I've often maintained that PPD is an exercise in futility, but I sometimes hang out there for rhetorical practice, and most of all, for the lulz.

Recently, PPD, delivered, in spades.

For those who hadn't heard, the sequence went like this:

  1. The rather eloquent and always entertaining MRA voice, GirlWritesWhat, shows up in PPD, and fails to denounce us as a bunch of awful misogynists. Quite the opposite, in fact.

  2. The also eloquent Undead_Keyboard (is this guy on the fast track to EC-dom when he's been here a little longer? Definitely a pen to watch, folks) writes the event up in TRP, and Karen (GWW) shows up here, too.

  3. Somehow, we horrible misogynists fail to denounce her for the awful crime of being born with a vagina.

  4. In fact, she's met with an outpouring of love and appreciation... at which point the hilarity begins.

Observe, class, the action in this footage, shot in the wild. The Hamster is attempting to engage and defeat its natural enemy, reality common sense TRP. But the venue has gone off-message and refuses to serve up examples of "misogyny" as ammunition. Behold the ingenuity of the the wild Hamster as it quickly changes tactics and fires of accusations of not being misogynist enough.

That's right, folks, if you express anger at a woman, the Hamster will accuse you of being misogynist. If you express love for a woman, the Hamster will accuse you of being unfaithful to "your" principles (that is, the principles the Hamster has just got done angrily accusing you of having, and being a bad person for having).

What's my point, here?

Haters gonna hate.

Do not let yourself be fooled into thinking that you are dealing with honest, well-intentioned folk who simply disagree, or don't understand. No, these people are not straight shooters.

Do not debate with them, except to for your own entertainment. A debate is a process of structured discussion between two people who honour certain basic principles. TRP haters do not honour the principles of debate. They are not honest. They do not say what they mean and mean what they say. They do not care about what is true.

They do not even disagree with you, because to agree or disagree, they would have to care about truth. No, their reaction to you is that your words are painful for them to hear, and so, truth or not, they must be silenced. This is why, like the Bush administration in Iraq, they will change mission statements on a dime. Because the mission of the mission statement isn't to state the mission, it's to rationalize the real mission.

So do not debate them, because they do not care about truth. Truth is a weapon against mistaken or false ideas. But these people have no ideas at all, so truth doesn't work against them. They don't care if they are wrong. The weapon against haters is laughter.

This works for blue pillers. It works for shit tests. It works for people who are "just asking questions". It works for concern trolls, and disingenuous politicians, and feminists.

Any time you detect a hidden agenda, stop debating and starting mocking. Because debate only happens between honest men.