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What Women’s Studies Teaches

Posted on | January 15, 2016 | 24 Comments

Toni Airaksinen (@Toni_Airaksinen on Twitter) attends elite Barnard College, but she is on scholarship and comes from a blue-collar Midwestern background, which probably accounts for both her common sense and extraordinary courage:

As a student at Barnard College, one of the few women’s colleges in America, identifying as a feminist is de rigueur. Just like lamenting the cost of tuition or complaining about dining hall food, feminist ideology is a hallmark of the conversations here. Yet, I adamantly shun the contemporary feminist movement that sweeps liberal arts campuses like mine, and you should too. . . .
Contemporary feminism inculcates adherents into a cult of victimhood and exquisite vulnerability — it panders to women’s traumas and teaches them that they have been victimized solely because they are female. Women’s only sin? Living in a world dominated by the patriarchy. . . .

Here I will interrupt Ms. Airaksinen to call attention to the fact that (a) she is saying what any intelligent observer of contemporary feminism knows to be true, and yet (b) she is one of the very few young women who is willing to speak this truth. Feminist hegemony in academia — not just at Barnard, but pervading our institutions of higher education — exercises a frightening power to intimidate its critics into silence, as George Lawlor discovered at England’s Warwick University.

Even where self-identified feminists are a minority, these True Believers are very vocal and active, and the radical mob will use terroristic tactics to smear and harass anyone who dares to stand up against them. The same dynamic typifies the gay-rights movement or any other progressive “social justice” cause. If you have read Tom Wolfe’s Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak-Catchers, or Destructive Generation by Peter Collier and David Horowitz, you understand how these movements always become radicalized. But now let’s return to Ms. Airaksinen’s personal account of campus feminism:

My indoctrination into the feminist orthodoxy began when I was 15 and still in high-school, while taking classes at Cleveland State University. I signed up for Women’s Studies courses, and after reading books written by feminist luminaries like Gloria Steinem, I was hooked.
In one year, I took three Women’s Studies classes. My professors taught me that, because I was a woman, I was victimized and oppressed. Prior to enrolling, I did not see myself that way. Students were told that we are supposed to be angry. Rage was a “normal” reaction. To dismantle the systems of oppression, confrontation was required. For me, and many of my peers, these classes made us feel heady with righteousness. . . .

Again, I will interrupt Ms. Airaksinen (because I’m a patriarchal mansplainer like that) to remind you how my Sex Trouble series has highlighted the Feminist-Industrial Complex of Women’s Studies programs. Some 90,000 U.S. students annually undergo the “indoctrination into the feminist orthodoxy” Ms. Airaksinen describes, and anyone who examines Women’s Studies textbooks (e.g., Feminist Frontiers, edited by three lesbian professors) understands how these courses teach young women that they are “victimized and oppressed” and that they “are supposed to be angry” about these “systems of oppression.” It’s not just the elite schools, either. Cleveland State has a Women’s Studies department that offers both a major and minor in studying “the role of gender in shaping human societies of the past and the present.” This interdisciplinary program includes such courses as “Psychology of Women” (PSY 255), “Race, Class and Gender” (SOC 201), “Sociology of Gender” (SOC 317), “Gender Issues in Literature” (ENG 363), “American Sexual Communities and Politics” (HIS 327), “Class, Gender and Sexuality in China” (HIS 381), and “Women and the Goddess in Asian Religions” (REL 363). The department’s interim director, Professor Mary Ellen Waithe, is editor of the 4-volume series A History of Women Philosophers. In 2010, Professor Waithe’s salary was $88,567, whereas median household income in Cleveland is $26,217. So the Women’s Studies director is paid more than three times the annual income of the average Cleveland family and runs a program that teaches college girls to view themselves as victims of “systems of oppression.”

Nice work, if you can get it.

Toni Airaksinen became disillusioned with Women’s Studies at Cleveland State, but found an even worse climate at Barnard College:

I did not set out to attend a women’s college. However, as a first-generation student from a welfare household, I was on the hunt for colleges with generous financial aid. Barnard fit the bill. I brushed off my prior uncomfortable entanglements with feminism (or “social justice,” the more inclusive term), and gave it another chance at Barnard. However, not only did the same paradigms manifest themselves that I saw in my classes at Cleveland State, in fact, it was worse. The overarching narrative of victimhood and vulnerability pervaded itself through all parts of campus life, from the school newspaper to the conversations I had with other students.
My first week, for example, I was warned never to go to “East Campus” — the Columbia University residence hall where “all the rapists live.” [It is important to note that Barnard and Columbia share a campus and have intertwined academics] Men were all potential rapists, especially Columbia men. When I brought up the fact that I was probably more likely to be assaulted while in my urban home neighborhood than on the pristine Columbia campus to a friend, I was told I was definitely wrong. “Columbia protects rapists,” and “rapists live here,” I was told. My rebuttals and questions fell on deaf ears.

This deliberate slander — the insistence that every male student should be feared as a rapist, and that university administrators “protect” these sexual predators — has become so widely accepted among young feminists that Toni Airaksinen’s skepticism could result in her being labeled a “rape truther,” to use Amanda Marcotte’s term. Yet it is impossible to believe that girls at Barnard College are in more danger from male students at Columbia (annual tuition $51,008) than from random dudes on the streets of New York City, where there were 348 murders in 2015. Perhaps some Women’s Studies majors at Barnard should research the question, who is raping whom in New York City?

The fifth and final suspect in the horrific gang rape of a Brooklyn teen was nabbed at school Tuesday — while two of his accused pals claimed the girl was having sex with her dad before they got there and that she gave them consent, law enforcement sources said.
Two of the suspects — Shaquell Cooper and Ethan Phillip, both 15 — grinned as they were being hauled off to court to face charges Tuesday.
Cooper, Phillip and two alleged cohorts — Denzel Murray, 14, and Onandi Brown, 17, of Brooklyn — were charged as adults with rape, forcible compulsion, criminal sex act and sex abuse.
The fifth suspect, Travis Beckford, 17, was taken into custody at Samuel J. Tilden High School at about 11?a.m. Tuesday, according to authorities. Police filed the same charges against him, and he too was expected to be prosecuted as an adult, sources said.
Two of the teens admitted to cops that they had sex with the 18-year-old girl after finding her drunk in the Osborn Playground in Brownsville at about 9 p.m. last Thursday, but they insist it was consensual, sources said.

My hunch is that the Brooklyn gang-rape victim was not a Barnard College student, nor are Shaquell Cooper, Ethan Phillip, Denzel Murray, Onandi Brown and Travis Beckford ever likely to be residents of Columbia University’s East Campus, where “all the rapists live.” One notices that feminists only seem to care about rape when it fits their preconceived ideological beliefs about the pervasive evil of white males who are allegedly “privileged” under “the systems of oppression.”

So-called “intersectional” feminism involves the idea that it is not merely sexism which feminists must target, but also other “systems of oppression” such as racism, capitalism, imperialism and, of course, homophobia. Feminism Is Queer, as Professor Mimi Marinucci says. A movement that is anti-male, anti-marriage and anti-motherhood must ultimately also be anti-heterosexual. Yet, despite the fact that many eminent feminist intellectuals have made this point explicitly — “heterosexuality as an institution and an ideology is a cornerstone of male supremacy,” to quote Professor Charlotte Bunch — any critic of feminism who calls attention to this will be denounced as a homophobe. When feminists make heterosexuality the target of a political attack, however, is no one allowed to say a word in defense of heterosexuality? Certainly, I enjoy it and many women seem to like it, too.

If 97.7% of Americans are heterosexual, must we remain silent while the 2.3% minority denounce us as perpetrators of oppression? We are not supposed to notice the extraordinary influence of radical lesbians in academic feminism, even though this is openly acknowledged within the movement, as I explain in Sex Trouble (pp. 109-120):

In 1980, Australian feminist Denise Thompson described how “countless numbers of lesbians” joined the feminist movement because it offered them “the possibility of a cultural community of women whose primary commitment was to other women rather than to men.” Furthermore, Thompson added, the rise of the feminist movement produced a “mass exodus of feminist women from the confining structures of heterosexuality” in such numbers as to raise questions about “the institution of heterosexuality in the consciousness of those feminists who, for whatever reason, chose not to change their sexual orientation.” And why shouldn’t this have been the expected result?
Women “changed their sexual/social orientation from men to women,” Thompson explained, “in response to the feminist political critique of their personal situations of social subordination.” If the personal is political (as feminists say) and if women’s relationships with men are “confining structures” of “social subordination,” why would any feminist be heterosexual?

Once we understand this, what is the most obvious logical inference we could make about the shrieking hysteria of campus feminists who have falsely claimed that our nation’s universities are in the grip of a “rape epidemic”? If we know that there is no such epidemic — that rape is quite rare at Columbia University, no matter what her Barnard classmates tried to tell Toni Airaksinen — what could possibly explain these false assertions? Is it merely a coincidence that many campus feminists are lesbians who seek to inspire other female students to adopt an attitude of hatred, fear and resentment toward their male classmates?

“Don’t go over to East Campus,” lesbians at Barnard College tell the pretty freshman girl. “All those Columbia boys are rapists!”

This feminist propaganda requires the Barnard girl to believe that Columbia boys — brainiac nerds with 4.0 GPAs and near-perfect SAT scores — are insatiable sexual beasts. Pardon me for believing that former high school Science Club presidents and National Merit Scholar finalists are less prone to rape than Shaquell Cooper, Ethan Phillip, Denzel Murray, Onandi Brown and Travis Beckford

“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)

Feminists get angry whenever “women’s bodies are possessed by men,” and they also get angry when women don’t support feminism’s totalitarian movement to destroy civilization as we know it.




 

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In The Mailbox, 01.15.16

Posted on | January 15, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
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Don Surber: New York Values
Jammie Wearing Fools: Insane, Race-Obsessed Democrats Freak Out Over Use Of The Word “Child” In GOP Debate
Joe For America: Joe The Plumber – Actor Bradley Cooper (American Sniper) Is A Douche
JustOneMinute: Cruz Control
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Protein Wisdom: Friday Fiction – 100 Word Challenge
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The Gateway Pundit: Trump Rents Out Des Moines Theater, Offers Free Tickets To 13 Hours
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The Lonely Conservative: Did Obama Administration Lead Iran To Our Sailors?
This Ain’t Hell: LCPL Patrick Sammon Saving The World
Weasel Zippers: Fundmentalist Muslima Trolls Trump Rally, Shocked To Find His Supporters Aren’t Racist Caricatures
Megan McArdle: Next Owner Of The New Republic Needs A Better Vision
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Will Cruz Cruise or Get Trumped?

Posted on | January 15, 2016 | 43 Comments

 

The battle for Iowa seems to be coming down to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz vs. Donald Trump. Of course, there are likely to be five candidates still in the race after the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses, but the debate Thursday highlighted the clash between Cruz and Trump:

Donald Trump and Ted Cruz clashed Thursday in their sharpest — and most personal — encounters of the campaign season.
“I guess the bromance is over,” Trump told CNN’s Dana Bash after the debate.
The 2.5-hour event sponsored by Fox Business Network was filled with testy exchanges between the seven candidates on stage. Cruz and Trump are battling for first place in Iowa with less than three weeks until the state’s caucuses, though the businessman has a commanding lead nationally. And with pressure mounting for someone to emerge as an establishment alternative to Trump and Cruz, sparks flew between Marco Rubio and Chris Christie.
The much-anticipated Trump vs. Cruz showdown took a few minutes to materialize — but when it did, it packed a punch.
Cruz forcefully responded to Trump’s accusations that he isn’t eligible to be president because he was born in Canada — a controversy that Trump has only recently embraced.
“Back in September, my friend Donald said he had his lawyers look at this in every which way,” Cruz said. “There was nothing to this birther issue.”
He added: “Since September, the Constitution hasn’t changed. But the poll numbers have.”

Yes, the poll numbers have changed in Iowa, and also nationally. If you look at the Real Clear Politics average, the big story of the 2012 Republican campaign so far has been the collapse of Jeb Bush, who was averaging 17.8% nationally in July, but is now only 4.8%. The Bush campaign has raised more than $24 million, so what happened? To paraphrase the Beatles, money can’t buy Bush love:

Concerns about the impact of money on politics assume that if you buy enough ads you can elect anybody. If that were true, Jeb would be the frontrunner. Instead, he’s running way behind other candidates who, in different ways, have done a better job of addressing voters’ concerns.
It turns out that addressing voters’ concerns is more important than slick TV spots. And that means that the only campaign finance “reform” we need is for candidates (and donors) to quit tossing money at consultants and instead to speak to the American people about what the American people care about.
If nothing else comes from Jeb’s candidacy, that’s a valuable lesson indeed.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) Bush is heading toward a humiliating defeat in Iowa — no better than fourth place, and perhaps fifth or sixth — and his highly paid staff should be busy writing an eloquent concession speech: “Spend more time with my family,” blah blah blah. Meanwhile, on the Democrat side, Hillary Clinton may be approaching her own humiliation at the hands of Bernie Sanders:

Hillary Clinton has lost most of her lead over Bernie Sanders in the race to win Iowa’s Democratic presidential caucuses, a new Iowa Poll shows.
Clinton, who has been the favorite all along, now leads Sanders by just 2 percentage points in The Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll. That’s down from 9 percentage points a month ago.
Clinton is now the top choice of 42 percent of likely Democratic caucusgoers, compared with Sanders’ 40 percent, the poll finds. The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.

As recently as early November, Clinton had a 30-point lead over Sanders in the RCP average of Iowa polls, but there has been a sharp shift in the past month. In early December, a Quinnipiac poll of Iowa Democrats showed Hillary leading Bernie by 11 points, but the latest Quinnipiac poll in Iowa has Sanders leading 49-44. News flash: People don’t like Hillary Clinton. Her own husband doesn’t like Hillary Clinton.




 

Category: Debates, Donald Trump, Election, Hillary Clinton, Iowa, Polls, Ted Cruz

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.14.16

Posted on | January 14, 2016 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


SOTW


TOP NEWS
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A police APC parked near the scene of an attack in central Jakarta

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Three Winners Reported In $1.5 Billion Powerball Drawing
Winners in California, Florida and Tennessee

Al Jazeera America To Shut Down
Herring Boradcasting, owners of One America News Network, has already expressed interest



POLITICS
TRUMP, CONSERVATIVE PUNDITS HIT BACK AT HALEY FOR SOTU “RESPONSE”

Governor Nikki Haley, R-SC

Ingraham, Limbaugh, Coulter join Trump in expressing unhappiness with Haley’s speech
Meanwhile, White House praises her courage

Did Ted Cruz Fail To Disclose Bank Loans In His 2012 Senate Run?


NJ To Debate Raising Smoking Age To 21

Clinton Has Sanders On Defensive Over Health Care

SecDef Carter Lauds Push Against Daesh In Speech To Troops

Analysis: Obama Twisted Facts In SOTU Speech



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Brent Slides To Another Twelve-Year Low As Iran Prepares To Re-Enter Market: Brent $29.73, WTI $30.53
GE Moving HQ To Boston
Fed’s Beige Book Sees Economy Expanding As Wages Remain Flat
FDA Approves Genetically Engineered Potato
Uber Receives Nearly $2 Billion From Chinese Firms
Anheuser-Busch Selling $46 Billion In Bonds To Finance Merger
Snoop Dogg Would Like Bill Gates To “Fix His Sh!t”
Google Creates Virtual Reality Division
Samsung To Make Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 Chips
Amazon Web Services To Go Head To Head With Microsoft Azure In Canada
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SPORTS
NOTORIOUS MISERS, MARLINS NONETHELESS SPLASH OUT ON DEE GORDON

The NL batting champ celebrates after scoring the winning run in a game against the Red Sox last year

Tightfisted Miami spends $50 million over five years on Gordon’s extension

Browns Hire Hue Jackson, Manziel Probably A Goner

Bennett Scores Four As Calgary Burns Panthers

Durant Leads Thunder Past Mavs After Westbrook’s Ejection

Blue Jackets Beat Leafs 3-1

#9 Duke Blows Double-Digit Lead, Loses To Clemson

Warriors Fall To Nuggets Despite Curry’s 38

Flyers Surge Late To Edge Bruins

Nats, Ramos Avoid Arbitration, Agree To One Year At $5.35 Million



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
JESSICA SIMPSON BRINGS THE HEAT

From demure full-length dress to sheer miniskirt in one day

Hints that more children may be in the offing

Friends Reunion Coming To NBC

Katy Perry & Orlando Bloom Fling Already Fizzled

Gwen Stefani Is Returning To The Voice

NBC Exec: Jimmy Fallon Doesn’t Have A Drinking Problem


Former NFL Star Lawrence Phillips Found Dead In His Cell

Former Nickolodeon Star Charged With DUI

Amber Heard In Talks To Star In Aquaman

Stars Bring Glitz & Glam To Biennial UNICEF Ball



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Iran Apology Video Counters Obama Narrative On Release Of Captured Sailors
Turkey Says Istanbul Bomber Was Listed As Refugee
Projected Win By Taiwan’s Tsai Prompts Head Tilts From Beijing To D.C.
Kurdish Rebels Hit Police Station In SE Turkey; Five Killed, 39 Wounded
Suicide Attack On Pakistan Polio Clinic Kills 15
More Aid Heading To Besieged Syrian Town
Senior British Minister Hints He May Campaign To Leave EU
Denmark Extends Border Checks, Debates Immigration Reform
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Israeli Foreign Ministry Summons Swedish Ambassador Over Wallstrom’s Encouragement Of Terror



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This Ain’t Hell: Ninth Circuit Overturns Part Of Stolen Valor Law
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Courtesy Is Now ‘Rape Culture’

Posted on | January 13, 2016 | 89 Comments

In an astounding leap of feminist logic, Berkeley law student Courtney Fraser condemns chivalry as “benevolent sexism,” blaming “sexual violence against women” on “the perpetuation of rape culture, which normalizes this violence.” Of course, “the age of chivalry is gone,” as Edmund Burke observed in 1790, but feminists are fiercely determined to eradicate whatever vestiges of the “unbought grace of life” yet remain. Men’s obligation of courtesy toward women is patriarchal oppression, and any sense a man may have of a duty to protect women against insult or injury must be abolished, Ms. Fraser insists:

“[R]ape culture, or the complex of images and ideologies
in society that normalize sexual violence,
depends on chivalry for its existence. More precisely,
it depends on the attendant ideologies that place women
on a pedestal and strip them of agency in the process.”

This assertion is perhaps as startling to most readers in the 21st century as it would have been to Edmund Burke more than 200 years ago, but this is where feminist ideology must inevitably lead. The pursuit of radical “equality” requires lunatic madness, and everyone who climbs aboard the feminist bandwagon must understand that the movement’s ultimate destination is Bedlam.

What is perhaps most interesting in Ms. Fraser’s argument is her sources. Her first cited source is Susan Griffin, whose 1971 article “Rape: The All-American Crime” was first published in the radical journal Ramparts. A veteran of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Griffin portrayed rape as a political crime — a manifestation of women’s oppression under the sexist regime of male supremacy — and asserted that “rape and the fear of rape are a daily part of every woman’s consciousness.” To support her claim that “forcible rape is the most frequently committed violent crime in America today,” Griffin engaged in what has since become a well-known feminist tactic, statistical creativity:

In 1968, 31,060 rapes were reported. According to the FBI and independent criminologists, however, to approach accuracy this figure must be multiplied by a factor of ten to compensate for the fact that most rapes are not reported; when these compensatory mathematics are used, there are more rapes committed than aggravated assaults and homicides.

The use of this kind of “compensatory mathematics” to exaggerate the prevalence of rape is necessary to the feminist project of blaming all men for “violence against women.” Feminists employ a deceptive rhetoric that generalizes responsibility, so that wrongdoing is always blamed on a collective group (males) rather than on the individual. While this collectivist worldview amounts to an unjust accusation against law-abiding males, it also simultaneously empowers feminists to assert their authority to speak as victims of collective oppression.

“Women are an oppressed class. . . .
“We identify the agents of our oppression as men. . . . All men have oppressed women.”
— Redstockings, 1969

Feminism divides humanity into two groups — men (the oppressors) and women (the oppressed) — and thereby establishes a double-standard wherein no woman is ever responsible for her failures or disappointments, and everything men say or do is condemned as tainted by “male supremacy.” A critical student of feminist discourse notices their use of jargon terms (“sexism,” “misogyny,” “objectification,” “patriarchy,” etc.) all of which are more or less interchangeable synonyms, pejorative ways of labeling the ordinary behavior of normal men. Any man who admires a woman’s beauty is a sexist who has objectified her with the male gaze, according to feminist ideology, so that men are subject to denunciation merely for looking at women.

A key function of this rhetoric is to allow extraordinary privileged women to assert that they are actually victims of oppression. We are not surprised to learn, for example, that Courtney Fraser is an alumna of Reed College (annual tuition, $47,760) and that at this elite private college in Oregon, Ms. Fraser majored in linguistics and wrote her senior thesis on the “Construction of Gender in Instant Messaging.” Learning how to pursue social justice is a very expensive endeavor, and the secret ingredient of feminist ideology is Daddy’s money.

Among the sources cited in Ms. Fraser’s anti-chivalry treatise, in addition to Susan Griffin (from Rape: The Politics of Consciousness, 1978), are Sandra Lee Bartky (from The Politics of Women’s Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior, a Women’s Studies textbook edited by Rose Weitz and Samantha Kwan) and bell hooks’ notorious anti-male treatise deceptively titled Feminism Is for Everybody. Ms. Fraser also cites such eminent “Second Wave” feminists as Shulamith Firestone (The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, 1970), Susan Brownmiller (Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, 1975), Andrea Dworkin (Pornography: Men Possessing Women, 1981) and Catharine MacKinnon’s 1989 Toward a Feminist Theory of the State.

However, the work most often cited by Ms. Fraser is Judith Butler’s 2004 book Undoing Gender. Professor Butler is the leading proponent of feminist gender theory — the social construction of the gender binary within the heterosexual matrix — and one gathers that Ms. Fraser’s plan to end “rape culture” is simply to eliminate all differences between men and women. She contends (p. 141) that “gender norms, and the rigid binary division of gender, must be broken down if the rates at which rape is committed and acquitted are to decrease.” Ms. Fraser claims (p. 190) that Professor Butler’s writing on butch/femme lesbian roles “presents a compelling argument that identities that queer the gender or sexuality paradigm have the potential, if legitimized, to undermine  the hegemony of the normative status quo.” In a footnote (p. 145), Ms. Fraser laments “cultural narratives and stereotypes . . . based largely on heteronormative and cisgender categories and relationships,” and she finally concludes (p. 203):

Feminist advocates should seek to shape the law to accommodate and protect those with nonnormative genders and sexualities — not only as an end in itself, but as a means of delegitimizing the gender-based norms that support rape culture through destabilizing gender in the first instance.

Feminism Is Queer, as Professor Mimi Marinucci says, and Ms. Fraser’s insistence that “gender-based norms . . . support rape culture” reflects the anti-male/anti-heterosexual ideology now taught in university Women’s Studies programs. Feminism promotes an attitude of sexual paranoia (“Fear and Loathing of the Penis”) which reflects a belief that heterosexual intercourse is so inherently harmful that no woman should ever consent to participate in it. Feminists argue that “heterosexuality as an institution and an ideology is a cornerstone of male supremacy” (to quote Professor Charlotte Bunch), that “men have forced women into heterosexuality in order to exploit them” (to quote Professor Celia Kitzinger), that “patriarchal domination” is based on “the coercive power of compulsory heterosexuality” (to quote Professor Stevi Jackson) and, to quote a popular Women’s Studies textbook by Oregon State University professors Susan M. Shaw and Janet Lee, “Heterosexism is maintained by the illusion that heterosexuality is the norm.”

In the 21st century, it would be considered an insult to accuse a feminist of heterosexuality. One notes the use of first-person plural pronouns in a 2013 comment Courtney Fraser wrote at an Oregon newspaper’s website in support of same-sex marriage, as well as Ms. Fraser’s use of the phrase “us queer folks” in a blog post about the 2013 Windsor decision. We may take this as signifying Ms. Fraser’s refusal to participate in “the normative status quo” of “heteronormative and cisgender categories and relationships.” While her non-participation in heterosexuality is entirely her own private choice, however, who is Courtney Fraser to present herself as an authority fit to pass judgment on the choices of those who do participate in heterosexuality? That is to say, why must the rest of us be lectured in this manner by a law school student who proclaims that chivalry is the cause of “rape culture,” which Ms. Fraser proposes to eliminate by “destabilizing gender”? And speaking of insane feminists obsessed with rape, Alexandra Brodsky (Yale Law, Class of 2016) is angry at Democrat Bernie Sanders for saying this:

“Rape and assault is rape and assault. Whether it takes place on campus or on a dark street. And if a student rapes a fellow student, that has got to be understood to be a very serious crime. It has got to get outside of the school and have a police investigation. And that has to take place. Too many schools are seeing this as well it’s a student issue, let’s deal with it. I disagree with that. It is a crime and it has to be treated as a serious crime. And you are seeing now the real horror of many women who have been assaulted or raped, sitting in a classroom alongside somebody who raped them. Rape is a very, very serious crime and it has to be prosecuted. It has to be dealt with.”

What’s wrong with that? Well, campus rape is a “civil rights issue,” Ms. Brodsky says: “To treat gender violence as only a crime is to give up on the project of campus sex equality.” This is why Ms. Brodsky and other feminists demand the use of campus Title IX proceedings — where accused students are denied due-process rights that would be guaranteed to any common criminal in a court of law — to punish males based upon the mere accusation of sexual misconduct. More than 100 male students have filed lawsuits against universities, claiming they were falsely accused and unjustly punished in these campus kangaroo courts.

Ms. Brodsky and her feminist comrades have used a non-existent “rape epidemic” to incite a climate of sexual hysteria, which has resulted in male students being expelled from universities because of accusations that are not only unsubstantiated, but actually contradicted by evidence and testimony. The kind of “campus equality” Ms. Brodsky advocates turns out to mean that heterosexuality is effectively criminalized on college campuses, because no male student can ever be certain that the girl who says “yes” tonight won’t change her mind tomorrow and accuse him of rape (because “regret equals rape”).

Feminism is a totalitarian movement that promotes anti-male hate propaganda in law, in politics, in media and especially in education. No honest person could support such a movement, which is why “feminist” has become a synonym for liar.




 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 01.13.16

Posted on | January 13, 2016 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Sorry about the lack of posting. It’s been a difficult week.


OVER THE TRANSOM
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#RollTide: Alabama Crimson Tide Defeats Clemson 45-40 for National Title

Posted on | January 11, 2016 | 23 Comments

 

Defense wins football games. Senior linebacker Reggie Ragland (above) and his University of Alabama teammates know this, and they face a tough challenge against the undefeated #1-ranked Clemson Tigers in the BCS championship game. Never mind anything else the analysts and commentators tell you. If ‘Bama’s defense can stop the Tigers, the Crimson Tide will win tonight.

The game may be decided in the first quarter. Clemson’s high-scoring offense has been held to less than 24 points only twice during the past season, against Louisville Sept. 17 and against Florida State Nov. 7. But Alabama has only given up 24 points once, in their 43-37 loss to Ole Miss Sept. 19, and the Crimson Tide’s defense was untouchable in their 38-0 shutout of Michigan State in the Dec. 31 Cotton Bowl. Because Clemson usually expects to score a lot of points, if Alabama can keep the Tigers off the scoreboard during the first quarter, this will give the Crimson Tide a huge psychological edge. (Trash talk, Clemson?)

Stopping Clemson will not be easy, of course. Their quarterback, Deshaun Watson, threw for 3,699 yards and 31 touchdowns this year and — perhaps more importantly — Watson also ran for 1,032 yards and 12 touchdowns. Watson is a very dangerous threat, and the Alabama defense will have its hands full. But the Crimson Tide’s defensive front line is the best in college football. ‘Bama rotates eight players in a three-man front, and seldom uses more than one linebacker in pass rush, keeping seven men in coverage. If the Tide defense can shut down Clemson’s running game and force Watson into 3rd-and-long situations, Alabama should make the Tigers pay a price in sacks and interceptions.

Alabama’s offense, of course, has the Heisman winner Derrick Henry at running back, and if it were up to me, the play-calling would be “Henry right, Henry left, Henry up the middle” until Clemson shows they can stop the run. But Coach Nick Saban also has a very good, but underrated quarterback in Jake Coker, who has thrown for 2,775 yards and 19 TDs. Coker had the best game of his career against Michigan State, throwing for 286 yards and two touchdowns.

Still, the key for the Tide will be defense. Defense wins football games.

UPDATE: Derrick Henry ran 50 yards for a touchdown. Alabama 7, Clemson 0.

UPDATE II: Capping a 91-yeard drive helped by a pass interference penalty, Watson threw 31 yards for a touchdown.

Alabama 7, Clemson 7. Damn it.

UPDATE III: Clemson ends the first quarter with a 73-yard drive, concluding with an 11-yard touchdown pass by Watson.

Clemson 14, Alabama 7. Damn it.

UPDATE IV: Eddie Jackson intercepted a Watson pass at the Clemson 42, and seven plays later, Derrick Henry ran for his second touchdown with 9:35 remaining in the first half.

Alabama 14, Clemson 14.

UPDATE V: A blown coverage assignment by a Clemson safety left Alabama receiver O.J. Howard wide open on the sideline, and Jake Coker hit him for a 53-yard touchdown pass with 12:53 left in the third quarter.

Alabama 21, Clemson 14.

UPDATE VI: Clemson forced to settle for a field goal.

Alabama 21, Clemson 17.

UPDATE VII: Clemson drives 60 yards in 9 plays and scores a touchdown on a 1-yard run by Wayne Gallman with 4:48 remaining in the third quarter.

Clemson 24, Alabama 21. Damn it.

UPDATE VIII: Alabama settles for a field goal.

Alabama 24, Clemson 24.

UPDATE IX: WOW! WOW! Alabama 31, Clemson 24.

UPDATE X: Clemson gets a field goal with 7:47 left in the game.

Alabama 31, Clemson 27.

UPDATE XI: Alabama’s Kenyan Drake returns the kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown.

Alabama 38, Clemson 27.

UPDATE XII: Deshaun Watson and the Tigers don’t quit. Clemson scores a touchdown on a 15-yard Watson pass, tries for a two-point conversion and misses.

Alabama 38, Clemson 33.

UPDATE XIII: Exciting touchdown drive! Coker hit O.J. Howard on a swing pass and Howard raced 63 yards down the sideline. Coker ran for a first down at the Clemson 3-yard line and then, on 3rd-and-goal from the 1, Derrick Henry plunged over for the touchdown.

Alabama 45, Clemson 33.

UPDATE XIV: Clemson gets a touchdown pass, then unsuccessfully attempts an onside kick.

FINAL: Alabama 45, Clemson 40.

 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Teenage Wasteland

Posted on | January 10, 2016 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Unlike most of the other posts on this site, the titles for the FMJRA and Rule 5 Sunday have no particular significance, no connection to the contents, except as a key to whatever young woman (or not so young woman) I’m using as an appetizer this week. Set the Objectifying Male Gaze cannons to Stunning! In this case, the former Elizabeth Wooldridge Grant, better known to pop music fans as Lana del Rey, who coincidentally has a song out called “Prom Song (Gone Wrong)” which everyone thinks is called “Teenage Wasteland”, which used to be what everyone thought The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” was called. This has been your bit of music trivia for the weekend. In any case, the management reminds you that many of the following links are to nekkid or almost-naked women. and we’re not responsible for what happens if you click on them while people who can and will make your life even more miserable than it is already are watching. Discretion: use it.

Not actually named Lana Del Rey.
(inb4 screams of “Cultural Appropriation!”)

Blogfodder debuts with Rule 5: Girlfight!, followed by Political Clown Parade with Flowing Curves of Beauty, Goodstuff with the wet, wild, wobbly, and willing Jennifer Aniston, and Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism chips in with Rule 5 Animal Rights Friday and a Saturday Ebbamageddon, The Last Tradition presents Eva Herzigova and Marie Blanchard, and First Street Journal celebrates the women in Switzerland’s army.

EBL’s thundering herd this week has Lola Kirke from Mozart in the Jungle, Hillary Knight, Ice Ice Wild Card, Packers & Redskins, AFC Wild Card Playoff Cheerleaders, and Kansas City Chiefs Cheerleaders.

A View from the Beach brings us A Pretty Normal Little Liar – Ashley Benson, Gone Fishin’, Did “Climate Change” Chase Bigfoot from Asia to America?, Star Wars Gone Wild, The World’s First Smart Bra?, Not Enough Menhaden for the Bay’s Stripers, Johnny Depp Pays Homage to His Better Half, Gratuitous Monday Morning Kate Upton, Can the Redskins Count Coup on the Cowboys? and Bassline Sunday.

Soylent Siberia is serving Cafe Au Lait, followed by Monday Motivationer Old School, Tuesday Titillation, Humpday Hawtness Windblown, Fursday Trim, Corsets Etc.,  and Weekender: Licking the Spoon.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Angelique Boyer, his Vintage Babe is Leslie Brooks, Sex in Advertising is covered by an angel (?), and of course there’s the obligatory 49ers cheerleaders. At Dustbury, it’s Akina Nakamori and Taylor Swift.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit your links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is midnight on Saturday, January 16.


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