{"id":87215,"date":"2016-02-04T07:52:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T15:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=87215"},"modified":"2016-02-04T07:54:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T15:54:12","slug":"87215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=87215","title":{"rendered":"WP: \u2018Neo-masculinists\u2019 cancel worldwide meetups over fears of feminist \u2018mobs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post keeps getting more interesting. This article is pretty fair<\/a>:<\/p>\n

According to his website, Valizadeh grew up in Maryland and attended the state\u2019s flagship university, where he struggled with women. \u201cI was completely incapable of talking to women and creating a sexual vibe that made them want to sleep with me,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

After graduation, he took a job as an \u201cindustrial microbiologist\u201d in the District, where he \u201cstumbled on an underground \u2018game\u2019 community\u201d that taught him to approach women like a math problem, trying out pickup lines and strategies like formulas until one worked.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike a kid in a candy store I read everything I could get my hands on and started communicating with guys who had problems with women like I did,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe first thing I read was that skill with women can be learned, a concept that didn\u2019t make a whole lot of sense to me at the time. I thought you were either born with the ability to sleep with beautiful women or doomed to having an unhappy sex life until your last days.\u201d<\/p>\n

Valizadeh eventually quit his job to write a book called \u201cBang,\u201d an aptly titled \u201ctextbook for picking up girls and getting laid.\u201d He then spent six months traveling South America and trying out his theories, memorialized in another book. Since then, he has written more than a dozen books, often about how to have sex with women in various countries.<\/p>\n

Many of Valizadeh\u2019s tips to readers, however, strike his critics as sexist, offensive, outdated and homophobic.<\/p>\n

\u201cA woman\u2019s value significantly depends on her fertility and beauty,\u201d he lists<\/a> as a tenet of neo-masculinism. \u201cA man\u2019s value significantly depends on his resources, intellect, and character.\u201d<\/p>\n

The name of one of his websites, \u201cReturn of Kings,\u201d sums up much of the neo-masculinist philosophy.<\/p>\n

\u201cMen will opt out of monogamy and reproduction if there are no incentives to engage in them,\u201d he argues. \u201cPast traditions and rituals that evolved alongside humanity served a net benefit to the family unit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Valizadeh is simultaneously arch-conservative (\u201cSocialism, feminism, cultural Marxism, and social justice warriorism aim to destroy the family unit, decrease the fertility rate, and impoverish the state through large welfare entitlements\u201d) and aggressively promiscuous, bragging<\/a> about being in the \u201ctop one percent\u201d of men in terms of the number of women he has bedded.<\/p>\n

Bizarrely, he blames this behavior on women and women\u2019s liberation.<\/p>\n

\u201cElimination of traditional sex roles and the promotion of unlimited mating choice in women unleashes their promiscuity and other negative behaviors that block family formation,\u201d he wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many of these arguments make Valizadeh unpopular, but it is a specific piece of his that has spurred several countries to try to consider banning him altogether.<\/p>\n

That piece, an article titled \u201cHow To Stop Rape<\/a>,\u201d was published online a year ago. It begins by suggesting that the cause of most rapes is not men \u2014 \u201cI don\u2019t know of a single man entering adulthood who thought that rape was good and had to be manually taught it was bad\u201d \u2014 but rather women.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw women wholly unconcerned with their own safety and the character of men they developed intimate relationships with,\u201d Valizadeh wrote. \u201cI saw women who voluntarily numbed themselves with alcohol and other drugs in social settings before letting the direction of the night\u2019s wind determine who they would follow into a private room. I saw women who, once feeling awkward, sad, or guilty for a sexual encounter they didn\u2019t fully remember, call upon an authority figure to resolve the problem by locking up her previous night\u2019s lover in prison or ejecting him from school.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy attempting to teach men not to rape, what we have actually done is teach women not to care about being raped, not to protect themselves from easily preventable acts, and not to take responsibility for their actions,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt was obvious to me that the advice of our esteemed establishment writers and critics wasn\u2019t stopping the problem, and since rape was already on the law books with severe penalties, additional laws or flyers posted on dormitory doors won\u2019t stop this rape culture either.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought about this problem and am sure I have the solution: make rape legal if done on private property,\u201d Valizadeh wrote. \u201cI propose that we make the violent taking of a woman not punishable by law when done off public grounds.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 If rape becomes legal under my proposal, a girl will protect her body in the same manner that she protects her purse and smartphone,\u201d he continued. \u201cIf rape becomes legal, a girl will not enter an impaired state of mind where she can\u2019t resist being dragged off to a bedroom with a man who she is unsure of \u2014 she\u2019ll scream, yell, or kick at his attempt while bystanders are still around. If rape becomes legal, she will never be unchaperoned with a man she doesn\u2019t want to sleep with. After several months of advertising this law throughout the land, rape would be virtually eliminated on the first day it is applied.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the past year, Valizadeh has said several times that his make-rape-legal argument was \u201csatire.\u201d And he has accused media organizations that quote the blog of lying.<\/p>\n

Whatever his intention, the blog post has proved bitterly divisive.<\/p>\n

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@rooshv<\/a> that’s not satire, that’s an open call to rape on the 6th of February.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Eva (@evakalla) February 3, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n