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Feminist Tumblr: ‘Broken People’ and the Tragedy of the Darwinian Dead End

Posted on | March 19, 2016 | 99 Comments

Sometimes I’ll write about a feminist and a commenter will remark what happy news it is that this hateful creature will not reproduce. Alas, as a parent and a Christian, I feel tremendous sadness at such outcomes, for I know that every time some foolish young woman climbs aboard the express train to Crazy Cat Lady Land, she deprives her parents of the hope of grandchildren, and subtracts herself from the genetic future.

“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

What a profound irony that these atheistic women, believing Darwinism has proven that God does not exist — which the fool hath said in his heart — have consigned themselves to extinction in the name of Science.

They are free to curse God and die, and let us pray that their hateful doctrines perish with them. Yet this is tragic, and also unnecessary, if only parents were wise enough to study how this evil idea has flourished in our time, and thoughtfully guarded against this latter-day gnosticism. (When theologian Peter Jones wrote, “Gnosticism and feminism are a match made in heaven,” he was only half-right — this “match” was made in Hell.)

Bad ideas have a persistent appeal to the minds of fools, and so we must never be surprised to see old heresies strutting around in new clothes. Young adherents of obsolete errors call themselves “progressive” while insisting that those who stubbornly cling to eternal truth are behind the times. We watch them parade past us, chanting their slogans (“Social Justice!” “He for She!” “Black Lives Matter!”), a Grand Army of Fools marching in lockstep along a road Paved With Good Intentions, the proverbial destination of which they seem not to suspect. They call us ignorant for refusing to join them, but in fact we have far more knowledge than do the fools in the “progressive” parade.

“One sometimes gets the impression that the
mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards
them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist,
sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack,
pacifist, and feminist in England.”

George Orwell wrote that in 1937, but within 30 years, the same predictable phenomenon was apparent in the “hippie” movement, and now we see it all over again with “social justice” — cranks, crackpots and assorted kooks of every kind, too ignorant of history to realize that their basic type was a ridiculous cliché long before they were ever born.

Ordinary life is too ordinary for the bohemian dreamer with intellectual aspirations who longs to be part of History with a capital “H.” They are suckers for whatever seems avant-garde among the more sophisticated of their peers. Back when I was in high school, it was Carlos Castaneda (whom I never read) or Rick Wakeman (whom no one listens to now), and Earth Shoes and hip-hugger bell-bottom jeans, etc. Far out, man.

All that funky Keep On Truckin’ vibe circa 1975 is as passé as 8-track tapes and as dead as Gerald Ford, but it was cool then. What’s cool with sophisticated youth now is Third Wave feminist theory — the social construction of the gender binary within the heterosexual matrix:

To translate this to plain English, if you are a normal (feminine) woman who feels normal (heterosexual) attraction toward normal (masculine) men, this means that you have been brainwashed by society into accepting your own oppression under the system of male supremacy. Feminists believe that heterosexuality isimposed on women by the patriarchy — women are “coerced into heterosexuality,” as Professor Marilyn Frye explained — and feminine behavior is simply the performance of inferiority. Gender “glamorizes the subordinate status of females” and creates an artificial appearance of male-female difference in order “to clearly mark the subordinate class [i.e., females] from the privileged class [i.e., males].”
Thus, there are no natural differences between male and female, according to feminist theory, only the oppressive hierarchy of “gender” by which society enforces male supremacy.

Whereas once “queer” was an insult hurled by rednecks looking for a fight, now we have Mimi Marinucci proclaiming Feminism Is Queer, and who am I to disagree? She’s a professor of Women’s and Gender Studies with a Ph.D. from Temple University, and I’m just a guy with a blog.

Gender-neutral and gender-inclusive language . . . is inadvertently but inevitably exclusionary. What interferes with neutrality is the priority implicitly granted to heterosexual men. . . . Whether the division is between male and female, feminine and masculine, women and men, lesbian women and gay men, or whatever, is largely irrelevant. It is irrelevant because the binary system of gender, sex, and sexuality is not just an unrelated sex of categories, some involving biological sex and others involving learned behaviours and social or sexual roles. Rather, it is a holistic framework that regards gender, sex, and sexuality as expressions of a basic division of the human world into two distinct natural kinds.

Does that excerpt from Profesor Marinucci’s book (p. 75, a random selection) confuse you? Yeah, we could parse it out, read it carefully two or three times and derive some sense of her meaning, but why? Exactly what do we need to know that Professor Marinucci has to tell us? Not much. Insofar as we are normal human beings interested in sex as a matter of biology — we are mammals, OK? — it is not nearly as complicated as Professor Marinucci would have her readers believe. Heck, I figured all this out by the time I was in eighth grade and never once dreamed of using the phrase “holistic framework” to describe it. What did I dream of in eighth grade? Well, she played oboe in the band and I played trombone, but that’s not really relevant, is it?

No, what I want to write about is Feminist Tumblr, that swirling vortex of estrogen-induced Internet madness where Friday I found this:

Okay but… I’m surrounded by f–kboys?? Like ALL the time. Even the moderately decent ones are 100% f–kboys. WHY?? WHY?
I got the skeeziest once over from one of the new f–kboys and then one of the other ones that I’ve been having issues with BECAUSE HE SUCKS AT HIS F–KING JOB BUT THINKS HE’S HOT SH*T SO REFUSES TO DO BETTER decided to try flirting with me and then say “Well, you know, I only date people I work with” and I rolled my eyes so f–king hard holy shit and actually said “Yeah, well, I literally have no interest in dating anyone so” to which THE ENTIRE TEAM OF F–KBOYS RESPONDED THAT THEY DOUBT THAT because obviously their personalities and their d–ks are so f–king magical that I MUST want them, righT????????? so then I just “Sweetheart, trust me, if it was a lie I wouldn’t be wearing a shirt that literally says it” (wearing my “Asexual pirate isn’t interested in your booty” shirt today) AND THEY STILL WEREN’T STOPPING AND OMG THEY’RE SO SELF IMPORTANT LIKE WHY???
Mostly it just wasn’t that bad because they’re all children to me, regardless of age and how mature they think they are. So lots of eye rolls. A few of them aren’t 100% awful (1 is actually kinda chill) but yeah, no. Still f–kboys.

Wow. What a fun person to work with. This charming discourse intrigued me, so I was eager to learn more about Ms. Angry Asexual:

Panromantic asexual//demi-romantic asexual (because I rarely experience romantic attraction but when I do gender’s not a factor).
I’m 22, and I didn’t know that I was asexual until I was almost 21 years old . . .
Until then, I dated and generally did a LOT of things I didn’t really care for/want to do because I was expected to do them and whenever I expressed that I didn’t care for them people told me I was broken and there was something wrong with me . . .

(What? They said “there was something wrong with” you? Why would anyone think there was something wrong with a demi-romantic asexual? Gosh, ma’am, this is completely mystifying to me.)

Pretty much when I figured out and accepted I was ace I figured I was most likely panromantic because if sex doesn’t apply, why should gender? And I was proven right which was mostly cool because the butterflies and excitement of actually liking someone romantically is super interesting and cool to me. I’m still basically refusing to actually attempt to date anyone or even think about it because I don’t trust allosexual people not to try to manipulate me or resent me (BECAUSE IT HAPPENS EVERY F–KING TIME BECAUSE OUR CULTURE MAKES US THINK THAT IF YOU DON’T F–K SOMEONE YOU DON’T CARE ABOUT THEM WHICH IS SUCH BULLSH*T, OKAY??!!?! ALSO THAT PEOPLE ARE OWED SEX WHICH IS LIKE, WOW, NO F–K OFF) so even if I end up liking someone irl (which hasn’t happened yet but that’s probably a good thing) it probably will not be a good idea for me. Hooray. Anyway, I’m cool with it, I’m a very goal-oriented person and I have a super awesome best friend and really cool friends through here and FRIENDSHIP IS F–KING AWESOME. So. Uh. Yeah.

You can read lots more about her asexuality at her blog, just in case you haven’t been getting enough existential despair lately.

Cruel sarcasm may not be the most enlightened way to react to this, but what else can we do? Life was a lot more fun back in 1975 even if all we had was 8-track tapes and Earth Shoes. Were there angry asexuals in 1975? Probably, but there was no Tumblr to tell them they were “asexual” or “panromantic” and the rest of us just avoided weirdos like that.

I always think of Glenn Reynolds’s phrase “Broken People” — he was talking about Kate Millett — when I encounter this kind of RAVING IN ALL CAPS WITH LOTS OF FOUR-LETTER WORDS feminist rage.

You don’t need an advanced theory or a Ph.D. from Temple University to explain everything that’s wrong in the world. Some people are just weirdos, and maybe a visit to an endocrinologist — a thyroid problem? some sort of vitamin deficiency? — could help them, or maybe not.

There are plenty of passengers on the express train to Crazy Cat Lady Land nowadays, and nobody in the scientific community seems interested in researching this phenomenon. Why? Because feminists blame it all on the heteronormative patriarchy, and if you doubt their explanation, they’ll start SHOUTING IN CAPITAL LETTERS ABOUT WHAT AN OPPRESSIVE MISOGYNIST F–KBOY YOU ARE.

Feminism is mental illness disguised as a political movement.




 

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99 Responses to “Feminist Tumblr: ‘Broken People’ and the Tragedy of the Darwinian Dead End”

  1. Adobe_Walls
    March 19th, 2016 @ 11:11 am

    If feminism is ”disguised” as a political movement, it’s not very well disguised.

  2. marcus tullius cicero
    March 19th, 2016 @ 11:26 am

    …hopefully them Feminazis will abort themselves out of existence!

  3. Steve Skubinna
    March 19th, 2016 @ 11:44 am

    They think there’s “Something wrong with me…” she complains.

    Yeah, if a person spends her entire waking moment enraged by half the population as they go about their daily lives and rails against them, and society, and culture, and history in the Tumblr echo chamber, no, there could not possibly be anything wrong with that person.

    No sweetheart, you’re just fine. The rest of the world is effed up.

    Raylan’s Law at work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG4hOjJ9tEs

  4. DeadMessenger
    March 19th, 2016 @ 12:14 pm

    She takes exception to “f–kboys”, but yet everything with her seems to revolve around sex. How can she claim to be “asexual”, and yet talk about it so much? It seems that she’s really in love with labels, and applying them to herself and others. But in reality, people can seldom be reduced to a label.

    And also, that tat sleeve is gonna start looking pretty crappy in a few years when the ink begins to bleed and fade, and then become crappier and crappier as she ages. She’s gonna end up pretty sorry about the dumb things she’s said and done in her youth, but you can’t tell kids nuthin’ these days.

  5. Jason Lee
    March 19th, 2016 @ 12:33 pm

    The rest of the world *is* effed up, but feminists are unrivaled culprits.

  6. The Tragic Death of the Canadian Girlfriend | Rotten Chestnuts
    March 19th, 2016 @ 1:12 pm

    […] further and further down the maturity ladder.  Which is what I suspect happened to sad cases like this self-proclaimed “asexual.”  I apologize in advance for this, but y’all need to […]

  7. Steve Skubinna
    March 19th, 2016 @ 1:27 pm

    What they want is to make reality as dysfunctional as they are.

  8. Steve Skubinna
    March 19th, 2016 @ 1:47 pm

    Never got tats, myself. Just was never interested.

    For one thing, there was no symbol or drawing I liked so much that I wanted to make it a permanent part of my body. For another, tattoos used to have specific meanings but today they just mean “My Dad’s, like, totally a fascist, maaaaan.” Either that or “that hot chick at the piercing booth in the mall is totally into me, I can tell.” So even though I could legitimately have gotten myself a China Fleet dragon tattoo in someplace like Hong Kong or Singapore it would look just like the ones picked out from the parlor wall because it looked kewl.

    But the biggest reason was that, even at eighteen, I knew that I would not be eighteen forever and there would come a day when I wouldn’t want to advertise that I ever had been eighteen.

  9. kilo6
    March 19th, 2016 @ 2:05 pm

    Crazy women are like a box of chocolates … they’ll kill your dog if you’re not careful

  10. Kirby McCain
    March 19th, 2016 @ 2:12 pm

    “Nature is interested in only two things—to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man.”

    Attributed to U.G. Krishnamurti

  11. Squid Hunt #BootTwitter
    March 19th, 2016 @ 2:16 pm

    The entire issue of youth is labels. They have no identity, no beliefs, no core. These come from stable and deep family life, community, church. These things have been kept from them. The disturbing implication, since I believe this is deliberate, is that soon they will be given a new one from their progressive government masters.

  12. NeoWayland
    March 19th, 2016 @ 2:27 pm
  13. NeoWayland
    March 19th, 2016 @ 2:29 pm

    Extra credit for this:

    ?But in reality, people can seldom be reduced to a label.?

  14. Adobe_Walls
    March 19th, 2016 @ 2:35 pm

    The police call them identifying marks. Just saying.

  15. DeadMessenger
    March 19th, 2016 @ 3:21 pm

    And that’s just sadism, pure and simple.

  16. Fail Burton
    March 19th, 2016 @ 3:21 pm

    Mental illness meets naivete, and illness rules like King Solomon. Over in sci-fi, they’re giving out affirmative action awards to people who in other eras would be dolphin-lovers or fans of ancient aliens theory. In truth, the naive do-gooders who latch onto Third Wave Feminism see it as the new tattoo and say “white privilege” instead of “groovy.” They’re conformist rednecks with blue hair, nose-rings and tattoos they never would’ve dared had when it actually meant something, because people actually did get harassed and beaten up for having long hair, and women forced by the police to use a knife to cut that tiny American flag they’d cunningly used as a patch on the hindend of their bell-bottom jeans or even punched in their feminine stomachs. No safe-space there, and no one’s shooting these morons at Kent St., but instead groveling at their feet. Country Western bands like Alabama didn’t start to have long hair until Country Western fans decided to stop running over hitchhikers for having long hair and decided “groovy” really was kinda “groovy.” By that time I’d cut my hair because it no longer had a point.

    This doesn’t include the gurus themselves; the real, actual Third Wave Feminists – the true believers. They have necklaces about their necks, each one a proud sign of the intersections of their oppressions, and the biggest loser wins, much like showing off your bruises after someone beat you for running into an ethnic neighborhood and shouting out group slurs. The difference is they only do that to white people and Christians who won’t beat them up or even kill them. The more insane you are the better it looks and many a delusional idiot has achieved tenure or been given a literary award for fiction that is historically awful but features plenty of gays and “PoC” to redress historic oppressions, written by women who change their name from “Bethany” to “Cat.”

  17. Fail Burton
    March 19th, 2016 @ 3:23 pm

    Given her remarks, I’m pretty sure those guys were pranking her prickly, conceited personality and she was totally unaware of it.

  18. Fail Burton
    March 19th, 2016 @ 4:03 pm

    What could possibly be wrong with a conceited mentally confused jerk who wears “Please Don’t Ask Me For a Date” t-shirts who doesn’t understand men will eff anything that moves, even conceited, mentally confused jerks. In fact such women are precisely the pump-and-dumps.

  19. Dana
    March 19th, 2016 @ 4:23 pm

    Our too-sympathetic host wrote:

    What a profound irony that these atheistic women, believing Darwinism has proven that God does not exist — which the fool hath said in his heart — have consigned themselves to extinction in the name of Science.

    Your comment is based on an abhorrence of selfishness, but consider the implications: nature has a way of selecting against the reproduction of harmful traits, and this selfishness is helping nature select against that very trait. If the lovely Miss Marcotte is depriving her parents, and Marc Faletti’s parents, of grandchildren, she is also depriving them of grandchildren educated by Mr Faletti and Miss Marcotte, grandchildren who would (probably) be similarly rude, selfish and just plain full of themselves.

    The lovely Miss Marcotte is 38½ years old; even if she changes her mind, she has already bypassed the years in which she might have reproduced easily. If she changes her mind, it would be far more difficult for her to conceive now, and if she did become pregnant, the probabilities that her offspring would have some sort of genetic or birth defect are much greater. If she has sown bile all of these many years, she will reap bitterness, as she ages and withers without children, as there is no one to care for her when the infirmities of old age sap her strength and her independence.

    The left have rebelled against nature, but, as always, nature will have the last laugh.

  20. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 19th, 2016 @ 4:41 pm

    Something bad happened to Amanda. I am not sure what it was, but either she was abused, or dropped on her head, or something as a child.

  21. GruntOfMonteCristo
    March 19th, 2016 @ 5:12 pm

    Wow. That might be one of the most eloquent and authoritative statements against ink I’ve ever read. I’m going to make my 18yo son read that. But since he’s 18 and heading for boot camp, he’ll hit the phrase “China Fleet dragon tattoo” and I’ll lose him right there.

  22. Daniel Freeman
    March 19th, 2016 @ 6:48 pm

    … allosexual?

  23. Daniel Freeman
    March 19th, 2016 @ 6:52 pm

    I just never saw my body as a canvas.

  24. Daniel Freeman
    March 19th, 2016 @ 6:54 pm

    Just tell him that it’s okay if he wants to be a canvas, you’ll love him anyway.

  25. Julie Pascal
    March 19th, 2016 @ 7:41 pm

    Lets be entirely fair and charitable here… “asexual” is what you have to be if you’re a feminist and don’t want to be either a hook-up slut or a lesbian. It gives you a “legitimate” sexual identity that lets you off the hook (so to speak). Used to be girls just blamed their Dad or their upbringing or God, if they didn’t want to have sex with just about anyone who asked, they had those external authorities to set before them instead of having to answer demands of “why *don’t* you want to have sex with me?”

  26. Steve Skubinna
    March 19th, 2016 @ 7:53 pm

    Also, many would take that tee shirt for a dare. Heck, I’m such a smartass that I’d probably say “Okay, do you have any figs, then?”

    Yeah, I know, what kind of planet do we live on when tee shirts might not always be taken seriously?

  27. Steve Skubinna
    March 19th, 2016 @ 7:57 pm

    Yup, as I mentioned above, lots of people would take that as a dare. For another, it’s sometimes very difficult to ignore a person with the big neon signs proclaiming “This is my button, don’t nobody never push it!”

    Uhhh… um, er…. okay *push*

  28. Steve Skubinna
    March 19th, 2016 @ 7:59 pm

    Antisexual?

  29. Steve Skubinna
    March 19th, 2016 @ 7:59 pm

    Yabbut, if you’re a feminist then why the heck wouldn’t you blame Dad for everything?

  30. Kirby McCain
    March 19th, 2016 @ 7:59 pm

    “If she has sown bile all of these many years, she will reap bitterness, as she ages and withers without children, as there is no one to care for her when the infirmities of old age sap her strength and her independence.”There’s always the cats!

  31. Joe Guelph
    March 19th, 2016 @ 7:59 pm

    “FORBIDDEN – DON’T DO IT!”
    Literally, the oldest story in the Book.

  32. Steve Skubinna
    March 19th, 2016 @ 8:03 pm

    Plus, cats like bile!

  33. Fail Burton
    March 19th, 2016 @ 8:03 pm

    I once did a variation. A woman came into a small party who was a well-known shrew. She only knew a couple of us. I introduced everyone as a variation on the name “Robert.” Turns out that’s a lot.

  34. Steve Skubinna
    March 19th, 2016 @ 8:04 pm

    Mine is a temple.

    For some pagan cult that practices human sacrifice…

  35. Fail Burton
    March 19th, 2016 @ 8:10 pm

    What I find really telling about this ideology is that although it claims to be a direct continuation of the hippie revolution, it has never produced a stick of music or visual art based on its “culture” I know about. It has produced a handful of sci-fi novels about Amazons or gender-pronouns, and a handful of sexual/racial revenge short stories, usually along the lines of flipping colonialist history. That’s pretty remarkable what with all the bold pronouncements and claims it has made for itself for the last half century. There’s really nothing there but hate and narcissism and hoping someone not them will bring back Xena: Warrior Lesbian.

  36. robertstacymccain
    March 19th, 2016 @ 8:21 pm

    This is why I always especially liked Christian girls when I was a young man. “God says no” — OK, I can accept that, and it doesn’t hurt my feelings, whereas it is quite personal to be rejected by a total degenerate who has no qualms about sleeping around, except not with me.

  37. ? Red47?
    March 19th, 2016 @ 9:10 pm

    Geez. Lighten up Francis. She doesn’t even know the boys were making fun of her.
    This person, “Panromantic asexual//demi-romantic asexual (because I rarely experience romantic attraction but when I do gender’s not a factor)…” absolutely needs to get the connection between her brain stem and frontal lobe checked. She is broh-oh-oh-oh-ken. And she is living only half a life. (or less.) On one level this is really sad. On another level she is a self-absorbed jerk lashing out at whatever comes her way. My advice, roll her off.

  38. ? Red47?
    March 19th, 2016 @ 9:10 pm

    Your guess is likely the correct answer.

  39. ? Red47?
    March 19th, 2016 @ 9:12 pm

    It’s malignant narcissism first, the sadism is the result.

  40. ? infadelicious ?
    March 19th, 2016 @ 9:43 pm

    Why is there nothing feminine about today’s feminists ? They seem to take the qualities the worst man alive could have and then they emulate him in looks and temperament .

  41. Gringao
    March 19th, 2016 @ 10:05 pm

    Panromantic and asexual and…who gives a rodent’s rectum? It’s all just a different flavor of crazy that no sane man ought to get near. Ever.

  42. Gringao
    March 19th, 2016 @ 10:06 pm

    But what about feminist scream-singing?

  43. Fail Burton
    March 19th, 2016 @ 10:31 pm

    It’s amusing she thinks they’re the conceited ones and yet it is her with the t-shirt.

  44. Darth Chipmunk
    March 19th, 2016 @ 10:43 pm

    Modern Progressivism is a series of excuses meant to allow perpetually adolescent humans to exist at the first step of Maslows hierarchy without shame.

  45. DeadMessenger
    March 19th, 2016 @ 11:24 pm

    Not even for a China Fleet dragon tattoo? : )

  46. DeadMessenger
    March 19th, 2016 @ 11:25 pm

    BTW, like your new profile pic.

  47. Steve Skubinna
    March 19th, 2016 @ 11:26 pm

    Both Camille Paglia and Florence King have remarked that feminists would have been better advised encouraging women to adopt some of men’s stoic virtues than attempting to feminize men.

    But I suppose the former requires taking responsibility for oneself and the latter is easier and more vindictive.

  48. DeadMessenger
    March 19th, 2016 @ 11:27 pm

    Worst man alive? isn’t that George W. Bush?

    Anyway, gotta get back to my embroidery, lol.

  49. Steve Skubinna
    March 19th, 2016 @ 11:28 pm

    *ahem*

    You mean, of course, Smirkychimp W. McHitlerburton?

  50. DeadMessenger
    March 19th, 2016 @ 11:33 pm

    Mmmm…vindictive.

    In reality, women choose vindictiveness, or passive aggression, because they cannot generally win a fistfight with a man, due to biological differences. Therefore, choosing vindictiveness as a weapon is an imminently feminine, and one would say, womanly, thing to do, n’est-ce pas?

    Way to demonstrate that there is no difference between the sexes, feminists! Two thumbs up for that brilliant approach!