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When Men Become Actors on the Feminist Stage

Posted by The King of Zembla on 2024-March-6 12:30:07, Wednesday

Quiet on Set: When Men Become Actors on the Feminist Stage

How malicious philosophers can be! I know of nothing more stinging than the joke Epicurus took the liberty of making on Plato and the Platonists; he called them Dionysiokolakes. In its original sense, and on the face of it, the word signifies "Flatterers of Dionysius"—consequently, tyrants' accessories and lick-spittles; besides this, however, it is as much as to say, "They are all ACTORS, there is nothing genuine about them" (for Dionysiokolax was a popular name for an actor). And the latter is really the malignant reproach that Epicurus cast upon Plato: he was annoyed by the grandiose manner, the mise en scene style of which Plato and his scholars were masters—of which Epicurus was not a master! He, the old school-teacher of Samos, who sat concealed in his little garden at Athens, and wrote three hundred books, perhaps out of rage and ambitious envy of Plato, who knows! Greece took a hundred years to find out who the garden-god Epicurus really was. Did she ever find out?

Section 7 from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
https://gutenberg.org/files/4363/4363-h/4363-h.htm
Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV is a new 4-part documentary "revealing the toxic work conditions behind children's shows in the 1990s and early 2000s--specifically those from Dan Schneider, the creator of beloved Nickolodeon shows such as 'iCarly' and 'Zoey 101'" will air March 17 and 18 on Investigation Discovery.

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/drake-bell-sexual-abuse-brian-peck-nickelodeon-1235930926/

As part of the film's publicity, reports are circulating that Drake Bell, an actor formerly in the Nickelodeon stable, teen co-star of the Drake & Josh show, will accuse dialogue coach Brian Peck of sexual abuse. Peck was sentenced to 16 months in prison in 2014 for "performing a lewd act with a 14- or 15-year-old and to oral copulation with a minor under 16", charges believed to be related to Bell.

And as you may know, it has become rather popular to mention Dan Schneider in pedophile-related threads on social media, one of those constant reminders that stalkers like to leave at every opportunity. And so it has come to pass that these events, vibrating with the energy of a Pizzagate or Q Anon conspiracy theory, will be formalized and made official by this new documentary. Expect Brian Singer to get pulled in, too, as he gave the disgraced actor a bit part in an X-Men movie, as all of Hollywood is put on trial, as has become a sort of fad. (See Ricky Gervais' notorious anti-pedophile "comedy" routines at the Golden Globes, and more recently "hot pockets" comedian Jim Gaffigan's failed attempt at the same.)

What's interesting about this is that Drake Bell was himself convicted of grooming related charges in 2021, relating to an underage girl. She claims he began grooming her at age 12, and that the relationship turned sexual when she turned 15, leading to sexting. Later she described him as a "coward" and a "pedophile". He was sentenced to two years probation.

https://apnews.com/article/drake-bell-nickelodeon-actor-child-endangerment-sentencing-6f84b053c654aa21112d04eb19e6837b

This has all the airs of jilted love. They had a long-term relationship which, for whatever reason, didn't pan out. It's not a case of a rapist leaping out from behind a bush. It was a mutual relationship.

But mutual relationships are now on trial. Young women now have the power to destroy their former lovers, and they often do. Perhaps after a chat with the girls, with mom, or a therapist, or after seeing an abuse TV movie melodrama, they can suddenly decide their relationship was a fraud and nothing but an abuse of power, and they turn against their former lovers. Even if a man submits completely to their demands, they can turn against them in an instant and put you on trial, real or kangaroo. And the whole world cheers these women on.

And the "victim" doesn't even have to be a minor. We see it all the time, with even the slightest age gap being used to justify dogpiling on men on social media. It's enough that a woman "feels like" they were taken advantage of, and that a sufficent number of man hating women gather around to confirm her suspicions, even if they know nothing about the relationship, and have never met the people involved. It is group think of the worst kind.

So this is the pit that poor Drake Bell had dug himself. He was now a creep and a pedophile and his conviction made him unemployable in Hollywood. After a charmed life at Disney, his career was 100% over. There was no way to come back. No way, except...

...by playing the victim. When Bell was caught with his hands in the cookie jar, he sought out any means by which to vindicate himself, to cleanse himself of his own wrongdoing. After all, how else would he get back to work? He found a path forward, perhaps with the aid of a therapist, by looking into his past and identifying a scapegoat that explained why he did what he did. This scapegoat is Brian Peck.

Yes, once again it is important to emphasize how far into the age of female supremacy we live in. First raised up as a heartthrob of girls, then cast into the pits of hell by a girl's accusation of pedophilia, then ... digging himself out by playing the victim just as women do--as a star victim of pedophilia, as a public spokesperson for the ultimate victim role. This is not just an abstract "way it is now". It is the way female power works, in the same way that the Roman triumph represented the ultimate accomplishment of masculine power. Never forget that.

The narrative around attraction to minors in America is 1000% toxic. It is the most hateful, false, wrong, and destructive narrative in America today. Peck can't be honest about who he is. Bell can't be honest about who he is. Nobody writing articles about Peck, or Bell, or Quiet on Set can be honest about what they are talking about. Minor attraction is so common, it is everywhere. CSCAM is everywhere kids and teens congregate. And everywhere it is treated like the worst thing in the world. Men are being destroyed for possessing normal desire, for engaging in normal relationships that in the past could have resulted in marriage. Men are destroyed for teenage love. They are disparaged if not destroyed for loving adults who happen to be "too young" (See: Leonardo Dicaprio). Pedophilia has become a catch-all cudgel in the hands of feminist busybodies obsessively hammering down every male nail on social media.

The world feminism has created is so toxic that it creates a chain reaction of destruction of men, the destruction of male relationships and networks. In the Variety article, two other former child actors are reported to have gone on a podcast to confess all, in an attempt to cleanse themselves of their association with Brian Peck, whom they originally supported:
Friedle admitted on the podcast that he believed Peck at first, adding: “My instinct initially was, ‘My friend, this can’t be. It’s gotta be the other person’s fault.’ The story makes complete sense the way that he’s saying it.”

Peck later asked Strong and Friedle to support him in court, which they did. Friedle remembered: “We’re sitting in that courtroom on the wrong side of everything … The victim’s mother turned and said, ‘Look at all the famous people you brought with you. And it doesn’t change what you did to my kid,’” Friedle explained. “I just sat there wanting to die. It was like, ‘What the hell am I doing here?’ It was horrifying all the way around.”
These former friends and associates of Peck originally believed him--until a woman's withering gaze fell upon them. Then they were horrified.

Men realize they have no power to defend themselves against women. They know their normal desires are demonized. They are afraid to flirt with women in case they get accused. They are no longer getting hired because of intersectional/feminist rule of HR. And they know that women occupy an ontologically secure position from which they can carelessly lob any accusation or defamation against them, while nothing men say against women--specifically or in general--is taken seriously, unless it rises to the level of a Grand Public Spectacle--see: the Johnny Depp trial.

And so men are dropping out of society. Maligning normal male desire is part of the reason. There is no reason for men to contribute to society any more when they can be slandered over a kiss or a fondle from 15 years before. Women, the object of men's desire, have become dangerous in the extreme, and there is no social or cultural guardrails any more to protect them. Men are completely exposed to female power, no matter how corrupted or abused. (While it is practically a given in public discourse that men abuse women, the idea that women abuse men is treated as comic relief.)

Feminists have setup a draconian system to shelter women from the slightest breeze of "creep" or "ick", which they use to gain leverage over men in every situation. This system has surrounded and bullied men for decades now. Men like Drake Bell are desperate to escape the narrative, but--being weak and unimaginative--they can only do so by participating in it, by slandering and attacking other men, rather than facing the truth about male desire, especially their own. And so, predictably, feminism has become a factory of lies, which it launders into truths to serve the ultimate interests of women, painting men as by default abusive, slimey, icky, creepy, pathetic trash who deserve exile from society, unless they come crawling on all fours to beg for redemption, a boon granted in proportion to how many men their accusations destroy.

All of this complexity is neatly tucked away in the "journalism" surrounding these events. Every "journalist" is careful--or is made to be careful through an editorial process--to stick to the official line. No one dares to question the validity of the judgments that transform horny teenagers into absolute victims. No journalist admits, "But I enjoyed a blowjob then" or "But I desire teenagers, too." And so the lies go on and on and on. And careers are built upon these lies, so securely built they are upon the shallow graves of your compatriots, of lives and careers lost, just so the lie can continue indefinitely--a lie constructed by feminists to serve the power interests of women.

The animus toward feminism, contrary to what some people here may think, is not a step backwards to the bad old days of the patriarchy. It is the first step forward for men out of the present intolerable situation. It is the future, if there is one. And as boylovers we find ourselves as the very bottom of the bottom of the ever-growing pile of discarded males. And so naturally we should find our place in this new and emerging politics, rather than hiding behind old platitudes and feminist slogans.

It is as plain as day that the feminist-led language articulating institutional anti-pedophilia, beginning from the 1970s through to the 2000s, has been generalized to apply to the male tout court. What men in general are facing is what we have been facing for decades. It is just a matter of fact that this language was developed within feminist circles, within female-dominated therapeutic settings, pushed in law to protect women and girls. The moment of the generalization was #MeToo in 2017. We live in the Event of this generalization. Just as we have been tortured for decades by feminist language, men in general are now being tortured.

And they are not having it.

We should have something to say about the present situation, since we were the first to be destroyed and know it best. But boylove ideology is stuck in the past. It has not evolved beyond the slogans of the 70s. It's main proponents have disappeared into the system (Dylan Thomas) or ran off (Jimf3). The line of critical thinkers has been broken, and we observe everywhere in boylove a quiet retreat into irrelevance.

And so boylove intellectuals and activists fail to lead thinking for the next generation of lost males. Instead, perhaps following outdated loyalties to a feminism that no longer exists--and probably never existed--they abandon these lost males to the langauge of feminist-dominated journalism, happy to accept their characterization as "dangerous", "Trump-adjascent" "incel losers" in league with the "alt-right", to whom nothing need be said. But something should be said.


Maybe Lial, Pharmakon, Errant BL, or JohnHolt can chime in here and explain why men should continue to participate in a society dominated by women and structured by female power when it is so clearly not worth it. Why should men build anything, when women can casually take it away or destroy it? Let me guess how they will avoid answering:
  • They will deny women have real power.
  • If they admit women have power, they will deny there are any significant unjust political consequences for men.
  • They will reject the notion that power is gendered, except when it comes to attributing power to men for which women are the logical victims.
  • Instead of examining female power in the present, they will dutifully point to things that happened 50 years ago, or in a cave on some other continent, and so maintain that feminism is as valid as ever, perhaps even more so.
  • They will judge men solely in terms set by feminists: good when "challenging gender norms" and bad when "exhibiting toxic masculinity".
  • They will say men who can't hack it in a woman's world deserve to fail--aka. laughing at "loser incels".
  • They will accuse me of being backward, a BAP masculinist, or maybe even a misogynist, and might seek changes in the rules to make BC "more inclusive", i.e. stop me from posting.
  • Most importantly, they will have nothing new to say about what is new and emerging, prefering to sink back into their shrinking world of comforting thoughts, the failed status quo.
If there is a conspiracy of silence as feminists claim, in my view it is silence around female power, it's nature, and the severe damage it is doing not only to men but to society as a whole. Boylove intellectuals and activists fail in their duties when they gloss over the feminist logic underlying the present situation, and act like Soviet intellectuals who dutifully deny themselves the right to critique the system.

Let there be no doubt, feminism in 2024 is the system.

To properly respond to this system, we will have to overcome the seductive mise en scène of feminists who beguile and gaslight us into believing that female power isn't as real, as effective, or as dangerous as male power.
                                               


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