Dude, you're a RAPIST.JackRayner wrote: Several months later, after we ended up having a one-night stand, she started accusing me of having used PUA mind tricks to get her into bed. The fact is that all that was involved was a liter and a half of wine in my system, half a liter in hers, and her being extra flirty with me. [I think I've mentioned this story before. It was very traumatic. :violin: ] The level at which I currently employ "PUA tricks" are; believing physical beauty is common, indifference, and assuming that women are attracted. If these things are "mind tricks", [on anyone other than myself] then some of the men I know are fucking Jedi Masters!
*high five*
Makes sense, if only because the Ministry of Truth's attempt to make A Voice for Men the official enemy back-fired in such a wonderful fashion. Not only did they get various video LULZ launched at them, but it doesn't take a genius to realize that if you link (or coyly don't like The Peez) to AVfM promising people that this is the very festering hive of misogyny and chest-thumping male privilege and people actually take a look, they are going to be disappointed.AKAHorace wrote:Seriously though, I think that PZ has restarted this charade to energize his base. These guys need someone to pile onto and fewer people are naive enough to waste time trying to reason with them. So he has not had anyone to ban for a while, the tone is getting tepid, they miss tearing in to someone and so are forced to pick a fight with Oolon (who seems a nice enough guy).
I haven't spent too much time in the new forum there, but there has been a notable increase in people on YouTube and elsewhere noting that "Hey, you guys have a better opinion of women than FTB" Which is true. And an actual misogynist just isn't going to get the sort of feedback they crave.
No one denies there's injustice and that people suffer, but great monolithic forces that explain everything? That's nuts. Reality is infinitely more complex. Patriarchy theory, like The Bible and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are explanations for idiots, or bigots or both. It's not a zero-sum Us vs Them. We are all in this together and, very often, this sucks for everyone.
In any case, the Athiplus people are fundamentalists and fundamentalists need an enemy. The more narrowly defined, if entirely fictional, the better. In fact, if your social cohesion is based on continuous battles against the forces of whatever, then the more fictional the enemy, the better. You can't defeat a figment of the imagination and so the necessary state of constant conflict is assured.
As Atheism Plus goes into its death throes, and people bail out leaving a smaller, harder core of crazy, they are invariably going to get louder and subject to a lot more angry thrashing about.
Which is, of course, totally my idea of a good time.