By David Futrelle
So Twitter is currently a bit overrun with ironic “hot takes” accounts celebrating the absolute awfullest expressions of opinion on Twitter and off. My favorite at the moment is one called @RoastieTakes, an account run (presumably) by some bitter young incel that is intended to highlight “the worst of the female race.” (“Roastie,” if you haven’t yet heard, is what incels like to call women, based on the notion that oft-used vaginas end up with labia that look like slices of roast beef.)
But oftentimes what Mr. Roastietakes thinks is the worst is actually sort of the best, as these “Roastie Takes” demonstrate.
— Roastie Takes (@RoastieTakes) April 30, 2018
— Roastie Takes (@RoastieTakes) April 26, 2018
— Roastie Takes (@RoastieTakes) April 25, 2018
— Roastie Takes (@RoastieTakes) April 26, 2018
— Roastie Takes (@RoastieTakes) April 27, 2018
FACT CHECK: Ok, sure, so none of this is actually true except for the date. There weren’t a lot of “early suffragettes” hanging out in bathing suits in 1921, a year after women in the US got the right to vote. (The women who had been “early suffragettes” who were still around then were elderly.) And that’s not pizza. These particular gals were actually contestants in a pie-eating contest and most of the women in the pic are watching, not eating. According to Snopes, this falsely labeled pic has been floating around the net for years. Evidently “History to Learn,” an anonymous account that posts lots of random old pics of things ranging from “A Civil Servant with a manually operated traffic signal, Philadelphia, 1922” to “14-year-old Gwen Stefani receiving an autograph from Sting in 1983” doesn’t check its facts very carefully.
But, come on, the idea of women activists launching a campaign to annoy men by donning bathing suits and eating pizza in groups is awesome and if anyone decided to do this for real I would support it completely.
I have concluded that incels not only hate women; they hate joy.
I like the idea of eating pizza in solidarity, or in a swimsuit. I think Mr. Parasol and I will fetch pizza for supper tonight.
Any form of pie works for me.
Ellie Taylor’s day sounds like my weekend. Minus the bra.
From these examples, I can’t tell if this is someone trolling incels or an incel who doesn’t understand humor. It could have easily gone either way.
Then Iooked at the account. Mystery solved. 🙁
While “The Conquest of Bread” doesn’t make much mention of Pizza, I am sure it was only to make it more inclusive to the people who didn’t have any experience with pizza back in 1892.
PizzAnarchy should be the platform that’ll finally unite all of humanity in joy and prosperity.
I know these people don’t do biology very well, so I suppose it’s a step up that this one thinks “female” is a “race” rather than a completely different species.
But then it occurred to me that thinking of women as a race makes it less taxing on the poor soul’s brain, as he can just keep on being racist without having to think of extra layers of how to be awful.
Here’s something that will blow your mind, young incel! The human brain is capable of doing more than one thing at once! That’s right! You can be both a racist and a misogynist at the same time! Ain’t that something???
Girl, please. Anthony Hopkins is still a hunk 😛
Also, these @takes accounts are supposed to have some sorta theme. Like, the sex/abortions ones aren’t worthy of a takes account, but I get the idea. Roasties=sloots=laugh at/shame them. But the bra cheese tweet and the bathing suits one are only related if the point isn’t that liberated sexuality is bad, but that anything that women do is b…
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Speaking of incels, @Chinchillazilla over on Twitter has caused them to go into something of a fury over the past day with a tweet that said “I’m gonna design sex robots with such advanced AI that they still reject incels”. She got her own dedicated thread from them and everything.
https://twitter.com/Chinchillazllla/status/991754949972447232
Yeah, this will *totally* get people on board with the plight of the poor incel.
I think the bathing suits should be donned by women who would be deemed “fat” by the incels…women who are unacceptable in their world, and still wouldn’t have sex with them because they are not nice people.
To do today:
–put on old-fashioned bathing suit, complete with ankle-tie ballerina shoes;
–eat pizza in front of incels;
–MISAAAAAANDRY!
@dslucia,
That @Chinchillazilla thread is pure fucking gold.
Okay so the Ellie Taylor one, first of all, is not a “take.” It does not express an opinion or a point of view. Second of all, I can’t even tell what he thinks is offensive. Self-deprecation? Kate Middleton? Cheese??
Out of curiosity, can you still be a “roastie” if you barely even have any labia?
This has introduced me to the pure, unadulterated Canadian joy that is Christine Estima’s twitter account. I am now very happy.
Is it just me, or does the term “roastie” carry yet another layer of Unfortunate Implications in that people of color–regardless of age or sexual history–are likely to have browner-toned genitalia?
@ Jesalin
Actual physical description of one’s labia hardly matters to anyone stupid enough to unironically apply the label. One could be pale as snow, with the smoothest “innie” imaginable (and a sexual history of anywhere from 0-60+ partners), it doesn’t make a difference to an idiot who’s starting from and ending at a position of “woman+sex = bad.”
True. Obviously I didn’t think that through very well.
@Jesalin
Your post did prompt me to wonder whether a lesbian labia is a roastie or not.
Hmm..now I’m wondering too.
Apparently the account is serious – it’s retweeting things that are supposedly mock-worthy because they display women’s meanness or “sluttiness”. Thing is, most seem to be a) deliberate jokes (e.g. the Avatar Vagina :D) or b) reasonable observations (e.g. one woman was saying that people with STDs don’t deserve to be shamed just for that).
Oh, I guess David already said all this. Sorry for stating the obvious!
@Viscaria
I think the idea is that there’s a contrast between What A Woman Should Be (propagating the race and still managing to look right) and Ebil Ebil Feminist Who’s So Lazy and Eats Unhealthily And Is Probably Really Fat Becaues Cheese And Lazy Ew.
Of course, it could also be Ebil Wimmyns Are So Hypocritical They Blow Dry Their Hair And Put On Makeup And Also Ebil Wimmyns Are Gross And Fat And Dont Pay Attention To Their Appearance Like My Boner Says They Should, thus managing to condemn both of them at once.
I would totally hang out with a large group of women in our bathing suits and eat pizza. And I wouldn’t even care whether people got annoyed or not.
Apologies to any vegetarians present, but roast beef has always looked extremely appetising to me.
But yes, to those unaware of Incel mythology, the theory is that the human vulva can tell the difference between having sex with 100 different men, and having sex with the same man 100 times, and changes its shape appropriately.
If the owner of said labia is a woman, then yes.