Like Chairman Mao, the MRA blogger Alcuin is a massive douchebag with intellectual pretensions far outstripping his limited brainpower. Also like Mao, Alcuin is perhaps best appreciated in tiny doses. Most of his posts are rambling, pretentious messes; yet many of them contain wonderful little nuggets of anti-wisdom that I feel compelled to share with you all.
Mao had his Little Red Book. Here’s part one of Alcuin’s Little Red-Faced Book. Click on the titles for the full posts.
[A] woman only thinks of her next meal, and which man can provide the best one for her. … Allow them to run organizations and society, and they will destroy everything. … Women are too emotional and self-centered to build civilization.
All Feminists are Doctor’s Daughters:
Feminism, the domain of doctor’s daughters, is for snobs. Men with dirty fingernails are haughtily ignored and dismissed. … Ironic, ain’t it, that feminists can be both perpetual victims and upper-class snobs at the same time, with the same remark and arrogant flick of the hair, as she puts her nose in the air and walks past. … Uppity cunts.
Dare to Struggle, Dare to Backlash:
Because feminism has attacked humans so viciously, injecting its hate-filled venom so deeply into both men and women, the “reaction” will not be a mere rainstorm. Deep, psychotic imbalance such as the type wrought by feminism and by liberals in general will necessitate a fucking shitstorm the likes of which we’ve hardly seen.
Constant rape accusations are ridiculous, given the sexless marriage epidemic. How many bored, asexual women stuck in a sexless marriage would love to be taken?
Modern miseduated western women fear their femininity, fear their natural beauty, and run away from it. … The hags we currently see in western countries resemble a clear-cut, eroded mountain. A contemporary western woman reminds one of the landscape created by the orcs in The Lord of the Rings, ugly and unnatural, a place of evil and sadness.
More to come; Alcuin’s idiocy is a renewable resource.
If women ruled the world there’d be no wars, just a bunch of jealous countries not talking to each other. :p
Owwwwwwwwwww… The irony, it burns…
Also, remind me when I finally reanimate my father to tell him he was upper class instead of working class. Who knew?
Oh, one more thing…
Says the guy whose blog, named after himself, is based on anger. See my comment above re: burning irony.
“Your body is a wonderland. Specifically, Mordor.”
Hengist – Women were in charge of the Cold War?
Who knew.
You know what irks me the most about this kind of thinking? In the past I’ve had -one- relationship where I wasn’t the primary bread winner and didn’t pay for almost everything. I’ve been in three relationships in my life. My first boyfriend was the kind of guy who would pay for things if he could and usually tell me no thanks when I offered to pay. My second boyfriend was younger than me and more than happy to let me use my money to pay for everything. My third and eventual ex-husband made less than I did, hated that I was doing better and resented me buying most everything. Yet he still took what I provided and happily smoked pot on his way through two and a half years of college that he eventually dropped out of because he couldn’t handle it and because I divorced his ass.
Now you tell me; who was thinking of where their next meal was coming from in those last two relationships? By the way, at the time, I paid for most things because I had more money and I didn’t mind because, at the time, I cared about the men I was with.
“Hengist – Women were in charge of the Cold War?
Who knew.”
Since they were apparently behind so many male scientists and inventors, why not the Cold War leaders too? :p
Hengist: Behind? That’s your definition of being in charge? Spending one’s life stuck behind someone else’s ass? Gee, I didn’t know the Taliban were a feminist movement — they require women to be behind men upon pain of vicious beating.
If anyone identifies as asexual which really just means “a” as in non… Then I highly doubt they want to be raped. Logic fail. Also as a side note there are quite a few male asexuals out there. The founder of AVEN and one of the bigger faces for the visibility of asexual people is male. On the forums at AVEN I see just as many male posters as female.
What is a womans “natural beauty” anyway? I mean if she is naturally beautiful then she could look that way no matter if she wears a dress or a pair of pants. I see less girly women being more natural since they don’t wear a lot of make up or fake hair or nails… Must be that logic thing again. (not that being girly if you want to is a bad thing)
Is your nickname ironic, or something? I meant “behind” as in “the real power behind the throne” kind of thing, just like all those women who were the real brains behind famous scientists and whatnot. My fault, I forgot feminists aren’t exactly famed for their sense of humor.
(the above was directed at Amused, obviously).
Alcuin sure does like to talk out of his ass. Rather than spout off his theories on women’s sexuality and rape fantasies, he should try talking to actual women to understand them. It was like chuckeedee a while back trying to link rape fantasies with street harassment. I’m not going to pretend to be an expert on men’s sexuality, so why are so many MRA’s pretending to be experts on women’s sexuality?
Gee, I didn’t know the Taliban were a feminist movement — they require women to be behind men upon pain of vicious beating.
Wrong, they walk in front now, because of the landmines.
Hengist: I admit humbly that I would never compete with an MRA or a misogynist in the Sense of Humor Department. In my defense, though, obsessively studying real history may have robbed me of any ability to laugh at stupid jokes. It was underwhelming to learn, for example, that all those stories about “the real power behind the throne”, told throughout history, are bullshit. Otherwise, especially beloved royal wives and favored royal servants would not so frequently find themselves murdered or executed. (And men wouldn’t so strenuously object to being relegated to the position of éminence grise, self-effacing husbands, quietly influencing policy made by women in a world officially run ONLY by women. Whatssamatter, boys? The only way to have real power is to have NO power, right?) Also, no, the Dutchess of Portsmouth never had any influence on royal policy.
@thebionicmommy: You only say that because you are a humorless bitch. Meanwhile, Hengist here is working hard making HUMOR, and you can’t even appreciate it, you dessicated feminist clipfish. He’s talking out of his ass on purposes, because ass is funny.
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I actually don’t think this is willful stupidity of the kind that drives most MRA-isms. This actually seems more like science illiteracy.
We are not saying that Babbage was a chump. The Difference Engine work done by him was no less critical than that done by Lovelace. But all of that work needed to be done, and there’s little evidence that Babbage had another collaborator who could have. I’m also not clear on whether Babbage himself could have done that work in a much longer timeframe, nor on how much time he would have had to work alone. However, Babbage’s contributions are not undervalued. He is actually remembered as the father of Computers… except if he’s the father, Lovelace is the mother (Had Ada Lovelace been Adam Lovelace, then Computer Science would have two fathers). Her work was equally critical.
Technology and science rarely depend on one person; I strongly suspect it’s hyperbole to say we wouldn’t have computers at all without Lovelace, or even without Lovelace and Babbage. But they likely would have come later, and history would likely be different for it (And we almost certainly wouldn’t have the same level of computer technology as we do now).
Now, I don’t know the situation at all with the work on genes, so I won’t comment. But it sounds more like the claim is stolen research than ‘woman behind the man’.
I have beef with the allegation that we’re all a bunch of stuck-up doctor’s daughters. My father is a mechanic. At one time, he owned and operated the family gas station, but currently he just repairs cars. Thanks to his upbringing, I’m pretty handy with a wrench, and I can change my own oil and tires (I even taught my fiance how to). Dirty hands/fingernails are by no means foreign to me (hell, even if I didn’t know how to do those things, I’m an STNA–fecal matter and other bodily fluids are a regular part of the job, though luckily we have gloves for that). I’m also actually the very first person in my family to go to college. But you know, making sweeping generalizations is cool too.
Yeah, pretty sure “asexual” doesn’t mean what he thinks it means. But I’d like to hear more about this “sexless marriage epidemic”. I bet it envolves feminized, mangina husbands, who can’t give their wives the violent, cave man sex their biologically wired to want, even if they say they don’t. Do I win anything?
Amused and Rutee: Thank you for perfectly illustrating the “dour, humorless feminist” stereotype. Let me guess, if someone off-handedly mentioned that, I dunno, Superman is better than Batman, you have a five-paragraph essay with bibliography and footnotes ready for them the next day, to prove them wrong? It was a joke in response to Holly. Good God, you people must be fun at parties.
What are the chances that the “arrogant flick of the hair” he’s so enraged by is the woman in question’s response to his street harassment? I say ninety-six per cent.
Another blue collar girl here (raises hand). I’m the first person in my family to go to college. My father drove a route van filling vending machines and my mother was a secretary (now retired). A major click moment for me was around the age of twelve or thirteen, when I realized that my mother worked all day just like my father did, and yet while he went into the living room to watch television the moment he got home, she came home, cooked dinner, cleaned up, and washed dishes, and usually didn’t get off her feet until 9PM. My father had passed away by the time I went to college, so it was myself and my mother who worked our asses off to put me through.
If you toss a dud, don’t blame the audience. (“Is this thing on?” tap, tap) Your joke was stupid.
He’s right about the next meal, though. I fancy soup. I’m off to follow an arbitrarily chosen bloke around town, baying for soup.
I find his use of the “clear-cut mountain” comparison ironic, given that the modern conception of “women’s natural beauty” (in the U.S. at least) involves the compulsory removal of body hair.
And as far “doctor’s daughters” remark is concerned; I consider myself a feminist, there are no doctors in my family at all, and I’m broke. And also a dude.
What are the chances that the “arrogant flick of the hair” he’s so enraged by is the woman in question’s response to his street harassment? I say ninety-six per cent.
I’m guessing it’s a woman who has no idea he exists picking some lint out of her hair or something as he watches from a safe distance, glaring.
Deep, psychotic imbalance such as the type wrought by feminism and by liberals in general will necessitate a fucking shitstorm the likes of which we’ve hardly seen.
HERE COMES THE SHITSTORM!
I think from now on I will communicate only in Mr. Show clips.
I don’t even think he was trying to really kid. I could have bought that if it was the first thing he said it only about his first post. That had the structure of a joke, albeit not a good one.
But he actually defended the idea that women were in charge of cold war, or could be in charge. That didn’t have a structure remotely approaching that of humor; that was a fact claim, on which he was wrong. And when pressed, he decides to say, what? That this fact claim is also a joke?
If he wanted to use that old ‘humorless feminist’ saw, he should have deployed it immediately, when Holly was talking about the cold war. At this point, and after hte fact claims, it’s too little, too late. You’re just stupid, Hengist, but we knew that.