Hugs throws in the towel

[Galt]

http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/2013/07/30/goodbye/

I almost feel sorry for Hugo Schwyzer. Almost. And I think Bluegrass got it right in a different thread - at the core of it, Hugo cites his family problems at the moment, along with his fragile mental health. He's probably on the skids towards his 4th divorce.

On the other side of it, I don't think this guy will ever understand that being dismissive, arrogant and condescending is going to get some push-back. He just thinks that all the crap he gets is something external and not related to him. I don't know what it is about him, he has always REALLY bugged me.

[dr e]

Well, i don't feel bad for him in the least.  He has been nasty towards many men and women simply because they had a different point of view. Hugo is the type that tolerance.org loves and will publish but the fact is he has the tiniest bit of tolerance for others imaginable.  And of course he has no idea of the chaos and pain that he spreads. 

Now at least the cat is out of the bag and hugo admits he is bi-polar:

As a personal update and partial explanation, I am out of the hospital after a psychiatric hold and I'm on a cluster of drugs that affect my mood, my judgment, and my capacity to engage. While I stand by the interview, those drugs (including heavy doses of Lithium, Klonopin and so forth) have played a part in the poor way I framed things. Nonetheless, I take full responsibility for every word I said, save for the unkind remark about XoJane publisher Jane Pratt.

Through all this public career, I have carefully (or not so) concealed a serious mental illness that is one again come to the fore. If nothing else, I ask for prayers for my wife Eira, my daughter Heloise, and my son David. They are innocents in this story.

[neoteny]

I need to get my marriage right. There's some bad shit that went down. I had an affair

So our pseudo-alpha-bad-boy Hugo got caught. But he's unable to just simply shut the fuck up, he has to go on and on about how he was cyber-bullied to the point that his oh-so-sensitive mental balance got out of whack.

Dude deserves everything he gets. I hope his wife is doing sack tapping on him as we speak.

[Galt]

Hugo is constantly railing against older men going out with younger women (he seems to think that's any of his business).

So it is amusing that he apparently followed Weiner in sexting with a much younger girl earlier this year:

http://therealpornwikileaks.com/hugoleaks-male-feminist-hugo-schwyzers-sexting-scandal-exposed-nsfw/

Hugo has cheated on every one of his four wives (and counting), he has conspired to cuckold another man, he has leveraged his power as an instructor to screw students, but he is also extremely judgemental about *other* men, holding himself up as a redeemed paragon of virtue. What a slice of phoney-baloney.

[bluegrass]

http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/2013/07/30/goodbye/

I almost feel sorry for Hugo Schwyzer. Almost. And I think Bluegrass got it right in a different thread - at the core of it, Hugo cites his family problems at the moment, along with his fragile mental health. He's probably on the skids towards his 4th divorce.

On the other side of it, I don't think this guy will ever understand that being dismissive, arrogant and condescending is going to get some push-back. He just thinks that all the crap he gets is something external and not related to him. I don't know what it is about him, he has always REALLY bugged me.

After following so many news stories down the rabbit hole it's actually pretty easy to pick stuff out like this.  There's also a basic element of human nature that typically if a person is over the top concerned with a particular issue -like Hugo has been with women's issues - there's something emotional at the heart of it that the person is compensating for.  It's almost like a yin and yang type thing.  For instance, all the family values politicians who harbor gay feelings or John and Reve Walsh who have worked so hard to skew people's understanding of missing children.  It was actually Reve's fault Adam Walsh was taken as she left him in the store alone while she shopped for lamps.

Hugo is a classic case of this type of behavior.  That's also why most feminist "thought" is actually projection. 

[bluegrass]

More here:

http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/07/male-feminist-hugo-schwyzers-early-retirement.html

Damn Hugo is a classic borderline personality.  Her really is.  Then again so are most of the leaders of feminist thought which is also why feminism is mostly based on projection.

[Galt]

Then again so are most of the leaders of feminist thought which is also why feminism is mostly based on projection.

I see different pathologies in feminism: Young girls can simply be spoiled, immature brats about it, stomping their foot and demanding more and more. Male feminists like Schwyzer, Kimmel and their ilk lean more towards being psychopathic manipulators. Lots of older feminists are just bitter women who hate men, and not being attractive to men anymore probably doesn't help.

I think that Hugo's mental health problems stem in part from trying to force through a belief system that is at odds with reality. He's also constantly play-acting as to what he thinks, trying to say and do what he thinks would be impressive to others. I've seen lots of people ask him if he himself really believes the crap he spouts. It takes a lot of mental energy to keep up a facade.*

* My girlfriend in college took a psychology class once, and she told me lots about it, so I feel eminently qualified to dissect Hugo's psyche.

[Galt]

Now the long goodbye, Part Deux, in which he brags about having "multiple affairs" recently, and tells his version of how he tried to kill a woman:

http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/2013/08/01/goodbye-part-two-the-unpublished-story-of-the-attempted-murder-suicide/

I would think his community college would be mortified with this truly psycho behavior, but then again it's California. He'll likely get a raise.

[neoteny]

Recent events [...] have revealed me to be broken, a fraud.

Love the passive voice: mistakes were made, but it is all the fault of those damned recent events.

[Galt]

Now a suicide attempt, and he says his marriage is "over":

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2013/08/porn_professor_hugo_schwyzer_suicide_attempt.php

Prediction (you read it here first): In a year, Hugo will be married to his "best friend and true soul mate", Wife No. 5, and will be writing articles for Cosmo or a similar magazine about how men who cheat on their wives and sext young girls are creeps.

[bluegrass]

Classic classic classic borderline/narcissist behavior:  make a fake attempt at suicide using a method you're 90% sure won't be successful in order to manipulate people, typically to feeling sorry for you.  If you actually read up on the drug he used in his suicide attempt, it doesn't sound like it's at all easy to kill yourself with.  Looking around the internet it appears a person of Hugo's size would need to take around 3500 25mg pills in order to be lethal.

So basically it's impossible.  In the bigger picture this is exactly why suicide attempts should never be compared to actual suicides.  Most attempts are attempts to manipulate as often as they are real attempts to suicide.

[Galt]

So you try to commit suicide by taking a bunch of muscle-relaxant pills, at a dose you know is about 1/1000 of what would come anywhere near harming you. What do you do the next day, when you have a bit of a hangover from your "suicide attempt" and you have just finished announcing that you are done in the Internet? Why of course you call the LAWeekly Internet newspaper and tell them in incredible detail about your suicide attempt.

Attention whore times 100. And I think the technical term for this kind of guy is a "Cluster B Clusterfuck", meaning that lots of the Cluster B DSM diagnoses bleed over into one another. Narcissist, borderline, sociopath ... maybe just a snot-nosed little jackass.

[bluegrass]

That's why terms like Borderline were invented.

Psychologists didn't feel right about spending 10 years in school only to write the word "asshole" on someone's chart.

So they invented borderline.

[CaptDMO]

That's why terms like Borderline were invented.

Psychologists didn't feel right about spending 10 years in school only to write the word "asshole" on someone's chart.

So they invented borderline.

10 years? Remember, psycology is NOT the same as psychiatry.
"Borderline" also comes in handy when convincing folks that don't actually meet the criteria for a "diagnosis", but if they answer 4 out of 10 questions "true" on a
"form" that ANYONE would, they (or someone else-including "the state") would benifit by "investing" tens of thousands of dollars with them in "treatment", as schedualed in someone elses expensive paperback workbook.

The same "borderline" criteria applies to other  lower "education" standards, psychiatry-lite fields, by folks who
have zero actual skills other than dispensing, and "grading" forms.
Gotta pay for those manditory-for-"continuing-state-certification" continuing "education" credits somehow!

 

[Galt]

Now Hugo has had a major breakdown:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alisonvingiano/why-did-controversial-feminist-hugo-schwyzer-have-a-twitter

https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer

He was diagnosed with "bipolar disorder with psychotic features and borderline personality disorder"

Some of his Tweets:

"So the real story you all missed is that I talked my way into teaching women's studies on the basis of 2 undergrad courses only"

"I then built a career as a well-known online male feminist on fraudulent pretenses. My mania let me talk a good game"

"So with the clarity that comes from a shitload of anti-psychotics, I'm sorry I've been such a breathtakingly cocky fraud"

"Which is how I got the gigs I got. I learned clickbait. Sometimes I fucked my way into a gig."

"I built a brand (remember "off-brand") on being something completely false to get approbation."

"I cheated on my wife and pretended to be reformed. I wrote an article in the Atlantic condemning age-disparate relationships the same week"

"...that I was sleeping with a 23 year-old. And sexting a 27 year-old. Not my students at least."

"Think of my kids? MY wife won't let me see my kids? I'm too grave a danger, she says."

"The point is simple and clear and sane. I have been a self-aggrandizing fraud from day one. @studentactivism will tell you"