In this edition of Misogyny Theater, we hear from pickup guru Roosh V, who has some thoughts about the female Men’s Rights Activists – FeMRAs – that we’ve seen so much of in the media of late.
He doesn’t much like them. Not because they’re hateful nitwits like their male comrades in the Men’s Rights movement. But because, you know, they’re women, representatives of what Roosh so memorably calls “a gender who has no loyalty to men.”
He accuses them of pandering to men for attention, and accuses male MRAs, in turn, of being too easily ensnared by their feminine wiles. It’s a mirror image of the accusations that MRAs like to throw at male feminists, and likely to infuriate more than a few MRAs, both male and female.
All of Roosh’s bits in this video come from his recent video “The Men’s Rights Movement Is Making A Huge Mistake.” I’ve indicated all my edits with beeps.
We may be seeing more from Roosh in Misogyny Theater in the future. For the dating-guru-cum-reactionary philosopher, from his secret lair located somewhere in Siberia – no, really, he has literally exiled himself to Siberia — has announced in another video his plans to take over YouTube over the course of the next year or so.
Will he be able to do it? On the one hand, he’s a reactionary woman-hating piece of shit, which means that he should be able to appeal to YouTube’s vast reactionary woman-hating piece of shit demographic. And he has managed to build up his Return of Kings blog into a must-read site for terrible people; a quick check with web traffic monitor Alexa shows that, trafficwise, ROK is trouncing the most popular Men’s Rights site, A Voice for Men.
On the other, as you may have gathered from this video, he has about as much charisma as a sack of potatoes. Stay tuned.
@katz
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60 lbs of weed!
I hope you understand this strangely constructed in-joke.
I am ridiculously amused by Woody’s incompetence and inability to understand a basic challenge.
Ahhhhh. To never have to read his dickbuttery again…
I appreciate your dedication to brevity, David 🙂 And hellkell is right, the slowly rising cats were the real stars of the video.
Also, I kind of miss telling Woody to shut up. Can we throw it randomly into threads just for old times’ sake?
I do like the “This is actually a corridor” illusion. Figures it’d be the exact kind of thing an illusionist would actually use.
Yup – if all you can do well is illusions, you should always start by sticking up obvious targets for the rubes to waste their ammo or limited spells on. And when they get wise to that, they’ve wasted some of their reserves, they’re less likely to charge at you if they do see you – and that’s when you start getting tricky.
I must consider playing an illusionist if I ever get into another game – even a superhero one.
ROFLMAO!
@LBT:
The best part is that he doesn’t take his ball and go home. He keeps commenting, as if David will forget to moderate him and he’ll slip through.
@Flying Mouse:
Honestly, you probably could just insert that phrase at random and chances are it will be after another one of Woody’s failed attempts at commenting.
Shut up, Woody.
I can practically FEEL the warmth of Cassandra’s smile when she ends up reading this
@Ally
All I know is that I’m using that 60lbs to buy a timeshare on a tiger 😛
Watching Roosh’s videos… holy cow he’s sooooooooooooooo boring. Almost robotic :/
If you like Lovecraft, check out Algernon Blackwood and Irvin S. Cobb.
This has always struck me as the weird thing about MGTOWs: surely they should be pro-gay-men, since that’s pretty much the epitome of Going Your Own Way away from women?
But of course that would involve seeing non-standard non-traditional masculinity as a worthwhile and valid way of life and focus on how one can be happy and fulfilled, rather than obsessing about how women are ruining everything and isn’t it great how we’ve freed ourselves from them? (and we must continue to concentrate our efforts on telling each other that we’re free of women, all the time, constantly, and isn’t it great that we’ve taken control of our lives back and no longer let women dominate our time and effort, which we dedicate to talking about how much we don’t let women dominate our time and effort?)
The 2nd joke/reference I have gotten today! Anyone who’s still mystified, clicky clicky.
I looooove Blackwood. “The Wendigo” may be my favorite horror short fiction of all time.
“Algernon Blackwood” isn’t a character from an Oscar Wilde play?
Clark Ashton Smith’s worth a looksee too. You can read his fiction at http://eldritchdark.com/.
I so wish I could play D&D in a game like you’re talking about. It sounds like so much fun, but it would rely so much on the other players and GM having the right attitude and a sense of humour.
Speaking of creepy, preternatural things, anyone watching Penny Dreadful? Or the not so creepy – Outlander?
@david
What’s the challenge that you’ve set for Woody?
Yup, I wish I could find a new D&D game myself
@strivingally
This has always struck me as the weird thing about MGTOWs: surely they should be pro-gay-men, since that’s pretty much the epitome of Going Your Own Way away from women?
As a gay man I can say with certainty that I want nothing to do with the MGTOW label.These mgtow guys are bitter misogynists. Being gay is not the epitome of going your own way from women. I am grateful for all the women I love in my life such as my mother, sister, and my friends. I especially enjoy a spending time with a group of my friends that includes both women and men.
You know it is funny when I first started finding out about the so called manosphere and MRA/MGTOW blogs I was open minded because I am an advocate for struggles that men have such as depression and heart disease so I was initially hopeful when I first read blogs such as a voice for men.
But the right away I saw much anti gay bigotry on that site and these mra/mgtow blogs are not very welcoming to gay men to say the least. I was horrified at the hate from these blogs then II discovered this blog which rightfully mocks these guys. There is one guy on avfm named Andybob who says he is gay but for the life of me I cannot comprehend why he is there on a site where his fellow mra’s bash women, gays, and virtually any group they see as threatening to their worldview.
So the deal is these mgtow guys are very much anti gay and for men that supposedly have given up women they sure seem obsessed with them.
Hey Kim,
Yes, I watched the whole season of Penny Dreadful and watched the first episode of Outlander too. I actually read five out of the eight books.
Oh, good!
Shut up, Woody.
This is going to be confusing for new commenters…
Just put it in the welcome package, I guess?
Sorry jared, I was being facetious. I know damn well that MGTOWs have no time or compassion for gay men. Or anybody else that doesn’t embrace their caveman view of the world. I was just expressing amusement at the disconnect between their supposed encouragement for men swearing off relationships with women and their distaste for gay men.
They’re the hetero-normative version of those libertarians who continually threaten to “go Galt” – the important thing isn’t whether they’re going or not, it’s how much of a scene they make during their (almost always temporary) flounce.
How is Outlander? I read the first three of the series when I was young and impressionable, and I’m kind of on the fence on watching the series. I don’t want it to spoil the mental pictures I’ve built up (which is usually what happens when a book I really like transfers to a new medium).
So far it’s good, Flying Mouse, but I’m only one episode in. So, as I expected, there’s a lot of exposition that weighed the narrative down a bit. But hell, it’s hard to cram all of Claire’s background into an hour, so I could see the difficulty the writers might of faced. It’s a pretty show — the highlands are gorgeous.