The saga of that still-just-hypothetical “documentary” about Anita Sarkeesian and other evil Social Justice Warriors just got a little stranger.
The dogmatic duo behind the project — lady hating YouTube blabbers jordanowen42 and Davis Aurini — are still having a bit of trouble raising the necessary funds (so much so that Aurini wrote an angry, rambling blog post aimed at those who think he and his pal are too inept and biased to make a decent film).
But a new video — put together by Kav P and a friend, and posted above — reveals that the dogmatic duo has found some surprising new allies.
Enjoy!
At least he didn’t drop it while he was mumbling and set his pants on fire, I guess that’s something.
Whenever I see him talk, I always imagine him to say something like “I’LL GET YOU NEXT TIME, GADGET. NEXT TIME.” Except with a less cool voice.
Speaking of funny things, someone posted this on the bluepill subreddit the other day:
http://www.reddit.com/r/TheBluePill/comments/2ez4z4/i_think_ive_been_losing_my_game/
If you TL,DR it (I totally did the first time around) skip to the bottom for the punchline.
And for all us crafty Mammotheers, I found this loom knitting kit at Michael’s the other day and giggled:
http://i.imgur.com/VKcpFuK.jpg
(Look closely at the craft items in the pic if you don’t get it.)
Also, gratuitous cat pic:
http://i.imgur.com/nP5VLHV.jpg
I adopted him about a year ago, and he used to be so small he would struggle to jump high enough to get onto my bed. Now look at him.
He’s also apparently a tacky novelist.
From one of the reviews (a three-star review, mind you!):
Copy editors and proofreading are for betas!
The Legion of Doom? Seriously? They’re unironically branding themselves after one of the most inept supervillain squads of all time? The one that has Bizarro as its most competent member?
Well, they could hardly call themselves the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants since a gay guy played their leader in the films, could they? Having to separate themselves out from association with a queer would totally distract them from their mission of hanging with their bros, whining about how terrible women were, and competing to see who had the biggest penis.
No homo.
Is he serious with this shit! Fucking dying over here. Are we sure he’s not a comedian involved in a really long-drawn-out sketch?
BTW, his hero is named “Raxx”.
Does anyone feel up to writing a RationalWiki article on Mr Aurini? You don’t need a great deal of wiki sk1llz, and opinionation is fine if it’s substantiable (we are not Wikipedia and we feel free to call a spade a bloody shovel). All you need is coherent sentences and a few references to back you up. I’ve added him to the to-do list: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/To_do
I guess “Dirk Steelboner” seemed too over-the-top.
@davidgerard
First thought: “Hellz yeah I’ll do that!”
Second thought: “Oh fuck no. Watching one of his videos was more than enough.”
I may come around, though.
No, cassandrakitty, they just editted that bit out.
Before the Enlightenment? You mean, back when everyone outside of certain families had fuck-all when it came to rights?
Yeah, vaiyt. It’s funny to me how this sort of people always assume that they’ll be in the exploiting, rather than the exploited, class. And, somehow, they think we’re stoopid for not agreeing with them.
I’ve read that RationalWiki entry on Neoreactionaries before, and I was always struck by this line:
Which immediately makes me want to paraphrase Douglas Adams: “Neoreactionaries will be the first with their backs against the wall when their own revolution comes.”
Why would anyone value these guys enough to keep them alive in a post-apocalyptic society? It’s not like they have any useful skills.
@drmrsthemonarch1 – yeah … the trouble is that you know you’ve written a good RW article when you feel stupider afterwards. Recovery is slow and involves copious Skeptic Fuel. #drink, as we say. OUR LIVERS – YOUR PROTECTION.
Oh that’s not totally true. “Lighting a cigarette like a total douchebag” could come in very handy! In fact, I think that’s an actual skill in the current incarnation of Gamma World.
It’s a shame that Jordan Owen turns my crank a little, in a “no one __________s like Gaston” way. I would fill his g-string with twenties if he would just dance at Chippendales, instead of run his mouth on YouTube.
Then again he probably doesn’t look good with his shirt off.
(Is it working? Am I objectifying him yet?? – ID.)
He’s the one who doesn’t look like Budget LaVey?
Yeah. The one with the wild rock-star hair who gave the above interview in his bathrobe. I want to put my fingers up to his lips as he starts mouthing off about Anita Sarkeesian’s makeup and say
“You’re so much cuter when you shut the fuck up.”
Well, I guess logically speaking there’s someone who’ll feel that way about just about anyone.
(It’s so hard to avoid sinking to their level when they start picking at the looks of whatever woman they’re angry at this week. It would be so easy! But still, I will try to resist.)
Being the bigger person sucks.
Oh, I’m only the bigger person in public spaces where it’s been made clear that the community prefers that kind of snark not to happen. In private spaces all bets are off.
This is dumber than self-identifying yourself as a monster by reproaching people for being white knights.
I’m thinking a bit about Mr Aurini’s post about the Patreon for their film. The interesting bit is the claim they’ve reached “20% of the goal” – Patreon is not Kickstarter, where you sign up to reach a goal – it’s a thing to sign up as a monthly patron of an artist, where you like them just doing stuff and figure artists do better with money coming in. You can put a goal on it, but it still goes slowly and monthly.
I’m betting he’s calculated his “20%” on the basis of “if these people keep giving us money all through, and don’t cut us off at any point …”