Looking into the vocabulary of Bronze Age Pervert

I want to make it clear before I start that in writing this post, I am by no means endorsing the ideology of who I am discussing.  I bring this subject to your attention purely because of the amount of success and increasing prevalence he has received.

The ‘creative’ at hand is the internet po(a)ster, author, bodybuilder, and podcaster known as Bronze Age Pervert, or simply BAP.  This man remains anonymous under that title (there are speculations about his real-life but this post is focusing on his virtual persona), and goes so far as to talk in a caricatured, sleazy Slavic accent on his podcast, Caribbean Rhythms.  He has made himself immensely popular in specific areas of the online right.  His manner of posting, or as it is considered in the communities he infiltrates, poasting, is erratic, filled with purposeful misspellings and words only known to his followers or affiliates.  He follows suit with this type of verbiage all throughout the self-published book he sells over Amazon titled Bronze Age Mindset.  This book is a jarring attempt at internet age philosophy merging archaic ideals with 19th century German philosophy and a distaste for modernity.  The book, littered with invocations of “frens” and “frogs” and questions of “wat mean”, ranges from sensible realizations about the world through uncited recollections of history to full on advocacy for white supremacy, eugenics, and subjugation of female counterparts, especially through the use of prostitutes.

Ever true to form, a trademark post of his includes a post-coital shot of an escort facelessly holding his book for the camera with a caption calling her a “prostie”.  Yet despite the shoving of chauvinistic heterosexuality down the throats of followers, BAP seems to also endorse the pederastic tradition of the ancient Greeks.  It is commonplace nowadays to say “the Greeks were gay”, but that isn’t really the right word, they had institutions in place for the formulaic rape of young boys.  And this understanding of that tradition is lauded by BAP.  Calling him gay for this attitude is a favorite among his most steadfast haters.  These haters are many, as could be imagined, but include people of all sides.  For one, with the obsession with pre-antiquity, BAP is not Christian, which alienates a lot of the hyper-online right-wing sphere.  It is hard to effectively hate on him, however, at least to his vigilant followers, as the views he actually holds are so convoluted and muddied by both the way he expresses himself and the way he is interpreted.  A lot of what he posts is unserious.  He weekly hashtags #hentaifridays where he posts the only “women” he is attracted to: bizarrely proportionate baby-faced anime “waifus”.   Further, he has claimed that women’s bodies cannot be beautiful so far as they are functional; aesthetic beauty only exists for beauty’s sake.  This explains his affinity for bodybilt young studs, who he posts and perhaps thirsts over more than any woman or waifu.  He cares very much about building a sculpted Grecco-Roman “fizeek” and encourages followers to work towards one themselves.

Redundant to even say out loud, but much of his fans are incels.  Incel culture is notorious for originating trends that go on to permeate less radical, more mainstream internet avenues.  That process seems to be happening with BAP talking points and original words.  Many of these words have been in his circulation for years, but their recent prevalence is the very thing that inspired me to write this.  One that I have seen an uptick in lately is “longhouse” which makes reference to nomadic history and refers to, generally, the verbal abuse husbands face from their ugly and old wives, and more broadly the constraints felt by living in current society, which BAP considers matriarchal.  To combat a woman who has longhoused him, he might call her a “roastie”.  This definition is going to sound so vulgar and obnoxious so forgive me, but it is a term for a woman who has participated in so much casual sex with multiple partners that her genitals are mutilated to the point of looking like, well, roast beef.  This concept is popular over the internet but the use of this term converts it from a concept to something you can reduce a woman to.  Of course that is not how vaginas work, but he’s a humanities devotee, not a scientist.

The coining and use of these terms is the creative endeavor for which I have included him in the conversation on this site.  While I personally hold that academically categorizing creativity is itself a perverse way to understand human nature, that is the subject matter of this class and I must abide.  I think, based on the Smith and Ward reading, BAP exhibits remote association habits.  He can take stories of ancient heroes and relate it to how man should be functioning in contemporary society.  His thought process is far from what one could expect from average classicism and relies solely on what is conjured in the head, rather than peer-reviewed sources.  Further, the article mentioned how this method of creativity was first observed in schizophrenic patients, and it is no secret that many of BAP’s readers are themselves schizophrenic.  Perhaps they, instinctually, recognize this mutual thought process, causing such affinity.