Men’s Rights Activists, and anti-feminists generally, are forever warning anyone who will listen that excessive feminism could, any day now, bring about the end of western civilization itself.
This is not a terribly new or original idea. And a post on Nazified pickup artist blog Chateau Heartiste today reminds us just how old and unoriginal this notion is.
The proprietor of that blog, James “Heartiste” Weidmann, brings his readers’ attention to a lengthy quotation from a 1911 book by a fellow named Octavius Beale.
[U]nreasonable demands for exaggerated “rights ” of women will always find a limit in the fact that the majority of men will constantly prefer for wives those who do not claim such rights, but who rather seek their happiness in cultivating and developing their specially feminine virtues and attributes, apart from any aim at equality with men.
Take that, feminist cat ladies with no husbands!
These attributes will also therefore be preferably inherited, whilst the extreme tendencies of the women’s rights movement will usually not come into heredity, but will constantly tend to die out.
Well, he was half right. Feminism did die out, for a time, but then it came back.
Notwithstanding, should woman-rule —contrary to all expectations— become so strong in any single State that it will be able to enforce all its demands, even the most extreme, that result could only be possible where the men are completely degenerated.
Degenerated, huh? Can you see where this is going?
Such a nation would soon be supplanted and dissolved by healthier peoples, who might, perhaps, stand on a lower scale of culture.
I believe he is referring to what the Nazis of today like to call “white genocide.” Back in 1911, Beale called it “Racial Decay” — which was in fact the title of his book.
Amazing how quickly and easily Beale slid from antifeminism to white supremacy. Just as so many antifeminists do today.
Heartiste follows up Beale’s dire, racist warning with a dire, racist warning of his own.
After declaring “equalism” to be “a corruption of civilized man’s soul,” he tries his best to rally the troops in defense of their white “tribe.”
[F]emcuntery will only achieve wrecking power in a nation of degenerated men unable and unwilling to act to preserve their culture and protect their tribe. Women are followers and will follow their nation right into the abyss if it guarantees their social standing among peers; as I’ve been saying, it’ll take shitlord men with big balls to bring their women to heel and their nation back to greatness.
Heartiste, seriously, no one wants to hear about your balls.
If it was a meritocracy, parents and carers would be paid the most.
Has anybody pointed this out yet?
http://i.imgur.com/WCKOtNY.jpg
(Oh God it’s 11:42 pm and I’m making stupid video game jokes, where did my life go so wrong.)
@PoM
He’s also mixing his classification systems together. But, you know, anything to invalidate Chiomara’s perspective and experiences, since they’re inconvenient to his worldview.
@Viscaria
He specifically called Brazil a third-world country, which made me lol. But you’re correct, he’s referring to “western” countries (what he really means is Global North but it’s obvious that he’s never heard that term before) and “third-world countries” as though these two things are different categories in the same system.
Economically, Brazil is a BRIC country, which does not imply undeveloped! So even dividing into Global North and Global South, Brazil does not fall neatly into either category.
…Is BS gone yet?
@ troubelle
I’m hoping Bradley comes back. I’m sure he’ll be honourable enough to furnish Peevee with at least a partial apology.
I’d like to know what college has an “engineering class of 23 people”.
I thought the one room colleges didn’t exist anymore?
But if he is the 329 year old engineer from Gull Island, it makes more sense.
Good luck working remotely there.
@Alan, but you’re from the UK…and as Bradley stated Brazil doesn’t count, I cannot imagine he would think the UK does, either…
I also do not think Bradley “sees” much of anything.
Bwee. I just feel like I’m leaning against the wall of the metaphorical room here, smoking a metaphorical cigarette as I watch one dolt babble on about blatant falsities while everyone counters him.
I don’t condone tobacco smoking, plus I’m feckin’ 17, but for visuals’s sake.
@ peeve
But…but…! (Stop it Al. 4 July 1776. IT’S OVER! Let it go.)
@ troubelle
But smoking is the ultimate feminist act!
http://www.printmag.com/wp-content/uploads/Slims14_1971.jpg?91875e
(Not really. Winners don’t do drugs. Stay in school)
Guys I’ve got it ! Broid actually refers to his ergonomic chair (where no woman has ever worked, and where he is the apex of merit) as The Western World ™ !
Hey, I ain’t judging. My chair’s got a stupid name too.
my name is Bred,
and wen its nite,
or wen the moon
is shiyning brite,
and all the men
haf gon to theire hammycks –
i stay up late.
i trolle the mammyth.
Don’t mock Brad! He makes software for businesses! As everyone knows, that’s far more important than surgery, or making roads that surgeons and patients can travel over to meet in hospitals so that surgery can occur! And he has friends who stand, sit, and loll about the Stock Exchange for way more hours than a labourer or physician can practice their trades! Also, he knows a woman!
Brad, seriously, what you (claim you) do is provide tools and support to the people and businesses that actually achieve things. That’s fine, respectable, useful, and in your case apparently well remunerated. Nice for you.
Why the fuck are you so contemptuous of your fellow support workers? I can’t see how you are any better than a hospital orderly or road construction worker or stores department administrative worker.
Your arrogance is one instance in which you are worse than average.
LindseyIrene, that was beautiful.
@Alan
July 4, 1776, I think you’ll find ?
Fun fact: battles in the Murican Civil War have 2 names. 1 given by the Union and 1 by the Confederacy. The north named battles after nearby waterways and the south by nearby towns. Battle of Bull Run vs Battle of Manassas. The name used by the winner tended to stick. Always loved that bit of trivia
Holy shit this thread. I just spent like an hour and a half of my time reading this dude’s bullshit. Thank the gods that my insomnia reared its ugly head last night, because this shit is 1000x funnier when I’m sleep-deprived and nursing a Monster.
I like the parts where he insists that his sources aren’t bullshit, we’re just “biased”. Biased against outright bullshit, maybe.
I mean, who are we going to believe? Brad’s Obviously-Not-Biased sources from JudgyBitch and paid right-wing think tanks, or our own biased eyes?
LOOK MAMMOTHTEERS, LOOK WITH YOUR BIASED EYES.
http://i.imgur.com/88hAVrb.gif
Also @LindsayIrene, speaking of memes: I love this meme. It’s a good meme.
Can I explain a little thing? I mean, I am not very well versed in global geography, but I studied a lot to get into medschool, so it’s fair to say I know a bit (not much) more than the average person who only learned it in high school. Also, the way we learn geography is different from how Americans, at least, do it, your education seems really self centered.
Anyways, I don’t know if it’s right, but what I learned is this:
There are several socio-economical divisions. One of them is the northern/southern division which I am guessing is ANCIENT, but can’t remember when from.
Northern is everyone in the geographical northern hemisphere and weirdly(in a geographical sense, but makes sense socio-economically), Australia. Southern is everyone else.
One of them was created during the cold war and is the “first, second, and third world” division. In this division:
-First world, also called western* world (cause most were localized in the western part of the globe), are the capitalists, or the main players on the American side of things. Say, using a football analogy, they were player one, with the US being their team captain.
-Second world, or eastern, is communist, or main players for the URSS. Player 2.
-Third world, were the countries with small economical power who couldn’t afford to feel strongly for either side. They just hoped they didn’t blow up the planet. This includes Brazil. In the football analogy, we were the ball. And boy, were we kicked around.
*Western and eastern can mean several things. This is what it means in THIS context.
Now, during the Cold War, we say the world was bipolarized. There were only two poles (US and URSS), and you were either important to one of those or you didn’t exist nor stand a chance. But, post Cold War (which some historians say isn’t over yet, but that’s not up for me to discuss), the world became multipolarized (with the US still being the main force), or globalized. Due to the advent of the Internet, to the cold war itself, to the economy, to multinationals, to resources, to several things, we can no longer ignore poorer countries. We are finally learning to stand up and walk with our own legs and be valuable players, mostly because we have valuable resources (cheap manpower or natural resources) and they can’t simply arrive here guns blazing, kick us out, and steal our shit anymore. So a new division needed to be created.
This division was “Developed, developing and underdeveloped”.
Developed are the ones previously known as first and second world.
Developing is us! The countries who were previously colonies and non important players, but now are educated and industrialized and want a piece of the cake. Includes part of eastern Asia and the BRICS (except Russia), and others.
Then there is underdeveloped. The countries that just can’t seem to get up economically, don’t seem to industrialize in a meaningful extent anytime soon, have problems of chronical poverty and warfare… Sigh.
So. Brazil is southern, it is not “western” (in THIS sense), and it is part of the third world. All of this is correct. Our friend was using an extremely outdated and US centered division of the world, but who here is surprised? Not me, I bet Trump himself still divides the world like this. But the division that best fits today’s world – the one actual global entrepreneurs don’t seem foolish enough to ignore, because we have resources and a huge market – places Brazil in the “developing” area.
Phew. This took long. Thank you for your time.
@ Axe
I love stuff like that too! So thanks.
I’ve now got an image in my head of the Union forces in a field between two rivers shuffling a bit closer to one or other of them.
@Chio
*claps*
@Alan
Ha!
Apparently, Union forces were urban, so they found rivers to be more notable. And the Confederates were rural, so a lotta them rarely saw towns at all and found them important. Also, the north based their war winning strategy on taking control of the south’s water routes to strangle em til they quit. So, their river obsession paid off ?
“Global North” and “Global South” are different from geographic northern and southern hemispheres, but nod to the fact that the most developed countries trend northern and the less developed ones trend southern. Many countries in the northern hemisphere are Global South and vice versa – it’s about trends rather than hard lines.
Brazil is definitely first-world today. First world means within the sphere of influence of the US and Europe. Second world means within the sphere of influence of the USSR and the PRC. The US has made a point of putting all of the Western hemisphere into its sphere since the early nineteenth century, but has not totally succeeded so there are still some third-world countries in the Western hemisphere. And Brazil was not first-world for a good while, but it has been effectively captured by this point today. If the USSR still existed today and made a play for Brazil, the US would ferociously defend its influence there.
This hasn’t been a very useful classification system for some decades, however, and the meaning has been diluted by the common parlance of referring to the “first world” as developed countries and “third world” as less developed, as though the classifications were purely economic in nature. One can claim an economic aspect having to do with capitalism vs. communism, but it was a political division far more than an economic one. Most less developed countries are capitalist or proto-capitalist, after all, but what made them third-world was their lack of political/strategic attractiveness to either the US or the USSR.
I think it’s been firmly established that old Bradley is, to use the technical term, “Full Of Shit” and he earned his degree from the University of Assfaxia School of Mansciences.
@Bradley full of shit
1) Brazil is both First World and part of the West
2) When one of your sources is JudgyBitch, you really don’t get to call other people’s sources biased
3)Heart surgeons can work remotely now? I thought you said that heart surgeons were better than
everyone elsethose lazy, lazy blue collar workers because they couldn’t be replaced by robotsGotta admit I was amazed at the “your non-US country don’t matter” argument.
It’s bad enough that he throws in just world and relative privation at the same time, but then he moves the goalposts in direct contradiction with relative privation. Okay, sure.
Like, dude, I know you love the word “fallacy” but you’re exactly the kind of person who should be forbidden to pronounce or write it. A fucking sophist is what.
Which is hilarious, because…
Actually, there have been awesome advances in medical technology in the past few years that would allow surgeons to work remotely.
EDIT: GODS DAMNIT I WAS NINJA’D.
It’s been a while, M…
Granted, the tech is expensive, but once it’s normalized and proven useful for most hospitals to have, it would be a great benefit to people all around the world to have access to the best doctors the world has to offer without taking an expensive (and sometimes risky) trip to to to where the doctor is, or to pay to have the doctor fly to where they are.
And another given: The tech obviously isn’t perfect, and the doctors would have to learn how to operate the machine and account for lag and all of that, but it’s a good step forwards.
Of course, I’m sure our troll would think that people don’t deserve to have this life-saving technology because they should just work hard enough to be rich enough to have access to any of the world’s doctors while they or their loved ones are getting sicker and sicker.
Because apparently time is never a factor in these situations, which is one thing that gets me about the “Don’t take care of kids/elderly family members! Get rich and hire a nanny!” bullshit.
Not every sick child or every elderly family member has the time to wait for their caretaker to get rich enough on a part-time job (or three) to hire a full-time caretaker. Some of them will die or can get very, very hurt without round-the-clock care or supervision.
The other thing that bugged me: not everyone wants to just leave their loved ones in the hands of a complete stranger, no matter their qualifications or their socio-economic brackets. It just seems callous to some people.
So forgive them for putting family and kids before getting rich enough to dump them on a nanny/caretaker in that regard. [/sarcasm]
Buuut he hates Ayn Rand !