A PUA, living the dream. And by “living the dream” I mean “being a dick.”
Cheating is jerky. But this picture is still hilarious.
Here’s the bravely anonymous alpha blogger behind “Danger & Play ~ An online magazine for alpha males” explaining “Why You Should Cheat on Your Girlfriend.” I’ve bolded my favorite bit:
Haters will tell you to, “Man up! Break up with your girlfriend if you’re not happy.” They are missing the point. You want to have your cake, and to eat it too. Steady, reliable pussy and the occasional strange is the best of all worlds.
Cheating is a lot of fun, and it’s something I highly recommend. It’s way more exhilarating than bungee jumping, and few things feel as good as banging your girlfriend on the same day you banged some strange.
Cheating keeps your game tight. The best way to regulate your girlfriend is knowing you can bang chicks as hot or hotter than your girl. Well, when you cheat, this isn’t hypothetical. It’s reality.
Somehow I’m guessing there’s a lot more “hypothetical” than “reality” going on in this guy’s posts.
You don’t want an exclusive relationship? Fine. There’s no law saying you have to be in one. You can date casually and non-exclusively. You can have an open or polyamorous relationship. There are a lot of people out there in relationships, yet happily fucking other people outside of them. They’re just above board with it.
But that’s not what’s going on with our PUA friend here. With his talk about “regulat[ing]” girlfriends, he seems more interested in fucking over his girlfriend (assuming such a creature really exists) than he is in fucking strangers (sorry, “stranges”).
That’s not “Game.” That’s just being a dick.
But, hey, Nietzsche! He’s BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL! Or, as he puts it in a comment, “Shame and guilt are beta.”
You know, if you have to go around telling everyone what an Nietzschean ubermensch you are, you’re probably aren’t much of a Nietzschean ubermensch.
Posted on October 17, 2011, in alpha males, beta males, douchebaggery, men who should not ever be with women ever, PUA. Bookmark the permalink. 961 Comments.
Brandroid comes with a built in camera that it can use to film all its sexual activities. This is totally OK because its AI is very heavily encrypted and unbreakable by law enforcement, since you’re not allowed to become a cop if you’ve ever touched a computer before.
I kind of feel like Brandon is turning into a much less charismatic Bender… :p
Brandon Branding Rodriguez.
When you say his name backwards, he disappears.
Darksidecat said that there were “good policy reasons not to punish sociopaths until they commit harm” as though whether or not we should punish innocent people had been up for debate. Of course there are good policy reasons not to punish sociopaths who haven’t committed any crime, it’s because they haven’t committed any crime.
OK, what I keep saying here is that it’s possible to work for the welfare of other people, and realize that it’s important on an intellectual level, without feeling any empathy toward them. That these are two different issues.
Like I said above, I’ve got Asperger’s. And I don’t know whether or not I’m capable of empathy, if by “empathy” you mean “feeling emotions as though with another, catalyzed by the emotions of another.” I feel bad or good for other people, sometimes, but I don’t feel things with them. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t know that a just society is one in which everyone’s treated fairly and harm is minimized. To think that I’m just automatically incapable of morality is ableist.
Also, considering that Brandon spouts off at great length about his empathy for his family, friends, and (here I’m really doubtful, considering his previous remarks) girlfriend, I’m inclined to think he’s just an Internet Libertarian who’s confused being cold with being a badass.
Zeugirdor Gnidnarb Nodnarb.
Is he gone? Can we get back to mocking MRAs now? Or do you need to say his name three times?
Brandon
Brandon
Brandon… Oh crap, that summons him again… RUN! EVERYONE RUN AWAY!
BRANDON
BRANDON
Brandon of Puppets I’m pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can’t see a thing
Just call my name, ’cause I’ll hear you scream
BRANDON
BRANDON
His ideas are random,
Obey your Brandon!
WHAT DO YOU WANT, MORTAL?
This is hysterical.
VoiP, I said I give side-eye to people that don’t care if other people are harmed in any way; that sure doesn’t describe any Aspies I know. Even if feeling the emotions of another person doesn’t come organically or easily that doesn’t mean most people on the spectrum are like “lol, I literally think it’s fine for hobos to die if it doesn’t inconvenience me.” I mean, obviously I don’t have to tell you this, but I want to make it clear that I don’t think that 99.99% of non-neurotypical people are any more concerning than anyone else. But when someone is a sociopath or pedophile I think that’s the 0.01% where there is reason to believe their specific brand of non-neurotypical could harm someone.
And I certainly don’t want to derail onto this topic… especially ’cause I honestly do think Brandon is just puffed up on his narcissism and bullshit and freshman “Nihilism 101″ and false sense of invulnerability, and I don’t think he’s any brand of non-neurotypical so much as he’s just a brash, foolish and douchey entitled brat. So it’s kind of a moot point what I think of sociopaths, because I doubt that one would be so bluntly assholish and obvious in the first place; it’s not very bright or self-serving to brag about your various crimes is it? :p
(That’s right, Brandon, I don’t believe you are a sociopath because I think you are too stupid. Similarly I don’t believe you will be illegally videotaping many ladies because I doubt many would ever want to come home with you. Congrats; your own foolish douchebaggery is your best character defense. ;p)
OK, I really don’t want to contribute to this derail, but…my best friend is Aspie, and my ex is a (diagnosed) sociopath. These are not in any way the same conditions, and the way of seeing the world and behavioral tendencies of individuals with these two conditions is not in any way similar.
My friend who’s Aspie sometimes finds it hard to read my moods, which leads to miscommunication. My ex tried to hang his own brother when the brother was a toddler, just to see if he’d turn blue, and punched his mother in the face hard enough to knock her out when he was 21 because they were having an argument and he wanted it to be over so that he could go do bed.
Not the same condition, at all.
@Bagelsan: Ya…that’s exactly what I said. Let’s all go on a hobo killing spree!
Ya, I am brash, have been and will be foolish again and I don’t expect anything from anyone so I can’t really say I am entitled.
What crimes? smoking weed when I was younger? My rap sheet is non-existent, I also have worked for non-profits so that rules me out as a pedo too since I have to get a SORI and CORI check.
Someone who’s been screened by a non-profit is guaranteed not to be a pedophile (who hasn’t been caught doing anything illegal), or to commit acts of pedophilia in the future?
Brandon logic at its finest, folks.
Ah…now the “you can’t get laid” bit. I really don’t have any problem in that department. Going from a shy, meek kid in high school and not getting any to “a douchebag” (in your parlance) has been the best thing for my sex life. While I wouldn’t say women flock, but it certainly comes a lot easier being brash and aloof than acting caring and attentive.
Maybe this article is right…it worked for me:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-women-really-do-love-selfobsessed-psychopaths-850007.html
@Cassandra: Your going to go that route? Seems pretty damn flimsy to me. Plus, I tend to go the other way. I have a thing for cougars.
I’m not saying that you are a pedophile (I see no reason to think that you would be), just that your being screened at one point for a job doesn’t in any way eliminate the possibility that you might be one, or might commit acts of pedophilia in the future. Your example doesn’t prove the thing that you think it does.
Brandon, you’re not even a psychopath or anything; you’re just kind of whiny and spoiled. Seriously. There’s nothing wrong with you that a little (okay, a lot) of self-examination and getting-out-in-the-world couldn’t fix. “Me me me!” is childish and boring, not intriguing or badass.
@Bagelsan: Ah yes, now I am spoiled. Me and my lower middle class job and second hand car are now spoiled.
Maybe this is just me, but I don’t think that one’s car and job are what make one spoiled or not-spoiled. The two things are kind of unrelated.
Although I might be inclined to call Brandon self-centered and unaware from what I’ve seen of him.
There is a lot more to being spoiled then having nice things Brandon.
CassandraSays
I don’t know; YMMV but I literally do not believe I feel empathy.
Bagelsan
At all. It’s not that it “doesn’t come easily,” it’s that I can’t feel what they’re feeling. And I don’t really know very much about this, but I always felt like there were certain commonalities between Asperger’s and sociopathy, although I know that they’re not the same disorder.
On the other hand, Himmler and Robispierre were probably Aspies, and did a whole lot of damage before they were stopped, although neither one lifted a hand in anger. Everyone has the potential to be horrible people; whether or not you are is, in my opinion, more a matter of choice than of biology.
You’re also in love with the idea of yourself as some sort of stone-cold super-genius, while I can tell you that the life of the neurologically different is more often one of awkwardness and poor sartorial choices (or, if you are a sociopath, Bad Life Choices that result in getting fired or getting arrested, neither one of which is optimal from the position of self-interest) than getting to be The Pretender. Man, anyone else remember that show? It was like, the same plot over and over, but since that plot involved explosions For Great Justice I ate that shit up when I was fourteen.
Anyways, if it really came down to it, the cops know what these computer-things that the kids are playing with nowadays are.
Dude, you don’t want to get married because you think being asked where you’re going on a weekend night is too confining, and, because you personally don’t want to get married, you’re against marriage as an institution. That’s pretty spoiled.
@Brandon,
Re: “illegal videotaping.”
The laws vary by state. In some states, both parties must be informed and give consent to tape a conversation (audio or video).
In other states, mostly western, it’s legal to record as long as one person has knowledge of the taping. That would be you, so you’re in the clear, if you live in one of the more free states, typically in the intermountain west or upper New England.
I agree that there are certain circumstances in which it’s wise to have some backup over the ‘he-said, she-said’ type testimony.
In that case you may not even need a video recording, but a simple audio recording. MP3 flash drive audio recorders with excellent battery life and decent sound are available for cheap, and you can hit record in your pocket. I know a few men who carry them for certain backup purposes.
What a great thread. Brandon’s up in here swinging like a damned samurai, and trolls are flying all over, left, right & center. I think he’s communicated clearly and admirably. I have no qualms with what he’s written, although I haven’t scrolled back through damned near 700 comments. I know this whole site is anti-game. That’s fine, you’re entitled to your opinions, and I admire a guy like Brandon, who can come up in here and speak his mind in a den thick like thieves with the ideology of third-wave feminism. Good on you, Brandon, for bringing a bit of the manosphere up here. It’s entertaining at least.
Forgot this: I am not denying that they can harm people, but my point remains that until they do, we shouldn’t arrest them preemptively or anything.
I’ll never forget that time Brandon didn’t understand how a false murder charge/conviction is possible.
So…
Bushido.
rev: I think you’re conflating laws about recording conversations and laws about videotaping sex without someone’s consent. The latter, as I understand it, is illegal in all states:
http://www.sexlaws.org/answer_board_question-secretly_videotaping_sex
Whait a minute.
I read the whole thread since the shit hit the fan yesterday I want to point something that caught my eye.
I don’t see Brandon denying that trust, love and so on don’t exist but that they can’t be used in court as evidence, which is a bit different and I think that purposefully changing or misinterpreting what he said is not cool.
Anyway, I still think that he didn’t respond to my question: On what kind of information and statistick he bases his ideas how usual FRA is and does he know how many rape charges are actually ending with jail time, so he is so concerned?
Because it could be me that misreads the statistics but they look nothing like what he is saying.
So… either he has data which I haven’t seen (and I would like to) or he is just paranoid without sound reason, because current statistics does not show FRA being in such high numbers and men going to jail in such high numbers for every rape accusation since such a small ammount of them even go to trial not to mention that so little actually receive jail time.
Which is it?
Sure he is. Especially if you, like Brandon, are a fan of the “La-la-la-la I can’t hear you” school of reasoning and argument.
Me? I’d be impressed if Brando answered some, or even one, of the really hard questions regarding the ethics of his “hypothetical” protection against false rape accusations.
LOL! Riiiiiiiight…. more like he’s tilting at windmills like Don Quixote.
Brandon has failed to present a *single* factually accurate point. Most of his posts are a celebration of his jackassery. His entire premise, that he must guard against false rape accusations because they’re just SO COMMON, isn’t remotely born out by the statistics. It would be amazingly unlikely he would be the victim of one even if, and this is wild MRA fantasy, *every single rape accusation were false, and every single accusation ended in successful prosecution* it is still only 54.2/100,000. That is .0005%. That’s a fucking low chance to be accused, and considering that a non zero number of rapes are attributed to serial rapists, it gets even small.
Even if you continue to play the MRA Fantasy game and make it out of 50,000, because only men can even be accused of rape, it’s still .001%. Even if everything he did were ethical, it would be grossly stupid based on time spent and actual risk. He would do much better to put this time into finding ways to avoid driving, that shit’s actually dangerous.
And that’s if we go to pure MRA fantasy land where all accusations are both false and lead to a successful prosecution. In the real world, where the successful prosecution rate is hideously low, and there is no substantial evidence suggesting the rate of false accusations is particularly out of line for rape.
Clearly, yes; “Fuck you all only I matter” is easily and clearly read in each post he makes. Admirably, well, if you’re a self-important douchebag, sure.
snerk. As if that’s uncommon. Trolls like you always seem to think you’re our first, huh? XD
The samurai were prone to swinging wildly and without much of a plan, and they rarely actually hit anything?
The more you know.
(I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t have gone for this whole illegal videotaping thing either, if there had been camcorders back then.)
Well, it wouldn’t be illegal, because they were the ones who made the rules! In fact more or less by definition they wouldn’t be for ‘illegaly’ doing it because that’d mean screwing with another noble, and not a peasant or merchant XD
I don’t know if he said anything about love, but here’s Brandon on trust, responding to advice from some other poster that he not have sex unless he trusts someone to not falsely accuse him of rape:
The “trust can be broken and happens all the time” part sounds to me like he could never trust his sex partner enough to believe that she wouldn’t falsely accuse him of rape, since trust can be broken.
(I’m not sure what the relevance of the defendant’s trust of the accuser could be in a rape case anyway. “Your Honor, I couldn’t have raped her! I trusted her not to accuse me of rape!”)
But maybe Brandon has created a new alternative to Bushido. Libertarianism – The Code of the Selfish Asshole.
Null in the light of this comment of his I agree with you.
Is it possible for one MRA to say something so stupid, offensive, or wrong another MRA corrects him? Is there some kind of code within MRAism that we don’t criticize or allies, under any circumstances? Is it a Geek Social Fallacies thing? Are there internal critiques that go on somewhere we mere mortals are not invited?
I’m honestly kind of fascinated, because my experience of social and political movements is one where, if you disagree with something someone else said, you’re supposed to say so and explain why. However, I’ve never seen one MRA question or call out another MRA, so I’m curious how they ever make any decisions or progress without disagreeing with each other.
I would love to hear a list of social issues MRA people have opinons on which are not ‘women suck, period”?
…criticize [our] allies…
The problem here is that you’re mistaking the MRM for an actual political movement with goals designed to help and uplift people. In reality they’re less civil rights movement and more Ku Klux Klan – they don’t have any constructive goals, just destructive ones. Just look at the way they approach the issue of shelters for victims of domestic violence. Build shelters for men who don’t currently have any to go to? Fuck that, let’s just close the shelters for women.
Will Brandon bring his video camera to Thailand or will 3rd world chicks always “consent” so he doesn’t need to worry about FRA there?
If you look at MRA discussion boards, there really is this code. It’s interesting, because there’ll always be a couple guys who are a little more out there than the rest–who are calling for the gruesome deaths of all their enemies or who are ranting incoherently about Space Jews–and the others just sort of uncomfortably avoid them. They don’t get disagreed with, they just don’t get a lot of replies.
The only thing up for internal criticism is when someone says something that’s a little too feminist.
I cringe by the phrase “3rd world”.
You know, it’s funny. Even though rape is massively more common than false accusations of rape (even in those made-up stats from the Bureau of Brandon’s Ass, rape ranges from equally as common as false accusations to 50 times more common), and even though rape is notoriously hard to prosecute, I have never, never seen someone argue that they should be allowed to illegally videotape all their sexual encounters in case they get raped. Because that would be wrong.
I’m willing to bet that Brandon has never been falsely charged with rape and doesn’t know anyone who has. Where does this paranoia come from? Is it some kind of displaced sexual guilt? Anger that women are treated as human under the law and can’t just be used as random men see fit? I don’t get it.
Alas, Shaenon, we’ll never know as this was one of the questions that Samurai Brandon just ignored while bringing a little “manosphere” all up in here.
Holly, you can’t reveal the Space Jews’ portion of the conspiracy! Don’t compromise the officers and crew of the ISS Nekamah! First Mel Brooks and now this!
/humor about anti-semitism tag
@(r)Ev: Thanks for the kind words. I especially liked the “swinging like a damn samurai” line.
It seems I am very good at annoying feminists.
This is the point where I become just a little bit sorry for Brandon and guys like him… the world must really look like a scary place to someone who has no idea whom he can trust, and no basis for deciding who is trustworthy and who isn’t.
Being annoying is not much of an accomplishment. I mean common houseflies manage it as well.
@mediumdave: Ya, I don’t really see the world as “scary”. There are risks and benefits to everything. The idea is to maximize the benefits while minimize the risks. I have never had my house robbed, but I still lock my door and lock my windows before I go out. So people take precautions even with things that rarely happen.
Locking your house is a sensible precaution… spending thousands of dollars to reinforce your roof in case it’s hit by a meteorite, not so much.
@Ami Angelwings:
Abandon them to their fate.
Locking your house is a sensible precaution.
Letting people into your house, but then secretly recording them because you don’t actually trust them… not so much.
Simon, could you specify what the “fate” of drunk people is?
Because it seems you’re implying their fate is to get raped, which makes rapists just agents of fate rather than human beings making decisions, which is a ludicrous way to describe any crime committed by one person against another.
If someone decides not to rape a drunk person, is that also “fate,” or is it not as much fun for you because then you don’t get to be smug about women getting what they deserve?
@CassandraSays:
I don’t know what you mean.
Also it probably depends on the community.
“If someone decides not to rape a drunk person, is that also “fate,” or is it not as much fun for you because then you don’t get to be smug about women getting what they deserve?”
But Holly, rape is like a tsunami! (It just only happens to bad girls!)
Tsunami happens only to bad girl?
Holly shit!
But houses do in fact get broken into all the time. Anecdata:
Lots of people leave things in their cars when they run errands, visit a friend, park and go home, etc. I’m not talking about gold bricks or sacks full of money; small things like umbrellas, a pair of sunglasses, a window scraper. But I lived, for a while in Baltimore, and the city’s addiction problem was so significant that it was common knowledge that -outside of a handful of very wealthy neighborhoods- you left your locked car empty. Even in the nice areas, trendy areas, gentrified areas, shopping districts, neighborhoods that were near universities – it didn’t matter. Drug addicts routinely broke into cars and snatched things of very little value for potential resale.
I’m not from Baltimore, it’s a city with fairly poor public transportation, and my car was broken into twice within my first 6 months of living there. After I learned the rules, it never happened again. Here’s the thing though: I didn’t have any friends who were transplants who hadn’t had the exact same thing happen to them. Everyone had had their car broken into at some point. Everyone I knew, met, and worked with, everyone. Taking the precaution made complete sense because, even at the level of pure anecdote, it had happened to so many people.
It remains one of the questions your Samurai sword and reflexes missed yesterday, Brandon but it bears repeating. Do you know anyone who has been falsely accused of raped and charged/arrested/convicted?
Again, I feel like David Lisak’s work is extremely telling here. The “fate” Simon’s talking about in cases of alcohol facilitated rape is actually a methodically planned, predetermined outcome. So, less like “fate” and more like a calculated injury planned by a predator.
“The reason that this is such a common part of the scenario—the non-stranger assault—is that we know, and I’ve interviewed these rapists for 20 years and they have told me explicitly, they are predators. They go after victims in those kinds of circumstances, and they look for potential victims who are already somwhat vulnerable. They’re going to get her so intoxicated that she might have blackouts, she may be unconscious, she is much more susceptible to all the manipulations you would use. So for example, you get her completely intoxicated and then you say, “You know what? You really shouldn’t drive. I’ll drive you home.” And then, presto! The rapist has her in his car, and the assault can happen whether in his car, his apartment, or wherever, but she’s under his control. And that scenario has been described to me so many different times by these non-stranger rapists.
“Predators look for vulnerable people, and they prey on vulnerable people, and if as a criminal justice system, we’re going to essentially turn away from any victim who is drinking or any victim who is in some way vulnerable, we’re essentially giving a free pass to sexual predators.”
Simon would let the predator off the hook in favor of blaming the victim for having the temerity to drink alcohol in front of other people.
That’s you, from yesterday. Where do those numbers originate and what are they measuring? Do you believe them? Really? You claim to have never videotaped a sexual encounter without your partner(s)’ consent and yet you argue, adamantly, that trust and love are completely beside the point. Except you trust your girlfriend. Except kind of you don’t. You loop and backtrack so much it’s difficult to follow the thread of your “argument” some time.
But I don’t think you’re really making an argument. I don’t think you really care about how often false accusations of rape are made, or if/when they lead to charges/arrests/convictions. You don’t really think you’re at risk. You’ve never acknowledged the difference between a malicious, personal false accusation (when you reference these “statistics”) and men who are charged erroneously as the result of misidentification, poor police work, etc. Because you really don’t care.
You’ve just kind of stumbled upon a hypothetical and you’re arguing for the sake of arguing. You don’t really have a moral core and you think it’s kind of funny to stand in contradiction to a group of people who take things like bodily autonomy and informed consent very seriously. And you also lack the courage of your convictions and a real belief in your “women can take me or get the fuck out” posturing.
Otherwise, you’d agree that it makes just as much sense to inform a potential partner of your desire to have evidence of her consent via video recordings of consent and post-sexy-fun-times reiteration of that fact, as it does to secretly, illegally, and in direct violation of her rights and her person record her in the act. And it’s a fuck load more honest.
You know that you don’t really have the juice to pull a maneuver like that. You’d be too worried about jeopardizing the encounter. I don’t know if you’ve ever really secretly and illegally recorded a sexual partner but you have the right mentality.
You don’t care about informed consent.
“You know that you don’t really have the juice to pull a maneuver like that. You’d be too worried about jeopardizing the encounter. I don’t know if you’ve ever really secretly and illegally recorded a sexual partner but you have the right mentality.”
I liked Jumbofish’s theory, where Brandon only realized “What, you mean every man who has casual sex doesn’t do this?” when I was like, “WTF?” That would account for all the times he used the present tense, and then said he didn’t actually do this stuff later. :P
You just don’t understand how Brandon statistics work!
1 in 4 women will be raped in their lifetime, that’s 25%
False Rape Accusations are 2 – 60% of all rape cases.
60% of 25% = 15%
25% + 15% = 40%
Thus 40% of all men are accused of raping.
Brandon has barely dodged the FRA bullet with Ashley!
If he has sex with any more women the odds almost guarantee he’ll be falsely accused of rape!
Simon, you make it out to be impossible for someone to not rape a drunk woman. Are you yourself incapable of not raping someone who is easy to rape?
Let us apply the “Darth Vader” test to Simon’s moral code.
Namely, does his principle “abandon them to their fate” sound more credible in Darth Vader’s voice or your own? That is, is it something you would say? Or something Darth Vader would say?
Unless you are Skeletor, Hannibal Lecter, orpost-Luke-Skywalker Mark Hamill (i.e. the Joker or Fire Lord Ozai), Darth Vader’s voice works better. That is because it is a fucking evil sentiment, with little to no redeeming value.
Seriously. The Darth Vader test doesn’t work on everything. In fact, it almost never works. It takes a lot of work to be that fucking evil. Well done, Simon. The villains of the world applaud you, each single clap of their hands resounding with the death of thousands.
I’m trying to think of a villain villainous enough to cast a mournful look back as he reluctantly walks away from a totally rapeable woman without raping her. Maybe someone from A Song of Ice and Fire? Someone from a Terry Goodkind book? The mind boggles. Even Darth Vader’s like “No. I. AM… creeped out.”
@Bee:
So did he force feed her with alcohol or what? How can that be a calculated injury?
@Holly Pervocracy:
When the Kryptonite lock was tested, a bicycle was locked on a signpost in Greenwich Village in New York City and left there for 30 days. Though it might have been theoretically possible that nobody made any attempt to break the lock this was of course not the case. The designers knew that would happen, they left it there because they wanted to test the lock.
So, under some circumstances, yes, I can’t help but think of the criminals as some sort of agents of fate, because even if the first decides not to do it, the next one will.
As if I were happy that drunk women get raped.
@Johanna:
No I am not. But the people of Greenwich Village as a whole really ARE incapable of not trying to break bicycle locks. And I’m sure that there are areas where this is true of rape.
@Nobinayamu: Not really. While this is a hypothetical argument now, I wouldn’t be opposed to recording (either video or audio), the event. If Ashley and I broke up and I started dating multiple women again, I think it would be prudent of me to get the consent on tape. Personally, I would go with just an audio recording.
I am not sure what the actual number of FRA’s that happen every year. However, I am sympathetic towards people that are being falsely accused and I think the person doing the false accusing should be sent to jail if the court finds they were blatantly lying. No one should just be able to make that kind of accusation, lie to the courts and walk away without punishment when found they are full of shit,
And yet police would arrest the individual criminal who did it, not say “well shit, son, someone was going to, can’t really blame ya.” Personal responsibility doesn’t work like that.
Also I don’t think most bars and parties are so crowded with rapists that it’s a matter of “hell, someone’s gonna do it.”
Even in the bicycle example–imagine a bicycle that’s locked up next to a farmhouse in Iowa instead of in Greenwich Village. It’s a whole lot less likely to get stolen, right? Even though the bike’s “behavior” is the same, its environment is different, and so the bike is safer. It’s almost like an area with less theft has magically changed its “fate.”
There is a difference between taping someone consenting to sex and taping someone during a sex act without their knowledge or consent of the taping. This really isn’t rocket science.
It seems I am very good at annoying feminists.
That’s a pretty good summary, ya, but you realize being proud of being annoying kind of reinforces the spoiled child vibe you give off, right?
@LauraLot: Yes, I know the difference.
Yeah, Brandon, I was asking for you to confirm my suppositions. It’s abundantly clear that you don’t give a shit about informed consent.
Brandon, why would you need to secretly record the entire “event” when -for your purposes of ass covering- you could just tell the woman in question that you’d like to record her affirming her consent pre and post nookie? There would be evidence of time-stamping as well as her agreement to be recorded, with the option of her enjoying the idea and actually agreeing to record all the sex.
Why would you “hypothetically” need to violate her when you could have the same level of protection just by being upfront and honest? I mean, in all of your other posts about sex and dating you’re such a strong advocate for being upfront and honest about your needs.