Vox Day, the reactionary fantasy author and pickup guru who was recently expelled from the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America , has convinced himself that education for women leads to “demographic implosion” because uppity educated women don’t have enough babies.
Indeed, Vox — real name, Theodore Beale — is convinced that education for women is such a bad thing that he actually thinks that “the Taliban may not, in fact, be the stupid ones with regards to this particular matter.”
By this he means not only that they’re right to keep girls out of schools, but that they’re also probably justified in shooting teenage girls for the terrible crime of speaking up publicly in favor of education for girls like themselves.
No, really:
[I]n light of the strong correlation between female education and demographic decline, a purely empirical perspective on Malala Yousafzai, the poster girl for global female education, may indicate that the Taliban’s attempt to silence her was perfectly rational and scientifically justifiable.
It’s quite telling that it is the “shooting-girls-in-the-head” issue that turns Beale — a right-wing evangelical Christian — into something of a fan of the Taliban.
@Argenti Aertheri
I don’t think he’s talking about DV per se. I think he’s talking about fantasy fiction and how monstrously unrealistic it is to have female warriors, because upper-body strength blah blah blah and how any writer who’d actually fought a member of the opposite sex would know that.
Except that, you know, female warriors, you know, existed. In all eras of history, not just the ones after we invented explosive chemicals to do the work for us. Archaeologists keep examining skeletons that were formerly assumed to be male because they were buried with weapons and discovering that, oops, they were actually women.
Beale: Shooting little girls in the head is totes scientifically rational!
Colon-Nolan: Harassing an innocent woman into committing suicide is totes cool to me!
What is this, be an evil asshole day?
Seriously, why are people evil? There’s no other way to describe this. This is pure evil.
How much brain-bleach do I need today? This much:
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How come all of these dolts, without fail, attempt to bolster every single nonsensical claim that pops out of their ass with an appeal to reason, logic or scientific fact? If they’re going to be non-stop hate gushing, trolling, childish bomb-throwing demagogues, can they at least occasionally stop ritually abusing critical thinking? Argh!
For some reason one of my favorite Matt Groening ‘”Life Is Hell” cartoons popped into my head.
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I had just been reading an interview with that Beale, and was hoping for David to mock him again. Even when just talking about his fiction, Beale comes across as a shit. The comments depress me too, even if misogyny and racism only come up once.
Derailing.
@katz. Read your twelve angry men tweet. I’m dying.
/derail
My reaction to this is like whiplash: the first blow is hard, and then the degree of what’s happened starts becoming more noticeable.
Now I’m finding it hard to describe the shock of what Beale has said. I’m querying my mind for words or a response, and all I get is a 404 error haze in return.
And some brain bleach for everyone. Comes with hugs for those who want them.
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And cruowlty to animals (but too cute).
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Manly man Voxy Doxx chest thumping: “I sincerely encourage anyone who wishes to write about women warriors to visit a full-contact dojo and ask to spar a few rounds with the opposite sex. They will accommodate you and it will be an eye-opening experience.”
“Woman who posed as man to become judo champ finally gets gold – 50 years after being stripped”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/woman-posed-man-judo-champ-finally-gold-50-years-stripped-article-1.398048
What a wretched, unpleasant excuse for a human being. He gives writers a bad name.
Also, it looks like my trip is aborted, guys. 🙁 My health collapsed, and I’m pretty much housebound in freakin’ Des Moines, Iowa. At least I’m in good hands, and the the inn owners are lovely?
David Futrelle,
Vox Day is a disgusting misogynistic monster! >(
@Brook
Pitch-perfect link, exactly right, and besides that, badass.
David Futrelle,
Darn I wanted to make an angry face >:(
Still didn’t work right.
The list of smilies is here — http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Smilies
I think you wanted : x without the space — 😡
Wow, we can 🙄
Eye rolls are visable!
Argenti Aertheri
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Thanks! 🙂
LBT – I’m so sorry to hear about your health! My healing vibes are traveling to Des Moines.
Take care of yourselves, LBT.
theladyzombie
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Considering how much of a racist fuck Beale is, it’s funny he’s acting as an apologist for the Taliban. I guess with him, misogyny wins out over racism.
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Maybe not entirely. Since most, if not all of the women he’s worried about not having babies will be white women, in his eyes, this might be the only way to maintain the “white race” Other than the fact that he’s defending an organization which is made up of mostly people that he at least probably regards as non “whites,” this is just something you can imagine a racist, misogynist would say.
““oh noes, the human race is going to be completely destroyed if we don’t immediately revoke women’s rights” ”
They seldom mean the human race , just one specific race which they fear will be outbred.In their logic high levels of oppression of women in other cultures makes them strong and credible threats , and this is something to emulate in order to better fight them. Look at Breivik, he was quite explicit in these claims.
That sucks LBT. 🙁 Hope you get well soon!
Hope you get better, LBT.
I cannot be the only person to refer to VD as Pox Dei, can I?
Aw, LBT, get well!
Talacaris, this isn’t on topic, but I’m pleased to see you commenting and not attempting to troll. On topic, yep, that’s about the sum of it.