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.
Sorry, I meant ‘are’. I suggest to myself that I proof read before I even start digging next time.
@Jackie
If you have a lot of time and a willingness to read some uncomfortable things, there is a book called Sojourner Truth’s America by Margaret Washington. It’s a biography, but more than that. It goes deeply into the social context in which Sojourner Truth lived. It’s very long and a hard read, not because of the way it’s written, but because of the content. I got a lot of my information about early feminism from that book.
@bigboy, still waiting for that link that proves feminists want to kill 90% of men.
bigboy-
“I did, don’t like names, nothing I can do. You made up your mind.”
You CAN actually do your research and post links. Seriously, it isn’t that hard. Google is just a few clicks away.
I keep thinking about the word, radical. I think it’s a beautiful word (from “radix”, or the root). But I rarely use it, because it’s taken on such terrible implications.
I think people conflate it so much with extremism, so that at times even extremists themselves adopt it, believe themselves to be radical, use the term to justify destructive anger and bigotry (TERFs, as an example).
I liked the summary of radicalism I once heard when listening to Noam Chomsky,probably one of the gentlest humans on the planet :)…
“Authority isn’t an inherent right: the greater the use of authority, the greater the need for justification.”
It made great heart-sense to me, and hearing it felt like drinking water, just that simple and essential.
Not sure why
bigboy loves
these dramatic pauses.
It occurs to me that some dudebros are still all het up about Valerie Solanas for attempting to kill one man over forty years ago. Oh, yes – and Andrea Dworkin for not actually saying that heterosexual intercourse is rape. If a woman burst into a college classroom and shot multiple men, can you IMAGINE their reaction?
Just FYI, the right’s new strategy is to win the 2016 election turning liberals against Hilary Clinton so they’ll stay home on election. They know that demographics and ideas are against them, this is all they have left. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/us/politics/the-right-aims-at-democrats-on-social-media-to-hit-clinton.html?_r=1&referrer=
I have plenty of criticisms of Clinton from the left, but if the Republicans think that means I’m sitting out the election if she gets the nomination, they have another think coming.
@PoM
I can imagine it’ll be a hard read with, you know, the slavery at the very least, let alone it being about a black woman in the 1800s. I’m crying and feeling disgusted already.
In fact I’m pass the Race and Feminism part of the paper and it mentions Sojourner Truth’s Ain’t I a Woman? That’s also probably something I should reread, too. I remember my English teacher having us listen to a recording of it in class.
Oh, and that’s another thing. I have NEVER seen evidence that any feminist had said that. They would have to show that
1. it was said by someone who is known to be a feminist, and not just a troll using a new twitter account.
2. that this feminist is well known and a notable influence to feminist politics, therefore giving a legitimate reason to criticize the whole of feminism for one tweet.
3. that it was not part of a sarcastic retort or is obviously meant to intimidate or demean men as a whole.
It’s utterly bizarre to me that this ONE comment, that we don’t even know if it EXISTS, is viewed as worse than the string of violent hate speech we come out of the male supremacist camp on a daily basis. Even if this one comment were to exist, it is NOTHING compared to the doxxing, racism, transsexism, gay bashing, Islamophobia and other hideous and horrible things that these supremacists do and continue to do without taking any responsibility for their actions.
This also underscores the problem that MRAs say “Look, we have good points! Here, read my little list” as if that little list justifies the ass ton of contemptuous bigotry spewed by them.
And these guys think we have something to prove to THEM?
FFFFFFFFFF
*flounces glitter*
9:11 “One more question and the troll will leave.”
Like they say in AA, one is too many and a hundred isn’t enough.
@Nameless Wonder
The 90% of men should die was from a blog post of a frustrated 22 year old woman 2-4 years back.
You know, a true leader.
http://thoughtcatalog.com/jake-fillis/2014/05/23-quotes-from-feminists-that-will-make-you-rethink-feminism/
@NamelessWonder the “kill 90% of men” quote exists, but it was said by a woman who explicitly says she is not a feminist (she also doesn’t have influence to enact her male genocide either). People like @bigboy just make the assumption that a bad woman must be a feminist despite all evidence to the contrary.
Exactly, exactly.
But they stand by while Elliot Rogers did his worst and Grace Mann was murdered in cold blood after being threatened with horrible rape scenarios by antifeminist turds.
Is it possible to flounce glitter in two sequential comments? Starting to think it’s likely…
@Jackie
The way we have received the “Ain’t I a Woman” speech is problematic. The version usually referenced is clearly wrong, because it uses plantation slang, whereas Truth was from New York and spoke with a Dutch accent. It was also written more than a decade after she gave it. A more contemporary version has her speaking in a very different tone. The content was similar, but it bothers me that we give more weight to a version written by a white woman than the version that Truth actually delivered.
Oh look. Trollboy’s here again, and drunk again, and hanging around an awful lot of the very women he claims not to be interested in. Yet he IS interested in trying to “gotcha” us with a lot of obscurantist bullshit…AGAIN.
Trollboy, you’re drunk. Go home.
Snuffy: Speaking of assumptions, wheres the proof that she wasnt?
Why don’t we just say what they are?
PSYCHOPATHS
@bigboy she lists in her profile that she is non-feminist, what proof do you have that the Femtheist IS a feminist?
@PoM
Well that’s just not cool. All the versions I’ve found are all the same, except for this one which appears to be the article in question and has such charming quotes, like, “Wall, chilern, whar dar is so much racket dar must be somethin’ out o’ kilter.”
I don’t know Dutch accents but that doesn’t read very Dutch like.
I got horrible flash-back to the time when I tried to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
@Jackie
Bizarrely, Wikipedia actually has the contemporary version up and it looks to me to be accurate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%27t_I_a_Woman%3F#First_recorded_version
I hope that’s the version your teacher played for you, but I won’t be surprised if it isn’t.
Snuffy: I stand corrected!
Never heard the term femtheists, but o.k.
I guess she just a psychopath.
Hey @bigboy, here’s some context for your quotes
http://franklyno.tumblr.com/post/66730593551/unchecked-feminist-quotes-a-list-for-mras
Like I said, while ago
Good Night!