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Sailing the ‘Sea of Misogyny’

Posted on | December 17, 2014 | 69 Comments

Brendan O’Neill at Spiked Online:

The buzzphrase of our age is ‘rape culture’. Fearmongering feminists claim women are surrounded by the threat of rape, as evidenced in everything from the Sun’s Page 3 to the continued existence of raunchy rock music, and are drowning in what one melodramatic columnist calls ‘a sea of misogyny’. Activists make videos of themselves being catcalled in the street to demonstrate that a ‘culture of rape’ is all around. Even as the statistics suggest that actual incidents of rape are declining — the US National Crime Victimization Survey records an 85 per cent decline in the per-capita victimisation rate of rape over the past 35 years — still the panic about rape is stoked up. Magazines like Rolling Stone run graphic stories about grotesque rapes, publishing houses churn out rape memoirs, and online forums are set up for women to tell, in as much detail as possible, their stories of being raped — all contributing to a feeling, however unfounded, that women are at risk from lustful men.
So it was in the Deep South, too. One of the main ways in which racists there maintained social divisions and social order was through the spectre of rape. . . .

You can read the whole thing, but what caught my eye was that phrase “sea of misogyny.” Headline on the column in question:

Women are being assaulted, abused
and murdered in a sea of misogyny

Why the passive-voice construction? Who is doing all this assault, abuse and murder? The subject of the sentence is men.

Men are assaulting women. Men are abusing women. Men are murdering women. Are feminists afraid to name their enemy?

Words mean things. “Misogyny” means hatred of women.

At some point in the past decade, “misogyny” replaced “sexism” as the favorite feminist accusation against men, without anybody really noticing the significance of the substitution. Being called a “sexist” never much bothered me, frankly, because what does it really mean?

A sexist is someone who believes that the differences between the sexes are socially significant, and I most certainly do.

To be a sexist does not mean being prejudiced against women or practicing unfair discrimination in the workplace against females. Many women — quite probably most women, including many who call themselves “feminists” — are also sexist in their belief that the differences between male and female cannot be ignored or wished away.

The differences between men and women cannot be legislated out of existence. No regime of regulation, no court decree can create “sexual equality,” because the sexes are sufficiently different that attempts to make them equal only create failure, conflict and misery. Our schools may manage to brainwash children with false beliefs about “equality,” but all that will do is to make it more difficult for those children to be successful and happy when they grow up.

“Feminists have declared war on human nature,” I wrote in July, after beginning the “Sex Trouble” series. While nature will ultimately triumph over her foolish foes, there is no limit to the misery and failure that may result from feminist folly in the meantime.

To be a sexist is not the same as being a misogynist, and the substitution of the latter term for the former tells us something about the steady drift of feminism in recent decades. Entrenched in departments of Women’s Studies, protected by tenure, armed with regulatory authority and political prestige, the academics whose theories form the basis of feminist ideology have taught their naïve students a discourse of power (Foucault) so that when they emerge from the campus cocoon and encounter adult life, they view the world through distorted lenses. Human behavior appears to them to form a gestalt pattern they then describe using the intellectual abstractions (e.g., misogyny) with which they were equipped during their ideological indoctrination.

“In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.”
— William F. Buckley Jr., Up From Liberalism (1959)

You don’t need a college education to be able to identify offensive human behavior as “bad manners” or “stupidity.” No abstract theory or fancy words are required to say that you shouldn’t grope people in the workplace or shout insults at strangers on the street. And rape was a felony long before we had feminists constantly lecturing us about rape.

Here’s the subhead on that column about the “sea of misogyny”:

Women are being killed in a society that
sends the message, clearly and repeatedly,
that they are sexual objects for
men’s gratification and possession

Wait! You’re telling me that this message from society is wrong?

Whatever you do, don’t tell my wife. She has been an object for my gratification and possession for 25 years, and if she ever figures out that this arrangement pleases me because I hate her — that I am a “misogynist” — she might stop supplying me with gratification.

Perhaps the reader sees the basic problem here without my having to explain it. Always best to assume that the reader is intelligent enough to draw the obvious conclusion in such a situation, but I hope no one is offended while I belabor the point a bit further.

Our feminist here engages in a rhetorical leap that makes Evel Knievel’s rocket-powered motorcycle jump across the Snake River Canyon look like child’s play. She has crammed many different phenomena into a single category, “misogyny,” so that male desire for female companionship (which in feminist theory means reducing women to “sexual objects”) is responsible for assault, abuse and murder.

Men want women because men hate women — that’s what this feminist rhetoric about “misogyny” and “sex objects” really means.

Common sense rejects this formulation when it is stated so clearly, which is why feminists usually avoid stating their beliefs clearly, except when writing books aimed at an exclusively feminist readership. People have been startled by some of the quotes by feminist authors I’ve published during the past several months (you will find six particularly frightening quotes in yesterday’s installment, “As Real as Rape: How Bad Journalism Advances Feminism’s Anti-Male Agenda“) simply because clear expressions of feminism’s core ideology seldom appear in newspaper columns or any other mass media forum.

“Intercourse occurs in a context of a power relation that is pervasive and incontrovertible. The context . . . is one in which men have social, economic, political power over women. Some men do not have all those kinds of power over all women; but all men have some kinds of power over all women; and most men have controlling power over what they call their women — the women they fuck.”
— Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse (1987)

Feminism has both an esoteric doctrine (a system of beliefs shared among members of the cult) and an exoteric discourse, the language feminists use when evangelizing the general public.

What is taught in university Women’s Studies programs diffuses itself into public awareness slowly, by a sort of intellectual osmosis, so that when we encounter feminist arguments on TV news programs or in online columns, the ideological underpinnings of this rhetoric are not clearly apparent. Common sense tells us there is something strange about these arguments — the casual conflation of normal male sexual desire with murder strikes us as odd — but we don’t know where these weird claims are coming from or why anyone would say such things. We ask ourselves, “Who is this person saying all this?”

Her name is Laura Bates and she is 28 years old. She graduated from Cambridge in 2007 and moved to London to pursue an acting career. Failing at that, she worked various jobs until, in 2012, she launched a website called Everyday Sexism, collecting and publishing women’s tales of men’s abusive behavior. That project was a success, and Ms. Bates seems rather disingenuous about this:

She can’t recall a single conversation about feminism or politics while growing up in a “very, very normal” middle-class family in Taunton; she studied English literature at Cambridge university, spent all her time acting and went nowhere near student politics, let alone women’s groups. . . .
It is hard to believe Bates when she says she would scarcely have known what feminism even meant two years ago, for her command of the gender politics debate is breathtakingly sophisticated.

Yes, it is quite “hard to believe” that a Cambridge graduate, even a literature major whose career interest was in theater, didn’t know anything at all about “gender politics” until, at age 26, she created a web site called Everyday Sexism. The aroma of bovine excrement exudes from that narrative because, even if Laura Bates went “nowhere near . . . women’s groups” as a Cambridge undergrad, feminist ideology pervades the modern university campus like water pervades the sea.

As I have frequently mentioned, Women’s Studies programs are organized on an  interdisciplinary basis, so that professors of history, psychology and literature are part of these programs. If one were able to view Laura Bates’s Cambridge transcript, to see the courses she took and the professors under whom she studied, I can pretty much guarantee she had some exposure to feminist theory, and perhaps quite a large amount, even if she did not recognize it as such.

Certainly, Ms. Bates lived her life in accordance with feminist ideology, whether she studied that ideology or not. She is 28, childless and unmarried — by contrast, my wife was a mother of three by the time she was 28 — and so Ms. Bates embodies the anti-procreation fanaticism that makes “choice” (abortion) women’s most fundamental right. It does no good, in my experience, to explain to feminists that their movement’s vehement hostility to motherhood is largely derived from the population-control agenda funded by white male billionaires (David Rockefeller, Ted Turner, Bill Gates, et al.) whose interest in “women’s rights” is more Malthusian than philanthropic.

“Be fruitful and multiply” is one of the many divine commandments that all feminists must reject. There are no Christian feminists, because feminism is a sort of narcissistic idolatry, wherein women deny God and instead worship themselves as their own divinity.

That ironic feminist poster quotes a rather notorious 1992 fundraising letter sent out by Pat Robertson, and every word is true, including the part about witchcraft. Please, click here and buy yourself a copy of Enchanted Feminism: The Reclaiming Witches of San Francisco by Professor Jone Salomsen and, when you’re done reading that, I can recommend several other volumes on the same topic. Meanwhile, if you’re interested in the subject of women divorcing their husbands and becoming lesbians, you can also order From Wedded Wife to Lesbian Life: Stories of Transformation (1995) and Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write About Leaving Men for Women (2010).

Laura Bates is not a lesbian witch, so far as I am aware. A newspaper profile mentions that she “lives in north London with her fiance, an actor” who, we may presume, intends to obtain gratification from his possession of Ms. Bates as a sex object. And good luck, sir!

My own four sons, however, have been warned to avoid any woman who speaks feminist rhetoric. McCain’s Law of Feminism:

There are three kinds of feminism:

1. Feminism that is wrong;
2. Feminism that is crazy;
and
3. Feminism that is both wrong and crazy.

When in doubt, it’s usually Number Three.

All feminists are wrong and usually also crazy, but you never know what kind of craziness is concealed by their rhetoric. Marry one of them at your own peril. If you come home some day to find she has killed the children, withdrawn all the money from your bank account and run off to join a coven of lesbian witches, don’t say you weren’t warned.




 

 

Category: Feminism, Sex Trouble

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.17.14

Posted on | December 17, 2014 | 10 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Anguish, Outrage In Pakistan After Taliban Attack On Peshawar School

Female relatives mourn over the casket of 15-year-old Mohammed Ali Khan, killed by the Taliban

Bloody siege of military high school apparently retaliation for recent Pakistani Army operations
India mourns slain Pakistani schoolchildren
PM Sharif: Terrorism will be rooted out



Abbott: New National Security Laws, Bail Rules Failed To Stop Sydney Jihadi
Monis bail continued despite 30 new rape charges

Jeb Bush To “Explore” Candidacy
Howie Carr: GOP voters won’t stampede for a RINO



POLITICS
Judge Declares Obama Immigration Actions Unconstitutional

Prez uses Christmas to defend immigration actions

District court judge says actions count as legislation by the executive branch

Departing TSA Boss: Terrorists Still Fixated On Airlines

Officials Claim Surge In Obamacare Signups

Social Security’s Acting Commissioner Left Hanging As Senate Heads Home

Senate Okays Nominees, Tax Bill As Session Ends

Federal Court Nixes Taxpayer-Funded Sex Change For Murderer

LA Mayor Plans 7000 Body Cameras For Police

Man Who Waterboarded 9/11 Mastermind Slams Senate CIA Report



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Sinks To New Lows, Investors Wary As Ruble Crashes: WTI $54.77, Brent $59.86
Russia Defends Ruble With Biggest Rate Rise Since 1998
Japan Export Growth Slows In November
New American Apparel CEO faces Revolt From Managers Loyal To Ousted Charney
US Imposes Steep Tariffs On Chinese Solar Panels
Darden Restaurants Posts 2Q Loss Of $32.8 Million
Apple Wins Antitrust Trial Over iPod Update
Instagram Launches Five New Filters
Magic Leap Adds Neal Stephenson As Chief Futurist
T-Mobile To Let Customers Roll Over Unused Data
Vintage Videogame Found In New Mexico Landfill Sent To Smithsonian



SPORTS
Grizzlies Snap Warriors’ Sixteen-game Streak, Deliver 105-98 Mauling

Grizzlies in the first half

Memphis’ 20-point run at start of second quarter stunned Golden State

Blue Jackets Blank Red Wings In Shootout

Chargers Staying Put In 2015

Rangers Snuff Flames, 5-2

Walls Leads Wizards Past Timbermutts

Jets Blitz Sabres, 5-1

Mavs Rout Knicks As Fisher Pulls Starters Early

Coyotes Edge Oilers 2-1 In OT

Desmond Unfazed By Trade Rumors, Wants To Stay With Nats



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Britney Spears Flashes Abs, Hot Body

Even more hot pics from Womens’ Health shoot

Dancing, switching up exercise routine, and lots of sushi doing the trick for Brit


Alex Trebek Threatened To Quit “Jeopardy” – Sony E-mails

Sony Hackers Threaten 9/11 Attack On Theaters Screening “The Interview”


Chris Kyle’s Widow Gives Teary Speech At “American Sniper” Premiere

How Jennifer Lopez Is Owning 2015 Already

Jessica Biel Is Expecting

Stricken Mel B Walks Out On Hubby Stephen

Children Of Reggae Legend Peter Tosh Fighting Over $2 Million Estate

“The Flash” Recruits “Tomorrow People” Alum Peyton List

Kathie Lee Gifford: Bill Cosby Once Tried To Kiss Me

Tessa Thompson From “Dear White People” Lands Lead In “Creed”

Former Wahlberg Bodyguard: Mark Shouldn’t Be Pardoned



FOREIGNERS
Netanyahu Starts Hanukkah By Lighting Menorah The Wrong Way
Drone Strike In Pakistan Kills Four Pak Taliban, Seven Others
India Bans Islamic State
Kerry: US Has Made No Determination On Palestinian Statehood
Former US Marine Imprisoned In Iran Goes On Hunger Strike
Vatican Report Praises American Nuns
Palestinian Boycott Of Israeli Goods Slowly Collapsing
Suicide Car Bombers Kill 26 In Yemen, Including 16 Kids
Uruguay’s President Says Former Gitmo Detainees Not Terrorists
“Cultural Protest” Held In Delhi



BLOGS & STUFF
Michelle Malkin: Jeb Bush – Chamber Of Commerce Water Boy
Twitchy: EBONY Snipes At Actress Stacey Dash’s Popularity Because Of Politics
American Power: Democrats Divided On Path To 2016
BLACKFIVE: Bring Out Yer Dead!
Conservatives4Palin: Elizabeth Warren, Corporate Welfare Queen
Don Surber: Elizabeth Hasselbeck Stumps Liberals
Jammie Wearing Fools: Leftists Fret Over Imaginary Anti-Muslim Backlash That Never Happens
Joe For America: A Peaceful March In NYC – “Kill The Killers”
JustOneMinute: Back At UVA, It Only Gets Weirder
Pamela Geller: Seven Arrested In Spain, Morocco For Recruiting Women To Jihad
Protein Wisdom: Morning, All!
Shot In The Dark: Layers And Layers Of Fact-Checkers
The Gateway Pundit: Seven More States Join Lawsuit Against Imperial Amnesty – Now Up To 24
The Jawa Report: Muslim Pens Leftist Satire, Liberals’ Heads Explode
The Lonely Conservative: Obama’s Economy – 1 In 5 Millenials Live In Poverty
This Ain’t Hell: Um, Bowe Bergdahl?
Weasel Zippers: Jesse Jackson Says It’s Racist To Call Him And Al Sharpton “Race Baiters”
Megan McArdle: “No” Is A Woman’s Most Powerful Word
Mark Steyn: Jeb Tide


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Category: Live at Five

Lesbian Athletes Denied Constitutional Right to Have Sex With Teammates

Posted on | December 16, 2014 | 35 Comments

Layana White and Haley Videckis are lesbians who played basketball for Pepperdine University. Somebody forgot to tell their coach that gay people have a monopoly on “civil rights” now. Whatever rights gays want, they get, and nobody else has any rights at all:

Two female college basketball players have sued Pepperdine — claiming the University is running them off the basketball team because they are involved in a lesbian relationship … TMZ Sports has learned.
The women behind the suit are Haley Videckis and Layana White — who each transferred to Pepperdine from other school because they believed they would have a better shot at the WNBA.
But according to the suit, several officials at Pepperdine — a Christian-based university in Malibu — began to suspect the players were in a lesbian relationship earlier this year … and started looking for an excuse to boot them off the team.
According to the suit, the women claim the basketball coach, Ryan Weisenberg, gave a speech on the topic of “lesbianism” in April … in which he said, “Lesbianism is not tolerated on this team. It is the reason why teams lose.”
Long story short, Layana claims she has eligibility issues with the NCAA and Pepperdine won’t help because of her sexual orientation. Haley claims she has recovered from a minor tailbone injury, but the school won’t clear her to play even though her doctor has signed off.
The women are suing for discrimination, harassment, retaliation and more — and are seeking unspecified damages.
A rep for Pepperdine issued a statement to TMZ Sports saying, “We take allegations of this kind very seriously. We conducted an immediate and thorough investigation and found no evidence to support these claims.”
“The University remains committed to a diverse and inclusive environment.”

Well, thanks, Pepperdine, for that courageous statement in favor of diversity and inclusion, but don’t you see that the diverse people you are including don’t want to be merely included? No, they want the whip in their hands, so they can boss you around, tell you what to do, and compel you to grovel at their feet — “Please don’t hit me again!” — while you tell them how incomparably special they are.

Homosexuals now have a right to being treated exactly how they want to be treated, and if anybody should ever so much as hint that they are less than ecstatic with enthusiasm for homosexuality, that’s a hate crime, a violation of their constitutional rights!

Didn’t you read the Supreme Court’s Windsor ruling? The gay rights movement was never about freedom. It was always about power.

Now that our Supreme Court and our political elite have given 2.3% of the population 100% of the power — you did read the Supreme Court’s Windsor decision, didn’t you? — their unlimited power is going to be used to destroy every person and every institution that ever dared to oppose the totalitarian ambitions of gay rights activists.

They’re here, they’re queer, and they want revenge.

Pepperdine University is affiliated with the United Church of Christ, and you might think that the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of religion would protect a Christian institution from being compelled to tolerate homosexual behavior among its students.

“HATER! BIGOT! HOW DARE YOU!”

That’s the answer you’ll get from the Gay Rights Totalitarians, who now have the constitutional right to make you bake them a cake.

You have no rights, you hillbilly holy rollers. The Supreme Court has ruled that there is no God and that homosexuality is sacred — sodomy is a constitutional right! — and while lawyers for the gay rights movement are busy suing into bankruptcy every person or institution who in any way opposes gay people in their exercise of those rights, public schools are teaching your children to celebrate homosexuality with books and videos and games and prizes for the child who most joyously praises the wonders of glorious gayness.

Hat-tip to the Title IX Blog, the proprietor of which is Erin E. Buzuvis, director of the Center for Gender & Sexuality Studies and Professor of Law at Western Massachusetts University. Perhaps you could inquire with Professor Buzuvis and ask her under what conditions “discrimination” against homosexuals would be acceptable.

And I guarantee you that her answer will be none.

Because they’re totalitarians, and the rest of us have no rights at all.

 

 

Category: Gays

Will No One Rid Us
Of Turbulent Jeb Bush?
Who’s More Bad Ideas
Than A Thunderbird Lush

Posted on | December 16, 2014 | 24 Comments

by Smitty

Category: Republicans

Emerging Awareness Update II: Can You Guess Who’s Expecting a Baby Now?

Posted on | December 16, 2014 | 48 Comments

Yes, it’s The World’s Most Famous Sex Offender™, the Florida teenager who became a lesbian civil rights hero, Kaitlyn Hunt:

A woman who made headlines for having an intimate relationship with an underage girl when they were in high school in 2012 now is 10 weeks pregnant through a sperm donation, her mother said Sunday.
Kaitlyn Hunt, 20, and her current girlfriend, Latisha Thomas, 28, of Indian River County, are engaged, according to Hunt’s mother, Kelley Smith. Hunt “couldn’t be more happy,” Smith said Sunday at her Sebastian home.
The announcement comes as Hunt awaits a hearing on her request that the courts modify her court-ordered community control to probation so she won’t have to report as often to her state probation officers in Vero Beach.
The request includes permission for Hunt to move to an undisclosed location outside Indian River County, her mother said.
In a late August hearing, circuit Judge Robert Pegg ruled Hunt couldn’t live with Thomas because probation officials said there had been problems in the relationship. Hunt has moved 10 times during the last year.
Hunt was arrested in February 2013 on charges of lewd and lascivious battery of a child. The case ended in a plea deal that included jail time and three years of court-ordered supervision. Hunt got out of jail in December 2013.

Kaitlyn’s bride-to-be was charged in 2006 with marijuana possession and also charged in 2012 with domestic battery.

Everyone expects a wonderful future for this couple and their child. I’m sure the sperm donor must be very happy. Meanwhile . . .

Prosecutors on Monday afternoon agreed to 20-year-old Kaitlyn Hunt’s request to convert her community control to probation, making it easier for her to come and go, said Assistant State Attorney Brian Workman.
Hunt, who is now 10 weeks pregnant through a sperm donation, has declined to be interviewed.
The change to probation is effective Dec. 20 and was made through a court order on Tuesday afternoon, thereby avoiding a public hearing that had been scheduled for Tuesday morning.
Under probation, she now can live anywhere in Florida, as long as her probation supervisors don’t object.

I’m sure everyone familiar with the Kate Hunt saga shares my joy that she’ll keep making headlines again and again and again . . .

In case you’ve forgotten:

Also, isn’t it nice how these reporters say Kaitlyn had “an intimate relationship” with a 14-year-old girl? I guess that’s the professional way of saying she diddled her in the school restroom toilet stall.

 

Category: Kaitlyn Hunt

Emerging Awareness Update: The Real Bisexual Housewives of Beverly Hills

Posted on | December 16, 2014 | 10 Comments

Oh, did I say “bisexual”? I meant “indiscriminately slutty”:

Brandi Glanville is getting very candid about her love for the ladies.
During a visit to HuffPost Live this week, the outspoken Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star opened up about her bisexual tendencies.
“I don’t swing both ways, I’ve been with women and usually there’s a man involved,” the 42-year-old reality star revealed. “I have a couple times been with women where it was just us…I love beautiful people and if you’re a man you’re a man, if you’re a woman you’re a woman. I’m not a lesbian and I’m not straight.” . . .
“It’s only been a few times in my life,” the mother of two added. “If it happens it happens. That’s not something that you plan for. I feel like it has to be organic.”
It’s no secret Glanville doesn’t discriminate when it comes to men or women. On a previous season of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Glanville made out with former cast-member Carlton Gebbia during a steamy hot tub scene.

Yeah, imagine that scene — no, not that scene, I mean the scene where the kid comes home from school crying because all the other kids were teasing him. “Ha ha ha, I saw your mom having lesbian hot tub sex on TV!” Sure it happens every day in Beverly Hills.

They’re the “beautiful people,” you see.

UPDATE: Because I had never heard of this person before — amazing how many obscure “celebrities” there are in the age of cable TV — I checked her Wikipedia page. She’s notorious trash.

Brandi Glanville Confronts Ex-Husband
Eddie Cibrian’s Mistress Scheana Marie:
“I Had So Much Anxiety” About Meeting Her
— January 2013

Brandi Glanville Apologizes for Her Racist Joke
on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
— December 2013

Brandi Glanville Apologizes for Joking That
She Wanted to Be Molested as a Child
— January 2014

Oh, such “beautiful people” . . .

 

Category: Celebrities, Gays, Sex

As Real as Rape: How Bad Journalism Advances Feminism’s Anti-Male Agenda

Posted on | December 16, 2014 | 35 Comments

“Campus activism about rape provides a means of disseminating the core message of feminist ideology, i.e., that men are evil and dangerous and that male sexuality is inherently violent and oppressive to women.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Aug. 10, 2014

Glenn Reynolds demolished the phony “college rape epidemic” meme in his USA Today column Monday, and little remains but dimly glowing cinders of smoldering lies amid the cold ashes of Rolling Stone‘s incinerated fraternity gang-rape tale.

Christina Hoff Sommers, who spent months trying to get journalists to stop using the phony “1-in-5” statistic, notes that the authors of the study from which that statistic was derived say that it is “inappropriate to use the number as a baseline” for the prevalence of rape at colleges. If you read between the lines of their careful caveats, and if you know anything about how surveys can be biased, you realize how asking college women multiple questions about “unwanted” sexual behavior could produce a lot of “false positive” responses.

When you collect survey answers about “unwanted” kissing and touching, or even attempted kissing and touching, and make such a survey the basis of claims about the prevalence of rape — a violent felony — what you are doing is not journalism, it’s propaganda.

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

Although I hesitate to say that Rolling Stone story was entirely a hoax, Sabrina Rubin Erdely and her editors have utterly discredited themselves and, in the process, exposed both the falsehood of feminist rhetoric and the reckless irresponsibility of liberal media. Eric Owens at the Daily Caller recounts eight separate rape hoaxes at colleges and universities, including the bizarre 2013 case of a transvestite student at UC-Santa Cruz who placed a Craigslist ad seeking someone to beat “her” up so “she” could claim to be a victim.

Owens highlights what Rolling Stone did wrong at UVA:

Why did Erdely commit career suicide? Writing at Slate, Hanna Rosin provides the likely answer: Erdely hoped her wildly implausible 9,000-word, agenda-driven excuse for journalism would emphasize “the larger theme of a university culture and social scene indifferent even to the most brutalized victims of rape.”

That is to say, Erdely believed the hype — feminists claim that many rapes on campus go unreported because victims are afraid to report these crimes to “indifferent” college officials — and she set out to find a story that would prove feminists are right.

Oops.

Stipulate that what is usually called “date rape” happens far too frequently on campus. Young people — mostly teenagers, 18 or 19 years old — get drunk out of their minds and, under such circumstances, boys have sex with girls who are not in a condition to resist. Unless universities are willing to crack down on underage drinking, however, there are limits to what can be done to prevent these incidents from occurring, and it is notoriously difficult to prosecute a rape charge in the typical “he said, she said” situation where this happens.

Bad journalism does not improve this kind of problem, and bad journalism seems rampant nowadays. Jessica Pressler of New York magazine reported a story last week about a teenager, Stuyvesant High senior Mohammed Islam, who said he made $72 million as an investor.

A complete fiction — the kid made it up from thin air.

Fake rape. Fake teen millionaire. To-may-to, to-mah-to.

What is the feminist agenda on university campuses? To demonize men, to stigmatize heterosexuality and to promote lesbianism. This agenda has been made explicit by radical theorists whose works are foundational to the anti-male/anti-heterosexual doctrines taught in Women’s Studies courses at nearly every college and university in America.

“That some men rape provides a sufficient threat to keep all women in a constant state of intimidation, forever conscious of the knowledge that the biological tool must be held in awe, for it may turn to weapon with sudden swiftness born of harmful intent. . . . Rather than society’s aberrants or ‘spoilers of purity,’ men who commit rape have served in effect as front-line masculine shock troops, terrorist guerrillas in the longest sustained battle the world has ever known.”
— Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape (1975)

“A lesbian society pragmatically reveals that the division from men of which women have been the object is a political one . . .
“[O]ur survival demands that we contribute all our strength to the destruction of the class of women within which men appropriate women. This can be accomplished only by the destruction of heterosexuality as a social system which is based on the oppression of women by men and which produces the doctrine of the difference between the sexes to justify this oppression.”
— Monique Wittig, “One Is Not Born a Woman” (1981)

“Fucking is a large part of how females are kept subordinated to males. It is a ritual enactment of that subordination which constantly reaffirms the fact of subordination and habituates both men and women to it, both in body and in imagination. . . . A great deal of fucking is also presumed to preserve and maintain women’s belief in their own essential heterosexuality, which in turn (for women as not for men) connects with and reinforces female hetero-eroticism, that is, man-loving in women. It is very important to the maintenance of male-supremacy that men fuck women, a lot. So it is required; it is compulsory.”
— Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory (1983)

“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)

“Why is much of men’s aggression against women sexual in nature? . . .
“If the superiority of the penis over the vagina is being established through male sexual violence against females, then males benefit from this violence in their everyday interactions with females if they remind females that they, males, have a penis, and the women have a vagina. The more frequently females (and males) are reminded of the dominance of the penis over the vagina, the more rewards all men reap from some men’s sexual violence against women. . . .
“By compulsively sexualizing their interactions with females, males remind both themselves and females that males are dominant.”
— Dee Graham, Loving to Survive: Sexual Terror, Men’s Violence, and Women’s Lives (1994)

“Far from being ‘natural,’ phallic sexuality is a moral and political activity. . . . Men’s sexual behaviour is not caused by hormonal dictates. It is because the penis serves the ideological function of symbolizing ‘human’ status that it is so heavily charged with erotic energy, and not because it is driven by testosterone. Men must keep using it because they need to keep proving that they exist, that their ‘humanity’ is inextricably entwined with penis-possession; women must be constantly used by it to prove that men exist, that the sum total of a man is his penis. . . . Anything and everything must be subordinated to penile activity if men are to be what phallic ideology requires them to be.”
— Denise Thompson, Radical Feminism Today (2001)

If you know what feminists actually believe — the anti-male hate propaganda taught to the tens of thousands of college girls who sign up for Women’s Studies classes annually — it is not surprising that rape hysteria is being promoted as a way of popularizing the characteristic attitude of radical feminists: Fear and Loathing of the Penis.

Does anyone suppose that Rolling Stone would be interested in reporting that Feminist Frontiers, the most widely assigned anthology of feminist literature, is edited by three lesbian professors? Do you think Sabrina Rubin Erdely might follow up on the (perhaps-not-entirely-coincidental) fact that Carmen Rios, communications coordinator for the Feminist Majority Foundation, describes herself as a “raging lesbian feminist” and referred to Women’s Studies programs as “Lesbo Recruitment 101”? Does Rolling Stone editor William Dana, who was so eager to publish unverified gang-rape claims against a University of Virginia fraternity, think his magazine’s readers might like to know why Women’s Studies professors condemn Disney cartoons as “heteronormative”?

No, those vicious swine won’t pay anyone to report the truth about feminism, because they don’t want anyone to know the truth.

The only people who will pay me to report the truth are my readers who hit the freaking tip jar. It’s almost Christmas, you know.




 

 

 

Category: Crime, Education, Fear. Loathing., Feminism, Media Bias, Sex Trouble

LIVE AT FIVESEVEN: 12.16.14

Posted on | December 16, 2014 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Two Hostages Killed As Sydney Siege Ends Tragically

A hostage runs to a police officer after escaping from the cafe

Siege lasted for sixteen hours before police stormed the cafe
Abbott: Gunman known to security forces but not on terror lists
Siege triggers national security review
“Deluded” hostage taker saw himself as martyr


At Least 84 Students Killed As Taliban Storm Pakistani Army School
Hundreds more taken hostage

Palestinian Leadership Decides To Continue Security Cooperation With Israel
Religious advisor says PA will activate “popular resistance” against Israel



POLITICS
Activist Professor Vivek Murthy Confirmed As Surgeon General

Harvard professor’s nomination held up for over a year

Murthy’s confirmation vote largely along party lines, with one GOP senator voting for and three Democrats voting against

Border Agent Accused Of Aiding Smugglers


Senate Agenda Still Packed With Nominations, Terror Insurance, And Tax Extensions

Troops Not Amused By Obama’s “Santa In Fatigues” Quip

Texas Legislature Looks To Extend Gun Rights

White House Still Weighing Russia Sanctions Bill

Jeb Bush Speaks In SC Amid Rumors Of Presidential Bid

Supremes Rule Traffic Stop OK Despite Mistake Of Law



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Continues To Sink: WTI $55.67, Brent $60.84
Oil Plunge, Unstable Ruble Shock the Markets
US Industrial Output Finally Surpasses Pre-Recession Peak
Euro Zone Business Activity Posts Weak Growth
Fed Could Signal First Rate Hike Since 2008
Intercontinental Hotels Agrees To $43 Billion Purchase Of Boutique Chain Kimpton Hotels
Leaked Windows 10 Build Includes Cortana, XBox App
Apple, AT&T Back Microsoft Against Feds In Overseas E-Mail Fight
Skype Moves Towards Auto-Translation
Internet Tax Moratorium Extended Again
Watch Teens React To Classic Nintendo Game “Mega Man”



SPORTS
Saints Skin Bears 31-15

Jay Cutler gets sacked by Kasim Edebali in the first half of last night’s game

Three interceptions and seven sacks seal Chicago’s fate


The Descent Of Brad Halsey

Sabres Top Sens In Shootout

Cavs Top Hornets 97-88

Islanders 3, Devils 2 (SO)


Pacers Snap Eight-Game Slide, Whip Lakers 110-91

Struggling Edmonton Oilers Fire Coach Eakins

“Bad Things” Lead To Suns’ Sixth Straight Loss

Pens Overcome Mumps, Bolts For 20th Win

Harper, Nationals Agree On Two-Year Deal



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Young Actresses Lining Up For Key Role In “Pirates 5”

I have no idea who they are either

Disney looking for love interest for Brandon Thwaites

Meet The Manliest Man In Hollywood

“Theory Of Everything” Actor Eddie Redmayne Gets Married

Sienna Miller Covers Vogue, Daughter Makes Modeling Debut Inside

Camille Cosby Speaks Up

Jonathan Rhys Meyers Gets Engaged

Tatum-Pratt “Ghostbusters” Spinoff In The Works

David Oyelowo To Star With Lupita Nyong’o In “Americanah”



FOREIGNERS
Ten Arrested In israeli Police Raid On “Lehava” Anti-Coexistence Group
Iran’s Rouhani Upbeat About Nuke Talks
15,000 Anti-Islam Demonstrators March In Dresden
Ukraine PM Appeals For Help From NATO, EU
Egyptian Prosecutor Remands Over 300 Alleged Supporters Of Muslim Brotherhood To Military Courts
Indian Supreme Court Disallows Italian Marines’ Plea
100 Syrian Troops, 80 Jihadis Killed In Battle Over Government Base
British Embassy In Cairo Reopens
Haiti Awaits New Government After PM Resigns
UNSC Blames South Sudan’s Leaders For “Man-Made Catastrophe”



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: Frack, Baby, Frack!
Proof Positive: The Mary Jo Kopechne “I Can’t Breathe” T-Shirt
Doug Powers: Now How About A Report On How Many Democrats Already Knew About The CIA’s Interrogation Techniques?
Twitchy: “I HATE THIS PLANET!” Feminist Do-Gooder Targets Emotionally Scarring Laundry Detergent
The Quinton Report: DOD Gives Co$ Funding For “Detox” Of Gulf War Vets
Monster Hunter Nation: Fisking The Guardian Again, This Time For H.P. Lovecraft
Kurt Schlichter: Nothing Succeeds Like Liberal Secession
American Power: Elizabeth Warren’s Government Shutdown
American Thinker: Ted Cruz Was Right, Again
Conservatives4Palin: Governor Palin – Anxious For Leaders?
Don Surber: I Voted Republican For This?
Jammie Wearing Fools: NYPD Shreds DiBlasio After Cops Assaulted By “Peaceful” Protesters
Joe For America: Islamicizing America’s Schools – Is It Too Late For America’s Kids?
JustOneMinute: Listen Up – Spice It Up, Man Up!
Pamela Geller: There Are No Lone Wolves In The Jihad War
Protein Wisdom: Life Imitates Monty Python – Soldiers Barred From Yelling At Terrorists
Shot In The Dark: To All My “Progressive” Friends
The Gateway Pundit: Sydney Morning Herald Recommends “Empathy” For Jihadist Hostage Taker
The Jawa Report: Everyone Wave Buh Bye To Runa
The Lonely Conservative: Tolerance! Vandals Go After Conservative On Michigan Campus
This Ain’t Hell: Twelve Sailors Involved In USS Wyoming Shower Videos
Weasel Zippers: Liberal Rag Vox – Asking Muslims To Condemn Terrorism Is “Bigoted And Islamophobic”
Megan McArdle: All I Want For Christmas Is A Vitamix – The Christmas Gift Guide
Mark Steyn: I Wish That Bird Would Fly Away


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