Shorter @AmandaMarcotte: ‘Masculinity Killed Those Gay People in Orlando’

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“The horror story of Orlando lays bare what damage that this kind of dominance-oriented masculinity does to our society . . . It’s a stark reminder of why we, as a country, need to get past the politics of tough guy posturing and move towards a more thoughtful, inclusive society.”
— Amanda Marcotte, June 13, 2016

“Progressives only have one good trick, and men keep falling for it.
“They keep calling you a coward, so that you’ll do or say whatever they want to prove that you are not a coward.”
— Jack Donovan, Nov. 28, 2015

Some things are predictable — Muslims murdering innocent people, for example, and also Amanda Marcotte saying incredibly stupid things:

A picture is quickly starting to form of who Omar Mateen, the shooter, was. His ex-wife describes a man who was controlling and abusive. A colleague says he was always using racial and sexual slurs and “talked about killing people all the time.” Both his ex-wife and his father describe him as homophobic, with his father saying he spun into a rage at the sight of two men kissing. He was clearly fond of guns, having not one, but two concealed carry licenses. He worked at a security firm, a career that can be attractive to men with dominance and control issues. He was investigated by the FBI in 2013 for making threats to a coworker.
There is a common theme here: Toxic masculinity.

Marcotte then goes on to distinguish “toxic masculinity” as a specific thing that means, basically, “things men do that feminists don’t like,” which is to say, everything men do, except (a) shut up, and (b) vote Democrat. Of course, Omar Mateen was a registered Democrat — a fact that Amanda Marcotte omits from her description of his “toxic” traits, because her definition of “toxic masculinity,” like everything else Amanda Marcotte has ever written, is nothing more than partisan propaganda.

This is one of the aspects of contemporary feminism that, I think, gets too little scrutiny. To what extent can the “feminism” of Amanda Marcotte, Jessica Valenti, et al., be distinguished from the general political and policy agenda of the Democrat Party? And with Hillary Clinton running for president, this simple-minded “vote your vagina” message is being echoed and amplified by the media to such a deafening level that we can scarcely hear anything else. Propaganda always requires demonizing scapegoats who, according to the political calculus of the Democrat Party in the 21st-century, are always male, always white, and always Christian. Democrats win elections by maximizing their vote among unmarried women, among black and Hispanic voters, and among atheists. This divide-and-conquer tactic of identity politics appeals to utterly irrational impulses, the tribal tendency of people to thinks of themselves in opposition to a hated Other, so that their emotions — including self-pity and envy — overpower their ability to analyze policy and calculate their own actual best interests. Trust me, I used to be a Democrat.

My sentimental working-class attachment to the party of “the little guy” blinded me to the reality that Bill Clinton (a) never actually give a damn about any “little guy” except his own penis, and (b) was never going to implement any policy that would actually help my wife, my children, or myself. My parents were both loyal “yellow dog” Democrats, and I never even met a Republican until my junior year in college, so it took me until about 1994 before it dawned on me how thoroughly Bill Clinton had bamboozled, scammed and hustled me. Some people never figure out what a complete fraud the Democrat Party is, because they never see through the propaganda slogans — “Equality! Progress! Social Justice!” — and never ask questions like, “What has the Democrat Party done for Detroit?” or “Why are taxpayers fleeing from California to Texas?”

Amanda Marcotte will never ask herself those questions because she is a professional Democrat. The only reason she is published at all is because she is a reliable partisan propagandist who can be counted on to put a “feminist” imprint on whatever spin serves the political needs of the Democrat Party at any particular moment. She is too stupid even to understand how transparent her hackery is:

So, to be excruciatingly clear, toxic masculinity is a specific model of manhood, geared towards dominance and control. It’s a manhood that views women and LGBT people as inferior, sees sex as an act not of affection but domination, and which valorizes violence as the way to prove one’s self to the world.
For obvious political reasons, conservatives are hustling as fast as they can to make this about “radical Islam,” which is to say they are trying to imply that there’s something inherent to Islam and not Christianity that causes such violence.

Notice how “radical Islam” is in quotation marks, as if nothing of the kind actually exists — it’s a paranoid right-wing fantasy that Muslims want to kill us, according to Amanda Marcotte — who then does an reversal so obvious as to be childish. The subject at hand, after all, is an atrocity committed by the son of an Afghanistan Taliban supporter, and yet for some reason, Amanda Marcotte insists that what we should be discussing is the real problem of “toxic masculinity” among Christian men.

It’s those Lutheran extremists and radical Methodists we must fear, according to the hacktastic Marcotte, and why? Because Christian men are “living in fear” and “posturing” as tough guys:

Toxic masculinity aspires to toughness but is, in fact, an ideology of living in fear: The fear of ever seeming soft, tender, weak, or somehow less than manly. This insecurity is perhaps the most stalwart defining feature of toxic masculinity. . . .
If toxic masculinity was just about men posturing around each other in a comical fashion, that would be one thing, but this persistent pressure to constantly be proving manhood and warding off anything considered feminine or emasculating is the main reason why we have so many damn shootings in the United States.

You see? For the propaganda purposes of a Democrat Party hack like Amanda Marcotte, the story is not about the actual story — i.e., the specific motives of the Orlando shooter — because that story is not good for the Democrat Party. No, the narrative must be twisted so that somehow, this heinous act committed by a registered Democrat can be shown to reflect badly on the kind of men who vote Republican, for example, gun owners:

Toxic masculinity is also the reason it’s so easy for men with major issues to get a hold of the high-powered weaponry necessary to commit these crimes. Sure, the pro-gun movement in this country likes to roll out a bunch of half-baked pseudo-arguments pretending at rationality to justify the lack of gun control in this country, but really, the emotional selling point of guns is that they feed the cult of toxic masculinity. Being able to stockpile weapons and have ever bigger and scarier-looking guns is straightforward and undeniable overcompensation insecure men, trying to prove what manly men they are.

Translation: “White men with small penises vote Republican!”

This is merely a sexualized insult and, in point of fact, is contradicted by actual crime statistics. Maybe white guys own more guns but Justice Department numbers show that black guys and Hispanic guys are more violent and, as a feminist like Amanda Marcotte would be obligated to mention, if she were not just a Democrat Party hack, violence against women is more common in minority communities.

Does Amanda Marcotte think everyone is as stupid as she is? Does she think she can just hatefully insult people for spite — “White guys are gun-crazy murderers because they’re overcompensating for their small penises!” — and that nobody will fact-check her claims? Does she think she can just blame “toxic masculinity” as “the main reason why we have so many damn shootings,” and that no one will mention Chicago, where there have already been nearly 1,700 shootings this year, including 256 fatal shootings? June is not halfway over, and there have already been 27 homicides in Chicago this month, but does Amanda Marcotte blame the violence in Chicago on “insecure men, trying to prove what manly men they are”? No, because Chicago is a Democrat fiefdom whose Mayor Rahm Emanuel is Obama’s former chief of staff. Nor can Amanda Marcotte, who lives in Brooklyn, be bothered to notice deadly violence when it strikes close to home, as when Michelle Marks was shot to death in Brooklyn Bridge Park this month:

On Tuesday afternoon, investigators arrested Lamont Wright, an ex-boyfriend of Ms. Marks; she had filed harassment complaints against him, including one on Sunday, authorities said.
Mr. Wright, 53 years old, has a criminal history that includes two stints in prison, the first starting in 1990, and is currently on probation, authorities said. In 2007, he pleaded guilty to a charge of third-degree rape in a case in which he admitted having consensual sex with a 16-year-old girl he met on a chatline, authorities said. He was sentenced to six months in prison and 10 years probation.
Family members said Ms. Marks had planned to use her day off Tuesday to seek a restraining order against Mr. Wright. The two had dated on and off until about two weeks ago when she ended the relationship, they said.
The woman’s mother, Pauline Marks, said that in the report her daughter filed on Sunday, she told police Mr. Wright had a gun and she was afraid of him.

 

Lamont Wright is a career criminal with 15 prior arrests, but for some reason Amanda Marcotte didn’t cite him as an example of “a specific model of manhood” that “valorizes violence as the way to prove one’s self to the world.” The death of Michelle Marks inspired no pious feminist sermons about “men with dominance and control issues,” because some murder victims are more equal than others in the eyes of a dishonest Democrat propagandist like Amanda Marcotte. No, she has her hobby horse and she’s going to ride it:

That’s why any attempt to discuss putting even the smallest, most commonsensical restrictions on guns turns into a bunch of right wing dudes squeeing about how the liberals are coming to taking their guns. This isn’t a discussion being held on the plane of rationality, but is a psychological drama about these men’s fears of emasculation, represented in an unsubtle way over their attachment to guns and their fear that liberals, stereotyped as effeminate in their imagination, are coming to steal the guns away.
And, of course, in the Orlando situation, we have the added problem of homophobia, which is called a “phobia” for a reason, since it’s so often rooted in toxic masculinity and the terror of anything even remotely feminine.
What is particularly frustrating about all this is that, even though toxic masculinity is clearly the problem here, you have a bunch of conservatives running around and pushing toxic masculinity as the solution, as if all we need to end violence and terrorism is a bunch of silly posturing about who is the biggest man of all the menfolk out there.

Whenever you want a discussion “held on the plane of rationality,” Amanda Marcotte’s the first name that comes to mind, right? She thinks you are too stupid to see what she is doing when, in fact, these propaganda tactics have been analyzed brilliantly by Jack Donovan:

Progressives use every man’s natural fear of showing fear to manipulate him — inventing fake “phobias” and implying he is afraid of everything they want. But what men are truly afraid of are the legal, social and financial consequences associated with challenging the progressive agenda. . . .
Progressives get men to do whatever they want by manipulating our fear of being afraid. When you recognize this manipulation, you’ll begin to see it in nearly every argument appealing to men and every progressive narrative written about men. Their strategy is to portray masculine men, even men who have demonstrated courage in battle or in legitimately heroic endeavors where they have faced and overcome fear, as being driven primarily by fear and a sense of inadequacy.

Read the whole thing. Once you learn to spot the psychological manipulation tactics of propaganda, you resent the arrogance of people like Amanda Marcotte almost as much as you despise their dishonesty.

Orlando gunman had used
gay dating app and visited LGBT nightclub
on other occasions, witnesses say
— Los Angeles Times

Drag Queen: Anti-Gay Terrorist
Omar Mateen Was My Friend
— Daily Beast

Gunman Omar Mateen visited
gay nightclub a dozen times
before shooting, witness says
— Orlando Sentinel

Orlando shooter Omar Mateen
was gay, former classmate says
— Palm Beach Post

This is certainly an interesting development. Do you think maybe Amanda Marcotte will revise her claims to take account of this new information? Gay Democrat kills gay people in gay nightclub he had visited frequently? How do these facts fit into her “toxic masculinity” theory?

Oh, and what about the fact that gay patrons of the Pulse club blocked the door, preventing other people from escaping the gunman?

But never mind the facts, I guess.

Amanda Marcotte is a Democrat, and facts don’t matter to Democrats.

UPDATE: Guess who noticed the latest headlines?

Amanda Marcotte’s rationalizations show how feminism is a cult ideology. No matter what the facts are, a feminist can never admit she is wrong.

All males are sexist oppressors and all women are victims of patriarchy — these are the unquestionable premises of Feminist Logic™ — and everything is interpreted as evidence that proves feminism is right.

So if a Muslim Democrat kills 50 people at a gay nightclub, this proves “toxic masculinity” is to blame, and if it turns out the killer was gay himself? Well, this doesn’t prove Amanda Marcotte was wrong, because she is a feminist and it is therefore impossible for her to be wrong.




 

157 comments

  1. I do not think the gunman was gay. Sometimes there is a sort of morbid attraction to the things that disgust you like when people cannot take their eyes off the splattered cat on the street, or see videos of surgical procedures or he was simply getting to know the place he wanted to blow up, after all, how can you shoot with precision in a dark place you never visited before. He wanted to be sure he could maximise the number of deaths. He also checked out that there was no security around etc etc.
    About toxic masculinity and Amanda Marcotte: I am not an expert on the topic but I guess if you say to a strictly top homosexual (as opposed to a bottom) that he is not masculine he might hit you with his purse. As in the rest of the world, no matter how closeted you are, there is a stark difference between the top and the bottom. I don’t think that the top likes to be defined as non masculine. And most bottom (if not all) search for masculine tops so much that they often search among heterosexuals.

  3. Toxic masculinity? Testosterone poisoning?
    Gosh, the MOMENT I first heard of one man implausibly killing
    59 homosexual (disparately male?) early morning revelers, and wounding a crapload more, with apparently NO ONE fighting back,
    MY very first thought was “This PROVES Anthro Global Warming”.
    I immediately blame GMO corn, Y2K, and El Nino.
    Contrary to initial reports, and other vagina-centric implications from Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces office holders or contenders, I have yet to actually see an actual military assault weapon involved.

  4. Hillary’s immediate response was to attack the First and Second Amendments.

    This question needs to be asked, though—in all that crowd of 350 people, did no one have anything to throw? A barrage of everything from drink glasses to chairs might have altered the results.

  5. The lovely Miss Marcotte also went out of her way to tell us that this had nothing, nothing at all, to do with Islam:

    For obvious political reasons, conservatives are hustling as fast as they can to make this about “radical Islam,” which is to say they are trying to imply that there’s something inherent to Islam and not Christianity that causes such violence. This, of course, is hoary nonsense, as there is a long and ignoble history of Christian-identified men, caught up in the cult of toxic masculinity, sowing discord and causing violence in our country: The gun-toting militiamen that caused a showdown in Oregon, the self-appointed border patrol called the Minutemen that recently made news again as their founder was convicted of child molestation, men who attack abortion clinics and providers.

    Somehow, some way, we are meant to see some sort of equivalence between people attempting to assert their property rights, but who didn’t kill anybody, with a nutjob who killed fifty people and wounded 53 more. Omar Mateen wasn’t a Christian, and didn’t come from any white Christian heritage, so Miss Marcotte must do everything she can to wash away that difference, in order to promote the message she wishes to send. Apparently, the idea of just saying nothing did not occur to her.

  7. I am surprised that you are surprised. The majority of people populating that kind of club is the ‘femme’ type of gay. They wouldn’t find their way out of a paper bag. If you compare this to the bataclan where 3 gunmen killed 89 people (in an attact that was more sophisticated and planned) you have to either think this Omar guy was very good or the victims he selected were really not able to save their lives. Gays think the government and the democrats are out to save them. This morning I read an article where one of them was shocked since he tought gays couldn’t be possibly targets. How detached from reality can you be? I can understand they hope the target is chirstian churches since someone does the dirty job for them but the average muslim notices that churches in the western world are pretty much empty so there’s no point in shooting in an empty Church.

  9. You thought this past year was 24/7 homosexual worship in this sick country? Hang on to your hats, folks. When they combine faggot-worship with the American insanity for victim-worship, we’ll all be required by law to genuflect to our mandatory, in-home homo shrines for one hour per day.

  11. “that churches in the western world are pretty much empty so there’s no point in shooting in an empty church” – brilliant

  12. It’s rather amazing that no matter what the facts turn out to be, they always prove Amanda’s point.

  13. Even when the perpetrator was apparently a gay Muslim Democrat, conservatives and Christians must somehow be to blame.

  15. 100% spot on. As I said before this group of people, despite being politically powerful and violent to Christians is constantly looking for the government protection. I wouldn’t be surprised if more and more hours of homosexuality worship are added mandatory to schools ‘to avoid events like the one in Orlando’. I truly believe we will get closer to the situation in North Korea where children/Youth are instructed to turn in their parents if they have less than flattering ideas on the ruling party. Same with parents not worshipping on the altar of gheydom hard enough. They have turned into the mirror version of the taliban, murdering other muslims because they do not worship hard enough.

  16. Yep, the gay Democrat Muslim was inspired by toxic masculinity. The insanity is so all persuasive that it is simply impossible to reason with loons like this. Crazy is the default these days

  19. Don’t even try arguing with Our Amanda, bless her heart!

    She knows more about men than all of us put together.

  20. If you want to really understand Islam, you must talk to somebody who is not actually Muslim. That’s how people like Obama and Kerry and Clinton and Marcotte can lecture all of us on what is “True Islam.”

    They even argue with actual Muslims over whether what they do is Islamic.

  21. I wish it was just her. Tumblr Facebook Twitter are full of reality deniers who keep claiming “science” on their side. It they could legislate that down is up and night is day they would.

  22. A defining characteristic of science is that is is falsifiable. That is, a researcher must determine what would make a particular theory invalid.

    Religion, on the other hand, is built on faith and as such needs no evidence. Thing is, progressives get confused or upset if you point out that they are following a religion because they believe they’re too smart to have an Imaginary Sky Friend.

  24. You lack their faith. Put not your trust in the false god Science, instead kneel down to Gaia!

  25. It’s an oversimplification to think that all homosexual men are cowards and weaklings. For instance, Alexander the Great and Richard the Lion-heart were either homosexual or switch-hitters.

  26. Very true, I spent many months on some boards where Islam crimes were denounced and we always had the odd muslim (male or female) that was systematically denying everything. I am talking about article after article of muslim beheading christian schoolgirls, burning down churches and buddist temples. He simply claimed it was not true, and for things happening in his own country where he lived, he claimed the story was exaggerated and the facts were not exactly like that. There was one pakistani guy who flat out denied that in his country there is no freedom of religion since he ‘knows for a fact’ that christians can worship just fine like they were in Rome. Consider than in Pakistan they persecute even a muslim sect call amaadya (spelling is wrong, i am too lazy to look up) because they worship a ‘light’ version of islam (that still thinks all the other religions shuld be suppressed and everybody else forcibly converted). Go figure, they persecute a less barbaric version of islam, imagine what they do with christians, buddists etc.

  27. As I respond to Dana above, you’re generalizing too much. In addition to the examples I gave him, the Sacred Band of Thebes is often supposed to have been connected by homosexual acts.

    In my opinion the main problem is that we’ve been lectured for some decades to avoid resistance, and I fear it’s sunk in all too deeply. The incident on the French train where two US off-duty servicemen tackled a terrorist should be held up as an example.

  28. Cant speak for Richard The Lionheart but with Alexander, his homosexuality is grossly exaggerated. He fathered several children and had wives, what he did on the side with his soldiers was typical behaviour of greece of that time especially for powerful and rich people. When he went ‘legal’ he married women just like everybody else. Homosexuality in the roman empire was exaggerated too since it was mostly a hobby of the rich and wealthy that liked to bugger sex slaves because they could afford it. Proof of that is that female homosexuality was strictly forbidden. Other than that, it is also true that they don’t make homosexuals anymore like they used to. Now they know that there is mommy government and its tit, which is the only tit that does not repulse them.

  30. I am not generalizing, seems these gheys were truly helpless. How do you explain that 3 men with more weapons killed less people in proportion in a crowded theatre and one single normal guy killed 50. The resistance you are talking about is applied in similar situation when in a mixed Group (that means, not strictly LGBT singing kumbaya) one sacrifices for the rest maybe throwing himself at the gunmen or trying to save the others or throwing some heavy object or alcohol in the eyes. The fact that 2 days later we know nothing of that, simply means that all the patrons of the club (some were gays some were women, but you can be sure they were all leftists pro-lgbt) just went to a corner and cried. Maybe someone just for a test should have yelled the gunman was a christian baker unwilling to bake a cake for a gay wedding. Maybe that would have raised a claw or two.
    About the homosexual legion, I believe it is grossly exaggerated too. It was very common in the past to have homo sex to avoid impregnating women. It was an outlet like masturbating that had no political or identity hat.

  31. Neither marriage nor having small numbers of children proves heterosexuality. See Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, among others.

    But my main point is that homosexuality is not by itself proof of timidity.

  32. I think you are referring to the Alexander movie by Oliver Stone where he was having sex with Jared Leto. The homosexuality of 2000 years ago was not the homosexuality of today. Just the mechanical act was the same. Everything else surrounding it was different. 2000 years ago you did not have metrosexuals and pajama boys sucking the teat of the government, simply because, the government was not offering free stuff. That made a lot of difference. There is no homosexuality in amazonian tribes or some african tribes since they are too busy finding food, building huts, fighting wlld animals, providing for their children and actually making children. Homosexuality is a hobby of the people who have passed the phase of ‘looking for food and sheltering from weather and animals’. Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton would do anything for power including barking and pissing on a tree if it was necessary so I do not count them as good examples.

  33. I concede you that they are not timid when facing Christian bakers. They are not timid when they throw stones and write insults on the wall of churches. They are very brave in doing so and they have been doing it for many years now.
    I remember a TV report of a castro parade when a 20something fairy among them pulled the cross necklace of an 80 year old woman that was stating her opinion (against gay marraige or something like that). The woman was with a small Group of other old grannies and this fairy was with the Whole gay parade behind his back.

    That was really brave. But with muslim bakers and muslim gunmen. They rather wait for super-hillary.

  34. There is no reason NOT to think that Mateen was gay. Probably married just to appease dad. Hated his wife. Doesn’t take a dozen trips to the club to scope it out. Probably filled with self-hate because he couldn’t reconcile the religious messages he was getting with his gayness. Probably considered this an act of atonement.

  35. As RSM said, Marcotte is a professional Democrat, he’s close. She is a professional propagandist. Her place in the media is to lie about the truth, facts, and situation. If the narrative is that the sky is red, she will tell you that you are an idiot for plainly not seeing the sky is red.

  36. Haven’t seen any such movie, but I did write a biography of Alex years back. The rest of your opinions simply don’t register with me based on my reading of history.

  37. Psssst!!!

    I’ll let you in on a little secret. Gaia and her sisters invented science. It made beer and cheese possible. Also bread. For the sandwiches you know.

  38. I get the point that you don’t like homosexuality.

    I’m not particularly thrilled with it myself, and see it as doing harm to both the individuals who engage in such acts, and to the societies that excuse them, both ancient and modern. But let’s try to stick to the truth and minimize the exaggeration when discussing it.

  39. History is written by the winners (William Wallace). I would not be surprised if the whole lot of historic figures and their cats were all gay according to our recent winning gay historians. I went to school some decades ago and I never read such a thing other than homosexuality was common in some areas of the world at a certain point in time for the reasons I stated, now all of a sudden in recent years everybody that has some quota in school books is gay including their nanny. This helps homo propaganda a great deal so you can fill your gay worship month with a lot of important names that have been dead for 2000 years and surely cannot comment.

  40. Truth is that 350 fairies were not able to make a dent to either save some of them or take some action. And it is not true I do not like homosexuality. The way it was practiced 2000 years ago I am ok with it since it did not lead to stupid redefinitions of marriage or any other type of implication other than the single action performed by 2 people of the same sex. What I will always despise is the fairies we are surrounded by that are indoctrinating children and bamboozling weaker segments of the population that we must worship homo power or else.
    You would grant me that in your ‘studies’ you have read nothing of the sort happening 2000 years ago.

  41. Does anyone else think there is something sinister in what obama is doing? Knowing what the Islamic community does to homosexuals in their countries and he keeps his muslim immigation policy. My heart breaks as a Christian when I see a man or woman who are strugglong with their identity and the world is encouraging them on to be just the opposite sex of how they were born. Strange why not the other way. I read an article back in the 80s from the leader of a homosexual group and it was the homosexual activist agenda to target a generation of America’s male. It is a dleiberate devious plan to destroy our males. Childrens Hospital in St Louis has started a trans-gender club of 8-12 year olds. I for one, am so sick of this being shoved in our faces everyday: through sitcoms, sports stars, prime time news, gay parades and the our new astro-turfing hero worship of one daring to come out or have a sex change. Now some mainstream Churches are asking Christians to embrace the homosexuals liefstyle. Embracing is silent approval and we actually betray the homosexual (as with all sin) by not telling them what God wrote.

    Eric Holder even went all way to Sweden preching homosexuals equal rights as obama did in Kenya. What’s up with that? obama in his last orlando shooting speech his last words seem to imply that it is some American’s fault because they do not accept the gay agenda. The activist tried to destroy Christians like Jerry Falwell who dare have ministries to help gays turn from their lifestyles through the power of Jesus Christ.. In many cases they have become very militant against the Churches while the cowardly ignore the moslem mosques and Islamic centers. Why the hypocritical muslin? Well they do protest too much. A highly cultish political system that can have sexual relations with children, slice peoples heads, beat their wives. steal countries, lie, slaughter and destroy can some how have really huge problems with homosexuals.

    (As with any sin), but the issue here is perverted sex; in Romans Chapter 1, Paul does not mince any word and no political correct rhetoric. And he leaves us with a dire warning:

    “32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.”

  42. Huh? Not sure what point you’re trying to make.

    William Wallace, BTW, ultimately lost, and never wrote any history. Gibson’s movie about his life was 50% fiction and 95% propaganda. (That’s right, it was 145% false.)

  43. Here is what I will grant you: your knowledge of history seems limited and distorted. Things that were taken for granted two thousand and more years ago were at times far worse than recent things that terribly shock us.

    Along the lines of slaughter, nothing we experienced during the previous century equals some of the horrors carried out in the past. Along the lines of homosexuality, at least they didn’t brag about their tolerance to the extent we do today—they simply did it.

  44. The point is everything and everybody nowadays are portrayed more homosexual than they actually are. This is all for propaganda. It was Oliver Stone, not Gibson to direct Alexander, he portrayed him as a whiny petulant puppet manipulated by his mother. If I remember correctly he was interested in his soldier and also in a very feminine enuch. glad you call it fiction.

  45. Last I heard, Amanda was married; to a man, even!

    A man that should hide the sharp knives and invest in some Kevlar Y-fronts, because Amanda’s completely lost her tiny little mind.

  46. I doubt it since I am from Italy and since it is about OUR history as a people (greek history and roman history intertwines) and as a country we probably have less propaganda and more facts. Just recently there was a documentary that shredded some of the bullshits from the LGBT idiots about what homosexuality was in the roman empire. Some of the stuff told to pass their laws and to silence people are simply made up, just like the stated fact that all important historical figures are gay (saffo was not a lesbian), that all animals are gay, that gayness is genetic. All bullshits. Sorry if I hurt your feelings, you seem like someone who has a dog in this fight. I don’t. You wanna believe all gays are powerful fighters? that alexander was 2500% homosexual. Please do, you seem way too invested in this bullcrap for my taste.
    Still the fairies in Orlando just sat there and took bullets.

  47. I thought that was the Babylonians…

    Anyway, I make all three, which must really chafe the sisterhood. What with me being a toxic male and all.

  49. Concise Marcotte: “Even if the facts all contradict my position, they in no way invalidate my position.”

    Special kind of stupidity. Nobody is born that stupid, you have to attend a prime university to learn it.

  50. Certainly not much of a man. Entirely devoid of toxic masculinity we can be sure. A sitzenpinkler.

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