On PMAFT’s post about Susan Walsh’s conspiracy theories a commenter named AmStrat said the following about conspiracy theorists.
That’s right. Conspiracy theorists have done absolutely nothing. I expanded on that in the following comment.
It’s actually worse than what I wrote. There are conspiracy theorists from Alex Jones, to David Icke, to Henry Makow who have real audiences. What have the big names in conspiracy theory done for anti-feminism? NOTHING. David Icke is a feminist, and he has followers that actually take Andrea Dworkin seriously beliving that the elite are using feminism as a secret scheme to destroy women and turn men into “post-sexual cyborgs with artifical wombs”. Alex Jones fabricates non-existent threats to freedom like FEMA camps that don’t exist while ignoring how the false rape industry, the false sexual harassment industry, and the divorce courts are destroying the freedom of men and how feminized public schools are destroying the freedom of boys. When it comes to false accusations against men, Henry Makow always takes the side of the woman who makes a false accusation like he did with DSK. All the big names in conspiracy theory are making up threats to freedom while they ignore the real threats to freedom created by feminism, none of which are secret. In many cases they are directly supporting feminism.
Even conspiracy theorists who claim to be MRAs have done jack shit. They even try to convince others that activism is a bad idea like conspiracy theorist Rob Fedders does.
Is not every major MRM leader not begging the government for crumbs? Is not demanding the government provide us with shared-parenting also requesting slavery?
Is supporting Warren Farrell’s drive to create a White House Council on Men and Boys also not part of the dialectic where we request the government take control of intimate areas of our lives? The man, after all, wants to creat more androgyny as his solution to the gender war… and simply because he is on “our side,” the MRM supports him, and his principles, in requesting moretotalitarianism in our lives.
Stephen Baskerville is a man who had his reputationcreated because government intrusion screweed him over so badly… and yet, at the end of the majority of his op-eds, his demand is for more equality, and for morerestructuring of the courts, and for more government organizations to be formed to “take note.”
Should Glenn Sacks have had his way, Political Correctness would have expanded to include men as a protected victim group… giving hate-speech lobby groups yet more power.
Hell, even AH supports creating “MRM Organisms” to counter the vast left-wing organisms that have grown up over the past decades! Is that not the exact purpose of the dialectic? To set up such vast, but opposing political positions, which will battle eachother until every last ounce of freedom has been rung from us?
Hawaiian Fat Blob, another do nothing conspiracy theorist, agrees with this.
It seems to me that we now have several “manosphere” blogs that I suspect are false flag operations designed to escalate the gender war and sow dissension amongst those of us striving to expose the truth and combat systemic injustices.
This is precisely why I have always opposed trying to form some sort of “movement” to try and effect political change.
I believe much of our problems were created by getting the masses to buy into collectivism…and the answer to collectivist problems should not be collectivist solutions, that would just lead to more “progressive” synthesis.
Conspiracy theorists are opposed to anyone taking action against feminism whether it’s activists like Farrell, Baskerville, and Sacks or guys who take MGTOW and going ghost seriously like the Japanese herbivores. They even now accuse men who are taking some action (wherever it is on the activism-going ghost continuum) of being “false flag operations”. That means that the conspiracy theorists think that various MGTOW & MRA blogs are secretly working for the government or whoever they think is behind the conspiracy. (Of course, they are too cowardly to actually name blogs that they think are “false flag operations”.) In other words, if you want to take any serious action against feminism, conspiracy theorists are always against it and will accuse you of working for the Jews/Illuminati/Zionists/Rockefellers/etc. If you’re in trouble because of feminism, conspiracy theorists will NEVER help you.
With their talk about how men who become activists against feminism are bad, it’s very noticable that they didn’t include Paul Elam in their list of activists. There is no real difference between Elam and Farrell/Baskerville/Sacks except that Elam hasn’t had as much mainstream success yet as Farrell, Baskerville, & Sacks. As soon as Elam has enough mainstream success, the conspiracy theorists will turn on him and accuse Elam of being a “false flag operation”.
I said before that conspiracy theorists would turn on the MRM as soon as it got mainstream enough, and we now have examples of this with their “false flag” BS and attacks of anti-feminist activists. (I never though I would be able to get evidence of conspiracy theorists turning on the MRM this soon.)
Conspiracy theorists also call any attempt at anti-feminist activism, “collectivist”. There’s nothing “collectivist” about it. It’s nothing more than multiple men working together. That isn’t “collectivist” unless you’re a hermit like a Roissyite gamer typically is.
What we must take from all of this is that conspiracy theorists are less than useless for mens rights. They have never done anything for us, never will do anything for us, and consider any action against feminism to be a “false flag operation” and “collectivist”. They are already starting to turn on us and will fully oppose us out when the MRM becomes mainstream enough.
Great piece. Can you shed some light on some of the more extremely prolific commenters in this Game/Racism/Paleo cult? What’s their deal? I’m talking about the guys who seem to comment everywhere all the time but don’t actually blog. They seem more insane than even the bloggers.
By the way, it seems like the book that started it all, The Game, is gonna be movie soon:
http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a329144/neil-strausss-the-game-adaptation-picked-up-by-mgm.html
Isn’t this funny? By the gamers own conspiratorial logic, this would then be evidence that “game was funded by the rockafeller” or some stupid crap like that.
I mean if MGM were to make a movie about the MRM (featuring paul elam and fidlbogen), they’d be saying that’s evidence that fidelbogen and elam are CIA operatives, and that PMAFT is a KGB spy loooooooooool
P.S
I DID actually hear that today
I was watching some videos by some TFL guys – they’re like the opposite of gamers when it comes to women, like, they believe you can’t do anything at ALL to improve dating results… But this guy had the same conspiratorial logic as gamers.
So he was talking about how he believes that gamers were probably funded by the CIA to make men more desperate or what not
I’d wish it were true, coz I hate gamers, so it would give me one more reason to hate them…
But yah, he did say good stuff, like how game is predatory and just opportunist – a bunch of scammers capitalizing on a social phenomenon.
While I agree in part with the TFL guys that for many men there is nothing we can do to improve dating results (I’m one of those guys since women hate me and there’s nothing I can do to change that), I wouldn’t apply that as a blanket principle to all men everywhere. More importantly, it misses the real problem which is the nature of women. When the TFL guys blame the CIA for their dating woes, they’re still blaming men. They’re not holding women accountable, and that effectively makes them no different than the gamers.
I would love to talk more about Roissyite commentors without blogs. Do you have anyone in particular in mind? I don’t have the time to keep track of every Roissyite lunatic.
Some of them also have some very strange pathologies. There’s this one Roissyite called David Alexander. He’s a black dude, but he has absorbed Roissyite racism. As a result he thinks of himself as some sort of ineffectual “prole”, and he thinks he’s unattractive to both black women and non-black women for different reasons.
I suspect David Alexander is a reverse troll. Folks in that scene are self-hating betas overcompensating with obnoxious online alpha personas. I think he uses his betaness and refusal to adopt game to bait them and piss them off. Like a clever type of trolling through self-deprecation. Just like nothing pisses off a self-hating former nerd than a proud nerd, nothing pisses off a reformed beta gamer than a beta who stubbornly refuses to accept game.
The girls who are attention-craving groupies for these guys are creepiest commenters IMO, like aoefe. Out of all the guys you can be groupie to, you choose these guys? And there’s commenter named Doug1. He seems like a psychotic and delusional keyboard jockey.
I think you’re right about David Alexander being a troll. I thought about it, and what convinced me was how he spends so much time at the traditional christianity blog despite disagreeing with most of what they stand for.
We definitely need to look at all the female groupies. I can’t figure out why Roissyite game has groupies, but I have no clue why anything has groupies.
Check out what the pickup crowd is up to now:
http://dyn.quickmeme.com/Cranky-Mens-Rights-Activist/?upcoming
They’re might reactive for “alphas” aren’t they? Look at them throwing hissy-fits like a little girl getting her toy taken away.
Mind you, these are the same people who claimed that MRA and Game were “symbiotic” bedfellows… But when I challenged them, they could produce nothing except that MRAs need to give them shit, but they couldn’t produce anything they could contribute to the MRA
Their idea of “collaboration” was that MRA gives traffic, publicity, profit and sends it’s younger members off to PUA land. In return they would… well… nothing
One thing I noticed from that link and in general from gamers is the accusation that Paul Elam and other MRAs are trying to “trick” guys into celibacy. That’s absurd since if we wanted to trick guys into celibacy, we would promote game.
Bwahhahahahhahaha, exactly
I always found something similar between game and charismatic, prosperity gospel, preachers, the gamers promise that by learning game and giving some of them your money you will be rewarded with sex, charismatic preacher promise to make you rich, heal your ass, and they want money. In both cases you end up a sucker.
It is even more interesting that those game instructors are called gurus, Krishna Consciousness has gurus. I do not know if game gurus inspire as much devotion from their followers like the charismatics, or Krishnaites do. Are there any cases of game devotee selling his stuff to access more game, or working from a guru for no pay, that is out of pure devotion?
I would also apply language related to cults to the game critical discourse.
On, only hundreds of such cases. The severity varies of course. I was unfortunately on the side that made money from the mess, but it’s not just students that fall for this – it’s people on the profitting side as well.
My partners specifically all quit their dayjobs and all got an apartment with the idea of just running workshops and skype-coaching all day… So it’s not just the students.
The second, third and fourth tier gurus also wreck their whole lives trying to become like the idealized first-tier-gurus they worship. It’s a downard recycling and rehashing system.
Second tier gurus KNOW that they’re not getting laid, but they still build companies that teach “how to get laid” because they believe they’re “working toward becoming like [inset first tier guru]. This is how you can have guys who get stuck for years teaching something they themselves can’t do, but believing they’re doing nothing wrong.
As for some of the sadder cases of people spending life-savings on crap like this, I know of several cases personally, and you can read about hundreds more on puahate.com
People used to think I’m exaggerating when they first encountered me calling them a cult. But the parallels to all others cults are exact.
When I hear about stories about a morbidly obese asperger’s kid who spent his life savings on some pua guru… I… I get some dark thoughts – let’s just put it that way.
How despicable of a human being do you need to be in order to do that? Take a morbidly obese asperger dude and promise them supermodels and drain their life savings.
Hey guys, you wanna see something funny? I don’t follow the sed-community nowadays so I don’t follow trends on a monthly level, only what I hear from acquintances.
But it seems, apparently now they’re coming up with enlightement programs about (get ready for this) how to NOT get laid
http://www.aaronsleazy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=723
“When I hear about stories about a morbidly obese asperger’s kid who spent his life savings on some pua guru… I… I get some dark thoughts – let’s just put it that way.
How despicable of a human being do you need to be in order to do that? Take a morbidly obese asperger dude and promise them supermodels and drain their life savings.”
Where did you hear about this? I’m interested.
I just went to PUA hate and found this:
http://puahate.com/showthread.php?t=10886
I rest my case, really. I personally have no experience with the PUAs, aside from what I was able to read on MRA blogs. The ironic thing about my discovery of MRM was that I thought that relations between the sexes are not alright, yes I had actual experience with women, quite a few of them actually, so PUAs never had anything to offer me.
I have witnessed these scammers offer shit for hundreds of dollars and I thought that’s a lot. I heard people spent $10,000 in total for all types of game products, and I thought that’s crazy. But this shit?!
Would that be *the* Neil Strauss posting on there (rather than someone pretending to be him).
It’s true what he says about Project Hollywood. If you’ve read the book you’ll know that there were no chicks there…
The game gurus (according to Strauss’s book) were just like cult leaders.
What?
Even though he’s not a PUA, Tucker Max is definitely one of the heroes PUAs look up to and try to model, especially when they discuss “natural game.” So I wonder how they’re going to react to this article?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelellsberg/2012/01/18/tucker-max-gives-up-the-game/print/
One thing I get a lot of enjoyment from in these blogs are the over the top descriptions of game these guys have, like it’s fire handed down from the gods or the ring in Lord of the Rings or the Force in Star Wars. Like they’ve been given superpowers and are now gods walking among mortals lol lmao
My latest favorite comment comes from a guy called beta_plus:
http://www.hookingupsmart.com/2012/01/25/hookinguprealities/tucker-max-gets-down-with-empathy/#comment-94742
I can’t tell if peope are trolling with over the top statements like this. They’re so unbelievable.
I wish they were trolling. They’re truly serious.
Does everyone get why I’ve been calling them a cult so long? lol.
The comments on the thread on In Mala Fide about why you shouldn’t trust men who don’t get laid is a classic too lol
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I don’t think the roissysphere is growing, at best its remaining static. The overall game community on the other hand is imploding.
Here’s how it breaks down…
-you have a thing called the seduction community which invented the concept of “being alpha” and an all powerfull “game” that overcomes physical reality
- you also have a thing called “the roissysphere”. This is an extremely tiny cult which takes old game concepts and mixes them in with racism, anti-feminism*, paleo and conspiracy theories on everything and anything (not just politics and economics)
- the roissysphere has a 3-5 year lag behind the general seduction community in terms of concepts. It’s not only rehashing game concepts, it’s rehashing concepts that the seduction community generally declared dumb years ago and moved on from
- the seduction community is (I’d guesstimate) at the very least 10,000 times bigger than the roissysphere
- the anti-game community (people opposing the seduction community) is so big that it alone trumps the roissysphere lol… Pua hate alone has more traffic than all of the roissysphere combined and most people on there have never ever heard of IMF, Hawaiian blob or roissy (a few may have heard of roosh as a random 4th tier pua, one of hundreds of similar mini-gurus)
- the overall seduction community seems to be imploding and all the major companies and websites are experiencing difficulties… Quite a few have gone out of business and they keep having issues having to cancel workshops (when the game was released they were overbooked).
- as I said, the roissysphere seems to have a 3-5 year lag behind the general seduction community… So it’s only a matter of time before they too start imploding. Right now in the general community there ate more anti-gamers than gamers and there’s a revolution happening. Pua hate is growing as fast as the game-based companies are bankrupting…
- what I would love to do to this dork who wrote that, is to show him this piece in 3 years, he will probably cringe so badly that he will shit a brick in disbelief of what a dork he was in 2012
I agree. A lot of the “game supportive” blogs are really game neutral blogs. A lot of guys on the mens rights side of things declare neutrality when it comes to game. I wish they would be anti-game instead, but I understand that they don’t want to start wars over this. Even someone like PMAFT who is obstensibly “pro-game” is looking for new ideas and realizes many of the problems with game (see his game 2.0 posts about that).
What several of these blogs, in particular IMF, have done is directly engage various super fringe individuals like white supremacists and conspiracy theorists to boost their traffic. While these blogs may have increased their readership via that method, it really was an increase in VISIBLE readership not total readership. That’s because the super fringe individuals were already lurking in the Roissysphere.
It’s important to point out for anyone new reading here, that when I say “anti-feminism*” with an asterisk I am distinguishing these bozos from MRAs
MRAs are PRO-male, these bozos are merely “anti-feminist”. That isn’t to say that being against feminism isn’t pro-male in some ways…
The point is that these bozos are only whining or writing conspiracy theories about feminism because they write conspiracy theories about EVERYTHING that’s mainstream. If (when) the MRA becomes mainstream, they will write pieces bashing the MRA and claiming the MRA was Rockafeller funded.
They have no understanding of how feminism hurts men, anymore that a bum I saw on the street ranting about aliens.
Unfortunately, they’re serious. There are times I think that the Paleo-Game Cult is some sort of feminist conspiracy to discredit the MRM because it’s hard to believe that anyone can completely lack self awareness about their words and actions. In reality, they’re serious.
This is why 99.99999% of the population thinks these people are a cult and/or mentally ill. It’s one thing to say, “I think we should eat less carbs, and a bit more meat and vegtables.” If you say that people may disagree and think you’re misguided, but they won’t think you’re insane or part of a cult. On the other hand, if you think scraping the fat/grease/stuff off the pan and consuming it for its “fullness” is a good idea especially if it gives you chest pains, people will think you are nuts. They will think your triple nuts if you keep on doing the thing that causes you chest pains.
Watch out, they will accuse you of “manufacturing statistics”. Lol.
I saw them refuting me (as a person in my entirety) because “he makes up and manufactures statistics”.
My “statistics”? Saying that 99% of gamers I’ve met were a certain way or that a certain part of the game community is “at least 10 times bigger” than another lol
I didn’t say things like “67,54% of gamers” nor did I say “685% bigger”. But that’s the best critique they have lol?
Alek, you need a peer-reviewed study to claim that all gamers you met were a certain way… We gamers on the other hand can claim to break the laws of physics and warp time and space and must not be challenged to provide proof!!!
Hahaha, here’s a Gamer bragging that he uses the super-magical powers of Game for the forces of GOOD!:
http://thesanctuary-spacetraveller.blogspot.com/2012/01/tim-tebow-and-peacock-effect.html
“game is like the force. it can be used for bad or good though it is neither good nor evil. it just is. Anakin fell to the dark side thinking it would give him the power to save Amidala. in the end……he fell. he was forever changed for the worse. game has the same seductiveness to it. ESPECIALLY to a guy that’s got a history of striking out. he’ll feel the need to make up for all the times a women led him on and didn’t put out, or made a fool of him. he won’t place any blame on himself though. unfortunately it’s guys like this that give “game” a bad name. they’re often divorced and have an agenda. they learn game then perpetuate the cycle that burned them.
i chose the route of Obi Wan. i realize there is a GREAT power in game. but i don’t use it too get what i want, i just use it to navigate a woman’s sometimes irrationality and emotional states. this irrationality/emotional state doesn’t make women bad or good. just makes them women. the degree of rationale and emotion is subjective to the woman of course. lol. i’ve had women i know TELL ME they know EXACTLY when i’m gaming them, but then turn around and admit that they can’t help falling for it. because, at it’s core, game is founded in confidence. confidence alone will render 90% women powerless and filled with the tingles. what game i know/use i use to qualify women in terms of relationship worthy, NOT to simply to get laid.”
Oh God, that is hilarious!!!! Black Pill, you should make a special page collecting all these crazy proclamations of the supernatural, earth shattering powers of game and link to it from the front page. Then we can keep adding more examples as we find them in the comments! lol
I would love to post a comment on a game blog saying that if the terrorists learned Game 9/11 would have been avoided because they wouldn’t have to depend on the 72 virgins in the afterlife in order to get laid. I bet a bunch of people would agree.
Do it!!!!!!
Go post that bait, its gonna be hilarious!
Gotta hurry up though, because many of them do read this blog, so they might read up on your plan and then reveal your bait before too many gamers embarrass themselves.
I have been thinking about doing that. I’m not going to limit it to just game. I want to show the totality of the crazy ideas Roissyite gamers believe in. For instance, Hawaiian Fat Blob has this blog called Vault Co on his blogroll. “Vault Co” isn’t a Paleo-Game Cult blog, but Hawaiian Fat Blob links to it, and I have seen several Roissyite gamers post comments there. The owner of that blog, “Tex Arcane”, believes that neanderthals were these superhuman beings, and that he became a neanderthal because he had these acid burns when he was an infant. This is they type of thing Roissyite gamers believe in.
That guy sounds like an Autist
There are actually a lot of Roissyite gamers who think this way (minus the Star Wars references).