orioler25 @ orioler25 @lemmy.ca

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Now THAT seems satirical, only a fool would think internet arguments aren't productive..

Every woman I've met. Statistically the majority of women have experienced gender based and sexual violence and that rate increases depending on class, race, gender, sexuality. It does scare men to realize that they can be labeled a sexual predator for groping when they were drunk or jokes about rape.

Username suggests this is satirical but comment history is inconsistent with that theme.

Just in case: "Alienating" people who are already not interested enough to change isn't a loss. You don't focus on reaching those people, you make them too uncomfortable to be vocal. It's why eco activists don't give a shit if a boomer is mad about them blocking traffic, their goal is to make sure the boomer can't drive home in comfort. Comfortable people are the lifeblood of this system.

The rest I don't think people will care about enough to respond to like, yeah conservative and liberal men are caged by individualism we all know that already and they never shut up about it.

Edit: i regret not making a joke about the one guy who was about to become a feminist sex-activist and assassinate Donald Trump but saw the meanie queer online say that men need to be better and then he just gave it all up and signed up for rape school.

Why don't you blame the companies? If they had paid you a fair wage this whole time, you'd be better off. If profit maximization wasn't their imperative, they wouldn't make decisions by quarterly disruptions.

Why not blame the Liberals? They have resisted expansion of social welfare policies like UBI which would allow you more leverage in negotiating with these companies in the first place and would have lessened the blow of losing that job now. They've ran on election reform multiple times and abandoned it.

Trump is the sole culprit? Why hasn't anyone in his cabinet stopped him then? Why hasn't Congress or the Senate or Supreme Court stopped him?

It's time Canadians recognize that systemic change is necessary. Even if individuals could be solely responsible for this, we shouldn't live in a system where that is possible. Maybe Canada should have never been subject to the whims of one man in the metropole and maybe YOU should never be materially insecure in one of the wealthiest states on the planet.

You didn't have to tell us you are a man, it was obvious. What you just did is provide a great example of why we need better education on gender based and sexual violence.

Firstly, there is almost a complete certainty that you know a rapist and may even be friendly with one. The overwhelming majority of sexual violence perpetrators are men and that violence is facilitated through the nuclear family model and social ostricization of men who challenge rape culture.

I have had multiple women in different generations of my family disclose sexual violence from men beloved by dozens of people who were none the wiser. I have sat at tables where men make jokes about getting women drunk on purpose like it doesn't reflect lived experiences only for other men to laugh along enthusiastically or nervously. I have been in classes where men discuss harassing women in the workplace without it being challenged. I could not name the amount of friends I've lost when I challenge them on their views, all of them have been men. Every one of those personal experiences reflects statistical data we have on sexual violence rates and rape culture reproduction.

You seem to have this fantasy that rapists are men who jump out of the darkness to prey on strangers, but they're your friends and family who prey on those you know. They do talk about it, all the time. Whether they're talking about the act of rape or why rape is okay, they talk about it. You cannot insulate yourself from this culture without abandoning the responsibility to challenge it.

When you say shit like, "not all men," you're admitting to an insecurity you have about the potential injustice of rape accusations and the association between manhood and sexual violence. Too bad, you're in it and have to choose to challenge it or continue to participate through inaction. The fear of false rape accusations is almost completely unfounded in a world where women face consequences for reporting and convictions of sexual assault are so difficult to get. False convictions are so statistically rare and acting like they arent shows that you value your comfort more than believing victims. Men are the vast majority of rapists and most women have experienced gender based or sexual violence at one point in their lives. As long as they exist in a culture where that violence will most likely come from men and most men do not challenge it, manhood will be associated with sexual violence. When you say that if a cartoon rapist should ever appear you'll give'em a wollop, you're subscribing to an imagination of sexual violence that obscures the reality of its frequency and potential vectors. You're telling the women around you that you do not care about what they experience and only think of rape as a vector for you to fulfill the masculine fantasy of violently punishing a rapist to protect the poor, helpless women.

This is all of course ignoring your fundamental misunderstanding of what rape is when you discuss it as though it's a form of sex. There is no discussion to be had about whether men kiss and tell about rape because rape is not sex. It is about violence and power. It happens at high rates in highly patriarchal societies exactly because of the brutal hierarchy of power that must be maintained for that patriarchy to exist.

I don't care if most men don't rape, most rapists are men and the greatest resistance we get to challenging rape culture is from men. If that bothers you, learn.

They are, but they want a neoliberal solution that directs public money to companies instead of food regulators.

I'm sorry, this article is incredibly grating to me. It softens aggrieved entitlement as "men associating power with control," and prescribes appeasement (read: empathy) for men who subscribe to this. This is all bundled in neoliberal business talk that seeks to erase the necessity of abolishing hierarchy to heal masculinity from capitalism and colonialism. It isn't inspiring and I don't think this is even a genuine attempt at empathy. Men who feel threatened by women in the workplace because they are just that insecure about themselves and the hierarchy isn't a healthy relationship with the world and should not be fostered under the guise of empathy. That isn't healthy for them and it isn't genuinely relating to them.

Learned how to make thermite. Mutual aid to feed people here.

As expected. The state has benefited greatly from this nationalist burst and the absence of First Nations and indigenous voices in this discourse is intentional. They know white Canadians feel scared and will more openly support colonial interests.

I think this is a very good example of why we cannot depend on reform. This system will never work in our interests because it is not designed to. NDP might help a bit in terms of social welfare programs that can enable more time to people who want to participate in mutual aid, but the amount of effort it'd take to get them a federal majority would be enormous and would not resolve the issue of MP and Senator capital interests.

Has anyone else noticed an uptick in Wolfenstein content in the past year? I wonder if anything happened that encouraged a bunch of people to revisit a franchise about killing Nazis.