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how many women did he rape that he didn t videotape this is exactly why men should not be working with rape victims in an advocate or crisis counselor capacity men cannot be trusted maybe if i m feeling generous i might allow for the idea that not all men do this and there are some loving caring wonderfully fuzzy happy men who work in this field for the sense of personal fulfillment blah blah blah i can t for the life of me figure out how someone could justify forcing the vulnerable traumatized women who call these centers to take such a significant risk of re victimization just because there might be a dude somewhere who has bucked his sociosexual training enough not to take advantage of every perceived position of power over women to fulfill his own sense of entitlement to among other things feelings of control and sexual titillation is a man s desire innocently and helpfully motivated as it may be to work in this specific field really worth more than women s desires not to have to worry about being re victimized is this issue really so important for men that it s worth making rape victims add an extra set of anxieties on top of the ones resulting from the rape itself for example will is did my rape crisis counsellor get getting off on the story of my brutal rape was is that exciting for him does he want to rape me too the only people that the whole women shouldn t automatically distrust men because we re not all rapists meme benefits are rapists any man who gives a shit about women and their daily struggles wouldn t be offended by distrust or suspicion any man who is trying to toss his load of priviledge and entitlement would welcome the opportunity to prove his general good ness via a slow progression of time over which he demonstrates in all his behaviors large and small in all social and private contexts that he is not a dickwad rather than simply having the assumption made that because he has a penis he is the embodiment of all that is upstanding and trustworthy in spite of the intense rate at which crimes against women are perpetrated by penis wielders in this society as far as this specific case is concerned the ripples from this man s actions continue to spread some blogs go so far as to take his actions as an indictment of the anti pornography movement paraphrase see people who don t use porn are the really dangerous repressed ones with scary dark sides this guy proves it some people say the radical feminist movement should have to answer for this dude since he claimed to be among their number and linked to a bunch of their blogs lots of people are really quick to blame women for either this man s actions or for trusting him to begin with fingers point fur flies this man s crimes are used to futher unrelated personal vendettas at the expense of his victims women who had no idea this man even existed are called to task for not denouncing him we live in patriarchy after all everything bad a man ever does can eventually be used to shame blame or discredit a woman or two the status quo marches on a birch tree how do i make this and some of the above assumptions pretty simple actually he s a rapist he committed rape and he presumably got off on rape ergo this man gets off on rape ergo he probably got off on accounts of rape his victims gave him turning it into an even sicker form of pornography posted in feminism liberal men rape uncategorized tagged feminism male pro feminis rape 4 comments from the hightening my cynicism file posted by a birch tree on july 9 2008 i ve been hit with a double wammy to my faith in the general basic goodness of humanity in just the last twelve hours or so late last night aria and i were watching the secret lives of women eating disorders on the we network it was a pretty good show following a quartet of women who have various eating disorders talking to them and their families about their feelings and struggles and treatments then we get to the commercials in the words of dave barry i swear i am not making this up weight watchers we sold ad time during a show about eating disorders to a predatory diet company and then just when i had finished saying wtf mate it gets worse they run an ad for bariatric surgery seriously what the hell are they hoping some poor woman with anorexia might be watching the show and saying wow look at that maybe i should look into getting some help and then see the surgery ad and go yes that s the help i need right there sign me up see fig 3 7 then this morning aria points me to an article in the uk s daily mail found via life after the oil crash if last nights commercial shock pegged my cynicism needle this story shattered it just two days ago gordon brown was urging us all to stop wasting food and combat rising prices and a global shortage of provisions but yesterday the prime minister and other world leaders sat down to an 18 course gastronomic extravaganza at a g8 summit in japan which is focusing on the food crisis words which have never been exactly willing and pliable beasts to my harness stop in their tracks to nibble grass while i try vainly to prod them into motion i m trying to imagine the conversation at the dinner table bladass politician a so nom nom nom what do we nom nom think about the nom food crisis nom nom crumbs fall from his stuffed mouth bladass politician b nom nom it s obviously not nom nom nom all that bad nom nom eh general bladass politician laugher disgusting chewing and burping sounds yeah these people give a shit yeah they re in touch riiiiight posted in feminism food crisis global environment politics tagged cynicism eating disorders food crisis leave a comment back kinda posted by a birch tree on june 26 2008 so my discharge went through and i m home with my family which is really really good news it gets better every day i m home i really feel like i dodged a bullet in spite of my ambivalence while i bristle a bit about being offically labeled as nuttier than squirrel shit in the mental health department i went nearly 30 years and never noticed as i may have mentioned once already watching world events and reading heart s post about navy rapists i can t fight the feeling that had i managed to stay in the navy i would have ended up just as bad as all of the people i wrote about in a hall of shame and or slowly rotting in at the bottom of the sea at the start of the next world war fortunately i ll never know being home again after all this time has a lot of challenges like finding a real job tm re integrating into civilian life getting to know my family and my role in it from a new perspective and so on and so forth that s made posting a bit more of a hassle than i m ready to tackle on a regular basis i ve put up a couple of things but nothing substantial i ve got some ideas that are formulating though and i anticipate a couple good meaty posts coming in the next week or two after aria and i get back from our backpacking camping trip in the meantime here are a few things i ve been reading that i recommend updates on the new jersey 4 dandrige and hill have had their convictions overturned rejoice a discussion of women s choices over at feminist 101 i cannot for the life of me find it but i m reminded strongly of a post put up a very long time ago by one of the uk feminist bloggers i think she said she always believed it was her free choice to shave her legs until she did an experiment to prove it and didn t shave her legs and after a couple weeks her boyfriend had a complete fit and she realized that she had less freedom of that choice than she thought i wish wish wish i could remember who posted it and could find that post again i think it was called pressure or something similar it was pretty eye opening for me from our bodies our blog an analysis of abstinance only sex education when put up against comprehensive sex education and now i m off to help make homemade cinnamon rolls with cream cheese icing and i don t even have to worry about making weight for any upcoming physical readiness tests joy posted in feminism links miscellany leave a comment a crude awakening posted by a birch tree on june 21 2008 one hour and twenty two minutes of streaming video garaunteed to scare the pants off of you great stuff very well done but very very disturbing just give it half an hour to hook you peak oil is here sky s fallin yo a crude awakening posted in global environment global warming hard facts humans vs planet political tagged environment peak oil leave a comment wtf is this posted by a birch tree on june 14 2008 so i sent an e mail to my wife and on the congratulations we decided to work this time page there was this advertisement wtf is this all about i followed the link and it just went to some generic msn portal page and it took me several minutes of head scratching before i noticed that the portal was for msn arabia which is substantially more offensive than if it had been a link to a nudie mag or dating site or something because now instead of catering to individual misogynists it s catering to a stereotype of embedded cultural misogyny and saying hey arab dudes we get ya leave the wife locked in the kitchen and come read the news i m incensed too incensed to do or think or say anything constructive refer to fig 3 7 posted in feminism media misogyny tagged feminism media misogyny 2 comments hall of shame updated posted by a birch tree on june 11 2008 just a quick note to let you know that i ve added five more entries to a hall of shame i figured just adding to that one would be easier than making a whole new post for every batch of hatred a birch tree posted in feminism misogyny tagged feminism misogyny leave a comment kibbles and bits posted by a birch tree on june 11 2008 1 so they moved me out of my room in the barracks because it s been condemned actually the entire building has been unofficially condemned but they get to keep housing us here by calling only certain rooms condemned and shuffling us around to less condemned rooms thus why i am accessing the internet from the laundry room rather than from at my comfy desk the free internet doesn t extend to my new side of the hallway how laughable is that 2 when moving out of my old room i just found out i left my pool cue behind i hope the construction guys who come in to empty it and make their evals have a nice time with it damn it 3 i have my discharge date said date was greeted with both enthusiasm and disgruntle uh ment disgruntlement the first because i know when i get to go home to my family who i haven t seen in six months and go on with my life after having been jerked around for like ever by a system that couldn t decide if it wanted me to stay or go the second because the navy was pretty much the only job i ever had that could make me feel like i was successful like i was good at something and now i feel like i ve failed at it somehow how do you fail at a job where 80 of your performance is based on showing up on time in a squared away uniform with a good attitude i didn t want to leave the navy they diagnosed me with a mental condition that made staying in the navy impossible maybe it explains some of my past but shit i lived 25 years without knowing i was nuts and my family didn t know i was nuts and my parents didn t know i was nuts and my friends all say man that s such a load of shit you re not nuts but the doc knows best right whatever i bounce back and forth between being happy as a lark or grumpy as a snail in a salt mine i guess i m mostly just be happy to have it be over finally and go home to be with people who know me and whom i care about and away from some of the nastiest meanest people i ve ever known should i really take pride in succeeding in such a misogynistic violent environment i don t know 4 i ve been reading the gift of fear it s a pretty good read and the premise of giving people primarily women a set of logical empirical reasons behind why their intution works the way it does and thereby giving them permission to heed their intuition without feeling silly or irrational is great i ll probably be quoting lots of things from it as time goes by especially about nice guys violence against women entitlement priviledge and lots of other cool topics unfortunately it also rasies my hackles in a victim blamey sort of way in many spots although i guess that s inevitable with any book that tries to give people tools to avoid becoming victims it s always going to open the door for people to say see this expert guy says there was something you could have done differently why did you let this happen to you and a book about how violent people can use their own intution about themselves and the reactions of people around them to suss out and curb their own violent tendancies probably wouldn t sell very well still it would have been a nice attempt 5 yes you re right i did in fact edit the picture on top of a bit about male priviledge a little bit you weren t just seeing things before i promise 6 i don t really have anything else to say that wouldn t take hours of research and typing and proofreading and editing while sitting in a stiflingly hot laundry room so i ll stop now a birch tree posted in miscellany tagged gift of fear leave a comment a bit about male priviledge posted by a birch tree on june 5 2008 a few days ago my blog was mentioned over at women s space in a very kind way but a way that made me uncomfortable i posted in the comments but thought maybe i should put my feelings down here as well with some elaboration i would like to say for the record that i m really uncomfortable being the subject of phrases like men who actually get it and men who have earned safe passage through women s land because i don t think i have i really only get much attention at all i believe because i am male and the bar for males is so low that all i have to do is write about some relatively elementary well duh things i discover about myself and the world i live in as i walk down the road of becoming a halfway decent human being and i can be a relative shining star in a sea of dirtbags the only reason i can write about what i do is because of all the women i ve learned from who have sacrificed their time and energy to perform a task i should have been doing for myself all along my wife aria has put herself on the limb for me time and time again not because it was something she enjoyed doing she s sacrificed emotionally and spiritually and has spent many sleepless nights because of my obstenance entitlement priviledge and misogyny she s done it because she s more or less stuck with me and desperately wanted me to be safer for her to be around in every sense feminist bloggers like heart the biting beaver of whom i was a great fan and miss sorely twisty red state feminist polly styrene sparkle matrix and countless others are the foundation upon which all my ideas and writing stand behind this halfway mediocre sexist man stands a hundred 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