When you get right down to it, the rage over victim blaming boils down to one simple principle to which all feminists adhere: men are always at fault. I sometimes use the term “mentula rea,” which translates to “guilty penis.” It is derived from the mens rea (guilty mind) principle that typically determines whether someone is guilty of a crime. Under the mentula rea principle, however, guilt and punishment is simply assigned to whoever happens to have the penis.
So, for example, say a woman gets married to a man, takes her vows, and then breaks them all and runs off with the kids and the money. Both go before a judge, and the man is typically ordered to let her keep what she took, and then pay her monthly for the next couple decades. This is determined on the basis of sex, hence mentula rea. The man is compensating her for having used his penis, which makes him automatically guilty, despite her complicity in the crime of having sex (all sex – especially married, procreative sex – is quasi criminal under contemporary family law).
In a comment on the last post describing how women have no sympathy for men who are rendered destitute by child support enforcement, Anonymous age 79 illustrated the attitude perfectly:
When I tell such stories to women, they shrug and say, “He chose to have sex with that woman and make those twin girls. Too bad. You play; you pay.”
Not many women feel otherwise. In fact, only mothers of sons reduced to poverty by these circumstances tend to have any sympathy. For most other women, the fact that a man had sex with a woman is reason enough to justify dispossessing him entirely.
Here’s an example argument:
Male: Can you believe what they did to this poor guy after his wife left him and took him for everything? He can’t even afford rent…
Female: He should have kept his pants on.
Male: But he married her!
Female: He made a baby; someone has to support the baby.
Male: There wouldn’t have been a problem if she hadn’t run off with that biker…
Female: What does that have to do with it now? She carried his child: he has to pay.
Male: But he doesn’t have enough to pay the order.
Female: Then he should get a job.
Male: He works full time.
Female: He should have kept his pants on.
And so it will go, on and on until infinity. Even if the female’s choices and behavior are the entire cause of the problem, she will never take the blame, and will be rewarded simply for being a woman. The man, on the other hand, will pay simply for being male. It is an ironclad principle of feminist dogma that the man is always guilty, which is why it is often terrible to be under a woman’s authority in a feminist culture. If something goes wrong, she will never, ever take the blame if she can pin it on the most convenient male in the vicinity. It’s a really awesome setup if you can take advantage of it. The only thing that might be a hindrance would be an objective sense of morality (as opposed to subjective or collective), but that’s no obstacle at all for most women, who either reject or are incapable of objective thought.
So, we can see that what this “victim blaming” complaint is all about is just feminists enforcing the rule that all responsibility lies squarely with men, and none with women. This is why they are willing to prevent women from hearing good advice; advice that could actually help prevent real rapes from happening. But these few rapes don’t matter nearly as much to feminists as the principal of eternal and total innocence of females in any and all situations.
From this perspective, it becomes clear that the slutwalks, the victim rhetoric, and the lies about rape culture are all based on one very simple principle: Total and eternal male guilt in all circumstances, accompanied by an entire lack of culpability on the part of women. That’s really how simple feminism is.
So remember: whenever a feminist starts talking about blame, victims or anything of the sort, she is blaming men. If you are a man, you are guilty by association.
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So you got the government to force me to pay for your birth control?
I own your pussy, hand it over now.
You’re clearly right about women being incapable of objective thought. Don’t forget that they project onto us “an inability to see both sides of the argument.”
Spot on , feminism is all about power. The ends justify their means, the power over every man is the end, and the proprietary ownership of who decides guilt is the means.
Not once have I ever heard women ask for severe brutal punishments for female rapists and pedophiles, the sole agenda is to portray men as evil , violent brutes and women as harmless, innocent angels, victims of men’s lust/power-hunger/insecurity – which in reality is a projection of their own desires to dominate men.
Feminism – the euphemism for penis envy.
I’m going to make sure my 16 year-old son reads this; thanks for taking the time to polish the argument for us.
An entire article on that subject and you never once used the term “pussy pass.” Mentula rea is, after all, a bit more eloquent. Plus you can say it at the dinner table next to your grandmother without her coughing up the broccoli casserole.
The inability of women to accept fault is only one small consequence of their psychology, which is dominated by fear. It’s also very rare for women anywhere to instinctively risk themselves physically, as in the rescue of others, as all the fatality figures will attest. It is nearly always men who die doing the heroic thing – sometimes dying to save a drowning child while its own mother looks on, seemingly helpless.
Women’s primary concern for their own security is a matter of common knowledge, but it isn’t limited to physical safety. It extends out into every facet of their lives. They also want to be insulated from emotional unpleasantness, to not have to fear even the remotest possibility of mishap, to be spared the discomfort of contradiction, to not be prosecuted for doing wrong – to not even have the suggestion that they can be wrong uttered or written where it may cause them distress.
It becomes blindingly obvious why no civilisation has ever been known in which women were the driving force.
How long can academia last when challenging feminine opinion is almost illegal? How long can justice last when female accusers and witnesses cannot be doubted, and female wrongdoers cannot be called to account? How long can commerce prosper if female performance cannot be criticised and paid in proportion to its perceived worth?
Think of every human endeavour, then think of how it would be altered if all element of risk was removed and all critical review of its performance edited so that no women could come away offended. Then stack that endeavour with women in all key positions. That’s the corrosion that is running rife through the West now and very soon will have completely consumed it. Then we will be back to the natural status quo of there being no civilization surviving where women are the driving force.
It all stems from women’s greater need for safety – their unspoken insistence on being protected and provided for, so long as those words aren’t used – and the cultural nonsense that men and women are the same.
Total and eternal male guilt in all circumstances
I believe in the feminist version of the Bible, which is right next to the Satanic version ( I don’t know, never read either, I see only one Bible and God is definitely Male), I have heard that this is the eleventh commandment in the Ten Commandments.
Maybe a woman heard God speak in the desert and felt compelled to tell him He was wrong? So she jokingly implied an eleventh commandment and all the white knights and manginas said it must be god?! Namen.
We just don’t smite them like we used to anymore do we? All the convenient stones have already been slung. I just past a male corpse a block ago in my intellectual journey so I think I know what the murder weapon was. Of course he was at fault.
Should have kept his pants on silly husband!
“It is an ironclad principle of feminist dogma that the man is always guilty, which is why it is often terrible to be under a woman’s authority in a feminist culture. If something goes wrong, she will never, ever take the blame if she can pin it on the most convenient male in the vicinity”
This. Right here. This is exactly the reason why i got fired from my job.
I had a female boss who constantly took sick days, was always leaving early and taking long lunches. A big project came in and she was no where to be found so the work fell to me. When she got back, literally 30 minutes before i finished my shift, i told her to take over because i had night school. She told me she would take care of everything. I find out a few days later there was a mega fuck up. Then i find out through gossip that she is blaming the entire thing on me etc…
Since she was the boss they came to her 1st so she could spin the story in any way she chose. Long story short i ended up losing my position there and was forcefully transferred to another department where i eventually would’ve gotten fired, had i not seen the writing on the wall and put in my resignation, because i had an “attitude problem”.
I guess you could say i had an attitude problem because i called my boss on her bullshit. I think there was a 10 week stretch where she never did a full 5 days of work in a room always missing at 1 day sometimes 2 days in a week. This leads to the issue of whether or not she was reporting her hours on the the time card correctly which senior management didn’t wanna hear.
I suppose it’s the other side of the coin. Maybe it’s a bit more accurate as there isn’t really a “pass” — someone (the man) has to pay for the violation. The pussy pass is really just shifting the blame and consequences onto men.
I find it interesting that the state is only required to provide a bare minimum of welfare support despite a citizens previous tax contributions and yet a divorced husband can’t avail himself of that right.
I was on 4chan /b/ board the other day and an anon posted a short paragraph about the difference between men and women.
Here it is:
http://i.imgur.com/v7rPH.jpg
The fact that I see so much antifeminism/promensrights on 4chan makes me smile.
When more men follow the example set by Darren Mack, perhaps then our courts and policy makers will take notice.
@Troll King
I’ve seen a few articles lately where the feminists claim “anonymous” is a militant feminist organization. Seems like wishful thinking to me on their part.
I lol’d.
So they don’t know that “anonymous” is a default name given when a poster doesn’t want to be identified?
They think that “anonymous” is some vast conspiracy across the interwebs?
Total and eternal male guilt in all circumstances, accompanied by an entire lack of culpability on the part of women. That’s really how simple feminism is.
Yes and for further clarification Feminism blames institutional patriarchy; which is rampant throughout govt, business and the home. They’ll never say “men”. It must be something intangible that can’t be fully analyzed. Like a mysterious and powerful aura that’s there, but it’s not. It’s a subtle subconscious bias or something.
Women have culpability in one regard and that’s promoting Team Woman; advances of women, equality for women, reproductive rights for women, etc. This is why Feminists HATE conservative women who speak…because they so rarely promote Team Woman.
Au contraire Keyster
Conservative women hate feminists/modern woman simply because they are doing battle over who has the most power and control of the male beasts of burden. Its a simple case of marriage 1.0 V marriage 2.0 both being a shit deal for men. The only thing on offer is slightly improved prison conditions and a pat on the head for the good boy.:
NAWALT oh really?
Bill, that dialogue gave me goosebumps….I have no idea how many times I had the identical conversation with my mother while she was sympathizing with some ‘wronged woman’ on Oprah…
Lulz. Yeah. I have seen that too. There actually is a bit of truth to it though. Anonymous is not any sort of organized group, not really anyways. You could maybe claim that it is several small groups of hackers/crackers but for the most part it is open to all. As far as the feminists, there are a few. From my understanding they were the ones who got busted and narked on the original guys involved with a number of things related to wikileaks.
But no, anon is not feminist. All with all geek heavy communities you will find a transgender here or there and a few riot grrl type “hackers” but they are such a minority that they are more like an anomoly. Hehehehe. Kinda remind me of lamestream new outlets talking about hacking websites with DDOS attacks and whatnot. It’s no surprise that feminists don’t know what they are talking about.
I wonder if there is anything on this planet that a feminist group wouldn’t take credit for if they thought it would help them somehow.
Kansas Sperm Donor Told To Pay Child Support
“(AP) – A sperm donor in Kansas is fighting an effort to force him to pay child support for a child conceived through artificial insemination by a lesbian couple. William Marotta told the Topeka Capital-Journal newspaper he’s “a little scared about where this is going to go, primarily for financial reasons.” When the 46-year-old donated sperm to Angela Bauer and Jennifer Schreiner in 2009, Marotta relinquished all parental rights, including financial responsibility to the child. But when Bauer and Schreiner filed for state assistance in Kansas this year, the state demanded the donor’s name so it could collect child support for the now 3-year-old girl.
“The state contends the agreement between Marotta and the women is not valid because Kansas law requires a licensed physician to perform artificial insemination. Bauer and Schreiner have said they fully support Marotta’s efforts to fight the state’s request. A hearing on a motion by Marotta’s attorneys to dismiss the case is scheduled for Jan. 8.”
http://www.newser.com/story/160258/kansas-to-sperm-donor-you-owe-child-support.html
Better watch out. If you say something in latin, that makes it law, right?
@sally1137
Might as well be law already.
“Women have culpability in one regard and that’s promoting Team Woman; advances of women, equality for women, reproductive rights for women, etc. ”
@Keyster , Welmer – I believe you’ve not read this ?
http://www.apa.org/monitor/dec04/women.aspx
Women love women, men love women, no one loves men. Now scientists say it – it’s official. Women are prejudiced to favor women over men.
A great article.
I too lost a job I enjoyed due to a two faced bitch who intentionally went out of her way to get myself and another man the sack,for reasons only known to herself……sad to say the manager was a female who took her story of events as the true even thought there wasn’t a case to answer.
I heard that these two females were subsequently dismissed themselves for incompetence……long runs the fox I guess.
The moral of this short story?
Never,ever trust any female within a workplace setting,no matter how approachable they initially seem……your livelihood could depend on it.
It’s also the fault of men that panels at tech conferences fail to include more women.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/13/01/a-simple-suggestion-to-help-phase-out-allmale-panels-at-tech-conferences/266837/
So, this one particular white knighting mangina suggest the idea of signing a pledge not serve on panels that fail to include women.
What a crock. I’ve been to conferences like Google IO and Apple’s WWDC, and I can tell you that the gender balance of the presenters is about the same as that of the attendees – namely, 50 to 1 male.
But, anyway, it’s apparently YOUR FAULT, engineers who’ve risen to the top of your very difficult and exacting profession, that there aren’t more women to share the spotlight.
The “blame men” phenomenon is the natural conclusion of womens’ logic, which can be boiled down to “I’ll do what I want now, and rationalize it/justify it later”.
My belief and experience is that to women there is nothing which is moral or right except that which privileges them best.
You point to mother’s being the only women who think financial enslavement of their sons is wrong.
However, I have met women who think that child support is unfair and that women are unfairly taking advantage of the system. Who are these women you ask? They are women who are dating or married to men who are paying child support. To them, child support comes directly out of the money she would be getting from her slave, er, I mean man.
That said, I agree with you. Women do not like accountability and victim blaming is only wrong when it targets women.
The real question is, “What are we going to do about it?”
The answer is, “Keep it in your pants.” No seriously. Don’t get women pregnant and if you really must have kids then make sure that you give around 50% of the child care even if you have to cut back at work. Why? Because if you don’t she will go to court and say she does everything and that all you do is give money and that’s all you should do in the future.
The last thing you want to do is try to work extra so that she can stay at home with the kids. I know of men who worked 70 hours a week to provide for their wives and then she used that as an excuse to leave him (like she needed an excuse) and then got the judge to assign child support according to the income he made working 70 hours a week. Now he has no home, no family, and he can’t ever cut back his hours because he has to pay through the nose.
I’m a firm believer that if you love a woman and want to have a life with her you have to treat her like a criminal. You have to behave in a way that insulates yourself from the most underhanded and cruel behavior a person can commit. You have to plan for the worst and hope for the best. If you plan it right then a woman will see less advantage in divorcing you. If she can’t cash out then chances are better that she won’t.
For me it’s just a crap shoot that I’m not interested in playing.
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