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We have some hate speech laws. I really do think that helps slow some of this stuff down.
Dont forget another vital ingredient to the shit stew, lazy, complacent left wing voters who dont bother voting for anything because they assume it'll just work out. But if Trump and Brexit wasnt enough to get them off their asses, nothing will.
Just got my confirmation:
from Amara McLaughlin at CBC News (https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/live-blog/first-of-10-victims-id-in-toronto-van-attack)
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
Good correction.
"The victims of the Toronto van attack were "predominantly female," say police."
CBC news reporter made the tweet.
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If someone proposed with a shred of semi-legit evidence that there was a link between DOTA and MRA's I would 100% believe it.
They don't really want sex, they want social standing. They feel that a man's social standing is measured by how many women he can get. So if a woman turns them down, she is directly attacking their self-worth, saying that they aren't a "man."
Women, of course, turn them down all the time because if you don't learn to smell "deranged, murderous misogynist" you will be added to the domestic violence/murder statistics.
Did they close the largest and most toxic subreddit of incels? I figured they'd never shut down /r/the_donald.
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I don't think that's really true. Sexual desire and the need for social interaction are powerful things in humans (to greater and lesser degrees depending on the specific person obviously). It's not just about status. It can link you up with hate groups pretty easily though since there is a sense of being entitled to the gratification of their desires and being denied that can lead to anger and on down that road to violence of one sort or another.
We are all in search of our tribe. Some find it in a family, friends or a community attached to something (role-playing games, video games, sports etc...) and these fucks have found their tribe of hateful little trolls.
Legal prostitution?
Hopefully, we are moving away from that form of moral conservatism.
Tax it and treat it like a business. It's the oldest profession.... It's not going anywhere.
I used to have a morbid curiosity about the "original" incel (Marjin Siklic), and from my understanding of the ideology, sex with prostitutes does not count when determining incel status for reasons.
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It's amazing they have their own rules setup upon what counts as being "celibate"
Why do you hate prostitutes? They try to avoid deranged, murderous misogynists as much as any other woman. Remember how often we hear headlines of the type "Local sex worker found bound, gagged and murdered" - it's a real and serious danger for them.
Freely available sex would not mollify these maniacs, because they are really after masculine status, not the mere act.
Sex with a prostitute would not be a substitute for what you were after if you wanted like a relationship and a sense of connection, even if fleeting.
Like, standing ovation for this dude.
It really goes beyond that - as much as these guys would protest, it's not like they would fare any better (for the most part) in an extremely patriarchal system where women had no agency with regard to their partners. Their issues stem from them largely being extremely low-status men in terms of both physical desirability and personal achievement/status, so it's not like some pater familia would make the decision to marry his daughter off to one of them, because even in a strictly transactional sense they have nothing to offer.
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Neither will ramming a van into a bunch of strangers but here we are. Just saying it might.
Is Canada's Brexit joining the USA?
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On days when the TTC was so crowded that there weren't handholds available, I'd join the other shorter ladies and we'd hold onto each other for stability. I once watched an entire stream of people dutifully drop their proper fare into the token box when a subway worker took a break and left the turnstyle open. Half the freakin' city turns out for the Pride parade, and cultural festivals always have a huge cross-cultural crowd.
I have no patience for people who live in Toronto and decide there's a good reason to adopt an ideology of hate, especially if they're a white dude who isn't dealing with Toronto's dumb shit like carding. Get your head out of your ass, get off the internet, and go walk around the city and talk to some folks who don't look just like you. Geeeez.
Thats actually a plotpoint in A Handmaidens Tale. For all their posturing, the patriarchal theocracy ONLY benefits the rich and powerful men, screwing over the rank and file men and all the women who's support helped create it. Several of them are shown kicking themselves, but it's really hard to sympathize with their idiocy.
The idea is, a lot of these guys would get sex before they became deranged misogynists, thereby short-circuiting the radicalization process.
Sure there would still be some that would become deranged from not benefiting from prostitution because of right-wing ideology, or because they're obsessed with that one girl, or whatever else. But for all those who just want to get laid, it would be an out. I've heard of studies showing that sex crimes like rape decrease after prostitution is legalized, so there is some validity to that strategy.
Violence against prostitute doesn't stem simply from them having sex with dangerous men, but from them having sex with dangerous men in dangerous conditions, alone in isolated areas, because their transaction is a crime. Legalization removes that pressure, suddenly prostitutes can have sex in controlled areas with security cameras and bouncers at the doors, and the number of murdered prostitutes drops dramatically.
Which is not to say that legalizing prostitution solves all problems (looking at you, gangs and sex slavery and vicious life cycle). But insofar as reducing sex-motivated crimes, it has a lot of positives.
It might help if most porn weren't itself describing an unhealthy male power trip.
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Further, it's not like it's that fucking hard to get your bone on in 2018; join an adult dating site that is dedicated to people getting their rocks off ASAP or hell go to the classified section and ring up a working girl.
If you give off an angry, hateful vibe, it is that hard, because it scares off women, even sex workers.
Which is why you go to a hooker before you are a seething sack of toxic masculinity.
This touches on a larger and much more dangerous point.
I'm sure a lot of guys who don't reach their peak in high school go through a period of feeling frustrated with their status in society and, potentially, resentful toward women as the de facto gatekeepers of heterosexual sexual relationships (I realize this is a much larger topic in itself). Throw in issues around fear of rejection, toxic masculinity, exposure to patriarchal social systems, and unrealistic ideas around sex derived from pornography and you've got a potentially very challenging stage of life. I know I certainly went through a stage like that myself during my young adulthood, but, as happens with most people, everything sorted itself out, largely through working on being a better person, in the end, and I find myself as a more or less happy, successful adult in a long-term committed relationship. However, when I went through that period, there was no easily accessible online hotspot for an ideology saying that these problems are the fault of everyone else and providing a safe space for violent and hateful fantasies about the rest of the world. Of course, I also went through this in the mid to late 1990s when the Internet was a much different place.
I agree that Reddit deserves a lot of blame for these sorts of situations (honestly I am seeing increasingly little daylight between reddit's leadership and the sort of people who run sites exclusively devoted to terrorism, child porn, or whatever the latest indecency Reddit has foisted on is) but at the same time, the internet being what it is, some other dedicated site or very loosely moderated forum would exist to provide the same communities with space to congregate and grow. That said, sites like Reddit are set up as a recruiter's paradise, since there are any number of other unobjectionable mainstream and fringe topics being discussed on the exact same site.
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It's because they essentially don't want to fuck they want to degrade a woman.... And not in the kink sense.
Part of the issue is that media frequently conflates the two.
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I bet if you went back in time, men like this would be railing against the way they couldn't impress a guy enough to marry his daughter, and dreaming of freely avail
I see no reason why that would work, because they aren’t looking for the physical act, but to prove they are a man. Paying for it would be like getting an arcade game high score with a cheat code - not really what they are looking for. Many of them *have* used sex workers and it didn’t help - just made them angrier at women and themselves.