“Skeptic Feminist” Youtuber Aleksandr Kolpakov, aka RDP or Russian Deadpool
Horrible news: “Skeptic Feminist” Youtuber Aleksandr Kolpakov has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder after allegedly shooting and killing Heather “Ivy” Anable, his girlfriend and one of his cohosts on his Skeptic Feminist Youtube channel.
Some of the internet’s worst antifeminist icons think this is all quite hilarious, positively thrilled to have an alleged murder to lay at the feet of their ideological enemies.
Dr. Randomercam, a member of the resolutely antifeminist Honey Badger Brigade, entered the fray with this grotesque tweet:
Those SJWs aren't that bad really. It's not as though any of them have ever murdered anyone. pic.twitter.com/QEleEtaPKk
— DrRandomercam (@DrRandomercam) May 15, 2017
Former Gamergate icon and doxing enthusiast Ethan Ralph headlined his blog post on the subject “MALE FEMINISTS STRIKE AGAIN?: YouTuber The Skeptic Feminist Accused of Murdering Polyandry Partner Heather Anable.” In the post itself, he seemed to suggest that Kolpakov’s “male feminism” was the root of his violence, writing
Perhaps Kolpakov was not content with merely sexually assaulting women, like many of his male feminist “allies,” so he decided to go ahead and level up by killing one.
He went on to suggest that a recent tweet from Kolpakov protesting Vladimir Putin’s draconian anti-gay crackdowns showed that he (Kolpakov, not Putin) “had extermination on the mind.”
He mentioned a possible "extermination" by Putin. Kolpakov seems to have had extermination on the brain recently.https://t.co/mFk3POzexb pic.twitter.com/rddKkDUfhX
— Ethan Ralph (@TheRalphRetort) May 15, 2017
Fellow doxing enthusiast Wild Goose, a former regular, now irregular, contributor to Ethan Ralph’s Ralph Retort, used the murder as an excuse for a string of pitiful jokes about male feminists.
Male Feminist is prison speak for a guy who is not to be trifled with. Usually someone who commits homicide against women.
— WildGoose (@WildGooseVEVO) May 16, 2017
"Look out brother, I hear your new celly is a Male Feminist. Best sleep with one eye open." https://t.co/5pV0dC39lj
— WildGoose (@WildGooseVEVO) May 16, 2017
Elliot Rodger was the first male feminist.
— WildGoose (@WildGooseVEVO) May 16, 2017
On the right-wing Murdoch rag Heat Street, meanwhile, perpetual Gamergater and professional Twitter-drama critic Ian Miles Cheong supplemented his reporting on the basic facts of the case with weird passive-aggressive insults about Kolpakov’s inability to get many retweets on Twitter for his critiques of Gamergate.
They weren’t the only ones to find the alleged murder hilarious — or at least ideologically useful.
@DrRandomercam pic.twitter.com/CYajbMtWJb
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Meme Thief (@leechko) May 15, 2017
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Meme Thief (@leechko) The Skeptic Feminist Drinking Game: Take a shot every time one of his girlfriends does. @Sargon_of_Akkad @LouisLeVau
— Emma Thacker-Hopkins (@_EmmaTH) May 15, 2017
@SkepticFeminist Okay, I'm only doing this because I'm an absolutely horrible person, and I honestly know none of you and hold no opinions. pic.twitter.com/KaGBs226vG
— 𝔰𝔢𝔳𝔳𝔦𝔢 ℜ𝔬𝔰𝔢 (@sevvierose) May 15, 2017
Will they be rebranding to The Skeptic™ Shooter?
— Harmful Opinions
(@HarmfulOpinions) May 15, 2017
(@HarmfulOpinions) When you're a feminist who thinks men shouldn't kill women, but you're also a skeptic so you have to challenge that belief.
— Harmful Opinions
(@HarmfulOpinions) May 15, 2017
@amazingatheist @SkepticFeminist I find that to be hilarious.
— Your opinion (@RealClassixX) May 16, 2017
@amazingatheist @SkepticFeminist Hahahahah hilarious
— azazel (@AzazelZxX) May 16, 2017
@SkepticFeminist feminism kills, how about that.
— Suicidal #626 (@Punishedstitch) May 15, 2017
You know, if @SkepticFeminist decided to spare her simply because she was a woman–that would be misogyny.
— slow17motion (@slow17moLIVES) May 16, 2017
@natnie @21logician Yes and it's funny, because it's true. It's also hilarious that a guy called @SkepticFeminist killed a SJW woman.
— Wise Owl (@GloriousDescent) May 15, 2017
@shoe0nhead @GloriousDescent @natnie @21logician @SkepticFeminist SJW on SJW crime…https://t.co/yb91USZeY7
— Death to the World (@Abraxas_Virus) May 16, 2017
@SkepticFeminist pic.twitter.com/unlSLAn1rq
— Seismic Swans (@Seismics_Swans) May 16, 2017
@PopcornPower @JennyKMcDermott @SkepticFeminist He respected women so much he shot one for gender equality. True progress
— Jack ✠ (@RightWingNut92) May 16, 2017
>be a "skeptic feminist"
>kill a woman
lmaohttps://t.co/IcBzHqX8QY— masque nada (@yungjeune) May 15, 2017
> Be @SkepticFeminist >"I am a feminist" >"LOL Sike!" > Shoot Girlfriend >Go to jail a hero as a sacrifice to the patriarchy
— Deus Vult (@Green_Mick_XD) May 16, 2017
@Sargon_of_Akkad @SkepticFeminist Well men get murdered more, so he is actually helping statistics. I call that devotion
— Quiett (@Imabigscrewball) May 16, 2017
@SkepticFeminist No one is more degenerate than a male feminist. It's why female feminists think all men are scum, because they surround themselves with them
— Whiting (@Whiting1289) May 16, 2017
Some defended the jokes because “feminists did it first” by pointing out spree killer Elliot Rodger’s misogyny.
@DisTurqLlama When the feminists tried to make Eliot Rogers an MRA. At least the #skepticfeminist is an actual feminist.
— Ferrule Bezel (@FeruleBezel) May 16, 2017
Brace yourselves. They're about to accuse us of doing everything they did with Elliot Rodger *and still do*
This is going to be REALLY gross— DrRandomercam (@DrRandomercam) May 15, 2017
Never mind that Rodger left behind a book-length manifesto and numerous videos describing his hatred for women in terms that would not be out-of-place on the Incels subreddit. Never mind that it is the incels, not the feminists, who joke about Rodger.
Ralph, naturally, defended those joking about the murder.
Not saying celebrate the chick's death, obvs that's messed up. But of course he should be memed on.
— Ethan Ralph (@TheRalphRetort) May 16, 2017
He followed this up with a 12-minute video thoughtfully titled “Yes, We Should Meme on The Skeptic Feminist After Murder Charge.” I didn’t watch it. Life is too short.
It’s worth noting that as of now we know almost nothing — at least nothing definitive — about the murder. The Skeptic Feminist Twitter account, presumably now being run by the channel’s other co-host, a woman going by the name of another Batman villain, “Harley Quinn,” blames the killing on PTSD.
Ivy was unable to pull him out of it and Harley one of few besides DD that could pull him out was gone. And we lost one of our own.
— The Skeptic Feminist (@SkepticFeminist) May 16, 2017
@StephenHawking8 @elonmusk @SamHarrisOrg Come on Guys use your head. he's an ex-solider. He had a flashback and was unable to come out of it. This happens often.
— The Skeptic Feminist (@SkepticFeminist) May 16, 2017
While many have accepted this explanation, as of yet we have no evidence that it is true. We don’t know if there was any history of domestic violence, or some other motive. We really don’t know anything for sure.
The only heartening thing in this whole tragic mess is that the Twitter jokes about the murder are vastly outnumbered by heartfelt condolences — including numerous tweets from antifeminists more interested in expressing human sympathy than in scoring dubious ideological points.
I’ll keep you updated; this is a story that will be with us for a long time.