Charlie Sheen Is Loved Because, Not Despite, The Violence

thetrollking · 2012-07-25T21:19:08+00:00

From the cradle, society teaches boys that they’re better, smarter, and more powerful than the opposite sex. Then they grow up and find out that all their supposedly obvious superiority, some women reject them sexually. Some women refuse to submit. And even amongst those women who embrace submission, they clearly are doing so to get along, and not—as was promised—because they looooooove it. Sometimes even good girls who concede authority to men most of the time get irritable about sexist treatment and talk back. Even though these young men still objectively have a lot of privilege over women, they don’t have as much as they feel they deserve,** and so they get angry. Thus, fantasies of raping and hitting women have a lot more traction than society is generally willing to admit. As does the implicit social permission to act on these fantasies that comes from the lionization of men who celebrate violence against women.

What’s interesting about all this is that what makes Charlie Sheen appealing to his fans is they no doubt think of him as brave. That’s the idea of the “bad boy”, isn’t it? The guy who has the guts to do what other guys want to, but can’t? With the beating woman part of the whole thing, it’s easy to see how that gets contextualized as “brave” for the fans. After all, there’s a chance—sadly, way too low—that if you hit a woman, you could go to jail. One could easily see at least some fans swooning because Sheen gives the finger to laws against domestic violence and does what he wants anyway.

Of course, if you take a step back, what we see is that a wife-beater isn’t actually a brave man at all. He’s a man who shores up his own manliness by hitting people who are not only smaller and weaker than him, but are also easy to get the drop on because they foolishly believe that he loves them. He’s basically someone afraid not only to pick on someone his own size, but he can’t even pick on people smaller without manipulating them heavily to let down their guard. Take a step back, and what you see in Charlie Sheen isn’t a sneering bad boy, but a pants-pissing coward. Everyone who looks up to him is, as well. They shun picking difficult and necessary fights—say, for women’s full equality—for the easy and consequence-free feeling of temporary and empty power you get from picking on the picked-on. I suspect they know on a certain level what quivering cowards they actually are, which is why they’re always trying to distract themselves with preening shows of pseudo-manliness.

I just don't even know where to begin. What fucking deranged universe did this bitch grow up in? How the fuck is it brave to harm other men by fighting for stacked laws for women to use the government collective against individual men.

Where the hell are boys taught that they are better than girls, I saw the opposite growing up.

I guess she atleast admits that women are weak and puny and not EQUAL to men, which is weird considering that she is a feminist and then immediately talks about women being equal. Damn this woman is crazy.

Title	Charlie Sheen Is Loved Because, Not Despite, The Violence
Author	thetrollking
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Date	July 25, 2012 9:15 PM UTC (13 years ago)
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