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.
Uh, I had my first pelvic exam (manual only) just a few weeks before I turned 15. The reason was that I’d broken my pelvis by getting hit by a car some months prior to that, and the bone on the left side is permanently deformed as a result. I did not consider it rape. My mom was holding my hand, and the exam was performed by a woman doctor. And yes, it WAS medically necessary, and no, no internal organs were penetrated (the purpose was to check their position, not their contents). What an idiot this numbnuts troll is.
And yet, funnily, Numbnuts — may I call you Numbnuts? — oh what the hell, Numbnuts it is — somehow, this gallant notion of “live free or die” apparently does not apply to your hypothetical future wife. Why is that, I wonder?
The scare quotes around “doctor” are pretty hilarious. What, you think you’re a “doctor” just because you’re a “medical professional” who meets the “rigid criteria” that “limit the use of that form of address?”
Beloved discovered sleeptalkinman a few years ago. It’s hilarious, but it’s on the Internet, so more than one person has left the woman who runs it death threats.
Oh, trust me, it is. But the world already has more than enough life-creating going on already. It’s disturbing that this isn’t obvious to more people like Numbnuts.
Meanwhile, women should only wear Modest Dresses. As a sign of “respect” for the supposed authority of the Man, naturally.
My poor kitties. I did not know that I am keeping them in slavery and oppressing them or whatever – currently one is hiding under my comforter cuddled against my tummy because he is a spoiled Floridacat and as far as he is concerned, shit be cold out there son. He also does not believe in the outdoors because he and his brother could be beaten up by passing caterpillars, and the Great Indoors has blankies and free pettings and a kitty fishing poles and also copious amounts of catnip. Sometimes he gets a sudden yearning for Adventure and bolts…but he’s always back within ten minutes, with a bottlebrush tail and stark terror in his eyes. There were BUTTERFLIES.
I also have to look at the “pelvic exams are rape” claim and just…it’s a big complicated troll, right? Nobody’s that stupid, right?
…right?
“Already…already”. Brought to you by the Department of Redunancy Department Dept.
Why is this dude so rebellious? He baulks at being told what to do purely because he’s being told what to do. He doesn’t listen to the reasoning behind instructions at all.
Still, he’s not as bad as a Freeman of the Land type. As far as I know he hasn’t complained about restrictions on committing crime.
Speaking of Matthew’s blog, I can’t believe nobody has yet mentioned how he is “oppressed” by the “tyranny” of websites that don’t render properly at 1024×768. While eyestrain is a genuine occupational hazard for IT workers, you’d think somebody who claims to be a software developer would realize (1) monitors come in different sizes, and a bigger one may serve him better; (2) most operating systems allow users to change default fonts and sizes; and (3) most modern browsers can dynamically resize text and other content for easier reading.
But nope, all that’s too much trouble. The whole world must go back to 1997’s web design because Matthew is tyrannized by any site that takes advantage of modern display standards.
Dracarys was a stray before I adopted her. She came to me scrawny, anxious and so desperate to eat as much as she can get her paws on that when I came home from grocery shopping I couldn’t turn my back for 10 seconds to take my coat off because she would jump on the counter and steal the groceries, chewing through grocery bags and food packaging.
Now, two years later she’s happy and well fed. She’s still greedy about food but not as bad. One time she darted out into the apartment hallway. She immediately panicked and dashed right back in. She had her chance at being “free” and she’d rather live with me where there are warm and safe places to sleep and guaranteed twice daily meals. You can’t make a cat stay with you if they don’t want you.
My cat wouldn’t last ten minutes in the outdoors. He’s way too trusting and gullible, and what would he eat? Mice? Gross.
But I do enjoy hearing him sing “We Shall Overcome”.
The suit thing is so self-defeating. I work in software, and we wouldn’t look twice at a candidate who showed up to an interview in jeans and a T-shirt. Right off the bat, it says “This job isn’t important enough to me to make an effort on my appearance.” He seems to be under the impression that the company should be supplicating him, rather than the other way around.
Software companies want someone who listens, understands customer and business needs, and meshes well with the team, not a maverick who’s only going to follow directions if he feels like it. People like that tend to write sloppy code that’s difficult to maintain. They refuse to follow standards, they won’t work on fixes that don’t interest them personally, and they’re hostile to the QAs. It’s very disruptive to have someone like that on your team.
I suspect he’d be the same way in a relationship, too. A lot of these guys seem to have an attitude of “You can’t tell me what to do! You’re not my mom!” It’s like they’re permanently 15.
@Pocket Nerd: So basically he’s sore that the world doesn’t mold itself around him? How radically interesting. Tell me more, because I’m having trouble sleeping.
Apparently I was fairly generous to Matthew, I just read it as poorly written and with a far milder possibly even vaguely positive interpretation. Having read some of what you guys have found on his site I’m gonna reevaluate.
Upset that the world doesn’t mold itself around him, and unable to understand that his experiences, his likes and dislikes are not universal. Basically this is a person who can’t see past his own nose. I’m shocked, shocked, that this young man is not a feminist!
Awww: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/general-news/deal-done-for-ched-evans-to-join-oldham-1-7038021
They’ve gone and signed him.
On a positive note one sponsor has pulled out:
“We would like to take this opportunity to make clear that we feel that Mr Evans should be able to lead a life without further punishment after serving his sentence, although our feelings remain the same that this should not be within the public domain where his previous behaviour may influence the next generation.
We sincerely wish the club a very successful future and have no regrets about being associated with Oldham Athletic over the past few seasons, but feel our continued support would be sending out the wrong message.”
and at least a couple of other large sponsors have stated that they will withdraw support if he is signed.
My parents have semi-tame barn cats who control pests, and (sad news ahead, sorry) a few kitties in a row were snatched up by the neighbor’s dog and never heard from again. But I’m sure they were very spiritually developed during that time.
Wow. TIL that I am a serial rapist, and have also participated in countless rapes of other women, and have also been raped many more times than I thought. Also, I cheated on Mr.Grump during all of my pregnancies and both of my full-term deliveries. I did not think that I was up for sexy times when I was on the L&D table, puking and shitting and enjoying the miracle of child-birth, but there you go! But then, I’m just a “nurse”, so what do I know? Obviously, I iz brane warshed!
Oh, and I have thought I was a midnight genius many times. I once thought there should be a show based on the song Closing Time.
@Viscaria
Heh. Matthew’s a veritable “master” of the “scare quotes”, it’s his anti-authoritarian way of sarcastically sticking it to the man.
Honestly, he sounds mad that ob/gyns are allowed to “grope” women all day long, and that women allow, even encourage it. Obviously it must be because women are illiterate, unenlightened dupes who’ve bought into the Big Lie.
As we all know, ladybits aren’t like other parts of the body, so they don’t need their own (giant finger-quote) “doctor”. They’re entirely self-healing and made of gossamer strands of creme brulee spun from cumulus clouds by blindfolded angels. Nobody should be looking at ladybits, or thinking about them, or talking about them, except during the approved baby manufacturing window.
If he ever has kids, he’ll almost certainly be an anti-vaxxer.
Lith: oh fucking hell. I’m going to go down to Ladbrokes and make a bet that Evans will re offend in six months.
This man raped a woman and got off practically scot free. He’s learned that even if he is caught the worst that will happen to him is he’ll serve half of a light sentence (so no, he did not “do his time”) and then skyrocket back to where he was before.
And it’s all very well that sponsors have pulled out, and it shows that not everyone approves of Evans, but the lack of sponsorship will affect the club, not specifically the man. The club didn’t rape her, Ched did. The only shining light would be if they took their financial losses out of his pay packet.
I said I succeeded in not punching anything while reading the Guardian comments but this time I am close. >:(
Oh, I forgot to mention: The woman doctor who did my first pelvic…was a MUSLIM woman doctor. Misandry!
And I also neglected to mention that my kitty adopted me, and craves my company all the time. If she knew about this whole “live free or die a spiritual death” shit, she’d be laughing. Assuming kitties CAN laugh, that is.
Matthew does know about prostate exams, right? And catheters? Medicine requires all sorts of lovely things to be inserted into every orifice imaginable.
And wow at the outrage at wearing a suit. I feel like I know types like his… interpreting literally every interaction as a power struggle, constantly paranoid about people laughing at him behind his back. Thing is that even if you generally don’t wear suits in software development, you certainly do when interacting with customers and other companies. The suit gives a preview of how well you can clean up and interact with strangers.
True, but the club decided that didn’t matter and deserves to face some consequences for that. I’m not going to cry any tears when the people handing out money decide that rape apologists shouldn’t get any more.