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In reply to the discussion: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against men [View all]Major Nikon
(36,917 posts)Because what he saying is that the "male culture of violence" (AKA the patriarchy conspiracy theory) is to blame for all the ills in society, and therefore in order to fix the ills of society we need to change the culture (crush the patriarchy), which is the same answer I've heard for at least the past 30 years. In 1973, the most violent mainstream media we had was Dirty Harry and The Exorcist which by today's standards wouldn't even rate the after school television hour. The "culture" has unquestionably gotten far more violent, yet as Señor DeMontague demonstrated, violence has gone down during the same time period that rad-fem "theory" says it should be going up. So where have we heard this before? Oh yeah, a certain feminist (she-who-must-not-be-named) testified before the Meese commission and assured everyone that the rate of rape would follow the proliferation of internet porn and we all know how that one turned out. So the whole idea that "the patriarchy" is driving these things just doesn't quite pan out. I'm not sure about Mr. Stupidity, but when someone tells me up is down and down is up not once, but twice, I tend to raise the bullshit flag.