Fantasy author Neil Gaiman has been revealed as a literally sadistic sexual predator. His victims are all very similar. As Vox Day writes in "Pretty Moths Drawn to Hellfire: A woman explains the retardery of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl":
One of the more striking elements of what is now best described as the Neil Gaiman serial rape scandal is the similarity of the victims. Not only in their appearance, which tends to be youthful, plain-to-moderately attractive, brown-haired, and wide-eyed, but in their sheer stupidity of their behavior.
He quotes Mary Harrington's description:
For someone thus dedicated to living poetically, the world is beautiful, dramatic, dark, inspiring, and frightening all at once. Everything carries deep symbolic significance. The smallest everyday event can feel like a deep metaphor, or high quest. The resulting behaviour might look from the outside like recklessness, promiscuity, over-emotionality, and self-destruction, but it will feel from the inside like living in a state of perpetual enchantment: a life brimming with meaning, urgency, intensity, and immediacy. To invent an example, someone dedicated to living poetically might make an apparently abrupt and perverse decision to leave a completely serviceable set of life arrangements overnight, on the basis of a casual remark from a stranger, associations conjured by the smell of cherry blossom, and a snatch of music overheard from a passing car.
That could be describing me, both physically and characteristically.
It could have been me. I quit my day job to do art full time; I say not "make a living on art" because I don't make enough for a living. I am supported by my parents and brother-in-law, whom I endeavor to repay with house and garden work and helping look after my nephews, on whom I enthusiastically dote. I do not cosplay, as above, anymore, but still wear lolita fashion regularly. I've done many stupid, reckless things out of romantic sensibility and am exhilarated by material crises. I am an old maid and the only man who was seriously romantically interested in me was an eccentric Gamma philosophy major who said I was "the most interesting person he'd ever met."
While not a particular fan of Gaiman, I did read a few of his works and really liked the miniseries Neverwhere. I did attend a few comic book conventions and at the time would have been excited to see him. Thank God he never was at any of the ones I was. May St. Nonna of Wales implore God's healing grace on the girls who did run into him.
One crucial difference between me and the stereotypical MPDG is I flee fornication. I am a virgin and have an absolute horror of sexual sin. One might easily say it wouldn't be thus if a high-status man had ever been interested and tried to seduce me. I cannot say for certain of course, but I truly honestly think I still would refuse and flee. I pray God it would be so. I cannot emphasize enough that this is not credit to my own qualities but to the Grace of God found in frequent recourse to the Sacraments and being raised strongly in the Faith.
The redpill understanding of women such as Vox Day teaches can lead men to think we are evil creatures. We are fallen of course, sinful and in need of God's Mercy. But we are not more evil by nature than men. The qualities Day points out are how God created women to be, for the benefit of caring for small children.
Women are solipsistic, meaning not that we actually
subscribe to the philosophical belief that only the self exists, but that we process
all information in relation to the self. This helps a mother put her own
children ahead of strangers'. Women generally lack empathy, which means we find
it difficult to perceive and understand others' emotions, but not that we don't
care. Small children make their needs and emotions obvious enough. And a mother
directing daily life towards what she knows to be good for small children
rather than necessarily what they desire is good. Women don't have the same
situational awareness as men and these particular women lack a sense of self-preservation. This is a weakness but not a
vice, though it can certainly lead to vices.
Day cautions men not to pursue MPDG women romantically and I cannot argue with that based on my own self-centered knowledge. I do not think I would have made a good wife; I'm too stubborn and fussy about trivialities. Some of the MPDG characteristics seem like they might be put to good use as a mother, but a man would have to have the strength of frame to curb any destructive whims, so I really can't speak to it. But I do think the nunnery would be an excellent place for these women so let us pray for the re-establishment of women's consecrated life in the Catholic Church--it is currently overrun with Modernist lesbians; although there are a few good convents, they are being menaced by Bergoglio's regime.
In religious life, a manic pixie dreamgirl's ecstasies would be of the mystical variety. Because a woman's emotionality can be oriented towards the Good if her conscience is well formed. So raise your daughters well. Encourage them to form emotional attachment to the practice of Faith. I don't mean the emotional manipulation of praise and worship rockbands and motivational-speech prosperity-gospel preaching, but the beauty of meditative prayer, poetic hymns, stories of saints, great devotional art like Murillo and Fra Angelico. And Yes this is absolutely a disparagement of Protestantism in favor of Traditional Catholicism.
Writing all this exposes me to a great amount of ridicule and scorn, I know. But I felt (emotions again) so convicted by Day's post that I had to write so I can beg fathers: if you have a daughter like this, don't let her pursue her mad dreams unguarded! And above all, raise her with an intense consciousness of the horror of sin and of how much she owes to the Grace of God and that straying from His paths means ruin.
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| AI image prompted by Vox Day |
St. Nonna of Wales, pray for us and for the victims of Neil Gaiman,
St. Mary Magdalene, pray for us and them,
Our Lady, Virgin most pure, pray for us and them,
Jesus, our Hope, have mercy on us and them.
