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So yeah, that's me, more or less

So yeah, that’s me, more or less

This will be the 50th post made on this blog, which is a nice and even number. Combine that with the fact that I’ve run low on inspiration (which is good, don’t get me wrong – it means that I’ve successfully minimised my contact with loathsome people of all stripes), it seems appropriate for it to also be the last, at least for a while. No doubt the world will find new ways of pissing all over…

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Politically correct villainy

Another thing that annoys me with feminists is that they keep telling people to be horrible in politically correct ways.

I mean, to start with there’s the sheer awe-inspiring mental disconnect in genuinely believing that horrible people care what feminists (or anyone else) think. Just how far up your own ass do you have to be to just blithely assume that bad people are dying for you to tell them…

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The feministing of Order of the Stick - actually a mixed bag...

The feministing of Order of the Stick – actually a mixed bag…

Not everyone who jumps on the feminist bandwagon is made the worse for it. For some people it’s more of a… lateral move.

Take Rich Burlow, who has spent the last fifteen years drawing a D&D-inspired webcomic called Order of the Stick. It’s funny, exciting, often clever (though not as clever as Burlow thinks it is) and always colourful. It has also, in its entire run, never had a single female…

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The prostate is a pain in the ass.

The prostate is a pain in the ass.

This blog is winding down a bit. My store of pre-written posts is shrinking faster than I’m adding to it. It’s not that I’m not angry about things anymore, it’s just that talking about them no longer feels cathartic. Yes, I’m right and everyone else is wrong, but no one else is going to change their minds if I just repeat it enough times, and at least for the time being I think I’ve fully…

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Stop encouraging nerds to think they matter!

Stop encouraging nerds to think they matter!

She’s a nice lady who means well. I try to remind myself of that.

I want to like Liana Kerzner. I do. For one thing, she’s one of the few people around who seem to at least be trying to chart some sort of course in between “ew, get the girlie cooties out of video games – it should be non-stop boobs and explosions, or else it’s PANDERING!” and “ew, get the icky penises out of video games – it…

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Princesses of Power and right-wing snowflakes

Princesses of Power and right-wing snowflakes

Sometimes when I hear some nitwit bleating about Tumblr this and misandry that and pandering the other, I have to stop for a moment to wonder uncomfortably, “is this what I sound like to feminists?” And then of course I remind myself that I sound nothing like that and if feminists think I do it’s because they are very stupid, but still… it’s annoying that some whiners whine in a way that is so…

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My most recent aggravations

My most recent aggravations

You know what I’m really sick of right now? Everything.

I’m sick of whiny conservatives clutching their pearls because children’s shows contain Teh Gay. Dude, we’ve settled that question. Gay is okay. Move on. It’s not even a case of “get on the right side of history” anymore, it’s a case of “grudgingly follow history at a distance and keep it from completely getting out of your sight.”

Is there…

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"No one's saying that! No one's saying that!"

“No one’s saying that! No one’s saying that!”

Ungh. I feel wrung out like an old dishrag. Some well-meaning person took the most painful post I’ve ever written, the one I put off writing for ages because it hurt too much, and posted a link to it at a major blog with a sign saying “JUICY CONTROVERSY THIS WAY!” As a result, I got more views than ever before in the history of this blog, and several of them poo-pooed the post, making it…

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Are you paying attention? Because THIS is what feminist propaganda actually looks like.

Are you paying attention? Because THIS is what feminist propaganda actually looks like.

No, Star Wars: The Last Jedi is not feminist propaganda. Neither is Crazy Ex-Girlfriend or Jessica Jones, if someone thought so. No, not Dragon Age: Inquisition or Mass Effect: Andromedaeither. No, nor is that one. Or that one. Or that one, or that one, or that one. No. Just no. Shut up, shut up, you freaking whiner who sees a feminist conspiracy in everything that doesn’t seem to have been…

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Your approval fills me with... unease

Your approval fills me with… unease

Feminists keep trying to ruin TV shows I like.

By which I don’t mean that they do it by sinisterly infiltrating the entertainment industry and fiendishly turning it into a vehicle for the Liberal Agenda (TM) by shrinking the boobies and ruining the gritty realism of Star Warsby putting female characters into it. (you see, when a guy beats up twenty enemies without breaking a sweat, that’s…

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Of gentlemen and man-children

Of gentlemen and man-children

When you get a gentleman to stop being a gentleman, he becomes a man-child. Feminists would be better off if they accepted that.

That’s the short of it, anyway. But let’s take it from the top…

Once upon a time – for most of history, in fact, and in pretty much the entire world – men were supposed to be strong protectors of women. Call them gentlemen, or knights in shining armour, or Real Proper…

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The Rule of Cool

The Rule of Cool

What’s most annoying with the current state of things is that it’s the cool people who are stomping down on me.

It didn’t used to be that way, at least not this fully. I did used to complain, back in the day, that feminism was entirely too cool for my liking, apparently tailored mostly to hip, happening 20-somethings who were out partying and having casual sex all the time, rather than anyone who…

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Heroines

I could concern-troll, you know. I could concern-troll like nobody’s business.

I could claim to be a Real True Feminist, with all the other (conveniently silent) Real True Feminists at my back. I could phrase all my objections to other feminists (who would, of course, only be a few bad apples who were totally not representative of Real True Feminism) in terms of how problematic their stances are…

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I only hate people who I actually meet

I only hate people who I actually meet

There seems to be a nearly complete correlation between people who hate feminism and people who hate minorities. I find this to be unfortunate.

I’m a pretty hateful person. You may have noticed. I only need to spend a short while interacting with a group before I start hating it. This is because all groups are made up by people, and people are horrible. I hate liberals. Conservatives.…

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Where is the 'sperg-rage?!

Where is the ‘sperg-rage?!

My fellow autists disappoint me.

And it’s not like I get along startlingly well with them in the first place, because they are almost uniformly of the opinion that autism is a superpower, while I more sensibly see it as a life-long pain in the ass that simultaneously makes me anal-retentively determined to live life in the right, correct way and absolutely incapable of coming within a thousand…

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You know what? Fine. Let's consider Elevatorgate.

You know what? Fine. Let’s consider Elevatorgate.

I have, once again, read a book. And as usual it’s making me uneasy.

The book is sort of vaguely recommended, by the way, if only because it attacks most of the people I tend to attack – and while it kicks harder to the right than to the left, it has some choice words to say about Tumblr-dwelling oppression-olympians. The message of the book is a bit vague, but it seems to be something like, “the…

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Hyper-individualistic liberalism

I was asked to link to this post by an acquaintance who I think is labouring under the twin delusions that a) anyone actually reads this blog, and b) that spreading information about why the culture war is as psychotic as it is will somehow cause it to calm down. I know, I know. He’s young.

I suppose I should say something about it since I’m at it, though that’s tricky, because it’s about…

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