Things may be about to get very messy for pickup artist and most-hated-man-in-the-world candidate Roosh Valizadeh.
S. Jane Gari, the author of Losing the Dollhouse, a memoir dealing with emotional abuse, writes in a recent blog post that an Icelandic woman has come to her to tell her story of being raped by Roosh.
Up until this point, as Gari notes, Roosh has responded to accusations that he is a rapist — a conclusion many have come to by simply reading his own deeply creepy and unsettling accounts of his past sexual exploits — by proudly declaring that not a single woman has come forward to accuse him of rape.
“You would think that one girl would have come forward by now and say, ‘Roosh did it. He raped me,'” Gari reports Roosh as saying during his bizarre recent press coference. “Not one has come forward. Not one.’”
“Now she has,” Gari declares.
One of Roosh’s victims read my blog back in November and reached out to me, asking for my help in exposing him. She finally agreed to be interviewed after seeing how he continues to spout his poisonous, misogynist rhetoric with sickening bravado. I hope her courage will inspire other possible Roosh victims to come forward as well.
Here’s the story of the woman Gari calls “Susan” to protect her anonymity. (You can find more details on her blog.)
When Susan left a nightclub with her friends, Roosh, approached her on the street and insisted on walking her home. She asked him to leave her alone. Later, when she became separated from her friends, she noticed he was following her.
“You have a beautiful but sad walk. I know a great place to have a drink. You can join me. It will be fun,” he said.
Susan, Gari writes, told him several more times she didn’t want his supposed help, but he continued following her anyway.
When they reached Susan’s house, Gari continues, Roosh
asked politely if he could just use the toilet. Sleepy and still drunk from her night out, she acquiesced and let him in to use the bathroom.
Up until this point, Susan’s story matches one of the stories in Roosh’s book Bang Iceland almost exactly. The disappearance of Susan’s friends, which Roosh saw as an incredible bit of luck for him; Roosh following her home despite her clear and repeated protests; his insistence on coming in to use the bathroom — all of this is in Roosh’s own account.
It’s at this point that Roosh’s and Susan’s stories diverge wildly.
In Roosh’s version of events, she thanks him for walking him home, and after heating up some soup on the stove, joins Roosh on the couch
putting her legs over mine. Her wet feet were tiny and I compared them to my hands, which were a few inches larger. I went into horny creep mode and started rubbing her legs while talking.
Yes, even in Roosh’s own account, he comes across as a creepy predator.
After a brief conversation, they start kissing; she gets up, pours herself a bowl of soup, then heads into her bedroom.
“I followed her,” Roosh writes.
It went so fast in her bedroom that even I felt weird. Clothes ripped off. “Do you have a condom?” Jam the dick inside. Barely any kissing. I was too drunk to feel anything and she was too drunk to produce much in the way of lubrication, so after five minutes we stopped having sex, if that’s what you want to call it, and lay on our backs. She fell asleep and started snoring.
The next morning, Roosh says, he got up and left while she lay there sleeping.
As Roosh tells the story, in other words, he had brief, bad sex with a woman who was so not into it she was bone dry, and so drunk she passed out shortly after he gave up. It’s not clear even from his own account whether she was lucid enough to give meaningful consent. (This, by the way, is NOT the Icelandic woman Roosh has said he had sex with even though “in America” she would have been considered too drunk to give consent; that story comes later in Roosh’s book.)
Susan’s account of what happened after Roosh emerged from her bathroom is even more troubling. As Gari tells the story, Roosh asked her if she was home alone. When she said yes,
he asked her to touch his penis. When she refused, Roosh grabbed her.
Susan started crying and said, “Why are you doing this? You’re crazy.”
He laughed and overpowered her with force, saying, “All girls like this. It’s every woman’s fantasy. You don’t even know what you’re saying. You’re drunk, but I like drunk girls.” And then, according to Susan, he raped her.
So which account is more plausible — Roosh’s story of drunken but consensual sex or Susan’s story of forcible rape? If the latter, is Roosh’s version of events a lie, or is it his attempt to convince not only his readers but himself that what happened was just bad sex, not rape?
It’s worth noting, as I did in a previous post, that Roosh has admitted elsewhere to using force to get his way during sex. In Bang Ukraine, for example, Roosh describes using “muscle” to hold a woman down after she told him she wanted to change positions when the two were having sex. “I refused and we argued,” he wrote.
She tried to squirm away while I was laying down my strokes so I had to use some muscle to prevent her from escaping. I was able to finish, but my orgasm was weak.
Afterwards I told her she was selfish and that she couldn’t call an audible so late in the game.
This, too, Roosh presents as perfectly consensual sex.
Even if Susan’s account of Roosh raping her is 100% true, it’s unlikely Roosh will ever be prosecuted for this alleged crime. “He’s an American and she lives in Iceland.,” Gari notes. “She feels she has no recourse.”
Gari ends her post by urging any woman who may have been victimized by Roosh to step forward as Susan has done.
As Gari is careful to point out, Susan’s allegations against Roosh “have not been brought formally, nor has he been found guilty of a crime in court.” And I should note as well that I have not spoken to Susan myself; I am simply relaying what Gari has written. You can draw your own conclusions from the story she tells. I know I have.
Minor correction: 55 women, so far.
This is the sort of thing which makes me not want to do anything nice for a man ever, in case this is what they do. I really hate the idea of refusing to let someone use the toilet, because it’s a required bodily function, but the brutal truth of it is that I know some guys where I honestly would not want to let them in my home even for that, because once they’d finished in there they’d settle themselves down and follow me into the bedroom and generally would not leave until they got what they wanted, the way Roosh describes himself as doing.
I need a unicorn chaser.
Here’s some dogs being cute, and funny.
“What on earth does “call an audible” mean? Do I want to know?”
In American Football, a quarterback (the one that throws the ball) can call an “audible”, which is when they tell the rest of the offense to change positions so they run a different play than the one that had been originally called.
Further confirmation then – if any were needed – that Roosh is at best the crappiest lay in the Northern Hemisphere and at worst… well, a rapist and a promoter of rape.
You can’t change position? Because it might interfere with his enjoyment?
My, what fun: I’d rather have a boil lanced.
Looks like Roosh is in the middle of flouncing off Twitter.
Srsly, fuck Roosh’s enjoyment of anything. I hope the next woman he approaches deals him so much humiliation that his penis wilts permanently.
Excuse me, I need to go throw up a few hundred times. And find my whiskey bottle.
Good gods all above! I hope Susan is okay and that she can find peace and healing. I hope that nobody else needs to come forward; and I know that that is not going to be the case.
To every woman who might have been raped by Roosh. We, here at the Mammoth, hear you and believe you.
(If you don’t, then you probably shouldn’t be here.)
AsAboveSoBelow,
It doesn’t say why though.
Weird.
What I got from his feed is that he’s moving to Russia now and he keeps spamming some story about a “hot blonde girl” who’s dying of cancer and has decided to share all of women’s secrets. Without even clicking on the link, I’ve got to say it sounds like an obvious troll as one of the secrets is women have sex with dogs.
It is hilarious to me that Roosh is complaining about SJWs repressing his freeze peach so he’s moving to a country where dissent is actively repressed by the Putin government. I guess the only frozen peaches that matter are those of conservative men.
I have a feeling that if Cosby is convicted, more women will come forward to accuse Roosh as well, due to precedence.
@Bina,
I assume he’ll knock on the door of his local Ecuadorian embassy and ask for asylum. After all, it worked for the other guy, and he’s still pretty internationally renowned, right?
Assuming the Ecuadorians point and laugh at him, I hope someone gets it on camera.
@WWTH: Twitter just formed a “Trust and Safety Council” that includes Anita Sarkeesian. Watch the manurespherians blame her if there’s a mass Twitter exodus. I think Roosh just doesn’t want to be challenged or made accountable to anyone. He’s a fucking coward.
I would love for there to be a mass exodus of twitter misogynists!
Eh, Twitter says it’s going to do something like this every few months and always “Forgets” the very next day.
I wonder if this is the same account wherein he later added that the girl and he had sex a few more times over the next several days? It sounded to me like he made this claim of sleeping with the *possibly raped* young woman “several more times over the next few days” so as to sound like oh, she would not have let me bang her so many more times if the first time hadn’t been OK with her.
I am just too chocolate-caked out right now to search his quotes to see if indeed this was the same woman or not that he gave his later addendum to.
Which makes the fact that people still defend him even worse.
One man calls a woman a sl*t/wh*re/says she fucked him, and everyone and their dog believes him, but 55 women say a man is a rapist and people will still jump to defend him and call them liars.
I read Elliot Rodger’s manifesto to deal with online trolls. I really don’t want to read Roosh’s books if I can avoid it, but it’s important to line them up for a lot of reasons. I hope they can be torrented because I’m not giving him my money (also I’m unemployed…)
For the moment, he still lives in Maryland with his mother so Susan could report him to the authorities there. Moreover, I doubt Roosh can afford moving to Russia or wanting to. The claim he lived in Poland was probably to discourage his victims.
His line about ‘it’s every woman’s fantasy’ sounds like something Doosh would say. Yes, some women do have rape fantasies, but if you read the psychology of it, it does NOT mean they want to be raped. The fantasy is that she is so desirable that Brad Pitt (or whoever) can’t control himself. No-one fantasises that some Doosh will rape them. And what’s with the small foot fetish? He is sounding more and more like a paedo. One of the other women he raped he described as ‘tiny’ and how much that aroused him. At least they have his books as evidence, but he’ll most likely say they were satire. He even suggested to Reggie Yates that all men have done it and asked him if he had and was surprised when he said no. He clearly has never had enthusiastic consent, ever.
Did anyone else catch this author’s account of the “Nice” guy who started his attempted rape by asking his date if he could come in for a glass of water? The woman had a great date with the “Nice Guy” and had definitely shot down his earlier sexual advances, but now I’m wondering if he was just pulling a Roosh.
“Nice Guys” often sounds just like “Nice Guise”.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kirstenking/i-dont-owe-anyone-my-body#.sik67ZV0o
I can hear the manhood jokes in charmingly accented Spanish already.
“Quien es el pendejo de mierda con la salchicha chiquitica? Porqué no se límpia el culo?” Etc.
I’d love to reply with a message of support on S. Jane Gari’s blog, but I can do so only using Facebook to sign in.
Manospherians have showed up in the comments, so anyone who doesn’t mind using Facebook to sign in might consider clicking through and sending a message of support.
Susan, I believe you! I wish you all the best.
And S. Jane Gari, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
I fixed the name thing; it should be “Susan” throughout.
Margaret, you’re right. Roosh wrote about using the bathroom ploy in BANG:
In the Iceland story he claims he really did need to piss that time, but yes, this is is apparently a trick he pulls out all the time.
Don’t. Even the cable guy, I take his id before he enters and keep the police number dialed at the phone by my side at all times when I am alone . I look behind me at the street every few seconds and carry my keys as a weapon. I am never alone with any man other than my father and brother and gay childhood friend. A goddamn life of taking extreme care, and still, several times, it was not enough.
And then they complain when we say all men are potential rapists.
Whoa. I just finished a post on some stupid, racist, homophobic stuff Matt Forney said on a more recent podcast. This was on the 12th and I have him defending Roosh as well, using the same “You’d think someone would’ve come forward” shtick. Guess I’ll update accordingly. In the morning, that is.