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  • 2016-02-01 (xsd:date)
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  • Cancelled: So-Called 'Make Rape Legal' International Event (en)
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  • In early February 2016, a number of web sites such as Raw Story published articles about a purported multi-country meetup planned for 6 February 2016 seeking to make rape legal: Valizadeh did indeed post a How to Stop Rape article in February 2015, paradoxically suggesting that the way to eliminate rape was to make it legal on private property: Valizadeh has since disclaimed that article as being satirical in nature, and some observers believe his Return of Kings site is far more of an online troll than a serious men's rights advocates group: As referenced in the Raw Story piece, the National of Scotland published an article about the event which observed that the group would exact furious retribution against women who tried to crash their tribal meetings: The Return of Kings event was widely referenced as a make rape legal meetup on social media sites, where detractors of the Return of Kings web site tweeted about their distaste for the gatherings: On 28 January 2016, Valizadeh published a Frequently Asked Questions for International Meetup Day On February 6 (FAQ) entry from which much of the subsequent media reporting on the event extracted a number of quotes, including the furious retribution upon anyone who challenges [attendees] in public on that date portion. The FAQ confirmed that neither women nor homosexual (or transsexual) men were welcome at the 6 February 2016 events, and offered the following advice about what to do if a pretty girl attempted to crash proceedings: Directives for how to handle possible feminist crashers differed slightly but primarily focused on circumventing disruptions: Valizadeh also denied charges that the meetups had a white supremacist bent and waved off concerns about infiltration by law enforcement agents: In an earlier post, Valizadeh described the manner in which attendees might identify themselves and listed all known meetup points: On a separate site, Valizadeh provided background on the scope and purpose of the event. Although Return of Kings regularly publishes material of an offensive nature regarding women, rape, sexuality, and a number of other matters, the description of the February 2016 events did not mention any of those topics: Valizadeh's Return of Kings blog regularly publishes offensive, misogynist, and rape apology-themed content, but the event in question wasn't openly billed as promoting rape (or misogyny). The event's listing described a planned meetup to allow masculine men to regularly bond and converse with each other, although it was a meetup to which neither women nor gay men were to be welcomed. Due to adverse publicity generated by the announcement of the multi-country event, on 3 February 2016 Return of Kings posted that the meetups had been cancelled, citing privacy and safety concerns as the reason: (en)
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