Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Black men are upset that a woman's bogus rape claim named a black man: Why are they not upset that virtually all false rape claims name a MAN?
"Men" are not supposed to think of themselves as a group.
"Black men"? OK.
"Black women"? Certainly.
"Women"? Do we really need to answer that?
Wait. I take that back. It is perfectly OK to classify "men" as a group -- when "men" are being derided for their toxic masculinity, or for their undeserved privilege, or for being "pigs," "dogs" and "rapists" (as in "all men are . . . .").
But take false rape claims. In terms of victimization, men and boys have a stranglehold on them. (Women's groups would love to be able to say the same thing about rape -- trust me -- but the fact is, a huge percentage of rape victims, likely a majority, are male, because of prison rape. Sorry, ladies.)
Remember this story? The New York Daily News reports that the "nun's" false claim "that she was choked and raped by a black man has angered - but not surprised - African-American men in her Brooklyn neighborhood."
Sister Mary Turcotte, a member of the rogue Christian sect Apostles of Infinite Love, which has no affiliation with the Catholic Church, "is white" and she "claimed she was attacked on the street Thursday by a 6-foot-4, 250-pound black man."
Now pay attention to this quote from the story: "'I don't know why they must accuse falsely like that. I think it must be prejudice," said Isaac Dennis, 56, an advertising worker who lives across from the convent."
Read that again. He doesn't know why they must falsely accuse "like that . . . ."
Get is? He's upset because the rape liar manufactured a black man as her imaginary rapist.
He's not upset that the rape liar manufactured a man as her imaginary rapist.
We have reached the point where maligning maleness has become so terribly normalized that it doesn't even register for most men, let alone most women, that men, as a class, are under attack in various ways. It doesn't dawn on them, for example, that virtually every single false rape claim is directed at a man or boy, real or imagined, save for a few school teachers.
A lot of feminists think rape should be classified as a hate crime. Culture and Family Institute Director Robert Knight once testified: "Every rape is a crime against all women."
Well, I guess prison rape of men isn't "real" rape, but put that aside.
Every false rape claim is a crime against all men, because, unlike rape, having a male perpetrator is usually crucial to the tale.
And that doesn't bother you?
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Men aren't a group. They feel no solidarity. That's why women's groups are able to run roughshod over them. When women say "all men are rapists," men are sitting there thinking they must be talking about all those other men.
This is so much win.
The 14th amendment "equal protection clause" of the US constitution was signed soon after the "scottsboro boys case"; and was coup de grace to the period of "rape lynchings of the black man".
Honestly, I think the outrage was slanted due to the fact that false rape claims against black men by white women have a long history in this country that deals not only with misandry, but racism as well. So in this case, the guy is being hit twice: once by anti-male stereotypes, and then a second time by racist stereotypes.
So while I think we/they should be pissed because this kind of BS feeds into misandry, I don't think it's unfair for them to be upset about the racism this kind of BS is a part of as well.
"I don't think it's unfair for them to be upset about the racism this kind of BS is a part of as well."
I don't think so, either. I pointed out the racial animus in my first post on this matter. That's not the point I'm making here. The point I'm making is that while it's certainly fair game to cry racism here, why is it never considered fair game to view FRAs as assaults on a gender?
P.S. In my first post on this rape lie, I wrote the following:
"Turcotte is a 26-year-old white woman. She claimed a hulking black man was the culprit of her imaginary rape. That's common in stories of this nature -- young white women often claim that a minority man, typically black or Hispanic, raped them. Such a lie is generally intended to jack up the scariness and plausibility factors. Racially motivated rape lies have been going on in this country since long before the Civil War."
"We have reached the point where maligning maleness has become so terribly normalized that it doesn't even register for most men, let alone most women, that men, as a class, are under attack in various ways. It doesn't dawn on them, for example, that virtually every single false rape claim is directed at a man or boy, real or imagined, save for a few school teachers."
Exactly. Even i was guilty of this in the past.
A thought experiment:
Take a group of everymen. Place them in a typical setting for everymen. Let the everymen interact for a couple of hours. Place a woman in the mix. What will happen?
I can actually answer that particular question, seeing as I'm from that particular group.
Historically in the US, African American men have always been the victims of FRAs. I can cite the Rosewood FL massacre, the Tulsa OK race riots, and the Scottsboro Boys Trial in Alabama, as historical evidence of this situation.
Countless African American men have been victimized by this particular specter of hate and few to none have been even willing to consider our viewpoint on the subject. In fact, the first two of those historical incidents were used as an excuse by racist men to brutalize African Americans in general. Rumor has it that most of the White men in Rosewood knew that the woman who made the FRA was in fact not raped but proceeded to lynch and murder the African American inhabitants of Rosewood anyway out of malice.
To put it bluntly, it's only now that other men, especially White men are coming to understand what we African American men have known and feared since the Slavery era; the fact that our individual freedom is at the whim of the altruism of a woman's forbearance to accuse.
I'm not excusing the lack of solidarity, but I am explaining it. Suddenly, White men are coming to us and saying;
"Okay...we get it. We understand what you've been going through."
Forgive us for being a bit skeptical and hesitant to team up on this issue, okay? Give us a little time to overcome our apprehensions on the issue, but we'll come around.
Maybe its hard for a black man to not be cynical and shrug it off. In large swaths of black America lying to game the system for your own advantage is an accepted way of life- no where more so than among women who are incentivized to lie about rape and domestic violence- essentially- when you are in a jam, turn yourself into the victim by claiming something that "can't be disproven"
Maybe its hard for a black man to not be cynical and shrug it off. In large swaths of black America lying to game the system for your own advantage is an accepted way of life- no where more so than among women who are incentivised to lie about rape and domestic violence- essentially- when you are in a jam, turn yourself into the victim by claiming something that "can't be disproven"
In-fighting among Indian tribes instead of fighting the true common enemy is How The West Was Won.
Black men roundly decree themselves The Good Guys while pointing a finger at white men saying they are the majority targeted in child molestation accusations does nothing to call attention to the astounding number of false child abuse accusations used to incarcerate the falsely accused.
False child abuse accusations are the new age version of lynchings, and white guys being divorced or seeking child custody are the #1 target.
Keep fighting amongst yourselves and see where it gets you.
"Well, I guess prison rape of men isn't "real" rape, but put that aside."
If it's "rape",then it's a "good rape".-Some Wimminz Studdeez Professor
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