STOP THE PRESSES!
Everyone’s favorite pickup artist guru Roosh Valizadeh has announced that he is cancelling all of the 165 meetups in 43 countries he had planned for this coming Saturday.
I can no longer guarantee the safety or privacy of the men who want to attend on February 6, especially since most of the meetups can not be made private in time. While I can’t stop men who want to continue meeting in private groups, there will be no official Return Of Kings meetups. The listing page has been scrubbed of all locations. I apologize to all the supporters who are let down by my decision.
Huh. Should we take him at his word on this? Roosh, in addition to being a terrible person, is also a bit of a troll. It wouldn’t exactly shock me if Roosh’s alleged cancellation turned out to be nothing more than a ruse, that the meetups are still on, and that he’s simply moved the planning for his meetups out of the public eye.
[EDITED TO ADD: It looks like this is indeed what he’s doing, organizing them secretly on the Roosh V forum, now closed to outsiders, at least according to sources with accounts on the forum.][EDITED AGAIN: Here are some screenshots (not mine) of his forums showing some of the places where they’re still trying to organize meetups.]
[EDITED AGAIN 2: REDDIT BOOGALOO There’s a stickied post in the Red Pill subreddit inviting all properly credentialed red pill alpha dogs to come to these super secret alternate meetups.]
If he really has cancelled them, the question becomes: did he do it because he was genuinely afraid for the safety of himself and his fanboys? Or did he take a look at all the protests being scheduled and realize he would look foolish if, in location after location around the globe, tiny groups of Roosh fanboys faced off against big crowds of mocking feminists? Hell, maybe he realized that in a lot of the locations he announced he was going to have trouble getting even one person to show up.
Will we ever learn where the pet shop is?
I was pretty sure this was going to happen.
I never for a minute believed his fans were capable of organizing 150+ events in one weekend and arranging secret venues for them. I strongly suspect he never intended these events to be real, he just wanted a news cycle.
I give it about 50/50 they were called off.
Since they were never big events, just get togethers, it is trivial to move them.They were never big public things anyway. Or he just reschedules them since he got his press. (Most likely he doesn’t bother and just tells the local tribe leaders to schedule their own whenever.)
By canceling them, he gets to avoid people reporting they were overwhelmed by protests. (Even though he wasn’t staging rallies in the first place.)
So all in all a big win for him, although people who really loathe him probably also got to expand the knowledge of how horrible he is.
Well, according to our only reliable local paper – no, not the Seattle Times, sillies! The Stranger! – there are meetups planned in the Seattle area. Ugh.
The Stranger also has a suggestion for what to do should one find oneself near one of these groups:
http://www.thestranger.com/events/23515482/heckle-misogynist-assholes
So I guess we’re on top of things out here in Cascadia.
He will never be accepted by the people he is trying to touch with his post-“PUA” career pivot.
He lacks the… genetic heritage to be successful. It’s hard to be a white supremacist when you’re Iranian. I’m sure he fools himself by soothing himself on his Aryan heritage.
For that I find him a pitiable creature.
In Canada, where I am, mayors of some of our biggest cities released statements saying that he was unwelcome because of all his gross behaviour. So, I don’t think he’d be showing up anywhere here without a fight, especially from law enforcement, because one city (I think it was Victoria) did threaten him with arrest.
I vaguely assume it’s some sort of false flag and then there will be ‘real’ meetings and they’ll be all cheered about their intelligence and how they beat the FEMINIST CONSPIRACY and they’ll accomplish sod all.
Sometimes the whole ‘I’m goin’ Austraya!’ comments from folk overseas come across with the same air as ‘I’m going to Narnia!’ It isn’t a real place to them. A while back when Obama got elected we had a tonne of rethuglican spouting the ‘oh yeah? I’m MOVING TO AUSTRALIA!’ line, which was puzzling, because at the time we were led by an atheist, childless woman. Pointing this out did no good, because for them, Australia was a mythical place to be name dropped occasionally.
Town halls eh. Righto Roosh, that was really going to happen.
Roosh raising his profile is somewhat of a double-edged sword; just think, when the time comes where he needs to get an actual job…
@Curry
If the people Roosh is trying to touch don’t want him to touch them, they have every right to cut off his hands…I mean to not be touched by Roosh. And if necessary use non-lethal and not likely to maim means of subduing him so he does not touch them. Any touching from Roosh = BAD TOUCH. VERY VERY BAD TOUCH. 😉
May he go forth and walk only upon the legos forever and always barefoot.
P.S. I don’t believe he’s telling the truth about all meetups being cancelled.
If this is indeed true, then I have but one thing to say:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr3Cmu6yQuI
I hate that I’m still sort of torn on what this was; I assumed it was more PR stunt than reality, but I also feel like it’s still a huge possibility. And I still don’t necessarily feel safe going anywhere near the location mentioned for Taipei (nearest city mentioned to where I live). My friend contacted the bar mentioned for the meet-up to let them know about it and found out that they had no prior knowledge of this and didn’t support it at all.
And in trying to ascertain more information about the Taiwan location, I found the terrifying White Boys Club for Bagging Asian Chicks. This helps prop up my “I’m not really comfortable talking to Western blokes, especially white ones, in Asia” feelings. They’re either “feminists” (because they think feminists are sexually liberated! and therefore more willing to give in to casual sex — I’ve personally heard this line and talked to other women who’ve been inundated with it) or “I only date Asian chicks because Western chicks are bitches and Asian chicks are easy” racist douchebags.
From Steampunked:
Don’t forget that you also have had strict gun laws since Howard, and a lot of these creeps are totally <3 gun rights <3 people; it's so bizarre that anyone would've chosen Australia. It was also fun that they were choosing Canada, too. We can't have healthcare! If we get single-payer healthcare, I'm moving to Canada…? Oh, okay, sure, that makes sense. (Same pretty much applies to Australia, too.)
I’m still confused why anyone thought he was going to Australia.
He was never organizing meetings, though, so that was hardly an impediment. He asked locals if they wanted to be tribe leaders and told everyone to do a meetup at a given day.
So all he does now (assuming he won’t do the big “I tricked you all!” later) is tell them to organize their meetings on their own time.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
http://media.giphy.com/media/3oEduPQqbpT1LqVOz6/giphy.gif
I mean, agreed with everyone who’s not quite sure what to make of this, but nevertheless this still tickles me.
He’s trying to make it seem like both he and his fans are being persecuted.
Wait, Australia actually exists? Next, you’ll be telling me that this is a real animal:
http://d3lp4xedbqa8a5.cloudfront.net/s3/digital-cougar-assets/AusGeo/2014/09/25/54168/Pygmy-Possum_Amanda-McLean—Copy-(1).jpg
@RosaDeLava: OMG THAT DR. SEUSS LOOKING PEARL.
Remember when people said that if Obama was elected/Obamacare passed they were going to move to Canada?
Good times.
Mommy and Daddy must have cancelled Rooshie’s travel funds when they heard he was planning to make an ass of himself smuggling illegal weapons into Australia.
Poor widdle Rooshie.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Owww, how am I gonna know if I’m an alpha male?
The original plan was way beyond his abilities and I’m sure he knew it. He bluffed and now gets to cry persecution for not doing what he says. He’ll probably get a GoFundMe running from that.
Dammit, and I had a plan too!
I was going to arrive early at the meeting spot so as to get there first, and then as people trickled in I was going to tell them that I was the organiser and that it had been moved to a new site “for operational security reasons.” Each Pet Shop Boy would be given a different “new site” to go to, so that they would wait fruitlessly without meeting one another.
I had a list of Funniest Places in London To Send Them all picked out.
Wether or not the meetings will happen, Doosh definitely enjoys being a “martyr“. I think the best kind of protest against him involves mockery. DIsplaying too much outrage will only feed his martyr complex as well as that of his followers .
I wonder what random movie he will boycott next!!! 🙂
@dhag
Ghostbusters will be coming out soon, right?
I can see the argument for bringing Roosh’s vile opinions to public attention (“sunlight is the best disinfect” etc.).
However there’s also the danger that it plays into his hands. No matter what the outcome, he’ll twist it into a victory.
How any victory translates into to a real benefit for him I have no idea. I can’t work out whether he’s cashing in on and promoting mysogyny for financial reasons or whether his primary motivation is just to troll and any cash from that is just a side benefit.
Waleed Aly makes a strong case for just ignoring him.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/02/waleed-aly-social-media-bait-misogynist-provocations
My favorite was when people said they were going to move to Canada after SCOTUS ruled in favor of same-sex marriage. Never mind the fact that it’d been legal in Canada for a decade.
Ah, in more good news, Cosby’s application to get the case against him dropped has failed:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/03/bill-cosby-judge-reject-motion-dismiss-prosecution