Slymepit

The "Slymepit" is a discussion board that began as a series of completely unhinged discussion threads, originally going by the name "The SlimePit", on the ScienceBlogs site of virologist-blogger Abbie "ERV" Smith. Started in the wake of Elevatorgate and populated by vocal misogynists, confessed trolls, and other lost souls, they were forced to move to a separate site as a result of National Geographic's takeover of ScienceBlogs. Its entire reason for existing is to create a massive circlejerk around the meme that "feminism is poisoning atheism," and as a result is heavily dominated by the kind of atheists who tend to prefer leaving their prejudices about women, economics, and occasionally race unexamined.[1]

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“”Slymepit – A forum/opposite of a fan club dedicated to hateful obsession with Skepchicks and FreeThoughtBlogs. Think 4chan but obsessed with a very small number of people. They make photoshops, videos, write stories, tell rape/PTSD jokes, come up with crude nicknames, stalk our home addresses, work places, and use hospitalizations to start STD rumors — that sort of thing.
—Ashley F. Miller

Its existence is more sad and pathetic than anything else; outside their unexamined prejudices, a lot of Slymepitters were formerly respected, but have been largely ostracized from the more self-questioning sides of skepticism, and therefore see themselves as being bullied by mean ol' women and manginas. There's some a lot of overlap with the men's rights movement here.[2]. One of the Slymepit's greatest "achievements" was their shameless exploitation of a mentally disturbed woman to "get back" at PZ Myers.[3]

The term 'Slymepitter' is also used more broadly to describe anyone whose comments and behaviour would be lauded there, even if they themselves have never been part of the group.

Slymepit dislikes
“”Content note: Pretty much everything. Racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia[4], rape jokes, rape denial, threats of violence, and more, too much to thoroughly trigger-warn. (...) the deliberate misgendering of trans people, anti-Semitism, polyamory-shaming, fat-shaming, mental-illness]-shaming, sexually-transmitted-disease shaming.
—Greta Christina[5]

They don't particularly like RationalWiki, and have adopted Slymepitter Franc Hoggle's term "baboons" used originally to describe PZ Myers and Pharyngula. They also really don't like Rebecca Watson, PZ Myers, Jen McCreight or anyone who calls them out on their crap, generally referring to such individuals as "cucks" and "white knights".[6] The entire exercise seems to be one enormous justification for being allowed to hit on women on elevators in the wee hours of the morning. A bit of a productivity waste, eh?[7][8]

Slymepit satire

The Slymepit is infamous for the terrible quality of its 'parody' and 'satirical' photoshopped images. Not all images featured on the Slymepit were created by regulars; some of the images made elsewhere are posted without any attribution. Sometimes images of a similar calibre are misattributed to the Slymepit (presumably due to having the same preoccupations). If you're wondering where the humour is in any of these, you are not alone. Like manosphere image macros[9] and conspiracy theorist propaganda posters, logic, legibility and laughter take a very definite back seat to the attempt to play up to the group's own prejudices and talking points.

This is what passes for satire there

See how many of the following make any sense to you without accompanying explanation.

  • "Stand down, gentlemen."
  • "Pharyngulanhas."
  • "Grand Theft Avicenna."
  • "Analog Bullshit Detector" for Richard Carrier. (Okay, this is a bit funny.)

For your own safety, try to contain your mirth.

Godfrey Elfwick

Godfrey Elfwick was a twitter persona from the Slymepit meant to parody their favorite boogeyman: "SJWs". Godfrey managed to prank the BBC and the British media in two separate instances. In the first prank, he was invited by the BBC to speak as someone who had never seen Star Wars.[10] He also went on Twitter with #WrongSkin where he claimed he feels he was a person of colour trapped in a wrong body.[11] The Slymepit Godfrey gave up his account by the end of 2015. A new Elfwick reappeared in early 2016, but this account is managed by another person, unknown to the original Elfwick (who is okay with this[citation needed]).

gollark: You should.
gollark: no → yesCorrected that.
gollark: Yes.
gollark: Mostly you'd use cargo for projects.
gollark: Probably easier than manual mallocs, and massively so.

See also
  • Elision
  • Gamergate: Gee, what's this link doing here?
  • Privilege: A concept that a great many Slymepitters seem to have a major problem understanding.
  • Thunderf00t: A fallen star and Slymepit hero.[12]

References
  1. The Slymepit, Documented
  2. A nice collection of Slymepitters on twitter going full MRA and Gamergate
  3. Disgraceful exploitation
  4. Tranny Lego
  5. The Slymepit, Documented
  6. A google search gives too many examples to list, including some where they combine them together
  7. Meet the Slyme Pit
  8. Meet the Slyme Pit 2
  9. http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2016/02/06/mens-rights-memes-that-make-you-go-wat
  10. BBC World Service with Elfwick as a guest
  11. #WrongSkin: Twitter campaign by white man who 'identifies as being black' goes viral Mirror.UK
  12. Slymepitters will tell you they aren't a fan of him, yet they will jump in to defend him every time he gets into a fight with "SJWs". A simple search of the Slymepit forums will reveal multiple threads where they organize attacks against people who "wronged" Thunderf00t, including complaining about our own article on Thunderf00t (archive)
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