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If Even Hobbits Could Build Advanced Civilizations, So Could Women: How Being Bad at Reasoning Sustains Antifeminist Mythologies

Richard Carrier — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 19:31:02 +0000

I dare the manosphere to mock Tolkien! “Hobbits are stupid and should be erased from Lord of the Rings because they’re too weak to build things, so obviously they’d have actually all starved to death or something.” Hobbits are way too woke to keep. Sad face. If you think that’s silly, just try this actual […]

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A Continuing List of Examples of Alt-Righters Escaping Their Delusions

Richard Carrier — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:30:58 +0000

I am collecting stories of people who escaped secular delusions, like sexism, misogyny, racism, antisemitism, transphobia, or even, just more generally, alt-right, anti-feminist or “anti-SJW’ worldviews. These are the kinds of delusions that trap atheists. And even when their victims are religious, the stories are still often the same, or similar enough that you will […]

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Is Gynocentrism a Thing?

Richard Carrier — Thu, 01 May 2025 01:02:41 +0000

I was hired to critique a popular video in the manosphere, Traditionalism and Feminism, the Great Gynocentrisms of Our Time. It’s 12-years old but still being commented on and at 60,000 views and counting. Its host, Barbarossa (or Barbar), is no longer active online—because, as a black (“Afro-Latino”) man, he was getting uncomfortable with the […]

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Fisherian Runaway Doesn’t Work Like That: Manosphere Pseudoscience Strikes Again!

Richard Carrier — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 22:24:50 +0000

I’ve been hired to critically analyze another pseudoscientific bollard from the professional misogynist Stardusk (a.k.a. The Thinking Ape): the incel-mgow argument that “fisherian runaway” proves women (read: “sluts!”) are biologically ruining men, “and it’s all their fault” (regardless of what “it” is; you can plug anything in there you like). This is yet another abuse […]

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A Barely Thinking Ape Hoses Cultural Anthropology and Comes Up with the Manospheric Hooker Theory of History: Part 2

Richard Carrier — Mon, 20 May 2024 22:20:59 +0000

This continues my discussion from Part 1, reviewing Thinking-Ape’s half-hour video Protectors, Providers, Nazis and Prostitutes. You’ll need to read that to understand what’s going on here. Because there I surveyed important background facts about human biology and culture and the problems with biological determinism as a hypothesis, particularly in the hands of the delusional […]

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A Barely Thinking Ape Hoses Cultural Anthropology and Comes Up with the Manospheric Hooker Theory of History: Part 1

Richard Carrier — Mon, 20 May 2024 22:09:14 +0000

There are thousands of crappy videos in aid of dubious projects. So I generally have to be paid to care about any of them. And lo, my latest hire: to examine what’s going on with Stardusk’s half-hour video Protectors, Providers, Nazis and Prostitutes on his channel Thinking-Ape. Considered one of the founding members of the […]

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A Psychology of Men? A Critical Review of Robert Glover’s No More Mr. Nice Guy

Richard Carrier — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 18:58:40 +0000

Today I will be reviewing a book by, about, and for men. It was written by Robert A. Glover, a real psychotherapist—presumably; his bio attests a PhD in family and marriage therapy and years of clinical practice, although I found no appreciable research publication history (a point that will become relevant). The book, No More […]

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That Jordan Peterson Is a Crank: A Handy Guide

Richard Carrier — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 23:58:15 +0000

Jordan Peterson has already become a joke in many circles. But enough remain mesmerized by his shtick to warrant a survey of why he’s just another pseudoscientific guru running a con. He is, essentially, the Deepak Chopra of the Nones; and his books, akin to The Secret for incels, angry men, and disaffected conservatives. A […]

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What Dawkins Is Proposing Is the Suppression of Free Speech and the Acceptance of Sexism in Science

Richard Carrier — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 21:43:39 +0000

Hyperbolic whining when criticized is the male analog to the trope of women crying when criticized. So it’s ironic to see Richard Dawkings “crying” (over and over again) about a male peer being criticized for saying maybe women should be segregated from men in labs because they cry too much when criticized. Sure, Dawkins thinks Sir Tim Hunt saying that was […]

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Fantastic Study of Gender Differences Finds White Privilege Instead

Richard Carrier — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 01:28:39 +0000

This is one of the most excellent must read articles ever sent to me (by a girlfriend who does this sort of thing for a living. You know who you are, Girl. Thank you!) I’m talking about David Roberts, “There’s a Gender Divide on Nuclear Power, but It Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means,” […]

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