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‘Heterosexuality Is the Structure That Keeps Sexist Oppression in Place’

Posted on | March 7, 2016 | 81 Comments

 

“According to feminism the role of heterosexuality is what structures the male-female relationship. Heterosexuality is the structure that keeps sexist oppression in place in the private realm; where sexism in general operates to also oppress in the public sphere. In other words heterosexuality reinforces the hierarchy established by sexism to keep women dominated in ‘sexual interaction, romantic love, marriage, and the family.'”
“Heterosexuality: The Role it Plays in Feminism and Lesbianism,” 2007

That quote is from a Portland State University student enrolled in a course (“Gender and Critical Inquiry,” WS301) in the department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. The syllabus of that course shows that the assigned text was Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives (edited by Carole R. McCann and Seung-Kyung Kim, 2002), and the readings included such radical lesbians as Charlotte Bunch, Monique Wittig and Audre Lorde. The student quotes from “Separating Lesbian Theory From Feminist Theory,” an essay by Cheshire Calhoun in the textbook, where she says that “from a feminist perspective, sexual interaction, romantic love, marriage, and the family are all danger zones,” being patriarchal institutions that “serve male interests.”

Trying to explain feminist theory to a stranger Saturday night at the Project Veritas CPAC party, I realized he thought I was a lunatic. What most people think of as feminism — a commitment to “equality,” understood as basic fairness — bears little resemblance to what is taught in the university Women’s Studies programs that enroll more than 90,000 students on some 700 campuses in the United States. Women in these courses learn to despise motherhood, to celebrate abortion, to fear men as perpetrators of sexual violence, and to consider heterosexuality a synonym for oppression. When you try to describe this paranoid anti-male belief system to people, they look at you like you’re crazy. Maybe I am crazy to read Women’s Studies textbooks like Feminist Frontiers, Women and Gender, Rethinking Sexuality, Gender Trouble, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State and Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions, but it is impossible for anyone who hasn’t read this stuff to believe how extreme academic feminism has become. So when I summarize these theories — the social construction of the gender binary within the heterosexual matrix — people look at me as if I’ve slipped a cog.

As insane as it may seem, however, this radical ideology is what the word “feminism” now means on campuses. Ideas Have Consequences, as Richard Weaver warned us, and the consequences of feminist ideas are manifest throughout academia, e.g., the University of Pittsburgh:

In the spirit of free speech, Pitt’s Student Government Board passed the microphone [March 1] to a line of students speaking out about a controversial speaker whose visit SGB partially funded.
At its public meeting in Nordy’s Place, students packed the William Pitt Union’s multipurpose room to speak their piece on Milo Yiannopoulos’ lecture [Feb. 29]. . . .
SGB President Nasreen Harun amended the agenda at the meeting to allow for more time for student comments. . . .
Board member Everett Green said, in his three semesters on the Board, this was the first time he had seen a student response of this magnitude at a meeting. . . .
Marcus Robinson, president of Pitt’s Rainbow Alliance, said after leaving the lecture on Monday, he felt unsafe on campus for the first time.
“So many of us shared in our pain. I felt I was in danger, and I felt so many people in that room were in danger. This event erased the great things we’ve done,” Robinson said. “For the first time, I’m disappointed to be at Pitt.”
Robinson suggested that the University should have provided counselors in a neighboring room to help students who felt “invalidated” or “traumatized” by the event. . . .
“This is more than hurt feelings, this is about real violence. We know that the violence against marginalized groups happens every day in this country. That so many people walked out of that [event] feeling in literal physical danger is not alright,” Claire Matway, a social work and urban studies major, said. . . .
In response to student comments, Harun said, with teary eyes, said the best way to make an impact on campus was to begin conversations like this with the Board.
“Now is a good time talk about [amending the allocations manual]. It starts here and we can take it from there,” Harun said. “We’re very sorry people are feeling the way they are and it was not intended … and we’re sorry people are not proud to be at Pitt.”

This kind of rhetoric — students claiming to be “traumatized” and “feeling in literal danger” because someone contradicted their opinions — shows how ideological conformity has made universities a bubble, a cocoon where students never encounter criticism of “progressive” dogma. Consider this mission statement:

The University of Pittsburgh Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program is an interdisciplinary academic program focusing on excellence in teaching and research relating to gender, sexuality, and women. The Program is committed to promoting feminist and LGBTQIA activism, pedagogy, and scholarship that engage with the larger local, national, and global communities. Program offerings provide opportunities for students and faculty to explore the historical development, cultural variations, and changing representations of gender and sexuality as they organize identities, interactions, and institutions and intersect in complex ways with sex, race, class, ethnicity, ability, age, religion, and nation.

Notice that this academic program is “committed to promoting feminist and LGBTQIA activism” — it is a department with a political agenda. Among recent events on the department’s calendar was a book release party for the program director’s new book that claims to be “the first sustained and comprehensive study of Renaissance textual responses to Platonic same-sex sexuality.” Another event was a lecture by Professor Susan Wells, “In Search of the Clitoris: Writing and the Body in Our Bodies, Ourselves.” Permit me to suggest that nobody smart enough to go to college should require a lecture about where to find the clitoris. And despite my enthusiastic interest in female genitalia, I’m not sure what Professor Wells could have said on the subject that would have added to my knowledge. If students at Pitt need enlightenment in this regard, a quick Google search should suffice to cure their ignorance.

We can perceive, however, that the “education” provided by such programs is not about the transmission of knowledge, but rather about indoctrinating students in terms of their attitudes and beliefs. There are no Republicans or conservatives on the faculty of Pitt’s Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program, nor are there any professors in this department who advocate a traditional Judeo-Christian understanding of gender and sexuality. Pitt’s resolute hostility toward traditional morality can be seen from its events calendar, featuring Gabriella Lukacs’ lecture “Career Porn: Blogging and the Good Life” and Patricia Ulbrich’s “Hard Hatted Women & Wild Sisters: Lesbian Feminist Community in Pittsburgh.” A feminist student at Pitt will be applauded if she becomes a lesbian or a porn blogger; the only “wrong” choice she can make is to pursue a life that involves a husband and children. Feminists have never made a secret of their goal of destroying the traditional family.

“Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the Women’s Movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage.”
Sheila Cronan, 1970

“The nuclear family is the school of values in a sexist, sexually repressed society.”
Andrea Dworkin, 1974

“No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.”
Simone de Beauvoir, 1975

“The first condition for escaping from forced motherhood and sexual slavery is escape from the patriarchal institution of marriage.”
Alison M. Jaggar, 1988

“Women’s heterosexual orientation perpetuates their social, economic, emotional, and sexual dependence on and accessibility by men. Heterosexuality is thus a system of male ownership of women . . .”
Cheshire Calhoun, 1994

“The term motherhood refers to the patriarchal institution . . . that is male-defined and controlled and is deeply oppressive to women.”
Andrea O’Reilly, 2008

“I don’t particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding . . . time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness. . . . Nothing will make me want a baby. . . . This is why, if my birth control fails, I am totally having an abortion.”
Amanda Marcotte, March 2014

“Heterosexuality and masculinity . . . are made manifest through patriarchy, which normalizes men as dominant over women. . . .
“This tenet of patriarchy is thus deeply connected to acts of sexual violence, which have been theorized as a physical reaffirmation of patriarchal power by men over women.”

Sara Carrigan Wooten, 2015

Feminism is a death cult which exercises such hegemonic influence in academia that no one on the 21st-century campus dares to dissent from this anti-male/anti-heterosexual belief system. Because there are no professors who criticize feminist ideology and rhetoric, students are never exposed to evidence or arguments that contradict the cult beliefs propagated by radical academics “committed to promoting feminist and LGBTQIA activism.” Is there any professor — at the University of Pittsburgh or Portland State University or anywhere else — who doubts that heterosexuality is “the structure that keeps sexist oppression in place”? If there are such skeptics of feminist theory on campus, do any of them dare say a word in favor of heterosexuality? Can anyone name a professor who has spoken out in opposition to the claim that “marriage constitutes slavery for women,” or who defends motherhood against the assertion that it is “deeply oppressive to women”? Do any faculty dispute the implication that all heterosexual men perpetrate “sexual violence” to express “patriarchal power by men over women”? And is there anyone in academia today who loves babies, rather than despising them as the smelly “time-sucking monsters” Amanda Marcotte wants to abort?

 

Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It, and the suppression of dissent is accomplished by terroristic intimidation tactics intended to silence opposition. Feminists like Amanda Marcotte do not hesitate to slander their critics as “rape apologists” and accuse opponents of “supporting rape because you hate women.” However, anyone who attempts to call critical attention to this anti-male propaganda by confronting feminist hatemongers will be accused of “harassment” and stigmatized as a “misogynist,” because disagreeing with Amanda Marcotte — or Anita Sarkeesian or Jaclyn Friedman, et al. — is considered proof that you are a woman-hating rape apologist.

“The feminist movement’s goal — ‘to destroy the structure of culture as we know it,’ as Andrea Dworkin said — is incompatible not merely with marriage and the family, but with the principles of democratic government. In order to obtain the androgynous ‘equality’ that is the objective of feminist ideology, religious freedom will have to be abolished, along with the free speech rights of feminism’s critics. Unless we are willing to oppose feminism now, we may find ourselves eventually living in a totalitarian society where such opposition is prohibited by law.”
Robert Stacy McCain, Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the War Against Human Nature

People think I’m crazy for taking feminism seriously, but this totalitarian movement is becoming increasingly powerful in American culture:

Students at Western Washington University have reached a turning point in their campus’s hxstory. (For one thing, they’re now spelling it with an X—more on that later.) Activists are demanding the creation of a new college dedicated to social justice activism, a student committee to police offensive speech, and culturally segregated living arrangements at the school . . .
WWU’s student-activist community — the frightening-sounding Assembly for Power and Liberation — made their demands public earlier this week. . . .
The most substantial of the activists’ demands is a call for a new college that would essentially train students to become social justice warriors . . . WWU must meet the needs of this new “College of Power and Liberation” by immediately hiring 10 faculty members — subject to the approval of student-activists. . . .
Activists have also demanded the creation of an Office for Social Transformation, which would employ 15 students — young Robespierres in training — for the purposes of monitoring “racist, anti-black, transphobic, cissexist, misogynistic, ableist, homophobic, Islamophobic, and otherwise oppressive behavior on campus.” . . .
Keep in mind that WWU is already an extremely liberal campus with a number of social justice-oriented activities: it has a department of Education and Social Justice, a Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program, a Queer Resource Center, a Social Issues Resource Center, and an Ethnic Student Center. . . .
At the heart of this effort lies a bizarrely totalitarian ideology: Student-activists think they have all the answers—everything is settled, and people who dissent are not merely wrong, but actually guilty of something approaching a crime. If they persist in this wrongness, they are perpetuating violence, activists will claim.
The list of demands ends with a lengthy denunciation of WWU’s marginalization of “hxstorically oppressed students.” The misspelling is intentional: “hxstory,” I presume, was judged to be more PC than “history,” which is gendered, triggering, and perhaps violent.

The public education system produces high-school graduates who know nothing of history, even if they could spell the word correctly. Mass ignorance benefits the taxpayer-supported intelligentsia who exercise hegemonic control within academia. Professors now indoctrinate college students with the kind of paranoid radicalism that perceives “oppressive behaviors” everywhere, and it is these progressive training camps that produce our nation’s future ruling-class elite.

“When you have a ruling class that doesn’t believe in — or even much like — the fundamental values of the nations it rules, things tend to work out poorly.”
Professor Glenn Reynolds

Be afraid, America. Be very afraid.

 

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Comments

81 Responses to “‘Heterosexuality Is the Structure That Keeps Sexist Oppression in Place’”

  1. RS
    March 7th, 2016 @ 1:38 pm

    As Jeff Goldstein pointed out before he was driven from the field by the so-called “conservative” gatekeepers, it starts with language. The reason people don’t get it, is because the word “feminism” has been co-opted by the Progressive-Left in a bit of semantic Bolshevism designed to keep the “Outer Party” ignorant of the true designs of its elite. That’s why people think you’re insane. And that’s why you have occasional commenters asserting that what’s going on in college Gender Studies departments is not “real” feminism.

  2. CrustyB
    March 7th, 2016 @ 2:15 pm

    It’s all liberal word games. Equal pay for unequal work becomes “pay equality,” forcing businesses to pay someone $15 an hour to hand someone their change & cheeseburger becomes a “fair wage,” “racism” is now holding non-white people accountable for their actions like everyone else, the homosexual hijacking of marriage becomes “marriage equality” and disagreeing with murdering, female supremacists becomes “hatred,” “sexism” and, of course, “rape.”

    People are gullible and the left owns the language. Orwell’s “1984” was a soft sell.

  3. John Doe
    March 7th, 2016 @ 2:26 pm

    LEGALIZE PROSTITUTION NOW!

    It’s time to end the war on personal freedom. Prohibition never works, as the past has proven time and time again. And the demand for prostitution will never go away, hence it is the world’s oldest profession. It’s high time to LEGALIZE IT, both for the sake of the women who engage in prostitution and the men who buy it.

    Contrary to false beliefs, the vast majority of women who engage in prostitution do so voluntarily. Therefore why should they not be allowed to legally trade sex for money? Also, legalizing prostitution would eliminate human trafficking since the very small percentage of women who are forced into prostitution would be able to go to the police for help. It would also eliminate the need for dangerous pimps.

    What about STDs? Actually you are far more likely to get an STD with a regular girl since people tend to use condoms less with regular women. With prostitutes, condoms are a necessity and therefore the risk of STDs is zero. The whole STD scare has been blown way out of proportion in order to make people afraid of sex.

    Studies also prove that when prostitution is legal, the number of rapes dwindles to practically zero. By keeping prostitution illegal, we are actually causing more women to be raped.

    But the core issue is that we have NO RIGHT to tell two consenting adults that they cannot trade sex for money. It’s time to legalize prostitution!

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    4 Part Series of “How to Use Escorts”

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    Top 10 Reasons Why Prostitution Should Be Legalized

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    International Sex Guide Forum (has info about where to find prostitutes in over 150 plus countries- BEST RESOURCE)

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    Thread at AMA Forums written by a guy talking about his vast expereince with having sex with prostitutes:

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  4. Fail Burton
    March 7th, 2016 @ 2:28 pm

    He thought you were a lunatic because he was killing the messenger. In fact this cult is so obscure and insane anyone trying to define it are themselves laughed at. And yet that Portland U link clearly shows this “feminism” is nothing more than anti-white racism and lesbian supremacy. It has absolutely nothing to do with the feminism Americans experienced years ago. The U of Pitt link is the same thing: a cult dedicated to a hatred of whites and phobia of heterosexuality as a Jim Crow. The idea Mother Nature is a de facto Jim Crow is too deliciously insane for words, and yet it has been institutionalized in media, literature and academia.

    The website assoc. of the largest publisher of sci-fi hosts a blog calling for the end of the “gender binary” as a default in SF. Noted male feminist SF author Chuck Wendig – on his own initiative – lobbies Disney to allow him to put gays in his new Star Wars novel tie-in. Why not lobby for firemen, or more rainy days? The Office of Civil Rights of the Dept. of Edu. extorts what is in principle a poll tax and literacy test for male students to prove they understand how to not rape. The problem there is rape in redefined as a drunken one-night stand devoid of a written contract of consent and notary public.

    What we are seeing is nothing more than do-gooder Grand Dragons playing the same game to naive people which happened in Germany in the ’20s and ’30s. Names have been changed to protect the guilty.

  5. Fail Burton
    March 7th, 2016 @ 2:30 pm

    I agree that word is key in allowing this Trojan Horse to enter the gates. In truth this “feminism” is nothing more than a KKK.

  6. robertstacymccain
    March 7th, 2016 @ 2:37 pm

    I am anti-prostitution and anti-pornography — positions which, I hasten to point out, put me in agreement with radical feminists. There is no reason why conservatives should hesitate to condemn practices that are inconsistent with the dignity of women. Even if libertarian principles (which conservatives generally embrace) would prevent criminalizing such practices, just because something is legal doesn’t mean it is not also wrong. The Golden Rule should be considered: If men would not want to see our wives, our sisters or our daughters involved in pornography or prostitution, then we should not wish to see other women subjected to such abusive and exploitative practices, either. What has happened is that the Left’s attack on morality has made conservatives afraid to speak up on these subjects, for fear of being considered moralistic prudes. This fearful silence has, in turn, given feminists authority to speak as if they are the only ones concerned with women’s dignity.

  7. RS
    March 7th, 2016 @ 2:44 pm

    The thing is, the cult can only thrive in certain environments: the Humanities, Social Work, Social “Sciences,” Law and the like. That is, those areas of inquiry which celebrate and reward The Subjective, which by definition does not allow logical, fact-based testing of ideas.

    Take, for example, the assertion that marriage and family constitute female “slavery.” i.e. unpaid domestic labor. Such an assertion is possible only if one is not allowed to answer the question, “what about the male contribution to the family unit?” It is the social sciences which work to subvert and suppress inquiry regarding the benefits of traditional relationships, where those benefits are emotional, financial or otherwise. Feminism may try to call Isaac Newton’s Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica a rape manual, but a 16 pound bowling ball is still going to smash your foot when you drop it.

  8. richard mcenroe
    March 7th, 2016 @ 2:52 pm

    Why are there no slutwalks in Paris, Cologne, Sweden? Where are the slutwalks in Tehran and Riyadh?

  9. Jeanette Victoria
    March 7th, 2016 @ 3:31 pm

    And the we have it racist am in full effect. Simple disagreement recast as harassment.

  10. BozoerRebbe
    March 7th, 2016 @ 3:34 pm

    Just imagine if a Jewish Studies department at an American university published the following mission statement: “The Program is committed to promoting Judaism and Zionist activism,”

  11. Steve Skubinna
    March 7th, 2016 @ 3:36 pm

    There has to be massive unself-consciousness at work here, else the cognitive dissonance would be paralyzing. How one can placidly make obviously idiotic and self contradictory statements such as these pampered campus feminists do, and not freeze up, is beyond me.

    The only real answer that covers the observed events is these people are very, very stupid. Which speaks ill of higher education in America… heck, it damns the entire education establishment that gibbering nincompoops such as these make it into so-called “higher” institutions of learning. After twelve years of education one should not be this stupid, let alone qualify to enter university.

  12. Steve Skubinna
    March 7th, 2016 @ 3:38 pm

    Wouldn’t matter. Since the proggies, most of whom are deeply anti Semitic anyway, believe that implicitly it would simply be taken as confirmation of what “everybody knows.”

    Those darned Jews! Always with the oppressing and the manipulating!

  13. concern00
    March 7th, 2016 @ 3:43 pm

    After getting past the absurdity of your title, it suddenly struck me. If normal and natural sexuality (aka heterosexuality) “reinforces the hierarchy established by sexism to keep women dominated in ‘sexual interaction, romantic love, marriage, and the family,” then perhaps romantic love, marriage and the family are also normal and natural. Why fight reality? Ultimately you can not win.

  14. concern00
    March 7th, 2016 @ 3:48 pm

    We all know that the system that actually enables their freedoms, no matter how deviant and debauched, is the same one they wish to destroy. Talk about biting the hand that feeds.

  15. Finrod Felagund
    March 7th, 2016 @ 3:59 pm

    I recall proposing the compromise once that prostitution should be illegal only for married people who engage in it without the consent of their husband or wife, and that would go equally for the person paying as well as the person being paid.

  16. Finrod Felagund
    March 7th, 2016 @ 4:01 pm

    I wouldn’t want to see any member of my family become a Microsoft programmer, a used-car salesman, or an ambulance-chasing attorney, but I wouldn’t want to make those illegal, either– with the possible exception of the Microsoft programmer.

  17. Zhytamyr
    March 7th, 2016 @ 4:15 pm

    “heterosexuality reinforces the hierarchy established by sexism to keep women dominated in ‘sexual interaction, romantic love, marriage, and the family.”

    “The world must be peopled.” – If only so lefties can whine about the existence of heterosexuality. I think the breeders have the long game locked up.

  18. Dana
    March 7th, 2016 @ 4:17 pm

    “No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.” — Simone de Beauvoir, 1975

    If there is anything that the left and the feminists oppose, it’s people having freedom and choices and options.

    Who, exactly, does the lovely Miss de Beauvoir believe has the power to “authorize” women to stay at home to rear her children?

    The goal here is not to stop women from wanting to rear their children, but to turn child-rearing over to the State, which will eliminate such horrid practices as taking one’s children to church.

  19. Dana
    March 7th, 2016 @ 4:21 pm

    Jeff Goldstein was “driven from the field by the so-called ‘conservative’ gatekeepers”? Last time I looked — and that was yesterday — Mr Goldstein’s site, Protein Wisdom, still existed. Mr Goldstein has pretty much turned it over to Darleen Click, but if Mr Goldstein wanted to write, he could.

  20. Dana
    March 7th, 2016 @ 4:23 pm

    I am against prostitution as well, but do not see how we can make something that is perfectly legal to do for free a criminal act if done for money.

  21. Dana
    March 7th, 2016 @ 4:25 pm

    Heck, you couldn’t even get that passed at Brandeis!

  22. Daniel O'Brien
    March 7th, 2016 @ 4:35 pm

    Woohoo! My tweet made TOM!!! 😉

  23. Unreliable Consent
    March 7th, 2016 @ 4:46 pm

    Replace ‘heterosexuality’ with ‘rape culture’ and lets see how unsuspecting feminists react.

    “According to feminism the role of rape culture is what structures the male-female relationship. Rape culture is the structure that keeps sexist oppression in place in the private realm; where sexism in general operates to also oppress in the public sphere. In other words rape culture reinforces the hierarchy established by sexism to keep women dominated in sexual interaction, romantic love, marriage, and the family.”

  24. Fail Burton
    March 7th, 2016 @ 4:50 pm

    The state.

  25. RS
    March 7th, 2016 @ 4:52 pm

    He used to be a part of PJM. After he wrote a post defending Rush Limbaugh’s “I hope he fails” comment, a whispering campaign began to marginalize him and cease sending him traffic or otherwise keep him a part of the conversation. Yes, Protein Wisdom still exists and Darleen does a nice job keeping the fires burning, but it is a shell of what it once was. (That’s no slam on Darleen, BTW) The “worthies” on the right made Jeff a non-person, because he was saying things which are now considered to be conventional wisdom. Go back and read his archives commencing in 2008 and you’ll see the whole story play out.

  26. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 7th, 2016 @ 4:58 pm

    The corruption of language is a bad thing.

    Be fruitful and multiply is in Genesis and (by implication) Darwin’s Origin of the Species.

  27. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 7th, 2016 @ 5:00 pm

    Jeff Goldstein is a very talented voice. I pay attention to what he says.

  28. trangbang68
    March 7th, 2016 @ 5:00 pm

    Not to mention some pos liberal fascist professor named Debra Fritsch threatened Jeff’s child with harm

  29. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 7th, 2016 @ 5:01 pm

    Hey, leave David Brooks alone!

  30. trangbang68
    March 7th, 2016 @ 5:02 pm

    They have them in the Middle East. They just disguise them as a herd of goats walking down the street

  31. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 7th, 2016 @ 5:02 pm

    What would David Brooks do for a living is prostitution was not legal? Although, I agree, his pornographic “conservative” opining might diminish.

  32. RKae
    March 7th, 2016 @ 5:11 pm

    Not locked up.

    Science is going where science always goes: Saving fools from their folly.

    They’re all set to create babies from 2 lesbians and no father in the picture.

  33. NeoWayland
    March 7th, 2016 @ 5:36 pm

    Last time I checked, most ladies were perfectly capable of making their own choices.

    All those PETA people are telling me that hamburgers are morally wrong. Guess what I’m making on the grill tonight.

  34. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 7th, 2016 @ 5:38 pm

    I have a problem with hamburger, but it’s personal.

  35. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 7th, 2016 @ 5:39 pm

    Portland hipster males are not dangerous, that’s why.

  36. NeoWayland
    March 7th, 2016 @ 5:40 pm

    *grins*

    I’m doing some brats for the folks who don’t want burgers.

  37. NeoWayland
    March 7th, 2016 @ 5:42 pm

    Commerical actions between consenting adults?

  38. Dana
    March 7th, 2016 @ 5:43 pm

    Our esteemed host wrote:

    Maybe I am crazy to read Women’s Studies textbooks like Feminist Frontiers, Women and Gender, Rethinking Sexuality, Gender Trouble, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State and Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions, but it is impossible for anyone who hasn’t read this stuff to believe how extreme academic feminism has become.

    If you actually read that stuff, you are doing more than about 87.4% of the actual students in the Women’s Studies courses. Most of them are simply leafing through, trying to pick up just enough to pass the course, which isn’t much, since Women’s Studies professors cannot give any grades lower than an A — or maybe a B — to any female students, since actually grading them on their work is submitting them to the Authority of the White Cisheteronormative Patriarchy.®

  39. Dana
    March 7th, 2016 @ 5:49 pm

    Translation: Pajamas Media stopped paying him to write, and he had to survive on his own.

    The dispute I remember was between Mr Goldstein and Patterico, over the meaning of language. Mr Goldstein took the untenable position that what the writer meant to say was what was important, while Patterico said that no, what he actually said was the important part, and that if the writer failed to express himself in a way that his readers could understand his meaning, it was the writer’s fault.

  40. Dana
    March 7th, 2016 @ 5:49 pm

    That did not end well for the lovely Miss Fritsch.

  41. Zhytamyr
    March 7th, 2016 @ 5:51 pm

    The population of lesbians is quite small (despite the titles at the adult film stores), the number of them that could afford such a procedure should it become available is near nil. Until they tapped the taxpayer to pay for it (like infanticide) it would be terribly rare. However, during the gap, due to the minuscule population, they’d likely cook up a few genetic diseases that would make Tay-Sachs seem positively benign. My money’s on the breeders.

  42. RKae
    March 7th, 2016 @ 5:53 pm

    Their population will grow, via cultural shift.

    It’s hip.

  43. RS
    March 7th, 2016 @ 5:56 pm

    That was another issue.

  44. Zhytamyr
    March 7th, 2016 @ 6:13 pm

    In this case, the “old fashioned way” is as groovy as it gets. But yeah, stupid is contagious, (and hip!) for the up and coming leftist imbeciles.

  45. Fail Burton
    March 7th, 2016 @ 7:33 pm

    That’s the funny thing. I could out-debate any women’s studies student. I can sit down and talk from memory what it means when Judith Butler borrowed Jacques Derrida’s metaphor and double entendre “before the law” he in turn borrowed from Kafka and show how it is the single great centerpiece of lesbian ideology, without which it doesn’t exist.

  46. Fail Burton
    March 7th, 2016 @ 7:35 pm

    They’re wearing stripper’s outfits under those full niqabs for a surprise for daddy when they get home with his cigarettes and tea.

  47. Adobe_Walls
    March 7th, 2016 @ 7:39 pm

    I don’t think they understand that. They probably have no idea there is a hand that feeds.

  48. Adobe_Walls
    March 7th, 2016 @ 7:51 pm

    One suspects that’s becoming the norm in all of higher education.

  49. Mike G.
    March 7th, 2016 @ 8:39 pm

    You don’t want me to send you a pic of my supper the other night then…standing rib roast…mmmm good!

  50. Mike G.
    March 7th, 2016 @ 8:50 pm

    Well, didn’t Mellisa Etheridge and her significant other use sperm donated by David Nash and a turkey baster?