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.
*uncrosses eyes*
Uhh… ’twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe?
Those “snippets” sound like a drunken game of broken telephone with Lewis Carroll.
No wait… I change my mind… I think I would REALLY enjoy a drunken game of broken telephone with Lewis Carroll! At least more than I enjoyed reading this tripe.
“O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” … pass it on! =)
I don’t know, Neurite, how can anyone tell what you’re saying if you don’t begin with “In the end…”?
Argenti – that’s a fascinating article, I’d never heard of lithopedia before. First thing I was thinking when I read the article on Feministe (apart from “how can anyone be this stupid”) was that septicaemia would kill anyone with a dead fetus in her.
I bet that tosser thinks of them like those gross plastic fetuses the anti-choicers like to wave around, arranged in tiny niches in the Uterine Catacombs.
Dagrabbit – the borogoves would be even mimsier if they had to read that lot!
My parents had one of those! I asked about it when I was a wee thing not yet versed in political stupidity and my mother said she had it because that was what I looked like before I was born.
So for years I thought it was just one of those goofy sentimental things parents do, like keeping a piece of plaster with your baby footprints in it.
Is it wrong that I’m imagining my uterus looking like the Catacombs of Paris and that the thought is making me giggle?
Damn! And after taking birth control pills due to crippling monthly pain for the last 15 or so years, the only thing the surgeon found in my uterus last fall was endometriosis…
… which he says would have been much worse if I wasn’t ever on the pill.
Huh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris
Kitteh… no wonder the mome raths outgrabe! It was in protest! =D
Dagrabbit – if it’s wrong, that’s two of us, ‘cos the idea made me laugh!
Just think of all those little rows of skulls looking accusingly at us …
Endometriosis. 🙁 That really sucks, it’s a horrible condition.
Outgribing is the natural response!
@ Argenti Aertheri
Thanks for that link. Useful plot device, that.
You really are being juvenile, DL Colvin, insisting on hanging around here where everyone’s made it very clear you’re not welcome. Do you do this in meatspace too?
Oh the idiotic comment by radio jerk Kevin Swanson. Elsewhere, being you know, a biologist, PZ Myers showed a histology slide of a uterus, and guess what! The supposed features of hundreds of “little tiny fetuses” in the womb were identified as endometrial glands. *not enough facepalms*
I’m fairly sure I don’t want to know how a lithopedian can be a plot device, but you’re welcome?
DLColvin — seriously, they’re absurdly rare, the GM/ST in me says you can use that once per world/game (not once per arch, more like the ratio of lithopedians to popes should favor popes)
Kitteh — that’s some weird combo of squick and an improvement over the pieced back together “this is what abortion looks like” posters (which a kind of hilarious if you’re at planned parenthood for an STD test, but I’d imagine substantially less funny if you’re getting an abortion, or simply lack my sick sense of humor)
Xantë — but women not on the pill don’t have those? That’s got to be just more bullshit as it makes no sense at all (not that the dead babies thing did!)
How much mome would a mome rath rath if a mome could out grabe Chuck?
*terribleatsleep*
Kitteh: Yeah, endometriosis really does suck. But the laparoscopic surgery seemed to help lessen the intensity of the pain. It’s still a little early to get a pattern on how much things have improved (I had a D&C during the same surgery, which threw off my personal analysis on how much things may have changed), but last month, I most definitely spent less time in the fetal position and passing out than I’m accustomed to! I reeeeeally hope it doesn’t come back as painful as it was.
Oops, I realised I should have said endometriosis was found “on” my uterus (the outside) instead of “in” my uterus… that makes more sense.
P.S. Lethargic cats make decent heating pads. =)
Its been done as a plot device before.. Check out the wiki. I’m surprised I haven’t run into it before over at critters site ( Sci FI writing). I mean, the manuscripts use just about everything you can think up.
And Dagrabbit, really sorry to hear about endometriosis.
Argenti, sorry I’m not a biologist so I don’t know to what extent the OCP suppresses the growth of the endometrium. The main thing the OCP does is prevent ovulation, meaning no egg to be fertilised, therefore no zygote if fertilisation could occur, therefore no blastocyte to implant in the endometrium — but the endometrium is then shedded each cycle, so it can’t possibly be a repository for hundreds of dead eggs.
Dagrabbit – careful you don’t let said lethargic cats know they’re being helpful, because they might decide you’re in breach of contract. 😉
Friend I had years ago had endometriosis, and had a really rough time with it, but yours sounds like it’s worse. I really hope the improvement continues for you, or at least doesn’t relapse.
Oh my, another ad for Midsomer. “Apparently, he had no head.” Yup, things as usual in the stockbroker belt.
Oh sorry AA, didn’t read properly, you were asking if women were *not* on the pill. Umm…
Yeah and I saw that Law and Order and was substantially less than impressed — one hot mess of elderly people with Alzheimer’s are crazy and dangerous and hey she might not even know if she gave birth or not!
So let me try again — idk how you’d use it as a plot device and not have it be full of fail.
Dagrabbit — I just saw your first comment there and wanted to add the the chorus of “ouch, that sucks” — hope your surgery succeeded in making it less painful!
And w00t to the catacombs, if I ever visit Paris I’d really love to see those (fuck the Eiffel Tower, I have a date with skeletons! *is totally weird*)
Xantë — don’t worry about the biology question, there’s probably either no difference, or the difference you’re thinking — which’d be the reverse of dude’s nonsense. And um, Argenti please, not AA, I’m not real fond of the association with alcoholic’s anonymous, thanks!
Hey, usual lurker here! This is my very first comment!
Just thought it was sort of funny that if you google “gyno”, most of the pages (in “my” google at least) are not about women, but about bodybuilding. As gyno is apparently what male bodybuilders call the breast tissue they get from anabolic steroids… Gynonormative has different connotations if you choose to look at it from that perspective 😀
Argenti, should have thought of that of course! I’m most sorry, that association is not good. I was trying too much for economy of typing. (You’re right that the dude’s nonsense has absolutely no logic to it at all. I went looking on the Pfft! of all knowledge and found a nice picture illustrating endometrial glands from Gray’s Anatomy.)
Its all depends on just how you use it. Vertigo comics had an awesome use of one very angry fetus.. Back when Luficer was running. I mean I wouldn’t wanna encounter that thing.. It ate a hoarde of angels and all.
OMFG I am never getting that time in Portuguese back. If anyone is interested, I’m fairly certain it’s not a translate-o-bot, since some things are actually simplified in translation (“disambiguative alternative” becomes “alternativo não-ambígua” for example) but this dude needs to work on his idioms. “What on earth” is actually an expression, but when you translate it directly like he did it it’s “que na terra” which more precisely means “what in the ground.” He managed to find someone just as windbaggy as he is, only in a specifically Portuguese way. (So. Many. Articles. Used!)