“if what Assange did was rape then I have been raped. And it was not that bad.”
From a features writer at The Good Men Project.
I suppose this is the kind of stuff that “Good Men” should hear, right?
(via redlightpolitics)
I don’t know what to make of the Good Men Project, which I hadn’t really known about until just now. One of their major advertisers seems to be AmAppy, and they have a lot of literature devoted to not raping people, and also to considering men and women in healthy contexts. But the person quoted above has an essay that says, explicitly, that the rape culture is a myth invented by radical feminists in order to feel privileged via victim status. The essay uses the sort of argument of a form that’s pretty irascible, but common: ‘No one in this group says this good thing exists or is valid, therefore, everyone in this group is bad in a normative sense.’ I find arguments of this form tend to be more self-reflexive than people would like to admit. The site — a collection of voices — is not perfect. But after reading a few articles (cf, “Why Women Aren’t Crazy”, “Men And The Sexualization of Young Girls”, and the response to QBR’s anti-feminist essay, “That’s Not the Feminism I Know”), it seems like the site’s OK. It does have a sort of vexing ‘contrarian angle’ where men write sort of feminist pieces and women write sort of masculinist pieces, which makes the whole thing seem disingenuous.
