[TW] Canadian feminist activist receives rape threats, death threats and other abuse after being targeted by Men’s Rights Activists
(manboobz.com) – And so the MRAs have found yet another woman to hate.
Earlier this month, as many of you no doubt know, a Men’s Rights group sponsored a lecture at the University of Toronto. The event drew protesters, and the protesters drew MRAs with video cameras. One of the MRAs filmed a confrontation between a red-haired feminist activist and a number of MRAs who continually interrupted her as she tried to read a brief statement.
Her crime? She wasn’t exactly polite in responding to the interrupters. And so, after video of the confrontation was uploaded to YouTube, and linked to on the Men’s Rights subreddit and elsewhere, she became a virtual punching bag for the angry misogynists of the internet.
A Voice for Men, naturally, led the charge, running an article by Canadian MRA Dan Perrins labeling her “Little red frothing fornication mouth” and commenting on her breasts. The Amazing Atheist weighed in with a video I couldn’t bring myself to even watch.
Since being targeted by angry YouTube misogynists and MRAs, the red-haired activist has received death threats, rape threats and literally hundreds of other hateful and harassing messages. She’s also been “doxxed” — that is, she’s had her personal information plastered all over the internet, including on A Voice for Men’s forum. Ten days after being uploaded to YouTube, the video of her faceoff against the MRAs has garnered more than 300,000 views, and YouTubers are still leaving threats and insults and crude sexual comments.
This, apparently, is what “Men’s Human Rights Activism” consists of: the doxxing and harassment of individual women.
There are screen caps of several of the messages she has been receiving under the read more link.
Be warned, several of them are very triggering. This kind of thing needs to see the light of day, though, as MRAs like to pretend that this doesn’t happen.
THIS NEEDS MORE FUCKING NOTES
Any motherfucker who tries to defend the Men’s Rights Movement to me will be reminded of situations like this and others.
Because if a woman DARES to debate a man and tells him to rightfully shut the fuck up so she can get a fucking sentence out? MRAs respond with SEXIST names ( little red frothing fornication mouth??? ) and slurs, threaten her with rape and death, and release her private information to unknown and unstable individuals and groups.
LITERALLY their only problem with this woman was that she tried to debate some of them and got mad when they wouldn’t let her speak. She didn’t threaten them, tell them to get raped or anything else. She tried to make a fucking statement and told them to shut the fuck up for a second. THAT”S IT.
That’s what MRAs believe is deserving of such vile, violent, and dehumanizing behavior.
So, no, I do not give a fuck about the “poor menz” and I will continue not to give a fuck until I see the majority of men in this world slap behavior like this down and slap it down loudly, and publicly.
I am so sick of your fucking bullshit, men. SICK OF IT. Between this and the recent bout of teenage rape victims killing themselves because people continue to harass them with VIDEOS AND PHOTOS of their rapes while simultaneously telling them they were NOT raped?? I AM DONE.
I AM FUCKING DONE.
Don’t look at me. Don’t talk to me. I hate you.
A clear and particularly vile example of the truth of the statement that the noisiness of women who speak up is judged in comparison to silence.
[TW] Canadian feminist activist receives rape threats, death threats and other abuse after being targeted by Men’s Rights Activists
(manboobz.com) – And so the MRAs have found yet another woman to hate.
Earlier this month, as many of you no doubt know, a Men’s Rights group sponsored a lecture at the University of Toronto. The event drew protesters, and the protesters drew MRAs with video cameras. One of the MRAs filmed a confrontation between a red-haired feminist activist and a number of MRAs who continually interrupted her as she tried to read a brief statement.
Her crime? She wasn’t exactly polite in responding to the interrupters. And so, after video of the confrontation was uploaded to YouTube, and linked to on the Men’s Rights subreddit and elsewhere, she became a virtual punching bag for the angry misogynists of the internet.
A Voice for Men, naturally, led the charge, running an article by Canadian MRA Dan Perrins labeling her “Little red frothing fornication mouth” and commenting on her breasts. The Amazing Atheist weighed in with a video I couldn’t bring myself to even watch.
Since being targeted by angry YouTube misogynists and MRAs, the red-haired activist has received death threats, rape threats and literally hundreds of other hateful and harassing messages. She’s also been “doxxed” — that is, she’s had her personal information plastered all over the internet, including on A Voice for Men’s forum. Ten days after being uploaded to YouTube, the video of her faceoff against the MRAs has garnered more than 300,000 views, and YouTubers are still leaving threats and insults and crude sexual comments.
This, apparently, is what “Men’s Human Rights Activism” consists of: the doxxing and harassment of individual women.
There are screen caps of several of the messages she has been receiving under the read more link.
Be warned, several of them are very triggering. This kind of thing needs to see the light of day, though, as MRAs like to pretend that this doesn’t happen.
THIS NEEDS MORE FUCKING NOTES
Any motherfucker who tries to defend the Men’s Rights Movement to me will be reminded of situations like this and others.
Because if a woman DARES to debate a man and tells him to rightfully shut the fuck up so she can get a fucking sentence out? MRAs respond with SEXIST names ( little red frothing fornication mouth??? ) and slurs, threaten her with rape and death, and release her private information to unknown and unstable individuals and groups.
LITERALLY their only problem with this woman was that she tried to debate some of them and got mad when they wouldn’t let her speak. She didn’t threaten them, tell them to get raped or anything else. She tried to make a fucking statement and told them to shut the fuck up for a second. THAT”S IT.
That’s what MRAs believe is deserving of such vile, violent, and dehumanizing behavior.
So, no, I do not give a fuck about the “poor menz” and I will continue not to give a fuck until I see the majority of men in this world slap behavior like this down and slap it down loudly, and publicly.
I am so sick of your fucking bullshit, men. SICK OF IT. Between this and the recent bout of teenage rape victims killing themselves because people continue to harass them with VIDEOS AND PHOTOS of their rapes while simultaneously telling them they were NOT raped?? I AM DONE.
I AM FUCKING DONE.
Don’t look at me. Don’t talk to me. I hate you.
A clear and particularly vile example of the truth of the statement that the noisiness of women who speak up is judged in comparison to silence.
Ugh, I feel so guilty about making this about me. I feel so bad for the victims, their families and friends, for the runners, for everyone near by, for the citizen of Boston who have now joined the ranks of a city under terrorist attack, with all the perpetual fear and uncertainty that it entails. The marathon, and the city and people of Boston, will never be the same. But I feel this big ball of combined grief and anxiety now. Can I walk outside? Can I cross streets? Should I wear my black scarf? Feh.
Ugh, I feel so guilty about making this about me. I feel so bad for the victims, their families and friends, for the runners, for everyone near by, for the citizen of Boston who have now joined the ranks of a city under terrorist attack, with all the perpetual fear and uncertainty that it entails. The marathon, and the city and people of Boston, will never be the same. But I feel this big ball of combined grief and anxiety now. Can I walk outside? Can I cross streets? Should I wear my black scarf? Feh.
Ugh, I feel so guilty about making this about me. I feel so bad for the victims, their families and friends, for the runners, for everyone near by, for the citizen of Boston who have now joined the ranks of a city under terrorist attack, with all the perpetual fear and uncertainty that it entails. The marathon, and the city and people of Boston, will never be the same. But I feel this big ball of combined grief and anxiety now. Can I walk outside? Can I cross streets? Should I wear my black scarf? Feh.
I like Homeland. I like that it’s not portraying Islam as the contributing factor behind Brody’s evil actions. But I can’t help but feel it’s missed a few opportunities.
There are four main terrorist characters that we’ve seen: Abu Nazir, Brody, Roya, and Tom Walker. And yes, Brody is a terrorist. You cannot ask us for more than a decade to call out and reject any sign of terrorism in our people and then not expect us to be able to identify it. He went into a chamber filled with people while wearing a suicide vest and pressed the trigger. He was going to kill many people, including himself, some innocent, some not, but even had they all been war criminals, neither Islam nor American law condones execution at the hands of a vigilante. He is a terrorist and in no way represents my religion.
Oh, but his defenders will say that he was held under supreme psychological torture and then saw with his own eyes what havoc America wreaks. Yes. Under what conditions do they think real, living terrorists are made?
So yes, Brody is a terrorist, and somehow, as a white male, the only one of the four main terrorists to be portrayed in a sympathetic light and given any justification. Even Abu Nazir, who at first seems to define the very stereotype of terrorist leader. Before the death of Isah, he had already been anti-American and could have been for a great many reasons, including the invasion of Iraq, Al Qaeda type ideologies, etc. But which was it? Did he see other people die at the hands of America? Could he have been–gasp–humanized in some way?
Tom Walker deserved much more explanation than he got. Presumably there was no other boy, no other Isah-equivalent, for Abu Nazir to use to win his sympathy. Then? Total coincidence that the second of two main Black characters (the first of whom was the sycophantic, always wrong David Estes) was an American marine who was so easily brainwashed by terrorists we didn’t even see how it happened?
The biggest opportunity Homeland missed, though, and one for which I would have handwaved away the others is when we finally focused on Roya. We had her at the interrogation table! For a brief moment, she even pretended to have fallen down the same hole Brody did, but quickly and cruelly denied that. What, then, did it take for this (presumably Western-)educated woman to help Abu Nazir? What would make her give up her freedom and conscience to help bring about a world which Abu Nazir wanted, one for which there would be no place for the Roya as we know her. Did she see her own family killed? Does she carry very strict religious beliefs within her? Does she the injustices committed by the US and want to retaliate? Has she, even as a citizen in the West, always felt an outsider? This wouldhave been the besttime to show how some of the most dangerous Islamic terrorists are made, sympathizers who have grown up in the West and can easily move about without raising (too much) suspicion, as opposed to US soldiers caught and brainwashed.
I like Homeland. I like that it’s not portraying Islam as the contributing factor behind Brody’s evil actions. But I can’t help but feel it’s missed a few opportunities.
There are four main terrorist characters that we’ve seen: Abu Nazir, Brody, Roya, and Tom Walker. And yes, Brody is a terrorist. You cannot ask us for more than a decade to call out and reject any sign of terrorism in our people and then not expect us to be able to identify it. He went into a chamber filled with people while wearing a suicide vest and pressed the trigger. He was going to kill many people, including himself, some innocent, some not, but even had they all been war criminals, neither Islam nor American law condones execution at the hands of a vigilante. He is a terrorist and in no way represents my religion.
Oh, but his defenders will say that he was held under supreme psychological torture and then saw with his own eyes what havoc America wreaks. Yes. Under what conditions do they think real, living terrorists are made?
So yes, Brody is a terrorist, and somehow, as a white male, the only one of the four main terrorists to be portrayed in a sympathetic light and given any justification. Even Abu Nazir, who at first seems to define the very stereotype of terrorist leader. Before the death of Isah, he had already been anti-American and could have been for a great many reasons, including the invasion of Iraq, Al Qaeda type ideologies, etc. But which was it? Did he see other people die at the hands of America? Could he have been–gasp–humanized in some way?
Tom Walker deserved much more explanation than he got. Presumably there was no other boy, no other Isah-equivalent, for Abu Nazir to use to win his sympathy. Then? Total coincidence that the second of two main Black characters (the first of whom was the sycophantic, always wrong David Estes) was an American marine who was so easily brainwashed by terrorists we didn’t even see how it happened?
The biggest opportunity Homeland missed, though, and one for which I would have handwaved away the others is when we finally focused on Roya. We had her at the interrogation table! For a brief moment, she even pretended to have fallen down the same hole Brody did, but quickly and cruelly denied that. What, then, did it take for this (presumably Western-)educated woman to help Abu Nazir? What would make her give up her freedom and conscience to help bring about a world which Abu Nazir wanted, one for which there would be no place for the Roya as we know her. Did she see her own family killed? Does she carry very strict religious beliefs within her? Does she the injustices committed by the US and want to retaliate? Has she, even as a citizen in the West, always felt an outsider? This wouldhave been the besttime to show how some of the most dangerous Islamic terrorists are made, sympathizers who have grown up in the West and can easily move about without raising (too much) suspicion, as opposed to US soldiers caught and brainwashed.