One of the issues that many Men’s Rights activists profess to be Very Concerned About is prison rape. This alleged concern translates into essentially zero actual activism beyond the occasional indignant reaction to someone making a terrible rape joke about men in prison. But then they’ll turn around and make similar rape jokes themselves.
That’s right: MRAs don’t only joke about rapes in which women are the victims. Like many Americans, sadly, quite a few MRAs seem to think that rape is an appropriate — and even sort of hilarious — punishment for men they don’t like.
For evidence of this, one needs look no further than a recent discussion on The Spearhead, in which WF Price’s followers fantasize about disgraced “feminist” and confessed almost-murderer Hugo Schwyzer being raped in prison.
In his post, Price notes that Schwyzer, if convicted on felony DUI charges for a recent incident that left a woman seriously injured, will be facing time in prison. He takes the opportunity to speculate, with evident relish, on the possibility of Schwyzer being beaten by other prisoners for being, well, less than a real man, in Price’s eyes.
Noting that prisons have “sensitive needs yards” for those who might be at risk for being attacked by other prisoners, Price writes:
These special prisoners include gang snitches, celebrities, physically frail prisoners, child molesters and homosexuals. …
Although I’m not an expert on this, I’d assume Hugo Schwyzer would fit the sensitive needs profile. As a feminist, liberal white male with bisexual tendencies, I can imagine that many of the general population inmates would quite enjoy giving Hugo a beating, for the entertainment value if nothing else. There’s nothing that screams “hit me!” quite like a snarky, passive-aggressive white nerd in prison. If he is effeminate on top of that some form of violence is a near certainty.
Price’s remarks are merely the opening salvo. In the comments, various Spearhead regulars are much less circumspect about expressing their desire to see Schwyzer physically harmed — and, specificaly, raped — in prison. They don’t even seem to care much about his actual, confessed crimes; they want him to be raped for being a feminist. (Note: The comments quoted below may possibly be triggering, so proceed with caution.)
Dannyfrom504, who apparently has served time, starts it off by writing that
he’ll be happy to know there are in fact feminists in prison, but they dono’t call them feminists. they call them, “my bitch”.
Geographybeefinalisthimself hopes that Schwyzer gets raped so as to “set an example” for people like, well, me:
As for me, I hope that Hugo does NOT get special treatment when being incarcerated to set an example for all other male feminists (and I stand by my position that all male feminists are like Hugo, including Futrelle). …
I’d give anything to know Hugo dropped the soap in prison and got sodomized so often that he contracted HIV or an incurable STD and lost bowel control because of how many times he had been repeatedly sodomized. After all, why should his not being raped be more valuable than that of any ordinary inmate who doesn’t denigrate almost all other men for not being feminist enough?
Rotten jokes that
Maybe Hugo Schwytzer will come out of prison with a real understanding of Rape Culture.
And a commenter with the ironic name Ethical praises Price for writing such a fair and balanced post. No, really:
Despite Schwyzer’s habit of ridiculing issues affecting men who’ve suffered cruelly at the hands of misandrist laws, this article very admirably took the high road, refraining from wishing evil on the man. Incredibly magnanimous, given Schwyzer seemed to entertain himself heaping scorn and ridicule on men in the meat meat grinder of false accusations, paternity fraud, or alimony or child support slavery, even at the same time that more than a few of those men were being driven to commit suicide.
And then takes an even lower road himself:
While I admire the high mindedness of this article, I also believe that if Schwyzer does find his way behind bars there would be some justice in him being surrounded by at least some of those unfairly jailed for child support, false rape, or other causes he might have implicitly or explicitly ridiculed. As high minded as it is … articles like this can only help identify the man to a demographic that could not easily be more hostile to his contemptuous liberal self. And his identification can only increase the likelihood that one way or another, his sins will be very harshly addressed.
Once again I present to you: The greatest human rights movement of the twenty-first century.
Schwyzer, who has confessed to the DUI as he earlier confessed to almost killing an ex-girlfriend, deserves to spend time in prison. He does not deserve to be raped. No one does.
Anyone concerned about the appalling epidemic of rape in American prisons should visit the website of Just Detention International, an organization devoted to ending this barbarism.
Well, that’s a colossal pile of poop.
Wow. Just wow. I have no sympathy for Hugo Schwyzer, but this is evil. How can these guys live with themselves?
These guys are shitlords. -__-
So much for concern about men. What a bunch of assholes.
So what’s this? A man deserves to be raped? Fucking misandrists…
I am speechless.
How utterly pathetic these vermin are….
Apparently the bottom of the barrel we thought they’d reached was false. They’re going lower.
This seems to be a theme with the MRA crowd. The use male rape victims as a beat stick on feminists, but they actually don’t give a fuck about them do they?
=_= Damn it, MRAs, you guys are terrible people. May you all step on Legos.
Oh, but guys, they’re just laughing at those rape jokes because they’re shocking and edgy. Totally not exploiting the narratives of male rape victims for the sake of a morbid laugh.
If it’s just a joke, it can’t hurt no body, amirite bros?
Well that’s just vile.
Wasn’t the appropriately banned Alex Reynard going on and on about the how the MRM cares so much about male rape victims, and feminists don’t? Well, there you have it. The MRM’s great “compassion” for male rape victims.
May their feet encounter Legos with every step.
Nothing quite so much makes me despair for humanity than when people wish rape as punishment on anyone, anywhere, for any reason. 🙁 I’m glad this is at least one Internet space where other commenters tend to agree with me because as David said, that kind of thinking isn’t limited to MRAs. 🙁 🙁 🙁
Sooooo, to recap: Rape is fine and dandy if you’re not a man…or if you’re not man enough, by the Shitty Spearhead’s narrow and arbitrary definition of the term. Men’s human rights…exactly where DO they fit in all of this? NOWHERE.
I’m sorely tempted to wish them a taste of their own medicine, but I won’t. I don’t want to become one of them.These guys deserve to be ostracized forever. And at the rate they’re going, they’ll sure ’nuff get what it’s so obvious that they really want, and soon.
(Hi everyone, delurking now…)
I do not think they should step on Legos for this. Legos aren’t enough. What they should be stepping on is those 4-sided dice from D&D. Those are WAY worse than Legos, depending on how they’re made.
Guys, there is an asshole in a old thread at it again. -__-
I hope Hugo Schwyzer goes to prison for a full sentence, but I don’t wish rape on anybody. Not even rapists.
These people have no idea what “human rights” activism really IS. Since Mr. Price is local, I’d be happy to show him around some actual working orgs.
This kind of ignorance and lack of basic decency are appalling.
Ok, this calls for more than legos. May Hugo. Fucking. Schwyzer. step on legos, and may they step on those metal jacks (or the ball, and land on their asses in a pile of legos)
Well, you can give ’em yours if you want. Mine I’m hanging on to.
You know, I’ll admit I once fell into the trap of wishing rape on rapists. It’s not a difficult error to make once you’ve seen the damage to the victims–you want their violators to suffer. It’s not good, or right, and I’ve tried to move past that, but I at least could GET that mindset. But this… this vile fucking bullshit is just banal and pathetic. I wish upon them the worst thing that I can: That they come to understand how truly horrible they are, and that they feel the guilt appropriate to that recognition.
Making light of male prison rape and actually wishing it upon a man!? Wait until the MRM hears about th-
Oh wait.
Freemage, seconding all of what you said. Total self-awareness and understanding and a conscience would be the harshest curse of all for these guys.
It didn’t surprise me when David said in the article that they wish all this on Schwyzer, not for his crimes, but for being a feminist. It’s their go-to desired punishment for women, so how much more so for a man who betrays the brotherhood?
Irony is, of course, calling Schwyzer a feminist seems to be stretching the definition beyond all recognition, given he’s pretty much admitted to being in it for prestige and sex, hasn’t he?
Isn’t prestige and sex (and possibly masochism) the only reasons men want to be feminist?
It’s similar to the Furrinati arguing for human rights.
Yet again, MRAs demonstrate what rape culture is and how it harms men while pretending to advocate for men and mocking the very idea of rape culture. It’s weird: you’d think that MRAs would be all for a dude who tried to justify, on a purportedly Evul Femenest website, the desire of dudes to ejaculate on women’s faces. They seem to have a very skewed idea of what he actually did as A Male Feminist.
But hey, he was A Male Feminist, right? So he must have been attacking all non-feminist men.