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In reply to the discussion: Rape culture, airplanes, and unaccompanied minors [View all]Fozzledick
(3,925 posts)33. Androphobia: The only respectable bigotry
Did you know that over 98 per cent of the men in the United States today have never been convicted of any violent crime or served time in prison? That, even though the U.S. imprisons a higher percentage of its citizens than any other nation, over 98 per cent of our men have never been convicted of rape, child molestation, assault, battery, breaking and entering, or any kind of violence? And almost half of the men who do land in prison are convicted of non-violent crimes (usually drug possession)?
These basic statistical facts about male nonviolence have been hidden from us by an ideology/mythology which I call androphobia -- fear and hatred of the male.
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The Feminism of Imbeciles
Let us clarify the ideology of androphobia. I think androphobia can be defined as the transfer to all males of the negative stereotypes that the Ku Klux Klan and other neanderthal types assign only to black males -- mental inferiority, of course; emotional childishness, or "inability to think rationally;" brutality -- i.e. sub-human status, criminality, sexual violence, etc. (You see? All the old racist clichés except "a great sense of rhythm."I thus regard androphobia as merely a transmutation from racism to sexism, an "advance" that is not an advance at all.
Let me make this very clear. I do not oppose Feminism; on the contrary, I reject all forms of group stereotyping and dehumanization. Androphobia (or male-bashing) has no intrinsic or necessary link with Feminism, and many Feminists utterly reject androphobia. To use an analogy, Marx said that "anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools." Similarly, I regard androphobia as the Feminism of imbeciles.
http://www.backlash.com/content/gender/1996/4-apr96/wilson04.html
Please don't complain that I found this on a pro-Ron Paul site. Robert Anton Wilson speaks for himself and this is obviously a Discordian/Illuminati plant.
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another point that i feel is relevant. we are in a society where men themselves promote that their
seabeyond
Aug 2012
#3
Statistically speaking, there is an average of at least one child molester on every full jetliner.
pnwmom
Aug 2012
#7
On the other hand a child is statistically much more likely to be molested by a family member..
Fumesucker
Aug 2012
#12
It will be interesting to see the outcome of that. It doesn't take away from the fact, however,
pnwmom
Aug 2012
#38
wow....wait soooo because some men rape children..ALL men are potential rapists????
DFab420
Aug 2012
#9
Potentially, yes. And we (human beings) are all potential thieves, and potential killers.
pnwmom
Aug 2012
#11
And statistically speaking family members are far more likely to molest children than strangers..
Fumesucker
Aug 2012
#14
Therefore men must never be allowed to sit near a child? Would you like us to chemically castrate
DFab420
Aug 2012
#15
Nope. Just don't complain about the trivial inconvenience of changing one aisle seat
pnwmom
Aug 2012
#39
haha of course.... how dare I complain about the trivial inconvenience of being treated like
DFab420
Aug 2012
#44
Because it calls all men rapists? Or because it only implies we are all child-molestors?
DFab420
Aug 2012
#17
OK cut/paste here: "so we still end up being taught that men are potential rapists"
gollygee
Aug 2012
#29
because of this mindset, when I'm out walking my dog, I'm very reluctant to interact at all
KG
Aug 2012
#22
Also, I think people WANT to be in denial about the problem of acquaintance rape...
Odin2005
Aug 2012
#35