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July 7, 2014 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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The War on Men Hits the Mainstream Media
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I just went over to this men's rights activist conference that happened in Detroit this past weekend.
Did you?
The first annual one by A Voice for Men, which is a website whose claim to fame was publishing an article from the founder of the site calling for a month to bash bitches.
Holy shit, that's terrible.
Oh my god.
Literally drag them and abuse them.
Talking about women, obviously.
Dude, not all women are bitches.
That's fucking misogynist.
Kid, after you've got your hair cut and you've finished being a misogynist, I think you need to ask yourself a question.
Do you have all the facts?
Because I don't think you do.
I actually think that you have lied by omission here because it was bash a violent bitch month that he was advocating for.
And I'm sure you're not saying that all women are violent bitches.
He says, quote, men who are being attacked and physically abused by women to beat the living shit out of them.
Hmm.
Maybe this guy's a feminist.
Then he goes on to say, am I serious?
No, not because it's wrong.
It's not wrong.
Everyone should have the right to defend themselves.
But it isn't worth the time behind bars.
So he wasn't actually advocating for that, was he?
But don't let the truth of the matter impede your righteous social justice warrior anger.
And Fox News had on a wanted to have on a few people to talk about this.
And I suppose that people means a mixed group of men and women, because both men and women are people.
And let's hear.
Well, first of all, let's hear what Steve Doocy had to say as he promoted this upcoming segment.
And feminists are up in arms calling a men's conference a hate group, even though it included all the races and sexists.
So who are the ones being intolerant?
Well, I'm going to say Fox News, but also feminists.
Who are the ones being intolerant?
The people who can't bear to hear an opposing viewpoint?
Well, let's bring on a few people.
People, as we have already defined, includes men and women, right?
To discuss.
But they'll be led by Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
Well, there's more backlash over a men's rights conference in Detroit.
Some feminists even comparing the gathering to hosting a hate group.
So does the intolerance show there's really a feminist war on men?
I'd like to talk directly to any feminists listening to this.
Do you understand that when the mainstream media is saying, is there a feminist war on men?
Then there is a feminist war on men.
If there wasn't, the subject would never be raised.
Just like there's no one asking, is there a Republican war on chastity?
Joining us now for debate, former Miss America, Kirsten Hagelund, and Democratic strategist Serlina Maxwell.
Thanks for being here.
Thank you.
So who's the victim?
Yeah, that's the question.
It's like it's increasingly as though every group wants to be like the protected class and I'm the victim and it's my rights that are being stepped upon.
And I think when that happens, kind of you create an overreaction potentially in the other group.
And I think that's what you've seen, is that as the feminist movement has gained strength and gained certain things, men have said, well, hey, what about us?
And so there are valid concerns that they, you know, raise at this conference.
However, some of the language they use is some of the same that they accuse feminism of using that's belittling or vitriolic.
I agree with everything she just said.
A lot of the language is vitriolic, but yes, they do have legitimate concerns.
I'm amazed that anyone could get me to agree with something that was put out on Fox.
Frankly, I'm offended.
This is a voice for men, the online hub for men's rights activists.
Do you think it's hate speech, Sir Lena?
Well, I don't think it's hate speech.
The Southern Property Law Center has classified that group and men's rights groups as hate groups.
That's unreasonably reasonable.
This is Fox News, isn't it?
So I think that it's important not to scapegoat feminism and say that feminism is to blame for many of the legitimate concerns that a voice for men in other MRA groups raise, like child custody and the court system being unfair to men.
Reality has an anti-feminist bias.
But I think largely they're scapegoating feminism instead of looking at the real core of the problem, which is traditional gender roles have made it so that men are more actively engaged in child rearing and the court system needs to catch up to that reality.
This is again a really reasonable point.
I think a lot of it is actually coming from a traditionalist mindset.
But I also think that the feminists are doing everything they can to make sure the court system is weighted in their favor.
Some would argue though, and they have here on the program, that feminism is actually the cause of men having less right in the courtroom as it pertains to violence against them.
What do you believe there?
Well, I think that what you want to see is you want to see the rights of a group.
You want to see a group empowered, but not at the expense of another group.
And so I think going back to kind of an over-correction, we need to have more men that are speaking, you know, having an intellectual debate about this, are speaking with respect for women to say, hey, here's some of the things that we want to bring to the table.
Fuck me, that's a reasonable point of view.
How are you doing this, Fox News?
All right, kid, go on, say something stupid.
Yes, we need more men to speak out because they don't already have all the voice pretty much everywhere.
Did we just watch the same clip, you simpleton?
Some people say, also, that's another cute term Fox News likes to use.
These are called weasel words.
And yes, this is one of the many reasons I hate Fox News.
Please don't let that stop you from making a racist point, though.
Some people say is literally that room full of mostly white men.
But not exclusively white nor exclusively male.
At that men's rights activist conference in Detroit.
Oh, don't hold back.
Just say what you're really thinking.
At that racist, sexist, supremacist, probably genocidal meeting in Detroit.
Honestly, I think it's just good of you not to show picture upon picture of the swastikas they had lining the walls at that conference.
I mean, it's stunning.
It really is stunning.
Yeah, I suppose you would find it stunning because you seem to think that they had Hitler himself as a speaker at this conference.
It's, I mean, who are the ones?
Who are the real ones being intolerant?
The people trying to suppress other people's freedom of speech.
That's how you know who's being intolerant.
It's really hard to find a more simplistic way of explaining this.
Listen, men have a voice everywhere.
Men are not an organized group.
Feminists are.
And when a group forms to try and represent the interests of men at large, feminists organize hate campaigns against them that have Fox News saying, look, you may be going too far.
Let that sink in.
And trust me.
Even though I've lied multiple times in this one video.
Feminism and the little here and there, the specks of victories.
You know your show is called The Majority Report, don't you?
Are you perhaps talking about the feminists in government?
Or perhaps on the Supreme Court?
Or perhaps in all of the newspapers?
They are subsumed by the vast number of MRAs in superior positions of government, in superior judicial positions, and running all the papers.
Scattered all over that feminism is able to even I mean really, though.
I think when even your own production team are laughing at you, you should stop and try and get some perspective on the big picture.
I mean just coming off the Supreme Court cases that we just came out of really, though.
I mean with Hobby Lobby.
Oh yes, this is a gender issue and not a financial issue.
It's nothing to do with a corporation not wanting to pay for something they don't have to pay for and window dressing it as a religious issue.
Absolutely not.
And I mean ultimately what Hobby Lobby have done have banned birth control pills from the United States.
You can't get them from your doctor.
You can't get them off the internet.
You can't get them.
I know there is one type you can get across the counter.
But they've banned them.
They've absolutely banned them.
I think they're going after abortions next.
You better get scared.
Absolutely.
And the buffer zone.
I am also genuinely shocked that the Supreme Court actually sided in favor of freedom of speech.
What does that tell you about feminism?
And even the union case, which is mostly going to hurt women of color, who are really the biggest demographic in the home care community.
I have no idea what this is about, and I couldn't find anything on Google.
But I'm really persuaded by all the head-nodding he does.
It's really making it seem like all of his lies weren't so bad.
It's unbelievable to me that they can't have these feminists.
These feminists can't even take the small victories they have.
And say, well, that's all our goals achieved.
I mean, we've got equal pay, we've got suffrage, the court system is heavily in our favor.
Without them saying, oh, man.
Oh, man.
You mean women have to be treated equally?
You mean we have to pay them the same?
They're really hurting my rights to pay them not the same.
Citation needed.
Who's saying this, you liar?
Absolutely. I mean, just unbelievable.
Yes.
This straw man you have created out of outright lies is unbelievable.
But that's because it's not true.
Do they not realize that it was just literally decades ago that women couldn't vote?
Decades ago?
It was in 1920.
It was almost 100 years ago.
Apparently not.
Literally, literally just maybe a hundred or so years ago.
100 and such a few years ago that women were still viewed as chattel.
Bollocks.
Go on.
The property of men.
Bollocks?
Keep going.
All history stops when it inconveniences them.
It's never a truer word spoken about feminism.
Yet.
When a woman who changes her life, basically, in a relationship, let's give an example here.
A woman who decides to stay home with her husband and her and her husband decide that she should stay home, take care of the kids, and he should go work and have a career.
That guy must have a great job in this economic climate.
And then they end up getting a divorce years down the road because things didn't work out.
Since we're using specific example here, let's say she fucked the neighbor.
And because they both decided she should stay home, she doesn't have a career lined up.
Yeah, she didn't think this one through, did she?
And the law has the audacity to say that he has to pay her some money every month so she could take care of the kids.
And some money to keep her in the manner to which she is accustomed.
That's what alimony is.
Child support is money for the kids.
So it's not just some money, it's a lot of money, isn't it?
And they have a problem with that.
I mean, I don't even.
I'm like, I'm through.
I wish I could fast forward 20 years to when this guy has got married, had his wife cheat on him, and is now a broken man.
Men's rights activists are a scourge and they should be squashed.
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