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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Feminist Amateur Hour

Posted on | December 24, 2014 | 32 Comments

If you ever get bored with professional feminist crazies like Jessica Valenti (“Damn these gendered Christmas chores!”) and Amanda Marcotte (“Damn that Baby Jesus!”), you should check out the craziness churned up by the amateurs at Everyday Feminism. You can tell they’re amateurs not necessarily because their arguments are less coherent or articulate than Marcotte’s and Valenti’s — that would be difficult to achieve — but because on the page where Everyday Feminism solicits contributions they don’t say anything about paying for contributions.

These are sisters working for the Cause, you see, and you can get a pretty good idea of what the Cause is all about by consulting the biography of Everyday Feminism’s founder, Sandra Kim:

“As a genderqueer person of color from an immigrant family, she is committed to intersectional feminism that is focused on personal and social liberation for everyone.”

Nothing says “feminism” like being “a genderqueer person of color,” and intersectionality means that they’re not just amateur experts on how women are oppressed by patriarchy, but they’re also amateur experts on everybody’s oppression everywhere. If you’re looking for raw craziness, then, Everyday Feminism is cranking it out daily.

This brings us to Katy Kreitler’s recent column “Feminism Is a Verb: Why the Movement Has No Use for Fad Feminism”:

It’s great that many are breaking down the absurd stereotypes about feminists and feminism and coming to embrace the label openly.
But in our efforts to rebrand the term “feminist,” are we so relieved to see people finally presenting feminism without denouncing it on the lines of inaccurate associations and baseless stereotypes that we will accept any basic, conservative definition of it? . . .
I’m bored with claims that feminism is just the notion that women are people, or merely a belief in equality and nothing more.
And I’m tired of people declaring that they guess they’re feminist, *shrug*.
I mean, I declare with more fortitude that I don’t want onions on my burrito.
And I hate onions, y’all. But I hate the heteropatriarchy more. And I want to fight to change it.
And I’m not really interested in a feminism that doesn’t include a strong, dedicated commitment to doing the same.
I also don’t really understand how you can be a feminist in theory when you live in a sexist world.
If we spend all of our efforts trying to get people to say “Okay, fine, I’m a feminist” and nothing more, then we’re losing sight of the reason we need people to be feminists in the first place. . . .
Feminism is not just the belief that women and men deserve social, political, and economic equality.
It is also the understanding that, on all of those levels, in all facets of society, all around the world, they don’t. And it is the commitment to changing this for women and for all groups who are disadvantaged from culturally created, systematic, oppressive reactions to their identities, particularly to their gender identity.

No one may doubt Katy Kreitler’s feminism! She hates heteropatriarchy worse than onions on a burrito, y’all, and she is disadvantaged by systematic, oppressive reactions to her gender identity!

And hey, congratulations on breaking down “absurd stereotypes about feminists,” like for example the stereotype that they’re all crazy.

Who is this person? That’s the first question that crosses my mind when I encounter raving lunacy like this.

Katy Kreitler is a Clinical Social Worker specializing in youth, gender, and trauma. She holds an MSW from USC and a BA in Psychology and Sociology from USF. She can be found somewhere in San Francisco reading a book, eating a burrito, and side-eyeing humanity. 

See? You’ve got to have a master’s degree from an elite private institution (University of Southern California 2014-2015 undergraduate tuition, $48,280) before you can fight heteropatriarchy as a clinical social worker and an Everyday Feminist contributor.

Perhaps some readers are wondering, “How’s that workin’ out for ya, Katy?” My guess is, she’s eating her burrito alone.

Sad Spinsters And Crazy Cat Ladies:
Why Society Shames Single Women And Why
We Should Celebrate The Single Life Instead

These are your choices: Either you shame single women or you celebrate single women. Guess which is the correct feminist choice for Katy?

We are products of a lifetime of gendered social messages that tell us that every woman needs a man — that to not have one, even for a moment, is a failure at womanhood. . . .
We tell ourselves when we are out of a relationship that we are lonely when we are, in fact, surrounded by people who love us. . . .
We routinely ask every unmarried friend, coworker, and family member that we haven’t seen in five minutes, “Are you seeing anyone?” as though it is a perfectly appropriate gauge of how they are doing.
We talk to our kids about their future spouses and weddings, assuming they will, of course, be heterosexual and get married.
We reproduce notions of the ticking biological clock, the unfulfilling career path, the predatory divorcee, and the crazy cat lady.
We shame each other. We shame ourselves.
And we have done so for centuries.

Is there a Pulitzer Prize for Sour-Grapes Rationalization? Because when Katy Kreitler gets to the part about how “the gendered partnering process” is “required to maintain the patriarchal order,” she definitely qualifies herself for a nomination. The competition is fierce, however. Feminist theory keeps directing young women toward Crazy Cat Lady status, and as long as there are web sites like Everyday Feminism, they’ll always have a forum to celebrate their empowered lifestyles and warn the rest of us about those heteropatriarchal onions.




 

Category: Feminism

‘The Worst in Demagoguery’

Posted on | December 24, 2014 | 15 Comments

Certainly, Joan Walsh is an expert in demagoguery:

Consider, if you will, the recent behavior of Salon’s Joan Walsh, who yesterday suggested in earnest that the conservative-led condemnation of the “climate” that supposedly provoked the shootings in New York City represented the unconscionable “politicization” of murder. “To blame the peaceful movement against police brutality that’s emerged nationwide,” Walsh wrote, is “the worst in demagoguery.” “Right wingers,” she added, “are using a terrible tragedy to make sure that no one can find middle ground.”

Charles C.W. Cooke goes on to cite in great detail Joan Walsh’s partisan demagoguery over Jared Loughner’s Tucson mass murder.

Never let it be said that liberals have no standards. In fact, they have two — one for them, and one for everybody else.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

(P.S.: The image at the top of the page is from Joan Walsh’s appearance on a May 6, 2014, episode of MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, which might be worth watching just to remind yourself of what kind of partisan bubble these people live inside. The topic was the mid-term elections and the prospect of Republicans taking over the Senate and, as you can see, the chyron used for this discussion was “Revenge of the Haters,” i.e., liberal journalists operate on the assumption that all opponents of the Democrat Party’s policies are motivated by “hate.”)

 

Category: Media Bias

He’s German, and a Feminist

Posted on | December 24, 2014 | 14 Comments

Paul Nungesser is the Columbia University student accused of rape by Emma “Mattress Girl” Sulkowicz. The New York Times interviewed him:

Speaking carefully, with a slightly formal bearing and an accent so faint that it can be hard to place, Mr. Nungesser, who is from Germany, says he believes sexual assault is an important cause for concern. “My mother raised me as a feminist,” he says, well aware of how those words will strike some people, “and I’m someone who would like to think of myself as being supportive of equal rights for women.”

Hmmm. He is “supportive of equal rights for women,” and is accused of raping one student, groping another and having an abusive relationship with his ex-girlfriend. At one point, I thought he might be innocent, but he’s a German feminist, so therefore he must be guilty.

Defending red-blooded American males, OK.

Defending German feminists? No way.

 

Category: Feminism

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.24.14

Posted on | December 24, 2014 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Bush The Elder Hospitalized In Houston

The former president turned 90 in June

Experiencing shortness of breath; will be held at Houston Methodist Hospital for observation

Tornadoes Rip Across Southeast
Four killed

NYPD Union Boss Escalates Criticism Of City Hall
“That blood on the hands starts at the steps of City Hall, in the office of the mayor,” Lynch said Saturday
Protesters reject Di Blasio’s call for hiatus



POLITICS
Sheriff Joe’s Bid To Block Obama’s Amnesty Rejected

Maricopa County (AZ) Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Federal District Judge holds sheriff has no standing to sue

Merry Christmas! FEMA Demands Flood Victims Return Checks

NORAD Prepares To Track Santa


Court Rules Against Greens Seeking EPA Regs For Lead Bullets

Florida Gay Marriage Ruling In Legal Limbo

Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) Pleads Guilty To Tax Evasion

Issa Probe Fails To Link White House To IRS Scandal

Navy Investigates: Did Bin Laden’s Shooter Reveal Classified Info?



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Bearish As Dollar Strengthens: WTI $56.83, Brent $61.41
Dow Breaks 18,000
Keurig Announces Massive Recall
Japanese Stocks, Dollar Up As Robust US GDP Lifts Holiday Mood
US Economy Grows Most Since 2003 On Consumer, Business Spending
FTC Sues Data Broker Over Consumer Info Sold To Scammers
Rockstar Patent Sale Latest Sign Of Cooling In Smartphone Litigation
Google, Microsoft Battle Marriott’s Plan To Shut Down Personal Wifi
ITC To Investigate Samsung’s Complaints Against Nvidia
Latest Firefox Phone Has Transparent Shell
New Versions Of Classic Games Helped Nintendo Rally In 2014



SPORTS
Lillard’s Three Forces OT; Scores 40 As Blazers Top Thunder

Damian Lillard shoots in front of the Thunder’s Russell Westbrook

Portland rallies, beats OK City 115-111

Habs Rally, Beat Islanders 3-1

Cavs Thump Timbermutts, Lose Varejao

Leafs Blank Stars 4-0

Nyets Storm Back To Beat Nuggets

Coyotes Rout Oilers 5-1

Sixers Rally From 23-Point Deficit To Beat The Heat

Jets Stop The Unstoppable, Thump Blackhawks 5-1

Kobe-Less Lakers Stun League-Leading Warriors

Red Wings Score 4 In 3rd, Rally Past Sabres

Bledsoe Gets Triple-Double As Suns Beat Mavericks

Bruins Get Revenge On Predators, 5-3

Rose’s Bulls Top Wall’s Wizards, 99-91

Nats Sign Veteran Reliever Heath Bell To Minor League Deal



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Kim Dickens Cast In “Walking Dead” Spinoff After “Gone Girl” role

“Treme” alum will play lead in “Cobalt” project

Companion series expected to be set in California


Hayden Panettiere, It’s A Girl!

Cameron Diaz Engaged To Benjie Madden

Amy Adams’ Silence On Sony Hack Gets Her Booted From “Today”


Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Burton Split

Documentary Confirms Michael Rockefeller Eaten By Cannibals

Russell Crowe: Older Women Can’t Find Work In Hollywood? A Myth

Clint Eastwood’s Divorce Is Final

Katherine Waterston From “Inherent Vice” Lands Female Lead In Steve Jobs Film



FOREIGNERS
Prosecutors Seek Detention Of Former KAL Exec in “Nut Rage” Case
Aussie Anti-Terror Police Arrest Two A Week After Sydney Siege
Tribal Rebels In Assam Kill 34
Norks’ Internet Partially Restored After Outage
Shinzo Abe Reelected As Japan’s Prime Minister; LDP Coalition Wins 2/3 Majority In Diet
Rebels Say New Ukraine Peace Talks To Be Held Today
Algerian Army Kills Man Behind Frenchman’s Beheading
French Troops On Patrol In Dijon, Nantes And Tours After Recent Attacks
BJP Wins Majority In Jharkhand, Will Play Kingmaker In Kashmir
Agreement Reached In Northern Ireland Talks



BLOGS & STUFF
Louder With Crowder: Michelle Malkin’s Epic Teardown Of Michelle Obama And Jeb Bush (Video)
Michelle Malkin: All Life Matters – Jahi McMath’s Journey
Doug Powers: Charles Rangel Caught In Flat Out Lie, Sun Rising In East Mean It’s Another Normal Day
Twitchy: NYC Landmarks Go Dark To Honor Fallen Police Officers
American Power: Heidi Klum’s Sharper Image Too Sexy For Vegas
American Thinker: Black Conservative Son Educates Father On Democrats’ Race Lies
Conservatives4Palin: Governor Palin – “God Bless Rev. Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse”
Don Surber: Palin Rules Don’t Apply To Al Sharpton
Jammie Wearing Fools: Communists, Al Sharpton To Keep Protesting Despite Di Blasio’s Plea
Joe For America: Merry Christmas, Your Pension is History
JustOneMinute: Brilliant Sleuthing Uncovers Violent Protesters!
Pamela Geller: NYPD Cop Killer Worked For Hamas Affiliate ISNA
Protein Wisdom: The Big Lie Of The Anti-Cop Left Turns Lethal
Shot In The Dark: Insert Narrative Here
The Gateway Pundit: NYC Cop Killer Had Pocket Full Of $100 Bills, But No Job Or Home
The Jawa Report: Islamic State Of Losers Surrounded At Sinjar
The Lonely Conservative: Protesters Crash Memorial Service For Slain NYPD Officers
This Ain’t Hell: Army Times – The Military’s Shift Left
Weasel Zippers: Obama Administration Crams In A Whopping 1200 Regulations Right Before New Year
Megan McArdle: If Single-Payer Can’t Work In Vermont…
Mark Steyn: A Lesson From Luke


I’ll be out of town and off the internet until Sunday, possibly Monday; y’all behave yourselves.
Thanks again to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links, and to those of you that picked up the book.
Merry Christmas to one and all!


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Category: Live at Five

Also: ‘Shut Up, Because Rape’

Posted on | December 23, 2014 | 47 Comments

Ace of Spades:

You may wonder why feminists never stop writing about rape.
The answer is simple: Minus rape, feminism stands exposed as a trivial lists of complaints — women not “empowered” enough in TV shows, Liz Lemon selling out the sisterhood on 30 Rock, Negative Body Image You Guys in the media, etc.
Minus rape, feminism is rather too obviously a list of trivial complaints by comfortable yet hysterical semi-affluent white women.

That quote is so good, I’m tempted to let it stand without further comment, but having spent the past six months up to my neck in radical feminism, naturally I must add more. To understand what is happening — what is driving the feminist “rape culture” mania — we must go back to the “SlutWalk” movement. That started in Toronto in February 2011, when two police officers were giving a presentation on crime prevention at York University. During that presentation, one of the officers, Constable Michael Sanguinetti, made this remark: “I’ve been told I’m not supposed to say this, however, women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.”

Sanguinetti later apologized for that remark, but by then Toronto’s feminists had already organized the first SlutWalk, a protest that was quickly replicated across the United States, and which has since become an annual event in many cities. The ostensible message of these protests — although the message sometimes gets obscured — is that “no means no,” and that a woman’s behavior (how she dresses, how much she drinks) should never be interpreted to mean she is “asking for it.”

No educated person needs to be told this.

This is what offends conservatives about feminism’s “rape culture” discourse, really. We are educated people — intelligent, civilized, literate, humane — and we therefore resent the implication that, without feminists to tutor us, we’d all be brutally savaging women like the Red Army on its march toward Berlin in 1945. Or like Bill Cosby.

Feminism’s intellectual hegemony within academia, however, protects its young disciples from encountering informed criticism of their belief system, and one of feminism’s core beliefs is that the world is in desperate need of feminist enlightenment. The cult of “consciousness raising” (an idea borrowed from Communist Party doctrine, thanks to “Red Diaper babies” Anne Forer and Kathie Amatniek) means that every college sophomore who has taken a couple of Women’s Studies classes believes she possesses a moral and intellectual superiority that qualifies her to tutor us about how women are oppressed by the patriarchy.

This attitude of arrogant condescension, this presumption that feminists possess a sort of gnosis that endows them with superior insight, is what makes them so obnoxious when communicating in their accustomed modes — the Lecture, the Screed and the Rant.

One notices that feminists seldom debate or engage in dialogue with their critics. We may take this as evidence that feminist rhetoric and ideology cannot withstand careful scrutiny. On Nov. 18 (coincidentally, the day before Rolling Stone published its botched UVA rape story) a rare exception to this rule occurred when libertarian Wendy McElroy and feminist Jessica Valenti appeared in a forum at Brown University to debate the question, “How Should Colleges Handle Sexual Assault?”

Unfortunately (but predictably) that event was preceded by angry protests from feminists at Brown University who seem to have the idea that disagreeing with feminism is a hate crime:

President Christina Paxson sent out a community-wide email Friday publicizing her personal disagreement with McElroy’s widely reported assertion that rape culture does not exist in the United States and cannot be used to explain individual incidents of sexual assault. . . .
Some students protested the event or attended alternatives, such as a University-organized presentation by Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Lindsay Orchowski, titled “Research on Rape Culture.”

A quick glance at Professor Orchowski’s faculty page reveals that she received her Ph.D. in 2009 and is a legitimate expert:

  • Orchowski, L.M., Untied, A.S. & Gidycz, C.A. (2013). Social reactions to disclosure of sexual victimization and adjustment among survivors of sexual assault. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 28 (10), 2005-2023.
  • Shronbrun, Y.C., Orchowski, L.M & Spillane, N. (2013). Intimate partner violence and use of alcohol and drug treatment services among a national sample. Addictive Disorders & Their Treatment, 12(2), 58-66.
  • Orchowski, L.M., Mastroleo, N.R., & Borsari, B. (2012). Correlates of alcohol-related regretted sex among college students. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 26, 782-790.
  • Orchowski, L. M., United, A.S., Gidycz, C. A. (2012). Reducing risk for sexual victimization: An analysis of the perceived socio-emotional consequences of self-protective behaviors. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 27 (9), 1733-1752.
  • Orchowski, L.M., Creech, S., Reddi, M., Capezza, N., & Ratcliff, T. (2012). College women’s perceived risk to experience sexual victimization: A prospective analysis. Violence and Victims, 27 (2), 194-214.
  • Orchowski, L.M. & Gidycz, C.A. (2012). To whom do college women confide following sexual assault? A prospective study of predictors of sexual assault disclosure and social reactions. Violence Against Women, 18 (3), 264-288.
  • Orchowski, L.M. & Johnston, J. (2012). Efficacy of group treatments for alcohol use disorders. Current Drug Abuse Reviews, 5 (2), 148-157.
  • Orchowski, L.M., & Barnett, N.P. (2012). Alcohol related sexual consequences during the transition from high school to college. Addictive Behaviors, 37 (3), 256-263.
  • Gidycz, C.A., Orchowski, L.M., & Berkowitz, A. (2011). An evaluation of a social norms and bystander intervention to prevent sexual aggression among college men. Violence Against Women, 17 (6), 720-742.
  • Orchowski, L.M., Castelino, P., Ng, H.M., Cosio, D. & Heaton, J.A. (2011). Design and implementation of a Counselor-in-Residence program. Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 25, 1-18.
  • Gidycz, C.A., Warkentin, J.B. Orchowski, L.M., & Edwards, K. (2011). College men’s perceived likelihood to perpetrate sexual aggression. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 20, 1-20.
  • Orchowski, L.M. Meyer, D.H, & Gidycz, C.A. (2009). College women’s likelihood to report unwanted sexual victimization to campus agencies: Trends and correlates. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 18 (8), 839-858.
  • Orchowski, L.M., Uhlin, B., Probst, D.R., Edwards, K., & Anderson, T.M. (2009). An assimilation analysis of clinician-assisted emotional disclosure therapy with survivors of intimate partner sexual assault. Psychotherapy Research, 19(3), 293-311.
  • Gidycz, C.A., Orchowski, L.M., King, C. & Rich, C. (2008). Sexual victimization and health-risk behaviors: A prospective analysis of college women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 23(6), 744-763.
  • Orchowski, L.M., Gidycz, C.A., & Raffle, H. (2008). Evaluation of a sexual assault risk reduction and self-defense program: A prospective analysis of a revised protocol. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 32(2), 204-218.
  • Gidycz, C.A., Warkentin, J.B., Orchowski, L.M. (2007). Predictors of perpetration of physical, verbal and sexual violence: A prospective analysis of college men. Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 8(2), 79-94.
  • Gidycz, C.A., Rich, C.L., Orchowski, L.M., King, C. Miller, A. (2006). The evaluation of a sexual assault self-defense and risk-reduction program for college women: A prospective study. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 30(2), 173-186.

Stipulating her expertise on sexual assault among college students, what does Professor Orchowski have to teach us about “rape culture”?

Lecturing to about 70 community members Tuesday afternoon, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Lindsay Orchowski discussed the prevalence of a rape culture perpetuated by popular media. Jokes, graphic images and advertisements all “make (sexual assault) seem normal,” she said. “People believe rape is inevitable.” . . .
Research on assault characteristics has revealed that about half of reported incidents involve alcohol, Orchowski said. Many sexual assault perpetrators are repeat offenders — though perpetrators comprise a “heterogeneous group,” they are often angry, “hypermasculine” and see acquiring sexual partners “as a game,” she said, adding research also shows that victims often know their offenders, and victims tell others about assaults about half of the time.
Orchowski said only about 20 percent of sexual assault victims correctly labeled their assaults as “rape,” often reporting them as results of miscommunication or bad dates.
Only about 1 percent of assaults are reported to the police, which means researchers may be working with statistics that do not accurately reflect the prevalence of assault, she said. . . .
“Rape myths,” such as blaming alcohol or the victim for assaults, often contribute to perpetrators not considering themselves to be rapists, Orchowski said. “There is a misperception that false accusation is common,” she added. Across studies, only 5 to 7 percent of accusations are false, Orchowski said.

You can read the rest of that, but perhaps you already see how Professor Orchowski’s data contradict her own rhetoric. If (a) half of reported sexual assaults involve alcohol, and (b) many assaults are perpetrated by repeat offenders, it logically follows that the prevalence of rape on campus can be reduced by (c) measures targeted at reducing underage alcohol use — because a substantial majority of college students are under age 21 — and (d) the criminal prosecution of rapists, because it is likely that the unprosecuted rapist will repeat his crimes.

This is exactly what conservatives keep saying: Sexual assault on college campuses — while not the “epidemic” feminists claim — is more common than it would be if administrators were willing to get serious about stopping the binge drinking and promiscuous “hookup culture” that provide the context within which these incidents typically occur. Most importantly, there must be an end to the common practice of university administrators treating rape as a violation of campus disciplinary procedures rather than prosecuting rape as a felony.

(Notice how she says “only 5 to 7 percent of accusations are false”? As though a 1-in-14 chance of an innocent man being falsely accused of rape were a trivial possibility we can safely ignore?)

Yet we see that Professor Orchowski, while ignoring the implications of her own research data in terms of actually preventing rape on campus, ventures into the mystic realm of feminist gnosis. How is it that “popular media” foster “rape culture”? Assuming that all students are exposed to these jokes and images, why is it that most males do not become rapists and most females do not become rape victims? Maybe this was explained by Professor Orchowski during her lecture and the Brown Daily Herald reporter omitted the explanation. Also, it would have been nice if someone would have asked Professor Orchowski to explain this:

“Orchowski said only about 20 percent of
sexual assault victims correctly labeled
their assaults as ‘rape,’ often reporting them
as results of miscommunication or bad dates.”

Having re-read that sentence several times, I can scarcely believe that a Ph.D. would actually contend that 80 percent of rape victims don’t even realize that they have been raped. In other words, the expert is substituting her definition of “rape” for the victim’s description of her own experience. Without knowledge of the specific circumstance of any particular incident, it’s impossible to know why Professor Orchowski would justify this definitional substitution.

What this appears to show, however, is how feminists are using this “rape culture” discourse as a way to re-define rape, to create an elastic definition of “sexual assault” that could include any form of male sexual behavior to which any female objects. This project should frighten everyone who cares about the rule of law, as it betrays a reckless disregard for truth as well as a contempt for due process rights that has fostered a climate of anti-male witch-hunting on campus. Ultimately, as I perceived when I covered the 2013 D.C. “SlutWalk” protest, this is about silencing feminism’s critics: “Shut up, because rape.”

Feminists have spent more than four decades acquiring power — institutional authority — within elite culture and have become arrogantly contemptuous of opposition to their anti-male/anti-heterosexual ideology. We are not ignorant of their rhetorical methods.

“From prehistoric times to the present, I believe, rape has played a critical function. It is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear. . . .
“Women are trained to be rape victims. To simply learn the word ‘rape’ is to take instruction in the power relationship between males and females. . . .
“Red Riding Hood is a parable of rape. There are frightening male figures abroad in the woods . . . and females are helpless before them. . . .
“There is good reason for men to hold tenaciously to the notion that ‘All women want to be raped.’ Because rape is an act that men do in the name of their masculinity, it is in their interest to believe that women also want rape done, in the name of femininity. . . . This belief is more than arrogant insensitivity; it is a belief in the supreme rightness of male power.”
— Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (1975)

Does anyone really believe this? Does Professor Orchowski believe it?

If we don’t believe this — if we doubt that rape is a sort of collective terrorism practiced on behalf of all men against all women, as an expression of “the supreme rightness of male power” — are we permitted to express our disagreement? No, we are not — not on any university campus in America in the 21st century.

Susan Brownmiller’s claims about rape have been accepted as gospel among feminists for the past four decades, and it is now impossible for anyone to contest her claims without being accused of misogyny and branded a “rape apologist.” The excerpts of Against Our Will quoted above were actually quoted from The Essential Feminist Reader, edited by Professor Estelle B. Freedman. (“She has taught at Stanford University since 1976 and is a co-founder of the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.”) Professor Freedman’s anthology is often assigned as a principal textbook or supplementary text in introductory Women’s Studies courses, so that Brownmiller’s rape doctrine can be said to enjoy the status of Official Feminist Truth, and feminists are fanatically committed to the defense of this ideology.

There is a good reason, you see, why Wendy McElroy’s appearance on the Brown University campus inspired the university’s president to issue a “community-wide email . . . publicizing her personal disagreement” with McElroy. Universities in 21st-century America are committed to upholding feminist ideology, which is defended by such totalitarian tactics as demonizing critics, disrupting lectures or, most commonly, by preventing critics of feminism from speaking anywhere on campus. You may wonder, exactly what is Wendy McElroy’s thoughtcrime?

McElroy used personal experience to lay the groundwork for an argument that places more emphasis on individual, rather than cultural, explanations of rape.
“I was raped and brutally so . . . I did not blame society. I did not blame the culture. I blamed the man who raped me,” McElroy said. . . .
McElroy said rape culture exists in places like parts of Afghanistan where “women are married against their will” and “murdered for men’s honor” but not in North America, where “rape is a crime that’s severely punished.”
What’s more, those who politicize rape and assert the existence of rape culture imply that all men are guilty or that the accused do not deserve due process, McElroy said.
It is unacceptable that men can now be disciplined for rape through college hearings based on a preponderance of evidence rather than the traditional criminal justice standard of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. “Let’s not build justice for women on injustice for men,” McElroy said, closing her talk.

Obviously, no elite university can permit its students to be exposed to dangerous ideas like individual responsibility.

Feminists don’t want “equality.” They want uncontested power.





 

 

Category: Crime, Education, Feminism, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 12.23.14

Posted on | December 23, 2014 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
First Street Journal: Why NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos And Wenjian Liu Are Dead
Michelle Malkin: Rising Anti-Police Vigilantism And President Obama’s Silence (Update: He Finally Speaks)
Twitchy: “I’ve Got A Lot Of Problems With You People!” Rand Paul Airs His Festivus Grievances


RIPPED FORM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Khadijah Lynch, Undergrad Rep For Afro-American Studies At Brandeis, Resigns After Outrageous Anti-Police Tweets
American Thinker: Gangbangers Unbound
Conservatives4Palin: Democrats Lost The South Through Culture War And Elitism
Don Surber: AP Reveals Agenda Of The Year
Jammie Wearing Fools: Rangel Responds To Assassination Of NYPD Officers – We Need More Gun Control Or Something
Joe For America: Jihad & Race-Baiting – DiBlasio & Obama’s Bloodletting
JustOneMinute: Pride Of The Yankees
Pamela Geller: Ghouls, Racists And Savages Celebrate Murder Of NYPD Minority Cops On Twitter
Protein Wisdom: American Troops’ Support For Obama Breaks All-Time Record
Shot In The Dark: Low Information
STUMP: On The Misreading Of Motives And The Public Pensions Crusade
The Gateway Pundit: SHOCK REPORT – US Paid $5 Billion And Released Five Taliban Prisoners For Deserter Bergdahl
The Jawa Report: When Thinking About The Sony Thing
The Lonely Conservative: PSA Encourages Children To Steal Guns From Parents And Bring Them To School
This Ain’t Hell: 2014 Blue Falcon Stolen Valor Tournament – Shitbag Sixteen
Weasel Zippers: NYPD Warned Not To Arrest Anyone “Unless Absolutely Necessary”
Megan McArdle: Do Sony E-Mails Expose A Wider Racism?
Mark Steyn: It’s Not An Either/Or Question


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Category: Linkagery

No, Actually, You Don’t

Posted on | December 22, 2014 | 70 Comments

So I was 3,000 words into a book chapter about feminism and took a break. Someone called my attention to this:

“girls want sex just as much as guys do, we’re just taught
that we should be ashamed of it rather than proud.”

Don’t know who the original source is for this asinine claim, but it’s been shared nearly 60,000 times on Tumblr, which tells me that many young fools actually believe this dangerous nonsense.

There is abundant research about the differences in male and female sex drives, even if ordinary common sense did not tell us so.

Long before scientists were able to demonstrate the influence of testosterone in male sexual behavior, the greater urgency of male sex drive was widely understood as a fact of human nature. Only the egalitarian ideology of feminism could cause anyone to believe that “girls want sex just as much as guys do.” This is simply not true, as anyone might discover if they cared about scientific evidence or, alternatively, if they would bother asking males about it.

Really, let any man recall how it was to be a teenage boy, caught in the overpowering grasp of that adolescent testosterone surge. Every teenage boy is a potential crime wave and only the most stringent discipline and social restraints can prevent him from running completely amok, wreaking havoc as a result of his chaotic impulses.

Feminists have spent so long trying to convince us males and females are “equal” — meaning that they are basically the same — that some people have apparently begun to believe this is really true, but it’s not. Anyone who makes feminism the basis of their choices is in for a rude awakening the first time they encounter the reality of human nature.

“A Lesbian Theory of the Penis” — that’s the best way to understand feminist beliefs about male sexuality. They begin by excluding from consideration anything a normal man might tell them about sex, and next exclude anything normal women might tell them about male sexual behavior, so that in the end what feminists claim to “know” about men and sex is just lesbian propaganda. Asking a feminist for advice about men is like asking a Nazi for advice on how to get along with Jews.




 

 

Category: Feminism, Sex Trouble

Military Reform: A Key @GOP 2016 Issue

Posted on | December 22, 2014 | 41 Comments

by Smitty

I left Active Duty, inter alia, because I was disgusted by seeing uniformed officers held to a higher standard of conduct than their Commander-in-Chief, Monica Lewinsky’s ex-boyfriend.

Contempt for #OccupyResoluteDesk, while not as great a driver, did not enhance my interest in supporting the Reserves past the bare minimum.

Obama is an unpopular president in the eyes of the men and women in uniform. Yet his two-term administration is etching a deep imprint on the culture inside the armed forces. As commander in chief, he will leave behind a legacy that will shape the Pentagon’s personnel policies and the social customs of rank-and-file troops for decades to come.

There is a massive opportunity for the GOP in 2016 to:

  1. Define a coherent foreign policy
  2. Restore the country to a regular budgeting process
  3. Review the force structure requirements of the foreign policy
  4. Offload all the idiotic social engineering stierscheisse, and instead hone our military based upon the organizing principle of lethality.

I’m confident that our military culture will recover from the cloud of Progressive flatus with amazing speed.

via Hot Air headlines

Category: Military
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