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Sept. 20, 2016 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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This week over 900 University of Pennsylvania female students came together to release an open letter to all complicit in rape culture at their school.
I don't mean to jump in too early here, chap, but do you really think you know enough about this subject to begin talking about it?
Seriously though, I would love to know who put you up to this, because I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that you didn't choose to talk about this yourself.
A complex set of beliefs that encourage male sexual aggression and supports violence against women.
It is a society where violence is seen as sexy and sexuality as violence.
Sounds like a good Friday night to me.
And let's be clear, there's no lack of consent in that either.
Also, what is with this faggy music?
Do you think you do some sort of African charity aid work for starving children?
In a rape culture, women perceive a continuum of threatened violence that ranges from sexual remarks to sexual touching to rape itself.
I don't know where women against violence got the definition of rape culture from, but it wasn't feminists in academia who were quick to point out that rape culture does not include sexual violence or rape.
It's the normative attitudes surrounding sex that are the issue here.
Rape culture is also a topic I should not be covering on the show.
Finally, we can agree on something.
Yes, I don't think you know enough to talk about this subject.
I mean, that's the only reason you're thinking that you couldn't possibly do this show, right?
I mean, you're just sat there thinking, well, I simply haven't educated myself on the subject.
It's no other reason, is it?
Are you freaking kidding me?
I'm gonna man-splain rape culture?
That's right.
You're not going to mansplain rape culture, are you?
You're going to take the term mansplain seriously, and you're actually going to do this, aren't you?
You're gonna say, look, a woman should be talking about rape culture.
As if a man can't open a feminist book and read about rape culture from the mouth of a feminist.
Oh no, no, no, no.
You're too male.
You were born wrong, buddy.
I mean, look, looking, you clearly were born wrong.
I'm so sorry.
But are you honestly going to pull a young Turks and get a token woman up here to talk about this for you?
Oh, yeah, that's a good career move.
Naomi, I need your help!
Do you know what a caste system is?
Because I think you're about to find out.
I'll probably fast forward a bit through the comedy that you're about to see.
But trust me, you'll thank me later.
Just like your father, I too am now disappointed in you.
Between 20 and 25% of women are sexually assaulted at college.
Holy shit.
American men must be monsters.
80 to 90% of them don't report it for a number of troubling reasons.
The thing I find most troubling is that you think you know how many women have been sexually assaulted and didn't report it.
How do you think you know that?
How do you think you know that?
I know how you think you know that.
You think you know that because some feminist social scientist will have gone around to her feminist friends, passed around a little internet questionnaire that the sort of people who want to fill that out to have their voice known will fill out.
Basically what I'm saying is you can't trust statistics like this at all.
One of which is not wanting to be victim blamed for their assault.
What is it?
The 1950s?
Don't they have enough women's support centers and universities?
I mean, it's only that every single fucking one has one.
And it's not like there isn't a wealth of feminist propaganda saying, hey, you can report this.
And you know what, right?
That's a good thing.
I was dicking my wife who trying to do my purpose to show myself a public paper and make it sound like I write.
So it wasn't my fault.
So I'm still going to hate them.
According to the site, Everyday Feminism...
According to Everyday Feminism...
Oh, come on, nigga.
Let's hear it.
In fact, you know what?
No, listen, right?
Before we go any further, I feel like I should tell you.
Everyday Feminism is a site so remedial, I don't use articles from their site in my videos.
They're just simply not worth it.
They are the lowest of low-hanging fruit.
Let me give you some examples.
What it's like to have the perfect panic attack.
Seven ways white Jews can do better by the movement for black lives.
Six important reasons that food is a political issue.
Dear Latinx, let's check our privilege.
Seven fantastic tips from youth on how to teach and talk about racism.
Teach racism.
How white Americans' hatred of racism actually supports racism instead of solving it.
Why we need gender-neutral language for abortion access.
Four reasons it's oppressive to discuss gender and sexuality without naming race.
The trauma of mental illness when your abuser isn't real.
Not everyone's as ripped as Ken.
Why these toys need a body image makeover?
Four reasons why penis size shaming is anti-feminist.
What everyone needs to know but is afraid to ask about fat sex.
And my personal favorite, I was taught to be proud of my tight Asian pussy.
Here's why I wish I hadn't been.
So with this context in mind, do tell me what everyday feminism has to say.
When we're taught that an entire gender exists purely to satisfy others' needs, it dehumanizes millions of people and it's very difficult to have empathy for someone that you don't view as a real person.
That is literally as off the wall as I was expecting.
Men are taught that women aren't people.
That's what everyday feminism is telling you and you are literally parroting this as if this is something that you consider a credible thing to read.
I mean, do you think that we're taught that women aren't people?
That women just exist to serve men?
I mean, we're not living in the Middle East, you fucking loon.
Yeah.
No!
Come on, man!
Come on!
Think about what you've just fucking read out there.
Unless you are currently parodying feminism in such an effective way that I can't spot it.
No!
Our societal objectification of women allows for us to normalize and make excuses for the pervasive and unaccountable sexual assaults committed against them.
What are you fucking talking about?
Did you not pay attention to California's yes means yes law that effectively criminalizes men until the woman says he's not a criminal?
Dee, are you not paying attention?
Of course you're not paying attention.
Why am I even asking?
This is rape culture in America.
Not to be confused with rape culture in America, which is also horrifying.
Somebody needs to report that shit.
Rape culture permeates our entire society.
What, even kindergartens?
It's misogynist images in pop culture.
Because sex sells and women make stacks of cash.
Carry on.
It's street harassment.
Yeah, I hear it's uh a real epidemic.
I hear it's terrible.
I hear it's like the worst thing that ever happens to a woman ever.
God, how did she make it out of this alive?
It's athletes charged with rape, calling their victims career destroyers.
Holy shit, are you serious, you little tubby sack of lard?
Athletes charged with rape.
Are they convicted with rape?
I don't know.
Why don't we ask Rolling Stone?
Let's phone them up and see if anyone's been charged with rape lately.
Maybe we can get a good story about them being charged with rape.
It's not believing the survivors of sexual assault.
Oh, yeah, because we should just believe everything a woman says at face value.
Because, I mean, a woman would never lie, would she?
No woman has ever lied before, have they?
It's defining womanhood as submissive and sexually passive.
Bit of a one-dimensional portrayal of women's sexuality, don't you think?
Not that I would expect you to know anything about women's sexuality, but that's another story.
It's defining manhood as dominant and sexually aggressive, which is a definition I completely don't agree with.
Which correlates closely to your inability to fulfill that role.
Not that I'm sure there's any causation there.
I define manhood as lazy with a touch of depression, because that's what I am, and I'm a man.
Fuck!
Are you a man, though?
And I'm not trying to be mean, but you've just defined man as a gender role.
I mean, we know that being a man is a gender role.
Being a male is a biological sex.
And you've just defined man as a gender role that you don't adhere to.
So can you really call yourself a man?
Are you sure that you're not some sort of gender-fluid demi-quiff or something?
And don't get me wrong, I've got absolutely no problem with that, but just let's be specific.
Being a man is already a role, and you've just said you're not it.
Seriously, what is it you think you're parodying here?
Because it's not manhood, is it?
It's your inability to live up to any kind of standards.
And the thing is, you don't even need to do anything, really.
You just need to stop being such a cuck.
The University of Pennsylvania women wrote the open letter in part in response to a sexually vile party invitation poem emailed from the Oz fraternity to several female freshmen.
Don't tell me.
It reads, Don't bother wearing clothes, ladies, just come pre-lubed.
Who then posted it all over campus, explaining that this is what rape culture looks like, and we are watching.
Yep, that's totally not creepy.
This is what it says.
And trust me, I would rather read Donald Trump's Art of the Deal to Che Guevara compared to this.
Don't worry, buddy, we got you.
Virtue signalled.
Broadcast loud and clear.
You are not endorsing this message, even though these words are coming out of your mouth.
Don't worry, we all understand.
Nobody is going to take your testicles away from you.
Because it'd be really difficult to find them.
Here goes.
Ladies, the year is now upon us.
May we have your attention, please.
We're looking for the fun ones and say fuck off to a tease.
Wednesday nights will get you going with bankers flowing all night.
Tonight is your first showing, so please wear something tight.
Look at that face.
Look how theatrical that face is.
Alright, dad, we know that it's naughty.
It's a bit risky.
People are- Ooh, look at this.
Oh, my God.
It sounds like something from a carry-on movie.
Dude, it's clearly tongue-in-cheek, and I don't think it means we are going to gang rape you.
It's not really Shakespeare, I guess.
And I looked up bankers on Urban Dictionary.
It means a woman a man knows he can hook up with if the one he's trying for doesn't come through.
It's a woman a man thinks he can bank on having sex with.
I can see this as a concept you're not familiar with.
Yeah, this is great.
And you're going to tell me rape culture isn't real?
Dude, if that's the example you're going to make a big song and dance about, I'm going to say that rape culture really isn't that much of a big deal.
If you don't want to go to these places and suffer from rape culture, you don't have to.
Well, you obviously wouldn't be invited, but attractive women don't have to go there.
They don't have to do this.
What you neo-Puritans don't seem to understand is that this is titillation.
This is a bit of fun.
This is something that the humans have been doing for thousands of years.
It's called...
Oh, I need a drum at home.
Flirting.
That's right.
This is as mundane as that.
This is courtship.
Human courtship.
I know you fucking lunatics don't understand this, but this is what normal people do to signal to the opposite sex that they are interested.
We're okay with stuff like this?
Yes, we are okay with stuff like this.
And if an individual woman is not okay with stuff like this, she won't go.
Grow up!
We need to acknowledge this and move forward!
Jesus Christ, Buzz Killington.
Alright, granddad, sorry.
The kids are out having a good time and they didn't run it by you first.
Don't have a myocardinal infarction for Christ's sake.
We'll put a curfew on them.
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