Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - Do we still need feminism？
Aired: 2014-01-09
Duration: 15:00


=== Why We Still Need Feminism (12:20) ===

[00:00:04]  Good lord, I've had enough of this ghastly, feel-good, inspirational music already.
[00:00:19]  And we just don't know why they keep asking that.
[00:00:22]  I mean, how many times do we have to explain?
[00:00:24]  If you guys aren't feminists anymore, we don't have careers, and we want to keep our careers, because they make us feel good and they provide us with lots of money.
[00:00:34]  So yes, you do still need feminism.
[00:00:41]  Then why do you keep getting the answer wrong, hmm?
[00:00:54]  Actions speak louder than words, still.
[00:01:08]  Well, by any legal definition, they absolutely have.
[00:01:10]  But I think the question you're actually asking is, have we achieved parity now?
[00:01:21]  What relevance does that have?
[00:01:23]  Why are you talking like women are some sort of childish subrace of humans who need protection?
[00:01:31]  Women are not useless.
[00:01:34]  They women do not need you to look out for them.
[00:01:38]  They can take care of themselves, which was the whole point of the feminist movement, wasn't it?
[00:01:42]  Women aren't babies, they're grown adults.
[00:01:45]  They can be portrayed in any way they like, or any way someone else likes.
[00:01:49]  It's not for you to decide how other people portray you.
[00:01:53]  This is the very essence of parody.
[00:01:55]  This is the very essence of a lot of dissident political action.
[00:02:04]  My God, she's just cooked her own child.
[00:02:08]  Oh, wait, it's only a turkey.
[00:02:11]  Oh, so in fact, this actually isn't making women look evil or bad.
[00:02:18]  It's actually making women look pretty damn appealing to men.
[00:02:21]  And I tell you what, if you look at the marriage rates, men are well aware that this is bullshit.
[00:02:32]  You did a search on stock photos for women undertaking beauty treatments, didn't you?
[00:02:46]  If you didn't buy it, it wouldn't fucking be there.
[00:02:50]  You have brought this on yourselves.
[00:03:06]  I assume she refused the pile of totally unrelated cash she was paid for this.
[00:03:22]  I knew it.
[00:03:23]  So what we're saying is women can become MPs and cabinet ministers, and since Britain has had a female Prime Minister, we know they can become Prime Minister as well.
[00:03:34]  There is literally no office in the land that is closed to them.
[00:03:37]  Now, the problem we're having is a problem I've actually encountered in real life.
[00:03:41]  I have asked female colleagues and co-workers and friends and family members you know what?
[00:03:47]  You all keep saying there's not enough women in politics.
[00:03:51]  Why don't you go into politics?
[00:03:53]  And they always give me the same answer.
[00:03:56]  I don't want to.
[00:03:58]  That's the reason.
[00:04:00]  You feminists are literally going to have to form a fucking Gestapo and go around to women's houses and press-gang them into politics against their will.
[00:04:18]  My god, these jobs sound boring as shit.
[00:04:21]  I can hardly believe they can find 38 people to become Lord Justices of Appeal.
[00:04:34]  Okay, if that's true, then that is just a call for women to up their fucking game.
[00:04:40]  Women, you suck, apparently, according to the National Gallery.
[00:04:44]  Literally, you've only got 10 paintings in there, 2,300.
[00:04:48]  You need to do better.
[00:04:50]  Because at the end of the day, art is not something you can lower the barrier to entry for.
[00:04:55]  You are either a great artist or you are not.
[00:04:58]  You know, you are worthy of being in a gallery or you are not.
[00:05:02]  Your vagina will not give you a pussy pass this time.
[00:05:12]  That is an awfully specific thing to mention.
[00:05:16]  so women need to up their choreography skills as well.
[00:05:28]  I am surprised it's that high, given how little you're making it sound like women do.
[00:05:42]  Only one in five.
[00:05:44]  Those lazy bitches.
[00:05:46]  We need to start oppressing them.
[00:05:47]  Get them into the workplace.
[00:05:49]  So I want them writing about four out of five of every front page so the men can sit at home or go down the pub, have a few beers.
[00:05:57]  Fuck this.
[00:05:58]  We need to do this oppression right.
[00:06:07]  Well it's a good thing we created a Gestapo when we needed enough female MPs, because we can use that to round up some women and make them engineers now as well.
[00:06:27]  How is this an example of oppression?
[00:06:29]  I imagine that the Royal Society has never had a Japanese president either.
[00:06:34]  Is it prejudiced against the Japanese?
[00:06:43]  I imagine there are a lot of steps between undergraduate to professor.
[00:06:49]  Now, if only 6% of women get to professor level, then that means that A, they are capable of it, but it also means that, I don't know, either they are subject to massive inherent bias within academia, so that the 6% who do become professors have probably slept their way there, or they're choosing not to do it.
[00:07:15]  Well, given the feminization of academia, I think I know which one I would go for.
[00:07:27]  So what percentage of the crappy films did they direct?
[00:07:40]  If they experience sexual harassment at work, why don't they go to the police?
[00:07:46]  Is it because they aren't actually experiencing sexual harassment by any rational definition, but they are experiencing it in the same way the PIV people would consider consensual sex to be rape?
[00:08:07]  Over two women.
[00:08:09]  What, do you mean three?
[00:08:12]  And okay, that's fine.
[00:08:13]  Let's petition Parliament.
[00:08:14]  I want a law against former or current partners murdering their girlfriends.
[00:08:20]  I am willing to march with you for that one.
[00:08:35]  Well, if you don't think that we should, maybe we should create a law against it.
[00:08:40]  I mean, every man is ready to know that he can just rape a bitch whenever he wants.
[00:08:44]  So, I mean, I think this is...
[00:08:47]  I mean, I think you guys are just going bonkers now.
[00:08:47]  I mean, I think you guys are just going bonkers now.
[00:08:50]  But if you just...
[00:08:52]  If you don't want to sexually assaulting you, fine.
[00:08:56]  We'll make a law about it, and then every man in Britain will know they're not allowed to rape or sexually assault, and they won't.
[00:09:03]  That'll be the end of it.
[00:09:04]  It will never happen again.
[00:09:12]  You know there are only so many e-petitions I can create.
[00:09:16]  We are going to be standing outside of Parliament all day at this rate.
[00:09:25]  Was this not covered in the 400,000 sexual assaults a year?
[00:09:44]  Do you really honestly want to make that fucking comparison, you fucking idiots?
[00:09:52]  I mean, there is only so much I can take the piss out of before it becomes cruel.
[00:09:58]  And at this point, I think I'm being cruel.
[00:10:01]  I mean, you are literally saying that a woman is no smarter than a dog and receives less preferential treatment.
[00:10:10]  As if she is not capable of phoning the police herself.
[00:10:14]  As if she's not capable of walking out.
[00:10:15]  As if she didn't choose the partner who is abusing her.
[00:10:20]  You know what, right?
[00:10:21]  And I know this sounds crazy, but a lot of women like bad boys.
[00:10:26]  That's what they go for.
[00:10:27]  They like stress.
[00:10:29]  They like the arguments.
[00:10:31]  They like the drama.
[00:10:32]  I think it's crazy.
[00:10:33]  I'm sure you think it's crazy.
[00:10:35]  Maybe they're crazy.
[00:10:37]  But that's what they do.
[00:10:38]  But you know what?
[00:10:38]  It's their choice.
[00:10:40]  The reason the neighbours don't get involved is because they think she's the one who keeps going back to him.
[00:10:45]  You know, he gives her a black eye and then she goes right back because she can't control the little tingles she gets when she thinks of how much of a bad boy he is.
[00:10:52]  Well, fucking good for her.
[00:10:54]  Have him.
[00:10:55]  Go ahead.
[00:10:56]  It's her fucking choice.
[00:10:57]  The dog doesn't have a choice.
[00:10:59]  The dog can't phone the police.
[00:11:01]  The dog can't get out of the house.
[00:11:03]  The dog can't do anything since it's a fucking dog.
[00:11:07]  JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?
[00:11:25]  FALSE FUCKING EQUIVALENCY, ALRIGHT?
[00:11:29]  Domestic violence, as in your partner hitting you in the face, is less serious than cancer, war, malaria, or even a car accident.
[00:11:39]  It is a lot less serious.
[00:11:42]  These things kill people, and I'm sure that there are women who die from domestic violence, but it's not nearly as guaranteed as if when you get cancer, a war turning up, malaria, or you find yourself in a terrible car accident.
[00:11:56]  If you think they're the same thing, then I'm guessing you haven't experienced any of the latter.

=== Individual Experiences Misunderstood (02:50) ===

[00:12:10]  And yet I can't help but notice you protest in the one place where feminism is least needed.
[00:12:15]  The modern West.
[00:12:23]  What?
[00:12:24]  All of these were individual experiences, you fucking idiot!
[00:12:29]  Are you saying that 400,000 women got together in a fucking stadium to be sexually assaulted or something?
[00:12:35]  It wasn't a collective experience.
[00:12:37]  They were all individual experiences that happened one at a time over a complete period of time.
[00:12:44]  It wasn't just one a fucking occurrence!
[00:12:54]  Sorry, did you mean the Everyday First World Problems Project?
[00:12:58]  Such as men taking up too much space on the train, or I need feminism because a person didn't think I was going to be an engineer, even though you have already proven in this video that only one in ten engineers are a woman.
[00:13:10]  Ah, right, that's important.
[00:13:17]  Hmm, that is terrible.
[00:13:19]  Hmm.
[00:13:23]  That's terrible too.
[00:13:24]  Japan has got a lot to answer for.
[00:13:29]  Yeah.
[00:13:30]  Get an abortion or resign.
[00:13:32]  That's awful.
[00:13:33]  Just awful.
[00:13:34]  Yeah, no, that's terrible too.
[00:13:37]  Awful.
[00:13:41]  And that is genuinely worrying.
[00:13:43]  I mean, it says a lot about our society as a whole, really.
[00:13:48]  Again, just terrible.
[00:14:00]  Well...
[00:14:03]  Screamed.
[00:14:05]  I don't believe you.
[00:14:07]  I don't believe there are a bunch of oxygenarians standing around pressuring an old woman with sex.
[00:14:13]  Yeah, that's...
[00:14:17]  Oh, God.
[00:14:22]  Probably was.
[00:14:23]  No, no, sorry, no, no, no.
[00:14:30]  Despite the fact that they are completely able to report it.
[00:14:43]  Again, legally, no.
[00:14:46]  Men definitely get the worst of it.
[00:14:51]  No, the answer's still no.
[00:14:54]  But again, not in the West, anyway.
[00:14:56]  I don't know.
[00:14:57]  You guys, carry on being as batchy insane as you like.