Return of Kings contributor “Billy Chubbs,” whose previous contributions to the wisdom of the ages include posts titled Men Should Not Help Sluts, Bangable Women Can Still Be Gross, and Unmarried Older Women Need To Go Away, has outdone himself in the awfulness department with a post this week attacking 17-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai as “A Coward And A Hypocrite.”
Apparently inspired by Chubbs’ bold move, the Sarkeesian-hating, Anton LaVey-looking far-right nitwit Davis Aurini has junped on the bandwagon with his own blog post dissing Malala.
We’ll get to him in a minute. But first, Chubbs.
It’s hardly surprising that a writer for a site that portrays women as emotionally immature, intellectually inferior, and “inherently terrible people” would have a problem with a young woman known around the world for her courageous advocacy on behalf of education for girls.
But Chubbs attempts to portray himself as a true defender of “oppressed girls in crappy countries” and an enemy to “anti-female extremists.” Yes, that’s right: a man who has described young women as “society’s mobile sperm banks” and single women over 30 as “unappealing and repulsive … hoebags” is trying to pretend that he’s better advocate for girls’ and women’s rights than Malala Yousafzai.
His evidence that Malala is a “coward and a hypocrite?” The fact that she has not returned to Pakistan since being literally shot in the face by a Taliban assassin.
The reason the Taliban shot Malala in the head was to send a message that they would attack girls who wanted to get a western-style education. …
Getting shot in the head is pretty extreme, and I could respect Malala if she took it and continued to live in Pakistan. But she ran. She gave up. The extremists won unequivocally …
Malala has done more harm than good to oppressed girls in crappy countries. She says books and education are what we need to change the world, then proved that completely untrue after she ran away when a man with a gun fired a bullet into her.
Yes, what a coward for “running away” after a guy shot her in the face, say Billy Chubbs, a dude who claim to fame in the world is writing clickbait blog posts attacking women, under what I assume is a pseudonym, on a website run by a professional pickup guru who feels resentful that he has to wipe his own ass in order to appeal to women.
Malala has been an activist for education and against the Taliban since the age of 11, when she started writing a blog for the BBC on life in the Swat district of Pakistan, then under the control of the Taliban. A tireless advocate for girls while still a girl herself, she started receiving death threats, some slipped under her door, after her identity was publicly revealed. In 2012 she was shot in the face in an assassination attempt.
And Chubbs — who lives in Canada, and who is unwilling to even post a real picture of himself on the internet — thinks she’s a coward for not returning to Pakistan — where she was shot in the face, and where bookstores won’t even stock her book because of threats from the Taliban.
And he also seems to think that she’s “lucky” for being able to move to England.
Malala was lucky that she was co-opted for an agenda and was given a great place to live in the western world, because while she is touring the globe, advocating girls rights to education, those same girls are the ones forced to continue to live in places where they can be hurt and killed for trying to attend school.
And what were the “lucky” circumstances that led to her relocation to England? Oh yeah, she was shot in the face in a country without the medical infrastructure necessary to treat the injuries she received from being shot in the face.
Chubbs also throws in some old-fashioned imperialist arrogance and racism into the mix:
While Malala was laughing, playing and enjoying the safety of receiving an education in a predominantly white country found upon Christian morals, school girls in Africa were being kidnapped. …
So yes, never fear you ladies of the 2nd and 3rd world. You, too, can brave all those bad men and receive an education: so long as there are prosperous countries founded upon and still more or less exercising European Christian morals that still exist for you to run to (and which you can afford to run off to in the first place), and that you’re willing to be a hollow mascot for the powers that be in those countries.
At one point, Chubbs actually belittles her for … reading books:
Instead of reading text books and trying to fill her head with words, Malala would have been better served to take that textbook and hold it in front of her head to try and stop the bullet.
That doesn’t even make a tiny bit of sense.
Davis Aurini, meanwhile, has weighed in with an equally ridiculous, if not quite as outrageously offensive, attack on Malala for her … alleged unoriginality.
In Aurini’s view, Malala is a mere “youngling,” and a copycat of “Civilized” Western ideas. who doesn’t deserve the Nobel Prize or the money that comes with it.
[F]or the most part, love ‘em or hate ‘em, the past recipients have at least made their mark on history. With few exceptions, they’ve all walked a dangerous path and stayed committed to their cause, and they’ve brought forth intellectual and political blossomings that were unprecedented. They’ve all been inventors.
You cannot say the same for Malala Yousafzai.
Thus far in her life, she’s been little more than a poster child for the prevailing superstitions of our times. Arguing that women should be allowed to read books is not revolutionary when you live in Britain, and while it may be brave for a girl in Pakistan to make such statements, they’re still not creative in nature; she’s merely channelling the culture of the Civilized West, repeating words that were written by others.
This from a guy whose main claim to, er, creativity consists of this “film.”
So brave, dudes. So brave.
Andrea: I think he means that English civilisation was founded on Christian morals. Which still isn’t true. Paganism was here first.
This right here betrays what the manosphere really thinks of women and girls. They think our proper and natural state is being abused. Being abused by men is something that we should be willing to just take and accept. Anything else is a sign of some sort of moral defect.
Apparently “Chubbs” isn’t aware that there are lots of Christians in Africa and it is the predominant religion in some African countries. Also, I spy a 4 dot ellipsis.
Oh. I see. Only European Christian morals are good. Apparently he also doesn’t realize that Christianity is not a European religion. It’s been practiced in Europe for quite sometime, Christianity and the system of morality that goes with it is not actually from Europe.
Sure, others have fought for equal educational rights before Yousafzai. It’s still a goal worth fighting for. Unlike posting hateful screeds about Anita Sarkeesian, which is neither worthy or original and creative. Misogyny and racism isn’t edgy or original. It’s dull. It’s the status quo. It’s the most cliché thing you can do.
This may have been shared already since it’s a few days old, but Breitbart hack and GamerGate
war profiteer“advocate” Milo Yiannopoulos has his own attack article against Yousafzai (archive.today</a). It's pretty awful, even going down the "sure, you may have been shot in the face for wanting an education, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE MEN!?" abyss.I used to call these folks Shit-for-brains, but now I think that’s unreasonably insulting to shit.
@sonnysombrera, he also seems to think Christianity is a European thing. *snicker*
Aaaaah, ninja’d by WWTH!
Shit has a purpose. These guys are more like a ruptured appendix.
So malala’s a bad feminist for not returning to the country she nearly died in? Do these guys just want to see her killed for real so they can eulogize her in the most pretentious way possible?
You better believe if she stayed in Pakistan and was killed, these guys would be lamenting the stupidity of women.
Wait right there… wasn’t the West that decadent place that Western Women® had ruined with all their absurd ideas about having rights and autonomy, as opposed to other traditional countries where good conservative women knew their place? Now corrupt-full-of-feminists Europe is the lighthouse of progress and morality?
Ruptured-appendix-for-brains doesn’t quite have the same ring to it though.
I just had a though though. Remember that “this is your brain on heroin” commercial? You could replace “heroin” with “misogynistic ideology” and it’d be largely the same. It could be said to be really an ideological drug in a sense – it’s horribly bad for you, and it prevents you from addressing the real problems in your life, but it makes the users feel good in some twisted way.
What a bunch of asshats.
Here are three puppies wearing bow ties and practicing synchronized yawning:
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s–JlG7YFnM–/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_320/sbcatw2pl668kbq55kih.gif
Rule #1 of MRAdom: support whatever makes women look bad.
No! Nobody disses Malala Yousafzai while I’m around!
It must really annoy Aurini that Yousafzai has already made more of a mark on history than he ever will. The thing is, she’s exactly what they’re claiming she’s not. She had “walked a dangerous path and stayed commited to the cause.” She has done things which were revolutionary and worthwhile.
But then, if you think that the education of girls and women isn’t that worthwhile a cause, and that girls and women can’t possibly accomplish anything worthwhile, then you’re going to twist yourself into rhetorical knots to try to denigrate someone who has done heroic and worthwhile things.
The article by Chubbs is seriously creepy. He describes, vividly and in detail, at least two or three times, Yousafzai getting shot. The focus on the act of violence while insulting her is just…really creepy.
Getting shot in the head is pretty extreme,… but not as extreme as drinking red bull and blogging from your basement.
Dude, you don’t the pain of Cheeto stains.
Logical consistency…they only have it when it suits their purposes. Which is never.
Yeah. Ever get the feeling they really just want her dead? And they’re miffed because that DIDN’T happen?
I love that he brings up Africa as a contrast to ‘Christian Europe’. There are a lot of sizable christian communities in Africa. It’s not exactly small news there. It’s even arguable that chrstianity, as a collective, has just as much sway there as it does on Europe (though I’d qualify that statement as an educated speculation, rather than a researched fact).
As established, he’s wrong on an almost baffling number of levels.
^ For all of their touting of their “greater rationality”, they seem to like to stick wth what feeeels right to them.
Christian Europe feeeeels right.
Christian Africa?
Not so much.
Today on ROK: “Malala Yousafzai Is BAD For Not Doing Enough To Help Girls Get An Education!!!”
Tomorrow on ROK: “10 Reasons Why You Should NEVER Date An Educated Woman!!!”
Taking the Red Pill frees you from silly mortal constraints such as “being logically consistent”, and “saying things that make sense”.
On that, a quick Google search:
http://www.pewforum.org/2011/12/19/global-christianity-exec/
They might be making their argument from the standpoint of the influence of historic or cultural Christianity, but then I’d call over some of my pagan friends to point out that many Northern European pre-Christian cultures seem to have given women considerably more esteem and power than did Europe during the height of Christendom and then I’d call over some atheist friends to detail how the rise of greater rights for women (and people, really) in Europe tracked pretty closely with the Enlightenment and with the general falling away from Christian institutions as the primary venues and vehicles of civil society.
(Note: I’d call over my respective friends rather than wage the argument myself because I have spectacular friends who can BRING IT when it comes to sources and stats.)
I’ve bumped into African missionaries here in Stockholm who came to Sweden to preach Christianity. Sadly, I’m not well educated enough about geography to say which country they were from, except sub-Saharan. But yeah, sort of makes sense.
It would be a cheap shot to say that Billy Chubbs was okay with Malala Yousafzai as long as she was still in his approximate wheelhouse (which is to say, under 17) and that if he’s changing his tune now it’s probably because she’s beginning to show signs of being over 17, the way young girls will if you let them live too long.
It would be a cheap shot, but sometimes the cheap shots are the right ones to take.
This is really key, isn’t it? They’re not mad that she’s “not a real activist” because she’s a woman, because she’s no longer in Pakistan, no longer immediately threatened, it’s that she faced real violence and did not back down.
When she was 15 years old.
All the things posted here from MRA sites, from gaslighting to “corrective rape,” are about men using violence to coerce women. And now a child who faced extreme violence, survived, and did not stop is being talked about internationally. That’s what terrifies them.
And all this right after Maryam Mirzakhani wins the Fields Prize. Bad year for misogynists.
Meanwhile, in Nigeria, there’s just been an agreement to bring back the girls!