The (alleged) pickup artist who calls himself “Heartiste” is a lot of things — a misogynist, a homophobe, a racist, a bizarrely overwrought prose stylist, to name just a few of his more charming features. But one thing I never would have pegged him for? A Harry Potter fan.
Or if not necessarily a fan, per se, at least someone familiar with the basic plot of the Harry Potter series. But that he is.
In a blog post today (archived here) about the alleged omnipresence of cuckoldry in “popular (read: single White female and gay homosexual) culture,” Heartiste (real name James Weidmann) drops this bit of Harry Potter knowledge:
Harry Potter was perhaps the first major shitlib touchstone to vault willing cuckoldry into the wider culture as some kind of moral imperative; it was beta orbiter Snape, a man with the worst case of oneitis imaginable because he was in love with a dead woman who when alive wanted nothing to do with him, who vowed to look after Harry, (the child of his oneitis by another man Snape hated), out of a misplaced sense of loyalty and maybe hope for an afterlife consummation.
Literally “alpha fux and beta bux” from beyond the grave. What independent, empowered modern woman wouldn’t love that?
Well, the ladies do love them some Harry Potter, I’ll give Heartiste that, but I’m not sure “cuckoldry”has much to do with it.
It’s not that surprising that Heartiste looks at Snape and sees a cuck, because pretty much everywhere he looks he sees cucks. Indeed, the basic thesis of his post today can be pretty much summed up as “cuck, cuck, everywhere a cuck, blockin’ out the scenery, makin’ me cluck.”
As Heartiste sees it, “popular (read: single White female and gay homosexual) culture” is awash in cuckoldry because the ladies can’t get enough of this rampant glorification of “alpha fux and beta bux”– that is, the allegedly widespread female human mating strategy of having sex and making babies with hot, arrogant alpha dudes and then, when the alphas stop answering their texts, conning wimpy beta workadaddies to marry them up and pay the expenses of the bouncing baby alpha spawn.
As a result, Heartiste alleges, television today has become
a feminist wish fulfillment wasteland … There are shows that have blatantly pro-cuck plot lines in which a pregnant slut or single slut mommy has beta phagg suitors lining up to swear their loyalty to the bastard spawn, while the alpha cads that knocked these hos up are either nowhere found onscreen or they come and go continuing to service the sprog-saddled skanks with the least investment possible.
Hmm. The last TV show I binge-watched involved a guy with telekinetic powers trying, with the help of a mutant super-team, to fight off a secret government army while simultaneously defending his brain (and the world) from a devious mind parasite that sometimes takes the form of Aubrey Plaza. But maybe Heartiste has different TV tastes than I do.
So why do women “cheer Cuck Nation,” Heartiste asks, then quickly manswers his own question:
They know that good men, on a gut level that is impossible to sway with sophistic shaming appeals to the contrary, don’t want to raise the bastards of other men. No man wants to be duped into 18 years of servitude to a child that’s not his own. For the few men who walk into cuckoldry with eyes wide open, they never shake the resentment that ceaselessly thrums from knowing they willingly chose to be cuckolds for the chance at regular sex with a single mom.
Women cheer because the fantasy of the willing cuckold saving women from their big mistakes is a repudiation of the intractable laws of Biomechanics .. TV tells them, hey ladies, you can have that happiness without those cumbersome rules. Magic is real!
Men have their own version of this fantasy, Heartiste argues, in the form of
the trope of the nebbishy omega male with a hot blonde shiksa, or nerds exacting revenge on their jock tormentors. Rarely happens outside TVland, unless you count supreme gentleman Eliot Rodger.
Like the murderous Rodger, Heartiste has convinced himself that none of us ever escape the primal high school rivalry between jocks and nerds. And nothing (outside of “race mixing”) seems to evoke so much primal terror in him as the thought of men marrying single moms and (gasp!) caring for children that contain some other man’s DNA. This sort of “voluntary cucking,” he declares,
is in a way more loathsome than unwilling cuckoldry, because it’s harder to fathom the depth of depravity to which a man must have sunk if bartering his cuckoldry seems to him like the only way he can buy sex and love, and with damaged goods no less.
I can only wonder what Heartiste made of The Brady Bunch, that classic TV ode to the blended family. Were Mike and Carol Brady each simultaneously cucking the other?
But I digress. Let’s return to Heartiste, who is currently working himself into a frothy fit:
We can say then that Cuck Nation is nothing less than the total surrender of masculinity and any male prerogatives to runaway androgyny and sexual polarity-inverting feminism. It’s the metaphorical equivalent of lopping off a nation’s balls and importing a few foreign stud horses to do all the seeding. And the saddest facet of this DNA-denying degeneracy is that there are more than a few self-flagellating manginas who lap this shit up and hi-five bitterbitches under the false impression that this will earn them a pity handjob.
What the hell is going on in the heads of guys who think like Heartiste? Seriously, outside of literal cuckold fetishists, no one thinks about cuckolding more, and more obsessively, than alt-righters like him. And to what end? At least the cuckold fetishists are enjoying themselves.
I think they’d misread it and then go into a spiral of contradictions as soon as they realized that the novel wasn’t actually saying that rich men deserve everything.
RE: Harry Potter –
I’m not sure it’s really fair to sully any of the Houses by associating them with the alt-right. They’re not courageous enough for Gryffindor, they’re not wise enough for Ravenclaw, they’re not loyal or caring enough for Hufflepuff, they’re not clever or cunning enough for Slytherin; I doubt even Durmstrang would take them. I think they’d make even the Dursleys blush.
None of this makes any sense. Is Fartiste just throwing syllables together hoping coherent sentences form?
Nice post!
@Lea
“Even the Dursleys wouldn’t sit with him.”
Don’t hassle the Dursleys. How would you behave after 11+ years of daily exposure to a horcrux?
@Shadowplay
The Dursley’s were terrible before Harry, and Vernon was still a fuckhead during the last book. Besides, what about everyone Harry was around during his school days? They seemed unaffected.
There’s also the fact that Harry is the only living horcrux and it affected him differently from objects. He had the smallest soul chunk PLUS he had a will and crap to fight against Voldemort, unlike inanimate objects.
There certainly is enough in that first sentence to enrage them:
“Says who? What kind of beta cuck wrote this shit… Oh, JANE Austen? A Female? Probaby a bitter fat cunt in search of a rich alpha! This is the proof that the patriarchy has never existed: a few centurys ago men where considered the PROPERTY of FEMALES!!! Literature is MISANDRY!!! Cuuuckcuckcuckcuck!!”
This kind of thing is not new. I already saw a totally serious post on an unrelated site a few years ago saying that Snape was Too Nice and didn’t get Lily because (wait for it) girls like assholes. And from even further back, I remember lots of angry posts about how Ginny wasn’t good enough for Harry because she kissed two boys before him.
@ Handsome :Punkle Stan: Jack
Oh, then I agree with that. Not sure Hagrid’s the best example, since he wasn’t a commentary on school policy so much as on blatant scapegoating, but again, nitpicking.
Oh, I thought you were talking about him teaching the Half-Blood Prince’s recipes. He didn’t teach those to others.
I always kind of assumed Snape required such high O.W.L. scores because he was a deliberately unpleasable jerkass. Of course, I think McGonagall required similar grades…
Wow, I never thought about it before, but what’s HP Wizarding adult education like? There doesn’t seem to be any class makeup available at Hogwarts, so not meeting the teachers’ arbitrary requirements for the advanced classes can lock you out of the N.E.W.T.s.
That’s a summation of my point Gert, the preceeding was support and you appear to have ignored it. Avoiding ablism gives a person a more accurate view of human behavior. I strategically benefit if you understand and if you don’t so do what you will.
In a public context when people reference mental illness in arguments or opinions I tend to look for non-literal use because such a use is literally not reality. Not a representation of what they are actually bothered by, and therefore it’s reasonable to demand the real thing. If such people can’t describe what they are bothered by that is a vulnerability*.
They literally can’t convey what they are bothered by. A good example on the intense end would be the people who needed for mental illness to be a relavent factor in Elliot Rodger’s Isla Vista misogynistic killings. On the less intense end we have people saying “OCD” instead of peeve, comparing political views to schizophrenia, referencing “autism” when they are name-calling something social they don’t like. All share the quality of conveying a feeling and not the patterns that made them choose to appeal to the illness.
If a person decides to stop relying on these things in social expressions they will be forced to rely on the actual things they are bothered by. In the long run that is a strength because it forces you to be able to be explicit and effective when invoking feelings like disgust and anger at bigoted beliefs, ways of thinking, actions and communications.
*Most people concerned about ablism rightly focus on the fact that it’s nice to avoid bigotry against people with different mental ability. Since I have predatory instincts I also like to look at how bigotry damages a person’s ability to interact with people and describe what they are upset by.
@Hairt’s back. Cos why the fuck not
Lotta words for ‘twitter egg: the blog’
@Joe B
Willie Mays cat is best cat ?
Wait. Gert came back to beg us to visit his blog?
They don’t seem to have any sort of college. It’s just several years of wizarding school until you’re “of age” at 17.Then you go get a job right out of school pretty much and shit. There’s books for stuff you can buy or maybe classes provided by bookstores and stuff but other than that it doesn’t seem there’s not much adult education out there or anything.
Or you go on to Brakebills (from The Magicians) and learn to drink, have sex and swear a whole lot.
Fuck off, Gert.
@Gert
A lame posting shill,
not worth the code your blog site
is written upon.
Gert, I’m not sure you can have “no alt-right” AND “no snowflakes”. You’re either alt-right or snowflake. Keep up with the times, you fucking asshat. :p
EDIT: Wait, I just realized that would mean nobody reads your blog. Which seems to be true.
@Mr Al
Fuck’s sake. You’ve been trolling us for what, six bloody years now? You’re past your prime, you’ve hit the wall, you’ve aged like milk – shoo.
And not the lactose free kind, I might add!
@Imaginary Petal
There’s lactose free milk?
@Ooglyboggles
Yes! Well, from what I can understand it’s not truly free of lactose, but it’s been chemically engineered so that lactose intolerant people can drink it without problem. It’s marketed as lactose free here, and in the US too, to the best of my knowledge. To me it tastes exactly like regular milk, but it has a longer shelflife.
@Imaginary Petal
http://24.media.tumblr.com/dbad5b433972a09df3f7924dea0644e4/tumblr_mofz5daEPJ1qixfalo1_500.gif
Where has this been all my life? Before I had to settle with either having the cramps or tasting bland soy as my options.
Ooglyboggles, Lactaid is my go-to brand.
https://www.lactaid.com/products
(I feel your pain. Literally in the same manner.)
@Oogly
You can deffo get other dairy products in lactose free versions as well. Now that I have saved your life, I will let you know when I want you to do something for me in return. 🙂
…I like soy…
I never enjoyed soy milk, but I started having almond milk about a year and a half ago, really liked it, and now regular milk is just too sour for me.