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Feminist Stupidity Daily: Ideological Aggression and the Kafkatrapping Game

Posted on | February 25, 2015 | 71 Comments

“Once a woman is singled out by a men’s rights group such as A Voice for Men, the misogynist Reddit forum The Red Pill or even just a right-wing Twitter account like Twitchy, she is deluged with hatred.”
— Michelle Goldberg, Washington Post

Because I’ve been busy offline the past few days, the stupidity has been piling up, and I need to clear away some backlog. Let’s start by checking in at the repository of amateurish nonsense, Everyday Feminism:

7 Ways to Lovingly Support Your
Gender Non-Binary Partner

(Why is your partner “gender non-binary”? Is there a drastic shortage of normal human beings on the planet? Are you so desperate you’ll date any doomed weirdo that shows up?)

Thinking Critically About Who Pays for the Date
The primary dating script, as advertised by American pop culture (most notably, romantic comedies), supposedly serves as a map to help us navigate romantic love’s rough, rough terrain.
However, in a society that privileges different types of people over others, that map is filled with hazardous roadblocks for some and traffic-free highways for others.
One of the most significant factors in determining who gets assigned which roles from the dating script is money. . . . When we spend it, how we spend it, and who is spending it all come under scrutiny in this classist society.
Consequently, who pays for the date (and the contract that payment supposedly creates) is usually rooted in assumptions about gender and sexuality that deserve a lot more scrutiny. . . .

(Yeah, thinking critically about gender assumptions in classist society. Good luck getting a first date. A second date? No way.)

5 Ways to Deal with Misguided
(But Well-Intentioned) Allies
We’ve all been there. Whether it’s a self-proclaimed “male feminist” making sex-shaming comments on a Facebook post or the “LGBTQIA-friendly” straight ally unwittingly making transphobic slurs at a party – the misguided ally is nearly impossible to avoid.
It’s not that the misguided ally is a bad person. We know they don’t want to hurt us. But they do.
And then, often times, they hurt us even more by choosing to blame to us for whatever awkward experience ensues as opposed to taking accountability.
Though these instances are irritating, their irritation is nuanced. They often facilitate in safer spaces becoming unsafe, which, in turn, expedites the increased formation of identity-exclusive spaces.
And while having spaces just for marginalized people themselves (spaces specifically for people of color, or trans folks, or for women-identified people) isn’t inherently wrong, they often end up being centered around healing from the harmful microaggressions of “allies.” . . .

Do you understand what’s wrong here? These feminist zombies are so desperate they’re scraping around for “gender non-binary” partners, but then it’s time for a lecture about who should pay for the date “in this classist society.” And, although I can’t imagine who would want to be an “ally” to these obnoxious losers, if you do want to be their “ally,” that means you’ve got to watch every word you say, because you can’t make any “sex-shaming” comments or “transphobic slurs.”

Where do they get the idea that the rest of us have nothing better to do with our lives than to scrupulously avoid offending the delicate sensibilities of Special Snowflakes? Hypersensitive political correctness is just a game for moral narcissists — More Progressive Than Thou! — who sit around congratulating themselves on how “inclusive” they are.

Do I seem irritated? You’d be irritated, too, if you’d been reading Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, a collection of articles edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti. This is a very bad book written by very bad women, among them the execrable Stacey May Fowles, whose essay begins thus:

Because I’m a feminist who enjoys domination, bondage, and pain in the bedroom, it should be pretty obvious why I often remain mute and, well, pretty closeted about my sexuality.

Yeah, but you had to write a 3,000-word essay about it, didn’t you? Other contributors to Yes Means Yes include Kimberly Springer, a Ph.D. in Women’s Studies whose essay is entitled, “Queering Black Female Heterosexuality,” and Kate Harding, a “fat-acceptance” blogger who provides an essay called, “How Do You F–k a Fat Woman?” My favorite (and by “favorite,” I mean most wretched) of the whole collection, however, is “Reclaiming Touch: Rape Culture, Explicit Verbal Consent, and Body Sovereignty,” which asks the question: “Can we really draw a sharp line between sexual assault and unwanted nonsexual touch?” Most people would have no problem answering “yes” to that question, but here we encounter a feminist claiming that a hug between friends is an act that should require Explicit Verbal Consent.

My first instinct when I read craziness like this is to investigate the source. It is my common-sense suspicion that crazy ideas are usually the product of crazy minds, and in this case we’ve hit the Big Jackpot of Crazy. The author of the “Reclaiming Touch” essay is Hazel/Cedar Troost, who uses the “gender-neutral pronouns” ze and hir. What kind of crazy is this? Let’s read the “about” page at Hazel/Cedar’s blog:

This is a blog by a Chicago transsexual queer/woman who’s tired of making herself as small as possible to fit the demands of trans misogynistic feminism and trans activism.
It’s also a blog about gender theory & activism (simultaneously feminist and trans), misogyny (trans & NOS), transphobia, anti-racism, intersectionality, sustainability, privilege, language & terminology, power, body sovereignty, gender/sex self-determination, radical politics, “radical” politics, bad allies, accountability, BDSM, violence (domestic, intimate, sexual, emotional, physical, stranger, hate, racialized, institutional, systemic, and more), disabled, fat, & survivor politics, healthcare, and whatever else ze feels inspired to write on.

To translate: “Stay away from me, normal people!”

Aggressive weirdness — an insistence that the ordinary behaviors of normal people are oppressive — has become increasingly characteristic of the feminist fringe. If you greet a friend with a common gesture of affection, your hug might be “unwanted touch” that violates their “body sovereignty,” while your expectation that people are either male or female could infringe their right to “gender/sex self-determination.” And if you point out how strange these attitudes and behaviors are? You’re obviously some kind of hater.

What feminists and their allies are doing here is creating a landscape covered with opportunities for Kafkatrapping:

One very notable pathology is a form of argument that, reduced to essence, runs like this: “Your refusal to acknowledge that you are guilty of {sin racism, sexism, homophobia, oppression…} confirms that you are guilty of {sin, racism, sexism, homophobia, oppression…}.” I’ve been presented with enough instances of this recently that I’ve decided that it needs a name. I call this general style of argument “kafkatrapping” . . .
The aim of the kafkatrap is to produce a kind of free-floating guilt in the subject, a conviction of sinfulness that can be manipulated by the operator to make the subject say and do things that are convenient to the operator’s personal, political, or religious goals. Ideally, the subject will then internalize these demands, and then become complicit in the kafkatrapping of others.

Activists manufacture opportunities to accuse others of moral failing, and if you cooperate with them — if you attempt to be an “ally” of these progressives who continually produce demands that you acknowledge your guilt — then you must “become complicit” by routinely accusing others of these political sins. This is why feminists have manufactured a “rape epidemic” hysteria on college campuses. Using phony statistics and false accusations to mau-mau politicians into enacting bad legislation, feminists provoke criticism, and then demonize critics — e.g., George Will and K.C. Johnson — whom they brand “rape apologists,” so that critics are accused of being pro-rape merely because they point out errors in feminist arguments or flaws in policies that feminists advocate.

“With enough fear, you can manufacture a crisis, and a crisis gives you ‘an opportunity to do things . . . you could not do before,’ as President Obama’s former chief of staff noted in his famous remarks about not letting a crisis ‘go to waste.’”
— Hans Bader, Minding the Campus

“SHUT UP, BECAUSE RAPE!”

It’s all about silencing and discrediting opposition, see? Feminism is a totalitarian movement directly derived from the Marxist/Leninist model of the Bolshevik Revolution. “All power to the Soviets!” has become “All power to the feminists!”

We are all now constantly monitored by Feminist Commissars, the enforcers of a Police State regime. You must be careful, comrade, because your “harmful microaggressions” and your failure to obtain “Explicit Verbal Consent” before hugging someone are political crimes for which you might be subjected to a reenactment of the Moscow Show Trials before you are sent to the Feminist Gulag.

Americans understand that feminism’s ambitions are ultimately incompatible with human liberty. Yet if you dare speak out against it, your’re terrorists, and the monstrous ideologues who aspire to be your totalitarian overlords claim to be victims!

By the way, am I the only one who has noticed that while feminists have taken to repeating stories about how terrorized they are by the Internet — death threats, rape threats and the like — we haven’t seen anyone arrested, prosecuted or even served with a restraining order by any of these helpless feminist victims? Having been targeted for harassment by deranged sociopaths (who have proven they are willing to target people in real life), I know how to successfully fight back: Identify the cowards who are perpetrating such behavior, and call them out by name.

What are the names of the people who are perpetrating harassment against feminists? Identify them. Call them out.

Give me a list of names of these anti-feminist “terrorists,” with proof of their wrongdoing, and I will denounce them.

Expect to be waiting a long time before we ever see such a list, because the vagueness of these claims of feminist victimhood serves the purposes of political propaganda:

A. Opponents criticize feminist arguments;
B. Feminists are victims of harassment;
and therefore
C. Critics are responsible for the harassment of feminists.

This faulty syllogism is about falsely creating collective guilt, so that George Will is implicitly accused of inciting people to “dox” Brianna Wu and K.C. Johnson is smeared with responsibility for rape threats against Anita Sarkeesian. If all critics of feminist (collectively) are to blame for every harm experienced by feminists (collectively), you see, then anyone who writes in opposition to feminism can be Kafkatrapped.

Feminists can demand that, e.g., Professor Glenn Reynolds denounce the harassment of, inter alia, Jessica Valenti, even though the harassment is committed by some dimwit Reddit troll who has nothing to do with Professor Reynolds. It’s the same thing with “rape culture.”

Everybody is against rape, right? Yet if you criticize feminist rhetoric on this issue — if you suggest, for example, that there would be fewer sexual assaults on campus if university officials cracked down on underage drinking — then you are engaged in “victim blaming” or “slut shaming,” so that you then can be branded a “rape apologist” no matter how strongly you condemn rape. The purpose of feminism’s “rape culture” discourse is to create this generalized accusation of collective guilt, so that anyone who disagrees with feminists can be portrayed as responsible for crimes they have never committed.

Welcome to the 21st century, comrade. The commissars have taken over our culture and it’s Kafkatrapping all the way down.




 

Category: Feminism, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 02.25.15

Posted on | February 25, 2015 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Shake Down Al
Doug Powers: John Kerry’s Talking Like He Only Knows Russia From Watching Rocky IV
Twitchy: Susan Rice Terms Netanyahu Visit “Destructive”
David Thompson: Uncanny Powers Are A Feminist Issue


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Path Clears For Net Neutrality Ahead Of FCC Vote
American thinker: The Left’s War On White America
BLACKFIVE: Free Fire Zone – Jobs Or Jihad?
Conservatives4Palin: Rudy Giuliani – I May Have Been Blunt, But I Was Right
Don Surber: Legalize Cocaine, Ban Sugar?
Jammie Wearing Fools: Senior State Department Official In Charge Of Counterterrorism Arrested For Soliciting Sex From A Minor
Joe For America: BATFE To Ban Ammunition. Again.
JustOneMinute: The Boys Of Jihad
Pamela Geller: EXCLUSIVE – UJA President Alisa Doctoroff Major Donor to State Dept. Effort To Boost Arab Vote In Israel
Protein Wisdom: Western Exceptionalism
Shot In The Dark: Trulbert! Part XXVIII – Gladiators’ Waltz
STUMP: Obamacare Tax Watch – Tax Form, Tax Form, Who’s Got The Tax Form?
The Gateway Pundit: Retired Admiral Says Anyone Can See Obama’s Strategy Is Anti-US, Pro-Islamic
The Jawa Report: Jawas 2, Khaled_IbnAbdelAziz 0
The Lonely Conservative: Dem Rep. Keith Ellison – We Need More Boodle In Minneapolis To Keep Somalis From Going Jihadi
This Ain’t Hell: American Legion Reacts To VA Secretary McDonald’s Lie
Weasel Zippers: Netanyahu Refuses To Meet With Senate Democrats
Megan McArdle: Why Walmart Is Raising Its Everyday Low Wages
Mark Steyn: O Beautiful, For Specious Guys


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Category: Linkagery

Texas: Teacher Suspected of Lesbian Sex With Student at Christian Academy

Posted on | February 24, 2015 | 39 Comments

New Braunfels, Texas, is a rapidly growing community near I-35, about 30 miles from San Antonio and 45 minutes from Austin. In the past 20 years, the population of New Braunfels has roughly doubled and it now has more than 60,000 residents. Despite this rapid growth, it’s still a fairly small town, and this news must come as a shock to the community:

A math teacher at New Braunfels Christian Academy is under police investigation after allegations surfaced that she had ongoing inappropriate sexual relations with a former female student.
The teacher, 25, was fired [Feb. 16] after the student’s mother informed school officials of the alleged activity, New Braunfels Police Lt. Craig Christopherson said Friday.
However, the teacher, who has not been named publicly, had not been formally charged as of Friday morning.
New Braunfels Christian Academy officials immediately removed the teacher before terminating her, according to a news release. Officials took unspecified actions to bar the teacher from access to students or school property. . . .
“We are looking into the possibility of other victims,” Christopherson said.
The alleged offenses began around January 2012 when the teacher moved into the victim’s home, Christopherson said. The victim’s family tasked the teacher with taking care of their children while they were away and taking them to school.
The female teacher and the victim apparently shared a room, Christopherson said.
It’s unclear how long the relations lasted. The former student told her family about the alleged abuse on Feb. 13, according to Christopherson.

In a brief telephone interview this morning, Lt. Christopherson told me that the suspect has still not been named because no charges have been filed and the investigation is continuing. The teenager who reported the alleged abuse is a former student at the Academy; my guess is she graduated in 2014. From another news article:

“The complainant said this was roughly over a period of three years while she lived at the same residence as the victim. This apparently occurred – they were allowing her to stay in the house. She’d help watch the kids,” explained Lt. Craig Christopherson.
Police said the teacher shared the same bedroom as the alleged victim and would bring the children to school. New Braunfels police are working with Bulverde police because that’s where the victim lived at the time of the alleged incidents.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)

UPDATE: More Texas teacher crime reports:

Maris Gonzalez, 23, is currently being held in the Bexar County Jail. She is suspected of engaging in a sexual relationship with a student at Madison High School.
According to the affidavit, a police officer was responding to a burglar alarm near Raintree Bend and Raintree Run on Jan. 20 when he drove by a parked Mazda with windows that that had fogged up.
The officer looked inside and saw Gonzalez straddling another figure in the passenger seat, the affidavit said. . . .
When the officer confronted the pair, the male told the officer he was 18. The officer, however, determined that he was only 15. . . .
[Northeast Independent School District] Spokeswoman Aubrey Chancellor confirmed that Gonzalez had taught French at Madison and Churchill high schools from January 2014 until she resigned on Dec. 9.
Four days earlier, the boy’s parents notified the district of inappropriate text messages they found on their son’s phone, Chancellor said. . . .
The district began investigating immediately after the text messages were reported.
Gonzalez, however, denied having a physical relationship with the teen, Chancellor said.

She taught French? Of course. Never trust a French teacher.

 

Category: Crime, Education, Gays, Sex, Texas

In The Mailbox: 02.24.15

Posted on | February 24, 2015 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Louder With Crowder: The Science Against Porn
EBL: ISIS Or Daesh?
Michelle Malkin: Update On The “NAACP Bombing” That Wasn’t
Twitchy: Lady Gaga Thanks Glenn Beck For “Humbling Review”; Haters Shocked
According To Hoyt: Set Yourself Free
Monster Hunter Nation: The Social Justice Warrior Racist Reading Challenge – A Fisking


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Obama’s Multipronged Assault On Truth And Reality
American Thinker: Forget The Terrorists, Malls Already Under Attack From Black Mob Violence
BLACKFIVE: Airborne Girl’s Guide To Islam And Its Abuse Of Women
Conservatives4Palin: Scenes From ObamaCare Tax Season
Don Surber: Love America? He Doesn’t Even Know America
Jammie Wearing Fools: Local Crime Story – Democratic Party Chairman In Virginia Wanted To Hire Hitman To Kill Girls He’d Molested
Joe For America: Obama And Hillary Officially Charged As Accomplices To Terrorism
JustOneMinute: That Weird “Rule Of Law” Thingy
Pamela Geller: The Obama Doctrine – Target The Right
Protein Wisdom: Sally Kohn And Lesbian Privilege
Shot In The Dark: Trulbert Part XXVII – The Darkness Before The Darkness
STUMP: Obamacare Tax Watch – First Angry Taxpayers Story
The Gateway Pundit: Obama-Supporting Immigration Attorney Busted For Fraud – Forged Visa Application Forms
The Jawa Report: Obama Tells Nigeria No Help Against Boko Haram Until Nigeria Accepts Homosexuality And Abortions
The Lonely Conservative: Sneaky DHS Tried Rushing Amnesty Contracts After Judge’s Order To Stop
This Ain’t Hell: DHS Warns Of “Right Wing Terrorism” Again
Weasel Zippers: Rand Paul Rushes To Defend Obama From Rudy Giuliani
Megan McArdle: Learning About Education The Hard Way
Mark Steyn: Living History


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Category: Linkagery

Uncertainty Over Someone’s Faith Triggers Race Card? Only In Kosreich

Posted on | February 24, 2015 | 47 Comments

by Smitty

Shaun King, at DailyKos: The underlying racism in Gov. Scott Walker questioning whether or not President Obama is a Christian

Click image to to to Giorgio A. Tsoukalos's site

Racism and slavery were commonplace in Rome, and we know where all roads lead, don’t we?

*Sigh*. No, Shaun. Uncertainty regarding the faith of another, particularly one with whom you’ve not actually spoken, prayed, and studied, is a straight play for one of Baptist ilk. Beside Walker, there are plenty of other public figures laying claim to being Baptist (Al Gore, Bill Clinton) that one hopes are saved. As with the case of BHO, the deeds kinda seem at variance with the words on occasion. But, hey, we all shank it, don’t we? (1 John) Which is why the repentance is key. Right. Well, moving on, the real point here is that, while the bulk of Baptists don’t believe one is any more capable of un-salvation than salvation in the first place, most Baptists with whom I’ve ever spoken aren’t 100% confident in anyone else’s salvation.

Two words: Judas Iscariot.

You can have words aplenty. You can have deeds. You can have credentials and offices. You can have your own assurance (and I do). You can even take my word concerning myself. But until we meet in Eternity, you’re best off not pushing the question past “really confident” or “I don’t know”.

And I don’t know Scott Walker personally, either. He’s certainly not one to wear his religiosity on his sleeve a la Mike Huckabee. (I’m confident Huckabee is saved, but I’d really, really, really like to hear why that chap, after having been called to the ministry, would take a demotion and get into politics. Makes you go “Hmmm”, as a Baptist.)

Back to King:

In spite of all of this, including the reality that [Obama] is a devoted and faithful husband and father, Scott Walker, and now a growing chorus of conservatives, are just flat out stating that President Obama isn’t a Christian at all.

Notice, though, that you will never hear conservatives question the Christianity of Rudy Giuliani or Rush Limbaugh—in spite of the reality that both of them have been married seven times between them and refuse to really discuss any active aspects of their faith.

Why is it that Walker and others are so willing to doubt the Christianity of a good and faithful man who openly details and professes his faith, but never question the Christianity of men who struggle with morality and family values and don’t really speak at all on whether or not faith matters to them in the least bit?

It’s racism.

Couple of points: Walker did not, himself, question the President’s Christianity. As I’ve explained here, Walker was coloring within lines reasonable for a Baptist, though you’d have to ask Walker himself if he buys off on my analysis. Here’s the funny part, King: Walker is likely to answer in a similar way for both Giuliani (Roman Catholic) and Rush Limbaugh (no faith listed on Wikipedia).

Is it a bit much to ask King to spend some time actually researching the subject and the people involved? I don’t doubt that the President has said he is Christian. I rather hope to see the fellow in Eternity, where there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed, because this administration has been nothing if not a source of questions. And I don’t doubt that Walker is Christian, based on hearsay. If repetition counts as a score, I guess that Obama is more Christian than Walker. Has Obama been asked to judge Walker’s Christianity? Might Obama also offer an “above my paygrade” type answer?

Perhaps Mr. King can score an interview with the good President next month while the Israeli Prime Minister is all shootin’ the breeze with Congress and stuff.

Category: Democrats, Scott Walker

Rule 5 Monday: Winter Pinups

Posted on | February 23, 2015 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Better late than never…if I pushed it off for another day, it probably wouldn’t have gotten done until next Sunday, and that would have been Wrong. We are, after all, professionals. Keep in mind that many of the following links are to pics normally considered NSFW, so exercise discretion when you click.

Because I couldn’t find a Finnish version, that’s why.

Average Bubba leads off this week with Bodacious Babes, followed by Goodstuff celebrating Chinese New Year with Betty Brosmer and 50 shades of spanking…back in this hemisphere, Ninety Miles from Tyranny has Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls with Guns. Animal Magnetism has Rule 5 Friday and (due to a critical shortage of redheads) the Saturday Asian Invasion, and First Street Journal looks at women in Pakistan.



This week, EBL’s herd has Joe Biden’s Big Fat Tuesday Rule 5, Obamacare, #harfing, the return of Deflategate with Kate Upton, An Islamic Salute to the Year of the Goat, Debbie Wassermann Schultz, Laura Hillenbrand, and the Academy Awards.

Postaldog returns with Paris Hilton, Padma Lakshmi, Amanda Seyfried, a double dip of Maitland Ward, Iggy Azalea, Vanna White, Stacey Dash, and Danica Patrick.

A View from the Beach serves up Christy Turlington, Him Tarzan, Her Jane, Someone Has to Do It, “Going Down to the River”, The Great Yoga Pants Panic, In Honor of Winter Storm Octavia, Quitting Sugar, Tom Steyer Linked to Oregon Governor’s Resignation, and Big Bottom Babes Make Better Babies.

Wine Women and Politics also returns with Playboy Playmate Kaytee Bees, Those Are Nice, Babe of the Day, It’s Friday, and Thursday Hot n’ Ready.

At Soylent Siberia, it’s your Sunday AM Angel, Monday Motivationer Teacher’s Pet, Overnighty Awesome, Tuesday Titillation Titanic Tanning, Humpday Hawtness Pearls, Your First-Day-Of-Lent Soylent Equivalency PSA, Humpday Evening Snack Candy, Falconsword Fursday Fever, I Must Go Down To The Sea Again, Let A Smile Be Your…, Corset Friday Fillets, Happy Hour Hawt, Weekender Smiles, and Bath Night with Brandi.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Ashley Graham, his Vintage Babe is Angela Greene,  and Sex in Advertising is covered by Victoria’s Secret. At Dustbury, it’s Doris Day and Chantal Claret, and Loose Endz chips in with Evolution’s Objectifying Gaze.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is midnight on Saturday, February 28.


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Category: Rule 5

The Quotable Andrew Klavan

Posted on | February 23, 2015 | 100 Comments

by Smitty

Here is some wisdom worth capturing (emphasis mine):

Battered by the religious wars of the Reformation, making adjustments to a global economy and multi-cultured nations, the West has slowly become diffident in defense of its central faith. And there is some wisdom in that. Christianity is a religion, to paraphrase St. Paul, that frees us for freedom, and faith in Christ must be chosen freely to be fully realized. But to move from that position — which calls for intellectual rigor, unfettered debate and honest proselytism — to indiscriminate acceptance of all creeds as equally worthwhile is an error that does the world more harm than good.

Whenever I hear someone announce that “All religions are a path to God!” I wonder how it would work if you applied such “tolerance” to, say, medicine or science. “All medicines are a path to health! You take antibiotics, I cut the head off a chicken and dance under the full moon, really what’s the difference as long as we both believe it will make us well?” Or “All science is a path to progress! You invent an iPhone, I invent a weaponized disease, it’s all science, man, it’s all great!”

When you put it this way, it becomes clear that the idea that all religions are equally worthwhile is essentially an atheist creed. To say All religions are a path to God is really saying, No religion is a path to God.  There is no God, so what difference does your religion make? When something is true, when it is factual, when it is real, it excludes other options. The world can’t be both flat and round. When you accept the roundness of it, you can no longer entertain its flatness. It’s one or the other.

If God is the Christian God of love, he is not the Allah of Isis.

Indeed, there is one true North, and doing rudderless doughnuts, while passing occasionally through the only valid course, is foolishness.

Category: Culture

Should You Let Feminists Tell You How to Raise Your Children?

Posted on | February 23, 2015 | 65 Comments

Laura Bates is a childless 28-year-old feminist who bemoans the “gender-based assumptions about girls” in society:

We must protect young girls
from sexism in primary school
. . . How often do we heedlessly shower little girls with platitudes about prettiness and looks, or comment on how “big and strong” their brothers are growing? We hear comments about the sweetness and politeness of daughters, while sons are proudly described as boisterous, instead.

It is always interesting to me when feminists demand that we must emulate their failure. Nobody wants to marry Laura Bates and she has no children of her own, yet she considers herself qualified to tell the rest of us how to raise our children. Like all feminists, she assumes that normal gender roles are incompatible with women’s success or happiness. In order for women to be “equal,” feminists tell us, our society and culture must promote androgyny, so we are condemned for encouraging “sexism” if we praise girls for being pretty or describe boys as boisterous.

“Feminists have declared war on human nature,” and wish to destroy the marriage-based family, which is the basis of human civilization. Therefore, normal parents must be condemned as “sexist” if they try to raise normal children who will be successful in attracting a spouse, maintaining a marriage and raising a family. Normal parents are “sexist” for understanding that normal sex traits — the femininity of women and the masculinity of men — are attractive to normal people. Insofar as we wish our children to be normal and happy, we do encourage them in these “gender-based assumptions,” which are both natural and necessary to success in normal life.

We have met Laura Bates before, when she claimed “Women are being assaulted, abused and murdered in a sea of misogyny.” She is a failed actress, who graduated from elite Cambridge University in 2007 and launched her site Everyday Sexism in 2012. Unhappy women embrace feminism because it tells them that their unhappiness is not their own fault. Instead, feminists believe they are victims of male supremacy — externalizing responsibility by scapegoating men — and they wage war on human nature in order to destroy the system of “patriarchy” that these unhappy women blame for their own misfortunes.

“If you would be loved, love, and be lovable.”
— Benjamin Franklin

This is the problem that feminism can never solve, because feminists refuse to accept responsibility for their own unhappiness. Bitterness and envy are not attractive qualities. Feminists are not loved because they are not lovable. They make their own selfishness the basis of a political movement and, when this produces a negative reaction, they claim that this confirms that their analysis is correct: “Men hate me because I’m a feminist, and therefore more feminism is necessary!”

The circularity of this solipsistic theory never seems apparent to them. Nor do they ever seem to notice that other women succeed and achieve happiness within the “gender-based assumptions” that feminists blame for their own failure and unhappiness. These failed women presume their superiority qualifies them to tell the rest of us how to raise our children, and they want to teach this in schools:

Dreams of Feminist Education
Tadashi Dozono, Ileana Jiménez, Cheyenne Tobias
Two teachers of color, both feminist and queer, will share their dreams for feminist education in schools. Moving from theory to action, Ileana and Tadashi work alongside their students using various feminisms such as women of color feminism, global feminism, trans-feminism and queer theory. Their pedagogical practices incorporate restorative and social justice, inspiring innovative curricula that are intersectional and interdisciplinary. In collaboration with Cheyenne Tobias, feminist artist and Ileana’s former student, Tadashi and Ileana will bring us on a visual journey through two different school contexts via the successes they’ve had and the challenges they face in bringing a feminist vision to their respective classrooms. Calling us to action through their own personal storytelling, Ileana and Tadashi will urge us to consider the role of feminism in schools and the role that schools play in feminism.

Lesbians earn 20% more than heterosexual women in the U.S., which proves women are oppressed by heteronormative patriarchy!

Of course, if you’re a feminist, everything proves that women are oppressed by heteronormative patriarchy.




 

 

Category: Feminism, Sex Trouble
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