The twitter hashtag wars continue! Apparently still pissed off that feminists pooped on their #INeedMasculismBecause tag the other day, the dudes of the manosphere launched a little counterattack aimed at #TellAFeministThankYou, a hashtag originally started by Melissa McEwan of Shakesville to give an opportunity to feminists to thank other feminists for, you know, being awesome and stuff.
On Chateau Heartiste, the Heartiste formerly known as Roissy charged up the troops for the campaign.
[T]he #TellAFeministThankYou Twitter feed has morphed into a shooting gallery for the entertainment of trolls and assorted sadists, providing a laugh a second. Feminists on that feed have been reduced to impotently bleating “wait for them to get it out of their systems.”
Go for the fun, stay for the cruelty. And keep an eye out for malevolent forces committing drive-bys of spectacular carnage. The kind of carnage that can leave a feminist with barely enough strength to mewl for the sympathies and circle-wagoning of fellow travelers.
There was just one problem: The PUAs and MRAs and other assorted Red Pill tweeters forgot to have a sense of humor.
Heartiste tried his best to generate some hilarity with a few tweets of his own.
Such magnificent wit!
Evidently feeling he needed to kick it up a notch, he decided to add some sprinkles of racism:
See, cuz only guys with names like “Juan” and “Anfernee” (hint, hint, hint) harass women on the street!
Here are some contributions from some other Red Pill wits, which evidently were highly amusing to the dudes in the RedPill Subreddit:
And a couple of others I found on my own:
There were even a few directed at little old me, like this one from our friend Chuck at Gucci Little Piggy:
You’re welcome!
Flawless victory, guys!
Oh, and here are some more kitties, since they seem to annoy manosphere dudes so much.
I had been trying to decide which I would get, the Kindle or the Nook, because I knew I had to get rid of some of these books that take up enormous amounts of space. I had already been borrowing books from the library to my computer so I knew I could learn to do without the feel of books. When Amazon snatched back copies of 1984 without so much as a by your leave my mind was made up. I like to support local companies and that is one reason I bought from Amazon all through those first money losing years. Then, after the book take back, I find out how they treat employees and I’m just plain pissed at them.
and @cloudiah
I am conflicted about dog breeding (and cat breeding too). On one hand I don’t want lots of accidental dogs being born, as that leads to too many dogs. On the other hand, if the only dogs being born were the deliberate ones, we’d never have mutts anymore.
We have very similar taste in non-fiction. Though I love all Bryson’s books on English as well.
And I thought you guys might get a kick out of this score chart so you can check if your husband or wife is up to scratch.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3086410/Tests-for-Husbands-and-Wives-
The best book I’ve read recently is The Family Fang about a family of performance artists. The book is really about the two (now-grown) kids and their trying to make sense of their lives. Hilarious and dark and sad. I’d recommend it to almost anyone.
http://www.amazon.com/Family-Fang-Novel-Kevin-Wilson/dp/006157905X
@Kiwi It’s been a few years since I read it, but I remember almost nothing about the dog in the novella, so if anything bad happens to her, it’s not exactly detailed or memorable. I mostly wanted to chime in because a) the first half of the I Am Legend film impressed the living hell out of me, and I’m not being derisive when I say I think it’s some of Smith’s best work. And, of course, Abbey, although I haven’t followed her filmography as closely.
Also because the novella is, page for page, the best vampire story I’ve ever read. The genre seems to get stuck jumping back and forth between theology and biology; Matheson’s the first writer I know of to look at vampirism in terms of culture.
@Kim – I’d love to do a Bernard at work and still make money too! Not to mention being able to use his accounting system. Overall, work’s more like Monty Python’s bookshop sketch, and I feel like saying “Why don’t you try WH Smith?” to some of our more cretinous customers.
Love that chart! Even leaving out the irrelevant stuff like insurance and cars, Mr K comes out as Very Superior. 🙂
I presume everyone’s talking about the most recent version of I Am Legend and not the Vincent Price or Charlton Heston ones?
Oh I had a bit of a laugh at a strange incident tonight. I was in town and a charity collector/sign up for this worthy cause bloke approached with the usual “Howareyoutodayma’amsorrytobotheryou” and I said, “Don’t worry, you’re not,” without breaking stride. A young guy walking alongside said, “Nice,” and then “Would you be my Valentine?” WTF? I mean, I’m 99% sure he was joking, but he was young enough to be my grandson. I laughed and said I was spoken for (true: every day is St V’s for Mr K and me). He said he was “used to rejection,” but he said it lightly so I don’t think I’d encountered my first NiceGuy™ in the wild.
Since 1848 huh? Yes, because the Senca Falls convention was really a summit where evil feminists plotted the destruction of men
Not only plotted it, but were miraculously able to put it into instant, worldwide effect.
The Charlton Heston one wasn’t called I am Legend, so I assume it is not being referred to.
Yeah, I presumed not. I quite enjoyed that one, as I recall (saw it in the long-ago days of the midnight movies on telly). 🙂
Oh, Wiki tells what happened to the dog in the novel: “He finds brief solace in a stray dog that finds its way to his house, but the malnourished and infected dog dies a week later.”
Remember that the Polanski rape happened at Jack Nicolson’s house? Ever read any interviews of his? The reason he’s so good at playing creepy is because he is creepy. Talented, but creepy. He was perfect for what Kubrick decided to do with The Shining, but I’m not sure he could have pulled off the character as written in the book. Subtlety isn’t really his strong point.
I always feel so out of place when people start talking about Whedon because I’ve never liked any of his stuff. I think it’s the strong empowered woman = waif fu thing, it just feels really patronizing to me.
Now what I find disturbing about Nicolson is that Hollywood tried to sell his leering, slightly threatening, creepy as hell persona as sexy for a while. The idea that women were assumed to just love that kind of thing really confused me back in the days when he was younger and getting more work.
Yeah, I don’t get the Nicholson as sexy thing at all. Creepy, philandering and in my eyes feckin’ ugly. Yech.
Even if he was good looking he’d still be creepy as hell. Though I agree that attempting to sell someone who looks like that as a person that a female audience were assumed to be attracted to was kind of lulzy, especially once it got to the Witches of Eastwick era.
::blooork::
I hadn’t known of his connection with the Polanski rape, and that takes him into the creepiness stratosphere. I knew he has a reputation as a … what, womaniser? Philanderer? Just promiscuous? Whatever the term, it never came across as appealing to me. I don’t know if I’d find him less distasteful if he looked like George Clooney, for instance, but the whole Nicholson package is one that makes me want to reach for the brain bleach.
———–got a zillion comments from white straight cis blokes about how the industry couldn’t possibly be bad———-
Do yuo have any evidence for this, or are you just making stupid ASSumptions?
Unremrkable feminist bigotry is unremarkable. Feminists are more bigoted than any other community i have ever seen. No wonder everyone hates you, and MRM is on the rise.
The denial is strong with this one.
The book is extremely different than the movie. For one thing, I’m pretty sure there is no dog character. There is a two-dimensional woman character who ends up being a cliched “Mata Hari” type, SPOILER. But the entire premise of the ending is completely different in the book.
@Kitteh
Sorry, I didn’t see your last post. I completely forgot about the dog. I wasn’t very impressed with the book — Matheson is your basic white privileged dude sci-fi writer of the 50’s who doesn’t give a shit about inclusion.
Good grief, Fatrelle. I’m over on AVfM reading some goofy list of supposed feminist shaming lines. I’ve said those things to folks and it’s not my feminist side talking. It’s my conservative side. If you are going to act like a child you will be treated like one. Yes, stop whining. You are not entitled to anything just because you breathe. And those guys still spend way too much time focusing on women and feminism and not enough time on helping men empower themselves. Do you think the shit you’re saying is new? Read women’s self-help books; it’s all right there. Oh, and some of the comments: “we are just going to have to make our woman cry” No, actually, you don’t, you asshole. You think women haven’t been putting up with the crap you are now getting? We’ve been dealing with it for years. Those that have successfully gotten past the crap are the ones you want to talk with. They can help you, not some bitter (yes, bitter) jerks that keep holding onto their hate.
On books–oh, the places I’ve been to, the things I’ve read, the changes in my taste… when I started the Dresden Files series it was the Best Thing Ever. Now, near the end, I find myself enjoying it, enjoying large pieces of it, but maddened by the bits that stand out so clearly and brightly and that I hadn’t noticed before…
I just started Mr. Norrel and Jonathan Strange. It’s kind of like Jane Austen. With wizards. It’s great fun to read.
Recently I’ve been all Charlie Stross, Jane Yolen… Oh, man, Briar Rose. A book hasn’t made me cry like that in EVER.
The Charlton Heston vampire film is “The Omega Man”. It’s loosely based on “I am Legend”. I remember enjoying it, but I haven’t seen it in years. I seem to recall thinking that it was better than a lot of apocalypse type films in dealing with some of the logistics of the situation.
I remember being so disappointed to find out that the adorable young man from “Fearless Vampire Killers” was Roman Polanski. I can’t deny his skill as a director…but it’s sadly perfectly possible to be very talented and a huge asshole at the same time.
Since we seem to be on the subject of vampires, one of my favorite vampire novels is Barbara Hambly’s “Those Who Hunt the Night”. I just found out that there are actually 4 books in that series (I thought there were only two). I guess I know what I’m doing with that Amazon gift card I got the other day.
If you like zombies, I just saw “Warm Bodies” last weekend. Nothing deep, but well done and amusing, and it handled certain plot points better than I would have expected.
My favorite recent vampire movie is definitely Let The Right One In.
In terms of movie recommendations, we have some history buffs here, right? If so, and if you have the patience to sit through a movie so long it has to be split onto 2 DVDs, you might want to check out Red Cliff. It’s kind of a who’s who of Chinese actors, and they went out of their way to make all the characters look as much like the historical depictions of them as possible, to the point where I looked at a couple of the generals and went “I’ve seen that guy before”. Also, it’s funny to watch John Woo figure out ways to replicate his beloved gunman face-off from The Killer, but with swords.