Roosh V, a self-proclaimed pick-up artist and wannabe Lothario unfortunately cursed with the physical appearance of an I.T. technician, has decided to cancel a planned meetup for his “neo-masculinist movement” after fearing the safety of the dunderheads who planned to attend such an event.
Daryush Valizadeh, who is known as Roosh V to his flagrantly misogynistic and backwards-ass supporters, was planning on performing a “world tour” of sorts with meetings being planned in 43 countries, kinda like a rock star except with screaming female fans being replaced by lonely Men’s Rights Activists. However, after a number of online petitions were set up across the countries Roosh was planning to visit, calling for him to be blocked from staging his all-male pity parties, Roosh called the whole tour off. Here’s the statement he released on his site:
“I can no longer guarantee the safety or privacy of the men who want to attend on February 6, especially since most of the meetups can not be made private in time. While I can’t stop men who want to continue meeting in private groups, there will be no official Return Of Kings meetups. The listing page has been scrubbed of all locations. I apologize to all the supporters who are let down by my decision.”
But here’s the thing: Roosh is an imbecile. His supporters are imbeciles. Dedicate even 10 minutes of your time to Googling him, and there’s plenty of evidence to support this claim, all directly spouted from the man himself. Seriously, read any article or watch any video he’s been involved in, remove the context of him being a misogynistic dweeb and you’d be convinced that you were looking at a parody.
The face of neo-masculinity.
Take his video ‘36 Things Wrong With American Women.’ One of the many ridiculous examples given by Roosh in regards to why you shouldn’t date women from the US (they cut their hair short, they’re proud of their careers and they rarely wear high heels rank among his list of complaints) is their sarcasm. Sarcasm isn’t an example of a good sense of humor, Roosh argues, adding “it’s just rude.” Now consider that Roosh’s sole attempt at displaying a sense of humor, an article titled ‘How To Stop Rape‘ in which he unsuccessfully attempted satire by saying that rape should be “legal if done on private property,” has seen him now being branded a “pro-rape advocate.” This attempt at trying to make his supporters laugh actively led to the backlash against his tour, which in turn led to him having to cancel it.
In other words, Roosh was so disastrously unfunny that it actually led to him being prevented from entering 43 countries.
His labeling as a pro-rape advocate has forced him to defend his article multiple times, exclaiming “it was satire!” because he’s that intensely unfunny that not only has he repeatedly had to explain the punchline of his joke, but he’s had to explain it to media institutions such as the BBC when they’ve asked him to justify his comments. Speaking of the BBC, Roosh appeared on a BBC Three documentary covering Men’s Rights Activists, in which he even failed to eloquently defend his comments against Reggie Yates, a presenter who’s about as confrontational as a paper bag in a tornado.
Then there’s this incredible video that he directed as part of a promotional campaign for his book ‘Bang,’ which shows the differences between an “alpha male” and a “beta male.” The video features actors who are so incapable of convincingly portraying basic human interaction, you’d swear that they were Men’s Rights Activists themselves:
So this begs the question: with Roosh V and his supporters being so intensely embarrassing, why did people bother petitioning against him? Sure, he’s misogynistic and he possesses some remarkably dumb views, but preventing him from holding his little meetups ascribes him more power than a man of his limitations in logic deserves. Now he can run off back into his Boys Only treehouse, telling all his friends how the liberals bullied him into silence, when we should have rightly all followed him on tour, pointing and laughing at him and his fan club across 43 countries. In fact, when he touched down in the UK, they should’ve projected his li’l speech onto the side of Big Ben, and when he landed in Sydney they should’ve given him the keys to the Opera House, allowing him to cry about his poorly concealed inferiority complex while right-minded people watched on from the sidelines, laughing at him and pitying him in equal measure.
The best way to deal with stupid people’s harmful opinions isn’t to prevent them from being openly stupid, it’s to allow everyone else to see how dumb they are. The petitions staged against Roosh’s meetups has therefore led to a pretty positive turn of events for him, allowing him to claim that progressives are trying to shut him down because of him speaking “the truth,” without him running the risk of footage of his meetups making their way online, allowing the world to see how deeply sad and pathetic he is.
While it doesn’t look like Roosh V will be touring any time soon, hopefully that changes in the future and he’ll be given his platform. I could do with a good laugh.
