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http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/02/pro-rape-meet-up-canceled-over-safety-concerns.html?wpsrc=nymag#

 

Pro-Rape Meet-Up Canceled After Women’s Boxing Club Threatens to Show Up

By Jessica Roy

 
 

The Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club. Photo: Liz Beddall/Metro

Professional douchebag Roosh V. has made a name for himself advocating offensive misogynistic positions on his terrible website Return of Kings, and he's collected a handful of devoted followers in the process. But after scheduling an International Meetup Day for his "tribesmen" this weekend, he appears to have met his match: female boxers.

When they heard that Roosh and his followers were planning to meet up in Toronto, the women of the Toronto Newsgirls boxing club decided they'd attend the meet-up, too. That way when Roosh did what he threatened to do — take photos of any female protesters who showed up to dissect and criticize online later — he'd actually be snapping photos of badass bitches in boxing gloves.

"The photos of us will show women that being powerful is an option," founder Savoy Howe told Metro News. "And I think that’s what needs to happen against this d*****bag."

After word of the Newsgirls' plans spread, Roosh decided to cancel the meet-ups, writing that he can "no longer guarantee the safety or privacy of the men who want to attend."

Imagine feeling unsafe in a public space, or afraid to have your privacy violated. As a woman, I have no idea what that must be like.



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Oh barf.

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

Oh barf.

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Toronto was actually going to allow a "pro-rape" meeting to take place?

Someone needs to be biotch slapped in Toronto for not catching this one.

Good for those girls!

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just Czech wrote:

Toronto was actually going to allow a "pro-rape" meeting to take place?

Someone needs to be biotch slapped in Toronto for not catching this one.

Good for those girls!

 No.



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WHAT'S TRUE: Men's rights "tribal meetings" were organized for 6 February 2016 via the Return of Kings web site; previous content hosted on that site advocated for loosening of rape laws or was generally misogynistic; on 3 February 2016, the web site cancelled all planned meetings.

WHAT'S FALSE: Return of Kings scheduled an event billed as advocating "making rape legal."

www.snopes.com/roosh-v-43-countries/

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weltschmerz wrote:

WHAT'S TRUE: Men's rights "tribal meetings" were organized for 6 February 2016 via the Return of Kings web site; previous content hosted on that site advocated for loosening of rape laws or was generally misogynistic; on 3 February 2016, the web site cancelled all planned meetings.

WHAT'S FALSE: Return of Kings scheduled an event billed as advocating "making rape legal."

www.snopes.com/roosh-v-43-countries/

Still sounds like someone is nuts. Men's rights "tribal meetings"?

I can understand a meeting to advance men's rights in parenting disputes after a divorce or as a single parent, but not for loosening the rape laws.

Yes, there are men unjustly accused and convicted of rape. In those cases the woman should be prosecuted for false testimony, especially when evidence comes to light that she was lying. One would always hope that those cases never occurred, but they do. 



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The fact is, unless you are making a specific threat against a particular person or entity--it's not a crime to talk about crime.



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