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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Still More Feminist Tumblr

Posted on | May 30, 2015 | 168 Comments

Is every teenage girl with a Tumblr blog mentally ill? “Rebekah, 19, Bi/Pan/Queer . . . abusive father . . . self harm . . . anxiety and depression” has deep thoughts:

“So much f–king heteronormativity in this house”

Let’s see, what else? Her mother is a racist, and Rebekah frequently applies the word “pathetic” to herself, e.g.:

“I always feel so pathetic because I would literally love to hang out with anyone whether they’re friends from Pacific or friends from high school (that I haven’t spoken to in two years) because I’m bored and sad and lonely, but I don’t think anyone wants to hang out with me and no one ever has.”

“I missed out on what were probably my only chances to hang out with people this summer because who would want to hang out with me?? No one, that’s who. I’m pathetic and no fun and people are only ever friends with me out of the convenience. They’re only friends with me because they see me every day at school and it would be more effort not to be friends with me.”

What a lively bundle of cheerful optimism!

The thing about Tumblr feminists — as with all feminists, really — is their bedrock conviction that men know nothing. All men are bad and wrong and stupid, the feminist believes, and the only things men ever do are (a) enjoy male privilege and (b) oppress women.

Fortunately, the suffering victims of oppression have Tumblr, where they can advertise to the world how pathetic they are, and how racist/heteronormative their mom is, etc., etc.

When I call attention to these pathetic creatures, I’m sometimes accused of an intent to “bully” or “harass” them. Because this is the definition of “harassment” in 2015: Quoting what people publish on their blogs.

All I did was search Tumblr for “heteronormativity,” see?

Strange people you can find, if you know how to find them.

Would I like to help these crazy people? Sure, but feminism by its nature means that nothing I say is valid, all my ideas are wrong, and no advice I might offer would be helpful. The young feminist must only ever listen to what her fellow feminists tell her, because everybody else is evil in this world full of heteronormativity, misogyny and, of course, racism.

They have been catechized, as it were, into this belief system. When you see a teenager slinging around jargon like “heteronormativity,” you know this isn’t something they just picked up at random. Eight syllables? How many teenagers do you know who routinely use eight-syllable words? No, “heteronormativity” is a word that is being taught to these kids, and the obvious question is, why? Think about it. If you know any actual 19-year-olds, you are aware that very many of them are almost completely ignorant of the classics, the Bible, Shakespeare, history, literature. How many college sophomores know any Latin? How many of them could tell you anything about, say, the Boer War or the Battle of Midway? Yet amid this vast ocean of ignorance . . . heteronormativity!

When I first encountered this bit of feminist gender theory jargon a couple of years ago and quoted it in a blog post, everybody laughed. “Heteronormativity? WTF? ROTFLMAO!” Yet gender theory is to 2015 what disco was to 1977 — it’s the hot new sensation that’s sweeping the nation. Gender theory is now hotter than John Travolta and the BeeGees were when Saturday Night Fever topped the charts.

Like I keep saying: People need to wake the hell up.

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Category: Sex Trouble

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | May 29, 2015 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

thump thump
Four teenage boys were poised to sneak into the old house.
Thump Thump
They were armed with smartphones to take pictures all the way up to the top floor.
THUMP THUMP
After their triumphal return, they planned to return the next weekend with girls, and Freddy claimed he knew how to get ahold of a bottle of whiskey. But first they had to prove that it was safe.
THUMP THUMP!
A hell-hound the size of a small delivery truck roared through the paralyzed boys, creating a momentary cloud of blood and limbs.
“Good Scooby!” said Mr. Wickles.

via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

More From Feminist Tumblr

Posted on | May 28, 2015 | 86 Comments

Autumn is a 24-year-old cisgender queer Muslim, who posted this:

“Hands up if large groups of aggressively loud
white boys in your vicinity freak you out.”

To which spyderqueen (“mental health stuff, feminist rantings”) added:

“One of the things that bonds women, POC, and LGBTQA+ together: The fear of white men in numbers.”

That comment got more than 300,000 likes and reblogs in nine months. This is what feminism is really about: The promotion of completely irrational (but politically useful) fear.

My advice to “white boys” is: Always travel in large groups and be aggressively loud, because it makes feminists freak out.

 

Category: Feminism

Rape Culture Update

Posted on | May 28, 2015 | 11 Comments

Guarantee no feminist will take notice of this story:

A Centreville man has been charged with breaking into a home and inappropriately touching a 6-year-old girl who was sleeping girl inside, Fairfax County police said.
Josue Felipe Velasco Santiago, 19, of the 14000 block of Golden Oak Road was arrested May 27 following the incident that occurred in a home nearby at Rustling Leaves Lane and Golden Oak Road, police said.
Three children, ages 14, 8 and 6, were sleeping alone in the home about 3:30 a.m. when an intruder entered the home through a window, touched the 6-year-old girl inappropriately and then fled back out the window, police said.

Josue Felipe Velasco Santiago is neither a University of Virginia fraternity member nor a Duggar, so feminists don’t care.

 

Category: Crime

The Naïvietê of a ‘Skeptic’

Posted on | May 28, 2015 | 37 Comments

@The_SkepDick is a partisan Democrat masquerading as an objective observer, which is to say that he is no different than about 90% of American journalists except for the fact that he is just an anonymous troll account on the Internet and not a multimillionaire celebrity like George Stephanopoulos, but I digress . . .

@The_SkepDick posted on his Tumblr blog (yes, of course he’s on Tumblr) a photo of graffiti outside The Women’s Library that said, “MEN READ BOOKS TOO, C**T,” which he captioned, “MEN’S RIGHTS ACTIVISM.” This was posted to Facebook, and someone then called it to my attention. Hmmm.

My first comment:

1. Where was this graffiti written?
2. I would presume that this bookstore is in an urban liberal area.
3. Does it seem likely, therefore, that some right-wing “Men’s Rights Activist” would have traveled to such a place, armed with a can of spraypaint, to create this graffiti?
4. All things considered — including the history of feminists faking “hate” incidents — isn’t it MORE likely this graffiti is another such hoax, a la “Haven Monahan” and the “gang rape” at UVA?
5. You call yourself a “skeptic.” Try being SKEPTICAL, please.

My second comment:

A quick Google investigation indicates that the Women’s Library is an institution affiliated with the London School of Economics, and that this graffiti was painted in 2013. Does anyone suppose that the urban vicinity around this elite campus is crawling with thuggish misogynists? The likelihood that this graffiti is a HOAX would seem quite high, and given that London has a nearly panoptical closed-circuit surveillance camera system, one would think that, if this graffiti were a REAL example of vandalism inspired by anti-female hatred, the police would have apprehended and prosecuted the culprits. Let the SKEPTIC attempt to find news accounts of any such prosecution. Good luck.

My third comment:

Further investigation determines that The Women’s Library had formerly been located in London’s East End, in a former warehouse purchased and renovated with a £4.2m Heritage Lottery grant in 2002. It would seem, however, that this windfall was insufficient, so that by 2012, The Women’s Library was shuttered and, in 2014, the LSE came to the rescue. So this graffiti was, evidently, painted outside the East End location in 2013, AFTER the facility had closed.

Anyone with the most minimal research skills — really, can these idiots even spell Google? — could have found that information easily, nor would it have been hard for them to research the long history of left-wingers (including feminists) faking “hate” incidents, however . . .

If liberals were concerned with facts, they wouldn’t be liberals. They choose always to live inside a cocoon of prejudice and partisanship where, merely by posturing as “progressive” and parroting the latest left-wing slogans, they manufacture a belief in their own intellectual and moral superiority. Anyone who does not kowtow to them, anyone who does not flatter them and applaud their childish tantrums, the liberal will smear as “bigots” and mock as “ignorant.”

Yet who is genuinely ignorant here? Who is the real bigot?

Does @The_SkepDick provide any evidence — any evidence whatsoever — that this graffiti outside The Women’s Library was genuinely the work of a Men’s Rights Activist? He does no such thing. Why not? Quite likely because no such evidence exists and he never even bothered to research the matter. He is not a skeptic at all, but is just an ax-grinder, a partisan propagandist who lacks even the minimal level of curiosity that would cause him to wonder, “Is this for real?”

Alas, our country is rapidly filling up with idiots like that, “educated” in public schools run by unionized bureaucrats who have been indoctrinated with the prevailing progressive dogmas that exercise hegemonic control in academia. Because every textbook now is edited (and every TV show is now produced) by fanatic disciples of this worldview, it never occurs to the typical young public-school graduate that maybe not everything he has been taught is actually true.

Not once in his entire life has he encountered a book like Friedrich Hayek’s The Mirage of Social Justice or Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed that might cause him to re-examine the belief system into which he has been indoctrinated. No, only “bigots” read books like that and, besides, the typical Democrat voter hasn’t read a book since the day he graduated school (or dropped out).

A vast ocean of ignorance and naïvietê has been created, at taxpayer expense, by our government’s “education” system. This may be why 65,918,507 people voted to re-elect Barack Obama.

We are Doomed Beyond All Hope of Redemption.





 

Category: Culture, Doomed Beyond All Hope of Redemption, Education, Sex Trouble

The Dictatorship of Godless Perverts

Posted on | May 28, 2015 | 58 Comments

@GretaChristina is a middle-aged bisexual feminist cat lady atheist blogger. Wait — no, I have not verified that she and her wife Ingrid Nelson actually own cats, but what are the odds, right? However, there is no need to speculate about Greta Christina’s feminism, her atheism or her role as “co-founder and co-organizer of Godless Perverts.”

You are almost certainly wondering, what the heck is that?

Godless Perverts presents and promotes a positive view of sexuality without religion, by and for sex-positive atheists, agnostics, humanists, and other non-believers, through performance events, panel discussions, social gatherings, media productions, and other appropriate outlets. . . .
Godless Perverts is committed to feminism, diversity, inclusivity, and social justice.

So they like diversity in their perversity, you see. These advocates of “diversity” and “inclusivity” cannot tolerate dissent, however, as events at a November 2014 meeting of Godless Perverts proved:

Our topic for the night was the question of when it was appropriate to talk or behave sexually in public places. The discussion was inspired by the controversy over #Shirtstorm and we used it as a launching pad, but the evening wasn’t meant solely as a debate over the issue of Matt Taylor’s shirt.
Unfortunately, we had one attendee who wanted to make it exactly about that. He not only tried to make the case that the shirt was appropriate, but attributed the whole controversy to oversensitive “radical feminists.”
It’s one thing to have differences on the specific issues around #Shirtstorm, but in most contexts, “radical feminism” is one of those red flags that indicates that someone’s less interested in a critique than a dismissal of mainstream feminism. . . .
It became increasingly clear that this individual was not supportive of our mission, and was in fact actively hostile to it. . . . We therefore decided to tell him he was no longer welcome at our meetings.

So much for “inclusivity.” He was both Godless and a Pervert, but some ungodly perversions are more “diverse” than others. This is because, despite her protests that the phrase “radical feminism” signifies only the purpose of “a dismissal of mainstream feminism,” Greta Christina actually is a radical feminist who is engaged in a War Against Human Nature, as her 2007 argument for same-sex marriage made clear:

In order for our society to accept or even tolerate same-sex marriage, a lot of fairly basic, deep-rooted ideas have to change. The way we define family. The way we think of what it means to be a man, and what it means to be a woman. The importance of sex and sexual fulfillment. What we consider natural and normal. Etc., etc., etc.
All of these things shape our practice of marriage, our understanding of what it is and what it’s for. And in order for us to accept or even tolerate same-sex marriage, all of them will need to change.

This means that your “basic, deep-rooted ideas” are wrong, comrade, and your ideas “need to change.” Under the radical feminist regime, everyone must be forced to think exactly what the Godless Perverts tell us to think. No one may be permitted to speak of “what it means to be a man, and what it means to be a woman” except to confirm the radical feminist regime’s Official Truth, namely that “what it means to be a man” is that you are wrong about everything. Perhaps you have forgotten that The First Rule for Men in Feminist Movements is SHUT UP!

Feminists who say their movement is about “equality” are lying. Feminism is a movement about power — absolute and unlimited power . . .

The Dictatorship of Godless Perverts cannot permit anyone to question the regime’s absolute authority. The commissars of the regime will tell you “what it means to be a man, and what it means to be a woman,” and you are not permitted to talk back to them. There can be no discussion or debate. If you do not endorse the Official Truth, you must be silenced. You must be punished if you refuse to repudiate your opposition, because everything you “consider natural and normal” — your “basic, deep-rooted ideas” — “will need to change.”

In the post-Windsor era, Godless Perverts view “the lack of affirmation of [their] beliefs . . . as an act of aggression,” Kirsten Power observes. This is what I’ve called the Compulsory Approval Doctrine, in which the only moral truth is a fanatical certainty in the wrongness of “hate,” so mere disapproval is “hate,” and thus subject to legal sanction.

If you are a normal (feminine) woman who feels normal (heterosexual) attraction to normal (masculine) men, and if you think that being normal is also natural — that’s HATE! You’re obviously some kind of sexist homophobic right-wing religious bigot.

“Feminism teaches young women that men are their enemies and that heterosexuality is a weapon of male supremacy. . . .
“Male erotic interest in women is, according to feminist ideology, the basic cause of women’s ‘humiliation’ as inferiors.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the War Against Human Nature, p. 35

Feminists believe marriage between men and women is a “relationship of slavery,” and call for a “revolutionary struggle” to end women’s “oppression” within “the institutions of male supremacy.” Feminist theory teaches that heterosexuality is not natural, that there is no biological basis for normal sexual traits and behaviors, and that there are no real meaningful differences between males and females. Instead, according to feminist theory, these differences are artificial, an illusion manufactured by the ideology of male supremacy, a “social construction” of the gender binary within the heterosexual matrix.

If you call radical feminism what it is, the Godless Perverts will decide you are “no longer welcome at our meetings.” Their response to criticism is invariably to call critics “misogynists” and “rape denialists” and to accuse opponents of “harassment.”

Feminism is a philosophy that is hostile to religion, hostile to freedom and ultimately, hostile to life itself. According to the bisexual atheist Greta Christina, life and death are meaningless:

In the most straightforward literal sense, when you don’t believe in God or an afterlife, there is no meaning of death. Not in any external, objective sense. In the godless universe, death just happens. It doesn’t serve a purpose — there is no purpose.

This is what feminists believe, because feminists are Godless Perverts.

“Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. . . . He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don’t listen to him. Remember that — do not listen.”
— The Exorcist (1973)

Avoid conversations with Godless Perverts. Do not listen to them.





 

Category: Feminism, Sex Trouble

A Moby in the ‘Manosphere’?

Posted on | May 27, 2015 | 87 Comments

Before getting to the point — the possibility that liberal trolls pretending to be Men’s Rights Activists (MRAs) are creating fake “hate” against women — permit me to clarify something: I am both a journalist and a conservative and do not think those two things are contradictory in any way. I was a full-time newspaper reporter, editor and columnist for nearly a decade before I became a conservative in the mid-1990s, and so my perspective on politics and media bias is somewhat different than many other conservatives.

All that is preamble to explaining my attitudes vis-a-vis the whole MRA movement and the so-called online “Manosphere.” You go to war with the army you have, as they say, and the current situation regarding feminism — which has become the “Sex Trouble” project — clearly requires an institutional base outside the currently existing ideological/political system. It would be foolish to expect, inter alia, the Heritage Foundation or National Review to get down in the trenches of the War of the Sexes as it is currently being fought. There are a handful of conservative journalists (including Ashe Schow of the Washington Examiner and Cathy Young of the Daily Beast) who “get it” in terms of the mutant totalitarian strain of feminism that has erupted into public spasms of raging insanity the past couple of years. However, there is generally a shortage of attention being paid to this by conservative media, and so we must build something new and different.

There is an existing network of online popular opposition to feminism, but this presents its own problems. Whereas mainstream conservative organizations allied with the GOP tend to be wimpy and prone to run for the hills the first time someone calls them ugly names, the grassroots “Manosphere” is the exact opposite: A lot of pissed-off-and-fed-up people who feel like they’ve been fighting a guerrilla war against feminism for years and who have a predictable tendency to Say Things You Wouldn’t Want to See Quoted in the New York Times.

No big deal, really. Grassroots is grassroots, and you cannot expect “message discipline” from random people on the Internet. However, the Left (of which feminism is a subsidiary) loves to play the guilt-by-association game, so when the spotlight suddenly shines over there where you’ve been fighting your guerrilla war, you can predict that they will do their “links-and-ties” tactic to try to discredit you. Trust me, my friends, I’ve got the scars of old battles and many tales to tell you about how this game is played, but let’s get down to a practical example.

Aaron Clarey wrote an article at Return of Kings highly critical of the new movie Mad Max: Fury Road. Because I almost never go to movies, I don’t really care about this any more than I care about any other vile poison emerging from Hollywood. Was it scripted by Catharine MacKinnon based on a novel by Andrea Dworkin, directed by Sheila Jeffreys and produced by Anita Sarkeesian? I don’t know, but it’s apparently got the whole Tough Action-Hero Chick thing happening, which is very much a feminist-approved theme, and Return of Kings is not down with anything that feminists approve.

However, it is not Aaron’s opinion of this movie, but rather a comment someone left on his article that caught my attention because it caught the attention of a left-wing “male feminist” Whose Name Shall Not Be Written Here. The comment by “TS77RP1” reads thus:

The only way back is to begin punishing ambition in our daughters and in all female children. They need to be physically and psychologically disciplined to be servile and deferential and they unfortunately need to have it beaten into them that they should NEVER trust their own judgement and always seek guidance and permission of their male headships.
My daughter would be turned out with nothing but a shirt on her back if she so much as looked at a college website or played with her brother’s educational toys.
She would be belted to the point of being unable to sit if she exhibited confidence in decision making.
I don’t want my wife to step foot out of the house unless her every dime and minute spent can be accounted for and executed in conjuncture with my approval. My daughter will exude obedience and timidity for whoever her future husband is and it’s imperative that all Christian Men demand nothing less within their own homes. Playtime for feminazis and the left is over. This is our world and our heritage to protect. Let the cultural war begin!

Well, this is a horrifying thing to read, but is it authentic? I did a search for “TS77RP1” and this comment has apparently been deleted from Return of Kings and, furthermore, the only places on the Internet where that handle can be found are all quoting the left-wing “male feminist” Whose Name Shall Not Be Written Here.

If it walks like a moby and talks like a moby, it’s probably a moby, and if you don’t know what a moby is, you should learn.

moby
An insidious and specialized type of left-wing troll who visits blogs and impersonates a conservative for the purpose of either spreading false rumors intended to sow dissension among conservative voters, or who purposely posts inflammatory and offensive comments for the purpose of discrediting the blog in question.
The term is derived from the name of the liberal musician Moby, who famously suggested in February of 2004 that left-wing activists engage in this type of subterfuge: “For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you’re an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion. Then you go to an anti-immigration Web site chat room and ask, ‘What’s all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?’”

Was the commenter “TS77RP1” such a troll? I strongly suspect it. Having seen firsthand the insidious deceptions that the online Left is willing to employ, this would be par for the course. This doesn’t rule out the possibility Dictator Dad is real, but I’m extremely skeptical.

Anyway, let this be a warning to the grassroots opposition to feminism: Keep your eyes open for similar dirty tricks.

Team Clinton is playing for keeps, you know.





 

Category: Feminism, Sex Trouble

Who Is ‘Silencing’ Whom?

Posted on | May 26, 2015 | 150 Comments

Perhaps @juliezeilinger would care to debate this?

This is the dynamic at the heart of online harassment more generally, which, feminists have previously noted, is largely an attempt to silence women. Gamergate — a movement, ostensibly started to improve ethics in video game journalism, that morphed into a campaign of horrifying, misogynistic comments and threats directed at female gamers and critics — is one infamous example. This harassment, Guardian columnist Jessica Valenti wrote in October, is “the last, desperate gasp of misogynists facing an unwelcoming future” and is essentially the way “straight white men deal with a world that no longer revolves exclusively around them.”

Read the whole thing, which involves a story about a college feminist who was murdered. Police haven’t said anything about the motive for the murder of Grace Mann and, although there has been a great deal of speculation. it is not yet possible to know whether her murder was a consequence of her campus activism.

There is, however, another problem involved here. Neither Julie Zeilinger nor Jessica Valenti nor any other feminist will address the totalitarian climate fostered by feminism’s uncontested hegemony in academia. It is predictable that “straight white men” (why only white men, Jessica?) on university campuses don’t enjoy being constantly accused of misogyny simply because they are “straight white men.”

Exactly what are these young students, scapegoated for the crime of being male, supposed to do in reaction to such propaganda? Who will speak on their behalf? How is any student (regardless of whether they are male or female, whatever their ethnic identity or sexual orientation) supposed to obtain access to any articulate, factual and rational opposition to the anti-male/anti-heterosexual ideology taught in university Women’s Studies programs? Is there any faculty member who would risk disputing feminist gender theory — the “social construction” of the gender binary within the heterosexual matrix — after Larry Summers was purged at Harvard University merely for suggesting that there may be “innate differences” between men and women”?

Nobody on campus is allowed to criticize feminist theory nor to mention the hideous hatefulness of feminist rhetoric. Our universities are teaching feminists that they can lie with impunity, defame innocent people without consequence, and claim victimhood (“harassment!”) if anyone objects to their lies and insults. Every time Christina Hoff Sommers sets foot on a university campus, she is deliberately smeared, accused of being a “rape denialist,” and no one in authority — not a single administrator at any university — will dare say a word against the deranged fanaticism of the feminists who engage in these brownshirt tactics. As I explain on page 54 of Sex Trouble:

“Unless we are willing to oppose feminism now, we may find ourselves eventually living in a totalitarian society where such opposition is prohibited by law.”

And “eventually” could arrive much sooner than most people imagine.

 





 

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