Well, ok, it’s probably not literally the worst Twitter conversation ever — you’ve seen Twitter, right? — but you have to admit it’s pretty awful all around.
In one corner, we have @apurposefulwife, “alt right” racist and defender of “Traditional Family Life and White Culture.”
In the other, manosphere clown @aaron_clarey, a dude who proudly identifies himself as an “asshole.”
Let’s get ready to rumble:
I hereby declare both combatants in this ideological battle huge losers.
The screenshot isn’t mine; I ran across it on Twitter, but unfortunately lost track of who originally posted it. Nonetheless, the tweets are real, and you can find the full discussion between @apurposefulwife and Mr. Clarey archived here.
Here are a few other recent Tweets from both of them. Such charmers!
https://twitter.com/apurposefulwife/status/688567891273199616
https://twitter.com/apurposefulwife/status/687298001920917505
https://twitter.com/apurposefulwife/status/686678320109387776
https://twitter.com/aaron_clarey/status/684856576419627008
https://twitter.com/aaron_clarey/status/686295836897210368
https://twitter.com/aaron_clarey/status/672849385722478593
https://twitter.com/aaron_clarey/status/686572810114850816
That last one is a warning to anyone tempted to buy one of his ebooks, not that anyone here will be.
Wife With A Purpose is most assuredly not a basement-dwelling male without much purpose in life beyond race baiting over the internet. Not at all.
@sparkalipoo
Not weird at all. I often get a little gleeful when I realize that something I do pisses these fart weasels off.
You can also take heart in the knowledge that because you aren’t married, you’re not breaking any contract. You’re merely committing garden variety misandry.
Don’t you just love how if a woman ages, gains weight, or in some other way fails to fit into rigid beauty standards, she’s oppressing men but if a woman isn’t attracted to a man because he’s not her type, she’s a shallow bitch?
I’m white. Can I thank myself for making the very good decisions to order a pizza and to not leave the house at all today because it’s as of now -9 outside?
I believe that Mr. Clarey is making a joke.
“Longer” and “harder” — get it?
So amusing.
Ooh, another quip from Mr. Clarey!
Once these authors are done not fretting over punctuation or grammar, they turn their manuscripts over to copy editors, who don’t fret over that stuff either, but they do make the necessary corrections.
@WWTH
Sadly, I think you can attribute that more to being sensible than being white. On the other hand, sensible is something neither of these two fartknockers have.
Kat:
Thank heaven for proofers. Yep, I usually don’t fret, as I know it will get picked up. But I once had a client ‘correct’ my punctuation in a very long, very complicated piece using a style guide known only unto herself. I was definitely fretting.
And my workplace has more than once been the scene of brutal disagreements over split infinitives.
@rugbyyogi
Ah, the split infinitive! It has nearly caused my father to disown me, especially when the opening credits of ST:TNG were playing. He’d nearly have an apoplexy just thinking about Patrick Stewart declaiming what he, my father, considered a sin worse than murder.
After reading David Crystal’s books however, I’m much more relaxed about these things. These days, when people start arguing about grammar around me I’m like “hand me the popcorn!”.
That doesn’t mean I’m happy for communication to be lax, however. There is precision available in English which should be used as appropriate. But yielding all one’s usage to rules that are largely fabricated (like the split infinitive “rule”), well, that’s not how I like to do things.
@Temascos
Welcome! Have a welcome package.
I love splitting infinitives. Or at least I don’t think it’s a problem. Grammar has moved on.
I’m going to select a ‘write in’ option for what I think of when hearing the phrase “turn of the century”:
The Louisiana Purchase (1803), or The first subway (underground) passenger system in the United States opens in Boston Massachusetts (1897).
I intend to boldly split infinitives whenever I like.
She’s talking about Middle Eastern people, right?
Yes, I like to split infinitives, when called for. Sometimes it just works and provides additional subtlety that we English speakers can and should take advantage of. Just because many other languages can’t split them, doesn’t mean we oughtn’t.
The infinitives want to cosily hug their adverbs.
I love the way racists hate on the Middle East, but ignore everything they learned in history about the Middle East being the cradle of civilization.
I really hope that Wife With a Purpose account is some sort of troll or bizarre performance art or something. Something about it sets off a ‘you can’t be real’ alarm in my head.
Ew.
Kinda on topic:
David, have you watched Aurinis new video called “Equality, Sharia and Western Marriage”?
Besides all the other huge historyfails in it, he specifically mentions men’s mammoth hunting abilities. x)
I thought they only hated feminists, not all women. So why harass this woman?
What is the goal here? Other than the abuse giving him some jollies, that is. He is an abuser in search of a target.
Tyra Lith,
Is it Christmas again already?
“Yes I do look like Charlie Sheen… minus the AIDS.”
A. No you don’t, that profile pic bears literally NO resemblance to Charlie Sheen.
B. AIDS isn’t a part of someone’s appearance, you silly man. Charlie Sheen looks pretty much the same with AIDS as without.
I know that punctuation and grammar aren’t his strong suits, but apparently coherency isn’t one either.
@Alan:
To me, the turn of the century was 2000. 1900 was the fin du siècle. 2100 will probably be in Mandarin or something.
@ EJ
Wow, now there’s a phrase I haven’t heard since one of my friends was doing her masters at art college! 🙂
(It is a good phrase though)
When I think of “turn of the century” I think of this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_D._Century
It’s probably good that I can’t read the archived conversation, since it’s “Unavailable For Legal Reasons”.
@Vucodlak
But not much more well informed, considering that both what we inhale and exhale tends to be a mixture of both.
#ThankAWhitePerson? Well . . . ok . . . . but I think if I just go up to some random person of European descent and profusely shake his/her hand while enthusiastically saying, “Thank you,” I’m going to get some strange looks.
Some days, it’s just easier to make fun of these people rather than take them seriously. There’s only so much stupidity I can handle without resorting to humor to make myself feel less depressed about the state of humanity.