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By David Futrelle
My new favorite far-right Twitter weirdo is a fellow called @WesternIdentity, a self-described “right wing urban theologian” and “esoteric image cleric” who uses his Twitter account to promote “occult nationalism,” complain that “underground heretical judaism has pushed cuckoldry into our society,” express his love of skittles and post assorted gifs involving Trump getting the better of CNN.
I discovered @WesternIdentity earlier this week after he launched a tirade against the alleged diabolical evil that is short hair on women.
https://twitter.com/WesternIdentity/status/884476141851086848
https://twitter.com/WesternIdentity/status/884477604568412160
Yeah, that’s right, he’s getting all philosophical on our asses.
https://twitter.com/WesternIdentity/status/884478875560017921
He then decided to “rebrand” the cute-sounding pixie cut.
https://twitter.com/WesternIdentity/status/884849174004596736
As longtime readers of this blog know well, @WesternIdentity is hardly the first reactionary doofus to declare war on the pixie cut and short hairdos for women generally.
But he may be the first pixie-cut hater to also suggest that Chelsea Manning — currently sporting, yes, a pixie cut — is some kind of MK Ultra mind control slave, or something.
https://twitter.com/WesternIdentity/status/884470152888274944
It turns out that @WesternIdentity has a lot of, well, interesting opinions about all sorts of stuff, including Satanic CNN pedophiles, which he apparently thinks are a real thing.
https://twitter.com/WesternIdentity/status/882623038222675968
https://twitter.com/WesternIdentity/status/882625249954725888
Oh, but this is just the tip of the iceberg.
https://twitter.com/WesternIdentity/status/884284296273547264
https://twitter.com/WesternIdentity/status/881919902076071942
https://twitter.com/WesternIdentity/status/883748449803526144
https://twitter.com/WesternIdentity/status/881352205881815040
https://twitter.com/WesternIdentity/status/881299483962822657
And check out what is perhaps the world’s hottest take on robots:
https://twitter.com/WesternIdentity/status/881736993151082496
I honestly have no idea if this one is a joke:
https://twitter.com/WesternIdentity/status/879554926560587776
He does post some pretty dank gifs from time to time, though.
https://twitter.com/WesternIdentity/status/881723213033680897
H/T — @spookperson
@Laserqueen – that is a close friendship!
In the “unnecessary mentions of gender” category, we have my boss, ordering parts for a farmer in the area. He goes to great pains to tell our vendor “I’m ordering this for a woman farmer here” since, to him, it isn’t enough that she’s a farmer (and has been all her life, is successful, and works as hard or harder than any other farmer we’ve known). He just HAS to distinguish (to a person on the phone who will never meet her) that she’s a WOMAN farmer.
I did call him out on that after his call, “Why on earth would you tell him it’s for a WOMAN farmer? What does he care who it’s for?? Do you tell vendors when you’re ordering parts for Mr. X that he’s a ONE-ARMED FARMER??”
@dreemr
It is a close friendship- but not so close that I got to see a real fleshlight! He was supposed to leave it in the package until I could get over for a visit, but he couldn’t resist (it had been days apparently!) and neither one of us wanted to share after it had been “personalized”. I just saw the empty box. 🙁
Like “There’s a woman with a bun hairstyle wearing sunglasses! Ew! How gross!” (said with no sense of irony)
BRB, you just gave me an excuse to post my favorite cap:
Izabel, no!
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/imagecomics/images/d/d7/Saga_Vol_1_Cover_003.jpg
Regarding cis men and their obsession with their wangs, I suspect that having one is the only thing that allows some of them to feel superior to everybody else and that society at large says makes them superior to everybody else, so the Almighty Cock must be bowed down to and made happy at all costs lest you lose Superiority Points and become one of those unspeakable dickless not-quite-humans.
Well, unless you’re a transwoman, then according to a lot of these jokers having a dick is an unnatural abomination and travesty instead of Superiority Points. I guess cis dudebros think that having peens is copyrighted or something.
I have super-long hair and am looking forward to having super-long white hair as an old woman. Barring illness, it’s never going to be cut short. That’s my rebellion: closing in on a certain age and keeping my fairy princess waves.
Whatever women do, someone thinks it’s wrong, so we might as well please ourselves.
I imagine you could find all sorts of dumb and/or disturbing reasons why some guys dislike short hair on women. I think some guys dislike it because they associate long hair with young women. I was watching a clip from a film on YouTube a few weeks back that featured one of the characters cutting her long hair into a bob. One viewer was upset about that, claiming that it made her look a lot older.
Long hair looks good. Short hair looks good. In between hair looks good. It all depends on the person and the style.
I bet this guy would freak out if he saw the following Ford commercial that aired in June in Canada. The hairdo the women in the ad has is no doubt part of the plot to destroy Western civilisation and stuff.
You know, the dudes who hate short hair because of their sad boners don’t but me nearly as much as the women who flip out at short-haired women because they prefer long hair and take any other style as a personal attack.
OK, the new band name is Pixie Cut and the Sombrero Golems.
Hope to see them one day on the same bill as Sad Boner Sharia.
And can I get an Empirical Scientific Reality Pizza, please, or should that be the first album?
Colored vinyl special edition. Can they print pepperoni on a record?
@Gussie Jives you made me crack up. I’d seriously fund that show.
@ asabovesobelow
Ah, I feel so sorry for kids today with their downloads and online streaming; they miss out on stuff like that.
On a related note, one of my dearest and much missed friends (who was quite a character) ended up having his ashes pressed into his last single release.
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/1780666.wild_willis_ashes_are_pressed_into_service/
(He had his wake whilst he was still alive “I’m not paying for a free bar for you buggers if I can’t come”)
@Alan: Wow, that’s impressive. Three hundred were issued, eh? That’s really cool. He sounds like quite a character, indeed.
I’m not fat, I have long hair (100% by choice) and my hair is naturally red. Maybe I should get an airbrush kit or something (I don’t have anything I want as a tattoo bad enough to keep it on me forever, but I do like temporary tattoos and the fact that it pisses off entitled manbabies gives me an even better reason to temporarily ink myself up) and wear my clip-on septum ring–and get some other faux piercings (I don’t want real ones because of my sensitive skin).
Something here ain’t right, because if they are citizens they don’t face deportation, and if they aren’t citizens they can’t legally vote in a federal election.
So I’m going to have to see a link before I wind up the schadenfreude machine.
@Scildfreja: I know right? Those fuckers are like the townspeople in The Farmer And The Donkey…we can’t win no matter what we do! Thank Katie I don’t give a shit WHAT they “think” anymore (at least after I get past the first two stages of encountered hate)
My stages of Encountered Hate (CW: brief suicidal ideation mention)
1. I feel hurt and take it personally.
2. I try to change it if I can and entertain suicidal thoughts (it never goes beyond that though) if I can’t
3. I somehow snap myself out of my slump and consider who is saying the horribad things in the first place and ask myself “Just who are THEY to dictate how anyone should live and should feel about themselves?!”
4. I realize how hollow and pathetic those people are and simultaneously laugh at them and feel bad for them (what kind of a sorry life must they have for them to derive satisfaction by shitting all over other people).
5. I continue doing what *I* want to do, regardless of whether or not sad little people online approve.
The pace at which I go through the stages depends on my emotional state and how bad the screed is. It can be anywhere from minutes to weeks.
I bet these guys masturbate to Rapunzel – though they probably got mad when her hair was cut short at the end of Tangled.
In all seriousness, I have really thick hair – have since birth – and if it gets too long I literally cannot brush it – my hairbrush can’t reach deep enough, resulting in it getting tangled and messy. I have to keep it shoulder length at the longest for it to be manageable. But these guys would probably still be pissed if they met me.
Sombrero golems? Oh my gosh, those have to be the cutest things in the world. The only question is, what would they look like?
@Alan,
Your musician buddy is in good company about the ashes thing:
http://articles.latimes.com/1997/aug/29/news/mn-27069
Putting yourself into your work, indeed.
As much as I like the name pixie cut I’d totally be up for a harpy cut, though I’ve always seen them portrayed with long hair. But hell yeah, let me transform into a bird and poke the eyes of misogynist dishrags with my talons.
Today in gender policing: The scourge of girls wearing T-shirts and jeans! And some of them also have VERY LITTLE MAKEUP!! VERY LITTLE, you guys!
http://gwenckatz.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Untitled.jpg
@Katz: Reading that thread, it sounded more like the person was annoyed at how most girls in YA are described as ‘not like other girls’, and that the ones who wear makeup/display things that are traditionally considered feminine are usually the rivals.
Which checks out, from the YA I both remember and have read kind of recently. Usually the girls are the nerd, non-girly girls… Until they find a boyfriend, and then they clean up for a dance or whatever.
It read to me like the person was against gender policing, and wanted more variety to represent more ways to be.
I would be interested in having more variety in the types of heroes in YA, and it would be cool to have someone who is owning their femininity, however that is actually played out. Or someone who isn’t waiting to be noticed by the dude and then asked to the dance, where they can take off their glasses and put on some makeup and suddenly be gorgeous.
Unfortunately, caring about appearance in any way is usually a shorthand for someone who is going to be the MC’s rival, which is kind of not great. Liking to wear makeup, or co-ordinating your outfit, or just making sure that you feel that you look nice =/= evil, and it seems like it usually does.
If I’ve misinterpreted what you were saying, I’m sorry! Like I said, I just read this twitter thread, not the one it was spawning off from. I’m also not sure if there’s been a sweeping change in YA books in the past years, it has admittedly been a while since I was in that target demographic, or read any of the really popular ones.
When I read a book and the main character is really femme and wears dresses and heels and makeup I get this weird sense of not being femme enough myself, so I notice it. There are plenty of books like this. I don’t read a whole lot of YA but the one I read most recently had two female protagonists who were femme. Plus any romance novel I’ve ever read (admittedly, not many, as it’s not a genre I’ve ever gotten into much). So I disagree with the person quoted here that all the characters suffer from not being femme enough.
It could be that I just read books that had characters who were similar to me* then! That is also very possible, since you do read the backs of the books to decide if you want to actually read it. And I was definitely a nerdy, not-girly child.
Romance is a different beast entirely, I’d argue. I don’t read a lot of it, and… oh my god I’m not admitting the last one I read that is considered part of the genre for marketing purposes, but it was awful. And had a lead who didn’t care about her appearance at all. Maaaybe I should read something not awful in that category.
(*minus the hoping to be taken to the dance 9__9)