Damn those uppity women.
It’s rare that they come out and say it this explicitly, but here’s Heartiste, arguing that unless society treats women badly they won’t give him a boner. In a brief post about “Dread Game” — his term for manipulatively gaslighting women to prey on their insecurities — he offers up this bit of shitbag philosophy:
Dread game on a societal scale keeps women in line, always working hard to please men lest they be cast to the icy wastelands with the rest of the anti-feminine rejects. The opposite of Dread Game — Coddle Game — relaxes selective pressures on women to stay feminine and thin and agreeable. And so what you see now in the decadent, coddling West is what we get: Ballbusting fat feminist cunts and careerist androgynes.
So brave, Heartiste, so brave.
![Tom Martin, leading UK Men’s Rights Activist: “Pedophiles who pay children for sex are not really rapists, because the child … understand[s] the nature of the contract.”](https://i0.wp.com/www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mrtommartin.png?resize=50%2C50)
Is this actually true? If it is, then I feel really sorry for that poor woman – stuck supporting a man who think people of her gender should be shamed and made to feel miserable and insecure on a regular basis. And likely it’s because as his sister she feels socially obligated to do so and would be shamed (certainly by Heartiste himself at the very least) if she withdrew said support.
Actually, I think Theon Greyjoy/Reek qualifies as a male rape and torture victim, too. Still doesn’t invalidate the critique, but incidents of male sex abuse and rape aren’t COMPLETELY ignored in GoT.
Nonetheless, I’m migrating to other shows that are far less rapey. The final straw for me came when the producers turned a non-rape scene from the books into a rape scene, didn’t at first seem to realize they’d done so, and then acted all cheeky when they got called on it.
Hey, so speaking of strategy games: I was just at a focus group for a strategy game and I totally got to tell them “Dude, stop making these boring generic Europe-inspired fantasy games where everyone is white and there’s like one female character.”
Hooray. So they’re going to make a boring generic Europe-inspired fantasy game with two female characters instead?
Also, is Heartiste the guy who proposed using that ‘but what if I walk out that door and you could never open it so you’d never see me again?’ tactic on women to associate the natural fear of being caged (‘you can’t open the door no matter how hard you try’) with the fear of losing him (‘and you would know that you would NEVER see me again, just like that imaginary friend of mine that just died in a car crash’)? Or is this yet another person who admits that he can’t handle a confidant secure woman with sources of support that are not him and finds an unhappy, insecure one he can easily manipulate infinitely more preferable?
Jenny, yep, that was Fartiste.
Love it!
I’m still getting used to king but everything goes really well.
… Wait, we’re not talking about the same thing, are we?
It’s really cheering to know that just by existing, just by being happy and not giving a shit about fitting his fuckability scale, I’m helping wilt the Fartiste boner.