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.
I’m troubled by your blog. I read these posts, argh sometimes just the headline and I just fill up with rage. It just makes me want to retreat into my bed and pull the covers over my head. I like my other world where people like these internet weirdos don’t exist. It’s all a nightmare and then up pops you in my reader shattering it all. I don’t even know how a person fights this crap.
I’m troubled by your blog. I read these posts, argh sometimes just the headline and I just fill up with rage. It just makes me want to retreat into my bed and pull the covers over my head. I like my other world where people like these internet weirdos don’t exist. It’s all a nightmare and then up pops you in my reader shattering it all. I don’t even know how a person fights this crap.
I read your articles somewhat frequently. I often disagree with your points and humour, but your writing style and topic choices are worthy of compliment. This article proved too many valid points to ignore commenting.
As a Red Pill Male and proud Canadian, I am ashamed of the criticism directed at Malala. She is an outstanding young woman. Not all men in the Manosphere feel this way about a 17-year old girl that was shot in the face and continued to battle one of the globe’s greatest international threats.
I actually find this blog reasuring. OK, it has a lot of painful realities, but the mocking makes them bearable
I read the screed from Billy about older women. It contained this hidden gem, “Knights do not fight for the love of Queens – they fight for Princesses.” That’s not how it worked in the Court of Courtly Love, where his allusion comes from. But my complaint is not about that era, but about yet another example of sheer factual stupidity emanating from MRAs. Is it that they can’t fact-check, or that they won’t because they are so infatuated with their own daydreams? Or are they too lazy? Some of you will recall me making this same criticism of Price, and indeed the staggering fact-free existence of the entire MRA movement is a major fuel source for David’s blog. If such an overgrown child won’t talk to me because I’m too old, I consider that a blessing. Who can stand their company? Let Billy and his friends stay in the kiddie pool where they belong.
Ok, I just skimmed through a few more of Billy’s used Internet Kleenexes. Anyone with this much bile is self-poisoned beyond repair and reproof. He is going to run himself off the road in one way or another, and it will be a good thing not to be too close when that happens. He’s living in his own world, like a private soap bubble and we can all figure out where that leads. His world is closed and circular, an intellectual Moebius strip. IMO it’s not worth engaging with him, except to take enough notes in case the police need them later.
That’s nice and all, but red pill is an ideology that is misogynistic. You see women as prizes to be won. You evaluate them, not as humans but as things that are bangable or not bangable. It’s not a surprise that some of your people would take the misogyny this far. Your #notallredpilling doesn’t really convince me of any morality or good will on your part.
These are the assholes you associate yourself with. You should be ashamed. If you’re sufficiently ashamed, you’ll abandon red pill altogether. Continuing to identify as a red piller means you’ve indirectly given this misogynistic bullshit coming from RoK your seal of approval.
“In other words, first world problems.”
Not even firstworld problems. First world problems are “actual” problems, they’re just seriously insignificant like getting a paper cut or stubbing your toe, these are imaginary bullshit problems they make up to justify their misogyny.
Seconding Red Pill as a misogynist ideology that puts both men and women back to the fucking dark ages with regressive hateful bullshit.
“What are all these girls doing in my treehouse!”
Yep, that’s definitely a real problem, and it’s totes your treehouse, even though the girls helped build it and have been living there all along.
Ha, that’s puzzled me too on occasion cassandrakitty, who the fuck cares what gender the friends in your clubhouse are? Especially if you have no reason to be ashamed of what you’re saying. They quite obviously know that what they’re saying is wrong on some level or it wouldn’t fucking matter.
Actually, tbqh, every bit of puzzlement I have over this whole movement is boiled down to “Why the fuck do some people think other people aren’t as “people” as them as people?” That mentality doesn’t make sense to me and is basically the root of all *-ist problems…
Oh really. Just asked mr about this and his own “discovery” of women and “how we think”. Not much of an answer really.
All I got was pphhhhhht.
As far as I can understand it the objection is that having women in the gaming treehouse spoils the fantasy of what women are and how we relate to the male gamer presented by the games (always super hot, with anatomically unlikely bodies, no free will, and a burning desire to be of service to the protagonist, or at least a willingness to let him stare at or fondle our boobs), and this ruins the gaming experience for them. Our personhood is a real bummer for them, basically, and we should refrain from inflicting it upon them by entering the treehouse.
Damn, womenz are so mean T.T what with being people and everything…
I mean, if women start hanging out in their gaming spaces, they might realize that we poop! And then they’d never recover.
Red Pill Guy… I’d like you to know we’re as human as you yourself are.
We don’t like being treated as a way of keeping score, as interchangeable components, as proofs of masculinity, or as something to be squashed gleefully for an ego boost.
We’re not all angels, devils, whores or ice queens.
We’re not mobile vaginas.
We’re not all perfect, we’re not all evil, assholes are pretty ubiquitous in any population sample.
We’re people.
That’s all.
Still trying to catch up on the comments here, but I just wanted to say my mother and I were watching a really horrid old movie from the 40s, set in Africa and full of white missionaries (we didn’t even get half way), and it was getting her down. So I mentioned what you’d posted and boy did it ever improve her mood!
Wait. We poop? Drat! I’ve been holding it in for 34 years for nothing!
This bullshit levelled at Malala Yousafzai boils my blood a lot. Not least because she is a local hero to me. She was treated at my university’s teaching hospital.
This is a girl who not only advocated for herself and her peers despite living in a region under control of a repressive regime, but she stared down an assassin, was shot, narrowly avoided death, and is living as close as a normal life as possible while studying in Birmingham… And these assholes want to heap more shit upon her??
It makes me so angry!!
I mean, full disclosure, I’ve heard Brummies suggest she should ‘go back’ because they’ve swallowed the UKIP anti-immigration propaganda in a time when our city council has faced swingeing cuts to vital services, and at least that’s a slightly more comprehensible kind of of prejudice.
But this New-Misogynist double-think is so convoluted, there is just nothing intelligible about it. They hate her, they just can’t come up with a coherent justification as to why. They won’t just say that it’s because she’s an outspoken young woman who puts every last wretched one of them to shame. They won’t just say that it’s because they’re insecure and her achievements threaten their self-image as worthwhile human beings.
I wish Malala all the best in the world. Her fortitude should be the guiding light to teach us all how to be heroes.
I knew it.
Myredpillmemoirs: aren’t you an adorable one? do you really think we care about how some Guys in the manospehere disagree with Billy Chubbs’ crackpot arguments? the Red Pill “ideology” is a load of bullshit and anyone who supports it is a misogynist. No, you are not superior to 50%, And you have no right to tell women how they should live their life. Now run along back to your Little manpshere friends.
If there’s any place lower to go to than “keyboard kommandos” criticizing Malala for cowardice, I can’t imagine it.
“What are all these girls doing in my treehouse!”
I was reminded of one of the most famous treehouses, the Augusta National Golf Club, where far more successful, better educated, and (presumably) more sophisticated men have acted like equally pissy manbabies about admitting women. Girl cooties are a marvelous thing: You can’t get them from sex but you can get them from the most incidental presence of independent women (meaning other than wives/girlfriends and servants, of course) in your treehouse.
The comment about learning about women from porn actually has a slight amount of truth, in this respect: Most mainline porn, of course, is basically male fantasies acted out. So while it TEACHES nothing about what women actually are, it CONFIRMS the male fantasy version of what women are/should be. Since most MRA types appear to be unable to learn but only want their delusions confirmed, porn serves the purpose perfectly.
I have been trying to understand the often contradictory ideas of the MRA types, and one of the thoughts I have been entertaining is that they are people who have a very rigid traditional hierarchical view of society in which the white cis/het male is at the top of the food chain, and all other people are seen as having value only to the extent that they support and care for their masters. It’s not that women aren’t people, it’s that they are people with a lesser and subservient role to play, and quite frankly, a lot of them aren’t doing the subservience thing very well. This puzzles and annoys the masters, who cannot understand why this beautiful hierarchy isn’t as obviously convincing to others as it is to them.
So on one hand, they want women to play the traditional role of chaste virgins until they become wife/mother servants to men. On the other hand, they want to get laid. Obviously reconciling these desires requires olympic-quality mental gymnastics, and unfortunately (or fortunately?) they tend end up with a cartoon-quality faceplant.
Libertarian ideas tend to reinforce the idea that these folks are intended to be the “makers”, and it’s only because the “takers” are such a drag on them that they are still stuck on a sofa eating cheetos and engaging in farting competitions with their dog.
The fundamental difference between MRAs types and the people who hang out at WHTM (it seems to me) is that we don’t believe in traditional hierarchies at all — we try to see people as individuals, and not as categories with prefabricated roles. That is a very large and totally irreconcilable disagreement. Our side seems to be winning, and the other side isn’t taking the deterioration of their position very well.
I don’t get into the feminist-misogynist debates; I focus on self-improvement solutions that Red Pill ideologies provide. I do not see a woman as an object to be had, but I now see myself as the prize that she must work for to win.
Some of the men in the Manosphere create great pieces of work, while others post nonsensical rubbish.
…. Heheh.
Hey man, if it truly makes you happy and you make the world a better place for yourself and others 🙂
Just, maybe think about the sentence structure of “i don’t but now…” 😉
@myredpillmemoirs Oh, bless your heart! A word of caution, though: I wouldn’t go holding my breath on any women lining up to fight for such a “prize.”