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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-41872427
Remains to be seen exactly what he's accused of doing, but if being "friendly" now counts as harassment god help us.
Just for a laugh, I googled "all women are victims". I half-knew what the result would be before I typed it.
There is a *prevailing* view in society now that yes, all women *are* victims. That they are victims even if they don't identify as victims.
There were at least two articles saying, "All men must share in guilt for cases like Weinstein's, whether they are harassers or not, because they have the power our male-dominated society."
There were plenty saying that western democracies are all patriarchies, meaning "women are victims by default".
There was a discussion on Mumsnet saying "If you support the hashtag #NotAllMen, you are a male rape apologist." Because apparently, the idea that not all men are rapists is mutually exclusive with taking actual rape seriously.
Plenty of people saying that "violence is almost exclusively a male trait" - despite this being factually and scientifically disproved.
Frankly it seems more and more like lunacy for anyone who isn't Brad Pitt, to think about flirting with any woman. It seems these days that if you have any kind of flirtatious encounter with a female you're a sex pervert, a harasser, and a criminal. Not to mention part of the patriarchy and part of the problem.
Where do we go from here? More victimisation culture; more PC?
It's hardly a prevailing view. Sadly there are some people that do hold that view - and these people self-identify as liberals and feminists - but they're absolutely not and much like some of the extreme right-wing types spend a lot of time inside their own echo chambers.
It's unfortunate and it needs to be challenged but there are plenty of sane people in the world too. Even ones that call themselves liberals.
A number of girls I know that once considered themselves feminist now are trying to distance themselves from that label due to it being co-opted by people that take it to extremes.
Well the difference there is that jews were/are a minority. Men will normally be ~50% of the population, not a minority.
Also feminists aren't 100% of women.
So feminists as a % of the whole population will be what, 30%? Less? I would suggest any democratic government would find it hard to run on a feminist manifesto of killing all the blokes
I don't think we should really be worrying about male extermination, here.
There are more ... immediate issues at hand, like the very real problem of an ever-broadening definition of "harassment".
Going back to my earlier post, one thing I forgot to mention from the "all women are victims" search... The number of people saying "all women are victims of male objectification."
Again the use of the word "victim". But here, it simply means "a man has looked at a women and decided she's hot". Can women honestly say they don't look at men that way?
So why aren't we using the language of "victimisation" when women admire men? Heck we've all heard the sorts of things women say to each other about men they fancy.
Depends how successful feminists are. If they're successful enough, we'll go to an attempt at a final solution to the male problem. It's the only logical conclusion to the belief that all men are the cause of all problems.
If anyone thinks that's ridiculous, they could try replacing "men/male" with "Jews/Jewish" regarding power and "black" regarding violence. Exactly the same thoughts, exactly the same beliefs, exactly the same words. Just targetted at a different biological group identity. The only important difference is the amount of power. If believers in any particular variation of that ideology have enough power, they act in accordance with their belief.
They don't have enough power to go as far as they'd like. Yet. The people you refer to definitely are feminists - they advocate for female people and that's what feminism is. Whether or not they're liberals depends on to what extent you think they have corrupted the word "liberal". I think they've succeeded enough to make the word unrecoverable, i.e. that the meaning of the word has been irreversibly changed and that people who would have been called liberals in the past should abandon the word because by continuing to use it they are only helping the new "liberals" who have corrupted the word.
True, but I think those people are doing more harm than good to their own ideology by continuing to identify themselves with a word that has been corrupted so thoroughly that it's very close to meaning the opposite of what it used to mean. The new liberalism is extremely authoritarian, utterly intolerant and built entirely from irrational prejudices. By the old definition of "liberal", the new liberalism is about as illiberal as an ideology can be.
It hasn't been co-opted. It's always been the same way. It is what it is - advocacy for the "right" sex. That's inherently sexist on multiple levels and an inherently extreme position. How can believing that a person's sex is their identity and that only the "right" sex is worthy of consideration not be an inherently extreme position?
What's changed isn't feminism. It's the people you refer to realising that feminism isn't what they were conditioned to believe it is. It never was. It's them who have changed, not feminism.
Tbh if news stories like this continue to occur I can see groups like MGTOW becoming more and more popular.
They certainly want to seperate men and women more
So, for example, whitists see nothing wrong in punishing "black" people for doing things they think are fine when "white" people do them.
Uhhhh thats radfem you're talking about, nothing to do with mainstream or intersectional feminism.
The Nazis were elected in a democracy.
Oh crap I almost forgot about the most utterly deplorable piece of sex propaganda mind control attempt I've ever come across.
There are certain forces out there who are trying to get young women to believe that if they ever see a man yawning, that the yawning man is stalking them. So basically if there are 3 women walking down a road, and a man yawns, then all 3 women are victims of stalking. I ****ing kid you not.
I can't really argue with any of that. I do personally feel it has been co-opted, as do the people I mentioned in my post, but your point is fair regarding both the original meaning being different to the one assumed by myself and others and your other point regarding 'liberalism' changing in meaning is probably accurate too. Depressing times.
The share of vote the Nazis achieved was 33.1% before they set about a programme of violence and terror which still only garnered them 43.9% in the last vote. While still in a democracy the Nazis were in a coalition government.
Three mates and I went out round a few locals a few months back and befriended a group of girls all out having a fun and rowdy night. One of them, who turned out to be married, was so hammered by the end of the night she was thrusting herself upon each and everyone of us essentially demanding that she be taken back to ours and be seen to. She was jamming her hands down our trousers, grabbing junk, tongues into mouths and for such a petite person she was bloody forceful. It was actually as if she had turned feral, it was quite disturbing. The best I could do was hold her arms to restrain her, anything more physical would have not only have been out of order but also attracted the wrong attention from others.
Since she was in such a state, she inevitably ended up staggering out in the street, dropping to all fours and throwing up all over herself. Next she was just verbally abusing everyone and telling them to leave her where she lay, in her own sick. I ended up throwing her over my shoulder and carrying her to her friends nearby house where we called her husband to come pick her up! She was kicking and screaming most of that way so it did look like I was abducting her or something had a few random blokes come to us quite concerned, until I explained that my intentions.
The next morning back at mine, all the guys and I remarked on a few points, like what if that was a guy thrusting his hands down loads of women's pants and demanding sex. Or if we were horrible and just took her up on the offer (and were inevitably accused of rape there after). Or if we had just left her face down in the street and God knows what might have happened to her by some heinous person(s) out that night. Her friends weren't much use either, looking back.
These kind of occurrences aren't rare though, we've all seen and experienced them regularly haven't we? I guess to a degree though, the gravity and impact of a woman making unwanted sexual advances just isn't the same as a man doing it. The drunk married lass in the end couldn't completely force herself upon us. It's a difficult one really.