Today, a meme that’s so vile I’m going to hide it behind a link.
Roosh V’s Return of Kings site describes itself as “a safe space on the web for those men who don’t agree with the direction that Western culture is headed.”
Apparently these guys don’t feel truly safe unless they’re saying horrific things about women. Like, for example, this meme, taken from the “featured comment” in the discussion of a recent ROK post, which suggests that women “fail to properly kill themselves” because “women are incompetent.”
And it gets worse from there, which is why it’s behind a link.
Congratulation, ROK meme-maker! You have managed to trivialize suicide, insult women, and weirdly glorify men who kill themselves.
Suicide, not funny.
If you’re in the US, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline if you’re feeling troubled. Call or click on the graphic below to get help. Or click here to find out how to volunteer.
H/T — r/TheBluePill
This one finally pushed me past my ability to tolerate, even a teeny bit, these monsters.
The idea of working together with women and men who are actually decent, egalitarian and creatively hopeful people to create a new society/world is very appealing right now. Perhaps it is time that we quietly walk away from these creatures and pay them no more attention. Time to stop feeding the rabid monkeys and focus more on creating the world we really want to live in.
When I look at what the menz have done to our green and lovely world…to the laughing children and exuberant adults…my sadness and anger threaten to overwhelm me. I feel as though I will drown in a sea of my own tears unless I can do something real and beautiful.
Nitram- if you want to talk about how you are feeling just let me know. I will give you my email. I have been there.
Buttercup Q. Skullpants
I can’t remember who said it, but someone once said that survivors are the strongest people of all, because they know what they’re capable of doing/surviving. A lot of people live comfortable enough lives that they are never are in a situation where everything they are is tested. It’s not pretty or amazing when it happens. Hollywood lied big time about that.
I’m stronger because of what I’ve survived, but I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. I think other survivors’/victims’ stories are inspiring, but the fact they had to be survivors/victims in the first place is awful.
I’m also of the school of thought that “survivor” is a label that has to be claimed on your own terms. It’s okay to identify as a “victim” for as long as you need to. You don’t have to be a “survivor” until you want to be.
And of course they hate transgendered people (why am I so not surprised). Look at this piece of filth, never let a tragic suicide get in the way of a good phobic rant.
{I’m going to report this to the various TG hate group monitoring sites, to add to the ones that monitor, like here, female hate groups.}
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Major Trigger Alert.
Do not read this if you are TG and suffering depression or having suicidal thoughts. Ring a suicide hotline or your local TG support hotline/group if you are feeling that way and I repeat don’t read this because it will upset you badly.
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http://www.returnofkings.com/52220/why-is-the-transsexual-lobby-trying-to-politicize-leelah-alcorns-death
It start off bad:
“SJWs like to argue that the high rates of mental illness and suicide trannies suffer from is a result of “transphobia,” but the reality is the reverse: people who become transsexuals are already mentally ill.
The desire to mutilate your genitals and take hormones in order to become an ersatz version of the opposite sex is indicative of defective brain chemistry. Studies have consistently shown that the pathologies of homosexuals and transsexuals start ”
It gets worse, Leelah was a ‘monster’:
“Finally, Josh Alcorn’s method of suicide displays how much of a monster he had become.”
And worse (I grew up 40 years ago, obviously I got over my transgenderism..not… no one ever does):
“As selfish and damaged as Josh Alcorn was, his narcissism didn’t bloom in a vacuum. If he had grown up 30, 20, or even 10 years ago, he would have gotten over his childish “transsexuality” and become a normal man. His twisted beliefs were fed to him in part by social justice warriors, backed by the leftist mainstream media.”
Beyond bizarreness, they hate Dr Who as well:
“While letting the world’s rejects start Doctor Who fanblogs”
Never let science get in the way of a good phobic rant (the opposite is actually true):
“In this specific instance, the mainstream media’s promotion of transsexuality was also responsible for Josh Alcorn’s suicide. There’s no evidence that sexual reassignment surgery helps trannies: in fact, the suicide rate of post-op transsexuals is far higher than that of pre-ops. ”
More of this ‘who cares about science’, maybe her parents could have beaten her every day to show how much they ‘loved her’.:
“While we can criticize reparative therapy as well as the other methods that the Alcorns used to try to help their son, we cannot deny that they had his best interests at heart. By trying to save Josh from a life of social ostracism and suicidal ideation, the Alcorns were showing just how much they loved him.”
Transgendered people are a ‘plague’ as well as ‘monsters’ now:
“By tricking impressionable kids into thinking they can have their poles turned into holes, social justice warriors and their media backers are exacerbating mental illness and suicide in America. Only by insulating children from their corrosive ideas—and fighting them every step of the way—can we stop the plague of transsexuality.”
I can’t even. That’s just ghoulish. Fuck that guy. And everyone on RoK.
Lisa, you should use donotlink for any sharing of ROK stupidity. They don’t deserve to go up in search engines or receive any ad revenue, because they are horrible, horrible people.
If anyone wants to read the above stupidity, I’ve already fed it through donotlink:
http://www.donotlink.com/e1yn
My S.O. is depressed and has suicidal ideation. He’s been better. Kind of off topic bu does anyone know how to prevent someone from purchasing guns. He was on a 5 year ban because he was committed, but that’s about to end.
Sorry to be a bit of a downer.
Slightly OT. In regards to the “women are all desperate for attention” myth, it’s a concept that is imbedded in our culture. It effects the way medical professionals treat women who suffer from chronic pain.
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/02/13/chronic-pain-overwhelmingly-experienced-women-trouble-getting-care/
There are a number of factors mentioned here, but one of them is that doctors suspect women of exaggerating pain for attention.
P.S. Don’t read the comments- they’re full of MRA piss babies crying “wut about teh menz!”
“I think I’d actually respect the manosphere more if they just dropped the pretense and admitted that they are only about hating women.”
That’s how I feel about the “anti immigration” site vdare. You know, the one that was founded by an immigrant and has a lot of immigrant writers. I wish they’d just admit they’re white nationalist and are about pissing on non-white people.
How horrible! Not that the misogyny reported on here is nice, but this “suicide is for winners!” idea is a very special sort of awful for which I was unprepared. And yet it got me to comment, which I suppose says several things about me. Ah well.
Yes, the difference in suicide rates are at least mostly down to choice of methods. Guns are very effective as well as very quick. If you already have access to a firearm and ammunition, you could commit suicide without giving yourself any time to think.
Even hanging (provided you don’t have a long way to fall) gives at least a few minutes. And not a pleasant few. (Btw, last time I checked the stats, there was gender-parity at hanging. The big difference in the suicide statistics in the US is firearms and pills. And would be even if there was a large gender difference for the method, it being fairly rare here. No idea how the stats run in countries with more restricted gun access than the US.) Those few minutes saved me repeatedly, including once when another rescued me from my own delirious attempt to “wake up” from what I didn’t realize was reality.
On pills and poisons, while it’s true not many drugs commonly kill at anything like the dosages you can get in whole packages, there’s an even smaller set of substances that kill quickly enough that one won’t live long enough to regret it. Unfortunately, those most easily available in quantities such that kill tend to be those that do so slowly but surely. As bad as it is to have someone close to you with regularly suicidal ideation, I’m glad his preferred (and yet untried) method is substance-based and that he’s absolutely opposed to anything “unpleasant”. And that he’s a big guy, so even if he tried, probably not, and I’m glad of that.
Anyone who attempts suicide “for the attention” surely needs it, don’t they?
RoK-of-the-jungle? I’m sure they’d love to see themselves as lions (ignoring that the lionesses do the hunting and adult male lions are uncommon) and they already reference women as dogs, so they probably see lions as winners and dogs as losers. Solomon said something about that. To paraphrase: “Where there’s life, there’s hope: better a live dog than a dead lion.”
I figure that, about suicide, the only way to win is not to play the game. If you’re gonna lose, better to lose well so that some day you may win by refusing a game. Here’s to that real win.
totallyalphadudebro:
QFT. And it’s very frustrating. And I have to say that even IF people are exaggerating their issues, it’s usually so someone will finally notice and help them, not because they enjoy it.
Internet hugs to anyone needing them. Depression is exhausting and heartbreaking and still not easily discussed in the mainstream, even though it should be.
Everytime you think it can’t get worse…..
THAT human rights activist….
And oh, is there is absolutely NOTHING to blame if someone really wants attention, therefore a scream for HELP. That’s NOTHING to make fun about.
These people want people to regognize their pain.
But in their minds ”they are stupid attention whores”…..
Holy shit.
@Nitram
Please accept some Internet hugs from a stranger if you want them. You are a unique and valuable person just for being you. Hang in there.
I just got out of a period of very strong suicidal ideation. I can confirm that it does get easier, but that doesn’t diminish the horrible bleakness. I have become very good at finding reasons not to kill myself “right now”, and it allows me to hold on until the crisis passes. It doesn’t mean I feel well, but I feel well enough.
This entire nonsense about glorifying the suicide success rate of men makes me angry. It is harmful to suicidal men and women alike.
(I wonder how many of those successful suicides are current or former military. They are discouraged from talking about mental health, they are at very high risk, and they tend to have access to weapons. That breaks my heart.)
My fiancée has tried to off himself multiple times. He has had regular psychotic episodes.
He needs a molecule from his home planet of Lithium, now that he has such, he feels…somewhat normal.
Keeping fingers crossed, hoping the psychosis is gone, gone, gone. Nearly losing him sucks.
Blahlistic, hope his meds help and he stays safe.
That sounds horrifying, and scary, and I can’t imagine what it would be like to almost loose someone you care that much about…
Hugs if you want them.