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Feminism and First-World Problems: ‘Hypervigilance’ as Irrational Phobia

Posted on | January 27, 2015 | 69 Comments

Jessica Valenti wants mentally ill women to know that their mental illness is the fault of the oppressive patriarchy:

A study published this month in the journal Sex Roles reveals that some of the sexism women face — from catcalling and sexual harassment to sexual objectification and violence — makes women generally more fearful and anxious. The researchers from the University of Missouri-Kansas and Georgia State University found a substantive “link between physical safety concerns and psychological distress” . . .
When I spoke to Dr. Laurel B Watson, an assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and one of the researchers in the study, she told me that one of the hurdles in studying the impact that sexism has on women’s mental health is that women have normalized this fear and anxiety so completely. . . .
This fear and anxiety that women experience isn’t simply anecdotal: women are 70% more likely than men to experience depression and we’re twice as likely to have an anxiety disorder, something Watson,who has a degree in counseling psychology, says is “absolutely” related to living with misogyny.
“Over time, existing in a state of hypervigilance has a negative impact, and leads to a higher level of psychological distress,” she explained. . . .

You can read the whole thing, because (a) you have an expensive computer in front of you, (b) you’re sufficiently well-educated to be able to read at college-level and (c) you have nothing better to do with your time than to read a Jessica Valenti column, which tells you that (d) you’re living in a prosperous industrialized society. Congratulations!

Gratitude for one’s good fortune, however, is not what feminism is all about. Feminism is about endless misery and dissatisfaction and — lest we forget — blaming the oppressive patriarchy.

Would it surprise anyone to discover that Professor Watson’s undergraduate degree was in psychology, “with a concentration in women’s studies”? Perhaps you will also be surprised to learn that Professor Watson once worked as a counselor at an Atlanta abortion clinic, the Feminist Women’s Health Center. And I’m sure you will then be shocked to learn that Professor Watson’s publications include “Gay-Straight Alliance Advisors: Negotiating Multiple Ecological Systems When Advocating for LGBTQ” (Journal of LGBT Youth, 2010) and “Experiences of Objectification and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Sexual Minority Men” (Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 2014)? But here, let’s just look at the “Major Research Interests” listed on Professor Watson’s curriculum vitae:

Research interests include: women’s and gender-related themes, sexual objectification experiences, interpersonal violence and trauma, social justice and advocacy, LGBTQIQ-related themes, body image/disordered eating, race and ethnicity-related themes, feminist identity development, feminist pedagogy and epistemology.

Where does research end and advocacy begin, Professor Watson? And does it not occur to you that your own privileged position within the Feminist-Industrial Complex of academia — where you’re paid to produce research for such publications as the Journal of LGBT Youth — is evidence contradicting your basic premise, i.e., that American society is a wall-to-wall nightmare of sexist, racist, homophobic oppression so intensely traumatic as to induce psychiatric disorders?

Only within the comfort of the Higher Education Bubble, is it possible for Laura B. Watson, Ph.D., to assert that American woman are “existing in a state of hypervigilance” that “leads to a higher level of psychological distress,” and to have this bizarre assertion taken seriously.

You know what might cause “psychological distress,” Professor Watson? Murder. According to the FBI, the city of Detroit had the highest homicide rate (45 per 100,000 residents) in the country in 2013, edging out New Orleans (41 per 100,000 residents) as the most dangerous city in America. Checking the data provided on victims, we find that 78% of murder victims (9,523) were male, compared to 22% (2,707) who were female. Furthermore, 44% of murder victims (5,352) were black males, although black people are only 13% of the U.S. population, so that black males (less than 7% of the population) were overrepresented among murder victims by a factor of more than 6-to-1.

Males are at greatest risk of violent death, especially black males, yet here we have Professor Watson telling us that women are living in a condition “psychological distress”? Here we have Jessica Valenti using Professor Watson’s research to tell us that “everyday expressions of misogyny could be seriously impacting [women’s] mental health”? And here we have Professor Watson herself bolstering her assertions with a convenient anecdote:

For example, she said “I went for a jog recently, and I saw a guy in a van — and if I jogged past him, he could have opened the door and snatched me,” Watson told me. “I had an immediate response to move to the other side of the van or to change my direction, I didn’t think twice about it.”
“It’s normalized, but it has such an effect on your life — women constrain their behaviors every day.”

OMG! Men drive vans! Women are in “a state of hypervigilance”!

While I would not wish to underestimate the risk of psychology professors face of being snatched off the streets of Kansas City — violent crime there is bad enough to make it No. 10 on the list of the FBI’s 2013 most dangerous cities — when one looks at the overall picture, Dr. Watson’s “hypervigilance” would seem to reflect an irrational fear. And the word for irrational fear is phobia. To say that the ways “women constrain their behaviors” to avoid risk is “normalized” is simply to say that most women exercise common sense, e.g., staying as far as possible from dangerous places like Kansas City.

Despite the menace that male van drivers pose to jogging psychology professors, common sense tells us that avoiding danger requires us to make a rational estimate of risks we face. While people are sometimes victimized in ways that they could not reasonably be expected to predict — Mohamed Atta piloting a commercial airliner into the World Trade Center — most of the risks we face can be rationally estimated, if we pay attention to actual facts, rather than letting ourselves be distracted by media hype and academic propaganda.

Is “living with misogyny” making women crazy, as Jessica Valenti would have us believe? Or is it possible that crazy women are afflicted with irrational fears that academics like Professor Watson interpret through the warped lens of feminism that sees “misogyny” everywhere? Having been teased along for more than a thousand words, now you’re ready to read the abstract of Professor Watson’s research:

Fredrickson and Roberts (1997) asserted that sexual objectification experiences are likely related to women’s physical safety anxiety; however, to date, very few studies have examined this relationship. Using a sample of 228 U.S. undergraduate women (n?=?133 Black/African American; n?=?95 White) from a Southeastern university, this study explored the relationships among sexual objectification experiences, physical safety concerns (i.e., perceived risk of crime, fear of crime, and fear of rape), and overall psychological distress. Findings revealed that Black/African American women reported more sexual objectification experiences and fear of crime than White women. Results of a measured variable path analysis suggested that perceived risk of crime fully mediated the relationships between sexual objectification experiences and fear of crime for both groups of women. Moreover, perceived risk of crime fully mediated the relationship between sexual objectification experiences and psychological distress for Black/African American women, but not White women. For White women only, fear of rape partially mediated the relationship between perceived risk of crime and fear of crime, and perceived risk of crime fully mediated the relationship between sexual objectification experiences and fear of rape. Taken together, the results suggest that a sociocultural context that objectifies women and their bodies is related to their sense of safety and security in the world.

While I don’t have a Ph.D. in psychology and hesitate to make any general statements based merely on this brief description without having examined the actual data in Professor Watson’s study, it seems to me she has found that white female college students have a heightened fear of rape compared to black women. Note that her research involves only women’s subjective perception, rather than their actual risk. The question that Professor Watson doesn’t seem concerned to answer is whether these white students — who, in fact, report experiencing less “sexual objectification” than do black women — are irrational in their perceptions and, if so, what are the causes of their disproportionate fear of rape? Once we have compared actual risk to perceived risk, we are left to ask what is the “sociocultural context” that could explain these differences in women’s “sense of safety”?

It might be helpful if, rather than relying on survey questions about “objectification” to explain these differences, we instead had some hard socioeconomic data about the survey respondents (e.g., parents’ marital status, household income, urban, suburban or rural community, etc.) to be able to correlate with the survey response data. It is a truism of social science that you can’t measure what you don’t study, and Professor Watson’s research is focused on “sexual objectification experiences” to the exclusion of every other possible factor. Were it within my power to direct psychological research on such matters, I would suggest this: Solicit detailed socioeconomic background information from the survey participants, aggregate their subjective reports of “objectification,” perceived risk, etc., on a 1-to-10 scale, and compare the top quintile (20%) to the bottom quintile. What factors in the socioeconomic data correlate with either high or low response on the subjective reports? What factors are most strongly correlated with the experience of “objectification” and fear of rape?

Absent that kind of information, we have only Professor Watson’s limited analysis, which doesn’t explain what she hasn’t bothered to study. While I’m not a Ph.D., my hunch is that socioeconomic factors explain far more about these phenomena than Jessica Valenti would have her readers believe. Never trust feminist ideologues with social science research. However, speaking of Kansas City and female fears of crime:

Three Kansas City teenagers have been charged in the murder of a 14-year-old girl at a water park.
They’re accused of brutally beating and then taking turns shooting Alexis Kane, an eighth-grader at Smith-Hale Middle School in the Hickman Mills School District.
Alexis’ body was found outside The Bay Waterpark, 7101 Longview Rd., in south Kansas City on Jan. 11, not far from her school. . . .
Court reports and surveillance video show that Alexis got into a car with two of the suspects at a 7-Eleven on Blue Ridge Boulevard.
Her friends said she had arranged to meet with “Malik” whom she had been communicating with on Facebook.
The victim’s friends told Alexis not to get into the vehicle and began to follow the vehicle with her inside, court records state.
After losing sight of her, Alexis’ friends asked her to turn on her cell phone’s location service in order to be located.
The teen suspects went to a Grandview apartment and then left, heading towards The Bay Waterpark.
Surveillance video from the waterpark showed one of the teens hit Alexis in the face with a handgun. Then, the two others passed the gun to one another to shoot her multiple times.

No report on whether the victim experienced “psychological distress” because of a “state of hypervigilance” that was “related to living with misogyny.” Meanwhile, in Nigeria:

Hundreds of Boko Haram gunmen on Sunday launched a predawn attack on the Nigerian city of Maiduguri and were locked in a fierce battle with government troops on the outskirts of the city, according to the military, residents and citizen vigilantes.
The militants launched a simultaneous attack on the town of Monguno and were apparently successful in taking control of the town and its military barracks, a Nigerian military officer in Maiduguri told CNN.

The New York Times:

Hundreds of thousands of people have been driven from their homes and at least 10,000 have been killed over the course of the Islamists’ insurgency, now stretching into its sixth year.

This is worse than Kansas City — even worse than Detroit! — yet Jessica Valenti can’t be bothered to notice such things, because somewhere a college girl is being objectified by a sexist.

 

Category: Crime, Education, Feminism, Intellectuals

In The Mailbox, 01.27.15

Posted on | January 27, 2015 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Deflategate Super Bowl Meatball Recipes
Doug Powers: Fauxcahontas Reminds Drug Companies – You Didn’t Pilled That!
Twitchy: UN Halts Gaza Rebuilding Efforts As Middle East Donors Fail To Make Good On Billions Of Pledges (As Don Surber would say, GOOD.)
Sultan Knish: The Hollywood Jihad Against American Sniper
Monster Hunter Nation: Sad Puppies 3 – The Ensaddening


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Double Blow To Germany’s Leadership
American Thinker: Okay Liberals, Let’s Talk Inequality
Conservatives4Palin: A Few Iowans Byron York Didn’t Interview
Don Surber: Maryland Upended Democrats’ Racial Politics. GOOD.
Jammie Wearing Fool: Obama Sits There Chewing Gum During India Parade – “An Ungainly Sight”
Joe For America: Another Reason Black Lives Don’t Matter
JustOneMinute: The Morality of Torture
Pamela Geller: US Nixed Israeli Arms Transfer To Nigeria To Fight Boko Haram
Protein Wisdom: Obama Doesn’t Believe In Nation Building
Shot In The Dark: Naming Committee
STUMP: Public Pensions Watch – Illinois Pension Reform Lawsuits
The Gateway Pundit: Facebook Ordered To Block Posts Insulting The Prophet Mohammed
The Jawa Report: Islamic State Of Losers Loses Kobane
The Lonely Conservative: Russian Spy Arrested In NYC
This Ain’t Hell: Hagel Says “Nonstop War” Is Forcing Good Troops To Leave Service
Weasel Zippers: US Closes Embassy In Yemen After Shia Rebels Overrun Obama’s One-Time Anti-Terror Success Story
Megan McArdle: Syriza’s Tall Order For Greece
Mark Steyn: Happy Australia Day!


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Category: Linkagery

‘PC Addled Losers’

Posted on | January 27, 2015 | 21 Comments

So says Instapundit, in reaction to the uncouth behavior of the wife of a Miami Dolphins player:

For Miko Grimes, a pulled paid appearance was the last straw.
The wife of Dolphins cornerback Brent Grimes unleashed a firestorm headed the NFL’s way Monday night, tweeting an obscenity-laced diatribe against the league first for stiffing her husband, then for more serious allegations of inherent greed, a flagrant disregard for head injuries and women-hating. . . .

Does it occur to Mrs. Grimes that the NFL’s concern for profit is what enables the Dolphins to pay her husband vast sums of money? Does she have no sense of gratitude for this opportunity?

 

Category: Sports

Campus Kangaroo Courts

Posted on | January 26, 2015 | 78 Comments

Federal law trumps campus policy:

A lawsuit filed by an Amherst College student who argued the school unfairly held up his academic career over an old, unproven allegation of an on-campus rape has quietly settled.
According to records in U.S. District Court, the college recently reached a settlement with the “John Doe” but neither his lawyers nor school officials will discuss the terms of the agreement.
Doe filed the lawsuit last year after the college decided to revive a 2009 allegation a week before he was set to earn his diploma in 2014 — and after the college had disciplined him for excessive drinking and acting out sexually. His accuser, identified only as “Student A” in court records, said he complained to school officials at the time of his alleged encounter with Doe but never filed a formal complaint. In the meantime, Doe had taken a school-mandated, yearlong “medical withdrawal” from the college in his native South Africa. . . .

Using student disciplinary procedures to adjudicate charges of sexual assault simply won’t do. This case appears to involve a male-on-male accusation, which is unusual, but otherwise the case is quite typical, involving “excessive drinking” as a precipitating factor. And the overreaction factor is also obvious:

During a pretrial hearing last year, Doe’s lawyer, David P. Hoose, told a judge that Amherst College was letting negative publicity around its handling of a number of on-campus rape allegations unfairly drive their treatment of Doe.
“Amherst College has taken a beating in the national press for the last two years because of the way they’ve handled these types of allegations, and now with the benefit of hindsight and the beating that they’ve taken, they want to expiate all of their sins … over Mr. Doe’s body,” Hoose told U.S. District Judge Mark G. Mastroianni.
Amherst College remains among dozens of colleges under under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education for potential mishandling of sexual assault or harassment allegations.

Read the whole thing. Cases like this remind us why our Constitution has certain protections, such as the right to a speedy trial and no double jeopardy, for criminal defendants. Nobody wants criminals to go unpunished, but neither can we allow the law to become a weapon of abuse. “John Doe” in this case cooperated with the school’s policy, only to find himself retroactively punished five years later because activists have stoked a witch hunt.

Powerful emotions surrounding the issue of rape are being exploited by feminists, who have created a climate of hysteria and who terrorize their critics by defaming as “rape apologists” anyone who disagrees with them. (Really: George Will is “pro-rape”?) Christinia Hoff Sommers points out that the momentum behind this tsunami of “rape epidemic” rhetoric began with the media:

The frenzy over college sexual assault now sweeping the nation was triggered by a specific event.
In 2010, a small team of investigative journalists published a report revealing, so they claimed, an epidemic of college rape. The report was a jumble of highly selective reporting and dubious statistics, as we shall see. But the reporters spread the news far and wide and no one thought to question their accuracy. . . .
That year, reporters at National Public Radio teamed up with the left-leaning journalism organization Center for Public Integrity (CPI) to produce and promote a 104-page “investigative reporting series” (PDF) entitled “Sexual Assault on Campus: A Frustrating Search for Justice.” . . .

Read the whole thing. The dangers involved in this kind of hysteria are perhaps underappreciated by those too young to remember the McMartin Preschool case and the Wenatchee witch hunt.

(Hat-tip: Greg on Twitter.)

 

Category: Crime, Education, Feminism

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 01.26.15

Posted on | January 26, 2015 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Greece Chooses Anti-Austerity SYRIZA Party In Major Shift

SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras celebrates election results

Tsipras declares era of austerity over, promises to revive economy
Far-left victory in Greece bruises European markets
Syriza seeks coalition partners after poll win
Independent Greeks form party with Syriza


Obama At India’s Republic Day Celebration, As It Happened
Dancers, colorful floats and military contingents

Miss Colombia, Paulina Vega, Crowned Miss Universe
Nia Sanchez (Miss USA) runner-up



POLITICS
NY Speaker Sheldon Silver Temporarily Cedes Power

Despite indictment, Sheldon Silver still one of the most powerful NY pols

Appoints senior Assemblymen to carry on while he fights corruption charges

Federal Judge Issues Two-Week Stay On Alabama Gay Marriage Ruling


Obama To Seek Wilderness Protection For ANWR

Splits On Cuba, Iran Dominate First GOP Presidential Forum

White House, Feinstein Clarify: US Won’t Negotiate With ISIS On Hostages

WSJ: Chris Christie Preparing For White House Run

Sen. Grassley Asks Hospitals: Why Are You Suing Poor Patients?

Gov. Kasich Hints At 2016 Campaign



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Falls As Syriza Victory Slams Euro: WTI $45.14, Brent $48.44
Malaysia Airlines Website Hacked By “Cyber Caliphate”
Fracking Off To Slow Start In Illinois As Oil Price Slumps
Firms Optimistic On Hiring, Wages In Q1
Government Policy Change Seeks To Reinflate Housing Bubble
Japan Trade Deficit Balloons To New Record
Windows 10 Opens Opportunities For Developers
Cablevision Launches Wifi-Only Freewheel Phone Service
Samsung Reportedly To Supply CPU For Next iPhone
Microsoft To Lead The Pack As Tech Companies Report Earnings
Gearbox’s Beautiful “Homeworld Remastered” To Hit PCs February 25



SPORTS
The Rock Helps Cousin Reigns Roll At WWE’s Royal Rumble

Philadelphia smelled what the Rock was cooking.

Roman Reigns (as expected) but needed his famous cousin to save the day

The NFL Pro Bowl Was Last Night…

…And So Was The NHL All-Star Game

Bulls Can’t Take The Heat, Fall 96-84

Cavs Top Thunder 108-98

Hawks Streak Reaches 16 As They Put Down Timbermutts 112-100

Nationals Holding Tryouts For Racing Presidents



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
It May Be “All About That Bass”, But Meghan Trainor’s Saving Hers For Hubby

Not doing that body suit thing.

“I was told that I started the booty song movement but no one knows what my booty looks like.”
You go, girl.

Lindsay Lohan Jokes About Incurable Virus (No, Not That One) For Instagram Thong Pic

Stars Head To The SAG Awards

Angelina Jolie Visits Kurdish Refugee Camp: “The International Community Is Failing”

John Legend And Chrissy Teigen Serve Up Sexy

Debbie Reynolds Presented Lifetime Achievement Award

Former Apple CEO Being Sued For Hiding Millions In Divorce

Ryan Adams And Mandy Moore Are Divorcing

Trudie Styler Wistful For The Crazy 80s

 Miley Cyrus Opens Up About Sex: Stop The Guilt!

Snooki Gets Ordained To Officiate At Friends’ Gay Marriage

Richard Simmons Found OK At Home After Cops Investigate Elder Abuse Charge

Rapper Facing Long Prison Sentence Over Lyrics



FOREIGNERS
Ukraine: Signal Intelligence Proves Rebels Behind Deadly Rocketing Of Mariupol
Mubarak’s Sons Released From Prison
Obama, Modi Break Civilian Nuke Pact Deadlock
Philippine Police Commando Butcher’s Bill Reaches 43
Assad Seeks Agreement On US Air Strikes In Syria
Prankster Impersonating Spy Chief Put Through To PM Cameron
Australian PM Recommends Knighthood For Prince Philip, Butthurt Ensues
At Least 200 Dead As Boko Haram Attacks Key Nigerian City
C Of E To Consecrate First Female Bishop



BLOGS & STUFF
Louder With Crowder: The Dean Cain Interview
EBL: Tom Brady Auditions As SNL Writer
First Street Journal: Eurosclerosis – The Greeks Are Revolting!
Michelle Malkin: Obama’s Bloody Yemen Disaster
Twitchy: American Sniper Hits $200 Million At Box Office; Michael Moore Hardest Hit
American Power: California Faces Egg Shortage As Far-Left Animal Welfare Law Takes Effect
American Thinker: Whatever Happened To Phonics?
Conservatives4Palin: Governor Palin At The Iowa Freedom Summit
Don Surber: John Kerry Says Islamic Terrorism Isn’t Islamic. EVIL.
Jammie Wearing Fools: “Sex Slave” Claims Bill Clinton Visited Epstein’s Orgy Island
Joe For America: Six Things White Americans Say That Mean The “N-Word”
Pamela Geller: American Muslim Group Attacks American Sniper
Protein Wisdom: The Evolution Of OUTLAW
Shot In The Dark: Western Civilization’s Finest Hour
STUMP: Crass Consumerism – Amazon Prime Plug
The Gateway Pundit: California Measles Outbreak Likely “Imported” To The United States
The Jawa Report: War Porn – A-10 Versus ISIS
The Lonely Conservative: Scott Walker Wows The Crowd At Iowa Freedom Summit
This Ain’t Hell: Pentagon To Downsize? Ha!
Weasel Zippers: 1,000 Paratroopers From 82nd Airborne Headed For Iraq
Megan McArdle: Uncle Sam Is Coming After Your Savings
Mark Steyn: The Dainty Little 19th-Century Imperialist Gelding


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Category: Live at Five

The Damaged Feminist

Posted on | January 25, 2015 | 44 Comments

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Were you a lonely teenage girl? The patriarchy!

Did men ejaculate into your throat? The patriarchy!

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

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

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

Haters!




 

 

Category: Feminism, Sex Trouble

Rule 5 Sunday: Shake It Off

Posted on | January 25, 2015 | 10 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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Category: Rule 5

WTF My Tax Reform, @GOP?

Posted on | January 25, 2015 | 15 Comments

by Smitty

Category: Republicans
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