For the upteenth time, shrill Catholic moralist Matt Forney publishes ugly, smutty and incredibly juvenile content (pic related, from two days ago).
The following is a bit old, but I think it speaks volumes about the kind of person Forney is. Despite all the lolcows, I don't think I've ever encountered someone as pathetic as Matt Forney and his crew. It is something that has inspired genuine awe in me at a few points.
I’ve been aware of Forney for probably 9 years now, starting with the In Mala Fide days. It was clear from the beginning that there was something a little off about him. His articles were linked/posted on other websites fairly often, and I think I ended up on his own site once or twice, clicked through a few articles before deciding that they just weren’t very well-written, and closed the tabs and forgot about them. In hindsight, his writing was actually better at that point, and has seemed more listless and desperate ever since. This is a repost of an old In Mala Fide article I actually enjoyed:
https://mattforney.com/tea-party/
That's about as good as it gets.
To recap a few things that have been said, Forney and his friends have been calling people “narcissists” for years, after a writer called Anonymous Conservative created a theory that associates Narcissistic Personality Disorder and support for left wing politics. Lately, Forney has started obsessively accusing people of being homosexuals as well, as he’s gotten into the Trad Catholic thing. He somehow formed a friendship with the former vlogger Common Filth, which does not surprise me, instead just being a very poor reflection on CF's character. Not too long ago, CF hosted a radio show that was ostensibly about Christianity, although it really was just long videos listing bizarre and inappropriate sexual content he found online. CF seems to have had a profound effect on Forney.
Over the past two years or so, Forney has been drifting away from his longtime friend, Davis Aurini (definitely a lolcow himself). They each released a series of increasingly hostile videos and text posts about one another. From the beginning, it seemed Aurini was more interested in reconciliation and Forney was more interested in just winning the argument at any costs, up to and including his friendship with Aurini. After months of their feud (the origins of which are not very interesting), Forney decided to let loose and issue a final judgment on his old friend:
Davis Aurini is both a narcissist and a homosexual.
https://mattforney.com/matt-forney-live-davis-aurini/
38:36 “…slept with more skanks, and also more men, than I have.” Aurini is gay, apparently. Matt Forney had a gay best friend through that entire time he was accusing all of his opponents of being gay.
50:21—Accuses Aurini of being “on the verge of mentally retarded.” If it took 6-7 years of friendship (by his count) to notice that someone is borderline mentally retarded, that’s a really bad sign.
https://mattforney.com/matt-forney-live-paper/
41:55 “Rumors…” about more Aurini gay shenanigans. So the gay stuff was seemingly not a one-time thing.
(I lost the link of Forney accusing Aurini of being a narcissist, but I remember it clearly. It's probably still out there, somewhere.)
I found the whole thing so incredible. Does Forney not realize that being close friends with someone who is (supposedly) everything he has been criticizing for years reflects badly on his own character? I found this whole event so incredible, and I can’t find the words to adequately describe my reaction.
Forney is like a Michel Houellebecq character come to life, and this moment was his life’s climax, long after his popularity declined. Now that all of the people who propped him up are either in decline (Roosh V, the manosphere in general, Daniel Friberg) or now hate him (TheRightStuff.biz, Aurini), I think we can say confidently that more of the sort of petty drama he’s been involved in recently is what his future holds for him. Most of the content on his website is drama at this point; he’s become like the Jerry Springer of second-rate manosphere has-beens and rejects.
For me, that moment was major lifefuel. It just made me want to go out and talk to real people about real things. Real relationships, with no front. It made me think about the amount of time I spend on the web, and not putting up a front. I guess you could say the saga of Matt Forney had a positive effect on me.
