Men's Memes: Do www.IWantOneOfThose.com think that knife crime is funny?

Monday, July 28, 2008

Do www.IWantOneOfThose.com think that knife crime is funny?

The UK, and London in particular has had a lot of knife-attacks this year, many against young people, many resulting in death. Because of this, a Facebook application that allows users to 'knife' eachother virtually has been pulled off the site.

"Anti-knife crime campaigners condemned the application, details of which emerged barely a week after the British Crime Survey found that more than 350 knife crime offences were being committed in the country every day. In London, 21 teenagers have been killed this year - the majority the victims of stabbings."

Yet the 'All men are bastards' knifeblock, a model of a man with knifes stuck through his body which is described as being funny, is still on sale at places like 'IWantOneOfThose.com'

Remember, if a similar item was made depicting any other group (i.e. the 'all women are bitches' knifeblock, or the 'all blacks are asking for it' knifeblock, it would be banned in no time at all.)

I decided to email one of the people working at the companies that sell this knifeblock:

To: naomi.brown@firebox.com

Hi

Saw your post on here: http://mik3sb7og.blogspot.com/2008/07/for-man-haters.html

Are you really comfortable promoting this product which treats knifing men as funny?

Even if you find it funny, you may find the tide of opinion turning against you as knife crime takes ever more young men's lives. e.g. see what happened here:

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4415816.ece

Best regards
Darren

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: You are right Darren; but you are also wasting your time. These people are impervious to criticism. Far too busy grabbing easy money from idiots to worry about the morality of how they are doing it.

There have been repeated campaigns to have this particular product withdrawn from the market, and all have failed. I was involved in one a couple of years back. I got as far as a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority, who proved themselves to have all the spine of a jellyfish, finding a way to wriggle out of any obligation to take action. Believe it or not, they insisted the figure was "gender neutral" and therefore did not encourage the stabbing of men.

I was also one of several people who signed a petition to John Denham MP, at that time a government minister, to look at the product in the context of knife crime. We received the following reply:

"Mr Denham has indicated that he is appalled at this knife block and the way in which it is advertised. he would imagine that this must, at the very least be on the borderline of illegal behaviour. At the very least it should be investigated and Mr Denham is therefore passing the details of this website to the local police to seek their opinion."

- which I took as very promising. Some hope. That was in September 2007. Since then, total silence. And the knife block is still up for sale.

John Denham: absolutely bloody useless.

The police: absolutely bloody useless.

I have only one conclusion: that for all its bluster, this government and its politically correct, castrated police force have no real interest in stopping knife crime. At least, not while the great majority of victims are only men. They will make a big fuss, generate a lot of hot air, and rush around like headless chickens until the topic slides out of the headlines. Then all action will be quietly dropped.

Paul Parmenter; 4:15 pm

Turn of the tide: feminists begin to regret

Cosmopolitan (The women's magazine that urges women to use men for sex) Editor Lorraine Candy has a change of mind and now urges women not to have "Soul-less sex":

"We didn't feel ashamed about one-night stands...this, we thought, is what feminism is about."

70s feminist Fay Weldon now says:

"It is the fault of me and my like, who... got it wrong.

So were we wrong, we feminists, setting women free? The results have been devastating – greater than we ever imagined.

We steamed ahead, changing the world with too little caution, and I hope the future will forgive us.

The pendulum has swung too far over. But it may yet swing back again. Societies, thank God, tend to be self-righting."

"Once a man could look forward to starting a family and the dignity that came from being the provider. Forget it. At best as a man you're decorative, look after the kids and earn a bit sometimes; at worst you're a write-off. Women are elbowing the men out. The boys get anxious, the girls swagger. The male suicide rate goes up, female down. Twenty-eight per cent of us now live in single person households - a lonely and unnatural state - and most of the 28 per cent consist of young men. It is strange that it is left to a woman to suggest, in the normal nurturing way, that men start some kind of movement to promote their gender's status and self-esteem - call it masculinism, brotherism, machoism, what you want - and some mark of the success of the feminist movement, that it needs to be done."

60's feminist Doris Lessing now says:

"It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests.

Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did."

An excerpt from an interview with Joan Rivers:

"She's not with the feminists when it comes to matters of the heart. For her, they're to blame for the current parlous state of our relationships, as depicted in these television Shows (Such as Sex in the city) and films. "I saw this coming. You cannot be equal to a man, you cannot make a man feel 'I don't need you' or 'I'll take my sex when I want it'. All these shows are so sad."

Camille Paglia :

"Women have been discouraged from genres such as sculpture that require studio training or expensive materials.

But in philosophy, mathematics, and poetry, the only materials are pen and paper.

Male conspiracy cannot explain ALL female failures.

I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant.

. . . Even now, with all vocations open, I marvel at the rarity of the woman driven by artistic or intellectual obsession, that self-mutilating derangement of social relationship which, in its alternate forms of crime and ideation, is the disgrace and glory of the human species."