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Moral panics and whistling up the dogs : Comments
By Craig Minns, published 29/8/2016This one is about the existence of a website on which schoolboys are sharing images of schoolgirls, which are, apparently, principally the work of those girls themselves in the form of 'selfies'.
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Lots of anti-feminist posturing - nothing new. Feminists oppress women. Women are victims of everything, because feminists say they are. Fighting the sexualisation of women in the culture, and the impact of this on girls' sexuality and their lives, is merely creating 'moral panic' and encouraging girls to see themselves as victims.
Yeah. This trope is as old as anti-feminism itself.
Of course, I am definitely one of the ones that Craig Minns has deemed to be 'incapable of anything other than mindless abuse'. Of course, he was only 'hoping for an open and honest discussion of the questions [he] asked'.
I'm sorry, Craig. You didn't want an open, honest discussion. You wanted a forum space in which you were completely agreed with. Anyone who disagreed with your basic premise, regardless of the rationality of their arguments, were just engaging in 'mindless abuse'.
So I take it you don't see a comment like this as 'mindless abuse':
'Surely there's something a great defender of the right of women to blame men for everything can think of that's more important that this for feminist women to focus on?'
It's openly patronising and provocative - just another form of 'mindless abuse'. You've pulled this passive-aggressive trick many times when people disagree with you on feminist and women's issues and always portrayed yourself as the victim. So, I'll leave you to chew the 'I so agree with you' fat with the other anti-feminists on the board.