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Rule 5 Monday: Snow Bunnies

Posted on | February 16, 2015 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The rare Antarctic snow bunny in her natural habitat.

New England’s getting pasted with snow in Biblical quantities, while here in DC people are panicking over a lousy 4-6″. Business as usual. While consoling yourself with images of these hot young ladies, do remember that some of the links are to pics generally considered NSFW, and the management is not responsible for any negative consequences of your clicking on those links in an less than appropriate time and place. You is been warned.

Average Bubba leads off this week with Padma Lakshmi, followed by Goodstuff who rejects 50 Shades Of Grey in favor of full colour photos. Ninety Miles from Tyranny checks in with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns; Animal Magnetism has Rule Five Friday and the scorchin’ Saturday Gingermageddon, and First Street Journal checks in with the ladies of the PKK peshmerga.

EBL’s herd of heifers this week includes OSU’s Kendra Sutherland, Morgan James, Fatoumata Diawara, Hannah Davis – Tool Of The Patriarchy!, Savannah Guthrie, The Patriarchy Always Blames the Women, Cilvia Hayes, Fifty Shades Of Wacky, Valentines Day for the Ladies, 50 Shades of Gran, Pauley Perrette, and Kristen Wiig.

At A View from the Beach, Coco Rocha Dishes Out the Truth on Modelling, Happy Valentine’s Day, It’s Wombat Friday Again!, Oregon, Oh Oregon, Where Do You Add the Gas, Anyway?, Are People Really This Insane?, The “Black Mamba” Gets a New Face, A Cheeky Play, “Breathe”, Shame on the Anti-Vaxxers, and “The Eve of War”.

Soylent Siberia presents your morning coffee creamer, the Sunday brunch buffet,  Monday Motivationer Pale Fire, Overnighty Woodwork, Tuesday Titillation: Bound And Determined, Humpday Hawtness Snoochtastic, Evening Awesome Fleur-de-Fur, Fursday Fantastic: Simone’s Piercing Pagoda, Evening Awesome: February Fur, Corset Cantaloupes, T-GIF Friday Clockwork, Overnighty Penny from Heaven, Weekender Jenya, and Bath Night Baubles.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Jamie Anderson, his Vintage Babe is Barbara Nichols, and Sex in Advertising this week is covered by Coors Lite. At Dustbury, it’s Meghan Trainor and Heart Evangelista.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is midnight on Saturday, February 21.

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Category: Rule 5

‘Queer Youth of Color’

Posted on | February 16, 2015 | 61 Comments

Verónica Bayetti Flores (@veroconplatanos) “has spent the last years of her life living and breathing reproductive justice. She has led national policy and movement building work on the intersections of immigrants’ rights, health care access, young parenthood, and LGBTQ liberation, and has worked to increase access to contraception and abortion, fought for paid sick leave, and demanded access to safe public space for queer youth of color. In 2008 Verónica obtained her Master’s degree in the Sexuality and Health program at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.” I’m sure “LGBTQ liberation” keeps her busy, but Verónica Bayetti Flores still finds time to write for Feministing.com:

For queer youth who know their rights in the face of a system that is killing them,
For women on government assistance who find joy in the news of pregnancy . . .
For those who dare to separate sexual pleasure and reproduction . . .
Your bodies, our bodies, are dangerous.
Your bodies are dangerous to the status quo. Your bodies bust through the armor of the gender binary and the patriarchy. Your bodies f–k up neoliberalism. Your bodies are ending white supremacy and heteropatriarchy. Your bodies are evidence that the colonial project has failed . . .
Your bodies are how the revolution begins.

“LGBTQ liberation” and “queer youth of color” is the feminist agenda in 2015. This was brought to my attention on Twitter by someone who thought “heteropatriarchy” was a new word I’d never encountered during my research into feminist theory.

Can someone explain to me how Verónica Bayetti Flores’s agenda of promoting homosexuality among minority youth is about “ending white supremacy” by beginning a “revolution” against “the colonial project”? Because a common-sense perspective might suppose that encouraging minorities to adopt the depraved perversity of our decadent elite would actually serve the interests of the elite. And if we learned that programs targeting black and Latino youth with this agenda are funded by major foundations with a record of supporting population control efforts aimed at the Third World? Well, I don’t suppose Verónica Bayetti Flores cares who is funding her “LGBTQ liberation” activism, but no honest person should be deceived about the real goals of this feminist agenda.





 

Category: Feminism, Gays, Racism, Sex Trouble

Gail Collins Can’t Erase The Irony

Posted on | February 15, 2015 | 44 Comments

by Smitty

Instapundit misses the bigger gag:

THIS MORNING I MENTIONED THAT GAIL COLLINS STILL HADN’T CORRECTED HER COLUMN. Now it bears this update:

An earlier version of this column incorrectly stated that teacher layoffs in Milwaukee in 2010 happened because Gov. Scott Walker “cut state aid to education.” The layoffs were made by the city’s school system because of a budget shortfall, before Mr. Walker took office in 2011.

So basically, it’s now an Emily Litella column. Never mind! I’d love it if Greg Gutfeld or someone would do a Gail Collins as Emily Litella skit with this. . . .

What was the title of the column, though?

Scott Walker Needs an Eraser

If I were Governor Walker, I’d do a fundraiser selling commemorative Nebbishes Yearning for Truth (NYT) erasers. You could no more make this stuff up than you could shame the NYT into journalistic integrity. But he might as well turn their sloppiness into some campaign cash against the day Her Majesty and JEBush get around to making their aristocratic decrees about why you peasants should elect them in lieu of Walker.

Update: welcome, Instapundit readers!

Category: Media Bias, New York Times

FMJRA 2.0: Satellite

Posted on | February 15, 2015 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Fear and Loathing of the Penis
Batshit Crazy News
IOTW Report
Regular Right Guy
The DaleyGator
Cragin Media
Spang Nation
That Mr. G Guy
Living In Anglo-America

Rule 5 Sunday: Sick, Lame & Lazy Edition
Batshit Crazy News
Animal Magnetism
That Mr. G Guy
Regular Right Guy
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach
Ninety Miles from Tyranny

Queering Valentine’s Day
Living In Anglo-America
Gay Patriot
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy
Flying Tiger Comics
Regular Right Guy

The Tragedy of Lesbian Divorce
Regular Right Guy
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Living In Anglo-America
Dyspepsia Generation

A Sordid Scandal in Oregon
First Street Journal
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy
A View from the Beach

In The Mailbox: 02.11.15 RTD Edition
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Political Rift
That Mr. G Guy
A View from the Beach

Facts Are the New Hate
First Street Journal
The Pirate’s Cove

Marcusean Intolerance
Regular Right Guy

Common Man-Hating Feminism
Living In Anglo-America
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy

Does She Deny Being a Man-Hater?
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy

Where To Go With A @BWilliams Fairy Tale? The Crack Animators Of Taiwan!
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News

The Low-Hanging Fruit of Feminism
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy
Regular Right Guy

OMG! @Rosie Goes ‘Lesbian Cougar’?
Spang Nation
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 02.12.15
Regular Right Guy
Muslim Anonymous

#ScottWalkerIsSoConservativeThat Like Washington & Lincoln, He Doesn’t Consider Degreelessness Disqualifying
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy
A View from the Beach

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.13.15
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy
A View from the Beach

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (13)
  2. (tied) Regular Right Guy and That Mr. G Guy (12)
  3. A View from the Beach (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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Jihad in Denmark?

Posted on | February 15, 2015 | 30 Comments

Two people were killed and five wounded in two separate shooting incidents Saturday in Copenhagen, Denmark. The first shooting was at a free speech event featuring a cartoonist who had mocked the Prophet Muhammad and the second shooting was at a nearby synagogue.

Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs is following developments.

(Hat-tip: Memeorandum.)

 

Category: Denmark, Islam, Terrorism

A Woman’s Most Important Right

Posted on | February 14, 2015 | 40 Comments

Is her right to defend her own life and property:

A Van Zandt County, Texas woman fatally shot a convicted sex offender as he was trying to break into a side door of her rural home Tuesday morning, an act of self-defense the local sheriff praised in light of an understaffed police force.
Christopher Ray Foster, 37, died at the scene after the unidentified woman shot him at her home near Canton, Texas. She called 911 at around 4:30 a.m.
Foster, who had an extensive criminal history, was recently released on a personal recognizance bond from Van Zandt County jail for failure to register as a sex offender, KLTV reported. Police also believed Foster was the prime suspect in an arson which occurred on Monday.

Scratch one name from the sex offender registry.

Don’t expect feminists to notice this success story for women’s rights. Feminists only care about “rape culture” when they’re persecuting a college boy because a girl he hooked up with got mad.

(Hat-tip: Jazz Shaw at Hot Air.)

 

Category: Crime

Fear and Loathing of the Penis

Posted on | February 13, 2015 | 196 Comments

“All women are prisoners and hostages to men’s world. Men’s world is like a vast prison or concentration camp for women. This isn’t a metaphor, it’s reality. Each man is a threat. We can’t escape men. . . .
“[H]eterosexuality doesn’t exist and our ‘urges’ to bond with [men] emotionally or sexually aren’t natural drives but normal PTSD reactions to years of abuse and mind-programming.”
— Radical Wind, August 2013

When I think back on how this project began, I recall the woman whose screed against intercourse (“PIV is always rape, OK?”) led me deep into this swamp of radical feminism. It was, however, another rant by that same blogger which made me seriously explore the ideological psychosis of which her rant was a symptom.

“No woman is heterosexual.”

That four-word sentence sent me off on an investigation of her sources, especially including Professor Dee Graham, whose 1994 book Loving to Survive theorized female heterosexuality as a response to male-inflicted “sexual terror,” akin to post-traumatic stress syndrome. Understanding this claim in turn required me to examine the sources cited in Graham’s bibliography, including lesbian feminists like Marilyn Frye, Adrienne Rich, Mary Daly, Audre Lorde and Charlotte Bunch. Graham even managed to work in a citation to “Starhawk” (neé Miriam Simos), the lesbian feminist who was the founding high priestess of a California-based pagan witchcraft cult known as Reclaiming. From such dubious sources Graham had propounded her theory of sexuality, based in a view of men as violent oppressors and women as victims suffering under tyrannical male supremacy. After several months of further research, I’ve begun to refer to this feminist worldview as Fear and Loathing of the Penis.

You see this in the counterfactual “rape epidemic” hysteria on college campuses, with activists at Columbia University trying to frighten prospective students — high school kids — with protests about “gender-based violence on campus.” Robert Tracinski at the Federalist examines the possibility that “rape culture” discourse represents “an attempt to create a scapegoat for the emotional dark side of promiscuity.”

It is evident that these women’s dread and contempt of masculinity arises from specific circumstances. Feminism does not cause women to hate and fear men; feminism is the political rationalization of these women’s anti-male feelings, permitting them to believe that their own unhappiness is not merely personal. It is the explanatory power of feminist theory that attracts women who do not wish to consider themselves responsible for their misfortunes, disappointments and failures, offering them a convenient scapegoat for their problems: Patriarchy.

To give you an idea of what I’m talking about, consider this recent post on Tumblr.com by an Australian woman named Kate:

I think that most of the times I feel afraid of the world, it is because there are men in it.
Men who want to hurt women; men who don’t want to hurt women but do not realise that they are doing so anyway; men who don’t want to hurt women, but do not care when they do, because whatever they want from the situation is intrinsically more important to them.
Men who you can tell are bad just by looking at them or listening to what they say; men who you instinctively feel could be bad, but you second-guess yourself because you want to believe and trust that they are good; men who you would never guess are bad in any way — whose badness doesn’t show for years, and when it does it is near-invisible to anybody else.
Men who make you feel threatened when they don’t get their own way; men who lash out and shift the focus when they don’t get their own way; men who spin every word when they don’t get their own way; men who act like children and make you their mother figure when they don’t get their own way; men who control you to get their own way, men who take what they want anyway when they don’t get their own way.
Men who do not listen to women’s words the same way they listen to other men’s; men who turn you invisible unless they want to f–k you; men who only want to be your friend because they want to f–k you; men who call you ‘intellectually dishonest’ for using emotion and context to argue a point; men who back you into corners physically, emotionally, verbally.
Men who call you ‘crazy’; ‘hormonal’; ‘irrational’; ‘emotional’, men who will not allow your anger to be recognised as a valid emotional response, or your sadness, your distrust.
Men who make you feel the most loved, safe, and cared for after they have abused you.
Men who make you question your reality by telling you with conviction that it is wrong.
Men who take away your sense of independence and self by controlling your every move, and by telling you a better way to do every little thing you’ve taught yourself.
Men who dissolve your self esteem by belittling and insulting you, and calling you names.
Men who tell you that your reasonable emotional reactions are abusive, and infringe on their rights to do whatever they want to do.
Men who do not stop whatever they are doing to you when you ask.
Men who look you in the eyes and lie to you every day to protect their double lives.
I am so tired of absorbing all of this.

Who are these men who do these things to Kate? We don’t know.

She doesn’t name them, but she is apparently surrounded by them, and we are thus unable to offer any advice or assistance to her. She is a helpless victim of men — men! men! men! — and it would seem she offers this catalog of masculine “badness” in the expectation that other women will recognize the pattern. Yet we might notice how Kate lists men’s reactions when they “don’t get their own way,” as if she can’t see that the entirety of her complaint involves her own dissatisfaction because she can’t get her own way with them. Men don’t behave the way Kate wants them to behave, men don’t say and do things the way Kate wants things to be said and done, and their failure to live up to her expectations — their unwillingness to comply with the imperious demands of Queen Kate — is proof that she is a victim of male oppression.

She is inviting us to a pity party where she is the guest of honor. If men reject that invitation, this just proves how bad men are, because they “will not allow your anger to be recognised as a valid emotional response, or your sadness, your distrust.”

Why wouldn’t male contempt for her be “a valid emotional response”? Men are the way we are in part because we must be that way in order to be recognized as men, as responsible adults. Nobody wants to hear a man complain about his problems. Women can be especially merciless in their contempt for any man who expresses a sense of emotional suffering, and many women are deliberately sadistic toward men. Some women enjoy nothing better than to insult a man and then mock him as a “whiner” if he takes notice of the insult. Women who take pride in their own cruelty toward men are invariably the same women who complain when men fail to treat them with solicitude and kindness. Such women are never able to admit that they are even partially responsible for their inability either to attract good men or to sustain relationships with the men they do attract.

Fear and Loathing of the Penis — a paranoid resentment of men, characterized by irrational suspicion — is the underlying mental condition that feminism turns into a political ideology. What disturbs me, after months of studying this phenomenon, is that this madness is both contagious and incurable. Feminism is a sort of cultural virus that, once it takes hold in a woman’s mind, makes it impossible for her to relate to men in a normal manner and, because misery loves company, she feels compelled to share her hateful anti-male attitudes with other women. If left untreated, the effects of this dangerous malady are well known.




 

 

“There are no Christian feminists, because feminism is a sort of narcissistic idolatry, wherein women deny God and instead worship themselves as their own divinity.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Dec. 17

 

 

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! As to envy, I have always thought Freudian psychology — “penis envy,” “Oedipus complex,” “castration anxiety,” etc. — to be a lot of mythical pseudo-scientific humbug. However, Freud did say this:

“Women have but little sense of justice, and this is no doubt connected with the preponderance of envy in their mental life.”

Like so much else Freud said about women, this seems insulting if read as a general statement applicable to all women. We should remember, however, that much of Freud’s practice involved treating neurotic women, the unhappy wives and daughters of the upper classes. As a description of a certain type of woman, his statement is certainly true. Envy is a poisonous emotion, and is antithetical to a sense of justice. The characteristic rage of feminists — their angry insistence that every advantage enjoyed by men is an unearned “privilege,” and that all women suffer oppression because of “male supremacy” — is entirely consistent with Freud’s observation of how “the preponderance of envy” manifests itself in the behavior of neurotic women.

UPDATE II: Linked by That Mr. G’s Blog, Brian Cragin and Doug at Daley Gator — thanks! — and our friend Doug apparently felt a need to pour salt in the wound. It should be sufficient to report facts and let people draw their own conclusions.

Of course, some conclusions are more obvious than others.

 

Category: Fear. Loathing., Feminism, Sex Trouble

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.13.15

Posted on | February 13, 2015 | 14 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Because Friday the 13th is actually on a Friday this month.


TOP NEWS
Federal Judge Orders Alabama County To Wed Gay Couples

Alabama probate judge ordered to issue licenses

District judge Granade orders issuance of licenses despite Alabama law, constitutional amendment

ISIS On the Doorstep?
Jihadis seize town near Marines at al-Asad air base

Homeland Security To Be Put In Charge Of Cybersecurity Info Sharing?
Because they do everything else so well, apparently



POLITICS
Slobbering Tributes To NYT Media Critic Erupt From MSM

Former drug addict collapses in newsroom, wailing and gnashing of teeth ensue

David Carr assumes room temperature, aged 58


Oregon Governor Kitzhaber’s Options Fade As Allies Abandon Him


Obama Student Loan Forgiveness Program Swells By $22 Billion

Majority Of NJ Voters View Christie Unfavorably

SPLC Apologizes To Ben Carson, Takes Him Off “Extremist” List

Senate Confirms Ashton Carter As New SecDef

US Commander Wants Greater Flexibility On Afghanistan Drawdown

FBI Chief: “Everyone’s A Little Bit Racist”

FBI Investigating Fraudulent Tax Returns Filed Through TurboTax



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Drops Again: WTI $51.08, Brent $59.11
German Growth Surges On Consumer Spending As France Slows
Expedia Buying Orbitz For $1.3 Billion
Gold Up On Weaker Dollar, But Set For Third Weekly Decline
Costco To Stop Accepting American Express
CBS Honcho Moonves Shoots Down Viacom Merger Rumors
Facebook Introduces New Legacy Contacts Feature
How DARPA’s “Dark Web” Search Feature Could Help Your Business
Windows 10 Technical Preview For Phones Now Available
Android Wear Gadgets Not A Big Hit
Nintendo’s “New” 3DS XL Doesn’t Come With A Charger “To Save You Money”



SPORTS
Rose Scores 30 As Bulls Topple Cavs

LeBron James goes back to the bench after a second-period foul

Does Cleveland need another big man for the playoffs?

Islanders Edge Toronto 3-2

Lindsey Vonn Bows Out “On A Good Note” At Worlds

Oilers Beat Habs In OT 4-3


Ten Things To Watch In 2015 Sprint Cup

Pens Edge Sens 5-4 In Shootout

Spring Training Story Lines

Nationals Leaving Viera For West Palm Beach



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Hannah Davis: Sports Illustrated Backlash “Silly”

SWIMSUITS R SRS BIDNESS

“I’ve been hearing it’s degrading. I think the people who are saying that aren’t feminists…”

Liv Tyler, It’s A Boy!

Jackie Mason: Are Young Women Into Old Jews?

Bobbi Kristina Brown’s Aunt Claims She’s Opening Her Eyes

Rats Still Running Around At Vogue

Emile Hirsch Charged With Felony Assault

Toni Garrn Organizes Supermodel Flea Market

Pam Anderson Files For Third Divorce From Rick Salomon

Lawrence Taylor Saves Wife From Wardrobe Malfunction

Esquire Interviews Will Smith

Katie Holmes On “Dawson’s Creek” Reunion: “Get Jimmy Fallon On The Phone!”

Power Crowd Expected At First Annual Times of Israel Gala



FOREIGNERS
Eight Ukrainian Servicemen Killed In Last 24 Hours Despite Peace Deal
Egyptian Court Frees Al-Jazeera Journalists On Bail
Pope Francis: “The Choice Not To Have Children Is Selfish”
Burma Says 47 Soldiers Killed In Clashes With Rebels Near Chinese Border
Chaos In South African Parliament As Party Ejected For Grilling Zuma On Corruption
Yemeni Rebels Preach Unity, Stifle Opposition
US Policeman Charged With Assault On Indian Grandfather
Norks Release Hundreds Of Bizarre Propaganda Slogans
Violence Flares In Venezuela On Anniversary Of 2014 Deaths
Nigeria Relying On Poorer Chad To Fight Boko Haram



BLOGS & STUFF
EBL: Hannah Davis, Tool Of The Patriarchy
Michelle Malkin: Attention, San Fran Nan – Government Dependency Kills Jobs
Twitchy: New Media Pioneers Remember David Carr’s Obituary For Andrew Breitbart
American Power: The Dangerous Lie That “Bush Lied”
American Thinker: Tim Cook, Enough Already
BLACKFIVE: Defeat Jihad Summit Huge Success
Conservatives4Palin: Governor Palin Gives Crowd-Pleasing Keynote At NAPE Meeting
Don Surber: The Scoreboard Returns (GOOD. -WS)
Jammie Wearing Fools: Media, Having Shown No Interest In Obama’s Mysterious College Years, Already Combing Through Scott Walker’s College Days
Joe For America: Pennsylvania Judge Slaps Down Muslim Wanting To Swear On Koran Instead Of Bible
JustOneMinute: The Scarlet Letter, Or, Has Justine Landed Yet?
Pamela Geller: One In Four Ballots In UK’s Muslim Dominated Tower Hamlets Ward Completed By Same Person
Protein Wisdom: This Is How Music Is Done, Kids
Shot In The Dark: The Left’s Inner Id, Exposed
STUMP: Obamacare Tax Watch – Mess To Come Was Noted Years Ago
The Gateway Pundit: Feds Explore Regulating Blogs And Websites
The Jawa Report: Reader Love Mail – Return Of The Loser Edition
The Lonely Conservative: Confirmed – Illegals Who Paid No Taxes Will Get Refunds From The IRS
This Ain’t Hell: The Routh Trial
Weasel Zippers: Gay Democrat State Senator Wants To Replace Statue Of Catholic Missionary Saint With Lesbian Astronaut
Megan McArdle: Who Needs A Diploma To Be President?
Mark Steyn: For Whom The Minaret Tolls


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