The Dorchester Doofus

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The Boston Globe last week published an op-ed column about “rape culture” by libertarian author Cathy Young. Her column prompted several letters to the editor, including this piece of spectacular idiocy:

As a man in my 20s, I find absurd Cathy Young’s assertion that “the overwhelming majority of men need no teaching that rape is a repugnant crime” (“Rape in the real world,” Op-ed, June 29). The flurry of catcalls that women encounter as they walk to work or school and the constant objectification of the female body should be evidence enough that our culture of harm exists apart from the most extreme acts of violation by a small set of psychologically sick offenders.
How many males have heard and truly understood stories of terror from women who have been followed blocks from the subway, waitresses who have been forced to accept harassment to make tips, and girls who have been complimented in ways that make them feel sick?
The status quo is derogatory not only to women but to men who are cued to choose power over love, stoic silence over honesty.
We should hold individual perpetrators accountable for their actions, but we cannot expect to solve a crisis of rape culture until we shift from the stigmatization of the mentally ill to the stigmatization of patriarchy and our complicity in it.
I am willing to risk anxiety to see that change come about.
Joel Wool
Dorchester

What you see here is the deliberate conflation of offensive behaviors — catcalls on the street, “harassment” of waitresses, unwelcome compliments — with the felony crime of rape.

There are many things which are widely recognized as offensive which are not crimes, yet the aggregation of feminist pet peeves into a collective category called “rape culture” permits a sort of rhetorical abracadabra where everything leads to a discussion of rape. Why? So that feminists can expand the Victimhood Zone. The woman targeted by wolf-whistling construction workers and the waitress dealing with a lecherous customer are thus included as victims of sexism (“the constant objectification of the female body”) and everyday hassles — offensive, but not criminal — are made analogous to rape.

So “rape culture” (a large and amorphous cluster of feminist grievances) is a “crisis,” and the solution offered is a “shift . . . to the stigmatization of patriarchy and our complicity in it.”

Would this proposed “shift” actually reduce the incidence of rape? I doubt it. Rapists probably don’t spend much time reading op-ed columns — or letters to the editors, either. As a matter of fact, I doubt that men who hassle waitresses or shout crudities at women on the street are habitual readers of op-ed columns.

It is within the cohort of Men Who Don’t Read the Boston Globe that one will find not only a vast majority of rapists, but also most men who engage in Offensive Non-Criminal Sexist Behavior. So the discussion of “rape culture” among the intelligentsia is just a lot of empty rhetorical posturing that won’t do anything to improve women’s lives.

Speaking of The Constant Objectification of Women’s Bodies . . .

On this Sunday’s episode of Botched we meet Renee, who after six months of silicone butt injections began to have health issues.
She explains, “I wanted the volume and the fullness back at the top of my butt.”
However, the silicone spread throughout her body which caused major health problems.
Although her doctor wanted to go a different route, Renee got butt implants to replace the fullness that the injections were providing.

There’s video at the link. I, for one, denounce this abhorrent practice.

 

65 comments

  1. “Joel Wool is a community organizer, environmental advocate, friend of Haiti and alumnus of Emerson College. He currently serves on the board of the Dorchester Community Food Cooperative and lives in a cooperative house in Fields Corner.”

    You have to understand where Joel Wool is coming from, before they pull the Wool over your eyes.

    https://www.facebook.com/joelwool/about

  3. And who commits this harassment on the streets? Blacks and Hispanics who think every woman is available to them and considers any refusal to be racist.

  4. Joel could actually call men on their bad behavior when he witnesses it, but I imagine he’s afraid of getting a beating. So he stays silent.

  10. Right, equate physical virility with virtue. Maybe you want to say he has a big nose, and beady eyes, too? See where I’m going this Fraulein?

  14. I’m sure she does. From mere idiocy to utter insanity.

    By the by,

    Virility (noun)

    1.The quality or state of being virile; manly character.
    2. Masculine vigor; potency.

  16. Shut the fuck up, you dogmatic putz. I can care less what your opinion is on anything.

  18. I wouldn’t expect anything less from an old woman who has already been thoroughly brainwashed, and to accept male hegemony, and religion as law, since birth.

  20. Yeah, sure, questioning Israeli warmongering, and segregationist social policy is antisemitism. Fuck off, fascist. I dont give a shit about the Obama administration. They’re just evil-lite.

  27. You know, I had not watched the video until you mentioned it. I am appalled. I have a recommendation for women. You want a bigger butt, start doing squats and lunges at the gym.

  29. Israeli warmongering? The last time I checked, several Muslim nations were threatening its existence. Please explain to me why it is that residents of other middle eastern nations use Israel as an example of democracy to which they aspire? Why do gay, etc. Muslims go to Israel?

  30. No male role models, thanks LBJ. The “great society” has certainly impacted low income and minority communities disproportionately via the replacement of fathers with gummint checks.

    Johnson, like other presidents, would often reveal the motivations in asides that the press never picked up. During one trip, Johnson was discussing his proposed civil rights bill with two governors. Explaining why it was so important to him, he said it was simple: “I’ll have them niggers voting Democratic for two hundred years.”

    Ronald Kessler, Inside the White House: The Hidden Lives of the Modern Presidents and the Secrets of the World’s Most Powerful Institution., pg 33

  31. Seriously, where are all these sock puppets coming from? Does the dipshit troll sock puppet master seriously have nothing better to do than burst their own blood vessels in vitriolic rage whenever somebody else expresses an opinion?

  34. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
    -Aristotle

    Conversely one could argue that it is the mark of an irrational indoctrinated mind to respond with ad hominem and hasty generalization.

    Put another way…

    He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool – shun him

  36. I’m just waiting for the explanation on why it’s not homophobic AT ALL to have a name like FederaleIsAFaggot but all of us are clearly homophobic because we don’t agree with somebody who calls himself… FederaleIsAFaggot. I’m sure it will be both coherent and profound… hahahahaha! I can’t even type that with a straight face.

  38. As a man in my 20s, I find absurd Cathy Young’s assertion that “the overwhelming majority of men need no teaching that rape is a repugnant crime”

    Given that the overwhelming majority of men do not commit rape, I have to agree with Cathy Young’s assertion. Given that the overwhelming majority of men do not loose flurries of catcalls at women, follow women for blocks from subways, or harass waitresses before tipping, Joel Wool’s inventive prosaic meanderings seem to be product of a social physician who has diagnosed an imaginary ailment in a patient that has sought no treatment.

  39. His LinkedIn page is gold. It’s like they gave Pajama Boy a backstory:

    Joel Wool is an environmental organizer and media professional based in Dorchester, MA. He currently works for Clean Water Action, where he staffs clean energy and green jobs campaigns.

    Translation: Joel doesn’t have a real job and has probably never had a real job. Despite having no engineering background and never having run a business, he feels entitled to tell other people how to produce electricity and what sort of jobs they may create.

    as board member of the Dorchester Community Food Co-op, works to enhance food access in Boston”s inner city.

    Translation: black people in Boston need Joel to lecture them about healthy eating, lest they spend all their money at McDonalds.

    He’s advised & participated in community planning processes for local green development, citywide launch of urban agriculture

    Translation: though he has the pasty complexion and scrawny build of a teenage goth girl, Joel thinks he’s some kind of farmer.

    He has been a strong advocate for Boston”s Haitian community

    Translation: The Haitians keep dropping hints like “so… we’re having a private Haitian get-together, just for us Haitians…”, but Joel keeps saying “great! When are we meeting up, guys?”

    as well as several domestic violence prevention organizations.

    Translation: the city needs some kind of bat-signal for our White Knight. Perhaps a searchlight with a silhouette of a vagina.

  40. A return to good old Christian values would pretty much eliminate rape culture, feminists and sissy boys in one foul swoop.

  46. -Thanks for the Facebook find, Evi.

    -This fool looks exactly like one of my co-workers who – surprise – is a Bolshe, as well. He is hated by nearly everyone, especially for his vicious sarcasm, which, interestingly enough, is most vicious when directed at the women in the office – yet he trumpets that he is a Feminist.

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