Milo Yiannopoulous — the Gamergate icon and reactionary Breitbart “journalist” — has some exciting personal news to report. In a Breitbart post today, he proudly announced “I’ve just been appointed the first visiting professor of Men’s Studies at Oberlin College.”
You may be wondering why Oberlin college would hire a far-right hack journalist with no academic credentials to head up its new “Vladimir Putin Global Centre for Masculine Awesomeness”. And that’s because Oberlin didn’t. The post is an obvious, albeit gratingly unfunny, joke from Milo.
Don’t tell that to the folks in the Men’s Rights subreddit, who are convinced his appointment and the Putin Centre are totally legit.
In his post, Milo quickly “clarifies” that he’s not being hired by the real Oberlin Colllege in Ohio, “home of hate crime hoaxes, false allegations of rape, and the shameful treatment of feminist professor Christina Hoff Sommers,” but by a Polish college with a similar name, the “the lesser-known Oberlinksi [sic] College, established, according to legend, by the great educationalist Czesław Benedykt Oberlinski.”
Needless to say, “Oberlinksi College,” the correctly-spelled “Oberlinski College” and Mr. Oberlinski are all wholly imaginary.
Milo’s post couldn’t be a more obvious joke if it had the words “obvious joke” superimposed over the text in 96-point type. I mean, the “Vladimir Putin Global Centre for Masculine Awesomeness?” And his promise that
on the first day of class, the illegitimate and oppressive myth of the “gender pay gap” will be symbolically burned on a campfire, the manliest bonding activity we can think of.
While some of the commenters on Breitbart seem to have gotten the joke, such as it is, the regulars on the Men’s Rights subreddit actually think that their beloved reactionary Milo is going to be a real professor.
In two separate topics on the front page, each with dozens of upvotes, some of the more gullible regulars are enthusiastically celebrating his imaginary appointment to an imaginary school:
One hailed the imaginary appointment it as “good news for genuine egalitarianism.”
Oh, Milo has his detractors. Some commenters noted they were none too happy about his pro-circumcision stance; another wondered a little about his lack of qualifications for teaching imaginary classes at an imaginary school.
But no one there — at least as of this writing — seems to have realized that Milo’s “appointment” and his “Vladimir Putin Global Centre for Masculine Awesomeness” aren’t real.
Now I am laughing at my own incapacity. I really don’t understand what you are trying to say as I re-read your comments.
I’m saying that defending Men’s Studies when the article is about Milo’s anti-feminist “Men’s Studies” is a bad idea.
-Rick Thomas
Milo has a carrier? I’d say to alert the Navy, but the thing’ll sink soon enough, under the combined weight of Milo’s oversized ego and his infinite supply of bulls*t.
I’m so sorry you fell for the joke, but you don’t need to lash out at David. Perhaps cope by taking a time out or a nap? Maybe go for a nice walk?
You managed to come to terms with it when you discovered that Stephen Colbert was doing satire and isn’t a real right winger. This too, shall pass.
I get the impression that there is something special about Oberlin to cause Yiannopolous to chose if for his “piece”. I can see its a Liberal Arts college and its rank 50th by Forbes in the US. And that’s only in the US not a global rank, that and Palin-ization of Russian US relations he’s a bit of a poor writer.
My spouse likes to refer to Putin as “their favorite Batman villain”. I’ve seen the Masculine Putin! thing as both celebration and satire depending on the context. I get the impression that is was initially intended as criticism but then became co-opted by people using him to make a point about US politics. It’s pretty similar to the Rick Perry/Obama at 19 photos that went around during the 2012 Republican primary season.
Putin is trying to build up a tough-guy image that sells in Russia and to US conservatives, but most of the rest of the world thinks it’s ridiculous.
Oberlin is a particularly liberal college which would be the sort of place that would have a pro-feminist men’s studies program — but definitely not Milo’s kind.
Including the fact that he doesn’t even like gamers:
https://storify.com/x_glitch/the-gamergate-supporting-journalist-who-hates-game
So basically, it doesn’t matter how ethical or hypocritical you are, as long as you tell gators exactly what they want to hear.
Journalism ethics at it’s finest.
Sorry for the double post, another point of ‘hilarity’:
Milo Yiannopoulous reciting trite old stereotypes about gamers on his twitter? Totally fine, he says he changed his views.
Anita Sarkeesian once in a video said she’s ‘not a fan of gaming’ when referring to intense subcultures? Ultimate proof that she’s a liar and a con artist!!!!
Gator logic at it’s finest.
Huh, does Milo work in pet supply design as well as virulent misogyny? I’d suggest he sticks to his day job, then. Working for the furrinati is always going to be way better paying, more respectable, and more enjoyable than spewing hate on the Internet.
> Sounds like you’re jealous of Milo and his successful carrier.
I mean, Canadian telecom companies kinda suck, but…
No, it isn’t, and where the hell did you get that “understanding”? “Men’s Studies” claims that men are OPPRESSED by feminism.
Milo Yeah-NOPE-olis is a non-journalist himself. Meanwhile, you may want to take a look at David’s sidebar and see all the real journalistic sources he’s written for. Bitefart isn’t one of them, because it’s not a news source, it’s just a shitty blog founded by a raving jackass who basically raged himself to death.
Oh, and Milo’s a fraud, too. Just thought you should know, since you seem rather blindly uncritical of your “sources”, even by drive-by troll standards.
Is there even such a thing as Men’s Studies? Isn’t that just called “the sciences, arts and humanities”?
@EJ
I was thinking the same thing, but, like “History is already men’s studies.”
… Huh? The fuck did that come from?
Relevant:
http://jezebel.com/5512796/mens-studies-too-feminist-for-you-meet-male-studies
So that’s actually just a department of Biotroofs?
A successful Carrier:
…OK, let’s try this again and hope the image embeds this time.
A successful Carrier:
http://i.imgur.com/j70PlBH.png
The most famous successful carrier of all
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTAwNjU5NDQ3MzleQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU3MDExMzk3MjE@._V1_SY317_CR6,0,214,317_AL_.jpg
My first boyfriend was a Putin fanboy. He was all about the whole “manly Putin punching bears” meme and stuff like that. Being younger and more confused at the time, I couldn’t quite articulate why that creeped me out.
On a nicer note, I wonder how their human will tell all the Siamese kittens apart? At the moment they really do look like adorable clones.
What, does Milo have access to some sort of viral disease through a person who shows no symptoms of said disease and who happens to be successful in life?
http://media.giphy.com/media/eHO86fSBQUNKU/giphy.gif
(Seriously though Rick, if you’re going to come in here to mock us, check your autocorrect.)
We all know David’s true masters are our Femicommunazi Overlord Katie (ALL HAIL KATIE) and the Furrunati’s Division of Feline Overlords.
But, since David created the blog and writes for the blog (and a slew of other, reputable places), does that mean that David is David’s boss, and thus, David’s boss (who is David) can give himself a raise?
That just means he isn’t trying to flirt with us, Paradoxical.
(That joke never gets old.)
Is this carrier the furniture of law enforcement?