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While Anita Sarkeesian herself is boring and clearly not a lolcow proven by the thread that I made on her a-logs, there's been much talk about Jonathan McIntosh in the thread and elsewhere, especially in some of the GamerGate threads and even in the Dobson thread, and I think it's suitable for him to have a thread at this point since I thought there would be enough interest. @Alan Pardew even told me that he was quite baffled by some of the idiotic shit that's come out of the guy's mouth before and I guess this thread would be a good way for others to express their disbelief at how dumb this guy is. Andrew Dobson has a thread here and is seen as a punching bag by many, so I'm seeing McIntosh as kind of being the same way, but applied in the context of GamerGate and why you've been hearing so much about Anita at all.
I understand that there was also talk about him in the Social Justice Warriors thread and even then there were some people who wanted to see a thread on the guy, but wanted to see him and Anita run out of money first but the way I see it is that it might be easier to have a place here to make fun of the guy in the meantime under the Careercow tag. Like with many people, he does have his own ED page which was made several months ago and there were many good points raised too. Out of the two, he seems like the real lolcow of the bunch given what he's done and how much of this bullshit he started in the first place. I think eventually no matter how you look at this subject, there is potential for him to go insane in the future and really provide some more content worth covering.
From what I understand from reading past posts here on the Farms, McIntosh used to work for InfoWars and this is one of the tweets I found that links to an old archive showing what kind of work he did for them.
@Too Many Crooks went into why she sees McIntosh as someone worthy of being mocked:
Has anyone mentioned Jonathan McIntosh yet? He's a riot. I kind of want him to have his own thread. He's Dobson-grade smug.
https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Jonathan_McIntosh
http://www.rebelliouspixels.com/2015/supermanhood-geek-guys-and-hypermasculinity-in-superhero-movies
This article from McIntosh about Willy Wonka is classic, not gonna quote the whole thing just the most outlandish parts:
The most recent film adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is shaping up to be one of the highest grossing summer blockbusters of 2005. This is the third re-incarnation of Roald Dahl's controversial story over the past four decades. As such, it is instructive, to examine it's transformation in relation to issues of racism and colonialism.
Interestingly, the film does not mention whether Wonka claims intellectual property rights over the ”flavors” he finds there, as is the case with his modern contemporaries. However, one assumes that the entire race of Oompa-Loompas falls under the umbrella of a fully owned copyright.
During this colonial montage, Wonka encounters a jungle village built in the trees that the Oompa-Loompas inhabit. This time, however, they are portrayed as a primitive miniature brown-colored indigenous people of non-specific ethnic origin. They sport feather headdresses, tribal style jewelry and grass skirts while dining on visibly "disgusting" green caterpillars and worshiping the rare coca bean. They are depicted as simple, whimsical, and of course, miserable in their native home. Wonka "generously" rescues the Oompa-Loompas by offering them the opportunity to work and live in his Western factory. Later they are shown "happily" imprisoned inside Wonka's factory, which they conveniently cannot leave or they will be subject to chilly weather and die. The Oompa-Loompas also "willingly" allow themselves to be experimented on, much like laboratory animals, by Wonka as he tests his new, and sometimes dangerous, candy concoctions. Clearly, Wonka has not taken the time to explain the ins-and-outs of unionizing or worker health compensation to his imprisoned work force.
In the context of the present political landscape one cannot help but draw disturbing parallels between the fabled chocolate factory and US foreign policy in the Middle East. The notion that Wonka rescues the indigenous Oompa-Loompas from their “difficult lives” with his gift of industrialization seems to mirror the patronizing notion that the United States is presently rescuing the peoples of Afghanistan and Iraq from their preserved savagery. It is disturbing that, this time around, no mainstream movie reviewers, civil rights organizations or social critics have pointed out these parallels or made these comparisons. Could it be that overt racism and colonialism have again become the norm in our society, passing almost without comment? Do we no longer even take the time to hide it under the surface?
For now, it seems, children will delight in recreating white master chocolatier and indigenous slave worker scenes as they play with colorful plastic Oompa-Loompa action figures from Wendy’s kids’ meals.
There's other really funny McIntosh excerpts on the ED page but I wanted to grab a few paragraphs from his Willy Wonka article just to give the uninitiated a little taste of how McIntosh thinks. He sees things that aren't there and acts like he knows everything.
In an old post that @Jaimas made, you can also really see how much McIntosh is linked to specific lolcows that have been covered here before:
I mentioned this earlier, but using Wu or Quinn, you can play the equivalent of Seven Degrees of Lolcow, and it will always coalesce to these two assholes.
To Writ: Peter Coffin is a friend of Jonathan McIntosh and prominent in Anti-GG. This makes him an automatic ally of Wu. So despite the fact that he's previously falsified a wife before, despite the fact multiple individuals have gone out of their way to show that his wife is most likely at least halfway a hoax, the Anti-GGers see him as some oppressed individual who must be defended. The amount of complete doublethink and utter hypocrisy needed to be active within Anti-GG is well and truly mind-boggling.
And Coffin's far from the only example.
Only in their world could an abusive confirmed rapist who has doxxed children be considered a sympathetic cause (Laurelai). Only in the minds of these people could you find the doublethink needed to bitch about alleged misogyny but completely gloss over the fact that their side has two confirmed racists, a rape apologist, and a white supremacist (Leigh Alexander, Arthur Chu, Ian Miles Cheong). Only in our opposition could we find a side with an individual who essentially threw her daughter at her parents so she could continue to do meth and party (Randi Harper).
I could go on, but I'd really prefer not to. These people are filled with the sort of hubristic "I AM ALWAYS RIGHT BECAUSE FUCK YOU" bullshit we've come to expect from religious zealots and extremists. Fucking never underestimate their ability to fucking deny reality itself if it suits them.
The other really big thing about McIntosh from what I've read is that he's the one who also runs the Feminist Frequency Twitter page.
This is what kinds of shit comes out of his Twitter these days:
This is just a little sample of how much he was sperging and crying about Star Wars. Blech!
Taking all of this into consideration, I do see a good case for a discussion thread about this guy and I want to see if there's more information that can be found about him. I feel like I've gone through quite a lot already.
Some other crazy tweets, thanks ED:
I understand that there was also talk about him in the Social Justice Warriors thread and even then there were some people who wanted to see a thread on the guy, but wanted to see him and Anita run out of money first but the way I see it is that it might be easier to have a place here to make fun of the guy in the meantime under the Careercow tag. Like with many people, he does have his own ED page which was made several months ago and there were many good points raised too. Out of the two, he seems like the real lolcow of the bunch given what he's done and how much of this bullshit he started in the first place. I think eventually no matter how you look at this subject, there is potential for him to go insane in the future and really provide some more content worth covering.
From what I understand from reading past posts here on the Farms, McIntosh used to work for InfoWars and this is one of the tweets I found that links to an old archive showing what kind of work he did for them.
@Too Many Crooks went into why she sees McIntosh as someone worthy of being mocked:
Has anyone mentioned Jonathan McIntosh yet? He's a riot. I kind of want him to have his own thread. He's Dobson-grade smug.
https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Jonathan_McIntosh
http://www.rebelliouspixels.com/2015/supermanhood-geek-guys-and-hypermasculinity-in-superhero-movies
https://kiwifarms.net/attachments/image-jpeg.60713/
https://kiwifarms.net/attachments/image-jpeg.60714/
https://kiwifarms.net/attachments/image-jpeg.60715/
https://kiwifarms.net/attachments/image-jpeg.60716/
https://kiwifarms.net/attachments/image-jpeg.60714/
https://kiwifarms.net/attachments/image-jpeg.60715/
https://kiwifarms.net/attachments/image-jpeg.60716/
This article from McIntosh about Willy Wonka is classic, not gonna quote the whole thing just the most outlandish parts:
The most recent film adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is shaping up to be one of the highest grossing summer blockbusters of 2005. This is the third re-incarnation of Roald Dahl's controversial story over the past four decades. As such, it is instructive, to examine it's transformation in relation to issues of racism and colonialism.
Interestingly, the film does not mention whether Wonka claims intellectual property rights over the ”flavors” he finds there, as is the case with his modern contemporaries. However, one assumes that the entire race of Oompa-Loompas falls under the umbrella of a fully owned copyright.
During this colonial montage, Wonka encounters a jungle village built in the trees that the Oompa-Loompas inhabit. This time, however, they are portrayed as a primitive miniature brown-colored indigenous people of non-specific ethnic origin. They sport feather headdresses, tribal style jewelry and grass skirts while dining on visibly "disgusting" green caterpillars and worshiping the rare coca bean. They are depicted as simple, whimsical, and of course, miserable in their native home. Wonka "generously" rescues the Oompa-Loompas by offering them the opportunity to work and live in his Western factory. Later they are shown "happily" imprisoned inside Wonka's factory, which they conveniently cannot leave or they will be subject to chilly weather and die. The Oompa-Loompas also "willingly" allow themselves to be experimented on, much like laboratory animals, by Wonka as he tests his new, and sometimes dangerous, candy concoctions. Clearly, Wonka has not taken the time to explain the ins-and-outs of unionizing or worker health compensation to his imprisoned work force.
In the context of the present political landscape one cannot help but draw disturbing parallels between the fabled chocolate factory and US foreign policy in the Middle East. The notion that Wonka rescues the indigenous Oompa-Loompas from their “difficult lives” with his gift of industrialization seems to mirror the patronizing notion that the United States is presently rescuing the peoples of Afghanistan and Iraq from their preserved savagery. It is disturbing that, this time around, no mainstream movie reviewers, civil rights organizations or social critics have pointed out these parallels or made these comparisons. Could it be that overt racism and colonialism have again become the norm in our society, passing almost without comment? Do we no longer even take the time to hide it under the surface?
For now, it seems, children will delight in recreating white master chocolatier and indigenous slave worker scenes as they play with colorful plastic Oompa-Loompa action figures from Wendy’s kids’ meals.
There's other really funny McIntosh excerpts on the ED page but I wanted to grab a few paragraphs from his Willy Wonka article just to give the uninitiated a little taste of how McIntosh thinks. He sees things that aren't there and acts like he knows everything.
In an old post that @Jaimas made, you can also really see how much McIntosh is linked to specific lolcows that have been covered here before:
I mentioned this earlier, but using Wu or Quinn, you can play the equivalent of Seven Degrees of Lolcow, and it will always coalesce to these two assholes.
To Writ: Peter Coffin is a friend of Jonathan McIntosh and prominent in Anti-GG. This makes him an automatic ally of Wu. So despite the fact that he's previously falsified a wife before, despite the fact multiple individuals have gone out of their way to show that his wife is most likely at least halfway a hoax, the Anti-GGers see him as some oppressed individual who must be defended. The amount of complete doublethink and utter hypocrisy needed to be active within Anti-GG is well and truly mind-boggling.
And Coffin's far from the only example.
Only in their world could an abusive confirmed rapist who has doxxed children be considered a sympathetic cause (Laurelai). Only in the minds of these people could you find the doublethink needed to bitch about alleged misogyny but completely gloss over the fact that their side has two confirmed racists, a rape apologist, and a white supremacist (Leigh Alexander, Arthur Chu, Ian Miles Cheong). Only in our opposition could we find a side with an individual who essentially threw her daughter at her parents so she could continue to do meth and party (Randi Harper).
I could go on, but I'd really prefer not to. These people are filled with the sort of hubristic "I AM ALWAYS RIGHT BECAUSE FUCK YOU" bullshit we've come to expect from religious zealots and extremists. Fucking never underestimate their ability to fucking deny reality itself if it suits them.
The other really big thing about McIntosh from what I've read is that he's the one who also runs the Feminist Frequency Twitter page.
This is what kinds of shit comes out of his Twitter these days:
This is just a little sample of how much he was sperging and crying about Star Wars. Blech!
Taking all of this into consideration, I do see a good case for a discussion thread about this guy and I want to see if there's more information that can be found about him. I feel like I've gone through quite a lot already.
Some other crazy tweets, thanks ED:
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