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Fidelbogen’s Sonnets for the Portuguese

Brazilians celebrate the arrival of Fidelbogen em Português
Brazilians celebrate the arrival of Fidelbogen em Português

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.

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CassandraSays
CassandraSays
11 years ago

When we lived in Texas for a while my Dad had coworkers who loved Reagan and called him “The Gipper” and I was so confused. I’d just assumed everyone secretly hated both of those two.

lowquacks
lowquacks
11 years ago

Our Reagan was John Howard, who was a little later. We had a slightly different phenomenon – Howard won by quite a bit and generally had a decent approval rating, but absolutely no-one would admit to voting for him outside of very conservative types.

thenatfantastic
thenatfantastic
11 years ago

Maybe it’s more like the royal family? Yes, I see their historical significance and impact upon the nation and their position as a cultural export in the eyes of other nations. No, that does not mean I should treat someone who happened to fall out of the right vagina as a semi-deity, or indeed have any innate respect for them, let alone pay millions of pounds a year for their upkeep.

lowquacks
lowquacks
11 years ago

@thenatfantastic

Is this about Reagan-Thatcher or AC/DC?

thenatfantastic
thenatfantastic
11 years ago

AC/DC.

It was a terrible analogy.

lowquacks
lowquacks
11 years ago

Thought so! No, I liked it.

I think a better comparison who be an US-ian who resents the burgers-and-SUV stereotypes but will, every now then, point out that their country makes the best damn big dumb fast food burgers in the world or the biggest stupidest most fun four-wheel-drives, with a mix or pride and embarrassment, or something.

The Royal Family thing’s still good but probably applies more to INXS, our other big export.

Argenti Aertheri
Argenti Aertheri
11 years ago

I totally got distracted by Reid and the conversation moved on, but if that question about uni was at me — yeah, US.

Please return to your politics and music (interesting combination)

Kim
Kim
11 years ago

@cassandra

They have been around for a long time, and I have no idea how well they did OS, but I love The Living End. All my fave bands are ones I heard on Triple J during the 90s though. I recently got copies of the first 8 hottest 100s. And not just the songs on the albums… they included all 100 songs. Was so happy.

But the best place to find Aussie music that’s alternative is http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/media/listen.htm and especially keep an ear open for Unearthed.

Re MRA flag: I drew this long ago for something entirely unrelated. I thought it was appropriate. http://photos-ak.sparkpeople.com/nw/1/2/l124189167.jpg

thenatfantastic
thenatfantastic
11 years ago

Is it vulvapuses or vulvapodes?

thenatfantastic
thenatfantastic
11 years ago

vulvapi is something entirely different and illegal in 46 states, of course.

danielleparadis
11 years ago
Reply to  Dr. G

Ha man boob!

Creative Writing Student
Creative Writing Student
11 years ago

I pity the monolingual Portugeuse.

Reading MRA rants is not a privilege.

Shiraz
Shiraz
11 years ago

I dunno, Cassandra, I’m not an Aussie, but I like Wolfmother. I think they’re from Brisbane. They’re not a household name here yet, but some of their music pops up in soundtracks from time to time.

Here:

whataboutthemoonz
11 years ago

Gynonormativization

I’m just gonna leave this here.

Tulgey Logger
Tulgey Logger
11 years ago

Cannot. Unsee. Octopussy.

(Octopose?)

Karalora
Karalora
11 years ago

I know I’m a bit late to the “fetus catacombs” discussion, but I have to point this out.

The crux of the “The Pill Kills” campaign is that (supposedly) birth control makes the uterus inhospitable to the little microbabies so that they can’t implant and are washed out to their doom. Why is this new guy saying pretty much the opposite?

hellkell
hellkell
11 years ago

Acca-Dacca recently have become associated with the sort of suburban racism-conservatism that mirrors the Tea Party and such there,

Nooooooooo. As a huge fan, that sucks.

José Pablo
José Pablo
11 years ago

Another anti-feminist, huh? Cool! I didn´t know who this Mr. Fidelbogen is, but I´m certainly gonna have to find out, now, and see for myself if he´s really anywhere nearly as bad as you claim. Thanks for the pointer!

leftwingfox
11 years ago

Why is this new guy saying pretty much the opposite?

Body horror. Slut shaming. I’m willing to bet that there’s going to be some pro-life troll using this as a screaming insult in an abortion debate in the next month or so.

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
11 years ago

The idea of AC/DC being associated with conservatism is so funny. Poor Bon must be spinning in his grave.

Wolfmother I know about, but they’re not exactly up and coming, since everyone else knows about them too.

Bagelsan
Bagelsan
11 years ago

Little dead fetuses… do I get a vote for each one? Do they count as dependents on my taxes? If yes, then I am for it.

titianblue
titianblue
11 years ago

In the end, the feminist left gets the bulk of its blood supply from the feminist right.

What is it with MRAs and feminists as vampires?

Karalora
Karalora
11 years ago

I’m willing to bet that there’s going to be some pro-life troll using this as a screaming insult in an abortion debate in the next month or so.

Internal consistency. They doesn’t haz it.

Karalora
Karalora
11 years ago

Boo-yeah! Not today, blockquote monster!

darkbyke
11 years ago

Jealous much? You bring yourself down to this level to try insulting other people’s writing and work?

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