#RooshIsARapist: In His Own Words
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medium.comPosted Aug 17, 2015, 9:06 AM UTC
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medium.comHoly Shitting on the floor Batman...
So Roosh is a scumbag danger to ANY woman in any city he happens to be in, I would extend that to any man who listens to or has any of Roosh's books.
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During sex, all the power belongs to the male because he controls the speed, tempo, force, and rhythm.
Imagine fucking this dude. Actually never mind that, imagine putting him in jail and taking a horrible human-being off the street and away from the women he victimizes. Now that is sexy.
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Do not adjust your crotch. We control the horizontal. We control the vertical.
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How this person is not in jail astounds me, he's basically confessed to multiple felonies for cripes sake!
But jeez, nothing that this person deserves to happen to them would ever make me weep.
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but I guess it's a convenient thing for a sociopath
Sociopathy is a synonym (or form, depending on the psychologist) of psychopathy. Using it as a synonym for creep, predator or rapist is ableist. Using it as a synonym for psychopathy here would be armchair diagnosing and also ableist.
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Sociopathy is slightly distinctive from psychopathy, the best way of putting it in layman's terms is it's similar to being a psychopath but also being able to hide it.
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There isn't really a consensus. Some psychiatrists use the terms interchangeably, others make distinctions like the one you did. And yet others use sociopathy and psychosis to make sure psychopathy and psychosis aren't mixed up.
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However, it just seemed to me that as he clearly is lacking in emphatic response to some of his actions, that in my layman's understanding he is a sociopath
You're a layman and you don't know Roosh intimately, meaning you miss both key qualifications to make that call. Now of course we all hate Roosh and feeling empathy for him is hard, so let me try to give an equivalent example.
Let's say I'd been posting about how much my life sucks for the past year and you react by calling me sad. No problem there. What if you called me depressed? Depression is a serious medical condition that is inherently different from "just being sad", yet equated to "being sad" in public perception. Independently of whether I'm actually suffering from depression in this imaginary scenario, you'd be relying on a harmful stereotype to make your assessment, thereby perpetuating and reinforcing it. You're doing the same when you casually diagnose Roosh as a sociopath/psychopath.
That's just one angle and there's many more. Here and here and here for example. Casually diagnosing people with mental illnesses is inherently harmful to those of us that actually suffer from them. It discourages acknowledging our sickness and thereby impedes us from seeking treatment, it belittles what we actually go through and it stops society from confronting the stigma associated with mental illness.
I'm sure you meant no harm, but it's nonetheless harmful. So I'd like you to edit that comment.
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I'm a pro-Gamergater, and not one to frequent this subreddit, but even I think Roosh and every other MRA/PUA are utter scum that are an embarrassment to every man who isn't a woman hating pile of crap.
If anything, I'm disgusted they latched onto GG at all, and the things they advocate concerning the value of women turn my stomach.
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You can support the things in the gaming industry you care about, without supporting those things those MRA/PUA etc.
But I feel Gamergate is way too messed up in these areas. Numerous horrible women hating men have attached themselves to GG, and many have accepted them with open arms.
if your worried about freedom of expression, and censorship, and being valued as a gamer, that's fine.
But I worry that the decent people who support Gamergate, are giving a false sense of acceptance to the shitty people in Gamergate.
It's just like with MRA's. Single issue advocacy groups could breakaway and make actual progress, and become respected for it. But when they group themselves in with the wildly varying mess of the mob (MRA's/Gamergate), they fail to separate themselves from the bad people and bad attitudes, it will negatively affect anything they strand for.
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Well, I DON'T accept people like Roosh with open arms. I believe all women are more than just the sex objects MRAs believe women to be, and I denounce everything they stand for regarding the role of women.
For those who are willing to accept MRA's into Gamergate, I personally find that incredibly regrettable and will do whatever is in my power to dissuade it from further happening.
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this guy is a creep that's actually managed to be awful enough to get banned from twitter and is obsessed with Arthur Chu. you're not gonna get anywhere with him.
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Being a rapist doesn't mean you're a rapist!
Am I doing this right?
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What if you wrote an autobiographical story that involved raping someone? Does that makes you a rapist?
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Roosh is awful.I really think he should be arrested especially for that rape he admitted, but sadly I don't think he will be arrested anytime soon.
It's hard enough to prosecute someone for rape even when the victim comes forward. -_-
And here he's admitting to it, why the hell has nothing happened?
Probably because the victim hasn't come forward. (As far as I'm aware, anyways-- please correct me if I'm wrong. I usually try not to investigate anything involving Roosh too closely because he makes my skin crawl.)
There's a concept in law that has some latin name I can't remember, but basically, it says that someone's confession alone is insufficient to convict them. There also needs to be proof that the crime was actually committed by that person, apart from their own testimony.
The simplest example I've seen used to illustrate why this is so is some variant of the following:
"I, u/Muspel, participated in the Holocaust. I was a high-ranking member of the Nazi party, and committed numerous war crimes over the course of several years."
There isn't a single non-rigged court in the world that would convict me of anything I "admitted" to in that statement, because I'm in my mid-twenties and I wasn't even born yet when the Holocaust happened.
While I am not even remotely a lawyer, I suspect that one of the main reasons for that legal concept is to protect mentally ill people from getting thrown in prison for confessing to fictitious crimes.
The problem in this particular case, I think, is that even though Roosh has admitted that what he did would be considered rape, there's no proof that the event in question actually happened-- unless one of his victims comes forward. If he were dragged into court for this, the only possible witness they could call to give more details and prove that the event occurred would be himself, and he would just take the fifth.