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In the Future, Everyone Will Be a Victim

Posted on | March 14, 2015 | 117 Comments

If you’re a University of Texas girl with blue hair and “queer social issues,” the sisters of Gamma Rho Lambda are there for you:

UT students established a campus colony of the national sorority Gamma Rho Lambda this semester — the first queer-focused and transsexual-inclusive women’s Greek society at the University, according to the organization’s leadership.
The sorority aims to combat issues regarding the status of queer women in mainstream society and within the LGBT community, Lauren Ferguson, president of the colony and art history and English senior, said. As part of the three-semester colonization process, the organization’s leaders recruited nine members this semester for the Alpha class and will start taking pledges in the fall.

Ferguson is also a columnist for the UT student newspaper, and recently published a column containing some interesting non-facts:

According to a 2001 report from the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, women on college campuses are more likely to be assaulted than women in the general population. And Katherine Hirsch’s study titled “Fraternities of Fear: Gang Rape, Male Bonding, and the Silencing of Women” estimated that one in four college women will be assaulted during their academic career.

Fact: Female college students are actually less likely to be raped than female non-students the same age.

Fact: The incidence of rape has significantly declined in the U.S.

As I wrote when the Justice Department report was released:

According to the report, the actual number of rapes of college-age females is 6.1 per 1,000, a drastically smaller number than 1-in-5. Meanwhile, non-college-attending females in the same 18-to-24 age group had about a 20% higher rate of rape (7.6 per 1,000).
To put it quite bluntly, there is zero evidence to support feminist claims of a “rape epidemic” on U.S. college campuses.
To put it even more bluntly, feminists are lying about rape.

The claim of a “rape epidemic” is a deception, manufactured with “Statistical Voodoo and Elastic Definitions,” as part of a propaganda campaign by feminists to augment their own (already formidable) power within academia. Of course, we don’t expect an art history major to understand that she is a pawn in someone else’s political power-grab. Indoctrination doesn’t work if the subjects realize that they’re being indoctrinated. The blue-haired queer Laura Ferguson is an LGBT celebrity now, interviewed by Huffington Post Live:

“I was really bothered when I first came to Austin and couldn’t find a safe space for queer women.”

Safe space? Safe from whom? The idea that “queer women” are unsafe in Austin — terrorized by heteronormative patriarchy, we might presume — is contradicted by Ms. Ferguson’s own words in another interview: “For every one person who doesn’t like us, there’s a thousand who support us. UT has been insanely supportive of us. . . . They’re not only willing to support us, but they’re excited about it.” One wonders what sort of menace requires these “queer women” to have a “safe space.”

Well, yes — mocking laughter might damage their self-esteem, and so the UT administration is “insanely supportive” of Gamma Rho Lambda providing a “safe space” where the weirdos can gather without being exposed to cruel jokes. This is where the cultural celebration of victimhood leads, to a world in which misfits and malcontents can imagine they are oppressed. (See “‘There Is No Spoon’: Radical Feminism and the Paranoid Matrix of Patriarchy.”) Despite the fact that university administrators are “insanely supportive” of LGBT activism on campus, it is still necessary — for the purposes of this charade of pretended victimhood — for the “queer women” to present themselves as suffering societal oppression and injustice. Does no one in Austin have enough common sense and courage to call bullshit on this bogus hustle?

There are more than 50,000 students at the UT Austin campus, and yet when Gamma Rho Lambda offered “safe space” for “queer women,” they were able to recruit a grand total of nine members. A little more than half of UT-Austin students are female, and if we assume that 2% of those are lesbian, that means about 500 “queer women” on campus. Yet it would seem that fewer than 2% of lesbian students at UT-Austin care enough about “safe space” to join Gamma Rho Lambda.

To repeat: THERE IS NO SPOON.

UPDATE: Why do the president and vice-president of the UT-Austin chapter of Gamma Rho Lambda have the the same name? Thanks to Zohydro in the comments and my brother Kirby for pointing me to this story which clarifies this point:

Lauren, and her sister, Audrey, decided to create a new organization. . . .
“Being a transwoman it’s hard to find places that are completely comfortable, I knew this needed to be an area specifically for female identifying and female queer individuals,” Audrey Ferguson said.

In other words, Lauren’s “sister Audrey” is in fact her brother, who is “identifying” as her “sister.” As Kirby said, “Imagine family Thanksgiving at their house!”

Yeah. It’s like The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

 

Category: Education, Feminism, Gays, Sex Trouble

Hmmm …

Posted on | March 14, 2015 | 12 Comments

During a Friday hearing in Montgomery County Circuit Court, Brett Kimberlin tried and failed to persuade a judge to grant a peace order against John Hoge. During the course of that proceeding, Kimberlin introduced as “evidence” what would appear to be a deliberate misrepresentation — a printed fascimile of a Tweet by Lee Stranahan, presented as though it had been sent by Hoge, who in fact had merely RT’d Stranahan’s message.

Aaron Walker discusses the hearing and the evidence. As readers may have noticed, I haven’t blogged much about the Kimberlin case lately. (My most recent post about the case was Sept. 25.) The explanation is simple: I’ve been up to my eyeballs in radical feminism and resolved to pay as little attention as possible to the Perjuring Pro Se Pipsqueak. My motion to dismiss Kimberlin’s absurd federal RICO suit is among several such motions pending, and we await the court’s decision.





 

Category: The Kimberlin Files

The 19th Paragraph: Feminism’s Eternal Quest for the Great White Defendant

Posted on | March 14, 2015 | 32 Comments

From an article in the Los Angeles Times:

Venice High has long been a microcosm of the diverse community around it, which includes a mix of rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods and areas known as a center of gang violence. In 2006, a 17-year-old Venice High student was fatally shot as he tried to protect his younger brother from gang members.
The school has more than 2,000 students; about two-thirds are Latino.

A “diverse community” with a problem of “gang violence” and a public high school where two-thirds of students are Latino? After starting with the 19th paragraph, let’s go back up to read the top of the story:

14 boys accused of sex crimes at Venice High;
police find photos of sex acts
Los Angeles police descended on Venice High School on Friday, arresting nine students in connection with a series of sex crimes that began more than a year ago and involved at least two female classmates. . . .
As detectives investigated, they discovered at least one photograph showing sex acts, according to law enforcement sources. A photo that appears to show two teenagers engaged in a sex act has been circulated on social media. Allegations involved both consensual sexual acts between minors and coerced acts, which complicates the case, police said. . . .
Authorities provided few details about the allegations and declined to identify the boys who were arrested because they are minors, all between the ages of 14 and 17. Sources in law enforcement and at Venice High said some of the boys are members of the high school’s football and basketball program.
The allegations, they said, involved a group of male students working together to pressure girls into having sex. The boys were accused of making verbal threats and threatening the girls’ reputations, according to one of the sources.

A different version of this story from KTLA-TV made the headlines at Memeorandum, and the liberal blog Raw Story headlined a Reuters article which adds significantly: “The arrests follow a number of high-profile sexual assault cases at U.S. colleges and high schools.” And all the feminists begin to shriek, “rape culture!”

Although we don’t yet know anything about the suspects or the alleged victims in this case, my guess is that feminists will not remain interested in this case for long. The progressive narrative requires that the perpetrator of an infamous crime be what Tom Wolfe in The Bonfire of the Vanities called “The Great White Defendant,” a figure who represents The Establishment, a human symbol of The System that is the eternal focus of liberal grievance. This was why Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely chose the University of Virginia as the target for her fraternity gang-rape story. Erdely told the Washington Post “she wanted to write about sexual assaults at an elite university,” and UVA — “Southern and genteel,” with “super-smart kids” — fit her agenda perfectly. Her sordid (and apparently fictional) tale of a freshman girl’s brutal gang-rape led by the (non-existent) “Haven Monahan” was intended as an indictment of The System. The narrative of this feminist melodrama required a certain type of villain, a young member of the elite — affluent, prestigious and, most of all, white.

The media must have its Great White Defendant to sustain and advance the liberal worldview, which is why American feminists went berserk over the Duke lacrosse team rape hoax, yet can’t be bothered to notice the misogynistic brutality that pervades Islamic culture. Boko Haram kidnaps “wives” by the hundreds, ISIS recruits young Muslim men with sex slave fantasies, and girls from England’s white underclass are systematically “groomed” and whored out by Pakistani rape gangs.

None of this evidence of an Islamic “War on Women,” however, serves to indict The System that American liberalism is organized against. This explains why you’ll never hear a peep from Amanda Marcotte or Jessica Valenti about British sex-trafficking victims like Emma Jackson. Nor for that matter did feminists pay any attention to the case of “Pimpstick Quezzy” or other American sex-traffickers who don’t fit the preferred Great White Defendant profile.

Feminists are always trying to fool us with their Jedi Mind Trick: “This is not the rape culture you’re looking for. Move along.”

The gang-plagued “diverse community” of Venice, California, therefore is ill-suited to become the scene of a feminist rape culture melodrama. How likely is it that football and basketball players at Venice High are a bunch of affluent white boys? Not very, I’d guess.

Facts are facts and guesses are guesses, however. If the facts at Venice High miraculously conform to feminist ideology — preppy Anglo jocks exploiting their white male privilege to coerce young girls into heteronormative victimhood — I’ll be dining on a plate of crow. But with 28 years in the news business, and after many months studying the phenomenon of radical feminism, my guesses are at least educated guesses, and my guess is that the Great White Defendant won’t be found in Venice. Speaking of sex crimes committed by California teenagers, however, two boys were sentenced to prison March 6 for their “sadistic” sexual assault of an 87-year-old woman in Riverside County. Yet we haven’t heard a word from feminists about the crimes of Ruben Jose Melanson and Raymond Michael Miranda.

Feminism is an ideology, a theory of systematic oppression, and only those facts which fit the theory are considered relevant. If the facts don’t confirm their theory, feminists have shown themselves willing to perpetrate hoaxes and manufacture statistics as evidence to “prove” their ideological narrative. As for facts that don’t fit the feminist oppression narrative? Oh, you’ll never hear a word about the Muslim lesbian vampire killers. You’ll never see any feminist contemplating the charges against Gaile Supp, Nichol Phelps, Helen Banks, Whitney Ball, Andrea Cardoso, Leah Eames, Rebecca Diebolt, Nicole Wooten, Sarah Blessing, Linda Wallace, Kelly Ann Garcia, Tonya Drueppel, Jaymee Wallace, Amanda Feenstra, Kelly O’Rourke — click any link in that list and see if you notice a pattern of sex crimes that no feminist can ever be bothered to mention. There has never been, nor will there ever be, a feminist author or scholar willing to study Elizabeth Miklosovic’s secret pagan wedding to her seventh-grade language arts student.

So many facts must be ignored — or buried in the 19th paragraph of a news article — for feminists to maintain their ideology.

Always we must remember: THERE IS NO SPOON.




 

Category: Crime, Education, Feminism, Sex Trouble

Oh No: Rachel Marie Stone Caught At Christianity Today Wielding An Airbrush

Posted on | March 14, 2015 | 121 Comments

by Smitty

“I do not mean to excuse Sanger for holding these views, but I do want to give the charge of ‘eugenicist’ a more complete background,” writes Stone as she chooses to give a selective background of the inarguably racist, elitist and anti-Christian worldview of one of the leading members of the American Eugenics Society. (If she wanted a more complete background, she could easily have watched Maafa21 and gotten a thorough perspective on the mother of Planned Parenthood.) Instead, she proudly tweeted: “I am @amyjuliabecker’s blog today, defending #MargaretSanger and talking about how #birthcontrol saves lives.” (Thanks to SaynSumthn blog for screen grabbing the tweet!) Stone has since removed the tweet and later claimed she was never trying to defend Margaret Sanger.

Category: Abortion

The Origin Of Her Majesty’s Horse Pucky

Posted on | March 13, 2015 | 19 Comments

by Smitty

Jokes aside:

Category: Hillary Clinton, humor

An Honest Headline

Posted on | March 13, 2015 | 57 Comments

Canadian gay activist S. Bear Bergman (@sbearbergman) writes an article at the Huffington Post with this headline:

I Have Come to Indoctrinate
Your Children Into My LGBTQ Agenda
(And I’m Not a Bit Sorry)
. . . I am here to tell you: All that time I said I wasn’t indoctrinating anyone with my beliefs about gay and lesbian and bi and trans and queer people? That was a lie. . . . That is absolutely my goal. I want to make your children like people like me . . .
That is our job: to encourage people, especially children, to think differently about a subject than they do now.

Bergman is reportedly a “transman” (female-to-male transsexual) whose spouse, J. Wallace, is also a female-to-male transsexual. If either of them tomorrow declared themselves to be the resurrection of Napoleon Bonaparte, this would not surprise me because what else do we expect? They’re Canadians. Insanity rivals hockey as the Canadian national pastime, and far be it from me to interfere with the rights of insane Canadian lesbians to be as crazy as their fellow Canadians.

However, I do not believe my children should be required to “like” Canadian lesbians. In fact, hating Canada is a traditional American pastime rivaled only by (a) baseball, (b) football and (c) hating France.

When I went to check out Bergman’s timeline, s/he was ranting at Jeff Allen and, when I pointed out her Canadianism, she huffed: “I’m a US citizen, born in New York.” So she is a transnational transgender, an expatriate ex-woman and — for all we know — the resurrection of Napoleon Bonaparte. The question is whether we want these lunatics acting as “educators” teaching our children (or Canadian children or anybody’s children) what to think. Do you suppose that any school system in an urban liberal community would invite Republicans, NRA activists or conservative Christians to give presentations to young students to encourage the kids to “like” economic freedom, Second Amendment rights and traditional morality? Of course not.

“Tolerance” and “diversity” are always a one-way street or, to be more accurate, a highway that is proverbially “paved with good intentions,” and leading toward an infernal destination:

Bergman, like many today, know no shame (Zep. 3:5). They parade what is shameful (Rom. 1:27) around in the open and expose young impressionable minds to it (Matt. 18:6). . . .

You can read the rest of that. Welcome to the 21st century, where anyone who believes the Bible is now a Thought Criminal.

“Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. . . . He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don’t listen to him. Remember that — do not listen.”
— The Exorcist (1973)

“Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”
— Romans 1:29-32 (KJV)





 

Category: Canada, Gays, Religion, Sex Trouble

Patricia Jannuzzi Is Right

Posted on | March 13, 2015 | 88 Comments

“We need healthy families with a mother and a father for the sake of the children and humanity,” wrote Patricia Januzzi, in a Facebook post in which she warned that same-sex marriage is part of an “agenda” that aims toward the “slow extinction” of Western civilization.

Ms. Januzzi is a teacher at Immaculata High School, a private Catholic school in New Jersey. While I am not Catholic, I am sufficiently acquainted with their doctrines on marriage and the family to conclude that Ms. Januzzi said nothing in her rant with which the Pope would disagree. And having spent the past several months researching radical feminism, I can say with absolute certainty that the “agenda” is exactly what Ms. Januzzi says it is. But the 21st-Century Thought Police can’t let the truth be spoken:

SOMERVILLE, N.J. — An anti-gay rant by a religion teacher at a Catholic high school in New Jersey is drawing the ire of alumni across the country, including a former Real Housewives of New Jersey cast member and New-Jersey-raised Susan Sarandon.
On her now-deleted Facebook profile earlier this week, the veteran private Catholic school teacher said gays or gay activists “want to reengineer western civ (sic) into a slow extinction” as part of their “agenda.”
“We need healthy families with a mother and a father for the sake of the children and humanity!!!!!” wrote Immaculata High School teacher Patricia Jannuzzi, adding that the argument that gays are protected under the 14th Amendment is “bologna.” . . .

Let me interrupt here to quote more of Ms. Januzzi’s post. She was reacting emotionally to a story (“Crass: Gay Activist Tweets THIS To Ben Carson Following CNN Interview”) that she linked on her Facebook page, and her point was not very clearly made. She said gay activists, after using the “born that way” argument to gain status under the 14th Amendment “equal protection” clause, will then “argue everyone should be able to choose” homosexuality. Anyone familiar with feminist theory knows that radical lesbians have never accepted the “born that way” argument, instead advocating lesbianism as a “challenge to male supremacy and its basic institution of heterosexuality,” to quote Professor Sheila Jeffreys. This feminist perspective was celebrated in a 1973 song by Alix Dobkin, “Every Woman Can Be a Lesbian.”

The radical “choice” view of sexuality advocated by lesbian feminists is seldom heard from gay males, who usually describe their homosexual desires as an uncontrollable urge. However, one finds across the spectrum of the LGBT rainbow a unanimous consensus on what we might call the Compulsory Approval Doctrine:

No one can ever be permitted to express a personal aversion or moral objection to homosexual behavior.

Disapproval is synonymous with “hate,” according to gay activists, and the cultural consequence of the Compulsory Approval Doctrine is to stigmatize heterosexuality as an expression of prejudice. Many gay people have convinced themselves that the “straight” person’s rejection of homosexual behavior is implicit proof of homophobia — an irrational fear — so that all heterosexuals are basically viewed as ignorant bigots afflicted with neurotic sexual repression. And if you dare cite religious injunctions against homosexuality, you thereby prove that you are certainly a hater. Quod erat demonstrandum.

The Compulsory Approval Doctrine of the gay-rights movement is exemplified by the thug mob reaction to Mrs. Januzzi:

The school has since forced Jannuzzi to take down her Facebook page, which was no longer visible Wednesday evening, but not before others took screenshots of the rant and shared it on social media.
Immaculata principal Jean Kline on Wednesday distanced her school from Jannuzzi’s comments and said that “through an investigation, we have determined that the information posted on this social media page has not been reflected in the curriculum content of the classes she teaches.”
In her statement, Kline said the school “takes this situation very seriously.”
“We are dedicated to creating a school environment that promotes mutual respect and provides a challenging academic program, rooted in the Gospel message of Jesus Christ.”
It remains to be seen whether the school’s response will allay reaction by alumni, some of whom remember losing a gay classmate to suicide.
Former Real Housewives cast member Greg Bennett, who graduated from Immaculata in 2004 and who had Jannuzzi as a teacher his senior year, shared the screenshot of Jannuzzi’s post on his Twitter account, asking his 165,000 followers to sign a petition addressed to school administrators calling “for action to be taken and hate speech to stop at Immaculata.” . . .
Earlier on Wednesday, Sarandon, who graduated from Edison High School, shared a letter written by her nephew, Scott Lyons, to Jannuzzi, his former teacher at the high school.
“You have a responsibility as a teacher to lead by example and the words that you have been throwing out there are detrimental to the well being and health of the youth that you inspire,” Lyons, who has an adopted son with his husband, writes. “I am certain that the pope himself would take issue with your extreme point of view on homosexuality.” . . .
“I left this school after being told in religion class I must live a celibate single life if I had gay ‘feelings,’ ” writes Doug Bednarczyk of Marlton, N.J. “Around the same time, a gay classmate committed suicide.”
Lucas Bernardo, of Philadelphia, says he was 16 when he took a class taught by Jannuzzi.
“I didn’t feel comfortable in her class with the negative messages about gay and lesbian people she was preaching to us,” he writes. “I remember arguing with her about such topics and being in total disbelief that such blatant hate could be taught in a religion class.”

Read the whole thing. The Thought Police never bothered to disprove what Ms. Januzzi wrote. They offered no evidence to contradict her claims. Instead, they denounced her for engaging in “hate speech,” having an “extreme point of view,” teaching “blatant hate” and, they insinuated, Ms. Januzzi is responsible for teenagers committing suicide.

Look: I’m old enough to remember when a boy could be suspended from public school if his hair was long enough to touch his shirt collar in back. I remember when a girl could get kicked off the cheerleading squad if she engaged in PDA (public display of affection) by holding hands with her boyfriend. There was a time — and not really that long ago, either — when young people could not demand approval from their elders, and in fact teenagers were constantly subjected to lectures of adult disapproval for their adolescent wildness. Yet we did not commit suicide, nor did we organize petitions to get our teachers fired because they disapproved of us, inter alia, smoking dope and listening to Led Zeppelin.

Our parents and teachers told us we were hellbound heathens and, once we grew up and looked back on our misspent youth, most of us agreed they were right. God forbid any of my kids should ever go wild like I went wild in the ’70s. America was still a free country back then, and adults weren’t expected to tiptoe around lest they bruise the fragile self-esteem of a Special Snowflake. Back then, totalitarianism was a threat posed by the Soviet Union. Now the totalitarians are here among us, organizing to suppress dissent, punishing expression of opinions contrary to those of the progressive elite. It is not yet illegal to speak truth, however, and I will exercise my First Amendment right to say this: Damn the Thought Police. Damn them all to hell.

“Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself . . . she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”
— Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 1786

“If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you’re a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you’re a coward.”
— Glenn Reynolds, 2015

The “slow extinction” of Western civilization is beginning to accelerate. If a Catholic teacher at a Catholic school is not free to express Catholic teaching, who among us is truly free?

The Thought Police are everywhere now, monitoring our opinions, so we can only think what Our Moral Superiors™ want us to think.

(Hat-tip: Donald Douglas on Twitter.)





 

Category: Catholics, Celebrities, Culture, Education, Feminism, Gays, Sex Trouble

‘Early in Their Political Lives, the Clintons Needed to Maintain a Level of Artifice’

Posted on | March 13, 2015 | 15 Comments

by Smitty

I guess Matt Bai has some connection with Pravda on the Hudson (the NYT), which explains why his work as a Clinton apologist at Yahoo looks like it fell out of the Screwtape Letters. He mentions the word ‘lie’ about as often as Her Majesty touches the truth. The opening gag juxtaposing Senator Cotton’s epistle to the Iranian mullahs with a Nigerian email scam is clever. Always start with a laugh. And then:

If Clinton thinks, however, that her explanation is going to end speculation about whatever sinister secrets she is said to be keeping, she’s mistaken. And that’s not because she’s an especially nefarious person, or because she’s a woman, or because the media is bent on destroying her.

This is beautiful in the way the reader is lured by the plausibility of “whatever sinister secrets she is said to be keeping” into buying “not because she’s an especially nefarious person”. The full court press of David Brock, Lanny Davis, James Carville, and Matt Bai himself indicates just how much “sin” that Her Majesty puts in “sinister”. Bai then dismisses the gender card, and the victim card. Is the media bent on destroying Her Majesty? Let’s stipulate that mutual contempt is certain, but the media is a pit bull that knows from whence its scraps come.

No, to understand why truth and transparency are Clinton’s main vulnerability in 2016, you need to understand the moment in which the Clintons entered American politics, and how they came to dominate it.

Having thrown out a joke and a few reasonable conjectures, he moves to a professorial sentence: “Come, let me share the skinny”.

First, let me say that I have a hard time getting too worked up about Clinton’s vanishing emails, although maybe I should. It’s possible, I guess, that in the many thousands of unreleased emails is evidence of her having endangered national security by talking policy on unsecured servers. It’s possible that some emails refer to meetings that Clinton or her aides would rather not make public.

And now that you’re semi-hypnotized, but still reading, let’s have Bai reach in and modulate your stance concerning one of the all time great middle fingers ever given the American people by a public figure.

Read the whole thing. Bai’s article should be studied as a masterpiece of concise Mephistophelian persuasion. His task is not to change your mind, but to alter the course of your thinking, so that you get where he wants you over time. Absolutely brilliant soft sell for a woman with a concrete heart.

We can only hope Hillary’s security flunkies were as proficient as her propaganda people.

via HotAir

Category: Hillary Clinton
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