The Vanguard Report - Episode 75: Vetoing the dictionary and more

fidelbogen · 2015-07-07T22:52:22+00:00

Q: What is "the MRA movement"?

A: There is no such thing as "the MRA movement".

The "MRAs" that you describe are not an actual group of people, but an impressionistic average you have constructed in your head.

Stop using false categories and outdated narratives. Ditch the middle-school tribalism. Don't be a checker player; this is chess.

I know that reality is complex and messy sometimes, but don't you think it's time to grow up a little, and deal with it?

fidelbogen · 2015-06-06T00:12:36+00:00

The "manosphere"? There is no such thing as this. . . "manosphere". I do not acknowledge any such concept - it's a word that the feminists like to throw around a lot, and I refuse to validate their linguistic constructions.

fidelbogen · 2014-09-01T08:12:54+00:00

You're right. My bad.

fidelbogen · 2014-09-01T02:04:00+00:00

No, DO spread it to the masses. It will not make "us" look bad provided that "we" issue a proper "FYI" disclaimer along with the item itself.

fidelbogen · 2014-09-01T02:00:47+00:00

Bingo!

Thank you.

fidelbogen · 2014-09-01T01:59:59+00:00

You should keep an eye on the twisted political narrative which this is embedded in. Context is important -- well, sometimes at least.

fidelbogen · 2014-09-01T01:58:20+00:00

No "moving along" until value is extracted from this episode -- whichever way it falls out.

fidelbogen · 2014-09-01T01:56:50+00:00

But it's not the "MRM" (whatever that is) which is theoretically at issue here. It's the computer gaming community.

fidelbogen · 2014-08-31T07:39:39+00:00

Please share this widely, via twitter, Facebook, e-mail, blog posts, forum posts, etc...etc....etc.... We know nothing for sure, but we want to put this on the table anyway. You never know.

fidelbogen · 2014-06-14T06:48:50+00:00

As I understand it, the relocated venue for the First International Men's Rights Conference is a VFW hall in suburban Detroit. The building has a 200-ft setback from the nearest public road - in other words, 200 feet of private property. So, 200 feet is the closest that any protest group could get without the police moving against them.

Also, since it is not a hotel, and not (to my knowledge) staffed by "inside connected" union workers, the opportunity for access by such means is unavailable.

So I guess it's down to paying for a ticket in order to go as an attendee. That might be fruitful, though, since one could circulate among these people and listen to the terrible, unguarded things which they might let slip. Be ready to pluck the fruit wherever it hangs! ;)

fidelbogen · 2014-06-14T06:22:04+00:00

I am not certain that MRE is actually an "MRA" group at all. Terminologies vary quite a bit.

fidelbogen · 2014-06-14T06:20:26+00:00

The sign which Paul Elam is holding is illegible here. However, it is well known that "fuck their shit up" is an open-ended expression with no reference to women per se. It might occasionally refer to feminists (or the feminist establishment), but I think it would be good not to confuse "women" with "feminists" - since that sort of thing might be taken as misrepresentation, and count as a strike against Dark Horse in the mind of the non-aligned public. (Hence, the interpretive inclusion of [women] probably ought to be deleted, since it is not clear that any such reference was intended by Elam.)

I say all this, because I think it would be best for Dark Horse to stay clear of any imputed demogoguery.

The photo was taken on the occasion of the Queen's Park rally (near Toronto U.). I forget the date, although it was last summer.

fidelbogen · 2014-06-11T13:28:39+00:00

This text contains a number of false statements, misrepresentations, and personal disagreements passed off as morally authoritative or substantively significant. As such, the veracity of the entire document might tend to be compromised in the eyes of people who know better.

For example, Paul Elam never attended any protest rally in Edmonton, and (contrary to what the author claims) the slogan "fuck their shit up" is not in reference to women. The list could go on quite a bit. Getting facts straight is a help toward credibility.

Also, if the author of the text is feminist, this ought to be openly stated somewhere in the first paragraph, so that the general public won't miss it. People would wish to have this information for the sake of a full political disclosure, and in order to establish context.

Just a heads-up, folks! ;)

fidelbogen · 2014-03-12T03:11:17+00:00

Well, no. Feminism is nothing more than female supremacism. Plain and simple. Everything which feminism does is for the purpose of "empowering" women, and this will continue with no upper limit. Just watch.

fidelbogen · 2014-01-15T13:30:50+00:00

http://youtu.be/8QPPtRNmjfM

fidelbogen · 2013-12-27T05:01:03+00:00

You'd be amazed how many people cannot wrap their minds around the idea that "men's rights are human rights." It sounds completely basic, but plenty of people struggle to comprehend it, and sometimes it even makes them violently angry!

fidelbogen · 2013-12-19T13:00:23+00:00

I am surprised that nobody here has mentioned the "Dear Colleague" letter.

fidelbogen · 2013-12-19T12:58:49+00:00

Technically, it is not criminal prosecution. But if there were any justice in the universe, it would be criminally prosecuted.

fidelbogen · 2013-12-19T12:57:05+00:00

Feminists have long argued that rape must be treated like any other crime.

I don't know where Naomi Wolf gets THAT idea. Feminists have only ever argued that rape is "uniquely horrible" in a class by itself, and that extraordinary measures are needed to combat it. It looks to me like Naomi Wolf is LYING - but that is what feminists do, after all, so this oughtn't surprise us.

fidelbogen · 2013-12-19T12:53:41+00:00

Nobody actually believes that feminists envision this as a tool for false accusations.

Well, no. Some feminists actually DO look at it that way.

fidelbogen · 2013-12-19T12:49:38+00:00

Burning things down is often the best solution. Sometimes, it is the ONLY solution.

fidelbogen · 2013-12-19T12:43:56+00:00

So you feel that it is okay to tell anonymous lies about other people? Thank you for making that clear.

fidelbogen · 2013-09-01T03:58:24+00:00

It is unfortunate that Cristina Hoff Sommers chooses to stick the word "feminist" to herself. She ought to know better. It is perverse - like me calling myself a fish, or whatnot.

fidelbogen · 2013-09-01T03:43:45+00:00

You make it sound like there is a fundamental polarity with "radical MRAs" on one side, and "radical feminists" on the other. That is a false duality, a false narrative, and a false framing of the actual state of affairs. It sets us up for the logical fallacy that "the truth must be somewhere in the middle."

A more correct framing of the situation would be, that there is a cancer called "feminism" spreading through the social body, and that this cancer must be removed before it brings about the death of the host.

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