude?
I DON’T really think I have issues, I think the WORLD has issues. I hate my life but not because of anything I’VE done, so fuck you very much.
No, we’re saying that women are people, just like you. How would you respond to one of those dreaded fatty fat fat “omega” women saying hi to you? She responded as politely as can be expected when trapped in an elevator with a creep like you. You’re the one perceiving the “spitting on” – get the smurf over yourself and get some damn help.
What is it with you and spitting? And Brad Pitt?
*le even more exasperated sigh*
Yes, we feminists think that women should be able to do anything short of murder (though that could be relaxed) to men and suffer no consequence as a result. That’s what equality is all about!
First, stop using the phrase “spit on.” You are not talking about spitting, so stop using misleading phrases. Second, take what we have to say on the grounds of what we say, not what your dark and twisted lump you call a brain makes it out to be. Third, SMURFS! (nailed it. :P)
I think MRAs get their notion of life from the Smurfs.
That would explain why the things they perceive as human experience bear no relation to actual human experience.
Their insistence that women invented the system of “women being owned by rich men” because it was such a sweet deal for them is just one of the things that baffles.
MRAL: here’s another reason women might not be smiling. “Women are to blame for being raped. They smile and flirt and look attractive.”
SEE THE LINK?
Everyone has issues, smurf. Take some smurfing self-responsibility.
And STOP capitalizing RANDOM words. It’s REALLY smurfing.
You can think of someone not responding in a positive manner as rude. You cannot want to beat them up, rip out their eye or any of a number of other nasty thoughts you have in your head.
You also refuse to take concrete steps to improve things in the world around you. Instead, you focus with obsessive tendencies on perceived slights. If you refuse to do therapy, why not actually do some volunteer work that distracts you from feeling so bad?
If an omega fat asshole got on the elevator with me I’d still be polite because even though I hate them I am a nice person. Even though I don’t think it’s the same because fat fucks have earned contempt. But as said I’d still be nice.
“It’s interesting then that only the men smile at me, not the women. Why? Because men don’t measure my worth based on things I can’t control, while the FUCKING BITCHES look down upon me from a goddamn ivory tower like the ELITIST PRIVILEGE FUCKS they are.”
Gods…this forum moves fast and furious. Have been on many, and appreciate this one for it’s diversity and balance. But I have rarely seen such reactionary and skeerdypants responses from the HB/MGTOW whiners as MRAL and his tiny dick brigade are doing here. It is one thing to live in a world of echo chambers, where the white male majority is somehow suddenely relegated to an underclass, but is is another world, when the same white male majority/empire has to adapt to a world in which, whites will soon be the minority, non-whites will be the ruling and educated classes, and race mixing will change everything to the point where color, creed, and religion is as small as the dicks as the previous oppressors. It’s a “hard”, in the ironic sense of the word, adaptation that the white lords have to deal with. The “wimmenfolk” problem is there easiest and last possible target before they have to admit they are both misogynist AND racist, AND xenophobe and Homophobes. It we all lived by the simple construct of the Golden Rule, the ideals of many of the great teachers..do unto others, etc. We would not be wasting so may electrons and pieces of coal, oil, nukes and fracking gas, having these futile discussions. As it is..the hipocrytes, obfuscationists, biostitutes and beareaupaths, politicians and dickwads, divide and conquer us at will, we fall for it, and rarely look into the forces that make us such puppets in the games they always win.
So far.. Man and woman up..Time to change the games and rules.
Like law1204 said…”Creepiness doesn’t register on other men’s radars but it does on womens’”
Thats heresy law1204, you’re insinuating biology dictates ability. You are banned from the feminist movement. Men and women are interchangable, there are no biological differences in brain chemistry. Misogynist is what you are I tellz ya.
MRAL, it would appear women intuit they have intuition and used that intuition to intuit your creepiness.
MRAL, comments like yours reek of “serial rapist in the making”. Entitlement, complete lack of empathy, and rage. So much rage.
And the women on the street who “spit on” you? They can smell it.
LOL, trying to shame me by making ridiculous rape allegations? Nice try but that’s not me.
Entitlement? That’s a laugh.
If you think that everything in the world is wrong except you, you need some perspective. And really, there’s nothing we can do about you.
It is not a shaming tactic-it is a pointing out that your behavior and reaction to women is becoming dangerous.
You know what I fucking hate? When some dickweed gets on the elevator and fucking talks to me. Especially some jackass I don’t know. Makes me want to beat the shit out of him and rip his eyes out.
(Everything is true but the last sentence.)
Anecdote: A classmate ran into our teacher in an elevator. She said “hello” to him. He looked at her like she was a stranger and said absolutely nothing to her. She was put off by the fact that he ignored her (since she’s been in his class all semester), but he may have been operating under the idea of, “YOU DON’T FUCKING TALK IN ELEVATORS.” Also, she’s a horrible student.
Seriously, who talks in elevators? Jackasses. Unless you were talking before you got on and you know everyone in the elevator at the time … why would you do that? Just to make people uncomfortable??
That professor sounds like a real douchebag, but I’m betting that doesn’t happen regularly, so she’s not going to be as affected by it.