In the comments section to philosopher-douchebag Stefan Molyneux’s review of Frozen, a self-described “attractive young woman” posts a review of his hour-long review that is so effusively positive that it almost sounds like it was posted by the man himself.
Oh, wait: he did post it himself.
Can this be real? I mean, it is real; I just went and got the screenshot. But is it really possible that Mr. M tried to sockpuppet in the comments to his own video, posing as his own biggest fan? Or did some worshipful young hottie sneak onto his laptop when he wasn’t looking and post the comment? What kind of “philosopher” does that? Did Jean-Paul Sartre send love letters to himself? Did Kierkegaard leave gushing messages on his own answering machine?
I think we can safely say “no,” at least to the latter, given that Mr. K died in 1855.
But what the hell, Stefan? I eagerly await your two-hour video explaining this one.
Also, if you could explain why my cell phone keeps randomly beeping, that would be great too. It’s really annoying.
(Thanks to everyone who sent this to me.)
UPDATE: I figured out the problem with my cell phone! Oh, and I have also been told that Stef’s self-congratulatory comment was actually a repost of a comment from someone else. He wasn’t pretending to be a young hottie. He was posting a quote from a young hottie without indicating in any way that it was a quote from someone other than him. Good job! So I’ve changed “written” to “posted” in the text above.
Now, though, I’m wondering if that person also wrote the comment that Stef used to introduce his video:
I mean, that has to be written by someone else, because what kind of arrogant douchenozzle would not only write about himself in the third person but also describe his own video as “must watch?” David Futrelle needs to know.
RE: opium4themasses
If you keep going like that we are going to have to give you the cold shoulder.
Oh, it’s ON now. You think you going to freeze me out? Sun, I’ll storm your castle weather you like it or not! It’s snow big difficulty for me. I’m so cold, they call me Nanook of the North. I’m a sleet hacker!
The Freeze may not be coming, you old fogey, but I’m so cool, I bring on the Ice Age! It’ll take you down just like the rest of the dinosaurs!
Hey LBT, did you comment the other day about someone on AVfM telling a man who’d been (sexually?) victimized to man up or deal with it or something like that? Sorry that’s so vague, but if you remember it can you link me?
You guys are making a flurry of puns, while I am going at a glacial pace. I guess I’ll just go with the floe.
I don’t know why everyone is criticizing Molyneux. Please stop taking away his frozen peaches.
Dear drekking drat. That transcript is just… there’s so much wrong. And Molyneuxs hates everyone.
[ Transcript ]
Sure, I get that, I’ve read my introductions to Chaos Magick, I can cite Condensced Chaos by heart. I’m with you, Mr. Molyneuxs.
Oh.
And you lost me by literally the next sentence. That’s just… that’s just… Okay, it’s not what that means first of all. Let me expound on a topic I rarely get to talk about unless I’m actually playing dungeons and dragons or Shadowrun? Magical theory would state that magic is irrational, that is, not based on fact or reason because it’s fucking magic. It doesn’t care about mere things like quantum casuality and logical chains of thought and two plus two being four because to magic two plus two is YOUR HOUSE IS NOW A FISH.
Your mind being capable of error has no bearings on whether magic is rational or irrational, because rational and irrational are descriptors, not value judgements.
Some people just seem to forget that.
Oh, how fun. I see the thread. Women are irrational and emotional and magic and men are stoic and cool.
It’s like words. Only… it’s… There’s not really one sentence that flows into the next. It sort of throws in “narcicistic” without really knowing what that means. Also all writers hate everyone, and villians are actually the subsumed murderous impulses of scarred souls.
Molyneuxs hasn’t read Hamlet, has he?
In Hamlet, the ghost of a dead king instructs the violently depressed son to murder his way through the royal court. Yeah. Rational.
Oh. So magic is always and always madness in any story ever, representing the inner triumph of a ravished mind retreating into its own little dimension, but trolls exist and that’s just fine. Either reality is immutable, or really is mutable, and it can’t be both, because if it is, it’s a paradox and that’s magic. And you just said that didn’t exist.
And I don’t know that silicate based lifeforms can naturally and easily communicate with mammals. How does their lungs work?
That doesn’t even begin to approach making sense. And how do you ship for stuff if you marry a king?
“Hunny, can we get these curtains”
“I don’t really the color dear”
“YES BOSS. I must take of this dress”
“What, why?”
“It’s the same color as that drape! You can’t look at that. IT’S NOT RIGHT!”
People were literally freezing to death because of the sudden giant cold front. That’s not socialist re-dstribution of royal wealth, that’s “giving blankets to people”. What the hell.
What a vatjob. How do you go from talking abou malignant selfishness to pointing out that a man wrote some parts of Frozen to slamming the Bell Jar?
Sylvia Plath wrote a good book there, I like it personally, it offers an interesting view on the pecularities of her depression. And the idea of a bell jar of emotional distance is pretty fitting. How does that tie into Michelangelos David? How does that make any sense in the context?!. How does all men make one point in relation the activities of one character in on setting having one emotion? What about the trolls? TWO PLUS TWO IS FISH.
So what you’re saying, Molyneuxs, is that she’s giving all men the cold finger?
The toupee falling off is funny. How doe this relate to Greda and Kay in the Snow Queen? What about the Devil’s Mirror? Are we raging against feminist hypergamy or are we railing against the contempt of the socialized masses against the working ubermenschen of libertarian ideologies?!
And if she had grabbed a broom it would be a replacement penis. I see how this works now. All men are good and all women are evil and wrong.
And they can’t have desires of their own indepedent of the eyeballs of men. Of course not. Any dress anyone ever wears is only ever to make someone else stare at them.
No, the “simple reality” is that in this situation, Anna met Hans first and Kristoff, on his mountain, just wasn’t a guy she was interested in, because she was already having a crush on someone else she liked.
‘Course that’d assume romantic interaction wasn’t some interchangable quality that you can summon and banish at whim and that women of all stripes didn’t just run constant cost-benefit ratio analysis of the men currently around them.
I…. Oh god it goes on.
There’s more.
I’m still stuck at the fish and the magic and the rational universe and the intriciacies of silicate based life forms and how they’re real but magic isn’t but somehow it is and Hans is an alpha man but he’s not and he is not and social transfers of wealth kings is wrong but ice sales during a winter is all right and..
oh god.
oh… my head.
RE: Argenti
Hey LBT, did you comment the other day about someone on AVfM telling a man who’d been (sexually?) victimized to man up or deal with it or something like that?
Sorry, wasn’t me! Might’ve been Howard Bannister?
RE: Ally
Please stop taking away his frozen peaches.
*throws hat* I CONCEDE.
Also, lulz magic = madness. I’m crazy and a staunch atheist, and I know plenty of sane magicians. But what do I know, I’m male so obviously am breaking this whole stupid paradigm.
@Argenti
That was WatermelonSugar, on the “don’t help kids in distress” post:
https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/07/10/mens-rights-redditors-dont-help-kids-in-distress-because-a-hambeast-might-accuse-you-of-molesting-her-crotchdumpling/comment-page-2/#comment-532700
” philosopher-douchebag Stefan Molyneux”
He claims to be a philosopher?!?!
I’ve watched a number of his videos and he does not talk about “philosophy”, what to speak of forming a “philosophy” of his own.
And another thing – after hearing him rant about how taxes are putting a gun to people’s heads and forcing them to hand over their hard earned money, i.e. “theft” – an inquirer said that the “free market” is also a kind of “force”, people are literally forced to work at jobs they’d rather not in order to simply live and eat. He gave examples of artists who work jobs they hate in order to support themselves while they are being creative (which doesn’t support them).
Moly said “You’re not ‘forced’. You can go live off the land in a forest or something.”
So why doesn’t he apply the same logic to himself? He’s not “forced” to pay taxes. He could go live in a forest somewhere as well. There’s a reality show all about a family in Alaska that wanders the forests and lives off the land and they don’t pay taxes. They even barter fish in exchange for dentistry work when they have to.
So Moly and his wife are CHOOSING to pay taxes by living the lifestyle that they are. Nobody is forcing them.
I know personally know a number of people who do not pay taxes. They grow food and what food they don’t grow they buy (and we all know groceries are not taxed). They don’t eat at restaurants. They don’t own a home (no housing or land tax). They swap clothes rather than buy them. Basically they are not buying anything other than groceries. Their lifestyles is very simple and they are managing just fine, and they have kids too.
So what’s Moly’s excuse?
Quoth the Molyneux:
imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.
The Irony, it burns.
bunnybunny | July 10, 2014 at 11:00 am
I’m trying to imagine how to use “being seen as nothing more than a sex doll” to “get over the system.” What system? The system that encourages women to be seen as nothing more than sex dolls?
– THIS! The way he wrote it was a total giveaway. “Sex doll”? Really?
cassandrakitty | July 10, 2014 at 12:20 pm
It’s creepier because the audience for Frozen was children. What is he doing, trying to groom some 8 year olds to be his future wives?
– What’s worrying is that he has a young daughter and was thinking all this wacky stuff when he was sitting in the movie theater beside her.
I note yet another manospherian pointing to Brad Pitt as the supposed uber-alpha that all women would “trade up” to in an instant, yet again ignoring that every year several media outlets publish a “World’s Sexiest Man” list winner and that Pitt’s year was several decades ago now, the title was never voted for by a quorum of the world’s women, and he got the vote purely for being eye-candy anyway – nothing to do with alphaness as the manosphere defines it (which of course is the primary reason the manosphere is contemptuous of Pitt).
So if Jolie and Pitt split, who would she “trade up” to in the dating stakes? Dozens, if not hundreds, of A-list celebrity men would be interested, I’m guessing – and most of them would view any relationship with Jolie as “trading up” in terms of enhancing their own status, a point which manospherians seem to wilfully disregard.
The whole duke/merchant/working-class thing I can’t even.
@Fibinachi
Thanks for subjecting yourself to that so I didn’t have to. ‘Preciate it.
@ Fibinachi — Wow. I majored in English. I have read some bizarre and overwrought criticism in my time. But seriously? It’s just… argh!
Fictional villains are a rejection of the culture the writer grew up in? Well sometimes I guess, sure. But likewise, many villains are outsider characters who threaten the society the writer grew up in, and their defeat is an endorsement of that society. Like, say, Steven Spielberg making so many movies about the Axis, the great outside threat in his early years.
The Hamlet thing… I remember hearing that interpretation somewhere before, but can’t put my finger on where. The trouble with Hamlet is that it’s been the subject of so much criticism over the centuries that it’s hard to find something new to say that isn’t at least a bit ‘out there’. But that Moly has picked this one, extremely unlikely criticism as definitive tells us more about him than it does about Hamlet.
And laughing at toupees? Hell, there’s so much male pattern baldness in my family that I wince whenever I see a hair stuck in my comb. Even so, I snigger at guys with bad toupees and obvious comb-overs. Going bald? That’s just bad luck. But if someone would rather look ridiculous than look bald, that’s their call. And that was the point of the toupee thing — it was forshadowing of what we’d learn later. This character was not what he seemed, behind his facade he was basically a clown.
PS – toupee guy wasn’t a merchant, he was a Duke. He was trying to increase sea trade. This would have the effect of increasing his tariff revenue to his country, and increase the size of the merchant marine, meaning more skilled seamen would be available to the state in a time of war. For all sorts of reasons, the state has always played a key role in developing international trade, no matter how many libertarians claim otherwise.
Ah, if I keep going, I’m not going to stop. I’ll quit before I get to wondering why anyone outside the MRA bubble would be writing ‘alpha’ and ‘beta’ tropes into anything.
That poor kid. Can you imagine having Stevie for a parent? Ew.
Thanks Myoo!
“I note yet another manospherian pointing to Brad Pitt as the supposed uber-alpha that all women would “trade up” to in an instant, yet again ignoring that every year several media outlets publish a “World’s Sexiest Man” list winner and that Pitt’s year was several decades ago now”
I know!!!
What about their continuous promotion of George Clooney, who is close to 70 now, Bruce Willis and Jack Nicholson (of all people) as uber alpha sexy hotties who young women are drooling and fighting over.
“George Clooney, who is close to 70 now”
He’s fifty three. And still considered pretty damn hot (not by me but many.)
Carry on, but factually please!
Jack Nicholson wasn’t hot even when he was in the correct age range to be the stereotypical hot sexy alpha who all the girls are ignoring you, poor benighted incel soul, to chase after.
Jack Nicholson and Bruce Willis as hot?
When?
George Clooney probably will be hot in the decade-and-a-half from now when he’s pushing 70, but I’d be surprised if many young girls, or young women, have any interest in him.
“Donate to Freedomain Radio? WHY?!?!? Does our world desperately need more of THIS? Smh and lol at the same time.”
Tell about it! These guys are having value added to their lives by people listening to them, commenting, giving them a “voice” on the web. And yet they want those same people who are giving them name and fame to pay them as well? Shouldn’t they be paying them?
The funniest part about their ongoing obsession with Clooney is that they don’t seem to understand why he was so popular, and still is with some women. It’s the personality, not the face, that draws people in – there are plenty of gorgeous men in Hollywood who were never anywhere near as popular with women.
JACK NICHOLSON? But he’s a total creep!
Also, I don’t care if Brad Pitt came and buried me in gold and elephants, I would never ditch my husband for him. Hubby > Brad Pitt by a long mile.
I’d rather not be buried in gold, since it’s cold and heavy. Elephants would at least be cute before they suffocated you.
Ditto! Brad Pitt seems a nice enough person from what little I know about him, but he doesn’t even register on my hotness scale – never has. At his sexiest, he isn’t as sexy as hubby sitting reading the newspaper.