Everyone knows that the modern white nationalist despises minorities (some of your granddads minorities- eastern and southern Europeans- seem to have finally made it). And most people know how much today’s fascists loathe non-Christian faiths, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, et al. (Catholics, once again, seem to have finally made it). Oh and heaven help you if you are gay, or bi, or nonbinary or any of the other potential gradations of human self-conception! Alas, in this category nobody has made it. Yet did you know that the modern American fascist also hates… girls???
Yes it’s true, at least according to the white-hate paper of record, The Daily Stormer, currently- GLORIOUSLY- hosted at the dot rw designation which is a top-domain level registration from Rwanda. It appears that the boys of Stormer are as immune to irony as they are to the charms of the so-called “fairer sex.”
For the same reason that I watch Fox “News” and One American “News” I occasionally read the august journal of white grievance to see what’s brewing in the toilet. You won’t be surprised how often some turn of phrase or meme has percolated from that toilet right on up to Fox or OAN or even the mouths of your friendly local candidate.
The article, penned by our old friend Andrew Anglin is titled “Women are Ugly,” showcasing the typical epigrammatic tone that keeps me coming back again and again. It continues in Socratic form to explain that:
“A lot of people talk about how women are stupid, selfish, and sadistic, but few take the time to point out how disgustingly ugly they are. It’s also not often mentioned how badly they stink.”
...no, no it’s not.
What follows is a series of glamor shots of actress/model Cara Delevingne followed by what seem to be long zoom paparazzi shots of the aforementioned at an airport preparing to go on a trip with some people. She’s in a tracksuit and is only wearing socks (is that a TSA hack?). The point seems to be that female beauty is a vast conspiracy perpetrated by the entertainment industrial complex and that without their manipulation the noble men of the straight white race would have the caul pulled from their eyes (and noses). Girls are all ugly and smelly.
It isn’t just big media that has perpetrated this deception, our boy Anglin also finds a blame harbor in our schools and our moms. Yes, did you know... our moms are women?! GROSS!! It turns out that we’ve met the enemy and it is our mothers. From the moment of our birth (also gross), there was a matron Mata Hari whispering deception into our innocent white ears, manipulating us into being nice to our sisters, making us forgive, nay! forget how disgusting girls truly are. Anglin tells us they are, in truth, “...an evil, mutant race among us.” It seems even white girls are still, just girls.
Surely this is Mr. Anglin taking a stab at satire. “Girls are Stinky” is simply his version of Swift’s “the Irish should eat their children” from A Modest Proposal. Yet this is no satire, nor is it irony or even funny. It’s misogynistic, adolescent, and downright weird. The only irony I could find was the dot rw, which unintentional and revealing.
Perhaps I should take the lesson of “hurt people hurt people” to heart, recognize that our boy is just a rejected and dejected former suitor who has suffered in a lopsided dating market. Turns out White-Power Chicks are Black Swans.
I read Mr. Anglin’s article to a friend of mine and her reaction was one of palpable relief. “If just one of these guys reads this article and decides to give up on women then he [Anglin] has done us a service.” It might be true, but the language is dehumanizing and I think risks streamlining the impulse to violence more than curbing the impulse to date.
So what to do with this? How do we process and synthesize Mr. Anglin’s immodest proposal? It could be an aberration within an already aberrant movement; Mr. Anglin is highly suspect in some White Supremacist circles. He allegedly toured Southeast Asia, tried to marry a local and only ended his escapades when he became lonely and “...found Adolph Hitler.” Neat.
I don’t believe this is an aberration however. I would posit that it is absolutely representative of the various mental furniture in the greater houses of hate. Hatred of people of color, and Jews is obvious with these people, and they hold no monopoly on violence toward LGBTQ+, but it is not so universally accepted that White Nationalist Fascists also hate women. And I don’t mean women of color or gay women, I mean straight, white, cisgender women. And Anglin cuts out no exception for white women that hate black people and have a little swastika tattoo hidden on their posterior. No, I’m sorry white-hate girlz, you are just as gross as the rest of them.
So what does this mean? I mentioned earlier that I watch Fox and OAN for the same reason I sometimes peruse The Daily Stormer, I get to see the worst editorial impulses boil up into more mainstream culture. Even more often what I encounter is the unfiltered, unpolished truth underpinning the talking points of Republican politicos, think tanks and talking heads. I would say that the foundations of the Dobbs decision owes as much to White Nationalists’ hatred of- and wish to control- women as they do to Evangelicals and Councils of Catholic Bishops (though overlap is near a certainty). I’m not saying this is math, or even formalized logic; a+b does not absolutely equal c. Think of it more as the causal poetry of hatred, more impressionistic than empirical. Yet culture is not an equation and shit floats up.
A final note. Andrew Anglin said that few people are willing to admit how much women stink. I wrote this while taking a break from research for an essay on the history of Chiquita (of banana infamy). The research spiraled out of control to the point that I had homeland security spreadsheets on three screens and I’m pretty sure that the border crisis is 90% Chiquita’s fault. What I noticed when I took a break to read Anglin’s skid, was that I had not showered in three days and that none of my roommates would come within 20 feet of me. One finally asked me to open a window. Mr. Anglin, I say to you: To be stinky, is to be human. To not stink, is to be full of shit.