Oh wow. It looks like David Wong wrote another deeply disturbing article which will keep me awake at night wondering if there's any goodness in this world. I can't wait.
Be honest:
Cruelty is attractive. As long as it's not aimed at you, of course.
It's true in our friends, sexual partners, and idols. You think Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock is at his sexiest when he's delivering withering insults to everyone around him -- that's when you most want to bang him or be him. It's the same with Tony Stark and the same with Dr. House. All of our heroes don't just win; they also make everyone else look foolish in the process, including their allies. It's attractive because, deep down, you want to be that one person who's not in their line of fire and to have that cruel strength on your side, working for you.
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So, yes, when rumors started flying that some guys in our class were having sex, I didn't miss the fact that all three of them were bullies -- rough types who smoked, who matured earlier, and got chest hair sooner. They tortured kids in the locker room and extorted lunch money, and they got rewarded with sex. I'm not mad at the girls, not now -- they were 14, what did they know? They only knew that those guys were "cool," the way today we think of Walter White or Star Lord as cool. Renegades. Rebels. Badasses. The fact that they don't obey the rules must mean they're strong and brave.
I just saw them as lumbering meatheads, eyes full of dumb animal meanness. So, yeah, seeing them get rewarded made me angry -- at them, at the girls, and at the system.
I'm not going to sugar coat this, this is a bunch of sexist bullshit. The fact that he's a grown ass man and still thinks girls are "rewarding" jerks with sex means he's blind. This shit makes me seriously angry, how can Cracked spout all this psuedo-feminist bullshit and then seriously write this?
Suppose it was really the "bullies" only who were getting laid (this is a big thing to suppose, but we will suppose it for now). Couldn't there be any other explanation for this other than the girls are "rewarding" them for being bullies? Like, maybe they were the ones confident enough to ask a girl out? Maybe the girls who date bullies are themselves jerks and bad people? Is that possible, or are only men allowed to be "bullies?"
And who the fuck is he to say sex is a reward that women give to men? What kind of bullshit is this? Do men ever reward behavior with sex, or is sex only a prize you get from women?
Oh yeah, and is it possible that this "nice guy" David Wong who constantly thinks of school shootings, might not actually be as "nice" as he thinks he is? Yeah, that's certainly possible.
Confession: If I were 17 again and my first exposure to feminism was a bunch of conventionally attractive girls on Tumblr snarking about how I was a monster because I felt "entitled" to female attention, I would have redpilled so hard it'd have crashed the Matrix.
Based on describing sex as a reward from women, I'm not convinced he feels less entitled now. He's probably less frustrated because he gets laid now, but that doesn't mean his internal attitudes have changed.
Look, I was bullied a lot and I was really tormented by the school experience. I hated the entire thing and I wanted it all to literally explode many times. Yet I still see people as human beings and I'm not furious they don't all want to fuck me, because what kind of fucking stupid attitude is that? This is some Elliot Rodger level edgelord bullshit.
I get that I'm privileged in other ways; I genuinely don't know what it's like to have a severe mental illness
Okay David Wong... this isn't a joke or a put down. You are mentally ill, and you obviously are not going through treatment for it. I'm not saying that to be nice either, it's just a fact.
I don't fault anyone for being tormented, or angry, or dysfunctional. I'm really dysfunctional and an emotional wreck, I know it sucks. However, I do fault people for, I don't know, blaming everyone other than themselves for their problems. Which honestly seems to be what this entire article is doing. It just seems weird that someone who seems incapable of taking responsibility for his own life is constantly creating these advice articles which are widely shared all over social media about how to live life correctly.
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