The man behind The Black Pill blog – formerly known as Omega Virgin Revolt – would like to go his own way, he really would. But he’s been feeling a bit stymied on that front, because no matter where on earth he might go, it doesn’t seem far enough away for him.
In a recent post, he looked at some of the solutions that have been suggested for discerning Men Going Their Own Way like himself, and found them all a bit wanting.
Becoming an expat?
I have been sympathetic to the idea of expating, but I haven’t really seen its value. Most men who do it think they can find a different type of woman outside of the US or outside of Western countries. While that may appear to be the case for now, women are the same everywhere … Wherever you go, there you are in a misandrist nation and culture.
What about going somewhere where there aren’t any women – or men – at all? Still not good enough.
Even more radical expating ideas like seasteading, cities in Antarctica, etc. still are too limited. It’s too easy to travel to anyplace on Earth so such places can’t be used to escape women and manginas.
So Mr. Black Pill decides to look beyond the confines of this puny planet.
[W]e have to look to space to escape women and manginas.
But not even a one-way trip to Mars will get Mr. Pill far enough away from his earthly tormenters.
Even then the Moon, Mars, and anywhere else in the solar system probably still won’t be enough (although they too can be used as stepping stones for further expating/escape). We need to look to other star systems and beyond.
Mr. Pill has his eye on one star system in particular:
We need to look towards a place like the Tau Ceti star system. Places like that are where we can develop a civilization completely free from matriarchy.
Hmm. Tau Ceti is a sun-like-star only 12 light years away, and one of its planets may lie in what scientists describe as the “habitable zone” — neither too near or too far from Tau Ceti to support life. That’s the good news. The bad news? Well, the planet in the “habitable zone” has five times the mass of earth. (Not a good planet for basketball. And you can forget about getting help from friends when you move.) Oh, and it’s being pretty much constantly battered by meteorites from the giant cloud of space debris that orbits Tau Ceti.
But no worries! Mr. Pill is confident that we can work out these little kinks.
While the planets around Tau Ceti may not be ideal for us, this isn’t a problem. Terraforming will take care of some of it. The rest can be handled by genetic engineering and/or becoming cyborgs. This is a good thing because we need to remove genetics that predispose us to be manginas anyway so we might as well make more changes while we’re at it.
Could we have tails too? I’ve always wanted a tail.
You may think this is some far off future that you will never see in your lifetime. While it will be a long time before there’s an exodus to another start system like Tau Ceti, other parts of this vision are already in progress. For example, the development of cyborgs in primitive form is proliferating in areas such as finance.
It’s true. Soon all bankers will look like this:
Mr. Pill ends on a hopeful note:
While no one is going to be getting on a spaceship to another star system tomorrow, this is a vision we can realize. …
Just as our ancestors had to choose to leave the Great Rift Valley a long time ago to find a better life, we must do the same on a larger level. It’s going to take a long time and a lot of work, but we must do it. It’s the only way to build a better human civilization.
There’s really only one way this plan could fail, and that’s if Mr. Pill’s counterparts arrive at the Tau Ceti system a couple of hundred years from now only to discover its habitable planet already inhabited.
By these gals.
Or maybe these, with a scantily clad mangina in tow:
It feels like I can’t appreciate the full hilarity without going to the original post, but I really don’t want to do that.
So they have a planet five times the mass of Earth, and it’s constantly bombarded with space debris because there’s a huge cloud of the stuff that orbits around the star? And he wants to just…handwave that away with terraforming?
This requires restructuring of the entire solar system. Is there any major science fiction setting where humanity has magic technology on that scale?
At least he actually wants to Go His Own Way. Points for effort?
vaiyt – Nah. If his proposed method of “going his own way” is set in an endlessly distant future, using methods that may never exist, I don’t think he’s serious about it.
I, for one, enthusiastically support this (young?) man’s plan. Please, by all means, boldly go where no man (or woman — ick!) has gone before — the sooner, the better. Live long and prosper, however it is done on Tau Ceti.
Thanks, David, for the second hilarious post in a row.
Won’t these guys have egg on their face when they discover Tau Ceti has already been settled by green skinned sleepless children and their telepathic siblings. *Is shot for unfunny joke only he’ll get*
I find it pretty funny that travel time isn’t even a factor in this guy’s reasoning, either the light barrier isn’t a thing according to him, stars are really close together, or he’s willing to spend the rest of his life cooped up in a metal tomb so…nobody can enjoy this brave new world because no women.
Also why Tau Ceti specifically? Why not say Gliese 832?
Mmmmmm-hmmmmm… they hate women so much that they’d rather live in a place where they have to become robots to survive. That’s totally rational, right?
ikanreed-
And all the other observations in how libertarians and MGTOWs ramble endlessly about how they’ll totally have a utopic society if one day super technology will just let them get far enough away and how that’ll be so easy just hammers home how utterly disconnected from work these entitled crybabies really are.
I mean, looking at another group that had utopic delusions, lesbian separatists of the 1970s, we can see the complete failure all the more clearly. A bunch of lesbian women with far less power, money, and resources managed to make a number of semi-autonomous locales where they could test their theories and see how they worked in reality and yet a bunch of IT wankers making comfortable amounts of money and with all the advantages of white male privilege can’t get off their ass for a weekend to look into the cost of setting up a bloody commune?!?
It’s like all the malarky with MRA dudes claiming that women need to design men’s shelters for them, because the notion of just doing it themselves is somehow impossible. I mean for frick’s sake, the anarchists managed to set up a whole micronation in the middle of Copenhagen and get some measure of political and social autonomy, but the closest any of these douchebags have gotten is maybe that sovereign citizen thing which is basically just saying really loudly that you’re not going to pay taxes anymore.
Every time, when a dominant group is asked to do work to actually make the world they incessantly obsess about with sci-fi scenarios like this, they run screaming into hoping someone else makes the tech and they can just leech off it. And it’s the most obvious reason of why their better worlds would instantly fail, because the notion of not having an exploitable class to handle all the hard and difficult labor is a dealbreaker for these lazy assholes.
Whoops, tried to make joking sarcasm tags and they didn’t show up! Oh well, I’ll do better next time.
Aren’t some of those lesbian only towns still around? With heavily aged populations of course but still doing pretty well. There is a pretty big difference in scope between “let’s set up a village” and “Let’s make Methuselah’s Children really dumb!”
Daintydougal,
I can’t speak for WOC since I’m not one but I’m gonna take a wild guess and say most of them would be quite surprised to learn that only MOC (and apparently white men as well?) experience racism.
Zolnier-
True, but the only reason that these wankers are focusing only on Ultra Super Mega Sci-Fi Adventure Con as the only weal twue way to go their own way or form their super society is just an excuse for not actually following through. Oh, I’d totally copy this functional and semi-successful model used by endless queer districts of cities, commune living systems, and separatist towns, but for blah-de-blah reason that would totally be impratical so I need a system where I have my own giant mecha and a spare planet just because that means my dream is too far off for me to actually have to do anything.
I mean, how hard would it be for these MGTOWs to make a MGTOW house somewhere in the way people make kinky communes or QPOC communes or stoner communes or furry communes or socialist communes all the time? Or to form a semi-isolated living area where participants grow their own food and provide their own entertainment if the notion of seeing a woman at the grocery store when you head into town is too much misandry for them to be able to handle?
If they actually believed their own BS that is and this wasn’t just an excuse to fantasize about being a captive and trapped victim of a grave and powerful oppressive force?
Heh I just got this image of this guy managing to launch a colony ship of “Alphas” and beaten down women, and then this happens. http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/wise_12_10/
Cassie’s Major Domo
I just want to second this so hard. It’s one of my goals to someday set foot on Antarctica and I really don’t want to have to immediately suppress my rage when I do.
Won’t they be pissed when they find out some penguin species have been known to form same sex partnerships and that males often share childcare responsibilities.
I’m trying to imagine the ship this MGTOW would build to take him into the furthest reaches of space.
I keep picturing Wallace and Gromit’s ship in A Grand Day Out.
I look forward to seeing what these idiots will do with the ability to hack apart their genes.
“They wouldn’t like the whore female penguins anyway.”
Don’t forget the Emperor Penginas.
Ninja’d by Zolnier…
This reminds me of Monty Python (skip to 0:42)
http://youtu.be/ZNeq2Utm0nU
I will…
1) Gladly chip in a fiver or tenner into the fund that allows them to leave this planet for good, forrrrrreeverrrrr. But only realistic spaceship plans, please.
2) Also assist in packing their stuff for the spaceship like a good little servant, if that’s what it takes to make them go away forrrrreverrrrr. I’ll take one for the team. Promise.
Frankly, considering that right now this technology does not exist, and is unlikely to exist for a long while, it reeks of “WELL I WOULD TOTES LEAVE EXCEPT I CANNOT SO I AM STUCK HERE AND WILL KEEP CRYING ABOUT IT” kind of thing.
@Cassie’s Major Domo
The word “bonkers” has never seriously referred to genuine mental illness. Come on. I know I’m new here too, but this abelism thing is the kind of argument that I see being referenced for trite unthinking dismissal over internet based social justice concerns all the time.
I don’t know what level of derail tolerance WHTM threads have for argumentation. No one making that kind of statement, is genuinely trying to conflate mental illness with misogyny. It almost comes off as an obsession with tone, not any sort of genuine concern for people with disabilities.
It’s absolute a bad argument, sure, for all sorts of reasons, but that’s just not the same as being a kind of prejudice. “Bonkers”, in particular has a clear cultural connotation of referring to irrational or nonsensical people, by virtue of the things they say or do.
I don’t know why I feel compelled to argue about this, I mean, I’m making the exact same sort of meta-argument I’m criticizing right now. I guess it just feels like cutting off criticism about the level of irrationality some of these arguments represent feels like it limits the pathos of their deconstruction? I don’t know. Sorry for the long-winded, unwanted response.
I would love to see these brave colonists encounter a parthenogenetic species.
@Ikanreed
Normally, I would agree with you. But Tyler has shown serious trolling activity before, and therefore deserves special consideration.