I think a lot of the discourse on here, esp about intra-community issues, comes from the perspective of people who are a part of pretty insular leftist queer communities and assume everyone else engaging w their writing is too. so you have stuff like “white trans people are celebrated when they come out” or “everyone wants to fuck transmasc genderqueer people” as statements people are making, which are very very true in some cases from within these really insular communities but seem like you’re blogging from another dimension to people who like, live in small town Iowa.
I think this is why we get a lot of the tumblr arguments we get. like one person’s like “ask every single person you meet for pronouns no exceptions or you’re a bad person” and someone reading that who isn’t part of an urban leftist queer scene is like??? you want me to as the aggressively homophobic straight men who live in my open carry state for their pronouns?????? but no one wants to add “disclaimer: I go to smith college/live in Montreal/have completely forgotten what fear feels like” to their posts
Story time: I went to boarding school and one day my dad sent me a letter and told me to open it in the dining hall so I was like ??? maybe he sent something for my friends too. So I take it to dinner and open it, and it turns out it’s a card. A record-your-voice card in which my dad recorded himself yelling at the top of his lungs about how my dog pooped on the carpet. And that is the story of how my dad sent me a Howler one day.
And now every Harry Potter fan has a new idea on how to torment current/future children. Thank you person’s father.
A short speech on why Social Justice Warriors can go fuck themselves from the fine minds of Oxford University.
What a fucking boss.
Show this to all SJWs. Do it.
reblogging to watch later, internet is being super stupid
I’m kind of on the fence with this one. Maybe it was the way he presented it. Maybe I don’t know the proper meaning of offense. Maybe I just don’t see it as that black and white. I’m not exactly sure if offense is purely good. there has to be some point where it’s considered unacceptable, right? If I were in a situation where I was being discriminated against and harassed I wouldn’t want to be left alone to deal with it myself. That wouldn’t make me stronger at all. And standing up for people who cant defend themselves isn’t babying them is it? And I’m not talking about what many sjws do to a lot of people over the internet, I’m talking about being a little kid heavily bullied in school and someone coming up and telling them to fuck off and helping you out of there because you’re too scared to speak or move.
You can offend a lot of different people with a lot of different things. And you can offend people to the point of hurting you or others. The speech seemed to also take only the positive side. Is being homophobic and harassing and spitting at people not a form of offense? Is being an asshole now justified because it’s legal? Is forcing your beliefs on other people okay because its considered freedom of speech and offense is good?
I’m just incredibly conflicted on this. I’ve never been a social justice kind of person but I do understand the desire to stop people being dicks to people you love.
Mmm, in agreement on this. This guy brings up some fine points but his argument is also at the same time vague.
Then again, this looks like a debate. It’d be interesting to see the whole thing.
Look it’s hard to get me angry. But nothing rubs me the wrong way than people screaming that feminism is bad and is therefore not needed.
fem·i·nismˈfeməˌnizəm/
noun
the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.
An equality. Not a superiority. Anyone who argues different is just as much a feminist as the WBC are Christians.
Also.
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What do I have against feminism?
What do I have against feminism?
Feminism is a movement that uses fear-mongering tactics to gain support. One of the more popular fear-mongering myths is that 1-in-4 college women will be raped during their time in college.
This year, there are roughly 11 million women enrolled in college. That would mean a total of 2,750,000 college rape cases in the last four years.
Do you know how many rape cases are reported annually? About 89,000. With the assumed 60% unreported rate, that’s about 195,000 rape cases per year. Over a four year span, assuming that the statistics stay exactly the same? That would be about 785,000 cases of rape.Oh, did I mention that this is all cases of rape in America, not just college-campus cases.
Over a four year period in America, the number of rapes that occur fall nearly 2,000,000 cases short of the feminist “1/4 college women” statistic.
This parroted stat isn’t just wrong: It was maliciously fabricated by Mary Koss for Ms Magazine, a long running popular feminist publication.
Mary Koss, who ran an incredibly flawed survey, can be quoted as saying “[a]lthough consideration of male victims is within the scope of the legal statutes, it is important to restrict the term rape to instances where male victims were penetrated by offenders. It is inappropriate to consider as a rape victim a man who engages in unwanted sexual intercourse with a woman.”
The woman who a ran a totally-not-biased survey [with a staggeringly low sample size of just 6,000 students], can be quoted as saying that men can not consider unwanted sexual intercourse “rape” in the same way women could.
totally-not-biased
“bu-bu-bu wat aboot da rape culture?!”
The idea that America is a rape culture is fucking ridiculous in itself. Rape statistics have dropped over 60 percent in the last 20 years. America is a country in which rapists are punished harshest, only second to homicide.
Can you really consider a society a “rape culture” when it is viewed as only slightly less appalling than murder?
But feminists? They keep spreading these bullshit statistics.
“Okay, so feminists exaggerate…”
These aren’t exaggerations. They are malicious lies with one purpose: To harm men.
“Okay, but how have men been hurt by feminism?”
Remember Mary Koss? I mentioned her earlier. Remember her quote?
Let me refresh your memory:
“[a]lthough consideration of male victims is within the scope of the legal statutes, it is important to restrict the term rape to instances where male victims were penetrated by offenders. It is inappropriate to consider as a rape victim a man who engages in unwanted sexual intercourse with a woman.”
Nearly 20 years later, the federal definition of rape was changed to mirror this quote.
The FBI has redefined rape as “penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.”
“But the old definition of rape only included women!”
At least the old definition was honest. While the new definition allows male victims, it eliminates the most common form of female-on-male rape. The definition does not allow forced-to-penetrate to be included as “rape”. Forced-to-penetrate means if someone is forced to penetrate someone else. For example: A woman climbs on top of me and forced my penis inside her.
That is not rape, according to the federal definition that mirrors a bigoted statement by “Ms False Rape Statistics” herself.
“Okay, maybe feminists have had an impact on rape legislation. But is that all?”
Are you aware of the Duluth Model?
The Duluth Model is doctrine which all US law enforcement agencies use to respond to Domestic Violence situations. This doctrine paints men as the primary aggressors in heterosexual domestic violence situations. This all but insures that only men are arrested for and charged with domestic violence.
If you’re interested, here is a 95 page study breaking down the existence of “the wage gap”.
To break it down, “wage gap” is a misnomer. What we have is an “earnings gap”.
“What’s the difference?”
The difference is simple:
A wage gap suggests that people are paid differently for the same work.
An earnings gap is simply the fact that a gap exists.
The problem is, women aren’t paid less for the same work. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 prevents this from happening.
“Drugs are illegal, but people still do them.”
You know how else drug-use and paying women less for the same work have in common?
If you get caught doing either, you will be punished. It’s a shitty analogy, and you should feel bad for using it.
Women do make less money than men, but it isn’t for the same work. Men are more likely to work more hours, work more dangerous jobs, and take less time off than women. Men are more likely to take higher-paying career paths.
“We clearly live in a Patriarchy though! Women have less rights than men!”
We live in a society that teaches boys from the age they can walk that women are to be protected at all costs. We live in a society that teaches boys that it’s a good and honorable thing to risk your own health, safety, and even life to help women.
Haven’t you ever heard the phrase “women and children first”?
Men are expected to put themselves last. Men are viewed as disposable in our nation. If we lived in a patriarchal society, the reverse would be true. Men would do anything for self-preservation; Instead, we put our necks on the line for women on a consistent basis.
“But-”
If you have any more specific questions, feel free to ask.
This year, there are roughly 11 million women enrolled in college. That would mean a total of 2,750,000 college rape cases in the last four years.
Do you know how many rape cases are reported annually? About 89,000. With the assumed 60% unreported rate, that’s about 195,000 rape cases per year. Over a four year span, assuming that the statistics stay exactly the same? That would be about 785,000 cases of rape.Oh, did I mention that this is all cases of rape in America, not just college-campus cases.
Over a four year period in America, the number of rapes that occur fall nearly 2,000,000 cases short of the feminist “1/4 college women” statistic.
Either one of those statistics are horrifying. And keep in mind, both of those are likely to be incorrect of just how often rape goes unreported. Or when there’s a attempt, how many hurdles most women have to jump through. Did you shower after your ordeal? Locked yourself up in your room for a few days out of shock? What if you don’t even remember what happened? What if it was someone of a higher status than you? What if they had connections? How will this affect your job? Family? School? For many, reporting ceases to be a option. And all they can say is ‘this is what happened, but I can’t/won’t legally pursue it for these reasons’
I knew a girl in high-school that came to me with a secret. She told me her boyfriend forced her under the stairs. But it happened a year ago. She never told anyone. And absolutely didn’t want a adult to know.
So a question about the statistics. Who is reporting to who? Who is handling that information?
Numbers asides, you also can’t ignore the the rape culture you find at some of these institutions.
And want to know something else? Men being raped, as well as men being in domestic abuse situations are a huge problem. They are. However? Whenever I see a ‘anti feminist’ bring it up, all they can be bothered to say is ‘MEN GET ABUSED TOO!!!’ and use the fact to discredit women who do get raped and abused.
Failure to fix the problem and actively tries to ignore the other problem.
And lets not ignore the other valid reasons for feminism to still exist. The sex trade, abusive unregulated sex market, child brides, how in some countries you can be executed or tortured for daring to get a education or revealing the skin of your wrist.
I’d go on and on and on on that topic, but lets not. I’m done for the night. If any of my fellow feminists would like to add on to this, feel free to.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
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