Interestingly, despite the fact that Milo openly celebrated his own homosexuality, he repeatedly denounced lesbians to the point of even denying their existence: "There aren't really any lesbians... This is something that people don't really understand about sexuality. You know men have been exclusively sleeping with men for the majority of their lives, since 2000 BC - Juvenal and Tacitus are very clear on this. Female sexuality as we know from all studies that have ever been conducted on this subject is much more malleable, its much more flexible. Women who sleep with women tend to have had relationships with men as well. So the old jokes about just needing a good dicking or she's just come out of bad relationship do tend to be broadly accurate."
Milo launched into his discussion on the perils of feminism by deriding such feminist lies as the wage gap and rape culture. He disputed the number of rapes reported at UCSB in 2014 compared to national statistics and implied that most rape victims were hoaxers seeking media attention and money. He maintained that the frequently cited 1-in-4 rape statistic was not true - that "reality is a very long way away by what is claimed by feminism" - and rattled off a few numbers apparently taken from the Department of Justice in support of his view.
He discounted the wage gap as a failure of women to work as hard as men, or to do the difficult dangerous jobs that men do, or to choose challenging college subjects. "If women want to improve the wage gap... they should change their majors to engineering from feminist dance therapy," he declared. Deriding the "simple kind of babyish arithmetic" of feminists, he questioned their cognitive capabilities. He stated that feminists were "illiterate liars" and postulated that "feminists suffer from the conspiracy theory of patriarchy."
Openly derisive of the "intersectional lunacy" of "third-wave feminism," Milo enumerated feminism's flaws: "misandry, lesbianism, facial piercings, blue hair, and many, many extra pounds" (the latter depicted graphically for the snorting audience). He quoted Rush Limbaugh, who said that, "feminism is the way that ugly women get an entrance into public life," and he disparaged Gender Studies professors as "dour lesbianic harpies" and "disgusting man-hating harridans". Ever responsive to the laughter and groans of his audience, Milo alternately smirked, sneered, and pouted, along with hand-flapping protestations of "just kidding! I don't mean it!" whenever he seemed to cross too far over the line into hate and misogyny.
Despite his avowed intent to provide a critique of feminism, Milo's apparent issues with women's weight came to dominate much of his discussion. With eye-rolling acerbity, he expressed disapproval for feminist styles in clothing, hair color, and body positivity. According to Milo, the "hideous, sociopathic monsters" in Gender Studies departments have made him very angry by telling "young girls that they can be as fat as they want to; they can burp and fart and sh*t and turn themselves into Lena Dunham lookalikes." Railing against body positivity for promoting "the idea that women can be healthy at any size", Milo mocked the obvious emotional consequences for women "not looking their best." He lamented that, "if only feminists dedicated the same amount of time to losing weight as lying they might have happier lives."
He also mocked "social justice in general [as] a movement populated by miserable people trying to make everyone else as unhappy as they are." Apart from his many quips about his "equal opportunism" with regard to sexual relations with black and brown men, Milo dismissed Black Lives Matter activists as unhappy with their "station in life." He averred that, "it's very clear that a lot of social justice - whether it's feminism, or progressivism in general or, yes, Black Lives Matter - comes from people who are very unhappy and miserable with their own circumstances..." He ended with the ringing declaration that "My dangerous f*ggot tour is the first wave of a fight back against [the social justice] movement!"
His audience responded with fist-pumping yells of "Build the Wall! Build the Wall!"
During the Q and A session afterward, someone asked Milo why he focused more on women's fitness than on feminism and wanted to know the sources for his statistics. Milo's apparent hostility to this prompted his followers to shout down the questioner who was told to go stand back in line.
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