LIVE AT FIVESIX: 01.26.15

Emily McCombs is a recovering addict with tattoos and a pierced nose, not to mention a history of bulimia and sexual perversion, so it only makes sense that she is executive editor of the feminist blog XOJane.com. Feminism is a movement of “broken people” who blame “society” for their misfortunes and thus feel compelled to avenge themselves by destroying civilization as we know it.

Now in her early 30s, McCombs confesses that she was an alcoholic, used “cocaine daily for several years” and spent “over a decade as an on-again-off-again bulimic.” As weird as that is, such symptoms of psychiatric abnormality are rather commonly found in the solipsistic “personal-is-political” narratives that feminists write when they aren’t too busy ranting about patriarchal oppression. Like so many other damaged women, McCombs rationalizes her lunatic life as a reaction to “trauma”:

I accept that I made these decisions, although I don’t know that I had much choice — I was so young and had experienced so much trauma that I was probably using the only tools I knew of to survive. . . .
However I explain my past, I have to accept the consequences of my actions.

What manner of “trauma” did Emily McCombs experience? It seems to have been mainly self-inflicted, as she elsewhere confesses:

I started having sex with adult men when I was 13 years old.
Neglected at home and ostracized at school, I found comfort in the sexual attentions of older men. Unlike boys my own age, who cruelly taunted me, older men were nice to me. Unlike my emotionally distant father, older men paid attention to me.

She packs an awful lot of self-pity into those four sentences. Her family “neglected” her, she was “ostracized at school,” boys her age “cruelly taunted” her, her father was “emotionally distant,” and so McCombs is entirely blameless for her adolescent promiscuity.

This is not self-awareness. It’s rationalization.

Feminism provides a political context within which women can exculpate themselves for every problem in their lives. Whatever a woman may do to contribute to her own unhappiness, she can never be blamed — because patriarchy! Male supremacy is the Swiss Army Knife of feminist theory, a universal explanatory tool capable of turning any misfortune in a woman’s life into proof of her victimhood.

Somewhere in Oklahoma, Emily McCombs’ relatives and former schoolmates must be humiliated by her denunciations of them, and this is another function of feminism: Revenge against all the people the damaged woman blames for her unhappy childhood.

Of course, there are men who had unhappy childhoods, men who were neglected at home and cruelly taunted in school, men with histories of substance abuse and sexual perversion, men with tattoos and piercings and a tendency toward self-pity, but no man has access to the rationalization of feminism, which automatically turns women’s unhappiness into a political casus belli, an ideology of revolution.

But please, Ms. McCombs, tell us more about your “trauma”:

I created Prodigy chat rooms with names like “13yo girl home alone” and spent hours chatting and having phone sex with the men who would find me there. I “dated” men in their 20s and 30s that I met at the movie theater, online or hanging around local college town with my other underage girlfriends. I pursued these relationships with with Lolita-like abandon. The terrifying thing is how few adult men ever said no.
I was not coerced. I consented to all these sexual encounters in the basest sense of the world. But I was making choices that I wasn’t emotionally equipped to make.

Well, of course not. Whatever she did, she was not responsible.

The patriarchy made her do it. Blame her “emotionally distant” father and the boys who taunted her in school, and also blame the men who did to Emily McCombs what she wanted them to do:

I was 25 before I realized that every man I’d slept with as a teenager was a pedophile. It seemed to me that since I’d courted the attention, that I was fully culpable. What teenager believes she is not mentally or emotionally capable of full consent? . . .
I thought I was the exception for these men, the girl so precocious and advanced that it superseded social norms. . . .
Once, I met a 28-year-old man online and went to his house for a “date.” He began to undress me almost immediately — I went along with it because I wanted him to like me, and our sexual encounter culminated with him holding my head down and ejaculating into my throat while I sputtered and struggled to pull away. Later, I couldn’t understand why he never called me again, why he didn’t want to be my boyfriend.

The patriarchy is to blame, because the patriarchy is always to blame for whatever feminists want to complain about.

Were you a lonely teenage girl? The patriarchy!

Did men ejaculate into your throat? The patriarchy!

Did the men you had sex with never call you again? The patriarchy!

One wonders what story Emily McCombs would be telling if her parents had caught her slipping out for a rendezvous with her Internet “boyfriends” and punished her. Probably she would be condemning her parents for their “anti-sex” attitudes, blaming them for “repressing” her adolescent liberation. Feminism is incompatible with personal responsibility, so that whatever a woman’s problem may be, she herself is never to blame. Her unhappiness cannot possibly be her own fault, and if feminism thereby creates a handy excuse for the reckless promiscuity of hot-to-trot teenage girls, so what? As long as the emotionally damaged survivors of self-inflicted “trauma” grow up and join the crusade to destroy civilization as we know it, feminists will count that as a “win.”

Readers will perhaps be comforted to know that Emily McCombs recently adopted a boy. Or perhaps you will be horrified.

Haters!

Category: Feminism, Sex Trouble

Rule 5 Sunday: Shake It Off

Posted on | January 25, 2015 | 10 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Post title and pic are thanks (directly and indirectly) to Moe Lane, who thinks we ought to make this Taylor Swift tune the official battle hymn of the GOP for 2016. I can see his point – the lyrics are slyly truthful and dismissive of the media at the same time, Ms. Swift is a cutie, and you can dance to it. So. As usual, many of the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW, so exercise discretion in the clicking. Management is not responsible for your failure to maintain the purity of your essence or your precious bodily fluids.

“Because the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate…”

Leading the pack this week is Goodstuff with Zoe Saldana – for SCIENCE! Next up, Ninety Miles from Tyranny with the Hot Pick of the Late Night, Girls with Guns, and Morning Mistress – Winter Winterland. Animal Magnetism checks in with Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, and First Street Journal looks at Women in Combat in History.

EBL’s herd this week includes Sienna Miller (from American Sniper), Jessica Alba, Pro Bowl cheerleaders, and No Deflation with Charlotte McKinney.

A View from the Beach brings us January’s Tweet of the Month – January Jones, The Woman with a Thousand Vaginas, Holy Mackerel!, Science Says Women More Emotional than Men, Women Face Discrimination in Office Hiring, Wombat’s Tales of Tuesday, Kennewick Man Just An Ancient Indian (cave girls), How to Say “Yes” in Northern Sweden, Colts vs. the Patriots?, Packers vs Seahawks, Drained! (Again), and We Buy Golf Clubs.

Soylent Siberia has our morning coffee creamer, Overnighty Bryiana, Monday Mirror Motivationer, Evening Ebony, Evening Awesome Superhero Fap Girl, Humpday Hawtness Mirror Mirror, Overnighty Nomnomnom, Falconsword Fursday With Wetness, Freedom, Yeah, I Feel Myself Getting Rock Hard Right Now, Fursday Evening Awesome, Corsetation Vibration, T-GIF Friday Double Vision, Cocktail Hour, Weekender Wow, and Bath Night Sponge Bath.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Donna Feldman, his vintage babe is Louise Brooks, and Sex in Advertising is covered by St. Pauli Girl. Also, a double dip of obligatory NFL cheerleaders! At Dustbury, it’s the delightful Stacey Dash and Nicole Richie.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Submissions to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 Roundup are due by midnight Saturday, January 31.

Shake It Off
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Category: Rule 5

WTF My Tax Reform, @GOP?

Posted on | January 25, 2015 | 15 Comments

by Smitty

Wow, BHO's tax ideas sure are stinky. If only there was an alternative political party to speak of. (1/2)

— HireThisGuyIn2016 (@smitty_one_each) January 25, 2015

Such a party would require a capitalist platform. The @GOPs would be a good starting point for #Reform, but they'd have to mean it. (2/2)

— HireThisGuyIn2016 (@smitty_one_each) January 25, 2015

Category: Republicans

Props To Prof. William Jacobson And Judicial Watch

Posted on | January 24, 2015 | 20 Comments

by Smitty

Legal Insurrection does the Founder’s Work:

The short version is that the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department warned NBC News that it could not possess an actual high-capacity magazine, but NBC News went ahead and did it anyway. The MPD recommended a warrant for Gregory’s arrest, but that request was nixed by the D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan because — my paraphrase — Gregory was just too nice a guy and had no other criminal intent.

That attitude stood in stark contrast to the D.C. Attorney General’s vigorous prosecution of other lesser-known people who also were nice people and had no other criminal intent, but violated D.C.’s gun laws.

We served a Freedom of Information Act request but D.C. held back numerous documents. So we filed suit.

We were assisted by attorneys Jim Peterson and Ramona Cotca of Judicial Watch, who did a great job. Everybody give them a round of applause.

This is another tiny step along the way toward recovering from a system awash in too many laws, “unexpectedly” unwilling to enforce them, and thus veering toward tyranny.

via Hot Air

Category: Hot Air, Legal Insurrection

FMJRA 2.0: Rip & Tear

Posted on | January 24, 2015 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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Crazy? Yes, But Also Evil
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Feminist Author @PennyRed Quotes Bolshevik Commissar’s Anti-Love Advice
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Feminism’s Predictable Consequences: ‘Our Society at Large … Hates Women’
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Massachusetts Man Arrested for Kidnapping Teen Girls for Prostitution
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Well, This Happened
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European Economic Crisis?
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Let Me Be Perfectly Clear. . .
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LIVE AT FIVE: 01.20.15
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Feminist Hears Voices in Her Head
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The #MarchForLife2015 Thread
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In The Mailbox, 01.21.15
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Another Oppressed Victim of Heteronormative Patriarchy
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Chilling With the 114th Congress
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Berserkers And Other Stories
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EXCLUSIVE: Situation Room Map Boosts Obama’s “Victory in Europe” Claim
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Barrett Brown, Who Threatened Me, Is Sentenced to Five Years in Federal Prison
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Professional Perverts
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Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach

Professional Perverts

Posted on | January 23, 2015 | 104 Comments

What kind of people want to talk dirty to children? Perverts, and also government sex educators. But I repeat myself:

The former Ontario deputy education minister who oversaw the development of a controversial sex-ed program before facing child sex charges will plead guilty to a number of those charges.
Benjamin Levin, born 1952, was arrested in 2013 in the wake of an international child porn sting that led to his North York doorstep. He was not only accused of making and distributing child pornography, but also of arranging for a sexual offense with a child, and with possessing and accessing child pornography.
Levin’s lawyer Clayton Ruby confirmed Friday in court that his client will plead guilty to some of the seven charges, without clarifying which ones, reported the Toronto Star. Ruby also indicated that a guilty plea means there will be no trial.
Levin will be sentenced in March.
Under his watch as Ontario’s top education official from 2004 to 2009, Levin oversaw the development of an update to the provincial sex-education curriculum. Critics immediately slammed the proposal for encouraging the early sexualization of children and promoting a homosexual agenda.
Under the umbrella of “sexual diversity,” the curriculum teaches children to question whether they are a boy or a girl, about masturbation, oral sex, and ‘diverse’ family structures. After strong backlash from outraged parents the curriculum was shelved by then-Premier Dalton McGuinty in 2010.
After Levin’s arrest, Premier Kathleen Wynne, herself an open lesbian, tried to distance Levin from the sex-ed curriculum, saying at the time he had no direct role in writing it.
Critics expect the latest sex-ed curriculum proposed by Wynne to largely resemble its shelved predecessor. Wynne has stated that the curriculum, slated for all publicly funded schools next fall, will teach children about giving “sexual consent” and what she calls “healthy relationships.” . . .

The guy in charge of developing the sex-ed curriculum is a child molester, but don’t worry about that, says his boss, the lesbian.

Hello, Cultural Marxism:

In 1919, Georg Lukacs became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the short-lived Bolshevik Bela Kun regime in Hungary. He immediately set plans in motion to de-Christianize Hungary. Reasoning that if Christian sexual ethics could be undermined among children, then both the hated patriarchal family and the Church would be dealt a crippling blow. Lukacs launched a radical sex education program in the schools. Sex lectures were organized and literature handed out which graphically instructed youth in free love (promiscuity) and sexual intercourse while simultaneously encouraging them to deride and reject Christian moral ethics, monogamy, and parental and church authority. All of this was accompanied by a reign of cultural terror perpetrated against parents, priests, and dissenters.

In 1919, these people called themselves Bolsheviks. Today they call themselves “feminists.” These radical anti-Christian perverts have taken over government schools. Parents who send their children to government schools are complicit in this evil.

"I keep telling you people: Every single word of that is true." http://t.co/lhvV4dZjLI pic.twitter.com/DoixqFYBY2

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