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.
Beware, Unimaginative, the blockquote monster strikes you when you are least wary.
So far, I’ve been taunting the blockquote monster but have yet to catch its attention…
Everything about Rasputin’s story is just so over-the-top. It’s amazing. If you were writing it as fiction, your editor would be telling you, “Hey, cowboy, pull it back a little. We want people to SUSPEND their disbelief.”
And then you read about Rasputin, and think, Huh. And then you learn a little more, and think, “Well, that can’t be true,” but you check it and it is. And then it just gets weirder and weirder.
So, okay. A cross-dressing, homosexual prince was more acceptable to the Russian court — during the same era as Queen Victoria (ish) — than Rasputin. That’s fucking amazing. And so appropriate, somehow.
@Elisa, that’s funny, but makes an odd sort of sense, since Lovecraft was a fascist sympathizer. So were D.H. Lawrence and Knut Hamsun, fwiw.
David Futrelle
Women have never been oppressed? Wow this guy’s a sexist pig. Fidelbogen might want to read a history book or two, not written by an MRA, and maybe he should read about the abuse women suffer, not just in the US, but in other countries.
@serrana, Thank you! It’s so cute! I feel cool because I’ve actually read far back enough to get the penguin whore joke. XD
@Kittehserf, Hello!
@anadiomene122 I didn’t know that about Lovecraft! Intense racism and fear of mixing, check. Hitler went hilariously/awfully well, while feminists writing about rape culture (in essays we agreed with) didn’t score very high on Cthulhu-replaceability, but it may be that the common denominator is really fascism. Next we’ll try Marx?
Apropos of kitties, someone on my FB just linked to this and I thought it would be appreciated here: http://www.manrepeller.com/2013/07/are-you-a-cat-lady.html
Robert: Lies! I have it on good authority that Rasputin was a Malkavian Vampire, a Marauder and a Nephandus, AND he was probably a Redcap in Bedlam. I even gots books that say it, so stick that in your pipe and cross the road to pull your pants up!
(This comment was as germane to the conversation as anything Robert has posted.)
Buffy thinks he was a vampire, too.
testing.. testing…
Please substitute the phrase cat lady with the phrase Furrinati Minion.
http://living.msn.com/family-parenting/pets/for-the-love-of-cats/slideshow?cp-documentid=258697578#1
I had a site to show you guys but its not posting. 🙁
Neuroticbeagle, just dump in the URL by itself.
I’m just wondering, would it be possible to program a Fidelbogen tweet generator?
“Rasputin was a Malkavian Vampire”
LIES!! How dare you slander the Malkavain name?! (Though redcap I could buy)
@Malte
Face paint-and-pessimism business? Why do you lump the two things together? Corpse paint is so passe, but pessimism isn’t something I’d want to see black metal doing away with any time soon. That kinda goes hand in hand with the music.
@Cassandra
Plenty of bands go their whole careers without playing that virgin sacrifice trope. I don’t see anything sexist about a band that sings about forests and snow.
And I don’t see what’s laughable about the performance aspect; plenty of bands dispense with the corpse paint and other over-the-top theatrics.
@katz
I did. It’s not showing up.
The thing about Rasputin (as opposed to dva Putin… weak Russian pun), is that he wasn’t an abnormal figure. There was a history of mystic, self-proclaimed religious figures (I’d say iconoclastic, but in that context Iconclasm is a real thing, and he wasn’t).
The huge sexual appetite, sort of in keeping. The indulgence in food/drink, sort of in keeping. The idea of miracle cures, very much in keeping. That he managed to get the access he did, that was the strange part.
The stories of his demise, a bit exaggerated, but he was robust.
@neuroticbeagle
If the comment that had the link doesn’t show up then maybe it has some slur that’s getting picked up by the filter. Maybe try using http://goo.gl/ to get a short link that hopefully doesn’t trigger the filter.
Pecunium — his access was thanks to keeping the um, whatever you call the heir to a czar, from bleeding to death due to hemophilia, no? I’m just thinking that maybe there was some actually useful herbal thing or something.
Oh, CassandraSays!! *___* felt a little envy right now, but not the evil kind, I swear! xD I just love Boney M. ^_^ this is a very nice story
And now I’m just listening to the Rasputin song over and over again and watching Jack Handey and checking what he has been up lately! So, in a way, Fideldiddly-boo (or whatever his name is) made something good today in a complete indirect way!
The Tsesarevich.
My favorite has to be the rape culture hashtag (closely followed by “Advance steadily, and let faux insanity be your shield” for sheer HUH?!!). I don’t know if he’s so caught up in his delusions of feminist overlords that he thinks that’s the hashtag that’s really trending right now, or if these tweets are aimed at feminists in an attempt to ….. ????? Profit!!!
I was very confused by the rapeculture hashtag used by him. It seems so incredibly random.
@pineapplecookies
They were all very kind to a bored kid stuck waiting for a delayed flight, I just remember the one lady better than everyone else because hey, free candy, and I always did like being petted and fussed over. Also my mum was doing a more toned down version of the 70s thing and my dad was a rocker dude, so my tiny brain was going SO SHINY.