Monday, June 6, 2011

Even the impulse to look is unfair to females

I don't know about you, but I've had disadvantages from birth that I've had to overcome -- things I don't and won't discuss because I refuse to have anyone feel sorry for me or to view me as a victim.  I do not feel "guilty" for being a white male, and do not feel blessed, either.

When I read comments like the following, on a Jessica Valenti Live Q&A, it almost sickens me (the emphasis is mine):

Q. As the father of daughters, I strongly condemn the double standard regarding sexuality and the genders. Or more specifically, how societies have historically treated female sexuality as shameful. Often the stated rationale for restricting how females dress is the false claim that this is necessarily for male self-control. My reaction to that is, "Oh, please" - do you share that reaction? At the same time, I cannot deny that I find the sight of female flesh alluring. While I avoid staring, I find that even if I'm not looking I'm still looking, if that makes sense. A bit like not thinking of a pink elephant. I feel like even having the impulse to look is unfair to females. I've told other men that it's wrong for, say, serial adulterers to blame their behavior on either their impulses or on the women. Does that make me a hypocrite if I have the impulse to look?


A.Jessica Valenti : Yes, I agree that it's silly to argue that men somehow can't control themselves around women who dress a certain way - it's an argument that's insulting to men. As far as you looking at women - I don't know, we all look at each other a bit, don't we?! I think so long as you don't stare in a way that makes a woman clearly uncomfortable, it's pretty understandable.

http://live.washingtonpost.com/outlook-the-new-form-of-feminisim.html

The rest of it is the usual straw man inanity that pretends women are raped because society excuses males and blames females. And because of "rape culture," which links rape with Playboy Magazine and with male batterers and with prostitution and with male domination and and with patriarchy. And probably with ham sandwiches, too.  You know, the usual nonsense for which there is precisely zero evidence.

7 comments:

RM said...

I would never look at Jessica Valenti.

Anonymous said...

"I feel like even having the impulse to look is unfair to females." Yet this same 'man' dismisses that sexual enticing teasing slutty dress does not sometimes arouse male sexual interest and aggressiveness?

My take on this is that it is possible it was written by a feminist female pretending to be a father ie a male. If it was actually written by a father (a real live male) I suspect that this person may be expressing a shameful hidden message to us about his own alluring daughters .

How's that for over analyzing?

Atlas

Anonymous said...

The usual, uh, bologna?

Mmmmm... lunch meats.

Anonymous said...

I'd love to get her "opinion" on all the contrived "sex tape/nude pics" releases done by starlets whose careers are flagging... they get the free publicity and sympathy as "victims" while feigning "outrage" all the while. it's marketing genius.
And oh by the way- the most flagrant false accusation/victim claims that have emerged as a standard marketing ploy- so much so that Reese Witherspoon threw Blake Lively under the bus over it.

Anonymous said...

"RM said...
I would never look at Jessica Valenti.

JUN 6, 2011 3:19:00 PM"

Same, unless I had laser vision.

Anonymous said...

Jessica valenti is quintessential American "gender-Raunch".
These raunch queens make straw men, and then attack them. These "gender-Raunch queens" got perverts in high places that spin the "construction" that keeps these loud mouth, vulgar raunch queens in front of the mic.
The American "Gender-Raunch community" don't attack all males equally, they have "constructed" that its just those "nasty hetero'es" that are the scourge of society.

Anonymous said...

Society is gonna have to put up with this loud mouth, vulgar, gender-raunch queen, as long as perversion in the US law enforcement keeps feeding the gender-raunch community their "Empowerment" rhetoric.