Feminist College Girls Gone … Well, OK, Not ‘Wild,’ Exactly. But My Point Is …

Posted on | April 3, 2014 | 101 Comments

Future Cat Ladies of America, unite!

Looking at photos from the “Young Feminist Leadership Conference,” one cannot help feeling a sense of pity: Here they are, young women just starting out in life — some of them moderately attractive, even — committing themselves to a philosophy that guarantees their futures will be consumed by angry baby-killing bitterness.

Hey, I said “moderately attractive.” Your mileage may vary. Some guys like the Chubby Nerd Girl look. De gustibus non est disputandum.

So, what did the Young Feminists do last weekend during their National Conference? They heard from Old Feminists like the hate-filled fanatic Eleanor Smeal and the radical atheist man-hater Kim Gandy. There were panel discussions on “Why Prison Reform Matters to the Feminist Movement,” “Defending Your Local Women’s Health Center” and (naturally) “Rape is Rape: The Fight Against Campus Sexual Assault.”

(Remember: “No woman is heterosexual” and “PIV is always rape, OK?”)

My favorite item on the NYFLC agenda, however, was “Ecofeminism: Gendered Impact of Climate Change.” Why? Because that panel discussion was moderated by “Sara Alcid, Programs and Policy Associate, Reproductive Health Technologies Project.”

We all remember self-described “queer feminist” Sara Alcid, right?

“Heteronormativity and gender roles also rear their ugly heads on Valentine’s Day. Gifts for ‘him’ or ‘her’ are clearly divided and marked and it’s almost impossible to find cards that represent queer couples. . . .
“It’s not hard to see why Valentine’s Day is problematic for many feminists. Celebrated traditionally, Valentine’s Day magnifies many of the very systems of domination that we work to critique and dismantle.”
— Sara Alcid, “Valentine’s Day: What’s A Feminist To Do?” EverydayFeminism.com, Feb. 14, 2013

Well, the patriarchy got thoroughly smashed at the conference, I guess, but there were murmurs about lingering heteronormativity.

@feministcampus plz acknowledge the lack of queer representation here beyond marriage equality #NYFLC2014 #flcpunx

— ?swooplyfe? (@AZeitl) March 29, 2014

I hope someone will read this. Next year, less binary, more queer feminism. #NYFLC2014

— michelle ? (@lizardsleepover) March 29, 2014

Queer people deserve to be more than tolerated. #flcpunx #NYFLC2014

— Charlotte Morris (@Charcuterie) March 29, 2014

The first work that I'm going to do when I leave this conference is to queer feminist spaces #NYFLC2014

— Leah Doolittle (@LeahDoolittle) March 29, 2014

Beyond the complaints about insufficient “queer” representation, the National Young Feminist Leadership Conference made headlines by attacking conservative journalist Katherine Timpf:

Campus Reform’s Katherine Timpf attended the National Young Feminist Leadership Conference (NYFLC) — an event which promised to be about “inclusivity” and welcoming everyone — only to be told that “conservative” women were not welcome.
Timpf attempted to ask students’ their opinions on feminism, but conference organizers made an announcement advising participants not to talk to Campus Reform because it was a “conservative” outlet.
The organizers also followed Timpf around the conference to interrupt her conversations with students to tell them the same thing.
“They’re a group that’s conservative, so what we are fighting for is not something…” one organizer told a student who was talking with Timpf, prompting the student to walk away. . . .
“You guys aren’t wanted here,” a participant told the reporter after the warning.
“I thought this was supposed to be an inclusive thing, why am I being excluded because of where I work?” Timpf asked another organizer after another interruption.
“Because the place that you work is not inclusive,” the organizer responded.

After seeing these feminist festivities, I’m sure many young women are asking, “What can I do? I’d like to be a feminist, but I can’t afford to attend a national conference or spend years getting a Women’s Studies degree from an elite private university.”

Relax, ladies. Becoming a feminist is actually very simple:

Get an abortion;
Become a lesbian;
Vote Democrat;
and
Cats. Lots of cats.

You’re welcome. Always glad to help.

Category: Abortion, Education, Feminism

Comments

101 Responses to “Feminist College Girls Gone … Well, OK, Not ‘Wild,’ Exactly. But My Point Is …”

richard mcenroe
April 3rd, 2014 @ 8:48 pm

That second picture: instant field hockey team.
ariyadesai01
April 3rd, 2014 @ 8:48 pm

RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Feminist College Girls Gone … Well, OK, Not ‘Wild,’ Exactly. But My Point Is … http://t.co/M33g1U7KUV #TCOT
Julie Pascal
April 3rd, 2014 @ 8:58 pm

What else there isn’t in any of those pictures are women of color. But maybe they’re in other pictures.

Anyhow… the “you weren’t queer enough” charges are sort of ironic… you start down that road of forced “tolerance” and searching for yet another thing to be aggrieved over and it turns around to bite you in the butt. Every. Last. Time.
Greg
April 3rd, 2014 @ 9:02 pm

Brilliant!!
DaveO
April 3rd, 2014 @ 9:14 pm

The essence of Feminism is racism. Specifically, a fear of non-Caucasian men. Seems they fled the Dem-owned plantations for colleges and universities bringing them into proximity to these women. These women don’t fear the Caucasian Bill Clinton or the Caucasian Bob Filner – no, it’s disgust with non-whites that drives their pseudo-lesbian rage at having men on campus. And since they can’t be out and out racists, ALL men must be banned from college.
concern00
April 3rd, 2014 @ 9:32 pm

They all look pretty queer to me.

Seriously though, conservatives may not all agree on the whole conservative agenda but we don’t have the inherent contradictions and irreconcilable differences endemic of the left. Queer, isn’t it?
Randy_Rager
April 3rd, 2014 @ 9:33 pm

They say “Feminist”, I hear “Daddy didn’t spank me enough”.
CrustyB
April 3rd, 2014 @ 9:33 pm

Their organizing to bring down colonialist white supremacist cisheteropatriarchy is thirsty work!
darleenclick
April 3rd, 2014 @ 9:35 pm

“Pink” is the new brownshirt
Finrod Felagund
April 3rd, 2014 @ 9:51 pm

Why would you punish perfectly innocent cats by recommending them to feminists?
William_Teach
April 3rd, 2014 @ 9:51 pm

I just don’t know how you do this, RS. I spend lots of time reading the ravings of whackadoodle, bat guano crazy Warmists, people who blame the Chilean earthquake on “climate change”, people who want to put me in jail, etc and so on, but these feminists, good God almighty, I’m not sure words and phrases like unhinged, bat sh*t insane, really cover these people.
trangbang68
April 3rd, 2014 @ 9:52 pm

C’mon Hallmark:

Roses are red
Violets are the truth
Love is normalizing
Right up the poop shute…

Just doing my part to stomp a mud hole in the breeders’ collective butt and turn around and stomp it dry.
Stupid Republic
April 3rd, 2014 @ 9:59 pm

Made the mistake of dating a gal like this a few years ago. She came off as smart and witty (MS from Georgetown, IIRC), going for a law degree.

But the veneer came off a few months later, when her LSAT scores couldn’t get her into Thomas Cooley, much less a middle of the road law school. All of a sudden, the LSAT was patriarchally biased, and other nonsense. As soon as the contacts were eschewed for the Rick Madcow glasses, I told her vaya con dios.
Mike G.
April 3rd, 2014 @ 10:33 pm

Yeah, “turning” a lesbian seems like fun when you start out, but eventually it grinds you down and you almost forget what you were like before you started…ruins you for normal women for a while.
RKae
April 3rd, 2014 @ 10:53 pm

I’m all for it! Cats and feminists deserve each other!

Miserable animals! (I’m not sure who that line is directed at.)
RKae
April 3rd, 2014 @ 10:55 pm

“Queer people deserve to be more than tolerated.”

Why didn’t you say that when you were screaming at us to be “tolerant” of you?

Oh. That’s right. Incrementalism.
daleyrocks
April 3rd, 2014 @ 10:57 pm

Hey, is that Greg Bernstein taking upskirt pictures in the background?
WJJ Hoge
April 3rd, 2014 @ 11:13 pm

http://hogewash.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/cat-women_of_the_moon.jpg
Bob Belvedere
April 3rd, 2014 @ 11:37 pm

And I upticked you many times…I have four cats.
Bob Belvedere
April 3rd, 2014 @ 11:38 pm

‘Sunny Tufts?’
robertstacymccain
April 3rd, 2014 @ 11:42 pm

You know, if I die tomorrow, I’d like you guys to remember this post, as an exemplar of a comic method or two:

First, the way the “cat lady” theme was set-up in the opening caption then — boom! — it returns as the closer.

Second, the way the “moderately attractive” line was set-up, and then the photo, and then — boom! — it returns, with new meaning.

I mean, it seems like Ace can just throw comic riffs day and night with no effort, but I really work on some of these gags.
richard mcenroe
April 4th, 2014 @ 12:07 am

If they’re barcoding coeds now, can i get a price check on that top picture?
M. Thompson
April 4th, 2014 @ 12:10 am

Agreed. There’s no reason to torture small animals that do good by hunting various vermin. After all, a cat is his own citizen, and not slave like his obedience to a master.
RKae
April 4th, 2014 @ 12:15 am

I had a cat once, and I liked him. But I grew up in a house with many cats, and I’m convinced that cats are running a scam to get fed and get someone to open the door for them.

I currently have two house plants. That’s as close as I’ll ever get to having a pet again.

BTW: I hate my house plants.
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April 4th, 2014 @ 12:30 am

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Kirby McCain
April 4th, 2014 @ 1:09 am

Some guys like the Chubby Nerd Girl look. True but I watch Criminal Minds for the intense drama and complex plots.
Adobe_Walls
April 4th, 2014 @ 1:41 am

It’s not a scam if you’re not tricked into doing it.
I was left to care for (water) someone’s plants while they were gone for a few weeks and I did at least once. I’m very proud that none of the dried plants died even though I was informed they were over watered.
Anamika
April 4th, 2014 @ 1:56 am

While McCain is busy attacking teen porn stars and crazy feminists, liberals are scoring wins—->Mozilla CEO is forced to step down because of his anti-gay support. That’s the big controversy happening for some time now (its now trending top on memeorandum.)

It’s amazing how McCain finds time to rebut a Vanderbilt univ. student (who nobody knows about) on HuffPo (whose post till date has ZERO comments) but didn’t have one thing to say about things that really matter (Mozilla CEO.)
K-Bob
April 4th, 2014 @ 2:07 am

They all start out beautiful. The ugly is something they put on, add to, and eventually the accretions harden into a permanent shell.
Adjoran
April 4th, 2014 @ 2:07 am

There is one – 2nd pic, 1st row left, kneeling.
K-Bob
April 4th, 2014 @ 2:08 am

That show creeps me right out. It’s why I like SF movies and other brain candy.
Adjoran
April 4th, 2014 @ 2:11 am

It’s okay. The cats know how you feel. And one day you will come to regret that – maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

I had an old Siamese with the people sense. My first ex-father-in-law had never been around a cat in his life, sat in my home for the first time, and the old cat jumped in his lap. “What do I do?” he asked in fear. I told him just scratch his head, and they became fast friends.

More importantly, my first ex-father-in-law was never attacked by a pack of vengeful cats. Coincidence? Perhaps . . .
Adjoran
April 4th, 2014 @ 2:12 am

It’s okay to hate house plants. They can’t kill you unless you sleep too close.
K-Bob
April 4th, 2014 @ 2:14 am

+1 for the old “explaining the joke” thing.
K-Bob
April 4th, 2014 @ 2:14 am

Top billing, no less.
K-Bob
April 4th, 2014 @ 2:17 am

I’ve noticed a sharp uptick in these types of folks.
K-Bob
April 4th, 2014 @ 2:19 am

Justice Kagan, bottom right.
Adjoran
April 4th, 2014 @ 2:23 am

Yes, of both feminists and warming/greenie nuts. It’s up sharply like a hyperbolic curve, but it started in earnest back around Bush v Gore. The recount theater gave the left permission to go completely insane in every area. It grew with the “antiwar” movement that died with the 2008 election, but it’s getting out of hand.
Adjoran
April 4th, 2014 @ 2:25 am

With Greggie, it’s upskirt selfies.
Adjoran
April 4th, 2014 @ 2:26 am

It was before the bikini wax.
Anamika
April 4th, 2014 @ 2:27 am

Didn’t you also notice claims by crazy Christians that earthquakes (and other natural disasters) are God Almighty’s punishment against society’s tolerance of gays?
Adjoran
April 4th, 2014 @ 2:28 am

+1 for beating me to that.
Adjoran
April 4th, 2014 @ 2:29 am

Careful – there’s a strict “No refunds – No exchanges” policy.
Adjoran
April 4th, 2014 @ 2:34 am

Allow me: you see, McCain is trying to cover and bring out the stories that no one else is covering in relation to these, er, cultural phenomena. Everybody is commenting on the Mozilla thing. Plenty of choices.

McCain may not have broken the Kaitlyn Hunt or Belle Knox stories, but he was throwing some of the first logs on the bonfires. Before everybody was talking about them. Or what they mean to our culture.
Anon Y. Mous
April 4th, 2014 @ 4:27 am

Mozilla: So you prefer it when all the blogs are all talking about the same story – no interest in seeing someone cover something that the rest aren’t? Why bother reading more than one? Just read the story at your go-to blog, and you are all set.

Kimberlin: That guy actually has a body count. Not to mention he is currently engaged in lawfare against our host. It is hardly surprising that such a person would be of greater concern to someone who happens to be one of his targets.

Feminists / Gays: These people are Democrats. Any attempt to recruit them would require the GOP to try to emulate the Democrats, which wouldn’t work anyway, since the Democrats are better at being Democrats.
Zohydro
April 4th, 2014 @ 5:38 am

I abhor, loathe, and despise cats! Sure, I would eat one—if it were free, but I could never finish a whole one by myself…
Zohydro
April 4th, 2014 @ 5:45 am

Were it true that God kills a kitten every time one votes Democratic, I just… Nevermind!

I denounce myself…
richard mcenroe
April 4th, 2014 @ 5:49 am

Well you can always re-gift to Milos over in Srebenicza IYKWIMAITYD
robertstacymccain
April 4th, 2014 @ 5:52 am

If I was a young fellow, they’d all be fixing me sandwiches — and grateful for the opportunity.

Researchers have noted that there has been a marked increase of lesbianism since April 1989, which was when I got married. Most people think this is just a coincidence, but I think a lot of women just gave up hope: If they couldn’t have me …

Of course, I’ve got four sons, so the trend may be reversing itself now.
robertstacymccain
April 4th, 2014 @ 5:53 am

Concern-trolling now, Anamika?