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.
Wow, that is a seductive cat. And it didn’t even neg me.
Just…”diddly-boo”? K.
Perhaps you should put together a little red book and call it Quotes from Chairman…. No, wait, it’s been done. 😉
Never have I encountered anyone with such an incorrect assessment of their own intelligence. Yikes.
This is the most succinct example of mansplaining I’ve ever seen.
DIDDLY-BOO? *blinks*
I think you hit the nail on the head. Feminism is a kitty cat.
But not just any cat. That cat. The one in the picture.
Ah wtwitter. 140 characters of bite-sized bullshit.
Feminism gobbles up everything in its path? Feminism is Kirby?
He’s correct in his last post though, in that we can’t force anyone to become a feminist. It’s just as true that if you declare that you are a feminist and stand your ground, there’s nothing MRA:s can do about it.
Somebody’s probably said this before, but I keep imagining Fidelbogen is actually Jack Handy.
This is the one I meant to post:
That… makes even less sense than a lot of his quotes.
I have a confused. Are we feminist “women” killing all the non-feminists (since we cannot allow them the right to exist,) or are we powerless to stop them?
Help me, feminism kitteh!
It’s only within the past couple of years that I learned Jack Handey was a real person. Also, he’s pretty funny. But I knew that already.
I love his use of hashtags, too. It’s like he has a list and he randomly picks three for each tweet, regardless of whether they make any sense.
Airplane: a certain kind of banana that grows in Spain.
Google: a yummy Pakistani dish that is completely vegetarian
Apple: a software that converts text into sound.
Look at me! I’m being just as incoherent as Fidelbogen!
I think Fidelbogen needs a glass of water and a nice, hard chair to sit on. He sounds about as coherent as someone with heat stroke.
Well, Kirbywarp is a feminist. CHECKMATE FEMINSITS!!
I’ve been reading some of the boob roll blogs and I noticed something contradictory about MRA’s. First, they claim feminists (and women in general) are the reason that men are no longer manly, and are encouraged to act like women, and that’s all so horrible. Then they complain that they’re expected to act “masculine” and that that expectation is oppression on the same level as the oppression that women have experienced through the years, oh and it’s also the fault of feminism, somehow. How awesome is feminism that is manages to cause two contradictory and oppressive states for men?
It’s because the Patriarchy creates the same double bind for women and the MRA is indistinguishable from the death throes of the Patriarchy.
Ally, I’ll have a Google, please!
@Mongoose: Well, er…. Because, um…. FEMINISM! Boom! Checkmate!
@serrana @grumpycatisagirl
The New York Times did an article about Jack Handey just the other day. It’s all about how everyone in comedy thinks he’s amazing.
I love how conveniently blame anything they don’t like about women or society on feminism even if it has fuck-all to do with it, and then they claim that there is no coherent definition of feminism and blame that on us, too.