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“The more I’ve seen of places like Yale Law School and the people who haunt them, the more convinced I am that we have the serious business and joy of much work ahead—if the commitment to a free and open society is ever going to mean more than eloquence and frustration,” wrote Clinton.

According to the letter, Clinton and Alinsky had kept in touch since she entered Yale. The 62-year-old radical had reached out to give her advice on campus activism.

and

“The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power,” wrote Alinsky in his 1971 book. “Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.”

So maybe Her Majesty can be seen as merely connecting the dots between Niccolo and Saul.

At this point, it looks like #OccupyResoluteDesk is going to honor the 22nd Amendment more than he has the Affordable Care Act. If these United States are so unrelentingly stupid as to elect Her Majesty, the last trappings of the Constitution could truly be in danger.

Oh, and what dreck is this?

@EtherealHeart Is there some other purpose to #MadamSecretary than airbrushing Her Majesty's stint as SecState?

— 'Teahadist' h/t@DMat (@smitty_one_each) September 22, 2014

via Instapundit

Category: Hillary Clinton

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.22.14

Posted on | September 22, 2014 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
California Burning: King Fire Spreads As Seven Blazes Burn Across State

US Forest Service crews clean up along a road in El Dorado County last Thursday

More than 7800 firefighters in action; King Fire only 10% contained
Thirty-two structures destroyed by California wildfires
Record amount of fire retardant used to fight blazes

NASA’s Maven Probe Arrives In Mars Orbit
Looking for answer to how Mars’ atmosphere leaked away

Afghan Presidential Rivals Sign Pact For Unity Government
Ashraf Ghani to become president, Abdullah Abudullah to nominate CEO with powers similar to the prime minister

POLITICS
UN Ambassador Power Touts Support From 40 Countries For Anti-ISIS Fight

But won’t (can’t?) say who they are or what they’re committing

Bipartisan dubiousness in the House

Lawmakers Criticize Secret Service Over White House Security

Close Races Could Mean Senate Control Will Be Decided In Runoffs

Rick Perry Cites Joan Rivers In Defense Of Texas Abortion Law

Dem Rep Michaud Under Fire For Trashy Video Making Sexual Reference To GOP Senator Susan Collins

Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Several Clean-Air Vehicle Bills

Bob Dole To Stump For Pat Roberts In Kansas

Kansas Dem Governor Candidate Tries To Explain Getting Caught In Strip Club Raid

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Continues Slide Before China Data: WTI $91.33, Brent $97.92
Alibaba’s Banks Boost IPO To $25 Million
Asian Shares Slip On Jitters Over China Growth
Siemens To Acquire Houston’s Dresser-Rand In Multibillion Deal
US Gasoline Prices Lowest Since February
Indiana Toll Road Operators To Submit Restructuring Plan
Oculus Brings The Virtual Closer To Reality
Microsoft Delays XBox One Launch In China
Nobody’s Neutral In Net Neutrality Debate
New Android L OS To Encrypt Data By Default

SPORTS
Cards Clinch Playoff Spot, Lose 7-2 To Reds

Lance Lynn coughs up three runs in six innings

Cards back into playoffs thanks to Pirates blanking Brewers earlier in the day

Broncos Retool, Lose To Seahawks Again Anyway

Mets Crush Braves 10-2 For The Sweep

Joey Logano Pulls Away To Win Sylvania 300, Advance In Chase

A’s Take Rubber Game From Phillies With Sayonara Homer In 10th

Red Sox Edge O’s 3-2

Royals Top Tigers 5-2, Stay Close In AL Central

Astros Crush M’s 8-3

Kluber K’s 14 As Tribe Whips Twins 7-2

Ravens Rally In 4th Quarter, Edge Browns 23-21

Steelers Run All Over Panthers, 37-19

Pack’s Offense Sputters In Loss To Lions

Makeshift Offensive Line Comes Through For Eagles; Redskins Fall 37-34

Bengals Rip Titans 33-7

Patriots Hang On For 16-9 Win Over Raiders

Strasburg Leads Nats Over Fish 2-1

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Polly Bergen Dies, 84

Her career began with Cape Fear, also included The Sopranos, Desperate Housewives

A household name since her 20s

Gabrielle Union Calling FBI Over Latest Celeb Nude Pix Leaks

Colin Farrell Confirms “True Detective” Role

Jessica Simpson: The Access Hollywood Interview

Eric “The Actor” Lynch Dead At 39

Little People, Big Wedding!

Jennifer Lawrence Joins Chris Martin Backstage After Coldplay Concert In Las Vegas

Trista Sutter Surprises Husband Ryan With Camping Trip

Honey Boo Boo Looks Sad On The Set As Her Parents Split

Keyshia Cole Arrested After Assaulting Woman In Boyfriend’s Condo

Jimmy Fallon Surprised By Shirtless Seth Rogen, James Franco On Tonight Show For His 40th Birthday

Barbara Walters’ Live Appearance On “The View” Nixed By ABC

Court Battle Reignites Over Richard Avedon Book

Jeff Goldblum Debuts His Jazz “Orchestra” At Cafe Carlyle

FOREIGNERS
Syrian Refugee Flood Into Turkey Hits 100k
Yemen Government Signs Peace Agreement With Shiite Rebels
Survey Says Scottish Referendum Damaged Economy
Australia Targets Jihadis Returning From Middle East With Anti-Terror Law
Explosions In Sinkiang Kill Two, Injure Many
Thousands March In Moscow Antiwar Rally
SecState Kerry Meets Iranian Foreign Minister In NYC
Blair: Boots On The Ground Needed To Defeat Islamic State
Fijian Coup Leader’s Party Confirmed As Election Winner With Clear Majority
Erdogan Claims No Ransom Paid To Islamic State For Release Of Turks
Sarkozy Makes Tax Pledge In Comeback Campaign

BLOGS & STUFF
Zilla of the Resistance: Democrat Congressman Beto O’Rourke, Meet The Streisand Effect
Valley of the Shadow: Future Goals and Dreams
Michelle Malkin: Letting In The Wrong Refugees
Twitchy: Who Else Hijacked Today’s Climate Change March? PETA, 9/11 Truthers, Code Pink, Free Gaza
American Power: “Red Band Society” Ads Pulled From LA Buses After Complaints Of Racism, Sexism
American Thinker: The Science Is Settled – Fracking Is Safe
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Blind Spot
Conservatives4Palin: Colin Powell Has No Regrets For Endorsing Obama
Don Surber: Commies And Billionaires March Against Climate Change
Jammie Wearing Fools: Al Jazeera Sues Al Gore
Joe For America: Religion Of Peace SuperCut Video
JustOneMinute: The Science Was Settled, But…Reforestation Raises Global Warming?
Protein Wisdom: Christina Hoff Summers – Are Video Games Sexist?
Shot In The Dark: Keith Ellison And That Famous DFL Civility
STUMP: Public Pensions And Alternative Assets – Dallas Shows How It Can End
The Gateway Pundit: Australian Muslims Rally Against Police Crackdown On Terrorists
The Jawa Report: Join ISIS Now And Double Your Virgins In Paradise!
The Lonely Conservative: Obama Takes More Executive Actions On Climate Change
This Ain’t Hell: About That Upcoming African Feelgood Exercise
Weasel Zippers: Pint-Sized Democrat Blames Detroit’s Bankruptcy On White People
Megan McArdle: Obamacare Enrollees Are Paying Premiums. We Think.

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Rule 5 Sunday: Levitation

Posted on | September 21, 2014 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Sleep cycle completely hosed, so no clever intro or cute intro pics this week. Don’t click links in public, and if you do don’t come whining to me.

Randy’s Roundtable leads off with Ellie Gonsalves, followed by Goodstuff talking like a pirate, Blackmailers Don’t Shoot stiffing us on the Kaley Cuoco nude pics, and Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, God Bless America!, and Girls with Guns.

EBL this week was all about the Scottish Independence, Skepchicks, the Elder Edition of the Rule 5 Lifestyle, more Scottish (non-)Independence, Eartha Kitt, Spanking, and some Rule 5 Falcon Fan Style.

A View from the Beach brings us The Girl Of Summer 2014 – Emily Ratajkowski, Cutie Rethinks Union with Frontman of World’s Worst Band, When All You Have is a Red Balloon…, Fear and Loathing on Chesapeake Bay, Iggy Azalea, Iggy Azalea, Iggy Azalea!, “My Friend”, Keeping Abreast of the News, Fight Fiercely Redskins!, and A Little Culture

At Soylent Siberia, it’s your morning coffee creamer, It’s That Time, Morning Motivationer Furlette, And Thereby Hangs A…, Tuesday Titillation Timea, New Window Dressing, Humpday Hawtness Destiny, Overnighty Extreme Cameltoe Upskirt, Falconsword Fursday, Corset Friday, Arrrgh, T-GIF Friday Invitation, Weekender Rachel, and Bath Night Shower Scene.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Evangeline Lilly, his vintage Babe is Susan Cabot, Sex In Advertising is covered by Guess, and of course there’s the obligatory 49er cheerleader. At Dustbury, it’s Emily Deschanel and Sophia Loren, whose 80th birthday was this week. Three Beers Later also chipped in Rule 5 Rednex: The Way I Mate.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 roundup is midnight on Saturday, September 27.

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Thoughts on Ideology

Posted on | September 21, 2014 | 10 Comments

Readers will pardon my long blog silence today, which is likely to continue a while as I am (of course) knee-deep into the radical feminist craziness as I prepare the next installment of the “Sex Trouble” series. (Hit the Freaking Tip Jar!) Because feminist ideologues propose theoretical conceptions that are so contrary to basic common-sense understanding of human nature, reading this stuff could easily cause a person to question their own sanity. Either we’re crazy or they’re crazy, but there is simply no way to reconcile the claims made by feminists with what most normal people believe about human life.

It is helpful, then, for me occasionally to set aside this stuff and emerge into the real world, communicate with normal people and double-check to make sure I haven’t completely lost my mind. Anyway, during a break from my research, I sent out a few thoughts on Twitter.

What part of "human nature" do I need to explain here? @KathMaryKnight @majasuave @bnpals @AngryHarrysPage pic.twitter.com/c811gUS3rF

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) September 21, 2014

@rsmccain Because they believe human beings must always act for reasons other than biology. Biology is irrational.

— The Crono Trigger (@dnicoloso) September 21, 2014

@rsmccain Because "Social Justice" DEMANDS collective sameness!

— Adam Baldwin (@AdamBaldwin) September 21, 2014

.@dnicoloso Which is to say, they are crippled by intellectualism, their heads filled up with what they have been "carefully taught."

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) September 21, 2014

The first step necessary to resist indoctrination in school is to be aware that others are attempting to indoctrinate you.

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) September 21, 2014

Strange how people react — laughing or angry — when you speak of women in terms of their obstetric capacity. As if this were "anti-woman."

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) September 21, 2014

Self-described adherents of Science (with a capital "S") are quite often the most blindly prejudiced and irrational people.

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) September 21, 2014

Was just lecturing 13-year-old son Emerson on the McCain Plan for Demographic Dominance, aka Victory Through Breeding.

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) September 21, 2014

You don’t know what kind of craziness inspired those observations, but with any luck, by this time tomorrow I will have published another 5,000 words that will help explain it. In the meantime, remember me in your prayers and please, Hit the Freaking Tip Jar!

Category: Intellectuals

The Vichy GOP Thinks Tea Parties Should Just Shut Up & Fall In Line, Or Something

Posted on | September 21, 2014 | 64 Comments

by Smitty

One must borrow Her Majesty’s dead horse in response to the Fox News question:

Will Tea Party, GOP establishment be ‘mending fences’ to win Senate in November?

After a long, unapologetic effort to defeat Tea Party and other so-called “unelectable” candidates in GOP primaries, the Washington establishment will likely need Tea Party voters in November to help swing several tight Senate races and win control of the upper chamber.

Here I go:

What difference, at this point, does it make?

One can understand that, yes, there are still two years of #OccupyResoluteDesk to endure. But

ObamaCare is still a river of lies, with no hope of repeal
The IRS is an affront to all things American
Ground truth on Benghazi remains elusive
We have no hope of a reasonable budget
The Federal Reserve is still running amok
The immigration sellout seems a question of when, not if
Border and national security seem a shambles

The GOP can’t just argue: “We may suck, but we’re all you’ve got” and “SCOTUS” and expect the base just to roll over like so many moderate Congressional panhandlers waiting for the deal to be cut.

Actual conservatives are wondering things like: “Where is the leadership?” and “What is the reform course?”

The gut feeling amongst the irregular troops who should be supplying the bulk of the momentum for a wave election is that there may not be a point to it. That the real mission of the GOP is to be a shock absorber for reform. That the substantial difference between Boehner and Pelosi is that Cryin’ Johnny never equated Tea Partiers Nazis. That those who cautioned against leaving the GOP for a brand new party (and I’m still in that camp, barely) may have been just wrong. That it may be time for our version of UKIP. There are a couple of proto-Nigel Farage figures in circulation, but breaking them loose of the Vichy GOP would seem unlikely at the moment.

A repeat of 2010 should be a no-brainer, but we may first need a no-Boehner.

Category: Republicans

FMJRA 2.0: Midnight Rider

Posted on | September 21, 2014 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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Essential Feminist Quotes: ‘Rapists Serve All Men by Enforcing Male Supremacy’

Posted on | September 21, 2014 | 70 Comments

Left to right: Kate Millett, Ann Jones, Jenny Kitzinger

“Patriarchy’s chief institution is the family. . . . [T]he family effects control and conformity where political and other authorities are insufficient. As the fundamental instrument and the foundation unit of patriarchal society the family and its roles are prototypical. . . .
“The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. . . .
“We are not accustomed to associate patriarchy with force. So perfect is its system of socialization, so complete the general assent to its values, so long and so universally has it prevailed in human society, that it scarcely seems to require violent implementation. . . .
“Historically, most patriarchies have institutionalized force through their legal systems. . . .
“Significantly, force itself is restricted to the male who alone is psychologically and technically equipped to perpetrate physical force. . . .
“Patriarchal force also relies on a form of violence particularly sexual in character and realized most completely in the act of rape. The figures of rapes reported represent only a faction of those which occur. . . .”
— Kate Millett, Sexual Politics (1970)

“When we consider the family, we have to talk about child sexual abuse, incest, and the area of family violence that I’ve focused on: wife abuse, marital rape, and battering — often culminating, in the cases I’ve looked into, in homicide. . . . Exploring our sexuality requires freedom, and for women the family structure is still a prison. . . .
“Family ‘stability’ in a patriarchal system depends upon sexual repression of women. …
“We know that men beat women because they can. No one stops them because to do so would be to interfere with the family. . . .
“Violence has always been an important tool for maintaining the family to serve the purposes of patriarchy. . . .
“Susan Brownmiller’s [1976] book, Against Our Will, is a milestone in the women’s movement because it demythologized — desexualized — rape. We learned . . . that sexual and physical violence against women is not ‘sexual’ at all but simply violent. Men use it to dominate women. . . .
“Susan Brownmiller showed us that the rapists serve all men by enforcing male supremacy. . . . [W]e should be clear that our quarrel is not only with certain abusive men but with male supremacy. Our goal should be not merely to redefine our sexuality but to redefine the world and our place in it.”
— Ann Jones, “Family Matters,” in The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism, edited by Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice G. Raymond (1990)

“The professionals who diagnose women’s sexual maladjustments never question the politics of these ‘problems.’ They rarely address fundamental issues such as: Why should women get married? Why should we enjoy ‘feminine’ clothing? What is wrong with ‘homosexual tendencies’? . . . Indeed, why should women want sex with men at all? . . .
“Radical feminist practice is concerned about recognizing our fear, and anger, and refusing to dismiss those reactions as simply ‘dysfunctional.’ It is about organizing collectively to challenge the institutions that deny women’s rage and pain. It is about questioning ‘common-sense’ understandings of the world. Radical feminists have examined the institution of heterosexuality, the social construction of desire and the links between rape and ‘consensual’ sex. These analyses question the existence of ‘truly chosen’ and ‘egalitarian’ heterosexual relations by focusing on the compulsory enforcement of heterosexuality; they are suspicious of appeals to some ‘authentic female sexuality,’ hidden deep within ourselves and uncontaminated by the rule of heteropatriarchy.”
— Jenny Kitzinger, “Sexual Violence and Compulsory Heterosexuality,” in Heterosexuality: A Feminism & Psychology Reader, edited by Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger (1993)

Men are to feminism what Jews were to Nazism. As a species of hate propaganda, feminist literature is remarkably resourceful in the ways that these ideologues demonize — and otherize, as post-modernists might say — all males as the universal scapegoats on whom all evil is blamed.

Rush Limbaugh’s famous term “feminazis” is usually seen as crude sarcasm. On page 13 of Susan Faludi’s 1991 book Backlash, she credits Limbaugh’s “broadsides” against feminism for making “his syndicated program the most popular radio talk show in the nation.” Nearly a quarter-century later, we might update Faludi’s phrase to say more accurately that Rush Limbaugh is the most successful broadcaster in radio history, period. And we ought not be so quick to dismiss Limbaugh’s coinage of the word “feminazi” as merely a joke.

Having spent the past several months immersed in the study of radical feminist literature as research for my “Sex Trouble” series, I know that Rush Limbaugh was speaking the literal truth.

It is not merely that feminists are devoted to an ideology of hate that is analogous in many ways to Hitler’s anti-Semitic worldview, but also that feminism is clearly totalitarian in its methods. Never is this more evident than when feminists are talking about rape. You would think, to hear the rhetoric that emanates from our nation’s colleges and universities, that sexual assault is now at an all-time high on campus. Yet all actual evidence indicates that quite nearly the opposite is true.

According to the Justice Department, the rate of sexual violence against females declined 64% between 1995 and 2005: “In 2010,
females nationwide experienced about 270,000 rape or sexual assault victimizations, compared to about 556,000 in 1995.” Do feminists want us to believe there has been a recent uptick of rape under the Obama Administration? I’m dubious. As far as rape on college campuses is concerned, however, every attempt to verify the widespread claim that 20% of college females are victims of sexual assault has failed, because the actual numbers don’t add up. But if Women’s Studies majors were good at math, they wouldn’t be majoring in Women’s Studies.

Once you understand that there is nothing like an “epidemic” of rape on college campuses, and that feminists are engaged in statistical dishonesty about the frequency of such crimes, a skeptic is immediately prompted to wonder, “What’s this really about?” In a word, power.

This is the classic totalitarian method: Whip up an irrational frenzy about an Issue, and convince people The Enemy is to blame. Your followers, a motley collection of dupes and crackpots who are predisposed to believe whatever you say, are willing to blame The Enemy not only for the Issue, but also for all problems experienced by The Movement, which you lead and in which they are fanatical followers. Your leadership is dependent on their followership, and vice-versa.

In the symbiotic relationship of totalitarian movements, your status as leader requires you to keep your followers convinced that any failure of the Movement is to be blamed either on (a) The Enemy, (b) the enormous challenges inherent to the Issue, or (c) the deficiencies, faint-heartedness and/or possible disloyalty of the followers. You must constantly reinforce these beliefs in the minds of your followers or else, given a quiet moment to reflect on the situation, they might wise up and begin to suspect that failure is due to (d) the incompetence of their leaders who have (e) deliberately misrepresented the Issue and misled the Movement. If ever those doubts begin to occur in the minds of your followers, they might even start to wonder if The Enemy isn’t really an enemy at all.

What I have just recounted are the psychodynamics of every radical movement since the French Revolution, a predictable phenomenon best illustrated by the career of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. A sociopathic thug who managed to shove aside every other rival to succeed Lenin as leader of the Bolshevik regime, Stalin turned his nearest rival, Leon Trotsky, into a scapegoated figure whose alleged conspiratorial perfidy was a permanent source of the paranoid suspicion necessary to the rationale of a police state. Within a decade of assuming power, Stalin began to turn this suspicion against those original Bolshevik leaders who had loyally served the regime since before the October Revolution and who, as such, were in a position to recognize the bloody failures of Stalin’s leadership. During the infamous Moscow Show Trials, one after another of the Old Bolsheviks were accused of wildly improbable crimes — treason! sabotage! Trotskyism! — to which they were forced to confess and then, in most cases, summarily executed.

As it was with the Bolsheviks, so it is with the feminists. Patriarchy serves in the feminist ideology that purpose which capitalism served for the Soviet revolutionaries. Anyone who questions the ideology of the movement becomes an ally of the Enemy. The duty of every True Believer is to echo the slogans of the movement leadership, as if the movement could be carried to victory merely by the fervor of its followers. The repetition of falsehoods, the faith in erroneous ideology — all the wrongs and failures of a totalitarian movement devoted to The Big Lie, which must ultimately be doomed to the ash heap of history — these are familiar tactics, and once you realize they are merely tactics, they lose their power to intimidate and terrorize you into silence.

For this is exactly the power that feminists seek with their deliberate lies about men, about patriarchy, about “rape culture”:

To distill their rhetoric to its totalitarian essence: “Shut up, because rape.”
The SlutWalk movement is about rape in pretty much the same sense Nazism was about the Versailles Treaty — it’s the legitimate grievance that empowers a movement of irrational hatred.

So I said last year after finding myself amid that rabble. I’d call them “brownshirts,” but they weren’t wearing shirts. Or pants, either.

It’s probably kind of hard to goosestep while wearing 3-inch heels and fishnet stockings, but the fascist vibe was so overwhelming I could almost hear the sound of hobnailed boots marching over broken glass. My memories of the rally at the end of the march have faded, and I can’t find my notes of the speeches the SlutWalk leaders made, but then again, why bother translating them into English? Their speeches were much better in the original German. They made a documentary about SlutWalk. It was directed by Leni Riefenstahl.

Ah, I could keep riffing like this all night, you see. But why should I making jokes when it’s so much funnier just to quote feminists?

“This account of the politics of lesbianism locates it firmly within the framework of radical feminist ideology. The role of heterosexuality as an institution of patriarchal control, and the potential of lesbianism for subverting male domination are made explicit. . . .
“It is argued that a relationship between any individual woman and man cannot be understood without reference to the political structure of male supremacy and male domination, which invests each man with power over each woman. . .
“Thus the ‘personal’ (including romance, falling in love, sexual attraction, fantasy, and personal relationships generally) is ‘political’ in at least two senses: firstly that it is the personal experience of women that generates and informs feminist theory, and secondly in that feminist theory offers a structure within which individual experience can be interpreted and understood. . . . .
“In this account, men (rather than merely ‘society,’ ‘institutions’ or ‘conditioning’) are seen as the enemy. . . .
“In this account, the blame is put squarely on men, and separatism is represented as a legitimate strategy. . . .
“These are the views which underlie the theory of political lesbianism — the theory that women can and should choose lesbianism as part of the political strategy of feminism — and this account endorses constructionist theories of sexuality. . . .
“This factor, then, involves a constructionist version of sexuality in which heterosexuality is seen as imposed by men on to women, and in which lesbianism represents a challenge to male supremacy.”
— Celia Kitzinger, The Social Construction of Lesbianism (1987)

OK, that’s not funny so much as it is deranged and frightening, but perhaps you see my point. Radical feminists have a clear ideology — a theoretical framework — which informs their rhetoric, and they have spend decades erecting this edifice of error, so that it is now deeply embedded in the belief system of elite academia. This one 1987 book by Professor Kitzinger, for example, has been cited nearly 900 times in scholarly literature. If Professor Kitzinger is wrong, her errors are widely popular among her academic peers.

Professor Kitzinger is not describing a “born-that-way” theory of lesbianism, and she explicitly rejects (as do radical feminists, in general) the claim that heterosexuality is natural. You can trace a direct narrative arc from Kate Millett’s claims in 1970 — where the patriarchal family “effects control and conformity,” where romantic love is simply “a means of emotional manipulation,” where rape is a political weapon of patriarchy — to the claims of Professor Kitzinger in 1987. And we see this direct line of thought continued forward to the present, expressed in feminist slogans which now emerge spontaneously from the Twitter account of Nancy Pelosi’s daughter Christine:

"Real men" reinforces heteronormative patriarchy. How about "people don't hit other people"? @tanehisicoates @chrislhayes

— sfpelosi (@sfpelosi) September 20, 2014

To quote a famous Democrat: "Better put some ice on that." @sfpelosi @tanehisicoates @chrislhayes @TwitchyTeam pic.twitter.com/RJX2YhMb6M

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) September 21, 2014

You can see the New York Times account of Chrstine Pelosi’s marriage to Peter Kaufman and conclude that heteronormative patriarchy has been very good to her. Why, therefore, does she feel the need to speak as if “reinforcing heteronormative patriarchy” were a hate crime? Because these are the ideas that prevail within the culture of the elite, to which Christine Pelosi so clearly belongs. If this were 1962, she’d be talking about modern art and civil rights, but it’s 2014, so she’s talking about heteronormative patriarchy.

Meanwhile, I’m still trying to figure out how “rapists serve all men by enforcing male supremacy,” as was explained by the eminent Ann Jones. She’s got all kinds of honors: “Her work has received generous support from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, where she held the Mildred Londa Weisman Fellowship in 2010-11, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2011-12), and the Fulbright Foundation (2012).” Obviously, she’s so much smarter than the rest of us (especially me) that she understands how I am “served” by the crimes of rapists. Some creep I never heard of rapes a woman I never met in a distant place I’ve never been and don’t plan ever to visit — Boulder, Colorado, for example — and I am thereby “served,” you see, because this criminal is “enforcing male supremacy.”

While you’re trying to figure that one out, let me ask you to ponder another question: “Who benefits from feminism?”

Who profits, who is empowered, whose social prestige is enhanced by the promulgation of this anti-male/anti-heterosexual propaganda?

“Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.”
— Rush Limbaugh

You got that one right, Rush. You damned sure got that right.

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