At first glance, Alcuin’s blog would seem to be some sort of parody. The blog’s slogan – “Promoting the Intellectual Renaissance of Western Patriarchy” – seems so over-the-top pretentious that even the smuggest of would-be intellectuals wouldn’t be able to post it with a straight face.
But if Alcuin is a troll, he’s a dedicated one, and one (at least based on my less-than-exhaustive survey of his blog) who never seems to break character. So I’m assuming he’s real. Which makes him a pompous ass with a lot of irritating ideas he’s somehow convinced himself are new and interesting. Take (please!) his recent post “Back Where They Belong.” And yes, “they” mean who you think, and “where they belong” means where you think.
Men should run the government, business, education, and religion. Women should stay at home. Young unmarried women can briefly work as kindergarten and elementary teachers, but there are no reasons why men can’t usually do this as well.
I’m not sure if Alcuin understands that women actually hold most of the jobs that currently exist, and that removing virtually all of them from the workplace would cause the economy to implode like, well, Alcuin, if you suddenly removed all of his idiocy. Also, how many kindergarten teachers do we really need?
As long as women run things, men will continue to be sidelined and slandered because feminism is a zero-sum movement.
Women … run things?
There can be no peace between the sexes until women are back where they belong. The sexes are meant to complement each other rather than compete and put one another down.
Yes, and the best way to show how the sexes “are meant to complement each other rather than … put one another down” is for one of the sexes to, er, put the other down by sending them back into the home.
Women have no business being lawyers, judges, educators, doctors, bureaucrats, writers, or religious leaders. Their attempted leadership in these areas, an illegitimate coup d’etat, is destroying our society.
I agree. Lady Pope is doing a terrible job of dealing with all those abuse cases!
Sadly, they prefer to enjoy their present situation, and let society rot, than go back where they belong and participate in building things again. Much like enjoying the concert on the sinking Titanic – though in this case, don’t expect chivalrous men to jump into the cold water so the ladies can have space on the lifeboats.
A little Titanic humor always enlivens a dull rant, eh?
Knock knock!
Who’s there!
An iceberg!
Damn, I guess we shouldn’t have kept going in zero visibility in a part of the ocean where icebergs had been recently sighted, in our ship that doesn’t have enough lifeboats for everyone!
I crack myself up sometimes. Back to Alcuin:
Feminism is a hate movement that brings out the worst in women.
Unlike the Men’s Rights movement, a hate movement that brings out the best in men!
It hates women because it hates femininity and motherhood, the chief characteristics of what it means to be a genuine woman. It brings out the worst in women by turning them into men, or trying to masculate them.
Damn you, feminism! Don’t go masculating those ladies! First they want to wear pants, and the next thing you know they’re growing ironic mustaches and using Axe Detailers instead of loofahs and subscribing to Bass Fishing Monthly.
It hates men because it blames everything on men, and regards masculinity in men to be evil. It emasculates men at the same time. Gays and, much more secondarily, manginas, are somewhat acceptable to the gynocracy, especially when the furniture needs moving or some bitch can’t pay her own bills.
Because when you need furniture moved, or some money, you call … the gays? Is this some new gay stereotype I’m not aware of? I mean, manginas, sure, manginas are furniture-movers and money-to-bitches conduits extraordinaire. That’s how they get access to pussy, after all.
But what’s the incentive for the gays? They don’t need pussy; they’d, presumably, prefer to spend their money on tiny dogs and gym memberships than on some bitch’s bills; and while gays may have strong opinions about where the furniture should go, are they really interested in carrying it there themselves?
Women generally use men, and feminism continues this grand tradition. A man’s value is defined according to his use to women. Deeper than that, feminism regards men in the same way that the Nazis regarded Jews – men are Untermensch and cannot be granted the same rights and privileges that women are.
And … now we’ve got Nazis.
Feminism aims to bring men down, as it is a zero-sum movement. It doesn’t simply aim to improve the lot of women through, for instance, education, but seeks to exclude men from education.
It does? Last I heard, colleges were actually lowering their standards in order to enroll more guys.
Thus the current propaganda about campus rape, and the attempt to make it easier to accuse a university male of rape in the USA. Thanks, government. You are, once again, the handmaiden of misandry.
And handmaidens are bad. Not like Shieldmaidens.
Feminist hate will never be satisfied, so men can’t keep avoiding the issue. We must avoid feminism as much as we can, and educate each other about it and about alternatives.
Generally it is advisable to actually know something about something before trying to “educating” other people about it.
This intellectual Renaissance of Western Patriarchy business is a lot trickier than you might think.
@Flib
“You are in fact denying the obvious existence of many things, such as Yiddish theater. You are denying that bagels, matzah, and many other dishes that were created somehow exist in a vacuum. That the associated foods from many cultures that were picked up into Jewish cuisine as they were spread out clearly mean nothing. That Hebrew, as a language then, must only be considered as something religious?”
“Yiddish” and “Hebrew” are two completely different, distinct languages that use the same characters, because they are two distinct peoples who share the same “faith.” Just like Spanish and Russian use the same characters but are different people.
@shaenon
“Not only are most Jews of Hebrew heritage, the vast majority (80%) belong to the same ethnic subgroup, the Ashkenazim. Judaism is not an evangelical religion and members do not actively proselytize.”
Exactly correct in that 80% are “Ashkenazi.” Ashkenazi are not Hebrew, their “root” language is “Yiddish.” As I said above they are two different people. No one would say Russians and Spanish are the same people even though they both use the same characters in the alphabet. Yiddish and Hebrew are so far removed from each other their languages share virtually no words at all.
Huh. And here I have found, through lurking and sometimes posting at various Christian forums/blogs that it is most often ANTI-feminists who insist that the NT and Christianity is heavily “patriarchal”. Of course there’s always the spoken or unspoken, “and righfully so” to go along with their insistence.
Russian and Spanish use the same character systems? Lol, this Learnin’ you do is pretty spectacular, NWOSlave. Да, конечно!
@comrade svilova
“Russian and Spanish use the same character systems? Lol, this Learnin’ you do is pretty spectacular, NWOSlave. Да, конечно!”
I recognise the characters, A as in Apple, K as in Kite, O as in Omega, H as in History, E as in Elephant, Y as in Yiddish. As to the meaning, I couldn’t say.
And I’m another VERY Jewish atheist. And my family speaks both Hebrew and Yiddish. NWOSlave, you really know nothing about Judaism.
Bullshit. The Chinese are not the Jews of the world – I’m Jewish and both I and my Korean friends have independently heard that it’s KOREANS who are the Jews of Asia (and/or Jews are the Koreans of not-Asia). It’s supposed to be mutually insulting (because we’re both cheap) but I think it’s awesome. Korean-Jewish solidarity!
I recognise the characters, A as in Apple, K as in Kite, O as in Omega, H as in History, E as in Elephant, Y as in Yiddish. As to the meaning, I couldn’t say.
Lol! Pecunium, you know more Russian than I do. What are your thoughts on NWOSlave’s understanding of the Cyrillic alphabet? 🙂
NWOSlave, what about д? Is that the same alphabet as Spanish?
Oh, NWO, can you never admit a mistake?
Also, that Russian letter you think is an “H” is not an H. That letter you think is a Y is not a Y.
What David said. But I still want to know how NWOSlave incorporates the very distinctly Cyrillic characters into the Spanish alphabet!
Russian and Spanish use the same alphabet?
Lolololololololololololololololololololololololololol.
KathleenB: Those were political issues, not religious ones. The Papacy has been lots of things, at lots of times.
I’m glossing some; the anullment was purely political. The issue of cardinals was a mix of temporal and religious issues, having to do with what kings could to to cardinals/bishops. It took centuries to get sorted out.
“Just like Spanish and Russian use the same characters but are different people.”
HAHAHAHA. Your ignorance truly knows no bounds.
Calling the Jews, as an aggregate, haters of fun and against freedom of religion because Pokemon’s distributors in North America and Europe didn’t print Maanji on that one card is fucking ludicrous. It’s also racist as fuck, which doesn’t surprise me given that you’re pretty racist in general.
You think Europeans don’t have any hangups about criticizing Jews still? You should probably get your head out of your stormfront equivalent’s ass.
Seriously? You do realize that not being the worst ever doesn’t mean you’re actually not a vile little piece of shit, right? It just means you’re a failure even at that.
That’s not even accurate. The ‘orient’ was a term applied by Europeans initially, and it was never applied consistently. Depending on who you ask and when you ask, it’s going to be either Northeast Africa/Southwest Asia, or East Asia.
I like how Owlslave thinks the Jews, the only religion I’m familiar with that actively tries to push away potential converts, are actually aggressive proselytizers. I mean he’s got a lot of stupid but…
….has Owlslave EVER said something correct?
NWO: You claim to to be a Christian… do you speak Koine? Or Aramaic? Or Hebrew? Because those were the languages of Jesus, and his followers.
So you must not be Christian, any more than the Polish/Yiddish (which is a germanic word meaning.. wait for it… jewish, as in Juden) who went to shul, and studied Talmud made their prayers in Hebrew (as do most modern Jews, no matter what language they speak).
Really dude, this is weak tea, even for you.
<i?@comrade svilova
“Russian and Spanish use the same character systems? Lol, this Learnin’ you do is pretty spectacular, NWOSlave. Да, конечно!”
I recognise the characters, A as in Apple, K as in Kite, O as in Omega, H as in History, E as in Elephant, Y as in Yiddish. As to the meaning, I couldn’t say.
Um… no. “H” as in November. There is no “Y” (which would be “У” as in Usual), but rather “Ч” as in “Cheney.
But you are correct that there are five cognate letters in Cyrillic. That’s a far cry from “using the same alphabet”. I can read Spanish, because it uses the same letters English does (minus the K, and adding the tilde). I can do the same for German.
That reading doesn’t mean I understand it.
But you admit you can’t read Russian. You can’t even make out the letters you think you recognise.
Try these words, all of them should be familiar to you. All of them are loan words, to Russian, from English.
ресторан
аспирин
кофе
мотоциклист
такси
I can read all those words! But I did have to learn the Cyrillic alphabet first. 🙂
Colour me unsurprised that Juan the misogynist pedophile is also an anti-Semite. Juan, do you hold any non-vile opinions? Are you against sunny spring days and in favour of kicking puppies?
Pecunium, I dunno, papal infallibility stuck in my craw less; it is so bald-facedly ridiculous and self-serving (and so new, dating from the 1860s) that it seemed easier to dismiss. But transubstantiation (for non-Catholics, the belief that the host is *literally* transformed into the body of Christ in the course of the mass, even though it remains indistinguishable from a tasteless wafer) is really so easily tested against reality that even as a believer I couldn’t swallow it (pun intended).
Also papal infallibility wasn’t mentioned all that frequently in my Catholic school education – possibly the teachers found it a bit embarrassing, too – whereas transubstantiation was. I remember losing marks on a religion test because I listed transubstantiation as one of the symbols in the mass. The teacher wrote, “No, the host is transformed into the body of Christ. It is not a symbol” and I was like, “Are you shitting me? This is one of the things we’re actually supposed to believe, not one that we say we believe in but don’t really, like having unlimited babies?”
Papal infallibility was a BFD in my parish and in my home life. On the other hand, I don’t think I’ve seen death threats over it, as Crackergate saw, so I guess even considering that transubstantiation is a bigger deal.
I think NWO meant to say that Spanish and Russian would have used the same characters if only men had not been prevented from teaching.
It’s true, the Cyrillic Alphabet is a feminist invention to keep everyone from using the Arabic alphabet. It’s how we enforce the different languages that keep men slaves by not communicating with each other across societies, while we all speak woman-ese.
WAit no, we do the Vulcan mind-meld. Way cooler.
“Yes, and the best way to show how the sexes “are meant to complement each other rather than … put one another down” is for one of the sexes to, er, put the other down by sending them back into the home.”
If “its natural for women to be in the home” . .. why would they need to be forced back there? If its natural for men to lead . .. why is the world falling apart? I mean, I know feminism is at fault for every horrible thing that men do, but doesn;t that kinda prove that men shouldn’t lead then?
Do all MRA arguments self-refute?
Seriously? “I’m less racist than most neo-Nazis” is your excuse? I’m with Kristin: Is there anything about you that isn’t completely vile?
@NWOslave
Like I said, attentional bias. But you ignored everything I said that completely wrecks your statement. So, hey, more attentional bias. The fact that your labeling one aspect of things (linguistics) under the heading of another aspect (religion) is indicative that you lack the knowledge and the analytical tools to understand what culture is. Organizing human society under religion is extremely ignorant of modern day social structures. I know conservatives had a huge boner for Clash of Civilizations, but I’m going to break the news to you. CoC is not backed up by any rigorous thinking and was born out of ignorance and lack of research. Seriously, just look at how Huntington attempts to label South America under one banner. Your claims come from a similar ignorance. Linguistics and religion are aspects of culture as a whole. You do not need a perfect match to be considered part of a culture.
@JUANDELACRUZ
Not that I am calling you an anti-Semite, but the fact that your going off on this huge rant about how Jews annoy you and making a huge deal about it says something. Something like perhaps, you are a racist asshole? Just taking a shot in the field there. Also, go back and read my questions above.
That’s it. NWO is a Poe. He’s a brilliant, trolling virtuoso. There’s no possible way that he’s serious about the whole Spanish/Russian thing. No one is that willfully obtuse.
(Reads latest quote for Michele Bachmann)
Oh, God dammit.