June 2012

All the Young Dudes

by Matt Forney 06.30.2012
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NOTE: This article was originally published at In Mala Fide on May 30, 2012. I’m re-posting it here as the site is now defunct. *** “If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count [...]

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Fat Acceptance is the Future

by Matt Forney 06.27.2012
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Forgive me o Lady, for I have sinned. I have mocked fat women for being unattractive, unsightly and unpleasant. I have reinforced the dogma of the heteronormative patriarchy because I thought it was the truth. But now, I have seen the light. Fat acceptance is the future. Nigel truly is a pioneer, the new Mystery for [...]

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Leaping Into the Pain

by Matt Forney 06.27.2012
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Two weeks ago, I was about ready to quit. I’d been refused entry to Canada after a two-hour ordeal, then harassed by a couple of pigs with nothing better to do. After getting lost trying to find the nearest motel (no cell service in that little podunk town), I finally got a hold of the [...]

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The Backlash Against Feminism Has Arrived

by Matt Forney 06.26.2012
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A great article from W.F. Price of The Spearhead (who also did a very nice writeup on me last week) on the emergence of a true backlash against feminism. The skinny: some dorkette started a Kickstarter project for a documentary on sexist stereotypes in video games and got trolled by some /b/tards. Feminists the world over [...]

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A Letter to My Future Wif—, Er, Girlfrie—, Er, Fuckbuddy

by Matt Forney 06.25.2012
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Last week, Danger & Play Tweeted a link to “A Letter to My Future Husband,” in which a dating blogmistress displays her various mental pathologies so her online girlfriends can high-five her. In response to a few comments which rightly called her creepy, our heroine left this: Totally love the double standard. Boys write about the [...]

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I Take the Cappy Cap Logic Challenge

by Matt Forney 06.24.2012
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Captain Capitalism has thrown down the gauntlet: The easy part is to link this to the lack of fathers. The hard part (and where we will test your economist mettle) is to explain how the majority of victims brought this upon themselves, have only themselves to blame and the delicious irony that has resulted (and consequently sweetened [...]

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New Article at Gucci Little Piggy: “You’re Damn Right I’m Shaming You!”

by Matt Forney 06.23.2012
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Chuck Ross has re-posted this article of mine, which originally appeared at the now-defunct In Mala Fide, at his blog: Plenty of writers have made the observation that MRAs are identical to feminists, only with the sexes swapped. Unfortunately, when you look at how both groups react to shaming, you see a lot of similarities. Feminists love to [...]

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The Way of Men by Jack Donovan

by Matt Forney 06.22.2012
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NOTE: This article was originally published at In Mala Fide on April 11, 2012. I’m re-posting it here because I’ve taken the site off-line. I’ve replaced the text of the (inferior) review that was previously at this URL. *** During my first semester at college, I had the misfortune of having an emo for a roommate. Everything [...]

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Defining Misogyny Downward

by Matt Forney 06.21.2012
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If you need an extra-concentrated dose of aggressive stupidity, check out this article “Pick Up Artists” at Counter-Currents Publishing. The author, apparently a woman, rages against game with the usual screeching hysteria and general irritability you expect from women on the Internet. I’m not interested in countering her thesis, dumb as it is, but commenting on [...]

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Notes from the Road: I Got Cuffed by Canadian Border Cops and Other Fun Stories

by Matt Forney 06.20.2012

Yes, Canada, that friendly northern country with friendly people known for letting in just about anyone, turned me away twice last week because I “had no ties to the U.S.” The second time was after I threw my passport, driver’s license, social security card, hostel booking receipts, round-trip bus ticket, names, addresses and phone numbers of [...]

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Unplugged

by Matt Forney 06.19.2012
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When I started on this trip, I pledged to myself that I would travel “unplugged,” with my ears clear and my phone off, save to take pictures. This was motivated in part by necessity; as I’ve mentioned, I have an El Cheapo phone plan that leaves me without service in rural areas and in Canada. [...]

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You’ve Got Bigger Problems Than the Game

by Matt Forney 06.18.2012
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Like any online community of a sufficient size, the manosphere has its BSers. Keyboard players. Fakers. Frauds. They gather together on blogs and forums to dissect various types of openers, debate whether certain mundane, everyday actions are “alpha” or “beta,” and condemn any woman less attractive than Monica Bellucci as ugly. For example, take this [...]

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God Bless America? God Bless Bobcat Goldthwait!

by Matt Forney 06.16.2012
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NOTE: This article was originally published at In Mala Fide on May 7, 2012. I’m re-posting it here as the site is now defunct. *** It doesn’t take a genius to notice that our world is full of morons. Annoying reality TV stars, loudmouth talk show hosts, funeral-picketing gay-bashing Christians, rude moviegoers and other scum of the earth [...]

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Ordinary Internet People: I Hate ‘Em

by Matt Forney 06.13.2012
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I was going to run this article next week, but in honor of Paul Elam and the PMSing little girls at A Voice for Men, I’ve pushed it up a few days. The idiots are self-regarding consumer slaves, oblivious to the paradox of their uniform individuality. They sculpt their hair to casual perfection; they wear [...]

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Paul Elam Argues Like a Girl

by Matt Forney 06.12.2012
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What a delight it was for me to discover last Sunday that my article “The Problem with the Men’s Rights Movement” was the focus of a Two Minutes Hate over at A Voice for Men. Even better, it was led by none other than the Grand Poobah Paul Elam himself! It was like being five [...]

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Forget the Past and Just Say Yes

by Matt Forney 06.11.2012
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The image above is of the Eternal Flame Falls in Orchard Park, NY, just outside of Buffalo. It’s a little waterfall with a natural gas leak, meaning there’s a naturally occurring flame burning at all hours of the day. There are other leaks nearby, but they have to be lit with a match; the one [...]

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