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    "title": "Gay Men As \"Control Group\" For Feminist Dogma",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>From an intellectual perspective gay men allow the rest of us a \u00e2\u0080\u009ccontrol group\u00e2\u0080\u009d of male sexuality, containing within a wide range of masculine expressions, one which refutes or repudiates a lot of the feminist sexual ideology.\u00c2\u00a0 After all, you can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t say \u00e2\u0080\u009csociety makes straight men do this\u00e2\u0080\u009d without checking to see if society (which has mostly ignored gay men, culturally speaking, except as two-dimensional stock characters to be trotted out for laughs) also makes gay men do it, too.</p>\n<p>Case in point: the oft-touted feminist maxim that \u00e2\u0080\u009cmen only go after hot young girls because our rape-culture tells them that\u00e2\u0080\u0099s the ideal they should be shooting for.\u00e2\u0080\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 Feminism has always taken issue with the masculine preference for youth \u00e2\u0080\u0093 and I think we all know why \u00e2\u0080\u0093 but blamed it squarely on \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe Patriarchy\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\u00e2\u0080\u009d efforts to take power away from older women.\u00c2\u00a0 If it wasn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t for our screwed-up youth-worshiping culture, the feminist myth goes, men would get just as hard over saggy tits and cottage cheese thighs as they do perky tits and a tight ass.</p>\n<p>But if \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe Patriarchy\u00e2\u0080\u009d is the one dictating what men should and shouldn't be attracted to, culturally speaking, then one must also assume that a group like Gay Men, who \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe Patriarchy\u00e2\u0080\u009d has traditionally had an antipathy toward, would therefore not be subject to the same \u00e2\u0080\u009cartificial rules\u00e2\u0080\u009d that straight men are.</p>\n<p>But it turns out gay dudes like young stuff, too.\u00c2\u00a0 A lot.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>While the post might not be safe for work, depending on where you work, it is still very much worth reading in its entirety. Via <a href=\"http://theredpillroom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/the-lambda-factor.html\">The Red Pill Room: The Lambda Factor</a>.</p>\n"
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