We’re having Fidelbogen for lunch again. In my defense, the Twitter feed of this self-proclaimed philosopher of the non-feminist sector is hands down the most consistently entertaining thing in the manosphere today. In today’s post, Fidey opines on Women’s Suffrage (neither good nor bad), feminist “exit strategies,” and why it’s not necessary for MRAs to offer any evidence when they argue with feminists.
Without further ado, let’s go Fidelbogening!
So what do we learn from his Twitter feed this month? Well, for one thing, that whole “oppression” thing women have been complaining about is all a big fairy tale.
The idea that "women" are (or were) "oppressed" is an hypothesis derived by interpretation — a political fable, a just-so story. #feminism
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) June 26, 2013
And that “women having the right to vote” thing? Just some sort of dumb fad.
Women's Suffrage was neither good nor bad. It was just historically fashionable. #Feminism #FeministArmy #women #rapeculture #fem2 #MRA
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 17, 2013
Apparently feminism has really big boobs:
#Feminism is disastrously top-heavy in its hubris, which towers to the sky. The crash will be appalling. #rapeculture #FeministArmy #MRA
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 17, 2013
And after collapsing under the weight of its own boobage, feminism had better skeedaddle, if Fidey has any say in the matter:
#Feminism needs to get busy with one hell of a PR campaign. That should include a clear description of its "exit plan". #FeministArmy #women
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 17, 2013
Here he explains the behavior of a lot of the MRAs who visit the comments here (and pretty much everywhere):
Assert first, debate later. Much later. #avfm #mensrights #feminism #antifeminism #MRA #MGTOW
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 17, 2013
And here he explains his own methodology, I guess:
Advance steadily, and let faux-insanity be your shield.
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 17, 2013
Here he tests the boundaries of incoherence:
#Feminism = Upper-middleclass women obsessed with bad behavior by lower class males.They call this "patriarchy". #rapeculture #FeministArmy
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 16, 2013
But what do I know? Maybe the only reason he doesn’t make any sense at all to me is that I’m a dirty feminist.
A member of the feminist cult cannot correctly process signals from the non-feminist world. #feminism #rapeculture #FeministArmy #politics
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 15, 2013
But then again, I guess anyone can be a feminist, because apparently feminism means anything anyone wants it to mean.
The meaning of the word '#feminism' is up for grabs. It is an open-source project.#rapeculture #feministarmy #mensrights #humanrights
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 15, 2013
Huh. So if I want, feminism can be a kitty? This kitty?
Oh, wait, I guess not, because apparently feminists are no good at defining feminism.
#Feminism can never "know itself". Only an outside observer can tell feminism what feminism IS. #rapeculture #mensrights #humanrights
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 15, 2013
Fidelbogen certainly has a lot of novel definitions for feminism.
It’s gangrene!
#Feminism is a gangrene in the social body, always growing at the edges and putrifying as it goes.#rapeculture #antifeminism #humanrights
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 15, 2013
It’s cancer!
#Feminism itself could not exist, if it allowed the right to exist of people who are not feminist. Feminism is a cancer devouring the world.
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) June 27, 2013
It’s an attempt to exonerate women from all wrongdoing!
Another definition of feminism might be, "the project to exonerate women from all wrongdoing." #feminism #antifeminism #mensrights
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) June 26, 2013
It’s a paradigm that apparently skipped lunch!
#Feminism is an unsustainable paradigm which gobbles up everything in its path. Only an outside force can stop it. #politics #paradigm #MRA
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 2, 2013
It’s … a car, I guess, that runs on male tears, and is lubricated by lies!
Lying is to feminism what motor oil is to a car. If God forced every feminist to be honest, feminism would seize up in 2 weeks. #humanrights
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) June 29, 2013
(Ok, I made up the male tears bit.)
Anway, Fidey is having none of it. Just say deedly-doodly-no!
By the end of the day, if you declare "I am not a #feminist", and stand your ground, there ain't diddly-boo they can do about it. #politics
— Fidelbogen – gab.ai/Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) June 27, 2013
Excelsior, Fidelbogen! And, please, please keep Tweeting.
Success! Thanks myoo!
I looked at that msn cat page and saw the bit about “why does your cat do the things she does?”
Easy answer: because she can.
@Kittehs
Correct answer: because she’s the boss
Ayup.
I think so, Katz, but where are we going to get all that pudding on such short notice?
If I buy it, will you guys promise to help me mock it?
I have an itty-bitty little present. Not the whole thing, just a sample.
… I wanted to suggest callibre. http://calibre-ebook.com/ the best software for e-book converting I ever found.
Thanks, I’m planning on using Calibre. But I can’t use it to convert lent books (AFAIK nobody supports that for obvious reasons), only bought books.
Oh great, I’m only on the second paragraph and already want to MST it. You guys are going to make me necro my blog (despite the fact that probably means having stalker ex reading it >.< )
But seriously, I'm not a big drinker either, otoh *takes a swig of whiskey* stop insulting my booze of choice!
Fidelbogen is hilarious. That he takes himself seriously is the funniest thing. A fully formed vision of exactly who the guy is rises in your mind after you’ve read some enough of his attempted-philosopher dribble–I started laughing at his self-description up there because it’s just exactly, exactly the person you knew this guy was before you read it. I’ve even listened to a few of his videos for a good laugh. That an MRA in the comments here called him “impressive” says so much about the meeting of the minds that is their movement.
Imagine how unbearable this poser philosopher king must be to coworkers, family, social acquaintances. I’m sure he’s a laughing stock offline as well. And let no one from the “manosphere” ever again claim feminists have no sense of humor when it turns out that they’re treating the funniest man on earth with utter seriousness.
And yet another reason why I shouldn’t comment before coffee. :/
Someone remind me what the heck MST means again?
Mystery Science Theater. The original show was watching a movie and commenting/mocking it, LBT tends to do it with written works, which works better for blogging anyways.
And I think I need to get a copy of 50 Shades of
Fucked UpGrey so I can snark more of it. Though ut’d probably be less funny and more screamingly angry. (Like, sexytimes start in the first few chapters, he just outright bites her without any fucking warning, chapter fifteen she bares her neck for him, like it’d have been so damned hard to write that ten chapters ago! [see MRAs? This is how implied consent works! Establish that neck biting is desired, bare neck, permission to bite may be assumed until told otherwise, NOT DIFFICULT])I love Fidelbogan’s twitter. It’s like Horse_Ebooks, only angry and misogynistic.
Argenti (and others), want to mock it with me? I had fun mocking Save the Pearls and then posting it to my blog so I was hoping to do something similar again.
The catch being that last time we did it on the fora, so if people didn’t want to do it there (or don’t have accounts), we’d have to find a different place/way to communally mock.
(I made a forum thread for it here.)
Oh gods, Save the Pearls. Can this possibly be worse?
The mocking, it begins.
Chapter one has been summarized and snarled to the degree possible given the subject matter. The last page of it needs a giant trigger warning for depictions of suicide attempts.
I honestly can’t see a difference between MRA philosophers and those creepy, bitter old men who deeply resent young attractive women for existing and heckle teenage girls they don’t know at the bus stop. You know, those nosy busy-bodies who make it their business to let you know that they DISAPPROVE of your clothes/hair/facial expression/reading habits and are always full of suggestions about what you can do to “fix” yourself. Maybe there isn’t a difference?
Only difference seems to be age.