Alt-Right Twitter trolls lament Marine Le Pen’s yuge loss in France, talk armed revolution

@IgnoreSandra, @Franscesca Torpedo

It’s worth considering, in terms of ‘cuckold’ porn, that the entire thing is an exercise in playing out a deeply racialized fear in a controlled setting.

The white (cishet) male is forever the center of the event – the entire thing only exists in relation to sad white penis. The black man and white woman involved are the fantasies of white masculine power fallen into inadequacy, of those who were once under white male control being free to have their own experiences and pleasures without reference to or permission from the white patriarch. Yet they are not, in the fantasy, actually free, being sustained by the cuckold as images – the humiliation of losing power over the world is inverted into command over it once again, as the entire framework exists only in the cuckold’s mind (as porn). So it’s all a way of devouring and/or reclaiming these other bodies that have the temerity to exist on their own terms. The porn consumer’s nightmare of irrelevance and inadequacy (other, non-white, non-male, etc people having independence from their concerns) is only about them.

The right-wingers who sling the term ‘cuck’ do so because they cannot imagine that the world isn’t this porn plot, because they can’t imagine the world having reality independent from their (collective) inadequacy. They have to transform the actual independence of the Other into the fake ‘independence’ of a performative, psychosexual other. Cuckold porn as political statement is quite straightforwardly saying ‘women and people of color only want freedom in order to spite me, the white male’ and this sets the bounds of what the porn consumer thinks is politically necessary: To reclaim power and make objects of the Other, in order to be psychosexually complete. And any white male who doesn’t have this burning sense of inadequacy must enjoy being ‘incomplete’ – i.e. enjoy this fantasy.

It’s gross and bad, quite frankly, and also extremely telling of their inability to maintain a sense of self without demanding validation of the Other, in the manner of Hegel’s Master/Slave dialectic. They want everyone else to rely on them for reality, but they absolutely rely on the Others they want to oppress to validate their existence. No self-sustaining will there! Sad!

#Rekt

@Wandered

This is an exceptionally good post, well done.

I have to go to bed. I’ll tell you what I think about it when I get up.

@Pie

Soros is a rich Jewish man.

That answers all of your questions.

As I saw on Twitter…

?Do you hear the people sing
Singing a song of boring men
He’s a shady neoliberal
But at least he’s not Le Pen?

@TreePerson

I did.

@Franchesca Torpedo:

ETA:

Oddly (or perhaps not so much) one of my favorite movies was the Matrix.

I am a black transwoman.

Coincidence? I think NOT, Watson.

[puffs on a meerschaum pipe full of weed thoughtfully]

HA! 😀

@Treeperson:

re; The Wachowskis
If I recall Trinity was going to be male bodied in meat space and female in the matrix in an early draft of the script basically making them some kind of trans/genderqueer,
mra dudebros just fail fractaly.

Based on Bob Chipman’s latest installment of “Really That Good” (which is a misnomer at times, I think – namely Spider-Man 1 and 2), it was actually the minor character named “Switch” – one of the crew members who is killed by Cypher, when severing her connection prematurely.

https://youtu.be/LGopT-KNvlM

That said: it’d of been more intriguing if it was Trinity, as she functioned as Neo’s love interest.

@IgnoreSandra:

And lo and behold, the woman we saw from earlier changes into a man. Isn’t it funny? How we’re pointing and laughing at men who play as women characters in video games? Least, that’s how the show wants us to interpret it as the guy scrambles away from the woman.

Now let’s stop and think a second. Virtual reality helmets, with sensation. And someone chooses to experience having a body that they weren’t born with, and not in the “But here I’m strong and I look good!” sort of way. In the “I can’t ever look like this in the real world” sort of way. In the “This is cheaper and less painful than surgery” sort of way. In the “I don’t have to risk social ostracization” sort of way.

I’m one of those people where, when given the option, I’ll play a female or non-white character. Mostly because part of the thing I like about videogames is literally putting yourself into someone else’s shoes – and, frankly, I get tired of playing cis-het white dudes no matter how “badass” or handsome they are.

I’m already a cis-het white dude who deals with other cis-het white dudes often enough and, honestly, we can be an incredibly boring as well as interchangeable bunch (though the ego of most generally won’t allow such a thought ’cause “individuality” or something)…

@Ooglyboggles

Yes, everything is wrong about SAO. I can rant about it at length, because I have in the past. Much like I’ve ranted about F:3 and ME2 and ughhh. There’s just no single point of failure. Everything is wrong. Always and completely. Except Jennifer Hale. She is amazing. Everything else can go.

I was just making a point that if ANY thought had been put into that anime AT ALL, they’d have realized they explicitly created a probable trans woman, and gift-wrapped themselves an opportunity to do something at least a LITTLE interesting with the show. Instead of something possibly meaningful to people like me, we get a lame ass joke about men who play as women in MMOs to get free stuff and ugh.

Holy crap it’s literally been years since I watched that crap and this one scene is the only “irrelevant haha” moment I remember.

Anyway. The “alt-right” live in complete defiance of the real world and other stuff we all already knew. The Matrix made a lot more sense after the first Wachowski came out, and now both of them? I think it’s pretty clear their personal journeys as women inspired most of the film, whether it was conscious or subconscious. I used to write little short stories where I was sucked into an alternate world of some description but was AFAB so…yeah. This is a thing that it makes sense to interpret through a transgender lens.

@NickNameNick

I’m one of those people where, when given the option, I’ll play a female or non-white character. Mostly because part of the thing I like about videogames is literally putting yourself into someone else’s shoes – and, frankly, I get tired of playing cis-het white dudes no matter how “badass” or handsome they are.

I recently dealt with a guy who admitted to playing women characters in video games specifically to experience misogyny being directed against his character, and who was disappointed “he” wasn’t made to “suffer” more for playing as a woman. And aggressive against me for appreciating misogyny being brought up but not beaten into me in the game like it is every day. So forgive me if some or much of that bleeds over into how I treat you.

Lots of men play women characters for various reasons. But it’s one thing to sit back on a computer and direct your character various places with your keyboard and mouse. It’s something else to actually have the experience of being in a different body. To have a body that doesn’t fit your self concept. Before I was willing to admit that my body didn’t match my self-concept, I allowed myself to believe I played women characters to oogle them. Truth helps. It really does.

The technology described in SAO effectively puts players in the game world, in what they see, hear, smell, touch, taste, and so forth. So in that respect, and given that dysphoria is a thing, I don’t really see most cis people going through with being dysphoric for an entire game. Well, depending on the person. In any event, that’s why my argument is “This person should logically be trans or non-binary” instead of “SAO should have been nicer to the poor guy”.

@EJ: At the moment, it seems that the Bundestag will have the same Groko (Große Koalition) as it currently has of CDU and SPD, with Chancellor being either Angela Merkel or Martin Schulz.

@IgnoreSandra:

I recently dealt with a guy who admitted to playing women characters in video games specifically to experience misogyny being directed against his character, and who was disappointed “he” wasn’t made to “suffer” more for playing as a woman.

That’s rather odd…

Before I was willing to admit that my body didn’t match my self-concept, I allowed myself to believe I played women characters to oogle them. Truth helps. It really does.

I’ll admit, to some degree, my being cis-het does effect my playing female characters at times – I’m attracted to the female form and prefer it. At the same time, I’m comfortable enough being cis-gendered that I see it as extreme insecurity to be uncomfortable by trans or non-binary individuals.

But I am quite honest when I state the ultimate appeal for videogames, for me, is the difference in perspective that’d come from playing someone who isn’t exactly like you. Even if, at this point, it’s only just indirectly getting into their headspace.

The technology described in SAO effectively puts players in the game world, in what they see, hear, smell, touch, taste, and so forth. So in that respect, and given that dysphoria is a thing, I don’t really see most cis people going through with being dysphoric for an entire game.

And that would be their loss…

@ epitomeofinceomprehensibilty

And no French people ever beheaded other French people, especially not in, say, 1793-94.

The guillotine was in use as late as 1977.

re; SAO
From what I have read online this is one of the places where the original novels went out of there way to explain the logic: having the wrong genitalia or a complete lack there of became distressing to the testers during the internal alpha of SAO, so the head gear scans your brain and tries to match you up with the right equipment but it also notes that small percentage of players ended up being assigned different genitalia then there meat body because there brains were close enough (I like to think those players were some kind of trans/genderqueer),
Kirito is still a shameless wish fulfilling self insert.

@Ohlmann:
Thanks for the correction. I hear that free-to-play facebook-game development is soul-destroying, and I’m glad you got out of it.