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Old 10-12-2019, 07:14 PM
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Default Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks

Yeah, I honestly have that, "Oh, so NOW you're noticing?" reaction when I see men who are surprised at how pervasive this stuff is, just because I've had enough experience with men--and too often, women--assuming that I was making up or exaggerating my experiences with the way men treat women and girls. (Girls because hoo-boy, people still think I'm making it up when I talk about how common pedophilia is. I grew up in the 70s when it was fashionable and fairly mainstream and grown men would regularly try to pick up even very little girls, and I am telling you there are more pedophiles in heaven and earth than you imagine in your philosophy.)

There are stupid and evil women out there, and a whole lot of fucked up ones, too, who just sort of became OK with things being the way they are. It'd be really weird if there weren't.

I've complained about this a lot before, but the fear based indoctrination starts when girls are really little, and it perpetuates a serious culture of victim blaming women for gendered violence. So there are a lot of women who have grown up so sheltered and fearful that they've basically Talibanned themselves from regular life. At some level, I think they resent other women who've decided to live their lives anyway, so of course they blame them for being so audacious as to believe that they're allowed to participate in normal human activities without a chaperon. And, of course, they like to tell themselves that it wouldn't happen to them because they made the right choices.

And some actually get to the point that they internalize the ideas and get off on the idea that they and other women are trash. It's maddening, but moreso, it's absolutely fucking tragic.

I will say that I do every now and again have a little bit of an 'oh come on' reaction when relatively minor cases of harassment and sexism get lots and lots of play. Not that I think they're OK or anything, but that I think having a whole bunch of reporting about relatively minor or one-off incidents can create the impression that they're isolated and out of the norm.

The main reason, though, is that I kind of assume that all men are like that to some degree, and have at least dabbled in treating women like that. Somewhere around 97-99%, anyway, so it almost seems arbitrary to focus on individual incidents and offenders like that when it's clearly a societal problem.

In conclusion: The mainstream media sucks and Hugh Hefner used to publish a literal child porn magazine called Sugar and Spice.
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