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?
I think TAA is trying to ask David out on a date. Anonymously.
I have–and I’m sure I’m not alone–zero fucks to give about TAA’s exploits, sexual or otherwise.
I too assumed this correspondence was actually from the amazingly awful athiest. Why else bring him up?
Argenti Aertheri,
Could your fish please predict the weather in London? There was thunder this morning but now its 32degrees. I DEMAND A STORM!
I didn’t know about the sex crap, and don’t care. I’d just rather keep the Amazing Atheist as far away from my thoughts as possible. Unlike Trayvon Martin, he has no real importance in the scheme of things.
RE: Argenti
Is that why fish do that? Ours used to do that all the time, and I always wondered what the hell was going on in their little fishy brains.
RE: Mongoose
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.
Hmm, wonder if my rapist used that. He was REALLY into trying to get us to bang him without a condom. (Which, since he’d had unprotected sex before, we were like, “Nope, no sex like that AT ALL, condom or not, unless you get an STD test.” He, of course, had buried his head in the sand about it because he didn’t want to know. I find it rather telling that we were more responsible at sixteen than he was at twenty-one.)
“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).”
What a telling quote.
What rights and power have men lost? Was it the right to vote? The right to independently own property? The right to execute a contract or write a will? The right to make decisions about their own bodies? The right to be considered an adult? The right to control their own wages? The right to divorce? The right sexual autonomy? The right to work alongside the opposite sex in difficult and dangerous jobs? The right to keep legal rights after marriage rather than lose them to a spouse?
I’m guessing those aren’t the rights this person is referring to.
I would love to know what “rights and opportunities” women have that men do not.
I had to google TAA’s sexploits and read all about them. I can’t help myself– I do this all the time when it comes to sex, gore, obscure facts, or general weirdness. I am just so so so curious. And once I am curious I have to find out. And then once I find out, I can never unsee what I have seen. But that never stops me from being curious the next time.
Good lord. What has been seen cannot ever be unseen. My poor poor eyes.
Test.
Wierd. I can’t post to the survey thread.
Pecunium — if it’s survey related, just email me.
T7G — I had not! Fishies!!
LBT — depends a lot on the species, and their feeding (or getting eaten) habits, but yeah, plenty are responsive to weather patterns.
daintydougal — sorry, they only respond to changes of the sort we silly humans miss, they don’t really predict the weather per se. Try a weather loach?
Monster — I’d say it’s the cuteness factor, but I want a tiny chunk of blue fish!
Pecunium, again — you’ve heard that blue things in Long Island sound will eat your fingers right? The bluefish and blue crabs are both have NASTY temperaments.
Survey thread’s letting me post, email me and I’ll post it for you?
It’s several language comments. I’ll try again.
CHECKMATE!!! fat, bespectacled, bearded atheists!
Married men have lost the right to rape and beat up their wives.
He’s said before that he’s an agnostic.
To be fair to the letter writer, I have seen quite a few people focus their criticisms of TAA on his sexual behavior, even people who are on “our side” about his misogyny, bullying, and temper tantrums.
On the other hand, if he’d looked up the Manboobs threads on TAA, he’d have seen that most manboobzers are not among those people, so…
I know nothing about TAA’s sexual exploits and I think I’ll try to keep it that way as long as possible.
Say hi to Michael Moore for me!
ok then
Ally — say hi to Michael Moore at the meeting of the Bespectacled Fat Elders.
I think.
And Roger Ebert. He was even also from Chicago.
“You on the other hand, stoop to nothing but personal insults.”
this person actually reads this website?
More morbid comparisons to insects and worms. Yay?
Yet another person who doesn’t understand what a mockery site is. Dudebro, really, this isn’t a debate site. We’re not here to have a deep discussion about whether the MRM or TAA or PUAs or whatever is worthwhile, because it’s a forgone conclusion: those things are shit. We’re here to make fun of them. For our own amusement.