This email from a non-fan was so thoughtful I thought I’d share it, and my responses to it, with you all. This is the whole email, by the way. No, “Dear David” or any other niceties at the start.
1. Why do you represent yourself as a head of a creepy fucking child?
Because the “creepy fucking child” in the picture is me? It’s sort of my favorite picture of me.
2. How can you honestly believe that we live under a patriarchy, at least in modern western society? I mean, men hold no where near as much power as they’ve had in the past. Women nowadays have pretty much all the rights and opportunities that men have (hell, they probably have MORE rights, privileges and opportunities than men have).
Huh. How on earth could I possibly have come to the conclusion that perhaps men have more than their share of power in society today?
3. So what do you think of the Amazing Atheist?
Why don’t you just go and read what I’ve written about him? Do you not know how to use Google, or the search box on this page?
You two do have your similarities to each other: you’re both fat, have beards, wear glasses, are very opinionated, and both enjoy insulting the people you don’t like (feminists/MRA’s) and naturally attract a lot trolls from those respective groups. But, you two are on completely opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to feminism and gender politics.
Huh. How could that possibly be, with both of us being fat and wearing glasses? I’ll have to bring it up at the next meeting of the Bespectacled Fat Elders of the Internet.
Also, there is a bit of a difference between bullying people you don’t like (a la Amazing Atheist) and QUOTING WHAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY SAY (a la me).
And no, DO NOT bring up his sexual exploits, trying focusing exclusively on his merits as a video blogger, and as a person who gives his opinions on YouTube.
I don’t give a shit about his “sexual exploits,” whatever they are. And I don’t have much to say about his “merits as a video blogger,” because I’ve only watched a handful of his terrible videos. What I do know. from what I have seen from him, is that he’s a nasty, hateful, misogynistic asshole who bullies rape victims online and mocked a teenage girl who was bullied into committing suicide.
That kind of outweighs (get it? get it?) any fat solidarity I might have for him because of his fatness.
Hope that helps!
Yours, in fatness,
David Futrelle
EDITED TO ADD: My correspondent has responded to this post! Here is his reply. You may notice certain ironies.
That’s fine, go ahead and post all my emails to you on your website. All it’s gonna do is show how much of a colossal douchebag you are. And nice job on having your army of worms and insects crawl from the woodworks to attack me. Just goes to show how much feminists and the people who support them DO NOT deserve to be taken seriously, when all they do is stoop to personal insult and just linking to articles when someone questions them.
On the abortion thing, yeah that’s a problem, but how does it prove that’s there’s a patriarchy in western society? How do you explain the states that do allow abortion, how do you explain the modern western countries where abortions are legal? All it proves is that , yes, there are some states that continue to live in the dark ages and are run by assholes. How bout next time, try to actually answer my question instead of linking to an article and hoping that I’ll be satisfied. But then again, I guess that’s too much to ask out the modern-day feminist simpletons in society.
Oh yeah, and about the Amazing Atheist, he actually bothers to refute what the feminists. It’s not like he just looks at a feminist and says “haha your ugly, your fat, etc.” You on the other hand, stoop to nothing but personal insults. Pretty much all you do is find people you don’t like, hold them up and say “haha look at these people I don’t like, now point and laugh my personal army of woodworms.” You don’t even bother to explain why you think they’re wrong. It clear to me that somebody doesn’t know how to use the search feature on Youtube.
Woodworms?
But what about part-time spectacle wearers? Where do we fit in? I don’t wear specs to read my laptop. I need to know this!!!
“According to my brother, yes, it’s storage for when he gets hungry later. (And combed with the cat’s brush, which she hates, unlike the lint roller, which she’s indifferent to)”
::breathes prayer of thanks that Louis’s beard is not of food-storage size::
@Kittehs
To be fair, if David is multiple furrinatis in a suit, then they NEED the beard to hold food. What else are they supposed to eat when the humans/slaves aren’t around to feed them?
I used to have a Van Dyke-y beard in the old French style and while probably not great for food storage, ice-cream or gelato from a cone, flour-dusted rolls, syrupy pancakes, and cinnamon doughnuts could all stick around in the middle of the goatee bit or, particularly, the ends of the moustache.
When did the “furrinati” thing start, anyway?
I was not aware that the sexual exploits of the Amazing Atheist were well known on the internet. Interesting…
The Furrinati’s fairly recent – I think neuroticbeagle and I came up with it between us (?) a few weeks ago.
There was also the Great Furred Ones but the Furrinati took better. 🙂
Alice — I remember someone saying something awhile ago about him engaging in some non-PiV sex act for the camera and what this says about him and being roundly shot down that his sexual preferences and assholery are unrelated.
That was terribly non-specific, sorry!
lowquacks — they’re called napkins, do I need to make a gif to go with my “they’re called condoms” one? (Hm, our trolls seem to be wiseing up to the fact men do have birth control options, I haven’t had to use that one in awhile)
I have not seen this “they’re called condoms” .gif!
Argenti – but men can’t use condoms, because SPERMJACKING!
What if I’m not fat or bearded but I’m super opinionated and I wear contacts? Or is this like a traditional golf club and the vagina is an automatic disqualifier?
lowquacks
Kitteh — /).<
My logic is if a guy doesn’t want to use a condom then it is time to leave.
Because I would want him to use a condom so I DON’T get pregnant, not because I do want to get pregnant.
By that same logic, I guess me and Girl Writes What ought to get together and straighten out our agendas, since we’re both thin, white women with blond, short hair.
Heh, I remember unfriending someone from facebook after they posted a link to one of TAA’s misogynistic videos. It was the one in which he was whining because some women made fun of domestic violence, and insisted men never ever make jokes about domestic violence, rape, or anything of the sort. Because feminism.
On condoms: I also think about 90% of MRA’s beef with paternity is that they don’t like condom-sex. The same guys whining about paternity traps are then later high-fiving each other for having condom-free sex with some girl they just met (because “it’s cool, she said she was on the pill”).
In fact, I don’t know if I can find the link, but one of the PUA websites actually has a “how to force a girl to have sex with you without a condom” guide.
@ Argenti – I’ve worked in a few animal places where we fed the raptors day old chicks or quails, and the number of people I heard saying things along the lines of “They are cannibals!!”…uh, yeah. I just did my best to ignore the comments that weren’t directed *at* me (“That owl is eating its chicks!!!”) because I didn’t have time to explain this stuff over and over. And yeah, never did I hear any shocked gasps at feeding mice to the mongoose or whatever. People eh?
As for guys and condoms. If the woman doesn’t want to use a condom, she’s clearly after a baby. If the woman does want a condom, she must also be after a baby, because spermjacking!! Any instance of a woman wanting sex is evidence that she’s a whore who wants some sweet, sweet child support. Because women don’t actually like sex, only money and crushing men’s dreams. *vomit*
“And yeah, never did I hear any shocked gasps at feeding mice to the mongoose or whatever. People eh? ”
That’s because the Mongoose is the manliest of all animals and gets to eat what he wants. Or at least, he got to, before feminism!
@ Mongoose – as a die-hard feminist keeper/biologist I advocate feeding Herpestidae nothing but bon bons and scented fucking candle wax. Keep them docile and fragrant to please my ladybrains.
“In fact, I don’t know if I can find the link, but one of the PUA websites actually has a “how to force a girl to have sex with you without a condom” guide.”
Could be Roosh, iirc. I think he was the one who called it “bareback persistence”. Him or Roissy, anyway; they blur.
I think Roosh does, and the guide was basicly “just keep trying to stick it in until she stops arguing”. yuck. Wouldn’t be suprised if there are multiple guides out there, they are all as distasteful and rapey as each other.
Did the letter writer warn you to refrain from slut-shaming TAA?
I’m showing my age: every time I see TAA I think Trans-Australia Airlines, and they were swallowed by QANTAS in the 1990s. “Up, up and away, with TAA, the friendly, friendly way” is a song I still remember from childhood.
Won’t someone please think of the mongooses!
@monster, I think that’s the same guide. I remember thinking it was pretty rapey. It was basically, don’t ask, just do it. And when she says stop, stop for a few minutes, then do it again. Sickening.
@neuroticbeagle
Amateurs.
Argenti
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“And no, DO NOT bring up his sexual exploits, trying focusing exclusively on his merits as a video blogger, and as a person who gives his opinions on YouTube.”
Asshole logic. “You’re an unfuckable virgin, I’m Incel”