Rape Culture.
This is a pretty common utterance of feminists, who due to pushback against their lies, can no longer get away with claiming all men are rapists. But it’s the same message – the phrase “rape culture” and the implication that this culture is a rape oriented culture is the exact same claim.
But it’s such obvious nonsense that much of the time sane human beings who aren’t MRAs allow this disgusting hate fuelled agitprop to pass without immediate challenge. And that’s the intention. When sane humans are told something that’s obvious nonsense, they dismiss it because it doesn’t need to be rebuked. Unfortunately, one of the funny things about people is that we don’t have to agree with things in order to buy into them as elements of our reality. Repetition of a statement, even an obviously false statement such as “they hate us for our freedom,” if continued for long enough is known to slide past the bullshit filter most sane people employ – and enter the the unshakable bedrock of their subconscious belief system.
Unfortunately – this is the trick being played on all of us whenever we hear that asinine phrase built to incite hatred and fear in women, and shame and compliance from men. But if we’re paying attention – what becomes evident is that we’re being trained, all of us, adults and children, men and women, to migrate our world view to one built on hate, and fear and shame.
That means, that if we want to chose our world, rather than being led like cattle into a violent, paranoid nightmare where we’re all walled off from one another by barriers made of deliberately fabricated hate – we have to address and rebut the disguised hate propaganda when we hear it from its promulgators.
Here’s where I have to step carefully. Ive just spent the last few minutes decrying a growing tendency to indulge in hate – and now Im going to have a go at the people promoting it.
According to the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics – who track rates of offense among types of violent crime; For serious violent crime excluding murder, they identify rape and sexual assault, Robbery, and nonsexual assault, including simple assault and aggravated assault as the three main categories of offence.
In 2010 there were 2,400,000 simple assaults – 725,000 aggravated assaults. There were also 480,00 robberies. And bringing up the rear we have rape and sexual assaults which combined totalled 188,000 incidences of criminal victimization. Combined, rape and sexual assault occur in our society at the lowest rates of statistically tracked violent crime, 2.5 times lower then the next lowest category.
It took me longer to read that data to you than it took me to look it up using google.
Anyone uttering the phrase “rape culture” in a context other than to rebuke it, is therefore either hopelessly stupid, ignorant and lazy, or they are willfully and knowingly promoting a disgusting lie intended to promote fear , hatred and ultimately violence.
I don’t like the idea of hate crime laws. I have always suspected that consideration of political or personal ideology in the sentencing or determination of guilt in the commission of a crime creates a system almost guaranteed to be abused by whoever can claim knowledge of motivation.
In fact –laws commonly thought of as hate-crime laws are those which criminalize motivation rather than criminal actions. And this is treads very close to Orwell’s thought crime. However, having been on the receiving end of a great deal of rhetoric framed by ideologues with an intent to promote hatred and violence against men, I begin to see the temptation to strengthen “hate crime” as an element of our society’s legal framework. An example of rhetoric intended to promote hatred and violence can be found on the Huffington post website, where Pauline Lowry quite openly advocates women murdering their husbands. I’m not making that up, although by the time you read this, some responsible adult over at huffpo might have realized that advocating murder reflects poorly on journalistic integrity and revised the article.
But surely, calling for the mass murder of a segment of the population qualifies as a hate crime – and should be prosecuted as such. Actually, no. We do not need to start prosecuting individuals for their thoughts. In fact, I would argue that this already happens, and we should oppose it, even in cases of male-targeting thought crime. However, public identification and outing of the rhetoric and ideology of hate movements – like what big box feminism has become; is wholly justified, and necessary.
It’s necessary because an increasing fraction of the “sane” general public view reality through the perceptual lens supplied by big box feminism through mainstream media. Does anyone remember when feminism was the radical notion that women are people? The short answer being of course, no, because “women are people” has never been a radical notion.
Another notion which grew from the women-good – men-bad doctrine is sadly no longer radical. Namely that men are not people. The organized dehumanization of men is a real and escalating phenomena in our culture, which has an end point taking no predictive power to see.
