Blonde In The Belly Of The Beast

Blonde In The Belly Of The Beast (real name Rebecca Hargraves[1]) is a reactionary, anti-feminist YouTube talker best known for her videos justifying why women should submit to men with generous helpings of low-key racism. As of July 2020, her YouTube channel had over 125,000 subscribers and over seven million views.[2] Since May 2016, she cohosts political commentary YouTube/podcast show Beauty & the Beta with liberal-turned-Trumpist Matt Christiansen.[3]

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Video style and subject matter

Hargraves's videos largely consist of an innocuous sounding title followed by reactionary verbiage, justified using anecdotes and far-right conspiracy theories assumed to be fact. Common subjects include Separate Spheres ideology on steroids, far-right conspiracy theories about censorship, nutpicking, white nationalist talking points, red-baiting (to the point of labeling the American post-secondary education system communist and defining anyone to the left of Dubya as "leftist") and straw man arguments on feminism.

She also frequently uses subtle racist dog whistles in her videos. One such example is her support for "Western civilization" which she refers to as the greatest civilization. This may seem innocuous at first, but it's very clear that, judging by the white nationalists she surrounds herself with, she means white people.

For a brilliant example of this in action, watch her video on her opinions as to why her hometown (Saint Louis, Missouri) is not worth improving.[4] Her entire video consists of personal anecdotes, black brute racism, appeals to black cultural inferiority, friend arguments (such as stating that all her hard-working black friends are doing amazing things with their lives as a proof discrimination isn't a thing) as well as arguments about forced busing straight out of the 1960s. She cites not a single statistic to back up her claims as she expects her racist audience to engage in confirmation bias (a common tactic of the far-right[5]).

Taking a trick from Camille Paglia, she also has a tendency of phrasing outrageously sexist opinions in the form of social criticism. Her video "The Effect Of Poor Gender Relations On Art"[6] is basically her equivalent to Paglia's "Apollonian vs. Dionysian" theory. It sounds somewhat social sciencey, but it's essentially saying "women are to stay in kitchen" and "art is only good if it looks European and it suits my tastes" in a more sophisticated way.

YouTube's premier internalized misogynist

Hargraves is by every metric imaginable the undisputed queen of YouTube's female misogynists. While Roaming Millennial might casually repeat anti-feminist talking points, Christina Hoff Sommers might lie her ass off about feminist theory, Lana Lokteff might wield white femininity as a means of demonizing people of color, and Lauren Southern might engage in attention-whoring of the "There is no rape culture in the West" variety, Hargraves takes this all up to eleven and typifies Madeline Albright's comments about women who don't help other women. (Someone needs a cookie, the pot calling the kettle black.)

She shamelessly refers to women who shave their heads as batshit crazy (echoing Roosh V's views on the matter), promotes neurosexism out the wazoo and engages in racist misogyny that would make a member of the Women's KKK look tame by comparison.

For this in action, see any of her videos where she relates an experience with black women. Hope you have a strong stomach.

The long march right

Like many rightists on YouTube, Hargraves uses the Rubin strategy, i.e. start off moderate and progressively increase the heat until all but Roman saluting. Hargraves started out as a stereotypical conservative YouTuber with an anti-feminist bent only to become a white nationalist. For evidence of how this plays out in real time, take a few videos separated by a few months and look at the top comments. Her more recent videos have full-on neo-Nazis in the comments section.

The fate of the anti-feminist cool girl

Hargraves, like many anti-feminists past, present and future, doesn't seem to get the message that she's basically making excuses for misogynistic assholes and that, if she steps out of line, she'll be thrown to the wolves.

Aaron Sleazy (a moderate MRA with views on gender roles similar to hers) thinks she's a wall-approaching spinster.[7] (Rebecca is married with a daughter, no surprise Aaron got it wrong.)

This is becoming something of a pattern among anti-feminists. Whenever a female misogynist or FeMRA steps out of line, she has the trolls unleashed on her. Remember when Christina Hoff Sommers defended Michelle Fields? The Trump train didn't take that too nicely.

Stopped clock

Not only that, she refrains from using the typical racist dog whistles generally associated with law and order style policies.[8]

gollark: It seems to be dead.
gollark: And copper's cost is barely below silver.
gollark: Huh, apparently golds are quite cheap now on the market and silvers are barely above aeons.
gollark: Apparently I also won a raffle for a 4G SAltkin today. This has been a day of very low probability.
gollark: Well, I'm hatchling-locked for the next 4 hours anyway, so no more for a while.

See also

References
  1. "In Her Latest Video, Rebecca Hargraves Turns To Overt White Nationalism", angrywhitemen.org
  2. Blonde In The Belly Of The Beast about page at YouTube.
  3. Beauty & the Beta playlist at YouTube
  4. "St Louis: Why I didn’t Bother Trying to Improve my Hometown", Blonde In The Belly Of The Beast
  5. "The Great Replacement Isn't Real ft. Lauren Southern", Shaun
  6. "The Influence Of Poor Gender Relations On Art", Blonde in The Belly of The Beast
  7. "What I think of YouTuber “Blonde In The Belly Of The Beast”", Aaron Sleazy, blog.aaronsleazy.com
  8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjko5-V21zs
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