Stephen M. Weiss: ‘I got banned from Feministing.com’
Stephen M. Weiss, one of my most reasonable and articulate readers, recently wrote:
“I got banned from Feministing.com because I said that punishments should fit the crime in rape cases, not all rapes were equal, and that I was not a troll, rather a concerned citizen using my real name, whereas the hateful defenders of the party line there use weird handles like ‘a male’ and such.
“My wife says it is a waste of time to discuss anything with the radical feminist lunatics because they don’t think, they hate. I note that the number of comments at www.Feministing.com is much smaller than here, and I suspect the conformity bores the heck out of everyone.”
Many readers have written to me about being banned or censored at major feminist blogs and websites, and I’m interested in learning more about your experiences. Where were you banned or censored? What did you post or try to post that was blocked? What was their stated reason, if any, for blocking it or banning you?
Also, to be fair, if readers have had positive experiences posting opposition material on feminist blogs, please let me know. I’d like to credit those feminists who do permit opposition views.
[Incidentally, I have no idea if Weiss' assertion that "the number of comments at Feministing.com is much smaller than here" is true. Feministing.com is a major league blog which has been around considerably longer than mine. As for comments, from January 1 to January 23 (as I write), we've had (not counting spam) 4,377 blog comments, an average of 190 per day and 48 per post. I have no idea what theirs are.]
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Jackal,
See if you can find TABS Take Action Againt Bias in The Media. Ask them to send you an article by Lisa Scott about DV from a Seattle paper a few years ago she discusses the numbers of deaths of males and females – were something like 500 men and 1200 women.
IF you consider that angry men shoot, and angry women poison, or get boyfriend to do it, or hire a hit man, and that the cops look for a guilty guy if they find a dead women but don’t suspect a guilty man… then it’s most likely a hundred or two women get away with it. And some of the men likely went to jail innocently because that happens to men. And some women were never convicted although with the same evidence a man would be in jail. OR, caught, she got off with “Battered Women’s Syndrome” and tears.
Some years, some cities had more men killed than women. Detroit was one. 30 years ago in a college class the feminist “How to Teach Self Defense” teacher (“Kick Their Balls Up To Their Throat” – a woman who didnt want any man to express an opinon, not the 3rd degree black belf friend of mine, or me as an ex cop) Anyway, she told us – when it was pointed out that more men killed themselves – that far more women wanted to but they just didn’t know how guns worked.
She also implied women don’t kill men. I got the FBI stats and found that hundreds of women kill men – I told the students that she would then say – “Oh I am sorry, I guess women are bad too” (just kidding) I suggested she would claim it was self-defense. She did. So I said “Are you now going to tell us that when women want to kill themselves guns are “too mechanical” but when they want to kill husband the can figure out where the bullet comes from?
I am not sure how part of a message ended up sent — but, see if you can find TABS and get the Lisa Scott article about DV
Here is a question I have asked feminists. IF billions of dollars have been poured into DV programs for many years and it’s male deaths that have dropped, maybe you should build shelters and have programs for men and watch women’s death rates drop.
Figure it out. Two people want to kick each others asses, or even kill. Cops come. She gets an easy restraining order even if she was the abuser. She gets the house, kids, cash, … sympathy, counseling, longer welfare if she needs it, and he gets kicked out, … blamed.
She won, big time. She is laughing at the guy. Her urge to beat his ass or kill him goes away as she sips coffee with others in the same boat – therapy, sisterhood, all claiming men are pigs and even if he did catch you maxing out the credit card and banging his best friend, slapping you was … sooo bad. Or, they yelled at each other and he gets arrested because “she feels scared” …
(I am pretty sure that a good number of women in Safehouses lied to the cops. My brother and both his boys when JR. High age knew it was the mom who was violent and he went to jail, another mark on the feminist score board where another man is claimed as batter, women innocent. (Those are the people who say “Just last week we had 14 calls but don’t tell you it’s from the same three women. Worse, rumor from a therapist on the streets, one local woman has had three or four men arrested over the years. (It’s like, just because a woman has been known to make false rape charges doesn’t mean this one wasn’t a real rape… and her past history shouldn’t be brought in?}
… Erwin Pizzey (opened the first safehouse, 70’s, I suspect would agree STILL that often the women in the safe house is as responsible, ir not more so, than the guy being accused – which is why her photo is not hanging on the local safe house wall honoring her as the “Founding mother”)
I would want to shoot my wife if she was abusive, got me arrested, took all the things we had worked for and was smug about it… I wouldn’t do it. But with 300 million people in America, to ONLY have a few hundred men killed and a few hundred women more than that killed – ISN”T about gender. “I’s rare, rare, rare, but feminist act like almost any guy could do it any minute and they are sure that some men have killing coming, but no women do.
Most DV and murder, like many other crimes, comes from lower classes, = survivors of child abuse, drug users, stress about money and work… “It’s not about Testosterone or Estrogen.
Feminist pretend that the male deaths aree self-defense, still, when the information is out there, it isn’t. They pretend that being a woman is dangerous as if hundreds of deaths and thousands of beatings with hundreds of millions of people (Add in that most injuries and deaths of children are from mothers, not fathers, and that son’s are most likely to be injured or killed)
Think about this. Ten’s of thousands of boys are humiliated, beaten, neglected by their mothers and many are ridiculed by female teachers, and then thousands of them end up in war zones, come back with brain injuries, anger, PTSD issues, and ONLY 1,200 women get killed a year. Men are incredible to grow up that way and not do more damage.
I wonder if women could handle growing up with abusive fathers and male teachers running their lives the first 12 years, as boys find… and then put hundreds of thousands of them, if not a million or two in a war, or put them in decades of stressful work conditions, and keep the homicide rates as low as male rates have been. If mothers are beating and killing children as often as they do, it’s not likely that they would show the restraint men have shown with all the pain men have gone through in work and war…
I am not saying women are worse, or inferior, but to pretend, as feminists do, that there is no “innocent” blood on women’s hands is ludicrous. To pretend DV is about gender is a lie from bigots.
Jackal,
The stats for male and female deaths fluctuate. Some years in some cities (Detroit) more men died.
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have to hire 50% female CEO’s in that second paragraph.
If e1 can bear w/me It’s a long post–but I’m going somewhere important.
I got banned from Alas, a blog several years ago. Glenn Sacks posted a link to one of their articles talking about shared parenting or something.
What was interesting is the timing. I was holding my own somewhat. These people really are bunch of intellectual dildos. I posted a comment about bureaucrats, politicians, prosecutors, and social programs all serve feminist (though not necessarily women’s) interests.
One of the poster’s return comments was VERY telling. She said something to the effect of: If feminists really ran the country like you said pharmacists would have to carry the abortion pill whatever they’re belief, and companies would HAVE to hire 50% CEO’s.
My return post was deleted and I was banned, which of course was to comment on her feminist utopia sounding a hell of a lot like a dictatorship. When I found I was banned, I sent another post message asking ampersand:”if your movement can’t weather the storm of open debate maybe it’s time to take a hard look at the views your supporting.”
I was never banned at feministing but I sure got tired of the hosts:” you make me sick” it was endless emoting and vitriol.
that thread was talk about the feminist topic favorite: domestic violence.
The host (I forget her name) stated the following evidence:
In about a 20 year span female deaths from domestic violence have gone down from 1300 to 1100 while men’s have gone down from 1200 to 500. I’m going by memory it may have been female down from 13,000 to 11,000 & men down from 12,000 to 5,000.
Anyway the hosts premise was that these men were dying because the women had to kill them to defend themselves. She was also stating that there was now a reduction in these “defese against DV deaths” because women could now seek help from police instead of killing her aggressive spouse.
Some deductive reasoning shows that this must be false.
One day I was thinking about all of these “witch-hunt” powers that the bureaucracy is trying to write into laws that ONLY apply when women use them exclusively against men.
Some of the laws that have been written that give women these powers are:
ex-parte orders
no-drop charges by the state instead of from the accuser
use of affadavits in domestic violence because it’s too traumatic for the “victim” to see her abuser ( a clear violation of the constitution–how do you cross-examine an affadavit for holes in the story?)
Just to name a few. Anyway I was thinking specifically about the no-drop charges. Why do prosecutor’s use them EXCLUSIVELY in only DV cases?
If they’re SUCH A GREAT IDEA why not use them in other spheres? How many times have we seen movies, or heard media stories that drug dealers keep beating charges (of murder or whatever) because they have the drug money to post bail, and then harass the witness to change their testimony? Why not use no-drop charges in this sphere of law?
Why not institute laws stating they can use the witnesses FIRST testimony even if he/she wants to recant or change their testimony or refuse to cooperate?
I think we all know the reason why. As soon as the drug dealer learned that he was going to jail, or when he got out he would be exacting his revenge upon that witness!
In the same manner the point that Amanda Marcotte is making is false. If men that were AGGRESSIVE ENOUGH to kill were the ones being seized and yanked out of their homes shouldn’t female deaths be on the rise? Can you imagine in the movie “Sleeping with the Enemy” THIS GUY being stopped by an ex-parte or domestic violence order?
These aren’t aggressing men being seized and kicked out of their home! It is aggressing women who NOW can call police and use the police as bully-by-proxie instead of slaying the husband as they would have had to in years past! It seems a reasonable deduction that these are neutered white-collar docile law-obeying men who are the target of these ex-parte orders. Against truly aggressive men that piece of legal paper isn’t going to protect a women any more than no-drop charges would “help” witnesses in drug trials.