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In The Mailbox: 05.02.16

Posted on | May 2, 2016 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon ads last month, and thanks as well to those of you that kicked in for the Fear And Loathing In Reno fund!


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Topics You Should NEVER Look Up On Google Images (Warning: NMS Trigglypuff images)
Da Tech Guy: About That Detroit Comeback
The Political Hat: Rectification Of So-Called Names
Michelle Malkin: Cheap Labor Lobby Watch -Who Is TechNet?
Twitchy: Warren Buffett Calls Cruz Tax Proposal “Terrible” Idea
Shark Tank: Fox News, HuffPo Reporters Brawl At White House Correspondents’ Dinner


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Illegal Aliens, Communists Protest Trump In San Diego
American Thinker: Clinton Was Never Intended To Be The Democratic Nominee
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Poisonous by Allison Brennan
Don Surber: Mayor Warns Clintons To Stay Out Of Logan, WV
Jammie Wearing Fools: ESPN Erases Curt Schilling From History
Joe For America: School Calls Cops On Girl Trying To Use $2 Bill To Pay For Chicken Nuggets
JustOneMinute: Those Jobs Are Taken
Pamela Geller: Islamic Terror Attack At South Florida Synagogue Foiled By FBI
Protein Wisdom:
Shot In The Dark: A Good Grandma With A Gun
STUMP: The Woefully Underfunded Kentucky Retirement Systems
The Jawa Report: A Comedy Of Allah
The Lonely Conservative: EPA Has Billions In Off-Books Slush Funds
The Quinton Report: Maryland Woman Charged In Snapchat Stabbing
This Ain’t Hell: Amy Schumer’s Gun Control Lies
Weasel Zippers: May Day In Seattle Leads To Predictable Arrests
Mark Steyn: A Se’nnight Of Steyn


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Rule 5 Sunday: Blue Shirt Double-Dip Edition

Posted on | May 1, 2016 | 5 Comments

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May 1 is the annual day of celebration for unrepentant commie pinko hippies and other scum, and it’s a habit of long standing for Yr. Humble Linkmongler (and author of The Last Falangist) to wear the blue shirt as a subtle “screw you” to persons of that sort. That being the case, it seemed only appropriate to go with Denise Milani in her blue denim shirt and Daisy Dukes as this week’s appetizer. As usual, many of the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW, and failure to exercise discretion in the timing and location of your clicking may lead to many unpleasant consequences at the hands of the Matriarchy’s would-be enforcers. The Management is not responsible for whatever consequences ensue from your lack of discretion; save your last phone call before the self-criticism session for Domino’s.

Denise Milani, appropriately dressed for the occasion.

Animal Magnetism leads off last week’s contributions with Rule Five Friday and an Asian Invasion; Goodstuff follows with Gabrielle Drake, celebrating “all kinds of science and groovy chicks”. 90 Miles from Tyranny answers the call with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls with Guns; First Street Journal admires the ladies of the NYPD, while The Last Tradition adds Cindy Crawford and Kaci Fennell.

This week, Goodstuff explores the twisting pathways of space & time with Vanna White, 90 Miles from Tyranny delivers with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns, Animal Magnetism returns to the Land of the Big PX with Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, The Last Tradition chips in with Giezelle Buchin and Suelyn Medeiros, Also, First Street Journal considers women training for combat.

EBL’s herd of heifers included Manic Pixie Dream Girls, The Other Katarina, Morena Baccarin, Made In China, Harriet Tubman, Andrew Jackson’s Ladies, Game of Thrones Rule 5, Prettier Conservative Women, SJWs and Cheerleading at U. Wash., Ann-Margret, Andrea Tantaros, and Kelly Ripa.

A View from the Beach sends us Gold Coast Queen – Ellie-Jean Coffey, Star Trek “Impulse” Drive Comes Closer to Reality, Scrubbing the Files at Clinton.com, Singer Roasts Starbucks for Anti-Welsh Discrimination, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, Is Feminism Ruining Soccer?, Yoga is All the Rage These Days, Clinton.com Hits the Sauce, Did Skanky Humans Do In the Neanderthals? (with cave girls, of course), Once Upon a Time in the Land of Oompapa Dao, Clinton.com Still Generating News, Sunday Morning Stairway to Heaven, Dakota Johnson Not Into Faking It, Selfie Nation, The European All Father, It’s More Than OK, It’s Even Desirable, “Drop in the Bucket”, Lucky Bear, Wednesday Morning Workout!, Exelon, Feds Agree on Conowingo Fish Lift, Court Reinstates Gisele Bundchen’s Husband’s Deflategate Suspension, So How Come He’s Not Helping?, and Popsicle!

Soylent Siberia sent us Monday Motivationer: Finger-Licking Good, Tuesday Titillation, Humpday Hawtness Wax On, Fursday Fantastic, Latent Lingerie, and Weekender Yowza.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes for this fortnight included Sexy Shadows, Ayaka Onoue, Alisa Reyes, Brandi Renee,  Ikumi Hisamatsu, Bridgit Mendler, Shanica Knowles, Kim Flink, Jing Lusi, Jaymee Sire, Teedra Moses, Teressa Cee, and Tiffany Hines.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babes were Julianne Hough and Lauren Conrad, his Vintage Babes were Betta St. John and Adele Mara, and Sex in Advertising was covered by Casual Sox and Got Milk? At Dustbury, it was Melissa Joan Hart, Jessica Stam, Laura Vandervoort, and Dolly Singh.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for Mother’s Day Rule 5 Sunday is midnight on Saturday, May 7. Your support of Rule 5 Sunday in the FMJRA is also appreciated; send your links in for that by noon on Saturday.


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What #TrigglyPuff Means

Posted on | May 1, 2016 | 192 Comments

 

The phenomenon of #TrigglyPuff — Cora Segal, the angry feminist who disrupted an event at the University of Massachusetts this week — deserves extended analysis, and I’ve got a 4,000-word draft in queue, awaiting the final touches. Spending two days analyzing the social significance of this comedic phenomenon was perhaps too much, but that’s my job. You need someone to totally overthink it? I’m available.

Anyway, while working on that brain-straining endeavor, it dawned on me what a small world radical feminism actually is. Cora Segal became notorious in March 2014 for a “Fat Justice” event at Swarthmore College that I blogged about, and here she is two years later, notorious again.

 

Some people on Twitter were claiming that Cora Segal was being “doxed” simply because she had been correctly identified. This is a misuse of the term “doxing,” which properly means the publication of otherwise private information — home address, phone number, etc. — of a person in order to make them a target of direct harassment. Having been the target of criminal harassment (a crime that was the subject of federal prosecution), I understand how serious this issue is. “Doxing” is a tactic developed by certain hackers and trolls who, behind the screen of online anonymity, would deliberately violate someone’s privacy in an attempt to ruin their antagonists’ lives. Some people don’t seem to understand what “doxing” is and what it is not. Consider, for example, the case of Deb Fritsch, a former university professor who lost her job after she harassed blogger Jeff Goldstein in 2006. Was it “doxing” to identify Fritsch? No, she was engaged in seriously evil behavior online while employed at a taxpayer-supported public university and, as it subsequently turned out, was so completely crazy she was repeatedly arrested for stalking. (She has a Ph.D. in psychology, ironically enough.) Likewise, identifying Reddit troll “Violentacrez” as Michael Brutsch — “a vile sociopathic monster undeserving of sympathy,” as I called him — was not “doxing.”

Deb Frisch (left); Michael Brutsch (right).

In both of those cases, bad people were doing bad things online and, once they were “patched” (their online persona connected to their actual real-life identity) the negative consequences were predictable. This wasn’t about personal vendettas or political quarrels, and it wasn’t about putting someone’s home address into an IRC channel in a conspiracy to incite some troll to SWAT the targeted person.

Because no one has appointed me Internet Ethics Cop, I don’t waste much time worrying about the nuances of this stuff. It’s a dangerous world, and protecting myself and my friends is about all I can do. We find that feminists claim to be targeted by “harassment” online and everybody in the media rushes to publicize these claims, despite the fact that the media were willing to ignore or excuse very serious harassment when it was directed at Jeff Goldstein and others on the Right whom the media did not consider sympathetic victims. Because of political bias in the media, there is a blatant double standard about such things. Shall we talk about Deranged Cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt? Let’s not . . .

What does this have to do with Cora Segal? Like other trolls, her behavior had been problematic for a long time before she — unexpectedly! — had her Internet Famous (Not in a Good Way) Moment.

We know who Cora Segal is and we know what Cora Segal believes because Cora Segal has told us these things. Cora Segal is an activist, and when an activist goes to a public event and disrupts it by shouting obscenities — “F–k you! . . . Keep your hate speech off this campus!” — her public activism is newsworthy. Identifying her is not “doxing.”

Cora Segal is a feminist and her crusade against “fat phobia” is an expression of radical feminism’s anti-male/anti-heterosexual agenda:

Hostility to “beauty ideology” has been a core theme of feminism since the emergence of the Women’s Liberation movement in the 1960s. Its first major protest occurred in September 1968, when about 100 feminists staged a demonstration at the Miss American pageant, condemning how the contestants “epitomize the roles we are all forced to play as women.” The protesters claimed “women in our society [are] forced daily to compete for male approval, enslaved by ludicrous ‘beauty’ standards we ourselves are conditioned to take seriously.”
Lesbianism also emerged early as a core theme of the Women’s Liberation movement. . . .
Radical lesbians played key roles in founding Women’s Studies programs at many universities. . . .
So-called “fat-positive feminism” is a movement that “addresses how misogyny and sexism intersect with sizism and anti-fat bias.” While feminists blame “anti-fat bias” on male supremacy, the health risks of obesity are serious, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): “Obesity is a national epidemic and a major contributor to some of the leading causes of death in the U.S., including heart disease, stroke, diabetes and some types of cancer.”
Obesity is such a serious problem among lesbians that the National Institutes for Health funded a $3 million study to determine why “nearly three-quarters of lesbians are overweight or obese.”
When that study made headlines in September 2014, Mari Brighe wrote at the lesbian blog Autostraddle that lesbians “tend to be less critical of their bodies than straight women,” because they don’t “suffer the incessant, unreasonable pressure of the male gaze.”

You can read the whole thing. The claim that “sexism,” “misogyny” and “the male gaze” are to blame for “anti-fat bias” is feminism. Is there any feminist who says otherwise? Is there any feminist who does not denounce male preferences as “ludicrous ‘beauty’ standards”? Feminists have written a vast library of books attacking the idea of beauty as a “myth” which they blame on the “misogyny” of patriarchal culture. The feminist argument can be summarized succinctly: Men like beautiful women, and therefore beauty is bad because men are wrong.

Feminism is an ideology of hatred, dishonestly masquerading as “social justice.” Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It. Because feminists cannot defend their hateful beliefs against intelligent criticism, they seek to silence their critics, which is why madness erupts whenever feminists are confronted by the truth.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

Please consider buying my book Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the War Against Human Nature, or hit the tip jar, because patriarchy is really just a synonym for “paying the bills.”





 

UPDATE II: Linked by Gerard Vanderleun at American Digest — thanks! — and now a Memeorandum thread.

 


Category: Education, Sex Trouble

FMJRA 2.0: Strange News From Clark County

Posted on | April 30, 2016 | 24 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Granted that I spent last weekend immersed in cosplayers and the greasy organizational details of running an anime convention, the strangest thing to happen that weekend was receiving an e-mail from the Clark County GOP informing me that I’d been chosen as a delegate to the state convention a fortnight from now in Reno. As those of you who follow me on Facebook are aware, this is pretty remarkable since my precinct is full of Trump supporters, and so I was only an alternate to the county convention. Evidently the number of Trumpkins willing to make the treacherous journey to the state convention was low, or the fix was in, since this Cruz supporter is now headed for Reno in a couple of weeks. I am leaning toward taking my laptop and blogging the convention on Friday and Saturday, and in the tradition of Stacy’s Shoe Leather Fund, I ask those so inclined to kick in a Tubman or two for Fear and Loathing in Reno.





Beware of Sex in the Social Media Age (Because the Internet Is Forever)
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Jian Ghomeshi, Sexual Harassment and the Enchanted Crocodiles of Feminism

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Feminists Demand Quotas for Award Nominations at Cannes Film Festival
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Feminism: It’s About SCIENCE!
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What Is This? Was #GamerGate About Fake Victims Faking Fake Harassment?
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The ‘Oppression’ of the Elite
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In The Mailbox: 04.27.16
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In The Mailbox: 04.28.16
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Feminism Is a Synonym for ‘Shut Up’
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Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! The FMJRA and Rule 5 Sunday will continue on their usual schedule with the usual deadlines until further notice, which means you have about eight hours to get your submissions in to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for tomorrow’s Rule 5 Sunday Double-Dip Blue Shirt Special.


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In The Mailbox: 04.29.16

Posted on | April 29, 2016 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Happy 75th Birthday Ann Margaret!
Da Tech Guy: The #Unexpectedly Chronicles – Boehner Picks Trump (and Hillary, Obama, And Bernie) Over Cruz
The Camp of the Saints: On Ted Cruz And The Restoration Of The Republic
Proof Positive: Could Someone Buy Poseur Donald Trump A Clue?
Michelle Malkin: Behold – Dems’ Open Borders Disease Hypocrisy
Twitchy: Carly Fiorina’s Perfect Response To Mike Tyson Endorsement
Shark Tank: Fundraiser For Crazy Cousin John Busted For Running Meth Lab


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Hundreds Swarm SDSU President To Protest David Horowitz Freedom Center Anti-BDS Posters
American Thinker: Coulter vs. Coulter
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Tied Up In Knots by Andrea Tantaros
Don Surber: Peggy Noonan Gets Trump
Jammie Wearing Fools: Of Course – “TruCon” Trump To Reach Out to Sanders Supporters
Joe For America: Academy Sports, Walmart To Gain As Target Loses 41 Million Customers
JustOneMinute: Obama On The Economy – Please Applaud
Pamela Geller: Kansas Defies Obama On Syrian Refugees
Shot In The Dark: This Is What A Majority Looks Like
STUMP: Memento Mori, or, Happy Birthday To Me
The Lonely Conservative: Doofus Hands Cruz Communist Manifesto To Sign, Cruz Agrees And Leaves A Message
The Quinton Report: Yale Names College For Bigot
This Ain’t Hell: Army Retains SFC Martland
Weasel Zippers: SCOTUS Denies Bid To Block Texas Voter ID Law
Megan McArdle: One Regulation Is Painless. A Million Of Them Hurt.


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Space Opera, Skulduggery, and a Stray Draftsman

Posted on | April 28, 2016 | 18 Comments

— by Wombat-socho

The end of tax season ate most the time I usually devote to reading, so it’s only been in the last couple of weeks that I’ve actually had any time to fire up the Kindle or thumb through a book off my (not nearly numerous enough) shelves. Finished Vaughn Heppner’s The Lost Colony first; it’s a decent enough sequel to the first three books in his “Lost Starship” series, even if it didn’t go where I thought it was going. Captain Maddox and the crew of the starship Victory are off to save humanity again, this time despite a force of infiltrating androids replacing humanity’s leaders, the machinations of the New Men, and the possibly lethal lures laid out by Professor Ludendorff. Good brain candy, and quite possibly better reading than at least one of the Hugo-nominated novels this year.

Speaking of which, the nominations are out, and our Supreme Dark Lord has some amusing things to say about them and the entirely predictable reactions by marginally talented hacks like John Scalzi. Also, links to an interview and Reddit AMA with Chuck Tingle, author of the Hugo-nominated “Space Raptor Butt Invasion”. Must be read to be believed. The International Lord of Hate had rather less to say, but as usual, he’s right. I’m not even going to speculate on how it’s going to turn out; I have better things to spend $50 on than a MidAmericon II membership, and with the Dragon Awards coming out, the Hugos are soon going to be as irrelevant to fandom and the SF market as (sadly) the Neffies.

Meanwhile, back at my Kindle, Marko Kloos’ fourth novel, Chains of Command, is out. I read most of it on the way up to Minneapolis, the remainder on the way back, and I’m giving serious thought to re-reading it this weekend. It is, of course, the latest volume in the “Frontlines” series, describing the war between -very recently united- humanity and the alien Lankies, who up to this point have been having it all their own way against the divided and technologically inferior monkey-boys. Our hero Andrew Grayson is bored, playing platoon sergeant for a basic training unit in the same base he originally trained at a lifetime ago, when he gets tapped for the special ops mission to end all special ops missions. You’ll recall that toward the end of the previous novel, a big chunk of the North American Commonwealth’s senior leadership (civilian and military) did a bunk to points unknown, taking a dozen combat ships and transports full of the leaders’ families? Seems the traitors’ bolthole’s been found, and a legend in the NAC special ops community wants Grayson to lead a platoon of Spaceborne Infantry troopers under his command to get those ships back for the impending invasion of Lanky-held Mars. It’s a similar theme to Heppner’s novel, but Kloos is a very different writer and this book goes in a very different direction. If you liked the first three “Frontlines” novels, you’re going to like this one too.

This week’s moldy oldie is Keith Laumer’s The Time Bender, recently republished for the Kindle by Hachette’s Gateway imprint. The Time Bender in question is Lafayette O’Leary, a draftsman whose dabbling in autohypnosis slides him from Colby Corners to Artesia, a pumpernickel principality with a dragon problem that the locals think O’Leary’s the man to solve.  Unfortunately for O’Leary, his propensity for coming unstuck in time and ability to tweak the local reality rapidly makes the dragon just one of many lethal problems he needs to solve. It’s a lighthearted fantasy, with occasional dark hints of what was to come in Dinosaur Beach, and the original DAW edition with the Kelly Freas cover is available if you don’t feel like buying e-books from Hachette.


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Feminism Is a Synonym for ‘Shut Up’

Posted on | April 28, 2016 | 49 Comments

A major goal of feminism is to silence opposition. Because their ideology cannot withstand informed and articulate criticism, feminists therefore require a dishonest vocabulary of jargon that functions to disqualify and discredit their opponents. A man expressing disagreement with a feminist will invariably be accused of “sexism” or “misogyny,” and if he persists in his criticism, he will be accused of “harassment.” What these terms actually mean — other than as pejorative labels, deployed to smear the movement’s enemies — is seldom examined. It is quite often the case that men who ostensibly support feminism engage in abusive behavior toward women (e.g., Jian Ghomeshi), whereas men who oppose the movement are branded “misogynists” for no other reason than their willingness to state their criticism honestly and openly.

 

Do you see how Anita Sarkeesian deploys the term “harassment” here to suggest that any disagreement with her is harassment? The only reason anyone might dispute her “critique,” we are supposed to believe, is that those who disagree with her do not give “women the benefit of the doubt” — they are prejudiced against women — and therefore are engaged in “subtle harassment.” This rhetorical tactic is an implied threat, intended to intimidate any would-be critic of Sarkeesian, who will be accused of harassment if he does not enthusiastically agree with everything she says.

Feminists have used this kind of dishonest rhetoric for so long that it is seldom recognized as what it is, a propaganda tactic of psychological warfare. Consider, for example, the circular logic of “Lewis’ Law.” This was stated on Twitter by British feminist Helen Lewis in August 2012: “The comments on any article about feminism justify feminism.”

 

In other words, the way people respond to feminist arguments proves that feminist ideology is correct. The basic error of this is to assume that ignorant or offensive comments posted on an Internet article — expressions of “sexism,” which Ms. Lewis sees as justifying her cause — are representative of some larger social problem, rather than demonstrating something about the quality of Internet commenters. Suppose, for example, that Helen Lewis makes a particularly stupid argument that men find insulting, e.g., “Yes, there is one great contribution men can make to feminism: pick up a mop,” which was the headline on a Guardian column Ms. Lewis published in January. How you expect men to respond to such an insult? Do you think the average fellow, confronted with such a headline, will sit down and compose a thoughtful 700-word column in reply? Or do you expect him to say something rude about Ms. Lewis as a person? Does a rude comment prove anything?

 

The man who responds to Ms. Lewis’ arguments by making rude personal comments about her has proven nothing at all, but certainly his rudeness cannot be cited as evidence that her arguments are correct. Is feminism nothing but a movement to prevent men from saying rude things to women? Are feminists primarily concerned about courtesy? Is “mind your manners” the sum and essence of feminist ideology?

Perhaps Ms. Lewis should give her lectures on civility to the obstreperous feminists who heckled Christian Hoff Sommers during an event this week at the University of Massachusetts:

AMHERST — When three conservatives sought to speak about freedom of speech at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, they drew shouted insults, apparently from students at the state’s premier public university. . . .
Hoff Sommers [was] met with shouts of “racist” from members of the audience even before she spoke. Hoff Sommers, a Democrat and former professor of philosophy at Clark University in Worcester, is the author of numerous books, including “Who Stole Feminism?”, “The War Against Boys” and “One Nation Under Therapy.”
“Stop talking to us like children!” shouted one person from the audience as she tried to begin.
“Stop acting like a child and I will,” replied Hoff Sommers, who is now a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington.
Throughout the evening, audience members interrupted speakers, accused panelists of being racist, yelled catcalls and insulted them while asking questions.

If you have seen video of this event, you know there was one particularly obnoxious female student who kept yelling rude things at the top of her lungs. Professor Sommers addressed her directly:

“I am here to provide some adult supervision. [heckler: “Racist!”] Calm down young lady. The correct word for contemporary Third Wave campus feminism is not cancer, but madness — utter madness.”

After further interruptions, Professor Sommers joked about the heckler, “I invited her here as a demonstration of utter madness.” Someone edited video of the heckler into a looped digital file:

Now, a man might respond to that video clip by remarking that the young woman is unattractive, and that would be a sexist thing to say. (How dare you objectify her with the male gaze?) Of course, the UMass student’s deranged tantrum would be no less offensive if she were good-looking. We have seen this in the case of “Free the Nipple” activist Tiernan Hebron — not a bad-looking woman, but hopelessly crazy, and using feminist rhetoric to rationalize her bizarre and self-destructive behavior.

Arguments must stand on their own merits, rather than being accepted or rejected on the basis of whether the people making the argument are attractive and well-mannered. We should not mistake good looks or good manners for evidence that someone is also wise and honest. And this is what is wrong with Lewis’ Law. People say rude things in Internet comments because this is just a quick and easy way for them to express disapproval. The problem with feminism is that, after more than 40 years of the movement’s increasing influence in our culture, there are very few educated and articulate people who are both (a) adequately qualified to criticize feminism and (b) in a position to publish such criticism.

The fact that my popular @rsmccain Twitter account was suspended after I was accused of “participating in targeted abuse,” shows why articulate critics of feminism are so few. Only because I am a freelance journalist with 30 years’ experience behind me — therefore not dependent on any editor’s approval and utterly unconcerned with damage to my future career prospects — have I been able to undertake the “Sex Trouble” project to research and explain radical feminism. Yet this has not prevented feminists from attempting to silence me by falsely accusing me of “harassment” or other malfeasance. Feminism’s hegemonic control of academia, as demonstrated by the psychotic behavior of UMass feminists when confronted by such critics as Professor Sommers, is a direct target of my research. Under the policies that now prevail on campus, no critic of feminism may be employed as a university professor. This means that our institutions of higher education are now engaged in ideological indoctrination, and every “educated” person is expected to embrace feminism. This has an enormous influence in the news media, where college education is a prerequisite to employment, so that no person skeptical of feminist ideology is likely to be employed as a reporter, editor or producer. To those employed in academia or journalism, feminists have a monopoly on truth, and all critics of feminism are simply ignorant.

Having thus gained control of both the education system and the dominant channels of public communication, feminists now become indignant whenever they encounter any direct expression of opposition: “How dare this person criticize me? This is misogyny! Harassment!”

“Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself . . . she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”
— Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 1786

Ideas Have Consequences, as Richard Weaver warned us, and if feminist ideas have harmful consequences, shouldn’t we be allowed to say so? When feminists are publicizing their herpes infections, can critics of feminism not even be allowed to say, “We told you so?”

 

Well, “slut-shaming” is impermissible, according to feminists. This means everyone is required to celebrate promiscuity as “liberation,” and never mind the devastating harms women experience as a result. Our daughters are expected to follow the advice of feminists like Jaclyn Friedman (“I’ve Gone Down and Dirty With Strangers”) and anyone who disapproves of such immoral hedonism is denounced as a misogynist.

Do proponents of good ideas need to silence their critics? Don’t we generally find that those who advocate bad ideas are most intolerant of opposition? Evil can never tolerate good and liars cannot stand the truth. This is why feminism is a synonym for “shut up.”





 


Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 04.28.16

Posted on | April 28, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Feminists, SJWs Flip Out Over U. Washington Cheerleader Tryout Poster
Da Tech Guy: Donald Trump As Hal Chase
The Political Hat: The White Privilege Myth – In Academia, In The Military, And In Incessantly Idiotic Pop Music
Michelle Malkin: Beyonce’s Beehive Of Bombastic Buffoons
Twitchy: Get ‘Em While They’re Hot! Hillary Unveils Latest Fundraising Gimmick
Shark Tank: Rubio’s Push To Extend Venezuela Sanctions


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: New From David Horowitz – Progressive Racism
American Thinker: Stand Up To Left-Wing Activist Bullies
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Allegiance By Kermit Roosevelt
Don Surber: ICE Releases 208 Murderers
Jammie Wearing Fools: Shocker – Black College Students Busted For Racist “White Power” Drawing
JustOneMinute: Obama Busted
Pamela Geller: Threats Of Throat-Slitting And Slaughter – Christian Persecution In Swedish Asylum Centers
Protein Wisdom: Scripps Students Say Hating White People Is Legitimate
Shot In The Dark: Like Protesting, But For Upper-Class Kenwood/Crocus Hill Matrons
STUMP: Stupidity Roundup – Funded Ratios And Racial Proportions
The Jawa Report: Netroots Guerrilla Marketers Take Down Bernie’s Facebook
The Lonely Conservative: Boehner Thinks Cruz Is “Lucifer” But Trump’s A Great Pal
The Quinton Report: George Takei’s Latest Slur
This Ain’t Hell: And The Hits Just Keep On Coming For The VA
Weasel Zippers: GDP 0.5%
Megan McArdle: Go Ahead, Make Your Own Cronut
Mark Steyn: Captain Quantum Says “I Got Nuttin'”


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