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:
@Buttercup – You made me crack up!
Unfortunately, this alarms my sisters, as it sounds like I’m choking.
Antarctica doesn’t exist?
Wat
I don’t even
Also, Oz is, I think, the only country that is also a continent, as well as a bloody big (biggest?) island. So there, iggerant grade four teacher.
Oh god. MGOTW mixed with starry eyed space cadet. Two delusions for the price of one! (though, to be fair, a harmless delusion at least in the case of the overly optimist spacefare idealists).
Apart from Alpha Centauri A (which apparently would still be too close, as the womenfolk could still follow him to there) Tau Ceti is the nearest Class G Star (i.e., same general class as our Sun). Gliese 832 is 5 light years more away, and a dim class M star – a red dwarf. While planets have been detected in its habitable zone, the problem with class M stars is that their habitable zone is very near to the star indeed. At such distances, it is likely that planets in that zone become tidally locked to the star, in the same way as the Moon for example is tidally locked to Earth – i.e., they would always only show the same side to the star. That means, that planet would have an overly hot eternal day side and an overly cold eternal night side. Now, life might still be possible in the “twilight zone” (heh) between them, especially if you believe in space magic terraforming, and it isn’t 100% inevitable those planets become tidally locked…
…but still, it makes more sense to seek out the class G stars.
Not that we will ever reach either Gliese 832 or Tau Ceti within the next, say, 200 years or so, mind. At least, IMO we won’t.
Sounds perfect for these dim MGTOW.
My joke didn’t even make sense, they live on a spaceship. And I feel like the terraforming remark comes from too much Firefly which seemed to think you could make any planet no matter how removed from its parent star inhabitable.
Also the genetic engineering reminds me of the Petabyee series, where some weirdo decided the best way to adapt to an Ice World was selkies. Like literal selkies.
The funny part is that the outer planets that have been terraformed in Firefly are only just barely habitable. The settlers there don’t have much food, they get attacked by reavers or they develop horrible diseases from working in mines. I’m sure they think a life of danger and hardship is glamorous and romantic but in reality they probably couldn’t deal with it.
@ Pendragon, Cassies Major Domo
Thirding you guys. I’m finishing up a year at McMurdo, and have done a winter at Pole, and there is no way we need guys like the OP down here.
Yeah, it’s a little bit “Island of the Misfit Toys” here, but for the most part the people who come down are friendly, hard-working, and hard-playing. From what I’ve seen, MGTOWs definitely would not fit the bill.
@Phoenician in a time of Romans
There are a lot of places here that are way more civilized than the field camps. I mean we even have internet (sometimes).
Michelle: Did you have any teachers who didn’t teach you patent misinformation?
(I got taught that “fuck” was an acronym, but in fairness, this was before Snopes.)
This reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw *years* ago: “Why send one man to the moon, why not send them all?”
Did he just seriously argue that becoming a mangina is a bio-rule?
Also, if we get tails, then we can be cats. And take over the IT and other industries. Can I have one of those big, fluffy ones like the cloud leopards?
@Michelle C Young
I’m afraid of your teachers. They make me a lot more appreciative of the shitty national curricula we get – at least the schools respect the damn things.
I think these scenarios are what he’s going for…
That sounds boss. (I wonder why just trans women, though.)
Anyone else kind of reminded of that Tiptree short story?
I’m very confused. How do they see a civilization being remotely sustainable, without these awful women around to handle the reproducing part? Or do they also have womb-vats in progress somewhere?
The SF story I’m reminded of is Cordwainer Smith’s “The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdal”. The inhabitants of the all-male planet in that one were thoroughly unpleasant characters. I won’t spoil how they’re defeated, but the Mammothariat would approve.
Hahahaha listen to this:
A comment asks:
“are you really really sure that if you moved to a city in Anctartica women and manginas will follow you there? Because I think they’re doing great wherever they are now.”
And the genius responds:
“Yes, Because that’s what happened to video games”.
Moving to Antartica = Playing a video game.
It’s obvious, right? from any point of view, the two activities are absolutely similar. It takes a similar effort, engagement, interest, amount of money, clearly, if somebody is willing to play a video game to ruin my life, they’re also willing to move to Antartica to do the same. It’s hilarious.
This is more telling then it looks at first sight, it may explain the total delusions of this guy about space travel: it’s all a video game to him.
The same sort of thinking that makes guys think that life after the apocalypse would be fun. My quarrel with sci-fi (which my wife and son love and are always trying to get me hooked on) is that so much of the time you have to ignore obviously impossible assumptions. For example, in Star Trek (which I was forced to watch occasionally) a spacecraft that can carry enough spare parts, materials, and machinery to make major repairs on the fly.
I am an insulin-dependent diabetic. I would like someone to explain to me who would be manufacturing insulin in what labs after the apocalypse, or among some quarrelsome misfit MRA video-game addicts in some anti-feminist dudetopia.
To be fair in most Star Trek series they had access to space docks and stuff, now Voyager….
Well, that dude apparently simply assumes FTL and terraforming will be right around the corner. Compared to that, artificial uteri are completely plausible. In fact, I’d assume we’ll still see them within this century. Whereas we’ll see FTL and terraforming… well, basically never is my guess.
“To be fair in most Star Trek series they had access to space docks and stuff, now Voyager….”
I am really only familiar with Voyager because it was on during the time that my wife had some lingering hope of converting me …
Ever seen SF Debris’ reviews?
Also, can anyone give me the context for the last image in David’s post? I’m really curious about basically any portrayal of someone who’s trans or gender nonconforming!
@LBT: From the image quality, the lighting, and the costume design and patterns I’d say it’s late 80’s to mid 90’s in vintage, and that leads me to guess Star Trek The Next Generation, but I’m stumped for a precise answer.
The person on the right has an earring that almost looks Bajoran, but none of them have the Bajoran nose makeup.
@LBT: Google image search suggests it’s a Star Trek episode, as Falconer said: Angel One.