Certain Rapes Lie Outside Feminist Outrage
Like that of a porn actress. A porn actress raped by men who are not white.
The brutal home invasion and violent gang rape of porn actress Cytherea was met with silence by feminists and the media, while they push a "rape culture" narrative portraying white men as "privileged" date rapists, reports Matt Forney at returnofkings.com.
If ever there was a story for feminists to get enraged about, this would be it. According to SJWs, America fosters a "rape culture," where sexual assault is trivialized and men are encouraged to feel "entitled" to womens' bodies. You can't get more entitled than a gang of ghetto thugs invading a woman's home and raping her at gunpoint.Yet feminists have been eerily silent on Cytherea. A casual Google search for "cytherea rape" shows that the only articles about the story are from news outlets, porn industry sites such as TRPWL, and the conservative site The Daily Caller. Searching Jezebel, one of the most popular feminist blogs in the world, for "cytherea" returns a grand total of zero results.
Forney's explanation for why the feminists are so hands-off? The rapists were three young black men:
The media is constantly on the lookout for what Tom Wolfe calls the "Great White Defendant," a criminal case featuring a white man who is utterly guilty of victimizing a woman or a racial minority.This desire to demonize white men drives not only popular rape hoaxes such as the Duke lacrosse case or the UVA rape story, but white-on-black crime stories such as the Trayvon Martin case and the Ferguson debacle.
Feminists are also ignoring Cytherea's rape because of the class factor. The rape stories that SJWs squirt tears over--such as UVA rape liar Jackie Coakley or "Mattress Girl" Emma Sulkowicz--involve upper-class white girls being purportedly brutalized by "entitled," "privileged" white men. Cytherea is a former porn star, and while there are "sex-positive" feminists out there, they've been eclipsed in power by neo-Puritans such as Anita Sarkeesian and Lindy West who wax poetic about "affirmative consent" and think that porn is a tool of the patriarchy.
Porn star Mercedes Carrera explains more about this in another post at returnofkings.com:
I believe the feminists that get media attention these days are the same ilk as the wealthy Victorian era suffragettes: wealthy white women whose panties are in a bunch over imagined slights and imagined injustices. They do not, and never have, spoken for women who are on the outside of their exclusive group. Sex workers, women of color, economically disadvantaged white women are not part of their platform. Those women who have to think about how they are going to eat or live are excluded from the conversation. Women who cannot afford $29.95 "This is what a feminist looks like" t-shirts made by female slave labor in Madagascar are excluded from the conversation.Additionally, because this was a random example of "rape culture" and the attackers were disadvantaged young black men (not wealthy white lacrosse players) it is too complex of a social issue for them to want to delve into. Issues of race, socioeconomics and rape cannot easily be deconstructed into the binary paradigms of "patriarchy" or "misogyny" so they'd rather ignore it altogether. Further, a sex worker is less "valuable" in their imaginary class system hierarchy than a "proper" wealthy feminist college student.
Bottom line: It cannot be politicized to fit their left marxist agenda. At the core, modern sex negative radical feminism is less about gender and more about the societal control of all groups that are not them.
What ever happened to sex-positive feminism ?? I seem to recall a time when so-called "sex work" was considered empowering, or so it seemed.
Of course, as you note, it's REALLY all about Class and Money. . . masked by a thin veneer of pseudo-Feminism. .. . .
Keith Glass at March 10, 2015 6:02 AM
I like Mercedes's point, but Roosh is notorious for catering to the PUA community...which some readers from Jezebel would be quick to point out. But yes, this news story was very under-reported.
Em at March 10, 2015 6:09 AM
I don't think so. Just look at the 'Holla back' video from last fall, or every debacle for the NFL in 2014. Please don't give into the temptation of believing that black skin puts black men outside of the scope of feminist attacks. Yes, they like going after (preferably wealthy) white men as their trophy bad guys, but black men have always been their poster children the nastier stuff that they like to attribute to maleness.
M. Cummings at March 10, 2015 6:56 AM
By the way, poor inner-city women and homeless women are in vastly more danger of being raped than women on college campuses.
Amy Alkon at March 10, 2015 7:40 AM
By the way, poor inner-city women and homeless women are in vastly more danger of being raped than women on college campuses.
This is absolutely true — and they have far less recourse.
Kevin at March 10, 2015 10:04 AM
Please don't give into the temptation of believing that black skin puts black men outside of the scope of feminist attacks.
There's a pecking order.
upper class white women who attended the "right colleges"
minority women who attended the "right colleges"
white and minority women who managed to attend most OK colleges
working women of all stripes
except sex workers
black men
hispanic men (all about the same, so pick 'em)
white men
That's why the MFM is so desirous that a mass shooter turns out to be a middle-aged white man who also is a tea party member and a card carrying NRA member. Kind of a trifecta, like hiring a black transgendered woman who is handicapped and attended the right colleges.
I R A Darth Aggie at March 10, 2015 10:36 AM
I disagree with the "women of color" aspect. I think I R A has it right. "Women of color" (hate that term) are only ignored if they are poor and uneducated.
Ppen at March 10, 2015 11:05 AM
Are you joking? The feminists I know won't shut up about how sex-positive they are and how positive sleeping around and doing sex work are.
NicoleK at March 10, 2015 12:44 PM
But I agree on the race issue here... because so many feminists are white, they don't want to jump into the white-women-angry-about-black-rapists can of worms.
NicoleK at March 10, 2015 12:46 PM
Do you think this could be an example of the Orwellian "Some animals are more equal than others" POV?
Feminists (supposedly) want equality for all women, but what they actually say and do doesn't really show that. Their silence on things like FGM and Sex Workers rights is appalling. They show no interest in helping women in 3rd world countries where misogyny is rampant, but will get their panties in a bunch over "micro-aggressions" on a cushy Ivy League campus. They won't say a word about this horrific rape because it doesn't fit their narrative, but will spend thousands of words on a false accusation, even after it has been proven false, because they want it to be true.
I long ago stopped calling myself a feminist and started calling myself a Humanist. I believe in the same rights for all people, period. Sex, color, creed, economic status, none of that matters, because we are all human. Makes things easy.
Kat at March 10, 2015 3:02 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2015/03/10/certain_rapes_l.html#comment-5892764">comment from NicoleKAre you joking? The feminists I know won't shut up about how sex-positive they are and how positive sleeping around and doing sex work are.
Some are like this (but not so much in the context of men but in the context of *My Identity*. However, there's a rapidly increasing strain of puritanism and "women as eggshells, not equals," as I've been saying. Look up "Bora Zivkovic" and you'll see what I mean. Fragile china ladies.
Amy Alkon at March 10, 2015 3:04 PM
It was similarly disturbing last year, when Marion Zimmer Bradley, renown SF/F author and heroine to many feminists, was reported to be a sexual predator.
Here is a link to a blog that sums it up nicely, and includes other good links.
http://www.jimchines.com/2014/06/rape-abuse-and-mzb/
Mel at March 10, 2015 3:12 PM
"The feminists I know won't shut up about how sex-positive they are and how positive sleeping around and doing sex work are."
Anyone who thinks feminists are positive on sex work is badly misinformed. The majority of the feminist movement is against decriminalized sex work and supports the "Nordic model" which regards all clients as predators and all sex workers as victims. "Sex positive" usually means "in favor of sex only when the woman really really wants it and hasn't been drinking."
Mike at March 10, 2015 3:15 PM
Playing devil's advocate here: one reason for the lack of feminist outrage here might be that the alleged rapists are being put on trial. What gets them crying "rape culture" is when rape is excused with "boys will be boys" or "she asked for it".
This does somewhat relate to the race angle, because a white rapist is more likely to get the benefit of those excuses than a black one.
Rex Little at March 10, 2015 3:30 PM
Courage for bring this up, Goddess.
Following others' comments, I recall back in Kollege the lesbian professors in our small Midwestern University were just as aggressive macking on the curious young co-eds as the (white) male professors.
Bullies and predators can be any gender, color, age or ethnicity. and they can bully anyone with impunity.
I suppose rape is a form of bullying.
EyeGee at March 10, 2015 3:31 PM
’ However, there's a rapidly increasing strain of puritanism and "women as eggshells, not equals," as I've been saying. '
Yes, it's been very noticeable in the past 2-3 years especially. I wondered if anyone was noticing the swing towards 'I-need-to-be-coddled' feminism, or if I was imagining it.
"The rape stories that SJWs squirt tears over--such as UVA rape liar Jackie Coakley or "Mattress Girl" Emma Sulkowicz--involve upper-class white girls being purportedly brutalized by "entitled," "privileged" white men."
This really sums it up. Feminism has always been about middle-to-upper class white women, all that 'housework is slavery' and 'free the housewife' bull my mother and her friends bought into. Whether you work or not being a *choice* means you're better off than a lot of humanity. I've often wondered what women working as chambermaids, garment factory workers and other tough jobs thought of the 'oppression of the housewife'.
I didn't see much from feminists on the rape and disembowelment of the medical student in India, or the rape of a Swiss tourist, nor the kidnapping and rape of Japanese tourists there either. They'd have to admit that India has (in some areas) a real problem with almost epidemic rape, resembling what feminists *claim* is happening in the United States, with '1 in 4'. The same with the treatment of women in some Islamic or Arab nations. If they threw their sympathies in with those women, how well off American feminists are would be even more obvious....shhhhh, just pretend other women in other countries don't lead worse lives than yours, the gravy train might stop.
Seriously, American feminists live in one of the best places in the world to live as a woman, and still cry 'Oppression!' 'The Patriarchy!'. Oppression is being sold, or married off to someone you don't know, it's not being able to leave your house without a male escort, it's being imprisoned for adultery when you've been raped. If they were really for the rights of all women, these things would be unbearable for them. Instead they're up in arms about construction workers yelling 'Hey, baby!' and 'Smile!', and they're silent about far worse things going on under their noses.
crella at March 10, 2015 4:24 PM
Class is a VERY big factor in the thinking of feminists - just look at how they trashed the women who came forward about Bill Clinton:
"Well, you drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park you never know what you'll catch."
charles at March 10, 2015 5:09 PM
Re: MZB - horrid. Thanks for the link to the expose, Mel.
Michelle at March 10, 2015 6:40 PM
Also thanks for the MZB link Mel. I had no idea.
Ben at March 10, 2015 7:36 PM
'It was similarly disturbing last year, when Marion Zimmer Bradley, renown SF/F author and heroine to many feminists, was reported to be a sexual predator."
Like Bill Clinton being forgiven, and Wandering Hands Biden being given a free pass, if they're on your team, all's forgiven.
Imagine Romney with his hands on the backs/shoulders/waists of women/young girls. The outcry would be heard 'round the world. Instead it's excused, "Oh, that's just how Joe is."
crella at March 10, 2015 7:38 PM
I wonder how the MBZ scandal would have played out if she were still alive.
Charles, who is the$100 quote from?
NicoleK at March 11, 2015 12:33 AM
NicoleK,
James Carville, Bill Clinton's campaign manager.
Ben at March 11, 2015 7:02 AM
"Some are like this (but not so much in the context of men but in the context of *My Identity*. "
Another way of putting it is that PM feminism teaches that women should have lots of sex... but they shouldn't enjoy any of it. It's because they see sex solely as an expression of power.
Cousin Dave at March 11, 2015 10:14 AM
"This does somewhat relate to the race angle, because a white rapist is more likely to get the benefit of those excuses than a black one."
Hmm. Really?
Radwaste at March 14, 2015 6:51 PM
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