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Twitter permanently suspends Milo Yiannopoulos over row with 'Ghostbusters' actress

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,290 ✭✭✭orubiru


    I haven't been following thisv that closely but if the Milo types are grouping around ALEX JONES then they really need to reevaluate their stance. I mean, the guy is a certifiable tin foil hat conspiracy nut job. Made piers Morgan look good ffs.

    I agree with you that he is a nut job BUT do we really want to outright remove characters like Alex Jones from internet discourse or discussion?

    I grew up in a Christian household and was raised as a Christian. I was punished when I questioned the beliefs as a child and I was ostracised for questioning the beliefs as a young adult.

    So, my opinion is that echo chambers are bad.

    If it were not for rebellious Atheists on the internet and elsewhere I would have never had the opportunity to see both sides of an argument and make up my own mind.

    Without people like Alex Jones and Milo you are left in a situation where you are told what to think, you are told what's "right", and you will think it. You don't even have the facility to consider other points of view.

    This is unhealthy.

    At least you can look at Alex Jones or Milo, or even Trump, and say "OK, I am hearing what they have to say and actually I don't agree". If that were to be taken away? I'm not sure it's a good thing.

    Even on the thread here. I'm not seeing conclusive proof that Milo was inciting violence or hatred. He seems to have just said Ghostbusters is crap and if you can't handle trolling then you should grow up. That may or may not be correct.

    The timeline seems to be that people start trolling Leslie Jones, she tries to fight the trolls and say "come at me, bro". Trolling intensifies. THEN Milo comes into the middle of it and it all seems to go up a notch?

    I dunno.

    People seem unable to talk about it without being disingenuous or dishonest to some degree.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,971 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    I figured this thread was the most appropriate place to post this, as Leslie Jones's website has been hacked.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,890 ✭✭✭SeanW


    After Milo was banned from Twitter I briefly viewed Ms. Jones' twitter feed, it was all SJW bullcrap about "Whitesplaining" whatever that is, and probably a few other buzzwords as well. Lost any sympathy I had for her at that point. Still this hacking looks to be totally out-of-order.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    SeanW wrote: »
    After Milo was banned from Twitter I briefly viewed Ms. Jones' twitter feed, it was all SJW bullcrap about "Whitesplaining" whatever that is, and probably a few other buzzwords as well. Lost any sympathy I had for her at that point. Still this hacking looks to be totally out-of-order.

    Whitesplaining?
    Im honestly getting sick of these new words lately :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    Christ this is really getting out of hand.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    She is a racist.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,747 ✭✭✭✭wes


    She is a racist.

    So you have a go at the victim of a nasty doxing as opposed to the people who did it :rolleyes:.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    Milo has written to their Dublin HQ requesting all the information Twitter has on him as result of them failing to respond to his previous requests.

    Cost him a tenner too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    He reminds me of the whiny idiots who get banned from Boards and go to the Prison forum to demand reinstatement.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,247 ✭✭✭Maguined


    RayM wrote: »
    He reminds me of the whiny idiots who get banned from Boards and go to the Prison forum to demand reinstatement.

    Apart from the fact he has not broken any rules that Jones herself had broken so his banning while she was not seems poitical.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,971 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Maguined wrote: »
    Apart from the face he has not broken any rules that Jones herself had broken so his banning while she was not seems poitical.

    Which rules had Jones broke? I don't remember her photoshopping any tweets and falsely attributing them to Milo and his kind.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    Maguined wrote: »
    .. seems political.

    As is the post you're replying to.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,247 ✭✭✭Maguined


    Which rules had Jones broke? I don't remember her photoshopping any tweets and falsely attributing them to Milo and his kind.

    She made remarks that could considered as racist as Milo's.
    Lord have mercy...white people sh*t
    ok you white girls are starting to look alike like a mutherf*cka.I swear i went to high school with them two girls!#ainteventryingtolookdiff
    get the **** outta here a white boy is best dj wtf?
    mickey mouse gangster cousin wtf? white people smh

    Most importantly is the idea that Milo was banned for inciting others to harass Jones despite him making no such tweets encouraging others to attack Jones yet this is something Jones has done herself.
    @whitebecky1776 bitch I want to tell you about your self but I'm gonna let everybody else do it I'm gonna retweet your hate!! Get her!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,971 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    At worst, they're dumb generalisations, I don't really feel too offended by these out-of-context tweets.

    As for this "whitebecky1776", while I think it was an asshole move on Jones's part to attempt to direct a hate mob at her, a quick look at her account shows that she's a Trump fangirl and probably part of the cancerous "alt-right", the very people who attacked Jones in the first place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    Surprised he bothered given an interview to ABC given their liberal left agenda (which is often on display at a nauseating degree) but here it is:

    Shown of course as a part of a special on 'Online Trolls' .




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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,247 ✭✭✭Maguined


    At worst, they're dumb generalisations, I don't really feel too offended by these out-of-context tweets.

    As for this "whitebecky1776", while I think it was an asshole move on Jones's part to attempt to direct a hate mob at her, a quick look at her account shows that she's a Trump fangirl and probably part of the cancerous "alt-right", the very people who attacked Jones in the first place.

    So it's okay to direct a hatemob against people if you don't agree with them?

    Sorry I don't think that makes it okay. I am not really bothered by her other comments but then I don't really think Milo's were bad enough to be banned by but the hypocrisy does bother me. As a company Twitter should set whatever standards and rules they want but they should enforce them equally and this is where it seems they have not.

    I do not support or condone anyone who harassed Jones herself and I would never excuse such abuse because the harassers felt justified when her racist comments were made over a year ago predating all these attacks.

    Nero did not incite anyone to attack Jones and I think it is ludicrous to justify Jones incitment as because the girl is questions is a Tump supporter she is "probably" part of the group that attacked her thefore it is justified?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Maguined wrote: »
    Apart from the fact he has not broken any rules that Jones herself had broken so his banning while she was not seems poitical.

    Prison forum's full of people complaining that they haven't broken any rules...


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    Surprised he bothered given an interview to ABC given their liberal left agenda (which is often on display at a nauseating degree) but here it is:

    Shown of course as a part of a special on 'Online Trolls' .

    He is an attention seeking narcissist, media coverage is his oxygen, otherwise he's just a sad man ranting at nothing.

    Also WTF is a 'liberal'. Stupid American bull**** terms that have no relevance in this country.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,247 ✭✭✭Maguined


    RayM wrote: »
    Prison forum's full of people complaining that they haven't broken any rules...

    Valid point apart from the bit where Jones own rule breaking is okay then?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭FA Hayek


    Maguined wrote: »
    So it's okay to direct a hatemob against people if you don't agree with them?


    Welcome the the alternative morality of the modern day progressive. Directing a hate mob is wrong, unless of course they are directing it against a person with whom I disagree with, in which case go right ahead.

    The essence of hypocrisy, right there.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    He is an attention seeking narcissist, media coverage is his oxygen, otherwise he's just a sad man ranting at nothing.

    To say he is "ranting" at nothing, just shows your ignorance on the man tbf, as Milo's tackles many issues which need to be attacked, such as the third wave feminist notion that women are an oppressed class in western society. His debunking of their lies regarding wage gaps, rape culture, college campus sexual assault stats etc etc is not appreciated I guess. The fact that Milo's lectures are often protested and hijacked by feminists in and of itself shows them up as the hypocrites that they are.
    Also WTF is a 'liberal'. Stupid American bull**** terms that have no relevance in this country.

    Unfortunately it does now as all that crap has pretty much been imported. Western society gets smaller and smaller all the time thanks to the interwebs. UK collage campuses have taken on the same victimhood feminist ideology as their US counterparts for example and it's only getting worse. No relevance in this country? I wish.


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    To say he is "ranting" at nothing, just shows your ignorance on the man tbf, as Milo's tackles many issues which need to be attacked, such as the third wave feminist notion that women are an oppressed class in western society. His debunking of their lies regarding wage gaps, rape culture, college campus sexual assault stats etc etc is not appreciated I guess. The fact that Milo's lectures are often protested and hijacked by feminists in and of itself shows them up as the hypocrites that they are.

    Unfortunately it does now as all that crap has pretty much been imported. Western society gets smaller and smaller all the time thanks to the interwebs. UK collage campuses have taken on the same victimhood feminist ideology as their US counterparts for example and it's only getting worse. No relevance in this country? I wish.

    Nonsense, no it hasn't. You just imagine that it has because presumably you read about it all the time given how much you talk about it.

    The rest of us are just getting on with it living our lives blissfully oblivious to the evil feminist conspiracy threatening the very foundations of society. :rolleyes:

    Give me one concrete example of feminism having a negative impact in Ireland.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭pumpkin4life


    Nonsense, no it hasn't. You just imagine that it has because presumably you read about it all the time given how much you talk about it.

    The rest of us are just getting on with it living our lives blissfully oblivious to the evil feminist conspiracy threatening the very foundations of society. :rolleyes:

    Give me one concrete example of feminism having a negative impact in Ireland.

    Una Mullally.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 532 ✭✭✭511


    RayM wrote: »
    Prison forum's full of people complaining that they haven't broken any rules...

    Are you seriously using Boards.ie's prison forum as a measuring stick for law and order? I've seen so many people on Politics.ie, Reddit and Facebook complain about excessive and biased moderation on here.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,009 ✭✭✭conorhal


    There is a current controversy flaring up on YouTube regards 'de-monetizing' at the moment. A lot of vids are being demonetized, no longer available to generate revenue for the channel owner, because they have been tagged as 'infracting youtubes user policy' which aims to avoid paid advertising hitting videos that they deem no advertising friendly.
    The terms and conditions of the user policy are vague, some are obvious like videos including violent images etc may be demonetized while other suggest videos can be demonetised if they are deemed 'controversial'.
    I suppose you can shrug and say, well their site their rules, but the reality is that Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are now primary culture shapers, the place an entire generation communicates and gets their news from. So it's worrying that they seem to be controlled by particular agendas that don't like to be questioned.
    Take this for example,

    http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/02/twitters-new-safety-council-makes-a-mockery-of-free-speech/

    Twitter appointed Anita Sarkeesian to head its 'Trust And Safety Council', that would be a bit like putting Irish Times journo Una Mullally in charge of what is acceptable to say on Twitter. Which is to say, anybody who disagrees with her is banned and anybody that agrees with her can say pretty much what the like.
    There is a real sense that liberal groupthinks is fast becoming the only acceptable form of expression allowed and even legitimate criticism is labelled hate speech and banned.
    The likes of Anita Sarkeesian would like the entire internet to become a college campus 'safe space'.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,116 ✭✭✭RDM_83 again


    511 wrote: »
    RayM wrote: »
    Prison forum's full of people complaining that they haven't broken any rules...

    Are you seriously using Boards.ie's prison forum as a measuring stick for law and order? I've seen so many people on Politics.ie, Reddit and Facebook complain about excessive and biased moderation on here.

    Particularly as the sites user base (definitely the active user base) is shrinking


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    Una Mullally.

    Who?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,951 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    To say he is "ranting" at nothing, just shows your ignorance on the man tbf, as Milo's tackles many issues which need to be attacked, such as the third wave feminist notion that women are an oppressed class in western society. His debunking of their lies regarding wage gaps, rape culture, college campus sexual assault stats etc etc is not appreciated I guess. The fact that Milo's lectures are often protested and hijacked by feminists in and of itself shows them up as the hypocrites that they are.



    Unfortunately it does now as all that crap has pretty much been imported. Western society gets smaller and smaller all the time thanks to the interwebs. UK collage campuses have taken on the same victimhood feminist ideology as their US counterparts for example and it's only getting worse. No relevance in this country? I wish.

    Would it be hypocritical to raise money for grants for poor white male students and instead have the donations sent to your personal account then fail to do anything whatsoever to actually create the promised scholarships?

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/news-blog/2016/aug/19/milo-yiannopoulos-denies-spending-privilege-fund

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/19/breitbart-editor-milo-yiannopoulos-takes-100-000-for-charity-gives-0.html#

    http://www.advocate.com/media/2016/8/22/gay-conservative-milo-yiannopoulos-faces-scrutiny-white-mens-scholarship-fund

    Yiannopoulos doesn't 'tackle' anything, he says whatever gets him the most attention, positive or negative.

    That's pretty much it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,455 ✭✭✭tritium


    B0jangles wrote: »
    Would it be hypocritical to raise money for grants for poor white male students and instead have the donations sent to your personal account then fail to do anything whatsoever to actually create the promised scholarships?

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/news-blog/2016/aug/19/milo-yiannopoulos-denies-spending-privilege-fund

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/19/breitbart-editor-milo-yiannopoulos-takes-100-000-for-charity-gives-0.html#

    http://www.advocate.com/media/2016/8/22/gay-conservative-milo-yiannopoulos-faces-scrutiny-white-mens-scholarship-fund

    Yiannopoulos doesn't 'tackle' anything, he says whatever gets him the most attention, positive or negative.

    That's pretty much it.

    No offence, while i have mixed views on Milo all im seeing here is a project that is delayed, an explanation that may or may not be true but is at least plausible, and a number of sources who have a different political leaning to Milo seeing a chance to engage in slightly thrashy journalism under a "public interest' shield.

    Most people would probably wait and see what happens here rather than calling Milo out as a crook or hypocrite at this stage.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,951 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    tritium wrote: »
    No offence, while i have mixed views on Milo all im seeing here is a project that is delayed, an explanation that may or may not be true but is at least plausible, and a number of sources who have a different political leaning to Milo seeing a chance to engage in slightly thrashy journalism under a "public interest' shield.

    Most people would probably wait and see what happens here rather than calling Milo out as a crook or hypocrite at this stage.

    Yeah, it's just a massive coincidence that he did absolutely nothing about this project until 2 days after the current stories broke.

    I have to say, I am very amused (and unsurprised) at the contrast between the unbelievable level of sustained vitriol that was thrown at Anita Sarkeesian about her kickstarter campaign*, versus the generally flabby "lets wait and see" response to Yiannopoulous completely failing to do any of what he promised.


    *for those who've never heard of her, she started a kickstarter campaign to make a series of youtube videos about the depiction of women in videogames, raised far more than originally expected and so revised the scale of the project which is still ongoing.
    see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropes_vs._Women_in_Video_Games


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Sweetemotion


    B0jangles wrote: »
    Yeah, it's just a massive coincidence that he did absolutely nothing about this project until 2 days after the current stories broke.

    I have to say, I am very amused (and unsurprised) at the contrast between the unbelievable level of sustained vitriol that was thrown at Anita Sarkeesian about her kickstarter campaign*, versus the generally flabby "lets wait and see" response to Yiannopoulous completely failing to do any of what he promised.


    *for those who've never heard of her, she started a kickstarter campaign to make a series of youtube videos about the depiction of women in videogames, raised far more than originally expected and so revised the scale of the project which is still ongoing.
    see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropes_vs._Women_in_Video_Games


    It's not still ongoing, she didn't even do half of what she said she would do and now has a new venture of portraying women in history for which she wants another $200,000.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,951 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    It's not still ongoing, she didn't even do half of what she said she would do and now has a new venture of portraying women in history for which she wants another $200,000.

    Latest video in the series was posted yesterday, is that not pretty recent?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbqRtp5ZUGE

    An any case, Sarkeesian is not the topic of the thread, I was merely contrasting the scrutiny and abuse to which she was and still is subjected to compared to the wishy-washy excuses made by Milo fans for his total failure to fulfill any of his promises re: college scholarships.

    Double standards a-go-go


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    B0jangles wrote: »
    Would it be hypocritical to raise money for grants for poor white male students and instead have the donations sent to your personal account then fail to do anything whatsoever to actually create the promised scholarships?[.

    He's going to get a horrible shock when tax time comes around.

    Unless he's created a charity to handle the money he's going to liable to pay tax on it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Tell you what, he's obviously feeling the pinch of this twitter ban. I haven't heard a single thing about him in the last month or so.

    When someone like him, who is basing an entire career on being a professional troll, has their access to the public withdrawn, well what have they got left?

    I mean, I'm sure he's up to his usual antics but outside of his website and some fringe sub-reddits, no-one's paying attention. Without twitter he doesn't really have the chance to spill out into the wider world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    When someone like him, who is basing an entire career on being a professional troll, has their access to the public withdrawn, well what have they got left?

    It's even more pathetic than that because it's only twitter that has banned him.

    His access to social media is still there.

    He can manage to start his own website surely??


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,971 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    InTheTrees wrote: »
    It's even more pathetic than that because it's only twitter that has banned him.

    His access to social media is still there.

    He can manage to start his own website surely??

    I remember Wikileaks claiming they'd set up their own microblogging site (blackjack and hookers not included) when Milo got banned. Haven't heard anything about it since - I'd imagine it'd be like that site that was set up when Reddit banned the likes of /r/fatpeoplehate and /r/coontown.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    InTheTrees wrote: »
    It's even more pathetic than that because it's only twitter that has banned him.

    His access to social media is still there.

    He can manage to start his own website surely??

    He has a "news" site - Breitbart - which is pretty much a hate-filed hole going after the Alex Jones angle and I'm sure he probably uses Youtube, but these places are so much easier to ignore.

    With Twitter you didn't really have to go looking for him, whatever nonsense he was spouting would often get retweeted or get the reaction he was looking for and kick-off a row. People would react to him, raising his profile and his work was done for the day, he's lost that now.

    I mean what point is a professional provocateur if he doesn't have an audience to provoke?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,624 ✭✭✭Little CuChulainn


    B0jangles wrote: »
    Latest video in the series was posted yesterday, is that not pretty recent?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbqRtp5ZUGE

    An any case, Sarkeesian is not the topic of the thread, I was merely contrasting the scrutiny and abuse to which she was and still is subjected to compared to the wishy-washy excuses made by Milo fans for his total failure to fulfill any of his promises re: college scholarships.

    Double standards a-go-go

    I'm sure the supporters of Sarkeesian are equally as critical of Milo and equally defensive of Anita. Is it really that odd that you'd be more trusting of someone you believe in?

    EDIT: I see her videos haven't become less nonsense.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,951 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    I'm sure the supporters of Sarkeesian are equally as critical of Milo and equally defensive of Anita. Is it really that odd that you'd be more trusting of someone you believe in?

    EDIT: I see her videos haven't become less nonsense.

    Do you really think Milo has received even 1% of the harassment and abuse Sarkeesian received? If he had, do you not think he'd tell everyone about it, considering how addicted to attention he is?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    511 wrote: »
    Are you seriously using Boards.ie's prison forum as a measuring stick for law and order? I've seen so many people on Politics.ie, Reddit and Facebook complain about excessive and biased moderation on here.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,624 ✭✭✭Little CuChulainn


    B0jangles wrote: »
    Do you really think Milo has received even 1% of the harassment and abuse Sarkeesian received? If he had, do you not think he'd tell everyone about it, considering how addicted to attention he is?

    Never really heard of him before this thread so I don't know. I did have a look into the incident this thread started with and his "victim" gives out just as much abuse as she gets and it wasn't very publicised so I'd say it goes both ways alright.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    You just imagine that it has because presumably you read about it all the time given how much you talk about it.

    Oh, an ad hominem. Nice.
    The rest of us are just getting on with it living our lives blissfully oblivious to the evil feminist conspiracy threatening the very foundations of society. :rolleyes:

    Well, you can roll your eyes as much as you like but that won't make you right. You say that you (and "the rest of us" - whoever the hell they are) are "blissfully oblivious" to the negative effects third wave feminism has on society and I don't doubt it. As they say: ignorance is bliss.
    Give me one concrete example of feminism having a negative impact in Ireland.

    Sure. The Hunky Dory ads were taken down because of feminists whinging. I used to like looking at those billboards as I drove home. To deprive men of giant poster boobage is a God damn sin.

    Non AH answer:

    Third wave feminism (tail-end of the 2nd) began spreading misandry well over forty years ago now and it has been pervasive and systemic. Dworkin, Greer, MacKinnon etc all played their part in the denigration of males and without question that is still being felt today and every effort since feminists have been trying to brain wash as many young women as they possibly could into believing that they too are victims of patriarchal oppression. Gender and Women's Studies are pretty much just indoctrination classes. Propaganda through the education system. Today it's even evident that children are affected at a very young age by feminist dogma. Couple of years before she died Doris Lessing wrote:
    "Great things have been achieved through feminism. We now have pretty much equality at least on the pay and opportunities front, though almost nothing has been done on child care, the real liberation.

    "We have many wonderful, clever, powerful women everywhere, but what is happening to men? Why did this have to be at the cost of men?

    "I was in a class of nine- and 10-year-olds, girls and boys, and this young woman was telling these kids that the reason for wars was the innately violent nature of men.

    "You could see the little girls, fat with complacency and conceit while the little boys sat there crumpled, apologising for their existence, thinking this was going to be the pattern of their lives.

    "This kind of thing is happening in schools all over the place and no one says a thing.

    "It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not.

    "It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests.

    "Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did."

    That's not Ireland I hear you cry, as if the UK was a world away and our schools aren't being similarly impacted. You'd sweat we lived in vacuum here. Well, given the hateful views I read a female teacher post on Boards recently, I'd say our children are being fed the very same nonsense as elsewhere but lets have an Irish example of how feminist misandry effects males: Take the Romeo and Juliet law which was lobbied for by the NWCI and granted by the legislature. Ever since, when two underage kids have sex, boy is criminal but not the girl.

    Family courts are notoriously difficult on men and again, women's rights groups are generally the only voices listened to. Hence men resorting to all sorts of nonsense in an effort to be heard. Equality? Feminists make sure that changes come slowly for men. One man was so stressed at the system in Ireland he took his life. Yet we have the law here preoccupied with gender quotas for political parties. God forbid there wasn't enough female politicians.

    The UCD 200 nonsense was another example of how feminists (Louise O'Neill this time) are just chomping at the bit to label men as sleazy creeps and portray women yet again as victims. With crap like that how long will it before men are arrested on the Luas for manspreading like they were in New York.

    All the crap in the UK (and beyond) championed by feminists about how women are not able to consent if even a little drunk is taken on board here also. Never mind that the man might be similarly drunk, who cares about them. Need proof of women here buying in that rubbish, read this thread. Then we have the likes of Una Mullally telling us that all men are responsible for other men raping, cause men could stop 'em if we wanted to, apparently.

    One feminist this week has even unbelievably had the gall to blame the patriarchy on the recent murders in Cavan.

    It's all just more and more misandric nonsense day in day out and it all adds up. Are men and women (especially young men and women) really not supposed to be negatively effected by all this?


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    Sure. The Hunky Dory ads were taken down because of feminists whinging. I used to like looking at those billboards as I drove home. To deprive men of giant poster boobage is a God damn sin.

    OMG!! An AD WAS TAKEN down!!! Gosh i just don't know what to say.. I'm so sorry you had to endure that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    OMG!! An AD WAS TAKEN down!!! Gosh i just don't know what to say.. I'm so sorry you had to endure that.

    Sigh. I was quite clearly joking. Hence why I premised the rest of my post with:
    Non AH answer:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    Will it be on the next Foals album?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    B0jangles wrote: »
    Would it be hypocritical to raise money for grants for poor white male students and instead have the donations sent to your personal account then fail to do anything whatsoever to actually create the promised scholarships?

    Tritium has succinctly addressed the above nonsense so no need for me to add anything further.
    Yiannopoulos doesn't 'tackle' anything...

    Au contraire. Milo has been a very much needed voice against what was increasingly becoming a never ending rad fem victimolgy din.




  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    Sigh. I was quite clearly joking. Hence why I premised the rest of my post with:

    Ah, I get it now, hahaha! Very funny. Thanks Pete, my eyes have been opened. This is clearly a really serious problem. More important than the world refugee crisis if you ask me. I bet top minds are looking into it right now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,951 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    Tritium has succinctly addressed the above nonsense so no need for me to add anything further.



    Au contraire. Milo has been a very much needed voice against what was increasingly becoming a never ending rad fem victimolgy din.



    Au contraire mon petit ami, Tritium addressed nothing.

    Have you anything to say about Milo collecting money for a (so called) charitable cause and then doing nothing whatsoever for them?


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    You're absolutely right, it's clearly the greatest problem that faces humanity right now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Sweetemotion


    You're absolutely right, it's clearly the greatest problem that faces humanity right now.


    You are the only one saying that, because you are trying to deflect and conquer.

    People are getting really tired of that bully tactic.


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