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.
Damn, I forgot to get blockquote monster chow at the store.
Argenti – That’s pretty good to know. I hope I’ll never need it.
hellkell – I hear too many horror stories.
Buttercup – YES to all that (and hiss boo to the blockquote monster).
PS: Have also seen a Google Street View of Le Château Fartiste. A golden palace in the elven woods it is not.
::snicker::
PPS: Do the words “bland-ass suburban DC condo with microscopic yard” mean anything, perchance?
“Citadel firm” puzzled me at first. I now think he was aiming for a poetic effect by putting the adjective after the noun; he’s describing his citadel as being firm.
Which (to paraphrase Addison deWitt) makes sense. An idiotic sense, but a sense nonetheless.
::second snicker::
http://scorpiondagger.tumblr.com/post/67194275933
Quoting rtk’s post since people may have missed it.
Yep. His entire blogging career is an attempt to reframe reality in a way that makes him seem important, and persuades women to allow him to have power over them. Which is why it’s so delicious watching people laugh at him.
Not working, dude. If you were any more transparent people could use you to make windows.
(BTW, rtk, if you’re new, welcome!)
Oh, Heartiste. bless* you, you little rascal**. Don’t ever change***.
*By “bless” I mean “fuck”,
**by “little rascal” I mean “whiny asshole”,
***and by “change”, I mean “attempt to come within a mile from a woman. Or any living being in general, come to think of it. Better yet, stay in your elven palace guarded by the totes real magical elves (who are totally alpha, masculine, sooper dooper battle elves in full space marine armor, not at all the stereotypical androgynous *insert gendered slur*s)”.
Wow, so much subtlety in a single sentence. Go me.
Magpie, hi! How ya been?
Love that gif.
My Dad is totally alpha, just like an alpha wolf–in that he has one adult child still living at home and another just recently successfully launched into to “go find your own place and boyfriend” stage of life.
What he lacks is this years’ pups in the den, but I think he’s quite content with two cats, instead. They don’t require college funds.
Oh I know why this article has him seething. I just read it. It’s written with the backdrop of a cheating woman. And said woman is not being called a filthy slut anywhere in the article. Also, she has actual feelings of her own and they count as much as her husband’s. I’ll bet if this article was written with the backdrop of a cheating husband, he wouldn’t have even noticed it. Except to maybe remark about how it’s either natural, or she drove him to it. Neither of which can ever apply to a woman ever.
I’m also soooo sick of the projection! His whole “alpha fux, beta bux” theory is basically saying women only “utilize” men. Exactly what he does to women. I’m sick of the “gold digging whores” crap. I’ve always been befuddled over this gripe. Some women want to be “taken care of” by a man, but this is not some feature of women that is rampant or even common. Basically there are people out there, both men and women, who may be after financial security. Whoopty-shit.
OT, and TW for suicide talk, in the previous thread, my heart aches for all of you who are or have been suicidal. I’m having a bad depressive episode myself, and although it is very painful, I haven’t had suicidal thoughts. I did
this one time when I was on fertility drugs and the hormones fucked me up emotionally.
Which makes me realize how terrible the pain must be to get to that point. I can’t even imagine the despair. I just had passing thoughts and they were mostly because I just wanted the pain to end. People who kill themselves don’t want to die, they want to live without pain. They want the pain to stop.
At some level I kind of whish that all these horrible MRA folks actually did live in their alternate reality/world on the other side of the looking glass. It would probably make this world much nicer and closer to a place in which equal dignity for all is the unremarkable default state. Any of them would be welcome to come back once they cease being hateful pond scum
*wish
Spelling fail
So, out here in Western Canuckistan, our genius politicians decided that, due entirely to their financial brilliance*, citizens no longer have to pay into Alberta Health Insurance. Usually, employers pay their employees’ share. When I was working for smaller businesses and had to pay my own, it was around $120 every three months. But now it’s nothing, because our rich, rich province is going to pay for it all.
Except, wow. Booms end, and busts happen, and when you’ve cut oil royalties down to almost nothing to attract oil companies, you don’t actually get a lot of income from letting them destroy your environment.
So now, our dear leaders are making noises about how socialized health care is too expensive, and we have to introduce American-style health care to prevent the whole system from collapsing.
Grrrrrrrr.
*Alberta had a huge financial surplus for awhile because the price of oil skyrocketed. The government somehow decided that it was because they were such good stewards. They were not. Neither are they geniuses.
$120
Every three months?
My monthly (employer-subsidized) cost is $90.
I want to move to Canada. BC is close enough to Washington, right?
Argh my eyes just rolled out again …
It’s just basic health care and doesn’t cover everything (dental, glasses, prescriptions are extra, and a good job includes that kind of insurance). There are certain treatments that aren’t covered, so every once in awhile, there’ll be fundraising to help someone with a rare disease. But most stuff, that affects most people, is covered.
Meanwhile, here in the World’s Mightiest Country, we have people who are convinced that requiring them to do business with a private company is socialism.
Robert – but don’t you know? If we let the pinko liberal Muslim statist Antichrist to instill socialism through Obamacare, THE WORLD WILL END AND BABY JESUS WILL CRY! And you don’t want to make Baby Jesus cry, don’t you?!
/sarcasm
If it makes you feel any better, Alice, I’M GLAD I FINISHED MY CUPPA BEFORE I READ THAT.
Yeah, we’d be dancing for joy down here if you could get healthcare of any kind, however basic, for $40/mo. Easily 10 times that much if you’re buying it yourself.
Eeek!
Mine’s $120 a month, I think, going by my statement, though I’m not sure if that figure’s before or after the government rebate. Either way, $400 a month’s monstrous expensive.