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Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Islamaphobia and MRAs

These two thing have something important in common, generalization.

I believe men's rights activist groups originated as a defensive reaction to accusations by feminists groups on the reality of sexism.  For example, we should tell men not to rape because men do the raping.  I bet that most men do the raping while the victims are both men and women.  I don't have the statistics, but I bet you that percent is over 70%.  Hence, men produce most of the grievances in rape.  But in the total amount of rapes in the US of which most are probably perpetrated by men, many of them are probably serial rapists.  Hence, it is not quantity of men, it's a few men with a quantity of rapes.  But men must accept the facts, that they as a demographic are doing the raping.  Also, we should tell both men and women to not rape because both are capable of doing it and because we already tell them not to murder (at least in Christian schools they do (Thou shall not...)).   This epiphany came when I read a really enlightening Reddit post that said that the problem with men is not all men, it is just a few men who do it all the time.  Nonetheless, where we are today is the fault of both men and women who don't look at the statistics closely: by not thoroughly examining whenever cited in comments how many of rapists are repeat offenders and by not putting numbers into perspective out of the entire population.

 *To clarify: I don't mean that rape statistics are all serial rapists.  I just mean to say that rape statistics aren't analyzed well and that sexism (such as catcalling) is the problem of a few men who do it all the time. 

Just like blaming all men and telling them not to rape because some men choose to rape is Islamaphobia:

Those who hate on Islam and blame its people for not taking responsibility for the terrorist group who kills in its name are of the same mindset as feminists who blame men without carefully analyzing the statistics and still assign blame.  I bet most Muslims do not condone the actions of the terrorist group and if they don't care, it is not in our place to attack them for not caring.  The only acceptable mindset if you do choose to blame them is to also blame yourself if you follow a dogma that has committed atrocities.  For example, if you are Christian, you must blame yourself for the crusade.  I believe many (but not every) become atheists because they did blame themselves, asking the question: "Why would I follow a religion that has killed so many people in the past?" followed with "If this religion killed so many before, what reason do I have to believe it won't do so in the future?"  

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