So our old friend Roosh Valizadeh seems to have fully embraced the Matt Forney school of misogynist internet celebrity, posting over-the-top offensive posts in a transparent attempt to gin up controversy and blog traffic. And it’s working: he’s brought an avalanche of well-deserved hate down upon himself. But don’t worry: he’s still got some supporters — not only on his own blog but in the Men’s Rights subreddit.
The post that’s been keeping the servers hosting Roosh’s Return of Kings blog busy lately is a guest post by Tuthmosis with the title “5 Reasons To Date A Girl With An Eating Disorder.”
It’s pretty much as awful as you’d imagine. Reason 1: “Her obsession over her body will improve her overall looks.” Number 2: “She costs less money” because she’ll only order salads at dinner. Hilarious. It’s all so predictably “provocative” it’s not worth quoting in any more detail.
Roosh has responded to the controversy with an, er, “Publisher Response” that was clearly designed to further stir the shit. In it, he claimed that the original post
contains value for men who want to date thin women in America, a country that is currently facing a devastating obesity epidemic, which we recently highlighted with Fat Shaming Week.
He followed this by claiming that Return of Kings wasn’t promoting eating disorders, merely trying to help women struggling with eating disorders find happiness in love:
We are educating our masculine readers not to pass on eating disorder victims just because they have an illness, yet instead of receiving thanks, we’re receiving hate instead. If we all had cancer, and someone wrote an article titled “5 Reasons To Fornicate With A Man Who Has Cancer,” we would spread it far and wide to make fornicating with us a better proposition for women. We would not send death threats or calls for censorship like is happening to us now. I think a bit more graciousness is in order for our unorthodox method of outreach.
As a much less obnoxious internet celebrity once put it:
Despite setting out to offend as many people as possible, Roosh reacted with indignation when he discovered that someone on the Men’s Rights subreddit had dared to suggest that perhaps he had stepped over the line a bit.
https://twitter.com/rooshv/status/403290871854280704
What’s doubly ironic about this tweet is that he actually has a lot of defenders in that thread — and that the thread itself has gotten twice as many downvotes as upvotes. Only a few found the Return of Kings post offensive; the others dismissed it as clickbait — or agreed with it.
One commenter, posting under the name of a famous turn-of-the-twentieth centuryantifeminist and opponent of women’s suffrage, apparently sees Roosh as some sort of heroic defender of anorexic women:
Meanwhile, the ironically named LogicalDebater beamed us this message from his home planet:
And our old friend Demonspawn, quoting from a commenter on Return of Kings, blamed the outrage on fat, ugly feminists jealous because men would rather date thin women.
![Demonspawn [-1] 1 point 21 hours ago (8|7) This comment on the followup article nailed it to the wall: The anger was only thinly veiled by the eating disorder arguments. Ultimately the original article was about accepting women albeit with the benefit that she's thin and won't cost as much, but I think that is the rub. The feminist hate speech directed in the comments and emails to this site was latent anger at a man's desire to date thin women. Since feminism encourages the destruction of female beauty and femininity most feminists have a hatred toward anything that encourages or accepts women for these traits. The hate directed at this site under the guise of "eating disorders" is just that, the article hit a rough nerve with feminists who hate beauty and acceptance when it is defined by men.](https://i0.wp.com/www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/demon.png?resize=525%2C242&ssl=1)
Men’s Rights Activists often complain about being lumped together with pickup artists; here, many of them have chosen to associate themselves with Roosh at his worst.
The greatest human rights movement of the 21st century, folks!
EDIT: Belated thanks to Snork Maiden for pointing me to Roosh’s tweet and the Reddit thread!
That photo is vomit-inducing. Dude, take a shower.
@Viscaria
This comment got a chuckle from me, I’d argue it’s the highlight of The Jojo Chicken Wars.
@PUAhate
This post had been retweeted AND posted on many other blogs? Oh my, Roosh is on his way to
super stardoma TV deala real jobcontinuing to eek out a living with his blog while skeezing across Eastern Europe. Rats, foiled again. Damn you, Roosh, damn you to Hell! *shakes fist vigorously for emphasis*Seriously, Roosh is nothing more than an unimpressive, hinky dirtbag, People on this board have been mostly mocking his gross cooking prep and disturbing hair, but go ahead and pretend Roosh is some mighty anti-Feminist folk hero if that makes your heart flutter.
Thanks for confirming my theory about where Roosh’s books come from.
That’s hilariously sad.
@Cloudiah – Good luck with the interview!
On some level I hope that bloggers like roosh do get ‘more traffic’. Maybe when people read this shit from anti-feminists, it will create some big feminist boom or something lol.
To be fair I haven’t read his actual post yet (hesitant) but between the fat shaming and the trying to foster eating disorders? Doesn’t get much worse. Oh who am I kidding OFCOURSE it will..
-_-
Brooked – don’t you love the way whinerboy expects feminists to “do something” about Roosh? It’s way too much to ask him and the other PUA Hate incel nitwits to do anything themselves. No, they expect mummy to do everything for them.
We are doing something about Roosh. We’re taking the piss out of him.
Best part of him, I’d reckon.
Quakers,
In a psychology 101 type course we learned that those who are deemed fat suffer and receive more discrimination than any other group, ie race, creed, or gender and it particularly negatively affects women more than men when both are obese.
Oh yeah Cassandra (eye roll) you reeeeeally ripped him a new one. Considering your debating “prowess” as depicted in the last forum, I highly doubt it. Most likely you misinterpreted his post (even as despicable and degenerate as it was) and when confronted you probably just run away like you did me and started talking about snakes….or fish….or sting rays or anything else to avoid acknowledging you had no clue what you were doing or talking about, right?
Damn, that’s quite a grudge you have there. Petulant much?
coolies,
Yeah, I wonder how much Roosh even believes his bullshit? Hate groups and zealots like Fred Phelps have the kind of character in which they love to hate and shock others with their degeneracy. Others displeasure pleases them. I think some of it has to do with power and control. The daughter of Phelps who left described her father as a rage-aholic I wonder if that would apply to Douche,…..er Roosh?
Grudge? Just mocking you. This is a site for mocking, right? You did leave the last forum with your tail between your legs so I figure you’re good sport for some good natured ribbing.
Moma what you just posted doesn’t seem like “good matured ribbing”
That wasn’t good natured ribbing. Good natured ribbing is calling pecunium Mr. Mango.
And I really hope Mr. Mango has time before work to reply to your comments on the other thread, it’d be hilarious.
LOL
Good natured ribbing
I can’t believe I wrote that wrong the first time.
Chicken breast is the only breasts he’s getting. Roosh has AAC, Adult Onset Cooties-and there’s only ONE cure, which is to chant circle, circle, dot, dot now you have your cooties shot and using your finger as needle inject the cooties vaccine into your upper right arm.
Shh, don’t discourage her, the frothing is funny.
People are mad, but the article is clearly true. Girls with eating disorders are cheap dates because they don’t want to eat, and because of their low self esteem will work harder to please you. You may not like this, but it’s clearly true and a benefit to men.
mates,
Wow mates, that was really great! Just to elaborate, what is an amazon affiliate click-through and how did you find out about Rooshs travel income? A tangible plan of action! I always figured that someplace like amazon would have some agreement in place that surely he must be violating. I figured they’d have some stipulation and guidelines.
Cassandra,
Frothing? I left one post mocking you and multiple ones not even mentioning you. Don’t flatter yourself. Youre the only one continuing to derail this forum and make it about yourself.
Think thats a bit harsh genderneutrallanguage. The title of this blog post is “Roosh V, trolling for page views with deliberately offensive posts, finds some supporters in the Men’s Rights subreddit.” You don’t need to get combative unless theres proper evidence. Merely noting that Roosh the Douche would stoop to the lowest of lows to get page hits is not being pro-Roosh its even the title of this post by Futrelle.
mike,
That’s not true. That’s based on a lot of generalities. Many men want a woman with an appetite and someone who isn’t broken. Your presumption that a woman who doesn’t want to eat and has low self esteem as the ideal for men is offensive to both genders and completely unrealistic. In Mauritania women are force fed to gain 90 pounds in one week so aesthetics admired in opposite gender is also subjective.
Shouldn’t you be writing a furious screed to our Dear Leader?
Looks like someone is a 9-comments-in-40-minutes kind of devoted to proving that she won’t be silenced by us mean mean meanies.
Aw, no more frothing. I am disappoint.