Link to the article here.
Hi ho blog friends. Just another quick look into our patriarchal rape culture, yes our culture, the one we inflict on the female folk.
“Sam Smethers says that the minority of people who hold these views have “a drag effect on our society, [and] are holding us all back with their hostile, negative attitudes”.
She adds that blame culture prevails because “it’s what’s been normalised in our culture: that women fundamentally are the ones responsible”.
She says people have got to “understand that it’s nothing to do with what the woman wears or how she behaves – it’s all about what the perpetrator does”.
Yeah. Bald faced injustice like this has been going on for years and is certainly seems like we’re still in the naming the problem phase. So much more work is required to de-normalize this mode of thinking in our society. Fix your family first then your friends, the transmission of patriarchal norms stops with you.
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11 comments
July 8, 2017 at 2:06 pm
bleatmop
What I don’t get is how people even deny that we live in a rape culture. 41% of men who think rape is not their fault if they prey on someone who is drunk and wearing a short skirt is horrifying. If nearly half of men thinking rape is ok isn’t a culture then I don’t know what is.
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July 8, 2017 at 7:40 pm
john zande
“If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside … without cover, and the cats come to eat it … whose fault is it, the cats’ or the uncovered meat’s? The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab [the headdress worn by some Muslim women], no problem would have occurred.”
You can thank Sheik Taj Aldin al-Hilali for that brain fart.
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July 9, 2017 at 8:27 am
The Arbourist
@bleatmop
Now imagining inhabiting the segment of the population that has to deal with the reality of this threat and what it does to your worldview and personal aspirations. :(
Why would those who benefit from said culture even bother to examine what said culture is doing?
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July 9, 2017 at 8:30 am
The Arbourist
@JZ
Among the things that infuriate me is the glad-handed smug as shit culural lockstep religion and patriarchy have in our culture. They reinforce and bolster each others bullshit all the time.
Show me a religion that doesn’t intrinsically demean women – you’d have to throw out 98 percent of what is currently out there, right off the bat. :/
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July 11, 2017 at 1:39 pm
Sam Rosenbalm
I am so fucking sick of identity politics and the centre-left (fake left) infatuation with them. The virtue-signalling, bourgeois-splaining, gated white community shitbags who perpetuate will meet their end soon enough. Not only do you deceive potential leftists into forsaking dialectically sound Marxian theory, you lure them into the bottomless pit of liberal, neo-capitalist-reformism. This says absolutely nothing about what you’re doing to everyone else. You’re a veritable reactionary making machine to boot.
Stop focusing on symptom. The problem is capitalism – strike at the source of inequality rather than focusing only on issues that appeal to personal emotion.
The left-wing and the right-wing in the first world are nothing more than the left and right hand of big capital. These people are elbow to elbow with one another, playing golf, sipping latte, while the working classes – because of their rhetoric – pelt one another in the streets. Working class solidarity is impossible. Identity politics and liberalism serve only to preclude proletarian revolution. I promise you one thing: when the revolution finally comes, these overprivleged, gated white community, virtue signalling “moral vanguards” will become intimately equated with the redemptive power of forced communal farm labour.
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July 11, 2017 at 1:45 pm
Sam Rosenbalm
*acquainted
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July 11, 2017 at 2:56 pm
The Arbourist
@Sam Rosenbalm
*blinks* – Checks the OP to confirm that this is a post about patriarchal attitudes and norms in society, looks at comment. wth?
Men have been treating women like shit, on both the left and the right, for years. This post deals with the notion raised that the men polled think that women are responsible for their rapes.
This notion is ingrained in the structures of society, and continue to ill inform men about the humanity of women.
No amount of egalitarian persiflage fixes rape-culture and the objectification and commodification of women. What is required is the changing of the structures of society that perpetuate patriarchy.
I work toward changing the status-quo, and this blog is but one facet of my endeavour of putting an end to patriarchy. If the liberation of women doesn’t fit into your ‘marxist-theory’ then said theory isn’t worth the paper its printed on.
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July 12, 2017 at 9:27 am
Sam Rosenbalm
Yes, it’s true that women have not been treated as equal to men throughout history. I am not opposed to feminism. What I am opposed to is the new-left, new-wave approach to social justice in general, because the dialectic is rooted in neo-capitalism and inherently reformist approach to systemic inequality in a very class-ignorant way.
It’s terms like “rape culture”, “white privilege”, “people of colour”, etc are crude, divisive, hyper-emotional sweeping generalizations that amount to little more than virtue signalling by overprivileged, petty bourgeois, gated-white community, self-imposed moral vanguards. It is doing a tremendous amount of damage to working class communities.
If the purpose was to start a dialogue with working people towards the goal of mass-action, social justice, and the general strike, then I would understand. I, too, want an end to these forms of oppression – for all everyone. Are we trying to take over the proverbial plantation, or are we trying to abolish it?
Under a socialist vanguard, education will be emphasized above all else, the people will be mobilized one along side the other (hyper-democracy), and the scales will drop like flies. Don’t put the cart before the horse.
Capitalist oligarchs. They’re the problem. No fixy. No reformy. Kill them all.
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July 12, 2017 at 10:52 am
The Arbourist
@Sam Rosenbalm
We don’t do much of that here as the view points expressed here are grounded in the second wave of feminism – radical feminist theory and praxis.
If one cannot name the problem, then the process of analysis, deconstruction, and revolution cannot begin.
A worthy goal. Not bringing down the structures that create some of the imbalances, patriarchy and the sex oppression that comes with it, makes said goal mythical at best, pyrrhic at worst.
Viva la Revolution? Hard and stark choices, the population isn’t ready for.
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July 12, 2017 at 11:33 am
bleatmop
ITT – Sam Rosenbalm Alienating allies one shitpost at a time with his misdirected anger. Also, Arb being as cordial as ever.
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July 12, 2017 at 3:03 pm
Sam Rosenbalm
I’m not trying to alienate allies or shitpost- it’s merely a critique of the modern left. I can appreciate the fact that my posts were absurdly generalist, overly straightforward and lacking refinement. The frustration I showed was hasty, not very well thought out and, in fairness, directed more towards the new left in general and a broad observation of this site itself rather than this one particular thread.
I do believe in naming the problem. I do support some forms of identity politics inasmuch as they entail oppressed people themselves at the forefront of the movement (such as BLM). What I do not support is the establishment… whether it be the centre-left: reformers using identity politics, revisionist or non-marxist ideology, divisive language, the practice of throwing all whites (even poor whites) into some collective circle of collective guilt when they themselves are silver-spoon fed, bourgeois-splaining, gated white community, virtue signalling fucktards…nor do I support the right-wing, selling reactionism, religiosity, and hatred to poor white workers and rural Americans.
This is a political, systemic, socially engineered dynamic the purpose of which is the perpetuation of proletarian disunity and class-ignorance. Seeing otherwise intelligence, honest leftists regurgitation psuedo-left establishment talking points with no appreciation of nuance or mention let alone recognition of CLASS WARFARE is something that makes me hostile. I mean no disrespect.
As for the thread itself. I disagree with the choice of terminology – I feel it’s particularly unhelpful and will cause anyone outside the proverbial “choir” to shut down completely. I do not disagree that this is a big problem. The poll is sickening and disgusting and as a biological male I’m embarrassed by it.
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