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Men Cannot Be Feminists

Posted on | May 13, 2015 | 127 Comments

The oxymoronic phenomenon of the “male feminist” is an endless source of amusement. If groveling self-abasement were an Olympic sport, “male feminists” would win the gold medal every four years.

Modern feminism is basically about three things:

  1. Killing babies;
  2. Hating men;
    and
  3. Lying.

A common feminist lie is to deny that they hate men. This is exactly the kind of shameless dishonesty we must expect from fanatics who assert that killing babies is women’s most basic “right.”

Hateful bloodthirsty liars are not the kind of women that normal men find attractive, yet there are always enough abnormal men in the world that some of them actually want to have sex with feminists. Inspired by twisted masochistic neuroses or other perverse impulses, these pathetic males declare themselves feminists and, while not all “male feminists” end up in the lunatic ward like Professor Hugo Schwyzer, they always meet a sorry end, groveling for the approval of sadistic women whose raison d’etre is their contempt for men.

Meghan Murphy is the proprietor of Feminist Current, “Canada’s leading feminist website.” She has a Masters degree in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, but still insists on describing herself as “a heterosexual woman who has been in a number of heterosexual relationships,” despite never having met a man she actually likes or respects enough to consider them her equal. Like every other feminist, Meghan Murphy only ever speaks of men as her moral and intellectual inferiors. No man could ever deserve her trust or admiration, and certainly she could never be expected to praise a “male feminist” like Noah Berlatsky:

Noah Berlatsky . . . perfectly exemplifies the trouble with male “allies.” He not only presumes to know more about what’s good for women than women themselves, but has taken it upon himself to dictate what the future of the feminist movement should look like, using Playboy as a platform, at that. . . .
Propping up a man whose “feminist cred” consists of attacking feminists and smearing the feminist movement is as ignorant as it is dangerous. . . .
Men like Berlatsky are big supporters of “feminism” so long as it benefits them. Playboy Feminism™ works to elevate male power and privilege and supports a notion of liberation that says: “Beautiful naked women, splayed across pages for the male gaze is what freedom for women is really about.” . . .
Playboy and the male gaze have absolutely nothing to do with female sexuality. To imply as much is to reinforce the notion that women exist only in relation to men and, therefore, that women’s sexuality depends on the male gaze.
Despite challenges such as a fundamental lack of understanding around what feminism is, Berlatsky has persisted in his quest to reinvent our century-old women’s movement, painting feminists as needing, simply, a little male leadership. . . .

FEMINISM IS NOT ABOUT MAKING MEN HAPPY.

How much more clearly can Meghan Murphy explain this to Noah Berlatsky? A basic goal of the feminist movement is to abolish male happiness. If you are a male and you are happy, you are the problem that feminism is intended to solve.

Does it make men happy to look at beautiful naked women? Then feminists must condemn beautiful women and also condemn the “male gaze”that enjoys seeing beautiful women naked. No man can ever be permitted to see a woman naked, because that has “absolutely nothing to do with female sexuality,” according to Meghan Murphy. Under no condition should “female sexuality”ever make men happy.

Meghan Murphy knows this, because she “has been in a number of heterosexual relationships” and no man has ever accused Meghan Murphy of making him happy. Nor is it likely any man would admit to having tried to make her happy. Even in Canada, most men have enough self-respect that they’d never admit something as shameful as that.




 

Category: Sex Trouble

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.13.15

Posted on | May 13, 2015 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Rescue Efforts Resume In Nepal After Latest Deadly Tremor

Epicenters of the two most recent quakes

Four killed as latest quake rocks stricken country
Nepal officials warn people to leave damaged buildings


Amtrak Train Crashes In Philadelphia
Five dead, 130 injured


Biker Gunmen Kill 43 In Karachi Bus Attack
All the slain from Pakistan’s Ismaili Shiite sect



POLITICS
House Votes To Block EPA From Implementing New Water Regulation Plan

The rule would “trample on private property rights and hold back our economy,” says a memo from House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)

White House promises veto

Obama Takes Defeat On Trade Bill Personally

Navy Secretary to Propose Doubling Maternity Leave, Opening More Jobs To Women

White House Threatens Veto On Defense Bill

Harriet Tubman Wins Poll To Replace Andrew Jackson On The $20

Libertarian Party To Sue For Inclusion In 2016 Debates

Premature Election: Sanchez Retracts Senate Announcement

Moody’s Downgrades Chicago To Junk

Only One GOP Candidate Scores 100% With ACU



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Extends Gains On Weak Dollar, Expected Slump In Inventory: WTI $61.21, Brent $67.06
Verizon To Buy AOL In $4.4 Billion Mobile Video Push
French Economy Gathers Steam As Germany Slows
Fees Forcing Fliers To Ditch Airlines?
Nissan Posts 15% Operating Profit Growth On Rise In Vehicle Sales
March’s New Jobs Slip By 150K
Buzzfeed, BBC To Publish Stories Straight To Facebook
Verizon, Sprint Fined $158 Million In Cramming Probe
Samsung Announces New Push Into Internet Gadgets
NVIDIA GRID Calls Dibs On 1080p60 Game Streaming
Assassin’s Creed Hits London



SPORTS
Rockets Stay Alive Behind Harden’s Triple-Double

26 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists

Rockets win game 5, beat Clippers 124-103

Habs Lose Game 6 To Lightning

Giants Rout Astros 8-1

Bulls Rally Too Little Too Late; Cavs Win Game 5 106-101

Royals Edge Rangers 7-6 In Extras

Kyle Busch Returns To Competition This Weekend

Tigers Pull It Out In 10th, Beat Twins 2-1


Warriors Head Home After Tying Series

Tribe Falls To Cards 8-3

Rangers Face Caps In Game 7

Ronda Rousey Posed Nude To Deter Ex From Leaking Photos

Jays Rout O’s 10-2

Juggernaut Derailed: Snakes Rip Strasburg, Nats 14-6



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Lindsay Lohan Misses First Day of Community Service At Brooklyn Preschool

Returning from London to finish sentence

Lateness due to unspecified hurdles, says school


Marvel Courting Selma Filmmaker to Direct “Diverse” Superhero Movies

Unspeakable Armenian Warned To Cut Water Use During California Drought

Anne Hathaway To Star In Colossal

Paula Deen Selling Savannah Estate For $12.5 Million

Ctae Blanchett Opens Closet Door With Lesbian Romance Carol

Hamptons Fear Mark Leder’s Infamous Parties

Linda Evangelista Turns 50 In Style


Warner Brothers Putting The Fugitive Back On The Run

Bill Clinton Dubs Himself “Ricky Martin’s Warm-up Act”

Erin Andrews Explains Her DWTS Behavior

Did Tiger Cheat On Lindsey Vonn?

Empire Signs Chris Rock, Alicia Keys, And Lenny Kravitz For Season Two

Lily Allen Shares A Close-Up With Her Acne

AOL In Talks To Spin Off HuffPo For Over $1 Billion?



FOREIGNERS
Personal Diplomacy Marks Modi’s China Visit
Norks Execute Defense Minister For Falling Asleep At Event Attended By Kim Jong Un
Inspectors In Syria Find Traces Of Banned Military Chemicals
No Refuge For Bangladeshi, Rohingya Muslim Boat People
MH370 Search Finds Uncharted Shipwreck In Indian Ocean
Turkey, Saudis Shock West By Supporting Anti-Assad Jihadis
Amnesty International Pushes ROK To Free Conscientious Objectors
Focus Is On ISIS, Libya As NATO Foreign Ministers Meet
Obama’s Summit With Gulf Leaders To Focus On “Aggressive” Iran, Saudi FM Says
Cameron To Fast-Track Terror Laws



BLOGS & STUFF
EBL: So How Are Things Going In Baltimore?
Louder With Crowder: Muslim-American Publisher Claims Pamela Geller “Worse Than ISIS”
Michelle Malkin: SFC Christopher Speer Is Dead, And Omar Khadr Is Free
Twitchy: Is Pamela Geller Really The Issue? Atheist Bangladeshi Blogger Hacked To Death
Shark Tank: More Crazy From Alan Grayson
American Power: Where The British Left Went Horribly Wrong
American Thinker: Michelle Obama Should Have Read The Founder Of Tuskegee University Before She Went There
BLACKFIVE: “Dear Mom, I’m Okay…”
Conservatives4Palin: Obama Blasts FOX, Blames Network For Class Warfare
Don Surber: Poor Little Michelle, Boo Hoo Hoo
Jammie Wearing Fools: Some Upset By Aussie PM Calling ISIS A Death Cult
Joe For America: Diane Feinstein Makes Obama’s Hit List
JustOneMinute: Hillary’s Rope-A-Dope
Pamela Geller: ISIS Savagely Mutilates Women Who Breastfeed In Public
Protein Wisdom: My 25th Brief Conversation With The Ghost Of John Merrick
Shot In The Dark: The Racism Of The Gun Grabbers, Part MMMXLVIII
STUMP: Obamacare Tax Watch – The Pain Won’t Stop
The Gateway Pundit: Obama Lectures Christians – Churches Should Focus More On Poverty And Less On Abortion, Marriage
The Jawa Report: 100% Proof Allah Digs Muhammad Cartoons!
The Lonely Conservative: Massachusetts Obamacare Exchange Under Federal Investigation
This Ain’t Hell: Whitehall PA Vets Angry With Mayor Ed Hozza
Weasel Zippers: Soros Donates $159 Million To Bill DeBlasio’s Newly Launched “Progressive Agenda”
Megan McArdle: In Politics, it’s Good To Be A Little Bad
Mark Steyn: “Stay Quiet And You’ll Be Okay”


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Category: Live at Five

UVA Dean Files $7.5 Million Lawsuit Against Rolling Stone Over Rape Hoax

Posted on | May 12, 2015 | 51 Comments

Making the liars pay for fake journalism:

A University of Virginia associate dean of students filed a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine Tuesday, alleging that it portrayed her as callous and indifferent to allegations of sexual assault on campus and made her the university’s “chief villain” in a now-debunked article about a fraternity gang rape.
Nicole Eramo is seeking more than $7.5 million in damages from Rolling Stone; its parent company, Wenner Media; and Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the investigative journalist who wrote the explosive account of sexual assault on the campus in Charlottesville. The magazine retracted the article after news organizations and the Columbia University journalism school found serious flaws in it.

The entire complaint is online. Via Memeorandum, with more blog commentary from Reason Magazine, Legal In·surrection, Ed Driscoll, Moe Lane, and The PJ Tatler.

 

Category: Crime, Education, Media Bias

On Da Campaign Trail

Posted on | May 12, 2015 | 3 Comments

After my extensive campaign travels during the 2010 and 2012 election cycles, I’ve been more of a stay-at-home blogger the past couple of years. However, our old friend Pete Da Tech Guy has been on the scene in New Hampshire where he recently caught a campaign stop by Dr. Ben Carson at Mike Rogers’s house in Hollis:

In this small informal setting Dr. Ben Carson answered more spontaneous questions on issues from the public than Hillary Clinton has in her entire campaign.
Think about it.

Go see the whole thing with videos and please be sure to Hit Da Freaking Tip Jar. Pete is doing valuable work up there.

 

Category: Da Tech Guy, Election, New Hampshire

‘Draw Mohammed’ Contest Winner Will Be Added to SPLC ‘Hate’ List

Posted on | May 12, 2015 | 117 Comments

Attacked by Islamic terrorists and listed by the SPLC:

Bosch Fawstin, a former Muslim who won the Muhammad cartoon contest at the Texas free speech event attacked by two gunmen Sunday, will soon be added to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) list of hate groups.
Mr. Fawstin won $12,500 in prize money at the event, sponsored by Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), for a drawing that showed a sword-wielding prophet in a turban shouting, “You can’t draw me.” In reply, a cartoon bubble portrayed the artist as writing, “That’s why I draw you,” Reuters reported.
The SPLC, which already includes AFDI on its annual list of U.S. hate groups, plans to add the artist to its 2016 report, Heidi Beirich, who leads SPLC’s Intelligence Project, told Reuters on Monday.
Ms. Beirich said Mr. Fawstin would have been listed before Sunday’s attack, but the center did not know his location. The organization has since learned that his website is registered in New York City, Reuters reported.
“He’s like the artist of the movement,” Mr. Beirich said, calling his website “virulently ugly.”
“His views, they are hate views,” she added.

Much like being sued by Brett Kimberlin, having your name on the SPLC’s hate list is becoming a badge of honor.

 

Category: Islam, Terrorism

We Pity

Posted on | May 11, 2015 | 17 Comments

by Smitty

It’s Colonel Schlichter’s special take on delicacy that makes him such a word-for-word read:

We pity the fact that every day you have to wake up and look in the mirror and see the face of a man, or woman, or whichever of the 567 other gender identities the freakshow left has manufactured, who is more concerned with personal safety than with personal dignity. Pathetic.

via Instapundit

Category: Culture

War Against Human Nature: 100% Failure

Posted on | May 11, 2015 | 148 Comments

Instead of training to fight America’s enemies, the United States Army has been ordered to engage in a war against human nature:

All eight female soldiers who survived the initial days of the first-ever Army Ranger School course to include women failed to make it to the second phase, but can still try again and pass, Army officials said Friday.
The women were attempting the famously difficult 62-day course as the Pentagon weighs which combat jobs women will be allowed to hold in the future. Army officials at Fort Benning, Ga., said that 115 men in the class had moved on to Ranger School’s second phase — mountaineering at Camp Merrill, Ga. — but that eight women and 101 men will be left behind at Fort Benning, Ga., to attempt Phase One again.
Top Pentagon leaders dropped a longtime ban on women in combat units in January 2013, but gave the services until later this year to seek exceptions and provide justification. . . .
About 35 male soldiers who attempted Phase One with the women failed to meet standards that would allow them to repeat, and will be sent back to their units, Army officials said. . . .
The Ranger class began April 20 with 19 women and 380 men. They where whittled down to eight women and 184 men after the initial, grueling four-day Ranger Assessment Phase, known as “RAP Week.”

Doing the math here: Of the 380 men who entered, 48% completed RAP Week. Of the 19 women who entered, 42% finished RAP Week. Of those who survived RAP Week, 63% of males advanced to Phase Two, whereas the failure rate of females was 100%

To repeat: ONE HUNDRED PERCENT FAILURE.

Believe it or not, that statistic is actually inadequate to describe how badly this social engineering experiment failed. It’s worse than 100% failure, as will be explained, but first permit me to quote the introduction to Sex Trouble:

Feminists have . . . undermined customs of courtesy and decency, fostering a climate where there are no commonly recognized rules to prevent or mediate conflicts between men and women. The destruction of civilized restraints has unleashed savage impulses, so that sexual relations at times approach the “war of all against all” of which Thomas Hobbes once warned.

The natural (and biologically necessary) relation between men and women is one of voluntary cooperation — as husband and wife, mother and father — to provide for themselves and their offspring. However, feminists reject this natural cooperation, condemning it as a system of male supremacy that oppresses women; feminists instead insist on viewing men and women as collective groups with antagonistic interests, engaged in hostile competition. In this zero-sum game mentality, human beings are not viewed as individuals but as members of collective groups. Any observable inequality between groups is automatically assumed to be a result of social injustice. Ergo, the all-male status of elite combat outfits is evidence of sexist discrimination.

Army Rangers are the patriarchy, and the patriarchy must be smashed!

How could the failure rate of females in Ranger School be worse than 100%? Because these 19 women were handpicked as human guinea pigs in this experiment, and some were given special preparation, as an anonymous Army lieutenant explained in an online military forum:

I’m gathering that you are trying to make a point against the people who disagree with GI [gender integration] and ranger school. So, here’s my personal response.
I honestly know that some (not all) of the females who are going through right now were treated favorably in order to be better prepared for Ranger School. And “favorably” is a very conservative way of putting it. For example: multiple opportunities to pass RTAC; training in-between RTAC cycles to get better prepared to complete RTAC; training by an RI (not from RTB or RTAC) to get better prepared for Ranger School; PT plans focused on RAP week events and weapons training. All of this took place on the the governments dime at Ft. Banning and they did not have duty obligations back at their units. I’m sure all Ranger students would love to be put on active duty orders (if guard or reserve) or separated from their daily duties to strictly prepare for Ranger school. At the end of the day, they needed this preparation in order to have a good shot at passing rap week in ranger school.
Saying that… if they went straight to Ranger School (like the vast majority Ranger Students do) and did not get trained in preparation to go, how would they [fare]? I personally know that the several needed time to recover and get the extra training to potential pass RTAC. Not all, but several. (it was a significant number when your talking about 19 total)
I have seen the [gender integration] from the very beginning until now. My personal opinion, based on what I have seen first hand, is that all females ‘collectively’ will not be able to walk on to Ranger school and be successful. They need extensive training, physically and tactically (at the one on one level) in order to have a slim chance of being successful. And by training I mean separation from duty to do nothing but train and improve physical fitness. My reasoning behind this: the females who came to attempt ranger school are the most elite, physically fit, and top .17% of all females in the Army (130 out of 74000). So if they need all of this training, how will the other 99.83% of females [fare]?
If the 16 make it, how does that reflect all females? Over 130 (approximately) attempted, and 16 are left (12%). .02% of ALL females that were allowed to attempt still have chance. If these were males, this would be deemed an epic failure. Do the math on the money the government spent on this, and tell me this is worth the tax payers dime. It’s [borderline] criminal. Hundreds of thousands of dollars, literally, from the pay, tdy, salary of the personal instructor, time away from their unit (other people doing double duty), salaries for O/As for several months, and the actual cost of sending a soldier to ranger school.

Everything about this experiment is wrong — an insult to common sense — because it is inspired by radical feminist gender theory.

Understand this: Because of budget cuts — thanks, President Obama! — the Army is currently planning to eliminate 10 brigades.

I repeat: TEN BRIGADES are being eliminated from the Army and yet, somehow, the Pentagon manages to find enough money in its budget to provide special training for female soldiers for use in this bizarre “gender integration” experiment at Fort Benning.

Even if you are not disturbed (as you should be) by the weirdness of this Island of Doctor Moreau project, even if the idea of trying to turn women into androgynous Death Machines doesn’t give you nightmares, what about the costs in terms of dollars and human resources to conduct this experiment at taxpayer expense? Only a government under the control of fanatical ideologues would attempt to do this unnatural and unholy thing in the name of “gender integration,” and yet no member of Obama’s Army can be permitted to criticize it.

“Feminism is fundamentally inhumane. It is a totalitarian belief system, intolerant of dissent. It is a rationalization of hate, and therefore feminism can justify telling any lie, so long as men are hurt (and feminists are empowered) by the lie. . . .
“All that is necessary, in feminist rhetoric and belief, is to blame men for everything bad. . . .
“To be a feminist in good standing, therefore, requires a woman to ignore the basic errors of her fellow feminists, to cooperate in feminism’s totalitarian project of silencing critics who call attention to that which feminism must ignore.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the War on Human Nature, pp. 81, 84

So it is that the U.S. Army, which is supposed to protect American freedom, is being used to destroy American freedom.

(Special hat-tip: Paul Hair on Twitter.)





 

Category: Military, Sex Trouble

Worth Reading Carefully

Posted on | May 10, 2015 | 75 Comments

“The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires, the desire of riches, of pleasure, of power, and of praise — and duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will, is in a degree lost; new imagery ceases to be created, and old words are perverted to stand for things which are not; a paper currency is employed, when there is no bullion in the vaults. In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections. Hundreds of writers may be found in every long-civilized nation, who for a short time believe, and make others believe, that they see and utter truths, who do not of themselves clothe one thought in its natural garment, but who feed unconsciously on the language created by the primary writers of the country, those, namely, who hold primarily on nature.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

It is not often you’ll find me quoting a New Englander like Emerson, whose philosophy was typical of how the Yankees — who in the 17th century had hanged witches and whose penchant for fanaticism gave rise to every manner of antinomian heretical sect in subsequent generations — by the mid-19th century came to prefer secular moralism to anything that might be learned from the Bible. Well, Ideas Have Consequences, but at this point in our nation’s descent into degenerate anarchy, there’s no need to resurrect ancient grudges and lost causes. Everyone who is willing to fight against the onlaught of terror is a potential ally, and is welcome to join the Camp of the Saints.

“We stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord.”

Do the young read Emerson anymore? Do they know anything about Teddy Roosevelt? Are they taught anything at all about our nation’s actual history and cultural traditions? We have abundant evidence that youth have been plunged into Stygian darkness, an endless night of permanent and incurable ignorance. Not only do they know almost nothing, they have no curiosity about any of the things they do not know — which, as I say, is nearly everything. Rarely does one meet a person under 40 who isn’t virtually destitute in terms of actual knowledge.

Youth nowadays believe they don’t need to know anything, because they have what educational bureaucrats call “learning skills.” As long as they are capable of finding something with a Google search, what does it matter whether or not they ever actually do Google it? Their entire mental life is built around the idea expressed by every apathetic student taking a required course in college: “Is this going to be on the exam?”

So we have many millions of allegedly “educated” Americans, people with college degrees who haven’t opened a book since they received their diploma. They went to college in order to obtain a credential that would qualify them for an office job with a salary, benefits, paid vacation and everything else deemed necessary to middle-class life. Once they got the requisite credential, their interest in “education” ended, and so they spend their leisure watching Netflix or playing XBox or in some other amusement. Read a book? Why would anyone want to read a book?

“Is this going to be on the exam?”

Speculative philosophy never really interested me. If I learned anything in college about Plato or Rousseau, it was only enough to pass a test. Other people’s opinions don’t impress me much. Just give me the facts, and I can form my own opinions, thank you. This is also why I don’t read much fiction. History has always fascinated me. Literature? Meh.

Anyway, a commenter quoted that Emerson passage in response my post about “Feminism’s Mirage of Equality.” His point about intellectual “duplicity and falsehood” as a sort of counterfeiting — “a paper currency is employed, when there is no bullion in the vaults” — struck me as quite relevant to the way feminists parasitically defraud “the primary writers of the country, those, namely, who hold primarily on nature.”

The piling up of theory as a substitute for actual knowledge is the characteristic humbug of our age. We are expected to heed feminist gender theory about the development of human identity when the authors of these theories typically have never raised a child and, quite often, are temperamentally averse to participation in the natural process by which human offspring are generated. Today is Mother’s Day, and what the average mom knows about “gender” as a natural fact is far more trustworthy than any feminist professor’s intellectual theory.

 

Category: Education, Sex Trouble
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