So our dear old friend Matt Forney, the neo-Naziesque internet doofus, has found himself suspended from Twitter (again), shortly after posting an assortment of tweets so wildly homophobic they even managed to offend the lovely Milo Yiannopoulos and his internet horde.
According to noted free speech expert Matt Forney, Matt Forney was suspended “because I was guilty of Being Conservative on Twitter.”
Evidently the powers that be decided at their latest meeting that Forney constitutes A SOMEWHAT SMALLISH THREAT TO THE NARRATIVE, and thus must be silenced, sort of, by not being allowed to use one of the many social media platforms available to him.
Twitter may be picking on me because I’m popular enough to be a threat to the leftist narrative yet small enough that they can silence me without causing much of an uproar.
Naturally, the rule-abiding Forney, who insists he “wasn’t doing anything that could be considered a violation of the Terms of Service” has violated these same Terms of Service by setting up a new Twitter account to get around the ban. Just like he did the last time he was banned, if I recall correctly.
As for Milo, Forney insists that
I like Milo … but I question how much longer a guy who brags about having gay sex with black men can call himself a conservative.
Here’s some examples of the kind of TRUTH* that Twitter will be shielding us from.
NOTE: aforementioned TRUTH* should not be confused with real truth.
How will the world’s Twitterers survive being deprived of these insights, at least if said Twitterers don’t bother to subscribe to Forney’s “backup” Twitter account?
Nightmare, sweetie.
Sorry. I just wanted to use that gif again.
And speaking of gifs, in case any excessively literal-minded hostile readers are reading this, please note that this post contains
I would imagine some of these alt right turkeys are into the samurai. Someone might want to point out to them that what we’d call homosexual behavior was not uncommon amongst the samurai and other groups in feudal Japan. The Tokugawa Shogunate had a pretty good run for a culture that they think should have fallen apart in short order because they didn’t punish anybody “being gay” they could get their hands on.
@Gert
You’re making me feel really fucking shitty and it’s uncalled for. And you didn’t care or apologize when I explained how you’re making me feel, which makes me feel really unwelcome. Even though 3 other people have countered what you said, guess which one sticks in my mind? (That’s not a personal failing on my part; it’s how human psychology works.)
Please apologize and for the love of Pete, please stop using fat as an insult.
Edit: @IP Logically I know that fat people are cute. I find fat people cuter than thin people most of the time, myself. But decades of programming tell me that I am not. I’m working on it. I can even look at myself in the mirror naked for the whole time I get ready in the morning and not feel bad. But when I think of how I look to others, that’s when I feel bad. 🙁
Who’s the one with the henoheno avatar? I think they might appreciate this celebration of Forney’s current fortune: imgur.com/w8Hlgnn
@kupo *offers hugs from another fat person*
I swear I thought IP was a woman. Not sure why, but I did.
This guy is a waste of oxygen.
(I might be… Ok, I AM slightly tipsy. Apparently I added more bourbon to my flavored fizzy water than I thought I did. IP, I hope you get sleep!)
@Phryne
Everyone seems to think that about Petal at first. Probably because of their cat avatar.
Thanks for the hug. :3
Speaking of which, silly question but how do you get an avatar in this forum?
I finally got a job, it took a long while to sift through all the truck driving positions that my town seems to be in desperate need for, but I got work. Also thank you guys for suggesting a diary while I take the meds, suddenly had a dizzying case of anxiety, and there was my emotion diary ensuring that everything’s okay.
ISIS as a successful society because they hate gays…what?
Keep fighting the good fight Matt (/s)
Ooglyboggles-You can upload it on your account page in WordPress. Just log on, click on the your account icon and the ‘upload profile picture’ thing would be in the top left corner above your username. 😀
Aw. Good thing he didn’t sell out and back out or whatever it is red pillers and MRA’s don’t do because they so alfa. The manosphere without Forney would be like pizza without the anchovies.
@Ooglyboggles
A job? That’s fabulous news! I hope that you enjoy your new position.
I’m no expert, but I thought that while at sea the Vikings banged whoever was available, and that was mostly other men? Also remember hearing that there were quite a lot of openly gay Taliban. Oh, and there were persistent rumours about King James 1st/6th, although that wouldn’t really count as openly gay. And even from a totally callous, self-interested perspective, the UK would have been a more successful society if it had continued to make use of Alan Turing’s talents after 1954.
@Kupo Hugs.
Congrats, Ooglyboggles!
@kupo:
Your fatness or lack thereof does not bother me whatsoever. Even if it did, you have no responsibility to please my eyeballs in any way.
If someone feels bad because they see a fat person… well, maybe that person should feel bad.
Personally I thought that IP’s tirade was very funny. IP, you write good invective, and that’s coming from someone who has really awful teeth too.
@ Sheila Crosby
William of Orange was also noted for playing (with) male favourites and let us not forget poor Edward and Piers Gaveston
@Phryne & kupo
The cat is a boy though. :p
I think it’s also the screen name. Some Minecraft players still thought I was a woman after more than a year on the same server. I view it as a compliment, since I imagine it means I haven’t been guilty of too much macho posturing, mansplaining, creeping, etc.
I’m also not sure about my gender identity anyway. I’m going with non-binary for now. But I look like an average dude.
@Axecalibur
Actually 5’7. I told you, that guy is my exact opposite.
@EJ, MissEB, Buttercup
I’m glad something good could come of this.
@ shiela
As Facebook might put it, ‘it’s complicated’. The first thing to bear in mind is that there’s no such thing as the Taliban per se. There’s a big schism between the Pakistani Taliban and the Afghan one for instance. There are also various sub-divisions within those groups as a whole.
Pashtun culture has the concept of the Halekon.
Trying to fully explain what that means would be like trying to encapsulate ‘gay culture’ in a single blog post.
One aspect though reminds me very much of some of the old classical western warrior cultures, that it was ok for manly men to have relationships with boys, so long as the boys were very young and pretty and the warriors dominated the relationship.
It’s fair to say though that, even though it’s an open secret that this goes on, officially the Taliban(i) very much disapprove.
@kupo
I know it’s difficult to view yourself fairly, especially when it comes to looks. I used to be much more concerned with what other people thought of my weight than I am now. One thing that really helped me was finally realizing how ridiculous the idea of the One True Ideal Appearance is.
As an adult, I’ve always been attracted to fat women. In my experience, many guys who have this preference tend to treat it as a kink or fetish. They’ve been taught that thin women are who you should be attracted to, because the quality of being thin is objectively attractive. This creates cognitive dissonance for some people. They’ll convince themselves that they actually like thin women, and that their attraction to fat women is just an annoying itch that can be scratched by the occasional porn binge, ONS, or whatever.
I remember an old call to Dan Savage’s podcast, in which a straight guy asked why in the world he had this strange compulsion to sleep with “ugly women”. From his call, it was clear that by “ugly” he really meant “fat”, and that he was highly attracted to fat women. He was so confused by his own personal preference that he assumed it must be some kind of mental illness. It also clearly made him feel contempt toward these women. This way of thinking is so obviously destructive, yet many people seem unable to snap out of it.
I’ve always known that I’m not particularly attracted to conventionally attractive celebrity women, such as artists or actresses. From there, I still had to come to a realization that I don’t have to pretend to like what I don’t like. I can just accept that I like what I like. It’s so much easier, more honest, and better for everyone.
After coming to the conclusion that I simply happen to be attracted to fat women, which is just a preference like any other, it immediately became obvious that I wasn’t the only one with this preference. It also made me understand why some other straight dude would be attracted to, let’s say, a thin woman with some random facial feature that I happen to dislike. My preferences were, of course, no more universal than the preferences of others.
Since I had now proven to myself that some straight men are genuinely attracted to fat women, it was a natural conclusion that some straight women are also genuinely attracted to fat men. I didn’t have any reason to believe that women’s preferences were significantly more uniform than men’s. Since most of us agree that women are people, it’s rational to assume that they are individuals with differing preferences, just like men.
And then, unsurprisingly, I suddenly started to find plenty of women who liked or didn’t mind fat guys.
@IP:
Deep wisdom is spoken.
@IP
By tall, I meant taller than Gimli, son of Gloin. Still taller than me, Gojira 😛
Feminist blog, cat pic, Petal… Yeah, I thought you were a woman for some time. Even knowing you were a ‘they’ didn’t help much. Got it eventually. Really shouldn’t have taken as long as it did
And you don’t write particularly masculine, as odd as that sounds. I mean, how many people would think anything other than 16 year old boy from my diction and cadence? The fact that I look like a 16 year old boy is just icing. I’m a fuckin child without my facial hair ?
@IP: It’s very true, I think we all need the wakeup call in life that “conventionally attractive” is at best just the plurality of preference, none of us have any idea how many people have looked upon us and thought “hot damn” nor how many people would be so into that if they knew us.
My current beau found me frustratingly distracting because she found the way I would take my watch off and fiddle with it mesmerizing.
Before I met her I didn’t really imagine women thought I was attractive at all.
@ axe, IP & EJ
Speaking of height, you may remember a while back I tried to do a little survey. The reason was that one of my friends suggested there was a correlation between height and pro-feminist views in men (she didn’t phrase it like that, we don’t talk like we’re research scientists, but that was her thesis).
I’m not sure how to actually conduct an experiment though. Maybe you three could line up by height and give scores to Jezebel articles or something?
So, uhm… On the subject of splash damage… >_>;;
Why ever not?
That sounds like a fun piece of research to do, although feminism is IMHO not a one-dimensional quantity. IP is more radical on gender stuff than I am, for example, and that might complicate it.
IP, if it’s not a disrespectful question, do you identify with male feminism? I’m interested to hear your position on the matter now that you don’t identify as male.
@SFHC
Whoa. Is that a pun? If so, nicely done. If not, yeah, I’m sorry for the whole thing. I posted an apology upthread.
@EJ
It’s not a disrespectful question, but I don’t know how to answer it.
I have never strongly identified with the label ‘male’. As I got older I started to feel very uncomfortable with the fact that others would describe me as a man. For some reson, I didn’t think of this while I could still reasonably be described as a child, teen, youth, etc. I think I was 19 when I had a conversation with a close friend, and she was the first person to refer to me as ‘a man’, to my knowledge. I instinctively frowned at that. She went on to say that if I were to be involved in a crime or an accident, the newspapers would say “a 19 year old man…”. I think I continued avoiding thinking of myself as an adult until my mid 20’s mostly because I didn’t want to be identified as a man by default.
Because of this, I’ve never identified with the label “male feminist” either. I’m not entirely sure what it implies. I also don’t have the experience of living as a woman in society, so I don’t mind if feminist women prefer to call me “pro-feminist” or an “ally” or whatever. I’ve self-identified as simply “feminist” since I started paying attention to these issues. I could also note that I haven’t really heard any Swedish feminists express the opinion that men shouldn’t use the label.
So, either way is fine with me. Regardless of the label, my opinions are unchanged. Having said that, I don’t like to openly identify as feminist to others in meat space. I look like a man, and I’m primarily attracted to women. As far as other people are aware, I’m just a straight dude. I know that I personally somewhat side-eye straight guys who make a point to announce their feminism, or who otherwise try too hard. (I’ve always been creeped out by Richard Carrier, for example.) I’d generally hope that my feminist views would be reflected in my behavior. If someone were to straight up ask me if I’m a feminist, I suppose I would say yes and then elaborate, rather than say no and then elaborate.
@ EJ
Heh, remember years ago Green Gilbert the Snot Monster on kids’ TV?
You’ve just reminded me of a conversation he had that always makes me giggle.