Here’s an utterly charming response to internet trolls – in song and dance! Thanks, Clever Pie and Isabel Fay! And thanks, Jill Filipovic of Feministe, for passing on the link.
Unlike the videos from Armageddon1115 I posted earlier today, this one is really worth watching.
You can find the full lyrics on YouTube; here are some of my favorite bits:
Well hello friend Mister Insightful
Thank you for your comment on my little Youtube clip!
Most people say you’re cruel and spiteful,
But you’re right, how do I sleep at night? I am a massive prick. …
Some might say you are a…
Sexually aggressive, racist, homophobe, misogynistic,
Cowardly, illitterate, waste of human skin,
Sexually aggressive, racist, homophobe, misogynistic,
Cowardly, iliterat, waste of human skin,
But I say: thank you beautiful stranger. …
I’m really sure that if I met you
You probably wouldn’t rape me like you promised that you would
We are like “that”; I really get you
You’re right about that laughing kid, he is a total “cnut”.
You wished me cancer and misspelled “cancer”
But I know that it’s a metaphor. You hope that I will grow,
Just like the tumour you hoped would kill me
Inside the tits on which you said you’d also like a go.
Pure joy.
And let me offer my own personal thanks to all the Man Boobz haters! Hey, “guy who posts on The Spearhead and elsewhere as Nugganu,” every time you tell me you hope I “get … anally raped one day. for real, yeah,” in comments from this IP address, and this one, it gives me yet more reason to continue on, mocking and exposing you complete douchewaffles.
How much time u spend on 4chan?
“I maintain that without a healthy minimum of unbridled free-floating negativity – or maybe a good deal more than that healthy minimum – there is … no creativity …”
I can think of exactly one famous artist who was constantly told zir art was worthless and kept doing it anyways — van Gogh. There is a fundamental difference between “hmm, I like the subject, but maybe crop this bit here out?” and “u black basterd ur films are shit an if i ever see u in the street i’m gonna cave ur head in” (sic, and shit just quoting that feels wrong).
I. LOVE. THIS.
Now, who wants to join me in writing an off-Broadway musical around this?
Argenti: The MRM maintains that being called a creep is one of the worst possible things that can happen to a man.
It’s right up there with being sexually assaulted in it’s horrors.
Pecunium — yeah I know, and think it silly, but I wanted to leave open the “did you me mean?” question, because being a creep is definitely worse than being called a creep.
Morgan — Ahh a musical! *hides* …I’ll do the set design as long as I’m not expected to enjoy the show… (great, now I have bits of the music man stuck in my head >.< )
Morgan:
Haters would be an awesome subject for a musical. Especially with an on-stage representative of the haterati to rip into every scene and put the audience in their place for just showing up. Don’t just break the 4th wall of theater – dynamite it and jump up and down on the bits.
Tulgey:
I basically agree that bigotry, sexism, and irrational support of the status quo is disgusting – but I remain convinced that despite the sum of human endeavors, humanity is finally too deeply, broadly, determinedly fucked up to base a solid civilization on anything but fear and loathing of the Other. I hope to Hell I’m wrong.
‘Nother thing…I suspect that hatertude is, in most cases, an irreversible condition.
You can recover from being a hater OF this or that particular thing; that happens when minds open and sun shines in. But being an equal opportunity hater? Your brain cells will find some way to burn when the sun rays hit. After so much hatred, the switch gets jammed on, and only some traumatic, nearly life-destroying event can unjam it.
Read about George Wallace sometime. It took a would-be assassin’s bullet and years in a wheelchair to turn him around. So there’s hope. But probably not before a lot of despair.
Good news is misanthropy is a self-perpetuating cycle so they’re likely to cause themselves enough despair to reach that point.
raoul, my thoughtful response to you: trollololololololololololol
I’ve had snippets of this in my head for days now. Particularly ‘You wished me cancer, and misspelled cancer’.
And mine backatya: Trololololol lololol lololol…hahahahaHA!
(in memoriam Eduard Khil 1934-2012)
Raoul: A bit of free-floating negativity’s a good thing?
OK, you’re a pustulent bottom-feeding moron without the sense to feed yourself on anything but the bile you spew forth onto the internet. Your logic is atrocious, your views repellent, and your overall value to society approximately that of an unpleasant scum of algae that photosynthesises so slowly it doesn’t even produce any more oxygen than it respires.
The experience of having you in this conversation is like mouth ulcers, if mouth ulcers had wriggling tentacles and oozed necrotic filth that filled my mouth with a taste of rot and death.
I think that’s enough for now, I don’t really do insulting people very often and the practice is useful.
[DISCLAIMER: I don’t actually care very much, I just felt like practicing overblown insults and Raoul’s position appears to support doing so for no adequately-explicable reason.]
Nice all-purpose opener. But more specifics would be welcome.
What a surprise that she misses misandric, hell, misandry is coming up as a spelling mistake even while I write this in the comment. But when someone comes to a video discussing how messed up parental rights are for men or how men die earlier than women yet get a fraction of spending on their health issues and tells them to STFU because we all live in a patriarchy that doesn’t count really…
“GingerSnaps — I’m going to assume that “creep” is a substitution for my “asshole” and not directed at me, please let me know if I’m being creepy so I can cease being creepy.”
Yeah, that. MRAs hate getting called a creep more than anything, so stomping ruthlessly on oppressed classes would be better explained using the word “creep” instead of asshole, in the scenario you presented.
raoul: Very hard to be specific when I don’t know much about you and don’t actually care.
MRA: Actually I’m all for promoting male health issues- two spring to mind for me, which are prostate cancer and spreading awareness of the fact that men can get breast cancer. There are some male-specific problems about. That doesn’t negate the female-specific problems that exist either, and harping on about how women are horrible doesn’t really help with that.
Re: “men die earlier than women” — that difference is down to a 2-3 year difference in the US — have a chart. Also, this could be a matter of biology, as it’s true even in the womb and neonatal period (see wiki). The other main theory will make MRAs scream — higher levels of patriarchy are correlated with higher levels of male mortality (the study is peer reviewed, and available here).
@AA: don’t you know nothing kills a thread faster than facts? It’s like kryptonite to them.
Also, @Raoul: so you believe that because people are generally mean, the solution is more mean? And if you’re just mean enough, that might make them nicer? Bullshit in the highest degree. Peace, love and understanding changed me from what I was to what I am. Do you call me non-existent?
Er, that should be @Argenti. Since you’re not Alcoholics Anonymous. Curse my slow reading of posts that went up while I was out!
Didn’t you shout about how wrong it is to dox people earlier? I guess if you’re mad enough, it’s okay to post traceable information… are you hoping he’ll become the next Andy Warhol or something?
Huh, no feminists crawled out of the pod for that one. I guess I “sneaked in the last word.”
Nope, your comment was just too stupid. Naming someone’s other online aliases is not the same as doxxing.
At least now we know what Preggo Punchout’s main goal in life is: “sneaking” in the last word on blog threads. Aim for the stars, dude.
somebody needs attention!
Hard to sneak in the last word if you then announce to the world that you did so.