Quote: (03-21-2014 05:03 PM)kbell Wrote:
Time magazine posted this?!? Is this fantasy? I can't believe they would buck the progressive message.
The author is a research assistant at AEI, a conservative think tank. It's not so surprising that a piece like this could get into Time. Time was a conservative propaganda rag way back in the day under Henry Luce, so it has always been a little friendlier to conservative causes and political figures than other mainstream publications.
The feminists and the limp-wristed liberal set do represent a large percentage of Americans, so it's not a surprise that their views get a wide airing in society through mainstream media and that the culture in some respects reflects their beliefs and viewpoints. But what's happened is that blue-pill ideology has been allowed to run unhindered for so long that other viewpoints are being crowded out of the intellectual marketplace. It's heresy to espouse some of the red pill ideas that Roosh and others do in mainstream media spaces. Reactions to the manosphere have ranged from mocking sarcasm, rage, incredulous disbelief that we believe the things that we do, to attempts to censor and suppress red pill media.
On these kinds of social issues, this feminist branch of liberalism has been allowed to reign supreme, and eventually there will be pushback since feminist ideology is just fundamentally at odds with reality. It kind of reminds me of how immediately after 9/11 most people seemed to take a "kill them all and let God sort 'em out" sort of attitude towards the Muslim world, and anybody expressing any kind of concern about civil liberties or starting up a war with a country that didn't attack us was either labelled a pussy or perhaps more sinister somebody who didn't have America's interests at heart. And what I think has happened is that America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have proven to be disasters and time has shown that what was needed after 9/11 was a smarter strategy towards Islamic militants, a scalpel instead of the sledgehammer that we used...Feminist ideology is kind of in the same place as American jingoism was in between 9/11 and Iraq. Most people just take their BS theory and assumptions for granted when it's actually quite out of touch with reality. And eventually it will fall apart after it finishes its collision with reality.
I'm sorry, but we don't have a "rape culture" in a wealthy, industrialized country that preaches "You, Go Girl" to women and indoctrinates little girls with the idea that they are Little Princesses entitled to special treatment. Go to Darfur or or Somalia if you want to see what an actual rape culture looks like, where women are passed around as the spoils of war by the victors and really are treated as nothing more than objects and possessions. Feminists can keep pushing this pathetic shit but eventually there will be pushback. Bottom line: if you don't want to get raped, then use some common sense and avoid dangerous situations. Very, very few women are the victim of a violent assault where an intruder breaks into their bedroom through the window. Most of the time it's acquaintance rape and they exercised lousy judgment to make themselves vulnerable. Assuming some responsibility for their own well-being would go a long, long way towards reducing the likelihood of being a victim of rape when most men don't need to learn the lesson that rape is bad and 3% of the men are essentially doing 95% of the raping.
This article, and the positive reaction to the "Most Women Don't Deserve a Good Man" post on ROK is proof that the manosphere is making some inroads. Especially when you consider that in mainstream circles ROK is derided as being completely over the line and illegitimate. Unfortunately those mainstream outlets have a disproportionate ability to shape perceptions and the discussions of social issues, so I was pleasantly surprised to see the reaction to the Don't Deserve a Good Man article when you consider the manosphere's poor reputation overall.