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.
Absolutely. Somehow or other mrmagnificent managed to miss out on chickenpox as a kid. Caught it from ours when he was in his forties. Miserable, delirious with the fever during the worst 2 nights. I nearly killed both of us by getting him into a tepid bath and then, when he started shivering and babbling incoherently, almost fell on top of him trying to lift his wet, slippery, floppy, uncooperative body out of it. By the time I’d sorted us both out and decided I’d ring an ambulance, he’d drifted off to quite contented sleep and his temperature was back to near normal. So I didn’t do that.
His previously fine, near translucent skin was horribly scarred in places afterwards. It’s an awful disease for adults. And so is the shingles you can get once that form of herpes is established in your system. It might never flare up, it might take 20 or 40 years. But it’s misery beyond compare for those I’ve known to have it.
Inoculation parties really never made good sense. The sensible thing was always to do everything in your power to prevent a kid from getting it because of the suffering chickenpox causes (I’m talking about infants with blisters down their throats and in their vaginas screaming in discomfort for days without sleep) and the less common but very real complications of the disease like AIS and shingles and death. The problem’s always been our lifestyle rarely enables us to prevent transmission of the stupid disease and the possibility it could be more severe in older people. The only reason pox parties ever made any kind of sense is our fear it would kill people if they got it in their teens. The truth is, by encouraging every one of our kids to contract the disease, a bigger number of them did suffer and die than would have if we’d taken it seriously and discouraged transmission. Fewer people having the disease would have saved more lives than ensuring all of them got it young ever did. It’s sometimes more severe when you’re older but you’re also better equip to fight the disease and if we’d focused on keeping the number of people with the disease low, even with it’s potential increased severity with age, fewer people would have died.
I don’t blame my mom or anyone’s parents because the world we live in did not and does not accommodate what was required to prevent transmission of varicella in children. She couldn’t control other people sending their kids who have that single early blister with goo full of virus dripping out of it to school nor could the teacher stop them from scratching it and then touching everything. Without putting us in a bubble to protect us from the people who weren’t doing their part to prevent transmission it just wasn’t possible. It was a losing battle so our parents accepted we would get it and hoped it wouldn’t be bad.
Now we all can so, obviously, unless your kid is immune-compromised in which case the rest of the herd is responsible for their immunity, vaccinate.
PoM – same here with infrequency of dentist visits. I went for decades without visiting one, and when I did, the dude said my teeth were “disgustingly healthy”! Yeah, not missing out on the brushing, and fluoridated water, are what I reckon do the trick. Probably helps that I’ve never been into really sticky sweets. Hell, I’ve still got one of my baby teeth!
lith –
YES, THIS! He can STFU about that, because *I* have evidence *for me* of my beliefs, and unlike him I’m not demanding other people share them, or insisting they’re delusional.
For someone who was involved in that bus banner campaign with the “now go an enjoy life” punchline, he’s not exactly an example of acceptance or happiness.
Plus, given his evidence-free bigotry about, oh, women and Muslims, for instance, he should really just STFU as a general principle.
/rant control fail
Lea – this is about Dawkins being a prime example of an Asshole Atheist (TM), not an atheist.
Speaking of antivaxxers, Sheri Tenpenny is booked to speak in Australia this year, and there’s a petition going around to keep her out of the country. Please sign!
http://www.theparenthood.org.au/campaign/stoptenpenny/
Chickenpox and stupidity: some unspeakable moron once brought their kid to the Museum when said kid had open chickenpox sores.
Yes, they were escorted out.
I feel like when I was a kid we were too polite and complacent to do that. Dirty little disease rat kids were something smart parents just quietly discouraged us from playing too closely with which of course didn’t prevent us from coming in contact with something the virus had recently been stuck to from the child but there was so little our parents could do They’d just sort of given up and accepted we would be experiencing
I’m entirely in favour of, when it becomes possible, determining from whom one person’s infection was contracted and charging that person or their parents as criminals for causing harm and suffering or killing a newborn baby of chemo patient or someone’s ninety-three-year-old granny unless they had a very good reason not to be vaccinated.
Apropos of nothing, but gorgeous pic!
Loïs Mailou Jones painting in her Paris studio in 1937 or 1938, with kitten supervising from her shoulder
http://40.media.tumblr.com/f3f24c9a2f968217e4672cb6f02255bd/tumblr_n8i1rvseZB1qzks1vo1_500.jpg
Every artist should have a moral support kitten.
I recently saw reference to a paper that found a link between maternal exposure to pollution in the 3rd trimester and autism. I saw it on kottke.org and the write-up concluded with:
Yes. Yes, that would indeed be helpful.
Truth.
::looks sidelong at zzzzzzzing cats in chairs::
Ugh. Nthing the anger at antivaxxers. Herd immunity is for the folks who are too sick or too young or allergic to an ingredient, not for some healthy person with paranoid delusions.
The kitty pic is awesome
We have people here who’re catless and wish they had a kitty to play with, right? Well, here’s a way to use remote controlled toys to entertain shelter cats via the internet.
http://www.ipetcompanion.com/oregon-humane-society
A much better use of the net than pestering women about their hair, imo.
My internet has the slows atm, but I saw enough to see what a gorgeous idea that is!
Kitty was ignoring me though, will try again later.
True-life interaction with kitties! 😀
Next time Nathan shows up we should remember to give him this, so he can get that genuine living with a cat experience.
I could just pack up a box of cat fur and vomit, and send it to him. 🙂
I could send him Fribbie’s “I shall wipe my butt on this” box.
@Robert:
That sounds very much like swimming in my dream lake; you can swim like you’re flying through water, or do dolphin-like leaps. Much fun!
gilshalos:
Yay. Hooray for sloppy reporting, eh? Wait, that just caused unnecessary sadness, they can’t get credit for the relief that they were wrong.
Lea:
I’m sorry if it sounded like I was dissing your (or anyone else’s) beliefs – ironically I was actually dissing his forcing his beliefs on others. Bad enough on its own but he’s then hypocritical and says it’s wrong for religious types to force their beliefs on others when really it’s just the same.
You see, my personal belief is that it’s impossible to prove either theist or atheist camps to be correct. For all I know the universe was created in its entirety yesterday and my memories are all fake, I have absolutely no way to prove otherwise. I suspect that the universe probably was created by the big bang, I’m just very open-minded and aware that this universe almost certainly isn’t the entirety of everything, and doesn’t seem to be self-explaining.
It’s even possible that time really is an illusion and there is just this one moment – a snapshot – and my impression of time passing is like… maybe adding 3D to a 2D film, just an impression of depth, of time going by.
kittehserf:
I really like that photo, it’s got a lovely quality to the light. I’m almost tempted to put it up in the house somewhere but I don’t know where it would fit. Hm.
lith – maybe crop the lower part? Or do a small photo print of it?
Ah yes, I’ve squared it off and it would probably be good just printed small, thanks for the suggestion.
In my view, you cannot prove whether or not there exists an entity that corresponds in some fashion to conventional ideas of god — and if it does exist, it may well be of a nature that we cannot comprehend due to the limitations of the human brain. In that context, existing human religions can (IMO) best be seen as human attempts to explain existence in spite of the fact that the most essential piece of information is not available. Dawkins’s argument seems to be that because all existing religious beliefs are probably untrue and many are rather clumsy and obviously inadequate attempts to deal with the problem, therefore it is foolish to believe in the possibility of a supreme being or force. The desire to believe in a supreme being and life after death are obviously major forces in religion, but the fact that people want something to be true is not proof that it is false — though it is certainly grounds for suspicion.
Dawkins’s argument seems to follow the logic of saying that because Vulcans, Klingons and Ferengi most likely don’t exist, therefore we can assert that no intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe. Science is concerned with questions that can be answered by observation and experimentation, leaving questions that cannot be so answered to speculation. It is not science to argue that lack of proof that something exists constitutes irrefutable proof that it does not exist. Dawkins is a polemicist in scientists’s clothing.
@lith – thing is, atheism is just a rejection of a claim. There literally isn’t anything to be proven or demonstrated, it’s simply lack of belief in god claims. Though some people are really freakin’ zealous & obnoxious about it!