Ladies, if you dye your hair and can’t get a man, it’s because you’re a poisonous predator advertising your deadly intentions. That’s what one conservative man believes, and his pseudo-science is getting the thrashing of a lifetime over on Twitter.
Self-described trainer, writer, and ballet dancer Alexander Juan Antonio Cortes spends his time retweeting far-right Twitter users like Mike Cernovich, known for propagating the Pizzagate conspiracy theory. He is also a fan of slut-shaming women, navel-gazing about women, and talking non-stop about women. But Cortes’ tweets caught up with him this week after he wrote a steaming hot take on women’s “unnatural hair colors” and how hair dye is scientifically built to keep men away, apparently.
“Unnatural hair colors in woman [sic] are a warning signal to stay away,” Cortes argued. “It’s an example [of] Aposematism—the phenomenon of poisonous animals in nature advertising their toxicity and lethality.”
Cortes went on to compare women with hair dye to “animals like poison arrow frogs” and “venomous snakes,” who use their bright colors to tell other animals “to stay away from messing with them.”
“When you see a woman with red blue green purple rainbow hair, it’s a sign of mental illness and derangement,” Cortes claimed. “Think of Harley Quinn. Obviously she’s more attractive than your typical unnaturally hair colored SJW chick. But would you want to date this girl? She’s literally homicidal.”
https://twitter.com/AJA_Cortes/status/1057365409312137216
https://twitter.com/AJA_Cortes/status/1057366495687172096
https://twitter.com/AJA_Cortes/status/1057366496417013760
Wow, really makes you think, huh?
Nah, not really. Twitter let him know his theory was flawed.
https://twitter.com/Lucas70784639/status/1057583915584679936
I am obsessed with the right wing's condemnation of hair dyeing pic.twitter.com/lR4yJAgUFS
— Lena (@banalplay) October 31, 2018
https://twitter.com/biIIosopher/status/1057711275956989953
https://twitter.com/benscalligraphy/status/1057733167883399170
*dyes hair in lesbian pride colors* https://t.co/NaTHMgf5KB
— Serenity “Leap Year Capybara” Dee 🌻 (@sapphixy) October 31, 2018
https://twitter.com/princess_stef69/status/1057621588844130304
Kind of like twitter threads by men making ridiculous assumptions about women's personal choices raises a huge red flag warning us to stay far away.
— Sophie Rapp 🌻 (@SophieSRapp) October 31, 2018
Congratulations, you are the 1,000,000th guy to uncritically present this load of garbage like it's 1) true and 2) an original thought.
— Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin (@AlexandraErin) October 31, 2018
To claim your prize, please stay away.
https://twitter.com/janvssao/status/1057491051013922818
Boy if you don’t pic.twitter.com/suebAF7y0y
— a harriet tubman 20 (@FAPDALORIAN) October 31, 2018
Men, are you okay? 😂😂😂
— Sun princess Maya ☀ (@MayaMitKind) November 1, 2018
But I am actually really happy if the redpill fuckers stay away from me, so keep believing! https://t.co/S6zNWz4rmR
https://twitter.com/ashlynkoster/status/1057476462817804294
Cortes’ analogy doesn’t even make sense scientifically. After all, humans mate with other humans. We aren’t all hell-bent on killing each other. Of course, there’s always the possibility that Cortes has zero knowledge about courtship and who the predator actually is.
https://twitter.com/_ElizabethMay/status/1057736349619552259
You're really making an analogy between artificial hair dye of non-natural hair colors and animals who have a natural warning color? I don't think you understand how to make an analogy. There's no similarity between the two whatsoever.
— Corn Goblin (Brito-polis Resident) #FreePalestine (@BearNamedBallew) October 31, 2018
https://twitter.com/goth_cake/status/1057728208303349760
https://twitter.com/Nick_Frost/status/1057945306728488960
https://twitter.com/cwrtmawrbanter/status/1057965355996508160
Oh, and Cortes wasn’t spared a few personal insults on the way down.
https://twitter.com/OohMyNose/status/1057396480858673152
https://twitter.com/rachillsplace/status/1057445580878811136
https://twitter.com/Penthesilean/status/1057980846454566912
A couple women even flaunted their dyed hair in his mentions.
I turned 40. Did a radical hair change so I didn’t feel “old”. Doubt this means I’m crazy. And my husband loves it. pic.twitter.com/JI8bMxH644
— D (@dreamery123) October 31, 2018
Well if my pink hair keeps people like you away from me, I'm 100% glad to keep it pic.twitter.com/mV6Lu4L1cb
— Lydia (@lydianaomii) October 31, 2018
Never been happier to have hair that I love that will put off men like you! pic.twitter.com/IB5zMc2YOQ
— Ellie Eagle-Skinner (@serenceinwyn) October 31, 2018
https://twitter.com/brightandgold/status/1057766957921923072
— Den of Many Tales (@DEAGrantDraws) October 31, 2018
i’ve been super datable w every hair color try againnnn 👀 pic.twitter.com/h8BYrioHmp
— nikki (@ariessuns) October 31, 2018
thank you so much, alexander, for making this tweet. because of you, all these women are posting pictures of their wacky hair colors and complimenting each other, lifting each other up. it makes my heart warm. You're the best 😍
— Oliver (@auggieissaucy) November 1, 2018
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As for Cortes, he’s nursing his wounds in stride.
“I expect the Toxic Thottery to come out in full force for this one,” he tweeted. “Pay attention to the behavior of these succubus’s [sic] and she-devils gentlemen. It will be a lesson for you in what to avoid dating and never reproduce with.”
“I don’t think you have to worry about that last bit,” one Twitter user replied.
https://twitter.com/AJA_Cortes/status/1057380112281161728
I don’t think you have to worry about that last bit.
— JR Sweany (@JRobertSweany) November 1, 2018