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Hey, Stop Raping Fat Chicks!

Posted on | March 27, 2014 | 122 Comments

Peter Paul Rubens, Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (1618)

This public service announcement should not be necessary, but unfortunately there seems to be some confusion on the subject:

Rape culture is prevalent, insidious, and normalized in our culture. . . Fat women face an extra special facet of rape culture though — the fact that they should be grateful for it. You read that right — grateful for being raped. The logic goes that, of course, no one would want to touch a fat woman. We’re so gross, you know? So if someone was actually willing to have sex with us we should be on our knees with gratitude thanking that person for sharing their special snowflake of a dick with us. Some people even deny that it’s possible for fat women to be raped because, ew, who would want to have sex with a fattie? . . . Let’s be clear, while the reasons for rape are complicated and include a whole lot of things, dehumanization and objectification of women is at least one pretty large factor. And who doesn’t love to dehumanize and objectify fat women? Fat woman are simultaneously desexualized and oversexualized in our culture. Myths of fat women being always ready for sex, promiscuous, and never turning down sex abound. . . . Rape culture is where this desexualization and oversexualization intersect. No one could possibly want to have sex with you which is why you’re such a slut and sleep around and why you would be lucky if you get raped.

She’s arguing with the voices inside her head, projecting her own imaginary fears onto “our culture,” over-interpreting negative feedback, and seeking moral authority by striking a pose of outraged victimhood.

Which is to say, she’s a feminist.

Irrational screeds are impossible to refute, because logic cannot address a wild collection of anecdotes, subjective emotional responses and tendentious assertions, but let’s begin by acknowledging that (a) negative perceptions of fat people are widespread, however, (b) fat men are no less stigmatized than fat women, and (c) it is by no means evident that anti-fat bias is particularly implicated in “rape culture,” besides which (d) exactly what the hell does “rape culture” mean, anyway?

We were told that the Steubenville case was the pluperfect example of “rape culture” in action, but when all was said and done, the most obvious lesson of that saga was, drunk teenagers make very bad decisions, which is not exactly a startling revelation.

No responsible adult is in favor of teenage girls getting passed-out drunk at parties, nor are responsible adults in favor of drunk teenage boys taking advantage of passed-out teenage girls, but it seems that the teenagers in Steubenville weren’t under the supervision of responsible adults, and so something very bad happened. Except for the fact that evidence was captured in digital photos, videos and social-media messages produced by the perpetrators and their friends, there was nothing particularly significant about this crime.

Why, then, was Steubenville seized on as a drama about “rape culture”? Perhaps for the same reason that the death of Trayvon Martin became a drama about racism, or some people tried to turn the Kaitlyn Hunt case into a drama about homophobia.

There are activists and organizations with political agendas and, insofar as influential members of the media are sympathetic to those agendas, any conflict that dramatizes (or, at least, seems to dramatize) the activist agenda is ripe for exploitation. What is the result of this kind of journalistic activism? One result, predictable to any student of mass psychology, is that agenda-driven journalism spawns something akin to a copycat syndrome. Just as a highly publicized murder may be imitated by a “copycat killer,” likewise media publicity for victimhood dramas can inspire some people to say, “Me, too! I’m a victim! Help me!”

It is from this media-influenced copycat syndrome that fake “hate” hoaxes originate. Alec Torres at National Review provides a listing of recent hate hoaxes, including the infamous case of University of Wyoming feminist Meg Lanker-Simons, who fabricated Facebook threats to “hate-f**k” herself.

“I want to hatef–k Meg Lanker Simons so hard. That chick that runs her liberal mouth all the time and doesn’t care who knows it. I think its hot and it makes me angry. One night with me and shes gonna be a good Republican b–ch.”

Totally fake, and why? Well, the liberal media spent many months in 2012 promoting the phony “War on Women” meme, and the same media turned the Steubenville story into a “rape culture” drama, and if a lonely feminist in Laramie, Wyoming, was desperate for attention, what better way to get attention than to manufacture a Republican rape threat?

So here we are, in the spring of 2014, when some feminists are staging “Fat Justice” seminars on college campuses, while other feminists are declaring that all heterosexual intercourse is rape. Nobody therefore should be surprised that a plus-sized feminist would claim fat women are victims of “an extra special facet of rape culture” in the allegedly widespread belief that fat women should be “grateful for being raped.”

Do some people, in mocking feminist rhetoric about rape, express such an attitude? Certainly they do, but sarcastic mockery is one thing, and actual rape is another thing. And this is an important distinction the hysteria over “rape culture” is intended to obscure. Everybody agrees that rape is a crime that should be prosecuted; feminist rhetoric about “rape culture,” on the other hand, is a sort of consciousness-raising project that aims to change the way we talk about sex.

The “rape culture” campaign is about punishing speech — including innocuous jokes — and ultimately about silencing criticism of feminist ideology: “Shut up, because rape!

If the media are “uncritically fascinated” with rape culture, why? “Nothing catches an editor’s eye like a good rape,” as Hunter S. Thompson observed in Hell’s Angels. If a feminist crusade gives BuzzFeed a sneaky way to appeal to prurient interests, why not?

“Rape culture,” like slideshows of adorable kittens, is good for web traffic. But we ought not confuse BuzzFeed’s search-engine optimization strategies with reality, and if feminists and their liberal media friends are making fat women paranoid about rape, this is a problem entirely separate from actual rape. Mocking feminists and mocking the media are not the same thing as mocking rape or mocking fat women.

Besides, mockery is pretty much my full-time job.

Welcome to the Internet, fatso.

(Hat-tip: @UnknownNameDoe on Twitter.)

 

 

UPDATE: At least one commenter has noticed that I illustrated this post with a painting by the 17th-century master Rubens, from whose plump female figures we derive the term “Rubenesque” to describe a woman who is pleasantly plump.

So, you might ask, is the author of the feminist “fat rape” screed a Rubenesque figure? You can go see for yourself.

By the way, she has already been the subject of a Reddit thread.

 

Comments

122 Responses to “Hey, Stop Raping Fat Chicks!”

  1. Anamika
    March 27th, 2014 @ 7:55 pm

    Should we try to nail some one for say doing something risque, for doing something that perhaps falls into a realm of moral ambiguity, in the realm of human sexuality… for instance, to deride someone who is one member of a gay marriage, or some other politically incorrect sort of thing, such as stripper, or sex worker, is to level a judgment which immediately sets the stage for hurt feelings, at the least.

    Do you follow me here, Rosalie?

    Perhaps Pat Robertson has a blog and his readers indulge in all sorts of bashing of gays, sex workers, strippers, porn stars, and such; such reasoning is often put forth to demonize, dehumanize, and utterly humiliate persons who deserve to be ostracised and treated like dirt, and maybe loaded onto rail cars and shipped to special camps. And maybe they would delight in crucifying all non-Christians, esp those who claim enlightenment, or who relate to Hinduism or Buddhists, or practice Zen. It seems that the weak-minded need a satan, and historically, minorities are it.

  2. Nan
    March 27th, 2014 @ 7:57 pm

    Audrey Hepburn was malnourished during WWII and never was able to gain weight later in her life.

  3. Nan
    March 27th, 2014 @ 8:00 pm

    Eh, long ago, when I was in college, some guys gave a girl a swirly. She turned them in to administration and they were all booted from the dorm. It was during finals and nobody wanted to talk to her after that. She went crying to the administration again and we were told that not talking to her was harassment. That was over 20 years ago.

  4. Rosalie
    March 27th, 2014 @ 8:03 pm

    Anamika, you sound just like a liberal. Oh, that’s right, you are one. In those couple of paragraphs you dredged up all kinds of victims.

  5. Kirby McCain
    March 27th, 2014 @ 8:08 pm

    Well, if she has issues with being big and men she could do as a previous article suggested and become a true feminist. Oh snap! Lesbians are very picky about looks and chubbins probably would fare well at the lesbian bars. Too bad.

  6. M. Thompson
    March 27th, 2014 @ 8:10 pm

    The true down side of bigamy: two mothers-in-law!

  7. Bozikek
    March 27th, 2014 @ 8:12 pm

    so you linked to some naked fat broad holding the earth, I assume that image is to scale?

  8. robertstacymccain
    March 27th, 2014 @ 8:25 pm

    You seem not to distinguish clearly between ideas and people. If I am arguing against feminist ideology, it of course follows that I disagree with people who endorse and advocate that ideology. The problem is that feminism claims to speak for the interests of all women, which enables the feminist to accuse any critic of being “anti-woman” (sexist or misogynist). Now here you come to claim that women are feminists because of “many years of being abused and battered,” so as to suggest I am pro-abuse.

    Why should I credit you with arguing in good faith, if you’re going to make such suggestions?

    This is the entire problem with feminism, you see. While making the most outlandish and extreme claims, feminists routinely accuse their critics of arguing in bad faith, but never permit their own good faith to be questioned, so that the conclusion of the argument is always the same: “Shut up, haters!”

    Feminism is a totalitarian belief system.

  9. richard mcenroe
    March 27th, 2014 @ 8:41 pm

    “I want to hatef–k Meg Lanker Simons so hard…” You have to be a progressive to ever have believed that was a genuine right-wing threat. Conservatives would never hate-f*** a leftist woman because we don’t believe in abortion and the risk of her giving birth to another idiot is just too great.

  10. richard mcenroe
    March 27th, 2014 @ 8:43 pm

    Also leftist speech and thought are profound deflaters, which is why, as Kurt Schlichter has explained, leftists believe intercourse consists of cuddling and crying.

  11. richard mcenroe
    March 27th, 2014 @ 8:45 pm

    SInce they were assholes, I’m inclined to agree with her. And what kind of All-American he-men let those assholes do that?

  12. Mm
    March 27th, 2014 @ 8:47 pm

    Perhaps you are unaware that Buddhism does not condone homosexual practices. http://tinyurl.com/mbcrd7w
    “A gay couple came to see me, seeking my support and
    blessing. I had to explain our teachings. Another lady introduced another woman as her wife – astonishing. It is the same with a husband and wife using certain sexual practices. Using the other two holes is
    wrong.”

    At this point, he looks across at his interpreter – who seems mainly redundant – to check that he has been using the right English words to discuss this delicate matter. The interpreter gives a barely perceptible nod.

    “A Western friend asked me what harm could there be between
    consenting adults having oral sex, if they enjoyed it,” the Dalai Lama continues, warming to his theme. “But the purpose of sex is
    reproduction, according to
    Buddhism. The other holes don’t create life. I don’t mind – but I can’t condone this way of life.””

  13. Zohydro
    March 27th, 2014 @ 8:52 pm

    The hand… It moves!

  14. M. Thompson
    March 27th, 2014 @ 8:53 pm
  15. Zohydro
    March 27th, 2014 @ 9:15 pm

    The Dalai Lama has recently changed his tune…

    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/dalai-lama-comes-out-for-gay-marriage/story-e6frg6so-1226848381147

    And, according to this article, also considers himself a “feminist” now too!

  16. bet0001970
    March 27th, 2014 @ 9:21 pm

    Uprated for “going there”.

  17. bet0001970
    March 27th, 2014 @ 9:22 pm

    Previous male sins?
    Fuck off Neal.

  18. Julie Pascal
    March 27th, 2014 @ 9:32 pm

    How very strange to chose “martial arts” as an example that would attract young men with grudges… and though you may be right, martial arts does not magnify those grudges, but deliberately and systematically teaches self-control, respect, and deference to others.

    My experience with martial arts as a middle aged lady was that all of the young men were respectful and patient. The entire environment is one of respect and equality, if a 16 year old brown belt was teaching me a kata, or if I was sparing with a 20 year old a foot taller than me instead of someone who would challenge him, or if *I* was the one teaching a kata to a fellow student who was male and half my age… I do not understand, in any way, how you came up as martial arts as an equivalent example for young men.

    Martial Arts isn’t a *Man* thing.

  19. Julie Pascal
    March 27th, 2014 @ 9:37 pm

    And that’s even weirder than thinking that martial arts is a man-thing.

    You have no idea whatsoever what people posting to a Pat Robertson blog would write, but you make it all up anyway. (That’s called writing fiction, in case you were wondering.)

    But if you want to go with that and compare that to some of the really dumb feminist stuff (PIV is always rape, kay?) you could say that perhaps these hateful people were damaged by years and years of abuse, and then they go someplace that magnifies and amplifies their pain and validates their hate.

    Obviously, this is bad and any place full of these damaged and wounded people that encourages them to wallow in it, would be an evil place.

  20. Norman Invasion
    March 27th, 2014 @ 9:44 pm

    There’s P.P. Rubens & then there’s R. Crumb. Gads, that’s a sick blob of exceptional stupid.

  21. Anamika
    March 27th, 2014 @ 9:45 pm

    You seem not to distinguish clearly between ideas and people.

    The problem is that feminism claims to speak for the interests of all women,

    That’s your take on feminism. [idea]
    Feminists don’t claim that. [people]

    Certainly they try to support policies that they think are in the best interest of all women. They don’t speak for all women, or even for all feminists. They speak for themselves. And they would want any woman or man to do the same.

    I have never been a man, so cannot speak to the notion of a male collective entity. Speaking for myself, I don’t feel a strong sense of being part of a collective female entity. Yes, I am female, but have historically been involved in what some consider the more male occupations and pursuits.

    Yes, I am a feminist (duh) and am connected with women, but I don’t feel
    a collective female world-view as defining for me, or at least I don’t feel limited to just a female world-view. I feel the freedom to move between male and female roles, jobs, pursuits, etc.

    I am at a place (philosophically/spiritually/emotionally/etc) where gender is mostly just a costume. I am leaning more towards a collective human conscious as the one to which I belong. Others may be in one of the others by gender of course.

    I recall one online squabble elsewhere that was down and dirty and I asked a close male friend there to explain why he had joined the others in their behavior
    and he said simply, “Boys will be boys.”

    Any particular group of men are connected (or not) to the collective rage men feel against women (as installed boy by boy by our sick society and other fine sick societies around the world) and in that connection act out in archetypal / stereotypical ways. And any particular group of women are connected (or not) to the collective rage women feel against men (as installed girl by girl by our sick society and other fine sick societies around the world) and in that connection act out in archetypal / stereotypical ways.

    Yes, I rail against gender-bias and gender-based subjugation… but I am personally not being overtly oppressed because of my femaleness (at least in this now, on this day, in this hour).

  22. Julie Pascal
    March 27th, 2014 @ 9:45 pm

    Oh fer pities sake… men *grovel* and it isn’t enough, because they are still men. They still like to look at women’s asses, because they are still men. They like to do man things instead of behaving like women, because they are still men. They don’t talk about their feelings and they aren’t going to be happy being in charge of yours, because they are still men. They are still going to be taller and stronger and more aggressive, because they are still, biologically, men. They are going to hold grudges far less and not understand why women have to hang on to grudges forever, because they are still men.

  23. Julie Pascal
    March 27th, 2014 @ 9:46 pm

    Macro-aggression.

  24. Julie Pascal
    March 27th, 2014 @ 9:53 pm

    Which is probably the basis of anorexia.

    That doesn’t change the truth, though, that being in good physical shape is *nicer* than not, and that being fat is uncomfortable and inconvenient for the person who is fat.

    I’m not losing weight because it’s something I can control, I’m working to lose weight because it’s too dang much work hauling an extra 50 pounds around every moment of every day of my life.

  25. Anamika
    March 27th, 2014 @ 10:02 pm

    Martial Arts isn’t a *Man* thing.

    So it goes with feminism: It isn’t a *Women* thing (or for only abused young women and lesbians either.)

  26. Wombat_socho
    March 27th, 2014 @ 10:03 pm

    This.

  27. maniakmedic
    March 27th, 2014 @ 10:06 pm

    Except feminists do claim to speak for all women. Or at least claim that any woman who does something considered to be unfeministlike – like make her husband a lunch to take to work (true story) – she is bringing down the entire sisterhood and needs a stern talking to to get back in line with the feminist dogma.

    I know I personally don’t appreciate some unhappy lesbian feminist telling me I’m unhappy because I’m being oppressed by the heteronormative patriarchy. And I certainly don’t appreciate my father – who literally saved my life – being lumped into the same category as a guy who brutally attacks a woman and does actually commit rape. Particularly because my dad is the type of person who would rip such a man apart with his bare hands regardless of whether or not he knew the victim.

    Feminism is a load of shit. I say that as a woman comfortable with who I am and what I’m capable of. I have no need to blame men for the problems I have and I refuse to give chronically pissed off lesbians any credit for what I’ve accomplished in life. The sisterhood treehouse is one I’d gladly get kicked out of. The boys are a lot more fun to hang out with, anyway.

  28. Kirby McCain
    March 27th, 2014 @ 10:17 pm

    Bet coming next, bad complexion justice, bad teeth justice, body odor justice, tornado titty justice, bad hair justice, whew we better buy more popcorn!

  29. Anamika
    March 27th, 2014 @ 10:32 pm

    “I have no need to blame men for the problems I have”

    You want to blame those anti-lunch box feminists in your life and those lesbians you know (or not) for all your problems in life. Nice.

    “Except feminists do claim to speak for all women.”

    If you are comfortable with yourself, there is no need for you to even bother what they say or do. Nobody is forcing you at gun point. .

    There are many Christians who believe that any one who doesn’t accept Christ would go to Hell. Several sects make it their mission to tell this and convert people of other faith. Does that mean that all those non-Christians who were bothered should see all Christians/Christianity as intolerant and/or dogmatic? The same goes with feminism.

    If some feminist equates all PIV with rape, does that mean it is an idea that is inherent to feminism? It is not, just as it is with Pat Robertson or the late founder of Westbro Baptist Church don’t represent Christianity.

  30. Julie Pascal
    March 27th, 2014 @ 10:34 pm

    Yet, if someone who’s been abused goes into martial arts, as many women do who have been victimized, they learn constructive ways to deal with the world and to find confidence again and not to view everyone as if they were their abuser and not to live in fear.

    All I can see that feminism does any more (and I’ll agree that there were serious things to address such as legal equality and the ability to prosecute domestic abuse, once upon a time) is to reassure women that they are victims and will continue to be victims and that they’re oppressed, that this is a war between the sexes and not that some particular individual hurt them or was a jerk. That there is a “rape culture” and that everything that annoys them is a Big Effing Deal, or at least a micro-aggression, and that it makes sense to demand to be taken seriously while prancing in a vagina costume (our mothers, who insisted that we could be the intellectual equals of men, weep).

  31. Nan
    March 27th, 2014 @ 10:39 pm

    I don’t think there were any All-American he-men around; however, she was a nosy wench, the first one to run up to see the action when she thought someone else was going to be the victim. And everyone knew it, thus the decoy.

  32. Julie Pascal
    March 27th, 2014 @ 10:40 pm

    Except that any Christian anywhere would explain to anyone that Fred Phelps was evil and not in anyway a Christian and many many people went out of their way to counter protest and shield his victims from his message…, and I don’t really see the same reaction among feminists to publicly denounce or distance themselves from “PIV is rape” or the idea that true feminism is anti-male lesbianism.

    You’d get the freedom riders motorcycle gangs making a very public show of opposing Fred Phelps.

  33. Anamika
    March 27th, 2014 @ 10:46 pm

    Fred Phelps was an extreme example perhaps — he got a LOT of publicity because of his public stunts. The ALL-PIV=rape claimant(s) are not doing any such stunts so yeah you can’t really expect counter protests of the same scale.

    I could go with several examples of Christians, but you get the point.

  34. maniakmedic
    March 27th, 2014 @ 10:47 pm

    Reading comprehension ain’t your strong point is it, sweetheart?

    I couldn’t give a flying shit what stupid feminists say or do. If their dumbassery were fringe, it wouldn’t matter. However, the bullshit you insist isn’t part of feminism sure seems to be making a lot of inroads in the feminist movement, which is working its way steadily into the wider culture through academia. Your comparison of this aspect of feminism to the Westboro freaks and Christianity (please note, you’d be hard-pressed to find an actual Christian who agrees with those assholes – and no, disagreeing with homosexuality is not the same as hating and persecuting homosexuals) is yet more proof of your complete idiocy regarding Christians, and really most subjects in general. That you even make the comparison doesn’t speak well to your logical or critical thinking skills.

    But hey, tell me I said something I didn’t say again. It’s amusing watching you try to sound smart when you don’t know jack shit and everybody seems to know it but you.

  35. Zohydro
    March 27th, 2014 @ 10:51 pm

    I used to rather admire the little goofball… Heh, he’s getting senile—like me!

  36. ZZZZZZZZ
    March 27th, 2014 @ 11:19 pm

    Anamika does not have a reading comprehension problem.

    She has a leftie problem, being a leftie. What she’s been doing the past few days is a very laid back form of concern trolling. Not saying much of substance, the literary equivalent of droning until you stop listening … …. and then she post something stupid (i.e., liberal in nature).

    She’s hoping to make a point without getting tromped on, thinking that having an unrebutted statement is the same as winning an argument. RSM called her on this crap on here, and rightly so. And she’s still in that hole, digging away furiously.

    Cheap rhetorical tricks employed by a dishonest leftie. Imagine that.

    A rather

  37. ZZZZZZZZ
    March 27th, 2014 @ 11:28 pm

    And Feminism isn’t a transgender thing, as well.

    Which merely underscores the threadbare nature of your arguments, and by extension, the ideology that you argue in support of.

    Especially since the lack of comradeship (if not outright hatred) in that situation originates from the feministas, and not the heteronormative patriarchy.

  38. BruceC
    March 27th, 2014 @ 11:35 pm

    I don’t think even a picture of Olivia Munn choking the chicken is enough to make me forget that link to the, shall we say, robust woman that RSM linked to. Pardon me while I honk in a trash can…

  39. WarEagle82
    March 27th, 2014 @ 11:45 pm

    You REALLY need to post warnings on certain links! I think I have been scarred for life!

    Who would post pictures like THAT!!!!

  40. Julie Pascal
    March 27th, 2014 @ 11:51 pm

    ” And I certainly don’t appreciate my father – who literally saved my life – being lumped into the same category as a guy who brutally attacks a woman and does actually commit rape.”

    Or my husband.

    Or my son.

  41. bet0001970
    March 28th, 2014 @ 12:51 am

    He’s doing this to trash my feed. However, this will not win him any BlogBash awards.

  42. Anon Y. Mous
    March 28th, 2014 @ 1:45 am

    So, you might ask, is the author of the feminist “fat rape” screed a Rubenesque figure? You can go see for yourself.

    Posting that link without a warning? You’re a mean one, McCain.

  43. Funeral guy
    March 28th, 2014 @ 1:59 am

    Google gave us a warning but it wasn’t specific enough.

  44. Funeral guy
    March 28th, 2014 @ 2:02 am

    What about the “granny rapers”? From following the news I’ve learned that it happens more often than you’d think.

  45. Maniac Feminist @LauraLevites Unleashes Anti-Christian Hatred : The Other McCain
    March 28th, 2014 @ 2:06 am

    […] insanity is, while you’re distracted by one deranged nutjob — say, Amanda Marcotte, or that fat chick with paranoid rape fears — another one is likely to go off her meds and completely melt down while you’re not […]

  46. rmnixondeceased
    March 28th, 2014 @ 5:44 am

    Yep. Photographic proof that there is a marked difference between being “Rubenesque” and being a morbidly obese fatty …

  47. rmnixondeceased
    March 28th, 2014 @ 6:08 am

    ***rimshot***

  48. Quartermaster
    March 28th, 2014 @ 6:45 am

    “There are many Christians who believe that any one who doesn’t accept Christ would go to Hell. ”

    One modification to this statement needs to be made. Change many to all, and you’ll have it. Scripture says that anyone not accepting Christ as Lord and Savior will go to hell. It’s that cut and dried. If you find this evil, God could not care less. He gets the final say, like it or not.

  49. Dana
    March 28th, 2014 @ 6:54 am

    Gee, Mr McCain, thanks for that update link. It seems that she has at least accomplished making Lena Dunham look better.

  50. Dana
    March 28th, 2014 @ 7:00 am

    Had they given a man guy a swirly, he’d have been thoroughly urinated off about it, but wouldn’t have gone crying to the administration.