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In reply to the discussion: The rape threads point to a larger need...revolutionary change in what it is to be "a man". [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)We can attack the Ayn Randian idea that single-minded selfishness and a disregard for the well-being of others is a moral imperative. This nonsense has become the core of the Republican Party and a significant portion of Christian political movements,
We can call out weakness and fear claiming to be strength, calling itself patriotism, or extraordinary rendition, or war.
We can insist that diminishing women's reproductive rights is not something that just "women voters" will not tolerate.
We can take the position that men value women, for their own sake, in a specific way of our own that does not consist of sexual attraction.
We can do all of this, and that stupid fucking poster that kicked off all this crap, again, will still be a dishonest meme conflating crime prevention with victim blaming and "men" with "rapists."