French prosecutors are saying that the co-pilot of the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in the Alps brought the plane down deliberately, after locking the pilot out of the cockpit. If so, this was one of the most horrific cases of murder/suicide the world has ever seen.
At the moment, we don’t know enough about the co-pilot, 28-year-old Andreas Lubitz. to know what motivated him to allegedly crash the plane. French authorities are saying that they don’t think it was an act of terrorism. But that may be because they have a rather simplistic definition of terrorism.
Murder/suicide is an overwhelmingly male crime; studies suggest that men may make up 90% or more of the perpetrators. While most of these cases — excluding suicide bombings — involve a man killing himself and a partner or ex-partner, there have also been cases in which men have resorted to mass murder in order to make some twisted point about what they see as a world unfair to men in general and them in particular. These acts aren’t generally considered terrorism, but they should be.
You know the names: Elliot Rodger, who killed seven, including himself, as part of what he called his “War on Women.” George Sodini, a would-be pickup artist who opened fire on an LA Fitness aerobics class because he couldn’t get a date. Marc Lepine, who killed 14 women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal in an attempt “to send the feminists, who have always ruined my life, to their Maker.” The list goes on.
Whenever one of these horrific massacres occurs, there are always some who rush to excuse or defend or even lionize the perpetators. And there are those who argue that these tragedies could have somehow been averted if women had just treated these poor men better.
In the case of this particular tragedy, reactionary fantasy writer Vox Day — real name, Theodore Beale — is literally suggesting that it could have been prevented “if the sluts of the world were just a little less picky and a little more equitable in their distribution of blowjobs.”
Here’s his, er, argument, from a post on his Alpha Game blog today:
Why he did it, no one knows yet, but it won’t surprise me to learn that Lubritch [sic] was a deeply angry and embittered Omega male. There is a reason Omegas frighten women merely by existing; they are capable of terrible and merciless acts of self-destruction. You can see Lubritch is a small and prematurely balding young man, possibly somewhat overweight, his occupation indicates that he was more intelligent than the norm, and the uncertain smile he has on his face tends to indicate low socio-sexual rank.
Good to know that Vox — who himself has an “uncertain smile” in some photographs I’ve seen of him — can x-ray someone’s personality by glancing at a snapshot.
Now, obviously no one else was responsible for Lubritch’s actions if it indeed was Omega rage at work. He alone bears the blame. But it is somewhat haunting to think about how many lives might be saved each year if the sluts of the world were just a little less picky and a little more equitable in their distribution of blowjobs.
So he alone deserves the blame — but somehow his actions are also the fault of unfair blowjob distribution by the “sluts of the world?”
As a 28 year-old airline pilot, Lubritch would likely have been married in a more traditionally structured society. It’s not impossible that the Germanwings deaths represent more of the indirect costs of feminism.
Oh, and it’s ultimately the fault of feminism.
Now, Vox Day is a famously terrible person, and something of a troll.
But the fact is that similar — if generally less explicit — apologias for male violence are common in the “manosphere” and amongst Men’s Rights Activists.
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how are they sluts if they’re not more equitable with blow jobs?
Updates from the comment section of Vox’s piece. Someone posted this link to Daily Mail (so… you know… very very small grain of salt). Go read it a bit, then take a look at what the comment section concluded.
Yup. A Daily Mail article says that the co-pilot might have been depressed (which I assume is offered as supporting evidence for a suicide), and therefore Vox was right about it being Omega Rage caused by lack of blowjobs.
Why oh why do people even question him?
Aw jeez, Beale went totally House, Psy.D. on this guy.
At least, according to the formula of the show, the first diagnosis of the week usually turns out to be wrong.
And Beale doesn’t have even a crappy excuse to be hateful. 0/10, would not watch again.
As yet there is no evidence that his actions were motivated by misogyny of any kind, and neither side should be speculating until more facts are known.
Rodger, Sodini and Lepine all left extensive writing to make their hatreds known, but so far we have no idea what this co pilot was thinking or feeling. I suspect this has nothing to do with sexual politics.
Vox Day is a fuckwit of gargantuan proportions.
It’s not exactly baseless speculation that the crash was intentional. The cockpit recording showed him breathing up until the point of the crash and the pilot not being to get into the cockpit means the code to unlock the door was deliberately overridden. Apparently in this model of airplane it’s pretty much impossible for him to have fainted and accidentally overridden the mechanism that would have allowed the pilot to get into the locked cockpit.
Saying that this was probably a murder suicide is not like motive speculation at all.
Shorter Vox Day: strange women lying in beds distributing blowjobs is no basis for a sexual market.
Well, if he can blame women who wrongfully distribute blowjobs (should that be an actual reason for this crash), then he can also blame other indirect reasons: if humans didn’t use airplanes, this tragedy could have been avoided; if the pilot didn’t need to use the bathroom, this tragedy could have been avoided; if all men were denied education for pilots, this tragedy could have been avoided too. But luckily for humanity, we use airplanes, pilots are allowed to use restrooms if they need to and men are of course allowed to fly planes. As it should be. Women in the West, too, are allowed to choose their partners. As it should be.
The only person to blame in any suicide/murder case is the murderer himself/herself. That being said, we don’t know yet what happened in this case. Not exactly surprised as Vox Day’s reaction tho. He’s a professional finger-pointer with zero self-awareness.
It’s weird* how so many MRAs are against socialism in all aspects of their lives except for whether or not they get blowjobs. Then they’re all about the “equitable distribution of resources.”
* by which I mean “completely predictable but nasty”
RE: equitable distribution of blowjobs. Aren’t most of these guys some flavor of libertarian? Doesn’t that mean that you earn blowjobs by being a hero/alpha? Wouldn’t equitable distribution of blowjobs be a form of socialism or communism that they would otherwise abhor?
Women of the world who commit violent acts would totes not have done so if those evil manwhores would just have been more equitable in their distribution of cunnilingus! Amirite, ladies?!
Seriously, we may never know what happened in this tragedy, but one thing is for sure: Vox Day is pathetic.
Every time. Without fail. You could set your watch by it. It’s getting so that every time I hear about something awful or tragic like this on the news, I think to myself, “I wonder how the manosphere’s going to blame women and feminism for this.”
So, basically, according to Vox Day, women need to be giving out sexual favors to men or men will kill people. We don’t know why the guy crashed the plane into the Alps. But what Vox is saying sounds a lot like terrorism and extortion to me.
I wonder if what these shit stains are ultimately suffering from is a severe case of fundamental attribution error componded by the emotional maturity of a 5-year old? The egocentrism of these defective turds is just off the charts and they seem to have no concept of other people being motivated by anything not involving them. MRA beliefs really should be classified as a personality/developmental disorder IMO.
If only women were less picky and fucked more pathetic people like Vox Day, the world would something or something.
Speaking of picky, Vox Day is the kind of person I can picture on a barstool talking to his buddy:
Vox: “she’s only a 7 1/2. No one would do that. Maybe if I have a few more drinks and she starts looking like an 8, I’ll think about it.”
Buddy: “My standards are low, I don’t mind fucking a 7 1/2, or even a 7 if I’m desparate. But really, she’s a 6 3/4 at best.”
(Vox Day has 3 more drinks, pulls down his pants and begins humping fern in corner)
I opened my computer this morning to find the story of this tragic suicide-mass murder. And as my husband and I talked about it, it briefly occured to me that the manurespherians would maybe spin it, facts unknown (as if they mattered), as some act of a rejected male’s revenge, an extreme MGHOW perhaps. But I stopped in my thinking tracks, guiltily reprimanding myself for being too cynical and harsh.
Alas.
There is really no bottom to their depravity.
Except that it totally would be as long as the strange women were all hot and not “too picky”.
These people are SO contradictory! Women need to put out more but eww! Sluts with their icky vaginas filled with eau de men who are not me.
It’s a lose lose situation for women where odds are they’re going to be harassed, attacked and possibly killed by deranged nut cases.
“(Vox Day has 3 more drinks, pulls down his pants and begins humping fern in corner)”
— because in the interim the woman waiting in the booth had gotten bored and left.
Also, too, even if Vox Day is right and the disturbed co-pilot murdered 150 people because no one would suck his dick, that would make it even worse. You’re a co-pilot for an airline, You make good money. There are thousands upon millions of professionals willing to suck your dick for less than what you make for that one flight. You’re really going to kill yourself and a planeload of other people because no hot woman will suck it for free?
I would say no one is that insane, but we’re talking about MRAs.
Are incel murder/suicides caused by women, or beliefs about women? That’s kind of an important distinction, fellas. They’re not the same thing. At all.
If it’s “beliefs about women”, then I think we can automatically tack “harmful” onto the front of that phrase.
“You’re a co-pilot for an airline, You make good money”
They’ve just had a 40% paycut after some very nasty wrangling. If we must speculate about motive that would make more sense as a place to start.
I want to shout to these manosphere assholes: Not everything for everyone revolves around sex! Jesus H Christ! People, even evil people, can be motivated that things that have nothing to do with blowjobs or getting laid! Just because you’re unhealthily obsessed with sex doesn’t mean other men are!
LOL, is this satire? It has to be.
Women are too blame no matter what, it seems. Either women are not slutty enough (they won’t suck off any man on demand). Or they are are not traditionally virginal enough (they refuse to be men’s little wife-servants).
Apparantly. If women have ANY AGENCY WHAT SO EVER – any crime, violence or mis-doings done by men, is SOMEHOW women’s bloody fault.
It’s goddess-damn-it ridicolous! And these men consider themselves the apex of reason!?
As far as equitable distribution of blowjobs, I’m sure Day is using the phrase because he thinks he is pointing out some way liberals are being hypocritical about equitable divorce or communism, but I don’t understand any point he could be making that doesn’t make him look like an asshole who thinks women are commodities to be divided up by real people.
@Sparky
What about men who *shudder to think* don’t even LIKE blowjobs? Or men who do like them, but not from women? Oh wait, they don’t count because they’re probably not real men anyways.
So real manly men only like the ladiiieeez, don’t have emotions, certainly don’t ever feel suicidal, get laid whenever they want by hot hot slu- I mean, wimminz, but would somehow go off the deep end and murder people without regular bj’s? Yea, I’m gonna go ahead and call shenanigans on his logic.