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.
Oh thank god, she’s GONE. We can all go about our business now!
RE: Kiwi Girl
Puppet comments always remind me of this song, and I love her voice:
I… I am astounded that I managed to make through my whole life without hearing this song until now. Just… oh god, the oompah, the awkward white people dancing, the EVERYTHING. This is a thing of beauty oh god someone please peel me off the floor, I think I’m dying…
And yet, you’ve spent pages defending the MRM against the libelous charge of poor grammar found on a parody poster. Not really keeping things in perspective, there.
So basically, you don’t know. So what’s your point again?
And yeah, medical problems suck ass. I hope things work out the best.
But, please, don’t come back.
‘Sfunny, isn’t it – she apparently thinks the good opinion of ableist, transphobic jackasses like herself are worth having.
Wrong again.
*is worth
You’re being very polite, but I’m still deducting -2 from your flounce score.
RE: auggziliary
I like how she just waltzed in to police us about how no one would take us seriously due to a grammar mistake in a poster(that was supposed to look stupid anyways), while being totally transphobic and ableist.
That doesn’t count! It only matters when you’re the figurehead of all feminism everywhere, which apparently we are.
This is belated but I was happy to see everyone’s news, excepting the not-so-good news — sorry about your poor baby, Falconer. Hooray for moves and possible publishing and learning to code! And breakfasts! You guys are the best.
Thanks, everyone, for the well wishing for my baby.
I owe you folks some pix because they’re a year old now. I will get them up tomorrow.
Is she getting better? I can’t tell from your posts.
Are they really? Incredible.
First Sneak is 21 and now Falconer’s babies are one? NOOOO EVERYONE STOP GETTING BIG!
Wut? Should the masthead look something like this, then?
@DDW
No. You claimed never to have seem a single MRA poster with bad grammar. Then, when one was pointed out to you, you said that bad grammar on MRA posters was uncommon and certainly not more common than any other movement. ON THEIR POSTERS.
You then went at my suggestion to a popular MRA site and counted up posters with or without errors (I assume you did anyway and did so accurately – well done, there). And stated that slightly under 10% of the posters (5 out of 55) had errors.
And then you claimed that this showed that MRA errors on MRA posters where no more common than any other movement. This is pure ass-umption by you because you do not know how common errors are on posters from other movements.
So unless you prove that around 10% of posters on a mainstream feminist site, you are still talking out of your ass.
See this is how logic works. Fun isn’t it? Well, more fun that nitpicking grammar, anyway.
@DWW Sorry, hadn’t read your last comments – hope the medical test turn out to be good news.
@kiwi girl: yes she is. The swelling is gone and last night she gave us wet diapers for the first time in a couple of days. She seems to be over the dire rear, too.
Except now she’s farting a lot. Beloved said yesterday our girl farted everywhere she crawled. Who needs bells?
Better out than in, though.
@tcwill00 glad to hear she’s better – even if windy. At least you know where she is …
Glad to hear baby Falconer is doing better, and propelling herself along by tooting. You crawl much faster with the wind
atout your back(side).I wake up everyday telling bad jokes. I can’t help myself.
Who knew you could be happy for a wet diaper? Good thoughts on the way to you and beloved and both baby Falconers!
DDW: Good luck on the medical tests.
DDW: Please stick the flounce.
@Falconer: hooray. 🙂
Mega-baby? Uh oh.
*imagines a world where gigantic mega-babies rule the earth*
Um…
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lstyuobnZt1qcn7d7.jpg
This explains SO MUCH.
Mega babies?
http://oglaf.com/weepingwoods/
(SFW even though it’s Oglaf)
re raw diets: I was reading a study (about five years ago? Maybe only three, I forget; there have been a lot of studies in front of my eyes) that people who try to go “all raw” suffer both health issues, and massive cravings. Adding a small bit of cooked food helps a lot.
But it seems we’ve bred ourselves out of the ability to live a purely raw lifestyle.
Re food: I was just in Boston at the beginning of the month and heard wonderful news; commercial food is no longer going to be allowed to end up in the garbage: Restaurants and groceries will have to arrange to have them taken to food banks, shelters, etc.
Also (though I don’t know who will get to benefit from it) one of the more recent owners of Tj’s (not Joe Colombe, one of the Aldi buyers, who has since sold off his interest) is doing a venture with “expired” food, because the, “best buy” dates are really a sort of marketing gimmick, and most of them have no absolute value (milk, for example, is supposed to be good for one week after opening, with the latest date one is “supposed” to open it being the date on the package).
Others have covered the taurine issue, but when I was working at the veterinary clinic the owner (there were four vets, all women; two did exotics, two did only cats and dogs), left a treatment room and was a dozen shades of livid, because a client (the animals were patients, the owners were clients; it was an interesting place to work: animals first, all the way) had been doing a total vegetarian diet for her cat (which wasn’t working well, hence the visit) and balked at being told to feed the poor beastie some liver every three days or so.
“I can’t do that! I’m a vegetarian”.
So was the doctor, but the cat… cant be. We prescribed Taurine pills (which aren’t as effective, they are meant to be a supplement, not a replacement), and didn’t tell her they were extracted from beef bones.
Livid. I thought she was going to commit bodily mayhem. Lord knows it was hard as hell to be polite to the owner as the bill was being paid/prescription picked up, because if we were as cold as we wanted to be she’d have gone to another vet; perhaps not mentioning the diet.