tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711202640864482160.post8768543614649208968..comments2023-04-02T02:01:35.445-07:00Comments on The Blog of Cinzia La Strega : Feeding the BeastCinziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16811789307226566072noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711202640864482160.post-83934360704415157652013-12-06T13:07:53.473-08:002013-12-06T13:07:53.473-08:00The only people worth worrying about are people wi...The only people worth worrying about are people with real power. People with positions of authority are different and should be taken seriously. Nutbags on the internet are entertainment.Bodycrimeshttp://bodycrimes.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711202640864482160.post-51730693911864994052013-12-06T13:05:40.036-08:002013-12-06T13:05:40.036-08:00Really, these guys are silly. They're obvious ...Really, these guys are silly. They're obvious and easily knocked down. The kind of sexism I encounter in my job is much, much worse because it's subtle and often comes from colleagues I respect. Bodycrimeshttp://bodycrimes.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711202640864482160.post-81989345823010494942013-12-06T08:33:57.844-08:002013-12-06T08:33:57.844-08:00If one of the most distressing aspects of the MRM ...If one of the most distressing aspects of the MRM and other radical right groups is that so many women jump on board, one of the most reassuring aspects of exploring these blogs is to find out that many (most?) men find them as abhorrent as I do. In fact, most of the men I talk to about the "manosphere" have no idea what I'm nattering on about and no interest in finding out first hand. <br /><br />It's all about finding the proper balance, isn't it? I know I won't really stop poking around in the blogs of hate groups -- a kind of morbid curiosity about human nature drives me to dark and terrible places -- but I do need to consciously balance the input I feed my mind. Cinziahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16811789307226566072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711202640864482160.post-43859109278418475492013-12-06T08:24:41.310-08:002013-12-06T08:24:41.310-08:00One of the reasons I find your blog so much fun to...One of the reasons I find your blog so much fun to read is that you seem able to keep these guys in proper perspective, which is say in a mocking light. Reading your witty takes on their various positions actually helps dissipate the anger they arouse in me.Cinziahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16811789307226566072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711202640864482160.post-27885727819280327922013-12-06T05:22:41.304-08:002013-12-06T05:22:41.304-08:00As horribly fascinating as I've found the Mano...As horribly fascinating as I've found the Manosphere, I've decided that, for the sake of my blood pressure and long-term mental health, I really need to stay away from their blogs, message boards and other websites. While the outrage those things often fill me with used to be perversely pleasurable, it stopped being fun after a while, particularly when it'd have me stewing all day about something that invariably wasn't that important. To be sure, I still enjoy the blogs (such as yours) and other sites that poke fun at the Manosphere, and mercilessly dissect its outrageous claims, but I'm staying away from the "source material" for the most part. Very occasionally, I'll succumb to temptation, and take a peek at a Manosphere site I've sworn to stay away from, but it doesn't take me long to be reminded why I chose to stay away from it in the first place! It's just all too much for me now: the ridiculous jargon; the projection so blatant it's almost comical; the completely off-the-wall conspiracy theories (easily one of the most bizarre I ever encountered was from a guy who claimed that the NWO (or some other favourite right-wing bogeyman) were recruiting frustrated thirtysomething male virgins to help advance the "Global Depopulation Agenda", whatever the hell that is); the veneration of cranks and just generally vile people (Vox Day springs to mind); the reactionary social agenda (saying that these guys want to take us all back to the 1950s is way too kind - the 1850s would be more like it); the insufferable arrogance; and the risible hypocrisy of a bunch of guys all claiming to "live by their own rules" while exhibiting far more conformity than the women and "beta" males they mock.<br /><br />My brother in Seattle would echo the above views. When I visited him earlier in the year, I told him about my forays into the Manosphere, and while he was initially interested (we often like to share the fucked-up things we've found on the Internet), it got to the point where he just point blank said to me, "Dude, STFU about the fucking Manosphere! People in real life just don't behave the way those idiots say they do!" He should know, as his own current relationship bears virtually no resemblance to the Red Pill "ideal" (hell, just for a start, his Asian girlfriend isn't remotely submissive!).<br /><br />It's not just the Manosphere I've decided to stay away from, though; it's the conservative media in my own country as well. I used to religiously read <i>The Australian</i>, one of our national newspapers, until I got thoroughly fed up with its neoconservative, economically neoliberal agenda (a few years back, for example, they were vocal supporters of a truly odious (not to mention Orwellian) piece of industrial relations legislation entitled WorkChoices). There was one writer on their staff who particularly annoyed me, a woman called Janet Albrechtsen who I came to vehemently dislike the first time I read a column of hers (a ridiculous piece on the "evils" of metrosexuals). There doesn't seem to have been a right-wing American political viewpoint she hasn't parroted (she even once wrote a column praising the Tea Party!), and one of her columns was so extreme that the KKK approvingly reproduced it on one of their websites! That was quite funny, actually.Zosimus the Heathenhttp://ourdifferentjourney.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/zosimus/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3711202640864482160.post-55961182577529636692013-12-06T01:59:16.453-08:002013-12-06T01:59:16.453-08:00Good questions. I've been asked by a couple of...Good questions. I've been asked by a couple of people why I waste my time reading hate Manosphere sites which, let's face it, aren't exactly written by towering intellects or formidable opponents.<br /><br />The truth is, I love a frisson of outrage. I read the Daily Mail for the same reason. But maybe underlying that, there are just so many real problems to deal with. When I'm groaning under overwork (even make work jobs are too much for our lady brains) or I've read another depressing economic report, I can just click on the Manosphere and watch them run round getting exercised about non-problems (the collapse of civilisation because of awful women). It kind of puts things in perspective.Bodycrimeshttp://bodycrimes.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com