Sword and Scale Episode 94

This interview felt a bit sensationalist, the host shouldn’t guilt the guest into backtracking on their statements. If you put someone on the spot like that they’ll just parrot back what they think the ‘correct’ answer is and honesty is more interesting.

Excellent- I like the way Mike did not relent in his questioning and short of “forced the perspective”.

He. He. He. He.

This was a male committing stereotypical male violence. You insult women when you cosign this delusion. Come on, can we get back to reality please? Womanhood is a biological reality, not a feeling.

~Not A Conservative, a woman with the right to name facts.

Well it looks like your hope that this person be judged by her actions and not her gender identity are being ignored.

I love horror movies and it’s absolutely no excuse, cause, or reason for the disconnected air or flippant attitude

Skater is so absorbed in his own attempt to create a mystique and a clumsy attempt to be worldly and refined that he stumbles and shows his severe immaturity at every step.

Skater’s, ” Death doesn’t phase me and others mean nothing,” statements are juvenile!

Andrew Blaze and Skater BOTH show an inability to look critically at their own behavior or actions. Andrew was unable to see blatant copyright infringement issues and Skater is unable to recognize how shallow he appears to be in his videos.

Failure to launch takes a dark turn with the young adults in this situation.

This was the hardest thing to sit through. Andrew and Skater are the epitome of every rightist/conservative stereotype of millennials: self indulgent, entitled, lazy, spoiled, whiny, callous, irresponsible, too precious to accept criticism, too arrogant to accept responsibility, attention-seeking, too self-important to respect or empathize with others. I wanted to vomit listening to the crap being spewed. “My dad had the nerve to want me, A GROWN MAN, WHO IS LIVING IN HIS HOUSE, DEPENDING ON HIS INCOME TO SUPPLEMENT MY LIFE, to get an actual job and be independent! How dare that *homophobic slur* (but you’d better respect my gender pronouns, or you’re transphobic!) expect me to grow up! He should drop dead! And f** all these people who were nice enough to agree to help me for free, then have the nerve not to prioritize ME and WHAT I WANT instead of what pays their bills! I hate people!” And then we have Skater, “Well I don’t care,I didn’t know them, but I knew my friend, so I care about her, even though we weren’t good enough friends for me to realize that she’d been planning a mass murder for years, I want to show my respect to her, go look at my channel! See my channel? My channel will have a song for her, and oh yeah, those people that I don’t care got killed, I’m gonna say i do, on my channel, go look at my channel! I’m not trying to center myself by promoting my channel, I’m just saying that I will be using this event to make videos for my channel. Oh, I’m supposed to care about other people dying? Uh, k, I care then. I don’t really know their names, I researched the Columbine shooters so I would know about them, but not the innocent people my friend murdered that I can’t relate to. But I’ll say their names on my channel! Hey, I’m just desensitized cuz scary movies. No, I can’t empathize with them, my family hates me, no one loves me, I’M the victim! What did you think of my video?”
Utterly disgusting. Literal embodiments of what’s wrong with these infantilized adults being let loose into the world with the rest of us.

people need to know THIS WAS A MAN. we dont need to be polite to murderers and rapists paedophiles. we dont have to pretend we really think this person is a woman. i mean come on…! who really believes this shit and who is just pretending they do because they are terrified of being targeted by masturbating fuckwit trolls? how did this happen?

Staaaaahp this was so good. Skater is terrifying. Andrew is terrifying. I got chills listening to him talk about his dad and rant about “copying”… Holy shit. This episode was legit. Thanks Mike!!!! <3 <3 <3

but, he did

I know skater personally and has told me in dms that he dosent care about the victims and i completely ditched the fucker i will never associate with skater again

I’m disappointed in many of the comments expressing disapproval about Mike’s use of she/her pronouns for this person. We use the correct gender pronouns for people even if they are bad people. Not out of respect for those people, but because we cannot make gender a conditional right. It creates a dangerous precedent for how trans people are treated, as well as precedent for the conditionalizing of other human rights.

Stair was a repugnant human being: a murderer, a self-professed racist and sexist, an overall cruel, lazy, and selfish person. We do not need to have sympathy or empathy for her nor must we judge her with lenience because of her transness, or because she was tormented. Our use of she/her pronouns is not a show of respect or compassion for her (whom we abhor) but for humankind.

I’m really glad that S&S did an episode on the Weiss massacre. I found this incident so fascinating and complex and chilling, just doing my own research. This is my favorite podcast! I’m shocked I finally got to a news story first before Mike Boudet did.

Although it was done beautifully, it makes me so angry that Mike had to put out another recording explaining himself in the wake of backlash received since these episodes were released. It’s just ridiculous that he has defend his integrity and justify his actions despite the fact that he is always tactful, appropriate and fair. I hate that he has to apologize to the listeners because of people that will crucify anyone who dares to express an individual point of view.