She Said (But She's From Clown World)

"She Said (But She's From Clown World" is a song off the Every Ape and His Brother album The Sent-In Clowns. It's a parody of "He Said, She Said" by Chvrches.

Background
Desire to make this song came almost immediately after the original song's announcement through a YouTube notification two weeks prior, making this the fastest turnaround from original to parody in the history of Every Ape songs. The song was written on the spot and recorded immediately, submitted to YouTube around 2:45 AM EDT on May 8th of 2021. The parody's goal was to address issues that seemed like Lauren's version should have covered and included; but which were omitted from the original.

For starters, the original was titled "He Said, She Said," but never comments on anything the woman says to the man. It only comments on her opinion of the man's instructions to her making no sense. While this is effective at addressing a culture of gaslighting becoming the norm as being a serious problem, the original song still feels one-sided, as no men are allowed to vent their frustrations with female gaslighting of men.

This makes the original song's title especially misleading to American audiences, who instead expected a ballad about a story told multiple times from differing points of view, a-la the animated film Hoodwinked. Alas, this isn't what happened.

To correct this, the parody initially set out to address a woman gaslighting a man. Instead, it became a commentary on female internet trolls who aren't very good at their jobs - as well as the growing online culture of willful ignorance and anti-intellectualism which routinely tries to avoid facing uncomfortable facts by resorting to name-calling, hostility, and ad-hominem attacks against individuals who try to make valid points. In the parody song, the women give replies to the man they pick an argument with. However, those replies all prove to be illogical, off-topic, unfair, oversexualized, or insanely hypocritical. And in one case, it leads to the man surviving attempted murder by way of vehicular assault.

Topics
Most of the crazy woman remarks that the parody song addresses revolve around logically fallacious attacks of various flavors of ad hominem which are all too common on social media, often commonly ascribed to far-left-wing users when they cannot refute a right-wing claimant's central premises and claims; but feel in a misplaced sense of pride a need to attack the claimant anyway. Associates and allies past and present of Dozerfleet have often complained of becoming victims of these sorts of attacks from outsiders.

Ad veneris fortuna
Appeal to sexual success (or lack thereof.) This is one of the lowest forms of (non)-argument, which men are frequently subjected to in an abusive manner by women who lack any argument of substance of their own. Also known as the "incel" pejorative, it has quickly become, in some circles, the new "N-word." It is a completely rude, senseless, bigoted attack that assumes that literally any desire for a man to make a particular claim can only come from sexual frustration, precluding the possibility of any other motivation. This, in turn, is misandrist objectification of men into little more than sexual objects, along with claims that men who are assumed to not meet a particular standard of sexual market value are therefore incapable of saying anything credible. Such preclusive discrediting of men due to unfounded presumption of "ugliness" and undesirability is morally equivalent to a man presuming that a woman who is "fat and ugly" can't possibly have anything useful to say to him, because he will only listen to women that are sexually appealing to him.

The woman so boldly trying to dismiss the singer's unstated original claim by writing him off as an "incel," without any preestablishment of either evidence or relevance, thus becomes proof of an all-too-often-accepted societal double standard: where women are permitted to hold such baseless views on a man's credibility based on his presumed sexual market value; whereas a man doing the same thing to a woman would be immediately condemned by the masses as a "sexist pig."

The singer then retorts by telling the woman that he has no interest in ever wanting sex from her. Which doesn't completely negate her accusation; but it casts a shadow of doubt on her credibility. If he were as desperate for sex as she claims; then he'd be enough of a simp to accept it even from her, even after she attacked him! But he's clearly not that desperate for sex; because he refuses to compromise his dignity to that degree, just to get some.

Thus, he reverses fortune on her attempt to bait him. Instead of trying to prove a negative, that he isn't an "incel," he places on her the burden of proof. To make matters worse, the most common time that abusive women use this "incel" (non)-argument, is to dismiss a speaker who is winning an argument against her that has nothing to do with sex, thus making the accusation a complete red herring in the first place!

Ratio accusationis minaci
By reason of accusation of seeming menacing. Also known as the "creep" pejorative. This is another form of ad veneris fortuna, in which the man is reduced to nothing more than his sexual impulses and desperation. Especially if it is a red herring, and the original central point of the man's argument had nothing to do with sex, and he didn't address the woman in a sexually demeaning manner, then her stooping this low to call him a "creep" for outsmarting her in debate is a truly loathsome form of ad hominem.

Not only does this red herring attack divert attention away from the unstated original central argument and point; but it creates a situation where the man feels extra pressure to take the bait of accepting the burden of proof, to prove a negative. This is because if he refuses to take the bait and defend himself against this irrational accusation, then he appears to be indicting himself by agreeing with it. Except, the connotations of "you're sad; I bet you're a creep" put him in the same category socially in the minds of others as a serial rapist, predatory stalker, or serial killer.

Yet, this also baits the man into the potential for being subjected to another type of dangerous logical fallacy: a Kafkatrap. Where the urgency of his effort to defend himself is then twisted into an excuse to argue that his desperation to deny her claim is somehow proof of the claim. This, in turn, is a form of gaslighting, and is in fact one of the most abusive forms of it.

To make matters worse, the woman doing this on a public forum not only is emotionally blackmailing the man into taking the bait in a trap of self-defense; but is also emotionally blackmailing third parties into taking the accuser's side. Anyone who refuses to take the accuser's side, is then Kafkatrapped into being seen as "a friend of creeps," and an accomplice to some unspecified crime, and therefore, also a criminal. Moreover, groupthink-minded individuals whose personal insecurities lead to a desire for virtue signaling will feel pressure to prove their allegiance to the accuser, to prove their self-righteousness. Not only because they want to convince themselves of their moral superiority to the accused parties; but for fear of what the accuser will have done to them should they fail.

Therefore, those siding with the baseless accuser feel additional social pressure to hypocritically gangstalk the target, or up the ante on hypocritical harassment of the target, by way of doing their part to frame the target to law enforcement, and draw attention of authorities to the target. If taken too far, this emotional act of extortion leads to the victims of the accuser's social engineering, motivated by misplaced feelings of self-righteous fury, going as far as filing false police reports!

In this song, the woman using this most despicable of tactics to suppress the man goes one step further: illegally doxxing the man. He blocks her from the platform they are both on, to prevent her from giving away too much information about where he lives to all the enemies she is determined to make for him. In this way, the woman who was originally upset at losing an unrelated argument with the man has gone to the extreme lengths of committing acts of endangerment and conspiracy to instigate mobbing, just to make her point of how she feels about losing the argument.

The singer makes the point that this woman went above and beyond hypocrisy with her criminal levels of extortion and conspiracy against him, and has no room to be labeling anyone a "creep."

Negata ob novitatem
Denial due to strangeness. Also known on TVTropes as the "weirdness censor," or else otherwise known as "extreme orthonoia." Those afflicted with this worldview bias are usually of an agnostic or atheistic bent. Their need to reject a sovereign God, even as a general idea, ironically leads to them needing a god of sorts to "fill the gap" that creates an existential paradox. But refusing to turn to a Bible, they often turn to a need to deify government. Such statism-minded individuals may not be consciously aware of their deification of government. However, orthonia is an attitude which provides evidence to suggest the presence of this form of idolatry.

Under this mindset, it becomes impossible for the orthonoid individual to accept the plausibility that imperfect human beings (let alone outright evil ones) could ever successfully hold an office in any branch of government - or that any branch of government can ever be, in principle, illegitimate to exist in the first place - regardless what written laws and constitutions say, nor past precedents upon which those documents were forged in response!

A common Operation Mockingbird tactic employed by the CIA for several decades was to convince gullible members of the population to be dismissive of anyone who challenges or questions anything done by any individual who is advancing the CIA's goals; so as to socially engineer the public into accepting an unlimited number of logical fallacies as acceptable grounds to dismiss and discredit in facies suas ANY opposition to the CIA's goals.

A popular example of this was to convince the public that anyone critical of anything the CIA, or critical of anyone advancing their goals; must surely be only a "theorist," regardless of admissions and confessions by the agency that have established clear patterns of factual instances of malfeasance. This, in turn, is a form of gaslighting the public - which legacy media now frequently does on the CIA's behalf.

Hollywood got in on the act, portraying conspiracy "theorists" with strawman characters of someone who is clearly unhinged, unstable, and crazy. Thus, all who do not share in the orthonoia are stereotyped as unhinged or mentally ill. Furthermore, "theorists" are often unfairly diagnosed by unqualified wannabe armchair psychiatrists as suffering from some established medical condition; usually the Hollywood version of paranoid schizophrenia.

The lazy dismisser will then try to distract from a central point they cannot refute, by simply arguing that the speaker must be suffering from hallucinations. Hallucinations of that sort usually require psychotropic drugs to suppress. Therefore, they argue that the man making the central point can surely only be making the point he is making, because surely he is suffering from paranoid hallucinations.

"Get back on your meds" is the lazy, pejorative way of dismissing someone's claims about government malfeasance in a case where there appears to be strong evidence that a higher-up official acted with ill intent, all due to personal insecurity.

In the song, the man specifically tries to argue based on an unspecified-by-the-song past incident that a particular unspecified-by-the-song director of an unspecified-by-the-song bureau handled the case in a malfeasant manner. Ergo, the director of that agency is evil, and belongs dead or in prison much moreso than the victims of his latest unconstitutional raid and miscellaneous oversteps of authority.

The woman dismissing the claims is treated a week later to a hefty dose of karma; as her cousin is brutally murdered by that same agency - over grounds that are even far less justifiable than what was used to excuse the raid that the man was talking about originally.

The man shrugs this off, as he realizes that rubbing an "I told you so!" in the face of the woman who called him crazy wouldn't even faze her, due to her unyielding orthonoia, insecurity, and foolish pride.

Prohibetur ne homini nosse

 * "Poisoning the well"

Argumentum ad stirpiumque iactatio
Wouldn't explain Mitochondrial Eve!

Ad antiphrasis

Argumentum ad avibus omnique
Ad veneris fortuna

Twitter culture
They're proof civil-ization's running out of time!

Trivia

 * At the time of this song's submission to AmIRight, it was the first and only time that any song by Chvrches had ever been parodied on that site. At that same time, few parodies of that band's work could be found on YouTube either.