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.
La Strega, I’ve been thinking the same thing for a while. I even went as far as looking up Rasputin quotes a couple of times, but I couldn’t get anything funny out of it that wasn’t also a bit too mean.
As if Fidelbogen could aspire to be even one percent as awesome as Rasputin.
Especially black disco Rasputin.
FIdelbogen is a joke.
I forget if I was originally linked to this on Manboobz (I think not, but I forgot) but I think that this is relevant to our interests:
http://strangelykatie.com/princessprincess/
Its a cute fairytale mixup with lesbians, one of which has a mohawk.
@becausescience, did you notice that Amazon review you quoted was by Matthew Forney? He’s come up here before, hasn’t he?
Random Boney M factoid – I met them in an airport once when I was a little kid. They were wearing the most awesome clothes I’d ever seen, and one of the ladies patted me on the head and gave me candy.
That’s funny about the review, because Forney just did a post desperately begging his blog readers to give his ebooks positive reviews.
Disease metaphors! Imagining your enemies as ‘cancer’ or ‘gangrene’, a threat to the body politic that must be purged by ‘an outside force’ is pretty common on the far right. It’s how Islamophobes conceptualise Islam and fascists think of democracy and socialism. Don’t these guys often pretend to be somehow above the right-left dichotomy?
How could anyone live up to black disco Rasputin?
(forney is the guy who used to do the In Mala Fide blog under a pseudonym, he writes awful stuff now under his real name)
Random Boney M factoid – I met them in an airport once when I was a little kid. They were wearing the most awesome clothes I’d ever seen, and one of the ladies patted me on the head and gave me candy.
(Reposting under my normal usename. David – feel free to ignore the comment that’s in moderation, forgot to log in.)
I’m fourthing (fifthing?) the horror of poser PNR covers–though, they are usually paranormal erotica in my experience. The small-press erotica publishers don’t seem to want to hire actual models.
The best thing about e-ink kindles is you can read erotica without anyone knowing and no covers! (Unless your friend grabs it out of your hand when he sees you while you were reading BDSM erotica… I’m just glad he didn’t seem to notice what it was. No sense of personal space, that one.)
I realize that Red Pill and Blue Pill were derived from The Matrix movie, but every time I read manosphere or self-proclaimed-Christian-but-really-just-a-hater threads where they constantly make reference to it, I can’t help but think that there’s a Dr. Seuss book just waiting to happen there.
Hey, Christopher Lee and Tom Baker Rasputin were pretty awesome too.
“CHECKMATE FEMINSITS!!”
Feminsits, ebil women forcing men to sit on hard chairs. 🙂
Am I the only one who thinks photoshopped Fidelbogan is less creepy than the original? At least that image doesn’t have me wondering when was the last time that hair had a wash.
I LOVE THAT CAT. Oh my gosh. I want to hug it. I want to hug it so badly. Need…to…hug…cat.
…There’s an original image? No thanks, my supply of brain bleach is limited so it must be conserved for ick that can’t be avoided.
The MRM can never “know itself”. Only an outsider can explain to the MRM what it really is. It’s a haven for virulent misogynists, deranged racists, and other dudes angry that they’re not allowed to rule the world.
#Fidelbogendidn’tthinkthisonethrough
Cassandra – I meant original as in any photo of Fidelbogan (I am so sticking to that spelling). I was looking at the Twitter ones.
HEY FIDELBOGAN
SHAMPOO IS A THING
Does jackass think anything through? Available evidence suggests not.
Wait, when were Christopher Lee and Tom Baker Rasputin?
The MRM is gangrene in the social body, spreading to the individual limbs (members) and rendering them too ethically decayed to ever have any chance of finding happiness again.
#seriouslydudeconsiderthinkingbeforetyping
The MRM = privileged dudes obsessed with what they consider bad behavior by women. They call this “hypergamy”.
#dudeyou’remakingthismuchtooeasy
RASPUTIN WAS SNAPE.
MY ROOMMATES AND I DISCOVERED SOMETHING AMAZING. (Hi, new reader, first-time commenter!)
We replaced every iteration of the word “feminist” with the word “Cthulhu,” and we got some very intriguing results:
“A member of the Cthulhu cult cannot correctly process signals from the non-Cthulhu world.”
“Cthulhu itself could not exist, if it allowed the right to exist of people who are not Cthulhu. Cthulhu is a cancer devouring the world.”
“Cthulhu is an unsustainable paradigm which gobbles up everything in its path. Only an outside force can stop it.”
“Cthulhu is a gangrene in the social body, always growing at the edges and putrifying as it goes.”
Interestingly, this also recontextualizes some other posts that do not mention feminism:
“Advance steadily, and let faux-insanity be your shield.”
This formula doesn’t work perfectly, but we think there’s a surprising amount of interchangeability. We are also contemplating whether this could be the start of a new means of identifying hate speech: IF you can substitute “Cthulhu” for your ideological opponent and have your argument make equal or greater rhetorical sense, THEN it is hate speech. (We are experiencing positive early results with some of Hitler’s speeches.)
Another definition of masculinism might be, “the project to exonerate men from all wrongdoing.” #masculinism #antimasculinism #actuallyrelevanthashtags