Josiah Says! - Response To Anti-Feminist Arguments - Part 1 of 2
10LINK TO PART TWO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4avZoDYCQw
I recently uploaded a video recording of me reading a speech that I wrote for a local activist rally. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euFqZW7oeI8 ) One man, by the name of EyeOfBraille, responded to that speech, identifying himself as an anti-Feminist and expressing firm disagreement with my message. His comment, in full:
"I'm one of those anti-feminist gamer men you were talking about, and I must say... I tried. I really did. I made it about thirteen minutes in before I gave up. I don't doubt your conviction or your passion or your determination to make a positive change in the world, but you're so consumed by toxic rhetoric that you can't even communicate with your audience. I put up with it when you said that all men were part of the problem, I tolerated it when you said that rape wasn't just something other men were doing but that you and I were doing (which was good of me, given its slanderous implications and blatant untruth) and I listened when you equated victim blaming (which is bad) with rape (which is criminal) and telling off colour jokes (which is distasteful). It didn't matter to me that you'd swallowed feminist doctored statistics whole or seemed determined to ignore the existence and scope of male victims and female perpetrators. No, what tore it for me was when you decreed that merely disagreeing with your unfounded pseudo-religious tenant of the existence of "rape culture" made a person part of it.
Why? Because this is the kind of raving totalitarian vitriol that really does cause people to get hurt in the real world. Tasteless jokes and garden variety misogyny have got absolutely nothing on the practice of proclaiming a piece of dogma as moral truth and then decreeing that anyone who disagrees with you on an intellectual level is some sort of "bad person". It is poison, and it causes people to do terrible things to others. If you can't stomach that other people might have different perspectives on your high-handed, unproven, untested soft science "theories", then find a better way to deal with it than by painting them as rapists by accessory. For crying out loud...
OK, I lied. You're a very good orator, so I thought I'd watch a little more. And to be honest, it got a lot better. You actually advocate reasonably eloquently for the existence of rape culture (though I still disagree), you made some very good points about why victim blaming is stupid and the unfair ways in which it can happen, and you almost have it right when you say that a rape is only ever the fault of the rapist...before backing off the truth in appeasement and distributing blame amongst random innocent men again. You really are a good orator.
I also like your shirt."
This video is a reply to his comments, as well as a general response to various anti-Feminist arguments I've seen posted around YouTube and other social media sites. I welcome ongoing dialogue about these topics, so feel free to argue if you think my ideas are in error.
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