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New York City Is a Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy — Just Ask @JessicaValenti!

Posted on | May 29, 2016 | 78 Comments

 

Jessica Valenti has written a memoir, Sex Object, that is exactly what you would expect — a vengeful diatribe against heterosexual men.

Like most other feminists, Valenti is oblivious to the fact that her relentlessly negative portrayal of men is just anti-male propaganda. No woman can expect any success as a professional feminist unless she conveys this message: All men are evil, and all women are their victims.

To form your opinion of men based on the writing of feminists is like studying Jewish culture by reading Mein Kampf. Yet like other feminists, Jessica Valenti denies that she hates men. Perhaps not, but she and her comrades certainly incite anti-male attitudes and promote negative stereotypes of men and, most particularly, stigmatize male sexuality.

Normal male attraction to women, particularly male admiration of beauty, is condemned by feminists as “objectification.” While we may deplore superficiality or an idolatrous obsession with physical appearance, there is nothing inherently wrong with the pleasure we derive from beauty, nor is it scandalous that good-looking people (male or female) are highly desired as romantic partners. This is simply human nature, which cannot be changed by any amount of political rhetoric.

Does Jessica Valenti suppose that a “nerd rights” movement could make guys with high SAT scores as popular with women as NBA All-Stars? No, of course not — the geek in the Math Club might become a software billionaire and buy an NBA franchise someday, but young women still chase after the 6-foot-7 power forward, and not the 5-foot-7 nerd.

Why, then, does Jessica Valenti suppose that complaining about the “objectification” of women — feminist jargon for normal male interest in women’s beauty — can accomplish any real change in the social hierarchy? In an excerpt from her book published by the U.K. Guardian, we learn that, as a girl, Valenti was insecure about her looks, and wanted to be liked by cute boys who didn’t like her as much as she liked them:

I wrote in my diary at the time, I’m so ugly I can’t stand it. I have a big gross nose, pimples, hairy arms. I will never have a boy like me or a boyfriend. All of my friends are pretty and I will be the one with no one.
I was feeling that loneliness acutely at the time, because I was obsessed with a boy named Matt. Matt — the first in a long line of blond boys I would fall for — told me once that I would be so, so pretty if not for my big nose. All I heard was, he thought I could be pretty! . . .
I imagined all of the things that would go right if I were just to have a smaller nose. I would have a boyfriend and the girls in school would stop making fun of me.

OK, let’s get a show of hands here: Who was insecure about their looks as a teenager? Everybody? Yeah, that’s what I thought. Unlike feminists, however, sane people don’t turn their adolescent woes into a lifelong political crusade. We do not resort to a crypto-Marxist “dialectic” (thank you, Shulamith Firestone) to rationalize whatever bothered us as kids, nor do we have an all-encompassing theory of our “oppression” to justify ourselves in clinging to childhood grudges and lashing out at scapegoats we blame for our disadvantages and dissatisfactions.

Would I have liked to date Carol Purdy or Vicky Jones in middle school? Would I have been pleased if my fondness had been reciprocated by Janet Howton, Priscilla Yates or any of the dozens of other girls I had crushes on during my childhood and youth? Of course. However, I was an immature skinny class clown and it was not until I was 18 that I began to “hit my stride,” so to speak, and my belated success so greatly exceeded my early failures that I can laugh at the memory of my childish insecurities and adolescent loneliness. Most adults get over their teenage heartbreaks, so why do feminists like Jessica Valenti seem to spend their lives in a campaign of vengeance based on their unhappy youth?

Feminist ideology is mostly rationalized self-pity — a quixotic crusade for “equality” as the imagined solution to personal misery — and as such is an exercise in irrational futility. The Women’s Liberation movement erupted with a protest at the Miss America pageant in 1968, when I was just starting fourth grade. Almost half a century later, Jessica Valenti is getting paid to recycle the same familiar arguments. Beauty pageants “epitomize the roles we are all forced to play as women,” the feminist protesters declared in 1968, proclaiming that “women in our society [are] forced daily to compete for male approval, enslaved by ludicrous ‘beauty’ standards we ourselves are conditioned to take seriously.”

Never mind whether that indictment of the Miss America pageant was fair or accurate. Even if we stipulate, arguendo, that the protesters had some legitimate grievances, still we must ask, what have nearly five decades of feminist activism done to change women’s lives? Are ugly girls any happier in 2016 than they were in 1968? Are women still “enslaved by ludicrous ‘beauty’ standards”? And why, in order to justify their vindictive rage against males, do feminists resort to propaganda tactics?

Feminists seize on atrocity narratives to demonize males, deliberately exaggerating the frequency of “men’s violence against women” in order to promote an attitude of sexual paranoia (“Fear and Loathing of the Penis”) that makes it difficult, if not impossible, for women to form healthy relationships with men.

That’s from “Anti-Male Propaganda: Understanding Feminism’s Use of Atrocity Narratives,” a 3,700-word post I published last week, and do you suppose that any feminist on the planet would acknowledge such a critique? Of course not. Feminists can never admit that what they are actually doing is fomenting a totalitarian ideology of hatred using dishonest methods pioneered from Marxist-Leninist regimes in the 20th century. The Comintern and the KGB, the Red Guards in China and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia — anyone who has studied Communist propaganda tactics can trace the origins of the slanderous rhetoric of feminism. Males have replaced the capitalist bourgeoisie as the “class enemy” in the feminist adaptation of Marxist ideology, and women are to feminist theory what the “proletariat” was to Marx. Catharine MacKinnon frankly acknowledged feminism’s debt to Marxism in her 1989 classic Toward a Feminist Theory of the State. What Professor MacKinnon did not foresee, however, was that the Soviet empire was on the verge of its final collapse into the “ash heap of history.” Why should we expect feminism to succeed when Marxism failed? This is a question feminists continue to ignore. You can read Kate Weigand’s Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women’s Liberation and find no acknowledgement of the underlying doubts about feminism’s future that are raised by a study of Communism’s historical failure.

Instead, feminists continue their ceaseless campaign of slander. Tales of wrongdoing by male criminals are used to imply collective guilt: “See? Here is psychotic mass murderer Elliot Rodger — typical sexist!” Murderers, rapists, pornographers, pimps — despicable criminals and perverts constantly appear in feminist rhetoric, symbolizing all men as participants in a system of oppression in which all women are victims.

Consider this excerpt from Jessica Valenti’s book:

The two worst times for dicks on the New York subway: when the train car is empty or when it’s crowded. As a teenager, if I found myself in an empty car, I would immediately leave — even if it meant changing cars as the train moved, which terrified me. Because, if I didn’t, I just knew the guy sitting across from me would inevitably lift his newspaper to reveal a semihard cock, and even if he wasn’t planning on it, I sure wasn’t going to sit there and worry about it for the whole ride.
On crowded train cars I didn’t see dicks – I felt them. Pressing into my hip, men pretending that the rocking up against me was just because of the jostling of the train.
The first time I saw a penis on the subway, I was on the platform for the N train three blocks from my house in Queens, on my way to school. I was 12. I had just missed a train, so I was the only person there other than a man all the way at the other end of the platform. He was so far away that I could see only the outline of his shape, but soon I noticed his hand moving furiously – and that he was walking quickly towards me with his penis in his hand. I had always thought myself prepared for something like this; I knew I was supposed to yell or run, but I just stood there. I didn’t look away or turn around, and even though I felt my knees giving out, my feet felt strongly planted to the ground.

Let us ask: Are all men in New York City depraved perverts?

On an average weekday, 5.7 million people ride New York’s subway system, and if half of those passengers are male, then there are nearly 2.9 million men riding those trains. Are all these men just waiting for an opportunity to grope a teenager or flash their penis at a 12-year-old girl?

I hate New York City, and therefore I will answer YES!

Men in New York are certainly the worst men on the planet. Jessica Valenti is correct: Every man in the city is some kind of disgusting freak.

Oh, sure, these men claim they’re riding the subway back and forth to their so-called “jobs,” but feminists know that the real reason men use those trains is to obtain kinky sexual thrills by rubbing up against women or committing indecent exposure. So, because New York City is swarming with so many millions of rapists, exhibitionists, voyeurs, sadomasochists, child molesters and serial killers, Jessica Valenti would have us believe that all men are as bad as the subhuman creeps who ride the subway trains in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn.

Just days ago, I said that “as a father, I would never want my daughter living in a wretched hive of scum and villainy like New York City.” Men there are notoriously bad, yet Jessica Valenti still lives in New York, and is raising her daughter there. Having been sexually terrorized all her life by the awful men of New York, why doesn’t Jessica Valenti leave the city? Why not move to a lesbian separatist community in Alabama?

Never expect an answer to questions like that from any member of the feminist cult. Jessica Valenti will continue pretending that the rest of us are too stupid to notice the obvious flaws in her warped worldview, nor will she acknowledge that the profound dishonesty of her anti-male hate propaganda is apparent to any student of rhetoric.

No, Jessica Valenti will never adjust her belief system to reality, because this would require her to get over her childhood grudge about the misfortune of being a big-nosed girl with hairy arms, the kind that blond boys named Matt didn’t like. Instead, she will continue telling atrocity tales — men who ride New York subways are perverts, therefore all men are evil — and pretending that she doesn’t know exactly what she’s doing: Encouraging other women to hate men as much as she hates men, because the basic problem in the world, according to feminist ideology, is that women don’t hate men as much as men deserve to be hated.

Jessica Valenti may get old, but she will never grow up.





 


Comments

78 Responses to “New York City Is a Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy — Just Ask @JessicaValenti!”

  1. Fail Burton
    May 29th, 2016 @ 5:33 am

    Women like Valenti seem to have no brains whatsoever. They willingly confuse individuals who commit criminal acts with the entire group and forbid it if it’s a “protected group.” I just saw a thing on Twitter were some women at a bar spotted a guy drugging a woman’s drink. Then comes the complaints that “rape culture is real.” Oddly enough, had they spotted a black guy breaking into an apt., there is no way “black criminal culture is real” would’ve emerged. That is a pattern which endlessly repeats itself in intersectional gay feminism. The concept of “collective guilt” has convenient wings which fly wherever one wants. When a principled concept of group defamation continually eludes a person, they are either a moron or a liar.

    Even worse, these truly demented women are pushing the idea that male heterosexuality is an accurate analogy to a Jim Crow county, one that has existed to control and oppress women for thousands of years.

    The truth is that, while claiming to despise masculinity, radical lesbian feminists despise femininity, seeking to emulate men wherever they can, but mostly in fictional performances rather than actually building bridges or working in freezer warehouses. That leaves heterosexual feminists like Valenti in a weird twilight zone where they have taken up the cause even while wearing lipstick and Betty Page haircuts in order to make themselves as attractive as possible to men and then pretending to despise that attraction. Valenti won’t leave NY for the same reason Black Lives Matter won’t head for Africa: they are supremacist liars.

    In short, Valenti is a black member of the KKK and yet a true believer.

    “It is hard to imagine any other group of people in the United States today who could be so crassly maligned in a public setting without arousing immediate protest.” – Daphne Patai writing about the group defamation of men in her 1998 book Heterophobia

  2. jolly green
    May 29th, 2016 @ 6:19 am

    Even if you hate Donald Trump, let Jessica Valenti be a reason to vote against Hillary Clinton since she’s the type of woman(and worse)that will be helping to make policy in her administration, and emboldened by her win.

  3. bitterlyclinging
    May 29th, 2016 @ 7:00 am

    Its the biology, stupid, and its been responsible for the success of the species for a few million years, at least since Lucy and her companion left their bare footprints in the volcanic dust of the Olduvai Gorge. If the testosterone wasn’t driving the male to reproduce himself and/or go out and slay the raging mammoth trapped in the Ice Age pit with him where would we be now? At least the Cro Magnon dealing with the raging Mammoth in the Ice Age pit was smart enough to know it took some nine harrowing months for the female to reproduce herself, while he, in turn, could accomplish the same task in a relatively brief matter of minutes, therefore he was expendable as far as the band was concerned. Today we’re smarter than that, we want to waste our females as we waste our males. We’re so smart today, we’re stupid.

  4. Dana
    May 29th, 2016 @ 7:16 am

    I’d point out here that Jessica Valenti is more properly referred to as Mrs Andrew Golis.

    Note the picture our esteemed host used: Mrs Golis is wearing lipstick and mascara, and possibly blush and eye shadow; she has spent some effort shaping her eyebrows. She has put forth some effort to look attractive, to men!

    Mr and Mrs Andrew Golis at their wedding: sure looks like Mrs Golis chose to attempt to look attractive to a man then.

    https://static01.nyt.com/images/2009/10/18/fashion/vows.sub.600.jpg

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  6. RS
    May 29th, 2016 @ 7:24 am

    I do so enjoy the “humble brag” of My LIfe As A Sex Object. The horror! The horror! We’ll put that book on the shelf next to those recounting the trials and tribulations of successful millionaires. What’s next? Her favorite villa in Tuscany was booked for the weekend, thereby necessitating a vacation in Provence?

  7. CaptDMO
    May 29th, 2016 @ 7:55 am

    Have any original, signed, copies of The S.C.U.M. Manifesto survived?
    How much are First Editions worth on the open market?

  8. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 29th, 2016 @ 8:49 am

    The oppressive male stare is the WORST for women like Jessica Valenti- until it stops! ?

  9. JPL17
    May 29th, 2016 @ 8:59 am

    “Normal male attraction to women, particularly male admiration of beauty, is condemned by feminists as ‘objectification.’”

    I’ve detested the feminist term “sex object” ever since I first heard it in 1969. And since then, to every feminist in the world who’s ever demanded that she *not* be seen as a “sex object”, I want to ask: What type of object do you *prefer* to be seen as?

    Perhaps a “dollar object”? Because that’s exactly how the Democratic Party, Harvard University, Progressive Insurance, Google, and every other left-leaning institution and company in the world sees you.

    How about as a “useful idiot” object? Because that’s exactly how Huffington Post, the New York Times, Facebook, the UN, the global warming alarmist lobby and every leftist propaganda organ in the world sees you.

    How about as a “vote object”? Because that’s exactly how Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and every other Democrat politician in the country sees you.

    Or perhaps you prefer to be seen as a “vagina object”? Because that’s how every radical feminist sees you.

    My point being that *every* person in the world of *either* sex is perceived as an “object” of some kind by nearly everyone else in the entire world. The very few possible exceptions to this are one’s spouse, members of one’s family, and one’s closest friends — and that’s *only* if one has been both wise and lucky in choosing one’s spouse and close friends, and worked hard and been lucky to have loving relationships with one’s family members. Moreover, getting to the point in your relationship with a man where he *doesn’t* see you as a “sex object” usually requires that you go through a stage during which he *does* see you as a sex object, at least initially to some extent.

    So to all those feminists who want (a) never to be treated as a “sex object” (or any other kind of object, for that matter); and (b) never to be devoted to husband and family, I respond: Sorry, joke’s on you! You can’t have both, so pick one and stop denying reality.

  10. Fail Burton
    May 29th, 2016 @ 9:17 am

    The irony at play here is you don’t have to be a genius to figure out this woman hasn’t lived the most exciting life. Given the distance between her incredible arrogance and actual talent, a woman with the ego of Napoleon is naturally going to seek a scapegoat. It’s either that or admit that horror or horrors: she’s just an ordinary nobody.

    Naturally an incredibly mundane life is going to have incredibly mundane dangerous events which is her equivalent of an Indiana Jones Adventure: “Someone looked at me funny when I was 18. I ate a sandwich later that day and then looked out a window thinking of things; mighty things. Thus began the adventure of teaching myself how to strip and repaint a window sill. I inhaled many noxious fumes and got a blister. pg. 87-215”

  11. Fail Burton
    May 29th, 2016 @ 9:20 am

    “Who would I be if I lived in a world that didn’t hate women?”

    Answer: Napoleon, Julius Caesar and Indiana Jones

  12. BSR
    May 29th, 2016 @ 9:43 am

    I have a theory that a lot of this feminist mumbo jumbo and LBGT-alphabet soup nonsense is a manifestation of immaturity on a grand scale. No I can’t really back it up because I haven’t done the necessary research (nor am I really in a particular mood to go to such great lengths) but the remark made about how most people don’t take their adolescent worries and magnify them into political crusades kind of resonated with it.

    For the biologically mature human, the epitome of success involves having an occupation that provides for a comfortable existence, then building a family which usually involves children. It involves accepting that there are certain things about life and nature that we can’t really change.

    I was miserable in my teens. If I’d had occasion to latch onto all these bizarro gender theories and whatnot, I really hate to think how confused that could have left me. As it was, the traditional, conservative view of life and the important goal of having a family, saw me through to being a fairly well-rounded, and normal adult and mother. The thing is, you don’t even have to be super successful or even drop-dead gorgeous to be a successful adult, you just have to be willing to accept the realities of the human condition.

  13. TheOtherAndrewB
    May 29th, 2016 @ 9:43 am

    Let me be the first to apologize to Ms. Valenti on behalf of all men–nay, all males of every species, lest a male tapir make eyes at her next time she is in the wilds of Belize. We cannot help ourselves–you are just too beautiful to ignore. You are incandescent, sublime, radiant. All that is best meets in your aspect and your eyes. You make supermodels look like wizened hags in comparison. All the great beauties of history standing in a row would not be worthy of tweezing your perfect eyebrows. And, of course, you do it without any hint of effort or affect. You are, in short, complete human perfection. Now will you go away?

  14. Steve Skubinna
    May 29th, 2016 @ 9:45 am

    “…and even if he wasn’t planning on it, I sure wasn’t going to sit there and worry about it for the whole ride.”

    Sure, that’s an entirely rational approach.

  15. Steve Skubinna
    May 29th, 2016 @ 9:46 am

    First World Problems.

    Except, not really… more like problems of financially successful and entitled First Worlders.

  16. Steve Skubinna
    May 29th, 2016 @ 9:48 am

    “… that was when I discovered that we were out of Fritos! There was a 7-11 just a short subway ride away, but was I prepared to face the rape gangs with their business suits and newspapers?”

  17. CrustyB
    May 29th, 2016 @ 9:56 am

    The Human Toilet Bowl says…

  18. Quartermaster
    May 29th, 2016 @ 10:22 am

    Leftardism is a result of people never growing up. So, yes, it is immaturity manifest.

  19. Quartermaster
    May 29th, 2016 @ 10:24 am

    There’s a lot to be said in favor of being an ordinary nobody.

  20. marcus tullius cicero
    May 29th, 2016 @ 12:20 pm

    …’sex object’…HaHaHa…another delusional half human, half dog!

  21. Fail Burton
    May 29th, 2016 @ 1:04 pm

    Are you sure it’s not “Mr. Andrew Yes Dear?”

  22. DeadMessenger
    May 29th, 2016 @ 1:34 pm

    What Professor MacKinnon did not foresee, however, was that the Soviet empire was on the verge of its final collapse into the “ash heap of history.”

    If “Professor” MacKinnon deserved to be called “professor”, she would’ve seen this coming. If not at that moment, then soon.

  23. DeadMessenger
    May 29th, 2016 @ 1:57 pm

    Because “[f]eminist ideology is mostly rationalized self-pity”, they are simply just somewhat less violent versions of Elliot Rodger. They condemn him, as he is worthy of condemnation, without ever seeing the pot/kettle relationship.

    The problem with feminists, of course, being the same problem with other radical groups, and that is, a complete inability to mind their own damn business. To remove the log from their own eye before worrying about the splinter in someone else’s.

    It’s similar to all the African people who beg the West to stop pouring money into their countries, which ends up being used solely for self-enrichment by their totalitarian leaders. These people beg: “Please stop “helping” us, your “help” is not really help at all” but nobody listens, because nobody really cares.

    It’s 100% about control over the lives of others, and it’s sickening. (But not unexpected, given Biblical prophecy.)

  24. DeadMessenger
    May 29th, 2016 @ 2:00 pm

    “It’s my turn” is never a good reason to elect someone to any office, let alone President.

  25. DeadMessenger
    May 29th, 2016 @ 2:05 pm

    My favorite villa in Tuscany was booked for the weekend, so
    I had to vacation in a Motel 8 in Florida City instead.

  26. DeadMessenger
    May 29th, 2016 @ 2:07 pm

    And their objectifying stares while they pretend not to notice me.

  27. Joe Joe
    May 29th, 2016 @ 2:23 pm

    To be fair, it’s pretty traumatic for a 12-year-old girl to be faced with a masturbating adult male heading her way. This IS what the current bathroom fight is all about: preventing this kind of thing from happening in a place that has been traditionally safe for girls.

    Now, should Valenti hate all men for the perverts she encountered on the subway? Clearly not. Nor should she hate all men because she couldn’t attract the boy she liked in high school. As you have stated, we’ve all been there–well, most of us. And most of us grow out of it.

    But, I can understand how seeing pervs all around you as a little girl could warp your view. I would never raise a kid in New York or any other large city. That was what the suburbs were for. Of course, with Obama’s new HUD requirements, suburban safety will also end. Every Section 8 apartment building adds more risk. Here again: creating danger where there was none. It seems to be a pattern with Obama, whether it’s bathrooms or neighborhoods.

  28. Beat Man
    May 29th, 2016 @ 2:30 pm

    Jessica Valenti is married to a man Andrew Golis. how is he tolerating her constant man hating articles on the guardian? does he even read her articles?
    is he not giving her the attention a wife would need from her husband? or is he emasculated?

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    May 29th, 2016 @ 2:35 pm

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  30. Daniel Freeman
    May 29th, 2016 @ 3:11 pm

    Let’s not ignore the elephant in the living room here, which is that despite having this incident seared in her memory, she couldn’t be bothered to tell us the race of the offender. And that specific type of exhibitionism — masturbating in front of young girls — is racially stereotyped as a black thing.

    Fact: if the public dick fondler had been white, she would’ve made a point of mentioning it. As with our news reports, her silence is deafening.

    The funny thing about Obama’s Section 8 poverty spore dispersal is that the one single effect it absolutely guarantees is to force more whites to actually interact with non-whites in person, instead of watching actors reciting lines written by Jews.

    I look forward to the result. The SJWs shouldn’t.

  31. Phil_McG
    May 29th, 2016 @ 3:13 pm

    “Sex Object” is the most disturbingly misleading title since “The Naked Lunch”

  32. Andy
    May 29th, 2016 @ 3:14 pm

    She looks more like a transvestite with every passing hour.

  33. Steve Skubinna
    May 29th, 2016 @ 3:15 pm

    Well, having succeeding in fewer than fifty years what they could not do in the century following the Civil War, the Dems are now attempting to export the dysfunctional culture of poverty, ignorance, and violence they made of the urban black community.

    Obama believes everyone benefits when you spread the wealth around. Obviously there’s more than wealth to spread.

  34. Steve Skubinna
    May 29th, 2016 @ 3:16 pm

    Dunno about that. I have seen some scarily attractive TVs in Thailand and the Philippines.

    I mean, final scene of Ace Ventura scary, where everybody is spitting..

  35. Guest
    May 29th, 2016 @ 3:17 pm

    Did Jessica Valenti get a nose job? Because it doesn’t look that big. Or is that picture just an angle that hides it?

  36. Steve Skubinna
    May 29th, 2016 @ 3:17 pm

    Lookit me lookit me lookit MEMEMEME!!!!!

    MOM! He’s not looking at meeeeee!

  37. Daniel Freeman
    May 29th, 2016 @ 3:17 pm

    This occasion calls for a re-link to Fred Reed’s evergreen essay Gelding, By Lily (a.k.a. Sex Roles).

  38. Steve Skubinna
    May 29th, 2016 @ 3:18 pm

    Even less is “It’s my turn, plus I have a vagina!”

  39. Daniel Freeman
    May 29th, 2016 @ 3:21 pm

    Just this morning, I was pondering how feminist harping about oppression oft seems naught more than sex obsession with plausible deniability. She might as well have titled it “Please Want Me.”

  40. Durasim
    May 29th, 2016 @ 3:21 pm

    Strangely enough, Jessica Valenti previously admitted that she somewhat regrets no longer receiving catcalls now that she’s older.

    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/20/catcall-culture-feminism-jessica-valenti

  41. Fail Burton
    May 29th, 2016 @ 3:40 pm

    She was a bitter old woman when she was 14.

  42. Daniel Freeman
    May 29th, 2016 @ 3:57 pm

    Say, Stacy, have you seen WeSearchr yet? It’s a way to crowdsource journalistic research by basically putting out an info bounty that others can increase.

    (h/t EveryJoe via Vox Day)

  43. Joe Joe
    May 29th, 2016 @ 5:00 pm
  44. Joe Joe
    May 29th, 2016 @ 5:13 pm
  45. Dana
    May 29th, 2016 @ 5:28 pm

    Our esteemed host wrote:

    Beauty pageants “epitomize the roles we are all forced to play as women,” the feminist protesters declared in 1968, proclaiming that “women in our society [are] forced daily to compete for male approval, enslaved by ludicrous ‘beauty’ standards we ourselves are conditioned to take seriously.”

    Harrison Ford had a line from the chick-flick Six Days, Seven Nights in which he told Anne Heche, playing the role of a magazine editor from a fictionalized women’s magazine that the only thing women had to do to attract men was to show up.

    If all women gave up high heels, men wouldn’t all turn homosexual. It became common for women to shave their legs somewhere around the turn of the twentieth century; did the human race die out before that?

    “Beauty standards” have moved from ‘Reubenesque’ to slender to athletic, from women should always wear dresses to women usually wear pants, from meek and mild to kick-ass, and men are always still interested.

    The great American philosopher, Sam Kinison explained the situation very explicitly, noting that men have just two choices: we can either love women, or suck a big dick. And that’s why Harrison Ford was right: all that women have to do is be there, and we’ll be interested. The people who foist ridiculous beauty standards on women are other women.

  46. Finrod Felagund
    May 29th, 2016 @ 5:32 pm

    The people who foist ridiculous beauty standards on women are other women.

    Or gay men.

  47. Dana
    May 29th, 2016 @ 5:33 pm

    Even the title, My Life as a Sex Object, is a subtle way of telling the women who’d love to be sex objects every once in a while that Mrs Golis is better looking than they are.

  48. Joe Joe
    May 29th, 2016 @ 5:45 pm

    Mostly gay men.

  49. Joe Joe
    May 29th, 2016 @ 5:46 pm

    Bingo.

  50. mole
    May 29th, 2016 @ 6:12 pm

    Id just finished reading this over at the gruinaid.

    1: Jessica doesnt give numbers.
    2: Jessica is noticeably vague on descriptions, were they hobos, mentally ill, well dressed businessmen?
    3: Jessica seems to have missed the people who protected her, and enabled her to be protected by looking the other way (the ticket clerk) were both men.
    4: She reports trying only once to solicit help when she “squeaked” at a stranger…once.
    5: At no time did she apparently report the abuse to anyone who could realistically help.

    In short shes described herself as the perfect passive victim.

    being a lady of a certain age she was also riding the trains when the guardian Angels group was in its heyday, or was she miraculously always alone?

    In short other men HATE the pervs who do this to our sisters, mothers and wives and a large part of the “patriarchy” Jessica hates is devoted to trying to keep these people from having the opportunity to strike, by doing things like segregated bathrooms and so on.
    My copper mates favorite cases are when they have collared a schoolgirl flasher or similar, when these are reported quickly (thanks mobile phones) the coppers will be there ASAP.
    In one of his cases the bloke flashing was an already convicted pedo who had traveled 1000km up the coast to indulge in his passtime, every copper loves catching someone like that. (especially him, with one pretty about-to-enter-high-school daughter)