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I thought I’d seen every variety of rape apologism known to humankind. But this is a new one for me: Fantasy author and garbage human Vox Day (aka Theodore Beale) has decided that all claims of rape directed at white guys are suspect because … white guys don’t rape.
No, really. That’s his actual argument:
White American men simply don’t rape these days. At this point, unless a womann claims it was committed by a black or Hispanic man she didn’t previously know, all claims of rape, especially by a college woman, have to be considered intrinsically suspect.
His, er, source for these claims? A post from the website Women For Men — founded by familiar names Suzanne Venker, Helen Smith and Christina Hoff Sommers — about a video of unknown provenance of a shouting match that involves a white woman accusing a presumably white man of rape. (There are no details on the alleged incident, and it’s not clear from watching the almost literally unbelievable video what exactly happened or if the video is even real.) Needless to say, even if the video is 100% real it doesn’t actually provide anything even remotely approaching evidence for Vox’s racist claims.
Which isn’t surprising given that they aren’t, you know, true. When it comes to rape, of course, whites and blacks are overwhelmingly — roughly 8 out of 10 times — victimized by members of their own race. And in most cases, as is well-known, rapes are committed by people the victim knows, not the proverbial man hiding in the bushes.
Vox continues on, pulling more “facts” from his posterior:
No one believes that women don’t lie about rape anymore. Even the average feminist is now rolling her eyes when a college woman comes forward and cries rape. This was the inevitable result of creating St. Rape Victim, now every attention-seeking young woman wants to have been raped.
One of Vox’s commenters puts the cherry on this shit sundae:
It’s a sad state of affairs when women have to resort to these tactics to get attention. And even more sad state when they are the ones who put themselves there in the first place by embracing everything that makes them unattractive to men.
Back when Vox was expelled from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, you may recall, he purported to be outraged that people were calling him racist.
More brain bleach:
Sweet adorable kitty of mine,
and
fuuuuuuudge.
Vox Day is conceding that he can’t sell his shtick to people with the critical intelligence of a dung beetle, so now he’s aiming for the tapeworm level crew.
Such adorable kittiessssss!
Kitties have pretty much perfected adorable. It is their nefarious method for enslaving us.
You just have to hope Vox Day doesn’t get reincarnated as a cat …
@wordsp1nner yeah, I suspect you hit the nail on the head with that theory. Ugh, I didn’t think it could get any grosser, but somehow it did.
@GrumpyOldMan I’m pretty sure you have to be really, really good in a previous life to get reincarnated as a cat. So, very little chance of it happening to Vox Day.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure Vox will reincarnate as something nasty, brutish and short-lived. A Lyme tick, perhaps.
I vote for something nasty, brutish, and long-lived, so he doesn’t get another roll of the karma too soon.
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Male anglerfish?
Not a chance. He’d be more in line to be a Guinea worm.
I was thinking guinea worm too, but they’re on the verge of becoming extinct so he would be released too soon/
So let me get this straight…
Black and Hispanic men? Rapists.
Women? False accusers!
White men? ANGELS MADE FLESH
Did I sum that up correctly?
This sounds like obvious preparation for the inevitable day when Vox Day gets called on for all of his own raping. “No, that was all good White Boy sex that evil feminists made you believe was rape.”
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2014/08/did-not-see-that-coming.html
“I’m definitely Hispanic, but I’m not Asian after all. This was a little surprising at first, given the appearance of one of my brothers…”
Hmm, so is Vox Day saying he’s a rapist?
What the actual fuck? Many years ago I heard screaming outside my apartment. It wasn’t the usual angry argument sorta screaming, I was well used to that. By the time I got boots and coat on and made it to the scene two guys had a third cornered. That guy was saying, “Just ask her, just ask her.” to which he got the response “If you weren’t going to rape her, why is she naked?” An arrest followed and a trial in which he was convicted not just that attempted rape, but several others as well. Now here’s the thing: dude was so pale he looked like he’d never seen the sun. I cannot understand how Theodore and his ilk can be so ignorant of reality and still function.
Some people seem to be unusually impervious to reality.
“embracing everything that makes them unattractive to men.”
But, I thought that unattractive women couldn’t possibly even be raped? Right? Too ugly to rape? Isn’t that a thing?
Dudes, you can’t have it both ways. Either women are unreadable, by virtue of being unattractive, or else they’re raped because they brought it on themselves by being unattractive.
This is so absurd, I can’t even touch the rest.
You know, back when we read about that guy who cited HIMSELF as a source? Yeah, I like that better.
This is just… nope, still can’t even.
I wonder how he explains the white men who rape 90-year-olds or babies. Or how he explains rape existing in countries whose population is largely white.
I’ll just sit here in my corner, puking.
::hands pallygirl new bucket and anti-nausea tablets::
He really is determined to prove that he knows nothing about every conceivable subject, isn’t he? Sexism, racism, and epic ignorance – he’s the complete package, all right.
Someone needs to explain to him that a random screenname on Reddit saying, “I’m a feminist, but…” is not the same thing as “the average feminist”.
I think Vox Day should reincarnate as Space Bunny.
@Michelle I think the “making themselves unattractive to men” thing is meant to imply that ugly women can’t get sex, so they have to resort to making up rape accusations to get attention.
Pass the barf bucket, please.
@ Nequam – the original is on Vimeo
Do you or anyone else know who the animator is??
Regarding Mr Beale – long may he remain childless – the man is pure white, assuming you know what pure is, historically
Vox should reincarnate as a Sudanese woman.