Scenes from yesterday’s anti-Roosh, anti-rape rallies. With bonus Jemaine Clement

Love how the Conchords guy totally demolished Juicebro. That’s one for the ages.

Also, I propose we give Roosh the Santorum treatment from now on. Let’s give his name a definition that really fits. I propose “a gigantic, stinky, liquid shit that nearly breaks the toilet”.

Also, I hope Arm & Hammer sues Roosh for copyright infringement. Maybe someone should alert them that he’s abusing their logo.

Bina,
“Dropping a Roosh” should definitely be on urban dictionary.

I think it’s interesting that really, all it took to generate this big, impassioned response was for RoK to attempt at holding multiple events in public, offline. Like, had these meetings just happened in message boards or chat rooms (do people still use chat rooms?), well, that would’ve been business-as-usual; but, I think that the idea of RoK fans mobilizing – even in a tiny way – in the places that so many call home was enough to get people up and going and fighting back. There’s probably a lot that could be said about that; for me, it’s a reminder that the internet fosters a lot of discursive vacuums (all over the ideological spectrum, but probably more-so for the far right, which is where I’d put RoK) – when you and your online buddies all agree on something, it can be easy to forget what other people think.

@Bina

So we’re gonna give Roosh the Santorum treatment, right?

@Bina

Since Roosh complained about having to wipe his ass, I’d like to suggest we define his name as the matted mass of sweat, faeces, toilet paper, and pubic hair that develops between your ass due to poor hygiene.

Here’s a transcript of Roosh’s statement at the press conference and the video.

Talk about professional victim! Predictably, he told the journalists present that he’s going to profit from all the exposure they’ve given him.

“I must state right now that not a single woman has been hurt. Not by me…”

Yeah, except for all those women you’ve doxxed over the years you lying sack of shit.

In England, the House of Commons debated me for half an hour to say how I’m a bad man who shouldn’t be allowed in the country.

Actually, Roosh, they ridiculed your flaccid cocktail weenie.

And do my eyes deceive me, or did he actually break out the “Just For Men” beard dye, just for this sad widdle presser? Because last time I saw his grungy whiskers, they were looking distinctly whiter… #peacocking

@Bina: I think that “Roosh” could be an onomatopoeia for the sound of sugar-free gummy bears creating an assplosion in someone’s poor toilet. It’s like a combination of “rush” and “sploosh.”

Ooooo, I like that, too…

“I must state right now that not a single woman has been hurt. Not by me…”

And here is where we juxtapose…

This is the same Roosh that claims he dry-fucked one of his victims, and “pounded her pussy like a pedophile” of another.

So, Roosh, which is it? Are you a rapist, or a pretend-rapist? Inquiring minds, etc.

Omg, rush + sploosh is something that has been rattling around in my subconscience since I saw his guide in Iceland.

If he is to have the Santorum treatment, I think we need to have Dan Savage in on this, which I’ve no doubts he’d be happy to do. If he talks about it on his podcast, it would be done.

Jermaine Clement’s feed is fantastically fantastic.

This guy's a neomasculinist author. That means that this RT from me will be the most-read thing he'll ever write. https://t.co/CiJWYHOHug— Jemaine Clement (@AJemaineClement) February 8, 2016

I’m not against coming up with an insulting characterization as a useful social shortcut that directs attention to people like Roosh V and their ilk. But I’m not so sure that using a name as an insult is such a good idea, and simply choosing some gross biology to associate it to is a waste of a social effort. There will be other people with that name that will be tarred with the shame and all the best insults unpack into directly relevant social characteristics.

As an example of how this works consider “social justice warrior”. Now the functional use of SJW is in simply shutting down debate. It’s supposed to mean roughly “person fighting for social justice by illegitimate means”, but in practice it mostly means “social justice I don’t like” because I can never get the people using it seriously to detail how the behavior fits the definition. But the value to the people using it is that it does tie to a description of legitimately bad characteristics (that fit the person using it better) according to the listed definition, and the usefulness in a social conflict is in the generic terminology. A “social justice warrior” could at face value be any person struggling for social justice, which is what the people who use the term want to shoot down.

So I would recommend taking Roosh V’s awful personal characteristics, simplify them into a core set and find or make-up a term that captures it well for social conflict purposes.

Tourette’s Syndrome can give one a fascination for how social conflict, insults, and insulting characterizations work on a functional level. It certainly beats seeing it as “demons” that is for sure.