The Pax Dickinson Crisis seems to have abated somewhat, with postings on the #standwithpax hashtag on Twitter slowing to a trickle and the production of manosphere rants on the subject more or less grinding to a halt, at least for the moment.
But there is one manosphere ideologue who hasn’t given up the fight for injustice, and that’s the despicable “game” guru Roosh Valizadeh, who seems to have embarked on a crusade to ruin the life and career of the Valleywag/Gawker writer who first brought Dickinson’s terrible tweets to the attention of the wider world.
Yesterday, Roosh slammed out a viciously racist, misogynist, homophobic and even transphobic rant attempting to smear the writer, Nitasha Tiku, as … wait for it … a racist.
Today, he announced his plans to try to “destroy” her reputation on Google by permanently linking her to that (false) charge.
He explained his strategy, which he suggests will work on all liberal writers who might criticize men for racism or misogyny:
Unless she’s applying for a position at Jezebel, no respectable company will touch a toxic individual who has been linked to racism. They don’t want anyone who may cause controversy for them, and behind rape, nothing says controversy like race. …
It’s a slow-burn attack that will effectively punish these writers and scare their co-workers , whose income is low enough that they need to depend on corporate employment indefinitely, unless one day they get an original thought and can stay away from their iPhone long enough to write a book. It won’t work on the big liberal writers like Jessica Valenti or Naomi Wolf, since any attention they get just helps them sell more books, but it does work on the young girl out of college trying to win feminist brownie points by denouncing a man for being “creepy” based on a bad joke.
And then he compared it with something he seems to have a certain amount of experience with:
Having your name destroyed on Google is the internet version of getting raped.
Lovely.
There are more than a few practical problems with Roosh’s little plan, the most notable being that if some hypothetical hiring manager comes across Roosh’s attack on Tiku — or on any writer he’s tried to tar — all this manager will have to do is spend a minute skimming Roosh’s post to see that the charge is bullshit and that Roosh is himself a raving bigot.
And Roosh, if you’re trying to smear someone, it’s generally not good form to announce this plan publicly in a post that at times reads like the monologue of some cartoon supervillain.
In his piece, Roosh notes that “[n]ot long ago, Buzzfeed insinuated I was a rapist.” Well, it did more than that: It quoted Roosh admitting quite frankly that he’d had sex with a woman who was too intoxicated to consent.
I thought, in the interests of openness, it would be worth quoting that passage from Roosh — it’s in his e-book Bang Iceland — once again. Heck, I’ll even give the bit Buzzfeed quoted a little more context. I’ll let you decide if Roosh is a rapist or not.
I hooked her arm and off we went. The best thing that possibly could have happened was a “failed” afterparty. There had to be a moment when she realized that all her friends are gone and the only reasonable option left was to go home with a strange man she had just met.
While walking to my place, I realized how drunk she was. In America, having sex with her would have been rape, since she couldn’t legally give her consent. It didn’t help matters that I was relatively sober, but I can’t say I cared or even hesitated.
I won’t rationalize my actions, but having sex is what I do. If a girl is willing to walk home with me, she’s going to get the dick no matter how much she has drunk. I’ll protect myself by using a condom (most of the time), but I know that when it comes to sex, one ounce of hesitation or a feeling of morality will get me nothing.
Emphasis mine.
At this point even Pax Dickinson may want to distance himself from this creep.
Sorry… as for the openly narcissistic sharing. I’m not thinking clearly.
That’s it. Tea break.
Roosh, why u try so hard?
I used to live in China. I walked around one day and I counted 24 children. Out of the 24 kids, only three were girls! That is a sex ratio of 8 boys to 1 girl! I once taught a class of 33 students where only 3 were girls! Now I know the official rate is 5 boys to 4 girls, but this is ridiculous. Who are these beloved sons going to marry in 20 years?
I am aware that China has a one child policy, has a preference for sons as a replacement for a lack of a social security plan, and is backwards and undeveloped, but aborting females for males is beyond cruel. Estimates say that there will be a surplus of 60 million males in ten years.
http://www.economist.com/node/15606229
Chinese parents can have another child if they have a girl, but not if they have a boy. Chinese, however, often ignore the law, abort the girl, and have two sons. I am also told that China will import women from Russia, Thailand, Japan, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, and the Philippines to make up for the lack of wives in China. However, these countries do not have an extra 60 million women and India, Pakistan, Nepal, Vietnam, South Korea, and Taiwan also have a severe shortage of women. An imbalanced sex ratio is a serious problem and could lead to social instability and even war.
If you ever go to China, count the first 20 kids you see yourself. I bet you won’t find the sex ratio is better than two boys to one girl. If you are concerned about this problem, try to raise awareness by discussing this issue with others and ask them if they want to live in a world where everyone has an unmarried son.
kelly – what has China’s one-child policy to do with anything? Would you mind not spamming threads?
Re: fornication – remember, the Southern Baptists forbid fornication ‘cos it might lead to dancing.
They’re right, too. The thought of seeing Roosh dancing is too horrible.
@ Kittehs
I just went through this sequence. (Sorry about Robin addressing Leslie as “Lesbian!” It was intentionally a bit grating and she’s gotten better since 2007.)
@Kelly, try to raise awareness by discussing this issue with others and ask them if they want to live in a world where everyone
has an unmarried sontalks about women, views women, and even considers going to war over women as though they were another natural resource to be fought over and not, you know, people.Fixed that for you.
And I love how the thrust of your spiel is “poor unmarried men” as opposed to, idk, “poor millions of children murdered (after birth) because they turned out to be girls” or “poor women in those countries where they are viewed as mere resources and pressured to murder their children”.
All hail the hypno-choad
All hail
Also someone actually did a Tropes vs Men video! It is funny.
Cassandra – that zombie’s way less creepy and a much better dancer than I bet Roosh could ever be.
Like the way the blood just … vanishes … at the end of the clip. Continuity, what’s that? 😀
Kelly still hasn’t bothered replying about her irrelevant wall-of-text comment, I see.
Loooooooove that “China is backwards” message, just looooooooooove it. No wait, I don’t love it at all.
“Unless she’s applying for a position at Jezebel, no respectable company will touch a toxic individual who has been linked to racism. They don’t want anyone who may cause controversy for them, and behind rape, nothing says controversy like race.”
So what Roosh is saying is that he has absolutely no chance of ever being gainfully employed in any way?
@Katz: That was awesome! It’s certainly how I view YouTube talking heads and their sycophants when they obsess over Anita Sarkeesian. Totally sharing this elsewhere…
BTW, there’s something I’ve noticed about some of those “critics”: they don’t play videogames at all. Two people I know over facebook have outright admitted they don’t play games yet, for whatever dumb reason, still see reason to take offense. Isn’t that like going to a stage production, proclaiming it’s the worst piece of shit ever made into a play, and then saying “oh – I don’t see plays very often.”
It annoys me as someone who actually plays games and enjoy hearing Sarkeesian’s observations on fictional tropes. Not having a conniption fit over every imagined slight that must be geared at them and not at a work of a fucking fiction.
Sorry: those people just get on my nerves…
Well, looking for videos of zombies dancing did lead me to this, so I guess I can thank kelly “China is evil! Evil, I tell you!” for that.
@CassandraSays
The guy who laughs at 0:35! Greatest laugh ever! 😀
Worst part of that wall of text? Could’ve had an actual tie-in since India is barely better and has made international news lately for its handling of rape cases. Noting that Indian men are marrying non-Indian women because India has a shortage of women would make sense and be on topic. But yeah, what emilygoddess said, word it in terms of smothered newborns, not unmarried adult men — do you want to live in a world where “it’s a girl” is met with “it was ‘stillborn'” instead of joy? (Or other response that’d be given to a male child, I get that not every newborn is met with joy, but it should be the same response regardless of gender)
/semi-relevant discussion of feticide
That Dan Cardamon/trailblazermra Tumblr is a joke, tho, right?
Hi, Bee!!! Yes, it’s more funny mockery.
Bee – yeah, it is. Dan Cardamon does the Some Grey Bloke stuff.
Phew! OK. I mean, ALL these guys sound like they’re making fun of themselves. It’s hard to know.
Hi, cloudiah!
Speaking of satire, I was chatting the other day to a political satirist here (won’t drop his name, we say hello on the train sometimes). I asked how it’s going to be possible for him andhis comedy partner to satirise the Suppository of Wisdom who’s now PM. He said he thinks they should take the government to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for unfair competition. “And we’d win!!” 😀
So what Roosh is saying is that he has absolutely no chance of ever being gainfully employed in any way?
What slander is this? Roosh isn’t unemployed because he’s unemployable. He’s unemployed because he’s better than those losers “whose income is low enough that they need to depend on corporate employment indefinitely” instead of taking the manly route of moving to an impoverished country where they can survive off self-published ebooks and pity. SO ALPHA.
It’s always sour grapes with this one, isn’t it? Women aren’t rejecting him; he was just about to reject them first. He’s not jealous of guys with girlfriends; he could totally get a hotter chick if he wanted. And he doesn’t even want a job, okay? Jobs are for betas.
I’m just disappointed The Great Doosh hasn’t kept his promise of crying literal rivers or whatever. I wanted to make like these butterflies.
… not that Roosh is anywhere as cute as a turtle. But that’s a given, him being a creepy deadeyed rapist.
If I were her I’d screencap that post. And then hire a lawyer. And then get ready to file suit each time somebody turned me down for employment based on his rantings. Separate, individual suits for each time that happened.
Content idea: (trigger warning: rape)
fschmidt debated the finer points of what constitutes RAPE rape, and what is, I don’t know, fake rape, and what the punishment for both should be.
http://governmentsgetgirlfriends.wordpress
.com/2013/08/25/discussion-with-cracked-tac-members
Comentator hatecaptchas discussed her traumatic stories of rape and brought up a post he linked to by someone named Devlin. Fschmidt said in response,
She pointed out a quote from the Devlin article that was really problematic:
He of course replies that he doesn’t mean her rape, but that other less rapey rapes should result in forced marriage:
He also contradicted himself more than once, opposing a promiscuous society… well, except for men with prostitutes:
I suppose real rape will have to be brought to the court of fschmidt for the final say in whether or not the rapist should go to jail or the two people will be forced into marriage. Sounds like a just society!
Later, when they were discussing monogamy and polygamy, he made a ridiculous case for women not being able to vote.