Shoe0nHead



June Nicole Lapine , better known as Shoe0nHead,  is a grifter of alt-right politics who rose to prominence for videos making fun of online culture which most resembles right-wing strawmen (in particular Tumblr culture). As of 2022, Lapine's YouTube videos are mostly socially liberal but her Twitter feed contains a large amount of social conservative and alt-right dog whistling. Lapine's main YouTube channel has over 1.61 million subscribers and 128 million views.

While seemingly identifying with anti-feminist YouTube at-large, and espousing mainly anti-feminist views, she also shies away from the label 'anti-feminist', and has preferred the label, "egalitarian" instead, and self-describes as a social democrat.

Rather than being a responsible critic of Tumblr culture like the first of her kind (William Shetterly etc), Shoe has a history of dog-whistling far-right politics, being unusually chummy with totally-not-racists and transphobic grifters, videos with literal white supremacists, and so on. This may not accord with her self-described label "egalitarian". Her YouTube career took off with Gamergate.

Origins
Before consolidating her time into antifeminist activities, Lapine maintained two main YouTube channels and several testing/inactive channels. She supported the female men's rights activist (MRA) group Honey Badgers and appeared on The Freedom Report podcast. She also wrote three articles for The Libertarian Republic, but left "because it was too political."

Lapine first achieved major fame from her "Oppression Olympics" video in 2014, which she made around a month before Gamergate. She credits the success of this video to it being shared by Thunderf00t. She has additional channels called "misandryqu33n", "Shoe0ffHead"and "Brainlet". Her misandryqu33n character is a caricature of a modern, pink-haired, liberal feminist. Using this character, she participated in the "Pee Your Pants for Feminism" hoax. In a satirical #ResistCapitalism picture, she managed to fool Paul Joseph Watson who believed it was genuine. Lapine has said that the picture was meant to be an obvious parody, and she was not trying to trick anyone.

Political views
I can pay for my healthcare. I don't have student debt. I am not poor. The concept of caring about things that don't just affect you is like foreign to these people?

Lapine self-describes as left-wing. In the past, Lapine has self-described as "left-libertarian leaning", "left-liberal", a "social democrat",  but not particularly ideological.

She also supported Bernie Sanders for president, and wanted Tulsi Gabbard to be Sanders' VP.

In December 2020, while taking a test on a livestream, she revealed believing in 9/11 conspiracy theories.

The vast majority of her video content criticizes feminism (particularly the more “radical” varieties). However, Lapine argues that she does not hate individual feminists and is friendly with several prominent feminist YouTubers, such as Marina Watanabe (Marinashutup),    ContraPoints    and Claudia Brown.

While from 2018 onwards, she no longer identifies with the alt-right crowd (despite the majority of her fans being the exact same people), she has however carried over her old anti-feminist grudges and style of reasoning to her new platform, scapegoating them instead under hatred of "liberals". Whilst she always supported gay rights and mocked conservatives before this (see Views on Conservapedia), a lot of her current activity is pandering to the "dirtbag" leftists — who think leftism is not incompatible with using lots of slurs — which makes her a populist.

As of 2021, Lapine is scathing of the vague gestures supporting democracy, particularly from the Democratic Party, lampooning The Washington's Post's slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness" while viewing corporations, elitists donors, and special interests as controlling democracy under the guise of being for the people and workers. She has called out actual anti-democratic musings by the National Review. Lapine will sometimes laugh at "Qanon boomer conspiracy theories" but other times she is not completely dismissive of conspiracy theories and QAnon. She supports Bernie Sanders and does not support Donald Trump, but seems to be more sympathetic to the worldview of "magas" versus the "neoliberal hell world" of center-left Democrats like Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. She is prone to using old 4Chan memes like Pepe without caring that, perhaps, someone might see that as racist. Especially when she uses Pepe to cheer on Parler. Strongly against police brutality, her opinion on Black Lives Matter has evolved from referencing the Gateway Pundit to call it "black supremacy trash" in 2016, to supporting it (while nonetheless coming up with bizarre conspiracy theories involving BLM, police and corporations) in 2020. Strongly anti-corporate, her tweets often display an anti-technology Luddite viewpoint.

In August 2021, Lapine had a short period of time during which she was the social media co-director of the "New York State Populist League", an organization found to have been engaging in COVID-19 denialism as well as support for the New York Young Republican Club. Lapine withdrew from the organization two days later after receiving criticism for the decision, although the organization maintains that she's still friends with the organizers.

Antifeminism
Lapine describes herself as an "egalitarian" and opposes the term “feminism”, but she says the term "anti-feminist" makes her cringe. She also seems to have identified as part of 'anti-feminist youtube' nonetheless.

Arguments
Lapine has three videos accusing feminism of being an "oppression quest." These include:
 * Oppression Olympics
 * Oppression Quest (as misandryqu33n)
 * Internalized Misogyny

Most of Lapine's other videos feature standard antifeminist arguments. Here are several of the more prominent examples:


 * "feminist movie logic"
 * "how much of a feminist are you? (quiz)"
 * "i need feminism because compliments"
 * "shut up woman, now let me tell you why you need feminism"
 * "who stole feminism?"

Unfortunately, much of Lapine's content consists of tired talking points and strawmen. For example, Lapine argues that feminism is unnecessary because women have the legal rights of men (and Lapine hasn't personally felt oppressed):

Lapine portrays feminists as whiny SJWs competing to be the most oppressed:

Lapine further describes feminism as currently existing only to solve first world problems:

Lapine suggests that feminists uncritically accept all abuse accusations (and admit it):

Lapine also believes that, because the commonly-cited "average wage gap" figure doesn't account for confounding factors, the gender wage gap itself does not exist:

In short: if you've listened to any other anti-feminist, you've already listened to Lapine's arguments.

Joke segments
DO NOT GO OUTSIDE. DO NOT APPROACH WOMEN. NEVER REPRODUCE. Lapine really likes to "parody" feminism. At length. In every video. For example, in "Oppression Olympics", Lapine says:

As Misandryqu33n in "the harassment of women on youtube needs to stop", Lapine says:

As Misandryqu33n in "anime is codeword for misogyny", Lapine says:

These parodies do not attempt to break down feminist arguments, reductio ad absurdum style. Instead, they merely restate common feminist views in a shallow, extreme, and logically flawed way. In this way, Lapine's parodies are not skepticism or even satire.

Anti-Antifeminism
However, Lapine is also critical of Nice GuyTM syndrome, conservative fear-mongering about same-sex marriage, some antifeminist YouTubers and the more extreme antifeminist movements like the Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) movement. She has been involved in feuds with some of the more extreme antifeminists:


 * Lapine tweeted that Roosh V "is a psychopath". This upset Roosh so much that he wrote an article calling Lapine *gasp* a feminist. Lapine has succinctly described Roosh V as "a pathetic man."


 * One of Lapine's joke videos as Misandryqu33n was taken to be real by antifeminist YouTuber "The Satiratician", who put together a response so bad that Armoured Skeptic wrote:


 * Lapine mocked Davis Aurini for repeatedly having a skull in the background of his videos.


 * Lapine had this to say when asked why she hated Bearing, a popular antifeminist YouTuber:


 * She also hates Undoomed's videos.


 * She roasted a particularly terrible antifeminist children's book, criticising its attempt to brainwash kids with offensive stereotypes and outright lies, and stating her opinion that children should be allowed to remain apolitical, and not be exposed to arguments for or against feminism.

Lapine has the following message to non-feminists:

Donald Trump
you dont know how many times someone bitches at me for "not going after trump" and i look at their channels & its "ANITA PWNED PART 7" Lapine has a negative view of Donald Trump. She was also hates Hillary Clinton. Despite her overall dislike of Trump, Lapine has occasionally downplayed the potential negative consequences of his presidency and has defended some of his controversial behaviour and policies. In one case, she even admitted she underestimated the threats posed by the Trump administration. For instance:


 * Lapine's video, "faux hate crimes", is a reading of several obviously fake hate crimes allegedly committed by Trump supporters after his election. Although Lapine cautions that "I'm not a psycho who enjoys hate crimes", the implication is that "the sudden increase of [air quotes] hate crimes [air quotes]" is not real. She repeated this on Twitter. The FBI reported that the number of hate crime reports in the US had increased in 2017, by 17% from 2016.


 * Lapine defended Trump's "grab 'em by the pussy" comments as being "clearly him riffing off and purposely sounding douchey." She did concede that his comments were "embarrassing and cringe worthy."


 * Lapine said that she agrees with Trump on Islamic terrorism because "our countrys [sic] under attack. being scared of islam is a side effect."

Lapine held a "wait and see" approach on the issue of Trump and gay rights. In November 2016, Lapine said that she highly doubts Trump will undo gay rights. In her (now-removed) "dear LGBT people", she says: Lapine has since said that she only wanted to give Trump a chance and "if Trump winds up being bad for gays and the LGBT, I will fight right alongside you." Given that Trump has already personally attacked trans rights, total neutrality seems unlikely.

She has since admitted her comments and predictions about Trump and LGBT rights were wrong:

She has underestimated Republican Party's platform, their political power to enact those platforms, and Trump's power to appoint SCOTUS justices.

Racism and white nationalist friends
Lauren Southern is Lapine's "former" token white nationalist friend. Lapine collaborated with Southern in her "I Stand With Hillary" video.

In a now unlisted 2016 video with Gregory Fluhrer (Armoured Skeptic), Lapine discussed Milo Yiannopoulos' suspension from Twitter for reposting memes of Ghostbusters star (a black woman) as an ape. After Fluhrer said "she looks like a man", which Lapine and Fluhrer agreed was "not racist", Lapine added that Jones is "ugly" and "looks like a gorilla":

Black Lives Matter
Shoe0nHead has previously described Black Lives Matter as full of racists hyped by the media to start a race war:

Thankfully she wasn't supportive of a "white lives matter" movement:

In May 2020 she publicly reversed her stance on the subject:

LGBT issues
Lapine is bisexual,  has criticized anti-LGBT views and has been mostly supportive of the LGBT community. One of Lapine's friends since childhood is transgender.

She also initially praised Blaire White's "2 Genders" argument, which exists entirely to strawman identity labels as "trying to make gender a social construct." Lapine used this argument as a front to attack people defending or describing identity labels and paint them as the ones belittling gender dysphoria. White, in turn, liked Lapine's use of her argument and adopted it into her own rant a month later.

In May 2017, she expressed regret for calling certain individuals "trans-trenders" and showing some support to the idea of needing to be either masculine or feminine. She went on to say:

She has made a video criticizing Marvel’s tokenized portrayal of a non-binary person. The comic book in question also received backlash for its trite clichés.

She also made a video deconstructing TERFs, whom she describes as the "Chromosome Crusaders" and calls out their transphobia and general discriminatory behavior.

Views on RationalWiki
So RationalWiki is a biased website. It is biased and they even acknowledge the fact that they are biased. They are like Encyclopedia fucking Dramatica. They're like Conservapedia. They are a biased website.

Lapine hates RationalWiki. After her livestream, "SJWs try to deplatform me/reading my rationalwiki page", Lapine took to Twitter to enjoy the resultant trolling and correct mistakes in the article. We at RationalWiki thank Lapine for her constructive criticism and welcome her to create an account. Some time after the livestream, Lapine wrote on Ask.fm:

[Y]eah [I] noticed they did a great job cleaning it up. [I] unironically like my [RationalWiki] page now.

Views on Conservapedia
Lapine also deserves credit for her impressive take-down of Conservapedia.