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Simon Pegg on the Cornell Rapists
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this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2026
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Why aren't claims of women doing horrifying, bigoted shit taken seriously? It's because women very often lack the power to do horrifying, bigoted shit effectively. Men are also assumed to have such a disproportionate amount of power that it shouldn't be possible for them to be victims. As you point out, this is bad for both men and women.
Men are, generally, given more power (and often power over women)in a majority of scenarios. Men are also trained by culture and society to have certain expectations (from the society around them and the women present in it). This all comes together and results in a disproportionate quantity of bad shit being done by men (and often to women). The whole system needs fixing.
I mean men generally have more power than women, but that doesn't mean all men have more power than all women. It doesn't make sense to assume men can't be victimized, because reality doesn't support that.
What you should expect to see is that men are generally the perpetrators, and women are generally the victim. I don't know about you, but that's pretty much what I see.
I don't know why so many people are so willing to die on the hill of "THE WORLD IS BLACK AND WHITE, THIS GROUP BAD, OTHER GROUP GOOD". Like I don't understand how people jump from most to all so easily without even a moment of cognitive dissonance.