February 15, 2005

I'm a Loser, She's a Loser, Wouldn't You Like to Be a Loser Too?

I agree with Ryan: It's not nearly up to par with the Plain Layne unmasking.

The short version: Apparently, there once was a libertarian guy who pretended to be a hot chick in order to score hits and traffic. You can file this under "Reasons Libertarian Men Are Notoriously Under-Laid:" It's the immaturity, stupid. Anyway, here's what he learned from the experiment:

It’s funny how there have been some posts in the blogosphere saying that the political blogosphere was a boys club that discriminated against women, as evidenced by how few politics bloggers were women. Boy were they completely off the mark. It’s ten times easier for a woman’s blog to become popular.

This effect no doubt carries over into the real world. Whenever I see an attractive woman with a successful career, I’ll remember the experience of this blog and assume that she didn’t really get there on merit, just her looks.

Yes, that's right: Unemployed guy living with mom and pop poses as hot chick and concludes that good-looking women don't "really get there on merit." He would know this, of course, because he has actually been a good-looking woman trying to get ahead. Wait, no he hasn't. He's just pretended to be one and, icing on the cake, apparently wasn't even very bright about it.

Isn't that fantastic? Some joker of a man puts up a photo of a mail-order bride, and competent, successful, good-looking women get judged for it. I'm so happy I could spit.

Libertarian Loser Guy is also an expert on many other things he is not, like Jews and "the real reason" they're all liberal. Judith, Meryl, I'm thinking you'll get a particular kick out of this one.

It's amazing, just amazing, what you can learn living at home with your parents and hanging out solely with like-minded cranks. Good show, man.

Now about that hair: Michael Bolton called, and he'd like it back.

UPDATE: I'm pretty sure I know at least one attractive woman who'd take issue with LLG's statement that "it's ten times easier for a woman's blog to become popular," but she's tied up with pet problems at the moment. All you kitty-cat fans out there, if Ms. Lauren sets up a donation button for assistance with this, please be cool and help her out. Do it for Pablo.

WAIT, IT GETS BETTER: Ladies and gentleman, prepare to screen capture:

People have told me I should just go on with the blog and pretend that nothing happened.

That seems like pretty good advice. There will be pleny of new gullible people to replace the old gullible people. And no one will have any new incentive to “out” me because I’ve already been outed.

So this is what will happen. In twenty-four hours, I will post a new girl picture and delete all posts, comments, and trackbacks relating to Libertarian Girl not being a girl.

Yeah, I know, he chickens out after noting the Instalanche he received today, but honestly, this is the best example I've seen of too-dumb-to-quit in ages.

Maybe he'll top the pomposity of Odin Soli yet.

Posted by Ilyka at February 15, 2005 11:48 PM in hell is other people
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Libertarian Loser Guy's (LLG, so I don't have to type it again) post on why Jews are Liberal was hilarious. First, LLG claims that one's predisposition to be left or right is a genetically inherited trait, which is very dubious, at least as far as he's going to take it. Second, according to LLG, one of the biggest traits of the Left is guilt, which is proven merely by stating "Conservative commentators have been talking about “liberal guilt” for a long time."

As bad as that set up was, it gets downright ludicrous ehen he explains why Jews are liberal: they too feel a lot of guilt. How does he know? He did a Google search on Jewish guilt and came up with a lot of pages. I have a suggestion for LLG's next post: Do a Google search on Asian sluts and see how many pages you come up with. The post will practically write itself!

If you accept any of the previous premises then maybe the rest of the post's inexorable logic will take you the rest of the way home. Since I didn't accept any of them, I won't bother. But the last paragraph ends up sounding like a public service annoucement:

I hope those reading this who feel prone to guilt, and this probably applies to you if your family is Jewish or Catholic, but especially if your family is Jewish, can learn from this post that your guilt is an unhealthy genetic predisposition that you can overcome with knowledge of what it really is.

As G.I. Joe would say, "Knowing's half the battle."

Posted by: Mark at February 16, 2005 12:40 AM

I have a suggestion for LLG's next post: Do a Google search on Asian sluts and see how many pages you come up with. The post will practically write itself!

He can start here. Pages of material!

Posted by: ilyka at February 16, 2005 01:02 AM

So far, I've only read...

At the end of each episode of Scooby Doo, the villain always says, “and I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for you meddling kids.”

...but the fact that he felt the need for overt exposition to explain his Scooby Doo reference may tell me all I need to know about this dude.

Posted by: Hubris at February 16, 2005 01:09 AM

Oh..my..Yahweh. Just read his "Jewish guilt gene" theory. My keyboard feels dirty.

Posted by: Hubris at February 16, 2005 01:18 AM

You know who should have her own blog? The GoDaddy girl. Just the thought of her in a negligee, knocking out one rote post after another about Eason Jordan and the imminent demise of "the MSM".... Sigh.

Posted by: Allah at February 16, 2005 05:24 AM

Now there's a guy who surely has chapped webbing between his thumb and his fingers from his own self-loving.

I am so SICK AND TIRED of this argument that women bloggers have it easier. It's a load of bollocks when the truth is, we're deemed "sensitive diary writers who want to grow up to be fairies", instead of people with actual opinions.

Look about the neck, LLG.

Some women bloggers have brains, which is what perhaps outed you and your writing.

Posted by: Helen at February 16, 2005 04:18 PM

Oh, and I said it on his site and I'll say it here-if he thinks attractive women have it easier just because of his success as a faux blogger, just from his time in front of a keyboard, then why doesn't he rename himself Thor and create himself his own Kon-Tiki, because surely he has cracked the social psyche.

Posted by: Helen at February 16, 2005 04:21 PM

The Michael Bolton comment was the best. You completely owned this guy.

I also left some choice comments on his pathetic non-libertarian blog. The weenie has yet to respond. I think he's scared.

Posted by: Redneck Feminist at February 16, 2005 04:35 PM

I also left some choice comments on his pathetic non-libertarian blog.

Ooh, thanks for the heads up. I'll have to check it out.

Oh gads, and I guess he's responded to me. Whee.

Posted by: ilyka at February 16, 2005 05:51 PM

Some women bloggers have brains, which is what perhaps outed you and your writing.

B-i-n-g-o.

Posted by: ilyka at February 16, 2005 05:54 PM

You know who should have her own blog? The GoDaddy girl.

I guess I have to look up this GoDaddy thing. People keep making references to it, and I guess it was a commercial during the Super Bowl??--I watched the game, but I don't remember that one. Of course, there was beer involved, so maybe that's why I'm spacing it. Or maybe I'm confused entirely.

Posted by: ilyka at February 16, 2005 05:55 PM

I guess I have to look up this GoDaddy thing.

Look no further. Click in the box on the left-hand side to watch the SB ad, an extended version of it, or the two new spots ("Biker" and "Paparazzi").

Posted by: Allah at February 16, 2005 08:01 PM

The extended is worth it for the "those are not real" line alone. Although personally, I'm betting they are.

Posted by: ilyka at February 16, 2005 08:14 PM

Although personally, I'm betting they are.

You would lose that bet. I had a hunch they were fake; such consummate physical perfection is too much to ask even of Mother Nature.

I thought the funniest line in the extended ad was when the female panelist mentions something about accidents and the guy next to her says, sotto voce, "I think I just had one" before excusing himself. Presumably he's had a discharge of some kind -- but what kind, precisely? The mind reels.

Posted by: Allah at February 16, 2005 09:21 PM

Ha! Props to the surgeon. She doesn't have them beginning practically at the shoulders like some turn out.

This was what I loved from that link:

She likes guys with an "average size package" just in case you were wondering.

And you know 95% of the male audience immediately rolled their eyes and said, "sure ya do, doll."

The mind reels.

Such a mystery.

Posted by: ilyka at February 16, 2005 09:58 PM

"sure ya do, doll."

Now, now. Let's not go squelching any fantasies here. When she says she doesn't care about looks or money or fame and that she only wants a guy with confidence and, above all, a great sense of humor, well, goddamnit, I BELIEVE HER.

Posted by: Allah at February 16, 2005 10:13 PM