Horrible news: “Skeptic Feminist” Youtuber Aleksandr Kolpakov has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder after allegedly shooting and killing Heather “Ivy” Anable, his girlfriend and one of his cohosts on his Skeptic Feminist Youtube channel.
Some of the internet’s worst antifeminist icons think this is all quite hilarious, positively thrilled to have an alleged murder to lay at the feet of their ideological enemies.
Dr. Randomercam, a member of the resolutely antifeminist Honey Badger Brigade, entered the fray with this grotesque tweet:
Those SJWs aren't that bad really. It's not as though any of them have ever murdered anyone. pic.twitter.com/QEleEtaPKk
— Dr Randomercam (@DrRandomercam) May 15, 2017
Former Gamergate icon and doxing enthusiast Ethan Ralph headlined his blog post on the subject “MALE FEMINISTS STRIKE AGAIN?: YouTuber The Skeptic Feminist Accused of Murdering Polyandry Partner Heather Anable.” In the post itself, he seemed to suggest that Kolpakov’s “male feminism” was the root of his violence, writing
Perhaps Kolpakov was not content with merely sexually assaulting women, like many of his male feminist “allies,” so he decided to go ahead and level up by killing one.
He went on to suggest that a recent tweet from Kolpakov protesting Vladimir Putin’s draconian anti-gay crackdowns showed that he (Kolpakov, not Putin) “had extermination on the mind.”
https://twitter.com/TheRalphRetort/status/864262531598217216
Fellow doxing enthusiast Wild Goose, a former regular, now irregular, contributor to Ethan Ralph’s Ralph Retort, used the murder as an excuse for a string of pitiful jokes about male feminists.
https://twitter.com/WildGooseVEVO/status/864546654338379776
https://twitter.com/WildGooseVEVO/status/864546864003244033
https://twitter.com/WildGooseVEVO/status/864445557099638784
On the right-wing Murdoch rag Heat Street, meanwhile, perpetual Gamergater and professional Twitter-drama critic Ian Miles Cheong supplemented his reporting on the basic facts of the case with weird passive-aggressive insults about Kolpakov’s inability to get many retweets on Twitter for his critiques of Gamergate.
They weren’t the only ones to find the alleged murder hilarious — or at least ideologically useful.
— 🏳️🌈🐸Meme Thief (@leechko) May 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/_EmmaTH/status/864214856488112137
https://twitter.com/sevvierose/status/864210934356725762
https://twitter.com/HarmfulOpinions/status/864189192938688513
https://twitter.com/HarmfulOpinions/status/864198416154361856
https://twitter.com/RealClassixX/status/864417557331267585
https://twitter.com/AzazelZxX/status/864407476460027904
https://twitter.com/Punishedstitch/status/864259336352264192
https://twitter.com/slow17moLIVES/status/864317804694179840
https://twitter.com/GloriousDescent/status/864219513981685762
https://twitter.com/Abraxas_Virus/status/864295336390647808
https://twitter.com/Seismics_Swans/status/864293198062997504
https://twitter.com/RightWingNut92/status/864352618121904129
https://twitter.com/yungjeune/status/864258841046855682
https://twitter.com/Green_Mick_XD/status/864466032383098880
https://twitter.com/Imabigscrewball/status/864530720567345152
https://twitter.com/Whiting1289/status/864433349237932033
Some defended the jokes because “feminists did it first” by pointing out spree killer Elliot Rodger’s misogyny.
When the feminists tried to make Eliot Rogers an MRA. At least the #skepticfeminist is an actual feminist.
— Ferrule Bezel (@FeruleBezel) May 16, 2017
Brace yourselves. They're about to accuse us of doing everything they did with Elliot Rodger *and still do*
This is going to be REALLY gross— Dr Randomercam (@DrRandomercam) May 15, 2017
Never mind that Rodger left behind a book-length manifesto and numerous videos describing his hatred for women in terms that would not be out-of-place on the Incels subreddit. Never mind that it is the incels, not the feminists, who joke about Rodger.
Ralph, naturally, defended those joking about the murder.
https://twitter.com/TheRalphRetort/status/864491542442127360
He followed this up with a 12-minute video thoughtfully titled “Yes, We Should Meme on The Skeptic Feminist After Murder Charge.” I didn’t watch it. Life is too short.
It’s worth noting that as of now we know almost nothing — at least nothing definitive — about the murder. The Skeptic Feminist Twitter account, presumably now being run by the channel’s other co-host, a woman going by the name of another Batman villain, “Harley Quinn,” blames the killing on PTSD.
https://twitter.com/SkepticFeminist/status/864476600926167041
https://twitter.com/SkepticFeminist/status/864487177484460032
While many have accepted this explanation, as of yet we have no evidence that it is true. We don’t know if there was any history of domestic violence, or some other motive. We really don’t know anything for sure.
The only heartening thing in this whole tragic mess is that the Twitter jokes about the murder are vastly outnumbered by heartfelt condolences — including numerous tweets from antifeminists more interested in expressing human sympathy than in scoring dubious ideological points.
I’ll keep you updated; this is a story that will be with us for a long time.
@Axecalibur, @opposablethumbs
I’m glad you liked that quote! The first time I read it was a paradigm shift for me in terms of how I looked at politics – it was the first time I realised there actually was no point in playing the game as it was presented to me, because it’s rigged. And that is, in fact, its whole point.
@Axecalibur
Vile is fine 🙂
Violet, that quote from Toni Morrison is amazing. Thanks so much for posting it.
Some abusers do become “male feminists” because they think it will help them manipulate their partners. It’s impossible to tell whether someone is truly committed to not being controlling, or whether he will stick with it.
There are even stalkers who will take a “break” for 10 or 15 years and go back to harassing the same target because they haven’t dealt with the underlying selfishness.
I like to believe people are basically good and usually I do but sometimes empathy-deficient assholes like the ones above challenge that.
Also hi everyone (and Vile Violet)!
@Vile Violet: You’re right about the game being rigged. It’s like one of my favorite sayings: “Arguing with a shitlord is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how masterful your moves are, the pigeon will knock all the pieces off, shit on the board and then strut off like they won”
Where did this happen? Aren’t you supposed to keep your guns locked up most of the time? Especially if you are suffering from mental illness. Did he just have the gun on the kitchen table or something? 🙁 *baffled*
You’ve got to give the woman-haters credit for how willing they are to use anything and everything to justify their position that denying equal rights to women is the correct and proper response to personal tragedies like this one.
These idiots don’t realize you can’t meme on RDP without objectifying the woman he killed.
Looking into the killing and being skeptical of RDP is okay. His military history only shows less than six months served and no deployment at all which pretty much means he got PTSD from boot camp? Sorry, I am not buying that.
I hope the truth comes out in court assuming our justice system treats white people the same as black people (spoiler: it doesn’t )
@Sangie
Considering the process and function of basic training, I’m not sure why you wouldn’t buy it…