Maybe this is all a dream...

Exactly.

Exactly.

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Feminism and Gender Equality

I want to talk about gender equality. I’m interested in reading feminist things and understanding their views. It’s my basic understanding that feminism wants to uplift women, and subsequently throw down men. We deserve it. Men have been assholes for all of recorded history, especially white men. I agree, and I am sorry. I’m gonna talk about gender issues of inequality, but it won’t be what you may think.

Jobs. Women should work, if they want to. Nobody should be forced to work or be prevented from working. In the workforce, women are still denied promotions in typically “male-dominated, cutthroat” business industries. Women are paid somewhere around 60-70% of what men make, in eqiuvalent and even in lesser positions. This is bullshit, and it all must change. There is no male equivalent of oppression in the workforce that I am aware of.

Female genital mutilation. Sickening practice, that causes me to want to personally execute, with a .45 slug to the head, every Christian motherfucker in Africa and possibly Europe that still does it. However, male genital mutilation happens in nearly every birth. It’s called circumcision. It isn’t equal, however. While FGM completely destroys any possibility of a woman’s sexual pleasure, MGM is useless. The removal of the foreskin has no effect on male pleasure. It is completely for appearance, but has however, been attributed scientifically to somewhat of a risk in increasing a woman’s chance of cervical cancer, but that same science says that the risk is completely mitigated by regular cleanliness of the foreskin. Regardless, mutilation of both genitalia for any reason must stop.

Crime and punishment. Women do commit rape. Women do assault men. FBI statistics suggest it may happen just a little less than man-on-woman violence, but it is horribly under-represented in police reports. Men feel ashamed when they are assaulted by a woman. When police answer a violence call in a home, they always assume the man is the aggressor. It’s not always the case, and violence against both genders for any reason must stop. Furthermore, women receive lighter sentences and approximately 40% less jail time for the same crime that a man does, according to the FBI again. What do we do about that? On another hand, there was a teenage Morrocan girl that was raped, and a court in Tangiers forced her to marry her rapist. She committed suicide by eating rat poison.

Sex. Men are encouraged to have sex with multiple partners. That makes you a “pimp” or “player”. It is apparently desireable. When women do the same thing, they are called whores. That is unfair, and must stop. However, federal and state law enforcement statistics suggest that women commit rape almost as much as men. Pornography where the man says things like, “take it, whore”, etc. is demeaning. I agree. But most porn just doesn’t have that. Most porn is men and women enjoying sex, however aggressively, but to both of their pleasure. I’m not worried about porn, but there is a huge trend in feminism, encouraging women to empower themselves with sexuality, however they want. The problem is, “however they want.”

I mean that the water gets super murky, especially when you factor in BDSM. Women who are into BDSM are likely to be dominatrixes. They do brutal things, sexually. Like forcing their submissive partners to get genital piercings, such as a ring through the penis and thus the urethra, which can really cause horrible infections, and horrible problems with the passing of urine or semen. Some of the things we take for granted, like TV, suggest that many women and men who are into BDSM, that dominate, enjoy routinely and sadistically denying their partners orgasm for days, even weeks. That’s not even to mention the violent sodomy of both genders, to a point where there are tears in the rectal tissue inside. If it’s on a fucking episode of Law and Order: SVU, you can bet that it happens. A lot.
 
Women and men both need to be free to explore their sexualities however it pleases them, but please, don’t brutalize your partners. Women’s empowerment is no excuse to, either. Feminists (who I hope are extremists) should not applaud the Lorena Bobbitt incident, as if it was ok. It is not. Applauding violence against men because you’re a feminist, is a reversed sexism beyond my comprehension. Is sexism ok if it is against men? Some feminist therory talks about the sexual domination of men, and even that men are a biological mistake, and inferior to women. They’re angry, I get it. They might even hate men. Their anger is 95% justified. But that anger does not make it ok to tie up a man who robs your store, and rape him in retaliation for 3 days. Look it up.

I am an egaltarian. I am so much of one, that I need to ask people to care about both genders equally. It’s not fair and balanced yet, and it should be. But when it is, and I hope it’s soon, please give up the war. The idea that women need to punish men for 5000 years of oppression is not the right idea. And it helps nothing to call the world a man-centered maleocracy that hates women. We don’t. You know who has a horrible opinion of women? Old people. And they’re gonna die soon. I reject the idea of a patriachy, not because I hate feminists. I don’t. But because I would never make or support a patriarchy, and neither would any man of my or any succeeding generation. The patriarchy is dead. Once we finish making the genders equal, then patriarchies will be a dstant memory, as it should be.

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A message to Planned Parenthood women’s rights supporters from President Obama.

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THIS IS WHY YOU STILL HAVE MY VOTE.

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I think motherhood is an awesome thing—if that’s what you want. But there’s something insanely disturbing about the idea that because I CAN have a baby, I SHOULD have a baby—and that is something I should want to do more than anything in the whole wide world. And if I don’t have that desire? Well, something is just plain wrong. Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism (via somewherewithaskyline)

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ACTA is Killing Free Speech

More file sharing websites are going down. SOPA and PIPA may have been stopped in the USA, but hardly any of us have ever heard of ACTA, the European verson; which 39 countries, including the USA, signed. It treats copyrighted materials as tradable international commodities. It aims to prevent file sharing entirely and is one more way that politicians want to make money by policing the worldwide web. Oh no, I just made a $30 billion record deal, but file sharing reduced my profits by $30 million! How will I survive? It is greed, plain and simple. Some European nations are having huge controversy as their public fights to repeal ACTA. Poland’s parliament literally started fistfighting over it. This has been a glaring failure of freedom the world over, to pander to greed. Not enough of us are fighting to stop corruption. If we don’t care, if we don’t fight, then maybe we really don’t deserve to be free anywhere.

I’m Boycotting The Grey

Apparently, the cast and crew of the movie The Grey used actual wolf corpses on set, and ate some of them. Liam Neeson was among those whom ate wolves, too. This is recently after wolves were taken off of the Endangered Species List. But as an appreciator of wolves, due to my long time fascination with them, I am disgusted and horrified, and am therefore boycotting that movie. I’m boycotting Liam Neeson too.

Behind the drums and synthesized sounds, here’s some of the cleanest and most beautiful guitar work I’ve heard in years, both electric and acoustic. Animals as Leaders is some of the best metal I have ever heard in my life.