sinister wrote:Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:I don't think Myers even realizes how hurtful and infuriating it is to classify Pitters as rapists, especially those who have been victims of rape. It's all fun and game for him, but I think it might not stay that way for long.
I can't tell if it is because they actually believe their rape culture logic that says society doesn't think it's a big deal, be he has previously expressed to knowing that rape allegations could ruin him. So, I don't think that's it. I think they all know full well how hurtful and harmful such allegations are and are just another silencing tool. He fully understands what he has written, and believes us to be 'fair game.'
I think Welch explained it well at Nugent's blog. We are the result of their cries that dissenters go elsewhere, andFreeze Peach nonsense. Now that our voice is being heard, it had become harrassment to just notice the bullshit they spew.
They need to control the narrative, and the best way they know how is by tarring all dissenters as being unhumans lacking even the right to speak out. We are then certainly too terrible to even listen to. I see them on blog after blog demanding Slymepitters be silenced. Just calling us misogynists has worn thin, so it was time to up the ante.
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There's an expression -- a fate worse than death. That was a euphemism for rape and came from
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire written in 1781. And has been in literature, and common understanding, for hundreds of years. OR this from Tarzan of the Apes (1914):
"[The ape] threw her roughly across his broad, hairy shoulders, and leaped back into the trees, bearing Jane Porter away toward a fate a thousand times worse than death."
Further, we had, in our society, various statutory rape laws in regards to relationship power differentials. For example, in many States an employer having sex with his maid-servant or female employee was, by statute, a rapist because of the power differential.
And even now, despite all the claims that surround the issue, a man accused of rape finds it very difficult to rehabilitate his reputation or even put on a full-and-proper legal defense thanks the Rape Shield Laws that gut his right to a fair trial.
Beyond that, we have the basic ingrained social structure of 'the disposable male' and 'women & children to the lifeboats.' Concepts that help illustrate, If anything, in the West, especially middle-class (and above) women are/were in a gilded cage and to be protected from harm, even at the expense of their fathers, husbands, brothers or any conveniently-on-hand disposable male.
So when I hear all the bullshit around rape culture. And yet see a culture that is, at its core, designed to protect women (and children) from threats and dangers and even espouses the belief that 'rape is worse than death' while systematically reduce a man's ability to defend himself from false charges...
It's hard to take the concept seriously. Because if we really lived in a rape culture, things in the real world would be much different than the fevered dreams and bogus statistics of the Feminist movement.
