SlutWalk: Feminism as Gynocracy, and Why Andrew J. Patrick Is in Trouble

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Andrew J. Patrick is blaming me for his being harassed by a notorious left-wing troll blogger, after Andrew quoted me:

What people used to mean by the word “rape” has been revised in recent decades because of college women complaining about date rape. . . .
Date rape is an apparently common campus crime that usually involves two drunk young people, one of whom has an erect penis, and the other of whom is unable to avert what the erect penis typically does.

That quote from my Aug. 12 American Spectator column “SlutWalk Insanity,” expresses facts and common sense, not ideology.

Feminism is an ideology advanced by a political movement and is totalitarian in both its purposes and methods. It is distaff Marxism, substituting “women” for the “proletariat” — and the “patriarchy” for “capitalism” — in the ancient Marxian rhetoric. The goal of feminism is not equality, but female supremacy: Gynocracy.

Advancing this totalitarian cause requires feminists to exacerbate hostility between men and women, by accusing men (collectively) of wrongfully oppressing women (collectively), so that all women are inspired to a sense of shared grievance against men.

Once you understand feminism as an ideology, you are no longer an intellectual hostage to the categorical syntax of their progaganda, in which skepticism toward their rhetoric is automatically denounced as thoughtcrime, where dissent is “hate” and we can only talk about women in ways approved by feminists. After decades of militant activism, people now unconsciously monitor their words lest they give offense to the feminist sensibility, so that arguments which directly contradict feminist ideology have the power of shocking outrage:

We had turned the corner at U Street and were marching up 14th Street when the woman with the megaphone leading SlutWalk DC started a new chant: “We love consensual sex! We love consensual sex!” Well, OK, but who doesn’t? Is there any actual opposition to this agenda? Is there an Anti-Consensual Sex Movement that someone forgot to tell us about? Oblivious to the absurdity, about 400 women joined in shouting this slogan, which was at least better than their previous chants: “Blame the system, not the victim!” and “One! Two! Three! Four! We won’t take it anymore! Five! Six! Seven! Eight! Stop the violence! Stop the hate!” The “violence” to which that chant referred is rape, and “hate” is any discussion of rape (or any other subject) that doesn’t conform to feminist ideology. To distill their rhetoric to its totalitarian essence: “Shut up, because rape.”
The SlutWalk movement is about rape in pretty much the same sense Nazism was about the Versailles Treaty — it’s the legitimate grievance that empowers a movement of irrational hatred. We may laugh at the carnival sideshow aspect of women stripping down to their underwear to march down the street in broad daylight, carrying deliberately provocative posters and shouting nonsensical slogans. But the leaders of the movement have a radical ideology they take very seriously, and that ideology is sufficiently influential that anyone who criticizes it risks condemnation as being anti-woman, or even pro-rape. . . .

That was the lead of my SlutWalk column and the reader perceives that, if feminists were offended, it was because they hate the truth.

Andrew J. Patrick finds himself harassed by a notorious troll blogger who is not a woman and has never been raped. This left-wing troll blogger instead positions himself as a male “ally” of feminism, draping himself in the borrowed mantle of indignant victimhood so that he may point the finger of blame. Like Hugo Schwyzer, in other words, the male feminist exploits women’s grievances to empower himself.

Sic semper hoc — Marxism was always a matter of intellectuals empowering themselves by exploiting the grievances of the “proletariat.” And in those nations where Marxist-Leninist regimes gained power, the result of the “dictatorship of the proletariat” was generally a dreadful slaughter whose victims included not only many workers who had somehow failed to conform to the revolutionary agenda, but even revolutionary leaders themselves whose only “crime” was to pose a threat to the paranoid monsters in charge of the regime.

Trotsky was ultimately killed by the revolution he helped make.

See those protest signs from the 2012 L.A. “War on Women” march? “VotePSL.org” is the Party of Socialism and Liberation, a Marxist radical group, and this is the context that is often overlooked by those who speak of a “moderate” feminism or “mainstream” feminism. From its beginnings in the 1960s, modern feminism has always been led and controlled by leftist radicals who see their movement as part of a wider revolutionary struggle against bourgeois capitalism. The problem is that people are not taking feminist rhetoric seriously:

[University of California-Santa Cruz Women’s Studies] Professor Bettina Aptheker is the daughter of a famous American Communist, the late Herbert Aptheker . . .
Professor Bettina Aptheker is by her own proud admission both a Communist and a self-described “lesbian activist.” . . . Aptheker’s course syllabus describes lesbianism as the “highest state of feminism” . . . In other words, change in sexual orientation is an inevitable final stage in the development of the socially conscious individual.

Allison Jaggar is professor of philosophy and a former chair of the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder . . . Integrating Marxism and feminist theory, Jaggar describes herself as a “socialist feminist” and “activist,” who seeks to combat “the male-dominant structure of everyday life.” . . .
“The political economy of socialist feminism,” writes Jaggar, “establishes that, in contemporary society, women suffer a special form of exploitation and oppression. . . . The distinctive social experience of women generates insights that are incompatible with men’s interpretations of reality . . . The validity of these insights . . . must be tested in political struggle . . .”

If you are not a socialist lesbian, you’re not actually a feminist at all, and people who think they can tame such radicalism — to co-opt this revolutionary movement in the oxymoronic name of “moderate feminism” — are blinded by their own naive delusions.

Either the radical feminists must triumph and “the male-dominant structure” must be destroyed by “political struggle” or . . . not.

There is only one question here: Whose side are you on?

 

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  3. The problem is simple: today’s feminists say they want consent to be only when fully sober, yet they go out and consume alcohol with men they know wish to copulate. They say that they have the right to do anything that men can do — including getting stinking drunk — but then claim that what so many of them have been doing is detrimental to their right to consent or not consent to sex. They say that their consent must be sober and informed, yet partake in the most common aphrodisiac in our society which inhibits their sobriety.

    Let’s get very real here: sexual consent, for the feminists, is not something given simply before and during sex, but also after sex, and such consent must be obtained at all three of those times. A woman apparently has the right to withdraw her consent after the fact, if she feels guilty, or if the man didn’t do a good enough job.

    Would I be wrong in guessing that lesbians cannot rape women?

  4. Our esteemed host quoted himself:

    In other words, change in sexual orientation is an inevitable final stage in the development of the socially conscious individual.

    But, but, but sexual orientation is the way you are born, damn it, and can’t be changed!

  7. I think that lady ate all the sammiches. Ate them all up!

    Visited the link. Troll referred to you as RS McRape. I apparently haven’t infuriated enough of the right people to have my name handled in that way.

    I ought to see to that.

  10. Somehow, I always thought that Wonder Woman, in her secret identity as Diana Prince, would have work prettier underwear. That one truly looks like what one rather well-endowed girlfriend referred to as her over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder.

  15. The truly sad thing is, these people are fighting against a reality they themselves created, the moment they decided they’re entire being was wrapped up in their genitalia, and the consequence-free pursuit of sexual gratification. The problems which they identify didn’t exist 70 year ago, because the social order protected women from exploitation by cads. They destroyed that social order with the misbegotten desire to be “equal,” and now they are reaping what they sowed. What’s funny is that we now see diatribes published criticizing those women who opt out of this brave new world for more traditional roles, having discovered that the allure of being “just like the men” is not what it’s cracked up to be. After all, the greatest vitriol is not directed toward pagans, but heretics.

  18. “Andrew J. Patrick is blaming me for his being harassed by a notorious left-wing troll blogger, after Andrew quoted me:”

    Well, you put it that way, and it just sounds stupid…

  26. Most feminists hate men because men don’t find them attractive, which is why most of these broads had to wax their lip before going to the “War on Women” march. They’re either too ugly or past their fertility to ever have to worry about an unwanted pregnancy. As for the sow in the picture, she looks like she’s had enough sammiches to last her for the next 10 years.

    Feminism is a form of self-hatred for women that hate themselves already. Feminism provides them with a crutch, and when men don’t find them attractive, they transfer that hatred onto them, too. It’s just another evil form of groupthink.

    “War on Women” needs to be replaced with “War BY Women”, and conservative women need to control the narrative.

  30. I’m not carving up a whole manatee just for one sammich. Never mind five acres of wheat. And don’t get me started on the condiments.

  31. Rush Limbaugh’s undeniable truth of life #24: “Feminism was established so as to permit unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.”

  36. To the tub of goo with the sign: I’m sorry Ms. Thing, but we run a socially responsible kitchen here. You’ve had too much already.

  37. If her hair were shorter she would fit right in with all the obese butch tatted lesbians I’ve been seeing lately

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