{"id":3513,"date":"2018-12-03T11:53:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T18:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2018-12-03T11:53:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T18:53:33","slug":"the-criminalization-of-masculinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3513","title":{"rendered":"The Criminalization of Masculinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_29\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Police investigators typically estimate false accusations of rape as running between forty and fifty percent of the total. Deception is, after all, the natural weapon of the sex which cannot get its way by force. Motivations for false accusations include providing an alibi, seeking revenge, obtaining sympathy and attention, gaining custody of children, extorting money from celebrities and, in the gender-neutral military, avoiding deployment to war zones. Feminists vigorously oppose any prosecution of false accusers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_30\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Confronted with proof of widespread malfeasance, public officials typically complain that the justice system is \u201coverworked and underfunded.\u201d This is clearly a self-serving argument; as Baskerville points out, \u201cif they simply stop accusing innocent men, they would no longer be overworked and underfunded.\u201d We may expect wrongful convictions to continue for as long as officials owe their jobs to ensuring that they do. Rape accusations are \u201ca thriving bureaucratic enterprise that can create business for itself by encouraging hysteria.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_31\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><strong>Harassment<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_32\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Refraining from casual sex does not protect a man, who may still be accused of \u201csexual harassment.\u201d This expression, which first appeared in print in 1978, originally referred to the misuse of positions of authority to extort sexual favors. Of course, as Baskerville notes, such behavior has always been contrary to codes of professional conduct, and women have long been defended in such situations by male relatives: \u201cnothing indicates the hysteria over \u2018harassment\u2019 is a necessary but excessive response to a real problem; from the start it was another ideological power grab, using sexual dynamic and government power to emasculate and feminize.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Just avoid feminists.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3514 size-post-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/feminists1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"137\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/the-criminalization-of-masculinity\/\">The Criminalization of Masculinity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police investigators typically estimate false accusations of rape as running between forty and fifty percent of the total. Deception is, after all, the natural weapon of the sex which cannot get its way by force. 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