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.
Ditto, and I left the sound off!
More kitties because Roosh is a Doosh.
Oh, that kitty looks like Joe Grey, but with more white bits! <3
Daddy's gonna have really clean nostrils.
I can’t wait to move and finally get a kitty. I haven’t had a kitty to rule over me in YEARS. *sniff*
If I may rerail this thread from serious issues back to tiger/taiga jokes…
Oddly enough, the Siberian tiger does not actually live in Siberia, or taiga. It lives in Ussuri region, or the southeastern panhandle of Russia between China and Sea of Japan. (There are a few individuals in Manchuria and North Korea, I assume as remnants from historically more widespread population.) This region is not part of the taiga(northern forest) zone, and it’s also not considered part of Siberia but rather of Far East, like China, Korea and Japan.
So you can’t find the Siberian tiger in Siberian taiga zone, only in the Siberian tiger zone.
Finally, from Wikipedia, a tiger warning sign in Russian:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_tiger#mediaviewer/File:Siberian_Tiger_Sign.JPG
That looks more like the kind of “warning, tigers crossing” sign you would put up to remind drivers to be careful to keep their eyes open and not hit and animal that might be crossing the road.
In a neat tie-up beteen roleplay, horror fiction/Lovecraft and roll20.net, I am currently playing an on/off game of The Laundry Files on there.
Based on Charles Stross’ Laundry series (The Atrocity Archives, The Jennifer Morgue, The Fuller Memprandum, The Apocalypse Codex and The Rhesus Chart) which are a mixture of Lovecraftian horror, espionage and humour.
I like the rubbish bin right behind the tiger sign. Dangerous picnic area for humans or are there very tidy tigers around?
It’s very important to teach your tiger to clean up after itself.
Leaving bits of humans lying around is just messy, and the smell – ugh.
(My cat’s-paw knitting project was not a success. Not because I couldn’t do the stitch, but because it doesn’t look enough like a cat’s paw to bother!)
It was Zelazny’s last novel. It got a Nebula Award.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Night_in_the_Lonesome_October
Based on Charles Stross’ Laundry series (The Atrocity Archives, The Jennifer Morgue, The Fuller Memprandum, The Apocalypse Codex and The Rhesus Chart) which are a mixture of Lovecraftian horror, espionage and humour.
And soon – the official government super-squad…
I discovered Lovecraft in my early teens. Scared the eldritch ichor out of me. Much later, I enjoyed throwing random bits of Mythos into my D&D campaign, without letting the players know about it in advance. I especially liked giving somewhat vague descriptions and letting their imaginations fill in the details.
While I do enjoy Stross’s Laundry Files novels, the most authentically Lovecraftian book I’ve read recently was Caitlin Kiernan’s The Dry Salvages. Cosmic horror done well, with nary a tentacle in sight.
Robert: Have you read Caitlin Kiernan’s Threshold? It made me afraid of trilobites.
I’ve always found it interesting that Irish mythology is so heavily grounded in an ancient version of colonialism; the locals are always getting conquered or ousted by newcomers “from across the sea,” only to get ousted or conquered in turn a few generations later. It oddly mirrors certain aspects of both the iron-age Celtic expansion and much of the history of the British isles themselves.
What’s funny is that the stories of the successive invasions don’t actually map to real events. The Ireland wasn’t invaded repeatedly. There were some moderate amouts of settlement, and the decision (for reasons unknown) to adopt the language (and some of the culture) of peoples across the sea, but no waves of actual settlers/invaders.
Even the Vikings were relegated to small areas, and then pretty much kicked over the sea to Britain (thought timing of that victory kept Ireland from becoming a solid polity in the way of say France, or England, and so led to the later colonisation by the British).
But the Irish aren’t actually all that Celtic, in terms of connections by ancestry to the Gaulic peoples of Europe/Britain.
What is Woody’s Challenge?
@pecunium: I did my first google search of a website and failed. All I can find is David suggesting that the troll challenge be something along the lines that Woody can’t post anything petulant, but I didn’t think that was the final challenge.
I searched for Woody and challenge. 🙁
And just in case he’s reading:
Shut up Woody.
I think it was to include the word sporkle in any comment.
He also had to make a number of comments – five, I think – that were germane to the discussion at hand. So that he could prove to David that he was actually reading the comments.
So simple. And yet so unattainable.
Shut up, Woody.
Ah ha ha
Ha ha ha ha
I just sneaked a look to see if Woody’s been trying at all.
He thinks writing “sporkle” on its own at the top of his comment, then resuming whining, is going to work.
Ha ha ha ha ha hahahahahaha
Priceless.
Oh, Woody! Even when he’s on moderation, he can still make us laugh.
Dear Woody – you need to use “sporkle” in sentence. This shouldn’t be difficult, a creative person would already have gone the “Paul Elam really loves to sporkle, by which I mean stand up for the rights of men like me” route by now.
You know, I don’t care if he uses “sporkle” in a sentence or not. The part that he’s having trouble with is the requirement to post 5 comments that are relevant to the discussion — and that aren’t knee-jerk defenses of AVFM. He posted “sporkle,” then continued on with a knee-jerk defense of AVFM.
The odd thing is that we know he does read the comments sometimes, because he’s answered some before (with a knee-jerk defense of himself or of Elam, but still, he does read them).
I’ve assumed he reads the comments and then proceeds to write whatever he feels like. Social interactions on the internetz is just so hard!