By David Futrelle
The newly-minted Christian moralist Roosh V spent many years of his life immersed in a lifestyle that one can only call depraved — using a crude and predatory version of “pickup artistry” that at times seems to have been indistinguishable from rape to “score” with women; he wrote a series of books teaching other men how to do the same.
Now he’s turned his back on his old ways. Not, it seems, because he recognizes the real harm he did to his victims, but because he’s now convinced that “heterosexual fornication,” as he puts it, is too gay.
No, really. In a post on his blog last week, Roosh spelled out his, er, logic.
At a time in my life when I was attacking homosexuals for their degenerate fornication lifestyle, I was participating in a degenerate fornication lifestyle. Outside of the difference that they had sex with men and I had sex with women, our lifestyles, moral outlook, and approach to intimacy were almost identical. I may not have been a homosexual by definition, but I was a homosexual in spirit.
Roosh, in true clickbait style, then lays out 15 reasons that fornicators of the heterosexual variety are acting the same as fornicators of the homosexual variety. And it doesn’t take long to see that the actual behavior of gay men doesn’t really have anything to do with any of this: he’s simply taken his own bad behavior as a pickup artist and projected it onto gays and their, ahem, “doo-doo lifestyle.”
He declares that male “fornicators” use “drugs or alcohol” to “seal the deal” with their would-be conquests.
All potential sexual prospects for the night are plied with drink or pills to get them in a heightened state of lust, and then at the peak moment of attraction, an attempt is made to move to a private bedroom (or bathroom) to complete a sex act. If you’re an active fornicator, I can just about guarantee that you have never slept with a woman for the first time without the aid of a psychoactive substance.
Speak for yourself, you date-rapey creep.
Actually, he has already spoken for himself — specifically, in his book Bang Iceland, where he confessed to having sex with a woman so inebriated that “[i]n America, having sex with her would have been rape, since she couldn’t legally give her consent.”
(Guess what, dude; they have those same laws in Iceland, too. You. Raped. Her.)
The rest of the post is made up with similar half-confessions, alongside brief rants on things Roosh finds distasteful (anal sex, abortion, personal grooming). Apparently the only form of acceptable sex to Roosh these days is the old-fashioned penis-in-vagina variety. “A human mouth is not a place to put a penis,” he explains at one point.
An anus is not a place to put a penis. Your mouth is not intended to slurp up a vagina or anus. … When you’re addicted to gaining physical pleasure, you have to get creative in vile and disease-causing ways just for a little extra shot of pleasure.
He excoriates both straight and gay men who have sex without condoms, assuming that this is pretty much universal behavior.
The ones who say they “always use condoms” are not being honest, because once you hear details of their sexual encounters, you’ll see that they use condoms only when a woman forces them to, or when one puts out severe warning signs like having a facial tattoo, but even then, many men hope they can fornicate without protection.
Roosh is again assuming that his behavior in his “pickup artist” years — when he was obsessed with “raw dogging” — matches the behavior of all other “fornicators.” (Sadly, it does match most American Fornicators)
Roosh goes on to charge both straight and gay men with having “sex with partners they have no feelings for.” This time he uses an example from his own life rather than simply projecting his experiences onto others.
Many times I would dance like a monkey for a girl I didn’t like, to entertain her and maintain her attraction, just so I can access her hole and have an orgasm. … Through fornication, both gay and straight stop viewing human beings as human, but as vessels to a sex act that is barely more intimate than masturbation, and any means will justify that end.
Well, yes, if you’re a manipulative shithead who insists on having sex with people you hate … there’s a pretty good chance that no one is going to have a good time.
As a new convert to Orthdox Chistianity, Roosh makes sure to mention God and his basement-dwelling friend, denouncing the allegedly “Satanic” consequences of the sexual revolution that gave Roosh his career as a (very bad) writer in the first place.
He ends with this uplifting passage from the Book of Roosh.
A society of homosexual fornicators, flaunting their behavior in public, can’t be achieved without first having a society of heterosexual fornicators. Both go hand in hand to divide and destroy both sexes while preventing the creation of families. More severely, fornication separates you from God and destroys your soul, one casual hook-up at a time. It pains me to think of how deceived I was to partake in this evil for so long.
Dude, it’s actually a good thing that you feel guilty about what you did. But you’re not feeling guilty over the right thing. It’s not (consensual) fornication that’s the problem; it’s the rapes that you so casually confessed to in your dating guides date-rape manuals.
Your God may forgive you for that, but we won’t.
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@ Vicky P
Wait, can we infer from that that today is your birthday?
If so, Happy Birthday!!!
(And that is such a lovely thing to assign someone the benefit of your birthday wish!)
@Alan
Yes, it is. My friends and family have been showering me with books, which proves how well they understand me. 🙂
Now I just need to hear that my friend can accept phone calls. He’s got a hell of a recovery ahead of him.
@Victorious Parasol – That’s a relief. I hope his recovery continues to go as well as possible.
In good medical news, my neighbour’s father recovered after being put on a ventilator for Covid-19. He’s also about eighty and has kidney problems, so I thought he was going to die, but he started getting better and is now almost back to normal. So hopefully he can have a few more years with his kids & grandkids.
As for this post, Roosh is an abusive (and, memetically, unwashed) asshole – plus his writing is repetitive and boring – but David’s phrase “uplifting passage from the Book of Roosh” made me laugh.
@Victorious Parasol
Happy Birthday and best of luck for your friend’s recovery.
@Victorious Parasol
That’s wonderful. Best birthday gift ever.
At the risk of TMI IRT Roosh blathering about how mouths are not places to put penises, I rather suspect Mr. Dakry would argue a lot. Then again our sex life is probably much better than Roosh’s these days. The sad part is, we can count on one hand how often in a year we have it.
At least we fricking enjoy it when it happens, which is more than what probably can be said about Roosh and the poor women involved.
Happy birthday, VP, and I’m glad to hear about your bro’s recovery!
On the bright side with regard to Roosh’s guns, he lives in, afaik, Silver Spring, MD (one town away from me…yay). they are SEEEEERIOUS about weapons here, so close to the Tangerine Menace. Most likely he’s just posting it because he’s an aging wanna-be cool dude, and thinks it looks cool. I almost want to be like “Dude. go back to the bread making thing, that was actually kinda objectively not awful (except calling it a “bread scientist”) and you werent hurting ANYONE if you were making a decent loaf of bread”…in fact, he should bring them to church! he might actually get a happy reception for something he did, completely unconnected to a need for power…might blow his mind.
@Victorious Parasol
Happy birthday! I hope your friend recovers quickly.
Thank you, everyone!
Getting back to Roosh, it continues to boggle my mind that Roosh seems unable to accept the idea that his is not the only perspective. He lied and used substances to get women to sleep with him; therefore, every sexually active man MUST do the same. What a sad, small world he lives in.
@VP:
This is a common theme with the kind of people we talk about here, isn’t it?. For example, there’s a totally objective scale of hotness which can be applied to women, and anyone who claims to be attracted to larger or mature women is either lying or [redacted due to comments policy]. I still don’t understand how this attitude can survive until adulthood. It seems more common on the right than on the left, though the left aren’t immune.
P.S. happy birthday!
@ Moggie
Exactly! I know I still get surprised when I learn about something outside my own experience (including the experience of reading about other perspectives), but I generally process it okay. I at least admit that it exists. So often Roosh and his ilk talk about their experiences as if they are not only correct but the ONLY way to be. Anybody who says otherwise is a liar. Here endeth the lesson according to Roosh.
I don’t get it.
@Victorious Parasol, happy birthday! I’m glad you got your loving birthday wish, and I hope your friend’s recovery goes well!
@Alpine
That’s a big if. Last we saw, his bread didn’t turn out all that good looking:
Maybe he’s gotten better, but I can’t imagine he takes all that kindly to constructive criticism.
@Moggie
I think it survives because they assume any other opinions are eeevil conspiracies against them and double down over and over again. I think it’s more common on the right because the right has a higher percentage of cishet white men, many of whom are socialized to expect that the world revolves around them and then assume that their opinions are universal.
Clearly, he decided he was better suited to beard making than bread making.
@Rabid Rabbit
That’ll prevent him from ever becoming friends with the TERFs. They hate beards.
@Naglfar:
Unfortunately, that means we have to find two different rooms to quietly board up while they’re not looking, as opposed to being able to just lock the door of one.
@ Everyone who picked up the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork question, house point awarded. Nice to touch base with other Pratchettians now and then.
@Paireon: Yeah, didn’t mean to imply disgusted with ones genitals should be universal. That would be my own issue/hangup. There’s nothing wrong with my body, except that it’s mine if that makes any sense.
@Naglfar: Right, I’m reminded of the whole gold-star lesbian thing (though I’m sure gay guys have something similar). I came to my own realisation about my bi-ness fairly recently but yeah it doesn’t come up much for similar reasons (also, I’m in a committed relationship so there’s usually no reason to bring it up, my partner knows though as they are bi themselves).
@Catalpa: Fair point, I guess the TERFs have to get credit for fighting for some kind of equality I guess. But as usual they are scraping beneath the bottom of the barrel.
@Victorious Parasol: Hopefully this will mean a speedy recovery for your friend and a happy birthday for you.
Getting in a Celebratory Birthday Wish for VP with 30 seconds to spare… make it 20.
Okay, having had a chance to catch up on the thread, I’ll add my happiness at VP’s friend’s ongoing recovery.
Also, if you’re using a bread-making machine, you’re not really baking bread. I make focaccia once a month or so, on average, and pizza dough from scratch multiple times per week (usually about 2, but it can be more if I’m in a food rut). I went on a kick making my own sourdough starter and keeping it alive for about 8 months while baking 2 large sourdough loaves every Saturday using a friend’s kitchen.
I say all this not because I want a cookie, but because I’m a complete amateur, and in the past couple years I’ve easily made more than 50 loaves of bread… and I can tell you it ain’t nothing like using a bread making machine. (It’s also not that hard, at least to learn the basics!)
So I remember his bread-making kick, and he was begging for praise. If all that was just tinkering with the ingredient list before shoving things in the bread machine, I have as much respect for his effort as I would for him if he decided to try a couple different detergents in his washer to see which ones cleaned his clothes the best.
What a tosser.
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Speaking of tossers. FOX news is once again trying to create trouble by badmouthing progressives. The result is an incredible laugh riot:
@Battering Lamb
Some gay men take it a step further. In addition to “gold star gay men” (which are exactly what they sound like), there are some men who call themselves “platinum gay men” as they have never had sex with a woman and were delivered by C section so they have never touched a vagina even during birth.
The main issue with the gold star thing in gay men and lesbians seems to be that it’s trans* exclusionary—sleeping with a trans* person is often seen as losing the star because of genitals.
@Crip Dyke
As far as I can tell, that is all it was. Roosh claimed an extra layer of sophistication because he apparently has a degree in microbiology. Evidently that didn’t help his skills at pouring ingredients into a machine.
LOL how on the world does a degree in microbiology help you bake bread? It’s well known that you put the salt and the yeast on opposite sides of the bowl before you mix up your ingredients. What other microbiology wisdom is there?
@Naglfar,
“Platinum gay” makes even less sense, as it isn’t even based on any choices they’ve made.
It’s also really misogynistic to act like vaginal birth makes you somehow tainted or less special.
Really, the only thing being delivered by C-section means is that you can kill MacBeth, and as Tolkien pointed out any woman could have done that.
@Victorious Parasol
Belated happy birthday!
@PoM
I think the constant talk about microbiology was because he didn’t want to seem feminine, and so he had to repeatedly reassure himself it was Manly Man-Science Science Man. Here’s a takedown of his video. He also cited research “online” so that shows the level he’s at.
@Allandrel
Oh, it is misogynistic. I would guess it comes from a desire to prove themselves to other men.
I also just looked it up and apparently the term “platinum lesbian” refers to a lesbian conceived via IVF or artificial insemination*, so it’s not just gay men who say things like this.
*Apparently some other women use it to refer to having never kissed a man, this was just one definition.