As 2015 winds to a close, I thought I’d take a look back at some of the We Hunted the Mammoth posts that got the most attention over the past 12 months. Ten of them, to be precise. As these posts remind us, it’s been a weird and often sad year, one punctuated all too regularly with outbursts of misogynisticĀ violence.
Indeed, there were so many such incidents that my post on Roosh’s bizarre and deeply creepy proposal to end rape by making it legal (on private property) didn’t even makeĀ it into the top five.
Let’s hope 2016 is a little happier. Or a lot.
Scott Adams: We live in a matriarchy because men have to get permission for sex
MRA Peter Nolan: “Killing women is the only path to justice for men now.”
Feminist activist Grace Mann murdered; blogger blames her death on feminist jokes about misandry
Umpqua Community College shooter apparently announced his plans on 4chan yesterday
I’m not done with the 2015 retrospectives. I’m going to assemble some less-depressing best-of-2015 lists for you all over the next several days.
Are these ranked? Which is the highest?
That was a lot of nope in 30 seconds.
I remember the Furiosa thread. MRAL came back like a monster from the ancient world, and got torn to pieces by Lea, Kirbywarp and Policy of Madness.
They don’t make trolls like that any more.
I might have to go revisit the Fury Road thread later. It got necro’d for months. I remember that much.
Seeing Peter Andrew Colon justifying femicide after a couple of threads in which men murdered women just for being women really puts the whole thing in perspective, does it not? I have no doubt that this man really does want to kill women in general, or at least a number of women in particular, ones known to him (and who have been trying to escape him for years).
Gawd how I hope the police are on the alert for him, wherever he is right now.
Breaking News:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/30/bill-cosby-charged-sexual-assault
@Alan I have doubts as to whether they’ll get a conviction, but the evidence against him is overwhelming. It probably depends on whether the other allegations are admissible as evidence to establish a pattern of behavior. A reasonable doubt would require that all the accusers are lying.
@ History Nerd
I know you certainly don’t mean it that way, but it’s a complete myth that a rape acquittal means the complainants must have been lying (or that the jury thought they were).
It’s that myth that feeds into the MRA ‘false accusations are rife’ thing.
As to your query re admissibility, I don’t do legal commentary any more but you may like to Google ‘similar fact evidence’ for some background.
@ History Nerd, frankly I don’t see how they could exclude all the others in a meaningful way. That is to say, everyone already knows about the allegations, and even if they instruct a jury to ignore them, they almost certainly will have the other stories in the back of their minds. It’s going to be tough finding an unbiased jury.
I’m speaking theoretically about reasonable doubt. There are lots of aquittals based on the jury’s unreasonable doubt.
@ History Nerd
Yeah, there is some evidence to suggest that some US juries interpret the direction as *any* doubt. So any bizarre hypothesis compatible with not guilty gets an acquittal; no matter how implausible it may be.
In England the actual test is “so that you are sure [of guilt]” (although fictional works still use the ‘reasonable doubt’ thing). I don’t know if that’s any easier to apply.
As to the admissibility of the other incidents, like I say I won’t comment on the particular Cosby case, but Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence are identical (save for some bits only applicable in civil cases) to the general Federal Rules of Evidence.
[Similar fact evidence is Rule 404, if you want to have a look]
This means I’ve commented here for almost exactly 1 year. š
Happy Mammothversary, dhag!
I’d like to see Cosby get convicted. Might show other rapists that if he can get sent down, so can they.
I hope we can get justice in the Cosby case, too.
I’m sad because I’m disappointed in him, though.
@sunnysombrera
Thank you!
Cheers David! This has been the best year of the blog since I read it, and I got LOTS of links to interesting articles and resources of all kinds.
Thank you for keeping this beautiful, loving community and for your commitment to the Elders of the Feminist something somthing world domination.
I will refuse to click on any of those articles today, and will post circus kitties instead:
Also, how come RESPECTS IS EARN didn’t even make it to the list? HOW HAVE WE FAILED!?
Or any meme article, for that matter. Did I mention I love meme-themed articles?
Looking forward for more random memoirs! Consider making a list of meme articles! š
EDIT: RESPECTS IS EARN is from November, 2014. I’m still glad I brought it up.
@Falconer: Yeah, exactly. I’m still trying to reconcile the horrible behavior of the man with his ability to create some really classic comedy (and I’m not even talking about the Cosby Show here but rather his albums– I *still* smile thinking about lines from “Chicken Heart” or “Driving in San Francisco” or “Noah”, but the smile is tinged with sadness).
Aside: Anyone want to place bets on which MRA o MRA-adjacent sites this guy posts on?
http://m.newser.com/story/218277/guys-views-on-sex-disqualify-him-as-teacher.html
Jurgan, these are ranked by the number of pageviews, starting with the most-viewed post.
Luzbelitx, thanks! And there’s a meme-centric list coming up soon!
I’ll be doing a bunch more lists, actually, and they will all be less depressing than this one. A lot of ridiculous things happened in the manosphere this year.
Happy mammoversary, dhag85!
@EJ
Thanks!
Unfortunately, a significant number of people probably still think Cosby’s accusers are lying. Hopefully the prosecution will do a good job.
Wait, MRAL was in the Furiosa thread? Under what name?
@Orion:
He was posting as AlFromBayShore.
So the Feminist Morays came from the Furiosa thread. I was wondering about that.