Ok, I would not seriously attribute the view I described to anyone on LW. But there are people who explicitly believe in exactly that view, exactly as extremely as I portrayed it, and surround it with red-pill rhetoric. There is at least one on LW (who has not posted in this thread) who holds at least to a lesser form of men’s rightful power over women, and who I confidently expect would express approval of the joke in the original article. This is not fiction; I did not make any of it up.
For what it’s worth, I agree that this poster is at least as characteristic of the meme cluster we’re talking about as its more polite/locally celebrated/refined advocates. What’s worse, I suspect that it’s the locally celebrated “red-pill” contrarians who are shrinking from the conclusions of many of their (anti-egalitarian, etc) memes and that this poster just logically extrapolates the “red-pill” premises to produce his alarming view of gender, “deviancy”, etc.
Another far more famous example is Theodore Beale/Vox Day… and a few other bloggers whom I’d rather not link to.
For what it’s worth, I agree that this poster is at least as characteristic of the meme cluster we’re talking about as its more polite/locally celebrated/refined advocates. What’s worse, I suspect that it’s the locally celebrated “red-pill” contrarians who are shrinking from the conclusions of many of their (anti-egalitarian, etc) memes and that this poster just logically extrapolates the “red-pill” premises to produce his alarming view of gender, “deviancy”, etc.
Another far more famous example is Theodore Beale/Vox Day… and a few other bloggers whom I’d rather not link to.