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What #TrigglyPuff Means

Posted on | May 1, 2016 | 192 Comments

 

The phenomenon of #TrigglyPuff — Cora 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 Digest — thanks! — and now a Memeorandum thread.

 


Category: Education, Sex Trouble

Comments

192 Responses to “What #TrigglyPuff Means”

  1. jakee308
    May 1st, 2016 @ 9:20 pm

    Truth be told, it’s not as easy to take off weight as it is to put on. There are some physiological processes that make it difficult to maintain.

    You can lose weight but it’s keeping it off that becomes difficult.

  2. jakee308
    May 1st, 2016 @ 9:21 pm

    Oh it’s worse than that. Socialism at least allows a place for men. Feminism doesn’t.

  3. Broccoli Bob
    May 1st, 2016 @ 9:22 pm

    It’s not without a reason that ‘leftism’ is called the Cult of the Lowest Common Denominator.

    ‘Society’ is often modelled as a pyramid, with the hypothetical “evil” “super-elite” at the top, and the vast, suffering, hardworking, poor masses at the bottom, supporting the whole structure.
    Fair enough, as that might’ve been the historical status quo for ages rational.

    Enter the postwar kultimarxist era of irrationality:
    – the pyramid grew into a diamond shape. With an inverted pyramid attached at the bottom. The “oppressed” (unproductive, dysfunctional) underclasses, classified by their ranks in the oppression olympics (ironically, also sustained by the ‘working’, functional segment on the bottom of the upright pyramid – we, the ‘taxpayer’). The mythical deity at the bottom tip whom we all must abide by and aspire to emulate would be some ultimately and elaborately wretched abstract entity — say, a deaf, mute, blind, limbless, morbidly obese miscarried fœtus of a black muslim transgender female dwarf with Bipolar II disorder and full mental retardation: The Lowest Common Denominator.

    (I’ve come across an article a few years back, arguing why & how the internet is intrinsically ‘oppressive’ by its use of the Latin alphabet. Or any alphabet at all.)

    Darwin weeps in his grave.

    (eh, that whole ‘diamond’ model thing i just pulled out of my arse right now as i was typing, after one scotch too many – might have to revisit / edit / delete tomorrow with a clear head.)

  4. Joe Joe
    May 1st, 2016 @ 9:37 pm

    So she’s an activist for hire. That makes her actions at UMass all the worse. She is misrepresenting the student body there. Makes me wonder why none of the speakers–Milo Y, Christina Hoff-Sommers, or Crowder–mentioned the fact. Perhaps they need to keep track of the professionals they run across and call them out as needed.

  5. jolly green
    May 1st, 2016 @ 10:20 pm

    Can you believe this is her father?

    http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/10/charles-paul-segal/

    Clearly, she’s mentally ill.

  6. Fail Burton
    May 1st, 2016 @ 10:22 pm

    Just imagine if Tarzan was mentally ill and he interpreted the drums of C. Hoff. S. for a safari the same way. The tribesmen are signaling “Hey, great. We love meeting new folks” and then the elephant guns start blasting them. I was particularly interested in this morbidly obese moron’s definition of “hate speech,” since as far as I could tell, it means “telling the truth.” Miss Fat Pig lives in a universe where language quite literally means no more than a series of grunts and moans.

  7. Clayton Cramer
    May 1st, 2016 @ 11:18 pm

    Want to understand why Cora has her own gravitational field? Walls of fat prevent any other man from being attracted to them. Not only are lesbians disproportionately obese, but dozens of surveys demonstrate homosexuals are 3x-8x more likely to be victims of childhood sexual abuse than straights. Coincidence? No,. See http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2629445

  8. curmudgeoninchief
    May 1st, 2016 @ 11:59 pm

    You could always put The Flag over her head and do it for your country. It would be a public service.

  9. Katherine Martinez
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 1:04 am

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  10. Katherine Martinez
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 1:04 am

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  11. Haloge
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 2:48 am

    Mmmmmmm

    So is that why the Armageddon Cupboard is much depleted?

  12. MGTOW dum moriar
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 3:02 am

    Let me put that in a memo and file it under “Shit That I Already Know.”
    Her issue is that she’s over-privileged. She’s basically gotten everything she wanted when she wanted it and now has to go looking for things to want. She’s a typical champagne socialist who has never had to work for a damn thing and has no intention of ever starting.
    We should be thanking her because she alone has done more to damage social justice and feminism than Yiannopolous, Hoff-Summers and Crowder could do combined for the next ten years.

  13. MGTOW dum moriar
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 3:07 am

    She, Sarkeesian, Mattress Girl, Chanty Binx and so many others are about to receive (or have already received) a rude awakening. Both the pity and the funding are drying up and I don’t see a lot of businesses hiring any of them. The could work in the public sector but I strongly suspect a lot of government jobs are going to disappear soon.

  14. MGTOW dum moriar
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 3:08 am

    Twitter will probably give her a job in their censorship department or whatever the fuck it’s called.

  15. MGTOW dum moriar
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 3:11 am

    Universities are losing money because fewer and fewer people want to enroll anymore. And some will probably end up losing much of their federal funding. She’s also a senior which means she’ll likely be getting the shit kicked out her by reality by this time next year.

  16. MGTOW dum moriar
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 3:11 am

    Eat. That’s about it.

  17. MGTOW dum moriar
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 3:12 am

    No fucking way. That caliber of hideous could penetrate the thickest beer goggles.

  18. MGTOW dum moriar
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 3:14 am

    I’ll wager a lot of them are asexual and munch carpet solely for political reasons.

  19. MGTOW dum moriar
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 3:14 am

    No kidding. She’s got more chins than a Chinese phone book.

  20. MGTOW dum moriar
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 3:16 am

    OMG! Triggly-puff won’t survive. Those 10,000 calorie a day starvation diets are already making her moody.

  21. MGTOW dum moriar
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 3:17 am

    We could end world hunger by next week if she ever went on a diet.

  22. MGTOW dum moriar
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 3:18 am

    Exactly.

  23. Fail Burton
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 3:22 am

    Your room mate is le skunk de hoor.

  24. MGTOW dum moriar
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 3:23 am

    Freedom of speech cuts both ways. She’s free to spew whatever nonsense she wants and we’re all free to criticize her for it. All that’s happened so far is that she’s been identified and subjected to the same freedom of speech that others have.

  25. MGTOW dum moriar
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 3:26 am

    A person’s actions are no more virtuous than the motives behind them. The motives are plain to see in her case. Frankly, she’s hideous in every possible way. It was also not her appearance that got her so much negative attention but her actions.

  26. MGTOW dum moriar
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 3:30 am

    Make whatever changes you can and learn to be happy with yourself. Learn to respect and forgive yourself.

  27. MGTOW dum moriar
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 3:33 am

    True but Triggly-Puff seems to have gone out of her way to be as fat and revolting as possible.

  28. Ann_NY
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 4:49 am

    You should see how unsympathetic the British are towards fat people. Much of that has to do with the NHS.

  29. Jeanette Victoria
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 6:39 am

    I know people that large who are attractive or at least try to be

  30. dilsin
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 6:53 am

    She had no choice but to become a leftist social justice warrior. Just look at her. Central casting couldn’t have picked someone more perfect for the role.

  31. Peejay70
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 7:20 am

    All the “studies” departments are jobs programs for leftist agitators. That’s where my tax dollars go.

  32. Acethepug
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 7:22 am

    Ideology, IMHO. I am … mobidly obese. I don’t expect people to cater to me, and I sure as hell don’t expect to muzzle others for things I don’t care for.

    Then again, I suppose that is both only anecdotal AND self-serving for me, isn’t it 🙁

    To end this post on a happy note — I thought ALL fat people were supposed to be jolly?

    (good post, btw, maybe it is more accurate to think she turned her self-loathing FROM that obesity, which I *do* feel sometimes, into the hating SJW ideology)

  33. MarkJ
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 8:26 am

    If she’s anything like students I’ve encountered at the university where I work, she’ll just apply to grad school in order to delay the inevitable.

  34. Rebelpirate1776
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 8:32 am

    I swear I thought this was Lena Dunham doing a comedy sketch.

  35. MarkJ
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 8:35 am

    Cora Segal should thank her lucky stars she was born when and where she was. In another time and place, given her ethnic heritage, she could have professed unconditional love for Hitler and the SS guards would have still shoved her into a gas chamber.

  36. Kirby McCain
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 8:42 am

    And here I thought the left worshipped at the altar of Darwin. Obviously these delusional women feel cheated by the system of natural selection to which the male gaze can be attributed. Certainly, looking at Cora we can see that natural selection has some wrinkles yet to be ironed out. But none of that is a good excuse to vilify the guys who prefer petite red heads. We’re just as much a victim of this whole evolution scheme as Ms. Segal and determined not to make the same mistake her parents obviously made.

  37. tanstaafl02
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 8:51 am

    Ignorant beyond words. Insane to devote this much time and space to Cora and the nutty way she propels herself into notoriety in our increasingly nutty society.

    Everybody tries to claim “justice” and attach it to their personal beef. For Cora, it’s “fat justice”. For Michelle and Barack, it’s climate justice or food justice, ad nauseam.

    However applied, the goal is shaming the other.

  38. gunga
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 8:51 am

    4. Society must be destroyed! RRrrrrrraaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

  39. @ImaCarNow
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 9:03 am

    It is inherently evil and also mean to pick on defenseless beached sea mammals…even if their opinions are hideously contorted nonsense.

  40. @ImaCarNow
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 9:05 am

    The response to every single SJW demand for everyone else to, “Shut up!” should be: #Trigglypuff

  41. tanstaafl02
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 9:13 am

    An insult to beached sea mammals everywhere.

  42. Corey Hall
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 9:18 am

    eat. a lot.

  43. Deadrody
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 9:25 am

    The odd thing, to me, is that true “lesbians” would rely on “attraction” to one another no less than heterosexual couples, right ?

    Which then makes me wonder how many of the militant feminists that claim to be “lesbians” are actually gay, and how many have just taken hating men to it’s logical conclusion. If you aren’t actually attracted to members of your own sex and you enter into a “lesbian” relationship out of convenience and / or political considerations, then the notion of “physical attraction” becomes moot. Therefore, eat all you want and become a giant, fat pig.

    And then become not only a militant lesbian feminist, but also an anti-fat shaming activist. Is there really ANY lifestyle choice that liberals make that doesn’t result in default anti-something shaming ? Because, as many point out, not only will you be made to care, you will be made to participate.

    If a liberal chooses to be a feminist, or a lesbian, or fat, then not only must that be allowed, but EVERYONE must be required to support those as not only legitimate choices, but the only truly correct choice.

  44. tanstaafl02
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 9:28 am

    “Is there really ANY lifestyle choice that liberals make that doesn’t result in default anti-something shaming ?”

    No, shaming is the core value of modern liberalism.

    If you’re not on board with the mentality, you’re essentially guilty of everything.

    The goal is that you be as miserable as they are.

  45. Deadrody
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 9:30 am

    The ironic thing is, if you do only that and “let them discover their gender on their own”, then 99.999% of them will magically discover they are the gender that associates with the biology they were born with. Therefore, the liberals really mean, you should actively undermine your kids biology so their plainly obvious gender doesn’t bias their decision.

    Such utter morons. I’ve met people that are legitimately transgender. I’ve also known plenty that just wanted to pretend – for whatever reason – that they weren’t their true gender.

    The legitimately transgender are not being helped at all by the trendy on-again off-again transgender nonsense. The average person can most likely respect someone that actually has gender issues. Assholes like Bruce Jenner ? Not so much. That kind of crap just undermines the efforts of actual transgender people to gain acceptance.

  46. Deadrody
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 9:32 am

    I’m sure she does. She’ll end up with some make-work bullshit doctorate study in gender – much like the idiot at Missouri – sponsored by our ever-loving government that should sustain her for years to come.

  47. Deadrody
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 9:33 am

    Exactly. Multiple high level degrees in useless gender studies. I’d say she could eventually become some kind of expert consultant to chime in on MSNBC segments, but then, nobody wants to see that on camera for any reason.

  48. Kirby McCain
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 10:20 am

    Sumo Justice Warrior

  49. Craig Loehle
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 10:29 am

    I submit that the farther one’s employment is from actually making/touching something, the more likely the person is to hate capitalism. Children of professors, government workers, artists, are particularly likely to hate it. People who grow actual food, cut trees, manufacture things understand cause and effect, that hard work leads to results, and that the real world is not affected by your ideology.

  50. Steve Skubinna
    May 2nd, 2016 @ 10:47 am

    The sad fact is that there is a… not gender, but sexual binary.

    Male or female. That’s it, those are your two choices. And here’s the other nasty little secret: nobody gets to choose. Born with the dangly bits, a boy. Born with the tucked in bits, a girl.

    And sure, there is a vanishingly tiny percentage of sexually ambiguous people. More people are bore with hairlips or cleft palettes, and so far no SJW is demanding that such children be left intact until they’re old enough to decide whether they want the condition repaired.

    That I know of anyway. Maybe I should keep my mouth shut.