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The reviews are in! Well, technically speaking, a review is in.
The Village Voice’s Alan Scherstuhl has posted his review of Cassie Jaye’s The Red Pill, her totally objective documentary about the Men’s Rights Movement that was funded in part by some of the people featured in it and that will be opening in theaters a theater Friday
Let’s just say he didn’t like it:
[F]or two agonizing hours, Jaye tumbles slowly down America’s stupidest rabbit hole, discovering that Men’s Rights Activists are actually just dudes who have been dicked over by a culture that punishes masculinity. …
Jaye acknowledges in the opening and closing minutes that MRAs sometimes spew nasty garbage online, but she never presses them on this in her many interviews. Instead, she lets them moan about how hard it is to be a dude in 2016, endorsing their anecdotal complaints about unfair family courts, incidents of men being tricked into being fathers and — I didn’t quite follow this one — one father’s conviction that the women who had custody of his son were systematically trying to make the boy fat.
One can only assume that they are fattening him up before they EAT HIM.
Confused MRAs, apparently unable to understand how anyone could possibly hate a film they’re pretty sure they’re going to just love, have responded to Scherstuhl’s review by crying “conspiracy.”
In a comment on the Village Voice, MRA David King (presumably the same David King who is the “Chief Information Officer” for A Voice for Men) suggests that “[s]omething definitely stinks, and it’s not the film under review.”
He submits these, er, facts to a candid world:
• September 29, Cassie Jaye tweeted “Events surrounding The Red Pill documentary are getting curiouser and curiouser”, the same day Scherstuhl tweeted that he’d “agreed to review” TRP, the same day Scherstuhl invited a well-known anti-male MRA antagonist to DM him via Twitter.
Just FYI, the “well-known anti-male MRA antagonist” in question is apparently little old me, though I’m pretty sure I am not actually anti-male. I didn’t DM Scherstuhl, though I think I retweeted a couple of his Tweets.
King continues:
• October 4, HP and Village Voice publish this hit piece using present-tense language (“this movie is playing in two American theaters”) strongly implying that the author has seen a film which doesn’t debut for another 3 days on October 7,
HOW ON EARTH DID A FILM REVIEWER SEE A FILM BEFORE IT WAS EVEN OUT oh wait that’s how film reviewing works.
• so Scherstuhl has not seen it at a theatre and cannot have seen it anywhere else unless either a) invited to by CJ (in which case HP and Village Voice, at which Scherstuhl is an editor, have violated the embargo such previews usually carry) or b) he has acquired a copy illegally.
Since both HP and VV have published this review already, since embargoes on unreleased films are the norm, and barring decent evidence of mismanagement on the part of CJ and her team, that rather heavily points at the latter. Whichever the case, violation of contract (best case) or breaking the law (worst case) doesn’t look good for either HP or Village Voice.
Yes, because films are NEVER reviewed before they hit theaters oh wait.
• If the author has not seen it, then he’s lying through his teeth both in the article’s content and about its provenance. He misrepresents the review as being based on an alleged viewing post public release but, owing to an editorial screw-up, the copy got released days before it should have been, proving that his article is a premeditated and contrived attack motivated by political animus.
• There are numerous tells in the language used in this article that strongly hint at an agenda and a prior conclusion (read: closed mind) so it almost doesn’t matter whether Scherstuhl did see it or not because the actual content of the film would make no difference to the content of the article.
King blathers on for a while along these lines, and even mentions me by name once! It’s good to be noticed.
Meanwhile, on Twitter, the lovable Dan Perrins seems to suggest that I might have actually paid Scherstuhl for his review.
A ? for the lawyers.
I'd also suspect some payola for the review as well.
Given @DavidFutrelle lack of integrity— Dan Perrins (@BlackBeard20096) October 4, 2016
Apparently Dan lives in an alternate universe in which men are oppressed and I am filthy rich.
Speaking of films, here is a short documentary about a capybara who jumps into a pool and plays with a pool noodle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=291Bry2FlsU
The bosses were inspired by the seven deadly sins, too, in case you missed that.
@Scildfreja Unnýðnes
Well it seems like the immigration policy is working then. What I take from that is that controlled immigration is a good idea – it doesn’t say to me that more control would be a *bad* idea.
As evidence, we can look at some uncontrolled immigration, and see how it compares.
Foreigners 12 per cent of the total population of Germany – 29% of murders 20% of sexual assault.
Illegal immigrants and asylum seekers 2.5 per cent of population – 8% of murders 4% of sexual assault.
So, not so good.
Just out of a matter of interest, what evidence would make you change your mind on this matter?
Also – I have a gotcha. The absolute number of black people killed by police is tiny. So BLM is making the same intellectual mistake as me?
@Nazi Roger
Absolute bullshit. Immigrants in Germany are less likely to commit crimes as compared to the general population.
The crimes that immigrants do commit are overwhelmingly minor crimes.
Much of the increase in crime rates is due to racists attacking immigrants, because of fear mongering like yours.
Reports show no correlation between migrant status and crime rates.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may/11/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-germany-now-riddled-crime-thanks/
You were asked that question first, and you never answered it. How about you answer it first?
You stupid, stupid dipshit. BLM’s proposed solution to police violence is not to ban the fucking police.
For someone who talks about epistemology all the time, you seem bizarrely unfamiliar with its sister discipline, formal logic. Why is that? I’m starting to conclude that you encountered a word you liked at the University of Wikipedia and started throwing it out all the time to make yourself seem educated!
“Interior Minsiter Thomas de Maizière responded to the news by saying: “The current trend shows that refugees are just as unlikely to commit crimes as comparable groups among the current population. The majority of them don’t commit crimes, they are seeking protection and and peace in Germany.””
So what that means is that Germans of similar gender, education and socio-economic class commit crimes at the same rate as these immigrants.
But that the immigrants are of lower education, gender and socio-economic class, so the actual rate of crime is far higher than for the average German.
So, why not have a policy like in the US where we make sure we get more women, more educated people, and people with money?
Re: BLM – I wasn’t being solely criticised for my solutions, I was also being criticised for having an unrealistic view of the scale of the problem.
Do point out to me where someone has said that it’s actually okay when an immigrant commits murder.
You’re being criticized because your proposed solution is deeply bigoted. I am furthermore criticizing you because you are far more likely to be a rapist than any immigrant is to be a murderer, and yet you keep blowing past the far higher threat you pose than any immigrant poses. You seem to think that everyone else needs to just chill and live with the threat of you, whereas we all need to scramble to soothe your far less rational fears. You think very highly of yourself, but I think you have the mind of a self-centered little brat, which makes your potential for rape even more likely.
@ Roger,
1. Please show evidence that immigrants are of lower education, gender and economic class than the average German. For bonus points, please explicate which is the lower gender.
2: Please also show evidence that crime rates among native born Germans are higher among those of lower education, gender and socio-economic class. Is this another one of those things you just feel?
Also, Roger, I’d like to see some statistics from you comparing the number of killings in the US of POC by police with the number of killings by Islamic terrorists. Both pale, as has been noted by others, in comparison with car accident deaths. It is possible to care about all three, but only one seems to bother you.
@ Roger
1) The passage you quoted made no mention of the particular criteria they used to define “comparable groups”.
2) The passage you quoted made no mention of the relative socio-economic status of immigrants vs. people born in Germany or of people of either group who commit crimes vs. those who don’t.
3) You are literally making shit up out of whole cloth and then citing it as evidence for your position.
@Roger
Your “gotcha” with BLM is dishonest. Yes, more whites are killed, but there are more white people than black people in the US. When you properly read the stats, adjusting for population size and don’t dishonestly use raw data, black people are killed at appallingly high rates.
Further, BLM is against ALL police brutality, even police killings of white folk. I’m amazed people don’t get that. Further, even if they were only caring about the black killings, it’s still a laudable cause to stop police from killing POC. If the so called all lives matter people really cared, they’d be out protesting too with BLM. But they don’t: it’s just white people feeling left out of the party.
Is Roger still making me and the people I care about less safe by focusing on groups of people instead of behavior causing problems?
Since they expressed an interest in RooshV I wonder if Roger is also one of the people who tries to put all of the responsability for preventing rape on victims. It’s amazing how many little mechanisms society has for drawing attention away from the people who actually do terrible things. I’m increasingly interested in what such terrible people do in their groups to push the attention away and why it works.
Following Rogers path we don’t do anything to deal with the predators in our groups (they just can’t be bothered to learn) and more rapes and other terrible things occur. That would also farthur embed scapegoating as a social value, treat harming innocent people as a good, and reasonably pissed off the family and friends of stereotyped people (who are also the targets of bigots).
Our way deals with all of that including those people that would immigrate over and who do terrible things. If the social dynamic were set up to identify rapists, murderers, and terrorists in an unbiased manner those new people would face the system needed to properly deal with them. The only system that can.
I’ll not “just try out” neglecting the predators in out midst so that Roger can preserve that brown/muslim-bad people connection that society installed and that he works so hard to maintain.
http://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Broschueren/2016/pks-2015.pdf
P. 70
percentage of “crimes against life” committed by non-Germans 29.3%
percentage committed by refugees/assylum seekers 8.2%
percentage of sexual offences committed by non-Germans 20%
percentage committed by refugees/assylym seekers 4.8%
So if the foreign population of Germany is around 15%
and the refugee/assyllum seeker population is around 3%
They are massively over represented in terms of the rate at which they commit these serious crimes – the most generous explanation for the statement that “compatible groups of German’s commit crime at the same rate” is the interpretation I gave above. Otherwise it’s just a flat out lie.
Who checks the fact checkers, eh?
@MegaLibrarygirl
I’m not saying anything about the number of white people killed – I’m saying that the total number of black people killed by police is dwarfed by many other things, like (for example) the number murdered by non-police.
Now personally, I think it is right to get upset about police killing people. But, I’m not sure how you would square the circle of saying that it is foolish to worry about immigrant crime because it is such a small amount, but sensible to worry about deaths at the hands of police… which is in absolute terms a small amount.
@Brony –
Dude – you’re the one putting the onus on people to be able to spot who is a serial killer/criminal – I’m the one saying we should use whichever knowledge we have to reduce the risk of them getting us.
Also, I find it a bit of a privilege talk – you say things like “oh don’t worry about the immigrants coming over because white people aren’t killed by non-white people so much”… well what about Americans who aren’t white? Should we have them have a higher danger?
Sorry if I’m wrong, but it sounds like a privilege to me.
Other than that, what you are saying seems laudable. Keep up that good work – but in the short term I can’t see any evidence that immigration control is going to make your job harder.
I think the problem with this discussion is that people are throwing up to me any arguments that they *think* are devastating towards my true, hidden beliefs.
But, I was serious when I said “I’m not a racist, and I’m not a sexist.”
So, “don’t let men in”, or “white people are criminals too” really doesn’t address my point. I agree with that stuff.
No, I’m not saying I want to have immigration restrictions because I don’t like different races. I don’t care about race. I say have immigration restrictions because it is apparently working – US has tight immigration and the immigrants don’t commit as many crimes. Germany has lax immigration and immigrants commit more crimes.
Why wouldn’t tighter still be even better?
Anyway, sorry. I think I’ll leave this discussion for now – I just spent an hour looking through obscure German crime statistics, just to show that factcheck.com can’t be trusted. I sadly don’t have time for this.
But thanks for the discussion – if it is any consolation I don’t really feel like supporting Trump anymore, though I still think there might be something to tighter immigration policies.
@Roger
Did you even read any of Scildfreja’s articles showing your statements to be a bunch of crap? Or any of PI’s literally over 100 shitty things Trump said?
Is anybody still interested in banging their heads against the world’s most boring brick wall, or can I email David?
You know the rules, Mark, be entertaining or be banned.
It’s called reading, you should try it some time you fucking nazi rape enabling pile of soggy bread.
@ooglyboogles
“After controlling for a host of demographic and economic characteristics, we find that immigration does not increase crime rates, and some aspects of immigration lessen crime in metropolitan areas.”
Yeah – so as I said. They’ve got a load of poor immigrants to come in who commit crime at around the same rate as poor Americans (and since most Americans aren’t poor at a higher rate than Americans in general) and they they say – “hey look, once we control for all the factors that make people more likely to commit crime, they are no different to Americans! Amazing!”
Well, I think it’s stupid. The argument only has any meaning if your aim is to show that immigrants aren’t inherently worse than Americans – (that is that young poor immigrants are equivalent to young, poor Americans.) I’m saying that we should be getting people who are less likely to commit crime *before* controlling for the factors that make you more likely to commit crime.
More old woman, professional rich immigration please.
I see Rogark is still ignoring the point that BLM is not suggesting that police be banned or that all cops be treated as murderers. Merely that police who do murder should be held accountable. Whereas no one is suggesting that immigrants who kill shouldn’t be punished, we’re saying that immigrants aren’t inherently murderous.
So why the comparison again?
Roger is the most willfully obtuse troll we’ve had in months.
@ogglyboggles –
I read it, then I looked at the statistics provided by the German government and I found that the immigrants are committing crime at a higher rate than the Germans.
What do you think about that?
First of all it’s you don’t listen to statistics, then as soon as I get into the statistics, it’s personal abuse.
(BTW – that “fewer than 1/1000 of the crimes are rape” is just completely stupid. Why are we comparing the number of rapes to the number of parking tickets?
@ scildfreja
The ‘flinch’ reflex (like when we touch something hot) appears to take place purely in the spinal column; the brain doesn’t get involved at all.
(Although I guess that’s why it’s called a reflex)
I’m not saying that immigrants are inherently murderous – I’m saying that there are some groups that are more likely to be criminal and that we should use that information when making immigration decisions.
Shorter Rogark. “I’m not being racist. I’m being classist. Gee whiz! I don’t have time to back up the stupid argument I started!”
I think Rogark should be required to stay on topic or he’s banned. What does immigration have to do with the Red Pill documentary?
Roger continues to not provide any evidence for Roger’s assertion that “poor people” commit crime at a greater rate than people who aren’t poor.
Now Roger has specifically said “poor Americans”. Come on Roger, spend a few more hours looking through your own nation’s databases.
Stats, or it didn’t happen.
@Roger
Oh it’s now the fucking poor people ruining the germanic purity.
Not to mention the fact that everyone else’s citations have shown that you’re interpretation of the studies was plain incorrect.
Again you haven’t responded to those articles with direct contraditions to the evidence provided.
And you keep repeating that claim despite being shown mountains of evidence that it’s not immigrants that we should be worried about.