So internet garbage person Matt Forney has written another one of his deliberately awful Return of Kings posts designed to create outrage and deliver page views. This latest one, like his previous attempts in this genre, is a clickbaity list of “5 Reasons Why Girls With Mental Disorders Should Be Shunned” as “unworthy of your love.”
It would be easy enough to point out the irony of the thoroughly grotesque Forney declaring women with mental disorders to be “gross” fatties with stinky butts. (This is item 4 on his list. No, really.) Especially since he’s doing it on a website run by a dude who seems to resent the fact that he has to wipe his own ass.
But I’m more interested in the post’s “featured comment,” a miniature manifesto singled out by Return of Kings’ reluctant-ass-wiper-in-chief Roosh V as the best response to Forney’s post (and sporting more than 80 upvotes from the site’s terrible readers).
In it, someone calling himself Wi Tu Lo — after declaring Forney’s post to be “a major public service” — warns that “a large percentage of American women are dangerous to men.”
As he sees it, women who claim to have been hurt by men are merely indulging in “manufactured victim-hood” in order to gain sympathy and demonize men as
part of the patriarchy and just one step away from murdering the women in their lives.From ADHD over-diagnoses of young boys, to false accusations of rape in college, to workplaces oppressed with the fear of accusations of sexual harassment, society has manufactured a sense that males are inherently mentally ill and this mental illness must be dealt with harshly, without remorse, and even randomly in order to “make a point.”
This is, not to put too fine a point on it, utter bullshit. Pointing out that men are far more likely to assault, rape, and kill women than vice versa is not the same as suggesting that all men are “inherently mentally ill” and/or “one step away from murdering the women in their lives.” Most men who inflict harm upon women are not “crazy.” They’re violent assholes with an overblown sense of entitlement.
In reality, however, men are generally psychologically healthy. The only major disorder that men suffer disproportionately is schizophrenia and that is a tiny percentage of all males. Most men live in an unforgiving environment that quickly knocks out all self-delusion, which is the basis of most psychological and personality disorders.
Even setting aside the ludicrous notion that mental illness can be cured by, in essence, telling someone to “snap out of it,” men aren’t any more or less “psychologically healthy” than women. As the World Health Organization notes, “[o]verall rates of psychiatric disorder are almost identical for men and women.” There are, to be sure, differences between men and women in what disorders they suffer from, with women (for example) more likely to be depressed and men more likely to be diagnosed with “antisocial personality disorder,” known loosely as “psychopathy.”
Schizophrenia is, as Wi Tu Lo notes, very rare. But men don’t “suffer [it] disproportionately.” It’s equally common — that is, equally rare — for men and women.
All this said, mental illness doesn’t cause crime or violence; the majority of violent abusers are, as Wi Tu Lo would misleadingly put it, “psychologically healthy.”
But no matter, because his rant is all about misogyny, not facts.
The real dangers to society today are women. Women today are a danger to themselves, to men, and to other women. The sickness of Western society has created a feedback loop that promotes and even drives female mental illness. Sick politicians and media promote destructive public policy, which in turn promotes the further degradation of women, which in turn requires more policy and media attention …. a feedback loop to societal ruin.
How can we warn men of this terrible danger?
We need educational camps. Even re-education camps. Run by professional men in order to serve men. … A key component of this should be to teach men about the manifestations of cultural sickness into the mental illnesses presented by women in large numbers. How to recognize them, how to avoid them, and how to deal with them on a short term basis while making an escape plan. (There is no long term “dealing” with it).
As Wi Tu Lo sees it, human survival depends on men escaping the clutches of evil, “crazy” women.
From Borderline Personality Disorder to histrionic states to violent expression of psychopathy – the rates of mental illness among women is the largest threat to the human species ever experienced. In our day-to-day lives, we can unwittingly step into it and be engulfed, to our ruin, within a matter of minutes. It’s time to wake up to the threat and do something constructive about it. These women cannot be helped, but we can help ourselves.
Quick question, dude: if you convince all men to “escape” from women, how are these women going to have babies? I mean, I don’ want to be a nit-picker here, but if there were no more babies the human species would simply vanish from the earth once everyone now alive died. And civilization would likely go to shit pretty much immediately.
Of course, neither Wi Ti Lo nor any of Roosh’s other awful followers are really interested in “saving” civilization or anything like it. The manosphere — like the “dark enlightenment” that it overlaps with and takes much inspiration from — is at its heart little more than a nihilistic fantasyland, a weird inverted “safe space” for men who want to blame all their personal deficiencies on women and their, er, “degenerate fucking beta cuck army of white knight assholes.”
Please, fellas, go ahead and make your “escape plans.” And then, for god’s sake, carry them (and yourself) out — preferably to a remote island thousands of miles away from the rest of us.
Hey, the glitter-gel I put in my friends’ coffee was clearly marked non-toxic. And it only took two days for the swelling to go down.
(In all seriousness, EJ, that looks neato!)
Return of Cucks? Oh, my day is MADE.
And it even makes the connection between PUA and fascism! YESSSSSS!
@Bina: Yeah, but some people have pointed out that they make fun of RoK for not being racist enough, so that does put a damper on things.
And OOOH GLITTER TEA~
I’ll definitely sip on that while lighting my scented motherfucking candles.
… sooo… it’s a man’s responsibility to save a woman from herself now, eh?
saintluger:
Um, where in the OP did you get that from?
saintluger | March 14, 2015 at 4:40 am
Nah, it’s a request that men don’t just go “lol bitches be cray” or “that time of the month, lol” whenever a woman does something. Because that’s just fucking rude.
Not only is it demeaning to women, it’s rude to people with vaginas that do experience periods when a woman’s emotions and feelings are written off as a simple hormone imbalance and can be treated as something to be hand waved off, and it’s rude to men when these asshats talk about how men can’t possibly suffer from mental illnesses because “the world [men] live in knocks any self-delusion out of [men]”.
Pretty much, the misogynists are spouting the most misandry and ableism. I have never met someone who hated men as a gender more than misogynists, to be honest.
Uh…women need “saving from themselves”? Why? Are we not good enough as we are?
I should be angrier than I am. After all, he just said I was “unworthy of love” because of something I can’t control. But… at this point I’ve come to expect this horribleness out of these people. I suppose the fact that I no longer take this personally is progress.
You have no idea whatsoever how to read for comprehension, do ya?
I wouldn’t say progress, so much as you’re just getting numb to it. And I’m sorry that has to be a thing with this. 🙁
You deserve far better than having to put up with the arrogance and ignorance of these people.
@Luzbelitx – I saw that PAX article a couple of days ago (shared on Facebook) and was originally pissed because the title was, “Booth babes and sexy cosplayers are in danger of being completely banned from events.”
I was mad because it came across to me as, “You’re complaining about being harassed so we’ll just ban any sexy cosplay instead of enforcing rules against harassers.” (The booth babes thing though, as far as I’m concerned, can be banned.)
As I was about to click the link to read the article, I saw that it was an article at Reaxxion and everything immediately flipped to, “You’re probably just whining about not being able to harass these women because they’re not going to be allowed to wear sexy outfits.”
He’s totally wrong.
It’s werewolves. Werewolves are the biggest threat to human existence.
I’m just shocked some of them are acknowledging that women can have mental illnesses.
Yeah, it’s not like any female response to anything is ever labeled as hysterical and/or PMS, if not just outright called “crazy”. It’s totally the men who are always assumed to not be rational with their reactions. Poor guys are just never taken seriously. /s
You know, I was saddened, sickened, and hurt by this until I realized…
As a woman with mental illness, *I am wholly unappealing to these doucherockets*.
Hell yes!
Necroing to say this: “Ableism” should be a tag!