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Damn, I thought my post was pretty clear and reasonable Nep. Why do you feel the need to defend this guy? Time for a different tact.

My anecdote (take my word for it, I couldn't manufacture a story that idiotic without outside assistance, it's real) makes his points less valid by illustrating he's a dishonest, adolescent fuckboy who doesn't understand women and does stupid shit like shove a banana into his ass and share the pic with people. It didn't happen Nepsotic. Unless you're Ryan Gosling, chicks don't drop their panties because you're youtube-famous, especially if you're fat and whine about religion all the time. I don't care if he was prepared to laugh at himself about the banana, it's the only damage control he had.

Don't try to refute my points by making the 'you just don't get him' argument. I've been aware of the Amazing Atheist a hell of a fuck of a lot longer than you have yet his entire shtick hasn't changed one iota in ~8 years. He might articulate his stupidity a little clearer, but less than a year ago he was lumping all muslims together as 'more than a few bad apples'. I think the fact that he says things like this on a platform that reaches impressionable young people makes him a fucking piece of shit.

I hate watching his videos, I really do, because his is an aggressive, pointless and impotent kind of stupid that justifies itself by pulling people into the abyss with him. He's the reason we have so many fucktards jumping all over religion without reading more than a collective paragraph of religious text. You are making yourself stupider by enjoying his videos and begging for more. It is stupid to expect me to change my opinion on him when I've been listening to his idiotic vitriol several years longer than you.

Remember after Charlie Hebdo, when you posted some video where he said something along the lines of 'I don't call him the Prophet Muhammad, I call him the SCUMFUCK Muhammad.'? I don't want to quote my post since it was perfect then and reposting it now would be unfair, but he was spewing that same kind of blindly hateful garbage years ago.

If you're going to just shit on the idea that they are both con artists, one dumb, one greedy, I'm not going to pretend this is a conversation worth having Nepsotic. You need to introspect a little and frankly stop being so ready to praise some neckbeard who doesn't know what he's talking about. TAA makes broad, sweeping generalizations directed at a specific kind of equally-ignorant person to get youtube views. He is not genuine. He is not an academic. He is not worth listening to for the exact reasons you think he is: He's a simpleminded fool who is subtly leading you down a trail of ignorance.

See, I just don't understand how you can sit there, defend the guy, state Sarkesian is a 'con artist' and expect me to try to change my tune when you're missing the point of my posts entirely: Stop thinking in this black and white bullshit. It doesn't matter how much detail you have on these people, it doesn't matter what hateful garbage frames them, start forming your own opinions. That starts with reading, and reading, and readingreadingreading until you can't even remember how to search for things on youtube properly. Consume information aggressively, don't allow yourself to be told what to think at your leisure.

Jesus Christ, I didn't think I'd have to go this far, but Sarkesian DOES produce content and although facile, her points about feminising gaming are a lot more relevant than another 19 minute video of 'fuck the muslims'. She popped up in some twitter pic with Joss Whedon over the summer, for crying out loud The significance there is that Whedon is a wealthy hollywood type with some clout amongst nerds. Is she the smartest feminist I know? Fuck no, but I'd rather she influence video games to be more appealing to girls (and ideally, smarter and more thoughtful in general) then TAA influence young men like yourself to be filled with blind loathing for things you don't seem to understand in the first place.


I said it before, and I'll say it again: TAA's character needs to be called into question when young people blindly follow whatever he says and are willing to defend what is genuinely lazily constructed, ignorant hatespeech. He's not saying anything good, nor is he saying anything new in a creative way. We've had patronizing, self righteous scum like him for thousands of years, and regardless of the mighty soapbox that holds him up, he's still a tiny man who is either frightened or too arrogant to acknowledge modern theological discussion. If you took one of his videos to a Theology classroom and tried to checkmate those folks with it you'd be laughed out of the school. I really mean it when I tell you in the adult world, patronizing and condescending as it is to imply you are not part of it, TAA and people like him are sort of an inside joke, the archetypal NEET vindicated by an income dredged out of his crappy opinions.

I'm not going to sit down and pick apart a video that is designed to get 12 year olds to send him money on Patreon, nor am I going to pretend it isn't frustrating that you'd rather assume my attacks on his character carry any more substance than the objective fact that he is willfully ignorant and unable to argue with anything but the simplest tennets of theology.

All I want for you, Nepsotic, is to engage yourself in more thoughtful discussion on these topics because once again it is so easy to just watch a video, like it and assume that's where the conversation ends. As you can probably tell, I'm not interested in the subject matter itself. The role I've given myself is to analyze the commentary and suggest what is healthy and considered and what is simple and manipulative, both Anita and TAA fall into the latter. My point is that these people are entertainers, and you're doing yourself and that wonderful piece of meat lodged between your ears a disservice by getting at all caught up in their world instead of expanding your own, and I'm going to go all folksy on you again and tell you that in this day and age reading is the best way to consume information, especially reading directly from a book (or from an e-reader, those things are neat.)

Read some Saint Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Good ol' Charles Darwin and even Douglas Adams for a bit of perspective. I'd say 99% of the reason I take such a fluctuating and inventive take on things is because Dougie Adams taught me to laugh at how ass-backwards things are just by being the way they are, and you can't get that surreal and wonderful sense of things by letting yourself be told what you're comfortable with, over and over and over again.

And let me say this, then I should really hit the hay since I have 2 hours of classes in the morning and a lot of masturbation to catch up on: It's absolutely fine if you just like his videos. I'm not judging you for liking what I don't like, but I believe it would be to your benefit as an intellectual to take a more nuanced approach to dissecting things, especially religion. You read my most recent blog right? So you know the best way to get on my nerves is learn a lot about religion and talk about it constantly, just advertise how much you know about it. You do that, and frame it in a way that makes me laugh, and I'll be your #1 fan.