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In The Mailbox: 07.22.15

Posted on | July 22, 2015 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Political Correctness And Leftist Madness
Da Tech Guy: An Open Secret, Or, Hollywood’s Other Cosby Shoe
Michelle Malkin: Medical Monsters Vs. Life-Saving Angels
Twitchy: Liberal Logic – Obama Administration Calls On Schools To #RethinkDiscipline Because Of Suspension Disparity


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Crush Planned Parenthood
American Thinker: A Golden Nugget Hidden In The Trump Spectacle
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Just To Add Some Traffic…
Conservatives4Palin: Gov. Palin – The Proper View Of he Presidency
Don Surber: Obama’s Top General Regrets Leaving Iraq
Jammie Wearing Fools: Now From The McDonald’s Secret Menu – The McGangBang
Joe For America: Time To Actually ARM Our Armed Forces?
JustOneMinute: Spring Break 2016
Pamela Geller: Senators Demand Obama Turn Over Missing Key Documents From Iran Deal
Protein Wisdom: Drag Queens Banned From Pride Event “Because They May Offend Transgender People”
Shot In The Dark: Parts Is Parts
STUMP: Roundup – Chicago, Greece, Portugal, And Much More!
The Gateway Pundit: Obama Bundler Tries To Buy Off Rape Victim
The Lonely Conservative: Another Obama Accomplishment – 3 Million More Kids Living In Poverty
This Ain’t Hell: VA Chief Indicted – 50 Counts Of Falsifying Medical Records
Weasel Zippers: Obama Nixes Lines In New Citizens Oath Of Allegiance Pledging To Take Up Arms To Defend U.S.
Megan McArdle: Americans’ Air Conditioning Habit Is Eco-Friendly
Mark Steyn: The Knees Have It


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Random Feminist Craziness

Posted on | July 21, 2015 | 57 Comments

Why did Harriett Williamson (@harrietpw) lash out at #GamerGate this way? I have no idea. Her account is currently suspended, which suggests that she sent this message during some kind of Twitter meltdown. Ms. Williamson is a British lesbian who hates men so much that when a man suggested she could be heterosexual, she “wanted to . . . punch him in the face.” This is an odd dynamic about lesbians that men generally don’t understand. Most lesbians are insulted if any male expresses interest in them; the very idea of heterosexuality is abhorrent to them. As a general rule, lesbians actively loathe males and do not like to be anywhere near men. Of course, there are exceptions, but Harriet Williamson is not one of them. She is not one of those “girls who have been rejected by the heterosexual dating market.” She despises males, and wants it to be known that men should avoid her.

You see, Ms. Williamson has issues. She suffered depression while attending university, and this may have been related to her insecurity about her socioeconomic status in class-conscious England. So when she lashed out at #GamerGate, we could say this was symptomatic of Ms. Williamson’s hostile antisocial attitude. A typical feminist SJW, really.

Meanwhile, a feminist discussion of male sexuality (which is to say, rape) took an interesting turn on Twitter:

This is a typical expression of Fear and Loathing of the Penis, a phenomenon rampant on feminist social media nowadays. Not every feminist is a lesbian, but none of them ever discuss male sexuality except in terms of danger and violence. Lesbians like Ms. Williamson, who are at least honest about their loathing of males, don’t bother me nearly so much as heterosexual feminists whose sadistic personalities lead them to seek relationships with men in order to degrade and humiliate men.

Can anything be done to end this feminist insanity? I doubt it. There is not enough Thorazine on the planet to treat them all.





 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox, 07.21.15

Posted on | July 21, 2015 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Separated At Birth – Bamiyan Buddhas And…?
Da Tech Guy: Ted Cruz As The Fourth Doctor Who vs. Media Minions Of The Master – er, Mistress
Louder With Crowder: Caitlyn Jenner Wins The 1976 Olympics!
Doug Powers: Latest Scott Walker Outrage – GOP Presidential Candidate Advises Illegal Alien To Follow The Law
Twitchy: Monsters Part II – Butchery Haggling? This Shocking Second Planned Parenthood Video Will Make You Sick


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: The Right Lays Off Gaffe-Prone Donald Trump
American Thinker: Obama’s Horrific Nuke Deal And You
Conservatives4Palin: Tomi Lahren’s Epic Takedown Of Obama’s “Half-Baked” Policy Toward Chattanooga And Islamic Terrorism
Don Surber: James Hansen’s Latest Whopper
Jammie Wearing Fools: #BlackLivesMatter – Black Confederate Flag Supporter Killed After Being Run Off The Road
Joe For America: Wounded War Vets Show Their “Confidence” And Much More In Sexy Pinup Calendar
JustOneMinute: Kicking The Ashes
Pamela Geller: U.S. Authorities Seek To Revoke Citizenship Of Terror-Tied Oregon Imam
Protein Wisdom: By The Way, How Many Dead Babies Does It Take To Buy A Lamborghini?
Shot In The Dark: Veni Vidi Vi. Or EMACS If You’re A Wuss.
STUMP: Go Somewhere Cheaper, Young (And Old) Man!
The Gateway Pundit: Trump Leads GOP With 22% After Post-Iowa Poll, No Drop After McCain Remarks
The Lonely Conservative: Never Mind Planned Parenthood Selling Body Parts, Let’s Talk Abut What Donald Trump Said
This Ain’t Hell: Army Recruiting Command Addresses Armed Civilians Outside Recruiting Facilities
Weasel Zippers: Jihadi Work Accident – Two ISIS Leaders Killed When Their Convoy Drives Over Their Own IED
Megan McArdle: Remember “Memogate”? Makers Of A Dan Rather Film Don’t
Mark Steyn: Gunfire At The Cold-Call Corral


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Congratulations, ‘Dishonest Fascists’ — #GamerGate Destroys Max Read

Posted on | July 21, 2015 | 78 Comments

“Never underestimate your enemy,” is a maxim of military strategy. Before you decide to go to war on the Internet, first consider the fate of Max Read, who was riding high as editor of Gawker until he decided that insulting #GamerGate was a smart move. He chose poorly.

Custer at Little Bighorn, the French at Dien Bien Phu — military history offers many parallels to Max Read’s fateful miscalculation, but perhaps the best would be Gen. John Sedgwick. On May 9, 1864, Sedgwick was directing the placement of Union artillery near Spotsylvania, Virginia. Annoyed that his men were ducking to avoid fire from Confederate sharpshooters a thousand yards away, he said: “Why are you dodging like this? They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.” A moment later, Sedgwick was killed by a bullet from one of the Confederates whose marksmanship he had disparaged. Hubris, meet nemesis.

The resignation Monday of Max Read as editor-in-chief of Gawker, along with his executive editor Tommy Craggs, will not likely be interpreted by major media as a vindication of #GamerGate, because most of the media share the same shallow prejudice that led Read to declare his disdain for #GamerGate as “a small, contemptible crusade . . . of dedicated anti-feminist internet trolls.” Well, he who laughs last, et cetera:

Tommy Craggs, the executive editor of Gawker Media, and Max Read, the editor-in-chief of Gawker.com, are resigning from the company. In letters sent today, Craggs and Read informed staff members that the managing partnership’s vote to remove a controversial post about the CFO of Condé Nast — a unprecedented act endorsed by zero editorial employees — represented an indefensible breach of the notoriously strong firewall between Gawker’s business interests and the independence of its editorial staff. Under those conditions, Craggs and Read wrote, they could not possibly guarantee Gawker’s editorial integrity.

So, in departing from the Web site he helped destroy — because Gawker’s foolish war against #GamerGate has cost them more than a million dollars in ad revenue — Max Read inflicts still more damage, by declaring that there is no longer any “editorial integrity” at Gawker. Because “editorial integrity,” apparently, means smearing private citizens at the behest of extortionists. Or, to quote the Headline of the Year:

Gawker Staff Smears Feces On Itself, Boards a
Schoolbus Loaded With Gasoline and Napalm, Then
Intentionally Drives That Schoolbus Into a Cargo Train
Transporting Toxic Waste and Retarded Clowns

The weird thing about this is that Max Read and other Gawker staffers seem to have no clue what led to their fateful error:

What Craggs and Read fail to accept is that this is not an editorial board with a scoop of monumental importance who are being shut down by some squeamish money managers because the story rubs certain powerful interests the wrong way.  They are defending a gutter trash post that would never have been written, much less put up, if the site had any integrity of any kind, editorial or otherwise, and if they actually did care about the writing staff and their fellow editors as they claim, they wouldn’t want to put the future of the entire company at risk by leaving it up there to be Exhibit B in Hogan’s lawsuit.

Yes, Gawker is being sued by pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan and if they had a lick of sense (which they obviously don’t) they would not have published a shabby story that made them look recklessly irresponsible.

“Exhibit B,” indeed.

“This most recent scandal . . . is not an anomaly. It’s exactly what you get when you mix bad leadership, bad incentives, and selfish, self-loathing people. . . .
“It is essentially a twelve-year spree of destruction, pain and waste. . . .
“No wonder Gawker crosses the line. They have no idea where it is.”
— Ryan Holiday, New York Observer

It is not as if Gawker publisher Nick Denton had no prior notice that Max Read is a hubristic fool. Consider how Read reacted when they lost a major advertiser in October 2014:

On October 1, the computing giant Intel pulled its ads from Gamasutra, a trade website for game developers, over an essay called “‘Gamers’ don’t have to be your audience. ‘Gamers’ are over” by a journalist named Leigh Alexander. . . .
Intel surrendered to the worst kind of dishonesty, and we allowed it to do so without ever calling it out. So let’s say it now: Intel is run by craven idiots. It employs pusillanimous morons. It lacks integrity. It folded to misogynists and bigots who objected to a woman who had done nothing more than write a piece claiming a place in the world of video games. And even when confronted with its own thoughtlessness and irresponsibility, it could not properly right its wrongs.

Really, Max? Did you not stop to think of the psychological projection involved in accusing Intel of “thoughtlessness and irresponsibility”?

It was you, Max, who supported Sam Biddle when he celebrated the “bullying” of gamers and declared “nerds should be constantly shamed and degraded into submission.” Yeah, Max, I’m sure you and your buddies at Gawker laughed it up at that little joke, while you were congratulating yourselves on your “editorial integrity.” And as for those “misogynists and bigots” you contemptuously dismissed?

“They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.”

You see how #GamerGate became nemesis for Gawker. This was assymetrical warfare. Whereas liberals are used to attacking people whose instinct is to flinch and apologize when accused of ThoughtCrime — sexism, racism, homophobia, etc. — gamers are like Homey D. Clown: Homey don’t play that, see? They take pride in their disdain for political correctness because, in the world where they work and play, nobody gives a damn about anything but the fun of winning:

In its arrogance, the media thinks its usual tactics of smear and shame will work on gamers as it has on so many other people, but gamers are a completely different breed. They’re technologically adept, incredibly persistent, and professionally trained trash talkers. They have little to lose and consider this a fight for their home.
In a battle of insults and patience, gamers will win every time.

When a friend, Beth Haper, first alerted me to the cultural significance of #GamerGate, I was skeptical. Really? A bunch of gamers were going to expose the bias and corruption of the media? This seemed improbable, but the fact that #GamerGate was arrayed against feminists drew my interest because, of course, I was working on a book (Sex Trouble, $11.69 in paperback, $1.99 on Kindle) about radical feminism’s War on Human Nature. Let us stipulate that #GamerGate is not “political” in the usual Left/Right Democrat/Republican way that Americans typically think about politics. Nevertheless, as fate would have it, the exposure of the Zoe Quinn/Nathan Grayson connection made gamers aware how unscrupulous women could exploit feminist politics and how unprincipled journalists were willing to assist this tawdry little racket. (See “The #GamerGate vs. Gawker War.”)

In war, your allies are whoever is fighting your enemies, and the motives of your allies matter far less than their skill in battle. Say what you will about #GamerGate, they are skilled and determined fighters.

Operation Disrespectful Nod is making believers of anyone who ever made the mistake of underestimating them. Just ask Max Read.

General Sedgwick could not be reached for comment.





 

Category: Media Bias

In The Mailbox, 07.20.15

Posted on | July 20, 2015 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Thuggish Transgender Gals
Michelle Malkin: Jihad On U.S. Troops Is Not A “Circumstance”
Twitchy: Q: Is White House Reconsidering Funding Of Planned Parenthood? A: (Has One Syllable)
Conservative Review: House GOP Promotes Muslim Brotherhood’s Whitewashing Of Islamic Terror


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: O’Malley, Sanders Booed Off The Stage At Netroots Nation
American Thinker: Feds Get The Power To Seize Medical Records On “Fishing Expedition” With No Subpoena From Judge
Conservatives4Palin: Gov. Palin – Real Healthcare Reform Vs. Obamacare
Don Surber: Dekanawida And The Iroquois Confederacy
Jammie Wearing Fools: In Case You Were Wondering, Laughingstock Lunatic Rachel Dolezal Still Identifying As Black
Joe For America: Marine Warns ISIS In America: “Beware – That Soccer Mom Pushing A Stroller Has A Glock And Will Leave You In A Pool Of Blood”
JustOneMinute: Go, Carly!
Pamela Geller: In Ohio, Another Muslim Indicted On Charges Of Supporting The Islamic State
Protein Wisdom: This Is The Brave New World Where Gender Is Fluid And Relationships Are A La Carte
Shot In The Dark: Forfeit
STUMP: Milwaukee County Pensions – Scott Walker, Pension Obligation Bonds, And An Actuarial Booboo
The Gateway Pundit: Pentagon Tells Recruiters “No Guns” Allowed At Recruiting Stations, “Close The Blinds” For Protection
The Jawa Report: Black Man Who Supported Confederate Flag Killed By #BlackLivesMatter
The Lonely Conservative: Now Hillary Clinton Isn’t Even Letting Supporters Speak To The Press
This Ain’t Hell: Americans Stepping Up For Recruiters
Weasel Zippers: Liberal Media Bias Is A Myth Alert – CNN Mentions Of Confederate Flag, 493; CNN Mentions Of Planned Parenthood Baby Body Part Trafficking, 7
Megan McArdle: Friday Food Post – Five Gadgets You Don’t Want
Mark Steyn: The Superbowl Of Superholes


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Is the ‘Male Feminist’ Cuckold a Hoax?

Posted on | July 20, 2015 | 141 Comments

Of course, somebody called my attention to the New York Magazine story by “Michael Sonmore” (obviously a pseudonym) who uses feminist arguments to rationalize his wife’s adultery in their “open marriage.” I commented briefly on Twitter but wanted to ignore the story because (a) yuck, and (b) I suspect the story is a hoax. Like Rolling Stone‘s UVA rape hoax, “Michael Sonmore” tells a narrative that is too perfect in its exposition of feminist themes. For example, “Sonmore” describes himself as “an economically dependent househusband coping with the withering drudgery of child-rearing.” Really? Here is a guy in his 30s who is quite obviously well-educated, yet he is “economically dependent”? Times are hard, maybe, but surely they’re not that hard. Maybe a guy with a liberal arts degree can’t find work in whatever field he considers his specialty, but he can still work, right? Well, “Sonmore” tells us, he chose this dependency: “I quit working to stay at home with the kids,” which he describes as his “total withdrawal from the economy and the traditional sources of masculine identity.” See? Too perfect.

If a story seems too good to be true, it’s probably not true, and I suspect “Sonmore” is a hoax designed to elicit reaction — particularly, sexist reactions from men — which will then be cited as proof of what misogynistic pigs men really are. And here’s your big clue that the editors are pulling our collective leg:

She didn’t present it as an issue of feminism to me, but after much soul-searching about why the idea of my wife having sex with other men bothered me I came to a few conclusions: Monogamy meant I controlled her sexual expression, and, not to get all women’s-studies major about it, patriarchal oppression essentially boils down to a man’s fear that a woman with sexual agency is a woman he can’t control. We aren’t afraid of their intellect or their spirit or their ability to bear children. We are afraid that when it comes time for sex, they won’t choose us. This petty fear has led us as a culture to place judgments on the entire spectrum of female sexual expression: If a woman likes sex, she’s a whore and a slut; if she only likes sex with her husband or boyfriend, she’s boring and lame; if she doesn’t like sex at all, she’s frigid and unfeeling. Every option is a trap.

OK, that’s the point at which I called “bullshit” on this story. Whose “sexual agency” is “controlled” by monogamy? Both partners are equally obligated to fidelity in marriage, but to suggest that this is “patriarchal oppression” driven by “a man’s fear” of “a woman he can’t control” is a psychological projection, a reversal of reality.

It is the male’s (relatively) greater sexual independence — a natural fact of biology — that has been the underlying source of feminist resentment for more than four decades. Anyone who believes otherwise is deluded, and so we must ask, could there actually be a “Michael Sonmore,” a man so thoroughly brainwashed by feminist theory that he can’t see through this ideological falsehood?

It’s possible, perhaps. But this recitation of feminist jargon — “patriarchal oppression” and all that — is simply too perfect.

Ace of Spades calls our attention to the implicit racial context of this story. The wife is hooking up with “Paolo”? Too perfect.

UPDATE: Great minds think alike:

Never underestimate feminists’ infinite capacity for deception. Feminism is like a gigantic Ziggurat of Hatred built entirely of lies.




 

Category: Sex Trouble

Feminism: Gender Competition and the War Against Human Nature

Posted on | July 19, 2015 | 32 Comments

Freedom, prosperity and happiness require people to develop and encourage an attitude that can be described in five words:

Voluntary cooperation for mutual benefit

This is the secret of capitalism, the secret of democracy, and it also the secret to a successful career and family life. Selfish, envious people — those who view life as a zero-sum game, where one person’s gain is always another person’s loss — are the very worst people in the world. And speaking of feminists . . .

Every week, we are subjected to stroppy Gawker posts and soporific op-eds in national newspapers about how a woman in the technology industry who was fired for poor performance was secretly a high-achieving go-getter brought down by entrenched sexism and patriarchal oppression.
And every week we’re told that the reason more women aren’t working in technology is a combination of sexism, outdated social attitudes and stereotypes, historical prejudices and too few educational support programmes for women.
We’re told that women find it more difficult to get jobs and that when they do get jobs they’re subjected to hostile workplaces, sexism and bullying and that they’re paid less than their male counterparts for the same work.
We’re invited to believe, contrary to the evidence all around us, that the highly-progressive, socially-conscious and liberal-minded technology industry is in fact one of the most retrograde and oppressive places for women to work.
But here’s the dirty secret about the shrill and insatiable “women in tech” movement: none of that is true.

Read the whole thing by Milo Yiannopoulos at Breitbart.com. Feminism is simply organized selfishness — unhappy women using political ideology to rationalize their own failures and resentments. Presenting men and women as hostile groups engaged in a competition — gender warfare — provides unhappy women with an all-purpose scapegoat for their disappointments: “Smash patriarchy!”

Of all the many excellent points Milo makes, it’s hard to single out a favorite, but this one is crucially important:

7. Identifying As A ‘Woman In Tech’ Is The Kiss Of Death For Your Career
That’s not because employers don’t believe women should have equal access, but because it tells them certain things about your personality. Namely, that you’re likely to be trouble. They worry, with some justification, about bogus sexual harassment claims, which are rampant.
If there’s a problem in the tech workplace it might be that women can bring frivolous gender discrimination lawsuits against their old firms, costing companies in some cases over $100,000 in lawyers’ fees to dismiss, at little or no cost to the woman, who was fired for perfectly acceptable reasons.

The phenomenon of “go-away money” — where any woman who makes a discrimination or harassment claim is handed a year’s salary as payment to leave and avoid the costs of litigation — is a well-known racket, and it is typically not the productive, efficient, team-player type of woman who makes such claims. So if an employer has reason to believe a female applicant is “likely to be trouble,” as Milo says, she won’t get hired. The private sector doesn’t give a damn about “social justice,” they just want profit, and they don’t want to spend money defending against a lawsuit filed by some disgruntled idiot with a Women’s Studies degree.




 

Category: Sex Trouble

Rule 5 Sunday: Insert Clever Title Here

Posted on | July 19, 2015 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Feeling kinda fried this Sunday afternoon after overdoing it last night at the buffet. Usual reader advice applies.

Just phoning it in this week.

Loose Endz kicks off this week’s Rule 5 roundup with Comic Con Cosplay Goodness, followed by Goodstuff who invites us to explore heavenly bodies with Stephanie Arias. Also, Marilyn Monroe! Randy’s Roundtable checks in with Nichole Meyer, Ninety Miles from Tyranny serves up the trifecta of Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls with Guns, while Animal Magnetism has Rule Five Noncompliance Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon. At First Street Journal, the burning question of the week is “Are All Finns Blonde?”

EBL’s herd this week includes College Party Time Rule 5, Gandhi’s Women, A Hillary Cocktail, and Ariana Kelly.

A View from the Beach offers Murder in the First Women, “Sweet Child Of Mine” – 4 Violins, Another Time, Another Beach, Maryland Moron du Jour, Fluke Populations Floundering, “Who’s Zooming Who?”, Tuesday Morning Rise and Shine, “Gentle on My Mind”, Camping Idea, and Sigh! Cave Girls Not Really Cave Girls – would cavegirls surprise you? (They would!)

At Soylent Siberia, it’s your weekly coffee creamer, Monday Motivationer enjoying the woods, Tuesday Titillation Reflections, Humpday Hawt Solo Spassfabrik Dessert, Leonard’s Lunchtime Lesbians, Rainy Day Repast, Falconsword Fursday In Focus, Danke, Corset Friday, Never Got the Reacharound, T-GIF Friday Wave Propagation Harmonics, Weekender Awesome, and Bath Night: Got Snooch?

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Abigail Ratchford; his Vintage Babe is Suzanne Pleshette, and Sex in Advertising this week is covered by Guess. At Dustbury, we have Deborah Mailman and Anastasia Perraki.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 post is midnight on Saturday, July 25.


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