Meet Sasha. Sasha is an angry young man living in England (allegedly), with a super-HAWT girlfriend (allegedly), and a lot of opinions about feminism (not-so-allegedly). The other day, he decided to share some of these opinions with the world. Or at least with any of those feminists who happened to be reading the Men’s Rights subreddit at the time.
In a topic devoted to a conference on “lad culture” in British universities, Sasha lashed out at feminists for what he sees as their hypocritical attack on boorish, sexist “lads.” Hypocritical, you see, because these very same women allegedly have sex with posh men all the bloody time:
You don’t like ‘lad culture’? My dear, I don’t give a fuck what you do and don’t like. … The hypocrisy is staggering – you’ll be dropping your knickers in a flash if a dashing Etonian invited you to the Bullingdon, but God forbid some working class fella gets a bit tipsy and sings a rugby song.
Naturally, he dismissed women’s accounts of harassment as stuff and nonsense:
You’ve been threatened with rape by fellow students ‘to loosen you up’? have you fuck, you lying toe tag. If you’re going to make shit up try to make it less fantastical why don’t you.
So in short my dear, fuck you and fuck the high horse you rode in on.
In a series of followup comments so angry that some of them were actually downvoted to zero by the Men’s Rights crowd — I know, right! — Sasha pranced about on his own high horse spewing misogynistic nonsense. First, he demanded that feminists take on the very serious gold-digging whore problem:
[A]re women inclined to be gold-digging whores? Unfortunately, there’s a good case for saying you are. I wouldn’t paint all of you with such a broad brush, but let’s put it simply: feminists – you’ve got to own this shit. There are many, many negative aspects of femininity, and you’ve got enough shit of your own to address before you start pointing fingers at anyone else.
Then he proclaimed feminists to be the equivalent of the racist English Defense League and the Klan.
You’re a bigot. You don’t understand that you’re a bigot, because like the EDL or the KKK you think that your status as a ‘persecuted group’ gives you the right to behave as vilely as possible. However be in no doubt as the depth of my utter disgust for you as a human being and for your ideology.
Oh, we be in no doubt.
You are a supporter of an ideology of hate. You are a feminist. You are, by definition, a fascistic narcissist who trades in lies, deceit and hatred. I will fight you until my dying breath and society would be better without you. That clear enough?
When a female Redditor pointed out that she herself had been catcalled on campus, he pulled out his trump card: his EX-MODEL GIRLFRIEND.
OK, well how do you explain the fact that my partner, who is an attractive 20-something American former fashion model attending a Northern English university, says that she has never, not once, ever, heard a single catcalling insult or ever felt threatened in any way whatsoever on her campus, or anywhere in the UK?
I faxed this comment of his to my fax girlfriend Kate Winslet, and she faxed back a message about what a lying loser she thought he was. Then we fax made out for a while until we ran out of toner.
Anyway, then Sasha yelled at his main critic for a bit:
You’re not a decent human being, you’re a feminist. You’re as vile and reprehensible as other bigots like the cunts in the Westborough Baptist Church, or Golden Dawn or the EDL or the KKK. Fuck you, fuck the family that raised you in such a cloud of ignorance and hatred, and fuck everything you stand for.
As for ‘helping men’, disparaging bigoted cunts like you is a key part of it.
Yes, that’s right. He called someone a “bigoted cunt,” without the slightest bit of self-awareness.
Then he took it a bit too far:
By the way, do you like cats? I know most feminists do. I like cats too. I’ll bet your cat thinks you’re a bigoted cunt as well.
Dude. Don’t EVEN go there.
NOTE: Thanks to Cloudiah and the AgainstMensRights subreddit for pointing me to Sasha’s oeuvre.
Um, okay. Because charging the MRM with bad grammar is exactly equivalent to Elam’s violent, misogynist rape and abuse apologia.
And you know this how? How do you know that the rate of grammatical errors in posters created by social/political movements averages 10%?
Cloudiah, I will forgive you ONLY if you make a new satirical troll poster about this troll.
It gave me a chance to make an Uncle Monty joke, so I forgive you.
In more interesting news (not really, but the bar is very low in this thread) I’ve had an idea for making a seldom-worn top into a dress, by knitting a skirt for it. This is what happens when you start looking at Etsy too often.
I shall not be calling it upcycled, though I could call it the fish bicicled dress, I suppose.
Seconding Cassandra’s request for a poster satirizing the typing Ambien known as DDW.
But make sure it doesn’t include any new infelicities of grammar or spelling, which would totally sabotage the satirical intent!
But if cloudiah uses any quotes from DDW how could she avoid grammatical errors? There are some in almost every sentence.
Oh, I don’t mean to have cloudiah correct DDW’s prose. But surely you can see that if cloudiah introduced any new mistakes, it would completely undermine the satire and reduce it to nothing more than an in-joke for the feminist idelogue clique!
But she mustn’t introduce any others, or it will be the END OF FEMINISM!!!eleventy!!!
But surely if she fails to correct DDW’s mistakes she’s still making feminism look bad, because she is a feminist and her poster has mistakes on it?
But nobody will notice, because it’s not quoting a feminist, like nobody notices MRAs’ grammar.
Cloudiah!!! You will be forgiven for destroying feminism if you will give us one more poster!
Pease?
“Um, okay. Because charging the MRM with bad grammar is exactly equivalent to Elam’s violent, misogynist rape and abuse apologia.”
Good thing I didn’t say that. And wouldn’t say that.
“And you know this how? How do you know that the rate of grammatical errors in posters created by social/political movements averages 10%”
Inference from general experience.
And while this has been fun, some worrisome medical a news came in this afternoon in the house (not me personally) that is distracting, so I doubt I will post more any time very soon.
Don’t cry, I am sure there will be another thread another day to cause consternation.
DDW: you won’t be missed.
Aw, DDW is leaving? But I was just coming to say “Not to bosc you around, but I think this has gone on long enough, d’Anjou?”
We won’t comice her.
(Wow, that was awful. I apologize.)
DDW, sorry for your medical emergency, which presumably indicates bad news for someone close to you.
No tears will be shed at the manifest deprivation to us all that constitutes your departure from this thread. Perhaps while you’re gone you’ll think about the utility of pedantically nitpicking at stuff which is minutely inconsequential (and doing it so badly! That’s what’s really galling)… and then never bother us again. That would be nice of you.
Xanthe, just wanted to take a moment to thank you for your first thought. It is potentially bad news, hopefully not. But waiting for test results is difficult. One would rather know one way or another right away.
If she’s gone, do I still need to make a poster? Because I don’t think even I can make DDW amusing.
Inference from general experience. = assfax! as expected
I have faith in you, cloudiah! But no, we’re not actually going to shun you if you don’t make a poster.
What percentage do you infer from general experience?
Do percentages actually work that way?
I think that 72% of people like cheesecake. Yep, that seems right to me. What, you’re saying that I should actually try to find some sort of data to support this conclusion? That’s too much work, why don’t you go find me a link to prove that it’s not true instead.
I like that he mentions that his girlfriend is American. I feel like it’s to give him an out if he ever meets up with someone in his area. “Sorry, my super-hot model girlfriend is in the States visiting family right now! She won’t be back for awhile but she totally exists guys!”
Doesn’t he know that all the best foreign girlfriends are in Canada.
Except the hot Russian ones they met via email.
First rule of DDW club – feminists provide the links:
http://youtu.be/2vIxdHDT8tc