The narcissistic racist pickup artist guru who goes by the ridiculous nickname Heartiste is a bit of an excitable fellow.
What’s got his man-panties in a bunch at the moment is an article on Slate noting that a small number of family therapists have begun to suggest that an affair might not mean the end of a marriage — and that in some cases a mature discussion of the raw feelings exposed by the discovery of an affair might possibly lead instead to a — gasp! — stronger marriage.
This isn’t exactly a revolutionary insight, and the therapists aren’t exactly urging married couples to all sign up to attend the next Polyamory Meetup in their town. But Heartiste is outraged. Though the word “feminism” isn’t uttered a single time in the Slate article, he has decided that it is proof of “The Feminist Push To Sanction Female Infidelity.” As he explains, in his typically overheated prose:
What feminists are attempting to do here is nothing short of legitimize the biologically innate female imperative to fuck alpha males during ovulation and extract resources from beta males during infertile periods of the monthly cycle.
You might think this is just some weird misogynistic crap he’s cooked up, but he DID say “biologically innate female imperative,” so it must be SCIENCE.
CH predicted it: Feminists and various “health professionals” would agitate to normalize the “alpha fux, beta bux” female mating strategy. As society becomes ever more feminized and emasculated, expect to see more of these rancid ideas percolate in mainstream discussion, as the pro-female directive and anti-male directive reach their demonic apotheoses.
Yes, he did indeed just say “their demonic apotheoses.” Heartiste is a bit of a drama king.
You might say, “Well, this means men can be unfaithful without consequence, too!” Oh, ye of precious naivete. Men won’t be let off the hook. The divorce industrial and family court complexes are rigged against the interests of men, and getting more rigged by the day. An army of leftoids fed on the swill of legalese will barely break a sweat holding the contradictory beliefs that women cheat for good reasons and men cheat because they’re oppressive patriarchs.
Eventually, with the help of dazzling sophistry, the law will be twisted to such a warped geometry that the people will come to accept injustice as fairness and lies as truth.
I think what he just said is that women will be allowed to get away with cheating, but men won’t.
Heartiste then goes on to suggest, naturally, that while female infidelity is inherently EEEEEEVIIL , male infidelity is no big deal, because reasons.
And then he just completely buries his head up his reactionary ass:
Feminism is the sick, wheezing spawn of its parent ideology, equalism, the belief in a magical flying spaghetti monster that imbues all humans with equal ability and equal worth, interchangeable flesh cogs that can as easily master astrophysics as lawn care given the right dose of self-esteem boosting pablum.
Oh, he’s not done yet:
Whatever the self-professed noble intentions of their advocates, these ideologies are as wicked and destructive as any genocidal revolutions that have come before them.
Yep, a couple of therapists saying “hey, maybe couples can work through affairs and come out better for it” is the equivalant of Auschwitz.
This is why CH, a citadel firm, guarded by sentries of ancient woods, illuminating a path to enlightenment, will never cease in its mission to utterly crush evil, sick ideologies like feminism so totally that there is no space for even the ashes of its immolation to gather in a stiff wind.
I think he must be drunk. “Sentries of ancient woods?” Are elves guarding his condo?
He ends with this final fantasy:
Feminism’s proponents will suffer endless ridicule should they choose to fight, or they will retreat from the public square to lick their wounds in the comfort of their silent seething thoughts. And, if the spoils of victory are rich indeed, some will self-deliver to release the pain.
Why do so many right-wingers write like this? Do they actually think this pompous nonsense makes them sound smart? I guess they must.
Well, back to my silent seething thoughts. And perhaps a light snack.
parents* OH MY GODS I SUCK AT GRAMMAR.
You’re all over this.
I might be missing the entire point, but wouldn’t making it socially acceptable for women to have more sexual partners be a good thing? Because it seems like that would increase my chances of mating by a good deal.
Good one!
Maybe if he said “fuck” one more time he’d loose his pg-13 rating?
As opposed to saying “fux,” which gives him an i-am-13 rating.
long time lurker – Reminds me of a NIN song. 😛
chibigodzilla – Oh noes! Parents won’t let their 13 year old read my screed on how men should totally be allowed to cheat on women because BIOTRUTHS! I need to censor “fuck”, hmmm…. hey, maybe if I did it in this hip way, they won’t notice!
^ Transcript of Heartiste’s rationalization [animal]. *nod*
You’d think writing the same apocalyptic nonsense over and over would get old. It might’ve been semi-plausible circa 2009ish if you were a bit drunk and weepy, but here we all are four years later, still eating nutella off the spoon and writing lame-o blog comments.
meanwhile on this I Fucking Love Science Post, mostly dudes are calling Bonobos sluts and saying they are no different than real women. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=705398806147800&set=a.456449604376056.98921.367116489976035&type=1&theater
yet another reason why I will not believe that sexism against women is no longer an issue. And why I wont stop being a feminist. Fun tip douchebags: want feminism to disappear? stop slut-shaming women…and stop applying your backwards morals to friggen monkeys!
Also you’d think that if all the women are banging dominant alphas, there wouldn’t be so many bitter so-called betas around.
and I know I shouldn’t be, but I’m kinda surprised to see such boneheaded comments on a science page. Maybe because professing to love science has become trendy today. Yet no one seems to know exactly what scientific thinking is. Hint: it’s not calling bonobos sluts.
I haz a mocks.
http://thefeministskeptic.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/apparently-heartiste-thinks-feminism-is-about-cuckolding-as-many-men-as-possible/
Quackers – Science isn’t free of stupid people, sadly. Even Nobel scientists can have a stupid (see: Linus Pauling)
@baileyrenee – Rancid Ideas Percolate would definitely be grindcore.
You have to dig deeper into the slime to gain understanding of the sludge, Grasshopper Jojo.
The desire for sex with women is, you see, almost incidental for many of these men, especially among the self-styled leaders. What they truly seek is control. Thus, anything which might threaten to empower a woman to make her own decision–even if that decision itself is one that would, in theory, be to the man’s benefit–is a Bad Thing [TM].
If control cannot be had, then the sex itself ceases to have value–this is, of course, why so many of them fear the (far too slow) war against rape culture, for rape culture is all about making certain that women cannot have agency, to say no OR yes. Instead, they must say no, and be overridden, in order to establish that their opinion is not tolerated.
And Grasshopper Jojo, in the future, I recommend having a hot shower already running when you ask these questions; I don’t know about you, but I feel like I need to do a full-body bleaching.
(On re-read, I think the “grasshopper” bit may have been more condescending in tone than I was trying for, and thus, would really appreciate if everyone would agree to just ignore those bits. Jojo, an apology is yours for the asking.)
I think you may be right nilvoidwhy.
I have been out-metal’d.
@Alice
so THAT’S where that Vitamin C stuff came from! I know a few people that I’ll be sending that link to lol.
Yeah, as others have pointed out, something that’s “biologically innate” and “imperative” doesn’t need to be legitimized.
And he thinks it’s totes legitimate for men to cheat. Of course! I bet he thinks it’s a biological imperative for them, too. But male biological imperatives are cool. Female biological imperatives are EEEEEVIL.
Surely it’s Narcissistic Personality Disorder? Surely anybody else, no matter how tragically isolated (and you can just tell this fellow doesn’t have warm and healthy relationships with friends or family,) would realize how ridiculous he sounds? (Surely?)
I know it goes without saying, but they don’t even get the natural history right. Leaving aside all the evo psych pseudoscience, in species with alpha males trying to control everyone else’s sexuality, the females tend to sneak off and mate with betas.
Quackers – Yep yep! No problems! SPREAD THE KNOWLEDGE!
“And, if the spoils of victory are rich indeed, some will self-deliver to release the pain.”
Since women are considered the spoils of war I had a different creepy take on this than others did.
Also too and besides I am hard pressed to accept the idea in the Slate article that discovering that you cannot trust your partner is likely to improve your future relationship.
The self deliver bit is particularly creeptastic.
Are you sure this isn’t just some elaborate trolling :p that is one of the most hilariously bad bombastic writing styles I’ve seen
What on earth is the “divorce industrial and family court complex”? Is Boeing now manufacturing prenuptial agreements?
“Should they choose to fight”? Dude, we’ve been fighting for at least 50 years. And we know you know that, because just a second ago you were complaining bitterly about the fact that we’ve changed the culture so much.
Heartiste: Oooh, you awful feminists, you’ll be ever so sorry if you keep that up! You’re worse than Nazis! NO REALLY, STOP RIGHT NOW OR WE’LL LAUGH AT YOU!