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.
Let’s try again.
That sounds like sleep paralysis, which is different from night terrors.
http://sleepdisorders.about.com/od/commonsleepdisorders/a/Sleep_Paralysis.htm
I started experiencing this in late adolescence, thought thankfully it’s very infrequent. It feels like you’re awake yet unable to move, while being tormented by some supernatural force. Usually it’s shadowy figures, sometimes disembodied arms, that pull or press on my body and I feel like I’m being yanked off the bed. I also hear unintelligible whispering. I toss and turn a lot, and often wake up with a yell.
Good times.
A painting by Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, is famous visual approximation of sleep paralysis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare#mediaviewer/File:John_Henry_Fuseli_-_The_Nightmare.JPG
That didn’t work. sigh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare#mediaviewer/File:John_Henry_Fuseli_-_The_Nightmare.JPG
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/John_Henry_Fuseli_-_The_Nightmare.JPG
That’s the pic I was thinking of, brooked!
Disembodies arms? Holy shit!
The imp sitting on the woman’s chest makes sense, but I’m confused by what the stoned looking horse is doing there.
It’s usually a dark figures, but I’ve once saw a glowing golden figure. The hallucinations aren’t the scary part, it’s the physical sensations that really terrorize me. Luckily, this only happens every couple of months. Always scares the shit of me though.
Maybe the imp came in to ask for help ‘cos his horse is stoned, and the woman fainted, and now he’s sitting there all “Shit, now what do I do?”
Walp. I’m not sleeping again ever. I’m already twitchy from too many video games too late at night (with sanity effects, no less, and this is Minecraft). Scary hallucinations and sleep paralysis? At 2 am? Yeah…
It’s weird. When I’m in scared mode (which is usually caused by some sort of stress and bad sleep schedule), I just get intensely paranoid, like there’s gonna be some japanese demon ghost lady standing over my bed if I open my eyes or something. My brain knows that there’s nothing there, and there will continue to be nothing there, but my heart doesn’t get the message and goes all panicky.
The best way I’ve found to combat it is to just fantasize about some really intricate conversation with the demon ghost lady, with me trying to keep her entertained or help her move on or something so the hand she has on my back doesn’t turn into claws.
When it gets bad, I fall half asleep and see disembodied hands under my covers and get that weird “I want to scream but I can’t move) thing going.
…
Yup. Never sleeping again.
I’ve been diagnosed with depression for over 20 years. I know it’s also a serious condition, but I kinda envy bi-polar people for the ‘up’ times. Or maybe not. A doctor friend says he has seen me be manic a couple of times…and I just hadn’t noticed it :/ I do remember one time I couldn’t stop laughing, because it terrified me. My b/f at the time was present, but didn’t think anything was wrong cos…laughing! But I couldn’t stop and couldn’t breathe and thought I was going to die.
My oath
and sir thinks I’ve a problem not getting enough REM sleep?
pffft
“Whatcha doin thar, Beezey?”
“Quiet, you cancerous ignoramous, or you’ll wake her.”
“Oh, sorry. *whispers* Whatcha doin thar Beezey?”
“It is Beezelbub, you moronic fleabag, and I am sitting upon this wretched human’s chest.”
“Oh. Hey Beezey? Why are you sitting on that wretched human’s chest?”
“Why? WHY? You dare ask the Lord of Nightmares why he is sat upon a human’s chest?”
“Uh huh.”
“Well… erm… because.”
“Oh.”
…
“Beezey, what’s an ignoramous?”
“*sigh* It’s what you call a bad little demon-spawn that doesn’t listen when others tell him to STAY OUTSIDE”
“Aww, but I got bored. And it’s dark, and there’s all these little glowy things in the air, and I got scared.”
“Scared? You’re a demon! A creature of the underworld! Creeper and crawler of the shadows! Death and decay follow in your wake! Darkness is your cloak and silence is your dagger! ”
“I’m pretty sure I’m a horse, Beezey.”
“A demon horse!”
“I suppose so.”
“Good. Now be a good little demon horse and wait outside.”
“Ok, Beezey.”
“Beezelbub.”
“Beelsy-bulb… Ballsy-bob… Bell-sea…”
“Don’t hurt yourself.”
“Ok, Beezey.”
“*sigh*”
kirbywarp, I am dying laughing here!
Now all we need is for Beezey and his faithful companion to run into Death, the Death of Rats, Binky and Q.
😛
That stare the demon’s got going is much less terrifying at 3am when you convince yourself it’s a stare of exasperation.
That horse’s facial expression really is a bit “whatcha doing, and do you have any snacks?”
LOL!
It does translate very well as “Bloody horse!”
Especially if you think the horse looks like the Scooby Doo of the demonic equine world.
Huh. So if Scooby Doo and gang solve mysteries, do Beezey and Bou (full name Abezethibou, but that’s a bit too complicated) create mysteries? Is it always an actual completely random monster under the mask?
Do they munch on Bou Biscuits in their time off?
(side note: hilariously, Abezethibou, according to wikipedia, is “a demon and fallen angel described in the pseudepigraph Testament of Solomon” who “followed Beelzebub upon his fall from heaven.” I was just looking for a complicated name, but I happened upon one of Beezey’s actual followers)
I know that name. I went through a Testament of Solomon phase in my younger days, but haven’t thought about wacky apocryphal demonology in long time. Heh.
Hah! speaking of depression. Still. Again. Whatever.
There was this interesting piece as well. Probably more relevant to more people even though the details aren’t sorted yet.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/04/depression-allergic-reaction-inflammation-immune-system
Linking it to the immune system makes sense of the proportions of women and men who suffer depression – more women than men, women usually have more active immune systems than men. I also think it’s worth people treating themselves (and family members) as though they had a virus or other illness when depression gets them down. I doubt that blaming your immune system is any more help than blaming your brain, but the more avenues there are for correctly attributing the feelings to biology/ physiology rather than to mental or emotional or intellectual or social inadequacies the better, I reckon.
Of course, it won’t be the one and only, whole and entire, explanation, but it will go a long way with a lot of people. (And it will be helpful if more doctors have more reason to think more carefully about good approaches to diagnosis and possible treatments.)
Man I love ch sommers
More boys in gifted programs? Bio truths and scientific fact. More girls in gifted programs? Misandry
http://www.aei.org/publication/are-there-more-girl-geniuses/
I have never, ever, ever seen a horse that looked like that.
Also, funny how she never talks about how IQ tests themselves have been found to be highly flawed, which might impact the results of her main figure…
Instead, the tests taken to get into programs must be flawed (quite possibly true) because they don’t match the IQ tests (which have been considered markedly flawed by lots of researchers).
Kind of a “How dare this flawed system not match the results of this flawed system” approach.
That said, I have no problems with trying to make the system better.
sunnysombrera:
Dammit why didn’t I listen?
In summary (though with my own take on their logic) – Evans has done the time and should be allowed a job in the limelight while showing no remorse at all for what he’s done, thus reinforcing the idea that rape is okay.
I particularly ‘liked’ the one about how by not allowing him to get a highly paid job in the public eye he would be forced back into a life of crime and – presumably – have no choice but to continue raping women. Apparently people are confused as to the nature of rehabilitation and the reasons people leaving prison are likely to reoffend.
I actually liked the one saying that of course he should be allowed to continue playing football – there are plenty of parks to play in. The suggestion of going into coaching or some other less revered role also appealed.
kittehserf:
I’m really looking forward to season 4, it’s good television.
Lith: there is so much rape apologism nonsense in the comments it’s hard to know where to start unpicking. The arguments that annoy me most are the ones that go “juries make mistakes and he says he’s innocent so I believe him”. These are the same type of guys that go “rape didn’t happen unless he’s convicted in a court of law”.
And they’re all like: “well you can’t KNOW he’ll re offend for sure, so…” Statistics say he will, idiots. Also the fact that he’ll be in the same position of power and fame that he was before makes it all the more likely.