Poor Arnold Schwarzenegger!
Picture the scene.
It’s January 1997. Arnold’s in a good mood, sitting in his den, paging through the latest issue of Variety. He chuckles to himself. Fuck the critics! Jingle All the Way is putting asses in the seats of the multiplexes of America, and that means money in the bank to the Terminator.
Suddenly, he hears the door to the room click shut behind him. It’s that devious maid again, with her wily, sexy Latin ways! “Que pasa?” she says, running her hands through his hair. He’s still not quite sure what that phrase means, exactly, but it seems to have a hypnotic effect on him, and his penis. He pulls the maid to him.
The next minute and a half are a blur. “Curses!” he mutters to himself, as he realizes that, once again, the wily maid has lured his hapless penis into her vaginal cavity. But it’s too late. The penis has released its precious load. “Me han robado tu esperma,” she hisses. “¿Dónde está la biblioteca?”
This, give or take a few of the details, seems to be how the author of the Rebuking Feminism blog imagines the events that led to the birth of Arnold’s love-child 14 years ago. Yep: in his version of events, it’s the women – both the maid, Patty Baena, and wife Maria – who are responsible for Arnold’s indiscretions:
Maria Shriver should have known better than to let any half way decent looking woman spend so much time in the house. The whole ballgame changes when a man reaches Arnold’s status. Women come begging to be f***ed by you. Women practically disrobe and spread when guys like Arnold walk in the room. I’m sure he abstained plenty of times but women like this maid wait for her opportunity when in such close proximity.
It’s tough, I guess, to be a freakishly huge, fabulously wealthy alpha male who wants to fuck everything in sight. But tougher indeed to be a beta:
As is quite common with the type of situation that took place with Arnold, I’m sure this little whore took her prized bastard back home to be raised by her oblivious, committed, and cuckolded beta male husband.
Some people might say, hey, isn’t Arnold partially to blame for cuckolding that little whore’s cuckolded beta male husband? No. It’s important to remember: he’s a victim too, and obviously not responsible for the sexual activity that Mrs. Baena lured him into with her fiery Latin vagina.
Maria may now file for divorce. The only people to end up completely fu*ked here will be the two men…Arnold for engaging in adultery (and the price only men have to pay for it) and the man that was cuckolded by his adulterous whore wife and will have to pay for it as well. Men bear liability to women on both sides of the equation. Men have no rights.
Now all Maria and Patty need to do is sit back and collect the cash. Ka-ching-gle All the Way!
EDITED TO ADD: The author of the post has added a response to my post as a addendum to his original post. The gist of it:
Arnold and his impropriety was not the intended focus of this article. I take it as common knowledge among my readers that what Arnold did was obviously wrong. This was not the point of the article.
The point of this article was to illustrate how adultery is supported by law on one end (the female end) and not supported by law on the male end.
The creepiest part is “Maria Shriver should have known better than to let any half way decent looking woman spend so much time in the house.” Talk about normalizing controlling relationships.
I guess to these guys, it seems completely reasonable to prevent your partner from spending time with any attractive member of their preferred sex, because whether they cheat on you is more important than whether they have freedom to live their own life.
‘Men have no rights.’
Clearly this is totally the case. That’s why we evil feminists dress them in Burkas and refuse to allow them to drive.
Maria is totally to blame. For letting an attractive woman in the house. She knew what would happen. Note that the same is not true of the cuckholded husband who let his wife work in the home of a super-alpha male. He couldn’t have possibly foreseen it. Because he’s a naive victim like Arnold. Oh, those manipulative wimmins!
Yes, Baena totally forced him to have sex with her. That’s why he’s a well-documented grabbyhands who’s been creeping out women in service positions since the 1980s at least. (I feel like we must all have at least one friend with a personal story of serving him drinks. Just me?) Here is a quote from an actual news article:
“When he first ran for governor of California in the 2003 campaign to recall Gov. Gray Davis, Schwarzenegger was dogged by allegations of sexual harassment — of having groped more than a dozen women over the years who did not want his attention and who were humiliated and angered. During the campaign, he vaguely admitted to ‘behaving badly’ and said that if there were people out there whom he had offended, he was sorry.”
Many of the MRA’s have a double standard about adultery just like they do for premarital sex. When a woman cheats on her husband, she’s an evil whore. When a man cheats on his wife, it’s because his wife was too frigid, she let herself go, or she is a nag. The commenters at the Spearhead were also blaming Maria Shriver for Arnold’s behavior. Why can’t they admit that men and women are equally capable of cheating, and then put the blame on the cheater?
Sometimes men cheat on women even when their wives live up to the incredibly high beauty standards set by MRAs. Even women like Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, and Christie Brinkley have been cheated on. Women that are passive and meek are also cheated on. The only thing these women have in common is that they had bad luck or bad taste in men.
I’ve heard people also point the blame at the mistresses, calling them home wreckers, and excusing the man as if he has no control over his own actions. I think the mistresses are less to blame. They aren’t breaking somebody’s trust like the cheating husband is. I’m not saying that mistresses are blameless, but that cheating husbands are the most at fault. My views are exactly the same when the situation is reversed, and the wife is the adulterer, too.
“¿Dónde está la biblioteca?”
Not only did she entrap Schwartzenegger, she also went to a crappy community college in Colorado?
To blame the cheater would be to acknowledge reality*, and that might mess up their worldview. So then the MRAs in question would have to maybe admit that the twisted way they see things is out of whack. Maybe.
*reality being that both men and women are capable of cheating
What pisses me off is that I’m pretty sure adultery ruins the sanctity of marriage far more than a gay or lesbian couple getting hitched; but Arnie opposes the latter while engaging in the former.
@Lady Victoria
Especially since those who are against gay marriage usually quote the bible to do so…and adultery is actually one of the ten commandments, while homosexuality is not.
“¿Dónde está la biblioteca?”
this made me laugh so hard i almost snorted tea out of my nose.
I second tree. Except I wasn’t drinking tea. I almost snorted air out of my nose?
Just trying to show off my command of the language!
What he meant was that Arnold is paying the price vicariously through the marriage divorce law system. He seems to mean that only men i.e. Arnold in this case is paying the price where as a woman in this situation, as is illustrated by the reversal in this case (the maid and her husband) does not have to pay the price.
“Maria Shriver should have known better than to let any half way decent looking woman spend so much time in the house.”
Because it’s like like LA in general or Hollywood in specific isn’t FULL of insanely attractive people or anything.
If we use this logic she should start kicking women out of the city limits.
Duh, it’s a well-known fact that everyone in LA/Hollywood is either Brad Pitt or a supermodel. So the only way Shriver could have prevented this is by not allowing anyone in her house EVER. Also if someone gets cheated on, its obviously that person’s fault, and never the cheater’s.
/snark
Arnie – Do we know that the maid isn’t “paying the price?” Not really, that isn’t really covered in anything. We don’t know what she’s going through other than people blaming her for something that takes two people to engage in.
And aren’t all the children involved “paying the price” — or, you know, being emotionally affected — by Arnold’s indiscretions?
To be fair, the author does devote a sentence to the kids.
The author has also added a bit to the original post in response to my post.
One thing…if everyone in LA/Hollywood is attractive, doesn’t that mean that no one is? Isn’t attractiveness based on context and opposites? If so, the more one calls a person an Alpha or Beta simply because one sympathizes with/hates a person, the more it becomes irrelevant as a category. It even applies to “mangina”. It’s not just that the fundamentals behind the term are stupid, but the frequency of the term as it used against the “enemies” of MRAs makes it even more stupid.
Redlocker – It’s generally surprising to people visiting LA how many people look like they stepped off a catwalk or film set. Of course there are normal people there, it would be silly to say otherwise. But there is a glut of people who were the “hot kid” in school or back in Minnesota or Virgina and are trying to get their big break. The comment I made technically could be applied to any city in the world but due to LA and the fact that it’s the center of the film world, you get a lot of good looking people. It’s ridiculous to say anyone should keep their partner from “attractive” members of the opposite sex, but if we’re going to say that about the maid, we should say that about coworkers, the barista down the street who has dreams of stardom, the fashionistas who shop at the same supermarket, the trophy wives who walk the same route with their kids and dogs… All I was saying is that it gets silly.
Thanks for the twist on things David, I’ve added to the blog post to clear up your confusion.
MRAs once again blame the women in every way possible. They complain about double standards, and then they go and insist men are innocent while blaming female victims.
This is more proof that MRAs don’t want equal rights; they want to abolish women’s rights (which they perceive as a threat to their male privilege) and give men the ability to not be held responsible for their actions.
What’s this? The man cheated on the woman with the sexy maid? It must be the fault of both women, because the man is innocent. Because, you know, men are smarter and have more control then women, even when they cheat on their partners. Damn women for being siren harpies! We should take away their right to vote (according to some MRAs) and keep them out of the career field! That’ll teach ’em to not lead their men astray!
I’m still a little confused on how female adultery is supported by law, whereas male adultery is not. I assume that Maria Shriver is divorcing her husband because he cheated on her; nothing is stopping the husband of the maid for doing the same thing.
In fact, if you research for just ten seconds on Google, you’ll find that Baena and her husband divorced in 2008 (though it doesn’t say who filed), and that even though Baena was raising Schwarzenegger’s kid, the court records state the couple had no children. I.E., Baena’s kids were not her husband’s kids, and the court system recognized that fact.
And even still… why shouldn’t Shriver divorce Schwarzenegger over this? It’s not like he had a drunken one-night stand, his mistress was a person that he kept around the rest of his family. I assume that Shriver and the housekeeper would have to come into regular contact with each other – how is that not a cruel thing to do to your wife? He never even confessed, Shriver had to confront first Baena and then her husband to get the truth.
I won’t argue that it sucks for a man to discover that his wife has hidden paternity from him when the children he thinks are his actually aren’t; but isn’t hiding the child you fathered with a housekeeper and then continuing to employ that housekeeper (and possibly continuing the affair right beneath her nose) on the same level of cruel deception?
Yep. Women are always at fault for everything, all the way back to Eve.
But the real question is: es el raton debajo de la mesa?
Man, David, I’m such a jerk and a pedant — and also not a very good Spanish student — but it just occurred to me that it’d be (I think) “Te he robado tu esperma.” “Me han robado tu esperma” is something more like (I think) “they have robbed me (of) your sperm.” Those online translator thingies are kinda wack.
Hey, you’ve seen Arnold’s Brazilian travelogue right? Trigger warning for grabbyhands!