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!
Fran:
Lol. That’s why I didn’t take it that way; because I knew you weren’t doing that.
@EJ-senpai
Hey, hey, did you just breathe? That was some good shit! Well done!
Pic related – I’m the little brown girl on the right, and you are on the left.
This is my sock.
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@Francesca
Yeah It was shitty indeed. I’m sure the writer read the article before submitting it and I’m also sure he realised how bad it makes David look. A good journalist tries to give the best perspective of a subject no matter what.
Ah, classic projection. Since Cerny needs to sock to add to his pathetic reader count he assumed everyone else is as desperate for relevance as he is.
Congratulations to all the Davids on this momentous occasion! The article provides many priceless quotes, including:
No, Paul, David isn’t mocking their pain; he’s mocking the bad choices they make in response to that pain–mistakes that are encouraged by you, Mike Cernovich, and all the other leaders of the Manosphere.
You stumbled on an appropriate metaphor, though; the Manospherian movement is a cancer on our culture. That makes you and your compatriots like the owners of tobacco companies and pollution-spewing factories; you benefit by victimizing vulnerable people, while seeing yourselves as outstanding citizens.
Suck my socks, Juicebro, I’m real. And I’m GORGEOUS.
As one of my (our?) newest socks, I must say I am delighted every time I (re-)read a thread and see all those witty comments. It’s so fresh, every time. (*swelling background music “Like a Virgin”) I also like that there’s a sub-set of socks that are fish–that always makes me happy. And, I have a whole backstory, should we ever need it, so I feel full and well rounded. For a sock.
Chessman was the one who said that catcalling thing. Whoever called it as that being a Mick Dash sock, congratulations!
@EJ: Actually, there are plenty of people that do not encourage others to continue breathing in this world, so I don’t know if that description is apt.
Of course, this is just one of the lazier staged arguments between Futrelle’s massive sockpuppet army. He’s so devious!
You Google yourself Cerny? How often? Do you also adjust your appearance after sneaking a look at yourself in every shop window as you walk past? BTW, we all see when people do that – you’re definitely not being as surreptitious as you think.
Congrats on the article, David.
I do hope you are looking after yourself after you go wading through that muck for all us socks. Thanks for doing what you do.
Sorry, no sock here. I eated them all.
@Axecaliber:
Thx for the pic of group sox! (I do love group sox.)
David: congratulations! NYTimes is a good mention no matter how they write it. I think I’ll just donate again now before the rush.
Ugh, the old ‘why can’t you be nice to those people’ fallacy. News flash, they don’t care what you think. They just want you to shut up and agree with them.
Dead friends critique assumes a goal the author never intended.
This is an opinion piece. The objective is to argue a point.
There is no law of rhetoric that the author must give ‘the other side’ equal time.
Trumps success is a refusal to be reasonable. As is the suicidal GOP.
As are MGTOW.
Every one of the delicate darlings have the introspection and intellectual maturity of a goldfish.
Only their wants and needs matter.
Only their sperm can approach the sacredness of their desires.
As perfect, semi-divine rulers of the Gor Universe, an offense against them is a crime against all that is holy.
Only their words are good and bigly.
Monotheism girds their loins with a dogma that places them as God on earth.
That’s ending. Going the way of the Mayans.
Yeah, this kind of struck me; why didn’t the author go directly to the sources himself and coming up with his own analysis, instead of half-assedly cribbing off of David, while implying David should educate these guys better?
Here’s the answer: it’d look exactly the same, because these guys don’t want to learn. They think they already have the answers.
Congrats, David! No such thing as bad publicity, right?
guest – NO FAIR!! I’ve knitted that yarn into socks in purple and red (I even do my cuffs almost identically.) Okay then, I’ll just take the cream with rust, gray and yellow intarsia ones further up on the left.
Axe – Where’s the pic from? There are lots of lovely hand-knitted pairs in there!
This is my kinda thread, y’all! I love knitting socks.
Well, this sock here isn’t particularly bothered by the slightly condescending tone of the article.
I’m more miffed that David’s / our neat trick of generating actual blog revenue through page views and donations by him/ourself isn’t being recognised.
Also, how well does an echo chamber lined with socks function?
i am the loyal commenter. not the clone/sock put assemble by auto programming and i wanted to say that all of me on this tremendous website are the wonderful.
@croquembouche:
I are quite innovative with all of me working together to accomplish the greatness. Why more people do not see the genius of me?
The Yahoo Answers Gender Studies troll says:
Because the man that writes site is not on flat top mountains, but on my internet?
However I promise that if I ever visit flat top mountains as me, I will write the mesagynist internet sites.
But only reasonable small number of writing, because I am not a clone/sock that can auto program many writing in a row.
Right on, David! And thank you for not “trying to educate MRAs” – the world does not need yet another site that’s all about them.
It’s only an echo chamber if you consider the fact that “alternative facts” and “misogynists are great” people tend to get shouted down for illogic, and/or gullibility.
My kind of echo chamber, TBH.
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