Day 33: Let it go, bitches!

"Back in 2010, police arrested a 31-year-old Californian man for hacking into young women's computers and spying on them.

According to FBI, the hacker "used malicious code to infect and control the computers of his victims." He would search and download explicit images, then use them to manipulate the women and get more material."

comment on a Jian Ghomeshi article: ""I don't know if Ghomeshi will be convicted. Knowing the absolute brokenness of the Canadian justice system when it comes to sexual assault cases, I am deeply skeptical of such an outcome."

So if the court finds him guilty, then he is guilty, full stop. But, because of the "brokenness of the justice system", if the verdict is innocent, he might or might not be innocent. Quite a damning blanket statement to make with respect to our courts. It is difficult not to conclude that, in this case the court of public opinion is somewhat out of control."

Gif of man attempting to kiss teenage girl who keeps pulling away from him. That doesn't stop him from kissing her.

"Are we sure this wasn’t a false flag by the feminazis to make the GGers look bad? GGers have never harassed anyone. It’s about the ethics in gaming journalism, not misogyny."

"Clark has successfully urged the Department of Justice to devote more time to investigating and prosecuting severe online harassment, specifically calling out the terrifying threats directed at Zoe Quinn, Brianna Wu and Anita Sarkeesian by Gamergate fans. For her trouble, as the Globe was first to report, she was the victim of swatting, where someone calls in a false report of an active shooter or other dangerous emergency. It’s designed to provoke a heavily armed police response, and can be deadly."

"Rep. Katherine Clark, the Boston Congresswoman who has been working tirelessly since last year to ensure the Department of Justice treats online harassment and abuse with the severity it deserves, was targeted in a shooting hoax Sunday night at her home.

In what is almost assuredly not a coincidence, Clark sponsored a bill last year that would make ‘swatting’ hoaxes like the one she experienced this week a federal felony. Swatting is an incredibly dangerous form of harassment and abuse in which perpetrators anonymously send armed police to a victim’s home. On Sunday, Clark, her husband, and their two sons were at home when, as reported by The Boston Globe, “multiple officers, some with long guns” appeared on the Congresswoman’s lawn in response to a false report of an active shooter at her house.

Thankfully, the incident was resolved safely."

Congresswoman Who Spoke Out Against Gamergate and Online Harassment Targeted by Swatters

"Here we have five simple steps American women can adopt today to drastically lower their odds of being a victim of sexual assault. An added benefit of not dressing like a slut, not drinking to the point of intoxication, not being physically intimate with complete strangers, and not going to shady neighborhoods is that you drastically increase your chances of meeting a decent guy who is interested in more than one night stands and drug abuse.

The choice is simple: take the five common sense steps above, stay safe and sane, and perhaps even meet a good man—or continue using snark and sarcasm while putting your body, health, and mental state at risk. It’s a simple choice, but something tells me that, sadly, American women are going to have to learn this lesson the hard way."

A Return of Kings article on the five steps to stay safe. Including stay at an arm's length from men, avoid going out at night, don't drink or use drugs, wear modest clothing, and stay with your own group.

"As an elected or appointed official, there are various ways to respond when a reporter puts a microphone in your face and asks about some questionable spending of public money. “No comment” always works fine, or angry silence while charging towards the exit. One thing that’s apparently less effective: telling a reporter “That’s exactly the bitch I thought you’d be.” Oh?

We can take this unnecessary lesson from Roy Buchanan, the former Chairman for the Davidson County Election Commission, who has tendered his resignation after the investigative team at Nashville’s WSMV found he and Election Administrator Kent Wall were spending a lot of money that wasn’t theirs on restaurants and picture frames."

Men defend how women scientists are written about, including their marital status and family achievements instead of their career, because it's a 'nice' thing to say.

"Herold noted that separating “good” (Zika-infected) and less good (typical) abortion seekers into separate categories would only backfire and add to abortion’s stigma. And Pamela Merritt, co-founder of reproductive direct action group ReproAction, lives in Missouri, which she notes has a mosquito problem during much of the year and a healthcare policy problem during all of it. She compares the potential crisis of Zika to the current disaster in Flint, Michigan, calling it a “perfect storm” about to hit any warm state with bad policy on the books. “You can build all the walls you want on the border, but you’re not going to stop the mosquitoes from coming up,” she told me."

More on the zika virus: "The situation reads like a combination of Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale with P.D. James’ Children of Men; women are being forced to get pregnant by government policy limiting family planning, while simultaneously being urged not to reproduce, with no help to that end. (Men are being given no behavioral guidelines, it should be noted, because governments seem to think men have nothing to do with pregnancy). Governments are entering gang-ridden areas to control mosquito populations, yet women’s control of their reproduction is barely being discussed."

Article on the Zika virus: "After all, the element that brings this crisis from “emergency” into “totally fucking dystopian” realm is the fact that the virus is wreaking havoc in countries with dismal, even draconian approaches to abortion and contraception. In El Salvador, for instance, where women have just been told to avoid getting pregnant until 2018, abortion is punishable by jail sentences, which means miscarriages can be criminally investigated, while birth control and sex ed are hard to come by throughout the region. Even in Brazil, abortion is only legal in limited cases, and women whose babies have been born with microcephaly say they’ve been “abandoned by the state.”"

Franzen said the only thing he could to make women happy was die, or retire and stop writing. "Funnily enough, his words were similar to those of considerably less famous Feminspire co-creator Ben Schoen, who this week went on a Twitter meltdown — and then explained in a statement that it was okay because “I have done more for the cause of advancing women’s rights than any of the people who are criticizing me.”"

An article discussing author Jonathan Franzen. " Three years ago, he wrote a New Yorker feature on Edith Wharton that he now describes to the Guardian as “deliriously praising celebration” — and in which he repeatedly made mention of her “one potentially redeeming disadvantage: she wasn’t pretty.” And earlier this year, he snarled that “There’s something about Jennifer Weiner” — the bestselling novelist who regularly uses her social media platform to question the literary world’s gender and genre expectations — “that rubs me the wrong way, something I don’t trust.” He went on to say that “She’s an unfortunate person to have as a spokesperson,” and then proudly declared he’d never read her."

"In 2005, the Woman Abuse Council of Toronto conducted the study Women Charged with Domestic Violence in Toronto: The Unintended Consequences of Mandatory Charge Policies. Researchers interviewed 19 women who were charged with abuse of their intimate partners. Seventeen participants stated they had a history of physical, emotional and sexual abuse by the same male partner. Women in this study felt fearful, coerced, controlled, isolated, dominated, as well as being physically, verbally, and sometimes sexually abused. Ten of the male partners had previous domestic violence charges filed against them. Six of the women called police for protection from their male partner, but instead were arrested."

The article discusses why the reports of domestic abuse against males is higher than what is actually happening: "When misinterpreted, this use of defensive force can result in her wrongful arrest resulting in some very serious, long-term consequences.

According to Mosher, women charged with assault using a weapon are using empty tape dispensers, empty water bottles, or cell phones as a means of defending themselves against their abusers. However, the fact that a "weapon" was used makes this a more serious charge than simpler charges of assault or attempted assault.

By comparison to women, men are more likely to be charged with common assault, and this may be due to the fact that men are usually larger and stronger than their female victims. Post-separation crimes including criminal harassment, uttering threats, and murder are almost exclusively perpetrated by men. This is not surprising because abusers need to maintain power and control over their partners especially after separation."

An article on domestic violence and gender equality. "In Canada, domestic violence accounts for one in four crimes reported to the police. Males are the dominant aggressor in 83 per cent of the cases. Spousal violence is most prevalent amongst 25 to 34 year olds. Fewer than 25 per cent of victims of domestic violence report to police. Every six days a woman is killed by a current or former partner accounting for 16 per cent of all homicides in Canada."

On tumblr.
Boy: I wish more girls liked video games.
Girl: I like video games.
Boy: no you don't. fuck you. what's the length of Mario's inseam.

"if people can ask questions when their face is in your cleavage, then your boobs aren't big enough."

RAs worry about "Secret Feminists Agents." I suddenly feel my calling.

About Trump's treatment of women. "Megyn Kelly, a Fox News presenter, grilled Donald Trump, who is running for the Republican nomination for president, about a series of nasty things he had said about women in the past. She began her question “You’ve called women you don’t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals.” Mr Trump quipped “Only Rosie O’Donnell,” referring to an actress and comedian he has feuded with, and then said that political correctness was one of America’s biggest problems. In a later interview, he attacked Ms Kelly: “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her…wherever.” This sparked a fresh media frenzy, causing Mr Trump’s campaign to say that “only a deviant” would think he was referring to Ms Kelly’s having her period. He later retweeted that she was a “bimbo”. Despite Mr Trump’s later claim—“I cherish women!”—when someone has such a long history of saying such loathesome things, we should apply “misogyny” without qualms."

A man says in regards to feminism: “I think it's really important that you make the movement more welcoming to men.”

"I think your heart is in the right place but you make men feel like patriarchy is all our fault."

“I have more of a problem with the way you confront misogyny than with misogyny.”

"Sometimes I feel like women take sexism so personally, they can't see the issues clearly."

"Let it go, bitches."

"Go be a feminist somewhere else."

A woman scolds other women for not liking the phrase 'belong to my husband' on a shirt. "Half of you who are complaining are not even married so why do you care second when you get married you become one.. The hoodie doesn't say your his property it simply means your taken so back off. I swear you females kill me. Your pissed if a man claims you your pissed if he doesn't claim you.. Proud to be taken by my husband for those of you who have no sense of humor."

A hoodie. It says: "Warning. I belong to my husband. Messing with me can be very dangerous for your health."

Vintage looking book cover of a woman with her shirt undone to suggestively show some cleavage as she stands, arms up leaning on the door of her RV door, her legs positing to give her hips a nice hike on one side. The text around it reads: "Bookmobile bad girl. She gave it away for free all over town!"

Blue background. A woman screen-named as babyzuko writes: "The deeply worrying thing about catcalling is that the catcaller must know that their target isn't going to turn around and fall in to their arms pleading 'oh dear my please have sex with me here and now.' A lot of the time they know that. Often they don't do it for that, someone who shouts 'nice tits' from a van isn't trying to date you. They're trying to humiliate you, reinforce their dominance over you; it's an exercise of male power. It's a way of communicating 'I can say and do whatever I want to you, no matter how inappropriate or how uncomfortable it makes you feel, and you can't do anything about it.' Catcalling is not a compliment, it's a threat."

The Satanic Temple Facebook's picture is a woman with horns, wings, a guitar, with lots of tattoos, and is naked. Instead of nipples there are eyeballs.

Bill Cosby may be able to escape a felony charge because of a deal he made in 2005.

"While weeping in bed that night, feeling utterly betrayed, I realized this wasn’t the first time I had been slut-shamed by my mother. Although I was raised feminist by her, she still taught me to dress modestly, keep my curtains closed when I changed, and basically shield myself from all the men in the world, who had the potential to sexually assault me. Like almost every woman in the world, I grew up with a fear of walking alone at night, of showing cleavage (lest some sex-crazed man think it an invitation to rape me), of being afraid to change in front of a window, or even a turned-off webcam. I realized that she had unknowingly been teaching me how to victim-blame."

A woman talks about being slut shamed by her feminist mother. "The first time my mother learned that I was having sex while single — with multiple partners — we inevitably had an argument. “To me, it’s very unethical,” she said, and I surprised both her and myself by launching into an unexpectedly articulate tirade about how what she had just said was a form of slut-shaming."

An article on the African American women who helped NASA from the early days whom are never spoken of behind the wall of masculinity that most believe NASA to be. "But, in reality, women have been involved behind-the-scenes in planning space flights since the beginning. Just last month, Barack Obama awarded the presidential medal of freedom—America’s highest civilian honor—to a 97-year-old mathematician named Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson. You might not have heard her name in history class, but Katherine did some life-saving work back in 1962. In her job at NASA, she calculated the trajectory for astronaut John Glenn's pioneering space mission to orbit Earth. Katherine co-authored the research and equations that laid out how to send Glenn into orbit and how to bring him back home safely. Johnson is just one part of a cadre of African American women who did crucial calculations for the space workforce during the Cold War. Author Margot Lee Shetterly tells the stories of these women in her new upcoming Hidden Figures: The African American Women Mathematicians Who Helped NASA and the United States Win the Space Race (which is due out from Harper Collins in fall 2016)."

"While the images accompanying the meet-up directions look like promos for a medieval-themed bear night, these paragons of neo-masculinity are just looking for a safe space away from the feminists and queer people that oppress them.

They even have a plan in case “crazy feminists show up.”

“Record them with your camera, upload the footage to Dropbox, and then send it to me at roosh@rooshv.com afterwards so we can tear them up,” Roosh writes."

Article on the Return of Kings. "The followers of Daryush Valizadeh, noted homophobe, misogynist, rape-enthusiast, anti-Semite, friend of Neo-Nazis and alleged sewer-person will be having a global meetup, which includes 10 Canadian cities on that day. Valizadeh, who goes by Roosh V, will be attending the meet-up in Washington DC.

Roosh V is a self-styled seduction expert who holds clinics for wanna-be pick-up artists, all the while promoting his hateful ideology of “neomasculinity” through books and his website, Return of Kings."

'Legal rape' fanboys to host covert meetings in 10 Canadian cities.
Women and LGBT people banned from attending.

The mayor of Ottawa tells Roosh V that his "misogynistic, homophobic garbage" is not welcome in Ottawa.

A group of MRAs meets in queens park on Saturday. What do they want? To legalize rape.