That's a double edged sword.
Bear in mind that this guy represented the "most extreme facets of male entitlement". I agree that this conversation needs to happen however, this should not be the catalyst for it.
Why shouldn't it be? Anyone who read the manifesto can see that this was a hate crime against women. Yes there are male victims and I'm not sweeping them under the rug but they were killed simply because he saw them as barriers to what he felt entitled to (women's bodies) and he's not alone. In this kind of weirdo MRA/PUA culture they socialize men to think of the world in these strange labels like "alpha men" and "beta men" they classify women as females and assign them numbers "I saw a chick at a coffee shop she was a high 6 or low 7" they completely objectify women and use them as props to measure their own self worth and this isn't a little group of people this is a huge industry, it's been portrayed on our media, it's all over the internet.
It's just annoying because this is what we have to deal with and we're tired of it. We want to have this conversation and men are either excusing it or reacting with extreme anger and in some cases threatening behavior. The creator of the #yesallwomen hashtag was repeatedly bombarded with racism, sexism and threats of rape just for trying to have this conversation. And it's not rare for this to happen every time a marginalized group tries to speak up we're met with "NOW IS NOT THE TIME GUYS!" well when will the time be? When another girl is stabbed for refusing a kid's invite to prom? When another woman has acid thrown in her face for rejecting a man's marriage proposal? When another woman is raped for being a "cocktease"? When exactly are we supposed to have this conversation?
Edited by Mishelle, 27 May 2014 - 12:01 AM.