What is it about feminists, activists, Marxists, and the whole lot of them? The people argue with an indignant puss-on. These ideas have merit but boil them down and you’ll find nothing more than anger mixed in with an ideology.
What’s annoying is this camp of ‘open-minded progressives’ is that they look for the exploitation, oppression, or victimization, everywhere. Sometimes they reach for it. The expression, “rule of thumb” as commonly used in society is meant as a general guideline for whatever context. But the myth is rooted in a story of beating a spouse no bigger than a male’s thumb. Of course feminists in the 1960s ran with it and pointed to society, crying the sexist elements of oppression and exploitation. So anytime you use it, you’re sexist or ignorant pig? Even in casual conversation, those types of phrases makes you a bad person?
Or this retard position: a woman can’t go out and have sex like a guy. She’s a slut if she does and a guy is King Kong. It’s like that crack versus cocaine sentencing debate people try to pull. Oh the BS! It’s all unhealthy! Guy or girl, fooling around with an unapologetic tempo gets you a doctor’s appointment.
Besides sociological research suggests it’s women who perpetuate the double standard. Guys may initiate it or take note of it, but don’t care after five minutes. Honestly do you really think Joey looks at your mini skirt says, “what a slut.”? Please. You just got Joey’s attention, if anything.
When it comes to rape, a lot people are afraid to challenge these groups because of the sensitivity of the issue. I understand. Rape victims are not responsible to what happened to them. And to blame the victim is not anyway helpful or insightful to preventing/treating rape.
But what they want to bring up is the point males get rapped too. I remember learning in it Social Deviance class in college about it, and the class made it out that both women and men are at risk, but rather equal risk. But do the real world math. For the majority of rape cases, the victims are women.
It’s like saying Jermone “the Bus” Bettis, 6-foot, 255 pound man and one of the Olsen twins have no difference in risk. ‘All the same and can’t judge’ stupid nonsense they try pull. Just do the math and go with the odds. The overwhelming majority of reported rape cases, like date rape, are women being victimized by males, particularly in the context of alcohol. I am not saying all cases, but oh just around 95.99% of the them.
When you get into these arguments or debates, everybody gives them a pass. “Oh she’s passionate, or he’s fighting for a noble cause.” Please. Scratch the surface and find out that they are just angry. I mean, angry at their parents. Some abuse or neglect went on, or brutalization at the hand of an ex-boyfriend, coupled with some intelligence and you get a mad protesting feminist. We can’t say she’s crazy or nutty because she uses feminism as academic paradigm and thats somehow legit. Because she gets a pass, she can be angry all she wants because that’s perceived as passionate.
It’s the same pass we give over-zealous religious people when they argue about nonsense like Plan B or morning-after pill, which works exactly like the Pill, is an abortion (but actually its one of the major factors of reducing abortions in this country). They connivence sane people of their retarded arguments, which in turn, makes you look like an asshole for not sympathizing. “Well he’s a deeply religious man. That’s his beliefs. We can’t judge.”
Oh yeah? Brother Jed on speaker circle, same sanity as Dali Lama? The guy screams at you for wearing shorts on a hot day and says you are going to hell for enticing lust in men. Dali Lama wrote a book on happiness. Still the same huh?
I’ll get to you Hippies and Marxists soon enough….
4 responses so far ↓
Igor Alexander // April 9, 2008 at 12:49 am |
“The overwhelming majority of reported rape cases are women being victimized by a male, particularly in the context of alcohol.”
I agree. If women want to be taken seriously as “equals,” it’s about time they start taking responsibility for their own behavior.
Chico // April 9, 2008 at 1:55 am |
Allow me to make a point: victims of rape are not responsible for what happened to them, but they are responsible for their treatment for their trauma. I am not arguing a sense of equality between genders. Rather I am pointing out differences in gender.
For that matter I disagree with the above comment because it blames the victim.
My main point in cases of rape, women are the majority of the victims, and men are not.
Igor Alexander // April 13, 2008 at 10:18 am |
Call it “blaming the victim” if you like, but I have little sympathy for girls that go out dressed in skimpy clothing into an unknown environment, get wasted on drugs and alcohol, behave in a sexually suggestive manner, and then wake up the next day claiming they were raped. That doesn’t mean that rape is not still a crime, but it does mean that the girl (assuming she is telling the truth) is completely out of touch with reality and lacks common sense. Telling women that what happens to them when they act this way isn’t their fault merely encourages them to behave irresponsibly.
Suppose I were to go into a black neighbourhood and start yelling racial slurs at people, and I ended up getting the crap beat out of me. By your logic, wouldn’t it be “blaming the victim” if someone were to tell me that I only had myself to blame for my injuries? And yet, most people *would* blame me in such a situation, and probably rightfully so.
“My main point in cases of rape, women are the majority of the victims, and men are not.”
How do you know that? Plenty of men get raped in prison, but no one is keeping stats on it because no one wants to acknowledge that it’s happening. There have also been many cases of little boys being raped, and I’ve been hearing of more and more cases of teenaged boys being raped by their female teachers.
Females do not have a monopoly on being rape victims by any means.
Chico // April 13, 2008 at 3:30 pm |
In response to victims of rape, “being out of touch of reality and lacking common sense,” allow me to provide the nature of their victimization:
Typically victims of rape experienced being victimized early on, particularly in childhood. They commonly experienced sexual abuse or physical abuse as children, typically at the hands of somebody they know, i.e. a relative, or family friend.
According to Dr. Drew Pinksy, co-host of the radio talk show, Loveline, and Addiction Medical Specialist and Internalist, victims of childhood trauma re-experience it over and over again as a form of pathology that requires treatment. If what you are saying is true, then treating it as pathology has no effectiveness. Instead based on your perspective a simple motivation speech and a wag of the finger is all they need to prevent being ‘roofied’ at a club and raped.
Dr. Drew Pinsky, M.D. explanation suggests rape victims are not simply out of touch and lack common sense. Rather, it’s deeper than a surface description of their behavior.
Your race analogy is irrelevant. Typically those who incite a fight by calling racial slurs in a minority community are males, angry, depressed and looking to for a death wish. It’s a like a guy going to a bar after getting dumped and picking a fight.
Human behavior does not happen inside a vacuum. Instead there is meaning and motivations to each action, and prioritization to each motivation, in the context of healthy or unhealthy manifestations.
And on how do I know what I am talking about and my statements? Allow me to retort:
According to National Crime Victimization Survey, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, an estimated 91% of victims of rape are female, 9% are male and 99% of offenders are male. (Bureau of Justice Statistics 1999).
Yeah I get it about males being raped too. But here’s my point: most cases of rape are females victims, which infers the risk is overwhelmingly sided on being a female.
And don’t allow the intensity of media exposure misled the landscape of it.
Lastly, I don’t think females want the monopoly on rape.
P.S. stop reading your own BS prisms into my arguments.