Free Speech Club Crashes Male Feminist Meeting At University

lostapwbm · 2018-03-14T05:34:23+00:00

A discussion hosted by the AMS Sexual Assault Support Centre (SASC) on March 8 turned into a debate when a handful of Free Speech Club (FSC) members crashed the event, challenging the moderators’ views on men’s health.

Dissent?! In muh safe spacez?! OH NOES!

The discussion, hosted as part of the centre’s Healthier Masculinities program, aimed to “explore representations of masculinity in the media and how these images might influence the ways we express and identify with gender.”

It wasn't my fault! Rock n' roll (along with drugs and sex) forced me to act like a man!

Somebody help me!

“They had come to derail the conversation, that was pretty obvious,” said volunteer Arshiya Malik. “It was easy to tell who was from the FSC because they would bring up natural gender roles and primitive arguments that were sort of demeaning.

Natural gender roles?!

HERESY!

Noah Alter, one of the FSC members present, said that he and his peers came to “see what the club was about,” but were disappointed with its approach to men’s health.

“I've talked to male friends of mine, I’ve asked if they’re interested in men’s health or male advocacy groups and they’ve said ‘yes,’ but they largely feel uncomfortable with going through a feminist perspective,” said Alter.

A feminist perspective being that you are an evil, inferior, defective male who must live a life of penance, servitude, and silence for the original sin of female oppression.

Alter advocated for a “traditional men’s advocacy organization,” criticizing Healthier Masculinities’ view that aspects of masculinity can be “toxic” or problematic. Last year, many FSC members vocally supported the formation of the men’s rights club, which was rejected by the AMS because its mandate was deemed too similar to Healthier Masculinities.

Everything within feminism, nothing outside feminism, nothing against feminism.

Il Duce would be proud.

“The problem is that a lot of men today are emasculated,” said Alter. “... Not because there’s an expected masculine role that they should fill but but more so because they want to fit into a masculine role, but society doesn’t let them.”

The absolute madman!

Healthier Masculinities Coordinator Cormac O’Dwyer said that after getting wind of the FSC’s interest — and witnessing a comment section where members were advocating for crashing the talk with signs and chants — he considered cancelling the event altogether.

While O’Dwyer stressed that the SASC events were open to everyone, attendees should be willing to engage in the conversation presented.

“I’m glad some folks who were interested came up,” he said. “But it seems like they weren’t wanting to have the same conversation we were having.”

Keep this in mind the next time the pussy-hat brigade shows up somewhere they weren't invited with the explicit intent to make a nuisance of themselves.

J_St0rm · 2018-03-14T11:45:06+00:00

So turning up and attempting to engage in reasonable debate / discussion is bad but turning up and screeching / using horns to drown people out and assaulting people is okay...?

Title	Free Speech Club Crashes Male Feminist Meeting At University
Author	lostapwbm
Upvotes	16
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Date	March 14, 2018 5:25 AM UTC (8 years ago)
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