The things I have learned from trying to talk about feminist issues on YouTube

The things I have learned from trying to talk about feminist issues on YouTube

1. It is perfectly acceptable if discussing these issues to refer to women as "Bitch" "Slut" "Whore" "Cunt" which leads me to the conclusion in talking about racism we should refer to blacks as "Jungle Bunnies" (I would have used the more common racial slur, but even in examples I find myself repulsed personally by that word.), Chinese people as "Chinks", the Irish as "Paddys", and the Ukrainians as "Easter Egg Painters.
2. It is always about the personality of the person in question, or how they look, not about what they have been trying to say.
3. Even though it's ALWAYS the attackers fault, if women (and men, I should say this because rape is not entirely a gender issue) were more careful/dressed less provocatively they would not get raped.
4.
5. People who argue that women should be able to wear what they want & go where they want are living in a dream world, and should realize that it's a dangerous place and women MUST TAKE PROCAUTIONS ALWAYS!
6. Women overreact ALL THE TIME! Seriously there is not a rapist around every corner! You should feel completely safe at 4am in a strange place in enclosed space when a man suggests nicely that you might want to come back to his room for coffee.
7. [Please note the DISCONNECT in point 4 & 5...which one ARE we suppose to pay attention to?]

8. Everyone does not want to talk about it because it is unimportant and boring... and they will all make videos telling you that it's unimportant and boring and you shouldn't make any more videos about it... over and over and over and...

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[carmel1119]

@2bsirius

That's a separate matter from the points I made, but for the record, I find the insults toward her highly objectionable and extraordinarily childish, but ultimately, the people flinging mud are demeaning themselves, not Watson, though I doubt they possess the level of maturity/self honesty required to understand that.

I do think her comments were divisive/offensive, but most certainly didn't warrant the level of hate/anger that I've witnessed.

[2bsirius]

@carmel1119

Seems a little strange that you object to her observations, but you make absolutely NO OBJECTION when comments about her vilify her with derogative insults like "bat-shit crazy" or "too ugly to rape."

Was she abusive to the man in the elevator? No, she said she wished men wouldn't do that. She expressed an opinion and then said how it made her feel.

Can people only be certain they won't be brutally insulted if they agree NOT to express certain opinions you & others don't like?

[carmel1119]

typo: just as *she* has the same right. Also, her complaint is being trivialized because it is indeed, a trivial complaint, it seems quite logical to me.

[carmel1119]

@2bsirius

No one has denied her right to feel "uncomfortable." What is offensive to people is that she publically shamed this man for merely extending her a polite request for coffee, then proceeded to moralize, dictating to men how they should/shouldn't behave. This is what made many people "uncomfortable". We have every right to express this, just as has the same right. Equality, remember? Radical feminists don't have any special priveleges in this regard.

[GreatG0dOm]

@LasraelLarson You are so precious. 

[LasraelLarson]

@GreatG0dOm

ah regurgitation. that is different.

be sure to wash, the smell could be mistaken for your scent. ;)

[GreatG0dOm]

@2bsirius Yes, I am being sarcastic. It's just another thing I've heard some men say in comments about RW. I know what you mean about having difficult telling the difference.

[GreatG0dOm]

@LasraelLarson These are from comments I have read under men's videos on the topic. I suppose I could add "That woman is insane" as another comment I read, but not put quite that nicely.

[LasraelLarson]

@GreatG0dOm

Well speculation is entertaining, I suppose?

However, the night in question... turns out pics are showing up online. Taken by PZ Myers himself.

Perhaps you could take a look & suss out which fellow it is? Who knows, all your speculation could pay off & you could hit the bullseye.

[2bsirius]

@GreatG0dOm

I have no idea if you mean this ironically or not...Before I spent so much time on YT, I'd have been fairly certain that you were being ironically funny, but I know from experience here that there are so many people determined to tell other people [in the most humorless ways possible] what that SHOULD be thinking that I'm never sure anymore.

I'll just assume irony and smile though.

:)