Scott Adams: Self-proclaimed Misunderstood Genius, Part XVIII

In case nebody missed it (since…. scrolled off -_-)

In the beginning, the White Shaft created man and then woman to give man company. Men and women were created equal but different, and there was a balance. But because of those differences, equality was not always evident to men who excelled at the arts most needed for human survival and advancement: science, invention, warfare, the hunt. Centuries passed and men began to believe they did not need women and began to enslave then, abuse them and the balance was lost. Many women cried out at this injustice and their pleas eventually manifested itself as an entity: The Darknyss, created from their anger, their suffering and their hatred.

Eventually, the Darknyss gained sentience, and with it a twisted understanding of humanity and the world: men were evil and destructive, and women needed to be saved from them. It was with this hateful and destructive motivation, that it lashed out, possessing and infusing women with great power and enhancing their hate and bitterness.

War ensued with horrible abominations and warriors for both sides being created: Alpha Males… Sexbots… Andrea Dworkin… and in the ensuing struggle men realized that they were incomplete without women and women realized that they were incomplete without men. Together, they realized their proper roles, men as protectors, inventors, warriors, women as caretakers, models for paintings and lovers, and sealed the Darknyss away. The balance was restored.

A period of prosperity and unparalleled technological and scientific growth ensued, with women in their proper role and men in theirs.. but the Darknyss festered. Despite that the conditions of it’s birth were gone, it’s purpose and dark hatred remained and it slowly extended it’s hate-filled tendrils back into the world, corrupting, manipulating, seducing.

A thousand years pass, until it’s influence is everywhere… and nowhere. Despite, or perhaps because of it’s comfortable complacency, society begins to chafe against its foundations, foundations built by the blood, sweat and tears of noble men and gentle women. Wives turn against husbands, mothers against sons. Famine and sickness begin to sweep the land, creating poverty, frustration, and with it hatred, envy and anger.

Men who would have accepted their failures and worked harder to overcome them begin to feel resentment and bitterness. Some sought out the Darknyss for a short and easy route to power and revenge, others merely allowed themselves to be manipulated by it. Women who used to be content raising a new generation of noble artisans, engineers, physicians, scientists and warriors, became deluded into believing that they could fill such roles. Many turned on their husbands and fathers, blaming them for their plight. Others acted on their unnatural desires and pursued those disciplines fervently, and upon failure to reach those goals, betrayed humankind and pledged their souls and allegiances to the Darknyss.

Sister turned on brother. Queens betrayed Kings. Women lay with women. Men with men. Kingdoms split, and kingdoms fell. Only a brave few remembered the old ways and stood for the White Shaft. Betrayal was rampant. Darknyss reigned… the Second Gender War was about to begin.

@MRAL:

I’m sure she’d echo that sentiment right back at you.

@ Ami:

I attend small geeky cons a couple times a year, and I so want to bring this deck to the next one 🙂

http://i749.photobucket.com/albums/xx134/ami_angelwings/Magyc%20Cards/OrderoftheDarkPit.jpg

this is the corollary to that card :3

kirby, I made that mistake one time and it is when I learned what MRAs actually are. So no, that’s a pointless road I don’t take.

Re: magyc cards… I’ve never played Magic so I really have no input on this (though I am familiar with the concept) but my fiance has and his first comment was that my war machine seemed too powerful to be a real card. Then again, he hasn’t played in YEARS so I’m sure there’s been stat inflation in the interim.

David, the reason Scott Adams hasn’t proposed to interview you is that you are a guy. He’s only “interviewing” female bloggers. Because, as we all know, it’s pointless to argue with women. Or something.

My thoughts on rape: sex, power, or both?

Rape requires an element of power and dominance. It can be solely about power and dominance, as with the Rwandan woman who was convicted of genocide for organizing both massacres and mass rapes yesterday. Obviously she wasn’t organizing those rapes because she was horny.

But with things like date rape, it becomes less clear, because there is an element of sex and perhaps a pre-existing relationship there. But in order to make the decision to rape, you have to believe, at some level, that your needs and desires are so important that it’s worth overriding another person’s needs and desires. Perhaps the rapist has convinced hirself that the other person’s needs and desires are congruent with hir own. To me, that’s not an indication that power and domination are not part of it. Rather, it’s an indication that the rapist is consciously aware that exercising control and dominance that way is socially unacceptable, and doesn’t want to think of hirself as a Bad Person (since only Bad People are rapists), so ze’s relegated hir knowledge that hir partner/victim isn’t into having sex to hir subconscious. Either that, or ze simply doesn’t care enough about hir partner/victim to even bother paying any attention to her needs and desires – which is also an exercise of dominance and control. To engage in truly consensual sex, a person MUST possess enough awareness of hir potential partner to evaluate that partner’s interest in engaging in sex. A simple lack of awareness is not a mitigating factor. A lack of awareness of the true desires of one’s sexual partner is not an innocent mistake, as the MRAs would like us to believe. Rather, it’s an expression of selfishness and narcissism. The point of sex, or one of them anyway, is to have awareness of your partner. That’s why it’s called sex and not masturbation. And that’s why it’s still rape even if the rapist maintains that ze sincerely believed that hir inert or semi-conscious sex partner was really, really into it.

Oh good. Now Scott Adams is asking judges, scientists, psychologists, etc. to tell him whether they think he’s batshit crazy based on his interviews. Which his mostly male, mostly not-any-engaged-in-any-of-the-above-occupation readers are taking as an invitation to tell him how hard he won his arguments. Oh yes he did! He’s totally brilliant, from his subversive cartoons, to the way he handed that emotional lady’s ass to her in a debate, har har!

Oh, man, poor Scott Adams. I fear his dick will get chapped from all the slobber!

I like the guy who had taken Psych 1. Who-hoo, there’s a skilled diagnostician.

And then the actuary, etc. The one debate judge gave Adams a marginal win, but I’d say that was generous, esp. as the nature of the presentation gives him a marginal advantage (he gets to present the material as he see’s fit).

All in all, as a formal debate (I did the debate circuit in college): where to we start, with the Orginal Piece? Adams loses. He dropped a lot arguments, or failed to support them when challenged.

Yeah, Bill Watterson’s definitely a class act.

Good grief, charlie brown. I’ve never spent so much time in the SA comment section before. Some of these twits are almost as insufferable as he is.