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!
Actually, as the Islamic groups get started here in the USA, they’ll treat well known feminists to acid in the face, followed by beheadings. Common practice. Don’t shoot them until they’ve gotten thru with the trash.
[…] OUCH: “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 the children of Haitian immigrants, Ms. Mogilevsky considers it her job to lecture adults about what terrible misogynists we all are.” […]
Okay, I read the first three articles and I don’t get why the author of this article finds her so objectionable. She makes sense and is not insulting about what she says. Really, if you don’t agree with her, don’t read her articles. Simple solution.
I’m stealing that line: an unsupported accusation is like writing a story that begins: “The End.”
This young lady reminds me of The American in the Death Comes to Dinner scene of Monty Python’s Meaning of Life.
Never read her. Never will. But I have three things to say to her.
1. Leave my stuff alone.
2. Keep your hands to yourself.
3. Get the F off of my grass.
Thank you and good night.
That scene from Airplane!
[Randy is crying]
Rumack:
Randy, are you all right?
Randy:
Oh, Dr. Rumack, I’m scared. I’ve never been so scared. And besides, I’m 26 and I’m not married.
Rumack:
We’re going to make it, you’ve got to believe that.
[a woman passenger comes in]
Mrs. Hammen:
Dr. Rumack, do you have any idea when we’ll be landing?
Rumack:
Pretty soon, how are you bearing up?
Mrs. Hammen:
Well, to be honest, I’ve never been so scared. But at least I have a husband.
[Randy cries harder]
Big. Bag. O’. Douche.
Have you been getting your cut from the tip jar?
I googled her and the first image has her with a laptop covered in atheist stickers. It must be a full time job being her.
“lol” & “dude” & “chortle”…..
You showed them! (snickers)
I get a special deal: I get to read all the articles here for free!
We educate fools and worse in the Ivy League …..Her degree enables her to get a degree in burger flipping…I don’t take advice from idiots…
Go for it!
Yet, you still cannot explain why McCains criticism is a straw man argument. If you cannot explain why you think it is so, you aren’t going to be taken seriously.
It was the salmon mousse!
Dumb college kid. Hopefully she’ll grow out of it and one day be embarrassed by her younger self’s writing as most of us do when we really become adults.
A straw man requires misrepresenting an opponent’s argument in order to defeat it. McCain does no such thing. He uses Mogilevsky’s writings as examples to support a thesis regarding Feminist condescension. You may agree or disagree. You may think that Mogilevsky’s work do not support the thesis. You may provide counterexamples. But it is not a straw man fallacy.
Yeah well, you obviously read :http://theothermccain.com/2014/12/29/learning-how-to-use-tools/
Meh. She’s trying her hand at being an advice columnist. She probably knows about as much as the average advice columnist in most magazines or on most websites: not much, but who cares?
Anyway, the first link to is a piece where she is giving moderate, reasoned advice to some asshole who thinks making money entitles him to get laid by anyone he chooses on Tinder. She’s basically advising him to calm down and maybe back away from the computer awhile. That doesn’t strike me as strident feminism. This gal isn’t close to the worst example of feminist bloviation I’ve seen even this afternoon.
Another “privilege”.
Who could blame us for resisting giving all this up!
Which will be suppressed if it reveals the “wrong” data.
Sammich!
How about that woman who took out a potential mass murderer at a church a few years ago – she was under fire and totally cool.
So… I guess she’s not gonna pose for Hustler? Ma’am, you may have to labor in the vineyards before you whine. Stay cute, perky or whatever but don’t feel any obligation to share your progress with the rest of us.
You’re looking at her in isolation rather than as part of an ideology that mainstreams hate speech against men, whites and heterosexuals. She is a parrot, not a thinking human.
Here’s a surprise:
“I’ve had clinical depression since I was 12 years old. I didn’t know it until the end of my freshman year at Northwestern, by which point it had become so serious that I became reclusive, miserable, exhausted and preoccupied with the thought of taking my own life.”
http://dailynorthwestern.com/2012/11/26/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-more-administration-support-needed-for-mental-health/
Are they feminists due to mental health issues or do they have mental health issues due to feminism?
He objects to a) the thesis and b) the tone of the introduction to get to the thesis, which he finds to be unnecessarily provocative. Neither of those things constitute a straw man.
Tell that to your son when his career as a doctor is over because he’s been found guilty by a secret star chamber of rape. These people are not letting us alone but actively colluding to disenfranchise us of our rights. There is no doubt this woman is part of a movement that profiles men, straights and whites as inferior. You only have to see her retweets of that odious Ta-Nehisi Coates and read her feminist cant to understand that.
We know all that and we are taking pains to distinguish between the two. Equal rights feminists are not gender feminists.
Tell that to the female Army MP in Iraq that rallied her troops when the convoy she was escorting was ambushed. She led the counterattack from the front and assaulted the ambushers’ trenchline singlehandedly. Got a silver star, IIRC, and some consideration for the MOH.
Let’s just say I’m pretty sure I’ve paid close attention, and noted that such attempts to distinguish between the two are predominantly me and perhaps one or two other regular commenters. So “We all” is a stretch.
I understand that the message that all feminists are crazy leftists is much stronger than pointing out the small percentage that are the exception. But I point it out on occasion nonetheless.
I try to refrain from pointing it out on every post about feminism.
Heh. I saw what you did there.
Outliers……not representative of the group. Few and far between….btw, what are feminists doing to the military? Internal rot. Thing is, most women are worthless in combat.
Misconstrues a straw man fallacy.
Misrepresents what “your” saying.
Rebukes opposition for being uneducated.
Chortle indeed.
My guess is, she’s not smart enough to know all of the esoteric tenets of the system she espouses. The zillions of college freshman to take that introductory Women’s Studies Course probably can’t see the connection between that and the endgame of a society destructive of heterosexual, white males. She may ultimately become one. Now, however, she appears to be someone who would be better served observing life than attempting to become a guru for the rest of the world.
Look, she has breast-ess:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-7Uy1ajZSaeM/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAHYs/4SvNu9gpPh0/photo.jpg
If that’s the same counterattack I’m thinking of, it was 80+% female and the most notable male’s action was while manning the .50 noticing getaway cars parked and taking them out of action.
I always thought it a psyops failure we didn’t make a bigger deal that our (outnumbered) women kicked the jihadi’s asses.
Somebody help me here: why does anyone care what this girl thinks, says or does?
‘Feminism’, far from helping women, has instead exposed the full extent of female limitations (moral, intellectual, economic, civuc, parental, spiritual) far more visibly than was ever possible before ‘feminism’.
Traditional customs favored women more than men, for they kept women from exposing their true selves, and thus enabled society to fob off women onto deceived men.
She sures makes a lot more sense that the right wing blowhards, who do nothing but pontificate about how sick they are if women, minorities, and gays, and want them rounded up and put into Gitmo. Look at Fox News. They always show pictures of Obama to remind you he is black while they are criticizing him for everything, which is really cover for what they really mean, the ‘n’ word. While you will find no bigger supporter of the First Amendment than me, the First Amendment does not protect Republican hate crimes and Obama should start putting a few right wingers in jail so the message gets out that hate will not be tolerated.
Equal rights feminists are contradictions in terms. Think about it. Nobody would take the term ‘equal rights masculists’ seriously but that would be just as legitimate as equal rights feminists.
As for gender feminists, their name is a redundancy.
This is all just one more perfect example of what I have come to call the “insufferable self-aggrandizing moral preening” of the Left. It is their defining characteristic.
Strong woman:
http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/commercial-fishing-accomplishments/
Spoiled child:
Miriam Mogilevsky
Miss Mogilevsky needs to talk as soon as possible with a Holocaust survivor so she can learn what’s really important.
“Gender roles eradicated” doesn’t count for s*** when you can be eradicated on the whim of a guy in a snazzy uniform.
If this is parody, it’s brilliant. If, however, you are a troll, you are not very good at it. I suggest adding some anti-2nd Amendment clauses next time.
One of the great advantages of Western civilization is its superior ability to pick out rare gems even when surrounded in a sea of feces. Don’t give that up.
Probably. But if you’re going to go DefCon 5 on every trivial example of that, how is that different from the feminazis whining about microaggressions? If it’s wise to choose our battles, I wouldn’t have chosen this one.
I love “let’s you and him fight” when it pits two lefty subgroups. In this case it would be lefty feminists and lefty civil libertarians.
In related news, I like butter on my popcorn
Actually I was implying the cameras worn by the female cops would mainly show the backs of larger make cops. Assuming your hypothesis is valid. Obviously this data must be gathered on a continuous basis.