Once again, a look at some of the comments that people try to leave here, but which for assorted reasons don’t get past the rigorous We Hunted the Mammoth screening process.
I kid; the process is not rigorous at all. You just need to pass a minimal standard of basic human decency. Here’s an assortment of comments from people who, well, fell short. In each instance, I’m pretty sure you’ll be able to guess why.
I’ll take “Protocols of the Elders of [BLANK]” for $400, Alex!
This fellow, like a lot of manospherians, seems really, really obsessed with cuckolding.
This fellow tried to post a number of comments on the same theme. This is is most succinct:
I’ll take “I don’t condone violence but you feminists totally deserve it for making jokes” for $200, Alex.
tl;dr: This guy, not really a big fan of women. (Spot the “we hunted the mammoth” for bonus points.)
You thought that last one was the worst it gets? Unfortunately not. Whoever sent this one — from a dubious IP address — is either a giant douchebag of a troll, or the next Elliot Rodger. (Please be the former.)
I’m going to just stop now. This post turned out a bit darker than I expected.
lol just lol
””Islamophobia and other hideous and horrible things that these supremacists do and continue to do without taking any responsibility for their actions.””’
Any sane person has a phobia against this trash of religion. I can’t believe that you even judge a person for hating a religion that promotes violence against homosexuals and women ( IT DOES!!!!!) .
Ive read the quran, This ”book” is full of shit. There is nothing wrong with Islamophobia.
@Linax5
Congrats, you’ve figured out that old religious books tend to have values from their time. Will you go off on a rant about how the Bible is awful next?
Do fuck off Linax5.
I haven’t read the quran*, but I have read enough about it and from it to have a hard time believing it is any worse or different than hundreds of noxious verses you can find in the bible. If you have faith in one, I don’t understand the hatred of the other unless it’s tribalist bullshit..
*I seriously doubt the vast majority of non-muslims who claim to have read it and determined it to be evil. Those who say that are usually trying to make a “see, even open-minded people like me hate it” argument. I don’t think many people who say that really have the patience to read all of something they hate just so they can say they read it when it is so much easier to lie and say you did when you didn’t.
Yeah, all those old texts contain rather dated values, singling out one faith seems silly. I prefer to judge people based on what lessons they choose to extract from those texts and what they choose to ignore.
Bigboy desperately wants us to glom all over him and shower him with cookies to prove we don’t want to kill all men. He’s literally here to pout until he gets hugs. What is with these MGTOWs and their creepy attention seeking behavior?
In response to comments about bigoted men who hate and want to kill women Big boy can’t keep himself from trying to make it all about him. He’s sure obsessed with women paying attention to him for a dude who claims he’s gone his own way.
“I’ll go away if you don’t beg me to stay”
Ick. No. Go away. Go far, far away. I hear Andromeda is lovely this time of year. Use your superior man brains to get yourself there asap.
My mother told me that a man who was Hebrew checked the bible and said that some of the translations were wrong. So I don’t really believe that God wanted to treat women and children like slaves and property or anything bad like that. They were laws back then that were very extreme so the days were very different from ours that’s why God wanted us to read the New Testament.
Well anyway what I’m trying to say is that I understand why people would be scared and angry at some religions because of their personal experiences. I think people who do bad things use a religion like Christianity because they know that people will get mad at the religion and will ignore the person who did those things. If any of this makes sense to anyone.
Misseb47
“Nice new profile picture, by the way. It’s lovely. ”
Thanks. She’s from Disney’s Fantasia. I don’t know her name since I don’t think she has one many people call her the green girl/sprite or Mother Nature.
How? Is there an MGTOW Pope who has the power to excommunicate people and keeps them from, for example, just posting on a different board or IDing as a MGHOW? Does he get to wear a cool hat like the regular Pope?
re: Islamophobia
The quran is the bible plus a book or two, just as the bible is the torah plus a book or two. You really can’t hate the quran without also hating the bible and torah.
However, a religious book does not make a religious person unless they’re fundamentalists, so it’s kinda sucky to hate an entire group of people over a book. That’s like hating people for liking Harry Potter or something.
Even if one believes that Islam is irredeemable horrible trash, the fact remains that Muslims are human beings with as much inherent worth and dignity as any other, and that discriminating against them or doing violence against them (or people you have mistaken for them – see the Sikh temple shooting) is shitty – and in the case of Muslims, who are a minority in most Western countries, oppressive.
Also I know feminist Muslims and gay Muslims, because not every Muslim is a qur’anic literalist just like not every Christian is a Biblical literalist, because religions are dynamic and are, first and foremost, made by people. But I wouldn’t want to hurt your little head when it clearly has so little room for complexity or nuance.
@panda
It’s been a while but the Quran is actually a full rewrite of the stories of the bible rather than an incorporation of like the Christian Bible.
And yes, the biggest problems with using the Bible are lack of context and cherry picking, especially in the Torah, Prophets and Psalms.
Blerchhhheee! Gotta hand it to some people(?), nothing better to do than twist themselves into pretzels trying to outhate everyone else in the world. You keep going, Mammoth Hunter–I enjoy your stuff.
@Penny
Huh, I didn’t know that. I’m…not very religiously educated. I’ve read a couple of books in the bible and that’s it. I know it at least in the quran still has some Jesusy bits in there, plus some books of Muhammad, but that’s really all I know off hand.
That just sounds like “no true scotsman” to me, just like the whole “They’re not real gamergaters!” thing. No MGTOW has the authority to kick someone else out, you can kick people off blogs or out of clubs, but you can’t kick someone out of their own (vaguely defined, misogynistic) identity. I’ve yet to see an official definition of MGTOW, it seems to vary in meaning depending on the MGTOW, which makes it even more laughable to pretend you can kick people out.
Here’s a fun blog for people who are interested in the Bible as literature:
https://isthatinthebible.wordpress.com/
I’m learning a ton from it.
The Koran mentions Jesus and his family, but doesn’t repeat or retell the New Testament stories. The text itself has a very different ‘feel’ from the books of the Bible, or really any other book–it’s powerfully poetic in a weird, some say inimitable, way. Another important thing to know about the Koran is that it’s said that only the Arabic version is sacred–those of us who don’t speak Arabic can read translations to get an idea of the content, but if we’re not reading the actual Arabic words we’re not really reading the sacred text.
Also–the Koran is short, relatively easy to read (in English), and organised into short chapters (suras)–so it’s not a really daunting task to sit down with it, if you want to (though to be fair reading it from end to end doesn’t exactly give you a deep understanding of the meaning of the verses–history and context are pretty important to flesh out what’s really going on).
One of the curious things about Islam is the idea that the archangel Gabriel dictated the entire Q’uran to Mohammed, who couldn’t write. So he then re-dictated the entire thing to early followers who could (this is a plot point in “The Satanic Verses”). Then, decades later, other Muslims wrote down accounts of the life and sayings of Mohammed (the Hadiths), which are not divine revelation but are still considered authoritative. To be honest, it reminds me of Mormonism and the golden plates. Some religious scholars have argued that there is no evidence for the Q’uran actually having been fully written down until after Mohammed’s death, similar to the way the Gospels were codified after almost everyone involved had died.
Oh, and potpourri is a perfect name for this, as it originally literally meant ‘rotten pot’.
Fruitloopsie, the character in your avatar is officially called the Spring Sprite.
Don’t get me wrong, Dave. I sincerely believe that you’re doing god’s work. But I have to take a break from reading this site sometimes on account of how heartbreakingly depressing it is.
It’s like the real life version of that Angel episode where the crew has to fight a demon that brings out the primordial misogyny in every man it touches. These are the guys who have been touched.
Karalora
Alrighty then thanks.
@panda
S’okay. Religious study is a hobby of mine. And yes, Islam considers Jesus a prophet, but not the son of God, and of course Mohammed is *the* focal point. It’s interesting. Of course, the story really begins with Issac and Ishmael, being the Biblical forerunners of the Jews and Muslims respectively. I’m going to stop now, or I’m going to create a dread wall of badly spelled text (damn mobile devices).
@Inez Ugh! That episode creeped me out….