We’ve been treated, over the years, to endless misogynist manifestos declaring that nerdy hobbies like comic books and video games should be kept free from pesky females, for all sorts of ridiculous reasons that usually come back to some allegedly innate characteristics of males and females that show that only men can appreciate said hobbies and that all of the women who claim to like them are only pretending, because really what they want is endless attention from nerdy dudes.
I recently ran across one of these manifestos in the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit. While it was full of the same tired old BIOTRUTHS as most “male space” manifestos — only dudes “are wired to be adept at tasks with inanimate objects,” only dudes have the necessary “diligence” to be true fans — this manifesto offered another powerful(ly dumb) anti-nerd-girl argument I don’t think I’ve encountered before: Nerd girls should be kept out of male hobbies because they’re a bunch of icky uggoes, “sub-4 at best.”
Let’s let the somewhat ironically named NuclearTruthBomb explain this particular “truth.”
The simple fact of the matter is that most women are not, and never will be, into the activities of low-status, but intelligent males. Yes, a few exist. My sister loves drawing, animation, and even video games. But she’s also on the upper end of the autism spectrum, and pretty unattractive.
Dude, really? She’s your SISTER.
Women have status simply by existing. There is only a very small number of girls who are so hideous, no man will show interest in them.
Empathy, not a big thing amongst MGTOWs.
Being a nerd if often considered a sign of low status. Trust me, none of us got laid for being on the chess team. Because women are so concerned about appearences, they will refuse to associate with nerds by default.
So that means, natch, that the only “females” who want to have anything to do with male nerds will be the ugly uggoes.
Male nerds tend to range from perfectly average to the bottom of the barrel. Female nerds however, are sub-4 at best, genetically cursed at worst. They were rejected by the popular girls a long time ago, and will wear a shirt that screams YAOI FAN for a modicum of attention.
These discrepancies cause female geeks to be not only low in number, but of poor quality in general.
And now a cameo appearance by Chad Thundercock, or at least his brothers Brad, Joe, and Darren Thundercock, as well as their cousin Bill BigDick and his friend Tyrone.
Ironically, while women will forever flock to the sports stadium of Brads and Joes, nerds will spell the future for the human race. The guy who gets shoved in the mud by Bill BigDick this decade will be inventing the technology of the next one. The quirky glasses wearing freak will create that game Darren plays after Daisy gives him a rimjob. And all those countless code monkeys will be responsible for the social media websites she meets Tyrone on.
To do list:
- Shove nerd in mud
- Rimjob w/ Daisy
- Vidya Games
Only when these nerdy dudes get super rich will the hotties have any interest in them.
Once she realizes that these men are making bank, she’ll try to swing branches. And many simpanzees will takeher anyways. Us on the other hand, can enjoy our own specific tastes without worrying “Buh-buh-buh, what would Sally think of this!?”
MGTOWs have turned “stewing in your own bitterness about women possibly giving other dudes rimjobs” into America’s fastest-growing hobby. This is a male space no one should want to invade.
@wwth
Can’t help but think these two are a day late.
So many words!
Sorry, dude, that feminists, including female nerds, point out reality: Games and movies — and a lot of entertainment, really — glorifies the domination and rape of women. And the fans of this entertainment sneer at and mock women’s thoughts and feelings about their own oppression.
What a shame that feminists’ (right-on, accurate, overdue) critiques hurt your feelings!
No, really.
ETA: I just reread that manifesto. Can you believe that it’s all one sentence?! That said, troll-dude is no James Joyce.
Three hundred and sixteen* words. One sentence. Zero point.
*According to my word counter. I’m not counting that shit by hand.
@Humbug
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humbug
How appropriate.
Ah-ha-ha-ha!
With Stunning Moral Clarity, Wallace Global Fund Fires Firm That Endorsed Donald Trump’s Kleptocracy
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/04/01/read_the_wallace_global_fund_s_scathing_letter_firing_trump_s_lawyers.html
Because I am a girly girl, I’m pretty sure that if I had serious accusations flung at me — the way our president has — I would cry. These tears would alert me to the fact that something, at least in the minds of the nay-sayers, was really, really off. I’d see what I could do to make my critics happy.
Luckily, our president is made of much sterner stuff. He just goes grim-faced and continues the same old, same old.
what was that Final Fantasy game that was going to have the male character wearing nothing but some leather straps until fanboy back lash made Square enix change it? I wounder what Mr. anti-censorship Humbug would have to say about that, If He’s still lurking I would love to hear his answer.
No u.
By the way, Scrooge McDick, Bravely Default isn’t from Nintendo. It’s from Square Enix. You’d think the Almighty Arbiter Of All Nerddom would know that…
[insert your own piss tape joke here]
Humbug got something wrong, He’s obviously a fake geek-guy. and after all that ranting too.
@ the trollwanker with the accidentally apt moniker:
Actually, everything you’re kvetching about is the fault of sexist men, not feminists. Up to and including the attempts to ban “booth babes”, which were spearheaded by dudes who were mad that these models weren’t hired to fuck and/or blow them, but simply to attract customers and/or demo the product for them. Get a clue, or GTFO.
Speaking of Booth babes I have a question. I know that Booth babes at geek cons have sometimes been accessed of being ‘fake geeks’ even though they’re just there to look pretty and not pretend to be geeks. What I want to know if Booth babes at other types of conventions have been accused of being ‘fake’ . Like do car guys at the autoshow accuse the bikini model draped over the hood of sports car of being a fake car girl or do they understand she’s just there to draw guy over?
First, assuming sans admitting that they are indeed “sexist” according to your worldview, by what right or authority do you have to police male escapist fantasies? What are you, Big Sister of the femifascist Nanny State? Are these already thought-crimes? So much for the USA Constitution’s 1st Amendment! Second, are you seriously denying that there are ZERO female nerds involved in the activism of lobbying for egregious examples of sex-negative self-censorship? If so, then you must never have even encountered those infamous scolds at Jezebel (who who recently waged yet another jingoistic self-appointed cultural-imperialist crusade against “sexism” and “fan service” and “moe” in Japanese manga and anime) and the rest of the Gawker Media family. Third, I personally am NOT in favor of the censorship done on that Final Fantasy installment , but I can empathize with the male nerds who most likely must have just been retaliating for the censorship done on other games such as the Bravely Default series! Fourth, the “males” you are talking about were mostly Male Feminists (I.e. What the Manosphere derides as White Knights or “manginas”) , who are acting out of simpering obsequiousness to their deluded chivalry to their female feminist mistresses. The average heterosexual male nerd actually goes to conventions expressly to ogle the booth babes and sexy female display era, among other things, so why would they ever want to get rid of them?! Fifth, obviously Squaresoft owns them but the series is available primarily or worse, exclusively only on Nintendo consoles, and Nintendo is pushing for their bowdlerizations mainly to appease Western female nerds, who never came across a JPRG primarily intended for a heterosexual male target audience that they didn’t complain about as being “creepy” or “problematic”. In sum, Westernfemale nerds, especially Americans, are like that redhead on Desperate Housewives who forcibly accompanied her college-age son to a stripclub against his will and was such a hectoring nagger that another patron actually asked him to get her out of there, as she was ruining the experience for everyone else present. But in this case it’s worse, because the Western female nerds are already too noisy enough to cause the strip club (the publishers) to cause the strippers (the intellectual properties) to stop stripping at all or even stop pole-dancing all together (no more sex appeal for straight guys ever)* Example, the latest —-and sexiest — installment of Dead or Alive Beach Volleyball will NEVER be officially ported to the USA because Tecmo didn’t want to waste their time fighting whiny feminist critics who did nothing but constantly attack the series from literally day one. *And that’s metaphors just in case you’re not able to recognize it.
You’ve answered your own question. We are Big Sister of the Femifascist Nanny State (BSFNS). We also glow in the dark probably? Gals, do we glow in the dark? BSFNS for fucking LYFE!
Whoo! All hail BSFNS!
Fuck you Humbug, I’ve been a geek all my life and even though I’ve only been a very few cons its wasn’t to Leer at fan girls.
We glow in the effin’ dark!
@ Humbug
You mean the shitty game you can get right now for free that has a 43% on Metacritic because it sucks?
Ever thought they said that to get assholes like you to buy it? It’s kinda like what they did for Hatred or Postal or Harvester. You have a game that’s crappy so you just hype up how it will make people CLUTCH THEIR PEARLS so people will want it more just to OFFEND PEOPLE.
It’s like in the 90s and early 2000s how all those children’s toys aimed at boys were marketed to gross out your sister or parents. I guess the same technique still works on you and you fell for it.
I missed where any feminists were calling for developers who create female NPCs with unrealistic boob physics to be jailed. Can you point out where this happened?
I thought you guys had a rage boner for Sex and the City? Good to know you’ve moved on to another show. This ones only been off the air for five years!
@humbug
Mate you’re not doing yourself any favors by framing your act as ” protecting the virtues of niche japanese media from other people.” Dude anime fans already have a bad rep thanks to nazis having anime avatars on twitter and the most known anime fan sites being known to house and encourage white supremacist groups, we really don’t need you to blame women for your problems.
First, It’s not just the virtues of niche Japanese media that needs to be defended, it’s also niche American media, Marvel and D.C. and all of the other major mainstream (I.e. Heroic/villainous fantasy fiction) are now under a virtual sex-negative Taliban-like rule compared to their final heyday in the 1990’s. For instance, have you seen what they did to the appearances of Red Sonja, Deeja Thoris, Poison Ivy, Wonder Woman, Carol Danvers, and Mockingbird?! To use a comparison, it’s like going from the ultra-sultry traditional Chinese evening dress-gown (with the side slits) to the baggy unisex Mao uniform! Another example, Disney will never let Bikini Leia or Twilek Oola be seen in official merchandise ever again! Oh, the horror, the horror!
@Humbug
“The fact that niche media is deciding to stop catering to my sex fantasies is ruining everything!!!!”
http://static.tumblr.com/2d55b47e87db3d1dedca9cfc59fe4dfa/y3k3qnv/00Wmvzg9j/tumblr_static_tumblr_lon1ftbjp91qickddo1_500_large.png
How precious. This is no different than the folk that say diversity is poisoning the comics industry by introducing versions of characters from a stream of differing ethnicities, backgrounds and identities.
@ Humbug
Okay, this one’s a Poe. Not a good Poe, mind.
Honestly, whenever Humbug posts, I don’t really see words. I mostly just see one phrase – “I’m whining”.