The Deliberate Ugliness of Feminism

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Working on a longer piece today, so to get something up quickly, let’s talk a bit about the phenomenon of aposematism in nature:

The function of aposematism is to prevent attack, by warning potential predators that the prey animal has defences such as being unpalatable or poisonous. The easily detected warning is a primary defence mechanism, and the non-visible defences are secondary. Aposematic signals are primarily visual, using bright colours and high-contrast patterns such as stripes.

Many have noticed this “warning sign” phenomenon in the characteristic costumes of Third Wave feminists of the “Social Justice Warrior” (SJW) variety — weirdly colored hairstyles, facial piercings, tattoos, etc. Quite often, we find this aposematic appearance accompanied by obesity (because “fat feminism” is an actual movement) and LGBT sexuality, so that a clichéd type can be discerned in the vicinity of “social justice” activism. Strange appearance is a way for disgruntled misfits to turn their maladjusted anti-social attitudes into a visible display, so everybody who sees them knows how much they hate Mommy and Daddy.

“Only when we recognize that ‘manhood’ and ‘womanhood’ are made-up categories, invented to control human beings and violently imposed, can we truly understand the nature of sexism. . . .
“Questioning gender . . . is an essential part of the feminism that has sustained me through two decades of personal and political struggle. In the end, feminists and the LGBT community have this in common: We’re all gender traitors.”
— Laurie Penny, “How to Be a Genderqueer Feminist,” 2015

This kind of “gender” weirdness is clearly related to the breakdown of family, cultural decline and rampant immorality in post-Christian society, reflecting what Ashton Blackwell has called “Dark Feminism”:

These young women think they are “feminists” because feminism appeals to their frustrations, insecurities, and their bitterness over being used for casual sex. . . .
[Y]oung women in general have become darker and more bitter, and with good reason . . .
The dress style of the alternative scene — piercings, black apparel, combat boots, and surly expressions — broadcasts, “Stay away from me, I’m dangerous.” . . .
Septum piercings and unnatural hair colors have become so common that they have lost their whiff of punk subversion . . . The witchy, neo-pagan look is trendy . . .

More than a half-century into the Sexual Revolution, many young people have become disoriented by the pervasive social anarchy in a Culture of Narcissism that has renounced God and worships the sacred Self. Because they are unable to ignore their own flaws, however, many self-obsessed adolescents become disillusioned and are plunged into existential despair — “Nobody will ever love me!” — that in turn produces inchoate rage and makes them easily recruited to the Cult of Social Justice.

Well, I could continue that lecture, but this is just a quick post for your morning reading while I work on a much longer piece, and so I guess it’s time to explain why I was thinking about this subject today.

Until I started studying radical feminism, I never thought of “normal” as an achievement. Teenage rebellion is nothing new, but many young people are now going off the rails permanently, deliberately wrecking themselves in ways that make it unlikely they will ever fully recover. It is easy to dismiss this as a “fringe” phenomenon — the pierced septum, the strange hair, the deranged look in their eyes — and especially to laugh at the references to witchcraft, astrology and other occult obsessions. Unfortunately, however, these are real human beings, and not fictional TV characters. When you talk to the parents of these freaky misfits, as I occasionally do, you hear tales of a confounding mystery. Their child was a seemingly normal teenager, doing well in school and extracurricular activities until, quite suddenly, they began acting out in bizarre ways.

Perhaps there is an entirely secular explanation. Psychologists and other social scientists can probably provide useful insights into these eruptions of adolescent craziness, but I think it unwise to ignore the spiritual dimensions of this problem. “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools . . . God gave them over to a reprobate mind . . . disobedient to parents . . . without natural affection” (Romans 1:22, 28, 30-31).

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59 comments

  2. I did point out to my daughters that piercing jewelry can be removed, but a tattoo is forever. So far, only pierced ears, and no tats.

  5. If feminists really want to attack a construct imposed upon them by men, they could re-examine the Sexual Revolution. That was the biggest con job ever pulled on women, to the point that feminists today actually celebrate “sluttiness” as empowering and boast of their STDs.

    Thing is, it wasn’t “the Patriarchy” that foisted this idea. It was The Usual Suspects, undisciplined immature horndogs trying to score as much tail as they could without making any emotional or financial investment in it. And many women were stupid enough to buy it, and too stupid to see that’s where much of their frustration and rage comes from. Sex is important, much much more than casual coupling. Cheapen and degrade it and there will be adverse consequences.

    Trivializing sex is not really liberating. It opens a Pandora’s Box of consequences. There are many valid reasons societies around the world and throughout history have hedged sex in with rituals and safeguards and taboos. This was not to subjugate women, although in many cases it did have that effect (q.v. the Arab Muslim world).

  6. If you wake up every morning, stretch, open your window shade to admire the rising sun and think to yourself, “How can I imagine that I’m a victim today!” you need to taste-test some Drano.

  7. Unreal…if Penny was male, and wrote that kind of garbage they’d call her a conspiracy theorist, and she’d be relegated to the far corners of the Internet. But since she’s a feminist she’s got editorials published in the NY Times, and a book deal with a major publisher.

  9. I too read the Fabulous Furry Freak brothers, which poisoned me forever of smelly hippies. It truly was an underground comic and the daft hippies that read it never quite understood that the author was pointing out the obvious daft nature of the hippies.

    I especially like the comic where the Freaks decide to not get high, the artist slowly changes from a comic style to photographs (albeit with comic heads). As they grow more bored with it, they finally give in and get stoned again. The punchline? The dishes and rotting food smelled to bad and none of them wanted to do the dishes.

    Keep posting and reading feminists works so I don’t have to.

  11. Glad your daughters listened. One of mine didn’t, but at least it’s covered by her blouse. It was still a stupid thing to get.

  12. I wear black all the time (I have no sense of color, and black goes with everything), but I really wonder about people with nose piercings. Don’t they ever catch colds? I’m miserable enough with a cold blowing my nose all the time without a piece of metal stuck in there getting in the way.

  13. I can. Kate Upton got a small tattoo of a cross on one finger so she could always have one on her, since she couldn’t always wear a cross necklace as a model.

  14. I get a cold, or worst case a sinus infection, once or twice a year. I see these nose piercings and think “Yeah, great, another hole to blow snot through! What a frickin’ excellent idea!”

  15. One thing to look into is the disintegration of the family.

    Divorce is accompanied by weird behavior: males become more violent and out of control. Females become more promiscuous and/or depressed, which is just anger taken out on oneself. Anger at self can result in such piercings and other bodily mutilation.

    The two-parent working family, even when the parents stay together, results in feelings of abandonment and neglect. When mothers were home, children felt cared for. And yes, even teenagers need to know their mother is there and loves them. Lots of lonely time by oneself can result in strange obsessive interests.

    And yes, there is a general lack of religiosity. This is, of course, connected to the family as well.

  17. I can make myself overlook almost everything else, but I can’t abide ear-gauging. Who decided that was a good idea? *Shudder*

  18. It can be removed, eventually, though the process is absolutely no fun. Or so I’m told by a Facebook friend from high school.

  19. I actually asked a woman in my office building about that, once. She said it really was not a big deal – but she wore a small ring on the outside of her nostril, not one of those septum rings.

    I always think someone should hook a leash onto those rings.

  24. As a Christian, I still say… no.
    A Christian women doesn’t show that much flesh. Would Mary be on the cover of the swimsuit issue?

  26. The bit about armoring themselves with fat is quite valid.
    You see married women do it as well as a way of stopping their men “pestering” them (in soon to fail marriages).
    I was unwise enough to confront a (8 wasted years, near marriage) girlfriend with this and she couldnt deny it, resorting to tears and hysteria instead.

    People who set out to make themselves ugly do so because they arent mentally well, or arent honest enough to say why they are doing so.
    In my ex’s case she wanted the nice things being the girlfriend of a bloke making decent money could get her, but after a while decided the carnal side was too much bother.

  27. Also worth noting as part of the pattern: black, clunky eyeglasses, what some call “problem glasses.”

  28. They were a funny read, but not really great life models.
    I always liked the cockroaches scheming to take over the house shortly before the cat would defenestrate them again.

  29. Just had to lose my mo & beard, hayfever season has been bad for me this year and I cant walk around with a number 11 stuck to my top lip all day.

  31. They can. But, and this is what I have been told, it is painful and still not complete.

  33. The really freakish thing is when they take them out. I just imagine that someday there will be all these elderly people with big floppy earlobe holes and wrinkley, faded and misshapen tats. In fact, I once talked a kid out of tats with that very same imagery.

  35. Hey, I went to college. And was in the Army. Later, the Navy. I knew some of those guys.

    A few of them.

  37. I tried growing a beard when I was in my 20s, but it turns out I can’t grow a beard that’s not scraggly and lop-sided. Plus, that kind of beard with my long hair makes me look like Richard Stallman, and I just don’t want to go there.

  38. About a decade back I read somebody remark that in thirty years those tramp stamps will be known as “Granny tats.”

  39. I knew a woman who battled, halfheartedly, with her weight. Never really took much off or kept it off, and always varied between mildly overweight to obese. It was as though she either didn’t care or secretly wanted to be unattractive.

    When I found that she’d been sexually abused by her father as a child it sort of made sense. In a sick way. Now I am not a psychiatrist, don’t play one on TV, and did not stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

  40. I first grew a beard end of my junior year in high school, just to see if I could. Turned out I could.

    So aside from four years in the Army I have worn one ever since – well, and the years in the Navy after Admiral Hayward decided to undo some of Zumwalt’s reforms.

    Don’t care to shave every day. With a beard I clean up the neck and upper cheeks every two days and that’s it.

  42. We always called them BC (birth control) glasses in the Navy, and my wife heard the same term in the Air Force.

  43. Noting that this very privileged white woman conforms to the white cisheteronormative standards of attractiveness is to support those standards, and I denounce you for it.

  49. They’ve had to relent some as so many have tats they are having a very hard time getting people without them.

  50. Nah, that comes off as a bit too goth. Dark green, blue, purple work better for me.

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