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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

On ‘Feminist Men’ and Unicorns

Posted on | September 28, 2014 | 40 Comments

Chelsea Bock (@ChelseaCristene) is a young feminist writer and community college English instructor who came to my attention because of a blog post she wrote about E.J. Levy, but that’s another story for another day, or maybe later today. Anyway, curiosity led me to check Bock’s Twitter feed, where she was RT’ing stuff from the Good Men Project and #HeForShe and Autostraddle (!), and I was like, “Oh, I know this type. Trying to save males from their own sexism.”

In essence: You guys don’t know how to be men. Let me tell you how.

Sweetheart, you’re a unicorn hunter.

You’re chasing something that your theory tells you must exist somewhere — the Feminist Man — even though every previous claim to have found one turned out to be like the Piltdown Hoax. Bill Clinton was supposed to be the Feminist Man; it turned out his commitment to equality could be summarized in two words: “Blow me.” More recently, the unicorn hunters claimed that Professor Hugo Schwyzer was the Feminist Man, until it was revealed that he was in fact a dangerous psychotic with a habit of banging his community college students. Perhaps you see the pattern here.

If you’re a womanizing sociopathic narcissist on the hunt for some easy action, being a Feminist Man is definitely your gig.

One gets the idea, generally, that these unicorn hunters are perfectionists doomed forever to be disappointed with actual men, none of whom is ever going to fit the unrealistic requirements of being the Feminist Man. Do they want Ashley Wilkes or do they want Rhett Butler? Or is the problem that the Rhett Butler types are rare and usually not interested in the type of woman who says she wants a Feminist Man? When you get to the bottom line, really, you recognize that this is a personal problem for a certain group of disgruntled women, and not a problem that easily lends itself to one of those personal-to-political issue platforms.

Adulthood involves accepting that the world is what it is, and not wishing you could live in an imagined utopia. Make a choice: Do you want to grow up, or do you want to be a ToysRUs kid?

It seems that Chelsea Bock doesn’t like making choices. It’s possible to read between the lines of her writing and social media output. Did I mention that she RT’d an Autostraddle article? Yes, but what I didn’t say was that the article was about Bisexuality Awareness Week. And the subhead on her article about E.J. Levy? “There is no right or wrong way to be queer.” Also there’s this on her blog, Gender on the Rocks:

I do speak from a different point of view because I believe that we are all innately bisexual — just by varying degrees. And after this, I will definitely be writing more on queer theory in the future.

So you can be excused for thinking that maybe — just maybe — Chelsea is keeping her options open. Or maybe that she doesn’t have any really exciting options on her personal horizon. (We can imagine her Craigslist ad: Female, 26, seeks human of any gender willing to make exclusive romantic commitment to someone who is profoundly ambivalent about her erotic preferences.)

Sometimes if you can’t choose between men and women, what you’re really choosing is . . . cats. Lots of cats.

Feminists are not at war with men. They’re at war with human nature. Their demand for “gender equality” is like Hitler’s demand for the Sudetenland, where a compromise — “Peace for our time!” — is merely an invitation to further aggression. If there is such a thing as a Feminist Man, he probably looks a lot like Neville Chamberlain.

 




 

Category: Feminism, Sex Trouble

The American Spectator Folds Like A Cheap Tent, And Other Signs Of The End Times

Posted on | September 27, 2014 | 20 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


One of the more disagreeable things I saw on Facebook this week (and, having a number of acquaintances who report crap from ThinkProgress and similar founts of stupidity, that’s saying something) was this post by Ken White at Popehat pointing out that the American Spectator had surrendered, horse and foot, to the Dread Pro Se Litigant And Alleged Pedophile Brett Kimberlin. My reaction, like Ken’s, boiled down to “WTF? You had the balls to play gadfly against the Clinton Administration, but caved to a petty jerk like this?” Well, that’s one less stream of alerts and fundraising e-mails to clutter my in-box. Semi-related: editors at Wikipedia are trying to flush The Federalist down the memory hole on account of their butthurt over Sean Davis’ exposure of their hero Neil DeGrasse Tyson as this decade’s Dan Rather.


On Wednesday, Army Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno announced that a division headquarters would be heading for Iraq to coordinate the efforts of the advisors, intel weenies, increased Embassy security forces and other ground troops sent to assist in the fight against the Islamic State. I could have sworn we were told there would be no boots on the ground. In related news, the family of the first female fighter pilot in the UAE disowned her Thursday after she took part in air strikes against IS forces in Syria. Oh, and that Khorasan group Obama was bragging about bombing earlier in the week? Didn’t actually exist. On the ground, Syrian Kurds in Kobane want weapons, not “humanitarian aid.”


Here at home, former Congressman Jim Traficant died of injuries from a tractor accident. You can tell he was a conservative Democrat by the kind of obituaries he’s getting from the Drive-By Media. In riot-torn Ferguson, the Justice Department has ordered police to take off bracelets indicating support for accused fellow officer Darren Wilson. The NYT is visibly hoping third-party candidates derail the GOP’s drive to retake the Senate this fall. In the recent outbreak of workplace violence in Oklahoma, it seems the suspect was canned for arguing in favor of stoning women, and that he was connected to both terrorist imam Anwar al-Awlaki and the Boston bomber’s mosque. But rest easy, there’s no connection to Islam here, right?


Speaking of boots on the ground, T.R. Fehrenbach’s This Kind of War‘s Kindle edition is on sale for $1.99. The early chapters dealing with America’s rapid demobilization after World War 2 and unreadiness for the Korean War seem especially pertinent these days, as Fate seems intent on dragging President Obama and the rest of us back to Iraq, kicking and screaming.


Category: American Spectator, Books, Iraq, Military, Syria, The Kimberlin Files, Turkey

FMJRA 2.0: Fire Escape

Posted on | September 27, 2014 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Essential Feminist Quotes: ‘Rapists Serve All Men by Enforcing Male Supremacy’

FMJRA 2.0: Midnight Rider

Thoughts on Ideology

The Vichy GOP Thinks Tea Parties Should Just Shut Up & Fall In Line, Or Something

Rule 5 Sunday: Levitation

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.22.14

Another Community Organizer? We Need That Like Additional Cranial Ventilation

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.23.14

Dilbert Panel Or U.S. Foreign Policy Summary? You Make The Call

The Incoherence of Liberal Feminism

Brooks Threatens Gore’s Grip On “The Dumbest Thing I’ve Ever Read”

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.24.14

Historian Erupts: ‘I Will Not Be Lectured to by a Public School Girl Like You!’

Now That Is A Subtle Lie

Arrest in Hannah Graham Case

Special Request

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.25.14

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.26.14

MUSLIM CONVERT BEHEADS WOMAN IN OKLAHOMA TERROR ATROCITY

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (18)
  2. Regular Right Guy (8)

Honorable mention: A View from the Beach, which had four valid links and one to last Friday’s books & Qwerkywriter post.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


Category: FMJRA Award

MUSLIM CONVERT BEHEADS WOMAN IN OKLAHOMA TERROR ATROCITY

Posted on | September 26, 2014 | 179 Comments

The Islamic jihad in America continues:

MOORE, Okla. – Officials with the Moore Police Department say the FBI is now involved in the investigation related to a brutal attack of workers at a food distribution plant.
Sgt. Jeremy Lewis says the alleged suspect, 30-year-old Alton Nolen had just been fired when he drove to the front of the business, hit a vehicle and walked inside.
He walked into the front office area where he met 54-year-old Colleen Hufford and began attacking her with a knife. . . .
Lewis confirms that Hufford was stabbed several times and that Nolen “severed her head.”
At that point, Lewis claims Nolen met 43-year-old Traci Johnson and began attacking her with the same knife.
Officials say at that point, Mark Vaughan, an Oklahoma County reserve deputy and a former CEO of the business, shot him as he was actively stabbing Johnson. . . .
The FBI is now looking into Nolen’s background after his former co-workers said he tried to convert them to Islam after recently converting himself.
Lewis says the FBI is working in conjunction with the Moore Police Department, especially when it comes to the religious aspect of the case.
At this time, it is not known if the suspect’s beliefs played a role in the attack.

You think so, maybe? Donald Douglas has more at American Power.

 

Category: Crime, Islam, Media Bias, Terrorism

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.26.14

Posted on | September 26, 2014 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Attorney General Holder Resigning

Still in contempt of Congress

California AG Kamala Harris: No thanks
Deval Patrick: no interest in AG gig
Ron Paul: An enemy of liberty resigns


Poll: British Public Behind Strikes On ISIS
Parliament expected to vote in favor of joining anti-ISIS coalition



Rockstar: Narendra Modi On Track To Sell Out Madison Square Garden
September 28 visit to New York a high point of the Indian PM’s trip



POLITICS
Democrats Raising Big Bucks While Whining About GOP Spending

Harry Reid: suffering from Koch addiction

Liberal outside groups outspending conservatives


NRA Outgunned? Gun Grabbers Spend Millions On Background Check Measure


Detroit Mayor & City Council Retake Control

Educrats And Union Officials Join Attack On Foley’s Education Plan

Congress Releases War Funds To Fight Ebola

San Fran, LA DAs Threaten Ridesharing Companies With Injunctions



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Brent Headed For Weekly Decline On Ample Supplies: WTI $92.54, Brent $97.01
A Year Later, Most Mega IPOs Are Mega Laggards
Dollar Stands Tall, Asian Shares End On Low Note
NASDAQ 100 Sinks Most Since April As Apple Leads Tech Selloff
US Bank Fined $9 Million, Must Return $48 Million To Customers
Jobless Claims Rise To 293K
Apple Grapples With Gaffes After iPhone 6 Launch
Intel To Invest $1.5 Billion In Two Chinese Chipmakers
Facebook Rival Ello Gets The Timing Right
DirecTV Shareholders Overwhelmingly Approve AT&T Takeover
New Angry Birds Transformers Has Robots, Lasers, And Falling Pigs!



SPORTS
Giants Clinch Playoff Berth, Then Hold On To Edge Padres 9-8

Hunter Pence gets sprayed with bubbly in the clubhouse

Backing into the playoffs with a little help from the Reds

Pirates Tighten NL Central Race With 10-1 Scalping Of Braves

Royals Magic Number Is One After 6-3 Win Over White Sox


More Casualties For Injury-Riddled Redskins After 45-14 Loss To Giants

Derek Jeter Delivers Walkoff Magic In Final At-Bat In Yankee Stadium

NBA Player Charged With Domestic Assault

Fish Top Phillies 6-4

Tigers Beat Twins 4-2, Stay 2 Up In AL Central

Nats Split Doubleheader With Mets



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Rachel McAdams Closes In On “True Detective” Female Lead Role

Sources say HBO offered her the part…

…but actress and network staying mum

Jason Aldean Engaged To Former Mistress Brittany Kerr

Nina Dobrev Heading To “The Originals”


Fox Adding Anna Paquin Back To “X-Men: Days Of Future Past”

Lindsay Lohan Has Audience In Stitches For London Stage Debut…Pity It Wasn’t In The Script

“The Situation” Ordered To Stay Sober By Judge

First Listen: Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross’ “Gone Girl” Soundtrack



FOREIGNERS
Japan Inflation Slows In August
Iraqi Leader Says Jihadis Planning Transit Attacks
Nobody’s Seen Kim Jong Un For Three Weeks
US Considering Meeting Iran “Close To Halfway” In Nuke Talks
Shells Fall In Turkey As ISIS Advances On Syrian Border Town
Syrian Refugees Saved By Cruise Liner Debark In Cyprus
More Than 3000 Europeans Have Joined ISIS
Ukraine Pushes For NATO Membership As Gas Talks Commence
Fresh Fears Of Aggression In Latvia As Kremlin Warns About Russian Minorities
Anger As Indonesia Ends Local Elections
India, China Resolve Two-Week Border Standoff



BLOGS & STUFF
Michelle Malkin: “A” Is For Agitation – What’s Really Going On In Jefferson County Schools
Twitchy: “The Stupid, IT BURNS” – Lena Dunham Whines That GOP Senate Will Affect Your Sex Life
American Thinker: Eric Holder Out, Special Prosecutor To Follow?
Conservatives4Palin: Governor Palin’s Press Conference In Joplin
Don Surber: Democrat Blames Victim For Rape
Jammie Wearing Fools: Corrupt Holder Jumps Off Sinking Obama Ship
Joe For America: Gun Grabbers Moms Demand Action Love Nazis
JustOneMinute: Pumping Iron
Protein Wisdom: Un-Islamic Non-State ISIS Not As Frightening As Global Cooling Warming Climate Change Disruption
Shot In The Dark: One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other
STUMP: Who Was Dr. Death Really Targeting With Death At Age 75 Goal?
The Gateway Pundit: Liberia’s Largest Newspaper Accuses US Of Manufacturing Ebola Virus
The Jawa Report: Anjem Choudhary Arrested In UK Terror Sweep
The Lonely Conservative: WebMD Was Paid $13.9 Million To Promote Obamacare
This Ain’t Hell: IS Not Impressed By Airstrikes
Weasel Zippers: Al Sharpton Says He’s Helping Pick The Next Attorney General
Megan McArdle: What’s Worse Than a Subprime Auto Loan?


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Category: Live at Five

Special Request

Posted on | September 25, 2014 | 24 Comments

Readers are familiar with the Brett Kimberlin situation. I have said little about the case since announcing our victory over the notorious bomber in the Maryland case Kimberlin v. Walker, et al.

John Hoge and Aaron Walker have continued updating on proceedings in the federal suit, Kimberlin v. National Bloggers Club, et al.

What I’d like to ask is that readers consider making a special donation — $10, $25, whatever — to BomberSuesBloggers.com.

We have in mind a project, which would involve travel expenses, the details of which I am not at liberty to discuss publicly, for reasons that should be obvious. But if the folks who have previously been so generous in their support would be so kind as to kick in a few more dollars, that might help speed us on our way, so to speak.

BomberSuesBloggers.com

 

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Arrest in Hannah Graham Case

Posted on | September 25, 2014 | 42 Comments

 

The disappearance of University of Virginia sophomore Hannah Graham has not been solved — she has not been found and it is not known whether she is dead or alive — but a suspect in her Sept. 13 disappearance, who fled to Texas, is now in police custody:

The man suspected of kidnapping a University of Virginia student reported missing on Sept. 13 was taken into police custody Wednesday night.
Jesse Matthew was arrested in Galveston, Texas, Wednesday on charges of abducting 18-year-old Hannah Graham, NBC Washington reports.
Police obtained a felony arrest warrant for Matthew, a 32-year-old patient technician at the University of Virginia, earlier this week.
Officials believe Matthew was the last person seen with the teen before she vanished. Graham went to dinner with friends the night of Sept. 12 before attending two parties held at off-campus student housing units.
She left the second party alone, and surveillance videos appear to show her walking with Matthew, his arm wrapped her waist, walking at Charlottesville’s downtown mall at around 1 a.m. Sept. 13.
Police say Matthew bought Graham alcohol at a restaurant and they left the establishment together.
Graham has not been seen since.

There are many troubling aspects to this story, and things that don’t seem to make sense. These “parties held at off-campus student housing units” — was alcohol served at these parties? Was Hannah Graham drunk when she “left the second party alone” after midnight? Do police in Charlottesville plan to prosecute those who illegally provide alcohol to 18-year-olds? Because it seems to me that there is a rather lackadaisical attitude toward the enforcement of laws against underage drinking in Charlottesville, and that this may have been a contributing factor in Hannah Graham’s disappearance.

You see this scenario all the time in “date rape” cases on college campuses: Teenage girl and teenage boy get drunk; sex happens; girl subsequently says the sex wasn’t consensual; feminists then begin shouting about the heteronormative patriarchy. Yet common sense suggests the obvious question, how are these teenagers getting drunk at college, if the legal drinking age is 21?

My supposition is that underage drinking is so common for college kids that school officials and police in college towns take it for granted, so girls keep getting raped and feminists keep shouting about patriarchy, when booze is really the basic problem.

Hannah’s parents, John and Sue Graham, moved from England to Washington, D.C., when Hannah was 5. At a press conference earlier this week in Charlottesville, Hannah’s father said:

“As this nightmare for Hannah, for us, for Hannah’s big brother James, her grandparents and extended family continues we would like to make this statement.
“Hannah is our little girl, our only daughter, James’s little sister. She is also the oldest granddaughter of her grandparents. She is enormously precious to us.
“Now somebody knows what happened to Hannah. We don’t know who that is. Others who may be watching, they may know something about what happened to Hannah.
“Did anybody see Hannah? Did you see Hannah? Who saw Hannah? Somebody did. Please if you have anything no matter how insignificant you think it may be please call the tip line.
“Anything that just might help us to bring Hannah home.”

Every parent’s worst nightmare, and I’ve got the feeling that feminists shouting about patriarchy won’t solve the problem.

 

Category: Crime

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.25.14

Posted on | September 25, 2014 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
US, Coalition Forces Hit Syrian Oil Refineries

French military video shows results of an airstrike on an Islamic State fuel & supply depot

Strategic warfare strikes against ISIS
F-22 fighter makes combat debut over Syria
Obama urges unity against ISIS network of death
Holder hints at US troops going into Syria




Will Modi’s Visit Boost US-India Ties?
Prime Minister Modi Calls Mars Mission Success “Historic”

Nigerian Military Claims Scalp Of Boko Haram Leader
Secret police had claimed Shekau was dead earlier; man killed in Konduga was leader’s body double



POLITICS
GOP Heavyweights Flock To Kansas In Support Of Pat Roberts

Crazy Cousin John, Jeb Bush among party stalwarts rushing to shore up Roberts

Race tightens drastically after Democrat’s withdrawal


Jim Webb In 2016?


Federal Appeals Court Allows Controversial Walker Probe To Resume

US To Pay Navajo Nation $554 Million To End Royalties Suit

Former Ohio Rep James Traficant Injured In Farm Accident

Price Tag For Fighting California Wildfires Tops $53 Million



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Up On US Stockpile Drop, Supply Glut Weighs On Market: WTI $92.65, Brent $96.76
Modi Asks Soda Makers To Blend In Juice To Help Farmers
Chicoms Set To Replace Central Bank Chief?
New Home Sales Surge To Six-Year High
Dollar Jumps In Asia On Upbeat Housing Data
Wall Street Advances As Consumer Companies Rally
Apple Apologizes For iOS 8 Update Bug
BlackBerry CEO Takes Jab At Apple: Try Bending Our Phone
Bash Bug Could Leave IT Systems Shellshocked
GoogleX To Circle The Earth With Internet-Linked Balloons
Forza Horizon 2: Massive Multiplayer Online, Massive Fun



SPORTS
Kershaw Leads Dodgers To NL West Title, Crushes Giants 9-1

Adrian Gonzalez and Juan Uribe celebrate after the Dodgers’ victory

Kershaw notches 21st victory; aiming to lead NL in ERA for fourth consecutive season


No Criminal Charges For Tony Stewart

Rangers Beat Astros 5-1 For Sweep


Phillies Edge Fish 2-1

ESPN Suspends Bill Simmons After He Rips Goodell

Braves Show Life, Top Pirates 6-2

Hughes Pitches Twins Past Snakes, 2-1

Brewers Stave Off Elimination With A Little Help From The Dodgers

Tribe Stays Alive With 6-4 Win Over Royals

Yankees Hit Three Homers, Still Lose 9-5 To O’s

Mets-Nationals Rained Out; Doubleheaders Today And Tomorrow



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
“It Helps With The Perception That I’m Just A Psycho”

Not a flake any more?

The TimeOut interview

More Rappers Divorcing Each Other

Jeremy Renner Admits He Secretly Married Baby Mama


Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino Indicted For Tax Fraud

Gwyneth Paltrow Still Running Chris Martin’s Life

College Football Dominates Saturday Night Cable Ratings

Britney Spears Is Sending Kate Middleton Her Entire New Lingerie Collection

Keanu Reeves’ Second Home Intruder In Two Days Showers & Skinny-Dips In Pool



FOREIGNERS
Algerian Jihadis Behead Kidnapped French Tourist
Ukraine Prepares To Close Border With Russia
American Begins Six Years Of Farm Work, Isolation In Nork Prison
Activists Making Plans For Hong Kong Democracy Sit-in
PM Cameron To Apologize To Her Majesty Over “Purring” Comment
Australian Government To Reintroduce Temporary Protection Visas
Nine Arrested In London As Part Of Investigation Into Islamic Terrorism

BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: PA Attorney General Kathleen Kane – Blaming The Rape Victim
Michelle Malkin: Hicken-Weasel – Why Colorado’s Gutless Guv Is In Trouble
Twitchy: Was This Vox’s Worst Screwup Yet?
American Power: AmSpec Caves To Vexatious Litigant Brett Kimberlin
American Thinker: Twenty Years Ago, Americans Learned How To Win
BLACKFIVE: World Report – Obama Starts His Own War
Conservatives4Palin: Senator Pat Roberts And Picking Our Battles Wisely
Don Surber: Charleston Gazette – Free Speech For Me, Not Thee
Jammie Wearing Fools: Australian Police Gun Down Jihadi, Lefties React Predictably
Joe For America: Colorado Students March Out To Protest Patriotism
JustOneMinute: This Is A College Campus, Not A Place For Common Sense!
Protein Wisdom: The Poor – Jonathan Swift Engaged In Satire, Ruth Ginsburg Not So Much
Shot In The Dark: Minneapolis’ Real Scandal
STUMP: The Seven Deadly Sins Of NJ Pensions Are Really Only One Sin
The Gateway Pundit: More Lies From Susan Rice
The Jawa Report: Moderate Arab Muslims Help ISIS Recapture Yazidi Slaves
The Lonely Conservative: NY Democrat Used Taxpayer Subsidies While Delinquent On His Own Taxes
This Ain’t Hell: Army Division HQ Deploying To Iraq
Weasel Zippers: FLOTUS Bashes US During UN Event
Megan McArdle: Now Your Kitchen Can Match The Food You Burned


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