I'm going to just write some unstructured thoughts here to get them out of my head and into the light of day. Goats, feel free to scrutinize this submission, but there's no need for personal attacks. No one should take the following too seriously, unless of course it really, really resonates with your own thoughts and experiences. I'm not providing any evidence, so don't expect academic rigor here. If you aren't willing to engage this post on my terms, maybe ignore it, or at least don't expect me to respond to your complaints.
Thought #1: Feminists really do want to destroy all men and all they hold dear.
The ultimate goal of modern feminists isn't the mere subjugation of men. Their goal is to destroy masculinity in the near term, and ultimately maleness itself in the long term. Modern feminists ideals favor a world without any male children at all. Biological arguments for the two sex system nature has provided be damned: science will provide ways to continue humanity without the need for sexual reproduction.
Modern feminists view maleness itself as an aberration, or mutation. In their view, a world without men would be a better world in every way. The penis is nothing more than an overgrown clitoris: a mutation. There are examples of asexual reproduction in the natural world, and there's no reason humans can't use science to adapt ourselves to some such mode. Ideally, women shouldn't be required to carry the excess biological material inside their own bodies, but that can be addressed separately.
Thought #2: Anita Sarkeesian has polarized the environment around gamers, and maybe that's her goal.
If you wanted to persuade gamers they should be more accepting and respectful of women, how would you do it? You probably wouldn't do it by telling gamers, "Games are bad and you are bad for playing games." No? Me neither. :(
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[–] 7850173? 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
The war on gamers ended up being a massive loss for them. I can't think of any time that I saw more people get woken up to just what the SJW/identitarian left was doing. It was a giant alarm clock, waking up millions.
[–] dontforgetaboutevil 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Hah! Indentitarian!
Never heard that one before but it's dead on.
[–] effusive_ermine [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
It's a way to divide people into smaller groups. Makes them easier to lead.
[–] OcculusResurrectio 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Engaging in that war is a big reason why Donald Trump is President today. Its fucked but going after gaming was the beginning of the undoing of the SJW movement.
[–] OcculusResurrectio 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
If we are allowed to celebrate femininity, then we are allowed to celebrate masculinity. The term "toxic masculinity" is outrageous and disgusting. No amount of masculinity is toxic to anyone. There is no amount that suddenly kills or hurts anyone. It's Orwellian double speak and an attack on men.
[–] 7850156? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
The term "Toxic masculinity", was originally from the predecessors to today's MRAs, back in the 70's. But back then, it was used to refer to conceptions of masculine behavior that were toxic, not masculinity per se(for example, the idea, common today, that it's somehow masculine to betray a loyal friend just for a chance at sex). Feminists took the term, and started to use it to imply that masculinity itself was toxic, which is how everyone uses it today.
[–] effusive_ermine [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
As though women never do that.
[–] CrazyInAnInsaneWorld 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
My responses, accordingly:
Close. Feminists don't want a world without men. What they want is a world of POWERLESS men, where women hold all the power, but beta men are little more than Workers, while the Alpha men are used as Drones. It's Beehive Mentality taken to it's extreme, and each of them views themself as a fat, powerful Queen. If you are a Man, you are either a Worker or a Drone. Workers have no place criticizing the mandates of the Queen (and there are literally thousands to replace you, thus you are disposable, and will get cut off until you express remorse and mend your impudent ways) and the only use for a Drone is sex when she wants to get laid, so if you're a Drone and you criticize the Queen, you just get cut off. Since there's no use for a sexless Drone, you get cut off from the resources of the Hive entirely.
If they truly made a world without men, who would do all the dirty jobs that only men do? Who would pump the oil, who would clean the sewers and unclog the septic tanks? Who would cut the lumber and lay the bricks necessary to build huge monuments to civilization? Certainly not women, judging by the gender disparity across professions. Hence the saying, "If society was a Matriarchy, we'd still all be living in mud huts." Because that's precisely what happens.
Close, again. GamerGate was the RadFem's attempt at infiltrating and subverting the Gamer community. There's a lot more to this than I can do justice in one space with, but it goes back to Yuri Bezmenov's argument about Soviet Subversion. It's a long video, about an hour and a half, so the relevant info can be found here but I included the full video so you can get a better idea when you have more time on your hands. In short, any spaces that cannot be co-opted must be destroyed so that they cannot resist the subversion effort as they move on to other aspects of society. Gamers resisted the co-option, and so they did everything they could to destroy them, whilst failing to take into account the mental fortitude and tenacity of Gamers.
Most of us grew up in the age of "Nintendo Hard", where a difficult game wasn't something just deemed "too hard" like the filthy casuals of today with their Easy-Mode-by-Default games...it was something to be tackled, and overcome. We didn't shirk from being challenged, we spit on our palms, tied our hair back, muttered "Challenge accepted, bitches..." and got to work.
In short, in their hubris at assuming Gamers would be conquered like so many other typical communities, they failed to take into account that Gamers are not typical, average people. And so they were roped into the beginnings of their own destruction, as so many who fall to the foibles of hubris across the ages have. Now they reap the seeds they have sown, and the crop which they had hoped for has come due for harvest...but instead of harvesting a bounty, the bounty is reaping their heads, instead of the other way round.
[–] effusive_ermine [S] ago
I can see that you've done your research. I've seen excerpts of the Bezmenov interview and it's chilling.
I have reasons for my ideas which I won't discuss openly due to the deeply personal nature of the encounters which led me to them. The ideas are not my own invention, you see. I doubt I could ever dream up such things on my own, until feminists told me face to face of their ideas. So maybe I misunderstood, or maybe the specific feminists I encountered were nutjobs, or maybe they wanted to keep me in the dark as to their true goals. I dunno, but either way the truth is dreadful enough to discourage open discussion.
[–] dontforgetaboutevil 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I agree with you. The entire concept of gender just being a social construct is directly aimed at destroying masculinity. Especially when social virtues become things like, "timidity, victimhood, sensitivity, conceit and narcissism." These are highly immasculine behaviors and very difficult on the male psyche when embraced.