So I was idly perusing Janet “JudgyBitch” Bloomfield’s Twitter yesterday, and I came across an alarming tweet. It seemed as though Bloomfield had somehow penetrated the 47 levels of security protecting the Feminist HIgh Council to discover incontrovertible evidence of Operation Wicked Succubus. You know, the feminist plan to eliminate all men (except for me).
https://twitter.com/BloomfieldJanet/status/523458962704699393
Her followers were aghast:
And naturally one of them brought up #GamerGate.
There were a few others, but you get the idea.
It never occurred to any of them to, you know, try to find out just who the bald man advocating killing all men was. Or who exactly he was talking to.
So I decided to do some serious investigative journalism to see what I could uncover. I typed out “‘eliminate men as a gender’ security” into a little known internet “search engine” called Google, and boldly clicked on the first result.
This led me to a Tweet with a URL in it. Bravely, I clicked on that URL and found myself looking at a video of a presentation at something called Monitorama PDX 2014 — clearly the code name for one of the Feminist Conspiracy’s conventions.
I looked it up in Google and discovered a web page for the event, which had been held in May. It was described as an “An Open Source Monitoring Conference & Hackathon.”
Ah, clearly a clever Feminist code name.
And then I decided to look up the name of the speaker: James Mickens. Turns out the guy works at Microsoft, one of the companies at the center of the Misandrist Conspiracy. Mickens is also the author of a number of papers, with titles like “Pivot: Fast, Synchronous Mashup Isolation Using Generator Chains” and “Mugshot: Deterministic Capture and Replay for JavaScript Applications.”
Obviously, some high level feminist theorizing.
Then I decided to watch the video. And I was shocked!
Because it wasn’t a speech about killing all men after all. It wasn’t even a feminist speech. No, it seemed instead to be a highly technical talk about internet security issues, illustrated with a lot of silly slides. Like this:
And this:
I must confess that I didn’t get the overwhelming majority of his jokes. But he audience seemed to find these slides, and much of what he said, hilarious. So if you ever need to hire a comedian who can joke about Synchronous Mashup Isolation Using Generator Chains, Mickens is your guy.
So where does the whole “kill all men” thing come from?
Well, I skipped ahead a bit in the video until I found a section in which Mickens talked about the dumb things people do that can undermine even the most sophisticated security setup.
His example: gullible, horny men who are tricked into “friending” hackers on Facebook posing as hot babes — even when there are pretty obvious indications that the hot babes aren’t really hot babes at all.
Things like: saying they graduated from Central University, even though there is no school by that name in the US, or spelling the name of their profession wrong.
These are all good clues, he said, that the hot babe you just friended on facebook was really this guy:
Given that men are regularly duped with simple tricks that play on their horniness and gullibility, Mickens joked, maybe the real goal for people trying to design secure systems should be the elimination of all men.
So that’s where the slide comes from.
And by the way, that whole bit of his killed — not as in “killed all men” but as in “got giant laughs from the mostly male audience.” Expecially the part about killing all men.
If you want to see the whole bit, starting with Mary and ending with “eliminate men as a gender,” it starts at around 20:40 in the video.
Men’s Rights Activists: more gullible than guys who friend Mary from Central University on Facebook.
NOTE TO EXTREMELY LITERAL-MINDED MRAS: That bit about the feminist plot to kill all men (except me) at the start of this post was a joke. Feminists don’t really intend to kill all men (except me).
Or do they?
The funniest thing about the various MRA post-apocalyptic revenge fantasies, for me, is that they’re basically admitting that the MRM is an affirmative action plan for men who won’t be able to get laid unless women have literally no other options than a. agree to fuck this guy in exchange for food and shelter and b. starve to death on the street. It’s an admission of the fact that they know that if women have any other choices at all, no matter how shitty those choices might be, we won’t choose them.
https://www.tumblr.com/search/with%20the%20sound%20of%20men%20screaming#
I told you! We need to make up our own language! Our secret plan: Operation Kill All Men is no longer secret! Guys, what are we going to do!?
CassandraKitty
I looked up battle raper and dang. What is WRONG with our world!? The mras think that they’re objectified too. Not to mention that they’re bodies are symbolized as power and not sexualized and made by other men.
@cassandrakitty:
… What, are feminists earth-benders now?
It would look like those hundreds of years where women were sold into marriage to the highest bidder and were then used as broodmares to produce sons. And it was totally the woman’s fault if she didn’t have boys (regardless of the fact that it is biologically impossible for a woman to produce anything but female offspring). Yeah, we’ve done that. It sucked. Let’s move on please.
Also, Bina made a good point about not being born in chains. Slavery is no one’s natural condition. We’re PEOPLE!
Oh god, I’m so sad that I know all of the terms and references in this discussion… T.T
Shut up Chockanga.
Those MRAs obviously have some kind of personality disorder. They’re pretty pathetic, although their fantasies are very disturbing.
But the many personality flaws of the MRAs-MGTOW-whatever the hell they call each other now don’t give Futrelle the right to “imply” that Thunderfoot (which isn’t even a MRA), petty as he is sometimes, is somehow a moral accomplice to a death threat.
Especially since Futrelle’s “smoking gun” is the use of the word “poison”. A word which many other people, including some of the people here, use in similar contexts.
And just in case some of you may have a black and white view of reality: no, I’m not a thunderfoot fan. I think that while he has many good points on Anita Sarkeesian and her lies and “creative editing”, he’s petty, obsessed by how she looks and dresses, and rather immature at times.
But at least he doesn’t try to smear people by putting them in the company of domestic terrorists just because he doesn’t like them, he doesn’t dox people who make fun of him, and he doesn’t claim to have the moral high ground without evidence just because he has followers who don’t question anything he says.
Futrelle, Myers and Sarkeesian do all these things and more. And yet not a single voice here dares to call them out when they cross a line.
I understand that it’s hard to criticize people hat you think are fighting the good fight. But objectivity and moral standards are the same for everyone. And you don’t get a free pass at making sleazy accusations just because you’re a feminist.
“Shut up Chockanga.”
Such a witty, clever reply. I’m amazed by your rhetorical skills.
Concern trolling is the most boring kind of trolling. Put some effort into it.
I’m not concerned about your reputation. I’m not part of your group. I’m simply pointing out Futrelle’s unethical behavior. His McCarthyists methods are unacceptable. If you don’t see anything wrong with what he’s done, that’s your problem, not mine.
Aw bless. Astonishing as it might sound, your spiel does not actually entitle you to witty, clever replies and I’m under no obligation to provide you with them.
Shut up Chockanga.
Shut up Chockanga.
“Aw bless. Astonishing as it might sound, your spiel does not actually entitle you to witty, clever replies and I’m under no obligation to provide you with them.”
Of course not. That would take some effort on your part. But if you don’t have anything better to say than “shut up”, I’ll have to assume that you have no good arguments to defend the unethical, sleazy behavior of David Futrelle, PZ Myers and Anita Sarkeesian.
When SJWs don’t have any good argument to defend their leaders’ unethical actions, they just tell you to shut up. And yet they claim to be intellectually and ethically superior to the MRAs.
I love trolls who just come in and STATE things, as though they’re true. Like, if you’re going to just do that you may as well be trying to just STATE other things as being true, like the sky is green, or grass is purple, or people never die. Did you know all these things are true? It’s true. Because I said it was. What? Defend my statements? NO U!
Are you this dull naturally or did it require special training?
You know, just saying “X did Y thing and that was unethical” doesn’t necessarily make it true.
@cassandra, It’s babytroll’s first mission, evident just by the language they use, they need to build up to being subtle, entertaining, and not completely obvious.
Chockanga, I used thuderf00t’s video as one example of a common MRA/manosphere antifeminist trope (“feminist poison”) that also appeared in the email threatening Sarkeesian. That’s all. I didn’t say that his use of the trope meant that he was responsible for the threat.
I will say here, however, that I think his numerous videos attacking feminists in general and Sarkeesian in particular have helped to create the atmosphere iin which these sorts of threats flourish. His videos are inflammatory; they contain violent language directed at her (“Anita Sarkeesian DESTROYED”). There is no question that they have contributed to the harassment against her.
Fuck off, Chockanga.
“What? Defend my statements? NO U!”
Do you need some context? David Futrelle’s post about thunderfoot is on this blog.
You can read about PZ Myers’ doxxing of a woman who made a joke about him here: http://skeptischism.com/consskep/2014/10/10/collateral-damage/
As for Sarkeesian, I guess you should watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuRSaLZidWI
“Are you this dull naturally or did it require special training?”
Do you always make pointless comments when your side is caught doing something wrong or is this a special occasion?
Weaksauce trolling, 2/10.
@chockanga,
Nope. Hard as it may be for your feelz to handle, you’re just too dull to engage.
And that’s Social Justice Geisha to you.
Makes a no u joke, follows it with a no u statement. Is a joke.
When your side is pro death threats to silence women d00d, you don’t have a side. You have a serious problem.