History of Feminism

that this buys into the very system that is abusing them. To use what is perhaps a poor analogy (but I'll use it anyway), it's like poor whites not supporting the civil rights movement, not understanding how racism is used in class oppression as well as racial oppression.

You can't act to change a system until you have a clear understanding of how that system works, its history, who benefits, and who loses.

Rape in prison is a perfect example. In a society that mostly ignores or sometimes even encourages rape, which occurs seemingly almost any time there is a power imbalance, it is entirely predictable that very many men in prison (and boys in juvenile detention) will end up as victims of rape and sexual violence. In fact, the whole topic often comes up as a joke, or as an implied threat to try to keep people in line. Men are raped in the military as well. The ONLY cogent analysis I've seen as to why this happens, and how to stop it, comes from feminists. I can see people critiquing that analysis (maybe even trying to refine it), but to reject feminism wholesale, as these folks seem to be doing, or to only focus on perceived slights men suffer at the hands of women, means the whole issue ends up being ignored--which, from my "quick peek" seems to be what's happened here.

And then, to top it off, you hear folks complaining about how feminists don't care about male survivors!

Anyway, enough ranting for one morning. Gotta go.

Best wishes.

Except to say: has anyone heard from Prism? I'm hoping he's okay, but not seeing anything from him (and maybe I just missed it) has me worried.