In the Future, Everyone Will Be a Victim

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If you’re a University of Texas girl with blue hair and “queer social issues,” the sisters of Gamma Rho Lambda are there for you:

UT students established a campus colony of the national sorority Gamma Rho Lambda this semester — the first queer-focused and transsexual-inclusive women’s Greek society at the University, according to the organization’s leadership.
The sorority aims to combat issues regarding the status of queer women in mainstream society and within the LGBT community, Lauren Ferguson, president of the colony and art history and English senior, said. As part of the three-semester colonization process, the organization’s leaders recruited nine members this semester for the Alpha class and will start taking pledges in the fall.

Ferguson is also a columnist for the UT student newspaper, and recently published a column containing some interesting non-facts:

According to a 2001 report from the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, women on college campuses are more likely to be assaulted than women in the general population. And Katherine Hirsch’s study titled “Fraternities of Fear: Gang Rape, Male Bonding, and the Silencing of Women” estimated that one in four college women will be assaulted during their academic career.

Fact: Female college students are actually less likely to be raped than female non-students the same age.

Fact: The incidence of rape has significantly declined in the U.S.

As I wrote when the Justice Department report was released:

According to the report, the actual number of rapes of college-age females is 6.1 per 1,000, a drastically smaller number than 1-in-5. Meanwhile, non-college-attending females in the same 18-to-24 age group had about a 20% higher rate of rape (7.6 per 1,000).
To put it quite bluntly, there is zero evidence to support feminist claims of a “rape epidemic” on U.S. college campuses.
To put it even more bluntly, feminists are lying about rape.

The claim of a “rape epidemic” is a deception, manufactured with “Statistical Voodoo and Elastic Definitions,” as part of a propaganda campaign by feminists to augment their own (already formidable) power within academia. Of course, we don’t expect an art history major to understand that she is a pawn in someone else’s political power-grab. Indoctrination doesn’t work if the subjects realize that they’re being indoctrinated. The blue-haired queer Laura Ferguson is an LGBT celebrity now, interviewed by Huffington Post Live:

“I was really bothered when I first came to Austin and couldn’t find a safe space for queer women.”

Safe space? Safe from whom? The idea that “queer women” are unsafe in Austin — terrorized by heteronormative patriarchy, we might presume — is contradicted by Ms. Ferguson’s own words in another interview: “For every one person who doesn’t like us, there’s a thousand who support us. UT has been insanely supportive of us. . . . They’re not only willing to support us, but they’re excited about it.” One wonders what sort of menace requires these “queer women” to have a “safe space.”

Well, yes — mocking laughter might damage their self-esteem, and so the UT administration is “insanely supportive” of Gamma Rho Lambda providing a “safe space” where the weirdos can gather without being exposed to cruel jokes. This is where the cultural celebration of victimhood leads, to a world in which misfits and malcontents can imagine they are oppressed. (See “‘There Is No Spoon’: Radical Feminism and the Paranoid Matrix of Patriarchy.”) Despite the fact that university administrators are “insanely supportive” of LGBT activism on campus, it is still necessary — for the purposes of this charade of pretended victimhood — for the “queer women” to present themselves as suffering societal oppression and injustice. Does no one in Austin have enough common sense and courage to call bullshit on this bogus hustle?

There are more than 50,000 students at the UT Austin campus, and yet when Gamma Rho Lambda offered “safe space” for “queer women,” they were able to recruit a grand total of nine members. A little more than half of UT-Austin students are female, and if we assume that 2% of those are lesbian, that means about 500 “queer women” on campus. Yet it would seem that fewer than 2% of lesbian students at UT-Austin care enough about “safe space” to join Gamma Rho Lambda.

To repeat: THERE IS NO SPOON.

UPDATE: Why do the president and vice-president of the UT-Austin chapter of Gamma Rho Lambda have the the same name? Thanks to Zohydro in the comments and my brother Kirby for pointing me to this story which clarifies this point:

Lauren, and her sister, Audrey, decided to create a new organization. . . .
“Being a transwoman it’s hard to find places that are completely comfortable, I knew this needed to be an area specifically for female identifying and female queer individuals,” Audrey Ferguson said.

In other words, Lauren’s “sister Audrey” is in fact her brother, who is “identifying” as her “sister.” As Kirby said, “Imagine family Thanksgiving at their house!”

Yeah. It’s like The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

 

117 comments

  1. I don’t know if this is on topic, but it’s too good not to share.

    I’m driving home from the store and get behind a new Porsche driven by a 30ish attractive blonde lady. The vanity license plate read–I sh*t you not–“MRS 02.”

    There is woman who is not victim.

  3. “As part of the three-semester colonization process

    That should read “. . infestation process”

    But diseases colonize too don’t they? So, okay.

    P.S. Profile of 70% of Lesbians:
    Weight > 150
    Personality <= 0
    Temperament <= 1
    Insanity == 25% (and rising)
    Attractiveness (not counting obvious efforts to distract and excuse their lack) = -2
    Sammich making = -100

    Odds of being raped in an all male prison in Brazil = 0 (who would know they were female unless told?)

    /ad feminem attack and gender stereotypes off

  5. “Victim” is the most highly coveted status among the Left in the US because it substitutes for having any actual accomplishments. In fact, people with actual accomplishments now play second fiddle to “victims”.

    Of course the only problem is that eventually another group comes along and displaces you in the victim rankings.

  6. I don’t how the sorority naming system works, but they’ve named it “Gamma Rho Lambda”—GRL! Really?

    If I were they, I’d have gone with “Lambda Epsilon Zeta”…

  7. Are they attempting self-parody on purpose or is this just a happy coincidence with RSM’s writing Sex Trouble?

    Also I think a more appropriate name for an overtly lesbian might have been ? ? ? (I Eta Pi, if ya know what I mean)

  8. It’s clear that these women won’t be dating any jocks or frat boys or pre-med/law boys, or any boys. Probably not any XX “boyz” either, except maybe the one in the back row.

    Perhaps it’s me, but if I asked people to join my little club, and even my own “kind” said “Wut?? No, lolz”, I’d have started to get an inkling that maybe I personally had a socialization problem and then taken some corrective action in terms of getting myself straightened out. But these women are actively choosing to be misfits, then complaining about oppression.

    Gamma Phi Beta, they’re not. Be interesting to see their first pledge class.

  9. Bwahahahaha, oh my gosh Z, you’re killing me with that one! I’m going to be laughing off and on all weekend now!

  16. Wait a sec, I just noticed. The president and vice president are Audrey Ferguson and Lauren Ferguson? That can’t be coincidence, eh?

  19. Eh, I don’t know. If you watch the HuffPo video, you notice Lauren Ferguson is an up-talker. That’s one of those minor tics that you would find merely annoying if encountering it in a random person. But when you find such a tic in someone who is ostentatiously maladjusted … Well, you notice it and wonder if the correlation is non-random.

    There are plenty of people who are both (a) weird and (b) heterosexual. But when you spend as much time as I have wading through the swamp of radical feminism, the gestalt begins to disclose a pattern to what might otherwise seem to be just random dots. The stereotypes are not merely stereotypes, and of course one doesn’t wish to be prejudicial or offensive in discussing such things, but I think some people simply lack rational insight into their own emotional tendencies.

    /carefully worded diplomacy off.

  21. 1 in 4? Guess they’re upping the ante? Can we get some nice guys to take one for the team, take these ugly girls out and treat them right? It’s for the good of America. It’s what they really want. Some genuine, kind male attention. Any takers?

  23. Yeah, Hollywood (& it’s darker twin pornography) have sold those guys a very false image of lesbians. No one’s getting terribly excited looking at the picture up there.

  24. I have the male gaze. My first thought was how hyper-cute the chick of the left is with the hair over one eye and crooked smile.

  25. Fuck, one’s a dude! OMG somebody has two useless duds. Brother and sister in the same sorority. Lesbians won’t go for this.

  31. Well, from a Darwinian perspective, prospects of the Ferguson DNA making it to the next generation seem rather iffy.

  34. Wow. I’m trying to parse that and all I can think is how does the other one feel, knowing that her brother is cuter?

  36. I can’t speak for RSM, but if you have empathy for people in general and want them to be happy and successful, then you will naturally oppose and expose ideologies and institutions that get in the way.

  38. Excellent question! You should buy his “Sex Trouble” 1st edition. Seriously, I’m a little inebriated, it’s kind of late at night, and our host spent an immense amount of time and effort answering precisely that question. The Kindle edition is just a couple bucks. Totally worth it.

  39. Poor snowflakes.

    We need to round up all the aggressively self-identifying victims – the blue haired genderqueers and transvestites from Transylvania and what-have-you – and put them in proper safe spaces, with guards and moats and everything. Like a sort of summer camp, but one you’re not allowed to leave.

    Can’t let them roam free, what with all the raping and misgendering and microaggressions going on out there.

  40. Well I for one find it a very healthy, positive sign that brothers and sisters can now spend time together doing things like pajama parties, makeup sessions and talking about the dreamy boy in Calc class. Well, come to think of it, perhaps that won’t be a big part of THIS sorority’s social life…

  41. Oh. That could be an interesting twist on the whole victim thing. You want to be safe? We’ll keep you safe. Because that’s what the patriarchy is all about.

  42. Shorter: queer safe space is where everyone agrees that perverse degeneracy is “normal”.

  44. What? How could a hot chick named Audrey ever be a dude?

    Pwah hahahahaha. That’s dis-possible and trans-likely!!!

  45. Don’t worry. Science will fix them up with some real kids and the academic pyramid game will provide them jobs teaching how to get real kids and the real kids will transition right into straightjackets so it’s all fine and then the dinosaur-buster hits the Pacific Ocean and god starts all over again.

  47. Thanks Daniel. I was aware that our host’s book was out but somehow failed to realise it was also on Kindle.

    Just purchased at the bargain price of one pound and twenty-nine pence.

  48. While coeds at UK were pretty much as evenly divided across the beautiful-to-butt-ugly scale as the wider population, the sorority girls were clustered more heavily on the good-looking end; the sisters weren’t really all that interested in having the uglos in their houses.

    Which brings us to our host’s photo of GRL:

    http://i0.wp.com/1.bp.blogspot.com/-_FrMwLX4Kgk/VQOz0uMU-7I/AAAAAAAATLY/oV0e12jPOl4/s1600/Sorority_Lesbian.JPG?resize=453%2C278

    Barf!

    And yes, you may denounce me as a cisheteronormative sexist pig!

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