Those are the kinds of choices 4 sick criminals in Brandon Manitoba made. They deserve no mercy. Painting with a broad brush is unhelpful.

Dana,

Fair enough – so then the lesson learned is that riding home with strangers will result in a gang rape. Those are the kind of choices that Canadian men are making.

Don’t get into cars with strangers. I was taught that when I was 3or 4. I deeply hope the police service in that town have a good lead on those guys. And that woman can receive some closure.

Liza,

What lesson should she have learned before the event exactly?

In answer to your question, no, I don’t think you victim blame at all. Not what I meant. I thought you might take what I said as victim blaming.
That is why I said,"If you call that slut blaming, then I feel sorry for you " or anyone else who thinks I was.
I don’t believe in the premise that we live in a rape culture.
I do hope those four who brutally violated your friend get put away for a long time. I hope she is going to be alright.

I’m sorry you took that as hostility Marty. I hope things work out.

Liza, stop with your idiotic hostility. I know more of the story, but since this is before the cops and courts, understand I can only say so much.

Do you think I victim blame?! Really?

Go fuck yourself!

“Yes I know”?
There are bad people out there, you’re talkin Brandon Manitoba , there is a whole other layer to consider. Bad, its bad. That is no reason to tag Canadian males in general with a rape culture label. No reason. Illogical and unfair.

Your friend needs assistance, do what you can. Cut the crap and don’t pretend this is some kind of new epidemic. This stuff has been happening for millennium. It is criminal and disgusting, but it is not a rape culture to pin on all males.
Those four strangers need to go to jail, no pass.
Your friend will probably never put herself in harms way again. Too bad she couldn’t have learned that lesson before this event.
If you call that slut blaming, then I feel sorry for you.
Help your friend.

Yes I get feminism has run amok, but let me tell you how a friend of mine’s Saturday went. This is not a piece of fiction:

- picked up for a ride home by 4 strangers (yes I know…)
- taken to a house outside Brandon Manitoba and roofied.
- gang-raped until she sobered up where she had to jump out a 2 storey window and hide in ditches with nothing but a blanket on.
- made it home, reported it and now we wait for the investigation. due to that investigation, this is all I will say right now.

She already has faced victim blaming (reference my first point) and slut shaming. It hasn’t even been 2 days!

Please, I get radical feminism is a blight, but please, Lauren. Do tell me how there is absolutely no rape culture in the West…

I would love to hear your response!

Brilliant Takedown Of Lauren Southern

Part 1

https://everydaygeopoliticshouston.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/a-reply-to-lauren-southerns-why-im-not-a-feminist/

Part 2

https://everydaygeopoliticshouston.wordpress.com/2015/05/03/feminist-discussion-post-2-the-wage-gap-intersectionality-and-the-white-privilege-of-liberal-feminism/

Lauren got her ass handed to her – that she quit the debate.

Emilio,

Thanks – I will certainly take your suggestion under advisement.

Jimmy Da Silva,

Excellent! Then I suggest you spend more time with your support group and less time insulting and belittling people on this board. Don’t forget to bring your crayons!

Emilio,

Since I am surrounded by people who are like me – both in my personal life and professionally, it’s all good. Thanks for coming out.

Jimmy Da Silva,

Well at least you have acknowledged your personal issues. That is a good start. Don’t forget to shower or deodorize yourself. Since your head has been lodged in your posterior for quite some time it will be quite pungent. Once you have reflected upon your own words and actions I am certain you will see the error of your ways. To quote the great Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.”
I wish you luck in your future endeavors.

Emilio,

Thank you for your kind concern, but should really worry about yourself. I debate with OTHER people here just fine. To quote Seinfeld – it’s not me, it’s you.

KEEP CALM

AND

NARCISSIST ON

Jimmy Da Silva,
I am so glad to hear that you have the support of friends and family who can put up with your childish behavior in your time of need. I strongly urge you to seek help from your nearest mental health professional. Can’t you see that you blindly attack others with personal attacks on a continuous basis? I think everyone regardless of their political stripe will agree with me that your behavior is brutish, childish and completely indicative of someone with a narcissistic personality disorder. As for questioning my intelligence I cite the following works which would indicate, based upon your writing, word choices and cursing so far, that it is you and not I who is lacking in intelligence and comprehension skills and as such you are projecting your insecurities upon me:

Rozin, P. (2006). Domain denigration and process preference in academic psychology. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1, 365-376.
Stephens, R., Atkins, J., & Kingston, A. (2009). Swearing as a response to pain. NeuroReport, 20, 1956-160.
Code, C., Wallesch, C.W., Joanette, Y., and Lecours, A.R. (1996). Classic Cases in Neuropsychology, Lawrence Erlbaum, Hove.
Davis, M. and Whalen, P.J. (2001). The amygdala: vigilance and emotion. Molecular Psychiatry. 6: 13-34.

Jimmy, please extricate your head from your posterior, de-odorize yourself, seek help and then come back to debate once you are ready to wear your big boy pants and act like a proper adult.

Mic Drop

Liza,

If people saw me the way that you see me – I wouldn’t have a wife, friends, business associates, etc…unless they like/love who I am.

But it’s cool – your opinion means less than nothing and you have disliked me from the get go, so your view isn’t surprising.

I rather doubt it. It is part of the disorder, you know, thinking that.

Liza,

Then I must be surrounded by people who have a personality disorder – since my wife, friends, family, work associates and countless people OUTSIDE of The Rebel online are just like me.

Personality disorder with out a doubt. The hardest to treat.

Emilio,

No need to worry about me – I will be just fine. You should be more concerned about yourself considering your problems with comprehension, the lack of intelligence that you are showing and the fact that you are incredibly uptight. Seriously man – move on. It would be for the best with someone like you.

Jimmy Da Silva:
I am quite concerned for you as you have proven time and again that you may be suffering from a narcissistic personality disorder. Please take your medication if you have it and if not I would strongly recommend that you seek assistance from your nearest mental health specialist. The following symptoms from psychcentral.com clearly describe your behaviour:

In order for a person to be diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) they must meet five or more of the following symptoms:

1. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
2. Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
3. Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
4. Requires excessive admiration
5. Has a very strong sense of entitlement, e.g., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
6. Is exploitative of others, e.g., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
7. Lacks empathy, e.g., is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
9. Regularly shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes

The following link may be of help to you: https://youtu.be/vjaeBMseW3o

Jimmy, I am quite concerned for your mental well being. Please seek the help that you so desperately need.

Paul Taalman, that is the part I don’t get, do they all hate their brothers, fathers, sons! It is such an unhealthy unnatural ridiculous generalization.

That guy at the end though… Until he is falsely accused of rape. Goodness. Innocent until proven guilty, but not if you are potentially guilty of rape? Yikes. Please tell me that the majority of people at that walk understand the concept of a fair trial.

Jack,

No – that was what the judge said in his ruling.

I have indicated the news sources with a liberal slant numerous times.

Jimmy,

So you MUST go to Journo school to be a journalist?

So basically what you are saying is left-wing journalists at Torontoist, NOW Toronto, Matt Elliot from Metro News and the rest of the online/digital media are not real journalists?
You have this obsession with pointing out BIAS on Conservative media but you never mention tjhe bias from

Torontoist’s David Hains, Desmond Cole
Globe & Mail’s Hamutal Dotan
Jonathan Goldsbie, Matt Elliot
and the whole left-wing/NDP that get to write on digital media because they are friends with the owners/Editor in chief/Publishers.

Paul.

I never said you lied – I just wanted to see your work. You can think whatever you want – but Lauren Southern is not a journalist. She is a commentator with a tabloid mentality. Lauren is not there to get the story – she is there to BE the story. It’s all about her. That’s not journalism and she isn’t doing what you have done.

The very fact that Ezra has gone out of his way to indicate that he is not a journalist – but a commentator and pundit proves my point. He knows that he doesn’t break major news stories or do any kind of investigative journalism – he mostly just comments on work that other people have done in the media almost like a movie critic providing their like or dislike to a movie.

Jimmy, my pundit days were about 8 years ago, I’m currently trying to get Cape Breton Concrete to forward to myself a copy of their video as mine is lost in VCR tape land somewhere. However, the CBC’s webpage with my intro and blog entries are here: http://www.cbc.ca/saskvotes2007/blog/rosetown.html but really, thanks for trying to call me a liar, prick. I was the news director of the home radio station for the leader of the opposition. A few hundred votes going the other way in 2 constituencies and I would have been the go to guy for the premier after that election. Every politician I talked to thought of me as a journalist, CBC called me a journalist, and the guy who ran the school I took broadcasting in called me a journalist. I’ll take their label over yours, as by your definition I was apparently something else. You see, I never got a degree in journalism. I took a 15 week course in a private school in Saskatoon, and went on to take jobs away from people who did have degrees in journalism, because I was more of a … wait for it … JOURNALIST! I went on to work for several years as a journalist, for several organizations, all of whom thought of me as a journalist. Now here you are informing me, and hundreds of others who work in or near the industry, that we were all wrong. Now, commentators. A commentator is someone who provides perspective on a situation. By definition their focus is small and usually biased. Ezra calls himself that, but he’s being minimalist in his self-appraisal. I’ve never heard Lauren or any other contributor here refer to themselves as commentators. Glen Suitor is a commentator for the CFL, for example. They’re all still journalists. Have they provided to the public a news story, that is a story about something new or with new details or insight? Yes, on all counts. Do they have an audience? Yes, they do. Or take the literal definition; one who journals. That would include just about everyone.
So, where’s your bona fides Jimmy? What school did you get your journalism degree in? What right do you have to pass judgement or assign labels? You know what Jimmy? Just listen for the doorbell. That would be your credibility, trying to hook up with you.

Good work Lauren.
If we live in a “Rape Culture” as they say, did it ever occur to them then that their father, brothers, uncles, grand fathers, sons – all males, are then “Rapists” and that they too then are a product of “rape” as their mother must have been raped for them to have been born…unless of course, they were conceived by immaculate conception but I doubt they would believe in that as well…

It looks a lot like Woodstock, and I can gather the only men there are either gay or hoping there’s going to be a big party afterwards with lots of half naked women. If you want to be associated with a derogatory word, mission accomplished. How that improves the dialogue, totally unsure. I support your right so fill your hat.