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In The Mailbox, 02.03.15

Posted on | February 3, 2015 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Fire Darrell Bevell
First Street Journal: The American Left – Do As I Say, Not As I Do!
Twitchy: Protesters Kicked Out After Disrupting American Sniper Screening
Terry Teachout: WASP Without A Sting


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Fox’s Shepard Smith Slams Anti-Vaxxers – “You’re Science-Deniers!”
American Thinker: How To Make Young People Conservative
Conservatives4Palin: NO CONSERVATIVES ALLOWED – LGBT Needs New Leadership, New Blood, New Ideas
Don Surber: Liberal Lies Never Die. EVIL.
Jammie Wearing Fools: ISIS Monsters Throw Gay Man Off Building, Then Stone Him After He Survives
Joe For America: Four Countries That Are On the Right Economic Track
JustOneMinute: Monday Morning QB
Pamela Geller: Most Americans Remain Unaware Of This Gruesome Milestone
Protein Wisdom: A Wonkish Non-Wonk’s Thumbnail Analysis Of The Obama Budget Proposal
Shot In the Dark: Women And Guns, Take II
STUMP: 80 Percent Pension Funding Hall Of Shame – It Would Be Ideal To Pay The Pensions
The Gateway Pundit: Obama Admin – Transgender Illegal Aliens Have Right To Hormone Therapy
The Jawa Report: Lebanese Reporter Pwns Da Jooos
The Lonely Conservative: Scott Walker Way Ahead In Drudge Poll (SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!)
This Ain’t Hell: ISIS Relabels And Distributes UN Aid
Weasel Zippers: Obama Threatens To Halt Paychecks For 143,000 Homeland Security Employees If GOP Doesn’t Give Up Amnesty Fight
Megan McArdle: The Goldilocks Approach To Unemployment
Mark Steyn: Shoulder To Shoulder, But Not Head To Head


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Category: Linkagery

Or Maybe It’s You

Posted on | February 2, 2015 | 87 Comments

Jillian Dunham was 37 when she made a desperate choice:

When David Keefe made egg freezing a part of his clinical practice a decade ago, he imagined that single women looking to delay childbearing would be a small percentage of his patients. Before then, few women froze their eggs, and those in his clinic who did so were usually about to undergo cancer treatment. But when I met him in 2012, the year the American Society of Reproductive Medicine declared the procedure no longer experimental, he told me that close to half of his freeze patients were single women like me. Today, 80 percent of his patients are women electing to delay childbearing. . . .
I cringed every time I saw a reference to single women in their 30s and 40s “searching for Mr. Right,” which means that I cringed a lot. Dating was cast as “a desperate series of co-parent interviews.” . . .
Before he was a fertility specialist, Dr. Keefe was a psychiatrist. He speaks in scientific details but also in parables. He told me the story of a woman who did one freeze cycle and later had a child, and another who did multiple cycles but was unable to conceive. He told me the story of a woman who broke up with a man who had strung her along for years, only to learn that she had almost no eggs left. . . .
“I wasted a lot of time in my last relationship,” I admitted. “I want to make sure that I take care of myself.”
He leaned forward and paused. “There’s something wrong with the men in your generation,” he said. I was stunned. Here was a doctor who had just been talking about the importance of considering statistical significance, and now he was chalking my dating problems up to the broadest of generalizations. But he was articulating two forms of truth: the mathematical and the personal.
“It isn’t you,” he said. “All day long, I see patients like you. You’re smart, beautiful, accomplished, nice. It makes no sense. I go home to my wife and I say, ‘There’s something wrong with the men in this generation. They won’t grow up.’” . . .

You can read the whole thing, and I don’t want to argue directly against Dr. Keefe’s analysis. However, there is countervailing evidence: Women no less smart, beautiful, accomplished and nice than Jillian Dunham do get married and do have babies long before they turn 37.

Nevertheless, when I worked in D.C. every day for a decade, I routinely encountered women who were in her situation or, if younger than her, were clearly at risk of someday being in her situation. They kept wasting time in “relationships” with men who refused to close the deal. These romantic involvements would last anywhere from a few months to several years, and it was always — always — the guy’s aversion to a permanent commitment that prevented these relationships from becoming marriages. The real problem, it seems to me, is not merely the widespread phenomenon of “Peter Pan Syndrome,” but that (a) young women unwittingly enable such male immaturity because (b) they miscalculate the economics of love, and therefore (c) they waste one of a woman’s most valuable resources, her youth.

The smart, beautiful, nice girl is popular in high school. She has no trouble getting a boyfriend in college. As a 20-something in the singles scene, she gets plenty of attention. To such a young woman, the idea of being in a hurry to find a husband may seem absurd. Yet in the immortal words of Teen Talk Barbie, “Math is hard.”

If you graduate college at 22, you have eight years before you turn 30. Those are very valuable years. However smart, beautiful and nice she may be, a woman is more attractive to the average male when she’s 22 than when she’s 30. You can complain that this double standard that places a premium on female youthfulness is unfair, but you can’t avoid the fact that it is nevertheless real. A woman who is very attractive may think she can defy the odds and that it will be no problem for her to find Mister Right when she’s 30, but what if she’s wrong? She fritters away her 20s in a series of pointless relationships — six months with this guy, two years with that guy, etc. — and before she even notices the pattern, the clock is ticking down: She’s 27, 28, 29 . . .

Bad habits are hard to break. The girl whose first “serious relationship” ends in heartbreak after a few months may not recognize that she has developed bad romantic habits. After the second or third breakup, she’s like a poker player on a losing streak and tells herself she’s a victim of bad luck. An attractive woman in her mid-20s still has a large stack of poker chips in front her, so to speak, and she can keep playing with the same bad strategy a while before the odds shift decisively against her. She’s 30, 31, 32 . . .

Jillian Dunham, predictably, turns her failure into a feminist lesson:

Freezing my eggs did not change my dating life. What it did do was expose me, again and directly, to the ways we treat women when there is a decision to be made about their bodies: We judge, pressure, and publicly debate a woman’s ability to direct her own life. We fret about women’s susceptibility to “false hope,” about their being manipulated by the egg-freezing industrial complex, rather than believing women to be capable of assessing information and understanding risk. We judge women who pay thousands of dollars to freeze their eggs, rather than spending that energy advocating for those who can’t. We criticize women for not being able to control variables that are necessarily out of their control, something that is insulting to everyone involved.

You may notice that rationalizing failure seems to be the point of many feminist narratives. The whole point of feminism is convincing women they are never responsible for their own failures. Feminists will call you a misogynist if you ask a woman to consider the possibility that maybe men are not to blame for all her problems.

Still, not all women have the same problem, do they? Maybe it’s bad luck or maybe it’s bad judgment, but maybe your problem is you.

 

Category: Feminism

In The Mailbox: 02.02.15

Posted on | February 2, 2015 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Michelle Malkin: Obama’s Taliban Tools And Treachery
Twitchy: American Sniper Sets Super Bowl Weekend Box Office Record
John C. Wright: Sad Puppies 3 Announces Its 2015 Hugo Sample Slate


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Vows Revenge For Beheadings
American Thinker: Obama Is Openly Colluding With The Enemy
Conservatives4Palin: Ferguson – The Line To Apologize Forms On The Left
Don Surber: Why Isn’t This National News? EVIL.
Jammie Wearing Fools: RAAAAACIST Sixty Minutes Host Steve Kroft Told His Black Mistress “Don’t Dress Like Beyonce”
Joe For America: Triple-Amputee Vet’s “F*CK YOU” Letter To Obama Goes Viral
JustOneMinute: Out With The Old, In With The Older
Pamela Geller: Islamic State Burning All Books Except Islamic Texts
Protein Wisdom: I Blame The Administration And Its Niggardly Funding Of The Army
Shot In the Dark: Women And Guns
STUMP: Obamacare Tax Watch – Obama Notices
The Gateway Pundit: Anti-Netanyahu Talking Point That Israel “Blindsided Obama” Was A Lie
The Jawa Report: Netanyahu The Bibi-Sitter
The Lonely Conservative: Creepy Democrats Escorted Reporters To Bathroom At Philadelphia Retreat
This Ain’t Hell: Asians Outraged By Army Headline That Had Nothing To Do With Them
Weasel Zippers: UK Muslim Leader Accuses London Mayor Boris Johnson Of Terrorism For Calling Jihadis “Wankers”
Megan McArdle: Hillary Clinton’s Late Start Won’t Stop The Punches
Mark Steyn: No-Go Contendere


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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: Wax Ecstatic

Posted on | February 1, 2015 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

For those of you taking a break from the Super Bowl (or just not watching it to start with) welcome to this week’s Rule 5 Sunday, our celebration of pretty women attractively dressed or otherwise. This week we lead off with a cover pic from Wax Ecstatic Magazine, an online Christian magazine presenting an alternative to more mainstream magazines that are more interested in “…how much they are able to shock you instead of how much they are able to inform you.” One can only assume the founders were unaware of the Sponge song by the same name.

Not Angelina.

Readers are reminded that some of the following links are to pictures generally considered NSFW, and if you get canned for watching these at work, well, you had it coming. Exercise discretion in the clicking; we aren’t responsible for your bad judgement and poor choices.

Goodstuff leads off this week with what can only be called the Chemical Warfare Issue, followed by The Bionic Woman. We gladly note the return of Randy’s Roundtable with Johanna Lundback, Average Bubba’s Rule 5 Friday: Blonde Bombshell Edition, and Ninety Miles from Tyranny’s trifecta: Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism checks in with Rule Five Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, Loose Endz celebrates Bond Girl Honor Blackman, and also exposes Wonder Woman as a man-hating feminist! First Street Journal looks at women in Basic Combat Training.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes much ado about balls*, Miss Universe, Jeffrey Epstein & Bill Clinton’s Fantasy Island, Gisele Bundchen, Ashley Moss, more stuff about balls, Katy Perry, and Super Bowl cheerleaders.

At A View from the Beach, it’s Willa Ford Wanna Be Bad, More Blue Catfish Than People, A Bad Accident and a Great Recovery, Well, It’s Worth a Try, A Wee Bit o’ the Irish, Wombat’s Wednesday News, Surf’s Up!, Les origines de la beauté, How Many Countries Can You Name?, Stormy Monday Wombat News Review, “Don’t Know Why”, and “Burn”.

Soylent Siberia kicks off with your morning coffee creamer, followed by Overnighty Unbridled Bazoom, Monday Motivationer MILF Mania, Evening Awesome: Brazilian Balcony Bodacious, Tuesday Tit-illation With Fishnet Finery, Overnighty Linky Love Contender, Humpday Hawtness Jessica, Evening Awesome Country Fine, Fursdayski Hotski, Happy Birthday Soylent!, Fursday Evening El Fuego, Corset Friday Fillup, Soylent Blogasm: The “New” New Comment Widget, T-Gif Friday: The Future Mrs. Soylent In Training, Happy Hour Hawtness, Weekender In Motion, and Bath Night Bonus – That’s The Plural

Postaldog returns with Tiffany Amber Thiessen, Miley Cyrus, Kate Hudson, and Stacey Dash.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Eugenie Bouchard, his Vintage Babe is Lina Romay, and Sex In Advertising is covered by All Natural Burgers. Also, Deflategate cheerleaders! 😉 At Dustbury, it’s Liu Wen and Daniela Bianchi.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next weekend’s Rule 5 Sunday is midnight on Saturday, February 7.


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Category: Rule 5

The Errors of ‘Democracy’

Posted on | February 1, 2015 | 93 Comments

We are heirs of a tradition. Each of us is born into circumstances that were created by our parents, by our grandparents, by our ancestors, and by the civilization in which they lived. Human life existed before we were born and will continue after our deaths. As children we inherit the past. As parents we create the future. Wisdom requires us to understand ourselves as a single link in an infinite chain of human existence, rather than to imagine ourselves as free-floating atoms unconnected to others.

Popular ideas of “democracy” — the modernistic idolatry that speaks the language of “rights,” “choice” and “equality” — obscure the truth of human existence, trapping us in the present tense, isolating us as rootless individuals removed from the authentic traditions of our inheritance. Children are taught that the past is not merely useless, but actually harmful, because human history is nothing but a catalog of oppression, atrocities and victimhood. Thus, the modern child cannot be allowed to believe that his grandparents were wise or virtuous, that the great achievements of our civilization are worthy of respect.

The great idol of modernity is Progress. Everything that happened prior to today is “old-fashioned” and obsolete, and nothing is more obsolete than yesterday’s ideas. Whatever your parents or grandparents believed in 1980 or 1950 or 1920 is presumed to be wrong. Your ancestors were all racist sexist homophobes enslaved by patriarchal religious bigotry. Never mind that their beliefs enabled your ancestors to survive hardship that would be unimaginable for most Americans in the 21st century. In a remarkable span of six decades, America survived the Great Depression, triumphed in World War II and destroyed the Evil Empire of Soviet tyranny. Yet the American child today is taught to despise the values of the people who accomplished all that. The child cannot cherish his own inherited tradition or respect his own ancestors, and is instead commanded to bow down at the altar of Progress.

“To live for the moment is the prevailing passion — to live for yourself, not for your predecessors or posterity. We are fast losing the sense of historical continuity, the sense of belonging to a succession of generations originating in the past and stretching into the future. . . .
“Narcissism emerges as the typical form of character structure in a society that has lost interest in the future.”
— Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (1979)

What has resulted from this modernistic idolatry of democratic Progress — the utopian fantasy of an imagined future where we all live in absolute equality, free of “old-fashioned” beliefs — is a sort of social epidemic of bipolar hysteria, in which minds unmoored from cultural tradition constantly shift between utter confusion and radical certainty. Anyone who paid close attention to the “Occupy” protests of 2011 saw evidence of what kind of disordered personalities this progressive epidemic has produced. Young people who were clearly incompetent to manage their own lives nevertheless felt themselves entitled to dictate to the rest of us how “society” must be changed so as to “empower” these mobs of emotional unstable misfits. Refusing to take responsibility for their own failures, the Occupiers believed they were supremely qualified to pass judgment on the “system” that served as an all-purpose scapegoat onto which they could externalize blame for their misfortunes.

Duke: The lights are growing dim Otto. I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am.
Otto: That’s bullshit. You’re a white suburban punk just like me.
Duke: Yeah, but it still hurts.

Great art speaks great truths and the death of Duke in Repo Man is an under-appreciated highlight of 20th-century cinematic art. Whatever the authorial purpose behind Alex Cox’s 1984 cult classic, that scene speaks eternal truth. Duke and his girlfriend Debbie try to rob a liquor store, and Duke laughs in psychopathic glee as he points his pistol at one of the clerk: “I’m going to kill him! I’m going to kill him! I’m going to kill everybody!” Unfortunately for Duke, there is a thing called karma in the world, and when Duke is momentarily distracted, the store clerk gets his shotgun and fatally wounds Duke. Debbie responds by shooting the clerk dead and it is then that Duke’s death scene plays out. Breathing his last gasps and spitting up blood, Duke speaks his own epitaph, expressing the worldview of every worthless punk who ever lived: “I blame society.”

Irresponsible people always need a scapegoat to blame for their faults and failures. They can never be satisfied to let their own shortcomings or disappointments be blamed on bad luck. Other people may be unlucky — indeed, many millions are far more unfortunate in their circumstances than the punk — but bad luck won’t do for him. No, the punk must always have someone to blame. His own failures and the problems that he has caused for himself? Not his fault. Blame society.

A punk’s entire life is basically one long quest for revenge, an attempt to even the score with “society,” to get back at the people he blames for whatever it is that has made him unhappy or unsuccessful.

The Cult of Progress has spawned a Punk Generation of people with no system of values except intellectual abstractions — “democracy,” “rights,” “equality” and so forth. They have learned nothing of sturdy virtue, nothing of classic Stoicism, nothing of the Calvinist ethos of enduring life’s hardships with a spirit of reverent gratitude.

We are told that democracy is synonymous with freedom, but we see how a false belief in “equality” between the wise and foolish, between the evil and the good, must ultimately enslave us all.

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”
— Romans 1:22 (KJV)





 

Category: Culture, Intellectuals

In The Mailbox: Late Weekend Edition

Posted on | January 31, 2015 | 28 Comments

— by Wombat-socho

Apologies for the lack of linkagery yesterday; I spent the morning with my lawyer before heading into the tax mines for my Friday shift, and by the time I was done with that it was almost 9 PM and I didn’t have the energy left to do anything by the time I got home. /whining
Part of what’s been sapping my energy is impending bankruptcy…ah, you can read about that here, and if you can help at all, it would be very much appreciated. Every little bit helps, and who knows – maybe the incentives will tickle your fancy. In the meantime, on with the items of interest from various and sundry blogs…

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Andrew Sullivan Is Retiring From Blogging
Proof Positive: The Polaroid President
Louder With Crowder: Kevin Costner Uses The N Word
First Street Journal: Obviously A Joke, But Can You Imagine The Reaction From The Feminists?
Michelle Malkin: Choose To Refuse
Twitchy: Nationwide #runwarrenrun House Parties Rival Sandra Fluke Rallies In Numbers, Diversity

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Former Oregon State Student Kendra Sunderland Arrested After Making Porn Video In Campus Library
American Thinker: Pedophilia And The American Future
BLACKFIVE: Free Fire Zone – Bring It Bibi
Conservatives4Palin: Sarah Palin Is Right – Go On Offense, Tout Conservatism
Don Surber: Communists Lure Democrats. GOOD.
Jammie Wearing Fools: HuffPo Author Barack Obama Tells Democrats “Get Informed, Not By Reading The Huffington Post”
Joe For America: Here’s A DREAMER For You
JustOneMinute: Not Enough One-Percenters
Pamela Geller: Ted Cruz Calls For Investigation Into Taxpayer-Funded State Department Group Trying To Oust Netanyahu
Protein Wisdom: Liberal Writer Discovers Resurgent PC Movement Is Essentially Illiberal In Ideology
Shot In The Dark: There’s A Reason They Called Bobby Heenan “The Brain”
STUMP: What I’ve Read – The Bounty Of Zelazny
The Gateway Pundit: Jordan Threatens ISIS – Kill Our Pilot And We’ll Execute ALL Our Prisoners
The Jawa Report: War Porn – Freshly Dead ISIS Courtesy Of Iraq MOD
The Lonely Conservative: Six Million Households May Be Fined For Failure To Buy Health Insurance
This Ain’t Hell: What My Military Pension Means To Me
Weasel Zippers: Texas Governor Greg Abbott Declares February 2 “Chris Kyle Day” In Texas
Megan McArdle: A Tall Order For McDonald’s
Mark Steyn: Mood Indigo

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Category: Linkagery

FMJRA 2.0: Rubycon

Posted on | January 31, 2015 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Shake It Off
Average Bubba
Animal Magnetism
Muslim Anonymous
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
Political Rift
Ninety Miles from Tyranny
A View from the Beach

The First Rule of Feminism
The Lonely Conservative
Batshit Crazy News
Living in Anglo-America
Regular Right Guy
First Street Journal
Philosophies of a Disenchanted Scholar
Dyspepsia Generation

FMJRA 2.0: Rip & Tear
Batshit Crazy News
The Pirate’s Cove

Props To Prof. William Jacobson And Judicial Watch
Regular Right Guy

WTF My Tax Reform, @GOP?
Dyspepsia Generation

Campus Kangaroo Courts
Victims of Gay Bullying
Theological Geography
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 01.26.15
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

‘PC Addled Losers’
Political Rift
Batshit Crazy News

U.S.-Backed Subversion in Israel?
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach

Feminism and First-World Problems: ‘Hypervigilance’ as Irrational Phobia
Muslim Anonymous
Da Tech Guy
Regular Right Guy

In The Mailbox, 01.27.15
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.28.15
A View from the Beach

In the Mailbox, 01.29.15
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach

Top linkers this week:

  1.  (tied) Batshit Crazy News and Regular Right Guy (8)
  2.  A View from the Beach (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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Category: FMJRA Award

The First Rule of Feminism

Posted on | January 29, 2015 | 183 Comments

Feminism is the belief that men are entirely useless, except when men are destructive and evil. If you think any man ever had any skill, knowledge or virtue that entitled him to be treated with courtesy and respect, you are not a feminist. According to feminism, all that is good and worthy in human history — all important accomplishments, every act of courage and kindness — has been done by women. Anyone who believes otherwise has been brainwashed by the patriarchal myth that males have imposed on society as “history” and so-called “science.”

Such are the esoteric doctrines of feminism, the c0re ideology that inspires their endless complaints about inequality and oppression. By proclaiming that they have a monopoly of wisdom and virtue, feminists thereby empower themselves to tell the rest of us what we are allowed to say and what we are permitted to think. If at any time you make any statement that is not consistent with feminist ideology, you will be vilified and insulted, shouted down by the feminist mob that exercises a heckler’s veto over public discourse. Totalitarian movements require totalitarian tactics, and the foremost goal of feminists is to silence those whom they aim to enslave or destroy. See for yourself:

RULES FOR MEN IN FEMINIST MOVEMENTS

  • Shut up and listen
  • Ask me, don’t tell me
  • Prepare to be wrong
  • Call fellow men out on problematic behaviour
  • Never dismiss the lived experiences of women
  • Do not attempt to take a leadership role

Feminists who say their movement is about “equality” are lying. Feminism is a movement about power — absolute and unlimited power — and therefore the first rule for men in feminist movements is, SHUT UP. (That list of rules has been “liked” or “reblogged” more than 20,000 times on Tumblr.com since it was posted in April 2013.)

The three principles of feminism are selfishness, dishonesty and hate. If feminism had a fourth principle, it would be more hate.

“I don’t particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding . . . time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness. . . . I don’t want a baby. . . . Nothing will make me want a baby. . . . This is why, if my birth control fails, I am totally having an abortion.”
— Amanda Marcotte, March 2014

Feminism’s fanatical hatred empowers feminist dishonesty. They usually try to pretend that “choice” isn’t about hating babies, but the question remains: If feminists don’t hate babies, why do they want to kill them?

To which their answer is, SHUT UP.

We cannot be permitted to speak the truth about feminism. Facts and logic are tools of the patriarchy, and ordinary “common sense” — well, that’s just an obsolete male-supremacist myth!

A movement that systematically excludes honest, sane and intelligent people will tend to become a paranoid hive of fools. This brings us to “Ask a Radfem,” a Tumlbr blog that describe its purpose thus:

This blog exists to bridge a gap between people with honest questions about radical feminism, and radical feminists with something to say.

Let’s meet a few of the site’s contributors, shall we?

  • Ash is a fat, creative writer, lesbian radical feminist from Australia who aspires to be a women’s health nurse. She is a gender abolitionist, is anti-kink culture and pro the destruction of the porn and prostitution industries – but supports porn actresses and prostitutes themselves.
  • Cammy is a white-passing American woman from a Puerto Rican household. A bisexual radical feminist in the Southern U.S., she focuses on lesbians, childfreedom, gender and sex industry abolition, religious apostates and the poor. She is an atheist and a survivor of trauma from emotional abuse, molestation and rape dealing with C-PTSD, anxiety and depression. Past experiences include BDSM, polyamory, self-harming, abortion, an abusive marriage, Christianity and Islam.
  • Blossom is an outreach worker from Canada. Her passion lies in harm reduction, outreach, & housing initiatives with people experiencing addiction & homelessness. She is a de-transitioned lesbian who lived “as male” from 2004-2011 and has experienced the process of transition and eventual de-transition with the help of mental health professionals and family. . . . She is also a former webcam girl and behind-the-scenes employee of various adult websites. She focuses on gender abolition, mental health, & lesbian activism.
  • Lauren (Lo) is a 17-year-old white-passing Chicana from Southern California. Her career aspiration is to work against internet crimes against children for either local or federal law enforcement. She identifies as bisexual and is open about her struggle with anxiety disorder.
  • R4df3m is a no-nonsense fat, disabled, bisexual radical feminist from Portland, Oregon who does not mince words. A former sex worker and abuse survivor, she speaks primarily about the harms of the sex industry and the realities of sex based oppression. As a bisexual radical woman in a heterosexual marriage she addresses the unique intersections of straight passing privilege and the abuse inherent to heterosexual relationships.

It’s an all-star lineup of feminist kooks. You could not assemble such a crew of weirdos by accident. The pattern is not random. Crazy movements attract crazy people. Here is one of the more seemingly sane contributors to “Ask a Radfem”:

Alisha M. is a feminist blogger, writer, musician, and poet, from the Southern United States. She is focused on gender abolition, women’s media, health, spirituality and activism for women with mental illness.

Feminism = “activism for women with mental illness.” Thanks for the concise definition, Alisha! Now let’s get to the big question:

Can/how a male promote radical feminism?
Listening. Really listening and being involved. Listening. This is something I’m trying to explain to my male friends who by some stroke of “altruism” really want to help be better allies. Just listen. Listen with empathy and emotions, be human, be vulnerable . . . accept silence on your part and accept sometimes being wrong.
-Alisha

In other words, SHUT UP.

Or applaud the feminist’s courage for killing her baby:

I couldn’t bring another monster into the world. We already have enough enemies as it is.

That’s from an article with the empowering feminist headline, “I Aborted My Baby — Because it was a Boy.”

Feminism is organized insanity. Why be merely crazy, when you can turn your mental illness into a political movement?




 

 

Category: Feminism, Sex Trouble
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