So The Spearhead has weighed in on the Cleveland abduction cases, and has not failed to disappoint.
Spearhead head boy WF Price uses the terrible unfolding drama as an opportunity to attack the notion of patriarchy. His logic: the alleged abductors weren’t rich dudes, so therefore patriarchy is a lie. No, really, that’s his argument:
Feminists love to point to these incidents and use them to discredit the overwhelming majority of ordinary men, as though they have anything in common with the Castro brothers. They are used to portray every middle class guy as a potential menace to society and freak who would keep girls in a sex dungeon. But it turns out that, in fact, the fellows who kidnapped these girls are about what you’d expect: a few disheveled, low-class weirdos.
So why is it that despite the fact that the guys who commit these crimes are almost always on the bottom of the male power and privilege scale, feminists are constantly linking abuse of women to men’s power, and agitating for stripping what remaining male privilege exists?
It’s time for the patriarchy/male privilege narrative to be exposed for the sham it is. Privileged men are least likely to abuse women; patriarchal types are most likely to protect them. It is overwhelmingly the powerless, those without privilege and the undesirable who resort to crime to obtain sex. The few others, like Ted Bundy, are simply the exceptions that prove the rule.
Price ends his post with an especially nasty bit of victim blaming that seems to be a favorite trope of MRA types:
But perhaps the real issue here is that women aren’t as interested in making up stories about guys like the Castro brothers, because those guys don’t turn them on like Christian Bale in American Psycho.
Yes, that’s right: Price thinks that women worry about rape and abuse because the thought of being raped and abused by Christian Bale turns them on.
Of course, The Spearhead being The Spearhead, the comments are even worse. Norm starts the party off with this:
The Castro bros. will have many women getting their panties wet over them, especially when their trial is over.
Daniel, meanwhile, is angry that Ariel Castro’s alleged crimes have done real damage to … men. That is, if the whole thing isn’t a big false-flag fake:
The truth is, this was the worst that could happen for anti feminist public relations at the moment. If this guy – Mr Castro – only knew how much damage he has done to men by doing this.
The case is such a gift basket for feminism, that I almost suspect it is fabricated.
Groot blames feminists for driving non-alpha men to desperate measures to obtain access to “multiple women”:
What feminists fail to see is that as men are driven more and more by their agenda to the bottom of the power and privilege scale, more and more crimes like this will be committed. Unchecked hypergamy ensures that men like these have no real chance for healthy relationships and often take through criminal efforts what alphas and the elites have access to; that being multiple women.
MRA agrees:
Heroic singles moms created most of these men, we can say that is women exploiting women. The Betas and Omega that commits such crimes are the results of 40 years of feminism raising the number if these low privilege class men.
Keyster offers up this miniature manifesto blaming feminism:
Of course feminists have been playing a game of “self-fulfilling prophecy” with regard to disenfranchising men and destroying the concept of the nuclear family. This can only manifest and perpetuate itself through more instances of disaffected and socially pathological males acting out. The male/female relationship is what tames the male. And so there will be more cases where feminists can say – “See, men are the problem.” But of course there will also be more females acting out that will not be reported or discussed – such as the recent proliferation of female teachers sexually abusing students.
Jacob Ian Stalk — you may remember his 12-Step Program for Recovering Feminists — moves beyond blaming feminism and “single moms” to blame the literal victims themselves:
I have to ask, how did three adult women with at least one child between them fail completely to make their distress known, if it ever existed, to anyone in their own street for ten years, unless they themselves had no intention of being found?
There’s a great deal more this case that we are being told by the hysterical press. Call me a trafficking apologist if it satisfies your need for drama, but I suspect we’ll find the women are nowhere near as innocent or as victimised (if at all) as the cutesy-pie pictures being plastered all over the papers suggests.
Doc, meanwhile, uses the horrific story as an opportunity to brag about his alleged success with the ladies:
The fact is that men who are desirable to women have no need to resort to these types of crimes. I pretty much have my pick of women for my bed, who will pay their own way so that they can have sex with me on trips that I take, and otherwise do whatever necessary to be with me.
So thanks to feminism I have an unending supply of 18-25 year old women who are more than willing to share my bed. Why would I want to commit a crime to limit myself to one, or in this case 3? Seems way too limiting to me – it would be worse than being married. No thank you…
That’s nice, Doc. You’re a moral monster.
EDITED TO ADD: And here’s a late-breaking extra-creepy comment from Darryl X, edited slightly (and paragraphs breaks added) because he’s not only creepy but very verbose. Also, as you’ll see, he apparently thinks Jerry Sandusky was innocent too.
I have a sneaky suspicion that these women (when they were still girls) selected these men. The same way more than half of all women in the US during the past forty-five years selected men for marriage knowing darn well they were going to divorce him later, take him for everything he’s got and then marry up. Too many things don’t add up about this case. So many that I am even willing to question whether or not these girls were even kidnapped. More likely they are runaways who thought they were getting a better deal with these men than with their own parents. And when they got old enough to realize that they can do even better still, they stuck it to these guys (never underestimate the irrational boundlessness of hypergamy). … I don’t think these men are as guilty as the media portrays them and I don’t think the girls are as innocent as the media portrays them. …
When I try to think about how I would go about kidnapping just one teenager and hold her for a decade into her early 20′s in a suburban neighborhood, I am presented with so many logistical obstacles that it would seem near impossible to overcome all of them. Just for a few months let alone a decade. Then throw two more into the mix and that isn’t just near impossible but almost completely so. Not without their voluntary complicity. None of these guys looked to be of any excessive financial means. They weren’t rich. None of them looked like Einstein to me either. There was nothing accommodating about the geography. Their home wasn’t isolated from the community. It wasn’t off in the wilderness somewhere. It wasn’t remote. Think about how hard it would be to hold just one captive for a decade under these circumstances. Then think how hard it would be to hold three. The problems with that don’t grow linearly but exponentially. The cost. The risk of escape. Many other logistical problems.
I don’t buy any of this for a second. As soon as I heard this story, little red flags went up all over the place. Same with Casey Anthony and Arias and Strauss-Kahn and Sandusky (yes, I know). Too many red flags in this culture of feminism usually means something. I’m not sure what it means here but it definitely means something.
So, yeah. Actually, the other brothers aren’t being charged, so even that aspect of Darryl’s disgusting bullshit is off the mark.
Joeb, meanwhile, has a completely surreal and fucked-up Evo Psych take on the whole thing. It’s possibly the most perverse comment in the whole thread, which is saying something.
These men picked these women as sexual companionship , Not mating stock .
If they where looking for mating stock the number of off spring would have been Higher .
I think some men today get confused with Mating and breeding . VS sexual entertainment.
These men are predators but , They have Truly deprived themselves of the one thing men should be looking at , The quality of offspring .
I know its eugenics , but we all look for the best possible outcome when choosing . We want large Male children .
These men choose what I would consider ” good entertainment” but , Not worthy of my DNA .
We make suggestions ever so lightly around the MRA , the modern Male being smallish and effeminate, But when the Modern Male chooses his stock for procreation we chose fucking stock over breeding stock .
I would consider this an evolutionary sickness . A mental illness or defect . Witch is obvious in this case but,It gives us a chance to look at The problem ” for what it is , Inferior males seeking sex . Or like we hear a lot of in the MRA , Pussy hounds , Pussy beggars , These might have been white Knights if put in a social setting that lets them flourish .
Most Likely they would have been The same ,pussy beggars :with the ability to influence any social setting .
What the hell, dude. I don’t even know where to start with this crap.
Probably because David doesn’t identify as an MRA and MRAs have never been particularly eager to listen to David.
The reason you should challenge people on the Spearhead is because you claim that they are saying things that aren’t representative of MRAs and that quoting them is unfair. If you believe that to be true, you should be challenging the people saying these things – because they’re making MRAs look bad. If you honestly think there is value in the MRM, you should probably make at least a token effort to clean up your own areas of discussion.
Or you could just dodge the suggestion and continue blithely insisting that any violent, hateful quotes from MRAs are outliers.
My guess is, somehow, both.
gametime – it wouldn’t hurt if crella and all the other “butthoseareoutliersMRAsaretotesreasonable” bullshit artists would actually cite the, y’know, reasonable, moderate MRAs they keep telling us are the majority.
How many times have trolls been asked and failed to come up with that info? Is it seventy or eighty billion times?
You people, any number of you, keep bringing it up…you don’t want me to answer your questions and comments? Why post replies to me then?
Where have you found any history of Thomas Ball being a child abuser?
How was he supposed to pay child support while unemployed?
Why should we let a misogynist troll go unanswered on a blog mocking misogyny?
You could always just fuck off, of course.
Please back up claims of Thomas Ball being a child abuser. I haven’t read anything about him abusing his children.
@crella
Maybe google up his court testimony? He lost custody because once his four year old licked his hand, so he hit her so hard that she was knocked off a bed. And that’s just what he admitted to.
Any comment on Thomas Ball supporting terrorism and how that’s, you know, wrong?
I’m not sure how many times I have to say this, but courts can only hold you in contempt if they prove you willfully are choosing not to try to make an income and thus not to try to pay child support. Again, sitting on your ass all day is not the same thing as “having trouble getting a job.”
My biggest problem with Ball’s self-immolation is it wasn’t suicide as a result of pain outweighing his ability to cope. It was an act of protest. He wasn’t depressed. He was self-righteous.
And yeah, choosing not to work =/= unable to get a job. Ball was held in contempt of court for the only reason anyone is held in contempt of court when failing to make child support payments – he was found to be deliberately refusing to gain income.
Wrong state! I’m sorry for the error..
His manifesto is now the words of a dead man on paper. Are you saying he deserved to die? Is that your point?
I am answering the 100+ notifications of posts…not just showing up and commenting…actually trying to answer questions that many of you have put to me, and you categorize it as trolling? You don’t want the answers don’t ask the questions.
Weird. It’s almost as if MRA sites are totally unconcerned with whether or not people who lose custody actually beat up toddlers in fits of rage.
“but courts can only hold you in contempt if they prove you willfully are choosing not to try to make an income”
Unemployment was a willing choice? Then why suicide?
@crella
No-one is saying he deserved to die. We’re saying that promoting the terrorist manifesto of a child abuser makes a movement fucked up as all hell.
What part of that sentence do you disagree with?
Because he was a self-righteous douchebag who thought he knew the truth and was making a difference.
OK: http://freekeene.com/2011/06/16/thomas-james-ball-self-immolated-in-protest-of-the-justice-system/
“He was found not guilty of simple assault in Cheshire Superior Court, despite slapping his daughter multiple times and causing bleeding.”
Um, what? You’re the one who wandered in out of nowhere and demanded that we admit that some women are attracted to criminals – which we never denied in the first place, and have now admitted, but you still haven’t explained why you thought this uncommon and trivial occurrence desperately needed to be addressed when (1) this post isn’t about that and (2) the denials here were so adamant because the OP was clearly trying to invoke a hoary old MRA chestnut about how women “really are”.
So you’re hell-bent on defending a manifesto you haven’t even read? Or are you going to claim that smacking your child hard enough to split their lip isn’t abuse?
I’ll point out to you that the ‘difficulty finding employment’ statement was a quote from an online article, so don’t attiribute ‘lying’ to me…
Probably because he was a selfish, narcissistic asshole who would rather die, traumatize his children, and promote terrorism than work for a single day making his children’s lives better?
@crella
I didn’t. However, the MRAs who wrote up that wiki page obviously were.
Have you ever considered that a movement that was worth a damn actually wouldn’t have to lie so much?
Are we even reading the same comment thread?
Go away, crella. You are wasting your time here. You have no idea what you are talking about and yet you will not stop!
“In a lengthy “Last Statement,” which arrived posthumously at the Keene Sentinel, Tom Ball told his story. All he had done, he said, was smack his 4-year-old daughter and bloody her mouth after she licked his hand as he was putting her to bed.”
Source: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2012/spring/a-war-on-women#.UYxWBUoXaTs
His. Own. Words.
“If you believe that to be true, you should be challenging the people saying these things – because they’re making MRAs look bad.”
They’re all independent adults, I’m not babysitting the MRM to prove something to you. Since when am I under obligation to monitor comments on numerous blogs, comments by people from 18-65 ? Do you similarly police numerous sites to make sure no one is making comments to make your views look bad? Is that even possible?
So, gobshite, now you’ve had multiple citations demonstrating your wish for proof that Ball abused his child, how about coming up with citations for the mainstream, reasonable, totes not misogynist abusers who cheer on rapists MRAs?
I’m waiting.
Not holding my breath, though.
” You are wasting your time here. You have no idea what you are talking about and yet you will not stop!”
What part of my comments being replies to comments I have in my inbox do you not understand?