It’s not going to come as any great, paradigm-shifting shock that there exists on the Internet a balmy little swamp blog that unapologetic misogynists can crawl into for a nice muck bath while they compose their latest “How to be the quintessential Cassanova” manifesto, or reveal the mysterious, alchemical formula for “How to turn a ho into a housewife.” The Internet is full of such mind-numbing crap that a site as awful as Elite Daily should hardly matter because its offerings are either trollish, simple-minded, or both. Then again, Elite Daily should hardly exist at all.
A lot of people have written to us about the misogynistic fuckery plastered like chimpanzee feces all over Elite Daily, but a helpful tipster has finally done what I certainly didn’t have the patience or level-headedness to do: catalogue several of the site’s worst articles and most flagrantly stupid excerpts. These range from panegyrics on women who give blowjobs, to nostalgic reminiscences about the historically disputed Age of Infinite Harems:
If you delve back into our ancestry, centuries ago men with power were draped with a multitude of wives and concubines. The man with only one lady was a peasant. It’s only now, in the moralistic overtures of modern society that we are forced to abide by the monogamous ruin of relationships. It’s only now that we have ascetically denied ourselves one of life’s simplest pleasures: sex.
I love baroquely unnecessary adverbs as much as the next person, but it’s not everyday that you find someone willing to use turn turn “ascetic” into an ironic piece of ornamental language-use criticism. Besides, I’m pretty sure all those people not fucking like gangbusters back in “our ancestry” because the Catholic Church told them UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES would have a few grievances with such a liberal re-imagining of history.
The Elite Daily — or, if you prefer the abbreviation “ED” — professes to be “the voice of Generation Y,” which would be distressing if it were at all true. It isn’t, and ED’s “sex & dating” musings can be dismissed almost before they have a chance to outrage — they’re all that bad.