So pickup artist and rape legalization proponent Roosh V has, he says, filed charges against a woman who allegedly threw beer in his face outside a Montreal bar on Saturday night. That’s his right, of course.
But reading the statement he says he gave to police, I was struck by the tone of wounded innocence that runs through it. In the forum post on the subject, sounding a teensy bit like a stereotypical 19th century Southern belle overcome with the vapors, he complains about being “attacked” by the woman and her friends “after I was seduced by a young woman.”
In the statement he says he gave the police, Roosh affects a tone of indignation at the allegedly deceptive behavior of this young Jezebel.
I talked to one girl of the group who gave me the name “Jennifer.” She complimented my beard and general attractiveness and asked me to come outside with her for a cigarette. She is approximately 23 years old, shoulder length hair, brown hair, brown eyes, and slim build. She has a piercing between her nose like farm bulls have.
It’s called a septum piercing. You do live in the 21st century, do you not?
I went outside and sat next to her. She began sensually rubbing her legs against mine. Her skirt was short.
That hussy! Getting him all hot and bothered with her “sexy legs” before tossing a drink in his face.
After the beer-toss, Roosh reports, the alleged assailant and her friends followed him down the street,
yelling vulgar language. One girl yelled, “Eat my cunt.”
Heavens to Betsy! A woman referred to her delicate vagina flower using a very rude word!
Apparently, in Roosh’s world, only men are allowed to use that word. He and his followers certainly use it often enough.
A search on his blog for the word “cunt” returns 305 results.
In a post entitled “The True Nature of Women,” for example, Roosh writes that
within every woman on this planet, regardless of her education or background, is a bitch, a cunt, a slut, a golddigger, a flake, a cheater, a backstabber, a narcissist, and an attention whore that is dying to get out … .
In one called “It’s Your Fault That American Women are Winning,” he demanded of his readers
When was the last time you put an Americunt in her place?
He seems to like that particular portmanteau. On his site Return of Kings, he published a post titled “A Perfect Example Of The Americunt.”
Meanwhile, a post on RoK titled “American Women Are Only Good For One Thing” declares that
[m]ost of today’s women are bitchy, masculine, selfish cunts with inferiority complexes that make them think they want to dominate men.
The sad truth is that decades of feminism has reduced women to nothing more than three holes and a set of tits who are only as good as the orgasms they provide men.
In “Why You Should Avoid Dating Girls Who Claim They Were Raped,” another RoK writer informs us that
[e]ven the most manjawed cunt secretly harbors fantasies of locking down a good man, marrying him, and thereby trebling her disposable income. Chicks will cry rape if it means endless, adoring attention with zero associated cost. But they won’t if they think getting raped renders them unattractive in the eyes of men.
In other posts, RoK writers complain about “empowered femcunt doublespeak,” “Sheryl Sandberg-clone femcunt[s] …who have brought into the myth of office-cubicle empowerment,” and the sad fate of men who have “a cunty controlling bitch of a wife.”
I could literally spend the rest of the day providing more examples of “cunt” usage from Roosh and his friends from his two main blogs. If I started searching his forum as well, I suspect I could be at it for the entire week.
In other words, I’m pretty sure Roosh has heard the word before.
Were any woman to post a police report like the statement posted by Roosh, she would quickly be accused of “damseling” and worse by dozens if not hundreds of MRAs and PUAs and other assorted misogynistic woman-pesterers online.
And they’d call her a cunt, as well.
Oh, look, Had To Be Said is being inexplicably obtuse and still trying to convince someone (Us? Himself? Unidentified lurking trolls?) that being disgusted by dehumanizing actions is “any sort of disagreement”?
Well,
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Phew, got that off my chest. Please go on like I haven’t been here.
Been reading some of the comments on the ROK site that was linked to. It’s beyond parody.
This is a *serious* discussion they’re having.
Floyd Maywether is criticised for assaulting a woman in a domestic violence incident.
Ronda Rousey not only beats up women, she is rewarded for it.
That demonstrates double standards.
It’s almost like the guys there don’t understand consent.
Might go some way to explaining why they are so into false equivalence though.
@ Alan robertshaw- It’s like those guys don’t understand how sports work. If I play hockey on the ice everyone’s happy, but start skating around in my office building everyone loses their minds.
HTBS is to Roosh like Woody is to Paul Elam. Therefore I believe this is in order:
Shut up, HTBS.
(doesn’t quite have the same ring to it. shucks.)
http://i.giphy.com/htwlcwuJcHq5q.gif
That works.
@ever-more-tedious troll
http://i.imgur.com/AVSrSMd.gif
(I tried to include Roosh’s beer bath, but the potato-quality vertical video just couldn’t be saved. Oh well.)
@buttercup, @katz
The visuals are hysterical.
@alan robertshaw
Ha, ha!
…and I’m DRUNK WITH POWER!
(Too much kombucha today. Sorry, people.)
@HadToBeSaid,
No one here would support violence being done to Roosh, except in self-defense. The disconnect between us and you is that you’re the only person who considers dumping beer on someone’s head to be assault.
@SHFC
So much misandry there!
@Kat
Cheers! Mind the Blockquote Mammoth, though…
Almost, but not quite. They understand it perfectly well, but they want it to become irrelevant so they can go on molesting women with impunity. Right now, things are on the verge of tipping in the favor of women and the need for enthusiastic consent (as opposed to tacit nope). They don’t like the loss of power that this entails, for them.
And yeah, how about those false equivalences. Two female MMA fighters duking it out publicly in a refereed pro match ≠ a boxer abusing his partners behind closed doors. The former is a fair and consensual bout, the latter is most certainly not. But they would like the rest of the world to think that the two are the same, and that not seeing them as such constitutes “hypocrisy”. Nope…it’s more like a perfect illustration of why consent changes EVERYTHING.
Oh, I see our troll is still here. Hey, Had to be GONE, have a meme on me:
http://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/usercards/1339426725154_9146065.png
@Bina,
I wonder what they’d think of this recent example involving two male football players.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/13416881/geno-smith-new-york-jets-6-10-weeks-broken-jaw
While it is perfectly acceptable for one football player to tackle another football player during the course of the game, it is unacceptable for one football player to sucker-punch another football player, breaking his jaw, in the locker room during training. The tackling is okay because everyone playing understood the risks involved and agreed to participate in the game. The surprise sucker-punch isn’t okay because it was an attack on an unsuspecting, non-consenting victim. As such, the puncher has been fired from the team and could face charges if his victim chooses to press them.
Oh, also, Roosh, Had to Be Said? Getting punched in the face is an example of what assault looks like. Getting beer thrown on you is not what assault looks like.
@Bina, @Alais
Excellent points about consent and assault.
I saw a quote on my FB feed credited to John Oliver: “Sex is like boxing, if both people don’t fully agree to participate, one of them is committing a crime.”
@ Had To Be a Concern Trolling MRA:
It is sooo obvious that you don’t absorb the content of any of the clear, detailed responses to your whining. This makes any discussion with you pointless. If you’re trying to pretend that you do absorb the responses, then you’re doing a REALLY lousy job.
And I got attacked by the Blockquote Mammoth…
John Oliver has been absolutely great so far.
@ Rosa DeLava
Apparently, she says she rapes her partners all the time; she won’t take no for an answer. And it’s never been a problem! Therefore it shouldn’t be a problem when men rape women. Ha, ha, ha! Do I smell smoke? Are Janet Bloomfield’s pants on fire?!
And to answer your question, Yes! Rape is always in vogue in the manosphere!
Oh yes!! The same montreal police that are investigating the beer throwing thing are also investigating Roosh!! For harassing women on his blog!!! Thank god and good for them!!!
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/08/11/beer-thrown-on-pickup-artist-roosh-v-probed
“Montreal police are also investigating posts on a personal blog on Aug. 1 and 2, which they believe Valizadeh wrote.
“It talks about women, it targets some women with the purpose of harassment,” Richer alleged.
Investigators are “trying to figure out if we have jurisdiction or not,” he added.”
Katz:
But…Victim blaming! Just like saying that women who interact with men privately should prepare to get raped!
(/sarcasm)
If the women being harassed were locals, then yes, you have fucking jurisdiction! Send word to the Toronto Police Service, if necessary, and get that fucker before he skips the country!
Yup. Tackling is part of the game, and they train for it. Sucker-punching in the locker room isn’t.
Long argument short: If it’s not part of your refereed sport, and you’re not doing it in front of a paying crowd, you’re committing a crime.