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
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:
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:
“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.
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.
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.
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 . . .
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!”
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.
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)
“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)
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.
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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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. . . .
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. Continue reading Please Pray for My Brother (UPDATED) →
First, keep calm. Do not let the melodious strains of noise akin to “Jesus Built My Hotrod” that seem to pour forth from the media distract you from the purpose of restoring the country.
We’re going to make it through this. The Civil, First and Second World Wars still eclipse the current insanity for overall threat level to the country.
What’s needful is that we listen to ads like this from TrumpQuestions.com:
And ask yourself: Am I old enough to remember when the leading Republican candidate sound like an adult? Doesn’t seem like it was that long ago.
