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GirlWritesWhat on “The Necessity of Domestic Violence”: “I don’t really find too much [that’s] seriously ethically questionable.”

Yesterday, we took a look at Ferdinand Bardamu’s manosphere manifesto “The Necessity of Domestic Violence,” a thoroughly despicable piece of writing that concludes:

Women should be terrorized by their men; it’s the only thing that makes them behave better than chimps.

I decided to take a look at Bardamu’s post yesterday after running across a discussion of it in Reddit’s new FeMRA subreddit, a forum ostensibly devoted to what “women can do to advance men’s rights as women.” It’s a strange little subreddit, started by a man and dominated by some of Reddit’s most unsavory MaleMRAs, some of them banned in the regular Men’s Rights subreddit.

Recently one of the most unsavory of the bunch, calling himself JeremiahGuy this time, posted a link to Bardamu’s domestic violence manifesto, which he hosts on his website. Jeremiah naturally used the discussion as an excuse to post more apologias for domestic “discipline” along the lines of the quote from him I featured yesterday.

But I was a little surprised to see GirlWritesWhat, the blabby FeMRA video blogger who’s captured the hearts of Reddit’s Men’s Rights crowd, step into the conversation with something of a defense of Bardamu’s noxious views. After reading Bardamu’s manifesto – the one advocating that men “terrorize” their women to make them behave – GWW blithely concluded:

I don’t really find too much in the article that strikes me as seriously ethically questionable.

Have I taken that remark out of context? Yes. In context, it’s worse. Here’s the entire quote from her, and a further clarification of her position.

She wasn’t the only one in the discussion to get upvotes for suggesting that men slapping women around from time to time isn’t really such a big deal. MaunaLoona (a MaleMRA) wrote:

Lots of MRAs like to pretend that they care about male victims of domestic violence. But the Men’s Rights movement hasn’t done shit for them. And here, I think, is why: too many MRAs are less interested in helping male victims of domestic violence than they are in providing excuses and justifications for male abusers.

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cloudiah
12 years ago

Way to dismiss abuse survivors, lawgirl. For the record, I have never been the victim of physical violence, and I don’t actually consider “normal” or “mainstream” to be compliments.

Lawgirl
Lawgirl
12 years ago

Perhaps we could all do with a nice cup of poppy pod tea until some of us calm down and stop being so abusive.

aworldanonymous
12 years ago

@Hellkell

Where’s my crown, because if lawgirl is a Lawyer and a Doctor, then I’m the Prince of Siam and have already gotten my PhD in Psychology even though I’m only a 19 year old who is starting zir B.A.

Anathema
Anathema
12 years ago

@ Amused,

That must have been absolutely horrible. I’m so sorry that you had to go through that.

Lawgirl
Lawgirl
12 years ago

I don’t actually consider “normal” or “mainstream” to be compliments.

So what do you consider a compliment?

Snowy
Snowy
12 years ago

Perhaps we could all do with a nice cup of poppy pod tea until some of us calm down and stop being so abusive.

Cliff, you totally called it!

Lawgirl
Lawgirl
12 years ago

22 from from med school

27 fro Law

Amused
12 years ago

Lawgirl: Oh, you are talking about someone unconscious? Is being unconscious “abuse” now? Also, I do know what you are talking about — hurting a patient who is not rousable through gentle means is pretty much a textbook example of malpractice. And, considering you believe “hysteria” is actually a thing, and beating constitutes appropriate “treatment” for it, I don’t see how anyone can lend any weight to anything you say about medicine. Do you burn patients with fireplace pokers by any chance? I wouldn’t be surprised.

ShadetheDruid
ShadetheDruid
12 years ago

Is it make “shit up about what we do” day again? Because I want to be a dinosaur this time.

themisanthropicmuse
12 years ago

“trivial from the severe” Abuse can ramp up from minor offenses to more serious ones. What you call trivial I call serious red flags.

Nobinayamu
Nobinayamu
12 years ago

Perhaps we could all do with a nice cup of poppy pod tea until some of us calm down and stop being so abusive.

Kick rocks, fuck-wit.

aworldanonymous
12 years ago

Also, at this point, I’m beginning to think Lawgirl is trying to deliberately rustle jimmies. She’s showing all of the signs of being in it just to piss people off. And she is desecrating the drinking of tea dammit, Opiates do not make for good tea, The Lady Grey’s Tea is the finest blend.

Amused
12 years ago

Lawgirl: What, are you claiming we are abusing you now?

cloudiah
12 years ago

What would I consider to be a compliment?

“cloudiah, you are the complete opposite of Lawgirl.”

Now, THAT would be a compliment!

aworldanonymous
12 years ago

Also, Lawgirl, I hope you step on a lego.

jumbofish
jumbofish
12 years ago

troll splode in 3…2…..

Lawgirl
Lawgirl
12 years ago

Amused-you just twisiting what I said which means that you’re a mentally distubed female. And btw, I’ve been in Russia a dozen times and know hundreds of females and none of them have even been hit by their fathers.

cloudiah
12 years ago

Pell?

jumbofish
jumbofish
12 years ago

Do you know ghosts lawgirl?

Lawgirl
Lawgirl
12 years ago

Put your fingers in your ears and hum whenever you don’t like what you hear. Real intelligent.

Anathema
Anathema
12 years ago

Perhaps we could all do with a nice cup of poppy pod tea until some of us calm down and stop being so abusive.

Did you just equate people disagreeing with you on the internet with actual domestic violence?

And you claim that the rest of us can’t tell the difference between the trivial and the serious?

hellkell
hellkell
12 years ago

Aw, we’re being “mean” to Dr. Lawyer. No matter that she rolled up with shit intentions and is an abuse denying fuckwit.

Poor Dr. Lawyer. Won’t someone PLEASE think of the abusers?

hellkell
hellkell
12 years ago

This is TOTALLY Pell.

What a loser.

Cliff Pervocracy
12 years ago

I work in an ER and we don’t put fucking needles under people’s nails, what the fuck.

Sometimes we’ll pinch someone’s deltoid to try and judge their level of responsiveness. That’s all. We don’t go around hitting and torturing patients, Jesus.

Snowy
Snowy
12 years ago

Lawgirl, are you related to Montgomery Clift by any chance?

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