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.
One big difference between anti-feminist’s reaction to this and feminist’s reaction to Elliot Rodger’s murder spree? We weren’t actually joking about it. We didn’t find it funny. I wish these fucktwizzles would stop trying to project how terrible they are onto us.
@wwth
But if they don’t claim both sides they’ll lose their ability to not hold themselves responsible for their own behaviors and actions.
elliot’s action was based on his ideology where as if we go by what their friend said, his action wasn’t motivated by feminism. Not that these guy listen to reason or understand empathy.
Rest in peace, Ivy Anable.
To her friends and family, I’m very sorry that Ivy’s life was cut short.
Anti-feminists, gamergaters, and MRAs celebrating a woman’s murder? Day ending in y, I guess.
Yeah, we weren’t laughing our butts off about Eliot Rodgers.
We were shocked, horrified, and lamenting the loss of life.
But y’know, to-may-to, to-mah-to.
At least (hopefully) the shitheads are a fucking minority.
This is messed up, and may “Ivy” rest in peace.
I think this sick livestream of Sargon, Kraut and Tea and a few lesser known ‘rationalists’ giggling and making jokes about this not long after the news broke should be featured in the article. Unbelievably sick people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpSBAp3enoY
Michael Rowlands broke some of it down into a smaller video.
Of course they find a woman’s murder funny. Of course they think joking about it somehow makes their points look reasonable. They are so hateful, so backwards thinking and so bigoted that they have no idea what the decent response even looks like. They couldn’t even fake humane behavior if they tried.
Yes, there are male abusers who have learned to hide behind faux feminism. That isn’t a shock to women anywhere. The Hugo Switzers and Richard Carriers of the world aren’t a well kept secret. Even MRAs try that trick by claiming they’re the ones who “really” respect women. Abusers are adept at all sorts of subterfuge. That’s why we’re leery of sefl-declared male “allies”.
I’m just in shock. My deepest sympathies. This must be so hard for Harley.
Also, Elliot Rogers branded himself as part of the manosphere with his manifesto. Who are these people saying RDP is not a feminist? Who in the feminist community gloated and made memes and jokes when Elliot committed murder? Talk about pulling a argument out of their asses.
Sigh-I’m seriously done for now. RIP Ivy.
WWTH,
That’s because we see women being murdered as a tragedy. They see it at a victory, no matter who commits the murder.
The lesson to take from this should be that women should be listened to when we say that “nice guy” is a rapist or an abuser, because bad men don’t go around twirling mustaches and making a production of how much they like to tie women to railroad tracks. These anti-feminists should have learned from this and the Killstein reveal that when we tell them carrying guns or not staying out late, do not protect us because most abusers are men we have grown to trust and are groomed to accept as “safe”. We try to tell them we are most likely to be murdered by our male significant other than by anyone else. Spooky men in dark parking lots are dangerous, but not as dangerous as the men we let in our homes and hearts.
We try to tell them Schrodinger’s rapist is reasonable and necessary for our safety, but they aren’t about to see this as evidence they should trust women. Instead, they think it’s somehow the opposite, as if it isn’t just more confirmation of what feminists have been saying all along.
How very sad…
I remember watching some of their videos. They looked like some pretty cool people. Rest in peace Ivy. You didn’t deserve to die so young.
Well, that’s welcome. I mean that sincerely; it’s always nice when people on all sides can put aside their differences for a moment.
PTSD is a bear.
@Iseult The Idle
That honestly surprised. For a moment it warmed my heart that even people of opposing ideologies could both show respect. Then I read the other comments and lost hope in humanity.
So many shitheads trying to score political points from this incident. Not just the the anti-SJWs, a few people from the left also made asses out of themselves.
It sickens me to be honest. I hope ducks like Sargon and Bearing rot in the fiery pits of Hell. The only good place for maggots like them.
Condolences to her family and friends.
While the responses of many anti-feminists is utterly vile, it is disturbing how many people are excusing this on account of PTSD. I thought the general consensus was that being an asshole wasn’t a mental condition, and killing your girlfriend doesn’t get much more assholish IMO.
If this man wasn’t a feminist, would anyone in the feminist community be calling this a tragedy and not a straight up example of male violence?
How awful.
What the hell am I supposed to pull out of this word soup? “Don’t be a feminist and oppose sexual assault and femicide, ladies, otherwise you’ll be sexually assaulted and/or killed by a guy who professes to be one of you”?
Just when I thought I’d finally gotten the measure of these fuckmaroons, one of them reaches a whole new level of incomprehensible idiocy. Bottom of the barrel? Nope, Ethan Fucking Ralph chewed through it long ago. He’s now well on his way to China.
And so are all the rest of his douche-comrades. They’re all piling into the hole after him.
I gotta admit, guys, this whole thing had me really angry yesterday. A woman is dead and these hideous stooges see it purely as an opportunity to take “feminists” down a peg. It just galls me that for all the “dank memes” and the “ironic fascism” and the “LOLTOPKEK”, these malodorous runts really think that everyone is just as nihilistic and cruel as they are. It’s like they crave the attention by being the world’s worst people, but never quite have the courage to own that label and just admit “I’m a complete scumbag who feels no sympathy even for the wrongfully dead!”
Because the second they have to do that, the “normies” they claim they don’t care about are going to notice how ghoulish they are and bolt for the exits, hence all this “both sides are just as bad” posturing from the usual suspects. Whatever persona of aloof intellectualism they’re trying to adopt kinda falls apart when they behave like the worst gutter trash ever to crawl across this planet.
Then you had clowns like Armoured Skeptic (one of the umpteen atheist channels I had to unsub for lending said scumbags a platform) tweeting out “Ay me! This horrible tragedy is being used to advance both pro- and anti-feminist talking points! Canst we not politicize this dastardly crime?” As if Carl Benjamin’s buddy is above all this petty “women’s rights” stuff that gets lesser beings in a huff….
Newsflash: Not everybody is as emotionally stunted as you lot! Some of us (read: Mammotheers) still care about the well-being of others, no matter where they fall on the political spectrum, even at the cesspool end where the Pepes dwell! We don’t wish harm or illness on others, nor do we start making light of it. We are better people than you!
Could I get a summary on who Skeptic Feminist/RDP is?
here is their channel
@ Gussie
this
I wanna comment, analyze, interpret,, but i’m just, FUCK
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and, I feel, they believe EVERYONE ELSE is the same way. That’s how they can look at the left’s reactions to the Elliot Rodger killings (and the reactions of “SJWs”, liberals, women, people with social conscience, anyone with a fucking HEART) and see “they’re doing the same thing”…. I feel that they believe that statistical evidence of oppression is no more compelling than their “belief” that oppression is a myth.
RIP Ivy. My sincerest condolences to her family and friends.
This RDP was a person who committed a horrible act, and if this was due to PTSD then this crime had two victims. We mourn the loss of Ivy and we mourn that not enough was done to help RDP cope with his disorder.
But unlike Elliot Rodger, RDP does not appear to have murdered because of a “feminist agenda”, leave a manifesto that clearly shows his motives were based on said frame of mind, or have been egged on by “feminists” when he posted his intentions online. He is a person who committed a crime who happens to self-identify as a feminist. MRA’s and twitter frogs are trying to pin this on an entire group the same way any crime committed by someone of a different religion/skin color/political affiliation is.
Like how white Christian killers are branded “lone wolves” while brown Muslim killers are branded “islamic terrorists”, if RDP had not identified with an ideology the MRA’s hate, they’d be singing a different tune. Heck, it would be a safe bet to say they’d be defending him.