Feminism is hated but its not the Patriarchy’s fault.

Have you ever given any thought as to why feminism is a bad word? I could honestly sit here all day and quote feminism’s founders and leaders. I will quote them, but first of all one must also look at the actions of feminism. Sitting around all day and quoting the feminist war machine is a far too simple argument to be the only force in debunking the myth of Patriarchy.

“All men are rapists and that’s all they are.” 
Marilyn French, Author; (later, advisor to Al Gore’s Presidential Campaign.)

“We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.” 
Katha Pollitt.

“All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.” 
Catherine MacKinnon

“I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He’s just incapable of it.” 
Former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.

“The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up and made up and laid down and ritually violated and consecrated to an eternity of being used.” 
Andrea Dworkin

“The media treat male assaults on women like rape, beating, and murder of wives and female lovers, or male incest with children, as individual aberrations…obscuring the fact that all male violence toward women is part of a concerted campaign.” 
Marilyn French

“Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.” 
Germaine Greer.

“Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience.” 
Catherine Comin, Vassar College. Assistant Dean of Students.

“Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left…is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity.” 
Andrea Dworkin

“You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.”
Catherine MacKinnon (Prominent legal feminist scholar; University of Michigan, & Yale.)

“Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the love, desire, respect, and need women also feel for men. Always man-hating is shadowed by its milder, more diplomatic and doubtful twin, ambivalence.” 
Judith Levine

“Men’s sexuality is mean and violent, and men so powerful that they can ‘reach WITHIN women to fuck/construct us from the inside out.’ Satan-like, men possess women, making their wicked fantasies and desires women’s own. A woman who has sex with a man, therefore, does so against her will, ‘even if she does not feel forced.’ 
Judith Levine, (explicating comment profiling prevailing misandry.)

In this list you not only see hate quotes from feminist leaders you also see their positions within the United States government, as well as some of the world’s most respected educational institutions in history. Is it any wonder men are not enrolling in college when their professors are such hateful bigots. The group called NOW with its 550,000 plus feminists have been waging a war against father’s rights.

What is so terrible about father’s having rights feminism? Yes I am addressing every single feminist alive on this question. If you wonder why I’ll tell you, the view this bill which will assist fathers in low income status to have money to use to aid their children. NOW calls it a trickle down economic scam. Despite the fact they Support the VAWA which is actually a far larger waste of money. Oddly the majority of American women are completely inept and should be kept as far from their children as possible.

Feminism is the work place

In modern time we have women and men working together; however, this isn’t because women are doing all they can to work hard and prove their equality to men. Feminists have the common attitude that women shouldn’t have to fight for everything they accomplish in life, this is of course the way men get around in the work place. Most women are psychologically unfit to handle the rigors of the work place. There are two types of work place sexual harassment from what I’ve seen, one the “sleep with me or lose your job” and the other is hostile work environments.

Men when working in any setting are almost always likely to abuse, intimidate, and degrade other men. These are a repertoire of competitive tactics employed by men in competitive situations. Feminism has earned itself the title of a bad word when these tactics are used on women in a competitive work place. How is it not equality when a man treats a woman the way he treats a man?

I just love to imagine for a moment what work would be like with women in the office, and these women are compelled to actually do their jobs, because they lack sex discrimination legislation to force employers to hire them. No sudden backlog because a co-worker has to take time off to look after her child who caught the flu at his day care center. No random outbursts of emotion because you failed to anticipate a working woman’s delicate feelings. No worrying that a casual joke will result in accusations of “sexual harassment”.

Of course feminist argue that women can’t afford not to work in modern times. This is true but the reality is that this is their fault. They created a mythical wage gapscreaming equal pay for equal work. Oddly the issue of pay was that married men made more money than an unmarried man. This was what America’s labor unions had created shortly after world war 2 to rebuild America’s family unit. The average Blue collar worker in 1960s could easily provide for a family. After feminism created the equal pay for equal work wage gap myth this came to an end and saw a massive rise in inflation. Women started getting bombarded by a new role made by feminism. The new free woman could work and have a family, this inflated prices of things like houses and cars by dragging naive women into the workplace, sellers were free to base their prices on the two-income family.

False Rape Culture

Feminist believe in a mythical land called rape culture where all men are taught to rape and that rape is a rewarded behavior. As for the roles of men and women, in this culture all the men are rapists and all women are victims. Feminist retard Anita Sarkeesian on her youtube series states proudly that false rape accusation are dangerous fallacies as only 2% of rapes charges are false, as women don’t wish to face the humiliation of a man’s right to due process. She says this time and again even though police departments across the country report that 45% of their rape cases are false, this is a monthly number by the way.

Feminist claim that women have no reason to lie about being raped. The reality is that women have plenty of reason to lie about rape most of the time a woman will be paid in money or some for of legal trade for being a rape victim. The most recent case is that of Brian Banks a high school football star who was once one of the most highly sought after athletes in the nation. He has had a rape charge against him dropped after the woman confessed on Facebook that the rape never happened. Thanks to feminism, the lying whore Wanetta Gibson, and their media fools Brian Banks, who is now 26-years old, and spent six years in prison for a woman’s lie has no wide spread media coverage and is still labeled a sex offender for a crime he never committed.

After charges against him were dropped Brian broke down in tears “There are no words in any language, no gesture in any culture that can explain or describe what I have been through,” said Banks. “I hope my story brings light to a major flaw in the judicial system.”

Sadly for Banks the feminists are claiming this is a mere mistake on the Justice system’s part and has nothing to do with the lying whore Wanetta Gibson that received 1.5 billion dollars for accusing him of rape. Before this whore ruined him Banks was a football star with dreams of playing in the NFL, and even had several leads. He was only 16 when the woman accused him of kidnapping and raping her at school. The woman, Wanetta Gibson, added him as a friend on Facebook and in a message said she wanted to “let bygones be bygones”. There is one very good reason why a woman would lie about rape, she will get millions of dollars if she can get a man convicted of a crime.

When Feminists get the chance to change a legal definition of rape.

MRAs and egalitarians have also been crowing about it, for somewhat different reasons: for the first time, thanks to feminism this new definition acknowledges that men can be raped.

But does it, really? Well, sort of. Let’s look at the possible cases of “rape” in the definition. Penetration, penetration, penetration. All three cases require penetration. Let’s actually make a chart comparing what is and isn’t rape if it happens to one sex or the other, presuming the attacker is a member of the opposite sex.

Act Female Male

Forced Heterosexual Intercourse Rape Not Rape
Forced Oral (Giving) Rape Possibly Rape*
Forced Oral (Recieving) Possibly Rape* Not Rape
Forced Manual (Giving) Not Rape Not Rape
Forced Manual (Recieving) Rape Not Rape
Forced Anal (Giving) Not Rape Not Rape
Forced Anal (Recieving) Rape Rape

*For men, being forced to give oral would potentially count if any portion of the woman’s genitals entered his mouth assuming they considered that to be “penetration”, but it’s possible to perform oral sex on a woman without her labia entering your mouth. For women, being forced to receive oral would count if the man’s tongue entered the vagina.

Funny thing, that. Out of seven categories, for the exact same acts, men are labeled as victims in one or possibly two, and women are labeled as victims in four or possibly five. Same acts. Only one act (receiving forced anal) would be considered rape for both, and only two (being forced to perform manual or anal sex on someone) would be considered not to be rape for both. In every other category, the act performed on a woman would be considered rape, and the act performed on a man would notLet’s look at this situation.

They were both drunk, so while I may not agree with it we accept that both of them are unable to consent. Since we know they couldn’t have consented, we look up at the chart. ”Forced heterosexual intercourse”, what do we have? According to the definition, she was raped but he wasn’t. Wait, what?

• They both got drunk.
• He was more drunk than her.
• She made sexual advances.
• She got on top of him.
• She fucked him.

But he’s the rapist and she’s the victim? What. The. Everloving. Fuck.

When Women do rape men or boys

When women rape men the women usually end up receiving child support even if the man makes the plea that he was raped by her. That just doesn’t matter, and in cases like LANCASTER, Ohio where a 21 year old woman is being sued for the custody of her duaghter by the 15 year old father’s parents. This 21 year old woman claims to love the 15 year old father of her child very much but already has a live in boyfriend acting as step father.

What feminists have to say about little boys

Beyond call infant boys rapists the ladies of Feministing, have the following to say about their sons.

My son is beautiful, smart, and extremely capable. Obviously, this terrifies me. I have spent a lot of time asking myself this very, very important question: How do I teach my son to not abuse his privilege?

To be sure, I recognize the privilege my son received by accident of birth. He was born to two white, middle-class parents. I have a college education, as does my current partner and my son’s father. He is an only child, and has four grandparents in his life that absolutely dote on him. There is a never-ending supply of love, learning, and involvement. My son has opportunities that many children are not blessed with.

Wow terrified and scared because your son is smart, and capable really what the hell does this mean she thinks he’s a rapist at whatever fucking age he is long before he even calls his penis anything other than pee-pee. I am not too sure how to adress the second thing these women have to say about a boy.

We recently purchased a house, and to make the transition easier for him, we allowed my son to pick whatever color he wanted to paint his room. He originally picked pink. (My son adores pink, and spent most of his toddlerhood wearing pink and purple pajamas.) I agonized over the choice. There was a part of me that was overjoyed…my son obviously is confident in what he likes, and doesn’t feel the need to conform to what the world tells him about being a BOY. However, I flashed forward to the time when he would invite his male friends over, and they would tease him endlessly about having a “girly” room. The thought of my child being the subject of ridicule is horrifying, as I’m sure any parent can attest to. (Plus, who wants to repaint when he changes his mind in 6 months?!) Ultimately, he chose orange walls and pink trim. I still think about this incident, though, and ponder what it means to try to balance feminist parenting with living in the “real world” where kids can and do get hurt for being different.

Really this kid is not going to have any friends after they see his room is pink! Also being made fun of is a part of life, we need to be mocked and harrased just enough in our youth that we strive to prove those who mocked us wrong. Be luaghed at for not having enough strenght to do a push up in 1st grade made me determeined to be healthy and fit, while the boy who mocked me is now a fat writer for a local paper who can’t even imagine why or how I would do 40 push ups a day after waking up. The next point she makes is,

My son is very sensitive. He cries easily, gets his feelings hurt often, and is generally more attuned to what is going on with people’s emotions around him. He has always been kind of my little empath, reacting to the world around him and showing every bit of what he’s feeling to anyone who may be paying attention. This causes MANY of the people around him, especially older men, to be very troubled by his shows of emotion. He has been told more times than I can count to “toughen up”, “act like a boy”, and “don’t act like such a baby, girl, (insert insulting feminine word here).” I get very frustrated trying to teach him that it is OK to be that way, no matter what the world is telling him he *should* act like. I am actually very surprised that more of the behavior hasn’t been conditioned out of him yet. I hope that reflects my never-ending support in him and how he choses to display himself. I dread the day when all the conditioning he has received about how to “act like a man” starts to take hold, and I see my beautiful son start trying to hide his emotions.

While I agree we shouldn’t hide our feelings or emotions and supress them till we crack. I do think that we need to realize crying about things will not make them better. When a recruit is told to climb a rope in boot camp and his hands hurt bad crying won’t get him up the rope. As for the empath thing really that isn’t completely accurate lady empaths can project their emotions onto others please learn to read before you write.

I am very careful to correct people (mostly people that I know, although I have done it to strangers) when they ask my son “Oh, do you have a girlfriend?” that I do not presume my son’s sexuality, and he may very well end up with a boyfriend, or not want to have a partner at all. This is usually met with eyerolls or stern looks.

Alright we get you want your son to be the embodiment of the stereotypical gay man! Raising a boy to be a girl or raising a boy to be a homosexual is child abuse you cannot force gender or sexual prefference on a child.

Blaming men for everything bad in life

This is my bigest fucking issue with the feminist movement, they can’t seem to accept their own failures as their own. Not only are tehy not to blame for their actions but when women murder anyone for any reason they will blame some guy for the crime. When Andrea Yates murdered all of her children, feminists said ‘it was the husband’s fault’ for leaving her alone at home 
with the children. Really so four innocent little boys were stripped of their lives because daddy had to work. say what you want about feminism but if women in general have this idea in their heads that they don’t have to raise their children what does it say about us as a people?

In all this blaming men for everything in life is analogous to Hitler and the Jews. Women are not in politics enough, the reason must be a man god forbid the reason be most women don’t want to endure the mud slinging that comes with running for office. Women aren’t majoring in math and science enough, blame a man god forbid it be the fact women seem to cling to the less difficult Women’s studies course in college. In all feminists really need to start being a little more thankful to men. We never held you back we just kept you safe even if we had to die a slow death in freezing waters so you could get off the boat.

The reality of life today is that men are even more oppressed by a social and legal system in which feminists have contributed too. Men are just as likely to be abused by a woman in a relationship as women. False Rape accusations are not at 2% and the fact women are getting away with felony fraud means real rape victims male and female will not receive the concern they should, and I can’t blame the police after all they did just waste a lot of money on the last liar who walked in the doors. Feminists need to wake up most of the issues they believe in are dead or are not caused by sexism. It is a movement failing to adapt much less expand its frame of mind.

Rape and Death, Jezebel’s ad hominem tactic

Rape and Death Threats 

I’m sure there’s a reason that Katie made this ridiculous statement… right? Maybe it’s because feminists have a tendency of labeling any form of dissenter as an MRA. It sure is an interesting but downright vile shaming tactic. The thought process works something like this;

MRA = MRA
Egalitarian = MRA
Anti-Feminist = MRA
Misogynist = MRA
Rapist = MRA
Any cis male who disagrees with a feminist = MRA

But the mental gymnastics don’t stop there. According to feminists, given the above;

MRA = Anti-Feminist
MRA = Misogynist
MRA = Rapist
MRA = Cis male

All in all it’s just a giant ad hominem attack derived from pure bias. The goal is to simply make MRAs look bad as opposed to actually refuting their arguments – something feminists have, time and time again, been unable to do.

The Jezebel article in question is defending a woman who;

Showed up to a men’s rights event with the intent of silencing it
Had her cronies pull the fire alarm in attempts to shut down the talks
Screamed “Shut the fuck up! Shut the fuck up!” at anyone who attempted to argue with her
Sang “cry me a river” when the high rate of male suicides was brought up
Generally behaved like a screeching harpy
The article goes on to continually make the same fallacious argument I just spoke of; Anyone who doxxed her or threatened her ( whether they were just random internet users or nutcases from 4chan) were referred to as MRAs – regardless of whether they were actually MRAs or not. And you know what? Given her atrocious behaviour, nicknames such as “Little Red Frothing Fornication Mouth” are pretty damn accurate.

What I find interesting is that you are somehow blissfully unaware of how feminists treat dissenters on Tumblr. Take a look in the “kill all men”, “feminism”, “misandry” and even the “MRA” or “men’s rights activist” tags and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Of course Jezebel is a site that condones rape and murder of men and boys. So even if the men who did this were MRAs then well it would only be a thing called “what goes around comes around”  

Feminist idiocy

This is what she says about me 

xxxdude – For being blatantly sexist, objectifying women, all while claiming that feminism is to blame for all of his problems and whining for being called out on his BS. He actually blocked me first, after spamming my inbox with messages that went unanswered (a number of them amounted to “why don’t you like me?”) He then called me a coward. For what? Who knows. Then, when I created the DA group, Childfree Visibility, and made it an affiliate with another group, Childfree-Club, he ran off and created a page that was all about how women exist for the pleasure of men, and then got the admin of Childfree-Club to make it an affiliate.) The info page of the sexist group was lifted right off the info page of the group I had just created the day prior (with a few edits, obviously,) making it a blatant trolling attempt directed specifically at me. This person HATES women, and loves pretending to be the victim when none of them want him.

I do objectify women its called human sexual desire, the funny thing is I defended her from a breeder man so what does that say about her? Oddly I never said why don’t you like me, I said I don’t like you and you don’t like me this the apex of idiocy and/or her need to be the victim. This group isn’t about women being pleasure objects for men, its about men and women hearing the truth and about helping them both have random sex. Over all she has a tad narcissistic personality,and could use some help

Feminist forces men from College

http://www.avoiceformen.com/portal/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Arianna-Pettek-Thesis.pdf
<i>…I can’t tell you how many applications I saw that were just dripping with white male privelege.  Any of those that I saw basically went straight to the garbage can regardless of how good their qualifactions [sic] were.  If I saw an application from a white male that basically was just good test scores, and activities like chess club or math club or what not then it shows me this person is not interested in a diverse environment.  Obviously he made no effort in integrating with minorities or to sympathize with them and is counting on male privilege[sic] to get in.  So that kind of application should get ignored.  In their place I admitted a female student.  This goes double especially for math/science majors.</i>

So her she documents her prejudicial screening criteria she made sure white males who played chess and were interested in science and mathematics were rejected.

<i>Another time this I had an application for what sounded like an arab male who wanted to study computer science.  On paper he looked good enough, decent above average scores, and such.  But I checked face-book and sure enough on his wall I came came [sic] upon a particularly hateful post about Israel supposedly not having a right to exist.  I promptly trashed the application and sent out a rejection letter.</i>

Oddly his hateful post is just a demand that Israel return the Gaza strip. So since she is hard core male it isn’t beyond her to make things up.

<i>We can’t boil people down to numbers or statistics, or reject people based on the color of their skin.</i>

Holy fuck what the hell is she on I mean literally she is a racist, sexist bitch and deserving of hate, yet says this! How the fuck is anyone that opposes her a bigot or sexist? Literally if men and women who have a broader horizons than the college breed of feminists in Toronto, and at George Town are violent and sick. Well why is it in Toronto they had to bring Cameras for protection, from masked individuals with stickshttp://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/what-if-youre-wrong/. So the MHRA’s asked them all a simple question. “what if you’re wrong?” simple enough question to answer. I mean literally these people got evidence about things like domestic violence and suicide. Oddly women haven’t been more likely to commit suicide in a whilehttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/11/981112075159.htm this site really isn’t affiliated with anyone. I literally not be shocked that they will call it sexist. Feminists have a notion that men are pissed, that they aren’t the center of attention. Odd that when men do become the focus of something, its the feminists that will resort to violence to silence Men.

False Rape ends with Brutal murder

False Rape Accusations are a wonderful thing Just ask Catherine Comins, then assistant dean of student life at Vassar:

“Comins stated that men who are unjustly accused can sometimes gain from the experience. ‘They have a lot of pain, but it is not a pain that I would necessarily have spared them. I think it ideally initiates a process of self-exploration. ‘How do I see women?’ ‘If I didn’t violate her, could I have?’ ‘Do I have the potential to do to her what they say I did?’ Those are good questions.’”

Perhaps Luke Harwood had the opportunity for some self reflection as his teeth entered the back of his throat. I do hope so, because I would hate for the lessons of this false accusation to be lost on him. Could he have violated this woman? Perhaps it created within him a process of self exploration while his face was being kicked in so hard it shattered his facial bones. It may have been difficult for him to concentrate, however, over the sound of his false accuser’s sister, Emma Hall who (and I quote) “cackled over the two hour assault”.

I just hope he had time to thoughtfully consider how his actions, had he actually committed them, would’ve made some poor girl feel. Before a boot came down on his head so hard his head “popped like a marshmallow where his brain came out”.

THANKFULLY this eighteen year old father of one was only brutally murdered. The real victim here, of course, is the false accuser. That poor girl will have to live the rest of her life knowing her lies killed someone. So, Feminists, of course, will sympathize with her. Poor girl.

Once again Feminists will deflect and defer and tell us all this has absolutely nothing to do with Feminism. Nothing to do with misandry.

And they’ll have the audacity to forget about this tomorrow and then spew on and on about “rape culture” and how everyone tolerates rapists…

They’ll never own this. They can’t. But it’s all theirs.

Denounce the MRAs! Defend women's rights! Build the Revolutionary Students' Movement

Reblogged from rsmtoronto:

Recently, U of T has seen an upsurge of men’s rights activism (MRA).  Warren Farrell travelled to the university to discuss his new book, The Myth of Male Power.  His “in-depth” outline of male powerless has incited a new pro-men movement on our campus.  MRAs on campus have been campaigning with posters and guest speakers in order to draw attention towards new issues men are facing within our society.

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This is a call to verbally and physically assault men’s rights supporters and activists. The irony here is that they have not “exposed” any men’s rights activists, but they have done a good job at exposing themselves as advocates of verbal and physical violence. Yes folks these morons put themselves in the wrong not only because the only people being violent and hateful are themselves. This is just yet more pathetic evidence that the feminist movement is a large scale group of whiny over privileged white women and their sex starved lap dogs looking to play victims. great example of how persecuting people who disagree with you puts you in the wrong instead. I really hope that the people doing this will learn the difference between an appropriate and, inappropriate reaction to opposing ideas. and what's the deal with this campus? I can't imaging that this sort of thing happens to this extent elsewhere?

Butchering Video Games

Nine months after her successful Kickstarter campaign, Anita Sarkeesian unveils the much anticipated pilot episode of the Tropes Vs. Women in Video Games series, which examines how video games often portray female characters as someone who needs to be rescued.
I hate how she keeps claiming this is a “critical analysis” but then she doesn’t actually critically analyze anything. She just cites examples of “sexism” for 22 minutes, just a torrent of surface-level examples and wikipedia article recaps. There is zero analysis of why these kinds of games are made. Just some vague hand waves to “selling more games to straight young men.”

The Krystal/Starfox thing is a complex issue and she’s not actually… looking into it… she’s just assuming it’s motivated by misogyny. And it’s not. At all.

Rare made Dinosaur Planet. Almost all of Rare’s original properties have female leads (Banjo-Kazooie, Perfect Dark, Jet Force Gemini) and Dinosaur Planet wasn’t changed to disempower women. It was changed because franchise games sell better than original IPs. It happens a lot with Nintendo; often experimental games will get reskinned as Kirby games so they’ll sell better.

Video games are an expensive mass media product and Nintendo can only invest money into games that they know will sell well enough to return on the initial investment. Her line, “make a game starring princesses – and NOT just some mobile or DS game” is meant to ‘address’ the fact that Princess Peach starred in her own game and it sold miserably, and also that Zelda was somewhat playable in Spirit Tracks.

She’s literally saying, “don’t just make female-lead games in a safer test market and then after they fail to sell well realize it wouldn’t be a wise business decision to invest even more money into those sub-brands; invest a ton of money in games that will obviously not sell well because of my social agenda!” which can be boiled down to “I don’t understand how the free market economy works – but sexism!”

Games don’t have female support characters to bring down women. Games have female support characters because they have male protagonists and there are few roles in video games for non-protagonists that make sense because of how video games are typically structured. Games have male protagonists because people who buy video games are more likely to buy video games starring male protagonists.

And I’m going to take that a step further: males are more likely to buy video games and comic books because video games and comic books are inherently more likely to appeal to any given man than any given woman. There are psychological differences between men and women. There are different chemicals in the brains of men and women that affect their preferences in activities because evolution. There is a reason male and female versions of the same species of animals behave differently. It’s because gender is an actual biological thing and not an entirely made up social construct. Gender roles have been enhanced end emphasized by society, sure, but they’re not based on nothing.

Women don’t choose not to buy video games as often as men because they’re offended by the subtle sexism of Princess Peach being captured by a monster. Women choose not to buy video games because the actual gameplay of most video games are inherently less interesting to the average woman than to the average man. There are some changes in that, like, there are more and more games being marketed to the gameplay sensibilities of women, not just skinned with female characters and pink menus. But games designed with women in mind is a modern thing and I hope she talks about it in an upcoming episode.

Gendered entertainment products is not a new concept. Women buy romance novels more often than men. Specific products appeal to specific demographics. If you get wildly offended by the idea that specific products appeal to specific demographics it’s because you’re misinterpreting a reference to a group in aggregate as a personal assumption about you on an individual level. I am not saying if you are female you should not or would not like the 90s definition of “video games,” I’m saying that, throughout the 90s, very few women were inclined to buy video games. Not that none did, or that you didn’t, or that you shouldn’t; but that not enough did to justify making the kind of sweeping bad business decisions she’s urging Nintendo to make in this video.

If you don’t understand how market forces lead to games with male protagonists then read this excellent post on how market forces lead to comic books with male protagonists.

If you want an industry to change, the solution isn’t to make pie-in-the-sky demands that companies invest a bunch of money into something that is qualitatively a bad business decision. The solution is for you, as a consumer, to vote with your wallet and buy games starring female protagonists, urge other people to buy games starring female protagonists, and urge people to dispel the notion that they should be buying games because they’re popular.

Generally any critique of pop culture is useless when you’re pointing at the very top of pop culture. If you’re pointing to Mario and The Avengers and other market-leading franchises as being pandering to the lowest common denominator then that is just a totally useless observation because of course it is. Of course the market leaders are going to be reflective of the prejudices of the society in which they are set, that is why they are market leaders in the first place.

If Nintendo made a Mario game where you could only play as Princess Peach and they released it on the Wii U in place of a Mario game where you could plays Mario it would not sell as well. They don’t need to “just try it” to know it won’t sell well, experiments like Super Princess Peach and focus group testing and market research let them know, in advance, not to make that poor business decision.

It’s just really useless to try to educate people on an industry without having (or at least not demonstrating) any understanding of how that industry works yourself. Playing video games does not qualify you to discuss market forces in video games. Understanding free market economics and the way corporations work does.

As a consumer the only input you have in an industry’s direction is what you choose to buy or not to buy. If you want the perks of mass-market games (ie higher production value) then you have to deal with the fact that mass-market games are designed to be broadly appealing. If you’re unwilling to buy mobile or indie or handheld games starring women because they’re not as expensively made as games starring men then you’re just being shortsighted.

tl;dr the real reason there is a lack of female protagonists is because there is a lack of people buying games with female protagonists. IF YOU WANT MORE GAMES TO STAR WOMEN THEN BUY GAMES BECAUSE THEY STAR WOMEN AND NOT BECAUSE LOTS OF OTHER MEN BOUGHT THE SAME GAME AND RAISED THE PRODUCTION VALUE. You have to sacrifice production value for ideology, I’m sorry. You can’t have both.

AgentOrange and the Screencaps of Feminazi Doom

AgentOrange and the Screencaps of Feminazi Doom.

Frankly, it’s a fucking mess. Now, in retrospect, this is to be expected: it’s Manboobz we’re talking about here. However, even by their….well, what we think passes for standards over there this is just weak.
Now, their first claim is simple: “Agent Orange revealed the personal information of some of the worst of the lot, and that’s just wrong.” This is basically without merit. It’s true that the identities of some of the more virulent (read: homicidal) commentators were revealed. However, what was posted was not what most of us would consider “personal information”. Typically when someone is “doxxed”, this involves revealing information like private phone numbers, addresses and so on. In this case, to our knowledge, the only information that was revealed was the actual name of the poster, general location (i.e. country), and in some cases their occupation. In many cases, this was information freely available on the forum.
It’s certainly true that this information was identifying, but it was not sufficient to promote stalking, plain and simple. What it was enough for was promoting awareness of the actions of these people, something I think most of us understand is rather a good thing. Would you want your children in the care of a person who regularly entertains (and chats with to her friends) fantasies of castrating them? Similarly, many of the people involved are public officials, people accountable to their constituencies. I would certainly hope that the next time election season comes around they find their words plastered every place within reach….unlike the usual marital infidelity, this actually says something about how they’ll do their job.
One way or another, when you post something, you’re accountable for it. It’s not “stalking” to attach a name to the bigotry.
The entire rest of the post basically amounts to a complaint that the files did not come with a user manual. The writer has leafed through a couple pages (let’s note that the entire point of the files were to give an accurate picture, and thus include most of the contents of the forum in question rather than simply a set of cherry-picked anecdotes, just like someone being responsible would do) and found that if he squints the right way and ignores the things that aren’t convenient, not all of it is bad. He isolates three threads (out of an entire forum) that don’t happen to contain any bigotry. Incidentally, two out of the three also don’t have anything to do with feminism: the one that does is itself….almost coherent.
Specifically, it has to do with a woman who has two complaints. One, some older people living in her building chat with each other about things, which on occasion includes their consternation with the (controlling) behaviors of some women in their lives. (Horror of horrors, it’s not like we’ve ever heard women chatting about their significant others.) Second, as she was sitting in the hall, someone waiting for their friends struck up a conversation with her and asked her if she had a boyfriend. (Le GASP!) Apparently (according to Futrelle), this was “being creepy”. I mean, it’s not like striking up a conversation with someone isn’t the normal way to meet people or anything, and it’s clearly not the case that someone would ask about someone’s partner status before considering any form of overture to avoid potential discomfort on their part. Nope. Not at all. Of course, despite Futrelle’s claim that the thread is simply “women complaining about creepy guys”, it’s really most of them justifying their assumptions about and assholeish behavior towards men who have the gall to talk to them.
The second involves a computer virus. This is the kind of thread you could find on most forums, with the addition of the occasional comment about castrating men. Not worth further comment.
The first one he dissects the most, but it’s really a pretty simple matter. A male midwife (a professor in the UK, actually) commented on the rising rates of epidural use. He suggested that for a number of reasons, epidurals should be avoided: epidural use has been linked to weakened maternal bonding in animal studies and increased rates of prolonged labor, epidurals do not in any way decrease the risks associated with childbirth, and there are a number of other methods that can be substituted to one degree or another that do not involve injecting a cocktail of powerful drugs into someone’s spine. It should be noted that Prof. Walsh was not in any way recommending limiting the availability of epidurals, simply suggesting that women should be encouraged to have them only when genuinely necessary and that increased one-on-one maternal care and resources should be provided to increase the availability of other methods. It’s actually an issue that many of experts of various genders have raised a number of times in many places.
The problem the radfems had, of course, was that he had a penis and dared to speak on the field of childbirth that he’s a tenured expert in. The various comments ranged from calling him a “closeted religious nut” and “misogynist and sadist” to advocating kicking him in the testicles and shoving an umbrella up his ass then opening it.
What a surprise that this behavior is seen as objectionable.
Of course, the core claim being defended here is that the files just aren’t as bad as people say they are, since a quick and selective look didn’t uncover the massive bigotry mentioned. Even though they could have easily found AVFM’s three separate articles and a podcast highlighting some of the objectionable bits. But I guess AVFM is just too full of penis to consider anything they have to say.

More misandry for man boobz and Author Goldwag to excuse

Apparently there is a magazine which dedicated an entire article to insulting men. Manflue, “a debilitating disease which strikes at the heart of masculinity and renders men less than useless.” Apparently the magazine thinks they can sell their products by basically calling men lazy shits who regularly make up diseases just to excuse their laziness.

The writer of this article which shames men for daring to complain about lack of health, has had the audacity to also demand cash for supposed efforts to help men with prostate cancer.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EapWORIu-EA

The end of free speech

Right now in Canadian universities, and likely universities across the west, student governments are defining free speech in ways that either agree or disagree with them. Speech that agrees with them is a welcome alternative view. Speech that disagrees with them is deemed hatefull and repressive. And this attitude is firmly entrenched in these student governments. The thing is, these over grown babies calling themselves college students won’t be student forever and will soon be entering the workforce. What happens when they enter the government and carry with them the idea that everything that disagrees with them should be censored on the grounds that it’s hateful? I find it so odd that people welcome totalitarian rule so long as it comes in the form of free stuff.