An advocate for legalizing rape on pri- vate property is facing backlash after me- dia sources caught wind of his idea.
Daryush Valizadeh is the founder of the anti-feminist website, Return of the Kings. He became public enemy number one with many females and feminist groups this week after multiple media sources report- ed that he had scheduled “Men Meet-ups” for Saturday Feb. 6.
The meetings, which only masculine heterosexual men could attend, were scheduled to be held in 43 different coun- tries with 165 meetings in total. These meetings angered many people after they discovered that Valizadeh wanted to legalize to rape on public property, explaining that when women crossed the threshold of the house they were under- standing that a man could do anything he wanted to her sexually.
After receiving threatening messag- es from people, Valizadeh canceled the meetings. He canceled them because he feared for both his and the attendees safety. Now he is angry at media sources for sug- gesting that the meet-ups were intended to let men talk about rape tactics.
As a woman who supports feminism, this “man” angers me to my core. For someone to ever suggest that rape should be legal is absolutely disgusting. Rape ru- ins many lives every year and sometimes leads to death. For him to suggest that entering someone’s house means that we have an understanding that a man can do whatever he wants with us is beyond disgraceful to how far this country has come in trying to prevent rape.
I think I speak for many women when I say that to see a man walking on this earth that believes this is horrific. The most sadis- tic part is that he has followers and that they too believe that this is the way life should be.
I think Valizadeh should take a hard look in the mirror and realize that this isn’t something that would ever become legal in the United States because, as a country, we have furthered the rights of women. We as a world community are coming to realize that women are significant and should be treated better and not like property.
It is comforting, however, to see the world standing by women and others who
have been raped and joining forces to stand against this awful person and his followers. I believe wholeheartedly that we would never go back in time to a place where women were treated like less than what they are, but to know that this man thought that he stood a chance in changing how far we’ve come is unset- tling. Thankfully though this world and the women in it will put up the biggest fight ever to stop a man like this from ever succeeding.
To Valiadeh and his followers, I hope you are seeing the power that women have because we won’t ever stop fight- ing for our rights and most certainly rape will never be legal or moral.
