By David Futrelle
It’s a question asked over, and over, and over, and over, and over again on Tik Tok:
So why do good girls like bad guys?
I had this question for a real long time
I’ve been a bad boy and it’s plain to see
So why do good girls fall in love with me?
I guess that’s technically two questions. Sadly, despite the hundreds of excruciating Tik Tok videos devoted to the subject, these questions have ever been satisfactorily answered.
Until now, that is. And the answer comes from an old friend, the weirdo racist-who-says-he’s-not-a-racist YouTube “philosopher” Stefan Molyneux.
If you’re wondering what war he’s talking about, apparently (at least in Stef’s imagination) it’s some sort of global race war with civilized white people on one side and damn dirty immigrants on the other.
In case you haven’t noticed, Stef’s not a big fan of immigration, or immigrants, or, as far as I can tell, anyone whose skin is a bit less pale than his.
He’s much more fond of his fellow whites, or at least the minority of them who agree with his racist, xenophobic blather.
Unfortunately, as Stef sees it, a lot of white ladies out there are race traitors in the race war.
White dudes, meanwhile, are apparently destroying the cultural vitality of their race by giving in to the seductive lures of … smart phones and soy lattes.
No soy for Stef! Indeed, he seems to be preparing for the new bad boy order by trying out some bad boy looks for himself. Not sure they’re completely working.
I dunno, dude, these seem pretty low-effort to me. At least take off your shirt. The one thing I’ve learned from watching way too many of those Tik Tok videos is that bad boys just hate shirts.
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@ Alan Robertshaw
That’s a great story. Please.. a reference for it. Who’s the writer?
@Jojo
William Caxton, first English printer and publisher. From Eneydos (1490)
@Dalillama
Thank you! Yeah!! I learned something today
Alan, that was wonderful. Am I correct that that is very Early Modern English?
The mention of Caxton brings to mind a wonderful bit of detective fiction, where a detective laid up in hospital ends up investigating the deaths of the Princes in the Tower. Although it’s fiction, the historical information revealed in it is not. It’s called The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. It from the early 50s, IIRC.
I know historians have disagreed about her conclusions. Have you read it?
This is…not true. Even if we let Greeks count as ‘white’ for this ludicrously anachronistic claim.
@Bookworm in hijab
Ooh, do you get them to read Christine de Pizan? Even if it is a bit depressing that she was pointing out that no means no even in 1405, and the lesson still hasn’t sunk in…
As for Molyneux… This is basically Charles Manson’s worldview, right? I’m not imagining things? He’s just sitting around waiting for Helter Skelter?
I dunno whether that would need much eroding. Surely the blood’s dried and the sweat’s evaporated by now.
@Bookworm in hijab – Cool! That and Alan’s post brought back memories of having to rewrite Chaucer poems in modern English. And I also tutor English – less literature, more exam prep at the moment (e.g. the local English exam for teacher certification).
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BAHAHAAAHAHHAAAHHAahhhahaahaaaaaaaaaa…. *gasp*
the man has fucking lost what was left of his mind.
Comments policy, ableist language, subsection “crazy talk”.
Great bit of transphobia there /s
Slightly off topic for this post, very much on-topic for this blog:
The Israeli men’s magazine “Blazer” had an “expose” of the Israeli incels’ community and how they demand sex be “distributed” by the government “fairly”.
Only, as the “seventh eye” media watchdog points out, there is no Israeli “incel” community and the “incels” interviewed were not actually Incels, but were deliberately trolling the interviewer, as they confess in the link below (in Hebrew).
I suspect the Israeli trolls realized the craziness of the real American Incels and decided any craziness they might come up with would not be equal to what American Incels *really* demand…
https://www.the7eye.org.il/322540
@alan:
I never realized that the unlawful/illegal distinction had to do with the origin of the law … but of course that makes sense now you say it.
On the other hand, I get people confused about the difference between criminal and illegal asking me to clarify if there even is a distinction and if so what it might be. In that case there really is a difference, but I’d be breaking my NDA if I explained it.
@ichthyic:
If you read what he said, I think that was intentional…
….if we secretly know deep down that war is coming, why the hell would we be breeding in response to that? Children and pregnancy are hugely time and resource intensive and infants nearly 20 years of care and attention before they’re sufficient enough to be useful as soldiers. For at least the first 10 years a child would be incredibly vulnerable and therefore a huge liability in any kind of combat scenario, no matter how aggressive the father was. If war is impending, you’d think that the last response women would want to have would be to go out and get pregnant.
@Catalpa
Good point. I guess the war’s not coming for another 20 years or so.
Order of the White Mail
@Catalpa
From the defeat in the Franco-Prussian war in 1871 to 1914, the French government went on a “Women should be having more babies!” kick, openly and specifically in preparation for “la revanche” — the day they’d get to go to war with Germany again and take their revenge. It’s part of why there were so many French people available to be slaughtered in WWI.
Would it be okay for someone to scream, “Planet destroyer”?
Asking for an environmentalist.
@ Alan Robertshaw
And the Roman era high status burial of Beachy Head Woman would have the igno – Right fuming. Analysis of the remains indicated she was a black African.
YAWN. This complaint is at least as old as Horace, yet civilization doesn’t seem to have gone anywhere. Whenever any social change appears, cranky pundits rush to blame it for corrupting tender young minds: waltzes, chess, films, jazz, comic books, plays and romances, children’s birthday parties. Even Robert Louis Stevenson complained about “mendacious umbrellas” in the hands of young people (the forerunner of “lying makeup”).
Here’s an excerpt from a letter someone wrote to Town and Country magazine in 1777:
Whither are the manly vigor and athletic appearance of our forefathers flown? Can these be their legitimate heirs? Surely, no; a race of effeminate, self-admiring, emaciated fribbles can never have descended in a direct line from the heroes of Potiers and Agincourt…
All of these translate to “People are having fun instead of cowering before tradition and authority, and I disapprove.”
Aww, David, did you have to bring Falling In Reverse into this?
Another fun thing about English that ole Stephan should consider given his assertions about superior cultures is that generally words for advanced subjects are either from Latin or Greek, because a bunch of dirt farmers didn’t have words for anything fancy.
Aside from agriculture, animal domestication, irrigation, metal, weaving, astronomy, the wheel, writing, architecture, ship-building and the sail, money, paper, paper money, printing, the water wheel and windmill, gunpowder, numbers and mathematics, surveying, law, surgery, and civilisation itself (look up the origin of the word, Stefan) what have non-whites ever invented?
In the early days of The Waiting Dead fansites you are a lot of 2 were inundated with gun-loving survivalists who positively writhed with glee at the thought of the Zombie Apocalypse when all those stuck-up women would be begging for the protection of a real manly man. They also got off at the end up with you the thought of shooting blacks and gays and Mexicans and smart-ass liberals…um, they meant walkers, yeah, that’s it….
Ignore the “you are a lot of 2”-auto-correct is going berserk.