Posted on 04/22/2017 9:16:34 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Another day, another students’ union ban. This time, student officers at the University of Sydney Union have shown their contempt for their peers by banning a documentary about the men’s rights movement. A screening of The Red Pill had been organised by the University of Sydney’s Conservative Club, Students For Liberty, and a student group called BroSoc, but the students’ union cancelled the event.
According to its website, The Red Pill is a documentary about the ‘mysterious and polarising world of the men’s rights movement’. It chronicles ‘feminist filmmaker’ Cassie Jaye’s exploration of ‘an alternative perspective on gender equality, power and privilege’. Throughout the documentary, Jaye claims she ‘learns the various ways men are disadvantaged and discriminated against’. Unsurprisingly, the documentary has caused outrage since its release, with critics declaring it ‘misogynistic propaganda’.
It’s fair enough to criticise the documentary, but people should watch it and make up their own minds. And what better place to discuss a political documentary than a university? Aren’t students meant to be exposed to challenging ideas they disagree with?
Not according to the University of Sydney Union. In a statement released online, the students’ union announced it was prohibiting the movie from being screened on union-managed parts of campus. It also banned any union funds from being used to screen it. ‘The planned screening of this documentary would be discriminatory against women, and has the capacity to intimidate and physically threaten women on campus’, it said. ‘This documentary is decidedly anti-feminist and anti-woman, focussing not on the ways in which the systemic issues of patriarchy may also adversely affect men, but instead placing the blame on women and feminism specifically for men’s issues.’
In other words, the documentary disputes the dominant narrative around gender equality, and the University of Sydney Union can’t allow that. Apparently discussing issues facing men would have been fine if the documentary blamed all the problems on The Patriarchy. Related categories Australia Free speech
Forget the men’s rights movement – is there anything less feminist than the claim that young women need to be protected from a documentary? By claiming that the documentary could ‘physically threaten women on campus’, the students’ union is painting women as too weak and vulnerable to engage in intellectual life.
Whether or not you agree with the premise of The Red Pill, it shouldn’t be banned. Students who disagree with it should go along to the screening and argue their case against it, not stop it from being shown altogether.
That is a very interesting hypothesis.
I would call the feminist movement pathologic at this point. Its pathology is driving its adherents more and more insane. Not only are women supposed to be stupid and hyper-emotional, but they can’t even care about their appearance without being demonized. And feminists have been working hard to make sure that people perceive women as no more than walking genitalia. This is supposed to demonstrate that women are the intellectual equals of men, how?
I do not think that separate education is good for anyone. Feminism is tempered when girls learn alongside boys. Take away the boys, and the girls are taught the most rabid, illogical tenets of "feminism" possible. And when boys are taught in the absence of girls, they learn the most hyper-testosterone driven behavior possibly. Hyper masculine men and hyper feminist women aren't going to get along, ever. Children need that interaction with the opposite gender in order to develop properly.
Feminism is the problem, not coeducation.
Once upon a time, I was faced with the same choice as you. I knew it was easy to just kill the child and pretend it never existed, and I knew several young women who had done just that. But I also knew that I would have to live with that decision, and doubted my ability to keep pretending, year after year. So I made the decision that I knew I could live with, and I have never regretted it.
That boy found me a few years ago. He is a father of two beautiful children, now teenagers. His birthday was Friday. I should call him...
Thanks to all who commented.
Rent RED PILL at the various links provided above. Need to support projects like this.
Please allow me to express my admiration for you.
When I met my wife, I saw only a pretty young woman, and was simply looking to have some fun. We were sitting in a restaurant have lunch and a “get to know each other” conversation, when she casually mentioned having had a baby at 17. I knew she didn’t have a child living with her, so I stopped the conversation right there to ask “Where’s that baby?”.
She took on a very tender demeanor and explained that she had thought about having an abortion, but couldn’t do it. She also knew that she couldn’t raise a baby properly by herself, so she gave him up for adoption. I decided then that she might turn out to be a keeper, as she had put her baby’s welfare before her own desires. Turned out I was right. We are coming up on our 18th anniversary- our daughter just turned 16, and that boy she put up for adoption was raised by loving parents, and is now a grown man.
I hear ya on that.
Christina Hoff Summers calls it “fainting couch feminism”, reverting to the “oh, he said something unacceptable, get me the vapors before I faint” or “I don’t like it, I will tantrum, give it to me”.
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