The director of the first Human Centipede film – the one about a psychopathic doctor who sews three unwilling and unwitting captives together mouth-to-anus to make a sort of “centipede” — proudly declared that his film was “100% medically accurate.” That is, he found a doctor who was willing to say that if one were indeed to create such a centipede, the second and third segments (i.e., people) would be able to survive, provided that you supplemented their rather dismal diet with IV drips to give them the nutrition they were lacking.
This dubious claim to 100% accuracy came to mind today as I perused a post by the blogger who calls himself Dalrock, a manospherian nitwit with a penchant for pseudoscientific defenses of old-fashioned misogyny. In a post with the whimsical title “We are trapped on Slut Island and Traditional Conservatives are our Gilligan,” Dalrock argues that the best “solution” to out-of-wedlock births is some good old-fashioned slut shaming.
Here’s how he breaks down the (imaginary) numbers in a post that is “100% mathematically accurate” – which is to say, not accurate at all:
Assume we are starting off with 100 sluts and 30 alphas/players. The sluts are happily riding on the alpha carousel. Now we introduce slut shaming. It isn’t fully effective of course, but it manages to convince 15 of the would be sluts not to be sluts after all. This means an additional 15 women are again potentially suitable for marriage. This directly translates into fewer fatherless children. This also makes the next round of slut shaming easier. Instead of having 99 peers eagerly cheering her on her ride, each slut now has 15 happily married women shaming her and only 84 other sluts encouraging her. After the next round this becomes 30 happily married women shaming the sluts, and only 69 other sluts cheering them on, and so on. This process continues until all but the most die hard sluts are off the carousel. You will never discourage them all, but you can do a world better than we are doing today.
Why not shame the fathers as well, while we’re at it? Dalrock explains that this just doesn’t make good mathematical sense:
Start with the same base assumption of 100 sluts and 30 players. Now apply shame to the players. Unfortunately shame is less effective on players than it is on sluts, so instead of discouraging 15% of them (4.5) in the first round, it only discourages three of them. No problem!, says the Gilligan [the social conservative], at least there are now three fewer sluts now that three of the evil alphas have been shamed away, and all without creating any unhappy sluts! But unfortunately it doesn’t work that way. The remaining 27 players are more than happy to service the extra sluts. They are quite maddeningly actually delighted with the new situation. Even worse, the next round of player shaming is even less effective than the first. This time only 2 players are discouraged, and one of the other 3 realizes that his player peers are picking up the slack anyway and reopens for business. This means in net there are still 26 players, more than enough to handle all of the sluts you can throw at them.
Well, there’s no arguing with that!
Seriously, there’s no arguing with that, because it is an imaginary construct with only the most tenuous connection with how things work in the real world. “But … MATH!” doesn’t really work as an argument here, since human beings don’t actually behave according to simplistic mathematical formulas.
Film critic note: While the first Human Centipede film offered little more than a workmanlike treatment of a fantastical idea, the recently released sequel, which details the attempts of a deranged Human Centipede superfan to take human-centipeding to the next level, is actually sort of brilliant. If you like that sort of thing.
You tell me.
NWOslave, you might want to come up with a nice, long list of female leaders before you pin “Women start all the wars!” on us.
I’m pretty sure George W. Bush sent more men (and women) to fight and die than Hillary Clinton did.
“I’m pretty sure George W. Bush sent more men (and women) to fight and die than Hillary Clinton did.”
She actually just goaded Bush in private, and that’s why we’re in Iraq now. “BRING ME SILKEN PANT SUITS, GEORGE!”
what Spearhafoc said.
@zhinxy
“What do you want me to say, NWO, you statist hypocrite?”
I want you women to admit that yes, women have goaded men into war, they have screamed for “their” protection while disreguarding the lives of the men who died. How they thought of themselves first, while demanding men sacrifice themselves. They’ve used shame, lies, tears and every trick in the book so men die while they live.
But at the old manboobz site there’s only mockery. I’ve got gospel opinion science. I’ve got total State yum-yums being passed about for all the gals to level the playing field. State violence ain’t the same as personal violence, why the blood washes right off. I’ve got you, telling me you’re not a Statist as long as you can keep your precious State given right to slaughter the unborn. Abortion ain’t the law of nature, it ain’t the law of man, it ain’t the law of God, that only leaves one authority left, the State. You’ve been so indoctrinated your entire life to believe slaughtering those without a voice is a right, you can’t even see how Statist you actually are.
Let me know about that non-statist format of yours when you actually believe in the right to life. Now go run to Big Daddy and beg forgiveness.
I’m anti-war but nobody ever listens. 🙁
I must not be goading hard enough.
“I want you women to admit that yes, women have goaded men into war, they have screamed for ‘their’ protection while disreguarding the lives of the men who died. How they thought of themselves first, while demanding men sacrifice themselves. They’ve used shame, lies, tears and every trick in the book so men die while they live.”
Somehow I don’t think you’re going to get us to do this. I just want my dudes to stay the fuck home and *not* die.
How is abortion state created? That makes absolutely no sense.
So how many taxes WILL I have to pay to support your NOT statist womb police?
Man, he really isn’t going to get off his jewels and riches horse anytime soon, is he?
Slavey’s unwillingness to account for men’s responsibility in the wars they fostered, lead, and killed in, as well as suffered and died in, is almost amazing.
No, because it isn’t true. FOUR LIGHTS.
@Molly Ren
“Somehow I don’t think you’re going to get us to do this. I just want my dudes to stay the fuck home and *not* die.”
Well that’s not gonna happen princess. The big boys want a big war.
The big boys want a big war.
And they don’t want it for us. Be “us” women, or men. They want it for them.
Slave, miscarriages are nature’s abortions. We went over that last night.
@zhinxy
“How is abortion state created? That makes absolutely no sense.”
Rule #1, you can’t kill. Even if you can’t hear the screams.
Who are the “big boys”, NWOslave?
Also, what *do* you enjoy doing? Do you like tea?
@Molly
I started doing it when we had to do a wire sculpture project in art class. I made a lot of small animal sculptures, some small people. I still have half of a human skeleton that I was working on and never finished. I also made a lot of jewelry stuff out of wire. Rings, earrings, a slave bracelet thing, woven wire stuff (I was never that great at that, that takes a lot of patience to do it nicely and not bend the wire too much). I made a simple veil once for a goth-style costume that was based out of wire, plus fabric and fake flowers and beads and stuff.
Larger gauge wire’s also really useful as a base for papier mache stuff. I made a unicorn head this year out of wire, cardboard, and papier mache that I wore to a faerie festival and to the local Pride.
I have always wanted to make something big out of wire and nails (like a big spiky dog or bear or something) but have never gotten around to it.
Wire is kind of magical to me to work with because you can transform such a thin linear filament into a complicated 3-D object, or something with all these articulated parts. It is such a huge pain in the butt though, even though it is pretty forgiving since it is so bendable. That’s why I don’t really do much of it anymore.
What have you been playing around with? I always like to hear about art stuff.
My gods, NWO. People are going off to war because their government tells them to. Governments worldwide are disproportionately made up of men.
I have never met a woman that says “go off and die for me” let alone all of womankind.
Where are you getting this shit?
How will you be able to tell, NWO. How can you enforce this. Not all religions agree. Not all CHRISTIANS agree. How can you prove a woman had an abortion and not a miscarriage. What do you do? Monitor all pregnant women?
When fascism comes to the United States, they’ll call it Wombacracy, someone once said…
@hellkell
“Slave, miscarriages are nature’s abortions. We went over that last night.”
Miscarriages are when something goes wrong biologically, and it’s a tragedy. Abortion is when a woman legally murders.
@zhinxy
“How is abortion state created? That makes absolutely no sense.”
Rule #1, you can’t kill. Even if you can’t hear the screams.
Not all agree it’s killing. More to the point not all agree it’s murder. Not all religions agree. Not all ethical codes agree. How will this be enforced. If you are pro life, work on minds and hearts, not the force of law. Or you are, again, a hypocrite.
What if a man and a woman agree to terminate their pregnancy?
Is it murder if the father agrees?
Same fetus, but now you can’t blame OMG A WOMAN.
Why should I pay taxes to your State, that does not conform to my ethics of life?
We do the world no favors by pretending that there are no popularly supported wars.