I have the answer!

[ismnotwasm]

Why so many are rape apologists and sexists and misogynists at the same time actually defend their stance, say feminist are overreacting and derail conversations about oh, say gamergate or threats against women who critisize sexist shirts by implying-- or out right saying-- there are more important things to address. How they can defend certain actions, and at the same time say "lighten up" oh and do a little women blaming at the same time-- mustn't forget that.

And most delicious, how they can defend all that, while calling Juien Blanc a creep.

The answer? They're all fans of Tucker Max!

Tucker Max: “I’ve been calling Cosby a rapist for 10 years and people look at me like I’m the bad dude”

The coffee shop I suggested we meet at was full, so Tucker Max and I ended up settling in for beers next to a pool table at the back of a dark dive bar off Ninth Avenue. While he’s not above having a beer at 2 p.m., Max assures me he has tamped down on the hard-partying life he became famous for. “I’m almost 40 years old, and even to this day I’ll meet someone and they’ll be like, ‘I don’t understand. Why aren’t you drunk and screaming curses at people?’” he said. “I’m like, it’s 10:30 in the morning at Whole Foods. What the fuck is wrong with you?”


Clad in comfy gray sweats and a black zip-up, the once-controversial author is older and softer round the edges, but he still has the cheeky, shit-eating grin recognizable from the covers of his controversial, best-selling books “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell” and “Assholes Finish First.” These debased accounts of Max’s alcohol-fueled sexual conquests became required reading (or hate-reading) for a certain generation, selling millions of copies and turning Max into both a villain and hero, depending on whom you ask.

Nowadays, Max has grown up a lot — he has a fiancée and a baby son— and has publicly retired from the fratire genre to concentrate on a spate of entrepreneurial ventures (plus theoccasional ill-advised publicity stunt), including a new publishing start-up called Book in a Box, which is ostensibly what we were meeting to talk about. Yet retirement aside, Max still has plenty of thoughts about the stories that made him famous. Salon spoke to Max about the pervasive influence of his books, allegations of misogyny (false, he claims) and the narrative about sexual assault in media today. In Tucker’s opinion, any enmity that feminists might have toward him is misplaced. As he says of Bill Cosby: “That’s a dude who deserves to be attacked … That shit frustrates me a lot because that’s a real villain. Let’s all go after the real bad guys.”

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/26/tucker_max_on_cosby/

He gets rich from being an blithering idiot asshole, "mellows out" has the near proverbial "awesome fiancé" and this interview...this unbelievable interview, reminds me so much of so many threads and arguments we've had here over the years-- it's like he's been DU's misogyny/sexism couch. Plus he won MRA AND derailment bingo-- those MRA guys he professes to detest.

[shenmue]

1. I knew that guy was a creep

when I read a little of one of his books, years ago. It made my skin crawl. I put it right back on the shelf.

[ismnotwasm]

2. He clearly doesn't think he is-- or ever was.

He even defends his raping a woman. Mind boggling.

[shenmue]

3. Yes

People like him scare me. A lot.

[NuclearDem]

4. Ten years ago, I would have said I liked IHTSBIH.

Now, looking back on it, I just remember some horrible misogynistic bile. Well-written misogynistic bile, but bile nonetheless.