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 — Offensive in the Abstract (@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.

https://twitter.com/WildGooseVEVO/status/864546654338379776

https://twitter.com/WildGooseVEVO/status/864546864003244033

https://twitter.com/WildGooseVEVO/status/864445557099638784

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.

https://twitter.com/_EmmaTH/status/864214856488112137

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 — @sev@ap.sevvie.ltd 🈲 (@sevvierose) May 15, 2017

https://twitter.com/HarmfulOpinions/status/864189192938688513

https://twitter.com/HarmfulOpinions/status/864198416154361856

https://twitter.com/RealClassixX/status/864417557331267585

https://twitter.com/AzazelZxX/status/864407476460027904

https://twitter.com/Punishedstitch/status/864259336352264192

https://twitter.com/slow17moLIVES/status/864317804694179840

https://twitter.com/GloriousDescent/status/864219513981685762

https://twitter.com/Abraxas_Virus/status/864295336390647808

https://twitter.com/Seismics_Swans/status/864293198062997504

https://twitter.com/RightWingNut92/status/864352618121904129

https://twitter.com/yungjeune/status/864258841046855682

https://twitter.com/Green_Mick_XD/status/864466032383098880

https://twitter.com/Imabigscrewball/status/864530720567345152

https://twitter.com/Whiting1289/status/864433349237932033

Some defended the jokes because “feminists did it first” by pointing out spree killer Elliot Rodger’s misogyny.

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 — Offensive in the Abstract (@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.

https://twitter.com/SkepticFeminist/status/864476600926167041

https://twitter.com/SkepticFeminist/status/864487177484460032

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.

Like Loading...