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You're conflating a ton of different cultural issues (3rd wave feminism, UK's censorship fetish, etc) and removing them from their temporal context. Showgirls o
by pharrington 10y ago
You're conflating a ton of different cultural issues (3rd wave feminism, UK's censorship fetish, etc) and removing them from their temporal context. Showgirls only came out 22 years ago; it was regarded as a bad movie, but it didn't generate much outrage.
- tornadoboy55 10y agoSee my sibling comment. If there's so much examples of things going tilted against men in most western countries, shouldn't you say there's at least some common thread across them all, an indicative cause to all these (different) symptoms.
- pharrington 10y agoSee dang's reply. I don't know much about Iceland, so I can't comment there. The UK has a very strong history of banning "socially dangerous" material. Not only did you imagine an outrage against a hypothetical "Magic Melissa," and not only does such a movie actually exist and received none of that outrage, but the whole thought exercise directly contradicts your premise that western culture is obsessed with shaming men. One huge problem, at least in the US, is the cult of social justice. By cult, I mean there is a status hierarchy among the social justice warriors; those at the top consistently shame and abuse perceived enemies, internal and external, and they operate with a high degree of secrecy while putting on a front of transparency (hence the constant Twittering). It is not "women of the west" attacking men, it is SJWs using the old and well understand tactics of high-control groups. Why were self-proclaimed feminists recently attacking Emma Watson and trying to dictate what she is and isn't allowed to do?