Forbes article: Drunk Female Guests Are The Gravest Threat To Fraternities

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Days of Broken Arrows

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Ziltoid said:
Will there ever be any mainstream pushback to this pseudo-Orwellian bullshit? Seriously, fucking Forbes? Who falls next, Wall Street Journal, National Review?

I'm beginning to think that conservatives, libertarians, and even moderates will not get their shit together and start elbowing for their rhetoric and viewpoints to be respected, and the door will simply close forever.

R.I.P. freedom of speech and journalist integrity, 1791 - 20??

Here is an irony we need to point out to Forbes.

This week is Banned Books Week. Last year, Forbes ran an article touting five banned books people should read.

This year, they've chosen to mark Banned Books Week by scrubbing an article from their Web site. Isn't that actually worse than banning a book, since it's erasing history?

Forbes' Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/forbes

A Forbes Facebook post where some feminist cheers their firing this writer in the comments:
https://www.facebook.com/forbes/posts/10152708803082509

Forbes' contact info:
http://www.forbes.com/fdc/contact.html
For general editorial feedback contact [email protected]

I don't have Twitter. But can someone who has Twitter please alert Heartiste and/or James Taranto of this?

https://twitter.com/heartiste
https://twitter.com/jamestaranto
 

El Chinito loco

 
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It_is_my_time said:
And for whatever reason, the same boss is pushing this anti-family/anti-male rhetoric and an alarming pace. I think there are bigger players at the table, and they are hidden from view and let the feminists do their dirty work. What is their purpose is the real question.

To destroy the family and stop the world from being over populated? Then just be honest about it and give men a sexual outlet in the form of prostitution so kids are not born but men are less violent and desperate.

It's based much more in practical rather than ideological reasons. Women are mass consumers of cosmetics, luxury handbags, cars, homes, etc.. Men are consumers too but single men as a demographic tend to pale in comparison to single women when it comes to mass consumerism. Traditional print media is all about advertising and the online model is still about advertising for the most part. Single women are a significant growing consumer demographic for nonsense shit coming from huffington post, Times, etc.. Thus anything that alienates this important goose laying the golden eggs also risks alienating dozens of corporate sponsors who keep the lights on.

Maybe one or more of the forum posters who has worked in mainstream print media can comment more on this. This is the main cause I see.

The other is that english speaking countries have an excess of SWPL female liberal arts majors. All these people are incapable of dealing with the real world and are always "literally shaking" so they wash out of the productive labor force. So they end up in academia or they reinvent themselves and get hired into mainstream media as "journalists" where they get to spew diarrhea to the masses from their pieholes.
 

It_is_my_time

Crow
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El Chinito loco said:
It_is_my_time said:
And for whatever reason, the same boss is pushing this anti-family/anti-male rhetoric and an alarming pace. I think there are bigger players at the table, and they are hidden from view and let the feminists do their dirty work. What is their purpose is the real question.

To destroy the family and stop the world from being over populated? Then just be honest about it and give men a sexual outlet in the form of prostitution so kids are not born but men are less violent and desperate.

It's based much more in practical rather than ideological reasons. Women are mass consumers of cosmetics, luxury handbags, cars, homes, etc.. Men are consumers too but single men as a demographic tend to pale in comparison to single women when it comes to mass consumerism. Traditional print media is all about advertising and the online model is still about advertising for the most part. Single women are a significant growing consumer demographic for nonsense shit coming from huffington post, Times, etc.. Thus anything that alienates this important goose laying the golden eggs also risks alienating dozens of corporate sponsors who keep the lights on.

Maybe one or more of the forum posters who has worked in mainstream print media can comment more on this. This is the main cause I see.

The other is that english speaking countries have an excess of SWPL female liberal arts majors. All these people are incapable of dealing with the real world and are always "literally shaking" so they wash out of the productive labor force. So they end up in academia or they reinvent themselves and get hired into mainstream media as "journalists" where they get to spew diarrhea to the masses from their pieholes.

I agree with what you have posted here.

But this specific instance tells me there is something bigger at play. A investment publication like Forbes would have more male and more conservative/libertarian readers who would enjoy such a piece to counter the push by the left and feminists.

The article is well written and is still PC, while at the same tells the brutal truth. But most Forbes readers would enjoy the piece, as it hits a good chunk of their reader base. Yes the lefties would throw a shit fit about it. But that gives them more free publicity. Many of Forbes female readers would be older women who have kids and this would hit home for them as well, as their college age sons face a whole new set of problems.

Instead the article was erased ASAP and the journalist fired. The reaction from Forbes is remarkable, IMO, and speaks to something larger at play.
 

Renzy

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Forbes Fires Columnist For Writing That Drunk Girls Are The Real ‘Threat’ To Fraternities

Bill Frezza won’t be keeping his gig as a Forbes contributor after he wrote a controversial article entitled “Drunk Female Guests Are the Gravest Threat to Fraternities” that didn’t sit well with readers. The piece was quickly taken down — although a cached version is still available — and a spokesperson for Forbes confirmed to the New York Daily News that Frezza will no longer contribute to the site.

My belief is that part of the reason feminists petition to have articles like this taken down is so that people who have not yet read it can't go back and see for themselves how reasonable the article actually was. By removing the article entirely, it lets feminists remove any evidence that contradicts their narrative of the article being a rape-condoning, victim-blaming diatribe against women.

Clearly one thing feminists can't stand is people reading things that they (feminists) don't agree with and drawing their own conclusions. Obviously people can't be trusted to think for themselves, so feminists have set themselves up as high-priests whose job is to filter the information us "proles" are exposed to lest our feeble minds start succumbing to dangerous ideas like personal accountability and female agency.
 

Mentavious

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Sounds like I had a different experience than others. The stories of hazing for pledges of sororities are bad enough.

Could be because I went to a large university in the South.
 

Renzy

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Days of Broken Arrows said:
Here is an irony we need to point out to Forbes.

This week is Banned Books Week. Last year, Forbes ran an article touting five banned books people should read.

I'm betting an aspiring RoK writer could create a weekly column just based on articles feminists have banned. "Banned Articles that Feminists Don't Want You to Read!"

The juxtaposition of book-banning and feminists' proclivity to censor anything that doesn't fit their world view is an apt one and would help drive home the point that these people are totalitarians at heart who just can't stand any sort of dissent or opposing views.
 

kosko

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The title did him in. Serious. Majority of feminists wouldn't of read it if it was titled differently. If he would of taken a page from buzzfeed he would of been fine. You always have to have a level of cover, he showed his hand to honestly from the start. A title such as:

"Important questions to ask about American fraternities going forward, they are in serious trouble and here is why..."

Would of been enough to skate around lazy editors and rabid bored feminists.
 
Blogger Dalrock had a funny take on it:
http://dalrock.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/now-he-knows/

Bill Frezza in his article more or less asked why female behavior is never criticized in the media.

After getting fired instantly he knows. It is simply not part of the current dictatorship of the mind. Women are to be painted as innocent snowflakes. When some feminists are arguing for all prisons for women to be closed down and even serial murderesses being put on house-arrest, then what can you expect really?
 

iamdegaussed

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This is fucking disgusting. This thought police bullshit needs to stop. ROK should reach out to this guy because that article he wrote was very sensible and honestly one of the least offensive things I could imagine reading and yet because it touched on female responsibility and the lack of it on campuses... it has to go. Fuck that.
 

Slim Shady

 
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Feminists just have to respond with the phrases "this is just taking us back to blaming the victim"..."you have really regressed all of the progress men [manboobs] have made"...."I'm sorry that you other men [manboobs] have to call this guy a fellow man"

The Jezebel bitch even said the guy was an MIT alum who "Creepily still is involved with his old frat". BITCH, he's an alumni adviser. That's a real thing that is necessary at EVERY frat. Motherfucking cunt.
 

Jack198

 
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Sonsowey said:
Filming girls without their consent is in and of itself illegal, but there have been several cases where videos of exactly that sort were permitted as evidence in court to get guys off of false rape accusations, so...

Exactly. While it may not be legal, it could save your ass to have a record of the incident. Moreover, if you found yourself in the situation of having to defend yourself from false rape accusations and you have video of the incident, immediately put that video into the public sphere (some kind of accessible online forum). In the US at least, once a communication is in the public forum there are very strong first amendment protections against taking it down. If it has never been released however, it is much more likely to be suppressed - even as evidence that could save you from a false rape charge.

Before any of this happens, I would advise all of you reading this to make a list of the three top criminal defense attorneys in your area. Find a guy who's good at going to trial and winning, not just cutting plea bargains. You want to know about them before you need them. Ditto for divorce attorneys, if you ever get married. Sad to have to think like this but such is the America we live in.
 

Renzy

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James Taranto, George Will, and now Bill Frezza; Going forward, it will be interesting to see how many journalists will be willing to challenge the feminist narrative as to whether there's a campus "rape epidemic" after watching these three get vilified in the media for doing so.
 

bojangles

Crow
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He needs supporting, I've contacted Forbes about their ridiculous decision and how its hypocritical to do it at the same time as 'banned books week'
 

MikeCF

Crow
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Renzy said:
James Taranto, George Will, and now Bill Frezza; Going forward, it will be interesting to see how many journalists will be willing to challenge the feminist narrative as to whether there's a campus "rape epidemic" after watching these three get vilified in the media for doing so.

More will do it, actually.

They are seeing the success (and page views, which to them means dollar dollar bills y'all) of our sites and they are copying us in a cynical ploy to get money.
 

Slim Shady

 
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I have started responding to some of his tweets in support [I tweet under my real name]. Immediate push-back from feminist types. As usual it is almost impossible to get any truth through their thick skulls...the best thing to do is just present it and watch their minds melt at the paradoxes in their world view.
 

Jack198

 
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Slim Shady said:
I have started responding to some of his tweets in support [I tweet under my real name]. Immediate push-back from feminist types. As usual it is almost impossible to get any truth through their thick skulls...the best thing to do is just present it and watch their minds melt at the paradoxes in their world view.

People don't want the truth, least of all young, single American women.
 
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