Vox Day / Theodore Beale
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About
Theodore Beale, known better by his pen name Vox Day is an American journalist, blogger, science-fiction author and philosopher.
Beale came under public scrutiny after publishing his 2009 paper "There Is No Marital Rape", in which he states that rape between married persons is impossible[1]. He reasoned that marriage acts as a permanent display of consent, and may only be revoked through divorce.
Vox Popoli
Named for the Biblical phrase Vox popoli, vox dei, Vox Popoli is Beale's blog and primary publishing outlet. The site currently ranks 7,104 in most visited domain within the United States, and has accumulated upwards of three million views in 2014.
Philosophy
Beale is a proponent of the philosophy of racial realism, which states that one's race directly correlates with their ability to think and create. At the top of the proverbial pyramid are white persons, with black persons at the bottom, with Hispanics, aboriginals and Asians forming strata in between.[3]
Additionally, he holds that, second to women's suffrage[1], atheism and autism are the greatest causes of moral degradation in the Western world. He asserts that the two are one and the same, controversially stating "the anti-religious socially autistic crusaders[…] simply cannot understand that your religious beliefs, whatever they might be, are no legitimate concern of theirs. High Church atheism may be little more than a mental disorder taking the form of literal autism."[2]
On the game industry
Beale is an outspoken critic of women in video games, both as characters and as developers. In his proposal for First Sword, a gladitorial fighting game featuring orcs and trolls, he asserts that the game will not include any female characters to preserve the game's historical plausibility[4]. His reasoned "women cannot credibly fight as gladiators. We don't put women in the game for the same reason we don't put bunny rabbits or children in the game." He further stated that female gamers are a non-existent demographic and should not be given serious thought in developing games[4].
Beale suggested the proper solution to the Gamergate crisis is to counter-attack the movement's critics with threats and vulgarity[5]. His suggested "we have to punch back twice as hard. Trash back twice as hard. They're not used to it. They can't take it. They freak out when we simply point out the observable fact that Zoe Quinn aka Chelsea Van Valkenburg is a slut, and, allegedly, a whore."[5]
Authorship
Beale's most famous work, The Irrational Atheist, declared expressed atheism to be directly in conflict with science and the natural world. The book received praise from Christian publishers, particularly the National Review.
Beale served as a lifetime member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and ran for president of the organization in 2013. After failing to secure the popular vote, he was defeated by incumbent John Scalzi. In response, Beale hijacked the organization's Twitter account and expressed his desire to expel African-American and women members, calling particular attention to fellow member N. K. Jemisin, whom he called "an educated, but ignorant half-savage"[10]. He was promptly expelled from the guild[6].
In 2014, Beale's short story Opera Vita Aeterna was Hugo Award nominated for Best Novelette. The novelette came in sixth place out of five stories, losing 855-1232 to a placeholder entry.[7]
Search Interest
External References
[1] Vox Popoli – There is no marital rape 9-26-2009
[2] Vox Popoli – Scientific American and social autism 5-21-2010
[3] Vox Day – Live free or else 11-5-2007
[4] Vox Popoli – Why we don't put girls in games 2-17-2014
[5] Vox Popoli – Escalating #Gamergate 9-22-2014
[6] Locus Online – Beale Expelled from SFWA 8-14-13
[7] The Hugo Awards – 2014 Hugo Award Statistics
[8] World News Daily – THE REAL ASSAULT ON SCIENCE 3-10-2008
[9] Amazon – The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, And Hitchens
[10] Mountain Was Here – A NOT-SO-BRIEF FOLLOWUP ON THE HUGO CONTROVERSY-FEST
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![Insights edit] Some of his most brilliant insights are to be found on Vox Popoli or in The Irrational Atheist. On homosexuality, he says Homosexuality is a birth defect from every relevant secular, material and sociological perspective we must help them achieve sexual normality [18] ” On Muslims and Brits: You silly English twit. Limit your historically ignorant, politically correct, socialist sensitivity concerns to Londonistan and the rest of your island [19 His "refutation" of atheism: UJmpaired social cognition...is the hallmark of the militant New Atheists. [The anti-religious socially autistic crusaders... simply cannot understand that your religious beliefs, whatever they might be, are no legitimate concern of theirs.120] High Church atheism may be little more than a mental disorder taking the form of literal autism.(211 On race and intelligence " It is absurd to imagine that there is absolutely no link between race and intelligence. [22] " On his "method" to bring peace to the Middle East: The Israeli government must announce o he world a unilateral ceasefire. balanced by he deadly promise hat or every sraeli soldier killed 25 Palestinian police will die. For every CI lan 100 non-combatant Palestinian adults will be slain, and or every child 1000 adults. 2 , On women, education and Malala Yousafzai Ironically, in light of the strong correlation between female education and demographic decline, a purely empirical perspective on Malala Yousafzai, the poster girl for global female education, may indicate that the Taliban's attempt to silence her was perfectly rational and scientifically justifiable. [24] Perhaps most hilariously, on women: Because they are the intellectual driving force of humanity, men will be fine...It is written that women ruin everything13] In case that one wasn't disturbing enough: ‘‘ don't believe l could recommend this as a strategy or most men, but t is surely educational to learn that r----- and killing a woman s demonstrab that there is absolutely nothing to argue about here. It is an established empirical fact.(25 more attractive to women than behaving like a gentleman. And women before all the inevitable snow aking commences please note And: First, there is no such thing as marital r---. Once consent is formally given in public ceremony, it cannot be revoked...I f a woman believes in the concept of marital r---, absolutely do not marry herl26]](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/000/842/040/d7f.png "Vox's greatest hits")
![Vox, you see, is racist as f---, and he's worried about the evil brown people outbreeding the good white people. He figures that two-thirds of [women] have to stay home and breed in order to prevent society from either collapsing into demographic and economic ruin or being transformed by the imported replacement workers into a third world society Now, you might think that some men could stay home and take care of these kids, but that's clearly not an option since, you know, dudes don't like changing diapers [TJhere are a number of reasons that a man cannot stay home and provide childcare. The three most important are that a) most men don't want to provide childcare, b) most women don't want to work to support a man, and c) doing so significantly increases the probability that his wife will stop being attracted to him and his marriage will fail And all this leads to his jaw-dropping conclusion: The fact that women may wish to work and are very capable of working no more implies that they should always be encouraged to do so anymore than the fact that men may wish to r--- and are very capable of r----- means that they should al be encouraged to do so. The ironic, but logicall escapable fact is that encouraging men to r--- would b nsiderably less damaging to a society th Widespread r--- makes a society uncivilized. Widespread female employment makes a society demographically unsustainable. History demonstrates that incivility can be survived and surmounted Unsustainability, on the other hand, cannot](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/000/842/039/eb3.png "More r---, less jobs: the sequel")
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