Journalist who called Assange ‘criminal’ over rape claims faces own sex assault allegations
A journalist with Swedish daily Aftonbladet who reportedly referred to WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange as a “criminal” is himself in hot water. He’s accused of rape and sexual assault – including of underage girls.
The allegations against Fredrik Virtanen, who also hosts his own talk show on Swedish TV8, emerged as part of the #MeToo social media campaign. The campaign, which surged in popularity after the sex scandal surrounding Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, encourages women to speak up to share their experiences of sexual harassment.
https://www.rt.com/news/407615-assange-critic-rape-allegations/
Male Feminist Allies: The Witch Hunters Have Become The Witches, Hunted
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/23/m...witch-hunters-have-become-the-witches-hunted/
Male feminists—these self-proclaimed paragons of sexual virtue—wear a skin that deceives women into thinking that they’re “safe.” They say, “I respect women. I’m one of the good guys. You can trust me not to take advantage of you.” In doing so, they have been able to worm themselves into feminist safe spaces.
These men believe what they say, but it’s only because they think all other men are sexually predatory. They act superior to other men because they believe that they’re the only ones capable of keeping their nature in check.
Becoming a male feminist isn’t just like putting on a mask. The men who become male feminists do so, in general (though certainly not in all cases) because they despise themselves for what they are and seek a way to control it—not through therapy or psychiatry, but through an embrace of an ideology that allows them to absolve themselves of personal blame by assuming all other men are as bad as them.
Feminism teaches that men are predators. Of course, this isn’t true. But because male sex predators do not want to think of themselves as monsters, feminism offers them an out by telling them, in basic terms, that they can’t help the way they are because it’s how all men are.
It’s no secret that modern feminism thrives on identifying women as innate victims, who feel oppressed by the “patriarchy” and the world at large. As such, the movement is attractive to victims of sexual assault, who seek solidarity with others who share their experience.
As such, women who identify as feminists are often vulnerable creatures—easy prey for starving sexual predators too pathetic to attain sex by enthusiastic consent. It’s a bad mix.
As Julian Assange recently wrote on Twitter, men are aware that “constantly self-proclaiming male ‘feminists’ are often predatory sleaze bags.” We don’t like them because we recognize their predatory behavior, and not because we view them as sex traitors.
There is a genuine reason to be wary of male feminists. Obviously, not all of them are bad, but one must ask how much of their zeal is projection. They may even believe what they say when they call out regular men for “toxic masculinity,” but judging by what male feminists themselves have written, their misandry comes from a place of self-loathing, and nowhere else.
On The Guardian, proud male feminist Tom Pessah wrote a lengthy apology for being male, beseeching other men to embrace feminism, as he has done. The most telling part of his essay was his admission of having groped a female friend he was attracted to without her consent. He also admitted to leering constantly at women, incapable of keeping his libido in check.
He concluded his essay with a condemnation of pornography, which he views as a sickness and condemned for his own bad behavior. Shifting responsibility of his actions to pornography, Pessah, who has been a feminist for 25 years, says pornography made him feel “as if I was possessed by uncontrollable drives.” Countless more men and women watch pornography and haven’t been affected by it as he has.
Like Harvey Weinstein, Sam Kriss, Tyler Malka, Rupert Myers, and all the other men who’ve been accused of sexual assault and admitted to it, many more men now risk becoming the subject of inquiry, with no way to really defend themselves thanks to the precedent already set by existing cases.
With the movement to out sexual predators in full swing, there is no way to turn back the tide. At this point forward, the only course of action is to be discerning and exercise a policy of “trust, but verify” rather than “listen and believe” and not be as indiscriminate as the witch hunters before us.
