‘The Personal Is Political’: Feminism and the Problem With Keeping Score
One of the basic problems with feminism is that, by making equality the measure of human happiness, the feminist purchases an infinite supply of resentment. If you convince yourself that everything in the world should be divvied up equally, and that any observable instance of inequality is proof of oppression — social injustice! — […]
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 […]
The Deliberate Ugliness of Feminism
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 […]
‘An Alphabet Squad of Weird Genders’
Last week, I posted “More Feminists, More Gender Theory,” about the radical feminist Rachel Ivey’s video declaration: “Gender is a hierarchical system which maintains the subordination of females as a class to males through force.” In the comments, Fail Burton remarked: The reason gay feminists push comics like Lumberjanes is because they don’t produce children […]
Julie Bindel Is Right: Marriage Can Never Be Feminist (So Don’t Marry a Feminist)
“Marriage is not about equality. It’s about perpetuating male privilege.” — Julie Bindel, U.K. Guardian, May 25 Julie Bindel is a British feminist notorious for saying that all males should be rounded up and put “in some kind of camp.” She is a radical lesbian who is against heterosexuality, per se. This anti-male ideology is […]
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 […]
Feminism: Hatred as ‘Social Justice’ (or Why @MostlyPregnant Won’t Apologize)
“How do I say this sensitively. If you are a cis-het white guy your opinion is not as valuable and you should avoid speaking it or writing it.” — Drew Koshgarian, March 30, 2016 When someone called my attention to that quote, I recognized it as yet another reiteration of feminism as a synonym for […]
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