So over on The Spearhead, the fellas are discussing pop star and self-professed feminist Lorde — no, really — and, well, I have some bad news for you all. Apparently we’re about to be taken over by Barbarian tribes. No, really — again. Blame Lorde, Lena Dunham, Lady Gaga, and of course Sex & the City. Among others.
According to a comment-cum-manifesto from The Other Jim, which won itself a couple of dozen upvotes from The Spearhead’s highly civilized readers, Lorde’s feminism
is merely symptomatic of the fact that we live in what can only be called, ‘The Fem-Centric Reality” … Where the culture of the West caters to female desires. Thus, it’s why we see movies, tv, books, music, etc. targeting women(with the govt. legally and economically empowering women eg Title IX, Lilly Ledbetter, etc.), but more importantly appealing to their innermost desires.
It’s why we’ve seen the popularity of such things like ‘Sex & the City’, ’50 Shades of Grey’, ‘Rom-Com’ movies and shows, ‘Girls’, ‘Dancing With the Stars’, ‘The Bachelor/ette’, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, ‘Grrll-Power’ Heroines like Jennifer Lawrence in the ‘Hunger Games’, ABC News, the ‘War on Women’, etc. All of it catering to the fleeting whims and desires of women. Thus, we all live in ‘Chick-World’. *
So, the ‘Fem-Centric Reality’ is the dominant cultural force in the West right now. Of course, it won’t last, nothing ever does, but the price it will exact from Western Civilization will likely help in usher in a cultural, if not civilizational collapse as the Barbarian tribes surrounding the West see the weakness the Fem-Centric Reality engenders and are patiently waiting to take over a weaker civilization.
So there’s that.
Jim ends with this, well, intriguing theory about trans women:
* It’s also why we’re seeing more MTF transsexuals in the public eye, IMO due to a form of Stockholm Syndrome whereby some men aren’t merely sympathizing with the hostage takers(women & the FemCentric Reality), they’re trying to become the hostage takers(women) and be at the center of the FemCentric Reality where the benefits are quite generous.
Fellas: just make sure to get your transition in before the barbarians take over, if you want to enjoy the lady benefits while you still can!
Look, look, something much more fun than Dunce – a new Shorty and Kodi vid!
http://youtu.be/SUkdhzXjv1U
So Dumb Scrote is MR. Al?
They are talking about barbarians overruning the west because according to them feminism is responsible for the fall of Rome. They are convinced that every civilization that allows women even the slightest freedoms is doomed to fail and be overrun by a more patriarchal one. They however lament the fact that this time feminism is a global thing, so like I said they’d probably hope for aliens to strike the earth.
I reckon he is. He admits to being Pro Patriarchal Truthiness, and I’m pretty sure that dumbass is just one of Mr Al’s characters.
I am a bit interested to know how, exactly, MRA’s are going to form a “short term alliance” with 50 Shades of Grey, a book. How exactly does one to about negotiating terms with a book? ‘Cause, y’know, I’d really like to negotiate a peace deal between Moby Dick and Jane Eyre. They’ve been in engaged in a Cold War on my bookshelve since ’95, and I think it’s time for it to end. I also think A Tale of Two Cities would be a good third-party neutral negotiator, as its a book both respect, but I’m not quite sure how to approach any of them to actually get this process started.
I don’t think 50 Shades would want an alliance with MRAs. It can’t be much fun having your pages stuck together.
They totally think that this is what will happen if women are allowed to have any societal power.
“I was a feminist man when I discovered this site, but the more I read, the more I’m realizing that MRA has some good points about the destruction of civilization. Especially the more traditionalist parts as opposed to the PUA nonsense.”
LOL and then you spout off some MRA utter nonsense, oookkkaaayyyy. Sorry if I’m calling BS on that. If you actually can swallow MRA garbage and call it filet mignon you were not a feminist.
“I speak these opinions as a non-racist person who is respected by all women I know personally. I am providing a venue for thought experiments and postmodern idea/content generation.”
That is literally gibberish, what does that even mean?
Ha, the Dark Lord has struck and Dumbass McScrotum has been banned yet again.
It means “I am privileged and have no problems, so I am going to treat everyone else’s real problems as a fun philosophical game”
Dude is pretty obvious, though, not sure why everyone isn’t clocking him as a lulz troll right from the first comment under the name of the day.
“Relevance is a concept long forgotten by our hedonistic society until it is trotted out for selected reasons.”
This sounds like one of those computer programs that generates random sentences that sound like they mean something, but are total nonsense.
Like this:
http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/toys/randomsentence/
Pootwattle’s thought-provoking inquiry into the relationship between the poetics of the gendered body and the fallacy of the image suffers from all the disadvantages that it inherits from its intellectual predecessors.
The de-eroticization of cultural reproduction is associated with the engendering of praxis.
I’m pretty sure PPT Dumbass is just another of Mr Al’s socks using various IPs. The style’s the same.
He’s lost it since the days of Steele, though, and ‘fessing up so soon … nah, you’re never going to get another Troll of the Year that way, sonny.
I like how Dunce Scrotus tries to rub other people’s noses in the big steaming pile of his anti-feminist opinions.
I wonder what all those”women who respect him” would say if they knew he was a pathetic troll who can’t resist repeatedly returning here?
His poor mom, can you imagine knowing your kid turned out like that? She should disown him.
Argenti:
All I need now is a blockquote monster attack, then the initiation ritual shall be complete!
May I just say how delighted I am with the idea that “feminism burst on the scene”?
Criminy!
Cool story, bro. Yet, strangely, I don’t believe you. Now why is that?
Ah yes, “traditionalism”. The last refuge of bigotry, that is. If you were ever a feminist man for real, you’d not bother defending that horseshit. You would know right away that it is nothing but backwardness, not intellectual diversity. THIS is why I don’t believe your cool story, bro.
“How dare you be so intolerant of intolerance, you intolerable shrews! I judge you to be overly judgmental of judgy bigots!”
Ppppppppfffffft. Those “dissident women” aren’t being “curtailed” in the least. They are being deservedly criticized (and debunked) by feminists exercising THEIR right to self-expression. If a “dissident woman” trips up, she has nothing but her too-long traditional skirts to blame. Feminists didn’t plot to make her catch her toes in the hem. We will, however, laugh at the ensuing pratfall.
>shrug< If they want to make even bigger asses of themselves than they already are, who am I to stop them? More pratfalls for me to point and laugh at! And more discredit to them in the long run. As it is, no one with more than two brain cells to rub together takes any of them seriously…
Care to name any?
Who you calling “mainstream”, Dunce? And no, no one has the right to bigotry. Bigotry is a privilege, and as such, must die. Unmourned, as befits bullshit.
Correction: You never were. Your latent stupidity merely decided to come out and play when your “feminist” pretend-games failed to net you enough hot chicks. Be honest now.
Bullshit. You defended bigotry as a “right”, which no actual non-racist person does. Your “thought experiments and postmodern idea/content generation” is another way of saying you’re engaging in bafflegab in a futile attempt to distract us from the fact that you are defending old and outmoded prejudices. Your pseudo-intellectual flailing isn’t fooling anyone. As for the women you “know personally”, they may be polite to your face, but behind your back they undoubtedly call you “that pompous ass”.
Her disingenuous bullshit would be consigned to the dustbins of history…where it belongs.
Trolls never mean what they say, yanno, they’re just offering up some thought experiments. Criminy!
Because non-white and LGBT are mutually exclusive. You can be of color, or queer, but never both. Uh-huh. Surrrrrrrrrrre.
And in other Dunce news, LGBT black people like Pam Spaulding can’t exist, because of the Law of Color/Queerness Mutual Exclusion!
I was going to say that was funny, but it wasn’t. It was boring. Do note that the unstuck double flounce does accumulate double deductions, though.
“is that the right number, Argenti?”
Sorta, it’s 10x the general population for trans people in general. Most are trans women of color though, so yeah.
AIT — he blockquote monster is like any sort of alarm — just when you think all is clear it’ll strike (how my brother didn’t set the fire alarm off earlier is beyond me, that was some fucking BURNT toast)
Pbbt. Thought experiments. My ass. Unless he means experimenting with stringing together increasingly assorted bigot buzzwords/taglines to see if they still make any sense.
This isn’t multiplication, where two negatives multiplied equals a positive. It’s English.
Folks, this trollbait is stale.