Feminist Logic: Shut Up, Haters

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Did you know @KateSpencer has “self-inflicted body shame”? Yeah, your first thought is probably: Kate Who? But before we answer that question, let’s talk about her body shame:

Because I am thirty-three years old [she wrote in 2013], and I am still not comfortable in my own body. I haven’t been since I was eight and I sprouted breasts before everybody else . . . I wasn’t when I was twelve and towered over boys, slouching to bring myself down in inches. Nor was I at nineteen, skinny-dipping in the waters off of Long Island with my closest college friends. Even though I was drunk and stoned the shame was still able to find a way in . . .
I was not comfortable in my body in my twenties . . . And I wasn’t after I gave birth to my daughter at thirty-one . . .
The thing about self-inflicted body shame and self-loathing is that it seeps into other aspects of your life. It makes you feel unworthy in other situations . . . It’s a cycle of worthlessness that weaves its way into social interactions, sexual relationships, and random moments of your life.

You can read the whole thing, if you have a weird voyeuristic interest in watching someone publicly wallow in useless self-pity. But now let’s answer your question, Kate Who?

Kate Spencer has been writing and performing at the UCB Theatre since 2002. She is a member of the improv team Reuben Starship and co-host of the pop culture panel show Shut Up! I Hate You! Kate is a Senior Producer/Writer and on-air correspondent for VH1, where she spends a lot of time yapping on TV and the internet about pop culture and celebrity news. She’s interviewed everyone from George Clooney to Kristen Stewart to Fleetwood Mac, and one time Connie Britton called her “adorable” and she almost cried. Writing credits include: Newsweek/Daily Beast, Vulture, Hello Giggles, College Humor and The Huffington Post, who named Kate one of their “18 Funny Women You Should Be Following On Twitter.”

Oh, right: Women full of self-loathing are so hilarious. But it was on Twitter where — har-de-har-har — she posted this:

“People who refuse to believe women are harassed online sure do love to make their point by harassing women online.”

Non sequitur much? Does anyone deny the existence of online harassment? Certainly not I, having been harassed by the deranged cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt, among others. But this “harassment” meme has been exploited by feminists as part of an attempt to paint their critics as dangerously violent haters, thus to (a) elicit sympathy for feminists; (b) discredit all opposition to feminism as inspired by misogyny; and (c) try to get their critics banned from Twitter and/or subjected to criminal prosecution. Because feminism is a totalitarian ideology, it can only succeed by silencing opposition. This is what has happened in academia, where Title IX has been weaponized and deployed to prohibit criticism of feminist dogma. (Remember that Larry Summers was forced to resign as president of Harvard University after he publicly speculated about “innate differences” between men and women.) After more than two decades of increasingly rigid feminist hegemony in higher education, most college-educated people under 40 have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in the false premises of feminist ideology that not only can they not “think outside the box,” but they’ve never met anyone who could explain to them that there is a box.

Feminists now believe that only women are targeted by online harassment, and furthermore believe that any negative attention online is “harassment,” and SHUT UP, HATER! Having spent the past 17 months researching and writing about radical feminism — Sex Trouble, $11.69 in paperback, $1.99 in Kindle ebook — I’ve long since become accustomed to this reaction. Inside the Feminist Internet Bubble, everybody tells each other how awesomely clever they are, so that all any woman needs to do is to declare herself a feminist and she can immerse herself in a digital estrogen bath of self-affirmation. However, the minute anyone from outside this bubble calls attention to the absurdity or falsehood of feminist claims — ZOMG! You’re a hateful ignorant misogynist engaged in the Internet equivalent of rape!

The fool cannot stand to have her ideological folly held up to critical scrutiny and (perhaps you have noticed) the critic need not even offer a detailed analysis or a counter-theory in order to provoke feminists to shrieking panic and fury. Merely to quote what the feminist has said and expose it to readers outside the Feminist Internet Bubble is deemed hateful “harassment.” Why? Because the errors and falsehoods of feminism are generally self-evident, they inspire caustic mockery from any sane person with ordinary common sense. Nothing is more offensive to feminists than being mocked by ordinary people with common sense.

What we are not supposed to notice is the problematic premises asserted within what I call feminism’s Patriarchal Thesis:

  1. All women are victims of oppression;
  2. All men benefit from women’s oppression;
    therefore
  3. Whatever.

In other words, when your worldview begins with the assumption that normal human life is a system of injustice in which all women (collectively) are victimized by all men (collectively), then it is possible to justify almost anything you do as part of your effort to overthrow this oppressive system. Smash Patriarchy!

 

The Patriarchal Thesis absolves feminists of any obligation to meet the ordinary requirements of intelligent discourse. Logic is unnecessary and, as for facts, they are (a) whatever feminists say they are or (b) irrelevant if they do not confirm the Patriarchal Thesis. Believing themselves oppressed, and believing that men universally participate in the oppression of women, feminists thereby justify themselves in telling blatant lies and insulting men. Anyone who dares call notice to the hateful dishonesty of feminism is presumed to be a dimwit with bad motives because, of course, feminists are the moral and intellectual superiors of anyone who disagrees with them.

So, you may ask, exactly how oppressed is Kate Spencer? The crucible of her adolescent suffering was Dana Hall School (annual tuition $43,200), and she got her bachelor of arts degree in Women’s Studies from Bates College (annual tuition $47,030). In other words, she was a rich prep school kid who attended one of those money-no-object New England liberal arts colleges at which she never had to encounter any grubby commoners from places where people drive pickup trucks, listen to hillbilly music, believe in Jesus and vote Republican.

Kate Spencer‘s yearly prep school tuition bill was more than the median household income in New Mexico, Tennessee and seven other states, but she is oppressed because of her body shame. Don’t you dare doubt her victimhood, you sexist bigot, because her suffering makes Kate Spencer your superior. If you should express any objection to Kate Spencer’s insulting nonsense, why, that’s clearly illegal harassment!

Don’t ever bother hating Kate Spencer, you stupid Republican rednecks, because you could never hate her as much as she hates herself. And, of course, her self-hatred is your fault.





 

104 comments

  1. Why would I bother to hate Kate? She’s much better at it than I could ever aspire to be.

  2. I would strongly recommend buying “Sex Trouble”. An excellent read that helps explain, among other issues, why public schools are in such a rush to amend their discrimination policies to include “gender identity”. Additionally, a side “benefit” of such policies is Women Studies graduates will have expanded job opportunities as high school guidance counselors in addition to baristas at Starbucks.

  4. Dear Kate,

    I can help you, and it won’t cost you a single cent!

    Here’s what you have to do: stop thinking about yourself, and think about others instead. Every time you catch yourself thinking about yourself, force your thoughts elsewhere. Think about loving people and helping them. (I know, this will be hard for a feminist, but try.) Think happy, non-destructive thoughts. In two or three weeks, you’ll develop a new habit.

    You’re welcome. Here’s a link to a blog post I wrote. Yes, it’s for Christians, which we know you’re not, but same thing applies.

    http://www.blogos.org/christianlifeandgrowth/thought-control.php

    Your friend,
    DM

  6. OT:
    You got a problem with the site, RSM. Sometimes the page will navigate away to weird sites like MySpace (?!). Others on other sites said they were having the same problem, and that it was due to Sitemeter. That’s all I know about it.
    It just did it to me again.

  7. I’m not hopeful about someone who’s been indoctrinated for 34 years.
    Maybe once she hits rock bottom…

  15. Third Wave gender abolition feminist ideology is the only obsessive attempt to mainstream hate speech in our nation’s history. Given the dialogue around something as innocuous as Age of Ultron, it has been stunningly successful.

    As a mechanism, the feminist drive to normalize and legally institutionalize group defamation most resembles the gods/devils anti-Semitic propaganda of Nazi Germany, the anti-Western, anti-Christian supremacist intellectual Qutbist Muslim Brotherhood movement centered around Sayyd Qutb in Egypt in the ’60s, and the chilllng hate speech from mainstream media prior to the genocide in Rwanda.

    There are also signs of this supremacy and hate speech in the Nation of Islam movement led by the man I call “Hitler Without an Army,” Louis Farrakhan.

    Now you have racialized lesbian-centric gender feminism whose literature seethes with sociopathic and paranoid demonization and dehumanization theories centered around fears of an almost alien-like patriarchy which has colonized women’s bodies, Western-phobia, the “male gaze,” “rape culture,” “white privilege,” and other “oppressions” like being “neurotypical,” not disabled, not fat, and Anglophone.

    Like all the other movements it so resembles, intersectional radical feminism piggy-backs onto the messianic idea it is an anti-oppression movement dedicated to righting past wrongs and creating a better and more just nation.

    Imagine a boot stamping on your face forever and that’s radical feminism.

  18. Imagine a boot stamping on you face forever, coupled with incessant shrill screeching denunciations of your maleness, and that’s radical feminism.

    What blocks me from understanding where they come from is the sheer stupidity and illogic of what they say combined with the apparent obliviousness to it. How they can say and write these bizarre unhinged claims without any embarrassment is beyond me.

    But it isn’t as if they don’t have precedent. Every example you mention above has claimed to believe the most preposterous precepts without every evidence of conviction.

  20. …I get it, Feminist are bitter, angry, sad, paranoid, self-obsessed, intransigent and totally devoid of logic…there, fixed for you!

  21. I’m pretty sure she just said she hates herself because she has breasts. Isn’t that the very definition of mysogeny?

  22. How they can say and write these bizarre unhinged claims without any embarrassment is beyond me.

    They rely upon a closed system of affirmation. That system is its own reality and that reality is reinforced by the “elect.” That’s why they ban/block those who question them and define all dissent as “harassment.”

    Recall the “PIV is always rape, OK?” person discussed here some months back. In one of her posts, she bemoaned receiving comments refuting her premises and further stated that such interaction caused her to question her sanity. Her response? Turn off the comments. Calling something “harassment” is an easy away to avoid confronting one’s own madness.

  23. I don’t hate myself and I don’t have breasts. Ergo, I am not a misogynist.

    To quote Steve Martin, I could never be a woman. I’d just stay home playing with my breasts all day.

  24. OMG I’m someone who has a pickup truck, listens to hillbilly music (and sings it even), believes in Jesus and votes Republican.

  26. The first step is admitting you have a problem. I doubt even a tiny fraction of feminists could get that far.

  27. Say I’m a woman that has been stalked and harassed online by anon coward @NicoleBonnet1 and her useful idiot Thomas Mix aka @__Lazarus__

    Funny because I am a Christian conservative it is me who is considered the stalker because I simply posted links to their very PUBLIC obsessive tweets. Take a peek and just tell me who is the REAL obsessed freak goo.gl/KqI4lN

    What is it about liberals who hate it when their own words are quoted?

  31. This is the same method used by cults: isolate the target, and deny them any countervailing feedback.

  32. It shows that they still have the ability to discern.
    They know what they’re saying is unpopular if not reprehensible.
    Like bad cops, they can’t stand to be reminded of how corrupt they are so the messenger must be silenced.

  33. That questioning the sanity thing, they often call it “gaslighting”. In reality, this is a rather sadistic form of torture in which someone deliberately tries to drive a sane person crazy through trickery and manipulation. In the online world, it means disagreeing with someones opinion.

  34. They blame the world for not living up to their expectations. Mainly, of everyone not electing them queen and worshipping them.

  35. FYI looks anon stalker @NicoleBonnet1 got embarrassed she deleted a lot of her stalking tweets….funny that

  37. “I wasn’t when I was twelve and towered over boys, slouching to bring myself down in inches.”

    The tallest people in my sixth grade class were girls. That changed by ninth grade. Biology is sexist.

  38. And did she ever stop to think that the boys were suffering mentally by being shorter than the girls?

    Boys don’t like being short any more than girls like being tall.

  40. Her response? Turn off the comments. Calling something “harassment” is an easy away to avoid confronting one’s own madness.

    I will never forget the day I was told that expecting people to give justifications for censoring someone is a sign of patriarchal oppression. Or the day I was told that it’s discriminatory against the mentally ill.

  41. And, really! To dwell on your height?

    For cryin’ out loud! Some people are born without limbs!

    Count your blessings! Appreciate what you have!

  43. One has wonder just what kind of parents this special snow flake had if her height in elementary school cause so much angst. When I was eleven I was fully developed and fully grown I never gave it a thought. And yes I was taller than most boys now almost everyone is taller than me

  45. …Mx. Spencer, men don’t get MAD at ignorant rantings, men get EVEN with logic, common sense leadership and Biology….There, how do you like it now!

  47. I don’t get taken to MySpace, but I do get other weird sites. Just now I saw “Educational Gardens.” It was something else yesterday.

  48. As an Atheist I see the frustration you face as being a Conservative Christian female. Sadly, the lefty females will consider you brainwashed by the patriarchy and your opinion will be worthless to them. I see it all the time on the Internet. They tend to silence the ones who expose their ideology and then they name call. “Racist, sexist, and misogynist” are what they rely on. It pains them to see that there’s women who don’t play victim and claim patriarchy to make a quick buck. Props to you Jeanette.

  49. If they think disagreement is gaslighting, then they’ve never experienced the real thing. I knew a guy who would say something, and then later deny having ever said it; in that case, questioning my sanity, deciding that I was the sane one, and resolving to avoid him was a rational response.

  50. Thank you I’m afraid I don’t bully well I will never disappear like the leftist loons want

    The hate that the left has for Christianity is palpable…and the fact that they support both Homosexuality and Islam just boggles mind.

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