Brazilians! Portuguese! I have fantastic news! Fidelbogen is now available in Portuguese!
Yes, our old frenemy Fidelbogen, the self-described Counter-Feminist Agent of Change (CFAC), and the would-be philosopher king of the manosphere, has managed to find someone who is, for some perverse reason, willing to translate snippets from Mr. F’s blogs into Portuguese.
This is a bit ironic, in that Fidelbogen’s writing, in its original English, reads a lot like a bad translation from the German. He’s a writer of almost pathological verbosity; rarely has any writer said so little with so many words. Not that, at the root, he has much to say; underneath all the verbiage, his ideas are trite and simplistic. And yet he seems convinced that he’s a genius. He’s one of those terrible writers who thinks he’s great. The manosphere is full of them.
And so I thought I’d use the opportunity to present some examples of Fidelbogen’s magisterial prose.
These examples are all from Mr. F’s new blog, CounterSnippets, which he evidently sees as a sort of “Dummies” version of his regular blog, The Counter-Feminist, a place where he can put forth pithy counter-feminist slogans for the masses. As he describes it:
This blog is a meme-dispersion apparatus. It is called “counter-snippets” because it features snippets of counter-feminist philosophy — sometimes one or two sentences, but typically a short paragraph. Each snippet is designed to be memorable and to stick in the reader’s mind. Having done so, it may take root and grow like a seed
As you’ll see from the examples below, Mr. F has not quite mastered the fine art of pithiness just yet.
Each of these quotes is from a separate post.
The complete phenomenology of female supremacism outdistances what any given feminist would openly acknowledge to be feminism, and the word feminism itself operates as a misdirection of attention. (Source)
In the end, the non-feminist revolution is not an identifiable human target group but a cloud of forces manifesting through human actions which can sometimes be politically linked to each other, but other times not. (Source)
In the end, the feminist left gets the bulk of its blood supply from the feminist right. And that blood supply is nothing less than old-school gynocentrism itself. (Source)
Feminism has driven you fifty miles out into the country and left you there to fend for yourselves. Yes, it is unwise to take rides from strangers. Now you’ve got some walking to do, but hopefully the exercise will prove beneficial. I am the messenger. (Source)
We would understand feminism as a gynonormative project, while acknowledging that it could not have come into operation without a preexisting base of gynocentricity in the traditional culture.
Gynonormativization is integral to the establishment of female supremacy. (Source)
Counter-feminist analysis concludes that feminism and female supremacism are interchangeable terms, and we assert that no other analysis will generate effective political traction.
You may agree, or not, that feminism equals female supremacism — yet female supremacism as a datum is not to be doubted. (Source)
We of the non-feminist sector claim the status of an autonomous power with respect to the feminist power on earth, and we demand the full measure of diplomatic courtesy due to such a status. (Source)
Feminism as a whole needs both the academic and the pop cohorts. The academic cohort is needful so that feminism will have an intellectual vanguard — so that the snake will have a head, in other words. The pop cohort is needful so that the vanguard ideology will be demographically incarnated in numbers — so that the snake will have a body, in other words. (Source)
Remember that ALL feminism is packed into a system of interwoven karma. ALL feminism contributes to an evolutionary trajectory which points toward a radical feminist future. (Source)
Your message will take root and grow only if you make the herd disintegrate. Do that, and their power to dismiss your message will disintegrate in tandem. And when people get to this point, they will instinctively cast about in search of a new herd they can join. You know how joiners are. So it is a good idea to prepare something they can cling to, that they will be more readily persuaded to make the jump. (Source)
If we translate all of his posts from Fidelbogenese to plain old English, the message of his blog seems to be pretty simple:
1) We non-feminists should be the ones to define what feminism is.
2) Not all feminists are radical feminists but somehow they really all are, because of … karma?
3) Once we defeat feminism, it should be easy enought to herd the former feminists into our flock if we set forth some nifty little memes for them to “cling to.”
It’s hard to imagine a philosophy that’s much more condescending and cynical than this. No wonder Fidelbogen tries to disguise his philosophy in giant gasous clouds of verbiage.
With any luck, this “translator” will be someone who speaks neither English nor Portuguese, but translated via a few bilingual dictionaries.
All I got from that was “snippets”.
Wait, Fidelbogen’s German? I thought he was a native English speaker. Wow, says a lot about MRA’s writing if a guy whose first language isn’t English and clearly isn’t that good about speaking English sounds just like the native English speakers.
Also, Shakespeare said “Brevity is the soul of wit.” He did not then add, “Unless you are writing pseudo-philosophy.” Do not claim to know more about writing than Shakespeare, you arrogant asshole.
If his stuff was just a little bit funnier I’d suspect that he was a Poe mocking the most jargon-filled kind of academic feminist writing. The first few quotes read like a bizarro world version of something from the Maoist feminist collective that puts out hilarious movie reviews.
Postmodernism! So passe!
“Gynonormative”? Seriously?
I almost read that as gyronormative and had visions of helicopters.
Eschew obfuscation, Fidelbogen.
I can’t read more than a few words of his stuff, my eyes glaze over and my brain steps out for a pastrami on rye.
Seriously, who is his blog even for? It’s clearly not for MRAs who are just ordinary folks, is it for the extremely small demographic of academic MRAs?
In a way I suppose it’s a compliment that they keep trying to appropriate academic feminist terms and twist them to their own ends. I wonder if they realize that the fact that they do that actually validates the very feminist academic works that they’re trying to discredit.
TL:DR – You can’t make fun of other people for using jargon and imply that their use of jargon means they’re zealots if you’re busy making up jargon of your very own.
Ah, Fidelbogen! How I have missed your loquaciousness!
“You know how joiners are.”
He’s not a native English speaker? So maybe that concept known as “irony” isn’t in his vocabulary?
I know he’s thinking, and possibly even saying, that feminists just join feminism to join something (he probably said that in that rant, but gods if I can follow his “logic”) but anyone who thinks all feminism is radical feminism really doesn’t get it.
…it’s very difficult to be brief when attempting to decipher stupidity.
@ Argenti
That phrase is even funnier if you think of the British use of the word “joiner”. Basically he just inadvertently implied that feminists are skilled tradespeople who make useful things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joiner
http://www.davidsmail.info/introfra.htm
MRAs are puppies, and feminists are irresponsible pet custodians? HAS HE SEEN HOW MUCH FEMINISTS LOVE OUR PETS?
Cassandra — I did not know that! Definitely funnier that way!
kamilla1960 — was that the link you meant to link to? If so, can someone else tackle that please? I’m way too crunchy already to try tackling theories if how psych disorders are just about social control.
Hey Argenti, in the other thread I posted an article about a study that might be of interest — only the abstract is available online now, but if you’re interested in seeing the article itself to evaluate the methodology, let me know. (And if you are not interested, that is also okay!)
cloudiah — I’ll PM you my email, I do want to look at that, but my brain is too much a depressive fuzzy mess to do so right now (which is also why I’m attempting to ignore that link)
Ain’t nothing pithy about his axioms. “He’s a writer of almost pathological verbosity; rarely has any writer said so little with so many words” –You’re on point David
It’s like he recognizes that his posts are too long, but can’t figure out the source of the problem.
Um, all of his “statements” are nonsensical. You can’t just throw around a made-up word/idea like “female supremacism” and pretend it has bearing on feminism — which is about anything but.
This grable-fest:
“…non-feminist revolution is not an identifiable human target group but a cloud of forces manifesting through human actions which can sometimes be politically linked to each other, but other times not. (Source).
Is he talking about sexists? They certainly are identifiable. Conservative Republicans, Conservative Christians, MRAs…
“…In the end, the feminist left gets the bulk of its blood supply from the feminist right. And that blood supply is nothing less than old-school gynocentrism itself.” (Source)
I dunno, what the hell is the feminist right? Geln Beck? Phyllis Schlafly? People who talk smack about feminism in the positive generally aren’t on the right. Sexists invented the words “gynocentrism” and “misandry,” calling it “old school” is just an Orwellian retelling of history.
I meant, “People who talk about feminism in the positive generally aren’t on the right.”
“In the end, the feminist left gets the bulk of its blood supply from the feminist right. And that blood supply is nothing less than old-school gynocentrism itself.”
“Feminism has driven you fifty miles out into the country and left you there to fend for yourselves. Yes, it is unwise to take rides from strangers. Now you’ve got some walking to do, but hopefully the exercise will prove beneficial. I am the messenger.”
I want those on shirts with Unicorns on them.
Shit, I also meant garble-fest and Glen Beck. Excuse me.