The cult of “consciousness raising” . . . means that every college sophomore who has taken a couple of Women’s Studies classes believes she possesses a moral and intellectual superiority that qualifies her to tutor us about how women are oppressed by the patriarchy.
This attitude of arrogant condescension, this presumption that feminists possess a sort of gnosis that endows them with superior insight, is what makes them so obnoxious when communicating in their accustomed modes — the Lecture, the Screed and the Rant.
I wrote that before I’d ever heard of Miriam Mogilevsky, otherwise I might have called this “The Miriam Mogilevsky Principle.”
Ms. Mogilevsky is a recent graduate of Northwestern University who is younger than my oldest daughter. My daughter graduated college summa cum laude in 2011 and, unlike Ms. Mogilevsky, has (a) a husband and (b) a job. Whereas my daughter’s job involves teaching reading and writing to the children of Haitian immigrants, Ms. Mogilevsky considers it her job to lecture adults about what terrible misogynists we all are. Here are a few of her recent lectures at DailyDot.com:
As you can see, Ms. Mogilevsky is an expert on everything, and her career consists of offering unsolicited advice to the rest of us, because we are so hopelessly stupid we wouldn’t know how to tie our own shoelaces if we didn’t have her to lecture us about everything. Ms. Mogilevsky’s two usual modes of discourse are, “Let me tell you what to think” and “Let me tell you what you are permitted to say.”
Exactly when did Americans vote to elect Miriam Mogilevsky our National Arbiter of Correct Thought? Who else was on the ballot? Were there no actual adults nominated for this position or were only graduate students at Columbia University eligible? The selection process is mysterious, but clearly someone thought the world was in desperate need of Ms. Mogilevsky’s precocious and all-encompassing wisdom, because otherwise how to explain this?
4 ways feminism can
make you better in bed
Consent isn’t the only thing that’s sexy in bed.
— Sept. 30
Damn, y’all, we’ve been doing it wrong for thousands of years and we never would have known it, if Miriam Mogilevsky hadn’t told us.
UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! He says “This sort of mockery and failure-shaming is precisely the correct response,” and that’s my New Year’s resolution: To be precisely correct. Also, please hit the freaking tip jar!
Box of rocks, anyone?
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At last a moment of clarity.
One might suspect he doesn’t understand what a strawman is or what day it is for that matter.
Yes, and the reason Sgt Hester is famous is she’s a unicorn.
Psychopaths is the correct diagnosis. They can only emphasis with their pain and suffering.
Equal Rights Feminists are the Moderate Muslims of the feminist world. They have no voice, no power within the movement and therefore no relevance.
I’m sure at least in my case that wasn’t an insurmountable obstacle.
So she write worthless common sense and more worthless special nonsense. To paraphrase that quip from a critic, what’s true in her writings isnt original and what’s original isn’t true.
“our country is still besieged by abstinence-only sex education, which promotes rape culture in a million ways”
Wow. only off by one million. It takes an amazing amount of perverse backwards bad logic to go from ‘sex should be treated carefully and thoughtfully, so dont engage in it until ready’ to ‘let’s be so blithe about sex that rape is encouraged’. Takes a mental disorder to think that.
Symbiosis
That’s a pretty good analogy.
In other words, she is positioning herself for a full time NPR gig.
Because they recognize the signals clear as a bell.
Progressivism is a mental disease and this stalker crazy dolt has all the symptoms.
Almost like it’s a “dog whistle”, to use one of their favorite terms…
My daughter graduated a couple years ago as a mechanical engineer, and now works for a small company researching patents. During college she utterly refused to take part in all of the “women’s” clubs and gender focused pandering, as she believed that she should be judged on her merit rather than gender. She would also wear the “girls and guns” shirt that caused so much trouble for the intolerant feminists awhile back.
Also, writes weird word-salad lines like
” Its his account using his outlook which he then flames.”
which makes me wonder what this person’s native language is.
Dana.. Your comment reads like damning with faint praise.
Western civilization did not invent the concept that even a broken clock is “correct” twice a day.
Phil – Great comment. Thank you for the perspective.
How old is Ms. Mogilevsky? She writes like she’s 16.
You’re absolutely right. Something I didn’t say isn’t true. But why are you telling me?
I think you have the right incident, though that’s probably not how I would describe it.
Reality here- you in some haphazard orbit around Pluto. You are a NUT!
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