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Q&A - Are Men Obsolete? - Karen Straughan (Event put on by Cafe) - HiDefinition Version

sammacyntyre

February 8, 2014

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfgbIM3gvyI

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Title	Q&A - Are Men Obsolete? - Karen Straughan (Event put on by Cafe) - HiDefinition Version
Author	sammacyntyre
Upvotes	35
Comments	15
Date	February 8, 2014 7:09 PM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1xdgs4/qa_are_men_obsolete_karen_straughan_event_put_on/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/MensRights/qa-are-men-obsolete-karen-straughan-event-put-on.1003980 https://theredarchive.com/post/1003980

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[–]PoliticalCry -3 points-2 points-1 points 12 years ago* (14 children) | Copy Link

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The feminist point that woman brought up that was most controversial was "cat calling". Somehow feminist can justify "safe places" for women exclusively based on basically an annoyance. Never mind men are by far the greatest victims of public violence.

WRT the issue of men defending themselves if a woman hits them. This is a particularly offensive issue and is most definitely why the woman was called out. Indeed none should be hitting anyone. On the same coin if someone hits you there ought to be grounds for self defense and this is what she was called out on. The idea that "men should never hit a woman" is pure sexism. If I could give you a perfect example of sexism you could exemplify it with that statement. Indeed her selective statement suggesting that Karen was encouraging men to hit women was an argument that took her argument out of context.. suddenly Karen was encouraging men to hit women despite the context of the matter of a boy defending himself against a girl who was bullying him.

She was rightly called out on her point.

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