Once upon a time, you may recall, women were denied the right to vote, couldn’t own property, were prevented from having careers of their own. Well, it turns out that all of these pesky “restrictions” weren’t really restrictions at all! They were protections that men provided women out of the goodness of their hearts. Men protected women from the terrible burdens of voting and property-owning and so forth, because they just cared about women so much.
Or at least that’s what a lot of Men’s Rights Activists seem to think, judging from this highly edifying discussion in the Men’s Rights subreddit.
![rogersmith25 325 points 1 day ago As I read /r/mensrights[1] more and more, it is becoming increasingly clear to me that the primary female privilege is empathy. If a woman or girl is hurt, people care. If women are kidnapped, there is international media attention. If women are killed, their deaths are highlighted. If there is a conflict between a man and a woman, then people will jump in to defend the woman. If women are under-represented in an area, people want to take action to make things "equal". If a man is hurt, it's funny. If men are kidnapped, we hear silence. If men are killed, their deaths are glossed over. If there is a conflict between a man and a woman, people will attack the man. If men are under-represented in an area, the president will call it a "victory" (as he did regarding the female majority in colleges). Basically, people are programmed to have more empathy for women than men. 200 years ago, that empathy manifested itself in keeping women safe from harm by having them stay home to raise the family rather than die on battlefields or toil in mines. It was empathy not misogyny that kept women from having careers. Present-day, work is safe in offices, so today we have campaigns for women to earn more money and yet have more "balanced" lives where they can both raise a family and earn an "equal" career and, in other words, "have it all". permalink save report give gold reply [–]sierranevadamike 82 points 23 hours ago wow... as a history major, I never looked at the "repression" of women throughout history as empathy rather than misogyny. I NEVER considered this option.. blew my mind.. thank you](https://i0.wp.com/www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/empathy1.png?resize=567%2C594&ssl=1)
It wasn’t just sierranevadamike who was “blown away” by rogersmith25’s comment: the Men’s Rights mods were so impressed that they reposted it and pinned it as the top post in their subreddit.
Apparently every day is “Opposite Day” on the Men’s Rights subreddit.
EDIT: Here, courtesy of Cloudiah, some more pictures of girls and women protected from that big nasty world out there.
I think IB22 knew precisely what she was doing. She didn’t come here to discuss feminist issues in good faith; she threw around a few straw-woman attacks on what she imagines feminism to be, got smacked down for asserting her opinions as fact as she knew she would be, got all bent out of shape because we wouldn’t accept her misrepresentations as gospel, then went back to her own blog to play the victim of the mean nasty dogmatic feminists — which was the whole point of her little exercise.
I was asking because I read it that way and thought I’d ask for clarification. Thanks for the explanation.
Well, if the foo’ shits, then I’m glad my finger-flick struck a nerve. Teeheehee.
Regarding this thing I said earlier (I’m still not going to argue about beauracracy because I can’t imagine it going anywhere and I’m stressed about a lot of unrelated things right now):
By “communism” I was specifically referring to a classless society in which workers have full access to the means of production. That is, it’s a conception of communism that doesn’t solely exist among Marxists, Leninists, Maoists, Stalinists, etc. I’m an anarchist communist, and so whatever praxis I have has nothing to do with vangaurdism or any other strategy employed by the oppressive communist states in the past.
So me criticizing beauracracy isn’t inconsistent with my class politics – in fact, it’s not only consistent, but also relevant. Also, my reasons for being an anarchist communist aren’t just about my distaste for beauracracy. Anarchism has always been important to me because I think that reformist, pro-capitalist politics – both liberal and conservative – fails to adequately represent my interests as a disabled trans lesbian of color. That’s how I see things, and it’s also why I call myself a womanist rather than a feminist. I’m just saying all of this to clarify what my views are, and I hope I can make it clear that I’m not attacking anyone in particular.
That, and thinking she could impress us with a clever “gotcha!”
The fail is strong with this one.
Patronizing is what happens when you try to lecture a bunch of feminists on the imaginary evils of feminism and they label you a troll and start disagreeing with you about the definition of feminism, as if you were not the real expert but just a troll who just fell off the turnip truck.
So completely imaginary, in other words.
I know this is completely off subject but ‘IB’ reminds me of that RPG horror game that I really like however i never finished it because it kept crashing. It must be because I haven’t update it and I am using a Mac computer.
I recommend everyone to play it. It’s awesome!
http://youtu.be/qerCNSBaEOA
LBT: I admit to not having the highest opinion of bureaucracy right now, seeing as how the state has fucking dropped the ball multiple times on my disability, my food stamps, AND my health insurance now.
Part of the problem there is that the US is run in part by people who want the bureaucracy to fail. They have an ideological antipathy to disability, food stamps, etc and thus craft policy to accentuate all the flaws to which bureaucracy is subject.
By “communism” I was specifically referring to a classless society in which workers have full access to the means of production.
At what point will those workers no longer be required to organise themselves to use those means of production effectively?
You do realise “bureaucracy” isn’t a synonym for “capitalism”, right?
Bingo, zingo.
So am I correct in guessing that the little girls in that game are going to attempt to kill you at some point?
Resident Evil is still the only game that’s ever scared me. (Granted that I’m not a gamer at all, so my only experience has been with stuff other people happened to have in their living rooms.)
Yep. I remember when Argenti was going through the application process, it was very clear that everyone involved was trying to make the process so difficult and stressful to navigate that as many applicants as possible would just give up.
Resident Evil is still the only game that’s ever scared me.
I chased up a reference someone made to “Five Nights at Freddy’s”, now on Steam Greenlight. Judging by the Lets Play videos, that’ll do it to you. I’m (probably) not going to buy the game, as I prefer to be able to keep my sense of objective detachment during horror entertainment (because I’m a coward).
I was going to write a bit about bureaucracy and then decided it all boils down to one point: any organisation above a certain size incorporates bureaucracy, even private companies, as that supplies the organising structure/task regulation.
Her blog is the gift that keeps giving. A commenter on that same link:
That’s right, because all the men will fend for themselves and not get help from other men when a gang (i.e. multiple people) attack them. Because we all know that when male soldiers go out on patrol, they do so by themselves: http://www.military-sf.com/Patrols.htm
And these guys really like put a lot of detail into their scenarios. Masturbation fantasies?
By about 15 minutes into Resident Evil I was ready to throw my controller at the screen and curl up in a ball. I love horror movies, but making it immersive is a whole different experience, and I did not like it. Admittedly I may have liked it better if I wasn’t so crap at it that I just kept dying within the first couple of minutes over and over again.
Ooh, ooh, are we talking horror games now? I have a horror game! It’s a great horror game! Five Nights at Freddy’s! I recommend markiplier’s Let’s Play; he’s normally too shouty for me, but in a game as quiet as this one, his voice helps break the tension. I tried to watch it without him and had nightmares all night. (Though that was probably due to brain being a sick brain, but still!)
Basic premise is: you’re a poor schmuck working as a night-time security guard for a crappy Chuck E. Cheese knock-off. You sit upon your fundament from 12 AM to 6AM, check the security cameras, and make sure nobody tries to steal the building. You can not leave your seat, and you are totally alone. The only interactions you get are pre-recorded phone messages from the dude who held your position before you… and the animatronics.
Ah yes, the animatronics. Well, you see… they get kinda LIVELY at night. And if they see you, well, they don’t really understand you’re a person. They think you’re an animatronic skeleton without its costume, and since that’s against the rules, well, they’ll just try to help you into one!
The only problem is, the costumes are full of metal and wire and gizmos, and… well, you don’t really want to experience that.
All you have at your disposal is cameras, an extremely limited amount of power with which to use them, and careful observation of the animatronics’ behavior so you can try to learn when they do what, and when to shut the emergency doors to keep them out. (But be careful! Those doors take a lot of power… wouldn’t want to run out before your shift ends…)
HAVE FUN KIDS!
NOOOOOO I FUCKED IT UP I’M SORRY
YOU FUCKED UP AN HTML TAG!!!
Nobody has EVER done that before! You are a HORRIBLE person, and we shall shun you as we would shun onion cheescake!
Shun shun shun.
Oh yeah – http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=270684111
Were I dictator of the world, I would actually eliminate most forms of social welfare and replace them with a cast-iron safety net in the form of what might be thought of as a “redoubt of last resort.” It would be public housing that is free of cost to residents, that anyone can move into if they want/need to, which would provide food free of cost to residents, and provide residents with a noncash allowance in the form of credit that can only be redeemed in-house for nonfood necessities and small luxuries.
People could still work outside the residence for regular currency, and in fact would be encouraged to do so with vocational training. But they would not be required to do it, as all the necessities of life would be available within the residence without outside cash. It’s not a prison, but there would be strict security to keep things like weapons and illegal drugs out of the residence, along with people who aren’t registered to be in that particular residence.
I think it would solve a lot of social problems, if people knew that the absolute rock bottom means having a safe roof over your head and a steady supply of nutritious food.
This is WAY too socialist to be politically feasible in the US, and so IB22 would probably have an aneurysm at the notion. But whenever someone talks about the evils of welfare, I turn this idea around again and wish I could make it reality.
cassandrakitty
“So am I correct in guessing that the little girls in that game are going to attempt to kill you at some point?”
I don’t want to spoil it but you do play as a little girl. I also played Mad Father too
“Resident Evil is still the only game that’s ever scared me. (Granted that I’m not a gamer at all, so my only experience has been with stuff other people happened to have in their living rooms.)”
The scariest game that I ever played was Silent Hill 3 playing as Heather Mason. Saying that game is disturbing is a big understatement. I want to play the first one though.
I swear that the silent hill games are becoming more ‘dirty’ with its strong language and sexual themes. Some people may like that but I don’t.
I also like to play Rule of Rose and Fran Bow someday. That has little kids in them
” I love horror movies”
Me too. I like The Woman in Black and I think the best horror movies are mostly the very old ones. Nowadays most horror movies are just too much gore, bad language and sexual themes. My opinion though.
Hmm, non gory, non sexual modern horror movies…did you see The Orphanage?
LBT,
My daughter has been playing 5 nights at Freddy’s. I’ll recommend the other too. Thanks.
CassandraKitty
No, I think I’ll check it out. Thanks!
I can deal with a lot of gore if it’s part of the lot, gratuitous gore annoys me because I feel like it’s a cheap way to get a reaction. Sexualized gore, though? Nope nope nope.