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!
FOLLOW THE SHOE!
CAST OFF THE SHOE! FOLLOW THE GOURD!
@Moggie:
I loves me a good Monty Python reference…kudos!
David and I are the same age! 🙂
‘It would be fair to criticize the site as an echo chamber: a place where almost everyone agrees that online misogyny is rampant and congratulates themselves for knowing so’
I don’t understand what ‘congratulate’ means here…people are congratulating themselves for being aware of online misogyny? That doesn’t strike me as something that deserves being congratulated for.
@guest
Apparently this is what the NTY thinks we do all day.
FIFY.
The New York Times is Shitty, in case y’all didn’t know that already, by the way.
It’s slanted towards affluent, conservative Christian Cis-het white males.
ETA:
That’s not to say that I don’t recognize the magnitude of David’s accomplishments by being mentioned in the NYT, but I figured I’d outline why the article is written in such a gross way.
ETA2:
What I actually do:
How can we be an echo chamber if we argue over various and sundry?
@Fran
Yeah, I’d have hoped it would be obvious that the NYT isn’t particularly left wing at the latest after hiring a Climate change ‘skeptic’ to write an op-ed.
Also, in response to your image, this is what I actually do, particularly while reading troll posts:
I honestly wish I had the time to comment more regularly, particularly with troll debunking, but that’s just the life of a STEMlord. /s
@Swedish Sexual Bread
One of these days I’m gonna get a STEM degree and then the United States will finally treat me like a human being!
I like the NYT. It’s not a monolith.
Shrug.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5201/5349120073_b24a88a503.jpg
^Pictured: Mammotheers
@PeeVee
I read the NYT a lot, actually. I hope you guys didn’t think I was saying to Stop Reading It just because I proclaimed it to be Shitty, I just didn’t want y’all to go into this with high expectations.
@Buttons (and others)
Me too! I am pleasantly surprised to find that David is only a year younger than moi. I guess there’s hope for me, yet!
I may have just metaphorically watched a MGTOW head exploding today.
In Yahoo’s Answers’s Gender Studies section, there’s a user called Mick whose usual routine for the past month has been repeatedly asking if feminist women hate MGTOWs because they won’t catcall them.
Not today. Today he was spamming Yahoo Answers with a torrent of questions like:
• (4:58) “Why are hate propagandists like david futrelle allowed to spew hate?”
• (4:58) “How come some people don’t think we hunted the mammoth is a mesandrist hate site?”
• (5:03) “We hunted the mammoth is a feminist anti mgtow misandrist hate site. Why do some deny it?”
At least till the moderators cracked down. I suspect he may have heard the news.
Fran,
Nope, I didn’t take it that way. I wouldn’t stop reading it even if you had, just like I didn’t when The Orange Menace proclaimed it [whatever whimsical thing flitted across his brain that day] on Twitter.
I have been reading the NYT longer than you’ve been alive. Yep, I’m that old.
Robin,
Sounds like he’s an old friend of WHTM, that got his ass handed to him one too many times, here.
I started reading this blog after I was getting away from my anti-SJW phase. Definitely helped cement my already left-leaning politics even more and will proudly declare myself SJew White Knight Beta Cuck Supremo.
@PeeVee
Mr Dash, I presume?
@Robin Lionheart – that “feminists hate MGTOWs ’cause they don’t get catcalls from them!” line sounds suspiciously like our very own seagull-loving troll, Abungus (was that his name? something like that).
From a couple of weeks ago, said the same stupid thing.
NINJA’D by PeeVee!
Axe,
First person I thought of.
dreemr, I think they’re all the same guy; pictured in Axe’s photo, above.
I think that David’s (ie my) local knowledge of London is remarkable – he has created 2 socks (myself and Alan) who live/d in Hoxton. I/ David that is, would be hard pushed to name a small suburb on the edge of Chicago – even though David/ I claim to live there!
I think that makes sense.
@Francesca
The first time I read the article it didn’t seem bad but I went through it quickly. Now that I’ve read it for a second time I realize it’s kinda…meh.
The article is very sterile and not in a good way.
I feel like the writer tried to be as distant as possible from the topic and to give the most multi-faceted perspective on David and his blog. But he failed to do even that, the opinions on David and his blog are mostly from negative sources. And that’s a very important choice, the way you choose to present a person has a pretty high impact on the perception that people will have of him/her.
If you compare the way the NYT chose to depict David and the way The Atlantic chose to depict Richard Spencer then you’ll see that the Spencer guy was treated far better.
Oh well, bad publicity is still better than no publicity at all. ?
@PeeVee
Well, I should jolly well hope not!
I hate this thing nowadays, this authoritarian thing in which people command other people what websites they should read.
I give you leave to hit me on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper if I ever display this atrocious attitude.
@Aulma
That is precisely what I was attempting to express, yes. And I think it was Shitty of the NYT to do this, but whatever, I guess. Half a loaf is better than none, as my mother likes to say.
Hey y’all, I just realised that Earth is an echo chamber. We all agree that breathing is a good thing, and congratulate each other for doing so.
@Axecalibur I’m the blue and grey ones in the bottom left corner, JSYK.