If you thought the “meat market” guy from a couple of days ago – you know, the one prattling on about the “market makers of pussy” — was risibly wrongheaded, here’s an even more insidious attempt to reduce the complexities of human sexuality to a question of “supply and demand.” Over on The False Rape Society blog, Pierce Harlan has a new post with the title:
False rape claims: increasingly a tool to skew the current economies of sex, where sex is cheaper than most women prefer
As you might imagine, the post itself is based on some fairly twisty blame-the-victim logic – with some feminist-bashing thrown in for good measure. Let’s wade through the muck here.
According to Harlan, the “cultural tenets governing sexual encounters” have gone all loosey-goosey in recent years, due to birth control, a general loosening of sexual mores and “the feminist-inspired norms that pressure young women to ‘party like the guys.’”
I assume you have all read Mary Wollstonecraft’s classic A Vindication of the Rights of Women to Get Totally Wasted and Fuck Some Dudes.
But, alas, feminists totally don’t understand the law of supply and demand –and that in the market of sex, they are the supply and not the demand (because it’s not like women ever really want to have sex themselves). As a result, the feminist-inspired young women of today are totally flooding the market with cut-rate pussy.
As Harlan explains:
The experts tell us that men have a much easier time obtaining sex than they did in days long gone. … Women who’d prefer to put a higher price tag on their sexuality are finding themselves locked out of the market.
The results are all too predictable. Women are having sex more often when they secretly are conflicted about it. We’ve frequently reported here about the proven gender “regret asymmetry” where young women have much higher levels of after-the-fact regret than men following sexual hook-ups. Regret too often is transmogrified into feelings of being used, and feeling used too often metamorphoses into a false rape claim.
Does Harlan have any evidence to back up this hypothesis? Yes. And it comes straight from his ass.
Having studied the false rape phenomenon closely for a number of years, it is my conclusion that young women are increasingly resorting to false rape claims as an inappropriate method of skewing the current economies of sex, which favors men and which makes sex cheaper than most women consciously or subconsciously prefer.
In other words: he has spent the last several years searching out news stories on false rape accusations to post on his blog. Because there are almost 7 billion people on planet earth, he has been able to find a fair number of such stories. So he’s concluded that there is some sort of “false rape epidemic” going on. In other words, his conclusion seems to be based almost entirely on what’s known as the “availability heuristic,” which, as Wikipedia puts it, “is a phenomenon (which can result in a cognitive bias) in which people predict the frequency of an event, or a proportion within a population, based on how easily an example can be brought to mind.”
Were I to start a blog entitled “The Dudes Peeing on Things You Shouldn’t Pee On Society,” guess what? I too could cite many examples, drawn from the newspapers of the world. Were I to do this for several years, my brain would be stuffed full of stories of men urinating on just about anything that can be urinated on, from prayer rugs to cough drops. This, through the power of the “availability heuristic,” might convince me that we faced an epidemic of inappropriately urinating men, and that this epidemic was getting worse by the hour. (I mean, before I started specifically looking for such stories I almost never heard about this terrible social ill.)
But back to Harlan and his argument, such as it is:
Women are pressured by feminist-inspired norms to make themselves more available to men than ever, but they have also learned that crying rape after-the-fact is a culturally accepted, indeed, feminist approved, antidote to sex they feel was too cheaply obtained. Instead of saying “no” up front, they are retroactively saying “no” — with false rape claims — after-the-fact. And society has given this backward state of affairs its imprimatur.
One solution? Women need to stop having so much sex — for the sake of teh menz. Or as Harlan, still working the creaky economic metaphor, puts it:
One cure is to enhance the value of female sexuality by decreasing the supply and thereby reduce both regret and false rape claims.
But, darn it, this won’t work, because women are out there marching in the street for the right to, you know, have sex when they want to with consenting partners without being shamed for it.
That, of course, can never happen in a society where “slut walks” are celebrated as liberating events, where colleges excuse women from underage drinking charges so long as they report they were raped, and where false rape claims are routinely excused and implicitly encouraged. In short, it can never happen in a society that encourages young women to be promiscuous and to then tell rape lies when that promiscuity results in an unfavorable sexual experience.
Harlan ends his piece with a call to lock up false accusers for a long time.
Certainly malicious false accusers should be charged. Women who identify the wrong guy in a lineup? No.
And it would be nice if Harlan extended the sympathy he shows for falsely accused men to real victims of real rape, a much larger group of people than the falsely accused. But instead he writes pieces like this one, and links in his sidebar to a host of misogynist blogs that, among other things, routinely joke about female victims of rape and murder, that urge men on juries in rape trials to vote to acquit the accused even when he’s clearly guilty, that claim that age of consent laws are inherently man-hating, and that think it would be great if sex robots and artificial wombs rendered women obsolete.
Those actually interested in helping those falsely accused – rather than supporting Harlan’s retrograde agenda — would do better to support The Innocence Project, and to stop reading Harlan’s drivel.
When a DA decides to not prosecute, that too is a false accusation,
If the cops do things to prejudice the idenitfication of a suspect, that’s a false accusation,
No, those are examples of what is known as the Vagina Pinata. Any male who helps her out gets a shot at the candy that might be inside.
Nobinayamu | June 16, 2011 at 10:48 pm
Well, aMiRA you’re in luck. Because currently, that’s exactly how the system works.
Resolved!
Except it doesn’t. Nice try though. How about you actually see the world as it is rather than the world according to the Gospel of Dworkin.
Oooh – and every time NWO turns up we can be like ‘whose cat urped up this mess?’ 🙂
There are many variations of the saying. “Bag”/”Box. Tom-ay-to/tom-ah-to.
However, I agree with the others who don’t think the reference to hammers works in this case. There are hammers, at least in fiction and mythology, that are capable of far more intelligence than NWOslave. Thor’s hammer Mjölnir, for example, could return to the hand of whoever threw it. Slavey lacks that sort of memory, judging by the way he keeps repeating disproven arguments.
I thought it was “Look what the cat urped in” 😀
There is nothing unreasonable about Harlan’s thesis. The laws of supply and demand must be different for men and women. Fucking a string of losers is not perceived in quite the same erotic way by women as fucking a string of bimbos is perceived by men (and, incidentally, I do not condone either). The delusion that women have the same sex drives as men (with the same motivations) is a form of solipsism. Anyone who believes that women are motivated to fuck in the same way and in the same contexts that men are clearly does not understand women… or men, and why Game works. And the slutwalks are an expression of this very solipsistic ignorance.
The false accusers lying about rape diminish and trivialize the experiences of genuine rape victims. And when they are not held accountable for their lies, they erode the integrity of the justice system. The shifting laws of supply and demand impact on every aspect of our culture, and are inextricably intertwined with the baby-termination industries. I’m not too sure why David has difficulty in grasping this crucial reality.
Ah geez, is chuckadee another meta-troll? I wanna make fun of him, but I don’t see the point if he’s just gonna say, “I don’t believe any of that garbage, I’m just making a point, of course!”
And I’m not sure there’s a link between there being (as you argue) different ‘market forces’ at play in men’s and women’s sexuality and women lying about rape willy nilly.
Who are the “genuine” rape victims?
And do you agree with what many posters have already written on this thread, that women who can be proven to have lied maliciously about consensual sex being rape should be tried and, if convicted, punished to the full extent of the law?
Look everyone! A new troll!
Chuckadee: Anyone who thinks men and women have greatly variant reasons for having sex, clearly doesn’t understand people. Women have sex for the same reason men do… they like it.
It’s not a supply and demand thing, because the supply, by and large, isn’t limited. Where it has been limited the limiting has been done by men (see harems, purdah, mormon-style polygamy, Arabian-style isolation, Taliban-ish treatment, etc.). I know lots of women who like to fuck. If they want to go and find a new boy-toy for the night, I don’t care.
Heck, I might even go so far as to condone it. So long as the people engaging in casual sex are honest with their partners, and treat them as human beings (not merely means to an end), there is nothing wrong with it.
Which is where, “Game” fails. It treats people as things. That’s immoral.
It’s also self-limiting. The trickery inherent in it (the cutting out, the negging, the use of drink to take advantage of inhibitionary reduction, etc.) works on women who are insecure, or inexperience. The PUAs don’t care, of course, they aren’t treating the women as people, but as warm places to stick their dick.
The solipsistic arrogance is in thinking this isn’t reprehensible behavior. The Sociopathic ideation is putting it into practice.
I have an idea…how about false rape accusers have to spend an hour in NWOaf’s company a week for a year after release from prison. Or does that violate the eighth amendment?
And do you agree with what many posters have already written on this thread, that women who can be proven to have lied maliciously about consensual sex being rape should be tried and, if convicted, punished to the full extent of the law?
That is just feminist lip service. The government would never spend the amounts of money that would be needed to build the massive new jails that would be required to house all of the convicts under such a law. Also they would never spend the money to create rape accusation crisis centers for all of the male rape accusation survivors, nor create therapy programs for them, much less the veritable spas that modern female shelters and crisis centers are.
What… make NWO act all dommy on them? Well no… I know, they could get out early, if they agreed to teach him arithmetic and grammar.
A defendant in the courtroom today said “irregardless” so we should test them first.
NWO: “Society privileges me, who’da thunk it.
Grew up in poverty, lived in my car in the dead of winter with a roommate, probably went a good 200 days without food. “
200 days without food? Oh dear. I presume you were morbidly obese before your fast, though — right?
Which is where, “Game” fails. It treats people as things. That’s immoral.
No. It treats women as women.
Women are not things-they are humans with thoughts, desires, needs and wants.
aMIRA: The funny thing is… I know lots of women who have been raped (even using the limited definition you used… I know one whose window was opened, while a knife was held to her throat raped. She’s been asexual since then), but I don’t one… not a single one, man who has been falsely accused of rape.
This epidemic… seems to happen elsewhere. I mean, I’ve lived in a lot of places. Some of them are bastions of pretty liberal thinking (like The Bay Area, where I live now: where a rape charge, with four witnesses, not the victim, was just voided by the jury), and LA, and Oak Ridge Tennesee, and Sierra Vista Arizona, and Monterey, and Santa Cruz, and San Luis Obispo.. and in all those places (some of which are really liberal… Santa Cruz,and Berkeley aren’t known for being all that against feminist thought), I’ve never met one man who was falsely accused.
Not one.
So where are all the victims of this vast epidemic?
You’d think his supposed “200 days without food” would cause him to empathize with certain people who did that while trying to hide from people who wanted to kill them, but no.
Long time lurker; first time commenter. I know it was a few pages ago, but I have got to respond to the ludicrous idea that all women, or even most women, enjoy being looked at as objects. That’s something that no one with first hand experience being treated as an object would ever think.
Personal experience: I hit puberty pretty early. By age 11, I had already sprouted up pretty tall and started developing. That was when I stopped being able to take my (then 8 year old) sister along on bike trips to near by restaurants, parks, ice cream stores, etc. She was terrified by the way that men, full grown adult men, looked at me and the things they said. The way they said stuff was downright creepy, like it didn’t matter than my sister and I could hear them because objects can’t have opinions on things. I mean, sure, I looked older than 11, and I was responsible enough to baby-sit, but on a true maturity scale I was downright childish. I even dressed identically to my brothers (generally athletic shorts and loose t-shirts). I didn’t have to do anything other than exist to get treated like an object, and it wasn’t fun. It only restricted my freedom to go places that I’d been going (and my brothers would continue to go to) for years in peace.
And as to women doing things on purpose with the goal of being treated like objects, I always was under the impression that the beautifying was more for the sake of other women/girls. It’s kinda like how make-overs are a slumber party game, and how make-up users (of either gender; I have guy friends who wear for various occasions) are more likely to appreciate the kind of skill that goes into choosing colors and applying. And when I wear a perfume it’s because I like the smell and want to continue to smell it. In my experience, more women than men comment on perfumes; I never even realized that men noticed it at all.
@Pecunium When an MRA states that they have never known a woman in their life who has been raped, when supposedly 25% of women have been raped, they are told that women are ashamed or scared, or may not admit to a man, much less one they do not trust with such a painful memory. Why do you believe it is different with men who are rape accusation survivors and suffering from PTSD?
Because generally there is some kind of evidence beyond the guy’s word. Like a news story, criminal indictment, really pissed wife/mother…
I’ve known three guys who claimed they were falsely accused. One of them was telling the truth and his accusers stopped before anything got serious (this was in grade nine), and the accusation didn’t stick at all. The other two were lying. This I know because one of them raped my best friend, and the other one sexually assaulted me. So I, like others, am interested to know where exactly this false rape epidemic is located. On the other hand, every woman I know, and several men I know have been sexually assault and/or sexually harassed, often multiple times.
The shifting laws of supply and demand impact on every aspect of our culture, and are inextricably intertwined with the baby-termination industries. I’m not too sure why David has difficulty in grasping this crucial reality.
Because David is essentially a sexual marketplace short seller. He’s betting on the value of male sexuality and usefulness to plummet, and he’s using this blog to further his goals.