Louise O Neill on rape culture.

Flimpson wrote: »

Intriguing the way those who hate men/women can sometimes have a partner of the opposite sex. The lack of self awareness is pretty remarkable.

It's completely crazy, tbh. And you hear so many feminists who condemn males, while raising a young son. Or a recent feminist who, while pregnant, found herself 'feeling sick and nauseated at the thoughts of raising a male son'.
Yes, her own baby caused a triggered reaction.

As for Molyneaux, yeah, I wasn't familiar with that particular lunacy. Sadly, like many so-called anti-feminists, they often come at feminism itsself with the same level of vitriol and anger that the neo-feminists challenge them with.
Milo recently 'shamed' a trans student at one of his speeches-while I personally think this particular trans individual was rather 'sensitive' (some of her other complaints had been rather....silly, to put it mildly) I don't agree with how Milo went about 'shaming' her. Also don't agree with how she wrote to her college president, with a rather grammatical and spelling error riddled email.

I know there have been many instances where killers came from dysfunctional and broken homes...but there is often a massive other element to their story besides that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq6JVEA-qCUAlso an interesting video on the debunking of white male privilege, by a young woman.

Well, it wouldn't help, tbh, to read such articles. Like, in general, if you are being blamed for something that you cannot control-ie your gender, your sexuality, traits that are biological, rather than habitual etc. than you may feel a bit troubled.
That said, usually one would have had to already have some form of mental health issues, to find something like this affecting your mental health. (Think having issues with rent or your job, whilst already suffering from depression, and you get the idea).
I mean, I understand this from personal experience, and a little research.

I think the troubling element to this, also, is that much of their 'issues' are borne out of an absolutely humourless approach to their feminism.MAny of us hold certain things sacred, but we laugh about elements of our ideals. I mean, there are priests who thoroughly enjoy Fr Ted, for example, with many often approaching the late Frank Kelly saying 'we had our own Fr JAck in our diocese'.

But with Una, or LON, you dont see that humour-like, the Niamh Horan, tongue in cheek article on Rugby was so utterly vilified, by Mullaly and co, that you would swear Horan was a genuine sports columnist-nope (and I can question Horan's own approach to the article, but it was hardly something like the ctrl-alt-right crwod. She's a step above Amanda Brunker, mind, but still not a sports journo. Yet while I am no fan of Horan's, she does often come out with some modicum of sensible ideas (a broken clock is right twice a day) compared to Una and Lon.

Yet when Horan has made otherwise sensible statements ('the dangers of alcohol, for both men and women', for example.) Una and LON come out decrying her for 'blaming victims' aka women for their assaults. When actually it's just a bit of sensible advice about keeping safe. Same reason why many of us go out in groups in order to avoid some jerk mugging us. Or when she has challenged those who go on about 'body shaming' on Instagram-well, many of those are using Instagram to advertise products and jewellery, company's (yes, even Lon) and 'beautfy' products-so the so-called 'shaming' is merely calling individuals out on protecting their 'profile'.
Sometimes, presenting someone with cold hard facts is a tough thing to deal with-I know, many of us have gone through such an ordeal. It's not easy, takes a while to absorb, but its important to one's growth.

Ian O'Doherty was none too fond of Lon's fave show

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Ah I know, I was just having a laugh about the fact that stuff can't even be described without a bucketfull of buzzwords

I nearly wrote..''Load of sh1te'' ..might've been more succinct

mzungu wrote: »

Ah yes, I recall Shriver's talk on cultural appropriation, and her opposition to it, caused a bit of a stir in some circles last year. So much so, one "activist" had to leave the room because it was all too much....and then wrote an opinion piece in The Guardian about it.

It's a fairly long article and I haven't read all of it but it does mention that incident. I think Shriver only asserted that writers aren't doing anything harmful by drawing inspiration from various cultures/traditions, which is completely sensible. We'd have no art and literature if some of these loons got their way..and I'm reading the article about the walk-out and she really makes a song and dance about it!

''The stench of privilege hung heavy in the air'' someone needs to make a perfume by that name

''My own mother, as we walked away from the tent, suggested that perhaps I was being too sensitive.''

Widdershins wrote: »

It's a fairly long article and I haven't read all of it but it does mention that incident. I think Shriver only asserted that writers aren't doing anything harmful by drawing inspiration from various cultures/traditions, which is completely sensible. We'd have no art and literature if some of these loons got their way..and I'm reading the article about the walk-out and she really makes a song and dance about it!

''The stench of privilege hung heavy in the air'' someone needs to make a perfume by that name

''My own mother, as we walked away from the tent, suggested that perhaps I was being too sensitive.''

L'Eau De Privilege

For the minority in your life.

mzungu wrote: »

Ah yes, I recall Shriver's talk on cultural appropriation, and her opposition to it, caused a bit of a stir in some circles last year. So much so, one "activist" had to leave the room because it was all too much....and then wrote an opinion piece in The Guardian about it.

LOL

As I stood up, my heart began to race. I could feel the eyes of the hundreds of audience members on my back: questioning, querying, judging.

I turned to face the crowd, lifted up my chin and walked down the main aisle, my pace deliberate. “Look back into the audience,” a friend had texted me moments earlier, “and let them see your face.”

The faces around me blurred. As my heels thudded against they grey plastic of the flooring, harmonising with the beat of the adrenaline pumping through my veins, my mind was blank save for one question.

“How is this happening?”

So what did happen? What did Shriver say in her keynote that could drive a woman who has heard every slur under the sun to discard social convention and make such an obviously political exit?

I'm surprised she could walk at all, what with her head being stuck so far up her own arse. .It's hard to believe people like this actually exist. "My heels thudded against they grey plastic of the flooring, harmonising with the beat of the adrenaline pumping through my veins". Would ya fcuk off!

i was speaking to a senior medical official over the weekend and she was talking about abortion and how feminists assign its importance to their cause.

however, her argument is that due to sex-selection across the world, abortion is one of the biggest anti woman procedures you will ever get. research shows that up to 24million more girls were aborted over the last 15 years, primarily due to them being female - ie certain cultures prefer boys as their children.

wont happen in ireland on that scale you would imagine/hope though with the rising influx of foreign cultures youd never know.