Dismantle the Media

We are finally talking about this now eh? I lost a cousin over 12 years ago, vanished into thin air. Nobody cared. Especially the RCMP. Much like all these guys. A few posters and a lazy facebook post was all my beloved cousin ever got.

My favourite part of the article is this:

National statistics reflect a severe and often overlooked reality regarding violence against Indigenous men:

Between 1980 and 2012, Statistics Canada documented 1,750 Indigenous male homicide victims, compared to 745 Indigenous female homicide victims.

In this timeframe, 71% of all murdered and missing Indigenous people were men and boys.

According to 2020 Statistics Canada data, Indigenous men are seven times more likely to die by homicide than non-Indigenous people, and four times more likely than Indigenous women.

We hear so much about missing indigenous women. I had no idea the stat for men was 4 times higher. Why doesn’t anyone care?

There is almost certainly an active serial killer operating on the mid island for years now, and I hear random people saying this more and more. Sadly we are on our own over here it seems.

  • rekabis@lemmy.ca
    717·
    12 days ago

    Fuck right off, misogynist, can’t even acknowledge the boot comes from above, no, got to “other” women instead

    Men are the vast majority under that boot. Read the f**king article, ya dingus.

    Across Canada, the number of missing and murdered Aboriginal men is almost 5× that of aboriginal women. And yet, where are the nation-wide initiatives to solve aboriginal men’s murders and disappearances?

    Suicides of men are over 5× that of women. Yet where is the pearl-clutching over those deaths?

    Homelessness is almost ¾ men. And yet, homeless shelters for only women outnumber those for only men, and men’s shelters frequently have to empty out completely if there is any overflow from women’s shelters at all.

    Workplace deaths of men are more than 9× that of women. And headlines only occur when it is women who suffer.

    Plus, of all the jobs that aren’t at parity between men and women, the only ones women ever clamour to target are those with air conditioning and great lumbar support. Where are all the female lumberjacks? Where are the female crabbers? The coal miners and oil rig workers and the framers and plumbers and roofers?

    crickets

    Yyyyyup. Thought so.

    You look at pretty much any personal calamity except those which are purely gender-specific, and if men aren’t neck-and-neck with women, they’re nearly always the majority of victims.

    And yet, it is only those solutions that address women which are not “misogynistic”. Hell, it took nearly 40 years for “men’s mental health month” to gain traction against exactly those accusations of misogyny.

    So fuck right off back, you flaming gender bigot.

    • BigJohnnyHines@lemmy.ca
      102·
      12 days ago

      No women are against men getting help. Feminism offers a framework that explains many of the problems you keep dancing around. Unfortunately, you don’t actually read any of it and instead get your worldview from incel memes and social media. You don’t care about men getting help as much as you care about creating weird wedge issues where if someone gets help it must be taking away from yourself.

      • rekabis@lemmy.ca
        12·
        9 days ago

        You know, I’m seeing such levels of thought-terminating clichés, reality denialism, and outright brainwashing from you that all I am going to do is punt you a wonderful little piece of copypasta from GirlWritesWhat:

        So what you’re saying is that you, a commenter using a username on an internet forum are the true feminist, and the feminists actually responsible for changing the laws, writing the academic theory, teaching the courses, influencing the public policies, and the massive, well-funded feminist organizations with thousands and thousands of members all of whom call themselves feminists… they are not “real feminists”.

        That’s not just “no true Scotsman”. That’s delusional self deception.

        Listen, if you want to call yourself a feminist, I don’t care. I’ve been investigating feminism for more than 9 years now, and people like you used to piss me off, because to my mind all you were doing was providing cover and ballast for the powerful political and academic feminists you claim are just jerks. And believe me, they ARE jerks. If you knew half of what I know about the things they’ve done under the banner of feminism, maybe you’d stop calling yourself one.

        But I want you to know. You don’t matter. You’re not the director of the Feminist Majority Foundation and editor of Ms. Magazine, Katherine Spillar, who said of domestic violence: “Well, that’s just a clean-up word for wife-beating,” and went on to add that regarding male victims of dating violence, “we know it’s not girls beating up boys, it’s boys beating up girls.”

        You’re not Jan Reimer, former mayor of Edmonton and long-time head of Alberta’s Network of Women’s Shelters, who just a few years ago refused to appear on a TV program discussing male victims of domestic violence, because for her to even show up and discuss it would lend legitimacy to the idea that they exist.

        You’re not Mary P Koss, who describes male victims of female rapists in her academic papers as being not rape victims because they were “ambivalent about their sexual desires” (if you don’t know what that means, it’s that they actually wanted it), and then went on to define them out of the definition of rape in the CDC’s research because it’s inappropriate to consider what happened to them rape.

        You’re not the National Organization for Women, and its associated legal foundations, who lobbied to replace the gender neutral federal Family Violence Prevention and Services Act of 1984 with the obscenely gendered Violence Against Women Act of 1994. The passing of that law cut male victims out of support services and legal assistance in more than 60 passages, just because they were male.

        You’re not the Florida chapter of the NOW, who successfully lobbied to have Governor Rick Scott veto not one, but two alimony reform bills in the last ten years, bills that had passed both houses with overwhelming bipartisan support, and were supported by more than 70% of the electorate.

        You’re not the feminist group in Maryland who convinced every female member of the House on both sides of the aisle to walk off the floor when a shared parenting bill came up for a vote, meaning the quorum could not be met and the bill died then and there.

        You’re not the feminists in Canada agitating to remove sexual assault from the normal criminal courts, into quasi-criminal courts of equity where the burden of proof would be lowered, the defendant could be compelled to testify, discovery would go both ways, and defendants would not be entitled to a public defender.

        You’re not Professor Elizabeth Sheehy, who wrote a book advocating that women not only have the right to murder their husbands without fear of prosecution if they make a claim of abuse, but that they have the moral responsibility to murder their husbands.

        You’re not the feminist legal scholars and advocates who successfully changed rape laws such that a woman’s history of making multiple false allegations of rape can be excluded from evidence at trial because it’s “part of her sexual history.”

        You’re not the feminists who splattered the media with the false claim that putting your penis in a passed-out woman’s mouth is “not a crime” in Oklahoma, because the prosecutor was incompetent and charged the defendant under an inappropriate statute (forcible sodomy) and the higher court refused to expand the definition of that statute beyond its intended scope when there was already a perfectly good one (sexual battery) already there. You’re not the idiot feminists lying to the public and potentially putting women in Oklahoma at risk by telling potential offenders there’s a “legal” way to rape them.

        And you’re none of the hundreds or thousands of feminist scholars, writers, thinkers, researchers, teachers and philosophers who constructed and propagate the body of bunkum theories upon which all of these atrocities are based.

        You’re the true feminist. Some random person on the internet.