The regulars in the Red Pill subreddit are working themselves into a little bit of a lather over a story about an angry wife who tossed her beta-bucks-providing husband out of the house after he was photographed dancing on a table with a belly dancer at a bachelor party. Adding insult to injury, this was very the same woman who, only a week earlier, had been out on the town with “a handsome French bowling instructor.”
That woman’s name? Marge Simpson, her beta-abusing, alpha-chasing ways dissected in a blog post titled “The Simpsons: Hypergamy, and Male Disposability in “Life on the Fast Lane” and “Homer’s Night Out” (1990).”
Yep. They’re getting worked up about two quarter-century old Simpsons episodes:
As the regulars see it, the Simpsons episodes offer clear proof of Red Pill wisdom.
But some of the regulars are as frustrated with Homer as they are angry at Marge. After all, Homer brought all this upon himself by not being the alpha asshole of every woman’s secret fantasies.
“Homer is beta as fuck, and Marge aimed early for BB [Beta Bucks]” writes one. “As she reaches 34 she sees her youth has gone and has a fleeting last chance for alpha.”
Another adds, I suspect only partially tongue-in-cheek:
But whatever anger the Red Pillers feel towards Marge — or frustration they feel towards Homer — is nothing compared to their fury at another Simpsons female: 8-year-old budding feminist Lisa Simpson
![makethemsayayy 6 points 1 day ago i used to like the simpsons, now i find it fucking insufferable, I have to change the channel when annoying bitch Lisa goes on her tirade I have to change the fucking channel and Marge is a hypocrite cunt permalinkembedsavereportgive gold [–]Donateandfeelbetter 1 point 1 day ago Lisa is nothing but a no good uppity bitch who needs to get the feminist bullshit smacked right out of her little bitch ass mouth. Someone should hit that ugly undesirable bitch. The only reason she is a feminsit is because non of the guys other than milhouse want her nasty ass.](https://i0.wp.com/www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/lisabitch.png?resize=491%2C308&ssl=1)
The one commenter who suggests that maybe putative alpha males shouldn’t really be getting this mad at a couple of Simpsons episodes from 1990 is rewarded with downvotes for his heresy.
![friendlysociopathic -3 points 1 day ago If you have reached the point where a cartoon child forces you to turn off the TV you have gone too far. This is what I expect to hear from SJWs. permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive gold [–]MortalSisyphus 5 points 1 day ago Obviously he isn't responding to a "cartoon child" as you so simplistically put it. This was a character developed by real people and her words were written by real writers, and this is an ideology being pushed by thousands of media figures, educators, politicians, etc. on to the public. It makes perfect sense to avoid something being shoved in your face repeatedly. permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive gold [–]friendlysociopathic -2 points 23 hours ago* It is a cartoon little girl and it bothers him so much that he has to switch the channel. This is not alpha behavior by any metric on earth. If you think this is acceptable behavior in an adult male you are beta as fuck to the very core. permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive gold [–]Special Olympianmakethemsayayy 1 point 1 day ago Maybe I have, obvious pandering and claiming women are better than men is just gonna piss me the fuck off from now on. At least my assertion has all of human history behind it.](https://i0.wp.com/www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/notalpha.png?resize=491%2C618&ssl=1)
As another fictional beta bucks provider said of the hypergamous slut who was ruining his life, “you are tearing me apart, Lisa!”
H/T – r/TheBluePill
How can you be hungry for food metaphorically?!!! Step your writing game up if you want to ride in on that pompously verbose steed
Of all people, Batman rails against the evils of rock’n’roll in Batman: Fortunate Son. Which is a rock’n’roll song by Credence Clearwater Revival. (Not the Batman: bit, the Fortunate Son bit.) Linkara skewers it thoroughly, as I recall.
Why would Dumbledore have had any power over Planned Parenthood in the first place?
Because they’re dumb?
Do Gravity’s Rainbow next!
It’s “asseverate,” smarty-pants. Latin root. Ad- prefix assimilated to the following S.
The magical world has its own version of Planned Parenthood; it generally has better family values than the muggle world but there are still many secularitists.
Rock and roll is indeed and rather indisputably a product of the powers that be, as is television; Redpillers should not focus on the scrambled pervocracy that is the sum total of cartoons and television shows. Rather they should focus on high-minded pursuits such as classical music, Gregorian chant and literature.
Oh, Hobbes, I wish you could quit us.
Regarding the OP – ay caramba!
I haven’t watched the Simpsons in a while but when I last saw Lisa had become nothing more than a soapbox for when the writers really wanted to get preachy. It seemed so out of place for a 8 year old (of any gender) to care that much about politics or current events.
Marge never bothered me.
I will be able to quite soon; big things are happening for me
Has anyone made a book of hobbes? It could be a nice companion volume to the book of owly.
By classical music, do you mean classical, or the compilation of the classical, baroque, and romantic periods? Why is it ‘and gregorian chants’ as opposed to adding classical guitar? What about early folk songs as collected by some of our romantic composers on the side?
And why literature? How do you define literature? What makes a work worthy of the addition into canon? Why should we privilege Plato over Aristotle, and why do we accept the deconstructionist school of literary analysis? Why do we even read Freud in literary studies?
Why am I even asking?
Don’t answer, Hobbes.
Rousseau is so much cooler than you… And he was kind of a jerk, to be honest.
Hobbes must spread his word so he may rise to a higher plane of existence.
This just baffles me. Are they seriously trying to say that the Simpsons, whose de facto main character is a lazy, obnoxious, irresponsible slob who gets by in life thanks to sheer luck and the superhuman patience and understanding of his loved ones despite him mostly being an insensitive, self-centered jerk is somehow treating Homer unfairly? The lack of real, lasting repercussions to many of Homer’s terrible, selfish deeds is what often bothers me about the show*.
Also, even if we ignore the chronological issue with referring to Homer as “a former astronaut”, doesn’t this again just show that they think that completely unrelated achievements should absolve a man of his responsibility to be a decent human being? Homer was once an astronaut (not by merit, but who’s counting), so he cannot be expected to treat his family and friends with dignity? Man, no wonder most of these guys are libertarians. “I have money, therefore I don’t need to take other people into account! Neener-neener-neener!”
It reminds me of the episode where Marge develops a gambling problem, and in the end, Homer mercilessly taunts her for it, explicitly stating that his various misdeeds don’t count “because you have a gambling problem!”
*Although the show Married… with Children features a lot of really bothersome portrayals and “jokes”, I think there is one merit to the show: Al Bundy is miserable not because of him being a ‘hapless beta’ who is being treated unfairly, but because he’s a selfish, creepy asshole who screws over himself more than anyone else does. He is explicitly shown to deserve all the bad things happening to him. In fact, pretty much all of the characters in that show are terrible people, and therefore we don’t mind seeing karmic justice get thrown into their faces. Most of the time, at least.
@Robert
If anyone wants me, I’ll be in my room
/obscure Simpsons reference
@Pandapool: So? verbal or not, why does that matter? We have a nazi joke movie trilogy here (Der Wixxer) and the movie about Hitler coming back to life as a comedian. Nevertheless, drawn together does seem to be scripted by MRAs.
@ethfiel,
If you’re German, maybe you can clear this up for.
I have been told that Germany has extremely strict laws against displaying or distributing Nazi symbols or materials, and that these laws are so strict that they apply to anti-nazi as well as pro-nazi media. The American RPG game “City of Heroes” used to have nazis for the heroes to fight, but they removed the nazis before the game was released in Germany. I have heard anecdotes suggesting that other video games about shooting nazis (and America makes lots of games about shooting nazis had to make sure the nazi bases and soldiers did not display the swastika in order to evade German censors.
I don’t know if that’s true or not, but I suspect that Panda has heard the same rumors. So when she says the jokes are “not verbal,” I assume she means that the nazi characters on the show fly a swastika or nazi eagle flag.
People still watch The Simpsons?
@Orion:
The Swedish video games company Paradox publishes a lot of military strategy games, and they have been very careful to remove certain symbols from them entirely in order to prevent their games being banned in Germany (Germans are one of their main markets, apparently.) In their games, they use the 1871-1918 flag instead of the Nazi flag, and the Balkenkreuz instead of the swastika.
I’m interested to hear how widespread this is.
Yeah. That’s what I mean. You censor a bit of Nazi stuff in some cartoons and you don’t get the joke because a Nazi is saying it, not just a normal guy.
Of course, don’t remember the exact references. I could be confusing stuff but yeah.
@Robert Kelly Holy crap, you’re right! I completely forgot about those scenes!
@Anarchonist I love Married…With Children! Al Bundy was a sexist pig and the universe often punished him for it. In contrast to that, he was also an underdog, a lovable loser. There was always this fascinating balancing act and I feel he is one of the most memorable TV characters for it.
My favorite moments of the show were anytime any of the characters were surprisingly charitable, kind or supportive of other members within the Bundy family. They were a family of uncouth misfits but when push came to shove, they were a family, above all else. The show had this unique ability to present the Bundys as despicable sociopaths but also as the downtrodden, who were constantly being punched down upon by the “higher class” of people who were secretly just as “bad”, or even worse. The Bundys were at least honest.
“Our emotional scars run so deep, you can almost see ’em.”
My favorite character, though was Kelly. Though she embodied the stereotypical “Dumb Blonde” trope character, she would often show sparks of unfiltered wisdom and self-awareness.
“You can’t be this dumb.”
“It’s the 90s’, I can be anything I want.”
One of my favorite episodes is “Al… with Kelly”. It’s a total bottle episode, wherein Al and Kelly pretend to be sick to get out of visiting Peg’s Mother. They’re excited to have the house all to themselves but once again, the universe tortures Al throughout, by making Kelly actually get sick, forcing him to cater to her. Sure, he’s a selfish ass who complains about having to actually care for his daughter but it’s very telling in the way he meets her every whim, even going so far as to go to the store, in the rain and bring home a soggy loaf of bread. 🙂
Paradox does EU, right? Many of my friends from high school play it, but I went with Dominions for my “absurdly detailed asynchronous multiplayer hardcore strategy game” and never looked back. No regrets. The only online game where I’ve built any kind of rep.
Paradox did EU, HoI, Victoria et al., but their big recent breakthrough hit was Crusader Kings 2.
I’ve never played Dominions, but the words “absurdly detailed hardcore strategy” are as sweet, sweet honey to me. I might have to check it out.
The main community/info source for Dominions 4 is the forum on Desura. It’s available on Steam but the developers are active on the Desura forum (as am I, when I have time). Desura isn’t the *biggest* Dominons community — SomethingAwful is — but is, you kno, SomethingAwful. I wrote a balance mod (which has been obsoleted by a patch) and guides to a few factions. I am on the We Hunted the Mammoth Steam group as Orion the Celestial Carp.
There are no Nazis in Dominons because the timeline for fantasy-germany ends with a feudal kingdom of mounted knights and undead soldiers commanded by vampire nobles and advised by the Illuminati.
There’s no “Florian Geyer disapproves” image macro, but there should be.
That does look pretty good though.
If Marge settling for Homer is an example of “hypergamy”, it’s almost as if the word has lost all meaning. Like jiminy jillikers!
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