Here we go again -- a rehash of a story we just ran. A, um, "provocative" and "new" campaign called "Don't Be That Guy" has been launched by Ottawa agencies working to prevent sexual violence against women. If it looks just like Edmonton's campaign last year of the same name, it's because they are exactly the same.
Both campaigns are intended to prevent sexual violence against women; in particular, assaults that take place when alcohol is involved.
Both target young men.
Both hold innocent young men who are not rapists responsible for policing other young men.
Both suggest that, in contrast to the young men, young women should do whatever the hell they please.
And both are, I would bet my left testicle, wholly, palpably, wildly ineffective.
Sandy Onyalo, executive director of the Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre, described the purpose of this inane campaign: “We’re asking men to ask themselves, how can they take responsibility for their own behaviour, and the behaviour of their friends?” (Emphasis added.)
By "friends," does Onyalo include female friends -- like the drunken young lady sprawled out on the couch in the photo? My guess is that the answer is a resounding "no."
Onyalo continued: “If we don’t bring young men into this discussion, we’re never going to truly combat sexual assault against women. We’re asking men to ask themselves, how can they take responsibility for their own behaviour, and the behaviour of their friends?”
(Emphasis added.)
Keep repeating it until it sinks in: men must not only police their own behaviour, but innocent men who don't rape are responsible for the "behaviour" of their friends.
Now, everyone agrees that men need to police their own "behaviour." But innocent men are also responsible for the rapists?
Not a word about the "behaviour" of the other 51% of the population.
Now let's get this straight: rapists alone have the responsibility to stop rape. And if women have no responsibility to stop rapists, why, on earth, should INNOCENT MEN? Yet, innocent young men, who have essentially no ability to stop rape, are held responsible for stopping rape, while innocent young women, who consciously put themselves in situations where rape is more likely to occur, have no responsibility? Isn't that asymmetrical gender blaming?
Not only is it grossly unfair to blame innocent men for a problem that they haven't caused, it's also wholly ineffective. Among other things, it targets the wrong men. The vast majority of rape offenders come from lower socioeconomic classes and are under-educated, under-employed, and under-skilled. Sexual offenses are like all the other social pathologies we know of: they are largely caused by fatherless households. But that message, which emphasizes the importance of men in the lives of their children, doesn't play well among the progressives who control the sexual grievance industry and who think of men as not only disposable but as far more trouble than they are worth.
My guess is that this brilliant campaign hasn't stopped a single rape. Not one. Innocent men have essentially no ability to stop rape. And why on earth would anyone even harbor a hope that this campaign could possibly get through to a single actual rapist? Will a young rapist standing at the urinal looking at this ad suddenly have a revelation, "Gee, I guess I shouldn't go through with that rape I was intending to inflict on some poor woman"?
My guess is, stopping rape isn't even the point of the campaign. The point of the campaign is to justify the existence of the sexual grievance industry by doing things like this periodically to keep it in the public eye. To make everyone think they are doing something. In order to keep the money flowing (and to keep the brilliant minds behind this campaign employed), they need to stick to the official metanarrative -- that women are always the victims, and that men, guilty by reason of penis, are collectively responsible for the misconduct of a tiny percentage of men.
In other words, it's a microcosm of the last 30 years of all things gender.
SOURCE:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/THAT+Edgy+campaign+targets+link+between+alcohol+sexual+violence/4811310/story.html?cid=megadrop_story
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The new American gender-feminists have forced society to "Always believe the women" when she says she has been raped.
I would like to add "Always believe the women", Even when she's lying???
I'm super curious what their goal is long-term. To make sure only psychopaths have sex?
Because the objective truth is, 99.999% of sex had on this planet is implied.
In fact, if people said "Hey, we're about to have sex now" - "ok, may I take off your bra, yes or no?", "now may I remove these panties with my left hand?" etc... -> then there would be 100000000000000000000x less sex had on this planet.
What's the goal then? To make sure only rapists and men who don't give a crap are the only ones who have intercourse?
Alek, I agree.
Thus far, the vast majority of people pay no attention to these inanities. But there is a creeping element about these things where gradually, these stupid ideas gain greater and greater acceptance.
Alek, i also agree.
All it serves to do is re-enforce the notion that staying away from women is the best thing a man can do.
This is a great piece that brings up and touches on many related issues and subjects. I could write a very long commentary adding onto it that unfortunately I'm going to refrain from writing.
In the twisted yet cunning hearts and minds of the man-haters and new communists, a crime against one woman by one man is a crime against all women by all men.
BTW, "And both are, I would bet my left testicle, wholly, palpably, wildly ineffective."
--- My friend, don't write stuff like that as sometimes metaphysical thoughts sometimes create future realities. Don't let the feminist witches get hold of your testicles :)
Atlas
"I'm super curious what their goal is long-term."
I'll throw out some thoughts on various possible goals and/or results, and how the action contributes to the bigger movement:
Give women absolute power over all sexual (pleasure and pro-creation) and interpersonal relations. Further dis-empower and intimidate men. Widen the gulf between males and females. Contributes to reducing the birth-rate by reducing m-f friendships and sexual relations. Contribute even more to the mindset or feminist religious belief that females are all good, innocent, and superior to males and to further the emotional abuse of males leading to a lower sense of self-worth among males. Move Western Societies further along the road to deeper collectivism. Ingrain ever more-so the belief that females are not accountable and males fully responsible for all issues.
The misandrists use a multi-faceted approach with attacking males and society on many fronts.
While perhaps seemingly unrelated, this Canadian ad campaign does share common misandry denominators or links with the move on American campuses to hold nazi-kangeroo courts that can easily without any proof convict a male student of rape he never committed. It is another straw placed onto the camel's back which contributes weight by weight to bringing the camel to its knees with its face in the dirt.
Many people dismiss feminism as having lost its legions with many women becoming antagonistic towards it. Yet politically, feminism and especially radical-feminism is more dangerous and destructive than ever. The progressive politicians use it as a convenient political tool or weapon to further destroy our remaining liberties and move us towards a nanny-police collectivist state.
Atlas
This isn't just WOMEN putting forth these ads.
It's MEN too.
What's THEIR long term goal?
Eliminating the competition. That is a VERY male thing to do.
There's a bigger picture going on here.
That woman needs to worry about cirrhosis of the liver and esophageal varices than she does being raped.
hetero-purging
Since when does having a penis make me responsible for the behavior of other people with penises? That makes no sense.
Meanwhile, Andrea Yates isn't even considered responsible for drowning five kids in the bathtub!
Here is an article that I commented on:
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/someone-to-watch-over-me
I recieved the usual shaming language for stating how we men will not protect women any longer. It is laughable how they are trying so hard to hold on to us as worker drones/free body guards.
'" Andrea Yates isn't even considered responsible for drowning five kids in the bathtub!'"
Wasn't she diagnosed as "crazy"? I don't believe college rapists are crazy. I believe they are dangerous opportunists.
The basic problem with gender feminists insistance that "Women must always be believed" when they say they have been Raped; Is that there are now so many false rape accusations.
I would like to return to the time when "Women Never lied about Rape".
I jdon't think that time ever existed...it's the oldest story in the book, in fact..
8:25: false rape accusers are indeed dangerous opportunists! As are cunts who drown children in the bathtub to gain attention.
What Alek is referring to is called, "100% consensual sex" by feminists. I first heard about it being mandated at a man-hating US college called Antioch College, where 75% of the population was women and they spell that “womyn” purposefully so it can be without “men.” Luckily, I believe the college closed down. I wonder why? “100% consensual sex ,“ the worst idea I’ve heard ever, ever.
The caption under that piture should be "Don't get drunk and act like a slut because some young impressionable boys may get the idea you're asking for it"
Your post sucks, and it shows EXACTLY some of the reasons why this shit still happens. Where you live things may be "that simple", but remember the world isn't just your neighborhood or your city or country. And YES, physically stronger people - including women! - DO HAVE the responsibility to watch out for weaker people (be they women, children, men or physically impaired). So, YES, you do have the responsibility of being a "bodyguard".
And no, you don't have to ask a girl if she's ok with every single move you make, but her body language and her mouth will tell you (unless she's too drunk or drugged or in an altered state of perception - and not always because she's a "drunken bitch" or junkie... there are a NUMBER of situations where people get altered, sometimes involuntarily, so don't be so quick to judge, smart-ass!). Still, some jerks just don't seem to get the meaning of "no"!
Other jerks think that because a girl is sensually dressed, she "wants to" have sex, and it doesn't even matter with who (suuuure...).
And some other stupid guys think that the girl has the "obligation" of having sex if she showed sexual interest in him, both were in the mood, things got hotter but for some (or many!) reason(s), she suddenly changes her mind and decides to stop playing - ooooh, but the guy is almost there, all aroused, poooooorrr baby...(NOT!!)
Oh, and have you heard about psychological/mental imbalance and/or breakdowns (anyone can have them, including your so-called innocent men - EVERYONE's innocent until they fuck up, either because they just went crazy or absurdly angry or got carried away at the heat of the moment))? How about war rapes?? And have you heard about chauvinist cultures where women are seen as less than nothing??? No, I didn't think so.
Oh and I forgot to say one very important thing: you should be profoundly ASHAMED of having a blog such as this. You're almost ENCOURAGING men, if not to keep on raping women - after all, they're DETESTABLE, lying, drunken, partying, wolves posing as lambs, beings, right??? - at least of justifying it and blaming it on...well, women, of course, the ones to blame for everything under the sun ever since Eve! LOL
Your blog (and many others, obviously!, but since I'm here I might as well point it out ;)) is an enormous DISSERVICE to humanity. If you don't like the anti-rape campaigns, fine, don't promote them and don't help people in any type of anti-rape (including against men ;)) action, but at least do us humans a favor and just don't use stupid arguments to justify what cannot be justified, or to make women look bad and unworthy of any type of sympathy or mercy or understanding or solidarity...
...and with all this I'm not saying your points are completely invalid. We all know some (notice the very important distinction: SOME, not all, and certainly not most) women DO enjoy playing the victims, some do falsely accuse men of having raped them, some even DO spank their men, etc. etc. Yeah, stupid people, aggressive people, gold-diggers and jerks come in all sexes and looks, human kind is THAT equalitarian ;) But that's not the point! We all know that, and it's a minority of cases - ****ridiculously**** few when compared to the statistics where men overpower women, disconsider them, abuse them (physically,psychologically, etc.) and rape them.
I will be doing a post on the laughable comments of Janus, who comes off as a congenital idiot.
We have serious advocacy to do here for real victims. Inane comments such as Janus's only underscore the stupidity we're up against.
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