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Jan. 28, 2015 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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Sexual Terrorism
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Oh this doesn't sound a larmist at all.
Sexism is making women sick.
You know, I think I know which idiot wrote this.
Well I will try and contain my surprise.
Evidence shows that violent and harassing environments can lead to mental illness.
Why would women exposed to daily misogyny be any different?
Oh why indeed?
Why wouldn't they?
I mean daily misogyny.
It's everywhere Jessica.
It's everywhere.
It's all around you.
I don't know how you cope.
Sexism is certainly nauseating.
The disgusting leers on the street, the discrimination, the violence, but those everyday expressions of misogyny could seriously be impacting our mental health as well.
Well, it's nice to hear you finally admit it.
A study published this month in the journal Sex Rolls reveals some of the sexism women face, from cat calling and sexual harassment to sexual objectification and violence.
And it makes women generally more fearful and anxious.
Well, I suppose we'd better take a look at this study then, hadn't we?
Understanding the relationships among white and African American women's sexual objectification experiences, physical safety anxiety and psychological distress.
Wait a minute.
This is about their fucking opinion, isn't it?
This is asking them, how are you feeling today?
Okay, well I am ready to listen and believe a woman's lived experiences for science.
So in 2009 approximately 17% of people in the US experienced a violent crime.
Men experienced more robberies and aggravated assaults, but women were more likely to experience rape or sexual assault.
No great surprises there.
Thus physical safety concerns are likely a relevant stressor for women, and these concerns may be especially salient for black slash African American women.
Well no great surprises there either.
This is after all a gender studies paper.
Feminists have argued that men utilise rape and sexual assault as a form of social control which ultimately maintains a patriarchal social order.
This is where the patriarchy becomes a conspiracy theory.
Men utilise rape and sexual assault as a form of social control to maintain the patriarchy.
That's fucking retarded.
Not only that, you're speaking to men's motivations, of which you clearly have no idea.
As evidence to this assertion though, sexist attitudes towards women are related to greater rape myth acceptance and rape proclivity amongst British and US men.
Which in and of itself is probably true.
Sexist people are probably more inclined to rape people.
And apparently, men who hold sexist beliefs are also likely to possess racist attitudes and racism is long associated with rape myth acceptance.
I've got no doubts.
I mean, why wouldn't it be?
And naturally, taken together, these findings suggest that sexism and racism are accomplices in maintaining a patriarchal Western society and sexual victimization is one way in which that goal is accomplished.
I mean, I disagree.
I personally think that this is so batshit insane that only an academic feminist could have written it.
This is to presume that men are somehow in cahoots, like there is a plan to maintain a quote-unquote patriarchal Western society.
But not only that, a patriarchal Western society, the greatest evil, that uses sexual victimization as one way to accomplish this goal.
That's right, you heard me.
Goal.
This is a goal that the patriarchal men of the West have been aspiring to.
It's amazing that women have got any rights at all.
Frederiksen and Roberts asserted that routine and persistent experiences of sexual objectification may also induce physical safety concerns among women because such experiences carry an implicit threat of rape.
How does an experience carry a threat of anything?
But not only that, I think what you mean is these guys are threatening implicitly to rape the woman that they're catcalling.
I'm not one for catcalling, but I'm pretty sure that it doesn't involve rape threats.
But okay, so they're trying to figure out just how threatened and afraid women are in the United States.
Women's fear of crime and sexual terrorism.
Well, why wouldn't the patriarchy use sexual terrorism?
For years, researchers have investigated physical safety and anxiety, and in particular, why some individuals fear crime more than others.
Researchers repeatedly revealed that gender, of course gender, is one of the strongest correlates of fear and crime amongst US citizens.
Across crimes that involve face-to-face contact, women consistently demonstrate far greater fear of crime than men.
Which is not surprising at all because women have this thing called feminism, which turns them into weak, pathetic victims.
You must be afraid at all times.
Maybe if men had something called meninism to put a constant fear of violence into men, then they would also be afraid all the time.
But since they don't, this research finding is paradoxical, considering that men are more likely to experience most forms of crime with the exceptions of rape and sexual assault.
That's right, men are more likely to be murdered, and yet they fear it less than women fear being raped.
I really do think it is time to start meninism and obsess constantly about the bad things that can happen in the world.
That's the only way for us to feel better about anything.
Seriously, just like feminism.
In other words, the ever-present fear of rape is one reason why women may be more fearful of crime than men.
Okay, why not?
Why the hell not?
Sheffield coined the term sexual terrorism to describe horrendous acts of violence against women that are enacted by men to maintain a dominant patriarchal society.
Yet to do that.
They're not enacted for any other reason.
They're done because men are thinking, well, society is becoming a little less patriarchal and domineering than it was yesterday.
I think I have to go and rape a bitch.
Jason, Jason, come here.
Have you noticed that we're being slightly less patriarchal than usual?
You know what, Frank, I have.
You don't think that, ah yes, we're on the same page, time for a raping.
But Sheffield goes on to expand on their insane conspiracy theory by saying, sexual terrorism operates at several different levels.
Dichotomizing women into good bad e.g. Madonna Whore categories, producing fear via degrading music, television, films, etc., and legitimizing those who perpetrate violence against women.
Are you fucking kidding me?
So now the fact that there are good and bad women in the world, the fact that there are sexy women in films, television, in movies, in music, and there are apparently people who are legitimized by perpetrating violence against women somewhere around in this patriarchy.
These are all part of some grand patriarchal conspiracy that men in the West are taking part in.
What kind of fucking insanity is this?
But once you've accepted all of these insane things as being true, then these widespread acts of sexual terrorism, widespread acts of sexual fucking terrorism, send a clear message that all women are potential victims of violent sexual acts.
Yeah, yeah, they are.
They are all potential victims of these violent sexual acts because the patriarchy wants to remind them of this constantly.
And all men are participating in this as well.
Sorry, all men apart from those male feminists.
God bless their souls.
And the threat or actuality of sexual victimization serves to restrict women's freedom in the world.
And this is a significant stressor for women, of course.
I mean, they aren't free, they are oppressed.
This is how women are oppressed in the West.
I mean, I know it looks to everyone around that women are completely free and they're working and they're getting on with their lives and they're strong, independent women, but in fact they are completely oppressed by the patriarchy because the patriarchy is some giant magical fucking structure that can't be defeated.
And of course, research has suggested that women are more likely than men to constrain their behaviours, and women's fear of rape is related to increased constrained behaviours, as if that is some sort of bad thing, constraining your behaviour.
If anything, I think men could learn something about constraining their fucking behaviour.
But of course, these are the subtle methods by which the patriarchy controls and oppresses women.
There is just no escape from this.
I can see why women want to tear down the patriarchy because in their minds, it's terrifying.
I can totally see why the patriarchy would be the most terrifying thing one could imagine.
So what exactly is the result of all this sexual terrorism?
Whether or not a woman has been raped, she ultimately bears the scar tissue of a socio-cultural context where rape is epidemic.
In addition, the rampant sexual objectification of women, an act of sexual terrorism, may heighten women's fears of incurring physical and sexual harm.
So whether she has been raped or not, whether she has been harmed or not, these fucking lunatics are treating every woman as if she had been raped, and as if she has got that fear of rape in her mind, whether she knows it or not.
Fucking hell, talk about taking away women's agency.
So what was the conclusion of this study?
Well, what do you think?
Results from a path analysis supported the relevance of sexual objectification experiences in women's physical safety concerns and psychological distress, but revealed some group differences that deserve further exploration.
Well, I can't say that I'm surprised.
If I enjoyed the sort of deranged worldview that academic feminists enjoy, I would be terrified too.
Lucky for them, the patriarchy isn't fucking real.
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