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.
These guys think they’re God’s Gift. And that by rejecting us before we can judge them and find them wanting, they’re depriving us of…something.
I’ve never liked those “this is what a feminist looks like” shirts, but I might be willing to wear one if it would mean that dudes like Vox would never try to talk to me again.
@Volt:
I am at a total loss as to how to even begin to calculate the Encounter Level for such an encounter. I don’t think I’ve ever handled monsters that summon other monsters, which in turn also summon monsters. Summoned monsters don’t count for EL, but they’re also not supposed to be able to summon anything themselves, so where do I draw the line? Who gets counted?
However I do it, a fight like that is probably going to take at least three sessions, given multiple attacks from almost everyone involved, and players who can never remember all their buffs, or how to use their feats even though they use them all the time.
Bina
It’s like wading through OKCupid.
You tell a guy you’re not interested (most likely because he didn’t read your profile, or skimmed it and ignored most of it because it wasn’t about him) and he gets pissy and either says he wasn’t interested in the first place or makes it out like he’s some sort of prize for not respecting your desires and boundaries and he’s so “nice” and you should just “give him a chance. ;)” (Disturbingly creepy winky face added for effect)
I cannot tell you how many messages I’ve seen from various people’s screencaps that literally have a guy trying to explain to a woman what she wants and somehow, it’s always HIM.
I think my favorite was the guy who rattled off a laundry list of what he wanted in a girl (Had to be tan, had to look good in a bikini, had to like this activity, had to like that thing, ect) and then asked “Is this you?” like he was looking for a missing person.
The response was “You’re not buying a car, this isn’t Build-A-Bitch Workshop. What you see is what you get.”
@ParadoxicalIntent:
The worst case of the socialist boogeyman I ever saw in person was this boy in high school when I was a sub fresh out of college. A couple months after 9/11, he asked me if the Commies ever had anything to do with Afghanistan. I said Soviet Russia tried to conquer them in the 80s, but we provided weapons to resistance fighters, including one Osama bin Laden fellow, and he cried “I KNEW IT!!” like he’d just discovered ironclad proof that the Jewish Illuminati Rosicrucian Masons were controlling the Girl Scouts cookie factories. Apparently he decided that “tried to conquer almost twenty years ago” meant “bin Laden is a filthy Commie.”
@griffon8: 1 Timothy 2:11-12 is one of the verses I sometimes see people try to excise from the Letters by claiming Paul didn’t write it. Maybe he didn’t, but it’s in there anyway, so what difference does that make?
@PI:
… How do you get Dr. Pepper out of a keyboard?
Whenever I see VD’s latest droppings mentioned, I think “remember, this is the guy who thought it was a great idea to be photographed holding a flaming sword”, and that cheers me up.
Wait, what’s protecting Captain Plutonian alive? Does he have a really, really good Stand?
Oh, but of course! These guys are all graduates of the PUA School of Selling Your Dominant Ass to Women! They’ll buy you whether they want to or not, because you are What They Really Really Want!
Srsly, though: Failure to read and comprehend a very basic thing like a profile on a social network is a major dealbreaker. Dude who can’t understand basic English = automatic dealbreaker. No matter how confident he is that he is the One that every woman on Earth is looking for, if he’s that dense, he’s doomed.
If someone offers you plutonium on their bare hands, it means they’ve got some pretty awesome superpowers.
Embrace the person offering you plutonium with their bare hands, because they’re probably Superman or a relative of his, and if they like you maybe they’ll take you flying.
Did he just reject me? *high fives* Woohoo!
OMG Snood! Wash your hands first or you’ll get plutonium everywhere!
Bina, I don’t think it’s about reading comprehension or denseness. I think they just don’t care what women say. Many don’t even bother to read the profiles before messaging.
A lot of job-hunting advice will tell you that if you don’t meet all the stated requirements for a job listing, you should apply anyway. Men seem to have a similar philosophy regarding dating profiles, which says a lot about how they apparently view dating, and also requires ignoring the vast differences between the two situations.
Beyond that, there’s literally a rule that says “Don’t have sex with someone unless they consent”, which I highly approve of.
So the Church of Satan says that all sex should be consensual, while hardcore evangelical Christians believe that a women cannot refuse to consent once you’ve married her.
What world am I living in? Is Leonard Nimoy running around with a goatee?
They must have got it from the plutonium. Cartoons and comic books say that’s where superpowers come from. I want superpowers too!
And that’s also how so many people wind up in crappy jobs that they’re no good at and unsuited for, and desperate to quit except that they need the money, so they have to stealth-jobhunt on the crappy job that they hate and can’t wait to quit. Crapitalism!
OT: 8chan, the toilet of Gamergate, is desperate to be flushed. We can do that, pls?
@BritterSweet
Aw, LBT left? She was one of my favorite commenters. Well, I hope she’s doing alright.
Bina,
I read about that too. Just more proof that if you’re a woman, siding with misogynists won’t keep you safe. They turned on her hard.
So over in Britain, a pro footballer who raped a woman and was convicted is looking at being returned to his former position, possibly after serving only half his sentence.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/05/football-club-ched-evans-apologise-rehabilitation?CMP=fb_ot
DO NOT READ THE COMMENTS. I REPEAT. DO NOT READ THE COMMENTS.
@falconer: Some people will believe anything that fits their worldview, I guess. No matter how tenuous the connection.
Also: https://www.google.com/search?q=waterproof+keyboard&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
That might help. (I will so use this if I ever grow the courage to wade through OKC out of a desire to connect with other people.)
@Jay Elmore: *shrug?*
Lucifer DID give Adam and Eve critical thinking.
@WWTH: I read the article Bina linked, and I have to say, while I do feel sorry for her that she was attacked, and I’m glad she’s no longer on the side of GamerGate, part of me wishes she didn’t turn away from it simply because Goobers attacked transgender people.
Like, the rape threats/murder threats/harassment/doxxing of other women wasn’t enough for you to turn around and go “This is fucked up and I’m on the wrong side”?
@ParadoxicalIntention
That was kind of my reaction, too. Very mixed feelings there.
A new thought on handing out plutonium with bare hands – zombie apocalypse? Those sneaky zombies, always trying to catch you out!
NintenEthan,
To my knowledge, LBT does not identify as female.