Dear MRA dillhole,
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By the "not all men" logic, Russian Roulette is a perfectly safe game to play. Sure one of the chambers has a bullet in it..... but not all chambers. |
Feminism didn't START treating men like rapists. You're thinking of patriarchy....where men rape women, and then blame them for being out in the open without escorts.
Look at every traditional culture you can think of. Just about every single one. Women are warned not to be alone with men–in many cases even their own uncles and certainly cousins. (Men are told this too often through religious morality, but it's the women who require a male family member around to protect them*.) These cultures treat (all) men like potential rapists.
That's NOT because these cultures are feminist.
*Though I'm now imagining a culture where the guys are obligated to take an escort from their family any time they leave the house to prevent them from raping women. That would be pretty cool.
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Tweet from Mike F: It's stupid when girls say they can't find a guy, yet they ignore me. It's like saying you're hungry when there's a hot dog on the ground outside. |
Gamers: Gamers are not pathetic. Games are a legit art form! We *demand* to be treated as art!!
Culture: Okay. Let's start with Critical Race Theory and Feminist theory. Post colonial theory and Orientalism would be useful too. And you're industry is about 92% white males so your art itself has a dreadful problem with inclusion and representation. I like what's happening over here in your indy games. This stuff seems like it's got much more artistic integrity than Call of Duty MCXVII.
Gamergate: Shut up! Shut up or we'll kill you!
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"If you think women are crazy you've never had a dude go from hitting on you to literally threatening to kill you in the time it takes you to say "no thanks." -Kendra Wells |
Republicans:
At this point if you aren't speaking out openly against the front runner of your party, I'm done with my nuanced, different-opinions-about-what's-best stuff. It's not that I don't think any of you have some sort of considered view about economics or the state's roll in seizing property or maybe even some agree-to-disagree point about trickle down economics or the scope of the social safety net and how to fund it, but it doesn't matter if you're going to subvert it for the party line on THIS guy.
Not THIS guy.
You're about to nominate a demagogue for the office of President of the United States who is literally inciting his followers to violence–largely WHITE SUPREMACIST violence. He is a light from which the cockroaches of voiced racist thoughts don't scatter but rather gather toward. He's endorsed by the KKK. People are coming right out and saying things they didn't talk about at parties a few years ago because of Trump. Kids are being little racist bullies because of Trump. This is a presidential nominee practically goading his people into rioting against his opponents.
Where any other nominee, right or left, would be telling his people about the virtue of the democratic process and free speech, telling people to let them have their say and to save their energy for campaigning and polls, and absolutely condemning any sort of violent action that may have happened in their name by overzealous supporters, Trump is offering to pay people's legal fees and talking increasingly of the "consequences" of protesting in his bygone chimerical era when America was "great." Consequences like being wheeled off in stretchers–violence which he talks about with a nostalgic yearning.
The only thing he's really promised is to cut planned parenthood, the EPA and to build a wall, which he will go to war with Mexico to make them pay for. Everything else is jazz hands playing and preying on white people's anxieties that things would be so much better ("great again") if we stopped "being so PC" and rolled our social progress back fifty or sixty years. (Because of course it's political correctness that have fucked your economy up, not Reganomics.) If he wins this election he represents more Republicans than deniers would admit. But the real concern is that his rhetoric has become increasingly violent.
Trump has now, recently (this week), changed his rhetoric subtly but noticeably. Where before his sneering words about "political correctness" were limited only to speech and being able to say whatever racist, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, sexist, bullshit popped in his head, recently it has very deliberately been used to ALSO include people who are afraid to be violent for political ends.
Let me say that again: The frontrunner of the Republican party for the office of President of the United states is calling NOT violently suppressing opposition speech being "Politically Correct."
Are you now seeing what's at stake here?
This is the kind of historical event that you don't get a pass on unless you were outspoken from the very beginning. This is the cusp of one of those "dark chapters" you always think you wouldn't be a part of when you read about them in your history book. ("Not me," you think. "I'd have been with the resistance.") This is your chance to prove that your party is something other than what it gets so often accused of being. But mostly, this is your chance to prove that something matters to you more that staying silent so that a person with an (R) after their name can get into the White House.
If you're not on the front fucking lines telling this guy to step down and promising to vote for anybody else in the general should he take the nomination (even a Democrat), you deserve EVERY GODDAMNED white supremacist, sexist, heterosexist, transantagonist (who will do anything to silence their detractors) label that gets thrown at you. You are NEVER going to reign this guy in once he's in office. Get over that fantasy.
If you let this guy in, your party will deserve its every toxic stereotype. That you're racists. That you're sexists. That you're xenophobes. That you hate anyone who isn't Christian. All of them. No matter how much you personally feel insulted to be lumped in with them.
Every. Single. One.
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Image Description: Picture of Donald Trump White Privilege is needing this guy to make you realize how racist America is When you could have just listened to people of color years ago.
Yeah....I think they mean "supremacy" instead of privilege. |