Certain feminists are also doing a great job in gendering the whole freaking issue and making it very difficult for any man who was sexually assaulted to be believed. Or it can strike fear into men who got into sexual situations without consenting themselves, and then worrying and freaking thinking that they are the rapist, especially if alcohol is involved and both parties are drunk. It also doesn’t help when everyone tells men that they always want to have sex, and no one tells them how to say no, or that they even can so no, if the other party initiates the activity.
- Mod Helga

I will say it again this is really fucked up, sad, and incredibly depressing but sadly not at all surprising.

moral panics are so very empowering of women

I don’t blame those men in the least.  They’re now having to alienate themselves as protection from having their lives potentially ruined.  A few things to note here:

• False accusations of rape are at an all time high, and do a lot more damage to a person’s life than those abusing the term of “feminist” would have us believe.  The “feminists” of tumblr  alone have shown us multiple goddamn times that they are not at all above fabricating their own false stories of assault just to “prove” a point.
• The “statistic” being passed around regarding rape is not only false, but completely and utterly outlandish.  The woman who conducted the original surveys the “1 in 4” nonsense came from did so with a very extreme bias, and disregarded the actual feelings of the women she questioned.  Not only were consensual one-night-stands that the subjects later regretted considered to be “rape”, but this article notes that even a kiss was classified as “sexual assault”.  When you have to lie about the prevalence of a crime, you’re not doing women any favors.
• RAINN - the leading organization dedicated to helping victims of rape, has openly discouraged “rape culture” from being taught on college campuses, because it takes attention away from the people that are truly responsible for rape: the rapists.
  
• More men are statistically the victims of violent crime and murder than women.  In fact, men are at least three times more likely to be victims of crime than women.  Even in domestic violence, at least 40% of the victims are MEN, with WOMEN AS THE ABUSERS.  Also, recent reports from both Harvard and the CDC have discovered that up to 40% of all rape is carried out by women.
• Acts of violence are not a product of our culture - they are a product of a lack of function in the brain, particularly the pre-frontal cortex.  No form of joke of any kind is going to damage a person’s brain.  You could bombard a man with violent imagery of rape and murder, but mere image and suggestion is not going to disable the functioning of the pre-frontal cortex.  This area of the brain is responsible for controlling our impulses.  For most human beings, this keeps us from acting out against what we’ve learned to be the appropriate behavior in our society.  Time and again, science has shown us that the brains of violent criminals are not the same as those of the average person.
  
  The people that commit rape lack the empathy to connect with their actions towards others.  They are more than likely already well aware that what they’re doing is wrong.  They simply do not have that little voice in the back of their head that tells them not to actually do it.  What they AREN’T, however, is a product of “rape jokes”, nor the fault of the media.  The kind of people with the capability to commit rape are not going to be influenced not to do so by any amount of banners and signs.
• On top of the differences found in the brains of convicted criminals, there is also the fact that male and female brains are not wired the same.  There is a part of the brain that connects the two hemispheres  (the corpus callosum) that is smaller in boys than in girls.  Now, studies have frequently shown that violent criminals are also usually the products of broken homes, and childhood abuse.  Such abuse actually reduces that part of the brain even further in boys, while such an effect is not shown to occur in girls that endure abuse at a young age.  It is this part of the brain that effects how they cope with stress and trauma at their earliest points in life.  The way that we treat little boys as essentially emotionless is weakening their psyche, NOT “toughening them up” like we think it does.
  
  Violent criminals are not manufactured by society.  They are manufactured by THEIR OWN, PERSONAL HISTORY AND BIOLOGY.
  
  Here are even more resources for further reading:

  http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/may/12/how-to-spot-a-murderers-brain

  http://www.businessinsider.com/murder-brain-scan-2013-5

  http://www.livescience.com/13083-criminals-brain-neuroscience-ethics.html

  http://chronicle.com/article/Can-This-Man-Predict-Whether/127792

  http://www.bbc.com/news/health-15386740

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128116806

  http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/840.html

  http://science.time.com/2013/05/03/evil-brain/

  http://articles.courant.com/2012-12-06/news/hc-jusino-1207-20121206_1_murder-conviction-second-murder-brain

  http://www.salon.com/2014/03/09/this_is_your_brain_on_murder_what_the_mind_of_a_psychopath_looks_like/

  http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2034&context=fac_pubs

This glorified mass hysteria known as “rape culture” has now finally driven men and women farther apart than ever before.

Now, someone please explain how this is encouraging gender equality, because—maybe I need to get my eyes checked—but I’m just not seeing it.  I’m also not seeing anything that could even remotely be considered “empowerment”.  All I am seeing is resentful women passive-aggressively lashing out in sociologically harmful ways over their own lack of understanding of others, perpetuating unsubstantiated widespread panic, alienating themselves from men even further than they already had, and basically trying to force women to live in a constant state of subservient fear.

If that’s anyone’s idea of “empowerment”, or “protecting” women, then please - keep it to yourselves from now on, because we’re better off without it.

"All according to keikaku", grins a tumblr femnist under the long, dirty locks that fall over her pimpled face. She pets her 15th rescued stray cat, and prepares to write a lenghty post how men being afraid of women is a good thing. "Soon everyone will be just as lonely as we are, Miss Snufkins." she says to her cat before shooing the beast away from her keyboard.