Posted on 07/24/2017 7:09:13 AM PDT by servo1969
TruthRevolt has been following feminist blogger Jody Allard who admitted she was afraid of her own sons. Her piece, called, "My teen boys are blind to rape culture," caused her non-raping/non-abusive sons to be nationally humiliated. Allard wrote about one son's reaction:
He doesn't understand why I lumped him and his brother together in my essay. He sees himself as the "good" one, the one who is sensitive and thoughtful, and who listens instead of reacts. He doesn't understand that even quiet misogyny is misogyny, and that not all sexists sound like Twitter trolls. He is angry at me now, although he won't admit that either, and his anger led him to conservative websites and YouTube channels; places where he can surround himself with righteous indignation against feminists, and tell himself it's ungrateful women like me who are the problem.
Setting aside the "abuse" claims for the moment, one of the most interesting aspects of the response to my essay is that it's emerged that many people don't actually understand what "rape culture" and "toxic masculinity" mean. Many readers were enraged by what they characterized as my calling my sons rapists or saying that being a man is toxic. Neither could be further from the truth. "Rape culture" does not mean holding a belief that men are rapists (whether my sons or men in general); it refers to a set of societal beliefs that blame women for sexual violence and misogyny, while normalizing sexual violence and aggression. Likewise, "toxic masculinity" does not refer to the idea that men are toxic, but rather that societal conceptions of what it means to be a man are harmful or toxic (particularly to men). With those definitions out of the way, it should be clear that discussing how particular men, even my children, absorb these cultural ideas is in no way "abusing" them.
Um, no. Not really, Ms. Allard. See, most normal people reject the idea that "societal conceptions of what it means to be a man are harmful or toxic." We also don't believe society "normalizes sexual violence and aggression." You can't just make up stuff and assume it's now "out of the way." We're objecting to your very premises... as well as your characterization of your sons as "unsafe." (Not that you read any of critiques of your writing. Right, Ms. Allard?)
Feminism causes mothers to turn on their children, to turn away from healthy relationships, and to embrace ideologies that - frankly -- can't be explained even in a series of inane blog posts. For the sake of your children, step away from your laptop and step toward apologizing to your children for your disgraceful writing.
I know she’s a single mother, but I wonder if these boys have any escape route. Wow.
Lt's see... What "society" believes in and allows this kind of behavior?
OH, yeah! Islam!!!!
I was around 18 when my Mom said to me “You aren’t too big to bend over my knee.”
I responded “You and what Army?” And the light went on in her eyes, I was a lot bigger than her.
That being said, I believe I always was a dutiful son to her.
Someone should e-mail her the trial transcript of he goddess...................
This woman demonstrates a “buyer’s remorse”, and through her writings, depict her wish that “she had born Barbies instead of Kens”.
Ironically, he’ll probably develop a hatred for women, after all his mom is a woman and the first woman he had a relationship with, and his mother’s desires will come true.
That woman is insane.
Those boys are not safe in the same house as her.
It’s time to hit the road - go to a shelter, a relative, a friend, or a vacant cabin somewhere.
Many good kids have run away from bad homes for a heck of a lot less than this.
Maybe mom can choose to identify her son as a “woman” and then wouldn’t need to worry about him/her being part of the rape culture.
Could be a dumb idea since I don’t know if “women with penises” are part of the “rape culture” or part of the “defenseless women culture” who need the government to protect them from being raped by men or some other culture the blogger would be afraid of.
Nah, the cats will turn up their noses, too stringy, loaded with toxins.
“She will cling to her victimhood to the very end.....................”
Of course she will. She’s a lefty. She can demonize her own sons, and the western civilization which by the way, created the modern world, but she would NEVER rant about the true ugliness of the middle east and their abuse of women nor would she touch the most heinous practices of slave trading in the third world, and child rape conveniently hidden by abortuaries.
The “feminists” who inhabit space and contribute NOTHING to the common good are cowards and disgusting examples for young women.
Reminds me of the story of Medea.
“I will slay the children I have borne” are the words of Euripides’ Medea when she decides that she will kill her children in order to take revenge on her husband, Jason, for leaving her to marry Glauke, the princess of Corinth. ... Medea has to debate seriously, with herself, about whether or not to kill her children.
Well, ungrateful self-righteous feminist c***'s like you ARE the problem.
That's because it's largely the hypostatization of the neurotic fears about sex of upper middle class white women.
Sexual neuroses combined with status anxiety.
They say in business, the best customers are those sent by others.
thanks mom!
Yet a culture where a man’s responsibility to a woman he impregnates is simply a drive to the abortion clinic is NOT rape culture to this woman. Nor is one in which pornography is a man’s right or that says you should indulge every sick fantasy you can imagine, as if it were a near certainty that whatever woman is in your life will be equally enthused, or whatever woman you find to indulge those fantasies with will be an excellent choice for life partner.
Yet a culture where a man’s responsibility to a woman he impregnates is simply a drive to the abortion clinic is NOT rape culture to this woman. Nor is one in which pornography is a man’s right or that says you should indulge every sick fantasy you can imagine, as if it were a near certainty that whatever woman is in your life will be equally enthused, or whatever woman you find to indulge those fantasies with will be an excellent choice for life partner.
there is a term for this type of person. it is the same term used for a male that thinks of the opposite sex in this mater. the term is Male chauvinist pig for men and is a female chauvinist pig for women.
Once a biologic male receives female hormones for awhile, the parts quite functioning as designed and the person simply become a receptacle for any relationship they can scrounge up.
I think Mom would identify and approve. Then mother and son could commiserate on how evil and cruel men are.
You said it, cupcake.
Yes. It really is about hating men. I have always supported the equal right to self-determinism for everyone, irrespective of gender, race, color, creed, whatever, but this isn't about that. ‘Feminists’ of this ilk are hateful, and resent men. It's destructive to both their sons and their daughters.
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