With the recent arrest of Kenny Klein for supposed child porn, there has been a rush of opinions, attitudes, and judgments flying around. I tried to be a voice of understanding and ethics, but when people get in their mass hysteria, reason is the last thing that they want to hear. Not even 24 hours after he was arrested, people were saying that he was guilty. And here is where I came in, I tried to remind people about the procedure of law. How Kenny Klein is innocent until proven guilty. And for this I was accused of supporting Kenny Klein, have child porn, and just being a loser. I am not supporting Kenny in any way, I am stating that he hasn't went to trial and thus not proven guilty by a court of law.
I have seen Kenny Klein's facebook page, and there are a lot of images of young ladies. Some of they ladies are not wearing clothes but behind something. And Some of these ladies look very young. But I am not the best judge of age, and I figured that this might have to do with modeling, and that is something I know very little about.
I wasn't going to defriend Kenny because he wasn't found guilty of these charges. However new information keep coming up. Kenny wasn't the best father/husband and his family has nothing nice to say about him. As a father myself, I know that children will not say anything bad about their parent unless they have done something very heinous. Because of this I am going to unfriend Kenny. But I do have to stay true to the ethics here. Kenny maybe guilty of A,B, and C, that doesn't mean that he is guilty of D. we can't transfer guilt from one incident to a different incident.
With all the rhetoric popping up about Kenny Klein, I saw a link about conduct at pagan events and I decided to read it. And was I ever disgusted with it. Recently there was a movement in Atheism to create Atheism Plus, a feminist movement within Atheism, and it utterly failed. The issue was that it did have gender equality, it had demonized men and made women the victim in everything that it sought to handle. It talked about the 'rape culture' and the "Don't be that Guy" campaign in Canada.
It is a gender biased essay stating that men are basically sex driven hormone machines that will rape any women when they get a chance. I was offended by this. I am an Equalist, I seek absolute equality with the genders, to a point where gender doesn't matter. Not all men are rapists, most men are hard working individuals that appreciate women. And not all rapists are men either. One study I read states that nearly 15% of all adult rapists were women. That number goes up when it is children that are molested /raped. SO why punish all men for the actions of a few?
And I want to add that when the statistics go against women , I bet the numbers are irrelevant. Did you know that nearly 80% of all embezzlers are women. Well if men can be demonized because 85% of the rapists are men , then women need to be demonized for embezzling funds from their employer at 80%. SO all women should be removed from areas that handle money. Doesn't that sound terrible, because not all women are going to embezzle money, just like all men are not going to rape women.
This essay also talked about how paganism is a female oriented religion. Thus they must protect women. I thought paganism is about balance and honoring both the male and female aspects. SO what happens if a female causes issues with a guy at a pagan event, does he have to take it? This essay talked about Domestic violence. I have seen too many reports and studies that have shown women to be just as violent as men. And with laws set-up to protect women and treating men like they are automatically guilty, women are becoming more and more violent. And the man has to take the abuse, because if he defends himself, he can be arrested for attacking his female partner.
SO please keep feminism out of Paganism. It is supposed ,to be a spiritual tool, not a political tool. Let's keep each other informed without biased rules targeting men as guilty as accused. Remember the outrage when Z Budapest held a natural female only ritual event at wiccacon a few years back. Do we want to promote that type of behavior? Both men and women have flaws and are capable of many great and terrible things.
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