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alp227

(32,025 posts)
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 03:25 AM Feb 2015

‘Men’s Rights’ Blogger: Make Rape Legal On Private Property So Women Can Have ‘Learning Experiences

If rape culture was a phony invention of radical feminist academics, why does this "Roosh V" guy still have a devoted following, when putting out sicko shit like this?

Feminist (and woman)-hating blogger Roosh Vörek embarrassed men everywhere in a Monday column on his creatively named Roosh V blog. Vörek, with his misogynist ravings, has become quite popular with the so-called “men’s rights” movement — and why not? This recent entry tackled the liberal invention known as “rape culture,” and featured Vörek’s brilliant solution: Make rape legal on private property!

According to the blogger, having laws against rape do nothing but make“women wholly unconcerned with their own safety and the character of men they developed intimate relationships with.”

“I saw women who voluntarily numbed themselves with alcohol and other drugs in social settings before letting the direction of the night’s wind determine who they would follow into a private room,” Vörek wrote, going out of his way to demonize rape victims. “I saw women who, once feeling awkward, sad, or guilty for a sexual encounter they didn’t fully remember, call upon an authority figure to resolve the problem by locking up her previous night’s lover in prison or ejecting him from school.”
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‘Men’s Rights’ Blogger: Make Rape Legal On Private Property So Women Can Have ‘Learning Experiences (Original Post) alp227 Feb 2015 OP
But would that also apply to women raping men? rocktivity Feb 2015 #1
My guess is he, like some others, don't believe that is possible. Behind the Aegis Feb 2015 #2
Meanwhile, in another thread, folks are arguing about... stone space Feb 2015 #3
Not again BainsBane Feb 2015 #4
It's based on the assertion that it's SELF DEFENSE. alp227 Feb 2015 #5
Huh? I might be tempted to accept that having a woman... TreasonousBastard Feb 2015 #8
Really? Where's that? TreasonousBastard Feb 2015 #7
OMFG. There are no words. There's just Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2015 #6
He sounds like a psychotic rapist LittleBlue Feb 2015 #9
Maybe it's a case of covering his own behind Revanchist Feb 2015 #10
?!?!?!!!!???!???!!!!?? TRoN33 Feb 2015 #11
Kind of a low-budget Rush Limbaugh Blue Owl Feb 2015 #12
This dude sounds like a pyscho... one_voice Feb 2015 #13
Guys like this . . . Brigid Feb 2015 #14

Behind the Aegis

(53,959 posts)
2. My guess is he, like some others, don't believe that is possible.
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 03:30 AM
Feb 2015

However, it does beg the question, "what about male on male rape?" I wonder how this would fly with him and his filthy ilk: Make Rape Legal On Private Property So Straight Men Can Have ‘Learning Experiences'. I am going to guess it would go over like a fart in a diving helmet.

 

stone space

(6,498 posts)
3. Meanwhile, in another thread, folks are arguing about...
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 03:41 AM
Feb 2015

...whether or not men should punch out women who climb up on stage.

BainsBane

(53,032 posts)
4. Not again
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 03:44 AM
Feb 2015

I remember last time we had some proclaiming that beating a woman was treating her as an equal.

alp227

(32,025 posts)
5. It's based on the assertion that it's SELF DEFENSE.
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 03:47 AM
Feb 2015

How do you respond to such accusations? The "self defense" argument is an attempt to trick opponents of domestic violence into admitting their position of gender equality is fallacious (as if it's OK to treat differently-abled people as different worths of person).

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
8. Huh? I might be tempted to accept that having a woman...
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 05:20 AM
Feb 2015

beating the crap out of a man would be some sort of equality, but there's really no excuse for a beating.



Revanchist

(1,375 posts)
10. Maybe it's a case of covering his own behind
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 06:11 AM
Feb 2015

After all, as pointed out on We Hunted the Mammoth, he is a self admitted rapist:

Evidently, in Roosh”s view, women are at fault when they enter a bedroom with the wrong man, but men aren’t at fault for being this wrong man. It’s a convenient argument for Roosh, who by all accounts including his own is one of these wrong men. Indeed, in his e-book Bang Iceland he admitted, rather nonchalantly, that he once raped a woman who was too drunk to consent. As he described the events of that evening:

While walking to my place, I realized how drunk she was. In America, having sex with her would have been rape, since she legally couldn’t give her consent. It didn’t help matters that I was relatively sober, but I can’t say I cared or even hesitated. I won’t rationalize my actions, but having sex is what I do.

one_voice

(20,043 posts)
13. This dude sounds like a pyscho...
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 12:21 AM
Feb 2015

anyone that could even come up with some bullshit like this is dangerous.

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