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Feminist College Girls Gone … Well, OK, Not ‘Wild,’ Exactly. But My Point Is …

Posted on | April 3, 2014 | 101 Comments

Future Cat Ladies of America, unite!

Looking at photos from the “Young Feminist Leadership Conference,” one cannot help feeling a sense of pity: Here they are, young women just starting out in life — some of them moderately attractive, even — committing themselves to a philosophy that guarantees their futures will be consumed by angry baby-killing bitterness.

Hey, I said “moderately attractive.” Your mileage may vary. Some guys like the Chubby Nerd Girl look. De gustibus non est disputandum.

So, what did the Young Feminists do last weekend during their National Conference? They heard from Old Feminists like the hate-filled fanatic Eleanor Smeal and the radical atheist man-hater Kim Gandy. There were panel discussions on “Why Prison Reform Matters to the Feminist Movement,” “Defending Your Local Women’s Health Center” and (naturally) “Rape is Rape: The Fight Against Campus Sexual Assault.”

(Remember: “No woman is heterosexual” and “PIV is always rape, OK?”)

My favorite item on the NYFLC agenda, however, was “Ecofeminism: Gendered Impact of Climate Change.” Why? Because that panel discussion was moderated by “Sara Alcid, Programs and Policy Associate, Reproductive Health Technologies Project.”

We all remember self-described “queer feminist” Sara Alcid, right?

“Heteronormativity and gender roles also rear their ugly heads on Valentine’s Day. Gifts for ‘him’ or ‘her’ are clearly divided and marked and it’s almost impossible to find cards that represent queer couples. . . .
“It’s not hard to see why Valentine’s Day is problematic for many feminists. Celebrated traditionally, Valentine’s Day magnifies many of the very systems of domination that we work to critique and dismantle.”
— Sara Alcid, “Valentine’s Day: What’s A Feminist To Do?” EverydayFeminism.com, Feb. 14, 2013

Well, the patriarchy got thoroughly smashed at the conference, I guess, but there were murmurs about lingering heteronormativity.

Beyond the complaints about insufficient “queer” representation, the National Young Feminist Leadership Conference made headlines by attacking conservative journalist Katherine Timpf:

Campus Reform’s Katherine Timpf attended the National Young Feminist Leadership Conference (NYFLC) — an event which promised to be about “inclusivity” and welcoming everyone — only to be told that “conservative” women were not welcome.
Timpf attempted to ask students’ their opinions on feminism, but conference organizers made an announcement advising participants not to talk to Campus Reform because it was a “conservative” outlet.
The organizers also followed Timpf around the conference to interrupt her conversations with students to tell them the same thing.
“They’re a group that’s conservative, so what we are fighting for is not something…” one organizer told a student who was talking with Timpf, prompting the student to walk away. . . .
“You guys aren’t wanted here,” a participant told the reporter after the warning.
“I thought this was supposed to be an inclusive thing, why am I being excluded because of where I work?” Timpf asked another organizer after another interruption.
“Because the place that you work is not inclusive,” the organizer responded.

After seeing these feminist festivities, I’m sure many young women are asking, “What can I do? I’d like to be a feminist, but I can’t afford to attend a national conference or spend years getting a Women’s Studies degree from an elite private university.”

Relax, ladies. Becoming a feminist is actually very simple:

  1. Get an abortion;
  2. Become a lesbian;
  3. Vote Democrat;
    and
  4. Cats. Lots of cats.

You’re welcome. Always glad to help.





 

Category: Abortion, Education, Feminism

Comments

101 Responses to “Feminist College Girls Gone … Well, OK, Not ‘Wild,’ Exactly. But My Point Is …”

  1. robertstacymccain
    April 4th, 2014 @ 5:55 am

    (Rimshot.)

    It took me four or five seconds to get that one, but it was worth the wait.

  2. robertstacymccain
    April 4th, 2014 @ 6:08 am

    Anamika doesn’t understand that I have readers who call my attention to items like that Vanderbilt thing — which was, in fact, (a) quite a popular post, and (b) a commentary on the “rape culture” theme.

    This post, on the other hand, was a belated catch-up: Many bloggers had commented on Katherine Timpf’s experience at the NYFLC and, rather than merely repeat the Outraged Over Exclusion at the ‘Inclusive’ Conference meme, I took time to research what else happened at the conference, so that my blogging actually added information (and jokes) to what was already available.

  3. Zohydro
    April 4th, 2014 @ 6:09 am

    I first read about the lovely Ms Hunt last spring in a small piece at Breitbart… I was the first and only one to comment on it, but it made me think so I goOgled the case and discovered TOM—Mr McCain was virtually the only one examining what, as it turned out, is a very important matter!

  4. Dana
    April 4th, 2014 @ 6:18 am

    https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/10157118_10154036432535173_1419010982_n.jpg

  5. Dana
    April 4th, 2014 @ 6:22 am

    Well, that’s what happens when Daddy isn’t there.

  6. Dana
    April 4th, 2014 @ 6:26 am

    What is “more than tolerated,” other than accepted and respected and loved? It is a requirement that we not only don’t criminalize their preferences, but that we say that their sexual choices are just as good and wholesome and normal as those of heterosexuals. Well, sorry, but no.

  7. Dana
    April 4th, 2014 @ 6:31 am

    I have a copyright claim on all constructions like “the lovely Miss Hunt,” and your use of the fake honorific “Ms” does not constitute an escape valve from plagiarism. You will go to my site and deposit $10 in the donation box, upper left hand corner, to pay the required royalties.

  8. Zohydro
    April 4th, 2014 @ 6:33 am

    I hereby bitterly denounce you!

  9. Dana
    April 4th, 2014 @ 6:38 am

    Mr Mous wrote:

    Feminists / Gays: These people are Democrats. Any attempt to recruit
    them would require the GOP to try to emulate the Democrats, which
    wouldn’t work anyway, since the Democrats are better at being Democrats.

    I’d say otherwise. Our esteemed host is attempting to separate the whacko feminists from the people who believe, as a simple matter of fairness, that women ought to have an equal opportunity to try things, and that people ought to be receive equal pay for equal work. Most people, including most Republicans, believe that. The problem is that the radical feminists have festooned the notion of feminism with so many silly things that it has become a sick caricature.

    He is noting that the radical feminists are very heavily into saying that lesbianism is the apex of feminism, but such a notion excludes the vast, vast majority of women who have normal sexual attractions.

    The thing is: conservatives certainly can attract those people who would call themselves feminists at the basic level, as is evidenced by the fact that Republicans regularly win (slight) majorities among married women. Most married women work outside the home these days, and the feminism of fairness, rather than the feminism of special needs, is what they believe.

  10. Dana
    April 4th, 2014 @ 6:39 am

    Why, for saying that we ought to look women in the eyes? 🙂

  11. Quartermaster
    April 4th, 2014 @ 6:59 am

    The difference is that God does allow that kind of judgment on people that go against what He wants.

    The climate change thing is merely a hoax.

  12. Zohydro
    April 4th, 2014 @ 7:01 am

    No, for implying that the way women may dress would in any way influence any male most men with a beating heart to innocently scan beyond the facialar region of the feminine figure!

  13. Zohydro
    April 4th, 2014 @ 7:41 am

    It’s comforting to know that I’m not the only one who thinks “feminists” may come in more than one colour…

  14. Bob Belvedere
    April 4th, 2014 @ 7:43 am

    -Heh.

    -For you youngins out there in digital land, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Schaefer
    and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Tufts#Sonny_Tufts_References_in_the_Media

  15. Kirby McCain
    April 4th, 2014 @ 7:49 am

    I don’t doubt her sincerity. Anamika obviously knows these stories are getting a lot of coverage. Therefore, I must assume she is not satisfied by the quality of analysis and wishes to hear our host’s highly valued opinion.

  16. Dana
    April 4th, 2014 @ 8:00 am

    Part of it is simplistic thinking, but another part is the actual effort of the feminists, specifically, and the left in general, to regularize thought: the leadership decide what the left will think, and then excoriate any who don’t toe the line on every issue. The notion of a pro-life feminist, or a pro-life liberal, is just an oxymoron to them, but, if you had seen the development of the 1970s liberals, and tried to project their thinking forward to today, you’d have expected liberals to be the ones who were pro-life, and conservatives the ones who supported abortion.

  17. Dana
    April 4th, 2014 @ 8:03 am

    Oh, believe me, I am far more attracted to intelligent women than just simple physical characteristics. http://cdn.vrgags.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/488.jpg

  18. Kirby McCain
    April 4th, 2014 @ 8:26 am

    The play of words by the left, once again, fascinates me. Those who deign themselves feminists have, for the most part, abandoned the feminine. And the tweets from the lesbians demanding more programming for the queer. As if there were no lesbian only conferences. I don’t see how they could be more selfish and petty. These biological females who regularly disparage women in traditional roles as mothers and wives give away their agenda. It is not enough to be allowed to pursue their own ideals. These feminists must assert that they are unquestionably superior. But I ask you, what could more demonstrably be feminine than bearing and nurturing children?

  19. Quartermaster
    April 4th, 2014 @ 8:45 am

    Anamika is nuts and she adds nothing here.

  20. Quartermaster
    April 4th, 2014 @ 8:47 am

    The feminism of “fairness” has been one of the factors that has gotten us where we are.

  21. Quartermaster
    April 4th, 2014 @ 8:48 am

    Anamika is just nuts. All else flows from that. Her posts are just a rambling mélange of the left’s talking points and agitprop.

  22. Quartermaster
    April 4th, 2014 @ 8:49 am

    You still some royalty checks from ‘sex.’

  23. Quartermaster
    April 4th, 2014 @ 8:53 am

    That is a true thought crime.

  24. richard mcenroe
    April 4th, 2014 @ 10:40 am

    Boobies. Lovely to look at. Delightful to hold. Tough to hold a conversation with and I’m told I have tried…

  25. PCachu
    April 4th, 2014 @ 10:55 am

    So your fascist scalp-hunting friends have succeeded in driving yet another reviled heretic from their ranks and you count this as a Big Victory. You sure are in a great position to lecture us on “growing the tent” there, Chuckles.

    But I suppose you could call that a great win for tolerance. You know, if you’re an obviously hypocritical fraud.

  26. Dana
    April 4th, 2014 @ 11:01 am

    Uhhh, as of 11:00, my paypal account does not show that you have made the required royalty payment. please consider this your second notice.

  27. Michelle
    April 4th, 2014 @ 11:41 am

    This was a nice satire piece. Well done.

  28. Anamika
    April 4th, 2014 @ 2:02 pm

    See: The Astonishing Conservative Hypocrisy Over Mozilla and the First Amendment

  29. trangbang68
    April 4th, 2014 @ 3:43 pm

    Using fascist shaming techniques right out of the Cultural Revolution to force out the Mozilla CEO is a “Big Victory” only in the mind of a politically correct stooge. Even Andrew Sullivan thought it was counterproductive.

  30. Anamika
    April 4th, 2014 @ 3:51 pm

    See: The Astonishing Conservative Hypocrisy Over Mozilla and the First Amendment.

    Even Andrew Sullivan thought it was counterproductive.

    He did. He also said: “If we are about intimidating the free speech of others, we are no better than the anti-gay bullies who came before us.”

    A taste of your own medicine?

  31. K-Bob
    April 4th, 2014 @ 4:41 pm

    Heh. We succumbed to the zeitgeist and stopped at two.

    Yep, there’s two more like me out there, having sammiches fixed.

  32. K-Bob
    April 4th, 2014 @ 4:45 pm

    “sharp uptick”

    Come on, I don’t want to have to ‘splain the joke so soon after busting Stacy’s chops about that.

  33. trangbang68
    April 4th, 2014 @ 5:07 pm

    Your point is assuming this anti gay bullying is not just the figment of leftist imaginations.

  34. PCachu
    April 4th, 2014 @ 6:08 pm

    Yet another hyperventilating tu quoque? Really? That’s all you have? And courtesy the amateur webzine Slate, no less? Even within your own mind, you can only sort-of justify this by pointing and sputtering, “But that big meanie STARTED it!”?

  35. Rosalie
    April 4th, 2014 @ 6:59 pm

    The last cat I had was very much a people person. I couldn’t sit on the couch without her coming over and plopping down on my lap. She always slept at the foot of our bed. Sadly, she was diagnosed with cancer and I had to have her put to sleep. Several times after that, I actually felt something jump on the bed at the very spot she always occupied. It was the weirdest thing.

  36. Bob Belvedere
    April 4th, 2014 @ 7:43 pm

    Every Leftist group needs a token.

  37. Bob Belvedere
    April 4th, 2014 @ 7:44 pm

    Or Daddy wears onesie PJ’s.

  38. K-Bob
    April 4th, 2014 @ 7:45 pm

    “It’s up sharply like a hyperbolic curve…”

    I was going more for a hockey stick pattern, but you got closest to the mark.

  39. Bob Belvedere
    April 4th, 2014 @ 7:46 pm

    I like cats for their attitude. They’re individuals and are willing to tell you to leave them alone.

  40. Bob Belvedere
    April 4th, 2014 @ 7:48 pm

    For the record, though, this Truth must be mentioned:

    -If you die and are not found, your dog will lay by your side and starve to death.

    -If you die and are not found, your cat will start to eat you when you it gets hungry.

  41. Bob Belvedere
    April 4th, 2014 @ 7:50 pm

    They want us to say their sexual choices and preferences are superior – they want us to love Big Brother before they destroy us.

  42. Julie Pascal
    April 4th, 2014 @ 10:54 pm

    Nothing says tolerance like demands for recanting and re-education in order to keep your job.

    But whatev… maybe they’ll come for you last, huh?

  43. chicagorefugee
    April 5th, 2014 @ 3:08 am

    The Christian-crazy don’t claim to be a group of strict scientific rationalists whose opponents must be silenced and barred from the public square.

  44. Rosalie
    April 5th, 2014 @ 8:07 am

    True.

  45. Rosalie
    April 5th, 2014 @ 8:14 am

    Cats are just doing what thely’re supposed to do. It’s all about instinct.

  46. Inside the “Young Feminist Leadership Conference”
    April 5th, 2014 @ 9:12 am

    […] pretty much exactly what you think, except […]

  47. dtrumpet
    April 5th, 2014 @ 10:00 am

    That cracked me up even if it might contain a bit of truth.

  48. marew
    April 5th, 2014 @ 1:09 pm

    Rush is right, feminism is about ugly girls trying to make themselves relevant.

    When I look at those pictures, one word….woof

  49. marew
    April 5th, 2014 @ 1:11 pm

    Oh, and I’d like to see how long their feminist beliefs would last if the stud, football qb, with a 4.0 GPA acted interested in one of these gals.

  50. Frankly Bored
    April 8th, 2014 @ 11:10 am

    I had a cat once…tasted like a cross between Bald Eagle and a Giant Panda.