DarthOne
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In which, I, DarthOne brings you news from the crazy side.... Honk honk!
To the person who wrote this article:
Now that the obligatory and deserved mockery is out of the way....
Throughout history, men and women have given up certain freedoms in exchange for certain responsibilities and privileges. Feminism came along and broke that social contract. While we could debate whether or not this is inherently negative, what is clearly negative is that feminism isn’t willing to give up privileges in exchange for lost responsibilities.
And perhaps even more importantly, they continue to try to enforce the social contract on men, and that’s exactly what this article is about: enforcing the social contract on men who see women opting out and want the same for themselves.
Also:
Woke women: "All men are disgusting"
Woke women: "It's not that bad to lie about rape. It was probably rape anyway, now let's destroy that guy's life over it."
Woke women: "If you have a better offer on the table, it's only fair for you to take 50% of your partner's life with you when you go."
Woke women: "How dare men be treated equally in custody cases! Women should be the priority."
Men start avoiding dating these people
Woke women: "Why won't men trust us enough to date us? We're perfectly reasonable. Surely this must be men's fault"
The word “irrespective” means saying or doing something without taking anything else into account. For example: “Irrespective of the fact that the cost of living has jumped, putting pressure on many people, the government ploughed on with Brexit and argued that there would be no real economic impact.”
So it is fitting that white man of the moment, Laurence Fox – who appeared on the BBC’s Question Time programme and told a BAME audience member that Meghan Markle has not been on the receiving end of racism before subsequently appearing on the cover of The Sunday Times to tell the world that he does not “date woke women” and then displaying an appalling understanding of history by calling the inclusion of a Sikh soldier in Sam Mendes’ film 1917 “incongruous” – has “irrespective” tattooed on his arm.
Did you hear that at the back, ladies? Laurence Fox – who you perhaps only knew as Billie Piper’s ex-husband because you’ve never seen Lewis(what?) – does not date “woke” women who he believes are being taught that they are “victims”, irrespective of whether they are right or not. He thinks that it’s “institutionally racist” to tell the story of the First World War in a racially diverse way, irrespective of the fact that Sikh soldiers absolutely fought for Britain. And he also doesn’t believe in white privilege, irrespective of the fact that he works in a painfully undiverse industry, was privately educated and comes from a wealthy acting family which is nothing short of a dynasty.
Laurence Fox defends his controversial comments
Fox is denying racism and sexism, irrespective of whether or not they exist. It’s nothing short of gaslighting. It’s all very Donald Trump. And as you would expect, the whole debacle has lit a fire under anti-woke poster boy Piers Morgan while gaining Fox thousands of extra Twitter followers.Fox is denying racism and sexism, irrespective of whether or not they exist. It’s nothing short of gaslighting. It’s all very Donald Trump.
I could go over all the things he’s said; I could use data to prove how wrong he is; I could express concern for his mental health (after all, who really enjoys arguing on Twitter?); I could make jokes about his behaviour. But all of that would be to seriously miss the point.
There’s nothing funny about the things Fox – or Wokey McWokeface as he now wants to be known – is saying. It’s also not particularly sad. It’s dangerous. He is just one very privileged man, and as a result of said privilege, has been given a platform. And he has used that platform to legitimise a bigger backlash against diversity and progress which is unfolding every single day in less public corners of the internet.
Not wanting to date “woke” women, far from being laughable, is actually one of the more insidious aspects of it. Spend an afternoon on any major dating app and you’ll come across (generally white) men saying openly sexist and misogynistic things. They might say “no psychos” or that they “fucking hate big eyebrows” in their bios. And, by and large, they also tend to hold extremely right-wing views and see themselves as victims of liberal thinking.
In fact, as I was writing this, a dear friend sent me a screenshot of a guy she’s just matched with who describes Jordan B Peterson as his “dream dinner guest”. Yes, the same Jordan B Peterson who thinks that white privilege is a “Marxist lie” and wants millennials to drop their obsession with “social justice”.
I, meanwhile, recently had to block someone who after matching with me launched into a vile rant about how women are “evil”, “only want sex” and treat men as though they are “disposable”. When I asked him if he hated women he replied that he had “only moderate disdain” for us before asking me whether I didn’t want to date him because I’m actually “pretty rough”.
All of this, of course, speaks not only to the presence of the very active online communities of anti-feminist incels but to the prevalence of the hideous and incorrect ideas they promote. It doesn’t take magical thinking to see how men are radicalised by anti-feminism. As the saying goes: “When you’re used to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”The reactionary influence of these ideas doesn’t stop at dating, though. As the campaign group Hope Not Hate reported last year, a hostility towards feminism is feeding directly into far-right movements online.
To the person who wrote this article:
Now that the obligatory and deserved mockery is out of the way....
Throughout history, men and women have given up certain freedoms in exchange for certain responsibilities and privileges. Feminism came along and broke that social contract. While we could debate whether or not this is inherently negative, what is clearly negative is that feminism isn’t willing to give up privileges in exchange for lost responsibilities.
And perhaps even more importantly, they continue to try to enforce the social contract on men, and that’s exactly what this article is about: enforcing the social contract on men who see women opting out and want the same for themselves.
Also:
Woke women: "All men are disgusting"
Woke women: "It's not that bad to lie about rape. It was probably rape anyway, now let's destroy that guy's life over it."
Woke women: "If you have a better offer on the table, it's only fair for you to take 50% of your partner's life with you when you go."
Woke women: "How dare men be treated equally in custody cases! Women should be the priority."
Men start avoiding dating these people
Woke women: "Why won't men trust us enough to date us? We're perfectly reasonable. Surely this must be men's fault"