It Purports To Survey Those Confused Concerning The Wedding Tackle–Why Would The Math NOT Be Queer?

Posted on | May 20, 2015 | 46 Comments

by Smitty

I don’t understand why anyone is surprised that Michael LaCour said “Data? Tada!” for his study. In defense of LaCour, this approach is completely in keeping with the subject.

For wide is the gate and broad is the road, slippery the slope, and well lubricated the fools cruising down that highway to an AC/DC album. Global warming. Abortion. ObamaCare. Her Majesty in purple riding in on a beast with an awful lot of horns, big cup of filth in her hand.

You need to understand that the benefit of the doubt starts in the middle. Anyone left of center politically should be viewed with an extra measure of skepticism, just due to their wont to view facts as a social construct.

via Protein Wisdom

Category: Culture

Tracinski Is Half Correct

Posted on | May 20, 2015 | 89 Comments

by Smitty

Why Does the Left Kowtow to Islam? is an important read. The rub is

The point is that the left doesn’t kowtow to Islam because they actually love Islam, but rather because they hate our own culture. They have been steeped in a narrative about how American and Western culture is racist and “imperialist,” and they’ve been trained to see anyone with a dark complexion and a non-Western origin as the victim of our crimes. When they see criticism of Islam, or deliberate attempts to defy Islam, they filter it through that narrative. They see it as: there go those bigoted right-wing Christians, demeaning dark-skinned foreigners again. So they reflexively oppose it.

Specifically, the Left hates the Enlightenment; the idea that individual liberty is the unit of analysis; that Locke was correct about natural rights; that anything other than the State should be seen as authoritative.

Islam, then, is a useful tool of conquest and subjugation, from the Left’s vantage.

via Ed Driscoll

Category: Islam

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 05.19.15

Posted on | May 19, 2015 | 14 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
Islamic State Claims Full Control Of Ramadi

Car engulfed in flames during Ramadi fighting

Capitol of Anbar Province opens the way to Baghdad
Perino Accuses White House Of “Sugarcoating” Ramadi
Nearly 25,000 Iraqis Flee Ramadi

No Help From State Department For Americans Stuck In Yemen
Yemeni-Americans say US government is biased; State claims extraction is “too risky”

Burundi President Fires Ministers After Coup Attempt
Defense, Foreign ministers sacked; no reason given
US Helping To Evacuate Foreigners

POLITICS
State Department Won’t Release Clinton E-Mails Until 2016

“What, me worry?”

Review and redaction process to take until January 2016

Oregon Governor Kitzhaber Scrapped Functional Obamacare Exchange For Political Advantage

Obama Announces Stricter Controls On Military Gear For Police

Brent Bozell Suggests Conservative Journalists Boycott ABC

Supreme Court Rules Against Maryland On Income Tax Credits

Gov. Jindal Forms Presidential Exploratory Committee

Tighter Regulation Of Medical Weed Heads For Oregon Senate

Administration Seeks To End Immigration Enforcement By State, Local Police

Supremes Make It Easier To Sue Over 401(k) Plans

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Extends Losses; US Oil Up On Summer Demand: WTI $59.49, Brent $66.18
Icahn Says Apple Stock “Dramatically Undervalued”
Starbucks Teams Up With Spotify After Ditching CDs
Dow, S&P Close At Record Highs
Optimism Ebbs Among US Homebuilders
Urban Outfitters Misses Estimates, Anthropologie Slows Down
Apple Gets Partial Win In Patent Battle With Samsung
Airplane Hacking Panic!
LG Rolls Out Latest G4 Smartphone For Worldwide Distribution
Microsoft Celebrates 25 Years Of Solitaire With Global Tournament
Oculus Rift Suspends Mac, Linux Development

SPORTS
Lightning Rout Rangers In Game Two Behind Johnson Hat Trick

Tyler Johnson celebrates after scoring the second of his three goals

Bolts rain shots on Lundqvist, thump Rangers 6-2 to tie series

Ronda Rousey Tweaks Floyd Mayweather “I Don’t Think We’d Fight Unless We Ended Up Dating”

Pitching Duel Ends In Win For Pale Hose

Buddy Lazier Heads Home After Fifth Failure To Qualify For Indy 500

A’s Edge Astros 2-1

Flyers Name UND’s Hakstol As Coach

Rockies Rally Late And Not Enough To Beat Phillies

Judge To Issue Written Order In O’s/Nats MASN Revenue Spat

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Taylor Swift Tops Maxim’s 2015 Hot 100

“…the quintessential American success story.”

[Being named Number 1] “…a wonderful celebration of my favorite year.”

Did Iggy Azalea Get Plastic Surgery On Her Face?

Kanye West Silenced By Censors At Billboard Music Awards

Is George Stephanopoulos Future -And $105 Million Contract- In Danger?

Leighton Meester Pregnant, Expecting First Child With Adam Brody

Nikki Finke Sets Up New Site For Hollywood Fiction: HollywoodDementia.com

Staff Quit Clinton Foundation Over Chelsea

Taye Diggs To Star In Broadway’s Hedwig And The Angry Inch

Cate Blanchett: I’ve Never Had Sex With Women

FOREIGNERS
Juncker Denies New Greece Rescue Plan As Negotiations Near End
Former Thai PM Banned From Foreign Travel As Her Trial Begins
Eleven Afghan Cops Get Prison For Not Protecting Woman Killed By Mob
More Than 50 Dead, Dozens Injured After Colombia Landslide
EU Plans Military Response To Migrant Crisis
Pakistan Army Signs Intelligence-Sharing Agreement With Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia Advertises For Eight New Executioners To Handle Rise In Beheadings
Macedonia PM Defies Calls To Step Down
President-Elect Buhari Credits South African Mercenaries With Crushing Boko Haram
Modi’s Welfare Cuts Taking Fire, Even Within His Own Party

BLOGS & STUFF
Louder With Crowder: American Woman Leaves Islam, Forced Into Hiding
EBL: He Had One Job…
Michelle Malkin: Obamacare Exchanges On Life Support
Twitchy: Judicial Watch – Administration Knew About Benghazi Attacks Ten Days In Advance
Shark Tank: GOP Approves Florida Winner-Take-All Primary
Michelle Obama’s Mirror: The Opposite Of Diversity Is University – So Shut Up! (h/t Loyal Reader Brian E.)
American Power: Ceding Civilization To Barbarism
American Thinker: Obama The Magnificent
BLACKFIVE: Fallen Marines Identified After Nepal Crash
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: They’re Baaaa-aaaack
Conservatives4Palin: Gov. Palin Says “Jihad Is On The March”
Don Surber: O’Malley Would Preserve Death Sentence For Babies, Not Bombers
Jammie Wearing Fools: Obama’s UN Ambassador Is Just Slightly Out Of Touch
Joe For America: Oregon Gun Owners Reject Strict New Gun Bans, Will Not Comply
JustOneMinute: And Speaking Of Failed Leadership…
Pamela Geller: Dennis Prager – “Why Pamela Geller May Be The Most Hated Person In America Right Now”
Protein Wisdom: What Happens In Vegas…
Shot In The Dark: Governor Dayton’s Priorities
STUMP: Illinois Pensions – How Did We Get Here? The 1970 Constitution
The Gateway Pundit: ISIS Holds Massive Victory Parade In West Anbar Celebrating Victory In Ramadi
The Jawa Report: ISIS Are Slow Learners
The Lonely Conservative: Jay-Z Posted Bail For Protesters
This Ain’t Hell: Saudis Cure Jihadism
Weasel Zippers: Ferguson Protesters Protest Not Getting Their Checks For Protesting
Megan McArdle: Verily I Say Unto You – Christians Care About The Poor
Mark Steyn: Nothing Another 42,000 Airstrikes Can’t Fix

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Category: Live at Five

Hating Babies, Hating Mothers

Posted on | May 18, 2015 | 179 Comments

“I don’t want a baby. . . . Nothing will make me want a baby. . . .
“This is why, if my birth control fails, I am totally having an abortion.”
— Amanda Marcotte, January 2014

“No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, 1975

“We identify the agents of our oppression as men. . . . All men have oppressed women.”
— Redstockings, 1969

Professor Glenn Reynolds is stunned by the condescending tone of a New York Times article on wealthy stay-at-home moms:

Okay, so the implication is that there’s something wrong with being married to a rich, powerful man? And there’s also something wrong with “intensive mothering,” which apparently means being intensively involved in your child’s upbringing? . . .
[I]f this is slavery — being married to a rich/powerful husband, being able to stay at home with one’s children, and having time to get involved with charitable causes — I think a lot of women would willingly sign up.
Only a hardcore feminist would think such a life is odd enough to pen an anthropological essay about it in the New York Times.

Ah, Professor, but in the elite media, “only a hardcore feminist” is ever allowed to write anything about women’s lives.

The goal of the Feminist-Industrial Complex is to indoctrinate all college students in feminism’s anti-male/anti-heterosexual ideology, and this New York Times article is about trying to figure out how these women managed to resist. Too many Disney movies, maybe?

“The radical feminist argument is that men have forced women into heterosexuality in order to exploit them . . .”
— Celia Kitzinger, The Social Construction of Lesbianism (1987)

Heterosexuality is oppression. Motherhood is slavery.

‘Could It Be Any More Obvious?’

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Category: Sex Trouble

Cincinnatus and the Giant

Posted on | May 17, 2015 | 12 Comments

— by Wombat-socho

Wrapping up the leftovers from last week…Charles Gannon’s Trial by Fire has plenty of action to suit combat SF readers, and a healthy helping of interstellar intrigue, diplomacy and skulduggery to boot. Don’t want to spoil the book for anyone, but Gannon’s humans do a good job of faking the aliens (and the reader) out on the way to a mostly-satisfying ending.

Michael Z. Williamson’s A Long Time Until Now is fundamentally a tale of what a dozen soldiers (okay, there’s one airman and an ex-squid in the squad) do when they and their pair of MRAPs are dumped a few hundred thousand years into the past. It’s partially a tale of physical and psychological survival, but it’s also a tale of how modern soldiers interact with primitives, Romans, and eventually, a pair of scouts from the future who prove to be the key to getting our stranded troops home…after a detour more disturbing than their sojourn in the past. Excellent book; it’s going on my short list of books to nominate for next year’s Hugos.

I somehow missed Orson Scott Card’s Shadows in Flight when it came out a few years ago. This picks up where Shadow of the Giant left off; Julian “Bean” Delphiki leaves Earth with three of his children that share “Anton’s Key”, a birth defect that combines faster development and higher intelligence with giantism that will kill them at an age when ordinary humans would be in their prime; they hope to exploit relativistic speed to accelerate their search for a cure. After centuries pass on Earth and no cure is found, the children begin to despair – until the sensors show an alien ship in orbit around a possibly habitable planet. Good story, though a bit hard on the emotions.

Joel Rosenberg is probably better known as a Second Amendment activist and fantasy writer than an SF author, but from the short story “Cincinnatus” comes the novel Not For Glory, a tale of Am Yisroel in exile on the barren planet Metzada, where as the protagonist Tetsuo Hanavi remarks, “If nobody hires us to fight, my children will have to learn to eat rock.” So it is that the Metzada Mercenary Corps goes forth to worlds like Rand, Alsace, and Neuva Terra to fight (and usually win) other peoples’ wars. Hero, the sequel (though chronologically taking place before the events in Not For Glory), is the story of Ari Hanavi, Tetsuo’s little brother, and it’s not a cheerful tale by any means. Well worth reading, but don’t just take my word for it: David Drake and S.M. Stirling both thought highly of the MMC novels.

C.J. Cherryh’s Tracker is the sixteenth novel in her series about relations between the humanoid atevi and humans, this time with the added complication of the barely understood kyo arriving at a time when the atevi civil war has barely been won and refugees from Reunion Station threaten to throw matters at the joint atevi/human orbital station into chaos. If you enjoyed Cherryh’s previous novels in the series, you’ll like this one as well; coming into this one without reading the fifteen previous books can be done, since Cherryh is very good at supplying context without doing massive infodumps, but I personally don’t recommend it.

I also spent some time browsing through David Drake’s The Complete Hammer’s Slammers: Volume 1 and its two sequels; this time, I actually stopped to read David Hartwell’s introduction to The Complete Hammer’s Slammers: Volume 2, which in retrospect I wish more SF fans who don’t normally read combat SF had bothered to read. Welp.

Off to Balticon next weekend; not sure yet if there’ll be a book post this week or not, since I expect to be busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.

Category: Books

Rule 5 Sunday: Last Dance In Washington

Posted on | May 17, 2015 | 16 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This will be the last Rule 5 Sunday post from the burrow in Springfield, Virginia; next Sunday I’ll be in Baltimore for Balticon and a farewell party with friends, and the Sunday after that, I should be in Las Vegas, God willing.
So it seems only appropriate that this week’s appetizer comes from the Washington Wizards’ dance line.

Wizards cheerleaders…dancers…whatever.
Looking good no matter what you call them!

Insert standard disclaimer here. If browsing this at work gets you in trouble, it’s not our fault.

Randy’s Roundtable returns to lead off with Helen Lindes, followed by Goodstuff with Jennifer Love Hewitt, Animal Magnetism with Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, and Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls with Guns. Also, First Street Journal with A ~~Gun~~Weapon And A Smile!

EBL’s herd of heifers this week includes a Starship Troopers question, Columbia U. Trigger Warnings, Do You Know Me?, and Alexandra Wentworth.

A View from the Beach checks in with Chloë Sevigny – The Coolest Girl in the World?, Wombat’s Friday Fodder, The Neandertal in the Wood Pile (with cave girls, of course), Wombat’s Thursday News Feed, Morning Eye Opener – “22”, Chewing the Wombat’s Wednesday Cud, She Shoulda Gone to Rehab, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Old Fuddy Duddy Actress Hates Selfie Culture, Gisele’s Hubby Slapped With Suspension, Let’s Try Thai and “Highway to Hell” (with harps).

At Soylent Siberia, coffee creamer comes with room service, then it’s Monday Motivationer Morning Stretch, Overnighty First Linky Love Contender, Tuesday Titillation, Humpday Hawtness Ahoy, Marcel Duchamp Has Nothing On This, Fursday Two Fur Phone Phantasy, Latent Lingerie With Pearl Cameltoe, T-GIF Friday Flame On, Weekender Wakeup Call, and Bath Night Cocktail Shaker.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Britt McHenry; his Vintage Babe is Dona Drake, and Sex in Advertising this week is In The Paint. Dustbury has Phylicia Rashad and Cressida Bonas, and Loose Endz chips in with The Girls of Jurassic World and a brief history of Sex in Advertising.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 roundup is midnight on Saturday, May 23.

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Category: Rule 5

War Against Human Nature: What Feminists Pay $47,030 a Year to Learn

Posted on | May 17, 2015 | 87 Comments

“Feminism confuses many people who do not understand that the movement has a political philosophy — a theory — and that this theory is fundamentally incompatible with human nature. In fact, feminists do not believe there is such a thing as ‘human nature.’ Instead, they insist, all human behavior (especially including sexual behavior) is ‘socially constructed’ and, because feminists believe that the society that constructs our behavior is a male-dominated system which oppresses women, everything that we accept as ‘human nature’ is part of that oppressive system.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the War on Human Nature, p. 3

It takes a lot of money to learn how to disregard — or condemn as “oppression” — ordinary common sense about human nature. When my wife and I went to the accountant to have our taxes done, one of my business expenses was the approximately $700 I’d spent buying feminist books from Amazon.com during 2014. This was necessary for my research into radical feminist gender theory in the book Sex Trouble. The research continues because, as I say in the introduction to the first edition, Sex Trouble is “a work in progress,” and my current plan is to publish a revised and expanded second edition in August. Here are the 10 most recent books I’ve purchased in the past two months:

Modern Feminist Theory by Jennifer Rich (2014)
The Lesbian Heresy: A Feminist Perspective on the Lesbian Sexual Revolution by Sheila Jeffreys (1993)
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich (1986)
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 by Adrienne Rich (1979)
Daring To Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975 by Alice Echols, 1989
Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left by Sara Evans, 1979
The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs, edited by Estelle B. Freedman, et al. (1985)
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985 by Adrienne Rich (1986)
Lesbianism and the Women’s Movement edited by Nancy Myron and Charlotte Bunch (1975)
Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism, edited by Miranda Kiraly and Meagan Tyler (2015)

Each of these titles was purchased for a reason. For example, Estelle Freedman is a Stanford University professor who is hugely influential in academia, being for example the editor of The Essential Feminist Reader (2007), an assigned textbook in many introductory Women’s Studies courses. That she was also editor of a 1985 collection of lesbian-feminist essays is not a coincidence and, when I encountered a reference to Professor Freedman’s earlier work in the notes of another feminist book, I decided to check it out. (Very interesting.) As to the 1975 book co-edited by Charlotte Bunch, well, you can Google her name and perhaps figure out why Professor Bunch’s controversial past might be highly relevant and newsworthy in 2016.

What nearly all of these books have in common is that they are either written or edited by Women’s Studies professors or else, as in the case of Adrienne Rich, are by authors whose works are included in the Women’s Studies curricula. As readers of Sex Trouble know, the book focuses on academia — the Feminist-Industrial Complex — because it is by institutionalizing their power in colleges and universities, with Women’s Studies departments as the engine of their influence, that radical feminists have gained hegemonic authority within elite culture.

“I am a gender abolitionist because gender is
a social construct that oppresses everyone.”
“The threat of violence alone affords
all men dominance over all women.”

Academic feminism has received relatively little critical scrutiny (Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination in Women’s Studies by Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge being a commendable exception), and most people have no idea what kind of bizarre nonsense students are being taught nowadays. If you think of feminism as mere “equality” in the sense of basic fairness, you need to read Sex Trouble and find out what feminism really means. And it’s only $11.69 in paperback, which is a lot less than you’d pay to study this stuff at college.

Friday, in discussing Kate Spencer (a feminist victim of “body shame” and other patriarchal oppressions), I mentioned that she had gotten a bachelor’s degree in Women’s Studies from Bates College, an elite private liberal arts college where annual tuition is $47,030. Here is the official description of that program:

The goal of the Program in Women and Gender Studies is to enable learners to recognize, analyze, and transform gender relations as they appear in everyday life. The program provides the opportunity to study women as social agents whose identities and experiences are shaped by systems of race, class, sexuality, and national power. At the same time, to study gender is to refute simple assertions about women, men, and gender binaries, and to strive instead for richly detailed accounts of the political, economic, and technological conditions through which relations of power have been established and maintained.
Analyzing gender enriches our ability to apprehend the differing social roles assigned to individuals, the inequitable distribution of material resources, and the ties between structures of knowledge and larger systems of privilege and oppression. Courses examine women and gender relations in multiple cultural, historical, and material contexts, encouraging the use of transnational, multiracial feminist perspectives.

The chairwoman of the department is Professor Rebecca Herzig:

Historian Rebecca Herzig holds the College’s only full-time faculty appointment in Women and Gender Studies. She teaches an array of interdisciplinary courses on science, technology, and medicine, as well as the program’s required methods course, Methods and Modes of Inquiry. Her latest book, Plucked: A History of Hair Removal, is available now at nyupress.org.

A small school like Bates College (with fewer than 1,800 students) can afford only one full-time Women’s Studies professor, but because the field is “interdisciplinary,” it is also taught by faculty from other departments. By this cross-departmental influence, feminist ideology permeates the curriculum. Thus, the Bates College Women and Gender Studies faculty also includes Holly Ewing (Associate Professor, Environmental Studies), Leslie Hill (Associate Professor, Politics), Sue Houchins (Associate Professor, African American Studies), Erica Rand (Professor, Art and Visual Culture), and Emily W. Kane (Professor, Sociology). In case you’re wondering what kind of innovative scholarship these eminent academics are sharing with their students, I’ll point out that Professor Kane is author of The Gender Trap: Parents and the Pitfalls of Raising Boys and Girls (2012) and Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in Childhood (2013). Perhaps you will not be surprised to learn that Professor Kane is implacably hostile to “traditionally gendered childhoods” and “conventional gender expectations,” which she blames for “persistent gender inequalities.”

This is what feminism has been about for more than 40 years. In 1969, the feminist collective Redstockings declared:

We identify the agents of our oppression as men. . . . Men have controlled all political, economic and cultural institutions and backed up this control with physical force. They have used their power to keep women in an inferior position. . . . All men have oppressed women.

The “inferior position” of women and the “power” which men use to oppress women — the source of those “persistent gender inequalities” denounced by Professor Kane — are simply the results of normal human behaviors, i.e., masculinity and femininity, love, marriage, sex, parenthood and the traditional family. Normal relations between normal men and normal women are both the cause and effect of women’s oppression, whereby women are “exploited as sex objects” and “breeders,” as the Redstockings declared:

We are considered inferior beings, whose only purpose is to enhance men’s lives. Our humanity is denied.

Is this true? Was it true in 1969 or at any previous time? Did your father exploit your mother as a “breeder”? Was your grandfather the agent of your grandmother’s oppression? Was your great-grandmother’s humanity denied because your great-grandfather kept her in an inferior position as a “sex object”? This is what feminist theory teaches, that human history has been nothing but a gigantic patriarchal conspiracy through which men (all men) have oppressed women (all women), and the overthrow of this collective oppression requires a revolution:

Because we have lived so intimately with our oppressors, in isolation from each other, we have been kept from seeing our personal suffering as a political condition. This creates the illusion that a woman’s relationship with her man is a matter of interplay between two unique personalities, and can be worked out individually. In reality, every such relationship is a class relationship, and the conflicts between individual men and women are political conflicts that can only be solved collectively.

To achieve this solution, the Redstockings proclaimed, feminists must “develop female class consciousness . . . exposing the sexist foundation of all our institutions.” They denied “the existence of individual solutions,” condemning what they described as the false assumption “that the male-female relationship is purely personal.” The co-founder of Redstockings was Shulamith Firestone who, in her 1970 book The Dialectic of Sex, declared that “the end goal of feminist revolution must be . . . not just the elimination of male privilege but of the sex distinction itself” (p. 11). Firestone called for “an end to the incest taboo, through abolition of the family,” so that “sexuality would be released from its straitjacket to eroticize our whole culture” (p. 55). She flatly declared “Pregnancy is barbaric” (p. 180), described women as “the slave class” (p. 184), and envisioned a “new society” in which “humanity could finally revert to its natural polymorphous sexuality — all forms of sexuality would be allowed and indulged” (p. 187). Firestone denounced the family because “it reinforces biologically-based sex class (p. 198) and asserted that “marriage in its very definition . . . was organized around, and reinforces, a fundamentally oppressive biological condition” (p. 202).

The fact that Shulamith Firestone was clinically insane (a paranoid schizophrenic who died alone in 2012 at age 67) might serve as sufficient rebuttal to her doctrine, but by the time her madness became evident — she was committed to a psychiatric unit in 1987 — the radical movement she helped launch had gained a solid foothold in academia, publishing, law and politics. Firestone and other early leaders of the Women’s Liberation Movement had been political activists of the New Left. Others were journalists (e.g., Marilyn Webb, Gloria Steinem, Jill Johnston, Susan Brownmiller). It was only after the radical feminist movement shattered into incoherent splinters in the mid-1970s that the creation of Women’s Studies programs at colleges and universities provided the institutional infrastructure around which the Feminist-Industrial Complex has since been built. Thousands of professors are now employed to indoctrinate students in this ideology, and no one in 21st-century academia dares criticize or oppose feminism for fear of being accused of “discrimination” or “harassment.” What the Women’s Studies major “knows” is never contradicted by any authority on campus, and what she “knows” is that all women are victims of male supremacy.

“Male power is systemic. Coercive, legitimated, and epistemic, it is the regime.”
— Catharine MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989)

“Recognizing that the ‘personal is political’ allowed women to identify . . . that what they took to be their own personal failings . . . were not just individual experiences. . . . The ‘private’ world was recognized as the basis of the power men wielded in the ‘public’ world of work and government. . . . The concept that the personal is political enabled feminists to understand the ways in which the workings of male dominance penetrated into their relationships with men. They could recognize how the power dynamics of male dominance made heterosexuality into a political institution, constructed male and female sexuality, and the ways in which women felt about their bodies and themselves.”
— Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West (2014)

Because feminism now controls the terms of academic research and discussion about human sexuality, the university student today never encounters any articulate defense of normal behavior.

Love, marriage and motherhood are condemned by feminists, as is heterosexuality, per se. All of this is implicit in feminist gender theory — the “social construction” of the gender binary within the heterosexual matrix. — and anyone who does not accept this theory is subject to denunciation as a bigot, a misogynist, a homophobe.

Read the departmental mission statement. http://t.co/NtqVFcWnPB I repeat: $47,030 a year you have to pay to learn that stuff. @CalebHowe

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 16, 2015

I started to say "Women's Studies is not brain surgery," but then thought, "Well, it's kind of like a lobotomy, eh?" @cdrusnret @CalebHowe

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 16, 2015

Parents pay for their children to learn how to think this way — tuition at Bates College is, I repeat, $47,030 a year — and the question is, “Why?”

As I say, I spent about $700 buying feminist books last year and probably understand it as well as any heteropatriarchal oppressor ever could. Yet the Sex Trouble project is a continuing effort funded by readers who understand the importance of “Taking Feminism Seriously.” Because I’ve been able to purchase many of these books used from Amazon, my total cost for the 10 feminist books I’ve purchased in the past two months was $136.42, and this library of lunatic literature will keep growing. Why? Because if God will grant me another few months of life, I expect to make some appearances at university campuses next fall, and it can be predicted that young feminists will challenge my analysis: “But you don’t understand feminism!”

Yet there will be a table beside me, and on that table will be these stacks of books, you see. So I’ll gesture to the table, and perhaps hold up a few of the books to cite the titles and authors by name, before answering the angry student: “No, ma’am. You don’t understand feminism.”

Doesn’t that make you want to hit freaking the tip jar?

"All that is necessary to defeat feminism is to tell the truth about feminism." — SEX TROUBLE, p. 116 #tcot http://t.co/RyoP9RUcm5

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 17, 2015