Author: David Futrelle

Robert Futrelle, RIP

My father passed away on Wednesday, some four months after the death of my mother.

Just wanted you all to know. I may be taking a few more days off from the blog.

“The Jews are behind the simultaneous hypersexualization and sexual segregation of fertile teenagers from the wider male population,” incel declares

We live in an age unusually receptive to conspiracy theory — with a veritable army of QAnoners caught up in baroque, sadistic theories of retribution against political and cultural elites; with the vast majority of Republicans believing (or purporting to believe) that, actually, Donald Trump won the election; and with a cohort of Americans convinced that Bill Gates is planning to plant microchips in their bodies with a vaccine shot.

Tags conspiracy theory, ephebophilia, incels, misogyny, pedophilia

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A 4chan anon makes the case for cuckoldry: “It isn’t a fetish; it’s the natural order”

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date February 22, 2021
34 Comments on A 4chan anon makes the case for cuckoldry: “It isn’t a fetish; it’s the natural order”

4Channers are so obsessed with calling people “cucks” that you can’t help but wonder if some of them are just projecting their own secret — or perhaps not-so-secret — fetishes on the world.

Tags alpha male, beta male, cuckolding, cuckoldry, cucks, evo psych, evolutionary psychology, fetish, incel, lana del rey

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Is The Handmaid’s Tale a parable about “the folly of the liberated woman?” One MGTOW says “yes.”

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date February 20, 2021
72 Comments on Is The Handmaid’s Tale a parable about “the folly of the liberated woman?” One MGTOW says “yes.”

What the fuck are you talking about, MGTOW?

Margaret Atwood has a unusual new fan — a commenter on the MGTOW2 subreddit who thinks that The Handmaid’s Tale is (unbeknownst to even Atwood herself) not a dystopian vision of a patriarchal theocracy but rather a sort of Red Pill parable on “the folly of the liberated woman.”

Tags dunning-kruger, mansplaining, margaret atwood, mgtow, misogynhy, reddit, the handmaid's tale

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Was an incel rioter just arrested for his role in the Capitol attack? The strange case of “Scuffed Elliot Rodger”

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date February 19, 2021
33 Comments on Was an incel rioter just arrested for his role in the Capitol attack? The strange case of “Scuffed Elliot Rodger”

Christian Secor, in happier times

A UCLA student who sometimes called himself “Scuffed Elliot Rodger” online has been nabbed on assorted federal charges for his role in the January 6th attack on the Capitol, during which he was photographed sitting in Mike Pence’s seat in the Senate just moments after Pence was evacuated from the room.

Tags capitol, capitol insurrection, christian secor, fbi, groyper, nick fuentes, ucla

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“I WILL NEVER RAISE ANOTHER MAN’S CHILD,” declares MGTOW in epic(ally stupid) rant

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date February 17, 2021
127 Comments on “I WILL NEVER RAISE ANOTHER MAN’S CHILD,” declares MGTOW in epic(ally stupid) rant

Men! you are not obliged to raise a son whose father is clearly Andy Richter

A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do, and sometimes that thing he’s gotta do is to write a 1300-word rant about evil single moms who want to find new fathers for their kids.

Tags cuckolding, cuckolding fetish, cucks, father, fatphobia, men going their own way, mgtow, misogyny, paternity, racism, reddit

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Wot’s all this then? Red Pill romancer plans to pull the birds with a fake British accent

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date February 16, 2021
97 Comments on Wot’s all this then? Red Pill romancer plans to pull the birds with a fake British accent

Romance and fake British accents don’t go together like beans on toast

They are seriously running out of ideas over there on the Ask The Red Pill subreddit.

Tags british accent, fake accents, fake british accent, pickup, pickup artistry, PUA, red pill

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26 creepy, threatening or otherwise completely inappropriate vintage Valentine’s Day cards

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date February 14, 2021
35 Comments on 26 creepy, threatening or otherwise completely inappropriate vintage Valentine’s Day cards

Today, a little trip back in time to Valentine’s Days past. Which turns out to be a lot weirder than you might have expected, at least if the Valentine’s Day cards our ancestors gave each other are any indication.

Tags consent, creepy, domestic violence, guns, knives, misogyny, rape culture, rapey, scary, strange, threatening, valentine's day, valentine's day cards, vintage, violence against women

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Impeachment Acquittal Open Thread

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date February 13, 2021
41 Comments on Impeachment Acquittal Open Thread

Well, that was depressingly predictable, huh? Let’s hope this grifter has to face a real court — or ten — for some of his (alleged) other crimes, financial and otherwise.