Words Mean Things: @kate_manne and the Elastic Definition of ‘Misogyny’
“I worry that the word ‘reason,’ being as heavily masculine-coded as it is, functions as a kind of buzzword.” — Kate Manne, Ph.D., January 2016 Misogyny is “the system which operates within a patriarchal social order to police and enforce women‘s subordination, and to uphold male dominance,” according to Cornell University Professor Kate Manne. Thus, […]
Jacobins, Bolsheviks and Feminists
If you study history, you learn to see patterns. What happened in the French Revolution was replicated in the Russian Revolution — destruction in the name of “equality,” and the implementation of “reforms” according to a radical ideology, followed by a bloody nightmarish failure. Last night I received an email from a reader: What […]
‘Four Legs Good! Two Legs Bad!’
“Some animals are more equal than others,” as everyone learns at the end of Animal Farm, but what would George Orwell say about this? A lecturers’ union [in England] is refusing to let its officers take part in debates at an equality summit if they are white, straight, able-bodied men. The equality conference of […]
‘The Wounded Antelope of the Herd’
Her blood-alcohol content was three times the legal driving limit, except she wasn’t driving. She had attended a fraternity party: I had nothing better to do, so why not, there’s a dumb party ten minutes from my house, I would go, dance like a fool, and embarrass my younger sister. On the way there, I […]
Stereotypes Are Accurate (and Feminists at DePaul Are Man-Hating Witches)
Kate Hardiman reports at the College Fix: A Rutgers University social science professor set out to research how stereotypes are inaccurate so he could proclaim and promote that to the world with hard scientific data — but eventually made a startling discovery: most stereotypes are accurate. Scholarly claims of “stereotype inaccuracy” are baseless, Dr. Lee […]
Oberlin College Is Decadent and Depraved
In March 2013, Oberlin College students staged a “Day of Solidarity” protest against “hate” at their elite private liberal arts school, where annual tuition is $50,586. The alleged incidents of “hate” that had prompted this protest were eventually exposed as a hoax, perpetrated by campus leftists, which was neither the first nor the last […]
Student Offers to Debate Feminists About the ‘Rape Epidemic’ and Guess What?
UCSB students protested against rape in 2015. University of California-Santa Barbara senior Andrew Cavarno decided to challenge the widespread claim that 1-in-5 college females are victims of sexual assault. With the support of Young Americans for Liberty (YAL), Carvano scheduled an event called, “Is There a Rape Epidemic? Rape Hysteria, Due Process, and Free Speech.” Here is […]
Why Do College Girls Lie About Rape?
Revenge. The most obvious motive for falsely accusing someone of a crime is apparent in a case at Brown University, where the former co-captain of the mock trial team alleges that he was the victim of what the College Fix calls “an elaborate revenge plot” by a girl on the team. According to a complaint […]
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