So I feel like it is important to talk about Felicia Garcia. What we know is she was a troubled girl who floated from one foster home to another but other than that she seemed like a pretty nice well adjusted kid. However, after a “wild tryst” with a few football players, gossip traveled around and two male classmates felt the need to tease Felicia relentlessly about it until she eventually jumped in front of the train to end her own life.
On one side of the fence feminists are using Felicia as a martyr. Additional rumors insinuate that the two guys picking on her were also “conservatives” because liberal feminists just love to paint conservatives as the spawn of evil demons! Then there are some (not all) MRAs who think Felicia should have just “kept it in her panties” to avoid the humiliation she got.
I hate to say it but between these extremes I’m probably swaying more feminist on this one. (Admitting that makes me feel naceous!) However, I don’t care if the bullies were conservatives or not. That detail is inconsequential and of nil importance. (And shame on the feminists trying to turn this tragedy into a political slander piece)
The point is Felicia was “slut shamed” yet that same treatment was not also dished out to the football players who participated in the act as well. I’m sure they were all exchanging high 5’s for “getting laid” as Felicia was getting nasty text messages and practically drowning in her own tears. That’s not right.
Muhamed degenerated a discussion about "slut shaming" into how vaginas are more dirty than cocks so somehow that makes men "more right" in these scenarios. (Say what?!) I was happy to educate him on how cocks can be just as gross as vaginas! Ben,educating youths for our future!
Regardless, responses like the one above make me just shy of being a full blown MRA. I accept men do face problems unique to our gender and I very rarely agree with hardcore feminism in any shape or form. But to insinuate Felicia is somehow a “dirty slut” while the guys get off with the usual “Boys will be boys nonsense” is intellectually dishonest bullshit.
I’ve never been a fan of judging any human being based solely on their sexual history and sad stories like these make me that much more determined to continue that stance.
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