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Feminist Logic: Shut Up, Haters

Posted on | May 15, 2015 | 104 Comments

Did you know @KateSpencer has “self-inflicted body shame”? Yeah, your first thought is probably: Kate Who? But before we answer that question, let’s talk about her body shame:

Because I am thirty-three years old [she wrote in 2013], and I am still not comfortable in my own body. I haven’t been since I was eight and I sprouted breasts before everybody else . . . I wasn’t when I was twelve and towered over boys, slouching to bring myself down in inches. Nor was I at nineteen, skinny-dipping in the waters off of Long Island with my closest college friends. Even though I was drunk and stoned the shame was still able to find a way in . . .
I was not comfortable in my body in my twenties . . . And I wasn’t after I gave birth to my daughter at thirty-one . . .
The thing about self-inflicted body shame and self-loathing is that it seeps into other aspects of your life. It makes you feel unworthy in other situations . . . It’s a cycle of worthlessness that weaves its way into social interactions, sexual relationships, and random moments of your life.

You can read the whole thing, if you have a weird voyeuristic interest in watching someone publicly wallow in useless self-pity. But now let’s answer your question, Kate Who?

Kate Spencer has been writing and performing at the UCB Theatre since 2002. She is a member of the improv team Reuben Starship and co-host of the pop culture panel show Shut Up! I Hate You! Kate is a Senior Producer/Writer and on-air correspondent for VH1, where she spends a lot of time yapping on TV and the internet about pop culture and celebrity news. She’s interviewed everyone from George Clooney to Kristen Stewart to Fleetwood Mac, and one time Connie Britton called her “adorable” and she almost cried. Writing credits include: Newsweek/Daily Beast, Vulture, Hello Giggles, College Humor and The Huffington Post, who named Kate one of their “18 Funny Women You Should Be Following On Twitter.”

Oh, right: Women full of self-loathing are so hilarious. But it was on Twitter where — har-de-har-har — she posted this:

“People who refuse to believe women are harassed online sure do love to make their point by harassing women online.”

Non sequitur much? Does anyone deny the existence of online harassment? Certainly not I, having been harassed by the deranged cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt, among others. But this “harassment” meme has been exploited by feminists as part of an attempt to paint their critics as dangerously violent haters, thus to (a) elicit sympathy for feminists; (b) discredit all opposition to feminism as inspired by misogyny; and (c) try to get their critics banned from Twitter and/or subjected to criminal prosecution. Because feminism is a totalitarian ideology, it can only succeed by silencing opposition. This is what has happened in academia, where Title IX has been weaponized and deployed to prohibit criticism of feminist dogma. (Remember that Larry Summers was forced to resign as president of Harvard University after he publicly speculated about “innate differences” between men and women.) After more than two decades of increasingly rigid feminist hegemony in higher education, most college-educated people under 40 have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in the false premises of feminist ideology that not only can they not “think outside the box,” but they’ve never met anyone who could explain to them that there is a box.

Feminists now believe that only women are targeted by online harassment, and furthermore believe that any negative attention online is “harassment,” and SHUT UP, HATER! Having spent the past 17 months researching and writing about radical feminism — Sex Trouble, $11.69 in paperback, $1.99 in Kindle ebook — I’ve long since become accustomed to this reaction. Inside the Feminist Internet Bubble, everybody tells each other how awesomely clever they are, so that all any woman needs to do is to declare herself a feminist and she can immerse herself in a digital estrogen bath of self-affirmation. However, the minute anyone from outside this bubble calls attention to the absurdity or falsehood of feminist claims — ZOMG! You’re a hateful ignorant misogynist engaged in the Internet equivalent of rape!

The fool cannot stand to have her ideological folly held up to critical scrutiny and (perhaps you have noticed) the critic need not even offer a detailed analysis or a counter-theory in order to provoke feminists to shrieking panic and fury. Merely to quote what the feminist has said and expose it to readers outside the Feminist Internet Bubble is deemed hateful “harassment.” Why? Because the errors and falsehoods of feminism are generally self-evident, they inspire caustic mockery from any sane person with ordinary common sense. Nothing is more offensive to feminists than being mocked by ordinary people with common sense.

What we are not supposed to notice is the problematic premises asserted within what I call feminism’s Patriarchal Thesis:

  1. All women are victims of oppression;
  2. All men benefit from women’s oppression;
    therefore
  3. Whatever.

In other words, when your worldview begins with the assumption that normal human life is a system of injustice in which all women (collectively) are victimized by all men (collectively), then it is possible to justify almost anything you do as part of your effort to overthrow this oppressive system. Smash Patriarchy!

 

The Patriarchal Thesis absolves feminists of any obligation to meet the ordinary requirements of intelligent discourse. Logic is unnecessary and, as for facts, they are (a) whatever feminists say they are or (b) irrelevant if they do not confirm the Patriarchal Thesis. Believing themselves oppressed, and believing that men universally participate in the oppression of women, feminists thereby justify themselves in telling blatant lies and insulting men. Anyone who dares call notice to the hateful dishonesty of feminism is presumed to be a dimwit with bad motives because, of course, feminists are the moral and intellectual superiors of anyone who disagrees with them.

So, you may ask, exactly how oppressed is Kate Spencer? The crucible of her adolescent suffering was Dana Hall School (annual tuition $43,200), and she got her bachelor of arts degree in Women’s Studies from Bates College (annual tuition $47,030). In other words, she was a rich prep school kid who attended one of those money-no-object New England liberal arts colleges at which she never had to encounter any grubby commoners from places where people drive pickup trucks, listen to hillbilly music, believe in Jesus and vote Republican.

Kate Spencer‘s yearly prep school tuition bill was more than the median household income in New Mexico, Tennessee and seven other states, but she is oppressed because of her body shame. Don’t you dare doubt her victimhood, you sexist bigot, because her suffering makes Kate Spencer your superior. If you should express any objection to Kate Spencer’s insulting nonsense, why, that’s clearly illegal harassment!

Don’t ever bother hating Kate Spencer, you stupid Republican rednecks, because you could never hate her as much as she hates herself. And, of course, her self-hatred is your fault.





 

Comments

104 Responses to “Feminist Logic: Shut Up, Haters”

  1. Wombat_socho
    May 16th, 2015 @ 4:49 pm

    Not seeing a problem with any of that, frankly.

  2. Daniel Freeman
    May 16th, 2015 @ 5:19 pm

    I’ve noticed a pattern where some try to spin it that they made a man mad or sad, and they’re glad. I guess it feels better than admitting they’re being held up as an example of how to do life wrong.

  3. RKae
    May 16th, 2015 @ 5:30 pm

    My mother did that. Totally innocent face: “I never said that. You’re making it up.”

    Took years to realize the woman was seriously mentally ill.

    To this day, my brother’s memory simply doesn’t work. He says he got totally messed up from questioning his recollection of things for his entire childhood.

  4. Daniel O'Brien
    May 16th, 2015 @ 7:26 pm

    OMG the slander. They called McCain a “self-published author”! You see, Stacy, you ain’t legit if you self-publish unlike all those circular fire squads of feminist authors, professors and collegiate publishing houses….

  5. ChandlersGhost
    May 16th, 2015 @ 7:28 pm

    Mad? It’s hard to get mad when I’m laughing so hard.

  6. Daniel Freeman
    May 16th, 2015 @ 8:12 pm

    Not so sure about that metaphor. It’s more of a circle jerk.

  7. trangbang68
    May 16th, 2015 @ 8:28 pm

    Step two: “came to believe that a power greater than myself could restore me to sanity”. That ain’t going to work. Kate Millett’s dead; Hillary is a tired old bag; Sappho’s a myth. Janeane Garafolo is a filthy dirtbag. Nancy Lugosi is batsh*t crazy. Where do you find this power greater than yourself.

  8. Daniel Freeman
    May 16th, 2015 @ 8:56 pm

    Thanks! Hasn’t happened again since I did that.

  9. Daniel Freeman
    May 16th, 2015 @ 9:04 pm

    Where do you find this power greater than yourself.

    Well, they already believe in the Patriarchy. Or, they could convert to Islam; then they could keep all of their old friends by pulling out the minority card, despite disagreeing with them on everything.

  10. Steve Skubinna
    May 16th, 2015 @ 9:58 pm

    I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man with no feet.

    So I took his shoes.

  11. RKae
    May 17th, 2015 @ 12:27 am

    My favorite:

    Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes.

    …That way, when you do criticize him, you’re a mile away and you have his shoes.

  12. Sony Sunshine
    May 17th, 2015 @ 12:32 am

    Oh noes, I write completely predictable tweets with overused cutsey words but think I’m edgy.

  13. Prime Director
    May 17th, 2015 @ 3:29 am

    The fool cannot stand to have her ideological folly held up to critical scrutiny and (perhaps you have noticed) the critic need not even offer a detailed analysis or a counter-theory in order to provoke feminists to shrieking panic and fury

    The fool with power attempts to silence her opponents one by one or at best one group at a time, in an ad hoc fashion. The ambitious fool attempts to silence all opposition, once and for all, by striking at the root of all possible dissent. You can identify the truly ambitious fool by her embrace of polylogism. For example:

    Feminist empiricists appeal to the pragmatist tradition to undermine the sharp dichotomy between fact and value… In the absence of a sharp distinction between facts and values, it cannot be argued that inquiry explicitly motivated by feminist values is in principle opposed to the truth.

    As ambitious foolishness writ large, totalitarianism absent a strong current of polylogism is seldom encountered.

  14. Fail Burton
    May 17th, 2015 @ 4:34 am

    When I was 19 years old I was drafted into the army. I realized it meant I would have to be naked in front of strange men in the showers and then be sent to Vietnam to have my ass shot off. But the entire time I couldn’t stop thinking of some numb-nutted woman who never had to even fantasize about being sent to some rice paddy whining about the trauma of swimsuit wearing and the adult trauma of having to live inside her own body, a fantastic horror to be sure. Waaaah! Do I really have to get into that rice paddy, Sergeant! It’s all icky and full of land mines!

    Kudos to surviving your Lovecraftian brush with insanity, Miss Numbnuts Spencer. Sorry you wake up screaming from PTSD about pool parties. Having one’s ass shot off certainly “seeps into other aspects of your life” – like sitting down for instance. There are men who’d be happy to have any kind of arms or legs, or an ass, fat or skinny. At least it would be an ass. Go visit a Vet’s Hospital. Maybe it’ll make your Nothingophobia go away. Just another day in fierce Makeupvictimbullshitville. That’s how Cortes conquered the Aztecs. He motivated his men by threatening to make them all wear swimsuits and burned their make-up supplies to make it stick, a far worse fate than having to dance on a temple-top and then have your beating heart pulled out of your chest.

  15. Fail Burton
    May 17th, 2015 @ 4:36 am

    Always nice when a feminist womansplains fear.

  16. robertstacymccain
    May 17th, 2015 @ 7:28 am

    I’ve noticed a pattern where some try to spin it that they made a man mad or sad, and they’re glad. I guess it feels better than admitting they’re being held up as an example of how to do life wrong.

    Notice that (a) a joke at feminist expense is attributed to male anger, (b) any consistent male critic of feminism is presumed to be motivated by personal insecurity, and yet (c) if you point out that feminism is generally nothing more than the angry rantings of neurotic malcontents, this proves you’re an ignorant bigot. Damned if you do, etc.

  17. robertstacymccain
    May 17th, 2015 @ 7:33 am

    They don’t understand (or care to know) that I have previously published through major commercial publishers and, based on that experience and my knowledge of the industry, decided that self-publishing was the best venue for this type of project. To explain that decision — the calculus about editorial control, etc. — would involve more work than it’s worth, because why should I enlighten the willfully ignorant?

  18. robertstacymccain
    May 17th, 2015 @ 7:46 am

    This is one reason why I believe coeducation needs to be reconsidered, as the different rates of maturation between boys and girls inevitably create problems. Furthermore, the narrow age-group classification of students creates another problem, in that it tends to impede the academic advancement of the brightest students. Overall, homeschooling is the best approach to education, certainly up to the point where students are ready to attend a private academy or college.

    Newt Gingrich once described the modern high school as “subsidized dating,” and the kind of social pressures teenagers experience in that environment (the “popularity” game) are a major contributor to many of the developmental problems of young women that feminists wrongly attribute to “male supremacy.” Raising psychologically healthy children requires (a) limiting their exposure to TV and (b) steering them away from a peer-oriented value system. And, of course (c) a reliance on biblical truth as guidance.

  19. Steve Skubinna
    May 17th, 2015 @ 7:55 am

    Just keep laughing at them. Whatever they say, they do realize at some level that’s what we’re doing.

  20. Steve Skubinna
    May 17th, 2015 @ 7:56 am

    OMG!!!Lulz.

  21. Steve Skubinna
    May 17th, 2015 @ 7:57 am

    I think I’m going to go with “chicksplains.” Punchier, and guaranteed to piss them off.

  22. Steve Skubinna
    May 17th, 2015 @ 8:01 am

    Then there’s the workplace equality issue of on the job injuries and fatalities. Men totally eclipse women in both.

    Is it because men are naturally clumsy? Or is it that men are far overrepresented in hazardous occupations? Such a puzzlement, but no doubt we have top women working on this thorny issue right now.

    Top. Women.

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  24. Fail Burton
    May 17th, 2015 @ 8:31 am

    Suicide, 1/4 the funding for prostate cancer. Into the fem memory-hole that goes.

    My arms don’t match my shoulders like my Barbie doll. Waaaaaaaaaah! Why did the patriarchy invent shaming-mirrors? Waaaaaaah! I want a high-tech Photoshop mirror. Someone invent one! I wanna have a selfie like that perfect skinny Kardashian kid! Waaaaaaaaaah! Oh, mirrors, you filthy dirty little shits!

  25. RS
    May 17th, 2015 @ 8:33 am

    Disclosure: my spouse teaches at an all girls school.

    There are certainly benefits to segregated schools but the problem of the “popularity game,” exists nonetheless. It just takes a different form than in a coed high school.

    What’s interesting is the different dynamic which exists between boys and girls when they are among each other. Boys have friends and acquaintances; Girls have allies and enemies, and which alliances have the same stability as something conjured up by Ribbentrop and Molotov.

    If Ms. Spenser were honest, she’d probably have to admit that the majority of her adolescent stress was caused by competing with other females and not anything the boys were doing.

  26. Fail Burton
    May 17th, 2015 @ 8:34 am

    How about “pig-tailsplains”? “Barbiesplains.” “Barbie Tears.”

  27. Fail Burton
    May 17th, 2015 @ 8:35 am

    It would’ve been enough to say “I’m a man.”

    “I answer 911, you call it.”

  28. Fail Burton
    May 17th, 2015 @ 8:39 am

    Two feminists walk into a bar. They trip over their own stupidity, accidentally bite off their tongues, fall out of a window onto a hand grenade and get run over by a bus, fall into a manhole and get washed out to sea and eaten by sperm whales.

    As whale dung they finally become useful.

  29. ChandlersGhost
    May 17th, 2015 @ 9:39 am

    Absolutely. When I was in high school even PE [!] was coed. I think that schooling at all levels, including college, should be segregated by sex. Sure, have the separate schools geographically close so that the sexes can mingle on special occasions, but kids and young adults don’t need that kind of pressure while they should be learning.

  30. Dana
    May 17th, 2015 @ 10:29 am

    When I mentioned to a woman with whom I worked that my older daughter had been accepted by an all-girls parochial school, the woman (who had been graduated from an coeducational high school in the same diocese) said that the girls at St Elizabeth’s always said that the girls at Padua Academy were all either lezzies or sluts.

    There’s a lot of discrimination against single-sex education students.

  31. Dana
    May 17th, 2015 @ 10:31 am

    Alas! I knew a perfectly gorgeous young lady, back in the eighties, who was so ashamed of her height that she admitted to being 5’12”, when 90% of the other women around would have killed for her body, height and looks.

  32. Fail Burton
    May 17th, 2015 @ 11:03 am

    What about Randi Dickdive?

  33. Steve Skubinna
    May 17th, 2015 @ 11:26 am

    If Ms. Spenser were honest she wouldn’t be a feminist.

  34. Steve Skubinna
    May 17th, 2015 @ 11:34 am

    High school is where PE really needs to be segregated by sex, because that’s where the boys start to outstrip the girls in physical strength.

    I can’t imagine the stupidity that willfully ignores that. And the other side calls us science deniers.

  35. Steve Skubinna
    May 17th, 2015 @ 11:34 am

    She was just jealous.

  36. Steve Skubinna
    May 17th, 2015 @ 11:36 am

    And as whale dung they finally are unable to blame the patriarchy.

    Okay, let’s regress to junior high for a moment:

    Q: How did Jonah get out of the whale?
    A: He ran around until he was all pooped out.

  37. Steve Skubinna
    May 17th, 2015 @ 11:37 am

    Guess we just saw the feminist equivalent of “U mad, bro?”

    It isn’t any less idiotic.

  38. Steve Skubinna
    May 17th, 2015 @ 11:39 am

    Girliesplains? Babesplains?

    Ah, never mind, they’re just so adorable when they’re angry, aren’t they? Oh, look at that little face!

    Who’s an angry girl? You are, yes you are!

  39. Steve Skubinna
    May 17th, 2015 @ 11:40 am

    You laugh, I’m still shopping lawyers for my lawsuit against Mattel for He-Man.

  40. Steve Skubinna
    May 17th, 2015 @ 11:42 am

    Oh hey… “fem-memory hole?”

    Femory hole! And there’s no way they won’t insist it’s also a double entendre!

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  42. Jeanette Victoria
    May 17th, 2015 @ 12:46 pm

    LOL it seems the lying anon trol and part-time cyber-stalker @NicoleBonnet1 has been reading Stacy

    https://twitter.com/nicolebonnet1/status/599991000153460737

  43. Jeanette Victoria
    May 17th, 2015 @ 12:47 pm

    LOL it just happend to me I clicked something here and got redirected to MySpace like huh?

  44. Jeanette Victoria
    May 17th, 2015 @ 12:52 pm

    It only matters becuase you are conservative Anne Rice has been promoting this kind of self-publishing for seveal years now. Some authors have made a successful self-publishing these days. Someone’s bias and ignorance is showing I’m so not surprised though. It really is about WHO one hates.

    https://twitter.com/nicolebonnet1/status/599991000153460737

  45. Jeanette Victoria
    May 17th, 2015 @ 1:09 pm

    I don’t think all women are like that but a lot are, the women in my family sure are completely rewriting the past to suit them, it is bizarre. Fortunately my brother, my cousins, my Aunt and my friends all remember how crazy my family was.

  46. RS
    May 17th, 2015 @ 1:16 pm

    In the diocese in which I live (I’m protestant), the co-ed schools are run by the diocese and are more affordable. The single sex schools are run by various ecclesiastical orders and tend to be more expensive. There’s that same sort of intra-diocesan friction everywhere, I think.

  47. Dana
    May 17th, 2015 @ 2:58 pm

    In the Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware, where we lived at the time, Padua Academy, the all-girls school, was one of the diocesan high schools, as was St Elizabeth’s. There were a few non-diocesan Catholic high schools, which were twice as expensive: Ursuline (all girls), Salesianum (all boys), and Archmere (coed), which was Joe Biden’s alma mater.

    We could barely afford the diocesan high schools; we could never have afforded Ursuline!

  48. Quartermaster
    May 17th, 2015 @ 4:51 pm

    RSM has been published even by the low standards of Bonnet.

  49. Jeanette Victoria
    May 17th, 2015 @ 5:02 pm

    So have !. Better yet my research get USED

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