Misogyny Theater takes another look at the charming philosopher-king-asshole Stefan Molyneux, who seems to be carving out quite a spot for himself in the world of the lady-haters.
In this episode, some audio excerpts from Stefan Molyneux’s frighteningly well-received talk ostensibly on circumcision at A Voice for Men’s June 2014 conference, as presented in his video “Shocking Misogynist Attacks Feminism, Defends Rape Culture.” Despite the ironic title, this is pretty much an accurate description of his talk, even a bit of an understatement.
The title of my video is a shortened version of something he says in his talk (and in my video). The full quote: “If you don’t have a husband, if you chose the wrong guy, to keep the child is abusive, almost always.”
That’s right: according to Stefan M., being a single mother is, in itself, abusive.
The audio excerpts are drawn from an hour-long talk, so naturally I did some editing. In the interests of transparency, I marked each edit with a little snipping sound.
If you just can’t get enough of this guy, see my previous Molyneux video for more exciting women-blaming.
Scissors sounds and weird background noises courtesy of FreeSFX.
@Adam:
With or without bacteria that cause food-borne illness?
@Adam – you’d kill singers like Momma Cass?
@kittehserf; LOL you are indeed! Though when one looks at some of our politicians that seems a pretty fair attitude.
Actually, being a Kiwi, it’s written into our constitution. Right there in the Bill Of Rights Act between “Freedom of Speech” and “Freedom of Religion”, “The right to loudly and dramatically hate Aussies shall not be abridged,”
katz – I’m stressing using blockquotes as a courtesy to other commenters, and common sense – if they want ’em read, and not skipped (as you and I and probably plenty of others do), they’ll use them.
It’s also inadvertently proving an interesting little test. So far, non-trolls ask how to use them, while trolls or those of dubious, not-answering, could-be troll status either ignore the request or complain.
PS even if not blockquotes, something clearer than quotation marks is needed. Italics work well – I think LBT favours that method (though it’s just ‘cos he refuses to pay the blockquote mammoth its dues!)
Back at Typepad, there was an italics monster that put the blockquote monster to shame. If you didn’t close an italics tag, it carried over past the end of the comment and put the entire remainder of the page in italics, sidebars and everything.
And no, putting an extra close tag in a subsequent comment didn’t work.
I’ve seen that! Whole blog pages ruined, RUINED I say.
I just hope the blockquote mammoth isn’t reading this.
Oh the horror!
If I recall correctly – aaaages ago – WP had the same wondrous gremlin at a couple of climate battle blogs.
The blockquotes monster and the italics monster are two of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Horsemen?
Horsemen?
The apocalpse is misandry!
Humm. I know how to use blockquotes. I just didn’t think it was important. Obvs it is.
Policy of Madness — depends how long the quote and post are, if you’rw doing one line quotes and only a couple, don’t bother tempting the monster. When you start risking TL;DR status and it’s half quotes…yeah, break it up a bit please. Like kitteh said, it’s a curtesy, not a requirement, please don’t feel you HAVE TO use them 🙂
I just woke up, so maybe I totally misread you, I’m which case I have milano cookies, would you like one?
::points up::
What Argenti said. It’s about clarity, really.
@Phoenician in a time of Romans
If she ate me, potentially.
Also if you don’t blockquote, it’s easy for people to think you’re saying the thing you’re quoting, which leads to unhappy misunderstandings.
Are quotation marks ok?
So this guy just got busted faking a glowing response to himself on the youtube. Sock puppet fail in a very big way.
Skye – it’s too easy to miss quotation marks, imo. That’s what Vegan Chartreuse was doing and it was still almost unreadable. D’you know how to do italics? They work better’n quotes, I think.
I can try
I’m usually on my phone here and it has it’s own ideas about copy/paste (& scrolling)
Yay! 🙂
Yay, success! ::applause::
Phones are evil, I swear, when it comes to posting comments.
Has anyone tried separating a quote by putting a line of symbols above and below it? Like:
comment comment comment
=============
quotation
===========
comment comment comment
or something. Might be easier if html is a pain/inaccessible. Just something that clearly separates it from one’s own comment, is all. Quote marks don’t tend to work too well for that, especially in long posts, imo.
http://thebicker.net/post/91288121446/sorry-dong-dong-maxofs2d-hahaha-mens
The same guy, posing as a woman to praise his own video. He forgot to switch accounts. Epic fail. Hilarity ensues.
Oh wow. Classic. I don’t want to think that people actually do this, but…
I’m mixed on blockquotes (as evidenced by my not always using them).
What I do want is some indica of quotation: a referent, itals, quotation marks, something.
I have to confess that I started skimming CVC very shortly after zir arrival; shallow and pointless was all I got from the text.
@pecunium
Offhand I don’t exactly remember how you format your posts, but they’re always easy to follow while CVC’s big one was confusing as hell.
I tend to use Itals for generic quotations, and blockquotes for things I wish to address with special emphasis.