So when I was poking around on Roosh’s Return of Kings blog the other day I ran across a guest post from someone calling himself Samseau accusing feminists of using racism to exploit men – that is, of expertly manipulating men of different races to fight one another instead of standing firm against the evil feminists and their evil agenda.
The post, while purporting to be somehow “above” the issue of race, is a muddled mess full of “white men have it worst” nonsense like this:
[R]acial infighting between American men wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the political consequences.
Women, if you haven’t noticed, do not fight with each other over racial conflicts. They might get angry over the past, but they are able to resolve all issues by agreeing on a scapegoat: the white man. Colored women will gladly forgive their white sisters, since, after all, it was the white man who oppressed women and minorities.
White men are the big, bad, evil masters, and as such, all females of different colors can agree to put aside their differences in order to bring the white man down.
Yes, he did indeed use the term “colored women.” Oh, but there’s more.
The election results show that decades of brainwashing young American boys has been an unqualified success. Rather than have boys be loyal to their gender, boys have instead been trained to be loyal to their race.
Little non-white boys at the tender age of 9 years are fed lies about how white male oppressors created their poor living conditions, while white boys are taught that they need to correct the injustices of their forefathers lest they be guilty with the indelible sin of white privilege. Female teachers use the appropriate shaming tactics on these young minds to imprint the intended desire for conflict.
All according to plan.
And more:
Men are pawns in the race game. Thus while American women feed themselves government largesse, jobs, university degrees, their husband’s money, and child support money, American men fight each other over table scraps.
But my favorite thing about this article is the little graph that Mr. Samseau made up to illustrate the REAL issues men face today.
Yep. Race is the least important issue, while “getting laid” is number one.
It’s a pretty revealing little chart, huh?
The comment section for the article – wade into this swamp at your own peril – is (predictably enough) filled with angry racists trying to explain why race really does matter. Others, meanwhile, seem upset that all this racism is getting in the way of the regular woman-bashing. Still others suggest that men of all races needed to understand the “root cause” of all our “multicultural problems.” That being … teh Jews.
My favorite comment of the bunch, though, has to be this, from Caliente, combining an astounding ignorance of history with some half-digested evo psych:
Btw the reason why there are practically no racist women is simple.
Males of mammals are territorial.
They naturally base they identity from bottom up: family,tribe,nation,race.And naturally react negative to males of different “tribe”.
Females at the same time are receptive to have sex with any males as long as they are alpha enough.
In 19 century whites fucked all the black women because they were alpha and they had recourses,just look at Brasil.Nowadays a feminist will be cheating on her white beta herbling with some black fitness coach because that is how her brain assumes alphaness.
Wow.
Glad we got that all settled!
mxe354, you could probably start some pretty epic/entertaining/troll-befuddling hair tips derails with us here! Hair care, hair cuts, styling tips… We’re here to help!
And more seriously, sorry about the transphobic family members, ‘cos that sucks. Internet hugs if they’re wanted.
Hey, what’s worked so far? Bra fitting tips and cooking. So, basically stuff MRAs know nothing about. I’d say that styling tips for long hair will probably fall into the same bucket.
I’ve sent Om Nom on his way. These guys are getting better at hiding their IPs.
Thanks, David. He was a lousy troll, just plain boring.
Catching up now, but whataboutthemoonz, Torvis/Varpole/Steele/Mr. Al rants over here — http://manboobz.com/2012/07/13/mens-rights-redditor-men-need-to-start-putting-government-agents-who-violate-their-rights-in-the-dirt-54-upvotes/comment-page-2/#comment-175338
And I see om nom’s gone, again, thanks!
I love the “ha ha I fooled you for some of the time” type response from troll. FFS, the key thing is that he never fooled anyone into thinking he was actually a nice guy. These trolls focus on the battle, and not the war. /facepalm
Yay mxe! (I always just kind of assumed you had long hair ’cause of your avatar, actually. :p)
Once you have long hair you can revel in the joy of growing it out slightly too long, and then getting it trimmed, and then OMG washing it the next time you’re like “MY HAIR IS SO SOFT AND UNTANGLY” and fingercomb it for like an hour. …Or maybe that’s just me. ^^
I remember I used to be like this in FPSes with cloaking.
“Why are you shooting into this corner? There’s clearly nothing there!”
“Dude, you’re there.”
“Yeah, but you didn’t know that.”
Yay mxe! (I always just kind of assumed you had long hair ’cause of your avatar, actually. :p)
Once you have long hair you can revel in the joy of growing it out slightly too long, and then getting it trimmed, and then OMG washing it the next time you’re like “MY HAIR IS SO SOFT AND UNTANGLY” and fingercomb it for like an hour. …Or maybe that’s just me. ^^
That’s exactly what I’m looking forward to. I eagerly anticipate the day I can just run my fingers through my long hair and play with it. I just hope that no one forces me to cut my hair before I can experience that. 🙁
Fuck, those quote tags didn’t work. >_< How do you quote things?
I use “”
Assuming that shows up…
Lol, okay, that didn’t work at all. Xp
I put the word blockquote inside the triangle brackets.
http://wpmu.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/blockquote-tn.jpg
@mxe it’s the html blockquote: http://html5doctor.com/blockquote-q-cite/
^ That’s how. Jeezus.
mxe, I hope no one forces you to cut off your hair! What an awful thing to do!
@katz and to add to your voice, forcing you to do that is *abuse*.
Just to set things straight: they probably won’t literally get a pair of scissors and cut my hair off. But if I am forced to cut my hair (there’s no guarantee that I’ll be forced to do so, fortunately), it’ll be through some kind of threat or form of intimidation e.g. I’ll be told that I won’t be allowed to do this or that if I don’t get a masculine haircut or I’ll be screamed at. They have yet to do things like that to me, fortunately, but I can definitely envision them doing so. Also, only the most conservative family members are like that. The people who know I’m trans are accepting of me and wouldn’t dream of trying to do something as horrible as cutting my hair.
mxe, you have a right to have your hair however you like and nobody should be able to coerce you into having a style that doesn’t feel right to you (whether you are trans or not)!
mxe — first, congrats! Second, the words “it’s on my head, I’ll do what I want with it” are your friend (mine’s to my waist, I end up saying that a lot) Also, “I don’t tell you what to do with your hair” add biting snark about the person’s hair as needed, eg “but that cut looks horrible”.
mxe354, I’m so sorry there’s intimidation and yelling from some in your family, and glad they’re not all like that. Let us know if we can help, okay. (And not just with hair tips.)
If someone made me cut my hair it would be traumatic. I’ve had long hair for a long time now and that is what I like.
I hope you can keep your hair the way you want Mxe354. I can’t imagine what it would be like to have people pressure me into cutting my hair.
It is odd how attached folks get to their hair, but my hair is definitely a large part of my identity.
Argenti, waist length? ENVY ENVY ENVY! I wanted to grow mine that long at the back when Gary Oldman’s Dracula came out, but it wouldn’t cooperate. Prolly just as well, I shudder to think how much it’d cost to get it coloured if it was that long.
mxe – RAARGH to transphobic families and to nitwits who know nothing about the history of hairdos (the same in this case). Short hair, long hair – the styles vary over time, for pity’s sake, even if puritannical nincompoops get their long woolen drawers in a knot over men with long hair or women with short hair. (Classic case of stupidity: titianblue’s link about high heels reminded me of that douche William Prynne with his 1630s rants about how women were supposed to have long hair to cover their bodies. Funny how he seemed to be unaware of this thing called clothing.)
Bagelsan – oh yes about the pleasures of washing and the feel of long hair! I’m just back from the hairdresser – love having my hair shampooed there.
Cassandra – remember the last time a big hair/skincare discussion got going? It drove Frothy from the scene, so yes, hair talk definitely has anti-troll powers.
Kitteh — took like 5 years, but yeah, just past my waist band (gets interesting, being able to get my hair stuck in my pants!)
And L’Oréal Féria has enough in a single box to dye all of it, for ~$10 here.
OW hair caught in pants! Bad enough that mine sheds so much and ends up down my tops or pants. Tickles way too much to ignore. 😛
I haven’t coloured my hair at home for years. It’s almost all grey now and I’d just never get the coverage. It grows about a centimetre a month, but it doesn’t matter ‘cos I like going to the salon. My hairdresser is so cool, and it always makes me laugh that she’s more anxious about whether Mr K likes the cut than whether I do (well, she knows I like it, we worked it out together).