I thought the concept entertaining, up until I read the bit about "rape causing little to no long lasting harm to the victim". Shame, this could have been a fun, if weird and selfish, thing.
Consider that the author writes "they point to" which implies it's a universal among MGTOWs. Is it really a tenet of MGTOW belief? Is it likely that a large number of people feel that way? I doubt it. It sounds like an extreme minority opinion.
It's the opinion of one poster named "Supremo," yet the author presents it as the opinion of the MGTOW movement.
And if you read the responses, you'll find many people disagree with it.
So don't let this single, secondary source make up your mind for you. Do your own due diligence.
Any movement, tendency or idea that seeks to "change things" is always immediately attacked with suspicion. Think of when the iPod or Dropbox came out! It's just people testing the authenticity and sincerity of the beliefs.
I clicked on the link given in the article and read the opinion piece and the following comments. From my reading, this article totally misrepresented the views of the community on this issue.
Yes, the person who wrote the opinion piece linked to made that exact argument, but many of the commenters disagreed and said the crimes were as bad as each other.
So saying this is one of the views of the group as a whole seems disingenious at best. At worst, a blatant lie.
As a disclaimer - I have never heard of this group before so have no skin in the game.
To quote that in its entirety: “[Rape] ends in just a few minutes with little-to-no harm caused to the victim. Meanwhile, false accusations of rape have a long-term and much more devastating impact on the victim.” - That's really sick.
Yeah, and burglary ends in a few minutes with the victim not even being there. Meanwhile, I have friends who now are having trouble sleeping just because of the mere idea of violation to their personal space.
I don't know what the author was thinking writing the above, but wow.
The author showed his or her bias with this. There are lots of sexists and idiots on the internet talking about anything. It's fine if the author wanted to discuss systemic issues of sexism in MGTOW, but quoting a single douchebag like he somehow speaks for all men learning MGTOW is stupid.
chillingeffect|9 years ago
In fact, if you search for the phrase, you'll find it posted here: https://www.mgtow.com/forums/topic/why-false-rape-is-far-wor...
It's the opinion of one poster named "Supremo," yet the author presents it as the opinion of the MGTOW movement.
And if you read the responses, you'll find many people disagree with it.
So don't let this single, secondary source make up your mind for you. Do your own due diligence.
Any movement, tendency or idea that seeks to "change things" is always immediately attacked with suspicion. Think of when the iPod or Dropbox came out! It's just people testing the authenticity and sincerity of the beliefs.
zzalpha|9 years ago
And then they poison the well with that absurdity...
Digit-Al|9 years ago
Yes, the person who wrote the opinion piece linked to made that exact argument, but many of the commenters disagreed and said the crimes were as bad as each other.
So saying this is one of the views of the group as a whole seems disingenious at best. At worst, a blatant lie.
As a disclaimer - I have never heard of this group before so have no skin in the game.
div0|9 years ago
StavrosK|9 years ago
I don't know what the author was thinking writing the above, but wow.
whamlastxmas|9 years ago
Icedcool|9 years ago