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"Rape should be legal on private property."

 

This weekend, a bunch of blokes who believe rape on private property should be legal and that women are biologically determined to follow the orders of men and should not be able to vote are meeting up in real life.

Yes, men who found each other on the internet and bonded over their backwards views of their own self-importance, creating an online “neomasculinist” group, will finally bring their views out from behind the safety of their screens and into the public domain.

According to the internet, ‘neomasculinity’ is all about men reclaiming their masculinity, rejecting “toxic women” and fixing the harm that feminism has wrought on gender relations.

US pick-up artist Daryush “Roosh” Valizadeh organised meetings at 44 locations around the world, including one at Sydney’s Hyde Park at 8pm on Saturday.

Fairfax Media reports the meetings are being advertised on Valizadeh’s website, Return of Kings, which has been ‘liked’ more than 12,500 times on Facebook.

Valizadeh – who advocates for the legalisation of rape – says women, transgender men and homosexual men are not invited.

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No girls allowed. Image via iStock with edits.
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In one article, Valizadeh claims that rape should be legal if “done on private property”.

“I propose that we make the violent taking of a woman not punishable by law when done off public grounds,” he says in the article.

“If rape becomes legal under my proposal, a girl will protect her body in the same manner that she protects her purse and smartphone. If rape becomes legal, a girl will not enter an impaired state of mind where she can’t resist being dragged off to a bedroom with a man who she is unsure of—she’ll scream, yell, or kick at his attempt while bystanders are still around. If rape becomes legal, she will never be unchaperoned with a man she doesn’t want to sleep with.”

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Other articles on the site opine that women are biologically determined to follow men’s order and should not be able to vote and that transgender women who sleep with heterosexual men are rapists, Fairfax reports.

“Our views are becoming known enough that we can ‘come out’ of the shadows and not have to hide behind a computer screen for fear of retaliation,” Mr Valizadeh said in a post on the website.

“Let the sixth of February be a clear signal to all that we’re not going anywhere. We have finally arrived.”

There are three weekend meeting points in Sydney, with men given a secret code question (“Where is the nearest pet shop?”) and answer (“The pet shop is here.”) in order to identify other supporters.

There are also meetings organised for Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane.

It was reported last year that Valizadeh posted profiles of feminist activist targets and encouraged followers to “seduce and f—“ them.

He also posted to Twitter that he attended a White Supremacist conference, Fairfax reports.

Well those meetings at the weekend should be a hoot…somebody call the police. This is not a drill.

Disclaimer: The feature photo is a stock photo and does not depict any men mentioned in this article.

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