That said, I cannot fail to observe that Susan Brownmiller is the source of the completely unfounded CONSENSUS FACTOID which states that “only 2% of rape accusations are false.”
Susan needs to be hauled into the dock for that alone, if nothing else.
]]>Roderick, The Rad-Geek is being quite insideous. To try and say that Brownmiller wasn’t asserting that, All men are Rapists.
is like trying to tell a holocaust survivor that the the holocaust was a hoax.
Please. Whatever you may think of feminist activism and feminist discourse, nobody is being shoved into cattle cars or massacred by death squads or being used in homicidal medical experiments. A little perspective, please.
That said, you haven’t actually presented any evidence that your reading of Brownmiller is the correct one, whereas I’ve directly discussed the passages in question as well as relevant passages elsewhere in the book. The problem with Holocaust deniers is that they are sleazily dismissing evidence, denying demonstrated facts, and engaging in dishonest special pleading. If you’re going to make the same claims against me, then you do have an obligation to at least discuss the case at hand and give some idea of what I’m misinterpreting or wrongly dismissing.
]]>To try and say that Brownmiller was NOT a man-hating gender-fascist is like trying to tell a Jew that Hitler had written Mien Kampf as a tribute to European Jewry.
Oh – and I assume The Rad-Geek to be a woman because he can’t be much else considering he’s nothing more than a traitor to his own gender.
The Rad Geek embodies another disgusting phenomenon that arose out of the ninties. That being the S.N.A.G. I swore when I finished college that I would never again sell myself out by sticking to gender-specific language in my writing. That from here I would be honest and forthright and have the courage to speak my mind. That leaves me as little more than a Gonzo Journalist – but I’ve never been freer.
David
]]>Also, why are you assuming he’s a woman?
]]>We are all killers. Because we can. We are all thieves, because we can. We are all at once the embodiment of humanity – good and bad. Where you so-called ‘high’ feminists have erred so terribly is that many of you fail to take into account one simple thing; that we are human.
Because of this, most University/College Campus’s in our country offer degrees in Womens Studies. You’ll never see papers being offered on mens studies…
Because of this, we have sexual harrasement laws that are so stringent and unjust that single, white males are targetted purely for fun. If a man is accused of harrassment, there is no recourse. There is no trial, no defence – he doesn’t even know who his accuser is … That’s the law in our country. Instant dismissal.
Even a serial killer or a pedarist has more rights of recourse, under common law, than a single white male under industrial/work-place laws. Good, hard working men can lose their careers purely because a jealous, man-hating Gender-Nazi didn’t like the way he combed his hair on Monday.
Oh – and you don’t find many male teachers in primary schools anymore. Why? People like Brownmiller fueling the fire…
By the way – if you want you to consider yourself my equal, then suffer from my condition. For example – take my lifespan – which is 10 years less than yours (5 years if I find a partner). Take also my higher and more violent rate of suicide – something I suffer from as a single white male. Also, when you are more prone to violent crime, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar and/or depression, (like a single white male is) and when YOU have anxiety about the size of YOUR genitalia to the point of near suicide or impotence … indeed – when you can lay claim to ANY of these things, then consider yourself my equal. Until then – until you suffer from MY condition, then you will NEVER be my equal.
The Mens Revolution is here and now. Step aside Girl-Fascists, the Male Backlash has just begun.
And we are taking it ALL back.
David.
]]>Why can’t any of you simply admit that Brownmiller was saying, in dense, academic prose, All men are rapists because they can.
Because that’s not what she’s saying.
Brownmiller doesn’t believe that all men are rapists. What she believes is that one of the societal effects of rape is that all men keep all women in a state of fear. She states this explicitly in the introduction; the effects of widespread rape for men who aren’t themselves rapists are frequently discussed throughout the rest of the book. This is especially important to her argument in Chapter 6, The Police-Blotter Rapist,
just to take one example. She’s also well aware that there are ways to commit rape other than with a phallus. She discusses several rather horrific forms of sexual mutilation in the chapter on rape in wartime, for example.
Also, her prose is neither dense nor academic: it’s crisp and journalistic (not surprising, coming as it does from a professional journalist). If you think this is what makes for dense, academic prose, I tremble to think what you’d make of Judith Butler….
Just out of curiosity, have you actually read Against Our Will at all (I mean, actually read it, straight through from beginning to end)?
]]>Why can’t any of you simply admit that Brownmiller was saying, in dense, academic prose, ‘All men are rapists because they can.’
Brownmiller never took into consideration that being a rapist doesn’t necessarily require a penis. Indeed, all humans possess fingers, a tongue as well as access to many and or any phalic shaped object. Oh – and have ANY of you ever seen a Lesbian Rape Video? Just where the hell are the guys in THIS instance? Moreover, no-one here has ever taken into consideration the phenomenon of women raping men – again, it comes down to the phalic obect … Use your imaginations.
Why should I be made to think that my wee willie is a weapon? The only people who are trying to MAKE me think this way is Brownmiller and you guys. Truth be told, people like you embody the reason why a lot of men today are impotent; The pressure on us to at once perform AND conform is too much. Our penis’s have given up in disgust.
I’ve an extremely noble suggestion here. Why don’t you gender-nazi’s go crawl back underneath your rock?
Sincerely,
David
]]>(I owe the link to the brilliant take-down at feministe 2004/10/21) If there’s one thing that you can count on every year, it’s that some…
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