I really like reading this journalist/stats guy named Steve Sailer--he's weird, but he's bright and funny and brave as bloody hell. But from the sound of commenters here, this other fellow, the one named Steve Sailor, well, he's just a right bastard.

I wonder if this Sailor guy is related to Sailor Moon. Or Popeye the Sailor Man. Or maybe the guy in those (old) Old Spice commercials with that great whistling theme....you know, the hunky gray-haired sailor guy who ended up throwing the Old Spice jar right into your face at the end of the spot?

It would explain a lot, actually. Or maybe not.

P.S. Steve Sailer was once called an "evilcon" by a now-forgotten "conservative" blogger who called himself Tacitus. John Derbyshire, like me a Steve Sailer fan, defended Steve for his quantitative skills (and integrity) and dubbed him a Datanaut. But get this! Derbyshire's finger slipped and he ended up calling Steve a...Satanaut.

I kid you not! It happened. Man did I laugh! Poor Steve! With friends like Derbyshire, who needs enemies like Tacitus?

P.P.S. It was even funnier when John Podhoretz, Mr. Regression-To-The-Mean himself, called Steve "a racist scum". A scum? A? The 'fuh? Sigh. Poor Steve. It's a sad day when the best insult directed at you comes from a typo made by an ally.

Satanaut. Heh.

Posted by: PatrickH on May 20, 2009 10:11 AM

And then there are women who consider "The Story of O" and the novels of Marcus Van Heller to be romance novels.

Posted by: someone on May 20, 2009 10:42 AM

There's something about some of these supposed bloggers (Feminist X, Chic Noir, David Alexander) that spring out of nowhere that screams: "Libertarian Girl, Part Deux". For those who don't know what I'm referring to, read here:

http://www.halfsigma.com/2005/10/i_am_libertaria.html

http://www.distributedrepublic.net/archives/2005/02/13/libertarian-girl-mystery/

"Feminist X" is most likely a fraud, and speaks more to the gullibility of the male mind. Men willingly peruse a blog as long as they believe the blogger is reasonably attractive. "Her" posts are mostly juvenile, and if she were a male, nobody would even bother reading "her" blog.

Posted by: Wade Nichols on May 20, 2009 10:51 AM

I don't see anything special in this chick. She completely misread the purpose of my blog. Seems she can't handle the meeker "Sailer talk" either.

Men willingly peruse a blog as long as they believe the blogger is reasonably attractive.

She probably looks like the first chick in this pic

http://www.amren.com/ar/2009/03/01a-DiversityFaces.jpg

Posted by: silver on May 20, 2009 12:10 PM

I was pretty unconvinced that FemX was a chick, but she did post a couple photos of her holding up a sign saying "I am FemX."

There is something decidedly not feminine (by which I don't mean "dainty" or "gracile") about her blog, particularly her earlier posts.

But there ARE women out there who are a little different. It's very possible FemX is just one of those.

Posted by: omw on May 20, 2009 12:21 PM

omw, do you mind if I ask you a question I've asked clio before: why do put up with the crap over at Roissy's? You've held your own over there, what with your tungsten spine and all, and yet I can't help but wonder what it is about that place that draws someone like you, that keeps you going back?

Feel free to tell me to mind my own business (or even ask the question over at Roissy's!), but I do wonder sometimes.

Posted by: PatrickH on May 20, 2009 5:23 PM

omw:

I was pretty unconvinced that FemX was a chick, but she did post a couple photos of her holding up a sign saying "I am FemX."

That's not hard to fake. The author could ask any random girl he knows to pose for the picture. The face is cropped anyway.

There is something decidedly not feminine (by which I don't mean "dainty" or "gracile") about her blog, particularly her earlier posts.

Oh, definitely. My first thought after reading a few sentences from this blog was that "she" sounds like a guy. Plus, the choice of "her" positions seems just too much like an elaborately contrived leg-pulling net of absurdities.

Posted by: Vladimir on May 20, 2009 6:02 PM

Pat H: Tungsten spine! Nobody's ever called me hard-headed in such an endearing way before. ;)

As to Roissy, I think it fits in perfectly with my urban decay fascination. haha.

A poignant snapshot of a squalid squatter's camp in what was once a luxury hotel. A tree growing out of what was once an industrial locker room.

Those guys are just the looters clearing out what's left while the decent people flee for the hills. :D

Posted by: omw on May 21, 2009 4:21 PM

Patrick:

omw, do you mind if I ask you a question I've asked clio before: why do put up with the crap over at Roissy's?

Well, if OMW is anything like Clio, it's probably because Yours Truly in all his Stud-o-liciousness resides there.

Or,maybe she finds it thought provoking. *Shrug*. Either way.

Posted by: Tupac Chopra on May 21, 2009 5:24 PM

"Libertarian girl" and other similar internet impostors, were created to flatter the egos of male geeks, and this is extremely obvious when you watch their youtube incarnations.

Feministx may not sound like a typical woman, but nothing she says about men is especially flattering. Nor are her views the kind shared by male geeks longing to find a real woman who is nevertheless just like them.

In short: there's no reason to invent a Feministx as a type, nothing to watch in amusement as she draws in large crowds of fascinated male admirers. Her lesbian tendency isn't enough to interest men by itself.

Her strange combination of attitudes, by the way, is what I might expect from an Indian woman. Middle-class Indian men are often spoiled mama's boys, reluctant to become companions to their wives. Plus if a woman is to have any freedom at all in many parts of India, she needs to be married. In some regions and circles they still chaperon unmarried women there until well past girlhood. So Feministx is not an anomaly in her own country, but a response to her social conditions.

Posted by: aliasclio on May 21, 2009 5:50 PM

Well, if OMW is anything like Clio, it's probably because Yours Truly in all his Stud-o-liciousness resides there.

David Alexander?

Posted by: PatrickH on May 21, 2009 11:57 PM

aliasclio:

"Libertarian girl" and other similar internet impostors, were created to flatter the egos of male geeks, and this is extremely obvious when you watch their youtube incarnations. Feministx may not sound like a typical woman, but nothing she says about men is especially flattering. Nor are her views the kind shared by male geeks longing to find a real woman who is nevertheless just like them.

I beg to differ. Sailerite/GNXP/"HBD" geeks are a conspicuous and burgeoning internet phenomenon. They're nowhere as numerous and omnipresent as libertarian geeks, of course, but the similarities between these groups that are relevant in this context are quite obvious. Of course, the same would be true for any other overwhelmingly male group of internet geeks gathering around a half-baked rebellious ideology. (This is not to put down the few exceptional individuals with truly original and interesting ideas in any of these groups, of course.)

Thus, I think that the potential for a "Sailerite girl" hoax akin to the "Libertarian girl" definitely exists, although "she" couldn't make it quite as big. For all I know, FemX might be for real, but I'd be very cautious before taking anything written on that blog at face value.

Posted by: Vladimir on May 22, 2009 12:05 AM

Vladimir, you address one of my points (about FeministX's ideology and how I didn't think it was likely to appeal to internet geeks), but not the other two: a) FeministX does not flatter men and is in fact rather rude about them; and b) her "strange" combination of attitudes is not particularly strange given her ethnic and national origins.

Posted by: aliasclio on May 22, 2009 11:30 AM

aliasclio:

Vladimir, you address one of my points (about FeministX's ideology and how I didn't think it was likely to appeal to internet geeks), but not the other two: a) FeministX does not flatter men and is in fact rather rude about them; and b) her "strange" combination of attitudes is not particularly strange given her ethnic and national origins.

Regarding (a), flattering men is not necessary to pull off a hoax of this sort. In any case, regardless of whether FX is authentic or not, she (?) is managing to entice a bunch of "HBD" geeks into embarrassingly self-parodying discussions (just look at the recent "let's guess each other's IQ" threads). So if it's a hoax, the approach is certainly working as intended.

Regarding (b), maybe you can find a lot in FX's attitudes that is understandable given her cultural background, but there's no way this can explain her quasi-erudite, buzzword-dropping comments on IQ/HBD issues that serve as such a magnet for geeky internet Sailerites. (Again, this is not meant to put down Sailer himself, who has certainly contributed lots of interesting insights on a variety of issues, but he's probably himself embarrassed with many of his fans.)

Posted by: Vladimir on May 22, 2009 3:49 PM

All right, Vladimir. I take your point, and will pursue mine no further.

Posted by: aliasclio on May 23, 2009 10:59 PM

Wow, Michael thanks for adding me to your blogroll.

I mostly agree with aliasclio. There is no benefit in expressing the kind of sentiments I do. I'd be a much more effective attention magnet if I were not ball busting feministX but ego flattering FemmX. But it's just not who I am.

Why all the skepticism anyways?

Posted by: feministx.blogspot.com on May 24, 2009 3:31 AM

FeministX is as near to the real deal as makes no difference.

Any guy posting as a girl would not be so deeply clueless about guys.

Posted by: Dan on May 28, 2009 12:32 AM






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