blickpall
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Main talking points:
Roughly in chronological order.
1. How she re-evaluated the positions espoused by the MRA only after spending the time to transcribe over a hundred hours of recorded footage. In other words, how despite the fact that she was doing an documentary on the MRA, she saw this as an opportunity to vilify them and use it as a way to strengthen feminism, and thus wasn't interested in even listening to the people she was interviewing.
2. How she (and by extension, other feminists) twist what the MRA says in order to make the messages appear misogynistic. In other words, how feminists interpret discourse surrounding men's issues as being attacks on feminism.
3. How she began to understand the scope of issues that men uniquely face, or face with an equal frequency to women, and how limited the resources are for men in trying to handle these issues.
4. How she was targeted for making an impartial documentary. In other words, by not attacking the MRA in her documentary, she received a tremendous amount of backlash - and how this is a reflection of how the media has stigamatized any conversation about men's rights that doesn't paint them as the "enemy" or as misogynists. This in turn exacerbates the problem in point #3.
5. How she renounced feminism as a result of these factors. Note: still supports women's rights issues, but clearly sees that as separate from modern feminism.
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Although the blackpill is somewhat separate from the MRA, they are far from being mutually exclusive. I thought that this was a refreshing piece for many reasons, primary among them the exposure of how exactly feminist ideology has tainted discourse, media, and society as a whole - from a former feminist, no less. I imagine that when women turned against her for not vilifying men, she felt a shred of what any man who stands up against toxic feminism feels.
I feel that if any of you ever have the misfortune of being engaged in conversation with a toxic feminist concerning men's issues, this video may be a valuable tool, as it is a woman and former feminist who is discussing the issues, and thus the other party may be more inclined to listen, just as this speaker suggests.