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.
Christopher Lee played him in the Hammer film Rasputin, the Mad Monk in 1966 – it was made back to back with Dracula, Prince of Darkness. Same sets and much the same cast, I think.
Tom Baker played him in Nicholas and Alexandra in 1971 – a rather more sympathetic version than one usually sees.
Guys, GUYS. I found Fidelbogen – on Urban Dictionary!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/author.php?author=fidelbogen
I thought this cat was feminism.
Maybe she’s radical feminism.
@Redcap – gah, Fidelbogan rabbiting on on Urban Dictionary? Oh well, more downvotes for him.
@Integral – Grumpycat is radical everything.
I’ve never seen a video of her before. She looks like she has some boxer in her ancestry with that jaw!
Fidelbogen thinks Feminazi is a “clever” portmanteau?
His standards are so low.
Elisa, that’s brilliant. Please have a welcome package, courtesy of cloudiah.
Today we learned that Sublime’s Date Rape is “feminist agi-prop”. In other news, Living on a Prayer is an attempt to bring lite-rock fans to Jesus.
This video is proof that Muse are in the pockets of Big Makeup.
(OK, let’s be honest, I just wanted to post it because come on, black metal dudes surfing? That’s hilarious.)
Elisa C, welcome!
The best part about the urban dictionary thing is imagining the responses from kids reading his crap. He wants so badly to be cool and relevant, but in fact he’s anti-cool. He’s kryptonite to coolness. Teenagers edge away from him on the bus out of fear that if people think they know him nobody will ever invite them to a party again.
Those metal surfers look like what happens when you forget to pull the strip off the new photocopier toner cartridge.
You know when you’re painting walls and you put down tape to protect the skirting? Badly done black metal makeup kind of looks like that gene-spliced with a panda.
::splork::
😀
Okay, I better go do things like get dressed and see what The Sister wants to do today. Laters! (Or not much later if she’s not doing much.)
@Recap, amazing find! Shows up his ideology (libertarianism, date rape, elitism) and analytical shallowness (really, ‘It is pretty hard to deny that nazi-like feminists DO EXIST’? I’ve yet to meet any feminists who believe the nation is capable of phoenix-like rebirth, ridding itself of the corrupting influence of modernity, democracy and Marxism).
Black metal never stops being funny. In what other context outside of a RenFaire does someone say “why dost thou loiter?” and expect to be taken seriously?
(Those are actual lyrics, I’m not even kidding.)
I MUST HAVE IT
“Only I can start the fire that will light up every man’s soul, so that we may rid ourselves of this vile feminism. To Urban Dictionary!”
Nicolas & Alexandra (1971)
Pre Doctor Who Tom Baker. Wow.
I wonder if Muse has ever performed with the Beach Boys.
The conspiracy to assassinate Rasputin was organized by Felix Yussopov, a cross-dressing, homosexual Russian prince. This is true history. He also survived the October Revolution and fled Russia, to live out his life in exile.
True history guys!!1! Not being straight and wearing clothes robert doesn’t like makes you kill people!
But actually Robert fuck off kthanks.
Maybe if Sandra Hill ever branches out from time-traveling Viking Navy SEALs to time-traveling Viking suburban cops.
@CassandraSays, that utter ridiculousness and theatricality is part of what I love about black metal. Unfortunately, some people are serious about the genre. (I’m serious about it musically, not the whole face paint-and-pessimism business.)
I recently had a discussion with a friend about black metal masculinities. Like most metal genres it’s almost totally male-dominated and tends towards misogyny, but the way masculinity is performed is much less bog-standard than e.g. in thrash metal – guys wearing make-up, high-pitched vocals, a disinterest in cock rock lyrics. A little androgyny seems to be built in.
I love black metal fans who realize how silly the whole performance aspect is. The ones who take it seriously though…you have to feel kind of sorry for them.
I’m not sure that the whole sacrificing-a-hot-chick-on-a-primative-altar thing is any better than the standard cock rock way of framing gender relations, though. It’s not worse, it’s just equally dumb and sexist.
It’s only a matter of time, really. (I haven’t read her in years, but her books are always laugh-out-loud for me 🙂 )
Boo-yah! Nailed the double block-quote!