The thing about "shit before the 1920s" was related directly to the closing of the Storyville (New Orleans) brothels in 1917. He cited
Pretty Baby, in which the Brooke Shields character is a 12-year-old prostitute, as an example of the kind of good thing that was taken away by meanies. I think he missed how Susan Sarandon's character, her filmic mother, marries out of prostitution and leaves the brothel, promising to return for her once the marriage is settled and she can break the news to her new husband that her "sister" is her daughter, and how, unable to bear this, Shields runs away from the brothel and seeks shelter with the 45-year-old photographer character, offering sex in exchange for a place to stay, as a preferable alternative.
Let me repeat that.
Offering sex in exchange for a place to stay. Does this remind you at all of how Holden allegedly manipulated his famous lesbian ex/BFF into giving up the sweet poon in exchange for crashing on his couch?
As for what turned him so cruel about his own traumas, I think that -- whether it stems from legit mental illness, shit parenting, or both -- Holden just cannot see past the end of his own nose. I had a severely traumatic marriage, and Mr. Horse's first wife
tried to kill him. You would think that Holden would lock onto this and blame Mrs. Ex's attempted murder on feminism, or something (although she's one of the least feminist women I have ever encountered, despite the fact that she used to make more than Mr. Horse did at the time, and she never let him forget it). I repeat, the broad tried to kill him with one of their kitchen knives. To this
day, I don't keep a knife block on the kitchen counter, out of respect. (And small counters.) I was physically abused "one time," and did in fact tell Holden the truth, that an injury from this damaged a few spinal nerves into my leg, causing "hip drop" -- look it up if you're bored -- and crashing pain. He did say he was sorry about the injury, but everything he took away from my past is exactly what you see in the Pastebin: something not as cruel as bullying one shy male teenager. And by "bullying," I mean taking him seriously when he told her he was unable to commit (TFO).
He did claim one or the other of these two women was 24 at the time of their encounter. I then suggested that perhaps his shyness made him a target for female predators. Again, given his general misogyny and redpill bullshit, I thought he would be all over that idea like white on rice or imaginary ugly on a Looksism user. But he shied away from that idea right away and refused to entertain it at all. Very odd. I thought it would make a convenient excuse, but it's not
his idea, so it's not just perfectly right.
I think he's locked himself into these extremely rigid thought patterns. He's also very manipulative - note what
@flossman pointed out: he never talks about his actual childhood, like when he was 6, not 16. It's all about his adolescence. He never talks about his father except to say he was "a good man who wanted to support his kids." Maybe he knows Stockholm syndrome rather personally? I'd love to know the root causes of some of these robotic thought patterns, and I have pointed out to Holden that when he keeps repeating the same words over and over and over, that is what gives him the "Fuckbot" nickname just as much as his endless posting style. He's decided things about his world, and is more comfortable being miserable than challenging his thought patterns in any way. And he has claimed that "giving" me the interview (four hours!) and wiki edits was a favor to
me; that I was the one who caused him to fantasize about raping his second girlfriend as well as TFO (bullshit; that's clearly a fantasy he's had for years); and that my pretending I was going to do the edits but not actually doing them, since I don't work for people who call me "scum"
in the middle of the interview, much less rapists (would-be or actual, doesn't matter; he wishes he could, and that's just as disturbing), "proves" that all Western women are scum and terrible people etc. etc. Again, bullshit. As demonstrated by his telling me, right there in the interview, that I would be just as cruel to someone like him as TFO and the other one were, he has decided this and no amount of kissing up to him would have changed his mind.
Where the darkness comes from -
@flossman is definitely onto something. Something happened in Holden's childhood that he won't talk about. His life started at age 14 or so, to hear him tell it. Nothing happened before that. Nothing. So that makes me really suspicious about possible abuse, giving him violent thoughts of revenge that he displaces onto women because he sees us as weaker. He is terminally self-centered. He didn't understand why, having created my burner Skype account, I wouldn't just leave it on 24/7 in case he had a deep thought he needed to transmit. If I had the chops to internet-diagnose, it would be some combination of the 'tism spectrum and a personality disorder.
Allow me one more digression? My ex-husband, who also proved his misogyny all over the place, had some childhood traumas. He had rheumatic fever and was bedridden for nearly a year. He may have been molested by a cousin, or may have molested her; all I know is that he talks to his male cousins, but not Nancy. Both of those things are terrible, no doubt. His parents were both alcoholics; his mother recovered and dumped his father, who never did recover, but lots of kids go through illness, parental divorce, and even sexual abuse and don't turn into the manipulative, mean, woman-abusing (not just me, by a long shot) snake Ex-Horse turned out to be. There is some research to suggest some kids are naturally resilient and some aren't, for reasons that we don't yet understand. I think it's a combination of that and the culture we live in, which has many sectors that implicitly or explicitly devalue women, giving some of these men a direction to their hatred. Ex-Horse was more forthcoming about
things in his childhood, but like Holden, never mentioned having any
friends or particularly wanting to make any.