Apparently there’s a movie in theaters now by the name of The Hunger Games – it’s sort of obscure, so you may not have heard of it. Despite the title, it does not have anything to do with food. No, apparently it has something to do with young people fighting to the death on TV, or something.
Over on the Fox News website, Dr. Keith Ablow – described as “a psychiatrist and member of the Fox News Medical A-Team” – is shocked to discover that this film contains:
1) Attractive young people
2) Violence
This deadly combination alarms Dr. Ablow, who warns:
The Hunger Games … adds to the toxic psychological forces it identifies, rather than reducing them. …
It is an entertainment product of complete fiction and great potency, given its intense level of fantasy and violence. As such, it only conveys young people closer to “expressing” in a virtual format their powerful and primitive instincts (potentially kindling their desire to truly express such instincts) while conveying them further from their daily realities and a little further still from their real selves.
And apparently the film fails utterly in inculcating hostility towards the Kardashian family.
Almost no one will emerge from a theater swearing off shows like the Keeping Up With the Kardashians, or Jersey Shore because they are produced by adults happy enough to make a buck off of stupefying teenagers.
As I am sure you are all aware, inculcating hostility towards the Kardashians is the aim of all great art, as Aristotle explained so many centuries ago:
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious, and also, as having magnitude, complete in … with incidents arousing pity and terror, with which to accomplish its purgation of these emotions. Those Kardashian girls are such stuck up bitches — “ooh i got a big ass, everybody look at me!” And don’t even get me started on Snooki.
Hey, can I get a goddamn gyro here?
That quote is, of course, from Aristotle’s famous treatise “Ho-etics.”
In addition to not inculcating hatred towards the Kardashians, Dr. Ablow warns us, The Hunger Games will make its viewers
more likely to come out of theaters having shed some measure of the healthy psychological defenses (which are, luckily, partly reinforced by socialization) that keep them at a distance from their violent impulses. …
Other than entertaining millions and millions of teenagers and making millions and millions of dollars, the net result of The Hunger Games is likely to be:
1) Females will be further distanced from their traditional feminine characteristics that … suggested they were not being real “girls” if they were extremely physically violent.
2) Young teens and many pre-teens will be awakened to the fact that they are capable of extreme violence, given the right set of circumstances.
3) A few psychologically vulnerable teens—who would have come to no good anyhow—may be inspired to replicate the film’s violence.
So I’m guessing that’s a big “thumbs down” from Dr. Ablow.
Given that the mainstream media is but a tool in the hand of our gynocentric matriarchal overlordsladies, I’m not quite sure how this article slipped through. But we’re lucky it did.
Over on What Men Are Saying About Women, where I found big chunks of Ablow’s essay quoted without any explanation of where they were from, our good friend Christian J. explains that:
This movie is straight out of the slut-feminists’ arsenal of the “You Go Grrrllll” mantras. They have promoted violent women and will continue to do so (think Valerie Solanas). Slut-feminists justify this action under their delusional and blatantly false claim that women should be able to protect themselves as they are constantly attacked and physically abused on a daily basis, everywhere they go..
Where they get that from is ofcourse by generating their own falsified and doctored statistics which they have done for too long to remember.
If anyone suggests you go see The Hunger Games, they are probably a slut feminist. You should run far away from them in case they decide to punch you.
Go watch old episodes of The A-Team instead, a show which is totally not violent in any way.
Antz, go masturbate somewhere else.
Also, I don’t understand, does Ablow think hating the Kardashians is a good thing or a bad thing?
Morgan, do you mind if I start using delta bravo? I get untold numbers of them some days…like the guy who tried flushing an entire can of halved peaches and caused a flood in the apartment below, which caused the plaster to fall which landed on someones head….and its not the first flood this guy has started…
MRAs are so powerful! They strike down Obamacare, they strike down VAWA! My cereal went soggy awfully fast this morning… AntZ, was that you??
@Derpwood
No can do. I am on probation at TGMP (won’t last long). Back home to mama.
Speaking of TGMP, I am sorry I missed the opportunity to deliver a knockout punch when the boob king took on Typhon. I was dropping stink bombs elsewhere, and I missed that outrage. I am kicking myself for that. Typhon deserves better from the MRM attack dog.
Bigots sad religion FOREIGN BRIDE virtual reality Mississippi divide.
And it even rhymes. I’ll just imagine AntZ rapping that.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!! This dude can’t be for real, Are we sure AntZ isn’t a performance artist, or a 10 year old?
Haha, “knockout punch.”
Not every time you flail your fists around at random is a punch, dude. Never even mind “knockout.”
At least you know you’re dropping stink bombs, Antz. I guess that’s something.
Go play with your FOREIGN BRIDE, mkay?
Yeah, all those “friends” of Typhons. And not one could spare a moment to defend her.
Maybe they were worried about damage to their credibility for white knighting.
Hey Antz, she’s a big girl with privilege so why does she need you to stand up and defend her? I mean really, she should be taking responsibility for her own life right?
Quoted for truth.
In other news, there have been quite a few years ever since the 1950s, Dr. Ablow. The kind of girls who would dismiss the female protagonist of a movie as “not a real girl” for being violent are likely few and far between these days. I’m just saying this because I think he may not know.
HAHAHA okay I just got the “medical A-Team” thing. I can’t wait to see all their other A-Teams. Bluster, Propaganda, Flag-Fellating, etc., these A-Teams all have something to contribute.
Puerile and ineffective; that fits you.
Is being prone to delusions of grandeur necessary to be an MRA, or merely helpful?
Abject lies. It falls under general health, you idiot. We’ve been over this with you before, and you continue to lie like a cheap rug.
Wait, so someone hijacked a GMP thread to complain about my post on TyphonBlue?
Pillowinhell, oh for sure, I didn’t mean that as some kind of proof that kids aren’t exposed to super duper violent shit on a daily basis just that some (dumb) commentators probably figure “well at least that stuff’s only for adults!” even though not all of it is and even if it were, it’s not like it’s hard for kids to get (see also: the internetz).
But yeah, as others have mentioned, the idea that teenage girls don’t already know that violence exists, that they themselves can be violent – pretty stupid to begin with.
Newsflash Antz. Those delicate little wimminz girls didn’t exist so much in the 50’s either. If accounts from women who grew up then are anything to go by.
@David
Nope, I was unaware of your Typhon post because I was distracted by other goings on at TGMP. They put me on admin over there, so I came here and found out, to my dismay, that you have been a naughty boy behind my back.
If Faux News existed 200 years ago…
Breaking News!!! According to Faux News Doctors Recent Opera Fidelio Will Make Teen Girls Violent and Unfeminine!
Just recently devil-worshipping revolutionary composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his new feminist opera Fidelio. Renowned blood-letter and phrenologist Dr. Kieth Ablow gives his diagnosis:
Popular counter-revolutionary Christian J. weighs in with his insights:
I just got out of music class. I had to make this kind of of joke. 😉
Is this man related to Meller? Now that I think about it, Fox News might be the perfect place for him.
I’m actually surprised that it’s taken this long for the conservative and MRA types to discover THG. It’s almost perfectly designed to piss them off, what with the idea that the strong oppressing the weak is bad, a strong and smart female protagonist who’s not fluffy at all, and the truly shocking idea that adults don’t own children. Just wait till they get to the stuff about some of the winners being forced into prostitution, then the MRM will really lose their collective shit (or be very confused, since it’s the boys too).
I wonder if all the conservative talking heads realize that if they have teen/tween kids then the kids have probably already read the books.
The Rue racist bullshit, and now that? Now, I really want to see this movie, even though it’s the adaptation of a best seller.
I think i might be becoming a hipster, guys.
Nah, they will be too busy freaking out over Rep. Moore pointing out that violence against women is “American as apple pie.”
I think it’s good for females to be, “further distanced from their traditional feminine characteristics.” Those traditional feminine characteristics were the result of a male dominated society that expected women to be weak in order to feed the male ego. Ever wonder why we don’t faint regularly anymore?
Why is it that the same two-three names keep cropping up as feminism’s gods, yet only the MRM even mentions them? -_- If I didn’t know better, I’d say that they were trying to convince themselves that feminists believe in things that they actually don’t.
Also, are slut-feminists different from regular feminists? What other types of feminists are there?
@Ruby Probably because women aren’t lacing themselves into boned corsets and constricting their diaphragms anymore. Done of course for “beauty.” Had to have that teeny tiny waist.
I wonder if that’s part of what’s got them pissed off. Because we know they don’t care about those “few psychologically vulnerable teens—who would have come to no good anyhow”. I mean, who cares about them, amirite?
Tangentially, I always feel this “they’ll come to no good anyhow” schtick is kind of a self-fulfilling oft used thing of the conservative right.
“Why should we put more money into schools? Public education sucks anyhow.”
“We should get rid of Social Security. Seriously kids, you think Social Security will be there for you in 50 years?”
etc, bootstraps, etc