Equality Now: “We Should Censor Other Countries”

^agreed. We need to get the more reasonable feminist groups to realize the damage EN is doing to their cause so they too can go against them.

Female equality is pretty much established in North Korea (as it's a communist country). They even have mandatory military service for females. What North Korea lacks is respect for human rights in general.

Also, Equality Now does run projects on real and important issues (like eradicating the practice of female genital mutilation in Africa). Which makes it even sadder that they had to pick a fight with freedom of expression.

Though maybe you're being series, I'd like to think people who comment like that are just being silly and trying to make a joke (although a stale, old, and overused one). But it's really kind of counterproductive to say things like that either way (especially cuz it's not really funny anymore). These feminists have helped out people in the past that were in situations that needed their help. They're human, have rights (to live, especially), deserve to have their opinions, and are most likely acting out of well intentioned beliefs, as much as many of us would hate to admit it. The only kind of things that should be ridiculed here is their misjudgment, possible bias, hypocrisy, and resulting actions in this case.

A profound statement, anon. I can't agree more.

uh, ^ you are just as extremist as they are, and its just as bad. if you want them to change, go about it intelligently. you're just trying to troll them on a site which evidence proves they never bothered to look.

They shouldn't. Equality Now is just being an egoistic, self-righteous hypocrite.

They are being stupid, plain and simple. The US Constitution itself protects freedom of expression, and those feminist Equality Now lunatics don't care about that apparently. Note they don't even bother challenging things of a similar nature in the US itself, because they know they can never win.

For starters, if they pulled this off in the US, they'd be guilty in no uncertain terms of violating the 1st Amendment. Make no mistake.

Not only are they trying to deny those rights, they are insolent and insensitive enough to bully another sovereign nation and indeed a different culture altogether that perhaps understands proper social structures better than they do -- a brief comparison of the crime rates alone shows this.

At this point, they're just getting off on bullying others and feeling important over nothing, which is their entire goal, seeing as they can't and haven't done anything redeeming and of substance, like help solve war hunger or deliver some form of aid to disaster-stricken areas of the globe.

Inul's an old fag! go and fap to Nia Ramadhani please. or Dewi Perssik...

If you're truly concerned, start a local movement for the preservation of freedom of speech and expression, because this fascist wave looks like it's spreading like the H1N1 virus.

No offense, Anon, but most of the folk here are male. It's not that women aren't wanted here, but you know how guys are. I just think Equality Now just goes too far, much like the ACLU.

It's not misogyny, it's just that many people here are extremely pissed off and vent their anger in saying things that sadly come across as misogynistic. It's a grave misunderstanding to think women are not wanted here. The only characteristic you must have in order feel at home here is an interest in anime, manga, H, and/or the occasional weird news.

You're assuming that these people in this thread are all assuming that all women are horrible. Most people here are directing their attacks on the women IN THIS GROUP, Equality Now (though, one thing you can point out here is though, is that not everyone in EN is probably a woman). If someone says "cunts!", they're referring to those specific women, not women in general. In fact, next to no one has directed attacks toward women in general (and even if they did it probably wasn't serious), though some have generalized FEMINISTS, and even then most people use the word FEMINAZI to narrow down who they're referring to.

Women are very welcome here. In fact, women coming here should be incouraged.

Also let it be noted, there are women already here, and even feminists, who aren't/wouldn't hold back on wanting to call these EN women/people something unsavory.

Pfft, give me one reasonable argument, and I'll rend it asunder with exponentially more reasonable arguments. There need not be a crude beating if there be a mental beatdown.

Lol. Yeah, just check their channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/equalitynowyt

It's being raped.

Ah, December 6th: International Marc Lepine Day:

Proper minimum observance:
Burn a white ribbon.

What happened with GTA was that they had to change the rating from M to A, they didn't try to make it so that no one should be able to purchase it!

They cannot handle their own problems, so they want to do anything that would make themselves look busy as a distraction.

Typical.

I've read my fair share of feminist essays, thank you very much.

Obviously there will be many here who don't take this seriously enough to keep their exaggerated comments and "tit for tat", "eye for an eye" views under control. This is sankaku, a place that usually pokes fun at news and the silliness behind it. A lot of people that use words like "whores" and "bitches" are just failing at trying to be funny, or are just too pissed to think properly to realize that they're not helping by saying things like that.

But you're no better for generalizing all of us. A lot of us are respecting their right to be feminists and to have their own views and we're respecting them as fellow humans, but we're just calling them out on their actions which are directly effecting us. Even if our commenting here has to effect on these feminists, maybe they're not even reading these comments at all and are even deleting any emails that oppose them on sight, but we have a right to be here and share and express our views, hopefully at least spreading some awareness and teaching others. There are some useless comments here, but I think most people can tell easily between a comment that shouldn't make a difference if you read or not, and one that deserves a fair chance.

I can tell you’re a female, since you’re being butthurt over things that you really doesn’t seem to able to grasp, to comprehend.

I understand that some girls/moralfag males may be scared, but most people here agree with “normal” feminism ideals, as long they don’t interfere with what doesn’t concern them. They just don’t agree with radical feminism, and are angry at it. This feminism and bitches we speak of are radical feminism and feminists.

inb4 GTFO seriousfags/butthurtfags. This is Sankaku complex, don’t expect people to not try to vent their anger and express serious, pondered, mature opinions which really reflect them and will lead to academic and serious debates of the topic. Know your place.

Kthxbye.

At least some of us are dimly aware that feminism doesn't entirely consist of this, rest assured. That's the reason why half-seriously call that knee-jerk fanaticism femiNAZISM.

And well, yes, that whole bit of news looks almost so much like straw(wo)man feminism that you'd think they're trolling. It would pass as such if they weren't privating the unwashed, fapping masses of useful, huh, content, hence the rage.

It's silly to expect people on a site like this to comment seriously on serious issues, so as much of a good point you may have, you're wasting your time writing. People on these sorts of sites comment for 3 reasons. 1) To get attention. 2) Pure boredom. 3) To point out someone else's mistakes. You and I fall under #3. You're pointing out that they're wrong, I'm pointing out that you telling them that doesn't matter to them. :|

err... if you mean crpibby he was not responding to you but giving his opinion on this article.

^ This.

Also, rape fantasy (note: fantasy) has been a staple of BDSM ever since the dawn of humanity. There are a lot of people who like BDSM, both male and female, so it's quite obvious that erotic fiction dealing with that theme is quite popular. You don't even need to be into BDSM to like rape fantasy, you just have to have a thing for hard sex.

It's perfectly fine if you don't like it. Firstly, you are in the majority there, and secondly, you are entitled to your own likes and dislikes.

Well, if there's more misogynists, then there's more enemies for them to thrive upon right? It plays right into their agenda.

Men don't complain when our GFs wanna do it with another girl either - we only ask that when such occurrences happen we have an opportunity to spectate if possible >:3

exactly, they can't call themselves "equality now" and then proceed to call themselves "feminists". That's like assuming in all cases that women are less equal to men, all over the world, and that in order to achive equality we need to help out women to get their equal rights. They can't see that there are cases the world over where gender has nothing to do with the lack of equality and rights. What about fighting for equal right for poor people versus rich people? In India there are male and female untouchables that can't do things that shouldn't require them to be more wealthy. Feminists only fight for other women, not for the equality of all people, and it's easy to assume that they hold a bias towards women in all cases even when it's the woman at fault.

Exactly. We can't just grin and brush this event under the table... that's what grows and empowers their feminazi antics. Simply ignoring them not only fails, it makes them stronger as you hand them more and more of your personal freedoms and rights. It may be in microscopic portions, but the Grand Canyon wasn't created in a day either.

They need to be addressed in tangible, no uncertain terms. Since rational discussion with this particular group seems hopeless, filing a counter petition, motion, or some form of lobbying *gasp* might be in order.

i think that's old and sankaku already posted about it. this is about what happened later... while the game is not banned in Japan, EN still feels they have made an accomplishment by stopping illusionsoft and amazon from selling the game to potential overseas customers, and they are hoping to go further by eventually getting games like this and others banned in Japan.

Feminists are ugly, at least on the inside pretty invariably when they are talking BS like this 'Equality Now' people are.

The fact is that pornography KEEPS women from being raped, it doesn't MAKE women be raped! That has been proven by so many studies over the years, that it's time for the radical feminists to admit that and shut up.

This has gotten totally ridiculous. The fact is that the feminists are not about 'equality with men' anymore: they are trying to push their anti-sex and anti-freedom agenda so that they can brainwash men and women into thinking that "Sex isn't all it is made out to be!"

These 'feminists' are, by and large, dykes! I hate to put it that way, but from what I have seen, they are dykes who hate men, hate any MENTION of sex, and would be happier in a world with only women!

You know, I shouldn't even have read past the word "sexist" in your post, because that just reveals right off the bat how much of a hypocrite you are. Using the word "sexist" isn't a key that's going to magically open any doors for you.

and oh, WOMEN? They trivialize violence against WOMEN? That's why they need to be banned? But just women? What about the animals? Let's also ban Mario for jumping on turtles (jumping on a turtle in real life is not pretty, mario makes it look like fun! Kids everywhere are going to try and stomp turtles now so that they can use it's shell to attack other enemies!). PETA would be fuming if they found out about such an atrocity. What about all those games where you can kill and/or harmless NPCs (virtual men and women) with anything from gory results to trivial results like what happens with the turtles in mario? What about Soul Calibur 4, where you can "sexualize" a male or female character to however you see fit? I bet if it only let you customize men, you wouldn't complain, but if it just let you customize women, all hell would break loose.

When women are specifically virtually harmed, it's far more atrocious and must be promptly dealt with? Women need to be treated equally, which means they need to be treated more sacred than other people, creatures, and things in games, thus making things more fair and equal.

Also yes, a man-raping game would sell. There already is at least one, which someone has shared with us in this page (or was it the last one?), and it's still on the market.

To top it off... ir's VIRTUAL. IT'S A GAME. It's purpose is not to trivialize actual rape of women. It wasn't created for that purpose. Sane people who play rapelay can still tell the difference between virtual rape and actual rape. You're insulting players of rapelay and such games by saying they're not intelligent enough to play a game like that without realizing it isn't actual rape. You're insulting gamers by saying we can't tell the difference between reality and virtual reality. I bet you beleive that people who enjoy rapelay also now enjoy watching rape occur in a serious film, because you beleive rapelay has made them rape hungry D:

And if the virtual world freaks you out so much already, consider the future, when men and women everywhere will be able to virtually act out anything they want to, and far more realistically and untrivialized.

Nice trolling there!

7/10

Jesus, yes, what rocks have you guys been living under? Or rather what caves have you been living in? You think you're so witty and cool with the inane rhetoric but you really have no idea how asinine you come across. I can picture each and every one of you actually, from the ones who cannot spell and resort to shitty language, to those who think that feminists are to blame for their lousy sex lives. News flash, fellas.....teeny brains are not exactly alluring, not to mention general stupidity and ignorance. Maybe you should design a game that does to men (and boys) what Rapelay does to women and girls. Wouldn't last a day on the open market. Jackasses.

I would tolerate a game with the same kind of violence against anybody or anything because it's a fucking GAME douchebag.

Yes, I would tolerate it. They should make a holocaust game about gay Nazi on Jew rape. It would be magnificent.

If people don't like it then don't buy it or advertise it, but we shouldn't outlaw it.