Angry Blogger Who Hates Everything

[O Latin]

Forgive me if this guy has been discussed already. Search didn't turn up anything. A Facebook friend who is a major conspiracy theorist posted this earlier today and I just had to share.

themattwalshblog.com/

I put it here because he doesn't seem particularly fundie or religious, just angry and conservative.

Edited to attempt to remove the link (although I doubt he'd care). I haven't posted a link in ages so I hope I've done it correctly.

[niagarahauls]

Oh this guy. One of the guys I went to high school with (one of those people I'm Facebook friends with just to read the shit they post and piss myself off) linked to his article about Robin Thicke after the VMAs.

[lilwriter85]

I think I have visited this guy's blog before, the name sounds familiar and I remember looking at some conspiracy theory blogs sometime back when I was doing research on Alex Jones.

[Anny Nym]

Oh, it´s one of THOSE people.

Note how "smooth" he did NOT ADRESS dieases like measles, pertussis, diphteria or polio :shhh:

A cousin of mine is an equal anti-vaxx fruitcake (with a buttload of other conspiracy theories sprinkled on). She takes it some steps further and even resents ANY medical treatment like antibiotics, infusions, operations... and is heavy into that Dr Hamer and homeopathics thing.

Thankfully, the law would abolish her custody if her children would ever need to have a, for example, appendix operation or need a blood infusion.

Last year, her two children had pertussis, she was literally bragging about it on facebook and telling everyone they would NOT cancel their holiday trip to a well-known thermal spa - that has its treatments and facillities specially aimed to pregnant women and young parents with babies and very small children!

I reported her to the spa staff and CPS before she could go.

I regret nothing.

[Khan]

Wtf? We've got a mumps outbreak (over 30 confirmed cases so far) and people are still kvetching about this? Please, dude, hate on something else. Like artificial colors in food.

[Hane]

Wtf? We've got a mumps outbreak (over 30 confirmed cases so far) and people are still kvetching about this? Please, dude, hate on something else. Like artificial colors in food.

Oh, God--MUMPS? I had mumps when I was 11, and it was excruciating. My friend's husband had mumps at 14, and it damaged one of his testicles, leaving it sterile. Maybe a few good cases of guys left sterile from getting mumps after puberty will wise people up.

[Arete]

Oh, it´s one of THOSE people.

Note how "smooth" he did NOT ADRESS dieases like measles, pertussis, diphteria or polio :shhh:

A cousin of mine is an equal anti-vaxx fruitcake (with a buttload of other conspiracy theories sprinkled on). She takes it some steps further and even resents ANY medical treatment like antibiotics, infusions, operations... and is heavy into that Dr Hamer and homeopathics thing.

Thankfully, the law would abolish her custody if her children would ever need to have a, for example, appendix operation or need a blood infusion.

Last year, her two children had pertussis, she was literally bragging about it on facebook and telling everyone they would NOT cancel their holiday trip to a well-known thermal spa - that has its treatments and facillities specially aimed to pregnant women and young parents with babies and very small children!

I reported her to the spa staff and CPS before she could go.

I regret nothing.

Nor should you. Your action prevented spreading multiple pertussis outbreaks. The children they would have come into contact with at the spa would have brought the disease home with them to their communities.

You are my hero. :clap:

[kamcho_papio]

So glad for this topic! I came across him because one of my progressive-type friends linked to his post about the overwhelmed parent in the supermarket and shaming the guy who was like, 'kids, amirite?' I thought it was a nice but long-winded post and didn't get a good read about the author from it. I scrolled through the rest of his blog and while I agreed with the broad principles of some his posts, I was mostly irritated by most of them and especially by his rationale. The Robin-Thicke-is-to-blame essay started out fine, yet I was angry by the end of it because it had an excessively scolding tone, I thought. I identify politically as US lefty, so I understand about being disappointed in Obama, and I don't need a mansplainful lecture with cherry-picked facts; that was another post that really read more like a script for how to witness for political evangelization. I also thought his post about some recent murders that have racial components passed disingenuous and went to hatefully racist. The vaccination thing--sigh. I actually agree about the Hep B vaccine not being appropriate for babies, and from I could tell, that's what it was actually about and not vaccinations in general, but I think he was inflaming his base. He seems so angry, but it comes as a kind of irrational anger.

To be honest, his posts are too long for me to put on my personal hate-read list, so I'll probably just check in from time to time. I was annoyed that his 'about' link didn't say anything other than a "teller of truths" or similar. He's identified himself in the posts as a right-wing Christian, although in one post about his twins, I inferred that they were conceived with technology, so that rules out some types of Christian worldviews, but maybe not. I would also guess that he identifies as Libertarian, and there's a clip of him speaking at a Tea Party meeting (didn't watch).

[already hungover]

Oh, God--MUMPS? I had mumps when I was 11, and it was excruciating. My friend's husband had mumps at 14, and it damaged one of his testicles, leaving it sterile. Maybe a few good cases of guys left sterile from getting mumps after puberty will wise people up.

My mom had mumps in 1962 and still remembers it as the sickest and most miserable she's ever been in her life. She's been really sick and miserable on a few occasions since then (near-fatal eclampsia TWICE, serious kidney infection, ruptured Caesarian section incision, et cetera) so I assume getting the mumps really sucks. Truly, if there is a god, I believe that he wants us to get the MMR (and other vaccinations). He's got other things to worry about.

[ADoyle90815]

My mom had mumps in 1962 and still remembers it as the sickest and most miserable she's ever been in her life. She's been really sick and miserable on a few occasions since then (near-fatal eclampsia TWICE, serious kidney infection, ruptured Caesarian section incision, et cetera) so I assume getting the mumps really sucks. Truly, if there is a god, I believe that he wants us to get the MMR (and other vaccinations). He's got other things to worry about.

I've mentioned this before, but I had mumps when I was around 11, and that was determined to be from a bad batch of the vaccine in that the mumps part didn't work like it should have. All I remember was that I started my summer vacation early that year, as it was in the last week of school that my mom saw my swollen cheeks and took me to the doctor instead of school that day. I did have some pain, so it was a good thing I didn't go to school in the end as I know I would have been miserable and in the nurse's office.

[Hane]

My mom had mumps in 1962 and still remembers it as the sickest and most miserable she's ever been in her life. She's been really sick and miserable on a few occasions since then (near-fatal eclampsia TWICE, serious kidney infection, ruptured Caesarian section incision, et cetera) so I assume getting the mumps really sucks. Truly, if there is a god, I believe that he wants us to get the MMR (and other vaccinations). He's got other things to worry about.

Wow--coincidence: I had the mumps in 1962. No ebil MMR vac existed back then.

[Ariel]

Sarah Michelle Gellar (further cementing her perfection) just made an excellent statement on vaccines:

“Having children is the greatest gift anyone’s ever given me, and if I can help protect anyone else’s gift, then it’s not just my pleasure, but it’s my responsibility to do it,†Sarah Michelle explained. “Every person can say, ‘Oh, I wanted to go visit my friend’s newborn, but I had a cold so I didn’t go.’ Well, why would you also potentially expose them to something they can’t fight? And the best way to stop the spread of pertussis is with the Tdap booster. [Whooping cough] is an epidemic at this point, which is an incredibly scary word, and there’s so much going on in your world as a new parent."

[already hungover]

Sarah Michelle Gellar (further cementing her perfection) just made an excellent statement on vaccines:

“Having children is the greatest gift anyone’s ever given me, and if I can help protect anyone else’s gift, then it’s not just my pleasure, but it’s my responsibility to do it,†Sarah Michelle explained. “Every person can say, ‘Oh, I wanted to go visit my friend’s newborn, but I had a cold so I didn’t go.’ Well, why would you also potentially expose them to something they can’t fight? And the best way to stop the spread of pertussis is with the Tdap booster. [Whooping cough] is an epidemic at this point, which is an incredibly scary word, and there’s so much going on in your world as a new parent."

...this makes me want to binge-watch Buffy.

:clap: :clap: :clap:

[dairyfreelife]

Wow--coincidence: I had the mumps in 1962. No ebil MMR vac existed back then.

Also coincidence, my grandmother, around 1962, caught a mumps-like virus early in her pregnancy and it lead to heart condition in her baby, who died suddenly at almost 4 months old from it. Now that condition does not really exist thanks to the MMR vaccines.

[kamcho_papio]

The "dispenser of truths" has weighed in on the Maria Kang/Fitspo kerfuffle, but unlike the feminist and fitness blogs I've been reading, he's hatin' on the haters, and is one rage-stroke away from calling everyone jealous haterz.

Hello. You’ve been pretty active recently. It seems every time I go on the internet I see you all, hard at work spewing your misery and envy. Does it get exhausting, Haters? Do you ever come home from a long day of relentless negativity and resentment, and just think to yourselves, “geez, I’m not sure that Hating is really worth all this energy�

Uh...while I'm sure some people are jus' jellus, many more are saying that Ms Kang's picture objectifies the goals of fitness, promotes an unreachable beauty ideal, is smug and not helpful, is about end result and not process, and so much more.

And then he pulls one of my own rage-peeves: using the noble "disabled" person--someone with a prosthetic running a race, someone else climbing Mt Kilimanjaro, an elder running a triathlon. Drop dead, Angry Blogger. These people featured do not exist for your benefit or emotional well-being any more than Ms Kang's professionally-made portrait exists for mine. As said better elsewhere,

Let me be clear about the intent of this inspiration porn; it's there so that non-disabled people can put their worries into perspective. So they can go, "Oh well if that kid who doesn't have any legs can smile while he's having an awesome time, I should never, EVER feel bad about my life". It's there so that non-disabled people can look at us and think "well, it could be worse... I could be that person".

[link=http://www.abc.net.au/rampup/articles/2012/07/02/3537035.htm]From Stella Young, posted on Australian Broadcasting.[/link]Not breaking link, don't think anyone will mind.

So, screw him and his paternalistic bullshit.

[Bookworm]

So, screw him and his paternalistic bullshit.

Oddly enough, I knew who this thread was about before I even opened it. Maybe b/c my FB friends keep posting links from him. He had this one horrible article once about the fat acceptance and how terrible it was to "be proud of being obese." Several people, including me, argued pretty vehemently with him and some of the other commenters about weight loss, how complicated it is, how learning to love your body as is will take you a lot farther along the path of health than hating it and starving/exercising it into the ground, etc. He refused to listen and wrote a followup post that was even more ranty "I am right about everything." :angry-banghead: Eh well, he's boring.

[kamcho_papio]

Eh well, he's boring.

This might be a more effective trolling. 8-) He's popped up again on some friends' FB pages with some post about how Obamacare is ruining America. First, he doesn't attempt to elevate the conversation by calling it the ACA or Healthcare Reform, or whatever else might work. And his sources? Anecdata from his readers. I acknowledge there are plenty of problems with ACA, but he's just so...ughhh. And boring. And spewy with his outrage, not even interesting about it. I like reading alternative points of view [hence fascination with fundie blogs] but I just can't with him.

Was the 'proud to be obese' article the same as the tl;dr article he wrote about haters and Maria Kang?

[Bookworm]

No, the proud to be obese one was a few months ago. Not sure when exactly, sorry! I'm so not surprised he chimed in on Maria Kang, though!

[Sumeri]

Ugh...this guy. My facebook was flooded with him after his stay at home mom post.

[kamcho_papio]

Angry Blogger Who Hates Everything on Sex Ed, with bonus Christian victimization. [link=http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/11/10/christian-blogger-responds-to-questionable-advice-about-sex-with-worse-advice/]Link to Patheos[/link]. Author Jessica Bluemke called him a "Christian blogger" which I don't even think Walsh calls himself. Anyway, it's filled with all sorts of irritation, but this is my favorite comment:

(500 words into the post, and we’re finally coming around to a point. Buckle up, everyone.)

until this:

What, we’ve broken the Shackles of Purity and Love and run gleefully into the Meadows of Pornography and Herpes?

Anyway, great analysis of condescension, patronizing and sweeping generalizations