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 hated The Shining film. I’m a big fan of the book, and especially the depth given to Jack Torrance. I like the emotional progression he was given, he starts wanting to recover from his abusive childhood, his abusive nature, and his alcoholism. As the book goes on he (and Danny) enter into an abusive relationship with the genius locus of the Overlook Hotel. The hotel itself is very manipulative and seeks to cut them off from the world, turn against each other, twist perceptions of events – if it had been a person rather than a genius locus then it would be seen as abusive and toxic.
Then even at the end you can see good!Jack still trying to get through the roque-mallet-weilding monster. You remember the start of the book, and you see him again at the end, and it breaks your heart even as you’re throughly creeped out by the Hotel.
The film… yeah, some good film techniques and stuff, but Jack Nicholson looks less “troubled, alcoholic, depressed” mentally ill and more “I am a danger to any human who crosses my path” mentally ill, and they cut a lot of the relationship development – it’s just set up and payoff. It relies on cheaper form of horror and doesn’t touch the more complex areas of the mind. As a story, it’s shit.
Sorry, I really like the Shining. It has a massive emotional impact on me, and it’s what I’d call an example of a “good early novel”. The film really pissed me off.
I’m not a fan of Stephen King. I used to read the books as a teenager but his writing seemed to get more disturbing over time so I quit after It.
@Creative Writing Student
I totally agree about The Shining. I actually like the television miniseries so much more than the “classic” because Torrence is less over the top and there is so much more time. (Still not as good as the book, though. 🙂 )
I like mysteries. Robert B. Parker, Rex Stout (the Nero Wolfe stories, none of the rest work for me). Sayers, Christie.
I read a collaboration Clark did with her daughter. I thought it awful, but no where near as bad as James Patterson (the things one will read when deployed). Doyle is, of course, brilliant.
Niven, for those who are interested in SF did a credible job of mysteries with “Gil the ARM”.
For Movies With Nicholson, “The Raven” is fun. Karloff, Lorre and Nicholson in his debut film role, young and innocent.
I liked him in, “As Good as it Gets”. But Greg Kinnear is almost always worth watching, and Helen Hunt was great.
The Shining… KUbrick’s greatest fail. Removing the heroic figure halfway through… utter contempt for the material, and a fair bit for the audience.
The movie of The Shining wasn’t nearly as good as the book, but I liked it just because it did actually scare me to watch it.
Also because I have a soft spot for scene-chewing over-acting.
Nicholson has always seemed to me to be one of those actors who always played themselves no matter what the part. Rather like John Wayne.
I thought he was brilliant in Cuckoos Nest. But then in the next film I saw, which he had done earlier, he was the same character, and in the next the same and the next and the next.
It wasn’t type casting, I don’t think. It was simply his narrow range.
cloudiah, I think Randolph Mantooth might have been my first crush when I was about four or so. Either him or Batgirl, anyway, I’m not sure.
OMG. Batgirl. Before I was aware of sex, per se I had the hots for her.
Falconer: ‘sok. Not angry at you, just frustrated with my brain at times.
I couldn’t get all that into King. The Stand was okay, first (possibly only) time I read it in full. Salem’s Lot I found pretty disappointing. His writing seemed flat at times.
@Some Gal
If you like Jim Butcher (I’m assuming Dresden Files, I have some problems with his other series coming across as a bit derivative), I wonder if you’ve read Tanya Huff’s Blood series and Smoke trilogy? You need to read the Blood series before the Smoke trilogy. I really enjoyed the Smoke trilogy on audiobook (after reading the books multiple times). Unfortunately, the audiobooks for the Blood series suffer from a really poor narrator.
@cloudiah
Have you read Elizabeth George? She’s probably right up your alley.
@Kittehs
Try Lillian Jackson Braun’s “The Cat Who” books, but be warned that by around “The Cat Who Saw Stars”, she had clearly mined the series for all it was worth. The first 5 books are the best, IMO. They’re just fun to read.
Since you like Lord Peter Wimsey, I recommend the Albert Campion books by Margery Allingham, which are simply excellent.
And to get marginally back on topic, the ONLY film I’ve ever seen that really treated rape and it’s aftermath anything like realistically is the classic Jodie Foster film “The Accused”.
Thanks for those tips, Ellex! “The Cat Who” is tempting as a title all on its own. 😀
::scribbles furiously on post-it note::
@Ellex
Thanks. I’ll add it to my list of books to check out. (I actually loved the Codex Alera series, too, but Dresden Files is still going so that is what I’m reading now.)
I haven’t seen Ian Rankin’s name come up yet, so I’ll add him to the mix. I would recommend skipping at least the first two Rebus novels, though. He really hits his stride around his sixth book.
Carrie Nelson-Douglas had a good Irene Adler series going for a while, although the narrator could get irritating. (Stop after book four.)
ARGH, you’re all talking about books. Do you have any notion what a temptation that is to me? Seriously, there is a room in my house that we call “The Library”, and it really is filled with books.
Re: Stephen King: IMO, The Dead Zone and Firestarter are his best. I really enjoyed The Stand, as well. I’ve read very little from Insomnia on, but as a chronic insomniac, no way was I going to read a book about someone with insomnia. I avoid that kind of masochism, thank you.
People keep recommending the Dark Tower series to me, but I just can’t seem to get into it.
Some of Dean Koontz’s books are good. I appreciate the difference between Koontz and King insofar as seeing the innate goodness or evilness in people. His book “The Taking” is really intriguing. I don’t recommend reading any extensive summary before reading it, because there’s a sort of twist at the end regarding what happened to the characters.
If anyone likes the classics – meaning H.P. Lovecraft – Algernon Blackwood is so much better. Hard to find, though. Some of his books and short stories are on the Gutenberg site.
The film version of The Shining (the Kubrick version) is one of those films no one will watch with me (although it’s not one of my favorite films anyway). People look at me strange when the blood comes pouring out and down the hall and I whisper “oh that’s so cool.”
But then, I thought “The Silence of the Lambs” was supposed to be a black comedy, so…
I would have expected to like Elizabeth George, but oddly enough I don’t. You’re right about those early “The Cat Who” books being delightful.
Ellex, I know what you mean about having no space! The one thing that has me thinking I’ll have to get a Kindle or e-reader or whatever is that I really don’t have room for more books. Plus, sooner or later Mum and I are going to have to move to a retirement village, if we can get in, and that means drastically downsizing.
Anyone got any recommendations on the e-reader/Kindle front?
Ian Rankin is pretty great. Oh, and Carl Hiaasen (Hiassen?) — can’t be bothered to look it up — has some pretty hilarious books. Lee Child is a guilty pleasure for over-the-top/unrealistic action.
I love all the noir stuff too: Chandler, et al. I’m drawing a blank, but Black Lizard press reissued a bunch of good titles. The gender politics are mostly terrible, but reflect their times…
The Bachman books that King wrote were good, I thought. I am not a big fan of horror for horror sake. The Shining was the only book of his that frightened me, but that was because of the abuse triggers which I had no idea what were at the time.
@Kitteh’s
My boyfriend swears by the Kindle Paperwhite, it’s designed so it’s more like reading from a real book. It is very comfortable to read from and is pretty quick in terms of page-turning times.
The gutenberg project has a ton of great stuff to download.
http://www.gutenberg.org/
My mother and I have been delving back into our childhoods lately and reading “The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew” (turns out it’s a series) and the Bobbsey Twins books. Thanks to the Gutenberg website, early and original versions of the Bobbsey Twins series are available.
I need to get on the stick and read the last Pendergast novel from Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child; I also have several of Robert Stevensons’ Donald Strachey mysteries waiting for me. That damn “to read” pile just gets bigger and bigger…
@hippo…
I hope you don’t mind my shortening your name. Hippos are awesome creatures, though.
I love Nelson-Douglas’ Irene Adler series, although you’re right that the later books are not as good. Laurie King’s Mary Russell series is good, too, but I wasn’t impressed with the last book.
@Some Gal
Have you tried Lynn Flewelling’s books? If you like the Codex Alera series (don’t get me wrong, they’re as well written as everything else Butcher does – I just get too much of a “fated to be” sense from them. I may go back and try them again sometime, though) you should like both the Nightrunner series and the Tamir trilogy.
I have the Kindle keyboard, and I’ve used it for about 3 years now, it’s brilliant for travelling. I didn’t get a cover with a light, but I can read it without the airline light on, or in bed I just use the bedside lamp. The battery lasts for ages. Unfortunately there are some technical books that won’t work with it, and I was thinking the Kindle Fire, but the negative reviews of the 8.9″ screen have put me off and I don’t think I want to pay a lot of cash for getting a 7″ screen instead. So I’m holding off for a bit.
You can change the font size too. I’m reading the 5-book Game of Thrones series on it, still on book 3. It’s nice to read on the train, I see a lot of people reading ebooks on the train now.