"Although I personally can't help feeling a perverse pleasure in seeing some of the grimaces captured as the men tip-toed down the street"

OThomson · 2012-11-29T01:14:56+00:00

Well time to pulp my brain against the nearest wall, goodbye world...

ambroaz · 2012-11-29T07:38:41+00:00

http://counterfem.blogspot.com/2012/09/pro-male-street-action-in-edmonton.html

The purpose of this parade is, ostensibly, to "draw attention to violence against women", or some such rhetorical phrase. But the actual purpose is what you might expect: to affront, degrade and humiliate the male population in a ritual, symbolic manner. Male participants -- some voluntary, some not -- will put on ridiculous spike-heeled footwear (you know, the kind which the patriarchy forces women to wear!) and then literally walk a mile, en masse, in view of the general public. The whole spectacle is designed as a participatory public psychodrama, meant to enact the neurotic tribal narrative of a certain social cohort, and to draw more and more people into that very same script.

And the subtext is, of course, to empower women by making men more manipulable through real or imagined guilt. Well, mostly imagined, but that's fine so long as a self-flagellatory, "male culpa" ethos instills itself into the collective male psyche. That's what feminism is for, after all.

EvilPundit · 2012-11-29T05:11:20+00:00

My comment on the site:

What a load of sexist garbage.

Men are 75% of all victims of violence. But let's ignore that, and make stupid displays directed toward one gender only.

Whenever we see something like this, if it allows comments we should take a minute to make one.

Every bit of awareness counts.

Title	"Although I personally can't help feeling a perverse pleasure in seeing some of the grimaces captured as the men tip-toed down the street"
Author	ThePigman
Upvotes	4
Comments	5
Date	November 29, 2012 12:58 AM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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