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[TW] Canadian feminist activist receives rape threats, death threats and other abuse after being targeted by Men’s Rights Activists
(manboobz.com) - And so the MRAs have found yet another woman to hate.
Earlier this month, as many of you no doubt know, a Men’s Rights group sponsored a lecture at the University of Toronto. The event drew protesters, and the protesters drew MRAs with video cameras. One of the MRAs filmed a confrontation between a red-haired feminist activist and a number of MRAs who continually interrupted her as she tried to read a brief statement.
Her crime? She wasn’t exactly polite in responding to the interrupters. And so, after video of the confrontation was uploaded to YouTube, and linked to on the Men’s Rights subreddit and elsewhere, she became a virtual punching bag for the angry misogynists of the internet.
A Voice for Men, naturally, led the charge, running an article by Canadian MRA Dan Perrins labeling her “Little red frothing fornication mouth” and commenting on her breasts. The Amazing Atheist weighed in with a video I couldn’t bring myself to even watch.
Since being targeted by angry YouTube misogynists and MRAs, the red-haired activist has received death threats, rape threats and literally hundreds of other hateful and harassing messages. She’s also been “doxxed” — that is, she’s had her personal information plastered all over the internet, including on A Voice for Men’s forum. Ten days after being uploaded to YouTube, the video of her faceoff against the MRAs has garnered more than 300,000 views, and YouTubers are still leaving threats and insults and crude sexual comments.
This, apparently, is what “Men’s Human Rights Activism” consists of: the doxxing and harassment of individual women.
There are screen caps of several of the messages she has been receiving under the read more link.
Be warned, several of them are very triggering. This kind of thing needs to see the light of day, though, as MRAs like to pretend that this doesn’t happen.
THIS NEEDS MORE FUCKING NOTES
Any motherfucker who tries to defend the Men’s Rights Movement to me will be reminded of situations like this and others.
Because if a woman DARES to debate a man and tells him to rightfully shut the fuck up so she can get a fucking sentence out? MRAs respond with SEXIST names ( little red frothing fornication mouth??? ) and slurs, threaten her with rape and death, and release her private information to unknown and unstable individuals and groups.
LITERALLY their only problem with this woman was that she tried to debate some of them and got mad when they wouldn’t let her speak. She didn’t threaten them, tell them to get raped or anything else. She tried to make a fucking statement and told them to shut the fuck up for a second. THAT”S IT.
That’s what MRAs believe is deserving of such vile, violent, and dehumanizing behavior.
So, no, I do not give a fuck about the “poor menz” and I will continue not to give a fuck until I see the majority of men in this world slap behavior like this down and slap it down loudly, and publicly.
I am so sick of your fucking bullshit, men. SICK OF IT. Between this and the recent bout of teenage rape victims killing themselves because people continue to harass them with VIDEOS AND PHOTOS of their rapes while simultaneously telling them they were NOT raped?? I AM DONE.
I AM FUCKING DONE.
Don’t look at me. Don’t talk to me. I hate you.
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Note how the most important facet of this story is not how she swam out and physically saved two people from drowning in a riptide at the risk of her own life, but that during the course of heroic physical activity in an outfit not designed for it, a tit slipped out.
Really? A nipple? A nipple made an appearance when she was dragging her son and a woman twice her size out of strong currents?
WELL HOLY SHIT, STOP THE MOTHER FUCKING PRESS
I… what? A woman rescues two people but you want to talk about the wardrobe malfunction. I haven’t had enough caffeine for this bullshit yet.
“But who worries about wardrobe malfunctions when your family is in danger?”
uh not normal people!
-flings self into the sun-
JESUS
because everyone else already commented on the atrociousness that is this article title I’m just going to say, Heidi Klum is so cool and it’s like everyday she’s giving me more and more reasons to like her
…WHAT
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you know what term i’ve never heard?
unwed father
WHY DID THIS JUST SLAP ME IN THE FACE.
ugh. i hate this world.ooh look my own depressing post coming around back to me
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Also the claims of “this makes it bad for women in the industry and sets feminism back” are bullshit
Men don’t need an excuse to shit on women and feminism. That much has been clear throughout history. And white people don’t need an excuse to shit on people of color.
Everyone please read this. Combat the misinformation spreading, that i unfortunately briefly helped spread out of carelessness. This guy admit what he did was wrong. Adria Richards did not lie, but she’s being accused of doing so.
Whether you think what Richards did was wrong, and please consider the social dynamics of the situation- the horrible crap she’s getting for it is not right at all. And she has been fired. And yet people are still going after her. This is an example of sexism and racism, not bullshit “misandry”. A woman of color is being vilified and harassed for criitcizing the conduct of a white man. It’s not okay. And we should give her our support.
"It grew out of trying to conceptualize the way the law responded to issues where both race and
gender discrimination were involved. What happened was like an accident, a collision. Intersectionality simply
came from the idea that if you’re standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you are likely to get hit by
both. These women are injured, but when the race ambulance and the gender ambulance arrive at the scene, they
see these women of color lying in the intersection and they say, “Well, we can’t figure out if this was just race or
just sex discrimination. And unless they can show us which one it was, we can’t help them."
gender discrimination were involved. What happened was like an accident, a collision. Intersectionality simply
came from the idea that if you’re standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you are likely to get hit by
both. These women are injured, but when the race ambulance and the gender ambulance arrive at the scene, they
see these women of color lying in the intersection and they say, “Well, we can’t figure out if this was just race or
just sex discrimination. And unless they can show us which one it was, we can’t help them."
— Crenshaw, Kimberle. 1994. “Intersectionality: The Double Bind of Race and Gender,” Perspectives Magazine of the American Bar Association. (via aswekissgoodbye)
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This is a really important thing.
fucking mansplaining
“Let the record show, that you can be a United States Senator for 21 years, you can be 79 years old, you can be the Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and one of the most recognizable and most widely-respected veteran public servants in your nation, but if you are female while you are also all of those other things, men who you defeat in argument will still respond to you by calling you hysterical and telling you to calm down. They will patronize you and say they admire your passion, sweetie, but that of course, they only deal with facts not your silly, girly, strong feelings. It is inescapable. You can set your watch by it.”
Someone explain to me why Rachel Maddow is not president because this 17-minute clip is reason enough for me.
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so why is it people still think it’s hilar to like, draw women who are accomplished martial artists hairpulling and slapping each other
“Bat fight”
worst pun ever
(guess who the three women involved were from that)
the best thing about it is one of the women involved dodges bullets point blank, was raised as an assassin from birth and decimated grown men when she was five and ripped out a man’s throat out when she was eight and is supposed to be the greatest. fighter. in. the. world.
but still gets used for a cheap “lol girlz are prissy fighters” joke
meanwhile, the person in the batfamily who resorted to hairpulling and biting in canon most recently is actually
why can’t we have ~hilarious~ commissions of that?
“One male poet approached me after a performance and said, “I don’t mean to be rude, but do you ever write about anything other than the struggles of women?” I replied, “I don’t mean to be rude, but take your finger off the trigger and I’ll stop.” After all, who among us ever wanted to speak about these things? What little girl dreams of growing up to write ‘rape poems?’ About violence? About the muffled voices of women worldwide?” -Andrea Gibson
No one ever asks men why they write books, movies, games, TV shows, laws, text books, entire genres of media (games) without any female input or any females at all. It’s only a problem when women do it.
(Source: talkaboutourbigplans, via reasonstostayawake)
