It’s quittin’ time here at We Hunted the Mammoth. So let’s start off the weekend with a Roosh-Free open thread. Feel free to talk about anything and everything that is not Roosh. Like, for example, that weird old ad above. No trolls, no MRAs allowed.
Yeah, props to you Land Whale. I’d never have the patience for people like that. I’m far too negative about my own life to put up with other people’s willing negativity.
Sargon of Akkad’s critique of bell hooks is a massive heap of fail.
I have blocked Sargon, so have no idea what he’s talking about. Bell Hooks is great and I can’t imagine him able to say anything to detract from that.
He basically tries to suggest that bell hooks’s use of a Marxian class analysis makes her a radfem and a communist (and therefore Anita Sarkeesian is a radfem and a communist). He gets an F in twentieth century social theory.
Thank you for the review! I am glad I stopped paying attention to that bronzed clown.
I think Sargon is aware he’s deceiving people. The research he does for videos is mostly accurate, but he makes illogical leaps in a way that makes it appear to gullible people as if he’s being logical and cautious. His listeners eat it all up.
The RationalWiki article on him is decent. He’s willing to be left wing on issues that suit him. He tries to make it seem like there’s no distinction between American progressives and communists (the Leninist variety or similar) and that they have vast influence on society in North America and the UK.
Carl “Sargon of Akkad” Benjamin is an intellectual in the same way that I was a pretty princess that day when I found that dress in the second-hand shop. Just because you wear the clothes and say the words, doesn’t mean you’ve done the years or have the faintest thing what you’re talking about.
However, for those whose idea of an intellectual is a talking head on Youtube who’s willing to insulate them from having to do their own reading, rather than a person who gives them a whole bunch of papers to look up, he manages to pull the costume off. He is, in short, the very definition of an ignorant person’s idea of what a learned person sounds like.
His whole I’m-exasperated-with-the-idiots-that-surround-me schtick gets really dull, too. For heaven’s sake dude, the world is full of wonder and full of amazing people. If you keep hanging out with idiots then that’s on you.
Excuse me for butting in, but I have a question. Well, I need advice/guidance, really.
I commented on this YouTube video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CkoMbxHQmuM
in reply to Idiodyssey87, the third comment down. I don’t know why, it was a weak moment.
Anyway, this commenter has asked this question. I was going to just ignore it, as I couldn’t be bothered really. Would you? What would you say?
@Ashara Payne
The answer is: do whatever the fuck you want, dude. If you don’t want a monogamous relationship, then just don’t get into one.
The commenter is also making flat out wrong assumptions, such as sexuality being the only aspect restricted within a relationship. I know, for example, that I wouldn’t be cool with my wife moving in with another person, pooling her money with that person in a shared bank account, taking that person’s last name, adopting cats together with that person, spending every day together with that person, being cuddled up in bed with that person every night watching youtube clips on her laptop, etc etc etc etc etc. In short, this commenter hasn’t thought this through.
In other news, Richard Dawkins recently had a stroke. Not as in “wtf is wrong with Dawkins, did he have a stroke?” (EDIT: I know this is ableist, and I wouldn’t actually say that in response to Dawkins saying something stupid), but in the literal sense. They say he’ll make a near full recovery, though.
Let’s hope he has a speedy recovery.
Get well soon, Richard Dawkins. You’re my fellow human being and I feel for you.
I am having the worst week.