The Washington Post recently ran a piece by Michele Goldberg about feminist women who’ve basically been run off the internet by rape threats and death threats and endless harassment.
Reactionary fantasy author and racist shithead Vox Day (a.k.a Theadore Beale) couldn’t be more pleased. After posting several quotes from the WaPo article on his Vox Popoli blog, he did a little victory lap:
#GamerGate has them on the run. They can’t take the heat. What they call “harassment” and “abuse” is seldom anything more than free speech answering free speech.
Uh, not so much. No matter how far you stretch and mangle the definition of “Free Speech,” bomb threats and death threats and SWATting isn’t free speech.
But in Vox Day’s mind, apparently, it’s all good, because the barbarians are at the gate.
Open up your hate and let it pour over them.
Yep. He really did write that.
NOTE TO IDEOLOGUES: When you find yourself excitedly rhapsodizing about the power of hatred, there’s a pretty good chance that you’re the baddies.
Don’t think for even one nanosecond that they don’t deserve it every bit of the criticism, of the contempt, of the disdainful dismissal that overwhelms them. They are trying to destroy Western civilization. They are trying to destroy marriage and civil society. They are advocates of child murder. They are advocates of a philosophy that makes National Socialism look merciful and Communism practical and Fascism coherent by comparison. Do not hold back. Speak back twice as hard. Speak back until they fall silent.
I think poor Vox is spending too much of his time reading and writing terrible fantasy novels. He may think he’s rallying the troops like Churchill or, I dunno, Hitler, but all I can think of is this guy.
Oh, but he’s not done:
Women are particularly susceptible to shame. So shame them relentlessly. Shame those who agree with them. Mock their white knights who rush in to save them. Above all, dignify their views and voices with all the respect you would show to a particularly noxious fart in an elevator.
I think Vox has inadvertently given us a perfect description of himself.
Actually, I take that back. He’s more like a shart, a shitstain on humanity.
@Falconer *Ba dum tsssh* Nice job, lol.
Christ on a stick, I am sick of hearing about that “male tears” thing. They hold that up against daily torrents of death and rape threats, doxxing, and all manner of real viciousness as if ONE joke at their hypersensitive expense is anywhere near as bad. Who are the delicate flowers again? Not following this narrative they’ve laid out.
I re-read the week of Twitter abuse Sarkeesian posted, and a common theme (besides inciting her to kill herself or bragging about how they would rape her…y’know, the classy stuff that proves the gamer culture is totally not as toxic as she claims it to be) was “The gaming community doesn’t need to change, we get/give death and rape threats all the time!” Yeah, totally nothing can stand to change there.
@sunnysombrera I could just be overly cautious. Wouldn’t be the first time.
Oh my glob, I spend a light internet day enjoying the multiple inches of snowfall (we built a snowman!) and feverishly writing some D&D (it’s going to be crap and no one will like it ever) and I get on Tumblr yesterday evening and everybody’s flipping their shit about some stupid dress.
I got off the Internet and played some Metroid Prime instead.
@Falconer maybe you can work a dress colour puzzle into your D&D, bring it all together 🙂
“They are advocates of child murder.”
I.. Je. Bu.. What the crap?
Vox Day You’ve said you think the Taliban was right to shoot Malala Yousafzai, is saying we support child murder. That isn’t the pot calling the kettle black, it’s a vat of tar calling the pure driven snow black.
Why is this guy even against Nazism, communism and fascism for? What the hell is the difference between his general worldview and that of Hitler, Stalin or Mussolini’s?
Oh and the viral dress picture–was I the only one who saw purple and some kind of taupe? My partner saw white and gold, which seems to be common, but I have heard not one other person say purple and taupe-ish.
Vox Day is basically admitting that feminists are right. The only way assholes like Vox can “win” is to pour hate and rape and death threats over feminist women in the hopes that they’ll be intimidated into silence. That’s not a tactic used by people who have strong, rational counter-arguments based on facts. That’s a tactic used by bullies.
They have no reason or substance, only hate.
I am a little scared of Vox. I’m not ashamed to admit it. There’s something frightening about a man who has no morality, no standards or integrity and actually manages to sell himself as a good guy; no matter how small and bitter his audience might be.
Well, one good thing about all this is that evil can only thrive in darkness.
Based on the way VD defines those words then all of those things probably should be dismantled.
cue grumpy cat “good”
I think you’d have to be living under a rock to not realize that comment was a dress reference and not a racist comment. If anyone didn’t know, they could just ask for clarification. There’s no need to do tumblr levels of nitpicking of other’s language. This is supposed to be a fun place where we can snark.
@WWTH my bad, sorry.
Is he channeling the Delgados with that hate comment?
Oh, and: feminists are worse than a Nazi Stalin feeding babies into a woodchipper… but they’re particularly susceptible to shame? Whuh?
I guess when all you have is hate this is the only strategy possible.
At some point they’ll have to admit that they have done everything other than actually physically attack a woman to silence her. They frequently threaten to do just that. Pox wants MORE. The current level of hate is not enough for him because all the uppity women have not been silenced. He doesn’t want to see any mercy from men. He wants men to treat us as if we are the greatest threat the world has ever known. He needs more men to hate us as much as he does. Women are not afraid enough until their voices are all erased.
That’s hate speech. That’s an attempt to incite violence against people already being terrorized.
Given that VD is an active creationist and Christian apologist, and both he and his father were involved with WorldNetDaily, this is almost certainly an anti-abortion shot.
Vox day says it was ok for the Taliban to shoot Malala, but we are the child muder advocates? We are fascists that is destroying western civilization but to him harassment and threats are free speech? We are destroying marriage but he says it’s ok to rape your wife?
Everything Vox day said is proof on why we need Feminism he is nothing more than what David said: “He’s more like a shart, a shitstain on humanity.”
Dan
“There’s something frightening about a man who has no morality, no standards or integrity and actually manages to sell himself as a good guy; no matter how small and bitter his audience might be”
Thats the Manosphere: the nice guys, mras, puas and mgtow, right there.
Everyone is particularly susceptible to shame, because we are a social species. Vox might think of himself as beyond all that gooey human-interactiony nonsense, but that’s just because his ego is currently bigger than his loneliness. If he suddenly started losing fans en masse, to the point where he couldn’t just wave them off with a snide “I’ll be better off without you losers anyway,” he’d figure out quite quickly that shame hurts, and he’d be doing anything and everything to either get them back or find new ones.
When it comes from people you care about, anyway. All the MRAs and dork enlightenmenters in the world shaming me for my feminism wouldn’t hurt me in the slightest. If anything, I’d take it as a sign that I was doing alright. (Unless that shame turned to harassment, but that’s a different story)
I need brain bleach
http://youtu.be/wDRLa4AjbsU
No person is an island.
Yo, Vox, speech that threatens and/or incites violence is not protected under US law. Hate speech is, as long as it does not actively encourage or aid violence against a specific person or people. However, much of what is being said extends beyond forms of hate speech that would be protected. In short, even the most generous interpretations of free speech condemn death threats and the leaking of someone’s personal information while inciting hate against them.
@Kirby That’s what I don’t get about asshole narcissists who “don’t care” if they push others away. We are social, and we need social groups to survive. For all the evo psych blathering they do about gender roles and what women want they never cover the fact that if you alienate yourself from general society, you’re kinda screwed. Moreso, if you keep rubbing society the wrong way, being a dick, and upsetting others, sooner or later you’re gonna get kicked in the teeth. You can’t continuously piss people of or display yourself as a threat without consequences. Adapt or die.
That was not a wish for death upon Vox.
“Open up your hate and let it pour over them.” I just can’t get over that. How could/do people read that and think ” this guy sounds very rational and makes a lot of sense ” ?
Oooh, thanks for the reminder, Vox! I haven’t checked my feminist progress in a while. Let’s see where I am:
Destroy Western Civilization: Made whimsical sheep cookies with my kids so that we could learn about Chinese New Year and the lunisolar calendar behind it.
Destroy Civil Society: Put out garbage can the afternoon before pickup, when HOA clearly states that all rubbish must not go out until 6 pm at the earliest.
Destroy Marriage: Rolled husband’s clean socks in military manner when it is well known that he prefers them folded.
So I’m on track, but it looks like there’s plenty of room for improvement. I’ll have to work in some more great societal institution subverting around my daily schedule of scented candle burning, hard chair sitting, and wearing of shorts. A woman’s work is truly never done.
Sad news, sort of related: Leonard Nimoy, an important figure in sci-fi and also pro-feminist, has died. 🙁