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Obviously, You Need More Feminist Lectures From Miriam Mogilevsky

Posted on | December 29, 2014 | 125 Comments

Last week I remarked:

The cult of “consciousness raising” . . . means that every college sophomore who has taken a couple of Women’s Studies classes believes she possesses a moral and intellectual superiority that qualifies her to tutor us about how women are oppressed by the patriarchy.
This attitude of arrogant condescension, this presumption that feminists possess a sort of gnosis that endows them with superior insight, is what makes them so obnoxious when communicating in their accustomed modes — the Lecture, the Screed and the Rant.

I wrote that before I’d ever heard of Miriam Mogilevsky, otherwise I might have called this “The Miriam Mogilevsky Principle.”

Ms. Mogilevsky is a recent graduate of Northwestern University who is younger than my oldest daughter. My daughter graduated college summa cum laude in 2011 and, unlike Ms. Mogilevsky, has (a) a husband and (b) a job. Whereas my daughter’s job involves teaching reading and writing to the children of Haitian immigrants, Ms. Mogilevsky considers it her job to lecture adults about what terrible misogynists we all are. Here are a few of her recent lectures at DailyDot.com:

The 4 rules guys should follow
when they get rejected on Tinder
Rejection is inevitable, but this helpful guide
will make dealing with it a little easier.
— Sept. 8

How to talk about the Ray Rice
scandal without being a total jerk
Here’s how to cover the issue correctly.
— Sept. 18

Should we outlaw catcalling?
Street harassment is an epidemic, but
here’s why the police won’t solve anything.
— Sept. 23

Stop calling Amanda Bynes ‘crazy’
I don’t know anything about Amanda Bynes’
mental state, and neither do you.
— Oct. 10

How to disagree on Twitter
Despite what you may have heard, it’s possible
to have a calm discussion in 140 characters or less.
— Oct. 31

4 better ways to prevent rape
than blaming victims
Don Lemon wanted to know what Bill Cosby’s
alleged victims could have done to stop him.
Here’s some better questions.
— Nov. 20

How Rolling Stone failed rape survivors
Rolling Stone’s University of Virginia
fiasco is bad news for everyone.
— Dec. 8

As you can see, Ms. Mogilevsky is an expert on everything, and her career consists of offering unsolicited advice to the rest of us, because we are so hopelessly stupid we wouldn’t know how to tie our own shoelaces if we didn’t have her to lecture us about everything. Ms. Mogilevsky’s two usual modes of discourse are, “Let me tell you what to think” and “Let me tell you what you are permitted to say.”

Exactly when did Americans vote to elect Miriam Mogilevsky our National Arbiter of Correct Thought? Who else was on the ballot? Were there no actual adults nominated for this position or were only graduate students at Columbia University eligible? The selection process is mysterious, but clearly someone thought the world was in desperate need of Ms. Mogilevsky’s precocious and all-encompassing wisdom, because otherwise how to explain this?

4 ways feminism can
make you better in bed
Consent isn’t the only thing that’s sexy in bed.
— Sept. 30

Damn, y’all, we’ve been doing it wrong for thousands of years and we never would have known it, if Miriam Mogilevsky hadn’t told us.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! He says “This sort of mockery and failure-shaming is precisely the correct response,” and that’s my New Year’s resolution: To be precisely correct. Also, please hit the freaking tip jar!




 

Category: Feminism

Learning How to Use Tools

Posted on | December 29, 2014 | 21 Comments

“The Internet has created a huge megaphone. That’s great, but it often creates so much noise that the people on the receiving end can’t hear anything.”
— Jake Brewer, manager at Change.org

Let me try an analogy here: The library is full of books, and there is a rack full of magazines at the grocery store checkout line. People don’t complain about the “noise” from print media because it is not interactive, it doesn’t jump out at you on your smartphone, on your laptop, in your social media feed. Technology is just a tool. The complaints people make about online media are not necessarily inherent to the technology. Rather, it’s how we use these tools that causes problems.

Educated people know how to go to the library and find the book they want. Obnoxious idiots publish stupid books — “Snooki” from MTV’s Jersey Shore, for example — but educated people ignore that “noise” and instead seek out books that contain useful knowledge. By the same token, the multiplex theater at your local shopping mall shows lots of stupid movies, but you read the reviews, watch the previews and only buy tickets to the movies that seem worthwhile to you.

Educated people also know how to use online technology to find what they want. We filter out the “noise,” and choose from among the various tools — the Drudge Report is a tool, Twitter is a tool, Google News is a tool — to acquire the information we need.

When Jake Brewer complains about “noise” on the Internet, he doesn’t mean that he is unable to find what he wants online. No, he is an educated person, very sophisticated in his use of Internet tools, and has no problem accessing the information he seeks. What Jake Brewer is complaining about is that the online audience he wants to reach with his message — whom he presumes to be less educated and less sophisticated than himself — is distracted by “noise,” which he defines as information less important than the message Jake Brewer is sending.

Guess what, Jake? It’s called democracy. Idiots who spend all day sending each other cute puppy videos on Facebook? Democracy.

Let’s go back a few years, Jake. It was Jan. 21, 2009, and Barack Obama had just been inaugurated as our 44th President.

I’m sitting a couple blocks north of the White House and the buzz around here is intense. Still.
The sense that we are in the middle of a massively-historical moment is palpable, and there’s a lot of talk about yesterday’s inauguration ushering in new era for our country. To be honest, I’m as taken up as anyone with the hopeful possibilities that 2009 and beyond can bring.
I hear “new era,” and I immediately start thinking about what those words can mean. My deep, personal hope is that this new era will be defined by the decision of our country to move boldly into the clean energy future we must achieve.
I’m even more hopeful after hearing these ideas inserted so prominently into President Obama’s inaugural address. . . .
We need to act. Now. And just as we came together in record numbers to vote new elected officials into office, the young people of this country WILL act.

http://www.PowerShift09.org

Our response is bold. It is equal to this historic moment. It is audaciously hopeful, and infused with the energy and vitality of an entire generation of Americans ready to turn good intentions and rhetoric into reality.
37 days after President Obama lost the “-elect,” we are going to bring 10,000 young people to Washington to hold our elected officials accountable for rebuilding our economy and reclaiming our future through bold climate and clean energy policy.
And whether this was your first election or your twentieth, we need you to be here with us. Or at the least, we need you to support us.
Power Shift ’09 will be one of the “Where Were You Moments” of our generation. You can join us in DC starting February 27th for four days of learning, connection, music, inspiration, and the largest lobby day on climate and clean energy Capitol Hill has ever seen. . . .

That was your Huffington Post column, Jake. What you were hustling then as PowerShift09.org now re-directs to WeArePowerShift.org, “a grassroots-driven online community that seeks to empower and serve as a hub for the youth climate movement.” At the lower right-hand corner of that page, we learn this is a “Project of Energy Action Coalition,” and here are all the “green” groups in that coalition. So, what was that “Power Shift ’09” conference you were hustling, Jake?

The first Power Shift Conference took place from November 2 to 5 in 2007 with between 5,000 and 6,000 students and young people in attendance. . . . The event was also attended by a number of keynote speakers which included Al Gore. The main aim of the first conference was to urge elected officials to pass legislation which would include . . .

  • The creation of a 5 million-strong Clean Energy Job Corps
  • The reduction of greenhouse gases to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, which scientists say is the baseline for mitigating the worst effects of global warming
  • A moratorium on new coal plants and divestment from fossil fuel and highway subsidies.

On February 27 to March 2, 2009, the second American Power Shift Conference took place. Similarly to the first summit, it included workshops, panel discussions, and speakers focusing on addressing climate change and environmental justice. This time, keynote speakers included Van Jones, Bill McKibben of 350.org, Ralph Nader, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

OK, Jake: How much were you paid to promote that “Power Shift” conference on Huffington Post, and who paid you to promote it?

People get paid good money to hustle stuff on the Internet. Some of my best friends make their living that way, Jake, but none of my best friends would ever take a dime to hustle that phony “climate change and environmental justice” bullshit.

So I was reading that story at the New Yorker about the “King of Clickbait . . . Emerson Spartz, an Internet-media entrepreneur in Chicago,” and I came across your quote, Jake, the one about how the Internet “creates so much noise that the people on the receiving end can’t hear anything,” and it pissed me off. Who the fuck is this douchebag, who gets paid money to create noise on the Internet, complaining about “noise” from other people that drowns out the noise he is paid to create?

The Internet is a powerful tool, and it told me that Jake Brewer is a ginormous douchebag who hustles “climate change” bullshit.

And the Internet couldn’t find Jake’s apology for that.

UPDATE: Really amazing, what the Internet can tell you.

 

Category: Environmentalism

But He’s Not a Catholic Priest

Posted on | December 29, 2014 | 28 Comments

Whenever a news story about sexual abuse by a public school teacher makes headlines, Pete Da Tech Guy is always quick to point out that the major media doesn’t see a trend — a pattern of systemic abuse — because the suspect is not a Catholic priest. Sexual abuse is only a newsworthy trend when the suspect is a religious leader:

He was a world-famous medicine man, a traditional healer and spiritual leader. Followers would travel long distances to this tiny hamlet on the Great Plains to be in his presence and pray in the darkness with him in a sacred sweat lodge.
But Charles Chipps Sr., a medicine man on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation, had a dark secret, federal prosecutors say.
For years, they allege, Chipps sexually abused and raped girls, including some of his own daughters and granddaughters; many of the alleged victims were younger than 12 and several were as young as 5. A girl from Colorado whose aunt brought her to meet Chipps for spiritual guidance committed suicide after revealing the abuse she allegedly suffered.
The sexual abuse of children has long been regarded as a rampant if largely unspoken problem on Native American reservations . . . But Chipps’s case, as described in court testimony, is among the most shocking — entailing allegations that a respected elder sexually abused at least six girls. . . .

Read the whole thing. Not a Catholic priest, so it’s not a trend.

 

Category: Crime

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.29.14

Posted on | December 29, 2014 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
NATO Ends Afghanistan Mission With Quiet Flag-Lowering Ceremony

ISAF soldiers carry the colors during yesterday’s ceremony in Kabul

ISAF flag cased, Operation Resolute Support to begin January 1
NATO’s combat role ends but assistance pledged to Afghan forces

Indonesian Official Says Missing Plane Likely At Bottom Of The Sea
Countries from all over Asia sending ships and aircraft to aid in search for Air Asia jet

Police Turn Their Backs On Mayor Di Blasio During Eulogy For Officer Ramos
Hundreds of NYPD officers, along with police from all over the country, turn their backs in a spontaneous silent demonstration
Commissioner Bratton calls for “less rhetoric and more dialogue”
Rudy Giuliani thinks Di Blasio needs to apologize to the NYPD



POLITICS
Ebola Czar: Expect More Domestic Cases

What, me worry?

“Nearing a pivot point” in handling the West Africa outbreak

Di Blasio’s First Year: Liberal Victories, Police Crisis

Rick Perry Discusses His Past, Possible Future

Sen. Kirk Puts Weight Behind GOP Plan To Impose Iran Sanctions

Obama Claims America “Less Racially Divided” Since He Took Office

Blind Judge To Join Michigan Supreme Court

Chamber of Commerce To Push Immigration Reform, Tax Breaks



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Up From Boxing Day Lows On Libya Worries: WTI $55.42, Brent $59.93
Euro Off Lows, But Capped By Worries Over Greek Vote
US Bond Sentiment Worst Since Disastrous 2009
Lion Capital Reportedly Pushing American Apparel To Consider Sale
Farmers Fear Even Greater Labor Shortages Under New Obama Policy
Amazon Adds 10 Million Customers To Amazon Prime
Sony Reports PlayStation Network Back Online After Three-Day Outage
GMail Blocked In China, Great Firewall Suspected
Facebook “Year In Review” App Not A Treat For All
Most Windows Phone App Downloads On “Low-Memory” Devices
New Snipers-Only Mode Coming To “Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare”



SPORTS
Rodgers Returns, Leads Pack To Victory

Aaron Rodgers celebrates a second-half TD pass

Limping into the playoffs with a smile after beating the Lions 30-20

Panthers Finish With A Flurry, Beat Leafs 6-4

Miscues Cost Bengals In 27-17 Loss To Steelers

Bombs Away: Pistons Blow Out Cavs In Cleveland

Ducks Tip Canucks In OT, 2-1

Raiders’ Season Closes With 47-14 Loss To Broncos

Spurs Top Rockets 110-106

Ravens Clinch Playoff Berth By Beating Browns 20-10

Mavs Sneak Past Thunder 112-107

Panthers Rout Falcons 34-3 To Win NFC South

Blazers Roll Past Knicks, 101-79

Bills Beat Pats 17-9, Nobody Cares

Nationals Sign Dan Uggla To Minor-league Deal



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Jennifer Lawrence Is The Top-Grossing Actor Of 2014

More than just Katniss.

Her movies have grossed $1.4 billion worldwide

Mel B Spends Christmas With Husband Amid Abuse Rumors

Cosby’s PIs Dig Up Dirt On Rape Accusers


“The Interview” Has Made Over $15 Million Online

Alicia Keys, It’s A Boy!

Chris Rock Splits With Wife After 20 Years

Jessa (Duggar) Seewald Shows Sisterly Love On Christmas



FOREIGNERS
Abenomics Finally Working For The Average Japanese
Hundreds Waiting For Evacuation From Smoke-Filled Greek Ferry
ROK Proposes Talks To Norks
Palestinians Pushing for UN Vote On Israeli Withdrawal
Greek PM Makes Last-Ditch Effort To Avoid Early Elections
Freak Storm Strands Thousands In French Alps
No Outright Winner In Croatian Presidential Vote, Runoff January 11
Iranian General Killed By ISIS Sniper In Samarra
Al-Jazeera Journalists Await Appeal After A Year In Egyptian Jail
Cameroon Forces Kill 41 Jihadis After Boko Haram Attacks



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: Movie Review – Christmas Icetastrophe
Doug Powers: Anti-Police Protesters Call Police After Road Blockade Goes Bad
Twitchy: Today’s “Doonesbury” Treats UVA Rape Story As Fact
American Power: The Left’s Anti-Cop Vigilantes Failing To Win Hearts And Minds
American Thinker: What Is America’s Survival Plan?
BLACKFIVE: Sony Hack – North Korea Or Not?
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Far Cry 4 – Kind Of A Review
Conservatives4Palin: GOP Eyes Budget Reconciliation To Repeal ObamaCare
Don Surber: Why Not Regulate Cars Like Guns?
Jammie Wearing Fools: Brave SJW Makes Threats Against Police, Cries Out For Mommy While Being Arrested
Joe For America: Reba McIntyre’s Latest Tweet Guaranteed To Make Liberals Foam At The Mouth
JustOneMinute: A Good Yesterday And A Better Tomorrow
Pamela Geller: NYC Police Commissioner Says Officers Feel Under Attack From Federal Government
Protein Wisdom: Life Update, 2
Shot In The Dark: Getting Ahead By Staying Behind
The Gateway Pundit: IL Felon Arrested After Threatening To Shoot Cops And “White Kids” On Facebook
The Jawa Report: Innocent Palestinian Kids Just Playing Burn The Jews
The Lonely Conservative: IRS Drained Christine O’Donnell’s Bank Account, Admits Mistake, But Hasn’t Replaced Funds
This Ain’t Hell: 1SG Katrina Moerk Gets ARCOM For Trolling
Weasel Zippers: 47 Inspector Generals Being Stonewalled By Members Of The Obama Regime
Mark Steyn: Auld Lang Syne



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Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Sunday: Bowls, Boobs And Other Entertainments

Posted on | December 28, 2014 | 17 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, here we are at the last Rule 5 Sunday post for 2014. Thanks to everyone who submitted links throughout the year!

A welcome relief from politics and other insanity.


It’s interesting to note that as we look back through this year’s FMJRAs, there have been many weeks in which the Rule 5 Sunday posts lead the pack in terms of links, despite* the meaty fare of culture, crime and politics** provided every week here at The Other McCain, the true spiritual heir to the mantle of the late lamented Police Gazette. I am genuinely humbled by this and cannot thank people enough for the support. Now for the bad news – while there are plenty of boobs in the links below, there is little and possibly no content related to the ongoing college football bowls. So here’s a gal in a Calgary Flames jersey instead.

Expedient college football bowl substitute.


As usual, some of the following links are to pix generally considered NSFW, so exercise discretion when you click.


Leading off this last post for the year is Average Bubba with some pre-Christmas Rule 5, followed by Goodstuff with Lily Cole, Ninety Miles from Tyranny with the Hot Pick Christmas Edition, Morning Mistress for Christmas,  and Girls with Guns – Look What She Found Under The Christmas Tree! Animal Magnetism has the Post-Christmas Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, Loose Endz has Double Barreled Rule 5 Fun, and First Street Journal departs from his usual military interests to give us the women of the NYPD.


EBL’s thundering herd this week includes some Winter Solstice Rule 5, the Wanton Women of Wangbu, Mandy Rice-Davies (RIP), Mattress Girl, Darlene Love, Postmodern Jukebox Christmas, Diana Bang, Miss Planned Parenthood America, Furries, Rams v. Seahawks, and Turning Japanese.

A View from the Beach brings us A Greek Tragedy with Maria Menounos?, “Love Me Two Times”, Merry Christmas, 2014, The Wombat’s Christmas Eve News Feed, Not Even Close (cave girl), Naughty and Nice, Wombat’s Monday News Fodder, Rosie Jones Christmas Special, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, and Redskins to Pluck Eagles?

Postaldog returns with a triple dip of Maitland Ward, Charli XCX, and Nikki Sims.

Soylent Siberia serves up the coffee creamer, then it’s on to the Soylent Solstice Spassfabrik, Monday Motivationer Cassidy, Think Pink, When In Rome, Evening Awesome Nicole, Humpday Hawt Pussycat Pussycat, Christmas Eve Spassfabrik, Corset Friday Spassfabrik, T-GIF Friday Drop And Give Me…, Fiery Formal, and Bath Night Shower Scene.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Emily Wickersham, Sex in Advertising is covered by Victoria’s Secret, there’s a bevy of Vintage Christmas Babes, and of course the obligatory 49ers cheerleader. At Dustbury, it’s Emma Watson and Des’ree.

Thanks again to everyone for the linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for the first Rule 5 post of the new year is midnight Saturday, January 3.

*Or perhaps because?
**But I repeat myself. Or do I?


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Category: Rule 5

Feminism: Equality in Misery

Posted on | December 28, 2014 | 142 Comments

Miriam Mogilevsky (@sondosia) is allegedly a human being, although manifestly lacking in empathy and filled with a hateful appetite for sadistic revenge, which is to say she is a feminist. Her numerous efforts to destroy civilization include her advocacy of atheism, because those who hate humanity usually begin by hating God. She developed advanced skills in intellectual perversion at Northwestern University and is now working on her master’s degree in spiteful evil at Columbia.

If my description of Ms. Mogilevsky seems tendentious or perhaps even unfairly pejorative, it is because I’ve decided to adopt her own practices, as evidenced by her column on “affirmative consent”:

This fall, the new affirmative consent law in California, which requires all universities that receive state funding to adopt definitions of consent that translate roughly to “only yes means yes” rather than simply “no means no,” reignited a number of age-old debates about the meaning of consent and sexual assault. One of them is the claim that anti-rape advocacy is attempting to redefine perfectly good sex as rape, and that in this new climate, men cannot ever be safe from being accused of rape no matter how careful they are. . . .

(Translation: Anyone worried about this is paranoid.)

I’ve heard these sorts of remarks too. “I don’t even bother asking women out now,” or “I haven’t had sex for years because I’m scared they’ll call me a rapist.” I feel sad for these men who clearly want sexual intimacy but feel that they have no choice to give it up. And I also feel angry, because this is not what we’ve been saying, and yet they insist that we’re telling them they can’t have sex at all. . . .

(Actually, “we” — that is to say, feminists — have been saying exactly this for decades, as Ms. Mogilevsky would have to admit if she weren’t so disingenuous about her own anti-male ideology.)

I don’t want anyone to be lonely, insecure, and sexually unfulfilled. I don’t want anyone who wants to have sex to be unable to have it. I want everyone to have the confidence to pursue and find the types of relationships they’re interested in. I want everyone to feel worthy and valuable even if they haven’t found a partner yet.
But I also want people to pursue all of this ethically. That means that if you’re ever unsure if someone is consenting, you stop and ask. And if you don’t think you are able to do that, then you should abstain from sex until you are able to do it.

You can read the rest of that exercise in deliberate dishonesty, but let’s pause to notice how Ms. Mogilevsky attributes legitimate concerns about a real danger — false accusations of rape — to men being “lonely, insecure, and sexually unfulfilled.” In other words, feminists have expended enormous effort to terrorize college men with these threats of spurious rape accusations, but if men react rationally to the threat, Ms. Mogilevsky will attribute this to the psychological weakness of males. The sadist revels in the belief that her victims are pathetic and helpless.

Despite her youth, Ms. Mogilevsky has spent years promoting the idea that others are in need of her sexual instruction. In a 2012 column for the student newspaper at Northwestern University, she delivered an unhelpful sermon about “hookup culture”:

Sure, there’s a chance you’ll go to a party one night and meet someone who just happens to like having sex the exact same way you do, but it’s a pretty small chance.
Those lucky people can probably skip the rest of this column, but the rest of us should remember that you can’t get what you want if you don’t ask for it.
Unfortunately, expressing yourself clearly isn’t easy when you’re slurring your words, which brings me right to my next point: In order for hooking up to be safe and fun, we need to stop depending on alcohol as a social lubricant. . . .
I don’t think that casual sex is intrinsically wrong, unhealthy or dangerous. I do think, however, that most of us are going about it the wrong way. For those people who want no-strings-attached sex, hookup culture could be a great thing — just not the hookup culture that we currently have.

Ms. Mogilevsky was active in SHAPE (Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators) at Northwestern, and is eager to lecture others, as she writes in her recent column about “affirmative consent”:

I wish I could explain consent to all of these men. I wish they could attend one of my workshops about consent, where I help people learn to understand body language, find language to help them ask for and give consent, and show how these skills apply to all areas of life, not just sex.

You see, college men? Your problem is not that you might be falsely accused of rape because you hooked up with a drunk chick whose morning-after regrets morphed into a plan for revenge. Rather, your problem is that you haven’t been lectured by Miriam Mogilevsky.

Only after she has expended a few hundred words about men’s allegedly irrational fear of false rape accusations does Ms. Mogilevsky finally admit how much she enjoys inspiring such fear:

It is possible that someone who doesn’t have to face a high likelihood of being sexually assaulted feels subjectively as bad when they imagine the possibility of “accidentally” assaulting someone as I feel when I imagine the possibility of being assaulted (on purpose).
But for me, personally, the fear of being assaulted is so much worse. . . .
This is why I am glad that men are starting to feel that surmountable fear. I don’t want them to live in terror. I don’t want them to avoid sex out of fear. (That would be how the other half lives.) I do want them to accept their fair share of the responsibility, though. And yes, that means more fear than they may be used to.

Ah, here we have it at last: Fear and Loathing of the Penis!

This existential dread of masculinity has evidently become pandemic among certain sensitive young feminists in recent years, and I’m not sure why, although I suspect it has something to do with the brutal porn-influenced appetites that seem to have taken hold among some young men. Yes, let’s just go ahead and talk about this unfortunate reality:

Due in part to what they see in pornography, teenage boys have no qualms coercing young women into having anal sex, according to a new study, with some of these encounters possibly crossing the line into rape.
Researchers interviewed 130 men and women aged 16–18 from diverse social backgrounds in three different locations in England. The report, published last month, states that young people “frequently cited pornography as the ‘explanation’ for [engaging in] anal sex,” although masculine competition between boys to see who could engage in the activity the most often also played a role.
They found a “key element” in this risky new behavior is the “normalization of coercion and ‘accidental’ penetration. It seemed that men were expected to persuade or coerce reluctant partners.” . . .
Experts say the new research adds to a growing body of evidence that young people, influenced by pornography, are eager to try out the techniques they see online, often with little empathy or regard for the other person’s well-being.

This is obviously a serious problem, but feminists find themselves compelled to avoid confronting the problem directly because:

  1. Criticizing pornography, per se, might result in feminists losing the financial and political support of organizations like the ACLU and the Democrat Party that have long been allied with the pornography industry;
    and
  2. Criticizing anal sodomy, per se, would put in jeopardy feminism’s de facto alliance with gay rights activists whose lifestyle involves the avid pursuit of this practice.

We therefore find that the spread of porn culture has made it something of a competitive sport for young males to inflict upon women a particularly painful sort of degradation, yet feminists dare neither to criticize porn not to criticize specifically the type of assault they most fear. The result? A lot of vague talk about the importance of “consent” and the need to learn “skills” in negotiating sexual activity.

Tell you what: I’m just going to link this first-person account about how such “negotiation” works in real life, so you can click that link, read her story and then join me in deploring the normalization of such activity. And here is feminist Meghan Murphy’s testimony:

My first boyfriend was pissed that I wouldn’t have anal sex with him. Not just because he, you know, wanted to try out all the super sexy things he’d learned watching porn, but because I’d done it before — with other guyswho weren’t him. No fair, amirite?
The fact that the whole, entire reason I wouldn’t have anal sex with him was because I’d tried it already with a couple of other guys and the experience ranged from completely boring and unpleasurable to extremely painful eluded him. My pleasure wasn’t the point. The point was 1) No fair, wah! (i.e. why did other men “get” something he didn’t), 2) The thought of emulating something he masturbated to in porn turned him on, 3) Possible pleasure for him . . .

You can read the rest of that, which must have been embarrassing for Ms. Murphy to admit, but such frankness is preferable to the veil of euphemistic obscurity that has concealed from honest discussion exactly why college women seem so angry about men and sex, an anger that helps fuel the “rape epidemic” hysteria that leads to “affirmative consent” policies and a phony Rolling Stone story about a freshman girl being raped atop a pile of broken glass by a gang of Phi Kappa Psi brothers led by the non-existent “Haven Monahan.”

HEY, YOU IDIOTS: STOP DOING GIRLS IN THE BUTT.

There, I said it. No matter how much porn performers may make anal sex seem like the ultimate in pleasure, it’s not, at least not for normal people. All evidence suggests that college girls are as willing now as at any previous moment in human history to engage in normal sex. The problem, however, is that some college guys have become bored with normal sex — perhaps because it is so widely available — and are therefore seeking thrills by coercing college girls into abnormal sex.

Exactly how are we to fix this problem? How is “affirmative consent” supposed to work? When a college guy meets a college girl at a party, should they have a loud and explicit conversation about what they’re going to do together — making sure that there are witnesses to their sexual agreement — before they leave the party? Can you imagine the testimony at the ensuing university discipline hearing if she claims he broke their agreement? The dude’s fraternity brothers can be expected to testify that the girl agreed in advance to the activity she claims was non-consensual, while her sorority sisters will testify that she’s not that kind of girl and would never voluntarily do such a thing.

The attempt to enforce “affirmative consent” policies should certainly provide amusement for university officials forced to listen to this kind of testimony, although perhaps some administrators will find it sad and ironic. Here is this intelligent girl with an excellent SAT score and a near-perfect GPA tearfully insisting that after guzzling booze at a party she had no idea that the guy who invited her to his dorm room intended to have sex with her. Then here is the guy, also with a high SAT score and a near-perfect GPA, saying that he has no idea why this girl is so angry at him just because — oops! — he accidentally put it in the wrong hole. Also, he didn’t reply to her text message the next day, so now she’s telling everybody he’s a rapist, which could put a damper on his social life.

It’s difficult for me to muster much sympathy for either the guys or girls in these predictable “he-said, she-said” situations, but I have exactly zero sympathy for an inhuman monster like Miriam Mogilevsky. Anybody who can afford to attend Northwestern University (annual tuition $47,251) is too rich to demand sympathy from me, even if she wasn’t a hate-filled atheist. But her sadistic glee at the thought of inspiring fear in men was certainly enough to earn my complete contempt:

When I first read that Bloomberg piece about waning “hookup culture,” my initial reaction was, honestly, to shrug. Let them be scared. Let them avoid sex and intimacy. I’ve certainly done that because I was afraid of sexual assault.

Yet she must add to such injury the insult of pretended sympathy:

[Men] seem afraid because they still don’t understand that their female partners are human beings with their own subjective experiences, experiences that they would do well to listen to and try to understand.
I don’t want men to live in fear. I don’t want men to stop flirting with women and asking for their number. I don’t want men to start refusing sex with eager, consenting women because what if they’re actually lying and not consenting.
I want them to listen to us. I want them to respect our agency. I want them to let us write the story together with them, rather than writing each chapter themselves and then handing it to us to read, perhaps accepting some critique if they are especially gracious.

“Hell hath no fury,” et cetera. We should never wish ill on people, and must be content to know how unlikely it is that anything good could ever happen to someone as hatefully dishonest as Miriam Mogilevsky.





 

 

Category: Crime, Education, Feminism

FMJRA 2.0: Day Late & A Root Boy Slim Short

Posted on | December 28, 2014 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Winter Solstice Edition
Political Rift
Animal Magnetism
Batshit Crazy News
Average Bubba
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive

Merry Christmas, Haters
Cragin Media
Inoperable Terran
Granite Grok
The DaleyGator
Batshit Crazy News

Cop-Hater Kills Two Cops in Brooklyn Ambush; NY Times Obfuscates Motive
Batshit Crazy News
Political Rift

Feminism’s New Enemy: ‘Rape Truthers’
The Pirate’s Cove

FMJRA 2.0: For The Northern Lights, And The Southern Comfort
Batshit Crazy News
The Pirate’s Cove

Also: ‘Shut Up, Because Rape’
Cragin Media
Batshit Crazy News

Mandatory Reading: “Collectivism and the Presumption of Guilt”
Batshit Crazy News

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.22.14
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

Military Reform: A Key @GOP 2016 Issue
Batshit Crazy News

No, Actually, You Don’t
The Lonely Conservative
Political Rift
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

He’s German, and a Feminist
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 12.23.14
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.24.14
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive

She Never Fails to Amaze
Political Rift
Cragin Media
Batshit Crazy News
Dustbury

‘The Worst in Demagoguery’
Batshit Crazy News

Feminist Amateur Hour
Batshit Crazy News
Dalrock

A 21st-Century Feminist Family
Political Rift
Batshit Crazy News

Set Aside All Traditional Modes Of Argument, And The Left Does Make Sense
Batshit Crazy News

Feminist Logic
Batshit Crazy News

Worse Than Dinkins
Batshit Crazy News

The Fraternity Initiation Rape Story
Batshit Crazy News
Political Rift

No, The Homo Bureaucratus Infestation Is Not A Representative Sample
Batshit Crazy News

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (21)
  2.  Political Rift (6)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links for the first FMJRA of the new year will be noon on Saturday, January 3.


Category: FMJRA Award

Sarah Palin Is Doing A Far Better Job Of Not Running For President Than Jeb Bush

Posted on | December 28, 2014 | 22 Comments

by Smitty

She seems to be having a much better effect on actual conservatives in office than His Jebness:

Governor Palin endorsed 22 candidates for various offices during the midterm finals, including senators, governors, lieutenant governors, congressmen, and attorneys general. Of those so endorsed, an incredible 20 were elected – contrasted with, for example, Hillary Clinton’s record of 8 wins out 24 endorsed candidates.

Beyond the success of her endorsed candidates lies a much deeper reason for Palin being seen as “Achiever of the Year”: those Palin endorsed in their respective primaries who then went on to win the general election battles. As in the past with, among others, senators Ted Cruz, Kelly Ayotte, and Deb Fischer, and Governor Nikki Haley, who owe their elections in their primary campaigns to Palin’s endorsement at a critical juncture, so too could new senators Ben Sasse and Joni Ernst, and new Alaska governor Bill Walker (and, remarkably, his Democrat lieutenant governor Byron Mallott) be considered to owe all or a substantial part of their nominations to Palin’s endorsement.

For all her detractors’ cries of “irrelevance” and “she’s just a reality show entertainer” (those two being among the nicer epithets), Palin goes on, election cycle after election cycle, populating Congress with her endorsed candidates in a cost-effective manner, and in such numbers that the likes of Karl Rove with his 1% success rate can surely view only with hidden admiration, if not downright envy.

She seems an acknowledged ambassador to the conservative base:

If former Alaska Gov. and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin enters the 2016 presidential election, she will face stiff competition from a wide field of qualified Republican candidates. However, she may face greater challenges from her numerous detractors, especially those in the liberal media whose vitriol towards Palin knows no bounds.

Many believe that Palin is most powerful as a conservative spokesperson who has a remarkable ability to motivate and inspire her base. In fact, she has been confirmed as a speaker at the Iowa Freedom Summit in January 2015. She will be joined by at least nine GOP presidential hopefuls and whether her purpose at the event is to motivate or throw her hat in the election ring is uncertain.

It remains to be seen if the base’s contempt for the Vichy GOP can be overcome by dread of Her Majesty, the way the dread of the Goreacle led to (barely) enough support for a Republican “triumph” in 2000. All I can say is that I’m not voting for another Bush. Should Sarah Palin opt to run (and, in all candor, I’m more of a Scott Walker fan) she could well play the Ross Perot role in a Bush/Clinton ’92 re-run.

And I don’t care, Rove. You and any other Progressive jackwagons on the False Choice Express can tell me that failure to vote for candidate B is really a vote for candidate C. Screw you, to the wall, with a large diameter drill. IF the Vichy GOP foist Jeb on the base, AND we suffer eight years  of Her Majesty, it’s YOUR flipping fault for  nominating the chap.

I don’t actually bear any personal animus toward Jeb. I’m just not playing along with this anti-American dynastic noise. The argument that the Commies are cheerfully doing so via Her Majesty is strangely non-compelling. If Jeb wants to earn some respect, how about calmly announcing that he’s declining a run in a few months, and offering his talents in service of his country a la the Koch brothers, and funding outfits like Heritage and AFP? Such a move would do more to advance the needed  reforms in this country than actually running for the sake of polishing his ego.

I cannot support Jeb at all. I could support Sarah, in the same vein I supported Romney in 2012. I’d sooner support a third attempt at POTUS from Ward Cleaver than I would seeing Jeb on the ticket. No, no, a thousand nos, and again: get lost with the dynastic politics => “CNN/ORC Poll: Bush surges to 2016 GOP frontrunner”

via Hot Air and Instapundit

Update: Memeorandum thread

Category: Hot Air, Instapundit, Republicans, Sarah Palin
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