Because, sadly, there was an audience for it, which sickens me to no end. As a woman who loves a man, I so badly want to believe that this horribleness doesn’t exist deep inside every man (and right on the surface for some). Stuff like this is just so, so disheartening. Something is deeply wrong with people who get a…

He’s also been writing grossly misogynistic shit since then, including this foul 2009 piece about teabagging Michelle Malkin (whom I despise, but it’s pretty telling his ‘critique’ of a woman whose politics he disagrees with involves sexual violation): http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/21319

Kind of nullifies his…

Jeezus, I can’t believe these monsters wrote this kind of bullshit and even worse, I can’t believe people read it. How are either one of these massive tools still writing and selling articles and books...oh, probably MRA fan clubs...😡

I can’t with these fucking fuckers. They belong in prison. Yesterday.

Yup misogyny and sexism can make men put aside their religions, political views, skin colours, ethnicities, social class, basically everything, because abusing/disprespecting women is the greatest linking point of MANkind.

I had the distinct displeasure of dealing with Matt Taibbi when I worked at a teen magazine. He wrote for a free weekly paper at the time and saw himself as a hero for young girls. Ha. He was terribly condescending and obnoxious and dragged my name threw the mud for a lame article. He has no character and really …

It’s the same shit conservative or republicans say about “jokes” when its mysognistic and racist “jokes” that no one else “gets”

The Bush II era was such a cesspool of this kind of thought. The Man Show, Carls Jr. commercials, the widespread nightmare of internet porn (fucking awesome that an entire generation has been conditioned to orgasm to depictions of abuse)... I’m guffawing at the fact that people are pretending to be shocked, pretending…

So, “We’re not serial rapists. We’re just a pair of frat boy hacks who built their careers on fraud and misogynist fan fiction.”

Wait. So it was titled a memoir and labeled as non-fiction yet they are now saying it was all satire and fiction? I find that hard to believe. It’s interesting that Taibbi and Ames are now on opposite sides of the political spectrum. I imagine it was the same back then yet their shared misogyny and sexism united them.…

Thank you for this. I hope both these men get hit by a fucking bus.

Ah, “satirical.” The biggish word trotted out by frat bros and jocks when their “private” Facebook page goes unexpectedly public. These guys are obviously smarter than that, so I’m surprised to see this old chestnut, but...maybe it works? I’ve never been fooled, but that’s just me.

Let’s just take his assertion that this is incredibly misogynist satire at face value. He also threw coffee and stalked a reviewer who didn’t like his book. He also had to leave another job for harassing a coworker based on her gender. Why do people keep giving this guy a chance?

“Throw her over,” Johnny Jr. advised me.

Maybe there was something funny in those excerpts but I must have missed it. How is raping a 15 year old you find unattractive considered humor? Just uh, weird at best if it’s truly fictional - extremely disturbing if it isn’t. And what critic thought that was comparable to National Lampoon? I guess I remember…

Right. It doesn’t feel like “satire” if it seems like the “satirist” actually feels/does the things he’s “satirizing.” And what were they “satirizing” exactly? How Russian women are raped/threatened into abortion by expat douchebags? Hilarious!

Taibbi also had very misogynistic articles later on for other publications like Men’s Journal: http://web.archive.org/web/20091010030415/http://www.mensjournal.com/taibbi-guide-to-sports-wives

Thats... unreal. I have truly never read anything that disturbing. Shit like that makes me think “Is this the way men really think??” Which is disturbing in and of itself. Satire or not, words like that shouldn’t exist in print.

There goes my appetite. I feel physically ill. How could anyone read those excerpts and think this is a joke? Those sick fucks! I want to crotch kick the shit out of both of them until their dicks don’t work.