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More Feminist Fear and Loathing

Posted on | January 19, 2016 | 101 Comments

Do you remember @RebeccaWatson? In case you’ve forgotten, she was the total smokin’ hotness of atheist chickdom whose encounter with a nerd in an elevator became a feminist cause célèbre in 2011: “Stop sexualizing me!”

I’d forgotten all about her until today, while mining for insanity on Feminist Tumblr, I saw a quote (tagged #rape culture”) that began, “Men who want to flirt with women have to realize: Women live in a state of continual vigilance about sexual safety.” And when I clicked on the source, I discovered that this was a commentary (by Lindsay Beyerstein) about Watson’s 2011 “ElevatorGate” encounter. The claim that women — all women — “live in a state of continual vigilance about sexual safety” is a typical expression of the feminist paranoia I’ve called “Fear and Loathing of the Penis.” Men are required to compensate for this irrational attitude, Ms. Beyerstein insisted:

If a female stranger is wary around you, it is not because she suspects you are a rapist, or that all men are rapists. It’s because a general level of circumspection is what vigilance requires. Don’t take it personally. . . .
Vigilance isn’t just a game or an arbitrary set of social conventions. It’s imperfect insurance against being raped with impunity. . . .
So, guys, if you want to flirt with a woman, your job is put her at ease, not to ratchet up her anxiety level.

Ms. Beyerstein, and feminists generally, lack empathy. A guy with harmless intentions is aware of his own innocence. It is insulting to accuse an innocent man of bad motives when he has done nothing wrong, and when there is no reason to suspect that he would do something wrong, other than the fact that he is male. Feminists are constantly lecturing about pervasive male evil in this insulting way, as in the case of Liat Kaplan ranting about “street harassment” in New York City:

There’s no point to a guy yelling, “Hey sexy baby” at me out of the passenger window of a car as it speeds past. Even if I was into creepy misogynists and wanted to give him my number, I couldn’t. The car didn’t even slow down. But that’s okay, because he wasn’t actually hitting on me. The point wasn’t to proposition me or chat me up. The only point was to remind me, and all women, that our bodies are his to stare at, assess, comment on, even touch. “Hey sexy baby” is the first part of a sentence that finishes, “this is your daily message from the patriarchy, reminding you that your body is public property”. This so-called “minor” sexual harassment is the tax you pay for daring to exist as a woman in public. . . .

(Guys yelling rude things out of car windows are “the patriarchy.”)

Even the most “minor” street harassment is a tile in your mental mosaic of fear and distrust and vulnerability. Piece by piece, it builds into a picture of some larger violence always lingering on the edge of your thoughts. I’m by no means comparing a guy yelling, “hey, sexy baby” to sexual assault, but the culture that makes this man feel entitled to comment on your body, on your existing in public as a woman, is the same one that makes men feel entitled to sex, and makes some feel entitled to take it by force. “Hey baby” is a symptom of the disease of rape culture.

Let me give you a hint, Ms. Kaplan: Guys who yell rude things out of car windows don’t read feminist blogs. You are directing your lecture toward the wrong audience, don’t you see? But certainly you must realize that guys in New York City yelling out of car windows are not “the patriarchy” — these are lower-class men, not beneficiaries of “privilege.” And what are the chances your lecture about “the disease of rape culture” is going to be read by any actual rapists? Very close to zero, I’d guess.

However, there are no feminists crazier than Canadian feminists, and Canada’s leading feminist is Meghan Murphy:

Female students are under constant threat on college campuses — afraid to walk home at night, raped at parties, after the bar, and in their dorms.

Fear! Fear! Fear! Ms. Murphy calls for a “feminist revolution . . . a cultural shift that addresses male entitlement, porn culture, and the objectifying male gaze; an end to masculinity and, more broadly, gendered socialization that says men are actors whereas women are passive recipients of men’s ‘action’ — that is, the idea that men are to ‘get’ sex from women, which positions coercion as a normal and expected part of heterosexual relations.” After more than four decades of radical feminism, this “revolution” hasn’t materialized, however, and Ms. Murphy is not optimistic:

In the meantime, women live in fear. . . .
And who is it we fear? Is it other women? . . . Is it a genderless, faceless, bodiless being? No. It is a male. A male with a penis that he may or may not use as a weapon.

She proposes a curfew for men. Yes, Canadian men, your nation’s leading feminist wants you kept off the streets at night.

David Thompson comments:

Why, it almost sounds like a gratuitous power fantasy, the product of an unwell mind. . . .
Clearly, Ms Murphy is determined to upend idle stereotypes of feminists as batty misandrists unmoored from reality.

Feminism is totalitarian. On Tumblr, a feminist argues that “women’s studies classes should be sex-segregated” to provide “women an invaluable opportunity to speak freely about their oppression . . . With men in the room, no healing can take place.” This prompted others to say that men talk too much in class, an experience that one woman said made her want “to tell them to shut the f–k up, and then throw myself in the sun.” Feminists cannot stand to hear men talk, you see.




 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox, 01.19.16

Posted on | January 19, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox, 01.19.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Vivian James alerts us to another front in the Culture War.
(h/t The Political Hat)


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Transgenders Stoned
Da Tech Guy: The MSM’s “I’m Not Defending Bill Clinton” Caucus
The Political Hat: Metal Misogyny Isn’t
Michelle Malkin: Marco Rubio’s Second Worst Immigration Bill
Twitchy: Bristol Palin Slams Ted Cruz – “Makes Me Hope My Mom Does Endorse Trump”


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Family Of Robert Levinson “Betrayed And Devastated” By Obama Administration
American Thinker: Why The Media Don’t Want You To See The Must-See 13 Hours
Conservatives4Palin: Portland Community College To Devote An Entire Month To Whiteness Shaming
Don Surber: What Trump Really Is Like
Jammie Wearing Fools: Mexican Cartel Expert – Clown Sean Penn Worse Than Entry-Level Journalist
Joe For America: Nutso Nancy Pelosi Chases Congressman Across House Floor
JustOneMinute: Now What?
Pamela Geller: German Refugee Aid Worker – “I Can’t Take It Any More”
Protein Wisdom: RIP Glenn Frey
Shot In The Dark: Why We Fight, Part IV – The Underdog
STUMP: RIP, Boomers – Death Comes For Us All
The Gateway Pundit: Trump – Obama Has Done A “Terrible Job” For African-Americans
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – World Still Going To Shit
The Lonely Conservative: Socialist French President Declares State Of Economic Emergency
This Ain’t Hell: Petraeus’ Stars On Chopping Block?
Weasel Zippers: Duke Student Claims Free Speech, Murder Separated “Only By A Matter of Degree”
Megan McArdle: Self-Driving Cars Will Thrive With More Regulation
Mark Steyn: The Man Who Sold The World


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Drunk Sex Is Rape? Barnard College Promotes Alcohol-Related Accusations

Posted on | January 19, 2016 | 41 Comments

 

“Alcohol [does not equal] Consent” — flyers bearing this bold headline have been posted in dormitories at Barnard College, according to Toni Airaksinen, a student at the elite all-women’s sister school of Columbia University. The flyers paraphrase a policy issued last year by Barnard’s Department of Public Safety, which states (p. 35):

The use of alcohol and other drugs can have unintended consequences. Alcohol and other drugs can lower inhibitions and create an atmosphere of confusion over whether consent is freely and affirmatively given. The perspective of a reasonable person will be the basis for determining whether one should have known about the impact of alcohol and other drugs on another person’s ability to give consent. Providing alcohol or other substances to another person without their knowledge or for the purpose of incapacitation to coerce sexual activity is a violation of the Policy. Consent is required regardless of whether the person initiating the act is under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs. The personal use of alcohol and other drugs never makes someone at fault for being sexually assaulted.

The Barnard policy states that accusers “will not be subject to the College’s Code of Conduct action for violations of alcohol and/or drug use policies” related to the alleged sexual assault. This preemptive amnesty for sexual assault accusers involved in incidents of underage drinking was required under a New York state law past last year, the Columbia Spectator reported in September:

As mandated by “Enough is Enough”—the state law passed in July—Columbia changed its language around the definition of affirmative consent, added a statewide student’s bill of rights, and changed its policy regarding drug and alcohol amnesty so that those who report sexual assault under the influence of alcohol and drugs will not be penalized. . . .
Though the policy now fully complies with Enough is Enough, Goldberg said that changes in the policy were not exclusively the result of the New York state law. “Most of the changes required by the New York law were also reflective of suggestions from students or other participants in the process,” she said.
In drafting the new policy, Goldberg said that she met with both students and lawyers who have participated in the process, in addition to some activist groups like No Red Tape and CASV.
“The updates reflect extensive comments from students throughout the University — including students who participated in the process, either as parties or as witnesses, but many students beyond that,” Goldberg said.
“Everyone’s interest is to have the policy work well and to have students feel comfortable accessing all of the resources on- and off-campus that provide support for experiences of gender-based misconduct,” Goldberg said.

The Spectator article was accompanied by a photo of two feminist protesters at Columbia, one of whom displayed a poster with the slogan: “If they aren’t sober they can’t consent.”

 

Research indicates that alcohol use is involved in at least 47% of all reported sexual assault incidents at colleges and universities.

Columbia was the scene of a high-profile protest by Emma Sulkowicz, who carried a mattress around campus to publicize her claim that she was raped by fellow student Paul Nungesser. Cleared of the charge in multiple investigations, Nungesser filed a lawsuit against Columbia. His lawsuit accuses the university of violating his rights by giving Sulkowicz academic credit for her protest, and quotes text messages from Sulkowicz that indicate she consented to sex with Nungesser.

While the administration at Columbia has vastly increased its efforts to deal with sexual assault, student activists are demanding more, the Columbia Spectator reported Monday:

A year has passed since Columbia expanded the size, staffing, and hours of the Sexual Violence Response offices after continued student activism.
But No Red Tape is pushing the Rape Crisis/Anti-Sexual Violence Center to expand the resources it offers again, demanding that the center’s three locations remain open 24 hours and employ professional staff trained in trauma response and cultural sensitivity.
The RC/ASVC is a confidential on-campus emergency resource center that immediately connects survivors to trained advocates who provide them with crisis relief and information about medical resources and reporting, and who will connect students to other trauma-related resources. SVR recently expanded the center to include three locations: Lerner Hall, Barnard Hall, and Columbia University Medical Center. . . .
The activist group [No Red Tape] is directing its request at the Office of University Life as part of an ongoing Demand a SAAFE Columbia campaign, which advocates for increased support, accessibility, accountability, funding, and enforcement of sexual violence policies by the University. Members of No Red Tape met with Executive Vice President for University Life Suzanne Goldberg as well as Interim Executive Director of Sexual Violence Response Suraiya Baluch in December to discuss their demands. . . .
While all Ivy League institutions, including Columbia, provide students with a 24/7 emergency hotline, Columbia would be the first to offer a 24-hour confidential on-campus sexual violence support center. . . .
Currently, Columbia’s RC/ASVC is the only university rape crisis center certified by the New York State Department of Health. In order for SVR to maintain its certification, all advocates must repeat 40 hours of trauma response training and be recertified every year. Representatives from SVR said that the training curriculum is informed by a social justice perspective, and that it recognizes the intersections of identity, oppression, and violence against women.




 

Category: Crime, Education, Feminism, Sex Trouble

GOP to NBC: Drop Dead

Posted on | January 19, 2016 | 15 Comments

Matthew Boyle at Breitbart reports:

The Republican National Committee (RNC) officially voted on Monday afternoon to sever its business relationship with NBC News for the previously-scheduled Feb. 26, 2016, GOP presidential primary debate, Breitbart News has learned.
The Debate Committee for the RNC met via conference call and after hearing updates from RNC chairman Reince Priebus officially voted to cancel the partnership with NBC, according to sources on the call. The vote was unanimous.
After the October debate hosted by NBC partner CNBC — in which co-moderator John Harwood was roundly criticized for a poor performance –the RNC suspended its relationship with NBC News over that upcoming Houston debate.
“I write to inform you that pending further discussion between the Republican National Committee (RNC) and our presidential campaigns, we are suspending the partnership with NBC News for the Republican primary debate at the University of Houston on February 26, 2016,” Priebus wrote to NBC News chairman Andy Lack back in late October. . . .
In response, NBC News signaled in a statement at the time that it thought the situation could be resolved. . . .
Clearly, however, despite NBC’s previous hopes that the RNC would reinstate the network as a moderator of the upcoming debate, the RNC has officially moved forward with formal actions to end the network’s plans for the Houston debate. . . .
The move by the RNC to formally extricate NBC News from the process is sure to seriously harm the media organization’s reputation, and its financial bottom line. Typically, networks make millions of dollars in ad revenue with debate moderation due to the extraordinarily high viewership.

(Via Memeorandum.)

 

Category: Debates, Media Bias, NBC, Republicans

Democrats Against Justice

Posted on | January 19, 2016 | 2 Comments

The Democrat Party is a criminal protection racket:

If you are a Democrat, the safest place in the world to be is under the authority of other Democrats. Lois Lerner, the criminal who used the Internal Revenue Service as a political weapon on behalf of the Democratic party, was never going to be charged, or even disciplined, by her overseers in the IRS or at the Department of Justice. After pulling one of the worst Gestapo stunts in modern American history, she’s receiving a nice, comfortable pension, and those who enabled her crimes were given fat bonuses. There was no way that Eric Holder or Loretta Lynch was going to charge Lerner — what do you imagine the odds are that they’ll discover their integrity in the matter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee?

(Hat-tip: Maetenloch at Ace of Spades HQ.)

 

Category: Democrats, Hillary Clinton

In The Mailbox: 01.18.16

Posted on | January 18, 2016 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Sex, Lies, And Catfishing At UVA
Da Tech Guy: Ted Cruz Springs The Monty Python Apology Trap
Louder With Crowder: GOP Debate Cartoon Parody
Proof Positive: 13 Hours Opened Thursday Night. Why Haven’t You Seen It Yet?
American Irony: If Things Don’t Work Out For Bernie…
The Political Hat: Planned Parenthood Loves AIDS
Doug Powers: If Bernie Sanders And Michael Moore Want To Take Flint’s Water Problem To The Top…
Twitchy: Code Pink Busting On @DWStweets For Sunday Night #DemDebate


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Bernie Sanders Is A Hardline Communist
American Thinker: “Peddling Fiction” Or Repealing Math?
BLACKFIVE: Exclusive Interview With Newt Gingrich About His Latest Novel Duplicity
Conservatives4Palin: Why Sanctuary Cities Threaten Dems
Don Surber: Enjoy Your Habib, Feminists
Jammie Wearing Fools: Muslim Teens Stone Transgender Women In Germany
Joe For America: Benghazi Witness Confirms What Hillary’s Been Hiding
JustOneMinute: Frequently Unasked Questions
Pamela Geller: In Sweden, State-Funded Muslim “Sniper” Training
Protein Wisdom: Obama Discusses The Patriarchal Conspiracy Against Tampons
Shot In The Dark: Why We Fight, Part III – The Public Good
STUMP: On New York (And Chicago, And Connecticut, And Boston) Values
The Gateway Pundit: Three Americans Kidnapped In Baghdad By Shiite Militia, Probably Linked To Iran
The Jawa Report: JUICE Mind Control Moves To Jupiter
The Lonely Conservative: Iran Gets Huge Windfall Thanks To Obama Deal
This Ain’t Hell: Army Holds Back Decision On Bergdahl Awards
Weasel Zippers: When Bernie Argues For Single Payer, Remind Him What Happened In Vermont
Megan McArdle: Gaming Of Obamacare Poses A Fatal Threat
Mark Steyn: Hold the Mohamed Salad


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Rule 5 Sunday: Otakon Vegas Edition

Posted on | January 17, 2016 | 13 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I spent part of my weekend at Otakon Vegas, a smaller and much more tolerable version of the massive anime convention in Baltimore. It had many of the usual anime convention features: a sizable artists’ alley for the benefit of young amateur/semi-pro artists, a massive dealers’ room, a dance, a rave, and some panels & workshops. I avoided most of these since I had to work on Friday and was there mainly to drum up interest in the National Fantasy Fan Federation in any case. Still, I took the opportunity on Sunday to lounge about in one of the video rooms, which was showing Full Metal Panic: FUMOFFU?, a more romantic and comedic offshoot of the original Full Metal Panic! series. The leading lady of both series, Kaname Chidori, is a psychic who’s been assigned a bodyguard (Sosuke Sagara) who has spent his life since childhood as a mercenary and has zero concept of what a normal civilian teenager’s life is like. Hilarity ensues. Our appetizer for today is from the beach episode of Full Metal Panic: FUMOFFU? and shows Kaname in her swimsuit.

Impossible to cosplay properly because NOBODY has hair like that.

As usual, many of the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW. If we have to tell you not to click on them at inappropriate times and places, you are probably too stupid to be reading this blog and should just close the tab now. In any event, your problems aren’t our problems.

Leading off this week is Political Clown Parade with another installment of Flowing Curves of Beauty, followed by Goodstuff, who enlists Britt Ekland as our tour guide to the far reaches of the cyberworld. Ninety Miles from Tyranny serves up Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns; Blogfodder has Bad Girls, and Animal Magnetism has Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon. The Last Tradition chips in with Olivia Munn and Cara Delevingne, while First Street Journal pays tribute to Italian women in uniform. We also heard from Postaldog with Maitland Ward, Anna Camp, and Linda Blair.

EBL has Golden Globes Rule 5, Roll Tide, Cardinals v. Packers, Raptor Rape Culture, Livin’ The Dream, Chiefs v. Patriots, Seahawks v. Panthers, and Steelers v. Broncos.

A View from the Beach brings us Cecilia and Belen Rodriguez, Gone Fishin’, We Got Screwed!, Did El Chapo’s Moll Cause His Capture?, “China Girl”, This Old Guy is My Hero!, Can the Redskins Send the Packers Packing?, and You Can’t Win ’em All.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Ava Fiore, his Vintage Babe is Marguerite Chapman, Sex In Advertising says Baby, It’s Cold Outside, and this week there’s a double scoop of NFL cheerleaders. At Dustbury, it’s Bryce Dallas Howard and Bai Ling.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: All Fired Up

Posted on | January 16, 2016 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Our Moral Superiors™
A Blog for Dallas Area Catholics
The Daley Gator
The Political Hat
357 Magnum
Batshit Crazy News

Rule 5 Sunday: Teenage Wasteland
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles from Tyranny
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

Feminist Tumblr Syndrome
The Political Hat
First Street Journal
Batshit Crazy News

Jax State Is #FCSCocky Today #FearTheBeak! #BlowSoutherners UPDATE: Bisons Defeat JSU 37-10 as NDSU Claims Fifth Straight Title
The Daley Gator
Batshit Crazy News

FMJRA 2.0: Rubycon
The Pirate’s Cove
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News

General Kelly, You Clearly Don’t Understand How “Progress” Works
The Daley Gator
Batshit Crazy News

More Tumblr Feminism
The Daley Gator
Batshit Crazy News

#RollTide: Alabama Crimson Tide Defeats Clemson 45-40 for National Title
The Daley Gator
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 01.13.16
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

Courtesy Is Now ‘Rape Culture’
The Pirate’s Cove

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.14.16
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

Will Cruz Cruise or Get Trumped?
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox, 01.15.16
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

What Women’s Studies Teaches
The Daley Gator
Batshit Crazy News

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
Batshit Crazy News

Feminist Tumblr: Having Babies Is ‘One of the Most Selfish Things’ People Can Do
The Daley Gator
Batshit Crazy News

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (15)
  2.  The Daley Gator (7)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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