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What #TrigglyPuff Means

Posted on | May 1, 2016 | 192 Comments

 

The phenomenon of #TrigglyPuffCora Segal, the angry feminist who disrupted an event at the University of Massachusetts this week — deserves extended analysis, and I’ve got a 4,000-word draft in queue, awaiting the final touches. Spending two days analyzing the social significance of this comedic phenomenon was perhaps too much, but that’s my job. You need someone to totally overthink it? I’m available.

Anyway, while working on that brain-straining endeavor, it dawned on me what a small world radical feminism actually is. Cora Segal became notorious in March 2014 for a “Fat Justice” event at Swarthmore College that I blogged about, and here she is two years later, notorious again.

 

Some people on Twitter were claiming that Cora Segal was being “doxed” simply because she had been correctly identified. This is a misuse of the term “doxing,” which properly means the publication of otherwise private information — home address, phone number, etc. — of a person in order to make them a target of direct harassment. Having been the target of criminal harassment (a crime that was the subject of federal prosecution), I understand how serious this issue is. “Doxing” is a tactic developed by certain hackers and trolls who, behind the screen of online anonymity, would deliberately violate someone’s privacy in an attempt to ruin their antagonists’ lives. Some people don’t seem to understand what “doxing” is and what it is not. Consider, for example, the case of Deb Fritsch, a former university professor who lost her job after she harassed blogger Jeff Goldstein in 2006. Was it “doxing” to identify Fritsch? No, she was engaged in seriously evil behavior online while employed at a taxpayer-supported public university and, as it subsequently turned out, was so completely crazy she was repeatedly arrested for stalking. (She has a Ph.D. in psychology, ironically enough.) Likewise, identifying Reddit troll “Violentacrez” as Michael Brutsch“a vile sociopathic monster undeserving of sympathy,” as I called him — was not “doxing.”

Deb Frisch (left); Michael Brutsch (right).

In both of those cases, bad people were doing bad things online and, once they were “patched” (their online persona connected to their actual real-life identity) the negative consequences were predictable. This wasn’t about personal vendettas or political quarrels, and it wasn’t about putting someone’s home address into an IRC channel in a conspiracy to incite some troll to SWAT the targeted person.

Because no one has appointed me Internet Ethics Cop, I don’t waste much time worrying about the nuances of this stuff. It’s a dangerous world, and protecting myself and my friends is about all I can do. We find that feminists claim to be targeted by “harassment” online and everybody in the media rushes to publicize these claims, despite the fact that the media were willing to ignore or excuse very serious harassment when it was directed at Jeff Goldstein and others on the Right whom the media did not consider sympathetic victims. Because of political bias in the media, there is a blatant double standard about such things. Shall we talk about Deranged Cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt? Let’s not . . .

What does this have to do with Cora Segal? Like other trolls, her behavior had been problematic for a long time before she — unexpectedly! — had her Internet Famous (Not in a Good Way) Moment.

We know who Cora Segal is and we know what Cora Segal believes because Cora Segal has told us these things. Cora Segal is an activist, and when an activist goes to a public event and disrupts it by shouting obscenities — “F–k you! . . . Keep your hate speech off this campus!” — her public activism is newsworthy. Identifying her is not “doxing.”

Cora Segal is a feminist and her crusade against “fat phobia” is an expression of radical feminism’s anti-male/anti-heterosexual agenda:

Hostility to “beauty ideology” has been a core theme of feminism since the emergence of the Women’s Liberation movement in the 1960s. Its first major protest occurred in September 1968, when about 100 feminists staged a demonstration at the Miss American pageant, condemning how the contestants “epitomize the roles we are all forced to play as women.” The protesters claimed “women in our society [are] forced daily to compete for male approval, enslaved by ludicrous ‘beauty’ standards we ourselves are conditioned to take seriously.”
Lesbianism also emerged early as a core theme of the Women’s Liberation movement. . . .
Radical lesbians played key roles in founding Women’s Studies programs at many universities. . . .
So-called “fat-positive feminism” is a movement that “addresses how misogyny and sexism intersect with sizism and anti-fat bias.” While feminists blame “anti-fat bias” on male supremacy, the health risks of obesity are serious, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): “Obesity is a national epidemic and a major contributor to some of the leading causes of death in the U.S., including heart disease, stroke, diabetes and some types of cancer.”
Obesity is such a serious problem among lesbians that the National Institutes for Health funded a $3 million study to determine why “nearly three-quarters of lesbians are overweight or obese.”
When that study made headlines in September 2014, Mari Brighe wrote at the lesbian blog Autostraddle that lesbians “tend to be less critical of their bodies than straight women,” because they don’t “suffer the incessant, unreasonable pressure of the male gaze.”

You can read the whole thing. The claim that “sexism,” “misogyny” and “the male gaze” are to blame for “anti-fat bias” is feminism. Is there any feminist who says otherwise? Is there any feminist who does not denounce male preferences as “ludicrous ‘beauty’ standards”? Feminists have written a vast library of books attacking the idea of beauty as a “myth” which they blame on the “misogyny” of patriarchal culture. The feminist argument can be summarized succinctly: Men like beautiful women, and therefore beauty is bad because men are wrong.

Feminism is an ideology of hatred, dishonestly masquerading as “social justice.” Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It. Because feminists cannot defend their hateful beliefs against intelligent criticism, they seek to silence their critics, which is why madness erupts whenever feminists are confronted by the truth.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

Please consider buying my book Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the War Against Human Nature, or hit the tip jar, because patriarchy is really just a synonym for “paying the bills.”





 

UPDATE II: Linked by Gerard Vanderleun at American Digestthanks! — and now a Memeorandum thread.

 


Comments

192 Responses to “What #TrigglyPuff Means”

  1. Fail Burton
    May 1st, 2016 @ 3:36 pm

  2. Julie Pascal
    May 1st, 2016 @ 3:37 pm

    I’m kinda chubby. And not even in the way that my 112 pound room-mates back in school talked about how they were chubby.

  3. docweasel
    May 1st, 2016 @ 3:38 pm

    “Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It.”

    In fact, I believe all leftist “causes” are really calculated to destroy Western Civilization: gay marriage and transgenders in the bathroom have nothing to do with civil rights and everything to do with tearing down Judeo-Christian mores, standards, traditions and morality with the final goal of destroying all Western Civilization, capitalism, the Jewish and Christian religions, the traditional family structure, all small businesses and non-governmental jobs, private gun ownership, forced mass transportation, silencing of conservative voices, criminalization of any views except far left orthodoxy, using government bureaus and regulations to enforce these goals by destroying conservatives/religious people financially and if possible jailing, dispossessing them and taking their children. The left’s attack on controlling schools fits right in with this agenda.

    Leftists aren’t pro-gun control because of “gun safety”, they just want to tear down all traditional standards and lifestyles. Taking guns would be a finger in the eye of their enemies. The entire “gay rights” issue has been revealed to actually be an attack on Christianity, nothing to do with civil rights for gay people. Same with the ACLU attack on religion in every public form. Free speech attacks are high on their agenda right now in order to silence critics so they can conduct their destruction with no criticism against them.

    The hatred for Israel, even among leftist Jews, and blind support for Muslims (even though Islamists are against gay rights, women’s rights, free speech and classical liberalism) also fits in with this ideology.

    The final goal is to completely destroy all Western/Judeo-Christian traditions, morals, literature, art, music, history etc. Gun control, feminism and gay rights are just tactics.

  4. NRPax
    May 1st, 2016 @ 3:51 pm

    The problem is that they don’t realize that Western Civilization is why they are allowed to live in the first place.

  5. PhysicsWon
    May 1st, 2016 @ 4:01 pm

    I never watched Honey Boo-Boo either. What I know is second hand and from a SouthPark episode. And I was referring more to personality than looks.

  6. John R.
    May 1st, 2016 @ 4:02 pm

    Shut your piehole! There will be no more pie!!!

  7. CrustyB
    May 1st, 2016 @ 4:04 pm

    Weight control requires self-awareness, personal discipline and the ability to blame your unattractiveness on the consequences of your own actions.

    It also demands the desire to have absolutely no part of your body become unreachable when you shower.

    No wonder lesbos & feminists are so fat.

  8. officerbill
    May 1st, 2016 @ 4:18 pm

    “nearly three-quarters of lesbians are overweight or obese.”
    How many of them wouldn’t be lesbians if they weren’t overweight or obese and; therefore, were able to attract men?

  9. Steve White
    May 1st, 2016 @ 4:19 pm

    I point out that we have an entire medical sub-specialty — bariatric medicine — dedicated to helping obese people with their weight. These medical specialists employ diet, counseling, medication and surgery, sometimes very serious surgery (e.g., gastric bypass), to help these folks.

    Ms. Segal should take a moment to consider the substantial, negative medical consequences for severe obesity, and the efforts the medical profession is making to help people who are obese. Perhaps then she would not make light of their problems with her “fat positivity” nonsense. There is nothing positive about the medical consequences of obesity.

  10. Steve White
    May 1st, 2016 @ 4:23 pm

    Tumblrinas? Oh my that’s a good one.

  11. Steve White
    May 1st, 2016 @ 4:23 pm

    Apparently they want their 15 minutes of fame in an anonymous echo-chamber.

  12. Steve White
    May 1st, 2016 @ 4:25 pm

    Graduate school. And then graduate school again.

  13. Bird_Dog
    May 1st, 2016 @ 4:35 pm

    The last picture in this post reminds me of the phrase “lipstick on a pig”.

  14. George_in_LaQuinta
    May 1st, 2016 @ 4:41 pm

    I would repulsed by her looks and undoubtedly her behavior I could never order from her.

  15. Wombat_socho
    May 1st, 2016 @ 4:51 pm

  16. Wombat_socho
    May 1st, 2016 @ 4:51 pm

    Is rhetorical question, da?

  17. Wombat_socho
    May 1st, 2016 @ 4:52 pm

    Weight control is harder than it looks, agreed.

  18. Jeanette Victoria
    May 1st, 2016 @ 4:52 pm

    LOL she is really good at: “thinking critically and belly dancing”…. Yeah right if spewing leftist sound bites can even be called thinking. And as someone who danced in clubs and at parties when was young I am stunned at her claim that she is a good belly dancer. And no one her size can possibility be a good belly dancer; it is impossible to do a proper belly roll at her weight and there is no way a woman of that size can do back bends and touch her head to the floor like I could. It is physically impossible for someone that huge to be any kind of dancer.

    This photo of me in my belly dancing outfit was taken six weeks after my daughter was born so I still had some baby fat. I was 25.

  19. Wombat_socho
    May 1st, 2016 @ 4:52 pm

    Well, none of the voodoo sciences do, really.

  20. Jeanette Victoria
    May 1st, 2016 @ 4:53 pm

    She is from a wealthy home she can afford weight loss surgery…..

  21. Wombat_socho
    May 1st, 2016 @ 4:55 pm

    No, they want it from people like themselves. Positive affirmation, as opposed to the pointing and laughing they get from normal folks.

  22. Wombat_socho
    May 1st, 2016 @ 4:56 pm

    Good news, citizen! The chocolate ration has been increased from 25 grams a day to 20!

  23. Wombat_socho
    May 1st, 2016 @ 4:57 pm

    It’s going to take a lot of killing. This is just a fortunate critical strike.

  24. Wombat_socho
    May 1st, 2016 @ 4:59 pm

    But she won’t get it, because fat is a feminist issue and beauty is a tool of the oppressive patriarchy.

  25. SeverelyLtd
    May 1st, 2016 @ 5:00 pm

    Except the little dino was more articulate.

  26. ByzantineGeneral
    May 1st, 2016 @ 5:08 pm

    You’ll never know until she is allowed to experience hunger.

  27. officerbill
    May 1st, 2016 @ 5:09 pm

    da

  28. William_Teach
    May 1st, 2016 @ 5:11 pm

    I bet if she lost 150 pounds and got a good f’ing, her life would be vastly different.

  29. Jeanette Victoria
    May 1st, 2016 @ 5:13 pm

    Yeah I guess diabetes, high blood pressure and getting arthritis because of the wear and tear on ones joint because of excess weigh is also the fault of the oppressive patriarchy.

  30. Steve Skubinna
    May 1st, 2016 @ 5:21 pm

    So she will destroy that child’s life. And when she does, the resulting neurotic basket case will not be her fault, it will be because of the Patriarchy and their darned gender binary.

    A person so vehemently expressing such toxic stupidity in such violent rhetoric should no more be permitted near children that Ms. “Herpes made my sex life even better!

    Of course we see that the latter is indeed instructing children in sex. So no reason we won’t be seeing Foz at some Montessori School in the future.

  31. Steve Skubinna
    May 1st, 2016 @ 5:24 pm

    I realized that life was unfair around the same age.

    After a lot of reflection I concluded that was probably to most people’s benefit – at least those of us in the First World.

  32. jwz
    May 1st, 2016 @ 5:27 pm

    Problem with that is her type become entrenched at most colleges, where they continue to spread their lies and propaganda to new freshmen every year.

  33. jwz
    May 1st, 2016 @ 5:39 pm

    Well, Newton discovered gravity. Newton was a male, so there you are. Their sagging boobs and butts are all caused by patriarchy.

  34. Adobe_Walls
    May 1st, 2016 @ 5:46 pm

    Get your blood sugar checked regularly.

  35. Eagle Soars
    May 1st, 2016 @ 5:51 pm

    And when 90% of those degrees are in vaginal socialism and vegan philosophy, where does that get you?

  36. Adobe_Walls
    May 1st, 2016 @ 5:54 pm

    Further more they have no idea how precarious their ideology becomes once the powers having that ideology succeed.

  37. Zhytamyr
    May 1st, 2016 @ 5:54 pm

    Feminism is the sad attempt to nationalize dating for the benefit of homely harpies.

  38. Adobe_Walls
    May 1st, 2016 @ 5:59 pm

    Having just recently been diagnosed with type II diabetes I can relate. The kicker is I’m at most 40 pounds overweight.

  39. Joe Joe
    May 1st, 2016 @ 6:09 pm

    Is Cora Segal actually a student at UMass, or was she simply trucked in to cause a disturbance? A propos:

    http://noisyroom.net/blog/2014/11/30/the-movers-and-shakers-behind-the-ferguson-riots/

  40. Joe Joe
    May 1st, 2016 @ 6:09 pm
  41. boinkie
    May 1st, 2016 @ 6:57 pm

    Many fat lesbians suffer from polycystic ovary syndrome.
    http://www.academia.edu/2912130/A_Biopsychosocial_View_of_Polycystic_Ovary_Syndrome_PCOS_
    One wonders if they had been treated if they might lose weight and turn nice,…. Metformin cures lesbianism?

  42. Lanceman
    May 1st, 2016 @ 7:20 pm

    I can only imagine the smell emanating from her dorm. Ugh.

  43. Steve White
    May 1st, 2016 @ 7:27 pm

    I think we’re in violent agreement 🙂

  44. JeffWeimer
    May 1st, 2016 @ 7:32 pm

    No, she’s not. she attends Hampshire College.

  45. WarEagle82
    May 1st, 2016 @ 7:35 pm

    Of course, she would object to your statistical binary which is obviously a construct of the heteronormative patriarchy….

  46. jakee308
    May 1st, 2016 @ 9:15 pm

    RSM: your mentioning of doxing reminded me of someone/thing; what happened to Brett Kimberlin and his pal (can’t think of his name) who was some sort of internet warrior and all the others of that time?

    I’d like to know that they’ve sunk into disrepute (or preferably in jail) or up on charges somewhere.

    I know you’re on a Crusade to send feminism back to where the tribal initiations and other such superstitions belong but an update on where these turkeys are and what they’re up to might be a change of pace for you.

    I mean, how many fat, ugly, studded, and vicious females can you stand to see before you need a drink? (another one anyway)

    Maybe his life’s really turned out the way it should’ve for Brett and we’d all like to hear about him being flushed down the toilet of life.

  47. jakee308
    May 1st, 2016 @ 9:16 pm

    You can’t fix stupid. Or Crazy.

  48. jakee308
    May 1st, 2016 @ 9:17 pm

    I imagined one of those gargantuan fork lifts with her suspended between the forks with a sign saying OVER SIZE LOAD on the back.

  49. jakee308
    May 1st, 2016 @ 9:17 pm

    Yeah but the guy who did it would need therapy for the rest of his life.

  50. jakee308
    May 1st, 2016 @ 9:19 pm

    But they’d still be cra cra.