We now know that Hindus used to eat beef. Cows weren’t always sacred to them. And eating them wasn’t always prohibited. Historians of Ancient India believe that the prohibition against eating beef spread slowly at first, over the course of decades, maybe even centuries; but after reaching some sort of tipping point, this quirky regional taboo became a rigid subcontinental norm. And it did so with remarkable speed: one year your neighbors are gossiping about you because you eat beef, giving you dirty looks; next year they’re burning your house to the ground for doing so, driving you out of town.
The India that emerged out of this massive cultural shift was, in essence, a safe space for cows. Unattended cows can walk down streets and alleyways lined with the hungry in India, and they can do so fearlessly, nonchalantly, without a care in the world. They can do so because the taboo boundaries against harming them are well-established, well-guarded, and rigidly enforced.
Are we living through a cultural shift of a similar stamp? It certainly looks like it. After decades of disappointment, we appear to have reached some sort of a feminist tipping point in the civilized West. Sexist behavior that was merely considered uncouth a generation ago is now deemed thoroughly disgusting and decidedly uncool; men who were merely seen as pigs back in the day have been redefined, seemingly overnight, as criminals and degenerates.
The society that emerges from this messy cultural shift has yet to take shape. But this much is clear: it will be a safer space for women and children. It will be safer because the taboo boundaries against harming them will be well-established, well-guarded, and rigidly enforced. Who knows, we may soon find ourselves living in a brave new world, a radically transformed moral landscape, wherein women and children can walk down streets and alleyways fearlessly, nonchalantly, without a care in the world.
Isaiah dreamed of a peaceful world without predation: “The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat . . . and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.” John Lennon dreamed of a peaceful world without religion, nation states, and private property: “Imagine no possessions / I wonder if you can / No need for greed or hunger / A brotherhood of man / Imagine all the people / Sharing all the world.” We dream dreams of a similar stamp.
Sometimes it is what it is because you keep saying it is what it is.
—John Faithful Hamer, The Myth of the Fuckbuddy (2018)
I wouldn’t excuse the boys who commit rape on blacked out girls, but I wouldn’t put the whole blame on them either. They need to do their part of the work. Do you really have to get drunk so heavily? If so, maybe you should think about it and prepare for it – you know, don’t do it among strangers, people whom you cannot trust? Placing all of the blame on the guys is just a pass for the girls to keep being naïve and destructive. They will never learn their lesson and bad things will just keep happening to them, and none of it will be their fault. There is also a question of where’s the line between rape and easy/drunken girl consenting with her actions.
The feminism movement has already gone off the rails, and ultimately it will not lead to the initially intended destination. It will just lead to NEW problems, as you touched upon this with the whole not cleaning at all.
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Heres where you’re wrong: If a girl is obviously wasted and perhaps high off of god knows what drug, a male should know shes saying yes out of her horny drunk mind and should refrain from any sexual encounter, like you would refrain from having sex with an a child or a dog. ITS WRONG. Even so, if you’re in the middle of having sex and she says stop……. stop. this it her consent. she says no. Doesn’t matter what she said before. take your dick out. NO MEANS NO!!!
Feminism “is going off the rails” BECAUSE ITS FUCKING 2018!!!! how much more can we stress this??? if we didnt make such a big deal out of this, we still wouldnt be able to vote.
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(that was in regards to the comment before, not the text)
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