Want to wade into the rainbow-ridden surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
this is just PUA bullshit right? Oh akshually women are ATTRACTED to ādominantā men, dangerous men, bad boyz, anyone who challenges this is just too woke to admit the truth
Iām extraordinarily reluctant to take the guyās description at face value. It seems ripe for that thing guys do where a crowd thatās 1/3 women becomes āmostly womenā in their perception. But even taking it at face value, what the Hell, you know? Heās holding an event that self-selects for women who are vulnerable to predation and puts them in harmās way. āProtip: to get more feminine energy at your events, advertise it to alcoholic women and hold it at a brewery!ā
When I read rationalist descriptions of other peopleās psychology I sense a certain amount of contempt for them (because they are not Rational and of course cannot understand themselves as well as the rationalists can understand them). In this case, the silly woman who doesnāt understand why her expectations are being defied. Maybe it isnāt meant to be contemptuous, but thatās how it comes across to me.
I dunno, it does read like fiction. Like one of those billionaire romance novels, actually.
Scott Alexander literally says this before his story about āHenryā the patient who beat his fifth wife because she objected to him cheating with the ex who had left him after he beat her:
/s And male rationalists would never, ever hang out with an edgy scary person like Yarvin, Sailer, or Vassar for the thrill and bragging rights! Only teh fe-males would do such a thing. /s