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Curb Your (Sexual) Enthusiasm

Posted on | June 29, 2015 | 84 Comments

In case you haven’t noticed, feminists are (a) trying to increase the number of rape accusations by (b) changing the concept of “consent” in such a way that (c) any unhappiness with a sexual encounter justifies a woman claiming that it was coerced or otherwise less than fully consensual, as part of (d) an obvious effort to make heterosexual activity less common, if not altogether illegal.

People think I’m joking or exaggerating when I refer to “Feminists Against Heterosexuality,” but it is becoming difficult to ignore how the anti-male ideology of feminist gender theory is reflected in “rape culture” discourse. Consider what one web site calls “101 stuff about consent”:

  • Sexual consent is an active ongoing process that involves free, non-coerced choice and shared responsibility about when, whether, and what to do sex-wise.
  • Consent has to be clear, explicit, communicated well and checked in on a lot.
  • Enthusiastic consent is mandatory before engaging in anything of even a mildly sexual nature.

Have these lunatics consulted any sane adults about how normal sex actually happens in the real world? Or do you see how, because “feminist gender theory . . . requires the de-normalization of everything,” this insistence on “active” and “explicit” consent is part of an agenda that seeks to inspire impressionable young people with a paranoid hostility toward normal sexual behavior? Note well that enthusiastic consent must be obtained before even “mildly sexual” activity and it is “mandatory” that there be an “explicit” negotiation process toward a sort of verbal contract as part of this “active ongoing process.” Yet any normal person who has ever had normal sex knows quite well that if two people are genuinely “enthusiastic,” no such negotiation is necessary. It is an insult to the intelligence of any sexually experienced adult to pretend that this is how sex normally happens, and it is disturbing to think that young people are being lectured in this manner.

Do young people no longer have desires, instincts, urges? Have words like “passion” and “seduction” and “romance” lost all meaning? Does anyone expect hormone-addled teenagers parking in the moonlight on Lovers Lane to conduct their adolescent trysts like diplomats negotiating a trade agreement? Is there no longer any expectation or hope for spontaneous magic in human sexual behavior? What kind of dingbats are giving kids this wretched advice about sex?

QueerTips
The best queer sex ed class you were never offered.
Run by the kickbutt people of Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes’ Out For Health initiative.

This is a Planned Parenthood initiative in upstate New York, with offices in Tompkins County, Chemung County, Schuyler County and Steuben County — an area in and around Ithaca, site of Cornell University. Is anyone surprised to find this perverse “Queer Tips” nonsense being promoted in the vicinity of an Ivy League campus?

In the 21st century, where elite universities are hives of LGBT activism, we would be shocked to learn that any student at Cornell was interested in normal sex. Cornell students are highly intelligent, and only an extremely stupid student would attempt to engage in normal sex on an elite campus in the current climate of “rape culture” hysteria. A heterosexual male can expect to be expelled from Cornell if a partner claims rape two months after their drunken hookup, on the basis of an administrative tribunal in which he is deliberately deprived of the due-process rights that the Constitution guarantees any common criminal.

Ah, but he is not a common criminal! He is a heterosexual male on a university campus, where heterosexuality is seen as inherently oppressive to women, and males are denounced as oppressors. And where, of course, Feminism Is Queer as I explained:

[T]his is not “fringe” feminism or “extreme” feminism. This is simply what feminism means for university students in the 21st century. Feminism is Queer is a 2010 textbook whose author, Mimi Marinucci, is a professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Eastern Washington University.

If anyone wishes to argue that I’ve dredged up an example of feminism that is not “mainstream,” let them make their arguments to the legislators and other officials who sanction the propagation of this ideology in America’s universities. Let the defenders of “mainstream” feminism examine the syllabi, textbooks and faculties of Women’s Studies programs and see what students are actually being taught and by whom.

If anyone is skeptical about this agenda, let them turn their attention to “Introduction to Feminist Theory” as taught at the University of Buffalo, where a student was overheard to exclaim: “Every time I walk out of this class I just become more sexually confused!”

You cannot blame teenage college students for this kind of confusion, when they are being bombarded with with radical ideology. Sexual confusion is everywhere, so that Planned Parenthood — a taxpayer-funded organization most people think of as a provider of contraceptives — now offers “QueerTips” on how to negotiate “enthusiastic” consent before doing “anything of even a mildly sexual nature.” Evidently people in upstate New York are so stupid they don’t even know how to fornicate without advice from these self-appointed “experts.”

What is being lost is the voice of common sense. Feminist ideologues, gay activists, legal authorities, education bureaucrats, academic theories — these are the people controlling the discourse about sexual behavior, and all of them in one way or another have their own personal and political axes to grind. The voices of normal people happily leading normal lives, and who hope their children can also grow up to find this kind of normal happiness, are silenced and marginalized because common sense is dismissed or derogated by the cultural intelligentsia. Remarking on the effect to enact the “yes means yes” or “affirmative consent” standard as legislation, Judith Shulevitz of the New York Times observes that “criminal law is a very powerful instrument for reshaping sexual mores”:

It’s one thing to teach college students to talk frankly about sex and not to have it without demonstrable pre-coital assent. . . . It’s another thing to make sex a crime under conditions of poor communication. . . .
“If there’s no social consensus about what the lines are,” says Nancy Gertner, a senior lecturer at Harvard Law School and a retired judge, then affirmative consent “has no business being in the criminal law.”

What neither Shulevitz nor Gertner nor any of the other intellectual critics of “affirmative consent” are willing to acknowledge that it seems specifically targeted at punishing heterosexual males. The feminist purpose, we can perceive, is to make the risk of a rape accusation so high that men will become afraid of sexual involvement with women under any circumstances. Already on most campuses, any male who expresses sexual interest in a woman is subject to the accusation of “harassment.” Should he actually attempt to initiate romantic activity — a kiss or a hug — this can be construed as “sexual assault” if the woman finds his advances “unwelcome” or “unwanted.” Yet even if she welcomes his interest and appears to be a willing participant in sexual activity, the man is still at risk that she will afterwards decide she was raped. Paul Nungesser’s lawsuit against Columbia University argues quite plausibly that Emma Sulkowicz was in love with Nungesser and that she falsely accused him of rape as an act of spiteful revenge because he was not interested in a romantic relationship with her.

Many young women are now full of such insane rage against males — really, you need to read my Feminist Tumblr series — that it is difficult to imagine why any boy smart enough to get into college would dare so much as speak to any of his female classmates, much less try to have sex with one of them. This climate of sexual fear and hostility has been deliberately incited by campus feminists to enhance their own power and influence, as well as to create a political issue that can be exploited by Democrats. One would have to be absurdly naïve to think it a coincidence that “rape culture” emerged as a topic of controversy at the same time Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign began gearing up for 2016.

Love is dead. Feminists killed it.

Having made it impossible that men and women could ever love each other — for how can the helpless victim of male supremacy be expected to love her oppressor? — feminists are now determined that sex should also be eradicated. Nevertheless, even while the feminist crusade to abolish collegiate heterosexuality reaches a fever pitch, students are being told it is “mandatory” to negotiate “enthusiastic consent.”

Somewhere at a university this fall, a boy and a girl will step outside a crowded frat house party and embrace beneath the autumn moonlight. She will nod her assent to his suggestion that they should pursue the matter further. Then the young man will look into her eyes and say, “Well, we could go back to my place. However, before we do, the university’s affirmative consent policy requires me to tell you exactly what I’m going to do to that hot little body of yours . . .”

That should make for an interesting conversation. Who knows? They might fall in love. It’s not illegal yet. Not even at Cornell.





 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 06.29.15

Posted on | June 29, 2015 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Da Tech Guy: Scalia – Who Knew Everyone Before Us Were Bigots And Dopes?
EBL: Frank Sinatra – Cycles
Michelle Malkin: The Media’s Vile Attacks On Conservative Assimilationists
Twitchy: Is Oliver Willis Downplaying The Holocaust?


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Israel Intercepts Gaza Flotilla
American Thinker: What Life Is Like When Children Of Gay Parents Don’t Matter
Conervatives4Palin: Ayatollah Roberts And His Sharia Council
Don Surber: Editor Claims Not Publishing Letters Is “Fostering A Civil Discussion”
Joe For America: In Celebration Of Ramadan, Obama Signs Executive Order Banning Confederate Flag
Pamela Geller: Finally, Hundreds Of Cabbies Ticketed For Shutting Down NYC Streets During Ramadan
Protein Wisdom: How You Get There Matters. Still.
Shot In The Dark: One Vote
STUMP: Graph Week – The Mortality Gender Gap Among Workers
The Gateway Pundit: That Was Quick – Polygamists, Pedophiles Push For Their Civil Rights, Too
The Jawa Report: Ministry Of Irony – Three Islamic Terrorist Attacks In One Day?
The Lonely Conservative: So If This Is How It’s Going To Be
This Ain’t Hell: Little Rock Jihad Victims To Be Awarded Purple Hearts
Weasel Zippers: Liberal Group Advocating $15/Hour Minimum Wage Posts Facebook Job Listing That Pays Just $12/Hour
Megan McArdle: Subsidies And All, Obamacare Stays
Mark Steyn: Brollies And Dollies


The Avengers – The Complete Emma Peel Megaset

Category: Linkagery

Greece Closes Banks in Crisis

Posted on | June 29, 2015 | 70 Comments

It was first announced that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras debt-ridden left-wing government would close banks Monday, but now they’ve decided the banks will remain closed all week:

Greek banks are to remain closed and capital controls will be imposed, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says.
Speaking after the European Central Bank (ECB) said it was not increasing emergency funding to Greek banks, Mr Tsipras said Greek deposits were safe.
Greece is due to make a €1.6bn (£1.1bn) payment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday – the same day that its current bailout expires.
Greece risks default and moving closer to a possible exit from the eurozone.
Greeks have been queuing to withdraw money from cash machines over the weekend, and the Bank of Greece said it was making “huge efforts” to keep the machines stocked.
Greek banks are expected to stay shut until 7 July, two days after Greece’s planned referendum on the terms it had been offered by international creditors for receiving fresh bailout money. . . .
Eurozone finance ministers blamed Greece for breaking off the talks, and the European Commission took the unusual step on Sunday of publishing proposals by European creditors that it said were on the table at the time.
But Greece described creditors’ terms as “not viable”, and asked for an extension of its current deal until after the vote was completed.
“[Rejection] of the Greek government’s request for a short extension of the programme was an unprecedented act by European standards, questioning the right of a sovereign people to decide,” Mr Tsipras on Sunday said in a televised address.
“This decision led the ECB today to limit the liquidity available to Greek banks and forced the Greek central bank to suggest a bank holiday and restrictions on bank withdrawals.” . . .
The temporary closure of banks in Greece, and the introduction of capital controls, is very bad news for Greece. Greek people will have less money to spend and business less to invest; so an already weak economy will probably return to deep recession.

(More at Memeorandum.) Notice how Tsipras suggests that the creditors are being undemocratic, rather than admitting that Greece has been irresponsible? Tsipras obviously believes Greeks have a right to other people’s money, and that it is wrong for European creditors to expect them to pay back what they borrowed.  Meanwhile the financial experts are getting worried:

The world will be unable to fight the next global financial crash as central banks have used up their ammunition trying to tackle the last crises, the Bank of International Settlements has warned.
The so-called central bank of central banks launched a scatching critique of global monetary policy in its annual report. The BIS claimed that central banks have backed themselves into a corner after repeatedly cutting interest rates to shore up their economies.
These low interest rates have in turn fuelled economic booms, encouraging excessive risk taking. Booms have then turned to busts, which policymakers have responded to with even lower rates.
Claudio Borio, head of the organisation’s monetary and economic department, said: “Persistent exceptionally low rates reflect the central banks’ and market participants’ response to the unusually weak post-crisis recovery as they fumble in the dark in search of new certainties.”

Oh, by the way: Puerto Rico can’t pay its debts, either.

 

Category: Economics, Greece

Sounds Like A Business Opportunity

Posted on | June 29, 2015 | 21 Comments

by Smitty

I agree that isolation of conservatives is an obvious goal for the Left, but Erickson’s worry doesn’t seem such a threat:

And now, Apple and Facebook are set to develop news platforms that will have a human curator, instead of a computer algorithm. Twitter, likewise, is engaging humans on trending news topics, etc. It is only a matter of time because Google works its algorithm magic to drive down links to those who oppose the new cultural agenda.
So we will see orthodox Christian voices disappear from most news channels. The left are master propagandists. One of the chief tricks of the propagandist is to convince you that you are all alone. Everyone else thinks otherwise. So an Apple that celebrates gay rights and bans what it thinks is hate is only one step from prohibiting a Russell Moore piece through its news service.

As long as there are blogs like Red State and Hot Air, I guess I don’t see the worry.
Outfits like Salem Media Group might grow to include more services, including conservative social media indexes and Twitter/FaceBook replacements. The blueprint for building these parallel digital ecosystems already exists among independent developers, who routinely bypass mainstream app store chokepoints to host everything from encrypted peer-to-peer communication networks to the best betting app for international sports markets. By adopting this decentralized server infrastructure, conservative media networks can completely insulate their content from Silicon Valley’s algorithmic interference and arbitrary platform bans.
Capitalism has taken some hits in recent decades, but there is still a market for media with a shred of moral clarity. I hope.

Category: Red State

Rule 5 Sunday: Force It

Posted on | June 28, 2015 | 13 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I was going to name this week’s post after the classic rock tune by UFO, Only You Can Rock Me, but I was pretty sure I’d done that already. Besides, why not throw more gasoline on the Fake Rape Epidemic fire with a deliberately ambiguous work by the same band?

No clearly didn’t mean no.
>:)

As usual, reader discretion is advised when clicking, because some or all of the following links may be NSFW.

Randy’s Roundtable kicks off this week with Julie Montouret, followed by imNsho with Country Girls Rule, Goodstuff with surfer babes (FOR SCIENCE!), and Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and the ever-popular Girls with Guns. Animal Magnetism chips in with Rule 5 Tax Plan Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, and First Street Journal has They Left Their Lipstick At Home.

EBL’s herd this week includes Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Mosby, Kathryn Grayson, and Morgan James.

Wine Women and Politics returns with the Babe of the Day Gallery, Friday Sweetie, Had Your Morning Orange Juice?, Thursday Hotties, Babe of the Day, Lounging In Latex, and Thursday Baby Dolls.

A View from the Beach presents Namibian Hotty – Behati Prinsloo and Friends, Did Bugs Bunny Do In the Neandertals? (has cave girl content), Not Your Average Water Slide, “I Know It’s Wrong (But That’s Alright)”, A Wet One for Wednesday, Who’s On the Money?, “Pocket Full of Sunshine”, Hold My Beer and Watch This!, and Hot Summer!

At Soylent Siberia, it’s your morning coffee creamer, Monday Motivation Invitation, Peekaboo Fur, Tuesday Titillation At Attention, Evening Awesome with Boots, Humpday Hawt Bearded Clam, Bearded Clam Second Helping, Fursday Formal “Only Her Hairdresser…”, Corset Friday Flabbergast, T-GIF Friday Hard Wood, Tit Tat Toe, and Bath Night: In Motion She Rises.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Jillian Hall; his Vintage Babe is Colleen Townsend, and Sex in Advertising this week is covered by Victoria’s Secret. Also, Game of Thrones Body Double for Nude Walk of Shame! At Dustbury, it’s the single-named singers Duffy and Alsou.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat for next week’s Independence Day Weekend Rule 5 Roundup is midnight on Saturday, July 4. Inspiring and patriotic Rule 5 submissions are particularly welcome!


Force It
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Category: Rule 5

Chris Squire: No

Posted on | June 28, 2015 | 15 Comments

by Smitty

Chris Squire, bassist of Yes, has joined the Band Eternal. Here’s the signature cut of theirs, as far as I’m concerned:

Category: Video

Toward the Feminist Dystopia

Posted on | June 28, 2015 | 47 Comments

 

@JanetheActuary is an outside-the-box thinker you should follow on Twitter, and her musing today on Patheos deserves notice:

The increasing unmarriagableness of men is often identified as the reason why the rates of unwed motherhood have climbed so much . . . Women report thinking of the father of their child as “just a child himself” — whether because young women tend to be more mature than their same-aged counterparts or whether motherhood itself makes those women more mature. . . .

She then notes an apparent tendency toward bisexual/lesbian “experimentation” among young women and considers the possibility of women forming what might be called pseudo-lesbian families:

If women, to a significant degree, give up on men and form all-female households, no specific woman has harmed any specific man. But the harm to men, and society, in general, would be significant.

She asks if this is “too far-fetched,” but in fact this is already happening in various ways. Most women in their 20s nowadays are unmarried, and most of those women share apartments with other young women. Although the vast majority of these women do not think of themselves as bisexual (and certainly not lesbian), the shortage of marriageable males results in these young women experiencing conflicts and instability in their relationships with men, so that their female friends and roommates are a more enduring emotional influence in their lives than are their on-again/off-again boyfriends. We should not be the least bit surprised if some women in this predicament “give up on men,” and feminist theory would certainly encourage women to do this:

“In terms of the oppression of women, heterosexuality is the ideology of male supremacy. In order for men to have a justification for exploiting women and an ability to enforce that exploitation, heterosexuality has to become, not merely an act in relation to impregnation, but the dominant ideology.”

That was first published 40 years ago in a book co-edited by Charlotte Bunch, who subsequently became a distinguished academic at Rutgers University and in 1999 was honored with the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights by President Bill Clinton. (Click here to see C-SPAN video of Hillary Clinton’s speech at the December 1999 ceremony.)

You must never forget: Feminism Is Queer!

 

Feminism is Queer is an introduction to the intimately related disciplines of gender and queer theory. While guiding the reader through complex theory, the author develops the original position of “queer feminism,” which presents queer theory as continuous with feminist theory. While there have been significant conceptual tensions between second wave feminism and traditional lesbian and gay studies, queer theory offers a paradigm for understanding gender, sex, and sexuality that avoids the conflict in order to develop solidarity among those interested in feminist theory and those interested in lesbian and gay rights.

You see this is not “fringe” feminism or “extreme” feminism. This is simply what feminism means for university students in the 21st century. Feminism is Queer is a 2010 textbook whose author, Mimi Marinucci, is a professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Eastern Washington University. Accepting feminist gender theory, as I’ve explained, requires the de-normalization of everything:

To be a feminist means that you cease to believe that there is anything natural about the human condition and, furthermore, you must reject everything “normal” as inherently oppressive. . . . By constantly sharing everything, all their feelings and stories and selfies, feminists forge the bonds of Radical Sisterhood, as they struggle to overthrow the power of Male Supremacy.

My book, Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the War Against Human Nature, explains this in depth. Based on the writings of dozens of feminist authors — Kate Millett, Susan Brownmiller, Dee Graham, Judith Butler, Sheila Jeffreys, et al. — who are quoted at length, Sex Trouble exposes the anti-male/anti-heterosexual ideology of what can only be described as a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It.

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A quick note: The issue about Amazon reportedly prohibiting sale of the Confederate flag — see my article “A Dangerous Precedent” — has caused ironic harm to the conservative movement, and to me in particular. Online sales through Amazon Associates are an important source of revenue to my blog as for many other conservative bloggers who derive commissions from these sales. Amazon has been very good to me over the years, and so you can see why I am disturbed when I see people demanding a boycott of Amazon. Whose fault is it that Amazon was directly attacked by Democrats and the news media (but I repeat myself) with demands that they cease sales of Confederate merchandise? If executives at Amazon unwisely folded under this pressure, who is to blame? We can discuss these things reasonably, but how does it make sense to punish me by attempting to punish Amazon? Please do not deprive my family of income in the misguided belief that you will hurt Amazon more than you hurt me. God knows my family has already suffered a lot on account of my stubborn willingness to speak unpopular truths and defend unfashionable traditions, and I ask that readers not add to this suffering. — RSM





 

Category: Gays, Sex Trouble

FMJRA 2.0: We’re Only In It For The Money

Posted on | June 27, 2015 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Pipe Dreams
Regular Right Guy
Animal Magnetism
Batshit Crazy News
In My NOT So Humble Opinion
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach
Ninety Miles from Tyranny

Oppressive Biology
Living In Anglo-America
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

Media Synchronicity and Confederate Thoughts on an Era of Elite Corruption
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
Dustbury

Indecent Liberties: Police Say Teacher Showed Her Nude Selfies to Teen Girls
Living In Anglo-America
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: Saturday Morning Edition
Batshit Crazy News

FMJRA 2.0: Avoiding EDC Edition
The Pirate’s Cove
BlurBrain
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 06.22.15
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
Proof Positive

A Dangerous Precedent
Batshit Crazy News
The Daley Gator
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach

In The Mailbox: 06.23.15
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

Let’s Bring Back Guilt and Shame
Batshit Crazy News
Living In Anglo-America
Law Of Markets
Regular Right Guy

You Want To Whine About Being Offended?
Here, Let Me Give You Something To Whine About
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

Elections Matter, But They Don’t Really “Matter” Matter, Do They?
The Lonely Conservative
The Camp of the Saints
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 06.25.15 (Late SCOTUScare Gnashing Of Teeth Edition)
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

Feminist Tumblr: Spot the Error
Batshit Crazy News

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
Batshit Crazy News
Jim-O-Rama

In The Mailbox: 06.26.15
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (16)
  2.  Regular Right Guy (9)
  3.  A View from the Beach (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


Category: FMJRA Award
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