By David Futrelle
So this little blog of mine (and yours!) got a nice writeup in the New York Times today by fellow Illinois writer Peter C. Baker. Check it out! Nice to see the Paper of Record take note of what we’re doing here.
Or old friend Mike Cernovich, quoted in the piece, has decided that you commenters here are a bunch of sock puppets. Which makes about as much sense as the rest of his nonsense, I guess. And dear old Paul Elam, whose idea of helping men consists of charging them $90 an hour to talk to his unqualified ass on Skype, sputters that what we do here is like making fun of cancer patients. Nah. It’s more like making fun of cancer itself.
Big thanks to Jaclyn Friedman for her kind comments in the piece.
And speaking of thanks, this seems like a good opportunity to once again offer my humble thanks to all the (extremely real) commenters on and supporters of WHTM for making this blog possible in the first place!
@Viscaria the Cheese Hog said:
A resounding DITTO from me, David.
…I always figured David was in his 30s. The More You Know, I guess.
SInce I’m a Button, I’m probably just the eye of one of David’s sockpuppets, not an entire sock in myself.
Congrats, David! Great article.
Just makes me wonder how much sockpuppeting ‘ole Cernovich has done, himself…
*whispers* “I…see…sockpuppets…everywhere…”
PeeVee:
It’s always projection.
There are no right-wing sockpuppets. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Okay, I confess. I am everyone on this site.
Well, all the commenters. Except the trolls, of course.
And David. And his cats.
Wait, I might be the cats.
Darn it, Iseult, *I* wanted to be everyone on this site except the trolls!
I shall now pout fetchingly.
I’m David Futrelle and so’s my wife!!
David, congratulations….I also find many of your posts well-written and well-argued.
As for the whole sock-puppet accusation, I agree that it would be astonishing if one person could create so many fictional voices distinct from each other in so many ways….AND manufacture the output at a pace that would create those 600+ comment threads we’ve seen on some posts recently.
That being said, WWTH’s point would apply differently to the case of some regular commenters. I have no Twitter account at all and very minimal online presence outside some professional accounts under my real name. I don’t use that here and keep things psuedonymous and prefer it that way.
Still, I often laugh (to myself) at Alt-Right people like the Return of Kings bloggers….my reality would, like many of the realities of the people here, make their heads explode from cognitive dissonance….e.g. after a brief period of my own military service, have had a career teaching military history at the undergraduate and graduate levels at several schools including in the U.S. military, reasonable record of well-received scholarly publication [if I do say so myself š ] in the discipline….cis-het, with gender presentation very traditionally masculine…regular Crossfitter (I love their favorite question “do you even lift?”….like they can’t believe a feminist man would…yes, Rooshie I do and probably more than you and probably can do a plank hold longer than you too)…romantic partner (the lovely Ms. Pavlov’s House) cis-het traditionally feminine, tall blonde-haired blue-eyed Slavic beauty who also could kick a ROKers ass if one ever harassed or attacked her…
(those assholes love to fetishize Slavic women in especially idiotic ways…David you should do a post about that sometime.)
Of course it is, lol. They always think that whatever they, themselves are doing, everyone else must be, too.
After all, they champion a POTUS that sockpuppeted himself, so.
Congrats David!! I read the article and it’s really well written. Also 51 y.o? I thought you were like 30? I haven’t seen many pictures of you but you look much younger than that. ?
No no no, that was his publicist, not him! Grrrr! How could you make such a mistake! {/s}
Congratulations David! Your work is hard (like a sewer workers or anything else featured on “Dirty Jobs”) but someone has to do it and you deserve to be recognized. Thank you!
Oh? And who just worked to right a historical wrong against unwed fathers? RUTH BADER GINSBERG! BOOM!!
Suck it, MRAs!
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/13/532674073/high-court-strikes-down-law-favoring-unwed-mothers-over-unwed-fathers
Sorry for the link and run, I am really supposed to be working…
@Re: Trolls.
I’m a troll.
One of the sexy trolls from Andrew Hussie’s Homestuck.
Pic related, it’s me.
Also, this is the Troll Empress, so this is relevant to me that much more, and she represents my birth sign Pisces.
ETA:
she even has fluffy hair like me omg
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Online_sockpuppetry
(Yeah, I know, hardly needed comment, but…)
No, no, no, I’m a lurker not a sock. Wait…er, if I’m posting this then I can’t be a lurker, can I? Could it be…?
[Frantically checks browser history for mra sites and home for signs of cats.]
Congrats Dave, I hope the much deserved attention brings good things.
Congrats, Dave! Now we juuuuuust need to get Ross Douthat fired from the NYT editorial board so you can write for them instead!
I’d have said Tom Friedman, but he’s too rich to fire and David Brooks clearly has some kind of dirt on everybody in Washington given as poor a writer as he keeps getting on Sunday shows. That leaves useless toad Ross Douthat to give up his seat for a real writer.
IT WAS ME, AUSTIN! IT WAS ME ALL ALONG!
@K, you ninja’d me!!! *sob*
@Checkmate, it’s OK, since we’re all David anyways.
I as a rule dont comment on websites much, but I have to say, David, I enjoy what you are doing here.
And commentors, if you are indeed sock puppets you are AWESOME ones.
Ok, back to lurking, thought Id show the flag for a moment, because praise where praise is due and all…
Now, admittedly my first name is David. What does that mean for this sock-puppet theory?
I like the part where David, a 50-year-old white male, somehow manages to accurately portray me, a 27-year old black transwoman who is into weird stuff and looking fabulous and being gorgeous and ravishing.
Like, how did David manage to be this stylish, y’all?
Wait…if I’m a sock, and the rest of us are socks, then who’s the shoe????