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In The Mailbox: 03.18.16

Posted on | March 18, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Is The Fix In?
Da Tech Guy: Trump Proves Cruz Right About The Washington Cartel
Proof Positive: Rainbow’s End
The Political Hat: Poor White People Don’t Exist, According To Bernie Sanders
Paco Enterprises: Weepin’ John Boehner Demonstrates Why A Tea Party Candidate Won The Primary For His Congressional Seat
Michelle Malkin: Obamacare’s Tax-Time Torment
Twitchy: Socialist Bernie Sanders Calls Sheriff Joe Arpaio “Un-American”
Shark Tank: House Of Representatives Weighs In On Obama’s Immigration Problems


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Hillary Clinton’s Appalachian Problem
American Thinker: The Death of America – Why This Presidential Election Isn’t As Important As People Think
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – What Remains Of Me, by Alison Gaylin
Conservatives4Palin: Obamacare Insurers Could Get Billions From Government Fund
Don Surber: The Dishonest Case For Robbing Trump’s Voters
Jammie Wearing Fools: Peak Obama – Clown POTUS Replaces Che On Cuban Propaganda Posters
Joe For America: Were Voters Turned Away From GOP Polls?
JustOneMinute: Little Shivers Of Fear In My Blue Heaven
Pamela Geller: France – Jihad Infecting Army, Police
Protein Wisdom: Friday Fiction
Shot In The Dark: Killing In The Crib
STUMP: Chicago Watch – Throwing Rahm Under A Bus, Plus Swaps
The Jawa Report: Shocking News! Faisal Mohammed Was A Terrorist!
The Lonely Conservative: Hillary Knew Her Blackberry Wasn’t Secure Enough For Official Email, But She Used It Anyway
This Ain’t Hell: El Chapo’s Fast And Furious Rifle
Weasel Zippers: Multiple Explosions Targeting Law Enforcement In Indiana
Megan McArdle: How Republicans Rebuild After The Trump Disaster


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Feminist Tumblr Syndrome Strikes Again

Posted on | March 17, 2016 | 26 Comments

The uncorrected entirety of a Feminist Tumblr post:

you don’t have to look any further than the population of okcupid or any dating site to reach the unfortunate conclusion that almost every man in this world is completely intellectually and spiritually void. it’s downright eerie to see personalities repeat themselves from one profile to the next: josh, 22, work hard play hard, can’t live without: friends, family, my phone, the gym, steak, and of course beautiful women lol; andrew, 20, looking for someone to enjoy the little things in life with; pat, 25, real estate development, looking for a laidback woman to be my partner in crime. I mean it’s honestly disturbing to see the utter lack of originality and depth of character on these guys, and they walk among us, I pass them on the street and interact with them at my job, they understand the world the way movies have taught them to and utter canned thought-terminating cliches that would incite a laugh-track on their favorite sitcoms. I think what it boils down to is a criminal dearth of self awareness, the way these men perceive themselves versus the reality of their selves. they say “work hard play hard,” but then spend 7 of their 8 hours on the job messaging girls on okc lewd messages and checking up on their teams on their sports app(s) of choice. they say they’re looking for someone to go on “adventures” with, but in reality they want a woman to boss around while they drink a beer and flip through tv channels. the fact is, 99% of men have unthinkingly absorbed the norms of our society and walk around in a robotic state, parroting one-liners and experiencing a stunted range of emotions. the moral of this post is: female supremacy or bust

Add your own punchline, OK?

 


Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 03.17.16

Posted on | March 17, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.17.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


A happy St. Patrick’s Day to one and all, or as we Irish call it, Amateur Night.


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: A Nickelhead For SCOTUS
Louder With Crowder: Black man’s Dress-Up Experiment To Prove Racism Misses Huge Irony
The Political Hat: Germany To Muslim Migrants – Offers Of Youths, Offers Of Jizya, Offers Of Censorship
Michelle Malkin: Here’s How Unsafe And Screwed Up America’s Visa Programs Are
Twitchy: Obama Economic Adviser Reminded Who’s Been President For Last Seven Years
Shark Tank: Ben Carson Would Win Florida GOP Senate Race


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: George Kennan Died Eleven Years Ago Today
American Thinker: Obama’s SCOTUS Pick Is An Anti-Gun Zealot
BLACKFIVE: Treat St. Patrick’s Day Like A Real Holiday!
Conservatives4Palin: Why Has George Soros Given John Kasich’s Campaign $700,000?
Don Surber: We’ll Help You Build It, California
Jammie Wearing Fools: Oh, Look, Another Democrat Stronghold Has Excess Lead In The Water
Joe For America: KKK Dumps Trump And Endorses WHO? Democrats Horrified!
Pamela Geller: Iraqi Priest – “I’m Begging Here – Begging People Of America To Recognize It As A Genocide”
Protein Wisdom:
Shot In The Dark: The slogan-Based Life
STUMP: Dataviz – Public Pensions Assumed Rate Of Return
The Jawa Report: Nigeria – Muslims Murder 500 Children
The Lonely Conservative: And So It Begins – The Party Of Trump
This Ain’t Hell: Yet More Idiocy From DHS
Weasel Zippers: 124 Illegals Released By Obama later Charged In 138 Murder Cases


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A Fascinating Video: How Academic Feminists Persecute Their Opponents

Posted on | March 16, 2016 | 19 Comments

Janice Fiamengo explains it all.

Those who have followed the Sex Trouble series may recall that I have disavowed being a Men’s Rights Activist (MRA) which, of course, hasn’t kept feminists from describing me as such. (SJWs Always Lie.)

My research is about exposing what feminists actually believe — the esoteric doctrine of their cult, which they conceal behind an exoteric discourse of “equality.” No honest or responsible adult could support the anti-male/anti-heterosexual ideology of feminism, if they actually understood what it is about. It is not necessary, and I believe it to be unwise as strategy, for critics of feminism to accept the identity-politics concept of collective group “rights.” The rights of an American citizen under the Constitution are sufficient to anyone, or rather would be sufficient, were it not for the Supreme Court’s imaginative interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment that have inflicted such chaos and destruction on our society in recent decades. But I digress . . .

While I am not an MRA, however, valuable work is done by activists in the MRA movement in documenting the harmful effects of feminism, and they are owed credit for focusing sustained attention on these issues. How is it that I had never heard of Sage Gerard until yesterday? Gerard was a student at Kennesaw State University (a community college that metastasized, as it were) in 2014 when he decided to form a campus club, KSU Men, to counteract what he saw as unfair bias against male students. According to “diversity” logic, the fact that males are a minority at KSU (only 43% of enrollment) means that the faculty and administration are discriminating against men. What is KSU doing to rectify its shameful history of anti-male discrimination, and to address the tragic plight of these underrepresented victims of social injustice?

Excuse my sarcasm about this mentality, but as Friedrich Hayek explained, social justice is a mirage — no such thing has ever existed, nor will progressive policies lead to any kind of Rawlsian “equality” in the future, and anybody who doesn’t recognize this is a fool. Because I prefer not to waste time arguing with fools, however, I never bother to explain all this philosophical background to the various Obamabots and political correctoids who think of themselves as Our Moral Superiors™ simply because they (a) went to an elite university and (b) vote for Democrats.

Believing themselves enlightened with The Vision of the Anointed, they regard us as their inferiors, and expect us to thank them for lecturing us. Considering that these intellectual frauds cannot be bothered to heed the arguments of Hayek (who won the Nobel Prize in economics, for crying out loud), why should I imagine they would listen to me?

To hell with such hopeless fools. But once again, I digress . . .

“Gender and Women’s Studies is an interdisciplinary academic field with roots in the student, civil rights, and women’s movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The program at KSU offers students the chance to explore the construction of gender in relation to race, class, sexuality, nation, and other social differences in a global context and to engage their communities through social justice projects.”
— Kennesaw State University

In 2014, while I was just beginning to bury myself in obscure feminist theory textbooks, Sage Gerard was under attack by a KSU professor:

Stacy Keltner is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Interdisciplinary Studies Department, where she teaches courses in Gender and Women’s Studies and American Studies. She is author of Kristeva: Thresholds (London: Polity Press, 2011) and co-editor, with Kelly Oliver, of Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Kristeva (New York: SUNY Press, 2009). She was a co-founder and first coordinator of the Gender and Women’s Studies program at Kennesaw State and a co-founder and first director of the international philosophical association philoSOPHIA: a feminist society. She also founded FeministActivism101.Com, a digital “toolbox” for Women’s, Gender, and Feminist Studies students seeking to engage feminist social change activities and projects. Articles and interviews present tactics and strategies, activists, organizations, events, and movements, as well as provide information regarding current opportunities and activist resources.

Professor Keltner is Satan with a Ph.D., basically. Everyone associated with Gender and Women’s Studies — at KSU or anywhere else — should be regarded as an active agent of demonic evil, a menace to society, a dangerous enemy of all that is good and decent in the world. Thank God for the First Amendment, which protects my right to speak the truth.

Sage Gerard did not have that right at KSU. No student on the campus of Kennesaw State University is permitted to criticize Professor Keltner or to oppose the satanic agenda of Gender and Women’s Studies. Therefore, Professor Keltner was permitted to engage in a secretive and dishonest campaign of defamation against Sage Gerard and KSU Men. No one in any position of authority at Kennesaw State University did anything to hold Professor Keltner accountable for her vindictive crusade to suppress dissent on campus, and thus KSU tacitly supported the spiteful persecution of student leader Sage Gerard. However, outside of the MRA community (e.g., Paul Elam’s coverage at A Voice for Men), Professor Keltner’s unprofessional and abusive misconduct has received nearly no attention. This is probably why I’d never heard of Sage Gerard until Tuesday, when I watched this amazing video about the KSU case by University of Ottawa Professor Janice Fiamengo:

Professor Fiamengo’s video is 30 minutes long and I wish someone would do me a favor: Transcribe this and post the transcript at Scribd (or your personal blog, wherever). This is a pet peeve of mine, by the way. Because I can read at least four times as fast as anyone talks, spending time watching online videos always annoys me. When you communicate via YouTube, therefore, it would behoove you to post a transcript or, at least, a few highlights and a bullet-point summary, for those of us who prefer the written word. (You are now 950 words into this article, and I’m sure it took you far less time to get this far than if I had spoken these words in a YouTube video.) And speaking of which, here is a brilliant video lecture about false rape accusations by Sage Gerard himself:

Absolutely brilliant, but where is the transcript, son? You’re obviously very smart. Do I have to explain why this is necessary?

Just today, I was explaining to a young journalist why I do things a certain way. Why overpower the reader’s mind with a 3,000-word post full of links and quotations from a nearly forgotten feminist like Jill Johnston? Because the intelligent reader who actually cares about the subject will read the whole thing. The reader’s curiosity will be aroused — follow the links and see for yourself — and appreciating the value of my diligent research, the reader may be inspired. God bless the intelligent reader who heeds the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

Crazy? Perhaps. But there is method to the madness.




 


Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 03.16.16

Posted on | March 16, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Resistance Is Futile
Louder With Crowder: Dear “Men” Who Vote Bernie Sanders – You’re Not Men At All
The Political Hat: The State Department Versus Its Ultimate Foe – Microaggressions!
Michelle Malkin: Ugh – Trump and the Phony “Job-Creating” EB-5 Green Card Racket
Twitchy: “Hashtags Ready – ATTACK!” Team Obama Launches Twitter Account To Promote SCOTUS Nominee
Shark Tank: Politico Reporter Blocked From Trump Rally


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: “Top Conservatives” Plot Third-Party Run To Stop Trump
American Thinker: In Lenin’s Name, What’s A “Democratic Socialist”?
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Playing To The Edge: American Intelligence In The Age Of Terror, And Interview With General Hayden Of CIA, NSA
Conservatives4Palin: Marco Rubio – The Establishment Couldn’t Save Him
Don Surber: Police Arrest Global Warming Scientist
Jammie Wearing Fools: Trump Pivots Toward General Election By Repeatedly Calling Megyn Kelly Crazy
Joe For America: Trump Blows Out Rubio In Florida
JustOneMinute: Supreme Drama
Pamela Geller: Muslim Relatives Of Captured Virginia ISIS Member Attack Reporters
Protein Wisdom: Relatives Of Dead Teen Thug Claim He Was Entitled To Homeowner’s Property
Shot In The Dark: Another Open Letter To Kim Norton, Rep. Martens, And Their Peeps
STUMP: Dataviz – Wall Street Bonuses (Watch Out For Falling Tax Revenues, New York!)
The Jawa Report: At First Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent Were All Like…
The Lonely Conservative: Flashback To Clinton In 2005 – Senate Has Right To Deny Advice And Consent On SCOTUS Nomination
The Quinton Report: DC Metro Death Spiral – Shutdown For 29 Hours
This Ain’t Hell: Three More Phoenix VAMC Execs To Be Fired
Weasel Zippers: CBS Finds More Votes Than Physically Possible In Illinois Democratic Race
Megan McArdle: After Cash – All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses A Bank Account
Mark Steyn: Of Trains And Trump


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In The Mailbox: 03.15.16

Posted on | March 15, 2016 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


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OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Pi Day With Keri Russell And Others
Da Tech Guy: Ignore These Norky Gits
Michelle Malkin: Drudge’s Double Standard
Twitchy: Ted Cruz Shuts Down Animal Rights Protester
Shark Tank: Hillary Claims We “Didn’t Lose A Single Person” In Libya


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: The 2016 Election and the Soft-On-Crime Democrats
American Thinker: Why Socialists Need Capitalism
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – The Steel Kiss By Jeffery Deaver
Conservatives4Palin: Sarah Palin – Thank You For Your Prayers For Todd
Don Surber: Ayers And Company Will Go After Any Republican This Fall
Jammie Wearing Fools: Feelgood Story Of The Week – 7-11 Patron Guns Down Ax-Wielding Lunatic
Joe For America: Sheriff Babeu Stands Up To Obama
JustOneMinute: Super Tuesday, aka Goodbye Rubio Tuesday
Pamela Geller: Knife Jihad Continues – Muslim Stabs Two Canadian Troops At Toronto Recruiting Station
Shot In The Dark: Another Good Guy With A Gun
STUMP: Dataviz Number-Crunching – Can You Racially Profile By Last Name?
The Jawa Report: Vinnie Junior Update
The Lonely Conservative: Democrats Don’t Have A Leg To Stand On When It Comes To Inciting Violence
This Ain’t Hell: Military Times’ Poll Of The Troops
Weasel Zippers: California Gov Jerry Brown Says If Trump Wins, California’s Building A Wall To Defend Itself From The Rest of The U.S.
Megan McArdle: Trump And Trump Protesters Feed Off Each Other
Mark Steyn: “A Book I Urge You To Read”


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‘A Hostile Male Element’

Posted on | March 15, 2016 | 88 Comments

“I don’t mind guys being here, but I feel a hostile male element that I don’t like, and that’s making me agitated.”
— Jill Johnston, 1975

One of the problems with trying to discuss feminism in the 21st century is that so few people understand the history of the movement. The insipid superficiality of contemporary “feminism” — a term that now means whatever any woman (or man, or trans-whatever) wants it to mean — reflects both the astonishing decline of education and the effects of feminists trying to expand their movement by depriving it of any meaningful definition. This problem is aggravated by the fact that feminists refuse to engage in debate with their critics, preferring instead either to ignore criticism or, quite commonly, to silence dissent.

At the University of Southern California, for example, radical activists have begun an effort to impeach student government member Jacob Ellenhorn, who is also president of USC College Republicans:

Ellenhorn was one of the main opponents against a massive diversity initiative last semester pushed by left-liberal student government members . . . As president of the College Republicans, he also hosted Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos, a popular anti-feminist firebrand, at the Los Angeles university last fall.
At issue today is a complaint filed against Ellenhorn by fellow student government member Diana Jimenez that alleges he has violated USC’s regulations and student conduct code by his advocacy and actions. The complaint . . . alleges he “misuses his title while representing our student body inappropriately.” He was also accused of creating a “hostile” environment by hosting a speaker who “blatantly perpetuates sexism,” the complaint alleges. It also takes issue with his filming of a USC sexual consent fair earlier this year, saying he did not fill out the proper paperwork to record it.

In other words, no one can invite a critic of feminism to speak on campus because this “blatantly perpetuates sexism.” Ellenhorn is furthermore accused of “undermining the work of . . . the directors of our Women’s Student Assembly,” which is some kind of ThoughtCrime at USC.

Notice the double standard: Radical feminist Gloria Steinem was recently paid to speak at USC, and there were no protests reported, but let someone who disagrees with Steinem show up, and the Women’s Student Assembly is outraged! Jimenez denounces Ellenhorn and demands the dissenter be “held accountable to this University.”

Speaking of being “held accountable,” whose job is it at USC to hold the Women’s Student Assembly accountable? Because I just happened to notice that Vanessa Diaz, executive director of the USC Women’s Student Assembly, calls for “dismantling of our capitalist imperialist white supremacist cisheteronormative patriarchy.” Has a vote been taken by the USC Student Government on this issue? Has anyone asked USC alumni, the university administration or parents who pay $50,210 a year to send their kids to USC if they support Ms. Diaz’s agenda?

Feminism is always a lecture, never a debate. No one in 21st-century academia is permitted to criticize or openly disagree with feminists. This has been a basic problem with the feminist movement for more than four decades. Feminists consider all opposition to be expressions of “sexism” and “misogyny” — if you disagree with a feminist, this means you hate women — and whenever possible, feminists strive to silence their critics.

Feminism is a cult whose leaders use mind-control methods to inspire in the cult members a paranoid fear of the scapegoated male enemy. The feminist cult recruits vulnerable young women — many of them mentally ill and profoundly alienated from society — who can be deployed as “shock troops” in protests, and exploited as a willing market for the products and services (books, TV programs, Women’s Studies courses, etc.) from which the professional leadership cadre reaps its income.

The Feminist-Industrial Complex of Women’s Studies programs have turned college campuses into indoctrination centers where radical professors recruit teenage girls to this cult, training them to become activists and organizers for the movement. Vanessa Diaz’s denunciation of America as a “capitalist imperialist white supremacist cisheteronormative patriarchy” is typical of the feminist rhetoric and ideology now promoted in our nation’s universities, and the persecution of Jacob Ellenhorn shows how feminists use their hegemonic authority on campus to punish anyone who dares to disagree. Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It, and nowhere is this agenda more clear than on elite university campuses like USC. However, the feminist movement’s hostility toward free speech is not a recent development. Feminists have spent decades attempting to shut down opposition. Professor Kyla Wazana Tompkins is Coordinator of the Gender and Women’s Studies program at Pomona College, who in February published an essay at the “queer feminist” site Bully Bloggers entitled “Ball Busters and the Recurring Trauma of Intergenerational Queer/Feminist Life”:

My first understandings of queer and feminist politics came through exposure to early radical/liberal feminisms in the 1970s. You can see some of that moment in a film my mother, Lydia Wazana, made with our then-roommate Kay Armatage (Armatage went on to herself become a Women’s Studies Professor). The film, about lesbian writer, journalist, and dance critic Jill Johnston, depicts Jill Johnston’s trip to give a lecture at the University of Toronto in the fall of 1975 . . .

Professor Tompkins praises Jill Johnston (author of the 1973 classic Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution) for being “what was then called a ‘ball-buster’: a take-no-prisoners, man-hating dyke”:

There’s even a key scene in the film when she gets really mad at a man in the audience and gives him an intense ball-busting dyke response to what simply seems to be his presence. She says: “Like, I feel a hostile male element in here and it’s bothering me…I don’t mind guys being here but I feel a hostile male element and, um, that’s making me, that’s making me agitated.”
When the young man attempts to engage her she explodes at him: “You better get the f–k out of here or I’m going to kick you right in the balls and get you out of here so fast man…. I don’t like your generalizations, man….So sit down, shut up, or get out. I feel a hostile male vibe in here, and I don’t like it….You don’t feel it and I feel it. You feel something different than I feel!”

She includes these two video clips:

I feel a hostile male element from kyla tompkins on Vimeo.

 

going to kick you in the balls from kyla tompkins on Vimeo.

 

If you read the rest of Professor Tompkins’ essay on “ball-busting” feminism, you will notice that she describes serving as a volunteer “at Allison Mitchell and Deidre Logue’s Killjoy Kastle Lesbian Haunted House event in Los Angeles” last fall. Regular readers remember this:

West Hollywood House of Horrors:
Radical Lesbian Feminists From Hell

 

Halloween approaches, and a coven of Canadian witches have brought their dark and ungodly evil to sunny Southern California:

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives has organized “KillJoy’s Kastle,” a “Lesbian Feminist haunted house.” ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is a part of the University of Southern California’s Libraries.
“Lesbian Rule. Forget the dead this Halloween. Feel the pulsing throb of something larger than life in KillJoy’s Kastle,” reads USC’s website.
KillJoy’s Kastle will be a “sex positive, trans inclusive, queer lesbian-feminist-fear-fighting celebration,” put together by Toronto based-artists Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell and organized by “ONE Archives in West Hollywood.”
“This haunted house of freaky feminist skill sharing and paranormal consciousness-raising reanimates the archive of lesbian herstory with all its wonders and thorny complications,” they explain. “Expect horror.”
“Dare to be scared by gender-queer apparitions,” it continues, “ball-busting butches, and never-married, happy-as-hell spinsters.. . . . Each evening of nightmarishly non-assimilated lesbian mayhem will include multiple live performances from a spirited group of international and local weirdos.”

 

Did any students at USC protest against Killjoy’s Kastle? Of course not. This kind of “sex positive, trans inclusive, queer lesbian-feminist” event expressed the anti-male/anti-heterosexual ideology that now defines feminism at the University of Southern California, as on every other major college and university campus in the 21st century. Parents pay $50,210 a year for their daughters to attend USC and be indoctrinated into this cult belief system. You may wish to check out the most recent issue of the USC Women’s Student Assembly newsletter, which features a link to “Capitalist Patriarchy Has Aggravated Violence Against Women”:

This violent economic order can only function as a war against people and against the earth, and in that war, the rape against women is a very, very large instrument of war. We see that everywhere. And therefore, we have to have an end to the violence against women. If we have to have the dignity of women protected, then the multiple wars against the earth, through the economy, through greed, through capitalist, patriarchal domination, must end, and we have to recognize we are part of the earth. The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it’s the next step of peace that we need to create.

Feminists blame the “war against people and against the earth” on “capitalist, patriarchal domination” that causes “violence against women” This is what the USC Women’s Student Assembly believes, and if you don’t believe that, guess what? You are not a feminist.

Feminists are trained in the USC Gender Studies program, which “brings top-notch scholars together with students.” Among these “top-notch scholars” is Judith “Jack” Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity (1998), The Queer Art of Failure (2011) and Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender and the End of Normal (2012). Here is a quote from Gaga Feminism:

But compulsory heterosexuality is a system that makes it seem as if heterosexuality, with all of its imperfections and flaws and glitches, is the only game in town. What if there were other games, as compelling and potentially more equitable and easily as sexy as the heterosexual game?

Professor Halberstam has never played “the heterosexual game,” and in Gaga Feminism describes (p. 11) her approach to teaching Gender Studies as forcing “students who are deeply invested in norms” to “focus on the strangeness of heterosexuality.” Professor Halberstam celebrates (pp. 57-58) “queer parenting,” including lesbian “butch-femme partners” as an “assault on fatherhood” in a “reproductive revolution”:

The butch dad and the femme mom raise the possibility of authority without patriarchy . . . gender polarity without compulsory heterosexuality . . . and they make possible an education for potentially gender-normative kids in the arbitrariness of all gender roles.

Children raised in such lesbian families, Professor Halberstam suggests, will “see masculinity and femininity as more malleable” and will learn “how to live in a contingent relation to gender and gender norms.” This is the feminism taught by “top-notch scholars” in Gender Studies at USC.

Parents pay $50,210 a year for their children to study with these “top-notch scholars” at USC, but I’ve spent only a fraction of that amount to acquire a library of feminist books which all convey more or less the same basic message: “Men bad, lesbians good, heterosexuality oppressive.”

“Gay revolution addresses itself to the total elimination of the sexual caste system around which our oppressive society is organized. . . . It is now recognized that any Marxist-Socialist analysis must acknowledge the sexist underpinnings of every political economic power base. Gay liberation cannot be considered apart from women’s liberation. . . . The lesbian is the key figure in the social revolution to end the sexual caste system, or heterosexual institution.”
— Jill Johnston, Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution (1973)

“In terms of the oppression of women, heterosexuality is the ideology of male supremacy.”
— Margaret Small, “Lesbians and the Class Position of Women,” in Lesbianism and the Women’s Movement, edited by Nancy Myron and Charlotte Bunch (1975)

“Women are a degraded and terrorized people. Women are degraded and terrorized by men. … Women’s bodies are possessed by men. … Women are an enslaved population. … Women are an occupied people.”
— Andrea Dworkin, 1977 speech at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, in Letters from a War Zone (1993)

“The radical feminist argument is that men have forced women into heterosexuality in order to exploit them . . .”
— Celia Kitzinger, The Social Construction of Lesbianism (1987)

“Heterosexuality is the institution that creates, maintains, and supports men’s power. . . . And heterosexuality has its ramifications at all levels of society; it is the source of all other oppressions.
“Heterosexuality is the pivot on which men have based the norm and created the origin and measure by which all relationships are structured. . . . Men, through heterosexuality, have devised their own concept and thereby constructed a system that generates all oppressions.”
— Ariane Brunet and Louise Turcotte, “Separatism and Radicalism,” in For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology, edited by Sarah Lucia-Hoagland and Julie Penelope (1988)

“All women are battered women in patriarchy. Every woman born is in an abusive relationship with men as a class and with their system since the raison d’être of all men’s institutions — political, legal, educational, religious, economic, and social — is to achieve and perpetuate the slavery of women and the dominion of men. . . .
“All women in patriarchy are long-term prisoners of war, perpetual hostages.”
— Sonia Johnson, Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution (1989)

“It is the system of heterosexuality that characterises the oppression of women and gives it a different shape from other forms of exploitative oppression. . . . This exploitative relationship is justified and predicated upon the act of sexual intercourse. Around the practice of this act family relationships are constructed. . . .
“Sex roles originate from heterosexuality. . . . Sex roles must be created so that no human being of either gender is fully capable of independent functioning and heterosexual coupling then seems natural and inevitable.”
— Sheila Jeffreys, Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution (1990)

“Women’s heterosexual orientation perpetuates their social, economic, emotional, and sexual dependence on and accessibility by men. Heterosexuality is thus a system of male ownership of women . . .”
— Cheshire Calhoun, “Separating Lesbian Theory From Feminist Theory” (1994) in Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives, edited by Carole R. McCann and Seung-Kyung Kim, 2002)

“Heterosexism is maintained by the illusion that heterosexuality is the norm.”
— Susan M. Shaw and Janet Lee, Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions (fifth edition, 2012)

“Heterosexuality and masculinity . . . are made manifest through patriarchy, which normalizes men as dominant over women. . . .
“This tenet of patriarchy is thus deeply connected to acts of sexual violence, which have been theorized as a physical reaffirmation of patriarchal power by men over women.”
— Sara Carrigan Wooten, The Crisis of Campus Sexual Violence: Critical Perspectives on Prevention and Response (2015)

Considering that this feminist ideology is simple enough that even I, a mere heterosexual white male journalist, can explain it quite easily, why are parents paying USC $50,210 a year to teach their kids why and how to hate heterosexual white males? This is the great mystery.

It is worth noting that 17.9% of USC students are Asian, 12.5% are Hispanic and 5.4% are black. About half of USC students are female, and thus white male students comprise no more than 33% of USC’s student population. Why, therefore, does the executive director of the USC Women’s Student Assembly imagine she is being oppressed by a “white supremacist cisheteronormative patriarchy”? Because this is what every student at USC is required to believe, and anyone who says otherwise will be persecuted the way Jacob Ellenhorn is being persecuted.

In 1975, Jill Johnston yelled at men to “sit down, shut up,” threatening violence if they did not “get the f–k out of here.” This is now official policy at elite schools like USC, where feminists are determined to eradicate and silence the “hostile male element,” once and for all.

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Please Pray for My Brother (UPDATED)

Posted on | March 14, 2016 | 26 Comments

My older brother Kirby has a GoFundMe page:

For the third time in ten years I once again find myself sidelined and not working due to a medical issue. A blockage of the left carotid artery which must be cleared through surgery is the culprit this time. This is a dangerous condition which could cause a stroke.
The surgery isn’t half as daunting as the potential for medical bills not paid by the insurance. In the past I have underestimated the cost of hospital procedures and the double whamy of not working, even if it were just for a short while. Chalk it up to my lack of experience in such things.
Please help me meet the monetary challenge that accompanies this medical emergency. Your contribution will go to pay down the ‘unexpected’ items not covered by the health insurance and cover my expenses during my recovery. And every donation will be greatly appreciated. . . .

Everything you can give — $5, $10, $20 — will help.

 

UPDATE: Kirby called Tuesday night to tell me he survived the surgery. The doctor removed a large clot that “would have killed me within a year,” he said, and so we can consider that answered prayer. Kirby’s GoFundMe page has collected more than $1,200 in about 36 hours, and thanks to everyone who has contributed so far. You might want to follow Kirby on Twitter and check out his blog, Kirby in Atlanta, which is NSFW but . . .

Well, that’s Kirby. Could I tell stories about the guy? Yeah, but if I did that, he could tell stories about me, which would be unacceptable. “You have the right to remain silent,” et cetera. So if there is anything Kirby wants to tell you about his long-ago adventures in his red Mustang or his green Chevy SS, that’s up to him. Probably the statute of limitations has long since expired, but it’s not my place to judge. Kirby is now a law-abiding citizen, and a professional truck driver. Read more

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