DeusExMachina said:
I have to admit, that proposal in Sweden is just bonkers.
In recent year feminism has somehow transformed from a dignified and noble movement, that actually had a point (looking at the movements to attain the right to vote for women for example) to a assortment of radicalized and for the most part fact free harpies.
Neo-feminism as it is sometimes called has nothing to do with equality anymore, it is about female supremacy, sometimes even blatantly stated outright. They have a collection of professional victims in their ranks who effectively shut down all criticism our attempts of discussion by simply labeling it 'harassment' or 'misogyny'. One of the more popular examples from the gaming community is Anita Sarkeesian (Feminist Frequency) who does not understand how the internet works and can't seem to get a grip on the concept of a troll.
Sadly this is not the only movement gone horribly awry. A bunch of other branches of what is sometimes known as the Social Justice Movement or Social Justice Warriors have radicalized as well and have made issues like cultural appropriation or preferred pronouns into topics you shouldn't touch with a ten foot pole unless you like getting yelled at through the internet.
By far the most mainstream and biggest group is still feminism and the other ones rumble around in various corners of the internet.
In all fairness one has to admit that there are perfectly reasonable and smart members of the feminist movement, much closer to the feminists of old, openly criticizing what has become of the whole thing (and getting yelled at for it) and fighting for important issues of gender equality in a sane and intelligent manner.
Such a shame that those few reasonable voices are drowned out by a choir of shrieking, fact-free radicals because they do have some good points to make.
Actually I would say Anita Sarkesian has one of the best grasps of how the internet works I've ever seen in my life... she just pretends she doesn't.
She knows her fan base, many of them are at the mental state where they'll mindlessly support who is the victim, regardless of who is "right" and who is "wrong" you see this everywhere, like in a recent video where a student went around his campus in the U.S waving an ISIS/ISIL flag, then did the same thing but with an Israeli flag.
The student's reactions to the flags were as follows.
With the ISIS flag, the students mostly ignored it, very few actually objected to it and a greater number than those who rejected it... actually gave encouragement.
With the Israeli flag, the responses were immediate, screaming, threats, actual violence etc...
Now, when you look at both of the groups, ISIS/ISIL is an undoubtedly utterly evil organization, slaving, wiping out entire villages, torturing children, crucifying people, putting their enemy's and dissenter's heads on fence posts etc...
Israel on the other hand, while even I, a staunch Israel supporter aggree that many of Israel's policies have been detrimental and terribly unfair, when you look at the situation their country is in, surrounded by nations who don't recognize their right to live, with a population greater than their own (palestinians) preaching "death to Israel" on a daily basis and shooting rockets at their cities to the point the Israelis make bus stops that double as bomb shelters... with points both in favor of and against it, now given it's situation, you'd think there would be at least some students who would at least say "well done" for showing the courage to wave an Israeli flag on an american campus which has a "BDS week"
why is this? why almost only shows of support for ISIS and total condemnation of Israel on a university campus? simple... who do they think the victims are.
ISIS's media campaign, as well as Anita Sarkesian's campaign play the same basic angle "I'm the victim so support me" and these days people on the left-wing side of the political spectrum respond to that more than anything else, whoever plays the victim card the most, whoever cries the loudest, gets the support regardless of the facts.
Anita Sarkesian understands this perfectly, she knows those who donate to her are the minority, and she pushes that angle as well. She plays the victim card so hard, she's been found to not report "threatening" posts to the police, instead just to whine about them and link to her Patreon page. She knows the media LOVES victims, so with her playing the victim card, and purposefully attracting trolls which she then uses as justification for her placing herself as the "Victim" and telling her followers that the way to make her stop being a victim is to give her money... and even if she were empress of earth, she would still be pushing this angle.
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