Most of us would agree that every adult is responsible for learning coping skills, not helplessness.

From our early years of mastering how to walk and talk, we learn how to think and begin honing our decision-making process. So why is our personal responsibility being censored?

Functioning adults should be allowed to decide what they eat, drink, wear, watch and how they choose to feed their mind in their spare time. Those who don’t enjoy watching violence or horror may sensibly opt to steer clear when selecting a movie rather than complaining at the end.

I enjoy watching insightful, thought-provoking documentaries and on my list was The Red Pill by award-winning filmmaker Cassie Jaye. The title is a reference to the reality revealing pill in The Matrix. According to Red Pill’s website it “chronicles Cassie Jaye’s journey exploring an alternate perspective on gender equality, power and privilege”. Through men’s personal stories, it gives voice to various little aired issues, backed up by statistics and studies.

media_camera Choose wisely. (Pic: The Matrix)

Erin Pizzey, founder of the first women’s aid shelter in the western world features alongside Warren Farrell, a male feminist who turned his focus to male issues and found himself swiftly ostracised by a sisterhood that only accepts nodding sheep.

Jaye began the project as a committed feminist but over the course of her two-year project, she found many men’s rights activists’ (MRAs) arguments convincing. She began questioning her own beliefs and stopped identifying as a feminist.

To me, that sounds like crucial viewing in a society saturated by feminist propaganda.

If “cry me a river” is your response to male issues, you assume the patriarchy to be fact, or believe domestic violence is a gendered issue, perhaps you should have booked a seat at one of the cinemas in Melbourne or Sydney that were set to screen The Red Pill.

Too late. The shaky stilts SJWs (social justice warriors) call legs buckled at the mere thought of a film being screened that didn’t follow the brainwashing brief. A Change.org petition frantically whizzed around labelling it “misogynistic propaganda” and clocked up 2,370 signatures. Essentially, this is the film SJWs don’t want you to see — and these paranoid cultural Marxists are winning the war against our freedom of choice.

Terrified of adults watching, absorbing and formulating their own opinions, they have hysterically pulled shutters closed on open minds rather than confidently showing people to their seats. What are they so afraid of? The truth? Feminist TV ads and opinions persistently invade our personal living rooms with anti-men messaging, but people aren’t allowed to put one foot in front of the other and choose what they watch at a screening?

Hopefully the challenge petition will win.

media_camera Erin Pizzey, founder of the first women’s aid shelter in the western world, features in The Red Pill. (Pic: Supplied)

However, this isn’t the end of what we supposedly shouldn’t be allowed to see. Last week, deluded feminist outrage merchant Clementine Ford conjured up the pinnacle of absurdity attempting to assert that sexual assault in virtual reality is real, and needs to be taken seriously. You cannot be serious?

By definition virtual reality is not real. The only thing here which needs to be taken seriously is that such batty nonsense is considered a pressing issue. In a virtual world, keeping the headset on is active consent.

Ford asks, “how are we to prosecute assault in those virtual spaces — if we are to prosecute at all?” Get real, there’s no such thing as assault in virtual spaces, it literally does not exist. Do the police not already have enough on their hands tackling real crime before foolish feminists start pushing for policing of virtual reality too?

Perhaps when police tell young women not to send nude photos, we could heed their advice rather than stubbornly suggesting we have a right to a crime free world. If someone vile crosses your path on a virtual plane, take off the headset. As technology takes over our lives, it’s important to be aware of digital danger in all forms; everyone’s responsible for their own risk assessment.

Stop trying to control other people and focus on making educated choices yourself. Can you really be consistently shocked by the fact not all humans have good intentions? People are people; why expect them to be any different in virtual reality? There are good men and bad men, good women and bad women. Teaching children that not everyone is pure and morally sparkling might help us reclaim our adulthood rather than clinging to this vile state of victimhood which freezes progression.

The learned behaviour of an educated adult should be removing the headset and choosing hobbies they enjoy rather than feeble-mindedly bursting into tears and wailing “it’s not fair”.

Enough. It’s time to take back control of our decisions, reclaim our responses, stop handing out memberships to Club Victimhood and choose personal responsibility over childlike censorship.