The sexy robot ladies are back! Not so much in real life, where they are still more scary than sexy, but in the fervid imagination of dudes who hate real ladies. Like Eric here, on The Spearhead:
When I first came to the MRM, there was a story in the news about a Japanese robotics engineer who had made a female android. It really wasn’t much more than a fairly realistic-looking doll; although there was quite a bit of discussion at the time for the potential to improve on the design. The main thing was that it’s invention caused a fury from the feminists. Even at that early stage in my MRA days, I could see the reason: for the first time women were looking the very real possibility that they could become expendable.
Well, “expendable” only if you view women as little more than support systems for their vaginas.
Personally, I’m more into foreign girls than virtual sex. But the same principle applies: as long as there are alternatives to feminists, the feminists are expendable. They don’t have the power to convert every woman on the planet; and even if they could they can’t stop men from building robots.
Please, build those robots, and lock yourselves away with them forever, and leave the rest of us alone.
Elsewhere in the same thread on The Spearhead we get some examples of why it’s a problem when Men Who Really Should Be Going Their Own way … don’t. A fellow calling himself Rmaxd apparently suggested that men who feel themselves to have been mistreated by the courts should: “Lynch a judge as you would any traitor or dictator.”
His comment was deleted, and heavily criticized — apparently for not being circumspect enough in his threatening language. After all, our dear friend JeremiahMRA got mostly upvotes on The Spearhead for a similarly threatening remark just the other day. And elsewhere in the very same thread as Rmaxd’s now-deleted comment we find a fellow called freebird suggesting that men who have allegedly suffered because of women should
share this pain with those inflicting it.
cue up “blood on the plow”
Meanwhile, again in the same thread, a commenter called walking in hell brings up the example of Thomas Ball, the MRA who self-immolated on the steps of a Keene, New Hampshire courthouse a year ago in hopes that his dramatic death would inspire other men to (quite literally) burn down police stations and courthouses using Molotov cocktails. (You can read Ball’s manifesto, complete with its call for MRA terrorism though without the specific instructions on how to make effective Molotov cocktails, on A Voice for Men, in its “activism” section; search the page for “burn” to go directly to his advocacy of terrorism.) Walking in hell also thinks family court judges should be “punished” for their alleged “crimes,” by which he means denying some fathers visitation.
[R]esponsibility for such heinous crimes against children can behold an individual to a special kind of punishment.
We see the nervous squirming by judges in the Australia case marked by the judge issuing an apology. We also see nervous squirming in the UK with the evildoers trying to issue fake political gestures to angry people.
The evildoers must smell something besides fire and brimstone. The sooner they get to the fire and brimstone, the better off children and fathers will be.
Apparently this vaguely threatening language was vague enough to pass muster on The Spearhead; this comment got more than a dozen upvotes.
The sooner you fuckers build those sexbots you like to talk about so much, the better for all of us.
…Gun-toting goths with superpowers?
I need this in my life. Someone do something with it that isn’t a terrible vampire movie? Pretty please?
ahahahahaahaaaa
this is the apotheosis of Old Man Yells At Clouds
Dracula — you can basically skip 2 and 3 and 4 will still make sense, the only thing it really has in common with the others is the Selene/Micheal relationship. Three is Lucien’s backstory with Beckinsale playing Sophia though, and two is um…I just watched it and all I’ve got is “showing off how powerful the elders are”. Four is in 3D, so the werewolves are even more awesome (and the pseudo-plot is it being the aftermath of us finding out vampires and werewolves exist, and in an utterly predictable moment, purging them both). Three is basically Lucien’s love story though, and very cheesy at points — four has learned that it’s vampires, they kill things. Having gone into 4 expecting it to bore me to tears, the non-stop action was a pleasant surprise (idk, it might actually be the best of them, but it does require you give a shit about Micheal to work).
Underworld really would be a great cheesy movie if they’d just stuck to the goths with superpowers fighting other goths who happen to be hairier and less neat thing, and not involved vampires at all.
actually in retrospect that all sounds really fake
I sincerely hope we’ve seen the last of him, less because he was horrible (though he was) as because he was boring. The Brandon Experience can be well approximated solely by reading the line, “I’m Brandon! Pay attention to me! I’m better than everyone, because I’m Brandon!” roughly 10,000 times in a row.
(And as for this troll, I’m not convinced he’s Pell, considering that “pretend to be an expert on something, despite actually being an idiot with no discernible expertise in any field whatsoever” isn’t exactly a unique trolling method on the internet, but I think it’s a distinct possibility. We’ll see if he can manage to reply to me without getting my username wrong or calling anyone fat. :-p )
“this is the apotheosis of Old Man Yells At Clouds”
Ironically, my SN/nym is a mangled Latin translation of attempting to get at the concept of clouds having silver linings (I gave up on trying to find a translation for cloud or lining that worked and went with the root for ether).
And for the curious, I’m actually a month shy of 27, haven’t been 20 in the better part of a decade (I’m sure I’m still terribly young to our supposedly 45~ year old here though).
Yeah, I’m thinking Pell, that whole “older than you and a doctor” thing is very familiar.
Brandon is less really horrible and more…you know that one person at any party who always corners you and insists on rambling on and on about whatever tedious shit he’s interested in, and who will follow you round and just keep talking no matter how many times you try to get away? Like that guy, but with a grudge against feminism and some very odd ideas about gender relations.
I’d have been happy if they’d just shown them fucking eating something once in a while. Yeah, they’re only allowed to feed on animals. So let’s see them do that.
Not that I’m champing at the bit to see animals get killed, but to me the need to feed is both the central obsession and primary limitation of vampire. Sweep that under the rug and you’re not left with much.
viola — I’ve posed your question to my FWB’s email, as he worked in a video store for years, but I wouldn’t expect he’s awake at this hour (it’s nearly 2am here and he’s filming some zombie thing while working full time theatre, busy busy)
Polliwog — Brandon sounds particularly annoying, but easier to ignore than some, so idk. I’ll take your word for it that I should dread the day he returns. And idk on Pell, sure “I’m an expert” is a common trolling, but the middle aged doctor thing is exactly what Pell pulls. Guess we’ll have to wait for more evidence (or an IP check from David, though that’d also be evidence)
If anyone would like me shut the hell up about this, do let me know. Vampires are a subject it’s far too easy for me to go off on a tangent about.
Dracula — four sort of addresses that, but yeah, they seem to have a real blind spot for why it’s called the curse of vampirism and not the blessing of immorality or something.
“If anyone would like me shut the hell up about this, do let me know. Vampires are a subject it’s far too easy for me to go off on a tangent about.”
Seconding that, I can STFU if you want to try rerailing this.
Nitpicking about vampirism is far more interesting than watching trollboy wank on and on about his fake “counsellor” experience, imo.
Dracula — two does actually deal with that now that I’m thinking about it, not much, but Michael’s torn about feeding off a volunteering Selene. (And Markus eats a horse) I don’t recall Selene ever feeding, not once, though (and iirc, no one feeds from anything living in 3). Two almost treats it more as Michael coming to terms with what he is than something he will now have to do forever (and even then, it’s her volunteering and all TRU LUV! instead of dude, you’re cursed, twice over).
I find vampires interesting, personally.
Fallacy: Has it ever occurred to you that possibly the depression and isolation would be the problem, not the dollfucking? Maybe depression and isolation are bad EVEN IF someone isn’t fucking a doll! Shock horror!
Also Ruby’s whole “it’s funny when criminals get raped!” thing is bad enough, but “it’s deserved when dollfuckers get physically abused” is, I think, even worse. People who have done literally nothing wrong getting beaten up is A-Okay, sez Fallacy.
I see what you mean. Fallacy’s bullshit isn’t even informed by some twisted sense of justice. It’s just pointless cruelty. At least “They deserve it because they hurt someone.” is an actual rationale of sorts. Still royally fucked up though, obviously.
“it’s deserved when dollfuckers get physically abused”
Ozymandias, where exactly did I write that? Oh that’s right, I never did. You did however, and you also put it in quotes as if you were quoting me.
Considering everyone can go back and read exactly what I have typed, I’d call your pisspoor attempt at slander, a troll fail.
I’d call your attempt at comprehending my meaning also a complete fail.
I never said they deserved the abuse, I said it’s just something that happens. Thems are what are the called the facts.
You all think we live in the land of unicorns and kittens that can fly and that these people should be encouraged to live with their dolls and take them out if they want, completely oblivious to that fact that they will cop weird looks and possibly physical abuse for doing so. If anyone here truly doesn’t give a shit about these people, it’s you lot. So you might all want to step off your bullshit high horse of tolerance and try and consider reality and the reality is, that fucking a plastic doll and falling in love with it isn’t normal. I know it, society knows and you’re all fucking cowards who lack the balls to say you agree. Whouldn’t want to offend anyone, oh nooooooooooooooo, not even if it means encouraging the person to do thinks that place their lives at risk.
Cowardly hypocrites, the lot of you, completely brainwashed by political correctness. Try using your brains and thinking independently for once.
PS I’m a woman you dumbasses.
Time to meltdown: Unsure, because I can’t decide if the previous post counts.
Well Fallacy, at least you’re not pompous.
And yeah, I totally believe you’re a mental health professional. You simply ooze professionalism.
So… no news on how one goes to having sex with a blow doll to lusting after corpses? Come on Fallacy, I need your professional opinion on that. Does smoking marijuana also lead to using cocaine, homosexuality to pedophilia and gore movies to murder?
Victim blaming at its finest. Don’t encourage women to wear slutty clothes they will be raped! Don’t be openly gay or you might be assaulted!
Oh sure, for now they’re just wearing bow ties, but can cravats be far behind? And what of Cadbury’s Mini-Eggs? Innocent Easter time snack, or gateway to raiding robin’s nests?
*robins’
Two things I have a problem with regarding vampires:
1. When they can live of animal blood. Okay, that COULD be interested if a convinced vegetarian were turned vampire. But if you’re a human being who’s perfectly okay with eating animals, and then you become a vampire and you could go on eating animals, how’s that a curse?
2. When the writers think other vampires have silly rules to follow or silly powers. Seriously, the whole idea of vampires is COMPLETELY UNREALISTIC. You can’t have vampires that, say, burn in sunlight and can heal any damage almost instantly, but then go on about how SILLY it is that some people throughout history have believed that vampires are vulnerable to crucifixes or can turn into bats. I’m NOT saying that every vampire must have every weakness as well as every power that has ever been dreamt up… it’s perfectly okay to point out in a story that “many vampires in fiction have had this or that power or this or that weakness but our vampires don’t”. Just don’t pretend that YOUR specific collection of powers and weaknesses are somehow more logical or scientific or realistic than others, because it’s not.