wingnut columnist: if women would just admit everything is their fault, we'd all get along better
Glenn Reynolds is a noted hardcore rightwinger, Islamaphobe, and all around loon who DEMANDED that President Obama resign in the aftermath of--you guessed it--Benghazi because a filmmaker got arrested for violating his parole like 15 different ways.
So, of course, he's a hardcore Mens Rights Activist (MRA).
So, anyways, Perfessor Reynolds (he gets paid by the state of Tennessee to teach law-omfg) attended the recent Misogynistapalooze in Detroit, and came away mightily impressed.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/06/29/gender-wars-women-men-reynolds-domestic-column/11705389/
Indeed, another speaker, Barbara Kay, noted that things like rape and domestic violence are now portrayed on a "continuum" where men are concerned, so that a harsh word can be treated as on the "domestic violence continuum" or a lustful glance placed on the "rape continuum."
Of course, our intrepid wingnut omitted a little bit more of what this female misogynist had to say:
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/mens-rights-conference-feminism
Rape on college campuses, she added, was a myth perpetrated by man-haters, and the concept of rape culture, how society can tacitly approve of or rationalize sexual assault, was “baseless moral panic.”
“The vast majority of female students allegedly raped on campus are actually voicing buyer’s remorse from alcohol-fueled promiscuous behavior involving murky lines of consent on both sides,” she said, drawing chuckles from the audience. “It’s true. It’s their get-out-of-guilt-free card, you know like Monopoly.” The chuckles turned to guffaws.
Oh.
More from the MSNBC link.
Mike Buchanan, a British men’s activist, warned that feminism was the ideology of “female supremacists, driven by misandry, the hatred of men and boys.” For 30 years, Buchanan said, “feminists have worked through the state to attack many of
the pillars of civilized society,” and become “the defining ideology, of the political establishment.”
At the conference, feminism was responsible for turning wives against their husbands, bleeding them dry in divorce proceedings and separating them from their children, levying false accusations of rape and abuse against good men, or creating an ever-present culture of hatred where men are vilified.
So, in other words, the conference was all about how women are to blame for all of men's problems, as well as all of women's problems.
So, no wonder our intrepid MRA wingnut was able to find a sense of unity:
But although the specifics were interesting, the thing that struck me most about the gathering was the palpable lack of gender tension. Men and women at this conference seemed to be on the same page, and the same team, in a way that seems almost surprising in these gender-divided times. Maybe that's because gender-talk, long a female domain, is also now about men. As another speaker at the conference, Warren Farrell, said, women can't hear what men don't say. So it's good that men are speaking up. As Farrell concluded in a Friday night dinner speech, the goal is "not a men's movement, not a women's movement, but a gender liberation movement."
Warren Farrell, of course, being most notorious for his characterization of date rape as "exciting" and opposing prosecution of men who rape women if the woman's "body says yes" even if she says no.
But, I digress, it appears that the MRAfest have hit upon the solution to ending gender wars: just have everyone become a misogynist! If we can all agree that most rape victims are really just lying harlots, that feminism is just like Nazism, well then gender discussions will turn out smashingly.
Just in case anyone wonders why Republicans lose the women's vote.
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