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 was doing, 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. "It is useless to argue with an ostrich."

Prohibetur ne homini nosse
"Forbidding that the man should know." Also known as a misandrist form of "poisoning the well." This is a common tactic of child sacrifice advocates, who use the innumerable logical fallacies upon which modern identity politics are stitched together to make the bigoted claim that morality cannot be universal; and that therefore, a universal standard of it cannot be ascertained by someone, unless they can properly adhere to one particular identity that is arbitrarily assumed to be capable of knowing it. This demented modern form of Gnosticism, as applied by child sacrifice advocates, often makes the illogical mistake of claiming that the universal and readily-observable morality of killing an infant or unborn child cannot be known or knowable. This, in spite the fact that these are merely age stages that every living human being experiences! Because the fallacy in turn assumes that the only thing that can matter to the equation, is the attitude of a woman who may be temporarily inconvenienced by a pregnancy.

The abortion lobby makes many other repeatedly-proven-false assertions, and repeats them ad-nauseum; ignoring any evidence to the contrary and recycling in arguments to create absurdity loops - all in an effort to wear down resistance rather than disprove it. One of the most insidious and bigoted of these, is the pretense that a man, by virtue of not being able to get pregnant, cannot possibly know the temporary inconvenience of being a pregnant woman; and therefore, cannot know universal morality on a child's right to not being sacrificed as being an absolute. Ergo, "you're a man, you don't get a say!" While poisoning the well may not be a direct logical fallacy; it is a bigoted, ignorant attitude that lays the foundation for fallacies to be committed.

However, the same mobs that often advocate in favor of poisoning the well, also have a tendency to support radical fruitcake Gnostic causes - such as "gender-non-binary identities." But if a "man" can get pregnant, then this creates a situation where the issue of a man being able to know for certain whether or not a child has a right to live, even in the womb, is impossible to reconcile. To stick to the original, is to admit that a being with two dominant X chromosomes and no originally-native Y chromosome (parasitic fraternal twin brothers don't count) cannot be fairly called a "man," regardless of what he/she-it-thing pretends to be via identity politics, an argument also known colloquially as "#ShowMeTheChromosomeFax." Trans activists loathe this expression with seething rage and outbursts of nuthouse levels of demonic fury; as it compares their agenda implicitly to the ethics of a sleazy used car dealer. This, in turn, requires abortion fanatics to throw the T in LGBTQPIZON under the bus, just to defend abortion.

However, if pandering to the T in sexual perversion and Gnostic demonic delusion alphabet soup becomes priority #1; then the original prohibetur ne homini nosse fallacy must necessarily be dismissed. This is so that "trans men" are acknowledged during their pregnancies as getting to have a say regarding whether or not they can know that a child has a right to life that supersedes a parent's desire for convenience. However, if "trans men" are then allowed to have a say, and "trans men" must be considered "real" "men" alongside "cisgender"-men, then it becomes bigotry to suggest that "cisgender" men are incapable of learning secondhand about universal morality on a child's right to life by way of listening to a "trans" "man" speak on the topic. Ergo, if a "trans" "man" takes the side of life, then any other man who takes the side of life can cite the "trans" "man," and therefore, cannot be fairly denied a say.

In so doing, those wishing to pander to the T in LGBTQPIZON must necessarily, to remain logically consistent and fair, throw Planned Parenthood's "men shouldn't have a say" argument into the circular file. To ignore this logical inconsistency and wallow in hypocrisy, to "have one's cake and eat it too" by deciding that men only get a say when it's convenient to the organization's goals; only further betrays a group that has no right therefore to lecture men or anyone else on not having a say on condemning acts such as abortion. Because said group demanding this group or that group adhere to some arbitrary set of principles, then betrays itself as having no principles!

In this section of the song, the man takes a pro-life side. But argues the above case so well, that the woman attacking him can only think at first to repeat the original prohibetuer ne homini nosse fallacy all over again, as if the counter-argument had never been made at all. When this fails, she resorts to attempted vehicular assault! So incapable was she of reconciling the cognitive dissonance he made her aware of, that she immediately resorted to homicidal levels of violence out of pure frustration.

After this attack, the man comments on how this woman's madness has become a global phenomenon, as he starts giving in to his own frustration over it. The man also notes the idiocy of her claiming he "doesn't get a say," in regards to the fact that she tried to end his life, when he's already-born!!! In turn, this only further becomes evidence of one of his other pro-life points: lack of respect for a child in the womb, begets lack of respect for all human life. The woman trying to run him over, ruled only by her emotional and existential rage; effectively proved his point for him, better than he could prove it himself!

Argumentum ad stirpiumque iactatio
Also known as "reductio ad racism," or "the race card." Similar to reductio ad Hitlerum. This is considered one of the most childish - yet effective - of ad hominem attacks. It was a favorite of villains such as Trotsky and Alinsky, since it was effective in spite of (or in some cases, because of) being, in their admission, completely irrational.

The singing man's example of the woman calling him "racist" for arguing that all humanity is one, with Mitochondrial Eve being evidence of a literal Biblical Eve, furthermore becomes an example of the ad antiphrasis fallacy: a gaslighting tactic whereby a target is attacked by declaring them to be the opposite of what they just plainly demonstrated themselves to be, to get others to question the reality of the conversation - but not curious enough to re-read for context.

In this case, the man just destroyed the entire concept of "races," only to be labeled "racist" for doing so, by a woman who is too lazy or apathetic to address the reality of what was actually stated, yet still feels the need to go for a personal attack.

Argumentum ad avibus omnique
This roughly translates to: "Just label him a sex predator, and be done with it!" This is another, specific form of ad veneris fortuna, in which the target is specifically framed as a rapist or serial rapist. Or as being "pro-rape." Women who resort to this immediately, especially over a conversation that has nothing to do with sex, are among the most vile. No matter how irritated someone is over not being able to argue against someone else's case, to make irrelevant false rape accusations regarding no victim in particular is dangerous and insidious on multiple levels, for the same reason as doxxing, "creep"-labeling, extortion, and the "incel" slur.

It all bears the extortionist threat of "take my side, or I will convince the police to suppress you on my behalf!"

The man here doesn't even bother trying to logically negate her with well-formed arguments, having been worn down by the other trolls that have been attacking him mercilessly. Instead, he plays along, and then performs a tu coque on her. She can't possibly know if he's a rapist or not; because she's too far beneath his standards to ever have to worry about him raping her. By saying "So bye," and then blocking her, he both declares her an ignorant fool and then spares her from having the means to prove it.

Twitter culture
The line "they're proof civilization's running out of time..." immediately follows "these Twitter fools...never right." The singer is declaring that he has never once had one of these female trolls guess his living situation accurately, and gets annoyed with them all using the same cliche responses, as if to flaunt their ignorance.

He postulates his belief that their overabundance fares ill for society's future. This is where his descent into despair truly begins to take hold.

Blackpilling
However, having to deal with these trolls non-stop finally breaks the man; and he despairs that he believes "civilization is running out of time," and he sees no way out - on the verge of adopting a "Doomer" philosophy.

"Blackpilling" in this context references the singer's despair by way of a scale of pills and their meanings originally applied to dating scene opinions and later politics, and then later applied to a more existential level. The scale goes something along these lines:

Tide Pods
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As the Tide Level Rating System reveals, those classified under this designation are as dumb as zombies in an apocalypse - or dumb enough to eat detergent pods. This level requires a psychotic, demonic level of declaring war on reality itself. It isn't that this "pill" faction can't or doesn't know the truth; it's that it is too consumed with hatred for the truth to give it proper straight acknowledgement. Using the red pill / blue pill paradigm from The Matrix, those designated under "Tide Pods" go one step above and beyond the treachery of Cypher. Cypher could at least keep his composure while betraying his friends.

Those under this designation aren't even capable of that; and tend to run around in real life acting like complete lunatics. They, much like NPCs, blindly execute whatever script is fed them that week regarding what to be outraged by, too obsessed with shaking their fists at the Heavens to care enough to even try to have an original thought, even if still capable of it. Like blackpillers, they know reality, and despair of it, and know that what they're being fed is a lie.

But they don't care that it's a lie! They love the lie; and hate the truth. So to their peril, they will make war on the truth. Their outlook on life is best described as infantile-demonic.

Purple Pill


One step below the level of Tide Pods are the "purple-pilled." These types have a reinforced ignorance. They have been exposed to the red pill. But their doubled-down, extreme blue pill conditioning and insecurity has compelled them to make excuses to ignore their red pill enlightenment, and embrace the ignorance of the blue pill.

Blue Pill


This is the standard NPC / sheep individual. They genuinely don't know that anything is wrong with their world; and aren't even curious. They think anyone who says otherwise is crazy, as they continue to live on in a state of ignorance - which may or may not be blissful. No one has attempted to redpill them yet. That, or they haven't taken any time to process the message.

Red Pill


The basic level of becoming enlightened to what's wrong with the world. The more redpilled someone becomes, however, the more cynical they can get.

White Pill


Those who are whitepilled have a winning streak or several. They are fully aware of all that is wrong with the world / situation at hand. They are fully aware of how bleak things look. Yet, they are talented enough at what they do to maintain an inkling of optimism. They still believe hard work and sincere effort will see them through the storm. Their optimism is usually not entirely naive, but inspired by past experience. Alas, they also realize true success will require them to whitepill others. Only a team effort will make the world's situation not be hopeless.

Black Pill


This is the level that the song's performer is implicitly near by song's end. The black pill was created to counteract the purple pill, as the purple-pilled are able to resist basic redpill enlightenment. The black pill is like the white pill; but with all the optimism snuffed out. Blackpillers are despondent, and prone to bleak, depressed nihilism. They often become "Doomers," and sometimes consider suicide an option.

In their view, society is too far gone. Everything is backwards and upside-down. Everything has been perverted. And there appears to be no hope that civilization can ever recover.

Honk Pill


See also: "Honk Pill" at KnowYourMeme

The singer never quite achieves this level. This level is reserved for those who, in a desperate effort to escape the suicidal depression and nihilism inherent in having been blackpilled; turn to mischief and self-amusement to look for any small positives that one can still harvest from a world of chaos and nihilism - and to then exploit this harvesting to derive joy from annoying those blackpilled who continue onward in despair. Or from annoying of the Tide Pod eaters, the bluepilled, the solution-seeking redpilled, the haughty whitepilled, and anyone else who doesn't embrace this philosophy.

Taking its name from the character Honkler (Clown Pepe), the "Honk" Pill surmises that we live in a world overrun with fools. And since these fools, or "clowns," are in fact complete fools; they deserve only ridicule. To find amusement in offering them this ridicule of a clown-overrun society thus becomes an emotional insulation from the despondent nihilism that would otherwise drive the blackpilled to suicidal despair.

It has been speculated by web users that Todd Phillips' 2019 film Joker can be seen as a strong metaphor for the pill system. Arthur Fleck begins life bluepilled, like everyone else. However, it doesn't take long for him to become redpilled; to know that something about Gotham's social climate is...off, somehow. He then becomes whitepilled; desperately searching for answers in his quest to find out who is really to blame, so he can offer a benevolent solution.

However, as Arthur's quest to find a single, simple solution that will fix Gotham as a society fails; and he is unable to make even one member of civilization around him behave decently, he grows frustrated, and gives in to the black pill. However, being driven by the bad boys on the train to homicidal rage gives him a small taste of the honk pill. For the first time in his life, he feels like he has control over something - and doesn't know how to handle feeling in control.

As his conscience slowly erodes due to bitterness, he spends the entire rest of the movie going back and forth between the black pill and the honk pill; between wanting to end his own life; and wanting to live long enough to terrorize a society that is overrun with schmucks who are too lacking in self-awareness to see that they are as ugly and indecent as they have made him to be.

While most real-life honkpillers don't use this as an excuse to become full-blown supervillains, the Joker makes his points very poignantly and unambiguously.

The parody song's singing character hasn't yet reached honkpill status yet, and is instead teetering on the brink of slipping off the outer edge of classic redpill territory and straight into blackpill territory.

Repetition
By the time the second chorus hits, the singer becomes preoccupied with his frustration with how his attackers routinely demonstrate nothing but sheer stupidity. The repetition of lines is engineered to mimic the despair and confusion Lauren expresses in Chvrches' original song.

AmIRight
On AmIRight, the song received very little attention. However, of the only vote it received, it received an overwhelmingly positive review.

YouTube
After two weeks on YouTube, the song received only one upvote out of 20 views, with no downvotes.

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.