Yesterday was a big day for Roosh Valizadeh, pickup artist, rape legalization advocate and would-be philosopher of “neomasculinity.” Some highlights:
Roosh was the inspiration for a demonstration against rape culture in Montreal.
Roughly 100 demonstrators held a peaceful demonstration in Montreal’s Norman Bethune Square targeting rape culture in general and Roosh in particular. It is not known how many of the demonstrators were undercover Roosh operatives dressed as “a homosexual hipster (i.e. male feminist).” Best estimates put the number at zero. The rally was covered by both CTV News and The Montreal Gazette.
The mayor of Montreal weighed in on the issue, declaring in a tweet that as far as he was concerned Roosh was not welcome in his city.Â
On the Roosh V forum, meanwhile, Roosh’s fans scoured the news footage for identifiable faces of people they could smear, and debated whether or not they WB (“would bang”) or WNB (“would not bang”) various women who had attended the demonstration.
Roosh (apparently)Â gave his talk, celebrating afterwards by posting a video claiming a “historic victory in Montreal.”
After calling on his followers to spread false information about the super seekrit location of his talk, as part of what he charmingly called “Operation Goebbels,” Roosh apparently gave his talk in a rented room at a Montreal restaurant.
Afterwards, evidently quite proud of himself,  Roosh posted a victory video on Youtube. On the Roosh V forum, his fans happily posted celebratory gifs, including this one.
Donning a wig — no, really — Roosh hit the bars in an evident attempt to find a woman in Montreal who was not repulsed by him.
He failed, as this video of a woman tossing a drink in his face suggests.
Roosh went on Twitter to report being assaulted by “a mob,” and apparently reported the incident to police.
He might have undermined his case a little by suggesting it was “worth” it because, well, he got some action out of it, sort of.
https://twitter.com/rooshv/status/630245564983169025
The woman with the “sexy legs” responded, and suggested that Roosh had in fact put his hands on her first.
On the Roosh forums, Roosh’s fans urged him to file charges for assault and to sue everyone in sight.  And debated whether or not they WB the alleged beer-pourer.
Meanwhile, Roosh’s plan to smear his opponents online continued apace.
“By Monday,” one Roosh fan wrote, “we’ll have identified every single one of these pieces of garbage and work on decimating their future career options.”
According to this Tweet, Roosh himself was threatening to falsely report one of the organizers to social services as a bad mother.
https://twitter.com/ashleylynch/status/629954266380271616/photo/1
On Twitter, the #IStandWithRooshV hashtag has been having a little trouble getting going, generating all of 3 Tweets as of noon on Sunday.
This does not look like a grand victory for Roosh, unless his aim was to show the world what terrible shits he and his supporters are.
Its the group of people following him and letting him know he’s unwelcome that he reported as a mob, I think. That’s what I got out of the article.
Kudos! to the woman who wrote the letter responding to his little victory crowing. Thas’ my girl! Good for her!
If by ultimate victory he means humiliating route, then yeah, sure, dude!
What skeeves me out the most is, he knew damn well that what he was doing was wrong because he had the nerve to don a disguise. Fortunately the first person he met, knew who he was.
Yeah, now that I know he tried “kino” on her, I’m less on the side of throwing the beer being a bad idea. If he wasn’t taking no for an answer, that could be interpreted as self defense or at the very least a no so emphatic, it can’t be misinterpreted.
out of interest do we know how many people went to his little shindig? Although I’m guessing the number of people who actually went could be counted on one hand…if it had had all its fingers removed.
Given that additional background information, I’m okay with the beer toss. Gawd, he’s a slime bucket.
Ladies and gentlemen, the human rights movement of our time.
He deserved the beer.
Hell I would’ve had no problem if someone knocked him out for molesting her.
Dear anonymous beer-tossing woman,
You’re my hero.
– “Miss Andry”
p.s. I recommend pepper spray.
Oh boy. Drama, drama, drama. So, Roosh and followers declared victory because he managed to hold his speech. If he didn’t, he would publish a video of the speech on You Tube and declare victory again because more people would be able to see the content of the lecture. It’s easy to win when you’re shifting goals midway, but fine.
As for the beer in the face, I don’t know. It’s not that he didn’t deserve it, but I feel like getting physical was not the best thing to do because it just gives Roosh and his minions the material to claim that his opponents are authoritarian and juvenile freeze peach haters. Sure, some of them are, but I believe most people who oppose Roosh do so because he is a piece of human garbage.
As for this woman who knew exactly who he was when he approached her but kept playing the game, I think that is the best strategy for giving him what he deserves. He approaches you, you pretend not to know who he is, go with the flow and then fuck him up (I don’t mean physically) moments before you were supposed to have sex with him.
I think a beer to his face is the very least he deserves. In fact, it would have been preferable for the beer to be in an unopened can.
He would have claimed that anyway. I don’t think it’s useful to cater your activism to how the people you oppose will misrepresent it. Everybody is opposing Roosh because of his vile shit. There might be perfectly legitimate disagreements about tactics, but the goal is the same. And “freeze peach haters” are a non-existent group that lives in the fevered minds of those who want to spew forth vile hate without being called out on their shit.
I recommend about a foot of heavy rubber hose instead of pepper spray, for those who worry about potentially getting hit with the spray due to proximity – hose doesn’t leave bruises but is quite effective. Not that I’d know such things from experience or recommend acts of violence. Just self defense. 🙂
Sorry, I hope “fevered minds” is not an ableist term. I think of it more as a way of hyperbolic thinking, but I apologise if there is a meaning I didn’t get.
“Roosh apparently gave his talk in a rented room at a Montreal restaurant.”
I feel sorry for the other kids at the Chuck E. Cheese who had to listen to his garbage.
I agree with Bernardo Soares here. Remember, these people claim to oppression for having to wipe their own asses. There’s literally nothing we can do that will make them not claim victimhood, so let’s not kid ourselves.
What a disgusting, cowardly little shit. I hope his moments of clarity are pure hell.
That beer throwing felt so, so good. I don’t think I would be able to control myself if put in the same situation.
@Pandapool
And let’s add a few AA batteries 😛
Good for her.
Hi Lux
How’s the election going? Now with all the interesting facts you provided about Argentine politics I’m sort of envisaging that any inauguration will be like the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark when they’re all on that island.
I’ll be a bit disappointed if there isn’t at least one attempt at magic or necromancy.
Roosh getting a beer thrown in his face, and publicly driven from a bar by angry patrons is exactly the reception he deserves at any club, in any country, at any time.
I’m at a loss to understand this “man”. What a mess of insecurities and biases he must have been raised with. What a horrid, tiny, tiny, person he is, that he has made such hatefulness his mission in life. He reminds me a great deal of Fred Phelps, not just in opinion but in that he seems so desperately lonely for attention that he mistakes negative attention as just as valuable, to the point that it’s all he seeks anymore.
Roosh always knows his way with teh ladies.
Where the heck did he get that obvious wig?? Did he think it would work as a diguise??? That’s just… beyond ridiculous.
Yeah, totally alpha, you desperate-sounding creeptacular shoe-sniffer.* What a scrub.
* Like, no offense meant to anyone who has a foot fetish, but Roosh sounds like one of those desperate weirdos whose opening line is to beg random girls in bars to let them smell their toes.
I’m really glad to see groups of people looking out for each other and confronting a toxic rapist shit-stain. If this raises awareness and makes people more alert to creepy behaviour from people who aren’t internationally-recognised rapists, I’d start to feel a lot better about clubbing again.
If Roosh is still publicly attempting to spin this narrative into his Epic Saga of Heroic Alpha-Manliness even after being publicly denounced as a pariah, then I wouldn’t count on him having any epiphanies very soon, Syn.
It’s sickening that someone who gets so up in arms about what amounts to a minor incident, that he is fundamentally responsible for, is so flippant about rape.
Personally I wouldn’t, because the woman herself said that Roosh just grabbed her waist and dragged her into a bar. He will stoop to the level of physically forcing himself on someone to get what he wants and remember, he thinks that if you’re alone in a room with him you are consenting to sex, no matter what you actually say. Even if a lady were to mess with his brain and then walk out, he’d probably just grab her and rape her and then justify to himself that she must have been displaying LMR or something.