Back in the day – way, way back in the day – dudes opposed to women’s suffrage loved to depict suffragettes as ugly spinsters (that is, when they weren’t depicting them as sexy young women using their feminine wiles to manipulate men into supporting suffrage). We looked at some examples of this yesterday and noted that, when it comes to dismissing feminists as uggos, some things never change.
But why, oh why, are feminists so (allegedly) ugly? Or, to turn the question around, why are so many (allegedly) ugly women (allegedly) drawn to feminism?
Well, we’re in luck, because some manosphere dickwads have stepped forward to provide us with possible explanations.
Over on Freedom Twenty-Five, the “red pill” Casanova who calls himself Frost offers this theory:
Feminism is the set of ideologies whose aim is to redistribute the natural allocation of access to desirable men. It is Marxism in the Sexual, rather than Economic Marketplace.
Frost is so proud of this sentence of his that he puts it in bold, as I have. He continues:
The ultimate goal of the Feminist is to create a world in which all women are as hideous and awful and dead inside as they are, so that everyone can have an equal timeshare in the alpha harems, and everyone’s fatherless offspring can be raised by the same uninspired bureaucrats in the same grey-walled, concrete and plate-glass buildings.
I can confirm that this is indeed the ultimate goal of feminism; we talk about it at all the secret meetings. The penultimate goal? To get Sleater-Kinney back together again.
Frost breaks it down:
– Feminists tend to be some combination of fat, old, ugly, abrasive, and slutty.
– Feminists want to convince men that we should be attracted to fat, old, ugly, abrasive sluts.
– Feminists want to convince women that it is OK for them to be fat, old, ugly, abrasive sluts. They want desirable women to become fat, old, ugly, abrasive sluts, so that the feminists no longer look so bad in comparison.
– Related to (1) and (2), Feminists want to convince men and women that it is immoral for men to not be attracted to fat, old, ugly, abrasive sluts.
This is why Feminism is working so passionately to ruin American women. [Who benefits] from the widespread adoption of feminist beliefs that destroy our once-slim, once-feminine, once-nurturing women? The answer, first and foremost, is the women who were already destroyed to begin with.
Feminists know that, in a monogamous world where everyone pairs up with an equally desirable mate, they could only ever earn the favour of weak, bottom-feeding men. Feminist ideology, i.e. the hysteric and childish whining about Patriarchy, Shaming Language, and Socially Constructed Gender Roles, is no more than the set of rationalizations with which they seek to drag the rest of womankind down to their level.
Over on the blog of a fellow named Anatoly Karlin, meanwhile, a commenter calling himself fcomp has a similar theory to explain why so many feminists are (allegedly) fat fatties.
If you think about it, there is a strong rationale [sic] self interest between feminism and the increase of female obesity. If feminism is to be defined as increasing the societal power of women, then it would serve them well for their to be more obese women.
Go on.
The desirability of a women to a man is far more objective then subjective. If women were to be, across the board, more attractive, if all women became, at minimum, 6s, men who ended up marrying 6s, the men who would be the lowest in male desirability in such a society, wouldn’t nearly be as unhappy as men who end up marrying 1s in our society.
I’m not quite sure that fcomp really understands how averages work. Lake Wobegon aside, you can’t actually have a world in which all women are above average in “objective” desirability.
The logical result of that, is that in such a beautiful society, ironically, the value of female beauty would become far less valuable, and beauty would be far less desired. If there isn’t a chance that one might end up with a landwhale, I suspect that most men would hardly bother with stuff like game and the like. I would imagine that such a society would experience little sexual discrimination, but at the same time, be very anti-female, in the sense that women who are competitive with men in economically productive fields would be quite successful, but at the same time, “feminine virtues”, a females capacity attracting men, the only area in which women surpass men, would be far less valued.
If all women are beautiful, then no women are beautiful?
There is a upper cap on female attractiveness, which are the feminine ideals hardwired into us by evolution, but there is no downward cap. … [F]eminism is intrinsically a downward trend because the only thing a beautiful women can do to that makes herself more desired in a society, is to reduce the amount of beauty in that society.
The blogger on whose blog this muddled comment was posted, Anatoly Karlin, is so impressed with fcomp’s theory that he highlights it in a post of his own, adding
This is why your typical Third Wave feminist or rape activist is fat, has a manjaw, or is otherwise unattractive.
If you are ugly, devaluing beauty is not bad evolutionary strategy.
On a blog called Misanthropy Today, meanwhile, Dan Y. is not only convinced that (most) feminists are ugly; he also seems bitter that anyone would dare criticize him for calling women ugly.
[M]ost women who try to guilt us out of using looks as a criterion for judgment tend to not be very attractive. It makes sense that someone lacking in a certain perceived quality would want to dissuade others from assigning value to that quality, and would want those who possessed that quality to be humble and not flaunt it. It also seems extremely self-centered and petty to try to convince others to think and feel a certain way just so we can marginalize our lesser qualities. …
Feminists’ cries of outrage at man’s obsession with physical beauty are not altruistic. They are … upset that other women are benefitting from a quality that they don’t and probably never will possess. Their own perceived value relative to better-looking women will inevitably increase if looks are dismissed as unimportant.
Apparently, suggesting there’s more to a person than conventional attractiveness = shallow and petty. But basing your judgment of a particular women largely on whether or not she gives you a boner is the height of sophistication.
As these guys show again and again, real ugliness is more than skin deep.
Isn’t this just a lot of fun to hear this from the same kind of people who keep whining about “friend-zoning” and “not getting dates” and “alpha cocks” and “creep shaming”?
Polliwog, that is all sorts of awesomeness. I’ve been wanting to make a Batgirl but I’m utterly failing at her cowl.
Katz that is objectively the second best costume ever.
I want Katz’s hair!
Unfortunately I am terribly, terribly lazy. My hair’s supposed to be red and black but it’s been baby-pink and black since about the beginning of summer since if I have four hours free I don’t want to spend it fannying about trying not to dye the carpets. I am still at a loss as to why it’s impossible to buy permanent bright red hair dye, all you can get is shitty semi-permanent stuff which means you have to re-dye it once a month or just let it fade >:(
/off-topic hair-based rant
^Ugh, don’t I know it! The colors are fading out at different rates. The green was already mostly gone when I took those pictures. Now the yellow and purple are still pretty strong, but the red, orange, and cyan have faded a lot. Demand permanent primary-color dyes!
Katz: have you tried using vegetable food colorings and a moderate mordant?
These Mra’s have no idea what they are talking about regarding Feminists being fat and ugly. My girlfriends *gasp* are actually attractive-successful–passionate and not “fat pigs!” And so what if some Feminists are not attractive to them?! These women don’t give a fuck what these idiotic-uneducated-sexist bastards think of them! “Mra’s” have such ridiculous “theories!!” I was laughing very hard reading them!! These guys can’t be for real. First-we live in a patriarchy, so men are in control of society, and second-these guys claim to be pro-male but are actually anti-female. They poo poo rape and other important women’s issues..they love to try and degrade and insult us American women. Great. Some “movement.” Sounds like a “bowel movement” to me:)
ugly is ugly, hott is hott. get that through your ugly face. bitches have literally no value other than physical attractiveness, ass, pussy and tittties. obviously im not gonna hang out with an ugly one
You know when a kitten is stalking some “prey” and it’s adorable and you tell her what a big, strong hunter she is?
You’re such a macho, manly man, ofc. Now run along and play with your Legos or whatever it is boys your age do.
As if any woman is hanging out with ofc except in his rich fantasy life.
There are both many positive and many negative aspects to being a woman in today’s society. Unfortunately many of the positive aspects seem to be tied to our attractiveness, and therefore unattractive women seem to experience all of the negative aspects and none of the positives.
I believe this is why unattractive women are drawn to feminism and feminists have a disproportionately large amount of “ugly” women.
@chloe, that may be the most mind-blowing example of anti-feminist misogyny wrapped in feminist thought I have ever seen. Congratulations, I guess.
Oh dear, did we just witness baby’s first attempt at a political argument? She really should practice in private for a while before taking that show on the road.
@ Chloe
Not flippin’ “Chloe” again. The stupid, it burns!
Also, didn’t we have a dumbass named Chloe show up recently? I hope this isn’t The Stupid: Part 2.
did chloe have extra-ridiculous shtick or just regular trollery?
Chloe is RavenLaight, and has been banned: She has been harassing me on my blog. The veneer of civility is long gone.
Oh ho, time to drop David a line, then.
Poor pecunium. Why do they always follow you home? At least when that happens with stray cats it’s cute.
Why can’t they stay away?
Chloe: if you’re going to be dumb enough to come back here, thread necro is not the way to roll. You’re so smart? HA.
oh, yeah … Ugh X|
Sorry she’s being so awful towards you. 😐
This may be a different Chloe — different IP, ostensibly from different part of the world, FWIW — but her opening salvo was trollish enough that I think I’ll just go ahead and ban her regardless.
Proactive banning, I like it!
Is there any way we could get rid of Eurosabra while you’re in a banning frame of mind?