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Boosting The Signal: Pray For Mandy Nagy

Posted on | September 7, 2014 | 8 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


According to Legal Insurrection, Mandy, sometimes known as Liberty Chick, suffered a stroke yesterday and underwent surgery to relieve the cranial pressure today. She would have started full-time at LI tomorrow. Your prayers are definitely requested; she has fought the good fight, and God willing, she’ll live to fight another day.
h/t: Jeff Quinton on Facebook.

Category: Legal Insurrection

Rule 5 Sunday: Are You Ready For Some Football?

Posted on | September 7, 2014 | 17 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I was going to put up the Spongebob Squarepants meme about still watching baseball, because I’m honestly not interested in the NFL or the slave plantations of the NCAA, but instead I’m going to be a good sport and post this pic of a Crimson Tide cheerleader instead, what with Rule 5 and all.


#RollTide



As usual, the following links may lead to depictions of attractive women in various states of undress (or not), and while we’re all about supporting the hetero-normative patriarchy here at The Other McCain, your wife/GF/SO may not be on board with you ogling the attractive ankles and elbows of these shameless hussies. So exercise discretion in thy clicking.


Randy’s Roundtable leads off this week with Martha Hunt, Goodstuff checks in with some Bai Fu Mei girls, and Ninety Miles from Tyranny chips in with Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Girls with Guns in Wet T-Shirts. Laughing Conservative brings Jenny Frost to the party, Animal Magnetism adds Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, while Blackmailers Don’t Shoot has both Rule 5 and Anti-Rule 5: You Won’t Find Nude Pictures Of Jennifer Lawrence Here and Quinnspiracy Rule 5 Linkaround. First Street Journal as usual sends a completely SFW post with women in uniform; this week, it’s Vive le France!

EBL’s herd of heifers this week includes Red Hot Riding Hood, Girl Watching, Seahawks & Packers, Cowgirls, and Rachel Maddow. Commenters were sighted bemoaning the lack of k.d.lang in the last post. 🙂

A View from the Beach has plenty to offer this week: Time for Another Brazilian – Ana Paula Araújo, Great Moments in Advertising, Liberal Astonished to Find Conservatives Make and Sell Stuff, Do As I Say, Not As I Do (the great gig in the sky), Offered in a Moment of Desperation, Nude Selfies of J Law and Kate Upton . . ., The Dogs Don’t Care, Obamacare Schadenfreude – Big Wheel Keep on Turnin’, Talking Blue Jeans, A Little Hair of the Dog?, Feminists Demand Right to Go Through Life Drunk and Stupid and Diamonds are a Paleontologists Best Friend (has cave girl content).

At Soylent Siberia, it’s your morning coffee creamer, Monday Motivationer Woodwork, Tuesday Titillation Sweater Puppy, Evening Awesome Linky Love Contender, Humpday Hawtness, Overnighty, Feral Fursday, Ariel Does Real Sweaterpuppy, Corset Confinement, T-GIF Friday Frug Lesson, Overnighty Roxanne, Weekender Destiny, and Bath Night Bootie.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Diane Guerrero, his Vintage Babe is Yvette Duguay, and there’s a whole mess of Sex in Advertising. Be it noted Proof owes us one 49er cheerleader. 😉 At Dustbury, it’s Bengu and Carol Wayne, and Three Beers Later wraps it up this week with Rule 5 Rednex and “Cotton Eye Joe”.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Please remember that submissions to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday are due no later than midnight on Saturday, September 13 – the day after the September 12 Smittypalooza.

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Category: Rule 5

Lesbian Student Describes How She Was ‘Violated Physically and Emotionally’

Posted on | September 7, 2014 | 101 Comments

This story shocked me. Sure, I understood how Lesbian Chic propaganda conceals the heartache, exploitation, abuse and violence that occurs between women. Yes, I realized that the “rape culture” rhetoric and angry lectures about “consent” were cynical political posturing intended to leverage the militant anti-male/anti-heterosexual ideology of radical feminism being promulgated by Women’s Studies programs on America’s college and university campuses.

Still, even knowing all that, I was shocked by Wesleyan University student Caroline Catlin’s account at Huffington Post:

At first, we laughed about it. My friend and I sat at a small table in a crowded coffee shop on campus laughing about my unfortunate night. Another bad hook up. Another awkward college story. We laughed and I shifted my shirt to showcase the bruises across my shoulder. We shook our heads, wide eyed, and my friend said she knew the well-liked senior girl I had hooked up with the night before with was a little wild — but she didn’t know she was that wild.
After, past the point when a different friend came in and heard my story, past the point where her gentle concern made the hot shame in my stomach rise to my throat, past the point where I lay in another friend’s bed with my shoulders curled around my knees and decided whether or not I wanted to go to the health center and report it, after I first used the words “sexual assault” and realized the extent to which I had been violated, after all of that, I wondered secretly what would have happened if my story had held different pronouns.
I wondered if we would have laughed if I had been with a man the night before, instead of a woman. I wondered if, limping into the coffee shop, my friend’s response would have been awe and respect had I told her of a man who grabbed me too roughly, who ripped my shirt, who left me aching to leave and unsure of how to go.
Would I have seen the warning signs that night long before I did if I recognized the same manipulative, controlling, forceful behavior we are taught to fear in men could also be present with a relationship between two women? . . .

WHOA! Her shirt was ripped, her shoulder was bruised by a “well-liked senior girl” who was known to be “a little wild”? Either:

A. We must always believe the victim, as feminists tell us;
or
B. Caroline Catlin is pitching a cable network movie script here.

Personally, I believe the victim of lesbian assault:

I was violated physically and emotionally in a situation I deemed instinctively to be safe . . . No one at the party blinked an eye when I left with a woman I barely knew, no one texted to make sure the person I left with was safe, that I got home without a problem, that my night was going the way I intended. . . .
A woman assaulted me. I myself am a woman. My story is not like many of the ones being used to move forward in this movement. Yet, still, it happened. I was violated. Something went terribly wrong.

You can read the whole thing. There is no need to wonder why Caroline Catlin “deemed instinctively to be safe” a lesbian hook-up with a woman she “barely knew” — this is what radical feminism teaches implicitly every day in Women’s Studies programs: Men are the root of all evil, male sexuality is dangerous and oppressive, and lesbianism is the only escape from heteronormative patriarchy. As I remarked in February, “Is it a coincidence that this rhetoric sounds like it belongs in a book, Lesbian Pick-Up Lines for Women’s Studies Majors?”

I don’t think it is coincidental. Not in the least.

Let the reader ask these questions: If an adult married mother of two can “discover” her lesbianism by watching a cable TV series, what effect does such media messaging have on impressionable young people? What could be the combined effect of anti-male feminist teaching in schools and overt lesbian themes in popular media? If lesbian Women’s Studies professors can claim that Disney cartoons are encouraging young girls to become heterosexual, is it irrational to suppose the reverse scenario might also be possible? Make up your own mind.

Don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. This isn’t about trying to gin up paranoia or foster a climate of homophobia. This is not about a conspiracy. It’s about a consensus — a shared system of belief — that extends far beyond the Women’s Studies classroom. Rhetoric about “equality” and “progress,” constant chatter about the victimization of women and the rights of gays, reflect a widely held belief among our intellectual elite that normal sexuality oppresses women, especially within the context of “traditional family values.”

Tuition at Wesleyan University is $47,702 a year. A small price to pay for the opportunity of being “violated” by a lesbian.




 

 

Category: Crime, Education, Feminism, Gays, Sex Trouble

The Varsity Rape Team

Posted on | September 7, 2014 | 24 Comments

Angel Mario Vega, 23, is a varsity wrestler for Minnesota State University-Moorhead and also, according to police, a rapist:

Vega’s roommate reportedly told police he and Vega had invited the two women over for drinks, and they became intoxicated after playing some drinking games and losing to the men.
Four other students on the floor told police that Vega came over and asked them to “see something crazy.” In the lounge area, they saw the victim was lying topless on the couch, clearly intoxicated, they told police.
The students told police Vega said he was going to take her back to his room and “get laid,” and saw him dragging her back to his room. Concerned, they called floor security. . . .
Police found several items of women’s clothing in Vega’s room, along with the victim’s student identification card.
A search warrant executed on Vega’s dorm room also turned up his cellphone, on which a detective found a photo of the half-unclothed woman on the lounge couch, court documents state. The video shows Vega forcing the woman to have sex, according to court documents.
In an interview with a Moorhead detective, Vega allegedly admitted he gave the victim Fireball whiskey, despite knowing she was only 18.

Why did this particular crime merit is own Memeorandum thread? Do a search (“rape + arrest”) in Google News and you realize that there is never a shortage of sex crimes that bloggers could comment about, e.g., “Juvenile arrested in Alexandria rape case.”

All rapes are not created equal, however. University campuses have become the focus of a feminist campaign against “rape culture” recently, which means that a varsity wrestler who rapes a drunk freshman in a university dorm is deemed more newsworthy than a 17-year-old who rapes a 43-year-old at a party in Alexandria, Virginia. Or the case in Ohio where DNA solved a 1996 rape.

Some perpetrators, some victims, some crimes are simply more important than others, according to the priorities of the progressive blogosphere. Gang rape in Afghanistan? Not worth blogging about. Man rapes a 15-year-old runaway in Tulsa? Of no political consequence. Woman raped on a Greyhound bus in Tennessee?

Don’t bother progressive bloggers with such trivial incidents. No, the online Left only cares about rape when the perpetrators and victims are students and the crime takes place on campus, because this is relevant to feminist rhetoric about “rape culture.”

Varsity wrestlers raping female students on university campuses — that’s important news, right? Except sometimes it’s not:

LAURINBURG [North Carolina] — Two St. Andrews University wrestlers have been charged with the rape of a fellow student during a party on campus last weekend.
Jemson Villard, 21, and Janicento Williamson, 20, were arrested Thursday, according to Laurinburg Assistant Police Chief Cliff Sessoms. They are each being held in the Scotland County jail under a $30,000 bond for charges of first degree rape and first degree sexual offense.
According to Sessoms, the rape was reported by an 18-year-old St. Andrews University student early Saturday morning, who told police she was assaulted while at a party held on campus. Sessoms said police responded to Scotland Memorial Hospital at 1:10 a.m., where the teenager had been driven by a friend.
Alcohol was a factor, Sessoms said. Police have not released any details about the arrests.
According to the website for St. Andrews University athletics, Villard and Williamson are both on the university’s wrestling team.

Progressive bloggers didn’t notice that story, for some reason. And they don’t care about lesbian coaches molesting girls, either.

 

Category: Crime, Education, Feminism, Media Bias, Sex

FMJRA 2.0: It’s The Heat

Posted on | September 6, 2014 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Labor Day Weekend Lovelies

Kate Millett’s Tedious Madness

Memo From the Thought Police

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.05.14

Feminists Courageously Defending Their Right to Another Red Solo Cup

Will Brett Kimberlin Ever Learn?

FMJRA 2.0: Out Standing In Her Field

Police: Lesbian Coach and Teenage Girl ‘Had an Ongoing Sexual Relationship’

Labor Day Miscellaneous Linkagery & Open Thread

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.02.14

Feminist ‘Facts’ Aren’t True

Leave Mary Landrieu Alone!

Whose Agenda Is the Feminist Agenda?

In The Mailbox, 09.03.14

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.04.14

Top linkers this week:

  1. (tied) Batshit Crazy News and That Mr. G Guy (11)
  2. Regular Right Guy (10)
  3. A View from the Beach (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links for next week’s FMJRA is noon on Saturday, September 13 – one day after the September 12 Smittypalooza in Herndon!


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Category: FMJRA Award

Is Rachel @Maddow’s Haircut Waging War Against Heteronormative Patriarchy?

Posted on | September 6, 2014 | 118 Comments

“I’m a big lesbian who looks like a man. I’m not Anchor Babe and I’m never going to be. … I one hundred per cent believe that the reason I have not gone further in television is not only because I’m gay but because of what I look like.”
— Rachel Maddow, 2007

“A lot of society’s discomfort with homosexuality is a discomfort about the upending of the traditional patriarchal model of dominant man/submissive woman pairs with children in tiny box houses.”
— Marie Lynn “Riese” Bernard, 2013

Everybody remembers in 2010 when BuzzFeed found Rachel Maddow’s 1991 senior picture from Castro Valley (Calif.) High School. That incident inspired a rant at the lesbian blog Autostraddle:

BuzzFeed’s “Rachel Maddow Yearbook Picture” post, which has gone completely uncontrollably viral, is subtitled “Three words I never thought I could say about Rachel Maddow: I’d tap that!”
Hahahah! That’s so funny! You know, ’cause in this photo she has long blonde hair and is so PRETTY like a WOMAN and now she’s this scary butch lesbian with short hair and glasses and Opinions and who the hell would ever want to tap THAT? I mean, besides everyone and all of us here. But isn’t it so super-special that once upon a time, Rachel Maddow was still you know attractive by heteronormative patriarchal standards of beauty? I’d tap that! Hahaha!

That 2010 post showed up while I was searching for the word “heteronormative,” which is, like “patriarchy” and “gender roles,” a linguistic dye-marker of radical feminist thinking.

Anybody can be merely gay, but you need a theory — an ideology, a political philosophy — in order to have this kind of jargon that interprets your gayness in the context of oppression and social justice.

Wednesday’s citation of two lesbian feminist texts, one from 1973 and another from 1993, demonstrates how this radical theory of women as oppressed by the gender roles of heteronormative patriarchy (or “heteropatriarchy,” as feminist psychologists Celia Kitzinger and Rachel Perkins call it) originated in the Women’s Liberation movement of the late 1960s and early ’70s, and has been institutionalized by the faculty and curricula of Women’s Studies programs.

One of the rhetorical tricks of radicalism, a tactic at least as old as Karl Marx’s claim to have developed a scientific doctrine of socialism, is (a) to produce an elaborate theoretical explanation of whatever phenomenon they wish to criticize, (b) to denounce as a self-serving “myth” whatever common-sense justification is offered by defenders of the status quo, and (c) to claim that the inability of the status quo’s defenders to refute the radical challenge is proof that the “system” is illegitimate and must be destroyed. (It is certainly no accident that nearly all feminist theorists cite Friedrich Engels’s The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State in expounding their own critiques of “male supremacy.”) Defenders of any traditional way of life are always at a disadvantage in debate with radical intellectuals who, having built or borrowed some theoretical argument for revolution, scornfully dismiss the defense of tradition as mere sentimental prejudice in favor of the status quo. Hurling accusations of bigotry and ignorance at their antagonists, radicals insist that progress beckons us toward an enlightened future, if only we can overcome the irrational opposition of The Forces of Darkness who wish to keep society enslaved to the benighted past.

If you have read Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy, you recognize such “arguments” as the dishonest sophistry they really are. And if you have also read Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, you understand how radicalism appeals to certain personality types. Understanding these things, the defender of tradition realizes that what actually requires explantation is not how “the system” works in theory, but rather why certain people are so implacably hostile to a system that works in practice. If the system does not work perfectly, we can consider how best to improve it, but mild reform projects are not what radicals have in mind, and feminism has always been inherently radical. This has been my longstanding disagreement with Christina Hoff Sommers’s 1995 book Who Stole Feminism?

As the title implies, Sommers postulates that there was (and still should be) a “mainstream” feminism of which she approves, but that this benign democratic reform movement has been hijacked by radicals of whom Sommers does not approve. My contention, which I have spent years endeavoring to demonstrate, is that this is a complete misunderstanding of what feminism is and has always been since the rise of the Women’s Liberation movement in the 1960s. Having traced the history of this movement to its origins in the New Left — specifically, the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) — I am obligated by my commitment to historical truth to call bullshit on anyone who tries to tell me that radicals stole feminism. It was their rightful property all along; radicals created feminism, they theorized and promoted feminism, and if anyone joined the feminist movement because they bought into its mainstream facade, their folly in doing so is not my problem.

Radicals didn’t “hijack” feminism. Radicals own the feminist plane. Anyone woman who buys a ticket on Feminist Airlines should not be surprised when she arrives at her lesbian destination.

There are lesbians who are not feminists, just as there are feminists who are not lesbians, but if you attend the annual conference of the National Women’s Studies Association, you’ll find that the NWSA’s Lesbian Caucus is large and influential. Read more

Category: Feminism, Sex Trouble

Obama Is All: “Ha ha, Holland! I Got A 35% Approval Floor, And I’m Not Even Named After A Foreign Country”

Posted on | September 6, 2014 | 14 Comments

by Smitty

Via Instapundit, the excellent Daniel Hannan, emphasis mine:

Snobbery is not confined to any party or faction, of course. What seems far more common on the Left, though, is the need to find some inert, subjugated, grateful mass to champion. At first, that mass was supposed to be the industrialised proletariat. But, when working people were enfranchised, they often turned out to have troublingly conservative opinions. The needy politicians then turned to immigrants and other minorities. Annoyingly for them, some of these groups were equally unwilling to play the part allotted to them. So Lefties began to cast the net wider, searching for people who could be relied on not to contradict the official line: oppressed colonials, Palestinians, black South Africans. Sadly, these groups, too, refused to be either unconditionally grateful or politically correct.
I sometimes wonder whether political neediness explains the popularity of the animal rights movement: here, finally, is a constituency that can be relied on never to gainsay its self-proclaimed champions. Passive, predictable and in need of protection, animals are the perfect political prop.
As for Hollande, the French saw through him long ago. With 13 per cent approval ratings, he is the most unpopular leader in the history of his country (though, in fairness, there were no opinion polls during Charles X’s reign). Some French people may be toothless, but they’re evidently not mindless. They are on the receiving end of the Euro-correct socialism that is immiserating France, and they know it. Vivent les sans-dents!

The whole snobbery/unpopularity thing is as viral as ebola. Consider the utter disdain with which someone bearing actual charisma and a heart for reform, e.g. Sarah Palin, is met. I don’t see how she could possibly have been less effective than #OccupyResoluteDesk, without, say, getting a carrier battle group sunk somewhere while having her feet done. And yet we’re instructed to ridicule her, meanwhile overlooking the rodeo clown stylings of President “Sorry, I think I left my ISIS strategy in my seersucker suit.”

Thursday, while driving to the airport, I got a call from the NRCC, wanting to loot me for $150-$200 to help “fight the Liberal agenda”. I pressed the speaker for more detail on just exactly what that meant. Is the GOP really going to repeal ObamaCare, or just fanny about until Americans get bored and roll over (an admittedly reasonable strategy).

By the time the huckster had worked the panhandle down to $50 I was all “Seriously. I’m calling Boehner’s bluff. The suspicion is that the GOP is tacitly colluding with the IRS. Get the reform plan out there, and I’ll think about contributing.”

The apparent lack of a GOP wave this November is due to the water being confused as to which direction of flow is not Progressive. Which is why it is heartening to see the likes of Tom Coburn calling for a Convention of States. I sort of waffle on which branch of the Progressive Party is the bigger pack of liars;

  • the overt statists know as Democrats, or
  • the closet statists who make occasional patriotic bleats, the Republicans.

In any case, if you like a candidate, don’t bother giving one red cent to any national campaign committee: these career jackwagons are the problem, not the solution.

Category: Barack Obama, Democrats, Republicans

‘Our Deepest Feelings’

Posted on | September 5, 2014 | 63 Comments

“Many of us who came to lesbian life in the 1950s greeted the . . . feminist movement in the sixties with exuberance and relief because it articulated our deepest feelings. What feminists were saying — about sexism, for example, about male chauvinism and double standards and inequality — touched precisely on those dissatisfactions that had made us want to become lesbians in the first place.”
— Lillian Faderman, “Afterword,” in Cross Purposes: Lesbians, Feminists, and the Limits of Alliance, edited by Dana Heller (1997)

Any reader can research Lillian Faderman who, prior to her retirement in 2007, was a professor of English at California State University, Fresno and a visiting professor at UCLA. Some dutiful reader might try Googling her name in conjunction with the terms “Women’s Studies” and “syllabus” and see how widely her works are assigned (e.g., Washington State University). It might also be helpful to take the titles of some of Professor Faderman’s more influential works, plug them in as Google terms and find how frequently they have been cited in academic literature. Furthermore, what about Professor Dana Heller, chairwoman of the Department of English at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia? Why isn’t her full curriculum vitae listed on her university home page? Pardon my crowd-sourcing request, but I’ve found myself sucked into the ravenous Brain-Eating Zombie Essay From Hell.

Thursday, I didn’t post anything to the blog because I woke up at 4 a.m. and began writing something — inspired by Professor Glenn Reynolds’ remarks about “broken people” — that rapidly sprawled out of control. By the time I went to bed Thursday night, it was past the 4,000-word mark and so I woke up early Friday morning with the idea that I’d finish it off by noon. WRONG!

Damn it, I hate when this happens, but the work must be done. If my “Sex Trouble” project about radical feminism’s war against human nature is to be complete as an ebook by Thanksgiving, I’ll have to crank out the draft chapters at a grinding pace between now and mid-October, then convert this all into book format during a three-week blitz of editing. My next sledgehammer assault — the brain-eating zombie that is now more than 7,000 words in length — would be ready for publication in a few hours, except that I’m now  babysitting grandson James. Training the next generation of heteronormative patriarchy is a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it. So maybe I’ll finish the Brain-Eating Zombie From Hell later tonight, or it might have to wait until Saturday. Meanwhile . . .

Palmira Silva, an 82-year-old widow and grandmother, “was beheaded in a north London suburban garden by a man with a machete.” Police are investigating whether the attack was “inspired by recent footage of terrorists beheading two American journalists in Syria.” Officials have not yet confirmed reports from the victim’s neighbors that the 25-year-old suspect “was a local man who had converted to Islam last year.”

Does anyone suppose feminists can stop complaining about “sexism . . . male chauvinism and double standards and inequality” long enough to notice that crazed barbarians are beheading helpless elderly widows in suburban gardens? I don’t think so.

Anyway, between trying to finish this massive essay and taking care of my grandson, I’ll be quietly busy a while.

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Category: Feminism, Sex Trouble
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