“Skeptic Feminist” YouTuber allegedly kills his girlfriend; terrible antifeminists make jokes

Do you know, all this is so obvious it makes me tired. It’s such a classic control move.

I’m tired of these guys using anything – anything at all, the death of a young woman – to hold out bait with the expectation I’ll jump to justify my beliefs (which means putting myself in the powerless position. If I’m justifying, I’m agreeing with them that I need to justify myself. And THAT means I am allowing them to set the parameters of my behaviour – what’s “normal” and what needs justifying. Nope.)

I am a feminist. Anyone with an open mind, empathy and a conscience is a feminist. I don’t need to explain that this death does not prove anything about feminism, because only really stupid people would think it did. I’m not arguing with these assholes like they are on my level. They’re not on my level. Please! I look at this shit and I think “Stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen, Gretchen.”

Best quote on this kind of crap ever (obviously relating to racism, but I think it translates to sexism as well).

“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.” – Toni Morrison

I am sorry to hear someone is dead. If anyone who knew her is reading this, you have my sympathy, and I hope you are looking after yourself as well as you can.

Haha sorry about long rant by the way. This one really got my goat.

Heatiste is not equivalent to this woman in any way.

Did she mock rape victims or claim racial and gender superiority? Did she call for men’s voting rights to be restricted or half the human population to be abused or enslaved? Is she trying to make the world more dangerous for men?

No.

Dali is right. He is a fascist. He creates propaganda that threatens the lives of millions of people. He is actively trying to create more Elliot Rogers and Mark Lepines in a world where men already so commonly murder women.
If his gf shot him, a man who likes to brag about what an abusive swine he is and how much women deserve to be owned and raped, I’d assume she did it out of self-defense and I would not mourn his loss for one second.

Well put Violet and Lea!

@ Megalibrarygirl:

Thanx for that. We don’t do shit for our veterans, and especially among the right-wing, “Support Our Troops” means support the war. When the soldiers come back, fuck them, we don’t need them any more. Now we have a commander-in-chief (note the lower case, that man is a squatter, not a leader) who “likes veterans who didn’t get captured”. And I’m sure he’d be happy to tell any wounded vet he’s more partial to soldiers who didn’t get wounded.

I’m a child of two combat vet parents, dad was in U.S. Army from 1940-1946, wounded twice, mom was a nurse, her forward medical unit was shelled in Belgium in 1944 or ’45 (dad was a “combat veteran”… mom was a “veteran who was in combat” — it was different back then). Neither ever talked much about the war, mostly to say that it sure wasn’t like in the movies.

I take addiction recovery meetings into the V.A. near here, speak well of the soldiers and criticize the military when is appropriate — which is A LOT.

I don’t do it. I’ve caught myself starting to do it and stopped myself. It’s not the kinda schadenfreude I enjoy feeling.

This is exactly how I felt when Scalia died. There was a part of me that was glad but I felt really ashamed about it and talked myself out of it. I’m not sad about it and I’m not going to pretend like he was a remotely good person just because he died, but I don’t have to stoop to that level.

@David Futrelle:

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.

I know this is a completely insignificant thing to bring up, especially given the seriousness of incident, but as someone who is fond of all things Batman:

Deadpool isn’t a Batman villain – you may’ve been thinking of Slade “Deathstroke” Wilson. Though, unsurprisingly enough, Rob Liefeld did base his creation off that character (thus having the same surname of “Wilson”)…

@ Zatar

What NickNameNick means is that David said ‘another Batman villain’ when the first he meant was Deadpool.

https://youtu.be/OCUlE5ldPvM

@Zatar and nparker:

I did always want to see a crossover with Deadpool and Deathstroke where they have an extended team-up, preferably with a title like “Wade & Slade.”

Nick: Heather, the woman who was killed, used a handle referencing Poison Ivy.

@Megalibrarygirl

For anyone interested in the connection between PTSD & Military, Robin Morgan interviews a woman who says that veterans partners (no matter the gender) are the demographic at greatest risk of abuse & violence.

I wonder if she’s compared it to the spouses of police officers.
Regardless, a major part of the solution would appear to be having fewer soldiers and fewer wars.
@Axe

That said, if someone who harmed you is dead, and you’re happy about that, I’m not gonna say shit about you partying in the streets

So, every conservative political figure or voter in my lifetime? (actually quite a few of them from before it too; the effects of this shit linger) On it.

I didnt know who Ivy or RDP are but the reaction from these rights wing fucks is even worse than i could imagined. How fucking disgusting.