# Please Join Me for the Pitting of LinusK **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 20, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722 "2015-07-20T20:14:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/361 "2015-09-28T10:21:01Z")
> [@naita](#): > > This time I just saw “started by LinusK” and decided not to click. I assumed it would be about how feminism has to be horrible since there are even women who dislike it. In essence, yes. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/362 "2015-09-28T12:02:23Z")
I don’t think he has people on ignore. He seldom responds to direct questions, but he’ll grossly misrepresent something you’ve said seven pages later. It’s just how he reads. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/363 "2015-09-29T21:20:48Z")
Here’s an interesting quote from his latest pro-misogyny thread: > [@Women Against Feminism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-against-feminism/732667/114): > > > [@Women Against Feminism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-against-feminism/732667/38): > > > > Of course, this has all been said before, and will probably be ignored yet again. > > If by “ignored” you mean you use poor logic, and frequently resort to ad hominems, instead, then yes; it will be ignored. > > Putting words in other people’s mouths, implying that they’re stupid, or misled, or that they hate women - these things are not true arguments. They’re attempts to shut down conversations by insulting people who disagree with you. Observe how the world’s worst debater tries to set himself up as being opposed to such dirty tricks as putting words in other people’s mouths and implying that they’re stupid _immediately_ after doing this himself…and in response to a poster who’s been pretty patient and civil with him. What’s especially funny about this (and by “funny” I mean “sad”) isn’t so much his total lack of self-awareness as his inability to use even cliched rhetorical devices correctly. His attempt at the old “If by X you mean Y” reads like someone who’s seen this used before but doesn’t really understand how it works. There are probably actual bots that could do a better job than this. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/364 "2015-09-30T14:23:35Z")
> [@naita](#): > > This time I just saw “started by LinusK” and decided not to click. I assumed it would be about how feminism has to be horrible since there are even women who dislike it. He could have just posed the Bloom County sequence about Ladies Against Women and had done with it. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/365 "2015-10-05T01:23:34Z")
> [@Women Against Feminism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-against-feminism/732667/175): > > White women in America are the most privileged people ever to have existed. Feminists are _forced_ to make up stuff to feel oppressed about. I’m so glad we have a man here to tell me about all the things I’ve personally experienced and witnessed are all made up. It just must be my white woman privilege that makes me so prone to the vapors. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/366 "2015-10-05T14:06:56Z")
> [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > I’m so glad we have a man here to tell me about all the things I’ve personally experienced and witnessed are all made up. > > It just must be my white woman privilege that makes me so prone to the vapors. Well, there’s a shortage of fainting couches now. That’s a hardship. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/367 "2015-10-06T20:52:40Z")
I’m guessing **Andros** will now join the ranks of the ignored. Or at least his request to see some evidence that feminists believe that only men commit domestic violence will echo into the boundless void with other odd requests like, “what is the point of this thread, **LinusK?** ” Ol’ **LK** is really starting to chap my hide. Why exactly is it that he gets to tramp through life, or at least this Board, spouting nonsense, and never actually answering for any of it? We can’t call shenanigans on him anywhere except here, and he doesn’t have to answer. In Post #167 of his latest Opus, he actually included female fear of bugs as, I think, evidence of patriarchy. Or that there isn’t one. I couldn’t tell. Can I call him a troll yet? ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/368 "2015-10-07T00:07:28Z")
We’re going to have to do an intervention with Jimmy Chitwood. He’s engaging again. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/369 "2015-10-07T00:11:07Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > We’re going to have to do an intervention with Jimmy Chitwood. He’s engaging again. Quick! Someone give him something less destructive of his health and sanity. Bring out the meth! ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/370 "2015-10-07T02:50:25Z")
I have engaged again too. :o Well, he won’t come here and he brought up the frickin’ bugs again. Then **Rune** said I was dour for not getting the joke. I’ve decided I want a cite for everything. How is that dour? Not that **LK** answers me. This way lies madness. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/371 "2015-10-07T03:05:49Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > I have engaged again too. :o > > Well, he won’t come here and he brought up the frickin’ bugs again. Then **Rune** said I was dour for not getting the joke. > > I’ve decided I want a cite for everything. How is that dour? > > Not that **LK** answers me. This way lies madness. I rather doubt that **LinusK** himself knows why he keeps bringing up bugs, it’s just one of the many things he repeats mindlessly. However, I believe I discovered the origin of this back in [the _last_ anti-feminism thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18548588#post18548588). Short version: In one of **LinusK** ’s even older anti-feminism threads, **Shodan** made a joke about women being afraid of bugs. **LinusK** absorbed this and has been regurgitating it regularly ever since. I don’t think he understands that it was supposed to be a corny joke. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/372 "2015-10-07T04:16:30Z")
Duly noted. Thank you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/373 "2015-10-07T14:08:50Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > We’re going to have to do an intervention with Jimmy Chitwood. He’s engaging again. Well. Not directly! Now turn off the light! (shuffles back into the corner, twitching) ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/374 "2015-10-07T14:36:20Z")
> [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > I’m so glad we have a man here to tell me about all the things I’ve personally experienced and witnessed are all made up. > > It just must be my white woman privilege that makes me so prone to the vapors. I don’t engage with him anymore. I wouldn’t even know where to begin. He just has no idea. And I love how he talks about white women. There might be a few other races of women here. Um, maybe 1 or 2. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/375 "2015-10-07T21:03:50Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > Well. Not directly! > > Now turn off the light! > (shuffles back into the corner, twitching) Indirect engagement leads to bugs and sinking ships. Don’t go there. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/376 "2015-10-07T21:13:53Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > Indirect engagement leads to bugs and sinking ships. Don’t go there. But direct engagement means LinusK will buy a diamond from Jared then complain he is being manipulated by an evil cabal of wimmens. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/377 "2015-10-07T21:35:11Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > I got “I have heard his work with Eminem, though he is not amoungst my favorite artists”. I hear Eminem has refused to work with **LinusK** again because **Linus** ’s attitude towards women makes him uncomfortable. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/378 "2015-10-08T00:51:56Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > But direct engagement means LinusK will buy a diamond from Jared then complain he is being manipulated by an evil cabal of wimmens. Took me a bit to realize what connections diamonds had with Subway child molesters. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/379 "2015-10-08T01:21:47Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I don’t engage with him anymore. I wouldn’t even know where to begin. He just has no idea. And I love how he talks about white women. There might be a few other races of women here. Um, maybe 1 or 2. I don’t think I’ve ever engaged him. I just complain about him here. If I engaged him in one of the non-Pit threads, I’d probably quickly end up with my first warning … ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/380 "2015-10-08T19:12:19Z")
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