Did the men gain much from the experience? A heightened sensitivity, perhaps, to the plight of women constantly subjected to violence at the hands of men?
Judging from their comments, the men seemed more intrigued about the whole inane process of walking around in heels.
"I kept my chest up and my abs in and relaxed my legs and it worked out pretty good," said student Chris Wilkins.
"I give props to the girls and women all around the world who wear heels because that's a lot of work," added Jabin Sambrano, also a student at the University.
In fact, the men gained nothing.
Is it any wonder? The truth is, the event is merely an opportunity for UM's Student Assault Resource Center to justify its existence and to publicize the "fact" that rape is rampant even though it isn't; for young men to act like clowns and, for once, to be applauded for it; and for young women to be entertained by the young men acting like clowns.
It would be downright shocking if this or similar events ever prevented a single sexual assault from occurring because: (1) prancing around in high heels and similar useless stunts has nothing to do with preventing sexual assault; and (2) the vast majority of young men who strutted their stuff and who participate in such events are highly unlikely to ever rape a woman. That's the truth, and sorry to throw cold water on the circus.
If we want to curb sexual assault, we need to teach our young people the truth, but the truth doesn't jibe with the current rape meta-narrative that holds only one gender responsible for stopping it.
We need to teach both young men and young women that the alcohol-fueled hook-up culture is a disaster for too many young people. Unfortunately, the prevailing feminist mantra is for young women to "party like the guys," without bothering to tell them about the "regret asymmetry" that separates the genders.
Young people generally do not understand that women experience much greater after-the-fact regret than men do. Sometimes feelings of regret are translated into feelings of "being used," and sometimes feelings of "being used" are misinterpreted or purposefully misconstrued as "rape."
Asking the police, a judge, or a jury to sort out what happened in an alcohol-fueled tryst based on a "he said/she said" account puts an impossible burden on our law enforcement and judicial apparatuses. Nobody ever wins in that scenario.
The sad, politically incorrect fact of the matter is that the high heels spectacle targeted the wrong people. There is no "rape culture"; there is no "rape continuum." Rape is committed by social deviants, not the nice boy next door. It is almost a certainty that none of the charming young buffoons who strutted around in women's heels yesterday will ever rape a woman. And here's the scary part: those innocent young men have precisely zero ability to stop a rapist from taking advantage of a young woman.
The sad, politically incorrect fact of the matter is that young women have far more power to stop rape than innocent young men by not putting themselves in situations where rape is more likely to occur.
The sad, politically incorrect fact of the matter is that young women are being taught that they are little more than leaves in the wind, not free moral agents with the ability and the responsisibility to protect themselves.
In every other sphere of life, women insist they not be treated as helpless pawns waiting to be rescued by the handsome prince; in the bedroom, however, the prevailing feminist narrative insists women are more passive than the most distressed of Disney damsels, helplessly waiting for Prince Charming to rescue them from rape.
Well, I've got news for them: their Prince Charmings were the guys strutting around the UM campus in heels yesterday. Trust me -- they can't end rape. And we cannot empower our daughters by pretending they are powerless.
Now, next year, how about having a Walk a Mile in His Jockstrap to raise awareness about the fact that it is innocent young men, not young women, who need to "take back the night"? That's because it is beyond dispute that innocent men are more vulnerable to the criminals than innocent women. Check out a source even feminists could not dispute, J. Friedman, J. Valenti, Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape (2008) at 23: "Men are 150 percent more likely to be the victims of violent crimes than women are. . . . . Men are more likely to be victimized by a stranger (63 percent of violent victimizations) . . . ."
Sources: http://www.kaj18.com/news/um-men-put-on-high-heels-for-a-good-cause/# and
http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/27139836/detail.html
If you liked this post, see this one: http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2011/03/annual-male-shame-fest-take-back-night.html
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Great, great post, Archivist. I applaud you.
"A heightened sensitivity, perhaps, to the plight of women constantly subjected to violence at the hands of men?"
The boys grew in stature to physically see their world perspective increase by a couple inches. Heels for everyone!
What political stupidity is next; Dress in drag for a year?
That's right, Atlas.. That's about the extent of it.
Thanks, Anon. I grow wearing of this sort of publicity stunt where the sexual grievance industry justifies its existence by using men as buffoons.
Hmm. When Peta girls get naked for a cause, feminists have a fit. Making boys look stupid, and shaming them as potential rapists, is OK, though.
Now, I could go for the "Walk a Mile in His Jockstrap" next year. Maybe let the more modest girls wear bras, too.
No, girls wearing jocks, that's all.
I'm envisioing girls in jocks and heels. Talk about raising awareness. And other things.
Yes, well that's a little off topic, but I admit the idea crossed my mind.
You know, perhaps if we get men reclassified as animals, the PETA women would protest on our behalf. Would that satisfy you?
Those men are losers!
I think the men just did it because everyone else was doing it.
Some would call them "manginas," but in this context, my guess is they are just being part of the crowd, and having fun. Pierce is right, they aren't sexual assault activists.
Those men are traitors to themselves and to society. When a man puts on high heels or a bra "in protest" he is literally saying, "I discard my masculinity and offer myself as an object of contempt for feminists and manginas."
Foolish tools of the sexual grievance industry.
Spineless, dickless guys who head their fraternities cajole their stupid members to for shit like this.
P.S. Did I mention "ball-less"? Especially "ball-less."
College guys just do what they are told. They are told rape is an epidemic, so they wear high heels. Yeah, it's pretty fucked up, but some of them do care enough to research the issue. When they find out it's not true, we've got another convert.
"Young people generally do not understand that women experience much greater after-the-fact regret than men do. Sometimes feelings of regret are translated into feelings of "being used," and sometimes feelings of "being used" are misinterpreted or purposefully misconstrued as "rape"...
The sad, politically incorrect fact of the matter is that young women have far more power to stop rape than innocent young men by not putting themselves in situations where rape is more likely to occur."
So a better way to put it is that young women have far more power to stop situations that are are misinterpreted or purposefully misconstrued as "rape", even putting aside that it's women who are doing this misinterpreting and misconstruing after the fact.
Worse, college feminists teach young women that if they do regret a decision, then they were not able to make that decision -- because they were drinking, pressured, not free to decide due to "rape culture", male privilege, or whatever. It tells these women that if they make a bad decision, then it wasn't their fault. That women should not be held accountable for their sexual choices. That adults are not responsible for their own behavior as long as they are female.
The other thing is that parading around in heels does nothing to protect these young men. The Heather MacDonald article tells the story of a young man who started an anti-rape organization on his campus, then was later expelled after the college decided when according to her own story, another student took off her clothes, climbed into bed with him, and handed him a condom, wasn't consensual enough for them.
Anon, when I was talking about women have more power to control their destiny, I was, of course, talking about situations where actual rape might occur. But your point is dead on.
Her lies could cost taxpayers more than $30 million.
A construction worker who served almost four years in the slammer on bogus rape charges filed suit against the city yesterday over his nightmarish ordeal.
William McCaffrey's Manhattan federal-court filing seeks $20 million in compensatory damages and another $10 million to punish authorities for what he calls "conduct . . . so outrageous as to exceed the bounds of all common and civilized decency."
McCaffrey, 34, charges in court papers that cops knew he didn't inflict bite wounds on purported victim Biurny Peguero, but that they actually came from a drunken dust-up with her girlfriends after a night of club-hopping.
VICTIMS, REAL AND FALSE: William McCaffrey was falsely accused by Biurny Peguero of raping her.
"Aware that this fact would provide an alternate explanation for the cause of Ms. Peguero's injuries, defendants . . . told the young women that the true nature of their fight was insignificant and instructed them not to mention it," says the suit, which names police and prosecutors.
McCaffrey also alleges that prosecutors "impugned" his "truthful evidence" regarding the bites in front of jurors, then sat on Peguero's recantation of her false allegations for two months after learning she had confessed to her priest.
In addition, court papers say prosecutors "continued to oppose McCaffrey's release" despite defense DNA testing that proved one of Peguero's friends, Aurora Pujols, had bitten her.
"As a result of these actions . . . McCaffrey served at least five additional months in prison before he was finally released on Sept. 1, 2009," his suit says.
Peguero, 28, was sentenced last year to up to three years in prison after pleading guilty to perjury for framing McCaffrey.
The mother of two admitted concocting her claims of a knifepoint sex attack after her friends got angry at her for ditching them to hang out with McCaffrey in his car.
City lawyer Muriel Goode-Trufant said the city had not yet been served with McCaffrey's suit, but noted that "it obviously involves serious allegations and we'll review it thoroughly."
bruce.golding@nypost.com
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/fake_rape_suit_CgL3qftvLo7xLSYy5E1n5H#ixzz1GDerieDw
http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-guy-talk-how-mens-rights-activists-get-feminism-wrong/
The above is a feminist moron, claiming that MRAs are angry because we try to live up to "an impossible masculine ideal" (which presumably would involve not wearing high heels like these dorks!).
Got it, buddy. It has nothing to do with false rape accusations or being deprived of any parental rights whatsoever or being told to keep it in our pants while women are told "it's your body; your choice." It's not your fault, it's OURS.
What an ass clown.
I've noticed a pattern with manginas: every time we raise any one of their issues they compare us to drug addicts, slackers, etc -- people who never accept responsibility for their own behavior.
These "men" -- who never, ever tell women to take responsibility for their own actions, EVER -- have the nerve to lecture us about responsibility!
The reason we blame feminists for our problems is because FEMINISTS REALLY DID CAUSE THOSE PROBLEMS, thank you very much!
And that is their reaction no matter what the issue is. A rational person who disagreed with us would address our issues one at a time with facts -- or so you would think.
Not the Uncle Toms! We are automatically wrong and the vagina is always right, simply because we're men and they're women. These hypocrites who preach equality with every wasted breath they take always apply this double standard in every situation, without even referencing any facts.
"MRAs are angry because we try to live up to 'an impossible masculine ideal.'"
Really? I'm angry because of the harsh and byzantine ways our purportedly enlightened society not only tolerates but tacitly encourages rape lies as the price of battling rape, without regard for the terrible harm to the men and boys falsely accused.
But, then again, that's me.
god, even I don't really like wearing heels. I spent the better part of 5 years wearing motorcycle boots almost exclusively, and have only recently started being able to feel comfortable in heels.
I feel sorry for the young men who got suckered into this insane stunt. They've been told all their lives that they have to do something to stop rape.
"Walk a mile in her shoes", you mean the shoes that let her make a false rape accusation if she's so much as late for work, and very rarely be held accountable??
Gays and transvestites don't rape women.women and girls are being raped behind every closed door in America, so if we can liberate more gays, lesbians, and trans-gendered folks, that will help the ease the "culture of rape" in America.
But what if this so called "culture of Rape" is a lie that has been "manufactured through perversion".
How about we ask women to Walk a Mile in His Handcuffs -- have them walk handcuffed through campus escorted by a cop, as has happened to so many young men falsely accused of rape.
Better yet: Walk a Mile in His Penile Plethysmograph -- and have walk around with a a "peter meter" device attached to their panties. That's one of the barbaric devices that too many men falsely accused of rape end up having to endure (it's a sort of junk science penis lie detector).
Walk a mile in her shoes so you realize why she'd go angry all the time. Answer: it's because high-heels are freaking uncomfortable.
Actually, if men walked a mile in her shoes the feminists would accuse us of wanting to keep them barefoot in the kitchen.
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