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Except they don't, its2 seeping into real life. Have you seen the state of university and college campuses?
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I have! I'm going to College now and let me just tell you: I was just as worried about this shit as you were. I was positive it would be something that I'd have to deal with, and I went balls-out into an elective Sociology course just to grab the bull by the horns. What I've been confronted with is...not the ideology I see on the internet. This textbook is only 2 years old, and so far it's mainly dealt with different class systems in different parts of the world and how subjective a culture's perception of altruism is. I'm still waiting for the chapter on castrating all males but I just don't think it's going to come up this term.
On behalf of Canadians in general the massive influx of College-aged SJW's is basically the fault of Canadian-born Toronto-based feminists. That's not an exaggeration, University of Toronto is almost always the place being filmed when you see crazy bullshit (Big Red, for example) but then you have Mattress girl, and people claiming 'Air Conditioning is Sexist'. These are bad, ignorant people (Mattress girl is an especially terrible human being) but it's so easy to just zoom in on the crazies when, in my experience, feminism is something that women subscribe to feel empowered because they feel like they
lack power. A great example of a Male who uses the same excuse 'ideology to translate hatred and resentment' is brother Dean, a gigantic faggot who goes to protest Pride rallies 'for the sake of free speech'. Dean and Mattress Gal are what you get when people become so invested in this shit on the internet they need to force it on reality to makes themselves feel better. They're both fucking disgusting people.
If they refuse to believe the wage gap isn't a consequence of Men being unable to get pregnant, too bad for them, they're idiots. But not all feminists are like that, and in my experience the ones who are are unready to move past some of the resentment that can tag along with Feminism are...well, around our age. They're adults, maybe, but they aren't mature'. They politicize these things into something they aren't. Unfortunately you're going to be seeing the younger generation subscribing to this ignorant version of things more and more until we start cracking down on the general divisiveness people occupy themselves with.
It's not a hopeless situation at all though, it's just a ripple effect of what was relevant to the previous generation. Give it a few more years and you'll see everyone moderating themselves a little better, you'll see reason trickling down over extremism because society can't function with a bunch of anomie genderfluid neckbeards running the show.
Now, Sarkesian. She's a con artist. I don't think whether she plays videogames is relevant or not, because she was bankrolled long before anyone considered that mattered. She's a mouthpiece for the same half-baked purposes as I think The Amazing Atheist is: She is placing her resentments and presumptions into a field that has a burgeoning interest for young people so she has something to translate those thoughts through. I think she's a dishonest person, but I have to give her props for playing people so well and getting paid while she did it. I don't think 'what video games are actually about' matters, but I do think that regardless of whether she's a good person or not, the basic idea of 'let's talk about how we're depicting men and women in content directed at young people' is something people should be talking about.
Bullshit like that extremely basic "Super Mario is misogynistic" line is to get people who don't know shit about gaming OR feminism to pay attention to her. Once again, I've seen and read more than enough to understand that she is not an honest or particularly perceptive human being, but her narrow-minded ideas raise a good point; why not examine gaming as a whole and start communicating something more whole and meaningful if we're bogging them down with ideology at all? It's a can you have your cake and eat it too situation where either games are just games or they're an artistic platform to communicate ideas on, and we need to consider whether we want to start thinking harder about those ideas or just play some fucking Halo.
That's the funny thing about College, I think it's really hard to press your resentments forward when you're so busy with classes, so they find an outlet online. Go to school, have fun, come home tired, shitpost. Rinse and repeat. Whether they are genuinely resentful is irrelevant because, as we've seen, our perception of someone can be shaped very precisely by not just what their argument is, but how they present it.
Now, I don't think you hate women. I get carried away and I think trying to avoid just posting a bunch of insults I got hung up on something else. I hope this doesn't sound too patronizing but man to man, these people who are so outrageous and outspoken on the internet don't really seem to have the passion to bring it to school with them, if they actually believe it at all, which is kind of ironic to me. Like, not to backtrack too hard but it isn't very 'Feminist' (in the independent and assertive connotations that the word is supposed to carry to me) to just whine on the internet about how much of a plague penises are but not follow up, and that same reticence to express oneself outside of the internet goes both ways, Fems and AntiFems alike. I think that your dealings have been with some pretty ignorant people, and the best way to eliminate that is to make these interactions face-to-face, or purge this furstrating pursuit entirely and just start reading published text on the subject going back the last 50 years or so.
Understand that Feminism validates a lot of basic injustices that women start to see as they grow up. It obfuscates gender roles, and in this day and age that's a good thing, so long as it isn't ignoring that there was a point where we were not culturally or technologically prepared to be egalitarian, but the last century or so has shown that we're at that point and need to put it to use.
So, College is really a place for people to develop themselves and grow up out of the things they bring to the school. There are these big posters in the men's washrooms that say "NO MEANS NO!" and a guy like me looks at that and says 'Yeah, no shit sherlock' but there are people who actually need that reminder, "don't be a violent, greedy piece of shit." Feminism exists for a reason, specifically because we used to unironically blame women for getting raped because they weren't dressed like a fucking quaker. That's the reality, the majority of outrage comes from the past perceptions of things bleeding forward into the present state. Muslims/The religious are more moderate and able to blend into secular society, Feminism has a place to examine gender roles and give genuinely idealistic and important women a place to start, it's really not a bad thing, I just think you've been stuck at a point where all you see are the adolescent fucktards that corrupt each and every discussion, and they validate your negative perceptions of feminism so it's just a cycle of irritation and massive, sprawling shitposts.
Now, back to The Amazing Atheist.
He expresses ignorance. 'Most Muslims are radical' is an ignorant statement. 'The scumfuck Muhammad' completely ignores the historical context and culture that lead up to the world Muhammad was born into.
Being naive enough to let a picture like the one I'm alluding to get online says something about his character, not that it makes him a pervert or a bad guy, but a careless person. That's enough for me to think he doesn't care enough about what he says to actually research it, and that is further evidenced when he talks shit about a guy like Reza Aslan as if he's some kind of America-hating superterrorist, when Aslan is an extremely moderate academic. Those facts are enough for me to connect the dots and have every reason to believe TAA doesn't know what he's talking about. He knows
of what he is talking about, but he doesn't actually appreciate or comprehend the reality of much of what he attempts to discuss. That's my issue with TAA: He runs his mouth about things that he hasn't actually researched, it's just the same cycle of 'check wikipedia for what validates what I have to say' that most bloggers get away with. I think he is willfully ignorant because if he wasn't he couldn't pretend to be so outraged at religion in general because all the religious have done to him is lampoon him for being such an arrogant joke.
As far as I know, you live in the UK which is both at more risk of radical Islam than Canada and has denser populations. That's the reality, there are some real cancerous fuckers in religion looking to stir up trouble. It's happening in the states right now: Men are taking advantage of destabilization and riot to arm themselves and play soldier. It's something everyone has to crack down on, not
stopping the Feminists or
halting the progress of Islam, but being careful enough to take everything in moderation and try to expose the immoderate as detrimental to society as a whole.