So, in case you haven't heard, there's this guy named Daryush Valizadeh (aka Roosh V), and he totally blows. And that's putting it mildly. And if you have heard, perhaps you've seen this video about his proposed "solution" that he thinks is a viable way to decrease the number of women raped in America.
If you've seen his video, there's a chance you've seen not one, not two, but all three of these examples of his generally horrifying asshole behavior.
And if you've seen all that, perhaps you've seen this video where we here at the Odyssey responded to the ridiculousness of his proposal. I'm one of those girls.
And as I watched it over and over again, I was bothered by the fact that I got to scream and yell and be outraged and disgusted, but I didn't get to elaborate on why. It wasn't the nature of the video.
So I decided to write this article.
After doing a lot of research about this guy, I was even more appalled at how consistently he glorifies male promiscuity, while simultaneously condemning the same thing from women, describing them as sluts whose value exists only insofar as they are are beautiful, fertile and willing to have sex.
He claims that he wants to decrease the harm to women, but it's a plug that's hard to swallow when you consider that he has coined the term "fake rape" and claims that there is a rape hysteria sweeping the nation seeking to persecute as many men as possible.
He complains that men who are alleged rapists are pulled out of their everyday lives, and can lose their jobs over the accusations. Never mind the irreversible physical, emotional and psychological trauma that a person suffers when they're raped.
His rhetoric claims that the current rape legislation "criminalize[es] normal male behavior," implying that the age-old adage "boys will be boys" extends to an inability to control themselves when presented with a member of the opposite sex.
Not to mention that any woman with any level of intellectual thought occurring in her mind is, according to him, branded as someone for all men to run from, for fear that their balls might actually retreat back into their bodies at the mere mention of a woman who does more than knit and serve as a receptacle for reproduction.
And he proposes that we legalize rape in private residences. And if that's his plan to reduce the number of rapes, I have a few questions. What about the women who go home with a guy, then decide they're not into it after arriving at his house? They deserve to be raped? What about people who are married, and who suffer from sexual abuse from their significant other? They have to just deal with it and consider their bodies owned unconditionally by their spouses? If someone goes to their friend's family house, can that person rape any member of that family that they choose, so long as they do it in a private residence?
His entire belief system as it pertains to women and how women and men interact is dangerous, threatening to send us hurtling back into a medieval world where men take what they want, and women are restricted to taking what they give.
And as soon as this whole thing blew up, Roosh came out saying that he meant it all as a satire. Which is still pretty fucked up if you ask me, even if it is satire. But if you look at everything else he has ever done, everything else he has ever written, you (like me) probably struggle with buying that.
I mean seriously, he wrote books called "Don't Bang Denmark: How to Sleep with Danish Women in Denmark (If You Must)," "30 Bangs: The Shaping of One Man's Game from Patient Mouse to Rabid Wolf" and "Poosy Paradise."
So in all, this guy is moving any and all progress, that not only women has made, but that all of humanity has made since the very beginning way back. He's a clear narcissist, an admitted rapist (see above links) and a misogynist to the nth degree. He undervalues women, glorifies a hypothesized society that can only fail without the help of intellectual and influential women everywhere and he needs to be stopped before he and his band of idiots become so large that people everywhere start losing brain cells simply as a result of relative proximity.