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Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | March 11, 2016 | 3 Comments

by Smitty


Dear Mom & Dad,
I knew you wouldn’t approve, so I didn’t ask. I’m going to the Big City. Boise.
Don’t blame yourselves. You are wonderful parents. I wouldn’t’ve had the money for the bus ticket if you weren’t so good at teaching a girl how to raise hogs.
I’ve got a roommate and a job lined up. I’ll see about school this fall. I know the money situation, so I won’t ask.
Brian is going to take it hard. I don’t hate him, but just wasn’t going to be happy on the farm.
Love,
Joeanna

P.S.: I remembered my Bible.

via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

What Did Jack Montague Do?

Posted on | March 11, 2016 | 30 Comments

 

A week ago — March 4 — I wrote this simple headline:

Is Jack Montague a Rapist?

There is still no answer to that question, although the New York Times published a story Wednesday about the expulsion of the Yale University basketball team’s senior captain. Citing “two people with direct knowledge of the case who spoke on condition of anonymity,” the article confirms that Montague was expelled last month “in connection with a sexual misconduct accusation.” And here’s a tidbit from the Daily Mail:

A formal complaint was filed against Montague with the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct in November of 2015, several months after the alleged assault occurred, Yale Daily News reports.
He was expelled three months later on February 10.

So, we have yet another on of those belated accusations — “several months after” the incident — that seem to proliferate amid the anti-male “campus rape epidemic” hysteria that feminists have recently incited. This is a familiar narrative, if you have read any of the more than 100 lawsuits filed against universities by male students who say they were falsely accused of sexual misconduct and denied due process in the campus kangaroo court system. It’s a typical story by now. College boy and college girl hook up, and then months go by during which nothing in particular seems to happen until — BOOM! — the guy finds himself accused of “sexual misconduct.” The university does an investigation, but everything’s hush-hush, because of federally mandated “confidentiality” requirements, then there is secretive hearing, and then the guy’s expelled. Nobody ever knows what happened until the guy files a lawsuit.

The basic function of Title IX, it now seems, is to expel every male student who ever so much as kissed a girl on campus. Seriously, go read the John Doe v. Brown University lawsuit and tell me that’s not crazy.

Do you think Jack Montague is a rapist? His father, hinting very strongly about a lawsuit, calls the accusation against his son “ridiculous.” Certainly, common sense would lead us to be skeptical.

 

He’s a popular, good-looking athlete. As Jay Z might say, Jack Montague’s got 99 problems and a lack of female companionship ain’t one.

Ah, but it’s 2016! And it’s Yale!

The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved.

All the Yale professors are atheists, and all the students are psychotic Social Justice Warriors like Jerelyn “Who the F–k Hired You?” Luther. It’s always surprising to learn that heterosexuality still happens at Yale, where the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program trains girls to be man-hating radical lesbian activists. Parents pay $47,600 tuition a year to Yale, where the Marxist faculty teach rich kids how to hate Capitalist Misogynist Oppressors, i.e., Daddy.

Warn your sons, America: Never talk to a college girl.




 

Category: Education, Sex Trouble

‘The Enslavement of Women’

Posted on | March 10, 2016 | 41 Comments

“Sex is compulsory in marriage. . . . It is clear that the compulsory nature of sex in marriage operates to the advantage of the male. . . . The enslavement of women in marriage is all the more cruel and inhumane by virtue of the fact that it appears to exist with the consent of the enslaved group.”
— Sheila Cronan, 1970

Marriage is slavery, “cruel and inhumane.” This is a fundamental tenet of feminist ideology. No feminist would consent to marriage, because this involves “compulsory” sex. Feminists are against marriage because they are against sex, which “operates to the advantage of the male.”

Sheila Cronan was a prominent member of a group co-founded by Ti-Grace Atkinson and Anne Koedt. Atkinson, who had been handpicked by Betty Friedan as president of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), walked out in 1968 in a dispute with NOW’s national leadership and formed what she called “The October 17th Movement.” This was subsequently renamed “The Feminists,” thereby giving a name to the movement they led. They announced their goal and described their ideology in their June 1969 manifesto, “The Feminists: A Political Organization to Annihilate Sex Roles”:

The class separation between men and women is a political division. . . . The role (or class) system must be destroyed. . . .
Men . . . are the enemies and the Oppressors of women. . . . Both the male role and the female role must be annihilated. . . .
The pathology of oppression can only be fully comprehended in its primary development: the male-female division. . . . The sex roles themselves must be destroyed.
(Radical Feminism, edited by Anne Koedt, et al., pp. 369-370)

This view of “the male-female division” as a political system, a “pathology of oppression” which “must be destroyed” and “annihilated,” has defined feminism for more than four decades. To disagree with The Feminists — to doubt their claim that men are “the enemies” of women, to deny that marriage is slavery, etc. — is to reject feminism as it has existed since the 1960s. Attempting to evade this history, to define the movement as having some goal other than what The Feminists declared in their founding manifesto, has the effect of depriving “feminism” of any useful definition, making it possible for any woman to call herself a “feminist” without bothering to know what this word actually means.

 

What does Beyoncé Knowles mean when she calls herself a feminist? Does she mean that her marriage to Jay Z is “enslavement”? Is her husband her enemy and an oppressor? Does she believe “sex roles themselves must be destroyed”? Has Beyoncé ever studied feminist theory? Probably not.

One of the earliest protests staged by The Feminists in 1969 was at the marriage license bureau in New York City. Ti-Grace Atkinson told a Time magazine reporter: “Love has to be destroyed. It’s an illusion that people care for each other. . . . It may be that sex is a neurotic manifestation of oppression. It’s like a mass psychosis.” Other leading members of The Feminists were Pam Kearon and Barbara Mehrhof. Kearon had participated in the Women’s Liberation Movement’s first public protest in September 1968 against the Miss America pageant. In a 1971 paper called “Rape: An Act of Terror,” Mehrhof and Kearon declared:

There is no group other than slaves that has been singled out for such systematic and total exploitation and suppression as the class of women. . . .
Sexual intercourse . . . provides sexism with an inimitable act which perfectly expresses the polarity male/female. . . . Rape adds the quality of terror.
Terror is an integral part of the oppression of women. Its purpose is to ensure, as a final measure, the acceptance by women of the inevitability of male domination. . . . There are no actions or forms of behavior sufficient to avoid its danger. There is no sign that designates a rapist since each male is potentially one.
(Radical Feminism, edited by Anne Koedt, et al., pp. 228-230)

Another one of Pam Kearon’s contributions to The Feminists was a defense of “man-hating” as “the realization of our past and continued subjugation,” in which she denounced men as “misogynists” and declared: “Our whole society (including too many of the women in it) hates women.”

Is this true? Was it true in 1969? Was my mother in “continued subjugation” to my father? Has every wife in human history been a victim of “cruel and inhumane” enslavement by her husband, the oppressor?

“And it’s not just rape that’s the joke — it’s women. Our very existence is presented to young men as fodder for sex and laughs, our humiliation and pain as goal posts for their masculinity. Basically, we’re anything other than people deserving respect and humanity.”
— Jessica Valenti, 2013

Is this true? Does it apply to Jessica Valenti’s husband? Does her husband treat women as a joke? Does he enjoy inflicting “pain and humiliation” on her? Does her husband view her as not “deserving respect and humanity”? If this is not the case, then why does Jessica Valenti expect us to believe her husband is better than other women’s husbands? Why would Jessica Valenti think she can libel my sons — and every other young man included in her categorical denunciation of masculinity — and expect me not to resent her recklessly hateful anti-male rhetoric?

 

Feminism is an insult to the intelligence of everyone who has two eyes and a brain. Feminism’s ideology and rhetoric are insulting to every honest man who ever lived and to every honest woman who ever loved a man. Why do feminists today constantly denounce men as “misogynists” for disagreeing with them? Why do feminists claim to be victims of “online harassment”? Why do university students engage in disruptive protests whenever anyone who dissents from feminism’s anti-male ideology — George Will, Wendy McElroy, Christina Hoff Sommers, Milo Yiannopoulous — dares to speak on campus?

Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement
to Destroy Civilization as We Know It

Liars hate the truth, and feminists therefore seek to silence those who tell the truth about feminism. When I undertook the Sex Trouble project in 2014, at the behest of readers who urged me to write a book about radical feminism’s War Against Human Nature, I had already studied the movement’s history and ideology for years. Readers are encouraged to consider a few of the books (including accounts by feminists themselves) that explain how feminism began and what feminism means:

This brief list of 11 books would suffice as the syllabus for an introductory course, “Critical History and Theory of Modern Feminism.” The histories by Brownmiller, Evans and Echols — all feminists who were directly involved in the movement in the 1960s and ’70s — are particularly useful in understanding how modern feminism emerged from the radical New Left of that era. The works of Professor Goldberg (a sociologist), Professor Tiger (an anthropologist) and Dr. Smith (a psychologist) serve as learned discussions of male/female differences and the consequences of feminism’s demand for “equality.” Professing Feminism and Heterophobia both examine the influence of feminism in academia. Professor Sommers and her landmark 1994 book perhaps need no introduction. Graglia’s book is a defense of traditional womanhood, and Lukas offers a comprehensive survey in an easy-to-read format.

“All that is necessary to discredit feminism is to tell the truth about feminism.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Sex Trouble: Essays on Radical Feminism and the War Against Human Nature

Feminists know this as well as I do. Feminists refuse to engage in dialogue with opponents and do not even acknowledge informed criticism, instead engaging in efforts to silence dissent. Feminism is always a lecture, never a debate. The First Rule of Feminism is “Shut Up!”

Ordinary men and women who attempt to express their disagreement with feminists find themselves accused of “harassment.” This is a dishonest tactic by which feminists smear their critics as dangerous and violent, falsely implying that it is a crime to criticize feminism. These propaganda tactics function to marginalize anyone who calls attention to the radical ideology and deranged rhetoric of feminists. If everyone who criticizes feminism is a misogynist, and if it is “harassment” to express disagreement, the critic of feminism is a Thought Criminal.

Because feminism exercises hegemonic authority in academia, 21st-century college and university students are never exposed to any opposing perspective. This is why students now claim to be “invalidated” and “traumatized” when critics of feminism appear on campus.

Men are enemies and oppressors of women, sexual intercourse is an act that “perfectly expresses” male domination, every male is potentially a rapist, male and female roles are the “pathology of oppression,” and sex roles must be destroyed — this is what feminists believe. If you do not believe these things, guess what? You are not a feminist.




 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 03.10.16

Posted on | March 10, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.10.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: The Wachowski Sisters
The Political Hat: The College Of Power And Liberation
Michelle Malkin: Obamacare’s Never-Ending 1095-A Nightmare
Twitchy: “What Price Your Dignity?” Ben Carson To Endorse Trump Tomorrow
Shark Tank: Florida’s Forgotten U.S. Senate Race


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Frauke Petry Is The Anti-Merkel
American Thinker: Is Love For Trump Blind?
Conservatives4Palin: Time Is Running Out To Stop The Christian Genocide In Iraq, Syria
Don Surber: Chicago Tribune To Clinton And Sanders – Pfbt
Jammie Wearing Fools: Disgruntled Jihadi Hands Over Identifying Info On 22,000 ISIS Recruits
Joe For America: Media Ignoring Video From Inside LaVoyFinicum Vehicle During FBI Shooting
JustOneMinute: Building Walls in Europe
Pamela Geller: Obama’s “Peace Partners” Celebrate Murder Of American Student Taylor Force
Shot In The Dark: Urban Liberal Prvilege – Enough Is Enough
STUMP: Kentucky Update – They’ve Got Budget Blues Too
The Jawa Report: Debate Fevah IV
The Lonely Conservative: Cruz Picks Up Endorsement From Senator Mike Lee
The Quinton Report: Maryland Assisted Suicide Legislation Fails
This Ain’t Hell: Germaine Clarno Lets Vets Die Because She Doesn’t Like Republicans
Weasel Zippers: Obama – “I Certainly Have Not Contributed To Dividing This Country”


The White Donkey: Terminal Lance
Strange Brew

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In The Mailbox: 03.09.16

Posted on | March 9, 2016 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Ted’s Own Private Idaho
Da Tech Guy: Pastor Kelly – Welcome To The GOP’s Demolition Derby
The Political Hat: Feminist Glaciology, Or, Stop Mis-Gendering Glaciers
Michelle Malkin: Hillary’s Federal Education Jackboot Squad
Twitchy: Fact Checks Of Trump Water, Trump Steaks, Trump Magazine And Trump Wine
Shark Tank: Marco Rubio Presidential Farewell Tour Continues


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: The World Is Getting Worse, But This Time America Won’t Save It
American Thinker: Trump is Everything You Raised Your Kids Not To Be
Conservatives4Palin: Sanders Scores Upset Win In Michigan Primary
Don Surber: The Queen Wants Out Of The EU
Jammie Wearing Fools: Illegal Alien Arrested After Killing Five; Was Deported 12 Years Ago, Released In September “Snafu”
Joe For America: Dead Man Tells Tale
JustOneMinute: Most Transparently Hypocritical Administration Ever
Pamela Geller: Police Warn Women Not To Walk Alone In Northern Sweden Because Of Muslim Migrants
Shot In The Dark: Down Mexico Way
STUMP: Chicago Watch – What’s The Leverage When There’s No Money?
The Gateway Pundit: Two New Polls Show Trump Beating Kasich In Ohio
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Iranian Missile Launches, Terror Attacks In israel No Coincidence
The Lonely Conservative: Why Would Anyone Trust This Swindler With The Presidency?
This Ain’t Hell: Is Democrat Voting A Vast Criminal Conspiracy?
Weasel Zippers: Chipotle Norovirus Is Back Again
Megan McArdle: Luxurious College Apartments, Built On Debt
Mark Steyn: Sticking It To The Alarmists


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Email From @BernieSanders: ‘Phenomenal News’ in Michigan Primary

Posted on | March 9, 2016 | 15 Comments

 

Years ago, while covering a story, I clicked a box on a liberal website to “get email updates.” Lists of email addresses are bought and sold as commodities by left-wing groups, so if you ever sign up for one list, eventually you will be on all the lists. Today I got this email:

We WON Michigan!
Robert, have you seen the phenomenal news? Bernie just WON Michigan, after being down by more than 20 points in several polls.
Can you chip in $3 or more right now to Bernie Sanders and DFA to celebrate our big win in Michigan — and to supercharge our campaign before “Super Tuesday 2” on March 15? Thank you for your support! — Eden James, Political Director, Democracy for America

Robert –
The results are in and we were just declared the winner in a very important state for our campaign: Michigan. That’s a major, game-changing victory for our campaign.
The corporate media counted us out. The pollsters said we were way behind. The Clinton super PACs spent millions against us across the country. We were hit with a dishonest attack in the debate. But we won, again… and if we continue to stand together, we can win this nomination.
One week from today, five large and delegate-rich states vote. Time and time again, your support has enabled us to overcome large deficits and emerge victorious. But you can expect the political establishment to come after us even harder now. The super PACs are going to spend even more. We have to be prepared to fight back.
Make a contribution to our campaign and DFA right now, and we’re going to keep winning states so that we can win this Democratic primary.
Millions of people have come out to vote for our political revolution. They have donated more than 5 million times to our campaign. And together, we are sending a message to the oligarchy that we are not to be underestimated.

In solidarity,
Bernie Sanders

Yeah, man — “In solidarity.” Any victim of media bias is a friend of mine, I guess, and Team Clinton’s stooges have Bernie in their sights:

Washington Post Ran 16 Negative
Stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 Hours

The editors of the Washington Post are profoundly dishonest people, who claim to be objective journalists when in fact they are partisan hacks producing political propaganda intended to help elect Democrats. They occasionally print facts, by accident, but otherwise it’s wall-to-wall lies. So when the operatives at Team Clinton send an email full of smears against Bernie Sanders to the dishonest hacks who work as editors at the Washington Post, this gets assigned to a reporter whose job is to turn Team Clinton’s propaganda into a simulacrum of Objective Journalism.

The symbiotic relationship between dishonest journalists and the Democrat Party creates what Andrew Breitbart called The Democrat-Media Complex, a corrupting influence in American culture. No one with a shred of personal integrity would ever associate themselves with the Washington Post — or the New York Times, or ABC, NBC, PBS, etc. Because most Republicans have deep-seated feelings of political inferiority, however, they become as giddy as children on Christmas morning when these propaganda organs of the Democrat Party occasionally hire someone (e.g., Jake Tapper) who is noticeably less dishonest than the rest of the swindling hacks in the liberal media. Ultimately, however, the entire enterprise of Objective Journalism is an enormous fraud — a political scam — and everyone who collects a paycheck from the major media establishment is part of the problem.

If the Washington Post‘s smear operation against Bernie Sanders causes progressives to think critically about Objective Journalism, it is possible that they may actually wise up to the nature of the scam. Once someone realizes that liberal journalists are just partisan Democrats, whose “objectivity” is a gigantic lie, they might start questioning many of their core beliefs. If you can’t trust the Washington Post — and obviously, no intelligent person would trust them — then what about everything else you see in the liberal media? If journalists are lying about Bernie Sanders, what else are they lying about? Everything?

In solidarity,
Robert Stacy McCain




 

Category: Election, Media Bias

#IWD2016 Feminism as Sexual Stalinism

Posted on | March 8, 2016 | 31 Comments

Bogged down writing a long article, I took a break to read a bit of Sheila Jeffreys’ 1990 book Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution. Here are a few sentences from her conclusion (pp. 312-316):

The demolition of heterosexual desire is a necessary step on the route to women’s liberation. . . . Male-supremacist sexuality is constructed from the subordination of women. . . .
The feminist fight against male violence requires the reconstruction of male sexuality. . . .
Male sexuality must be reconstructed to sever the link between power and aggression and sexual pleasure. . . . Men’s pleasure in women’s subordination is a powerful bulwark in their resistance to women’s liberation. . . .
As women and as lesbians our hope lies only in other women. We must work towards the construction of homosexual desire and practice as a most important part of our struggle for liberation. . . .
Heterosexuality is the institution through which male-supremacist society is organized and as such it must cease to function.

Notice the flat assertions about the nature of male sexuality as inherently violent, a form of “power and aggression” that is the source of “women’s subordination.’ Notice also how Professor Jeffreys states her goals as imperative, so it is “necessary” that feminists “must” pursue these goals.

This dictatorial tone — the feminist ultimatum — and the characterization of women as engaged in a “struggle for liberation” from the demonized male oppressor, is the kind of rhetoric that demonstrates why Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It. Feminists denounce men the way Lenin denounced capitalists, and when they present their agenda, feminists sound very much like Stalin-era commissars describing the latest Five-Year Plan. No dissent is permissible, nor are feminists interested in negotiation or compromise with the “male-supremacy society,” which must be demolished and reconstructed. The oppressive “institution” of heterosexuality — a “bulwark” of male “resistance” — must “cease to function.”

Did I mention Hillary Clinton is running for president? Also, feminists are celebrating International Women’s Day.

Probably just a coincidence . . .

 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 03.08.16

Posted on | March 8, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.08.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: #MarcoMentum – Time For Rubio To Go?
Da Tech Guy: Meanwhile In The Real World
The Political Hat: The Ultimate Tool Of White Supremacy and Colonialism? The Mini-Sombrero
Michelle Malkin: Hey, Senators – Just Say No To NY’s Biggest Common Core Shill
Twitchy: “President Petty” To Skip Nancy Reagan’s Funeral For THIS?
Shark Tank: Rubio’s Presidential Campaign Dead in the Water?


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: 150 Somalis Fired At Cargill Meat Plant In Colorado
American Thinker: Hillary To Lose The FBI Primary
Conservatives4Palin: Verizon Fined $1.35 Million For Tracking Unaware Customers
Don Surber: Why Nikki Haley’s Endorsement Was Worthless In SC
Jammie Wearing Fools: Confused Trump On Foreign Policy Team – “Yes, there is a team. There’s not a team. I’m going to be forming a team”
Joe For America: Last-Ditch Assaults On Affordable Energy – The Maoist Wannabees Won’t Give Up
JustOneMinute: In Case You Didn’t Already Know
Pamela Geller: Muslims Responsible For “Worst Year In Modern History of Christian Persecution”
Shot In The Dark: At Long Last, Agreement
STUMP: No, Valerie Jarrett Is Not Why Illinois Pensions Are In Trouble
The Gateway Pundit: Only 300 Show Up For Rubio Rally In Tampa – 5,000 Expected
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Islamic State Broke, Pregnant
The Lonely Conservative: State Department To Start Cracking Down On “Microaggressions”
This Ain’t Hell: Duckworth Ignores Vets Issues
Weasel Zippers: Netanyahu Nixes Meeting With Obama
Megan McArdle: Trump Is Too Poor For A Third-Party Run
Mark Steyn: The GOP’s Circular Firing Squad


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