Our old friend over at the Pro-Male/Anti-Feminist Technology blog is angry again. This time he’s mad at a legitimate target: National Rifle Association president Wayne LaPierre. But not because LaPierre is the head of an organization that has stood athwart every attempt at sensible gun control, making tragedies like the one in Newtown an all-too-predictable side effect of the easy availability of semiautomatic weaponry.
No, Mr. Pro-Male/Anti-Feminist Tech is made at LaPierre because he thinks the NRA big gun has turned into a feminist. No, really. Noting that in the wake of the Newtown shootings LaPierre launched a transparently opportunistic attack on violent video games, Mr. PMAFT accuses him of doing the work of the grand feminist conspiracy against men and manhood:
The most important reason why LaPierre is wrong is because what he is doing is feminist. Video games are an activity predominately enjoyed by men. So are guns. Both activities are under attack from feminists (just like other predominately male activities like science fiction are) because men are interested in them and women are mostly not interested in them. LaPierre is shooting himself in the foot (pun intended) by alienating allies among the video game community and helping out feminists in their war on male activities.
Never mind that nearly half – 47% — of those playing video games these days are girls and women, according to the Entertainment Software Association. (I await the inevitable comment from a troll telling us all that whatever games these women are playing just don’t count because blah and blah.)
What LaPierre should have done is form an alliance with the video game community. While the Newtown shootings are being used against gun owners right now, the next target will be video games and other mostly male interests and activities. Both the video game community and the gun community are fighting the same enemy, feminism. They should be working together to point out facts like how the Newtown shooter was raised by a single mother and how homes where the father is kicked out lead to more violence.
Never mind that the shooter — like virtually all mass shooters — was a dude; a woman is always to blame.
The NRA is in a position of weakness now because they are attacking video games and not the real causes of the Newtown tragedy, single motherhood and feminism. The NRA is in the same boat as the Republican Party where it needs to become an explicitly anti-feminist and pro-mens rights organization to survive. (Lots of conservative and right wing organizations are in this situation.) Guns aren’t the problem here, but neither are video games. The NRA needs to realize this and realize that its only way forward is by fighting feminism. Anything else leads the NRA to irrelevance.
So one of the most powerful lobbies in American politics needs to team up with a Men’s Rights “movement” that can’t organize a single event that draws a crowd bigger than 8 people, or else it will fade into irrelevance?
I dearly hope the NRA fades into obscurity, and I am hopeful that public opinion about guns is beginning finally to shift in the right direction, but I’m not sure the NRA needs any pointers from MRAs on political relevance.
Are you taking saucer full’o blades to the ED-209 from Hell?
My tactic right now is a sniper with Disable and an assault trooper with an Alloy Cannon and Rapid Fire. Disable gives you a turn of leeway to either get in range, or survive a round in it’s face if you fail to kill it. Pumping two shots point blank with the alloy cannon kills just about anything, and assault troopers with underarmor can take the resulting explosion without difficulty.
Blarg, finger fail. “Are you taLking saucer full’o blades OR the ED-209 from Hell?”
“Basically EA has to spend every waking second apologizing for being pissed off about sexism or else she’s a man-hater, to which I say: whatthefuckwhydoesnoonereadanymoreaaaaaaargh.”
THIS! Those pseudo-feminist pseudo-fans drive me more nuts than I already am (which is about as nuts as she is actually, the DEATH RASH drug is in the drug diary in the book)
Bonnie Tyme Pyrate XD Awesome, more the muffin =$gt; plague rat stage myself, and I just plain like plague rat (I have a thing for the Victorian era and actual plague rats, so it amuses me).
But fuck, they’re her boobs, if she wants to wear pasties, deal with it. Don’t rant about how she’s playing to the patriarchy / being too slutty. And for the love of all things holy, no she does not have to justify how this or that sounds misandrist (fuck, I wouldn’t blame her if she did hate men, you read the asylum? Not like men have given her reason not to hate them)
@Argenti
I don’t blame any women who hate men. They normally have very good reasons for it and good men should want to change men overall even more in response not get their feelings all hurt and dig in.
(They aren’t right, but they deserve to have “excuses” made for them a hell of a lot more than men do. That’s one of the main reasons I feel there is no way to compare Radfems to the MRM.)
First edition, baby 😉
Yeah, there was a correlation between her showing off her tits and her getting more famous, but Opheliac was a fucking masterpiece no matter how much boobage she shows off so I don’t see why it matters.
By DEATH RASH drug do you happen to be referring to Lamictal?
Some gal — she doesn’t hate all men, she’s doing the devil’s carnival with plenty of them. Professionally she doesn’t seem to have any issue, personally…she doesn’t want to get hurt again, or so it seems. And yeah, I can understand that.
Whataboutthemoonz — goddamned! Second edition here, and fuck do I love that book!
“Yeah, there was a correlation between her showing off her tits and her getting more famous, but Opheliac was a fucking masterpiece no matter how much boobage she shows off so I don’t see why it matters.”
Agreed, and I’m glad FLAG is so different, because trying to top Opheliac would’ve failed miserably.
And yes, lamictal (and the amnesia drug, mm breakfast!)
The violin — http://twitter.com/argentiaertheri/status/289430933570990082/photo/1
I really hope that works!
“Opheliac” is in my top three for best album of all time ever (the other two are “The Clandestine Experiment” by Cindergarden and “The Open Door” by Evanescence [shutupyesIlikeEvanescenceleavemealone]).
I went off of Lamictal cold turkey, which you’re not supposed to do for any drug like that ever, but ESPECIALLY not for Lamictal.
@Argenti
I was going off your “if she did hate.” No offense meant to EA. 🙂
Continuing wishes of good luck with the Lamictal.
OH MY GOD THAT IS SO FUCKING PRETTY! D:
I wanted a Zeta Strados for a while, but you can probably tell why.
@Argenti Aertheri
Such a cool violin. 😀
@whatsbouthemoonz
Me too! Everybody: do not do this. If you need a better doctor, do it, but do not just stop taking all your drugs at once because you are on 6 or so and feel like an overweight zombie.
Whataboutthemoonz — at least you didn’t say Lady Gaga 😉 the Zeta Strados is silly expensive, but gorgeous, and yeah I can guess why.
Some gal — I figured as much, just wanted to clarify, and thanks!
Creative Writing Student — thanks! I love the thing.
Lol I won’t though if the pharmacy doesn’t sort its shit out I may have to cold turkey off the PTSD nightmare drug (they say it’ll be in tomorrow, which it damned well better be as I’ll run out Saturday night >.< )
I am actually totally an anomaly in that while I was on Lamictal I felt like absolute shit and it did nothing to relieve my symptoms, but the very day I went off of it I felt loads better.
But yeah, that was way AMA and if you go off of drugs you should have a doctor on board do as I say not as I do.
Gotta say, you guys get some real interesting trolls here……………..
Especially in the thread I meant to post this too : P
I’m rereading wtf I said last night and holy shit my typing was made of fail! That aside —
“There is a serious problem with how soldiers are portrayed (yes, I’m looking at you Andrew Sullivan, who said that a helicopter pilot ought not be happier about helping people than killing them; and that by enlisting he agreed to become a hired gun, and kill/die on the whim of people like Sullivan; who’s not even a US Citizen, but I digress).”
What the ever loving fuck? Even if enlisting did make one a “hired gun” why the fuck shouldn’t the pilot still be happier about not having to use it and getting to help people instead?! Should we thus just be pleased with the My Lai soldiers who committed the massacre, they were hired guns using their guns, and ignore the pilot (pilots?) who intervened?!
My head might explode from the stupid.
*Also, sitting next to someone else’s blaring speaker is not helping my grammar…*
Whataboutthemoonz — is that a Thank God I’m Pretty shirt? http://www.ladies-of-ncis.com/gallery/albums/4×09/thumb_sister_778.jpg
My mother spotted it and thinks it is, certainly looks like mine but white on black (I have the black on white undershirt style one)
Argenti: Andrew Sullivan is a shit, an imposter, a fraud, a liar, and a cheat.
Those are his good points.
This is the pull-quote from the piece I’m talking about:
QUOTE FOR THE DAY I: “I’d much rather be doing this than figthing a war,” – helicopter pilot Lt. Cmdr. William Whitsitt, helping the survivors of the south Asian tsunami. Earth to Whitsitt: you’re a soldier…. I’m sorry but i pay for those soldiers to fight in a volunteer army. they are servants of people like me who will never fight. yes, servants of civil masters. and they will do what they are told by people who would never go to war. that’s called a democracy.
Here are links to my, more detailed, thoughts on the matter.
Masochism, Duty, or What? and, More on Sullied Andrew
He’s a corrupt, and spineless, morally bankrupt, shill for racists; eugenicists and Big Tobacco. That he’s still being paid to pervert public discourse is a shame.
Sounds like wonderful piece of humanity right there. *sigh* If soldiers were truly citizen controlled, would we even still be in the Middle East? (I’m seriously asking)
He also fails at capitalization >.<
I hate to do this to you, but I’m pretty sure EA ripped off the kneeling skeleton design. So I do think that’s the same art, but not actually EA related 🙁
Duuuuude…. Since when does signing up mean giving up basic humanity? Fuck, that EA quote we were discussing last night got that much at least — that she hopes signing up wouldn’t cost that guy his humanity. Sure she said it poorly, but at least she wasn’t trying to claim that humanity was a bad trait for soldiers!
HOLY SHIT FUCK DAMN!
Whataboutthemoonz — the design being older than her use doesn’t surprise, I think I’ve seen it or similar on old plague woodcuts and the like. Abby’s played Android Lust in the lab though, so idk, I’d not be surprised if she played EA.