Space Moses, part 2.

Follow up thoughts on Geordie Tait.

https://twitter.com/Geordie_Tait

The guys has some serious issues. But I think this thought process is on a kind of spectrum. The cold, logical conclusions of feminist ideas like Patriarchy Theory, is that men are women's superiors, and that women will never, ever be safe from men. Thus you run a spectrum of solutions based on the morals and principles of an individual feminist.

Someone like CH Sommers stops very early, at the gynocentric break. Men are useful to women, and cannot perform if they are not treated sufficently well.
Most coffee shop feminists stop just past rape culture and the wage gap. Men are predatory and oppressive, but they can be taught, like animals I suppose.
Further off the deep end are feminists like Jessica Valenti, who use feminism to justify their misandry, and call it 'ironic;. "Often a true word is spoken in jest"
Next stop on the crazy train is Geordie Tait, and the idea that anyone against feminism deserves to be gassed to death. He's not willing to push the button himself, but would be perfectly fine if someone else did.
Last stop is Valerie Solanis, who thought that radical feminism didn't go far enough.

So the ideology leads to a conclusion that men should be killed, and the morals and principles (or lack thereof) of an individual feminist shows where they get off the crazy train.

Space Moses

I listened to King of Pol's chat with Geordie Tait today while at work. A few things stuck out for me. I mean aside from the NAZI IDEOLOGY.

Tait mentioned how men are superior to women. Even comparing men to the fictional character of Superman. I'm sure he wouldn't use the term "Superior to women", but the idea that men are so powerful as to be compared to Superman, and that they have oppressed women for 10,000 years is so blatantly an idea that men are their superiors that it's hard to miss. Of course, a man can be excused for having such godlike power if he uses his superior masculinity in the service of women.
Otherwise, he'd be one of the Bad Men. It came out clearly when Oliver confonted Tait with the idea that his speils were making women feel afraid. That's against his Prime Directive, and so caused him cognitive dissonance. Even after vehemently asserting that he's fine with the idea of women being gassed if they support #GamerGate, being faced with the idea of threatening #GamerGate women tripped him up.

And his constant accusations that #GamerGate supporters are misogynists, etc. I couldn't help but think of how the Nazis portrayed the Jews as dangerous.

Responsibility.

I've been thinking of the video clip of Caitlin Moran shown at the beginning of this video, Singing the Masculinity Blues.



It's telling that Caitlin mentions how she thinks men should step down and give women power for a while. The sheer misunderstanding of how power, authority and responsibility work.

If women want power and authority, they need to take the responsibility that comes with it. It's like feminists have a fairy tale idea of men being all powerful and seeing only the riches and power that powerful men had, and ignoring all the men underneath, toiling and sweating for little thanks or recognition.

Let me put this as clear as I can. If women want power, they first must seek the responsibility to prove that they have the qualifications to wield that power. Most men have to earn their positions of authority, they are not given them. Sometimes a golden boy gets a fast track to unearned success, but that is rare and often disastrous.

But even more than that, I think that it comes from father worship. To admit that men could be vulnerable, that men might not be all-powerful is to admit that men might not have the power to protect and provide for them, that their father figure might have feet of clay, and be made of blood and sinew instead of steel.

Note the reaction of many women in 3rd world countries if their husband is raped. These men are tossed aside as valueless. It opens up a vein of fear in women.

So these radfems are trapped in a place where they envy their fairy tale vision of male power, but to take it from men is to admit that men could be powerless, and thus shatter their father worship fantasy.

Orestes

You wild goddesses who dart across the skies
seeking vengeance for murder, we beg you to free
Agamemnon's son from his raging fury....
We grieve for this boy. Happiness is brief among mortals.
Sorrow and anguish sweep down on it
like a swift gust of wind on a sail boat,
and it sinks under the tossing seas.