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?
in my case, it is also to survive all this crap. for me laughing is a remedy.
“On the abortion thing, yeah that’s a problem, but how does it prove that’s there’s a patriarchy in western society? ”
It doesn’t because denying basic bodily rights to women and privileging the life of a fetus over the life of a pregnant woman has nothing to do with relegating women to a lower status in society!
Hey, we’re superworms not woodworms!
Backstory here: my brother and his friend got rid of their bearded dragon and my brother bought the remaining superworms home in case the puffers wanted them. Now, these things are easily ten times the size of my puffers, but he [squick warning] chopped the head of one and they loved it, so the rest have been frozen for later consumption.
Superworms — delicious and nutrious (if your a creature that eats insects)
*you’re!
Argh, bad MRM, stop infecting my writing!
“in my case, it is also to survive all this crap. for me laughing is a remedy.”
Yeah. Me too.
auggz, David updated his post to include a response from the LW.
auggziliary — there’s an update to the OP
Ninja’ed!
Oh definitely. I just don’t think that bringing it up in relation to Mr. Assbutt & Co. is terribly useful, since they don’t really understand the concept of facing such difficulties, as evidenced by the fact that they think being forced to let women vote, or having to let women own property or even their own bodies, or being stripped of the “right” to rape and beat women is TOATAL MISADRIPANTS and a legitimate difficulties that society ought to address.
vs.
I LOL’d.
Wow just… sorry for the awful grammar there. I don’t know how that happened. Possibly the blockquote monster is mad at me for not being plagued by it as yet, and has set the terrible MRM grammar monster on me in revenge.
Heh … assbutt.
It’s a riddle!
Nah, he does that and then goes on and on and on about how much he hopes they’ll be raped.
Now, just out of curiosity, WTF does he have to do with this conversation in the first place?
I couldn’t care less what the Unamazing Dipshit does with bananas or anything else as long as he does it alone; given his attitudes, I doubt he gives a damn about consent from anyone else. I never think about him outside mentions here; he’s not even a blip on the radar. Dreary little misogynist men, atheist or not, are a dime a dozen.
Woodworms, ha.
Wait, a banana? I mean, yeah, they’re the usual “this is how you put on a condom” but aren’t things like cucumbers more common? I don’t…
(Note that what little caring I have here is the practicality of the matter, not TAA’s sexytimes per se)
Love [thing], hate [category thing belongs to]?
Only way I’m eating mushrooms is if they’re the trippy kind, and even then I’m probably going to grind them and make tea.
I went directly to ED, because I knew there was no way they wouldn’t have preserved that for posterity.
What was TAA’s objective when he was making these videos of himself? o_O was there some kind of context?
Seriously, I know the troll brought it up, but we should drop the whole banana-video thing.
My guess at this point is that David’s new letter-writing buddy IS TAA, because why bring him up otherwise?
PSA — when sticking things in your anus (or anyone else’s) ensure the base is wide enough to prevent your inserted object from becoming fully inserted. Lest you end up needing it removed in the ER.
/PSA
I agree w/ Katz, and I deleted the links to the TAA pic and video. AFAIK, this stuff got out w/o his knowledge or permission, so I don’t think it’s appropriate to post here, even if it is easy enough to find.
And I really don’t want any more discussion of this. It’s none of our business, and I’ll start deleting comments if the discussion continues.
I’m 99.99% sure the person writing me is NOT TAA.
exactly!
Dropping the whole banana thing.