Petitioning to end the Reign of the so-called King of Mean

Everyone has dealt with an internet troll. They enjoy relentlessly pelting the comment sections of Youtube videos and message boards with their rage-inciting statements and take great joy in the anger that gets hurled back at them. However, most of the time the comments they post can be easily ignored. Either someone else will yell at them, saying exactly what you were going to say, or their comment will be swept up in a sea of other comments, as they no more or less important by the website. What happens though, when these trolls have not one, but two websites? Roosh V is a self-proclaimed pick up artist. His original site (made to promote his books) focuses mainly on who he is and his misogynistic views. This was enough to have him put on the list of misogynist sites of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Fast forward to a year ago, Roosh V publishes Return of Kings. The site presents itself as a website for masculine men, which it is perfectly allowed to do. If you have seen the site, it is teeming with articles about hating heavy people, hating sluts (ironic considering how many times the writers talk about bedding them), being against women’s rights, beating children, hating American women, and hating feminists. No matter how mad it makes the rest of the world, the men of Return of Kings are allowed to have these views. Free speech is one of the best things about this country. It’s what allows people like us to lash back and say something about the site as well.

"Roosh V"

Where the line of free speech gets fuzzy is when a website like this rallies together to organize something like Fat Shaming Week. If you haven’t already seen it, the community of Return of Kings spent a week in October posting derogatory Twitter updates and pictures of heavier people on their Twitter feeds and tagging it #fatshamingweek. Participants used this to separate fat people from the rest of society, and aggressively suggest that they don’t belong. This is considered an act of hate. Taking a group of humans, singling them out and using high school bullying tactics on them is not only despicable by moral standards, it also what could be the beginnings of a hate group. As you can from their site, they don’t only dislike people who stray from society’s definition of skinny. We don’t know what they could do next or to what extreme it could go.

I am petitioning to shut them down, or at the very least have them recognized by their hosting site and society as a hate group. We can’t have another incident like fat shaming week happen. Not only do our reactions only fuel the men of the site on, the psychological effects on the people targeted are damaging, especially to younger internet users with fragile self esteem. Please sign my petition here, and continue in the I Feel Delicious social media blackout of Return of Kings. The less fuel for the fire, the better. Together, we can keep moving towards social equality, and stop these guys from holding us back.

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This is a wonderful viewpoint that many of us miss. Thank you so much for sharing it.



How easy it is to fake a 15 pound before/after photo?
Looks pretty much like every ad out there for weight loss pills.

'Regular Women' In Lingerie Remind Us What Imperfect, Un-Photoshopped Bodies Look Like
Love these photos. 

 

 

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Petitioning Roosh V Return of Kings: Remove harmful, derogatory, misogynistic articles or shut down

A post graced my Tumblr dashboard the other day displaying screenshots of headlines from the site ReturnofKings.com(x). I was immediately shocked. The site is full of articles about exacerbating the fat shaming trend (x) , why it is beneficial to date a girl with an eating disorder(x) and why parents should beat their children(x). 

Upon visiting the site's about page (x), you see an organized list of their beliefs, the gems of which include:

·       Women are sluts if they sleep around, but men are not.

·       A woman's value is mainly determined by her fertility and beauty. A man's value is determined by his resources, intellect and character. 

·       Elimination of traditional gender roles and the promotion of unlimited mating choice in women unleash their promiscuity and other negative behaviors that block family formation.

We are asking our readers to sign this petition at

http://www.change.org/petitions/return-of-kings-remove-harmful-derogatory-misogynistic-articles-or-shut-down#

While we promote the right to free speech and even being snarky, condescending and rude some of the time, a line has to be drawn in the sand when it comes to hate speech so vile and disturbing that it incites acts of cyber bullying, and encourages acts of violence upon a particular group.

Roosh and his websites absolutely meet the legal definition of Hate Speech, which is:
       Hate speech is a communication that carries no meaning other than the expression of hatred for some group, especially in circumstances in which the communication is likely to provoke violence. It is an incitement to hatred primarily against a group of persons defined in terms of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and the like. Hate speech can be any form of expression regarded as offensive to racial, ethnic and religious groups and other discrete minorities or to women.



Therefore, I Feel Delicious is not only calling for a social media blackout of this man and his peons, but we also fully support the below petition... and an end to the King.

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From the Petition:

And these are worded carefully. These men identify themselves as masculine, heterosexual men (which is all fine and good), who believe men should be masculine and women should be feminine. Well, that's not really their call. The whole site is FILLED with articles that slut shame, fat shame, refer to birth control as "whore pills", and suggest ways to control a woman's diet and convince a girl to get an abortion.

It's bad enough these bullies are probably treating people poorly in real life, but now they have a community to rally in and organize things like Fat Shaming Week. This can be categorized as an act of hate, as it is hostile and harmful to a certain group they see as different.

While these men are entitled to embrace their masculinity, they are NOT by any means entitled to bullying (organized or cyber), manipulation, and outright misogyny. Especially not organized acts of hate against people they see unworthy of acceptance.

I am petitioning to either get the site to remove the harmful content from their site, or shutdown the site entirely. 

To:
Roosh V, Return of Kings
Hivelocity Support, Hivelocity

While the men on ReturnOfKings.com are entitled to remain "men's men" while the rest of the world embraces what they identity as their given sexuality, they are NOT entitled to organized bullying. What TRIES to present itself as a haven for masculine men is really where the trolls of the internet come to call women stupid whores repeatedly (but then go on and explain how to bed them), explain why we should exile fat people and why people should beat their children. Enough is enough. That's not masculinity, it's hatred.
My request is that you either start moderating your content so that your site is not high school bully heaven, or shut down entirely.

Sincerely,
[Your name]

http://www.change.org/petitions/return-of-kings-remove-harmful-derogatory-misogynistic-articles-or-shut-down#

Sometimes you have to shine a light on the very things you want to go away

Though I posted this in my comment section of yesterdays Dethroning the King article, I think it needs reposting:

I've been asked why 1) write the article and 2) comment back to those leaving their opinions - because my article (and my comments) are just giving him more attention.

But I say first of all, I'm calling for a black out of HIS sites. He needs them to survive. It's what he does to make money. And he gets off on the traffic numbers, people commenting in outrage over his articles, women slamming him on various social media sites and so forth. He loves it. He and his minions are over there in their little forum group virtually high fiving each other - calling all the negative publicity a success because it pisses women off and brings attention to their site - so they can reel in men who will somehow buy into their philosophies and possibly their products. So if we simply do nothing that directly relates back to his numbers - then we can basically starve the king from media attention. He wants attention! That is what all of this is about. And he uses playground bullying tactics to attain it.

My point is, stop giving him the attention. Just don't do it. He's going to say some truly offensive things to try and piss us off, but just like a screaming little toddler who's throwing a temper tantrum in the corner, demanding attention from everyone in the room - we simply need to divert our eyes, ignore their screams and wait for it all to calm down. Or guess what? That behavior will continue because he is getting what he wants!

Lastly, the reason I am replying to their comments is because they are on MY playground. And Roosh isn't getting all the traffic, I AM. They're giving it to me. His followers have followed me over to my site. They may try to be all big and bad ass, but it won't work here. There is no virtual locker room full of punk-ass pricks to have their back and egg them on.

But they are getting all emotional over my making fun of THEIR leader. Who's the whiny bitches now?

Dethroning the King

THIS guy!

Say you’re out with friends, having a great time and feeling wonderful. This guy here (photo to the right) sits next to you and starts throwing out insults. He thinks that since you’re a woman, you’re beneath him. He probably wants to sleep with one of you… you know, the leggy blonde friend who’s had a bit too much to drink. Yes.. her. He spouts off his best pickup lines to your friend, and might even claim to have slept with many (many!) women while traveling the world; he’s not a slut. He’s a macho stud. You and your friend, especially if she sleeps with him, are the sluts. He thinks he's some kind of Don Juan genius.

Now at this point, if you’re not slapping him, you’re probably laughing your ass off. He’s not real attractive; he’s a cocky delusional dick, and other than his beard and gender, there’s nothing masculine about him.

 

This story is a work of fiction, but it’s based on a real person – whom, I believe, has also created a work of fiction… well, I should say a WORLD of fiction. And unfortunately, people are buying into it. You might have yourself.

Perhaps you've read his writings - you know the ones... where he makes idiotic claims such as these (copied straight from his website) 1. A woman’s value is mainly determined by her fertility and beauty. A man’s value is mainly determined by his resources, intellect, and character. and 2. Women are sluts if they sleep around, but men are not. This fact is due to the biological differences between men and women.

You might have also read the work of his cohorts, under such names as Jefe, Billy Chubbs, Law Dogger, Black Knight, americanbk and BroadsMan. These jerks hide behind a computer screen and offer other jerks their insights on a variety of topics - such as how to legitimately rape a woman, how to make their stay-at-home wife feel like a piece of crap, how to tell if a women is an internet fatty, tips on getting a woman to cheat on her boyfriend, why fat people are evil, and (sigh... ) how to bully a fat girl while on a date with her.

Okay... your brain wheels are churning now. You think you've heard of this dirtbag... and his fellow dirtbags. 

Well, once I give you the biggest hint of all - I think you'll have an ah-ha moment:  He thinks himself a king!!

Ladies, meet the king of the joke-of-a-website, Return of  Kings. Yep. He (now) calls himself Roosh V - and the last article I read on him stated he's living in his dad's Maryland basement. THIS is the guy behind the infamous Fat Shaming Week that blew up the social media sites last month. THIS is the fool who made soooo many women cringe and cower. This is the idiot who encouraged men to act like pathetic peeping Tom's, posting photos of unsuspecting women to his online sites. Oh yes. This is him.

Funny thing is - this is pretty much how I pictured this joker.

What's his motivation? You might be surprised to learn that his ultimate goal  is to boost his name within the media so he can peddle his self-published how-to guides (you're going to love this!) for bedding women! Oh yes! This man here asserts himself as a PICK-UP ARTIST!

Bawhaha!!!!  

But he doesn't tell men how to romance a woman,  how to make them feel beautiful or wanted. Nope. Rather, he gives advice on how to get into their pants, at all costs. This King's... ahem... this Joker's books cover such advice as:
"How to deal with the dreaded 'R' word: resistance. I teach you an effective strategy to steamroll her resistance so you don't go home blue-balled." That is straight from the fools mouth. Un-flippin-believable.

Well I'm sold... on the fact that this idiot is an attention-whore who likes to stir controversy so his small amount of fans will buy his books, and whatever else he's peddling. He CLAIMS to travel the world, having global one-night-stands, and then rates the countries on how easy their women are. But come on! We ALL know guys like this. They claim they've had sex with lots of women - women who "don't live around here". Women we never see him with, nor does he have a relationship with. You know what I call those men? Most are liars. The others, well let's just say they generally make poor lovers, unworthy of a second turn anyways. 

This fella. Roosh V, real name Daryush Valizadeh, formally known as the DC Bachelor (and most likely he's some of those "contributing writers" with weird pen names too) is probably both. A lying, lousy lay.

He gets his kicks from seeing his name in the media. He loves it when his promotional stunts (ie: Fat Shaming Week) is a hit! A hit, by his standards (writing that this man could possibly have standards makes me lol - literally). He counted up how many times it was mentioned in the news, he posted screen grabs of his favorite twitter posts, and claimed the whole thing to be a big, fat success! And all of us who talked about it, clicked over to his website, forwarded our disgust to our friends, or searched for it online - we gave him the attention he so clearly craved. Every one of those numbers/hits/comments were medals for him. With every click, we gave him what he wanted: attention. And we need to stop doing that!

So we say: OFF WITH HIS HEAD !!!  (figuratively, of course)

Here at I FEEL DELICIOUS we are calling for a SOCIAL MEDIA & MEDIA BLACKOUT for the website Returnofkings, plus their twitter, facebook and... well, anything else Roosh and his peons have their grubby little hands on. We're calling for this King's reign to end, and we can ALL do this by doing one simple, little thing:

NOTHING.

Don't look at his website.
Don't LIKE anything he's associated with (and unlike him if you've already made that commitment. ugh)
Don't google his penname, his real name, his fake name and so forth.
Don't google his books, his articles, etc.
Don't respond to anything related to him or his website. Ever. No comments. Nothing.
Don't forward anything. Just delete it.

The best way to end his reign
is to do nothing.

Do nothing. Nada. Zip.  The only way to cut this guy down is by refusing to play his game. Every nasty article on that nasty website is bait. Just refuse to take it.

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Stay beautiful everyone, and don't let the idiots get you down. You're better than that.

XXOO,

Terri Jean