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More Feminist Fear and Loathing

Posted on | January 19, 2016 | 101 Comments

Do you remember @RebeccaWatson? In case you’ve forgotten, she was the total smokin’ hotness of atheist chickdom whose encounter with a nerd in an elevator became a feminist cause célèbre in 2011: “Stop sexualizing me!”

I’d forgotten all about her until today, while mining for insanity on Feminist Tumblr, I saw a quote (tagged #rape culture”) that began, “Men who want to flirt with women have to realize: Women live in a state of continual vigilance about sexual safety.” And when I clicked on the source, I discovered that this was a commentary (by Lindsay Beyerstein) about Watson’s 2011 “ElevatorGate” encounter. The claim that women — all women — “live in a state of continual vigilance about sexual safety” is a typical expression of the feminist paranoia I’ve called “Fear and Loathing of the Penis.” Men are required to compensate for this irrational attitude, Ms. Beyerstein insisted:

If a female stranger is wary around you, it is not because she suspects you are a rapist, or that all men are rapists. It’s because a general level of circumspection is what vigilance requires. Don’t take it personally. . . .
Vigilance isn’t just a game or an arbitrary set of social conventions. It’s imperfect insurance against being raped with impunity. . . .
So, guys, if you want to flirt with a woman, your job is put her at ease, not to ratchet up her anxiety level.

Ms. Beyerstein, and feminists generally, lack empathy. A guy with harmless intentions is aware of his own innocence. It is insulting to accuse an innocent man of bad motives when he has done nothing wrong, and when there is no reason to suspect that he would do something wrong, other than the fact that he is male. Feminists are constantly lecturing about pervasive male evil in this insulting way, as in the case of Liat Kaplan ranting about “street harassment” in New York City:

There’s no point to a guy yelling, “Hey sexy baby” at me out of the passenger window of a car as it speeds past. Even if I was into creepy misogynists and wanted to give him my number, I couldn’t. The car didn’t even slow down. But that’s okay, because he wasn’t actually hitting on me. The point wasn’t to proposition me or chat me up. The only point was to remind me, and all women, that our bodies are his to stare at, assess, comment on, even touch. “Hey sexy baby” is the first part of a sentence that finishes, “this is your daily message from the patriarchy, reminding you that your body is public property”. This so-called “minor” sexual harassment is the tax you pay for daring to exist as a woman in public. . . .

(Guys yelling rude things out of car windows are “the patriarchy.”)

Even the most “minor” street harassment is a tile in your mental mosaic of fear and distrust and vulnerability. Piece by piece, it builds into a picture of some larger violence always lingering on the edge of your thoughts. I’m by no means comparing a guy yelling, “hey, sexy baby” to sexual assault, but the culture that makes this man feel entitled to comment on your body, on your existing in public as a woman, is the same one that makes men feel entitled to sex, and makes some feel entitled to take it by force. “Hey baby” is a symptom of the disease of rape culture.

Let me give you a hint, Ms. Kaplan: Guys who yell rude things out of car windows don’t read feminist blogs. You are directing your lecture toward the wrong audience, don’t you see? But certainly you must realize that guys in New York City yelling out of car windows are not “the patriarchy” — these are lower-class men, not beneficiaries of “privilege.” And what are the chances your lecture about “the disease of rape culture” is going to be read by any actual rapists? Very close to zero, I’d guess.

However, there are no feminists crazier than Canadian feminists, and Canada’s leading feminist is Meghan Murphy:

Female students are under constant threat on college campuses — afraid to walk home at night, raped at parties, after the bar, and in their dorms.

Fear! Fear! Fear! Ms. Murphy calls for a “feminist revolution . . . a cultural shift that addresses male entitlement, porn culture, and the objectifying male gaze; an end to masculinity and, more broadly, gendered socialization that says men are actors whereas women are passive recipients of men’s ‘action’ — that is, the idea that men are to ‘get’ sex from women, which positions coercion as a normal and expected part of heterosexual relations.” After more than four decades of radical feminism, this “revolution” hasn’t materialized, however, and Ms. Murphy is not optimistic:

In the meantime, women live in fear. . . .
And who is it we fear? Is it other women? . . . Is it a genderless, faceless, bodiless being? No. It is a male. A male with a penis that he may or may not use as a weapon.

She proposes a curfew for men. Yes, Canadian men, your nation’s leading feminist wants you kept off the streets at night.

David Thompson comments:

Why, it almost sounds like a gratuitous power fantasy, the product of an unwell mind. . . .
Clearly, Ms Murphy is determined to upend idle stereotypes of feminists as batty misandrists unmoored from reality.

Feminism is totalitarian. On Tumblr, a feminist argues that “women’s studies classes should be sex-segregated” to provide “women an invaluable opportunity to speak freely about their oppression . . . With men in the room, no healing can take place.” This prompted others to say that men talk too much in class, an experience that one woman said made her want “to tell them to shut the f–k up, and then throw myself in the sun.” Feminists cannot stand to hear men talk, you see.




 

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101 Responses to “More Feminist Fear and Loathing”

  1. thesickmanofeurope_com
    January 20th, 2016 @ 8:45 am

    “My house was robbed. OMG! A planet of burglars! What evil force could create such a thing? Am I the only noble being left? The only one? (sob).”

    ….and DON’T YOU DARE telling me to lock my doors at night or install an alarm system!
    STOP your victim Blaming you shitlord pig!
    Teach burglars NOT to burgle!

  2. Robert What?
    January 20th, 2016 @ 10:53 am

    The deafening silence of feminists after the Cologne incident, after the Rotherham outrage, etc, now completely invalidates anything a feminist ever says about rape culture and … well … pretty much anything. Time to totally ignore them and move on.

  3. Steve Skubinna
    January 20th, 2016 @ 12:27 pm

    “… an end to bridges.”

    Okay, so two blondes are on opposite sides of a river, and one calls over “Excuse me, but how do I get to the other side?”

    The other one yells back “Duh! You ARE on the other side!”

  4. Steve Skubinna
    January 20th, 2016 @ 12:29 pm

    That was the unintended subtext of that “Hollaback” video of the woman walking through NYC getting catcalls. High status white women hate it when low status brown or black men approach them.

  5. Steve Skubinna
    January 20th, 2016 @ 12:30 pm

    So did Juan Williams. Cost him his job.

  6. Steve Skubinna
    January 20th, 2016 @ 12:32 pm

    Well, you pick your targets.

    If you always select safe, nonthreatening targets that will never strike back, people notice and draw conclusions about your seriousness.

    Sort of like, if I see a person tormenting kittens I’m not likely to assume I’ve encountered a fearless warrior.

  7. Fail Burton
    January 20th, 2016 @ 12:47 pm

    The animals useth not the dildoe, for it yields no fruites – The Earl of Smart, 1613

  8. Fail Burton
    January 20th, 2016 @ 12:51 pm

    Equal protection and due process invalidated the term the first time it was ever used.

    Feminists like to pretend men act in concert across states and decades, like a single-celled organism, but only ever in an immoral sense and against the interests of women. Who’s stupid enough to believe such nonsense?

  9. Fail Burton
    January 20th, 2016 @ 12:54 pm

    I’m pretty sure that was lesbian gender studies teachers.

  10. Fail Burton
    January 20th, 2016 @ 12:55 pm

    On a civilizational level, Murphy is little better than an animal. Were her views to take precedence, the Enlightenment would be a thing of the future, like a science fiction novel.

  11. PCachu
    January 20th, 2016 @ 1:22 pm

    Just because he can shovel it up off the surface doesn’t mean it’s not “mining”.

  12. Steve Skubinna
    January 20th, 2016 @ 1:49 pm

    Only if you grant that one side of the river was “privileged.”

  13. Steve Skubinna
    January 20th, 2016 @ 1:51 pm

    Men also act across species. You know, the way we enforced the gender binary and heterosexuality on the animal kingdom.

  14. Quartermaster
    January 20th, 2016 @ 1:56 pm

    And Williams is still an SJW. He never learned.

  15. Quartermaster
    January 20th, 2016 @ 1:58 pm

    In the case of Tumblr, he’s hit the mother lode, and the extraction is quite easy.

  16. Fail Burton
    January 20th, 2016 @ 2:00 pm

    Darwin purposefully hid all the Earth’s natural landscapes of protuberances and holes in the ground and trees animals used to pleasure themselves. When men banned dogs from trying to make human shins pregnant, heterosexuality was born.

  17. Quartermaster
    January 20th, 2016 @ 2:01 pm

    Locking your door is bigotry against the lower classes that have been reduced to brigandage to support themselves. I am shocked that you would propose such a thing.

  18. Quartermaster
    January 20th, 2016 @ 2:03 pm

    Damascus may be a heap of ruins by then, if things continue as they are.

  19. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    January 20th, 2016 @ 2:07 pm

    I would google DragonCon and Rebecca Watson. I am not even sure which link you are referring to anymore.

  20. RS
    January 20th, 2016 @ 2:18 pm

    The difference between a “placer” claim and a “lode” claim.

  21. Finrod Felagund
    January 20th, 2016 @ 2:20 pm

    It matches the vacuum between their ears.

  22. Paul McCormick
    January 20th, 2016 @ 2:29 pm

    With the way the psych. community is discrediting eye witness accounts as untrustworthy, I’m surprised that any one can tell what the truth is. I think it is the agenda of the Progressive left to discredit the legal system and destroy it through setting precedence in law that make it nearly impossible to prosecute crimes.
    But that is my batcrap crazy perspective on it.

  23. Valerie Stewart
    January 20th, 2016 @ 2:35 pm

    Overgeneralizing? That’s the basics of sociopathy. One of the major diagnostic criteria of sociopathy is impulsiveness and the lack of ability to plan ahead, especially when it comes to crime. In forensic psychology, a truism is that even if one plans for murder, it doesn’t go as planned most of the time and it’s very true for sociopaths.

    If you check out the cases of rapists that murdered their victim, they were sloppy and often left characteristics behind, such as ritualistic brutalizing. In most cases, it’s mutually exclusive to be sloppy in the crime scene (i.e., leave tons of forensic evidence behind & other “calling cards”), and worry about a possible future punishment, specifically and especially life imprisonment or the death penalty

    In the (very) rare cases that sociopaths do plan ahead, they are in some way educated in forensics. However, these kinds of sociopaths leave the victims alive because with proper concealment (ski masks, blindfolding the victim, etc) that the victim won’t likely get his/her account correctly. These kinds of sociopaths would know that murder often creates more evidence than it covers up.

  24. Dana
    January 20th, 2016 @ 3:15 pm

    Oh, you’re just jealous because there is no asteroid named in your honor! An outer main-belt asteroid discovered on March 22, 2001 by David H. Healy was named 153289 Rebeccawatson in her honor.

  25. Valerie Stewart
    January 20th, 2016 @ 3:15 pm

    What about the (bird) species whose females also enforce heterosexuality, specifically those that make the males bend over backwards just to get a piece of the action?

    Oh, wait: those females don’t count because they’re “enslaved.”

    I’d love to see feminist analysis of the animal world. *snickers*

  26. Dana
    January 20th, 2016 @ 3:19 pm

    Yes, but they can always soil themselves to discourage the rapists.

  27. Dana
    January 20th, 2016 @ 3:25 pm

    Unspoken by the feminists is the fact that they certainly make assessments of the sexual attractiveness of men. The difference is that they communicate it to men far differently than men communicate such to women. Yet, if men communicated their sexual desires to women the same way that women communicate such to men, the ladies wouldn’t want them anyway.

    Dear Miss Watson: the males who want to have women communicate their sexual desires and take the lead in beginning such meetings are named Elliot Rodger, whom you (plural) ignored as the wimpy beta male he was. If you (plural) actually liked these males, he and his victims would still be alive today.

  28. Finrod Felagund
    January 20th, 2016 @ 3:31 pm

    You’re claiming that all rapist are sociopaths, a claim you provide zero evidence for, and furthermore you claim that there are no rapists rational enough to figure out that they’re more likely to get away with their crime if they kill their victim.

    Furthermore, the few states that did try imposing the death penalty for rape ended up repealing it because exactly what I said would happen did happen: they started seeing more dead rape victims.

  29. kilo6
    January 20th, 2016 @ 3:44 pm

    It’s called Democratium, a substance more dense than Depleted Uranium or even Osmium

  30. Gunga
    January 20th, 2016 @ 3:50 pm

    So many girls… So much interruption…

  31. Valerie Stewart
    January 20th, 2016 @ 3:52 pm

    For someone to commit such a horrendous and violent crime out of anger or pleasure they would have to, by definition, be sociopaths or something very close to it, like antisocial personality disorder or what the public would call it: psychopathy.

    Furthermore, where is the evidence that rapists will murder victims because of the death penalty? According to some statistics I’ve seen, there was a higher murder rate, but it said nothing about the locations (I.e., proglib strongholds) or whether they were gun-free zones, or motivations of murder.

  32. MC227
    January 20th, 2016 @ 3:55 pm

    Most of these psychos no man would be the least bit interested in touching or coming anywhere near because they look like wildebeasts.

  33. Valerie Stewart
    January 20th, 2016 @ 4:02 pm

    Are you sure Murphy is better than an animal? Because there are some awfully smart crows in my neck of the woods.

  34. Fail Burton
    January 20th, 2016 @ 4:09 pm

    That’s because that’s how far her nose reaches.

  35. Fail Burton
    January 20th, 2016 @ 4:17 pm

    Remarkable how things have changed in the space of only a few months. This goofy cult no longer has as much ease gliding in under the camouflage of “feminism” and “equality.” Third Wave Feminists have used that camo to mainstream insane and slanderous blood libels against men, whites and heterosexuals under a false pretext.

    Now, the whole world is satirizing their lunatic “academic” jargon like “cis,” “privilege” and “heteronormativity.” The public isn’t quite where they need to be yet information-wise but they’re getting there. We are systematically debunking every facet of this cult and have been making remarkably accurate predictions about their behavior that have come to pass. Hate like this is always easy to predict and at some point when the Devil always lands on the shoulders of straight white males one runs out of coincidences real fast and the odds grow longer and longer that TWF is nothing more than a hate movement that deserves to be treated and monitored as such.

  36. Fail Burton
    January 20th, 2016 @ 5:03 pm

    I am woman, hear me whine

    It’s a cult difficult to define

    I am really such a bore

    When you hear me start to roar

    It’s the vacuum cleaner which sucks up all fun

  37. Valerie Stewart
    January 20th, 2016 @ 5:44 pm

    I can’t blame you for your perspective, because proglibs are very talented at distorting credible, legitimate scientific research to suit their own narratives. Overall, the reason some eyewitness accounts aren’t credible is the observer’s (bad) emotional state, the (poor) quality of memory, and if the person has been subjected to peer pressure.

    Proglibs are mainly trying to discredit the legal & punishment system by playing on sympathy and the “lack of free will” and “inequality” arguments.

  38. Ilion
    January 20th, 2016 @ 6:15 pm

    Obviously, it was the *other* side that was “privileged.” Really! Everyone knows that lesbian “gender” “studies” “teacher” can’t be “privileged.”

  39. Quartermaster
    January 20th, 2016 @ 7:21 pm

    Seems Morris Dees $PLC missed this hate movement.

  40. Quartermaster
    January 20th, 2016 @ 7:22 pm

    I’d say Rodger was more an Omega than anything else.

  41. Fail Burton
    January 20th, 2016 @ 8:06 pm

    He’ll see them just fine once they attack one of his. He is an “oppressor” under assault the same way we all are.

  42. Joe Joe
    January 20th, 2016 @ 9:04 pm

    Or low status white men. Don’t forget, the stereotype of the construction worker is a blue collar white male.

  43. Joe Joe
    January 20th, 2016 @ 9:05 pm

    Degrade may not be the right word. Equalize may be the word.

  44. Isa
    January 20th, 2016 @ 9:10 pm

    “Why don’t these tough-talking feminists put themselves at ease by wearing brass knuckles and learning how to deliver a straight right-hand lead? That way you can punch people who actually are doing something wrong rather than blathering on about all men on Earth.”

    i’ve often wondered that. feminists claim suggesting self-defense is “victim-blaming.”

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    January 21st, 2016 @ 8:27 am

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  46. Paul McCormick
    January 21st, 2016 @ 9:28 am

    You have a point and I will not disagree. I accept you assessment and your conclusions.
    Paul

  47. mikegiles
    January 21st, 2016 @ 9:44 am

    No Ramaa, I’m sure they could explain feminism to those IslamoNuts!

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  49. Eric Johnson
    January 21st, 2016 @ 9:41 pm

    How do we actually there was anybody else in the elevator besides Miss Watson?

  50. Finrod Felagund
    January 23rd, 2016 @ 1:34 am

    You’re trying to generalize about tens of thousands of criminals. That’s doomed to failure.