Time for a little quiz!
Who posted comments online in which he (or she) declared that:
“Sluts are just whores in training.”
“Women look at 2 bulges on a man, one in the front of the pants or second one in the back pocket. Whichever one is bigger, they can do without the other.”
“What’s the most used line in Arkansas: daddy get off me you are crushing my cigarettes.”
Female college students are “sororostutes.”
Women expect special treatment because of their “golden vajay jays”
Khloe Kardashian is “black by injection.”
Your choices are:
Oprah
Paul Elam
Redditor “NaggerPlease”
Arkansas Circuit Judge Mike Maggio
So who was it? Let’s work through the alternatives. Unsurprisingly, it’s not Oprah; while she has referred to “vajay jays” she has not, as far as I know, referred specifically to golden ones, and the rest of the comments really don’t match her views at all.
Perhaps a little surprisingly, it’s not Paul Elam either, though he has many terrible opinions about sluts and whores.
NaggerPlease, meanwhile, is just a name I made up because it seems like the sort of “edgy” borderline-racist name some dude on Reddit would come up with. It turns out there actually is a NaggerPlease on Reddit, though they haven’t posted anything.
So, yep, the correct answer is actually Arkansas Circuit Judge Mike Maggio, who was recently outed as a regular commenter on a Louisiana State University fan message board called Tiger Droppings. Say hello, Mike!
Using the name “geauxjudge,” Maggio posted what seems to have been an endless stream of racist, misogynistic, homophobic and otherwise offensive comments on the board — many of them worse than the small sampling I’ve posted above. He also revealed confidential (alleged) details of an adoption hearing involving actress Charlize Theron. (For more of the comments and the gory details, see here and here.)
He’s now under investigation for all of this; revealing the alleged details of the Theron case were apparently quite a serious ethical violation.
In the wake of the outing, Maggio has withdrawn from a race for appellate judge and has offered up a rather impressively half-assed apology for his terrible comments:
I take full responsibility for the comments that have been attributed to me.
That’s a weirdly indirect way to admit you wrote the comments.
I apologize deeply for my lapse in personal judgment and for that, I have no excuse. The comments posted were not acceptable.
Well, it was a bit more than a lapse. It was lapse after lapse after lapse after lapse. But at least this sounds like an apology.
These comments are not a reflection of who I am.
Uh, how are the comments you just took “full resposibility for” not a reflection of you? Who are they a reflection of? Not-Me, the naughty ghost from The Family Circus?
During my life, I have prided myself in treating all fairly and with respect, both personally and professionally. … I ask for both yours and God’s forgiveness.
… for the “lapse” that isn’t really a reflection of who you are.
My actions are not indicative or illustrative of the conservative political philosophy of which I hold dear.
Huh. Then why does so much of it line up so precisely with the anti-woman, anti-gay and racist dogwhistle rhetoric of the far right today?
It is a shame that the politics of personal destruction take precedence along with the win at all costs mentality that results in the disjunction.
Uh, are you really using your alleged APOLOGY for your bigoted statements to attack the people who pointed out your bigotry? Do you not understand the concept of an apology?
At this time, in light of the pain I have caused to my family, friends, supporters, the Judicial Branch, and the public, I have requested that the Secretary of State remove me from the ballot.
I would ask you to respect my family’s need for privacy so we can being the healing process of forgiveness.
I think in order to merit forgiveness you have to actually stop being an asshole. Or at least make an effort in that direction.
Men’s Rights activists often complain that they are locked out of the political system in “gynocratic” America. But here is a gentleman who seems to share 90% of their ideology and who, pending the result of an investigation of his comments, is actually in a position of some real power within the system.
And like most MRAs I’ve ever dealt with, he takes no real responsibility for his shit when he gets called on it.
Embrace Mike Maggio, MRAs. He’s your poster boy. He’s you.
Note: Thanks to Pecunium for pointing me to this story.
The hardest sentence I’ve ever had to decipher.
Cases like this aren’t as much “outing” as they are investigating a crime though.
Oh OH! Sperm Jacking! Funny story, well stories I guess, but other sex workers have told me clients TAKE THEIR USED CONDOM WITH THEM. Hahahahahaha hahahahahaha. It’s never happened to me, but man. If it did I would die laughing.
You can’t fool me, hookergal. It’s a well-known fact that sex workers are only in the trade because:
1. Spermjack clients.
2. Have their babies. Or possibly cruelly abort their babies.
3. ????
4. Retire to a life of eating bonbons and cashing child-support payments.
This is true of ALL sex workers, of every gender. At all times. There are no exceptions.
Bingeaux. (Sorry, I had to!)
I never cease to marvel at how such asinine jerks even manage to get into law school, never mind onto a bench. What diploma mill churned HIM out, I wonder?
I expect he went to the same law school as MIKE.
MIKE wearing flip flops DIRECTLY ON THE BEACH, Mike?
Wait, what is it with people named Mike lately? Hmmmm…
“Especially where these red pill men think that they can train women like dogs!”
well, you can train humans, the younger the better, with dog training techniques. you know, patience, positive reinforcement. plenty of interaction & firmness about boundaries.
& when they get out of line, grab their throat & show your teeth. 🙂
…No. Do not grab a child’s throat.
(Yes, I know it was meant as a joke, but it’s really not funny.)
Don’t even grab a dog’s throat. Jesus, the things that need to be pointed out.
Yeah, that too.
I’ll just leave this nugget from the MGTOW forums here:
“Again, no good man would ever choose to reproduce with and start a life with an older woman who’s been with a lot of men sexually. It is plain disgusting! The DNA that was transferred to their bodies via all of the bad boy semen that they take in over the years actually becomes a part of their body! And when the good ol’ beta chump mans up and decides to have a kid with one of these *****s, their kid actually has the DNA of all of those alpha badasses that she loved so much back in her younger, sexier years.”
– Tucson Tarantula Hawk
The fail, it burns!
So human reproduction. Add it to the list of things MRAs fail to understand.
That is guy is full of fail. If DNA really had those kinds of transitive properties, we’d be living in some sort of sci-fi distopia.
Wha? That’s not how that works at all.
You might as well say that disease is caused by imbalances in the bodily humours.
So, in this theory the lining of the vagina is porous and it just kind of absorbs DNA, which then somehow end up leeching into a woman’s eggs? Tucson, dude, I love sci-fi, but it’s not real.
Marge: The police have such a strong case against Homer! Mr. Burns said he did it, they found his DNA on Mr. Burns’ suit.
Lisa: They have Simpson DNA; it could have come from any of us! Well, except you, since you’re a Bouvier.
Marge: No! No, no. When I took your father’s name I took everything that came with it, including DNA!
On another note, that’s why DNA testing takes so long. You have to weed out all the stray DNA other people leave in someone’s body every time they have contact with someone else’s fluids.
Even if DNA and sex worked that way, wouldn’t sticking one’s dick in a vagina full of alpha sperm also transfer the alpha DNA to said dick? You could gain alpha traits just by getting laid!
It really is like humours and disease. I wonder if this guy thinks skin is permeable too? They thought that in the 17th century and were pretty careful about bathing – it was for restoring the balance in a body that was too dry, ‘cos that water gets through the skin, y’know!
Hmm. If the body is that fragile, I must have a lot of cat DNA floating around in me. All those scritches, all that cat hair …
emilygoddess – I thought only alphas got laid ever anyway? And wouldn’t alpha DNA recognise a lowly beta dick and refuse to have anything to do with it?
Cats, dude, you’re thinking of cats. Female cats retain the semen of male cats they’ve mated with (though only for a short period of time) and that is why a cat can have a single litter of kittens with multiple fathers, because kittens aren’t twins. Each egg is released separately and fertilized separately. Just because one species can do that (okay, I think that’s what happens with sharks, too), does not mean that’s how the human reproductive system works.
Sheesh. The more I read, the more convinced I am that PUAs and many MRAs are honest to Dog just a bunch of twelve year olds whose parent’s opted them out of health education.
No, no, no. Men can’t absorb stray DNA through their penises, because men are human beings, not strange porous mutant sci-fi creatures like women.
Human beings just don’t just absorb other people’s DNA. That’s just silly.
I’m now imagining a sci-fi story that goes past the whole Precious Bodily Fluids thing … aliens (cunningly disguised as women) sucking all the nutrients from teh poor menz via the PV interface. The victims are left just empty skin, rather like the Damendorf Man.
Ooh, or like that Star Trek episode with the monster that sucked all the salt out of a person’s body:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Trap