Equality Now’s Lies Exposed
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Oct 1, 2009 16:05 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Eroge, Feminism, Internet, Politics, Raep, Sankaku Complex, USA
Notorious pro-censorship group Equality Now has been exposed as the deceitful and manipulative group many long suspected it to be with the revelation that it is shamelessly cherry picking comments from Sankaku Complex and attempting to pass them off as the opinions of “game bloggers” and “online gamers” in order to justify its crusade against Japanese pornography.
The group is still attempting to organise a concerted campaign to bombard various Japanese political figures it feels might cave in to its demands with form letters, and it leads its latest update with a series of inflammatory quotes picked from Sankaku Complex’s all but unmoderated comments (visible here and here):
Of the many thousands of comments on their efforts to ban “hentai” across dozens of posts on this site, they highlight only the most deranged or trollish, whilst ignoring countless comments offering reasoned analysis of the falsehoods they misrepresent as research or grassroots opinion.
They have dismissed what they admit as an unprecedented online backlash as “hate mail,” and failed to address any of the concerns raised about the flawed “research” they present, most of which apparently stems from feminist anti-pornography campaign groups.
Now it seems they are reduced to outright fabrication and deceit, being unable even to truthfully source the less than representative comments they would like to dupe the world and their members into believing represents the corrupted misogynist users of such games, and of pornography in general.
Some are beginning to wonder if a group which appropriates donations on the pretence of trying to combat such abominable practices as female circumcision but in fact uses these donations to support its radical feminist anti-pornography agenda should even be representing itself as a group which “works to end violence and discrimination against women and girls.”










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This post made me fomcroflmao
(Fall off My Chair, Rolling on Floor Laughing My Ass Off)
Equality Now goes to Sankakucomplex?!?
*mindblown*
Shows us how low they are really willing to go to get power. In the end it proves they are not fighting for equailty at all, but power. Funny how they always bitch and complain about equal right, but when a man hits a woman through self defence its "not right" yet your allowed to hit another guy for self defence? If you going to fight for equalty it should be illegal to pick and choose which ones out of the catagory you want, your either have it all or you dont.
Or maybe they just have no common sense and took the "kill all bitches" seriously.
How about you guys work on insulting Equality Now and not women in general?
Some of these comments make me sad since they seem to be directed towards ALL women...
Sexism is not a cure for sexism.
we are gonna be famous yeeeeeeeeeeeeei XD.
my comments are not there =(..........XD
Sankaku complex has joined the Death note list of agnes chan? Well I'll be damned!
However, the fact that they pose comments from this website just validates our opinions even more. Which is good since it brings about the loli for everyone revolution me and the rest of Sancon are waiting for.
We should spam their facebook page with hentai
They shouldn't even qualify for 501(c)(3) of the US tax code,should they?
This takes me back to Jack Thompson's days. Ah, good old Jacko...
I don't think he's even allowed to practice law anymore. Guess that happens when you can't handle yourself, can't defend yourself, can't support yourself, and generally make an ass of yourself. Lots of noise, bad ideas for public events, constant attempts at rabble-rousing.
Gotta be careful. When their support crumbles and walks off, they start getting crazy. Silly Jacko.
It's idiotic feminist groups like this who give females the image they have today. I feel ashamed that people such as them are the same gender as I am. Such an "organisation" can only be composed of women with no pride, dignity or intelligence, and should not be publicly proclaiming themselves as the "spokesmen" of females in general, ever. Disgusting, they should just die and save the rest of us women from anymore humiliation.
The comment made by a person on that “game bloggers” site made me lulz.
Wow.. so equality now comes to sites like this, just to gather up material for their bitching and whining.. and yet fail to see it's not hentai games.. manga or anime.. toys and accessories..
ATTENTION EQUALITY NOW, long before there were hentai games and the like.. there was smut, porn and erotic art. Give me a break.. it's not the product, it's the people. If you come here.. READ the topics some time. Learn that men AND WOMEN are sex offenders EQUALLY.
So please fuck off and let us all enjoy our hentai anime, out hentai games, our hentai toys.. hell enjoy them yourselves and get off! Maybe then you'll feel better about life.
stupid sexualy frustrated women and lesbians xP
they don't want equality, they're just stupid
Hey, hey, hey, don't blame the lesbians. Believe it or not, the majority are NOT penis stomping bitches.
Still need more signatures for this petition against "Equality" Now:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/eroge/index.html
Ah, I don't browse through all comment, but...
...would someone here bother joining EN? If we can't attack them from the outside, let's do it from the inside.
Wow, Artefact featured my article. ^_^ Also, I'm not surprised as to why these nincompoops would pick the ignorant comments rather than the intelligent ones that actually have more deeper meaning. These fools are very biased and now want to randomly choose comments from random people who they don't know, on the internet, and use it as evidence? How ignorant and childish. So this is your proof, equality now? Wow, contradict some more. This is getting ridiculous.
lmao @ using sankaku complex comments. Here, let me add more ridiculous shit for them to use.
Thanks to hentai, I've been desensitized to rape. I'm currently considering coaxing women (with their tiny, tiny brains) into my backyard and chaining them to a pipe like a leash and keeping them as sexual slaves, China style. I was wondering if any home depot employees here could give me a discount on the materials and equipment.
You are TRULY pathetic.
I mean EN, not you,OK.
You know, I wouldn't be surprised if Equality Now members fraudulently posted some of those comments themselves so they could use it on their site as evidence for their twisted agenda.
What they need to realize is that people don't discriminate against women, they discriminate against bitches like them.
Seriously, I believe in women's rights, but this is going too far. I believe women should be allowed to not only have rights but to protect themselves and their kin, so as long as it doesn't violate freedom of speech. Seriously, if Equality Now gets a band on hentai and eroge games, you can pretty much bet conservatives evangelicals can try and via for a ban on saying the word fuck. Can you imagine television or games without the word fuck?
I don't understand why they would attempt to go near a site like this. First of all, if they did enter the site, would they have expected to find something that could fuel their fight, or what?
If someone was viewing this site, it's probably just for faps.
Mostly for ze faps but It shares a good bit of news
but Equality Now just turned into some pathetic Femnazi Radical Anti-Porn Organization
Honestly Quit bein Prudes ya Pricks
The love Sankaku and fap to everything here; they are part of the anons who post comments about lulz and shit, they're just being hypocrites about it.
i know this is the internet, and that these feminists are douches, but this is a REALLY biased news site. i guess it's supposed to be tho.
OH NO! Those poor simulated girls are getting raped and abused by those dangerous otaku! That is awful and should not be tolerated because anime girls are not toys! Men are evil creatures who think women aren't people and only like them for their bodies! This should be illegal because it is not fair to us girls!
In case it wasn't completely obvious from the first 2 words, I was being sarcastic. I really am a girl though and I have nothing against hentai, because ANIME/MANGA/GAME CHARACTERS ARE NOT FUCKING REAL. No one should give a shit if they get abused, it's better than actually raping real girls and women. If they get rid of hentai anyway, rape rates will undoubtedly go up because of the many horny otaku not wanting go go without sex or a masturbatory aid.
The only reason anyone posts "sexist" comments like that anyway is because they're pissed at the feminazis for trying to call them evil just cuz they wanna jack off to some loli or whatever. Equality Now is retarded for thinking they actually think like that about all women, when they're just talking about the whiny ones that try to ban their porn for "normalization of sexual violence".
What they're campaigning for in developing countries is understandable, but making a country like Japan, with an already very low rape rate, ban games because of sexual violence is completely unnecessary.
You miss the point that the 'end game' for these radical fem-nazis is to make men the slaves of women. I am quite serious with that.... listen to the comments of the fem-nazis and you realize that they wish at some point in the future to use sex as a weapon against men in order to enslave them, and therefore have to get rid of every woman who give men sexual encounters without the stupidity of thinking of using it as a weapon and anything else that can be used to 'jack off' on.
That group and the others are all in all Cowards. Any actual act to stop any form of Actual REAL life atrocities is beyond their small minded capabilities.
So they, like TERRORISTs, go after "soft" targets. And what's more softer than the fleshly overweight flab of the Otaku? Believing that their hill upon where they rant and preach is untouchable and more likely attainable.
I think they still believe they're living in the CRT generation where the only way anyone could get information would be thru the t.v. or newspaper.
Let me even the field of their tiny little minds since we now know that they troll this site too and bring them into the LED/PLASMA and INTERNET generation. You bitches can whine and screech all the fuck over, twisting what we write and presenting it as "true facts" all the fucking day long.
But be warned, you've now entered OUR territory and the price of pulling our tail is far, Far greater than you'd ever imagine.
Lawls, These people are just crying about it because they have nothing else that's SERIOUS to worry about. I mean, us harmless otaku are not to blame, it's a market think of the business anime and hentai makes. Why do you think there are jails for people that take these things too far (no matter how much we cheer for them ^w^)
Huzzah for cherry picking!
...All that really proves though is that they don't really have much to back themselves up and have to rely on troll comments picked from here and there to justify themselves.
Anyone with an ounce of sense reading those commments on their website and actually knows something of the internet know that anonymous trolls are always going to post objectional responses. Anyone that takes a troll seriously needs to get their mental faculties checked.
I want to see some success on equality so I can punch and beat the crap out of any women like if they were men... oh! wait a minute! is this equality? or is this just wrong regardless the equality involved? I think equality is just fucking impossible... but what's possible is to give women more rights and opportunities on men's action fields.
I think all the chan boards in existence should summon all its power together to go crayze! and defend all this UN and feminist nonsense, ever since video games where created ppl have been trying to blame them for everything that occurs bc of their neglect to raise children/ enforce laws.
I just think its all a load of crap.
this is something interesting... after going to visit their site, thanks to the link in the post here, I have this feeling that the site... isn't real... like there actually isn't a group at all... like some scam to make money perhaps? I've seen better ones out there on the net in my day, and this one doesn't seem as sophisticated as many others...
it could be that EN doesn't have time to make their site believable, in favour making the posts it makes...
just ignore me... it was a gut feeling anyways... I just watched too much NCIS recently... lol
LOL, now we know that the feminazis are come to sankakucomplex daily for their shota needs XDDDDDDDDDDDD
They probably made the comments themselves, so they could quote them in the future -_-
Women's rights are required to reduce the birth rate.
Agreed.
EN isnt doing that. They're just promoting ignorance.
considering that porn in one form or another has existed for THOUSANDS of years and this croup has been around for what 20 years at most
what do you think there actual odds of getting Anything done are
They're not bad, sadly. Not in terms of making the world a better place for everyone, but certainly in terms of banning hentai...
Quick! Sic 4Ch on them!
Yeah, I sent EN an email a few months ago about how, as a woman, I was extremely disappointed in what they were doing. It was totally levelheaded and rational.
Funny how I didn't hear back, or how that didn't end up in their blog post.
as much as i hate violent hentai, equality now is really getting on my nerves.
Lol whine more equality now, they'd rather actually change their way of doing things instead of lying.
So back when you guys were all whipping each other into a rabid fury in the comments section I mentioned that you were only hurting your own cause because Equality Now would just use your comments and hate mail as ammunition. What's this, they're doing exactly that? Well I never.
This article serves only to fuel the fire, so carry on giving them material I guess! The absolute best way to deal with EN would be to ignore them until they go away, but of course that wouldn't result in anywhere near as many hits for the site. :)
We can ignore them all we want, the UN and the Japanese government won't. EN is exactly the type of foreign "fuel" Japan's own moralists and feminazis have been waiting for.
The comments might be detrimental to our cause, but I don't see how this article is.
Oh shut the fuck up, who will take seriously a group that nitpicks unregulated troll comments from the internet as solid proof for such a campaign as women's rights? So now what, 4chan must be the primordial soup of truth, right? and if you were really keeping up with the comments in previous posts you'd have seen a good significant amount were logical, mature comments, ironically those didn't get pick by this educated women huh?
You fail so fucking hard, anon.
Actually, you more or less said a part of what anon seemed to be saying.
As I understood it, he was saying that all the batshit insane posts (like the ones used on their site) were simply giving them ammo. We've all seen they ignore honest, logical comments, and simply look for things to further their goals.
While I don't condone ignoring them (ignoring a problem doesn't always make it go away) being dumb asses and calling them "ugly ho-bags who should be impaled!" or saying that 'women don't deserve rights and are nothing but live stock', even in jest, does nothing for our cause and simply allows them to cherry pick the comments they show to their naive followers.
Remember, they're operating under the guise of an equal rights organization, unless you're 'genre savvy' to the way the world works you're not likely to think that an organization that claims to fight for good is actually working on an unrelated agenda. Sad fact is, the majority of their followers have no idea that they're a two faced organization and will take anything they're given as a fact.
Leave it to them (equality now) ,..by the way their notorious for being lying sacks of crap.
It seems that this organisation is consisting of men haters. I feel sorry for such people who doesn't even try to understand the whole purpose of hentai. How sad. :/
I'm curious as to why they think they can say that someone is definitively from the US when there is no mention of that or a name to go along with that post.
I took a introductory sociology course at school and there was this article in the reading package that showed how as long as the institution of family exists, prostitution will continue to exist. Eroge and related media are just extensions of the argument. Thus it isn't really all that surprising to me.
Of course the average layman does not think scientifically (sociology is a social science), and if a group of sociologists campaigned for eroge it'll have political consequences on them. Therefore, sociologists have to rely on policy makers to implement suitable policies according to the sentiment on the ground according to their recommendations. i.e. the truth does not matter that much, only what works matters.
This is why even if you throw statistics in the face of the Japanese politicians (the policy makers), they might still cave in to the demands of equality now. Humans usually do "what feels right" rather than work with "what is fair and true". Political clout is ultimately more powerful than the truth and nothing but the truth.
For real though...
EQUALITY NOW =/= FEMINISM NOW
So, i say if they wanna take our loli and rape away, we create a group to bring censorship to femdom and male torture films!
Damn bitches don't know their "equality" from their "feminism", that's how they lose the battle.
And actually, if you think about it, they wanting to protect themselves from men only serves to confirm their status as the "weak sex" and thus, kinda defeats the whole "equality" question... AGAIN!
Also, BAN FU**ING YAOI AND SHOUNEN AI!!
I'm a fujoshi and like yaoi and BL but if these bitches want to make it fair they better go for ALL kinds of porn, including yaoi BL, Playboy, live action movies, you name. What kind of half-ass attempt is this shit, only targeting hentai?
The type that isn't really trying to ban for a good reason.
Feminism =/= Radical feminism.
Feminism = The belief in equal rights, at least that's how it started. If I remember right, it got its name due to women being at a lower status than men at the start of the movement.
Radical feminism = EN, AKA: "It's longer than it is wide, it must be the work of the devil!"
hey,...equality now, cherry pick this.. FUCK OFF!!!
Sankaku Complex saved the day.... or something..... Why were they checking Sankaku to begin with? Their best weapon was quoting trolls? How low are they gonna go? I wanna believe that not all members of Equality are aware of this, cus if they are, how dare they work for a organisation that works like this?
And i cant believe they try to use the internet on their side after what they have been doing.
This annoys me.
I seriously laughed my ass off at this, it's as if Sancon and EN were an odd couple of room-mates, just sitting across the table leering angrily at eachother,until sexual tension builds up to the point where one of them knocks the plates off the table and they both get freacky on it.
LOL, now that was a nice thing to imagine... I wish it would just happen.
Oh god, someone needs to make rule 34 of this now. NOW.
They might not see eye to eye, but at least the sex would be good. XD
At this rate this equality campaign will reveal themselves to be some crazy fascist plan of revenge made by some dry, sand filled chick who was too fat to get laid.
god dammit northpole776 =(
mada mada dane...please try again EN.
sankaku and equality now need to come together and have very hot sex together and then resolve this hentai problem and never try banning it again.
Will the posters please sue them for copyright infringement.
Ha! I can't wait to see what happens when they find 4chan and their antics bring upon the wrath of Anonymous.
Hell hath no fury like an Anonymous scorned...
*lol*
I'm a feminist and I love hentai as long as it's not misogynistic. Particularly the S&M ones. If you get hentai with girls, I get hentai with guys, all's fair.
Note to "Equality Now":
I have friends that play H-games.
My old friends that play soccer/football.
My friends that play H-games are sociable, friendly, trustworthy, and don't harbor any negative feelings against women.
My old friends that play soccer/football smoke pot, steal, are insanely vulgar and I know one guy has raped a girl and gotten away with it.
I rather know someone who plays "Clannad"(H-game involving prego and loli but revolves around a touching story) than someone who doesn't, never learns those leasons and actually rapes women instead.
Since when is Clannad a H-Game? It doesn't even have any fanservice in it....
Dating sim?
Volvagia is incorrect, it does include an ecchi scene. Not necessarily sex, but the main character is a loli-ish sicky. Also possibly got it confused with Kanon.
Aside all the criticism, feminism is important and a positive thing nonetheless, and just because there might be some crazy people (on both sides... honestly, whoever wrote those comments also don't even deserve to be called "human beings") doesn't mean the ideal at hand is bad.
Basically, what EQ does it not equality and it is not feminism. Their travesties do not harm either pursuit or cause.
What the fuck is this shit?
You fucks have a problem with a group of primarily women, yeah they're not all girls (!), talking about the problems girls and women experience in most of the world on a site that has nothing but images of naked girls?
Can you seriously not see the problem with the incredibly high % of girls who are beaten, married as kids, raped, sold into prostitution, and honor killed every fucking year? Screw year, how about every fucking day of the week?
I like a lot of stuff that comes out of Japan. Speaking as a gay woman I would probably enjoy a lot of it myself.
And I can't speak for everything that the site talks about being true or not. But a lot of it is. I've seen it myself.
If you're someone who thinks that all of what they say is a lie then you're ignorant. Look it up, these things happen a lot more than most people realize.
I say we do sumthin to their site and stop this feminist cospiracy!!!!
Go for it!
At the rate all this nonesense is going, World War III may as well be fought on the internets.
Wait 'til they see the legions of trolls just lurking in the darkness.
I hate these feminists, not because they want to make things better for women, i have no problem with that, infact, i applaud those that fight for freedom, and truth.
I hate them, simply because that in their "crusade" to obtain these things, they have forgone it.
They ignore all forms of rational, reasoned, and legitimate forms of debate and questioning, and they make exagerrated and twisted claims towards the things they are attacking.
It's the same issue with religion and pseudo-sciences, all they do is cover their ears while screaming that they're right, screaming that a small cut is a fatal wound, and that the whole world is just lying against them.
This is why i can only put my trust, infact, my faith even, in science; self critisizing, self-evaluating, empirical and objective science.
GG Equality now.
Please insert credits to continue.
just Bitches and whores.
LOL ^This.^
I wonder what they think about marriage, alimony, and the legal system's usual stance on custody.
As a woman, and one who considers herself something of a feminist (an admission that will undoubtedly make me something of a pariah for a considerable number of sancon posters -.-) I can understand how Equality Now would be disturbed by images of violence against women in certain hentai. However, the percentage numbers such images being translated into actuality by viewers are undoubtedly low. I wish Equality Now would use its energy to work for (real) women who are in more immediate danger (I'm LOOKING AT YOU AFGHANISTAN)
And yet such observations will have to come from 'unbiased' (ie; untraitor-like, pro-feminist dogmatic people) individuals. They've ignored male-offered 'rational' explanations.... the next step is for those in power AND women who can focus their efforts offline to hammer the point home that they CAN'T ignore their charter responsibilities without repercussion.
They ARE accountable for their actions (or lack of), same as the rest of us. And btw.... the women of Afghanistan need their help more than the sexually-frustrated among us here at SanCom *ever* will. XD
i'm surprised they knew about this website. looks like we'll be expecting a war between the two sides real soon. *cocks sniper rifle*
This is just sad. Don't they have anything better to do?
They lose ALL credibility with this as well!!
all the people here commenting about ignoring EN. this is not about EN bitching around - this is about Japans way of reacting to things like this:
with a ridiculous knee-jerk reaction like "DELETE FUCKING EVERYTHING!!"
hopefully it wont happen, but if it happesn were fucked!
so ignoring it might lead to a worst case scenario! keep that in mind!
already other countries are coming up with their own versions of protecting society from "filth".
You pretty much right, Japan seem to be fucked up a lot nowadays, first their woman turn to prostitute and gold digger, then their men turn to Otaku, no-wonder their government act like spineless loser, but I still love Japan, good looking samurai armor, impressed ancient weapons, hi-tech products, good mangas, not too bad video games AND MOST OF ALL is it wonderful HENTAI INDUSTRY.
Hey Equality Now bastards reading this, go kill your selfs and rot in hell
i went to spam their page at facebook and surprise, even their fans dissagree with the ban of hentai http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=13649914583&share_id=83575218732&comments=1#s83575218732 [http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=13649914583&share_id=83575218732&comments=1#s83575218732]
my spam :P http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=13649914583&share_id=157501054663&comments=1#s157501054663 [http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=13649914583&share_id=157501054663&comments=1#s157501054663]
http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=13649914583&share_id=167130511562&comments=1#s167130511562 [http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=13649914583&share_id=167130511562&comments=1#s167130511562]
Artefact can't you sue them for publishing content from your website without giving any due credit? I'm pretty sure what they did constitutes plagiarism.
Fair use doctrine of copyright law allows them to do it. Sorry. :(
These people give true feminists (people who are about making sure that women have the same rights and opportunities as men) a bad name.
They aren't really 'feminists'..... they deserve the title of 'fem-nazi' as defined by yours truly: a woman or group of women who think that sexuality is bad, that pornography leads to rape when it actually leads to LESS rape in society, and who think that men are 'lesser' than women.
Makes you wonder then... I bet they wouldn't cause a huge deal about a game where you were a chick going around and raping dudes right?
on a techinicallity there dood such a game exist
Illusion made it
Point being though, Equality now aren't complaining about it are they as they're a femininst group. Doesn't that sound a little sexist as well?