Oh dear. Fantasy author and garbage person Vox Day is having one of those (vox) days, and has decided to take it out on, you guessed it, feminism, pounding out an overwrought little rant on his Alpha Game blog.
Never give feminists an inch. Don’t agree with them, don’t tolerate them, show them no mercy whatsoever. Feminism is a Satanic, anti-Christian, anti-reason, anti-science ideology that destroys literally everything it touches and everyone who embraces it.
Wow. He’s so mad he’s practically plagiarizing Pat Robertson’s famous quote about feminism being “a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.” I’m not sure how Vox managed to forget the lesbian witchcraft angle.
Reject it and its adherents the way you would reject someone offering you plutonium on their bare hands; to accept it is to begin to die a slow and painful death.
Might I offer you some notes, Vox? This bit seems a little understated. I mean, the plutonium thing is pretty good, but a person handing you plutonium isn’t anywhere near as scary as having, say, a bear do it. Or a shark. Or a bear-shark. Or a bear-sharknado.
The problem isn’t merely that feminists are ugly and hateful, or that their ideology is incoherent and deluded, but that by mere toleration of them, through mere intellectual contact with it, you are permitting your life to be infected and degraded.
Clearly Vox, a dude who clings to memories of his D-list celebrity as a former member of an angsty dance band two decades ago, and who devotes much of his life to pounding out hateful and unintentionally self-parodic rants on the internet, offers us the very model of a healthy and happy life well-lived.
Reject all of it. Reject their appeals to equality. Reject their pretense to intellectual standing. And most of all, personally reject all of those who subscribe to it in any way, shape, or form. Any man who calls himself a feminist is ideologically transgender and mentally unstable.
Ideologically transgender? Wow. He’s come up with an even more obnoxious way to call someone a “mangina.”
Vox, you’re so cute when you’re angry!
And by cute I mean a you’re a pathetic, hateful, disgusting excuse for a human being.
His argument seems pretty sound: he wants people to just reject feminism out-of-hand, without bothering to listen to it or consider what it has to say, because otherwise, if people do pay attention to what feminism actually is, they might *gasp* become feminists themselves. The only way to absolutely ensure that people don’t use their minds is to inure them to all attempts at reason, and that’s what would make Vox happiest.
Okay, okay, he got me: as a feminist, it is in fact totally my goal to infect everyone with feminism. Damn him and his tricksy trickses for revealing my true intentions! *shakes fist*
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Meh. Patwa said it better:
http://i1.cpcache.com/product_zoom/59138437/pat_robertson_quote_feminism_encourages_women_bl.jpg
Of course, he’s also anti-science and anti-reason.
Well I messed up the brackets but my reaction face still stands.
Grrrr, link borked:
http://poietes.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/pat-robertson-on-feminism.jpg
Whee, Voxie said something stupid again. Can we even what he is saying? No, no we cannot.
I believe that if you showed this to Pat Robertson, he would vigorously disavow any affiliation with Mr. Beale. Not that Robertson isn’t vile himself, of course.
One of the sites I frequent has occasional updates on Robertson – he hasn’t gotten any closer to consensus reality since that statement. He does seem to have gotten farther from relevance, though. Thank the FSM for that.
He’s so irrelevant that I honestly thought he’d died a couple of years back. Whoops. =P
What in the hell kind of filter was that pic of Pat Robertson put through? It’s deep in the uncanny valley.
PoM – no, that’s what he looks like WITHOUT a filter. Not one of Herbert West’s successes.
Vox sounds pretty desperate there, like he’s terrified that feminism might sound reasonable to people who aren’t total assholes and needs to nip that in the bud.
So, basically; “Don’t talk to them, they have COOTIES!!!”
I don’t think Vox would recognize reason and science if it clubbed him over the noggin’!
Yup, that’s unfiltered Patwa…he comes across all grainy in real life, too. On him, an inch-thick layer of pancake is needed to make him look halfway natural.
Isidore13: Well, to be absolutely fair ,we weren’t doing very good at keeping that whole thing a secret, so people like that were bound to catch on to us at some point. However, I vow to be much better at not caring if they know about that whole “feminine agenda” thing in the future.
Antiexist: Your message really could’ve been a lot more effective, if you had followed that up with a “nope-topus” gif. C’mon now! Style is everything.????
“Reject their appeals to equality.”
Kinda says it all.
He’s a comic book villain without the cool toys and the gumption to try to take over the universe.
I was curious about his band, so I looked it up. I’d never heard of this Psychotronik, apparently an early 90s techno band. Hmm, I like techno. There are some videos on Youtube. I listened to part of two… and it’s the sort of stuff I’d use at the club as an opportunity to refresh my drink or go to the bathroom. Not memorable.
And then there is his writing which is… competent, in that sentences are more or less grammatically correct, but his plots and characters and settings are all both derivative and again, unmemorable.
So basically what we have in Mr. Beale is an also-ran, someone who has always gotten no further than honorable mention, who probably made average grades, and had an average upbringing, and is destined to never rise above an average capability. But somehow he has the idea that he deserves more, and is entitled to more, and this enrages him. In an earlier age he’d have joined the military and brown-nosed his way to sergeant, and made recruits miserable in boot camp, and ended by somehow getting “accidentally” shot while on maneuvers, or if he made it out of the military alive, be the sort of unmarried “that neighbor” who freaks out if the neighborhood kids walk too close to his hedge, and who died alone in front of his television, his half-eaten (by his dog) corpse being found when the smell finally got too strong.
The tagline on his blog is:
“I don’t expect you to agree. I don’t even expect you to understand.”
So he got one thing right, anyway.
vox, along with that ‘colon nolan’ creature, should be on an otherwise uninhabited island.
“should be put on”
(left out the “put”)
I find it it interesting that he claims feminists are anti-reason but in the same breath encourages everyone to not even intellectually engage with them and reject them just because they’re feminists. Sounds pretty reasonable to me.
Wait… but… someone offering you plutonium with their bare hands is no more dangerous, for you, than offering it to you in any other way. You don’t have to pick it up in your bare hands just because that’s how they’re proferring it.
Treat feminism the same way you would treat a gigantic, eight-legged kaiju robobear that hands out plutonium ink-spitting eldritch sharknadoes, each of which spawns fire-breathing undead gorgon frankenwasps that can summon three-headed venomous satanic weredinosaurs that campaign for womens’ rights.
Volt, I would worship that as my god.