There is a blogger who claims to represent myself, my readers, and pretty much anybody who thinks sex laws are repressive. He titles himself as our ‘leader’, whether we acknowledge it or not. In his eyes, he has the authority to make such a grand claim because he is ‘public’ with his activism. This public activism consists mainly of his blog, his YouTube channel, as well as several spells in the limelight. Ironically, or rather cringe worthily, the two or three readers of his blog who identify as his ‘followers’ all refuse to even give themselves a unique username when commentating at his site.
His first brush with fame was when he earned a brief notoriety in his Norwegian homeland for making threats against the police. This eventually led to his arrest (to his astonishment), his imprisonment and then his release after a trial, and a change in the law to close the remarkable loophole of Norway being the only nation on Earth where to publicly threaten to stab police officers was found to be not illegal (he was actually able to successfully sue for wrongful arrest). Of course this was when he was younger and still a bit of a firebrand. Still with some testosterone in his balls, which appear to have withered away after years of ‘NoFap’, something he promotes with a religeous zeal.
Indeed, the blogger’s next appearance in the Norwegian limelight came around a decade later, in a kind of comedy segment in an otherwise serious television documentary on Incels and other ‘dangerous’ young men online. He was filmed on a hot summer’s day, wearing his knitted cardigan, mentioning briefly our view that male sexuality is being persecuted, before spending the rest of his appearance on the show trying to pitch his ‘Fertile Dating’ site as a viable business idea. The show’s producers actually gathered a handful of business people to smirk and giggle while he tried to explain what was different about his site, ostensibly aimed at singles hoping to meet somebody to reproduce with (he admits he hopes to get laid through it himself, and has first pick in the unlikely event of a new female member). As mentioned, his appearance on the show served as a few minutes of cringeworthy light-relief, and probably to reassure the viewer that most of these ‘angry young males’ will, like him, end up as largely harmless, if a little eccentric, cardigan wearing middle-aged men.
The third appearance in the limelight is probably his proudest moment. A feminist Danish filmmaker had seen his obliviously unaware comedy role on that incel documentary, and took a look at his blog as well as his YouTube videos. Now his videos, even after his two episodes of national exposure, only attract a few visitors each. And most of those viewers are probably non-plussed or repulsed by what they are seeing – an apparently naked and puny man showering himself whilst talking about the injustice of the latest female teacher being sent to jail for sex with a student. This feminist director evidently decided that he would be the perfect subject for a black comedy, and after a number of ‘dates’, they agreed that she could make a short film based upon his character. And when the film came out, it emerged that he had been portrayed as a mentally ill and lonely weirdo with erectile dysfunction problems who finally finds love in a sex doll brothel. Rather than suing the director for defamation, the blogger was proud of being the’star’ of a feminist’s black comedy, and even more so when it won an award at the Cannes film festival. Even when the jury spoke of how they giggled whilst watching it, it was not enough to shake this blogger’s conviction that he had achieved something incredibly worthy and that his status as a ‘leader’ was now unquestionable.
But award-winning Cannes movies and fertile dating sites aside, what does our dear leader actually say about how we got to our present predicament of sexual persecution? A leader suggests a movement, and any movement worth it’s name needs an ideology. Just as communists need the narrative of class struggle in order to fight against capitalism, no doubt we need an explanation of why male sexuality became persecuted. A basic narrative that we can all agree upon that forms the basis of our world view, enshrining our tactics and goals, as well as defining a clear enemy who we are opposing and resisting. Surely our leader, a genius who was the subject of an award-winning Cannes documentary, can provide that. After all, he has been blogging about these issues (well, mainly about the ‘female sex offender charade’) for two decades. So what is his answer? How did we go from the sexual freedom of the 60’s and 70’s to paedohysteria, MeToo, and the new puritanism of today?
Well, this is his answer. His explanation is….it just happened. Things were better in the 70s, and now they’re worse. He gives this a name. He calls it ‘cultural drift’.
Let’s just call it Asbergian drift.