Feminists enraged at Jion Gomeshi for hosting a debate on his show: Apparently the concept of "rape culture" is magically the one epistemological entity that is outside the domain of concepts that are able to be subjected to logical analysis

murphtaf · 2014-03-26T02:38:19+00:00

If you would have seen some of the tweets with #rapecultureiswhen, you would've seen that many other feminists feel this way. I saw so many tweets saying "rape culture is when people try to deny rape culture is real, thus proving it's real". Apparently, you can't even argue a concept that is so obviously true and without a doubt not being blown out of proportion by feminists.

It's pretty much the same way feminists always argue. A woman disagrees with a feminist? A result of a lifetime of internalized misogyny. Men also suffer from a certain issue? Women suffer worse, so don't expect feminists to deal with it. Men suffer an issue of their own? It's actually more harmful to the already oppressed women and men shouldn't complain as they're not oppressed in any way.

They don't confront the actual claim, they just try to discredit the person who's pointing out their shortcomings in their arguments/logic. And that's obvious with this article. The 'author' didn't agree with what Macdonald was saying, so her first reaction is to attack her and say 'she has no idea what she's talking about'. Instead, she should have tried to back up her own reasoning for why Macdonald was wrong, with actual facts, not just by crying 'she's a victim-blamer!!'. Oh wait, I forgot, it's not a feminists job to 'educate' other people about the bogus claims they throw out there. We're just expected to either believe them, or research them ourselves until we've concluded that they're right.

SweetiePieJonas · 2014-03-26T05:58:49+00:00

Religions generally don't like it when their core tenets are questioned.

ghebert001 · 2014-03-26T18:22:30+00:00

Feminists are basically saying "no vagina? no opinion".

iethatis · 2014-03-26T18:30:19+00:00

"#Rapecultureiswhen the existence of rape culture is up for debate."

I'm more surprised that she took a relatively gender neutral stance on rape than I am by the hysteria. :/

iethatis · 2014-03-26T18:42:58+00:00

All of this went on with little intervention from host Ghomeshi.

Lol. They're blaming him for not stepping in and protecting their delicate sensibilities like a good little lackey. Not to mention, he actually did add points in favor of "rape culture" against Macdonald (he seemed to be very clearly in solidarity with Lise's position).

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