[SunW]

Saw this on MeninistTweet and thought that this had to be a joke. Here's the story:

Quote:

20-year old feminist Cassidy Boon speaks of a traumatic experience involving #SaveRape

A week ago I was close to dying from drowning. Here’s what happened…


I was at this lake, having my first swim for the summer and although it was cold in the water it was quite pleasant and I finally got to try on my new super cute bikini. So anyway there’s this ten feet high, floating jumping tower out in the middle of the lake and I swam there to go practice my jumps. So I swatted away some annoying kids who were looking inappropriately at my body, and climbed the ladder up to the top platform, (there were three all in all, at different heights), and jumped.

There was a BANG, an explosion of pain, and then it all went black.

The next thing I knew I was being dragged through the water, by a man, and blood was running down my face and into my mouth. I didn’t have any idea what had happened, my head was spinning and throbbing and I felt like I was going to throw up. The man who was dragging me was like 40 or something and towed me towards the floating platform. I didn’t like this situation at all - at all. I asked him what had happened (in a very slurred tone) and he told me I had hit my head on the way down from the jumping platform, that I had been knocked unconscious and that I had been under water for at least two minutes. He said that he had been lucky to have felt my hand in the depths and that I was nearly at the bottom when he pulled me up. He carried me up the little ladder and laid me down on the wooden boards of the floating platform. People were gathering around us, gasping, screaming, crying. I was astonished, I couldn’t believe it, I couldn’t believe I was alive. I was feeling like shit though, I was woozy, I was in pain, but most of all, most of all, I was disgusted.

I was disgusted at this hairy man having felt it appropriate to touch my body like that. To grab me forcefully and pull me in what ever direction HE wanted to go. He took control of my body down there in the cold water, when I was unconscious and unable to look out for myself, he touched my all-but-bikini bare body when I was KNOCKED out and unable to struggle. Him, being a white man, felt he had the right to possess my milky body - to put his rough hands on my innocent flesh and command my body to come with him to the surface. I did NOT give him consent, in fact I was UNABLE to give consent and yet he grabbed me around my waist and gripped my hand and pressed my body against his like we he wanted to engage in aquatic sex.

I am now charging or suing or whatever this man for rape - because what he did is literally the definition of rape - he exerted his Patriarchal power over me and did stuff to my body without my consent. Sure, he saved me from drowning, but if we start excusing rape just because our rapists did a nice thing to us, we're really just excusing rape culture. I know a lot of misogynists and anti-feminists are going to be all like “hurr durr, you should thank that man for saving you, you wouldn’t be there without him, he only touched you because he needed to save you from downing” Oh yeah and by that shoddy logic we should excuse serial killers for being nice to hitchhikers and picking them up before killing them. The truth is HE RAPED ME, HE PUT HIS HANDS ON ME WITHOUT MY CONSENT, and regardless of saving my life or not, he needs his due punishment for violating me in that disgusting way. If you don’t see anything wrong with what he did, you’re a rape apologist. Sure it was kind of a nice thing to do to save me and all, but that doesn’t excuse him raping me.

The guy, my rapist, who’s name I later learned was Jim, is due before courts soon, charged with rape. When I told him I was pressing charges, he was shocked, then he got angry and then he even began to cry when he thought about what his family would have to go through. Seeing my rapist break down that way was nothing less than empowering and I am glad I am able to put him before the justice system and have him punished for what he put me through. There is no way I am losing this fight. Jim will get at least ten years in prison - my lawyers will make sure of that and maybe this will set an example for other men who think they have the right to touch women without consent.

I hope to start a revolution now. I hope to shed some light on a very rare, but very damaging form of rape that doesn’t get enough attention. It’s called “Save rape” and it’s what I was subjected too, deep, deep down in that filthy lakewater and I know - I KNOW - many hundred girls are subjected to the same thing every year from strange men who grab their chance to cop a feel.

I’m starting this hashtag #SaveRape right now to spread awareness about this issue and you all should totally tweet under it. Let’s go people, let’s take down the Patriarchy, one tweet at a time.

This is parody (bottom of site); I'm reminded by Poe's Law though - things are so insane right now, it's hard to tell if it is or isn't parody from the way it's written. Either way, we should not be saving women from drowning.

[Suits]

Definitely parody.

But not that far from reality.

[el mechanico]

Somewhat related at my job...

I've taken up the practice of refusing to work on peoples cars who don't have any basic understanding of how they work.

For instance: White knight brings his girlfriends car in they have no money but her mom said she'd pay me. It's a BMW with 130k on it. The radiator tank blew up. I fix it and tell them the thing needs new hoses and a few other things like one ball joint is coming apart like shake the tire and it goes clunk wit tons of free play. I show this to them and they can't understand it's dangerous. OK.

A few weeks pass and it leaks from the lower radiator hose. Not alot but enough to trigger a low coolant light. White knight sends her over she says she has to wait here like BMW hoses are sitting on my desk. Her mom calls the knight complaining that they just fixed a leak so he calls me.

I said you know what? Take it someplace else. He said " yeah it my girl though I need to help her" I told him you're not going to help those dumb cunts and I'm doing you a favor. Exclude yourself if you cant make the decisions and pay me directly without her and her moms dumb asses getting involved.

This was a while ago..

So now when a cunt comes here complaining about some other place broke her car or if she thinks everything takes 10 min or wants to wait here I just tell them to fuck off.

Things are running smooth.

[germany]

this story will be for sure true within the next 10-20 years,
with the power that feminazism gets through universities and mainstream media

[spokepoker]

Actually... there were a few news stories (maybe brought up here?) quite a while ago which were very similar to this.
Something about one guy getting convicted with sexual harassment for stopping a girl from being run over. I cannot remember the whole story too clearly.

The recurring takeaway was that men are discouraged from saving drowning kids for fear of getting sued for sexual harassment.

[germany]

Realistically speaking, in today´s world, if you would see a girl under 18, almost naked,
drowning in a lake, would you risk your whole life,
to white knight her, save her life, and later risk a high risk of spending your
next 10-20 years in jail?

I would definitely always jump and save a man who is drowning in a lake.

But a girl... in today´s society, is simply too much of a risk

[Blackwell]

Quote:

Realistically speaking, in today´s world, if you would see a girl under 18, almost naked,
drowning in a lake, would you risk your whole life,
to white knight her, save her life, and later risk a high risk of spending your
next 10-20 years in jail?

I would definitely always jump and save a man who is drowning in a lake.

But a girl... in today´s society, is simply too much of a risk

Yeah I don't know man that is kind of ridiculous. I know it's a parody or whatever but...

You save the drowning girl. Nobody is going to throw you in jail. It isn't that serious. Let's not get silly here.

[germany]

False rape accusations are rarely punished, removing the deterrent to falsely accuse.

Why do people do bad things? Often because they can. The absence of law and law enforcement tends to embolden the corrupt and corrupt the good.

It is harder to prove a rape accusation is false than other false accusations, therefore there is less disincentive to falsely accuse

Simply put, it is harder to prove a negative (“prove you didn’t do it!”) in he said / she said cases. Accusers can also make false accusations of rapes that supposedly occurred years earlier and tarnish the reputations of those they accuse, all without evidence. The lack of evidence may make it difficult to move her case forward, but it will also make it difficult to bring a case against her as well.

Female students are systemically taught that sex is rape when it is not, essentially being taught to make false rape accusations

"I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.”

– Dr. Catharine MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified, p. 82.

“In this book we will be using the term victim to refer to people who claim to have been sexually assaulted.”

– Drs. Carol Bohmer and Andrea Parrot, Sexual Assault, p. 5.

[Lizard King]

I am doubting the veracity of the article.

Most of the articles I have read there are fake.

[captndonk]

If I can help to save someone, who is drowning, I will help. And I know for sure that I will not be charged for this.

[RIslander]

(06-11-2015 10:11 AM)SunW Wrote:  

Saw this on MeninistTweet and thought that this had to be a joke. Here's the story:

Quote:

20-year old feminist Cassidy Boon speaks of a traumatic experience involving #SaveRape

A week ago I was close to dying from drowning. Here’s what happened…


I was at this lake, having my first swim for the summer and although it was cold in the water it was quite pleasant and I finally got to try on my new super cute bikini. So anyway there’s this ten feet high, floating jumping tower out in the middle of the lake and I swam there to go practice my jumps. So I swatted away some annoying kids who were looking inappropriately at my body, and climbed the ladder up to the top platform, (there were three all in all, at different heights), and jumped.

There was a BANG, an explosion of pain, and then it all went black.

The next thing I knew I was being dragged through the water, by a man, and blood was running down my face and into my mouth. I didn’t have any idea what had happened, my head was spinning and throbbing and I felt like I was going to throw up. The man who was dragging me was like 40 or something and towed me towards the floating platform. I didn’t like this situation at all - at all. I asked him what had happened (in a very slurred tone) and he told me I had hit my head on the way down from the jumping platform, that I had been knocked unconscious and that I had been under water for at least two minutes. He said that he had been lucky to have felt my hand in the depths and that I was nearly at the bottom when he pulled me up. He carried me up the little ladder and laid me down on the wooden boards of the floating platform. People were gathering around us, gasping, screaming, crying. I was astonished, I couldn’t believe it, I couldn’t believe I was alive. I was feeling like shit though, I was woozy, I was in pain, but most of all, most of all, I was disgusted.

I was disgusted at this hairy man having felt it appropriate to touch my body like that. To grab me forcefully and pull me in what ever direction HE wanted to go. He took control of my body down there in the cold water, when I was unconscious and unable to look out for myself, he touched my all-but-bikini bare body when I was KNOCKED out and unable to struggle. Him, being a white man, felt he had the right to possess my milky body - to put his rough hands on my innocent flesh and command my body to come with him to the surface. I did NOT give him consent, in fact I was UNABLE to give consent and yet he grabbed me around my waist and gripped my hand and pressed my body against his like we he wanted to engage in aquatic sex.

I am now charging or suing or whatever this man for rape - because what he did is literally the definition of rape - he exerted his Patriarchal power over me and did stuff to my body without my consent. Sure, he saved me from drowning, but if we start excusing rape just because our rapists did a nice thing to us, we're really just excusing rape culture. I know a lot of misogynists and anti-feminists are going to be all like “hurr durr, you should thank that man for saving you, you wouldn’t be there without him, he only touched you because he needed to save you from downing” Oh yeah and by that shoddy logic we should excuse serial killers for being nice to hitchhikers and picking them up before killing them. The truth is HE RAPED ME, HE PUT HIS HANDS ON ME WITHOUT MY CONSENT, and regardless of saving my life or not, he needs his due punishment for violating me in that disgusting way. If you don’t see anything wrong with what he did, you’re a rape apologist. Sure it was kind of a nice thing to do to save me and all, but that doesn’t excuse him raping me.

The guy, my rapist, who’s name I later learned was Jim, is due before courts soon, charged with rape. When I told him I was pressing charges, he was shocked, then he got angry and then he even began to cry when he thought about what his family would have to go through. Seeing my rapist break down that way was nothing less than empowering and I am glad I am able to put him before the justice system and have him punished for what he put me through. There is no way I am losing this fight. Jim will get at least ten years in prison - my lawyers will make sure of that and maybe this will set an example for other men who think they have the right to touch women without consent.

I hope to start a revolution now. I hope to shed some light on a very rare, but very damaging form of rape that doesn’t get enough attention. It’s called “Save rape” and it’s what I was subjected too, deep, deep down in that filthy lakewater and I know - I KNOW - many hundred girls are subjected to the same thing every year from strange men who grab their chance to cop a feel.

I’m starting this hashtag #SaveRape right now to spread awareness about this issue and you all should totally tweet under it. Let’s go people, let’s take down the Patriarchy, one tweet at a time.

This is parody (bottom of site); I'm reminded by Poe's Law though - things are so insane right now, it's hard to tell if it is or isn't parody from the way it's written. Either way, we should not be saving women from drowning.

I got all the way to the bold script before realizing this was a parody.

[Foolsgo1d]

Stories along a similar vein hold true in the UK. Plenty of stories where men do nothing at a cost to a child or woman. The reason being is they are scared of being seen as a pedophile or potential rapist.

You run a risk looking out for weaker members of society.

[Phoenix]

Yes that was only about 20% above my "it's probably real" bar. Towards the beginning I thought it was just a particularly insane case, until they mentioned the Patriarchy, then I knew it was deliberately over the top.

[Beyond Borders]

Anyone who didn't guess it was either a) fake or b) written by a crazy person as soon as she started in with the disgusted stuff needs to seriously check the oil on his critical thinking skills.

[Saweeep]

What on Earth would possess someone to waste even ten minutes of their life writing that?

[Onto]

(06-12-2015 05:52 AM)CrashBangWallop Wrote:  

What on Earth would possess someone to waste even ten minutes of their life writing that?

Often you have to go to an extreme example in order to really show a thing for what it is. With this story it's of the West's fascination with castrating the masculine (in this case courage and heroism) and then labeling men creeps and rapists.

A potential tenant (young woman) looked at one of my apartments the other day with her parents. The back corner of the apartment has amazing large windows that look out onto the neighbor's beautifully kept backyards.

The Mother called it "creepy" and said her daughter is a very beautiful girl and people can see into the apt. There needs to be curtains put up and kept closed so know one can see in.

She's basically labelling the entire world and my great apartment as creepy because she and her daughter are special snowflakes that the world will stop at nothing to have.

She can certainly put the curtains up to shut the world out, but then she can't enjoy the light and beauty that the world can bring in.

[Tytalus]

I think I read this story posted here, or maybe on Athol Kay's forum... At a Christian College, there was a very strict "no touching" policy between the male and female students. The rules were written so strictly that any guy touching a girl would be immediately suspended (from college!!) and on a second offence expelled.

Well, then winter hit and there was ice everywhere. After the 5th or so girl slipped and fell on the ice, and all the guys still didn't help up, the college had to make an exemption for guys helping a woman who'd fallen or had some kind of accident.

Write the rules strictly enough, people WILL respond to the incentive.

I work at a university. I remember watching a girl and a guy moving a couch from one lounge area to another up some stairs. The girl clearly was barely strong enough to help. My coworker and I had both unconsciously stopped to watch this happen - we looked at each as if we should help. Then I said, "You know X, what if something bad happens while we're helping? Next thing we know the university is being sued for liability."

We Both walked and didn't help.

[iknowexactly]

I still remember in northern minnesota about 2005, cute little kid about 3-6, his chain had fallen off his bike , I was walking by "Mister, Mister!" he wanted help.

I just kept on going and felt like shit. It would have been really fun to interact with the little kid and fix his bike.

I could not risk the waddling monstrosity that might come out glaring at me.

[ManVsMachine]

This is eerily familiar to Operation Lollipop

http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/art...rody/15224

Quote:

Operation Lollipop: a useful parody
How were Twitter’s hashtag activists so easily hoaxed by #EndFathersDay?

ecently, a provocative hashtag, #EndFathersDay, was copied all over Twitter. The hashtag was taken up at first by feminists who thought it was a good idea, but then much more so by men who thought it was an outrage. Even more provocatively, the hashtag #WhiteWomenCantBeRaped was copied all over Twitter, too.
Both, it turned out, were hoaxes. Over on another internet service, 4chan, users exchange views anonymously, and untraceably. It is a formula that invites extremes of bad taste and adolescent malevolence. Not so long ago, some 4chan users cooked up a plot that they called ‘Operation Lollipop’.
Over time, the 4chan hoaxers created false Twitter identities with stereotypical profiles – like NayNay Thompson, a self-described intersectional feminist and Marxist – and started tweeting parodies of radical tweeting – parodies that were nonetheless happily taken up by ‘real’ Twitter activists.
The 4chan hoaxers’ realised that some hashtag activists would be daft enough to take up slogans that were obviously absurd. The 4chan gang knew how Twitter worked. They had seen that it was a platform that thrives on controversy and snap judgments. They had seen, too, that it was particularly sensitive to arguments among those who see themselves as oppressed.
On Twitter, radical feminists have been split apart by a series of acrimonious debates. Not too long ago, a group of radical feminists were re-branded as ‘trans-exclusionary radical feminists’ – TERFs – because they barred trans-gender men from entry to their women-only meetings. Before the newly trans-friendly feminists could enjoy their moral superiority, they too were called out for being racist, when #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen trended. Male leftists were mocked as so many ‘brocialists’ and ‘manarchists’; men who wanted to be allies were dismissed as ‘white knights’. In the US, columnist Sarah Kendzior trolled the left-wing magazine Jacobin, saying, falsely, that it had initiated a campaign of rape-threats against her.

[...]
The defenders of Twitter’s hashtag activism have reacted angrily to the 4chan hoaxers. Why? The hoaxers’ fake tweets and parody hashtags are all part of the fun, too. The ‘genuine’ hashtaggers complain that Operation Lollipop was sexist in its inspiration – which is no doubt true. But even bad motives can have positive outcomes. And you would have to take into account the recent survey of misogynist trolling that found as many women as men were engaged in it.
In the Guardian yesterday, Laurie Penny reflected on the 4chan hoax, painting a picture of sad men angrily reacting against the growing and successful movement of internet feminists. Well, possibly, but it is just as likely that a lot of people enjoy the vicarious thrill of insulting others and running away. There is something pretty pompous about the rigid etiquette of the Twitter activists’ call-out culture that begs to be mocked.
If hashtag activism is easily parodied, then that shows what is wrong with it. By drawing out the excessiveness of hashtags like #SolidarityisforWhiteWomen or #KillAllMen, the 4channers were doing everyone a favour. The wisest point about Twitter was made by playwright Steven Berkoff: if you jump in a dustbin you cannot complain that you are covered in rubbish.
In the meantime, we should be grateful to the guerrilla activism of Operation Lollipop. From now on, every strident statement on Twitter will rightly be questioned: is this a real sentiment, or does it sound more like a parody? As Laurie Penny tweeted when the story broke: ‘Sudden moment of existential dread, wondering if I am myself a 4chan creation.’

There are plenty of valid arguments why this move was bad, but the "campaign" sure did bring to light much of the absurdity of their movement.

[emilian]

To me it sounded real. Yes. they can be this low.

[CactusCat589]

(06-11-2015 11:16 AM)Blackwell Wrote:  

Quote:

Realistically speaking, in today´s world, if you would see a girl under 18, almost naked,
drowning in a lake, would you risk your whole life,
to white knight her, save her life, and later risk a high risk of spending your
next 10-20 years in jail?

I would definitely always jump and save a man who is drowning in a lake.

But a girl... in today´s society, is simply too much of a risk

Yeah I don't know man that is kind of ridiculous. I know it's a parody or whatever but...

You save the drowning girl. Nobody is going to throw you in jail. It isn't that serious. Let's not get silly here.

I think the time is approaching where that will be a serious question. It's going to happen without being noticed at first. I already have it figured out. I'm not doing shit unless I know she's a practicing surgeon or doctor, or respected scientist, or she's pregnant in the third trimester. Or she's 9 years old. And I know I can get my name out in the papers and news coverage that day so she looks like a huge bitch if she tries to stick me with a false accusation.

If you think about it, the case of Kitty Genovese, if it happened nowadays, or a few years in the near future, would have very different ramifications. In the 1960's, it was pure Bystander Effect. Now, psychologists would have to take into account the fear of repurcussions of helping, on the part of male bystanders. Do you want to risk going down there, with the murderer still at large, and help this dying, delirious woman, who could easily point the finger at me? After all, I'm the only identifiable person at the scene of the crime. The police won't question her state of mind but simply go along with her (as in the case of the false rape accuser who was known to have bipolar disorder, but no one cared.)

One day there will be a little change in the air, and it will be that serious.

[germany]

(06-12-2015 06:25 AM)Onto Wrote:  

Often you have to go to an extreme example in order to really show a thing for what it is. With this story it's of the West's fascination with castrating the masculine (in this case courage and heroism) and then labeling men creeps and rapists.

Also consider this:

when a completely naked and crazy woman drops eggs from her naked vagina,

in the middle of the street, it is "art"

if a man would do the same, he would be immediately arrested for sexual harassment, indecent exposure, and probably "public rape" too