Ryan/Piratekingray/Darthyan. You may have seen him ’round these parts as Ryan and Piratekingray. You will encounter him on livejournal posting either as darthyan or anonymous, but it’s usually not hard to tell who he is from the general incoherence, privilege-denying, and tone-argumenting. What do I love more than shredding shitty writers? Shredding their fans!
Why am I posting about this guy specifically? Because Ryan showed up here in May. This is November, six months after the fact… and he’s still really, really upset. I’m talking still-getting-page-hits on here upset.
What Ryan looks like after encountering a feminist critique of anything
The saga of Ryan began here, where he first showed up to white-knight Butcher. Not long after that, for a particularly shitty use of “rape,” I banned him from this blog. Unsurprisingly, he continued to be a ‘splaining fuckwad, defending the use of rape as a plot device. Because condemning rape as a plot device as far worse than violence is a double standard or something.
By and by he must’ve heard about the Butcher wank somehow and came back as “piratekingray” where he left this tl;dr vomit, defending the use of the word “oriental” and citing a character named “Injun Joe” as evidence of Butcher’s ethnic diversity. And again! I banned him once more, this time a bit more thoroughly.
He also posted this on his LJ. Plot twist: this is also a tealdeer defense of the Dresden Files.
Jim Butcher or otherwise, Ryan hates it when anyone anywhere disses racism, because intent is magic and it’s okay to call people “chinks” if you didn’t grow up knowing any better as long as you don’t mean any harm by it. No really, let that sink in slowly: he thinks it’s okay to call people chinks because PRODUCT OF THEIR TIME.
Fast forward to today: huge walls of text, comments dated 26 – 28 November (remember: this is six months after the fact: a more picture-perfect textbook raging supreme poobah of butthurt you will be hard-pressed to find), still repeating the same things regarding racism/sexism and so on. And tone argument, tone argument, tone argument, bawwww straight white boy feelings are hurt and that just can’t stand. His dick’s going to shrivel up and retract into itself at this rate, because ”accusations of sexism” are always false. It is very important to this white boy that nobody talks about racism or sexism. Anywhere. Ever.
It’s not just me, of course. Ryan has puked this up on tvtropes, too, concerning–oh, you know: those silly feminists, those silly anti-racists, how dare they break his toys. Star Wars is a SACRED COW goddamn it, how–very–dare anyone ever suggest that it’s a heteronormative white-centric boys’ adventure! Sensible people show up on page two; Ryan had gone silent, despite his avowed love of debating logically (not aware, apparently, that he’s in fact incredibly incoherent). It’s almost astounding how consistent he is across the board, but mostly it’s just fucking pathetic how obsessed he is with defending his favorite franchises from charges of -isms. Even when not doing that he can’t help but come off as a mouthy, defensive fanboy over whatever this is.
I never thought I’d say this, but even Jim Butcher is actually classier than this guy, though that doesn’t say very much.
Inverarity Pynchon
November 29, 2011 at 12:46 am
I’d guess he’s about 14, but I know too many guys like that who stay 14 well into their 40s.
arkan2 is being impressively patient and diplomatic.
acrackedmoon
November 29, 2011 at 5:25 am
Agreed on all counts.
I’d like to hope he is no older than sixteen, tops. :/
RVCBard
November 29, 2011 at 2:30 am
TBH, I don’t know. People can be alarmingly persistent in this sort of thing, to the extent where, even if it is for the purpose of fucking with people, it’s still rather disturbing.
Maybe I’m weird, but if I don’t like something or someone, the last thing I’m going to do is troll places where people who like that thing/person congregate and have the ability to, oh, alert my ISP about my ass.
There’s a lot of bullshit out there that I don’t like, and if I’m particularly irked by it, I’ll even write a blog post about it. But I won’t, say, spend a lot of my precious free time at a website where fanboy neckbeards hang out and waste my valuable breath and brain cells telling them how fucking racist and sexist and homophobic they are. Why said neckbeard fanboys don’t give us the same courtesy is beyond my capacity to understand. Perhaps it’s one of the inherent properties of neckbeard fanboyishness.
acrackedmoon
November 29, 2011 at 5:24 am
I’m guessing it touched a nerve that I banned him. How very dare anyone, a WOC no less, stop him from expressing his opinions!
RVCBard
November 29, 2011 at 7:16 am
FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!!
Captain Falcon (@psychoxnino)
November 29, 2011 at 4:55 am
“Ryan hates it when anyone anywhere disses racism, because intent is magic and it’s okay to call people “chinks” if you didn’t grow up knowing any better as long as you don’t mean any harm by it.”
When it comes to that, I think I reserve the right to decide when and where I might give that the pass. I do take another person’s background into account when interacting with them, and it isn’t all that hard to figure out when someone means well or is being malicious. But that’s my choice, and I evaluate it on a case by case basis.
The difference between me and Ryan though is that if I ever hear the word “chink” irl it is going to be directed AT me. Not towards someone else. Even if it is meant for someone else, it ends up including me anyway. And the last time I heard that word, it was being shouted out of a speeding car, and I turned to look, just in time to narrowly avoid a cup of water and ice that had been thrown at my head. I walked around for the next hour in a state of rage, but I never ran into those shitheads again.
Who you are does matter in this discussion because certain words are not meant for you, and you wouldn’t know what it’s like to be on the receiving end of it. And what it feels like, for those who are unaware, is a shot of adrenaline, and the next thing you know you’re looking around for weapons because, in the back of your head, you’re thinking that it’s going to be either you or them.
“Sensible people show up on page two”
Lol. I recognize an online acquaintance among the sensible crowd. I’m so proud. *wipes away a tear*
acrackedmoon
November 29, 2011 at 5:23 am
Ditto. Or not IRL–the other day I saw a youtube comment with a joke about “chinks” out of fucking nowhere on something unrelated. Yeah, yeah, youtube comments but what the fuck.
Gourmet Neurovore
November 29, 2011 at 8:42 am
So I reported our boy on TVTropes. Turns out that importing drama, his favourite hobby, is against the rules there.
Gee, who’da thunk?
acrackedmoon
November 29, 2011 at 11:05 am
Oh my lol I looked at his troper page. He claims to be “Liberal”, with a capital L. And he is a teenager: surprise!