Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - This Week in Stupid (20⧸07⧸2014)
Aired: 2014-07-20
Duration: 11:53


=== Feminism Faux Pas (10:05) ===

[00:00:00]  A bunch of stupid things happened this week and not one of them was interesting enough to do an entire video on on its own.
[00:00:05]  So here's a quick roundup of the top stupid things that have happened this week.
[00:00:09]  First on the list is this retard who decided to collect her menstrual blood and paint a portrait with it.
[00:00:16]  But not only that, she decided to paint her own face with it.
[00:00:19]  A move that I can tell just by her expression is something she's wondering why she did.
[00:00:25]  But not only that, this is a shit painting.
[00:00:28]  She doesn't go as far as to call herself an artist, which is a good thing.
[00:00:31]  But apparently the concept of this cyclical piece is to literally face the shame women bear when concealing their menstruation.
[00:00:38]  Oh, you know what, love?
[00:00:39]  Just go and free bleed everywhere.
[00:00:41]  Just go for it.
[00:00:42]  See how much space you get on the train when you're free bleeding everywhere.
[00:00:45]  You'll probably have the entire carriage to yourself.
[00:00:47]  Honestly, just look at this.
[00:00:49]  Is this not a sign of a woman who is absolutely desperately insecure about her position in the world?
[00:00:56]  Is this not a sign of a woman who has no fucking idea what she's doing with her life?
[00:01:00]  Anita Sarkeesian posted some emails she got on Twitter asking her why she never responded to her criticism.
[00:01:07]  And instead of responding to their criticism, she proceeded to ignore it.
[00:01:11]  Why are you afraid to respond to Thunderfoot?
[00:01:13]  To which she says, it's especially amusing that this misogyny-laced email is unironically signed, see you soon, Milady, tips for Dora.
[00:01:22]  Who gives a fuck?
[00:01:23]  Why don't you respond to Thunderfoot?
[00:01:25]  She responds to more criticism by saying that she gets so many emails like this, she could publish a coffee table book full of them, but she can't reply to a single one because she's a fucking con artist.
[00:01:37]  Honestly, everyone, stop talking to her.
[00:01:40]  Especially after we've seen the valiant efforts of TAS Kopathic, who really does try to actually address her in a mature and sensible way.
[00:01:50]  He says, why don't you try explaining why you never address your detractors?
[00:01:54]  Obviously, Bob Chipman, mangina of the century, chimes in with, ha, right, because that wouldn't be like trying to explain the fossil record to creationists.
[00:02:05]  Doesn't fucking matter, Bob.
[00:02:06]  We're not talking about that.
[00:02:07]  Shut your fucking mouth.
[00:02:08]  He carries on by saying, look, are you going to say that feminism is dogmatic and has no scientific basis, just blind belief?
[00:02:15]  To which the stupidest man on earth replies, it is not her job to educate you, bro.
[00:02:22]  Which i it's so unbelievably stupid given that it is precisely what she got $160,000 to do, you fucking spastic!
[00:02:39]  In other news, Marvel decides to bow to the social justice cowards and their howling, screaming, pitchfork-wielding cyber mobs and recast Thor as a woman.
[00:02:54]  Now, there are a few things I would be pissed off about with this if I gave a fuck about comic books anymore, which I don't.
[00:03:02]  So, the first is, fuck yourselves.
[00:03:05]  Don't give them an inch, because nothing will be good enough and they will take a mile, and it still won't be good enough, and they'll want more, And more, and more, and they still won't be happy.
[00:03:14]  Fucking ignore them.
[00:03:15]  You made your money from, frankly, straight white teenage boys.
[00:03:20]  The social justice tards will never, ever give you resources in the same way.
[00:03:27]  And I honestly think these demographics are mutually exclusive.
[00:03:31]  You're not going to get both.
[00:03:32]  You can have one or the other, but you can't have both.
[00:03:35]  And trust me, the second some new fad comes along, these social justice tards will be out the door.
[00:03:41]  Marvel, you're shooting yourself in the foot.
[00:03:43]  Secondly, if I were a woman, if I were a woman and I would look, you know, I'd like comics, but I'd like comics with women in them.
[00:03:51]  Even though there are comics with women in them, I'd like more, because nothing's ever enough.
[00:03:57]  I wouldn't want you to recast an existing character.
[00:04:02]  That would be insulting.
[00:04:04]  That would be fucking insulting and fucking retarded.
[00:04:07]  Because it would mean that I am not good enough to have a new character with an original backstory.
[00:04:13]  It means I would have to cult someone else's character, which is obviously not fair in the slightest, but it's beside the point.
[00:04:20]  You know, Thor isn't a fucking title, it's not an epithet, it's a name.
[00:04:24]  It's a name of an existing character.
[00:04:26]  He doesn't stop being Thor just because he doesn't have the fucking hammer.
[00:04:31]  Anyway, good luck to them.
[00:04:33]  I'm sure it won't be stupid as all shit.
[00:04:35]  And I'm sure that Thor's popularity is just going to go straight through the roof.
[00:04:40]  Sorry, Thorina's popularity.
[00:04:43]  Feminists were obviously up in arms against a website called Women Against Men, pointing out that feminists seem to have decidedly anti-male bias, and they seem to be actually attacking men.
[00:04:54]  Wait, no, that's not what they were against at all.
[00:04:56]  They were actually against a website called Women Against Feminism, which is an organization that seems to be growing rapidly in popularity.
[00:05:04]  This is probably because feminists have absolutely no sense of self-awareness, no sense of how they come across to other people, and no idea that they are literally attacking men, which is why there is a website called Women Against Men.
[00:05:18]  Our old pal Jessica Valenti straw mans it perfectly by saying, punching Gloria Steinem inside the bizarre world of anti-feminist women.
[00:05:31]  How do you make sense of the women who think the hobby lobby decision is great?
[00:05:35]  College rape is inflated and pay gaps don't exist.
[00:05:39]  I suppose you would have to not be insane, Jessica.
[00:05:43]  Because it sounds like these women are looking at the figures and the facts and saying, hmm, it's not quite as feminist are misrepresenting it, is it?
[00:05:52]  But you know what, according to Jessica, you just don't let them stop you.
[00:05:55]  Don't let reality get in the way of your delusions.
[00:05:59]  She says that every so often, one woman engages with me on Twitter who is against women's suffrage.
[00:06:09]  That's just the perfect opening line.
[00:06:14]  That's right.
[00:06:14]  She believes women shouldn't have the right to vote.
[00:06:18]  That's actually not right, Jessica.
[00:06:20]  That's not right.
[00:06:21]  She's not trying to rescind the right to vote.
[00:06:25]  She is not trying to rescind suffrage.
[00:06:28]  She's saying that you've got it, now you can stop.
[00:06:34]  But she hoped it was a fake account.
[00:06:35]  But no, this anti-suffrage enthusiast, which is like calling, I don't know, someone who's against Barack Obama a racist, runs a blog where she writes about religion alongside recipes.
[00:06:48]  The only thing we have in common is a love of beats.
[00:06:51]  Fucking disgusting.
[00:06:52]  When men are against feminism, it's frustrating, but ultimately predictable.
[00:06:57]  Groups with power have always been loath to give it up.
[00:07:01]  Oh, I'm just thinking about that homeless guy on a bench that I walked past on the way home.
[00:07:06]  His power was unbelievable, and the women who walked past without even giving him any money were just like, oh, look at this guy's privilege.
[00:07:14]  Male privilege all over him.
[00:07:16]  You fucking idiot.
[00:07:19]  But when women come out against gender justice, which I love it.
[00:07:24]  I love that they actually think that they are arguing for justice.
[00:07:28]  It feels worse.
[00:07:29]  No matter how fringe.
[00:07:31]  Oh, yeah, fringe to be realistic about the figures.
[00:07:34]  The rise of the anti-feminist woman is not just baffling, but a betrayal.
[00:07:39]  Oh my god!
[00:07:41]  I was taking the piss when I was saying things like, women who are against feminism are betraying feminism.
[00:07:47]  But these people actually believe it.
[00:07:50]  Obviously, women aren't a monolith.
[00:07:52]  Hang on, fuck yourself.
[00:07:54]  You just said it was a betrayal.
[00:07:55]  If women aren't a monolith, then she's not betraying anything, is she?
[00:08:00]  And neither are the issues that they care about or believe in.
[00:08:03]  But anti-feminist organising is based on a deep hypocrisy and selfishness.
[00:08:08]  Oh my fucking god.
[00:08:11]  An ideology built to assure conservative women that as long as they are doing just fine, other women will make do.
[00:08:19]  Do I need to point out the hypocrisy of that statement?
[00:08:23]  And they're putting up roadblocks to progress right in the middle of a renewed feminist awakening with retrograde sexism that's ultimately not too different to that of their male counterparts.
[00:08:33]  Really?
[00:08:34]  Are they really being sexist?
[00:08:36]  Are they really being sexist when they say, you know what, maybe this is going too far?
[00:08:40]  Maybe there aren't as many rapes on college campuses as you're saying.
[00:08:43]  Maybe, maybe we should pay for our own shit because we do earn our own money.
[00:08:48]  Maybe, maybe, just maybe the pay gap is down to, you know, women making their own life choices.
[00:08:53]  But no, you know what?
[00:08:54]  This is retrograde sexism.
[00:08:56]  This is that's what it is.
[00:08:59]  Last week, for example, the US Supreme Court's hobby lobby decision left most women's groups livid.
[00:09:04]  Because they're militant, rabid feminists, obviously.
[00:09:08]  Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization of Women...
[00:09:11]  Sorry, is a man president of the National Organization for Women?
[00:09:16]  I mean, that just says everything about the laziness of feminism, doesn't it?
[00:09:21]  Called it a shocking disregard for women's health and lives.
[00:09:25]  Oh no, how many women have died because of it?
[00:09:28]  The co-president of the National Women's Law Centre, Marcia Greenberger, said the ruling gave companies licensed to harm female employees in the name of religion.
[00:09:39]  How many female employees have been harmed?
[00:09:42]  How many have died?
[00:09:44]  How many martyrs have been sacrificed for the cause?
[00:09:48]  Is it just me, or are all these women who are against feminism really attractive?

=== Bruised And Bloodied (02:02) ===

[00:09:53]  I mean, these are the sort of women I would have thought would be concerned with cat-calling or harassment or walking home alone in fear.
[00:10:02]  Not the troglodytes that live on Tumblr.
[00:10:05]  And last but not least, in fact, this is by far the most offensive way of portraying domestic violence I can imagine.
[00:10:15]  I am shocked to the core by this.
[00:10:20]  Bruised and bloodied Disney princesses remind us that domestic violence can happen to anyone, except for men.
[00:10:27]  When did he stop treating you like a princess?
[00:10:30]  Remember that handsome prince from The Little Mermaid?
[00:10:33]  Who's prepared to spend his time working with this poor girl who can't speak because there's something about her that he finds so magical?
[00:10:41]  It's ironic that when she got her voice back, he just started beating the crap out of her.
[00:10:46]  What about this heroic Disney prince who decided to fight a dragon for his true love?
[00:10:52]  Yeah, it was inevitable that he was going to start punching her in the eye in the lip a few times, smacking her around.
[00:10:58]  She probably, you know, refused him sex or something.
[00:11:01]  He is after all an entitled man, and an entitled man will beat the crap out of a woman if he thinks he deserves sex.
[00:11:09]  And my personal favourite Disney prince, Aladdin, the lovable street urchin with a heart of gold.
[00:11:16]  When he saw Princess Jasmine, he was like, I'd hit that.
[00:11:20]  And he did, repeatedly, because she couldn't keep her fucking mouth shut.
[00:11:26]  This whole thing is just the worst thing I can imagine.
[00:11:31]  All of the men in these Disney films, these Disney princes, are decent men.
[00:11:38]  So to imply that they will inevitably end up beating their wives that they fought so hard to to rescue or to impress or whatever is just I mean it's there's no end to it is it there's no end to the demonization.