This book is mistitled. It should be called “I’m Vox Day and I hate John Scalzi and I want to punch him in the face. Oh yeah and all you women should stop playing games and get in the kitchen and make me a pie. If you actually ARE a woman, that is (I’m looking at you Brianna Wu).” However, I understand that title is too long even for Vox Day, so I guess we’re stuck with this one.
I didn’t have very high expectations for this book--mostly I expected a typical neoreactionary screed complaining that society is going down the drain because women won’t respect the obviously superior intelligence of their male betters or some crap like that.
Indeed, it sure sort of starts that way. The first chapter is a vague, fictional just-so story of some sad-sack mid-level executive who is just SHOCKED-SHOCKED-I-tell-you that he (always he) ran afoul of some namby-pamby human resources shrew and is now afraid he is being “watched.”
(Did I ever mention that Internet reactionaries LOVE LOVE LOVE just-so stories? Before they arrived on the scene it was a dying art form, and I am forever indebted to Teddy and the rest of them for reviving it.)
One couldn’t expect anything other than vagueness, though, as Vox hasn’t worked in a corporate environment in decades and (rightfully?) declares such experiences to be beneath his vast intellect to begin with. Seems to be working for him, because he certainly convinced me to part with $5 towards his Old Italian Guy Rec Soccer League fund. (Great job, man, and enjoy it!)
But as the book unfolds, it goes to warp speed through a star cluster constructed entirely of comedy gold. EVERYTHING in Chapter Two seems to be about his self-declared feud with John Scalzi! Yes that’s right--the “three laws of SJW” or whatever are supported ONLY by a litany of personal anecdotes concerning his (mostly one-sided) feud with an (admittedly mediocre) author who has nonetheless managed to parlay his midlist success into an enduringly comfortable living! Which nobody does anymore, what a moron! Oh yeah, and some dumb thing called the SFWA (which isn’t an acronym for anything in its actual name, idiots!), which Scalzi ran for like a billion years or something! Wow the nerve of that guy!
But finally, by the third chapter, we realize this isn’t just about a latent desire to punch Scalzi in the face, but also the sad tales of dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, and dude, who were caught out not realizing that being a smug jerk in public has consequences in an age where nearly everyone has some kind of media platform. So very sad, and so very tragic that simply being male and in a position of corporate, literary, or scientific privilege is no longer sufficient to give one a blank check to be a jerk. THE HORROR. Yes, it’s the global social crisis of our time! And because of the inferior inferiority of the SJW, they have to resort to DIRTY TRICKS, like sending tweets and encouraging their friends to do so.
THE. HORROR.
OK, now that we’re done telling the sad tale of dude, dude, and all the other dudes, we have to turn our attention to the Literally Whos of Gamergate. Because though that dead horse is rotting, putrid, and liquefying, it still vaguely resembles a horse and THAT’S NOT ENOUGH BEATING.
Anyway, how to fight back against the Literally Whos? Oh yeah, get a bunch of friends on the Twitter and the Gmail to bully Gawker’s advertisers into dropping them. O...KAY?! Among the obvious insanity of all this (which is actually normal these days), the only thing I could think of was that Day previously claimed social media swarming was bad and a dirty trick? Oh, well never mind, I guess any dirty trick in the service of defending MANLY MEN doing manly men things is actually heroic and courageous. I’m still confused about how it all works (which is why I only gave this book 3 stars), but I still give him props for the idea (which is why I only gave this book 3 stars).
At this point I’m wondering--hey, Teddy, why haven’t you yet bragged about wrecking the Hugo Awards? BUT I WASN’T DISAPPOINTED, because that was the very next thing! And I was very impressed by his cunning explanation of his wreck-the-Hugo Xanatos Gambit where he suggests that he has COMPLETE CONTROL over the Hugo process going forward. You know, just like the way crapheads who throw Molotov cocktails into crowds brag about how they’re experts at crowd control. Very enlightening.
Following that, some incoherent ramble about how SJWs should just shut up and let us get Our Work Done, and oh yeah, Randi Harper is the worst person ever. And then a bunch of boring stuff about how to give the SJWs what’s coming to them--essentially, using the same tactics Day complains about in the opening chapters, but doing it bigger and badder and more manly. And with dialectic and stuff and junk. Boring, but maybe I’m just supposed to keep it around like the instructions to that gadget I bought the other day--you know in case something weird happens with it and I need to understand it?
In conclusion, I have to thank Mr. Day for giving such a clear(?) roadmap into his mind and the minds of other vicious trolls like Milo Yiannopoulos and ultimately the entire Internet he-man reactionary caucus. They are a formidable force to behold, and I look forward to many more years of organized butthurt directed at women and other marginalized people who dare to refuse to stay in their place now that I have such a helpful manual to explain what is happening.
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Essential self defense guide for this day and age. Into page 25 and its already really tense, almost scary but really captivating. Thanks for sharing your experience with the modern SJW, alot to learn with this little book. Vox Day is an underground genius.
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