Linus and Roosh: Birds of a Feather

Because if you want me to “act professional”, I can tell you that I’m not interested. I’m sitting in my home office wearign a bathrobe. The same way I’m not going to start wearing ties, I’m also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. Because THAT is what “acting professionally” results in: people resort to all kinds of really nasty things because they are forced to act out their normal urges in unnatural ways.

If that sounds exactly like some MRA complaining about how the standards for treating women 'interfere' with his 'natural urges,' you'd only be half-right. No, that's Linus Torvalds making excuses for his willingness to spew vitriol and anger from the safety of his basement and bathrobe.

But it's the same mindset. "I have natural urges, and I act them out, and if you don't like it then this isn't the space for you" poisons the space around us, and makes every single one of us feel more comfortable in our locked, armored basements than anywhere else in the world. It's the poison of the open source community; it's the poison of the atheist community; it's the poison of the BDSM community; it's the poison of every church and mosque and synagogue and retreat in America.