Today, something kind of amazing that’s been making its way around Tumblr: a recording of Saruman — well, someone doing a pretty good impersonation of Christopher Lee as Saruman — doing a dramatic reading of an MRA-ish rant from a Reddit shitlord.
You’ll have to listen closely, because the rant is a bit convoluted and concern-trolly. Also, the commenter comes back with a couple of edits after he gets benned from whatever subreddit this took place in, apparently SRS.
Listen to it here.
Thanks to MollyRen for bringing this to my attention.
EDITED: Definitely not Mr. Lee.
@ jessay — someone please animate this!
minty. just….oy.
Oy, Minty, did you get all your ideas off of psychology today? From what I’ve skimmed over your understanding of evolution is about as undeveloped as anything they print there.
I like people with muscles! Which is why Daniel Craig is my favorite bond.
Now… since I am just waking up and need to do something that doesn’t use brainpower, I shall try to parse minty’s comment.
So far: blah, blah, blah, Minty thinks that harrassment is the same thing as talking to people…
Cis woman’s less rights: Not being able to control what goes on in our own body. (and I assume trans men who can potentially get pregnant are affected negatively by the extremely anti abortion laws, too)
Every woman’s less rights: Higher chance of being paid less, sexually assaulted at a higher rate, treated less seriously …
trans woman’s less rights: I think they’re murdered at a higher rate, and people try to get away with it with “Trans panic” defense. But I am really, really bad at trans issues, so I may be wrong.
Minty’s definition of men’s less rights: Complete strangers don’t want to talk to him.
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Just leaving that there.
This reminds me of how, due to natural selection, I was eaten by a cougar when out for a stroll because I can’t run.
Plants… don’t have brains.
My stupid manboob definition of alpha is that it’s the first letter of the greek alphabet. 😛
You going on about what women like as if you know reminds me of a five year old I baby sit. He’d try to describe what just happened in a completely different way than it did. Dude, I was there. I know what happened.
Funnily enough, I also know what I like
Just pointing out: My sister is not repulsed by feces. She is actually kind of cavalier about it, which is probably good seing as how she has two guinea pigs who poop on everything and often baby sits.
Anyone who uses scare quotes around rape is obviously a dispicable human being.
Um, so lots of american and european men fetishize indigenous Colombian women b/c of their (the men’s) misogyny. You do realize that’s not a good thing, right?
I will admit… I normally do not want to sleep with men I meet. Is that the same thing as instantly shooting them down?
Judging by your comment, I beg to differ.
Men don’t get it because they have a much lower chance of being raped and haven’t seen society excusing rapists and going “well, what about the poor rapists future?” whenever rapists are tried in court, with the knowledge (women have) that people value them less than criminals who violate other people’s humanity. Fucker.
obviously not.
Creep is used to enforce boundaries by people who haven’t got the vocabulary (or don’t want to waste the time to use it) for it because society encourages women not to think about boundaries or enforce them. If we knew from the moment that we were kids that some guy who is leering at us or asking us inappropriate questions or worse stuff was violating our boundaries, we could just say “hey, that guy was violating my personal space and my boundaries”. But because we don’t, because people don’t teach us to enforce them, the only word we have for that is creep.
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That was… long.
TL;DR Minty is even more despicable than you thought he was.
Before I got fibromyalgia, I preffered weightlifting to running. Dude, sometimes people just have preferences.
Also, tulips, grains and pulses weren’t the result of evolution… They are the result of thousands of years of agriculture.
Actually I’m going to say something I never expected to say – all the people who write for Psychology Today seem to be smarter and to have a better understanding of evolution than Minty. Even Satoshi Kanazawa, and that’s really saying something.
Err… I woldnt be surprised to find that Minty was a huge fan of Satoshi.
Both of them can go step on legos.
If you want points in your thesis, take down evo psych.
If anyone remembers that creepy ex I got a creepy (using this word to irk purposefully) unsolicited email from…he majored in evo bio. If only I had known the implications!!
I kind of think of it as the basket weaving of technically-science degrees. Even if you’re not a creepy sexist weirdo, I am judging you for picking such a weaksauce science as your major.
Because I wanted to try and run 50 km, and that was difficult to do with just running practice. What I needed wasn’t conditioning of my body, what I needed was the muscular infrastructure to move my mass over that distance without my bones being worn down to stumps and my muscles destroying themselves. So… weight training, namely lots of squats to build the undercarrige capable of providing the locomotion for the task. “health” is a really, really vague defintion of things and reason to exercise.
Running is great! But I think people do different things because different things appeal to them, and there’s hardly a “best way” to exercise.
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Evolution, people:
It’s about REPRODUCING with the FITTEST offspring!
Because incest garanties your noble genetic line will prosper and carry on with no outside pollution to contiminate your superior alpha gene pool. This is why Warren Farrel was right, don’t’cha’kno— and that’s no longer funny, I just made myself depressed.
Am I the only one who finds that hilarious? I get what you are trying to say, Minter, but what you wrote was not really what you were attempting to communicate. And it’s a mistake I find often. It’s amusing.
(evolution is actually about surviving, not reproducing – reproducing helps but you can also just do like the deep sea water men and regurgiatate your genetic code to have a form of quasi immortality. Water men isn’t the right term, but I can’t remember which it really is…)
I was going to go through it bit by bit, but Fade did that already so…
@Fade:
You beat me to it! Curse you! Curse you and your… effeciency and ability to read! It’s the bane of trolls, it is! Well done, though. :}
Feminists want respect and equal treatment for all women. Hate feminists, Hate women.
Thank you! And too be fair, right now I’m in too much pain* to do school, so I’m just refreshing manboobz comments and watching James Bond on TV
*whiny? me?
Minty: TL;DR get your own blog.
He puts the gas in “long-winded”.
Ah. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula
That’s what I was remembering.
Less “immortal” and more “could possibly be, but we haven’t managed to check yet…”
Listened to the clip.
I kinda want it as my ringtone. Especially one of the weightlifting bits.
PEMRA: “Alphas” in colloquial terms just refers to a man who is popular with women… it doesn’t matter if it’s being used correctly in the “scientific” sense.
So a man who is feminist, and also has “success” with women is alpha? And the point of “Alphaness” is to be popular with women?
Then why do the PUAs malign feminist men as, “only doing it so women will like you?”
Obviously you are wrong.
See Minter, “organisms” don’t evolve. They don’t survive either (everyone’s gonna die). Individuals have offspring, populations survive.
Right now, it looks as if those who have more feminist ways of thinking are doing better, and that gives you a sad. Which hurts you, and causes you to lash out with 2500 word rants about how we are all pathetic losers, unlike you; who skulks about and whines about how women won’t give him the time of day.
Which means you are losing at, “The great game of natural selection”.
A dude who’s so afraid of the modern world that he can’t even go to the grocery store during the day? Yep, he sure is winning at life.
Hahahaha. That was a good one. I don’t know much about reddit so I don’t really understand the whole “putting down men and whites” thing is. None the less, I find this a great message. Could listen to it 10 times. 😀
lowquacks, that was brilliant. OMG, Fraktur. I have spent way too much of my life deciphering that alphabet.
Okay, I didn’t bother reading that long, boring screed, but I did notice this bit
Boo fucking hoo for the guys who catcall women on the street, those poor lowly betas screaming “Nice ass!” at a woman minding her own business, walking to the grocery store. Won’t someone think of how they suffer if they can’t intimidate and humiliate random women? That princess should have stood up for that oppressed man and said “Thank you for noticing my ass and tits, you kind gentleman! Now everyone stand up and applaud his bravery for giving me such a sweet compliment!”
Also, my husband is about 80 pounds overweight and has trouble with acne, but he is alpha because he is kind, intelligent, good with kids, and has an off beat sense of humor. But whatever, I must be a gamma ray woman or something.
“Both of them can go step on legos.”
Please put a trigger warning on any post that mentions stepping on Legos. I have two Lego-loving children and this post gave me PTSD-twitch. 😉
Now this is really going to cheese you off Minty:
http://www.policymic.com/articles/37617/this-is-what-a-great-anti-sexual-assault-psa-looks-like
I couldn’t get through all of Minty’s little screed, but I’m glad I made it as far as this, because I needed the laugh. Minty, darling, that’s not really how natural selection.
And I’m with collects_caps: ignoring everything women have said about street harassment, making up your own explanation that just happens to fit your pet theories, and then telling a bunch of women what they really think about a topic that affects them more than it affects you is epic-level mansplaining.