Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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      9 months ago

      my god, you missed out on that?

      here is way too much background reading!

      • commenter on Shtetl-Optimized talks about the rapey “nice guys” she suffered at college
      • Scott Aa takes this as a brutal personal attack on him
      • Laurie Penny tries to be nice about it
      • Amanda Marcotte? not so nice about it
      • Scott Alexander weighs in with one zillion words, unreadable, so relentlessly awful that Scott demands readers not form an opinion of him based on a thousands of words essay he worked hard on and chose to publish
      • Elizabeth Sandifer with the correct and readable opinion of this bilge (also long, but worth it)
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        9 months ago

        just looked the guy up. He’s handsome. He literally looks like Jerry Seinfeld (actually, he looks even more like Pablo Schreiber who played Nicky Sobotka in The Wire). What a god damned twat. (Not that being attractive makes any of his arguments any worse than they already are)

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          9 months ago

          The title of the blog (“Shtetl-Optimized”) refers to his belief that he would have been happier in a traditional shtetl where the kindly village elders would assign a wife for him.