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The no-talent rodeo clown hath spoken: Netanyahu’s comments ‘erode the name of democracy’. OK, it’s not clear what that means. It’s still ‘democracy’, and not ’emocracy’ or ‘democrac’. Because if we’re going to hammer Bibi for saying something stupid, e.g.:

Following Netanyahu’s pre-election statement that there would be no Palestinian state if he were re-elected, Obama “indicated to him that given his statements prior to the election, it is going to be hard to find a path” forward on negotiations, Obama said.
Obama also said that he took issue with Netanyahu’s campaign trail warning that Israeli Arabs were headed to the polls “in droves.”

Shouldn’t the president at least be precise in the criticism? How do you erode the name of an abstract concept whose symbol is fairly constant, irrespective of who is throwing it in the urinal like an aromatic cake?

But that’s just a pedantic quibble. More practically, isn’t President Obama the same jackwagon who discussed voting as the ‘best revenge’?

So, if we can get Jake Tapper or Major Garrett a free moment, I’d like to have them inquire of ol’ Stompyfoot McPointyfinger:

How, exactly, does he think Netanyahu’s campaign trail remarks substantially differ from his 2012 entreaty?

I was pretty concerned about Obama when he made that remark, as it’s a challenge to reconcile tempting others to behave in a spirit of vengeance with Christian faith. But I’ll keep praying for BHO and the world. And I certainly should try use the respect level due the office, and not the respect his record has earned, in addressing BHO. Blogging is scant recompense for the ridiculous damage he’s inflicting, though.

via HotAir

Category: Barack Obama

More Feminist Tumblr

Posted on | March 21, 2015 | 40 Comments

Some people find feminist insanity amusing, but then again, some people find film footage of the 1934 Nuremberg Rally amusing.

If you’re the type of person who is amused by totalitarian propaganda, just go to Tumblr.com and search for “feminism.” It’s an endless carnival of anti-male rage dispensed by lunatics like this “20-something, gender-fluid, bisexual”:

If you are a man who thinks it’s funny to make misogynist jokes purely to make your female friends uncomfortable/angry, then you are a misogynist. It is not “just a joke.” You literally are finding humor in the discomfort and dehumanization of women. You are not helping, you are not making satire. You are just being misogynist.

Perhaps you recognize the basic problem here.

Question: What is a “misogynist joke”?

Answer: A joke that a feminist doesn’t think is funny.

Q. Can you give me an example of a non-misogynist joke?

A. Die in a fire, you vile heteropatriarchal swine.

Q. Why are you so angry?

A. I’m not angry.

Q. But you just told me to die.

A. No, you asked me for a non-misogynist joke.

Q. And “die in a fire” is your idea of a joke?

A. Ha. Ha. Ha.

Feminists are forever playing their Thought Police game, categorizing (a) male behavior they don’t like as (b) political oppression. You told a joke she didn’t find funny? You’re a misogynist who is engaged in the “dehumanization of women.” It is never enough for a feminist to say, “Your behavior is rude” or even just, “I don’t like you.” No, the man she doesn’t like is a misogynist, and his rudeness is a civil rights violation.

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Category: Sex Trouble

Feminist Problems

Posted on | March 21, 2015 | 40 Comments

Note how @TracyClarkFlory twists the knife here:

A vibrator is not a substitute for a
partner. But how do you tell men that?

We see here a classic example of feminism as psychological projection. Never mind the pathetic fate of women so desperately lonely that the only boyfriends they can get require batteries. No, this story has to be about “men’s insecurities,” because the whole point of feminism is to insult, demonize, disparage, ridicule and blame men.

Why kind of feminist would want a male “partner,” anyway? According to feminists, all men ever do is rape and oppress women.

Sometimes you almost wonder if feminists ever actually believe anything they write, or whether it’s all just deliberate lies.

Hey, ladies, who wants to talk about dildos with a feminist? @TracyClarkFlory pic.twitter.com/39zHOFM28T

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) March 21, 2015

Category: Sex Trouble

But … ‘Progressive’!

Posted on | March 21, 2015 | 17 Comments

Unacknowledged irony:

South Africa is still home to high levels of violence against women and children, despite a constitution widely regarded as the most progressive in the world . . .

In fact, South Africa is widely reputed to be “The Rape Capital of the World,” and one wonders whether this is truly “despite” its “progressive” government, or in some sense because of it.

Category: South Africa

Murderer Served Only 13 Years for Killing Girlfriend, and Guess What Happened?

Posted on | March 20, 2015 | 44 Comments

In 1998, Joseph Oberhansley was 17 years old when he killed his girlfriend “just days after she gave birth to their child. He then shot his mother and shot himself. He pleaded guilty and got 15 years in prison. He served 13 and was released in 2012.”

Isn’t that kind of lenient? You shoot two women — including your own mother — and serve only 13 years in prison? After his release, Joseph Oberhansley somehow ended up in Indiana and, in the summer of 2014, he was arrested after he “led local police on a chase from Louisville to Jeffersonville.” For some reason, despite his record of criminal violence, the judge let Oberhansley out on bail on that charge. This decision proved to have deadly consequences for Oberhansley’s ex-girlfriend:

A convicted Indiana killer out on bail allegedly broke into his ex-girlfriend’s house and stabbed her to death — before eating her heart, lungs and brain.
Joseph Oberhansley, 33, is accused of trying to force his way into 46-year-old Tammy Jo Blanton’s Jeffersonville home at 3 a.m. Thursday.
Cops were called and he left the scene.
But he then allegedly returned to the home to carry out the brutal crime.
Officers arrived to check on Blanton at 10 a.m. after concerned colleagues dialed 911 because she hadn’t shown up for work.
They found her dead under a tarpaulin in the bathroom’s tub.
She had fatal injuries to her head, neck and torso. A plate and cooking utensils were also found covered in blood and bone.
Her skull had apparently been crushed. Tissue from her body was found in a garbage can.
Oberhansley was still inside the property. He was restrained by officers and then arrested and charged with murder, abuse of a corpse and breaking and entering.
“He further admitted to cooking a section of her brain and eating it,” the arrest report said, according to Wave3.

Sometimes our criminal justice system is . . . just criminal.

Category: Crime

From a Ph.D. Dissertation

Posted on | March 20, 2015 | 53 Comments

“We live in a male-supremacist society. Under it,
women are sexually colonized, are treated as
sexual and reproductive chattel. Under it, women
are subjected to a female sexual slavery that is
at the core of patriarchy’s heart of darkness.
Under it, women are subjected to epidemic level
of male violence, male sexual violence and abuse.
It is a rape culture. It is a woman-hating culture.”

Those are the first five sentences of a doctoral dissertation by Pala Molisa, submitted for a Ph.D. in . . . accounting.

Not kidding. At Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, Molisa (who is male, by the way) dedicated his Ph.D. dissertation in accounting to Andrea Dworkin and explained his purpose:

[The dissertation] explores how radical feminism could be used to make sense of prostitution and pornography. It explores the potential role that accounting could be playing [in] the globalization of the sexual-exploitation industry. And it explores the implications that radical feminism might hold for re-thinking the theory, research themes, and politics of accounting research. It argues that radical feminism not only holds the key to making sense of pornography and prostitution, it also enables us to radicalize our politics and to deepen the normative visions that would inform and enrich our work. Radical feminist politics is revolutionary politics. It is politics aimed at the abolition of “sex,” the abolition of “gender” itself. The vision they point to is a world without submission and dominance as the organizing principles of social life. The vision they point to is a world whereby it is equality rather than inequality that is eroticized, affirmed, and held as the motivating dynamic behind human desires, and sexual and aesthetic drives. They point to a world without rape. It is my hope that this paper makes a small contribution to creating an accounting literature in which this abolitionist revolutionary politics and this radical vision can have a home, a place, a space.

Dr. Molisa is currently a lecturer at the university.

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— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) March 20, 2015

Category: Education, Feminism, Sex Trouble

This Is So True

Posted on | March 20, 2015 | 45 Comments

“If you replace ‘men’ with ‘Jews,’ a huge percentage
of Tumblr becomes Nazi propaganda.”

The phenomenon of “Tumblr Feminism” really has to be seen to be believed. In the 1950s, women with mental illness were treated with psychoanalysis, tranquilizers or electroshock therapy. Now, all the crazy women just log on and post their deranged gibberish on Tumblr, where thousands of other crazy women tell them how awesome they are.

You think I’m kidding? Consider Lily, a “Pansexual/Demisexual” teenage “GenderQueer,” whose profile lists her diagnoses as borderline personality disorder, anxiety and depression. She posted this message:

JUST TO MAKE THINGS CLEAR
FEMINISM: Equality for all sexes/genders
MISANDRY: hatred for men, power for woman
MISOGYNY: Hatred for woman, power for men
MENINISM: a joke

Ha ha. The thing about Tumblr is, when people reblog a post, they can add information. At some point, the last item was amended:

MENINISM: a joke. like a literal joke. the concept was created to mock male anti-feminists, but they didn’t get the memo and rolled with it like it was a legitimate thing

Ha ha, again.

What are we to make of this? Well, to begin with, there are apparently no sane normal women on feminist Tumblr. Everybody’s profile lists either some kind of mental condition — depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, whatever — or some kind of abnormal sexuality: Use a “Lesbian Sphinx” as your avatar, for example, and you’ll fit right in. Also, it helps if you’ve got “body image” issues. The other thing — and here Tumblr Feminism is a barometer of the zeitgeist — is that these crazy weirdos are endlessly exasperated that the rest of us just don’t understand what feminism really is. There’s a lot of posturing martydom, the suggestion that women are being bombarded with misogynistic hate for daring to proclaim their feminism, which none of their critics understand:

“I feel that feminist shouldn’t be a ‘label’ as a lot of people make it out to be. It’s about equality. Why would wanting equality be a label? And why is that a bad thing?”
— Candace, 23

Feminism as it exists today began as the Women’s Liberation Movement in 1968. Sometimes called “Second Wave” feminism (to distinguish it from the “First Wave,” circa 1850-1920), this movement arose from the radical New Left. I’ve got three histories of the movement sitting on my desk right now: Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (Sara Evans, 1979), Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975 (Alice Echols, 1989) and In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution (Susan Brownmiller, 1999). All three of these books are by feminist authors who frankly acknowledge that Marxist women — especially the daughters of Communist Party activists, known as “Red Diaper babies” — were influential in founding and leading the Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1960s and ’70s. Furthermore, I’ll recommend two other books, Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women’s Liberation (Kate Weigand, 2001) and Betty Friedan and the Making of the ‘Feminine Mystique’: The American Left, The Cold War and Modern Feminism (Daniel Horowitz, 1998). To put it quite bluntly, at a time when the Cold War was raging, when the tyranny of Soviet imperialism threatened to conquer the world, and when U.S. troops were being killed by Communists in Vietnam, feminists were on the other side.

The Women’s Liberation Movement emerged from the extreme fringe of anti-American, pro-Communist radicalism. From its inception, this movement was hostile to men, marriage, motherhood, religion, capitalism and patriotism. Some people try to claim that there is a “mainstream” feminism that was “hijacked” by radical kooks, but in fact the kooks built the feminist plane, and any perception that feminism is “mainstream” is an illusion created by the movement’s dishonest publicity/media apparatus. The mentally disturbed young “GenderQueer” on Tumblr is thus perfectly typical of feminism.

Behind the “mainstream” publicity, feminism is today what it has always been, a dangerously radical movement that attracts misfits, malcontents and maniacs. Let me share some feminist history you kids probably didn’t learn in school:

[L]eftist fugitive Susan Saxe was arrested in Philadelphia on March 27, 1975. Saxe had been underground since October 1970, when she and four others robbed the Brighton branch of Boston’s State Bank and Trust and absconded with $26,000. During the robbery, a policeman was shot and killed. Saxe and the others were charged with another bank robbery and with the bombing and burglarizing of a U.S. Army armory in Newburyport, Massachusetts. . . . Some time after going underground, Saxe came out as a lesbian; she was involved in Philadelphia’s lesbian-feminist community at the time of her arrest. Saxe issued a statement following her arrest in which she declared:

“First, a greeting of love and strength to all my sisters — courage for our warriors, hope for our people and especially for all my sisters and brothers underground in Amerika. Keep on fighting, stay free, stay strong. I promise you a courage to match your own. For me this is not an end, but a new beginning. I intend to fight on in every way as a lesbian, a feminist and an amazon.” . . .

Saxe had emphasized that in her case feminism “was not a ‘conversion,’ but a process that followed my previous commitment as day follows night.”

That’s from pp. 262-263 of Daring to Be Bad, and Susan Saxe — “one of only eight women ever to make the FBI’s Most Wanted List” — was absolutely correct that her radical feminism was a natural progression of her “previous commitment” as a violent terrorist. Saxe became a radical while attending an elite school, Brandeis University, where her roommate was Katherine Ann Power:

In a statement issued [after she turned herself into federal authorities in 1993], Ms. Power said she had “a lifelong, untreated condition of endogenous clinical depression.” [therapist Linda] Carroll said Ms. Power was taking an anti-depressant medication, trazodone hydrochoride, for her condition. . . .
Ms. Power drove the getaway car in the 1970 robbery of a Brighton bank . . .
The transformation from high school honors student to one of the nation’s most-wanted fugitives began at Brandeis, where Ms. Power was on a four-year scholarship. In Denver, her home town, she was the 1967 valedictorian at Marycrest High School . . .
According to court testimony, Ms. Power and Ms. Saxe hooked up with three ex-convicts and committed a series of crimes, including the theft of ammunition. . . .
Ms. Saxe and Ms. Power went underground, staying in a series of women’s communes. Ms. Saxe was arrested in 1975 and served seven years in prison.

So, one of them was suffering from clinical depression and the other was a lesbian, and they were roommates at an elite university before becoming radical terrorists. And feminists.

The Boston policeman murdered by the Saxe-Powers gang, Walter Schroeder Sr., was the father of nine children.

The young crazy weirdos on Tumblr don’t know anything about the history of the movement they’re supporting. Instead they insist that it is feminism’s opponents who are ignorant:

really tired of ignorant people demonizing feminists for every possible thing.
all we’re doing is making you aware of the sh–ty things that plague society that you maybe participate in, knowingly or otherwise, and you feel guilty or confused so you lash out.
and stop blaming feminists for man-hating, or for making up problems. those tropes are older than the suffragette movement and if you had bothered once in your life to read any feminist literature, or any radical thought at all, you would know that feminists seek to erase the patriarchal system that hurts men as much as it hurts women. educate yourself before you speak.
hating feminists doesn’t make you cool, trendy, different, intelligent, or counterculture. it makes you look threatened, underinformed and hateful. every movement deserves criticism and there are lots of valid criticisms that can be aimed at feminism, regarding exclusivity (in terms of white dominance or the garbage TERFs), but crying “man-hating” or “misandry” literally expose you for the baby you are.
in case anyone needed a refresher: a feminist is someone who believes in the social, political and economical equality of the sexes. if you believe in that, you’re a feminist. if you think that one sex is somehow naturally better than the rest, you’re an a–hole and your kind will be phased out. goodbye.

Where did she learn this jargon about the “patriarchal system”? Why do these young feminists habitually insist that they know more about feminism than do any of their critics? And why do they keep endlessly recycling the same tropes?

I love how fragile male ego is sometimes. Like, they’ll verbally attack and humiliate a person in front of as many people as possible, but the moment they get called out, they have to retreat behind “not all men” and validate themselves. Like, you tell a guy that you don’t appreciate him catcalling you, and suddenly he becomes a hero, paying lonely strangers compliments, rather than the a–hole that said terrible things to someone for literally no reason. Or when you make a statement about how men are historically problematic to literally every gender, race, religion, orientation, etc., and they come out of the woodwork to extol the virtues of XY chromosome holders of the past. Men like to maintain the idea that women are emotional, but they deal with so much humbling, humiliating shit on a daily basis, meanwhile cisgendered, heterosexual, Anglo men are holding some of the most fragile egos. I’m not talking about all men, because some have managed to pull their head out of their ass and realized that there needs to be change, I’m addressing the person who would send a woman death threats for suggesting feminism is important. You know who you are, scum.

Notice that it is only certain men — straight white guys — who are depised as “scum” by the feminist, accused of possessing fragile egos, “catcalling,” sending death threats, etc. This feminist trope implies that all gay men, all black men, Hispanic men and Asian men are enlightened egalitarians, so that it is heterosexual white men who exclusively perpetuate the patriarchal conspiracy to oppress women. And the Tumblr Feminist is always blissfully unaware that she is supporting a totalitarian ideology with a history of terrorism.

If your ambition in life is to be a lonely bisexual with anxiety disorders and body-image issues, you can stay on Tumblr all day and rant to your heart’s content. On the other hand, if you want to accomplish something in the real world — the place where adult human beings actually get stuff done — you will find feminist ideology may be less than helpful.

I keep saying it: Every word of that is quite literally true.

Category: Feminism, Sex Trouble

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