Apparently hoping to gin up another flood of hate-traffic to his blog, the attention-seeking human stain whose name rhymes with Batt Gorney has posted what is essentially a how-to guide for would-be abusive boyfriends under the charming title “How to Crush a Girl’s Self-Esteem.”
“Gorney” has conveniently arranged his suggestions into a numbered list, so let’s proceed through them one by one. (If you’re triggered by explicit discussions of psychological and physical abuse, please stop reading now.)
Step one, in “Gorney’s” not-so-unique 6-step-plan: “Constantly make her feel inadequate.”
And how do you do that? Easy as pie.
Every time she does something for you, find out what she did wrong and remind her of it. If you can’t find any problems, make some up.
And try some mild gaslighting while you’re at it.
[Y]ou should always sound calm and collected, like you’re talking about the weather. Denigrating her in a neutral-but-firm fashion will trip her submissiveness circuitry, making her think about how she can better serve you. And every time she reaches the goalposts, you move them, forcing her to play an eternal game of catch-up.
Like the salesmen in Glengarry Glen Ross, you should Always Be Criticizing:
The concept is that if you criticize girls for minor mistakes, they’ll be less likely to commit major ones, as their mental energy is expended on dealing with your every complaint. For example, if you constantly critique the way she dresses, you won’t be arguing with her over whether she should get a tattoo or nose piercing to express her “individuality.”
In step 2, “Dominate her physically and sexually,”“Gorney” encourages his readers to violate their girlfriend’s personal and sexual boundaries at every chance.
Repeatedly violate her boundaries in small, petty ways, small enough that she’ll feel petty for complaining to you.
That’s right: abuse her strategically, and in such a way that she feels crazy for complaining about your abuse. “Gorney” is thinking like a true abuser.
For example, if you’re into anal sex and she’s not thrilled about it, the next time you take her from behind, stick your finger into her asshole. If she doesn’t like facials, cum in her hair instead. Lightly clasp your hand around her throat during sex like you’re going to choke her. (Do not actually choke her. That is dangerous.) Smack her on the behind when you’re out in public. The possibilities are endless.
The message you want to send her is simple: it’s not her body anymore.
This is all textbook abusive behavior.
“Gorney” follows this with a lovely bit of rationalization:
Most girls want you to dominate them anyway, but the rationalization hamster and their conscious minds prevent them from articulating this desire.
And then it’s back to more strategic abuse:
[I]f she lets you get away with minor violations of her boundaries, she’ll accede to your bigger demands later on, letting you mold her into the perfect plaything. If she doesn’t violently resist getting her anus fingered, a little more pressure and you’ll be full-on sodomizing her, grinning as she whimpers between each thrust.
Apparently the only sexual pleasure “Gorney” can imagine from anal sex is the pleasure he evidently gets from forcing women into it against their will.
Oh, and make sure you never give her the chance to say “no.”
Never ask her for anything, because asking is begging, and begging is contemptible.
Yep. Avoid the thorny issue of consent by never asking, and assuming that anything other than violent resistance is a “yes.”
Step 3 in “Gorney’s” program takes the creepiness into overdrive: “Isolate her from her friends and family.”
I don’t have much to say about this one; there’s a reason this is a favorite technique of cults and domestic abusers alike. Here’s Gorney’s take on it:
You need to be the primary emotional influence in her life, and you can’t do that if she’s leaning on anyone else for support. Gradually wean her from contact with anyone other than you.
What’s in it for you?
Not only will this increase her emotional dependence on you, it will make her more willing to please you; she’ll be less likely to wreck the relationship if she knows she’ll be all alone if it goes south.
For step 4, “Gorney” puts away the stick for a moment and pulls out a carrot, urging his readers to “Reward her at random intervals.”
But his emphasis is as much on the random as on the rewards; this is yet another gaslighting trick.
If you reward her every time she does good, she’ll see the pattern and use it to manipulate you. But if you reward her at random, her little hamster brain will run itself ragged trying to figure out your endgame.
Step 5 carries the slightly misleading title “Give her an emotional release.” In fact, what he suggests is that you physically “discipline” your girlfriend when she does “wrong” in your eyes.
By spanking a girl until she starts crying and sobbing, you give her an emotional release, turning her into a soppy puddle of goo and making her more inclined to serve you. As a friend of mine put it, all girls crave spankings; it’s their way of making up for Eve’s sin.
“Gorney” seems to be confusing consensual BDSM — which can bring bottoms or submissives intensely emotional releases — with domestic violence.
In step 6, “Gorney” tries to convince his readers — and himself — that it’s an abuser’s incredible sexual prowess, and not his manipulative abuse, that allows him to keep control over an abusive relationship.
You absolutely must have good cocksmanship if you want to ruin a girl’s self-esteem. Girls are enslaved to their vaginas as much as men are to their penises … Girls will do anything for a man who can fuck them good … .
Your dick is heroin, she’s the junkie and you’re the dealer.
Yeah, keep telling yourself that.
If you can make her cum on a regular basis, she’ll side with you over her parents, her friends, everyone.
Really? I hate to break it to you, dude, but “[m]aking her cum on a regular basis” is not really an extraordinary achievement, dude. It’s not a sign that you’re some sort of exceptional “cocksman” with a dick of pure heroin. It’s actually kind of, you know, basic? Expected? Also, most women can give themselves orgasms on a regular basis.
Additionally, don’t make her cum every time you have sex. Think like a dealer: you give the customer the pure stuff when you want to get them hooked, and when they’re addicted, you sell them shit that’s been cut with rat poison to increase your bottom line.
Somehow I don’t doubt that sex with guys like this would be a lot like taking drugs laced with rat poison.
[R]ationing out her orgasms at random will keep her on her toes trying to satisfy you.
Or send her off in search of someone who’s not such a complete asshole in bed?
“Gorney’s” advice is so over-the-top awful — it sometimes reads like he’s literally copied it from some textbook on domestic abuse — that it’s hard not to wonder if he just trolling. And to some degree, I’m sure he is. But he also clearly believes a lot of the shit he posts, and so I can only assume he believes, and possibly follows, at least some of his “advice” here.
This is a guy, after all, who admitted plainly to hitting a previous girlfriend, in a post in which he also declared that
Women should be terrorized by their men; it’s the only thing that makes them behave better than chimps.
Actually, that’s not true. In fact, there’s some research that suggests male chimps terrorize female chimps — and beat them with branches — to punish them for mating with other males. So men who abuse women are in fact the ones behaving like chimps.
Every time I think that the manosphere can’t sink any lower, something comes along and proves me wrong.
NOTE: I don’t want to give “Gorney” any traffic for his terrible post. But I also feel obligated to link to my source. So I have. I’ve just hidden the link randomly in the middle of the post.
Your weird brain makes sense, if that’s any comfort. 🙂
Woo-hoo! That is awesome news!
Kiwi Girl: Hell, if they’re calling taking someone who checks “American” as “European”, then they’re conflating ethnicity, race and nationality. Hell, what would they call a First Nations American (aka Native American)?
@Marie, it was a good call out – we were being hetero-normative.
Marie,
Your brain is fine.
Meanwhile, here’s Anthony Stewart Head with a puppy because I like it.
http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/30400000/Tony-with-a-beard-anthony-stewart-head-30491725-960-720.jpg
…and if that doesn’t make your ovaries spontaneously combust here are both Poison Ivy and Lux Interior of The Cramps.
http://www.uncut.co.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/article/2009/02/luxinterior050209w.jpg
IDK about anyone else, but I also run up against the objectification issue. I’m bi/pansexual and aesthetically I prefer women, but since women are assumed to exist for (male) viewing pleasure, posting photos of them and going “look how hot!” makes me really uncomfortable. In a space* that’s overflowing with queer women it makes me less uncomfortable; but while there are plenty of queer women here, there are also so many angry misogynists who read this site, and IDK it just makes me uncomfy.
Queer exclusion is definitely a thing and I’ve seen plenty of places where people assume that “what women like” = men, so I don’t think you’re wrong to be sensitive to it. I just don’t think that was what was happening in this thread.
*Link goes to a blog called Hot Daily: various genders, run by a woman.
I know that face, not the name … wasn’t he in an early episode of New Tricks?
Afraid all three faces leave my ovaries untouched. 😀
@emilygoddess
Gotcha. That makes sense.
That was sort of lurking at the back of my mind too, emilygoddess, but it would have come across all wrong if I’d said it, I think.
On second thought, fuck the trolls.
Here are some sexy plus-size models (NSFW)
@freemage: “North American Indian” has the code 61113, and all codes starting with 6 get aggregated to “Other”, starting from the next level up. There are also “Central American Indian” and “South American Indian”. The way it works is, if a person enters an ethnicity that is recognised as “North American Indian”, then in our system that person’s ethnicity is not recognised to that level.
I think all countries do something similar: collect detailed information on “local” ethnicities, and just a broadbrush on non-local ethnicities.
But yes, I think the whole system is completely fucked.
Do you mean Anthony Stewart Head? OMG, how is anyone on this site not a Buffy fan?
Can’t stand Buffy! I’ve yet to see a Whedon show I liked, actually.
@emilygoddess
Oh, shit, I”m not a Buffy fan XD I did watch some, though, can I rejoin the hivemind plz? :3
I know! The first time I watched Merlin, my first thought upon seeing Uther was “GILES!!! This is going to be… wait. Giles? WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!!! NO!”
I’m still annoyed at Whedon for killing Tara though.
She and Willow were…
Yeah. I need to go rewatch ‘Once more with feeling now’.
@cassandra
I’d say ‘don’t you talk about firefly like that’ but I can’t stand Mal, and I have stopped watching other shows b/c of characters I couldn’t stand.
Re: Buffy. I’d watch it so much more if it didn’t have Xander. He is such a fucking Nice Guy tm. Angel’s got issues, too, but at least I had a crush on him when I was in junior high, so there’s some sentimentality feels going on there.
I think the issue is partly that by the time Buffy came out I was already old enough (and post reading lots of feminist books) not to be able to overlook the icky Nice Guy stuff and the generally messed up gender dynamics.
I’ve never watched Buffy. It’s years since I watched any US television regularly – ER’s the most recent series that comes to mind, and that was only up to when Alex Kingston left.
/embarrassed furtive glance, I actually liked Spike.
Other men I have enjoyed watching: Tom Baker as his 1970s Dr Who self, Yul Brynner, Ed Bishop (“UFO”), Wesley Snipes, Dwayne Johnson, Will Smith, Kevin Spacey, Roddy McDowall.
I can’t see my “type”.
@Cassandra
That makes sense. I saw it when I was around 13/14 maybe, and while I don’t recall caring much for Xander then, I didn’t hate him with the fiery passion I do now. And I actually liked angel, though upon rewatching some of it his character had fucked up sexist issues too :/
Cassandrakitty, I can buy that. Some of the seasons were way icky on the gender stuff. I still have a huge soft spot for the musical episode, though.
There’s something about a guy singing “She got the mustard out” operatically about his drycleaning with a full out tumbling choreography that just always cheers me up.
That and Spike singing this long number about ‘Let me rest in peace’ and then being all suprised when she leaves to let him rest in peace.
@kiwi girl
It’s been forever since I saw Spike (I only recently resaw some of season 1) but I recall liking him and Drew when I first watched.
um, rambles. Don’t be embarrassed.
Kiwi Girl! You liked the Baker-Who years?
My family used to watch the old episodes on tape, and my parents would each have a bag of jelly-babies. My sister and I would just wait for that line…
Baker was my favorite too. I’d completely lost interest until 10 came along.
Tom Baker was the Doctor when I was first into it. The ABC ran his early shows (classics like the Zygons, Revenge of the Cybermen, Ark in Space, Genesis of the Daleks) so. many. times during the 70s and 80s.
I think Pertwee’s my favourite, though.