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Feminism’s New Enemy: ‘Rape Truthers’

Posted on | December 20, 2014 | 73 Comments

Speak of @AmandaMarcotte, and madness doth appear:

No, the real reason [the Rolling Stone UVA rape story] is turning into such a big deal is there are a surprising number of people who want to deny that rape is a serious social problem and who want to push the idea that many rape cases are just a matter of women lying because they are crazy or vindictive. For these folks — call ‘em rape truthers — this whole incident is like a second Christmas, an opportunity to take an extremely rare and strange case and pretend it should be reason to dismiss the reality that rape is a crime that happens with some frequency.

“Rape truthers.” Where shall we begin dismantling this straw man?

Let’s start by noticing how Amanda Marcotte obscures the sequence of events in how this became “such a big deal.” She begins her column by saying there has been “a shocking media feeding frenzy over the discovery that one of the young women claiming to be a rape victim in Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s recent Rolling Stone piece might be exaggerating about her experience or even lying about it.” Yet this was not the original “media feeding frenzy,” which was caused when Erdely’s story “A Rape On Campus” was published online Nov. 19. And we now know, as we did not know on Nov. 19, the motives and purposes behind Erdely’s story. She had shopped around looking for the perfect rape:

Magazine writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely knew she wanted to write about sexual assaults at an elite university. What she didn’t know was which university.
So, for six weeks starting in June, Erdely interviewed students from across the country. She talked to people at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania. None of those schools felt quite right. But one did: the University of Virginia, a public school, Southern and genteel, brimming with what Erdely calls “super-smart kids” and steeped in the legacy of its founder, Thomas Jefferson.

As Tim Graham of Newsbusters pointed out, Erdley mocked the lack of radical feminist activism at UVA, and said female students there were “sickened by the university’s culture of hidden sexual violence.”

The quest that led Erdely to Charlottesville was part of a campaign by feminists to exaggerate the prevalence of rape on campuses, a campaign in which officials of the Obama administration were actively involved.

“It is estimated that 1 in 5 women on college campuses has been sexually assaulted during their time there — 1 in 5.”
— Barack Obama, Jan. 22, 2014

“We know the numbers: one in five of every one of those young women who is dropped off for that first day of school, before they finish school, will be assaulted, will be assaulted in her college years.”
— Joe Biden, April 29, 2014

Having re-elected President Obama in a campaign that claimed Republicans were waging a “War on Women,” Democrats were clearly exploiting this “rape epidemic” narrative for political purposes. Feminist activists, Democrat politicians and liberal journalists strove to promote this message which, among other things, resulted in Title IX investigations by the Department of Education and California enacting an “affirmative consent” law that applies only to college students.

Even as this politicized “rape epidemic” campaign rolled forward, however, critics pointed to clear evidence that this narrative was false. Federal data show that the incidence of rape has declined significantly in the past 15 years, and there are obvious problems with the survey from which the “1-in-5” statistic is derived (see “Statistical Voodoo and Elastic Definitions,” June 15). Yet those who called attention to facts that contradicted the “rape epidemic” myth were excoriated for telling the truth, with one MSNBC commentator saying victims were “re-raped” and “re-traumatized” by a George Will column.

Facts are rape. Truth is trauma. And what is obviously at work here is a totalitarian effort to suppress truth, so that the truth is whatever feminists say it is, and anyone who questions feminist rhetoric is a thought criminal. “Shut up, because rape.”

It was amidst this bizarre Orwellian climate that Sabrina Rubin Erdely told the tale of Jackie’s alleged gang rape, a tale that specifically implicated members of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at the University of Virginia, and accused UVA officials of indifference to pervasive sexual violence on campus. Megan McArdle explains why the factuality of Jackie’s gang-rape tale is crucial to what Erdely was attempting to do:

[Defender’s of the Rolling Stone story] have argued that focusing on Jackie’s story is getting us “sidetracked” from “the real story,” which is about the rape culture at UVA and the slothful institutional reaction to Jackie’s story. The story was headlined “A Rape on Campus.” The first thousand words are devoted to Jackie’s horrifying story, and much of the rest of the story is devoted to Jackie’s descent into depression and her interactions with the deans. If the story is so irrelevant to the real point of the article, then it should have been pulled out when the victim refused to provide details that would have permitted the author to contact the accused for comment.
But of course, if Jackie’s story had been pulled out, the article wouldn’t have received anything like the attention it got. The story was so electric precisely because it was about the premeditated gang rape of an innocent girl, in a way that suggested that such callous and criminal treatment of women was commonly viewed by the university community as not really worthy of comment, much less punishment — and that this view afflicted even the administrators charged with protecting students from rape. Without that element, this would have been a dull-but-worthy chin-stroker about institutional bureaucratic processes that probably wouldn’t have been shared 170,000 times on Facebook.

In other words, Erdely told the horrifying story of what allegedly happened to Jackie — an 18-year-old freshman gang-raped by seven fraternity members — in order to dramatize “rape culture” which feminists insist is responsible for a “rape epidemic” on America’s college and university campuses. Yet when doubts arose about the truth of this dramatic narrative, feminists claimed that the truth didn’t matter.

Facts were irrelevant, feminists said, because the narrative about campus rape was true, and those who want facts risk being “sidetracked” from that political narrative. Now we have Amanda Marcotte smearing as “rape truthers” those who insist that facts matter:

[M]any people stand behind the myth that women routinely lie about being raped, which justifies preserving a status quo where men’s word is considered more authoritative and trustworthy just because they are male.

Well, then, who are these “many people” who say “women routinely lie about being raped”? Marcotte names Rich Lowry, Chuck C. Johnson, Kevin Williamson, George Will, Tammy Bruce, Patrick Howley and Susan Patton as promoters of a “misogynist fairy tale about false rape accusations.” Readers are invited to examine the evidence and determine whether Marcotte is telling the truth about these “rape truthers.”

We must be clear about what is happening and why it is happening. Feminists are determined to silence their critics, and they are exploiting victims of rape for that purpose. Neither I nor anyone I know of wishes to “deny that rape is a serious social problem,” nor do we dismiss “the reality that rape is a crime that happens with some frequency.” Yet anti-male hate-mongering by feminists like Amanda Marcotte is also “a serious social problem,” and deliberate dishonesty by Democrats promoting political propaganda also “happens with some frequency.”

Amanda Marcotte does not merely hate men, she hates truth. She is such a hater, she hates Christmas because she hates Baby Jesus.

You may think Amanda Marcotte’s atheism is irrelevant to her hateful dishonesty, but me and Baby Jesus think otherwise.





 

Category: Crime, Education, Feminism, Sex Trouble

‘Male Feminist’ Admits Well-Known Truth: ‘Male Feminists’ Are Scum

Posted on | December 19, 2014 | 58 Comments

The more any normal person knows about feminism, the less inclined they are to call themselves a feminist. This is obviously true for women — does the name “Joyce Trebilcot” ring a bell? — but is doubly true for males. Sure, everybody sees what’s up when some guy in Hollywood or a powerful Democrat politician ostentatiously panders to feminists. It’s noblesse oblige and also good for business.

However, when a random dude goes out of his way to show what a Heroic Feminist Ally he is, you know he’s some kind of creep. Last year, Professor Hugo Schwarz was exposed as a dangerous psycho. Now a “diversity consultant” named Jamie Utt confronts reality:

The first time a woman told me she distrusted me because I’m a man, she tried to explain that it wasn’t personal, that she’s not been given many reasons to trust me (or any man for that matter). She said she’s especially skeptical of me because I called myself a feminist.
That last part really threw me for a loop. She didn’t even really know me! And I’m a good guy!
Fast-forward a few years and how can I blame her? Male “feminist” allies have a history of abusing women’s trust.
For fear of making the movement look bad, the male “allies” of the Occupy Wall Street movement stood silent when multiple women came forward after having been sexually assaulted by other “Occupiers.”
After being lauded and defended by many (including myself) as a model for how to be a better man, Hugo Schwyzer was exposed to be a racist, abusive liar (as if many women of Color hadn’t been saying so all along).
Charles Clymer has been exposed as abusive and self-serving as he attempts to brand himself a “feminist” hero of some kind. . . .

You can read the rest of that. The case of Charles Clymer — a guy I’d never heard of before — is particularly interesting:

A while back I wrote about fake allies — specifically, Charles Clymer, a cis white dude who used to run a popular Facebook page called “Equality for Women” but shut it down amidst accusations that, among other things, he was deleting comments from and banning women who questioned his views or the way he ran the page. And then there was his abusive verbal flaying of Stephanie Kay in a private conversation that went public a year or so ago and revealed the dude beneath the Perfect Feminist Ally act. It didn’t help that when called on that tirade, Clymer basically stood by his remarks and went on to admit — almost proudly — that his goal is to become a professional Feminist Leader. And he dug himself in deeper when, following the many accusations leveled at him directly and via the #StopClymer hashtag (by nearly every woman who had been a moderator at the EFW Facebook page, among others), he tweeted promising to address his “mistakes” with an apology and dropped off the Internet for several weeks. When he reappeared, he deleted the aforementioned tweet and went back to promoting the “Charles Clymer: Feminist Ally” brand.

On his Twitter profile, Clymer describes himself as “Army Vet + Feminist + LGBTQ,” and yeah, whatever. The #StopClymer hashtag has been going strong for months, because Clymer is a very predictable kind of douchebag, the progressive male so arrogant as to think the feminist movement needs males for . . . well, anything.

Progressive male thinks he can get “credibility” points by quoting bell hooks on his Twitter profile? Might as well try seppuku.

Any male who believes the feminist movement needs his volunteer assistance should first ask himself, “Do I hate myself enough?”

It takes a profound masochistic tendency for any male to support a movement that regards all men as complicit in rape, and views heterosexuality as oppression imposed on females by the patriarchy.

Still, Jamie Utt attempts to reconcile himself to obsolescence:

If you’ve been socialized in dominant constructions of gender in the US (and many other parts of the “Western” world for that matter), no matter how much you try to be an ally, you’re going to screw up.
This is because it takes tremendous work on self for those socialized into privilege to fight that socialization. . . .
I’ve done the mental backflips necessary to justify my sexist, chauvinist, anti-feminist behavior while calling myself “feminist.” There have been times when I’ve been terrible to women. There are still times when I live more fully in my patriarchal socialization than in my feminist values.
So the work of ending abuse committed by “feminist” men must inevitably mean that I start with myself.

You’re embarrassing yourself, dude.

All feminists are insane, but “male feminists” are a special kind of crazy.

 

Category: Feminism, Progressivism, Sex Trouble

LIVE AT FIVESEVEN: 12.19.14

Posted on | December 19, 2014 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Evidence In Sony Hack Suggests Possible Involvement By Iran, Chicoms, Russia

No evidence of forced entry – an inside job?
Sony execs say The Interview “desperately unfunny”
Norks’ long term target may be telecoms, utility grid
So what’s Obama going to do about it?

Obama Bets On More Cigars To Win Over Congress On Cuban Embargo
Hoping more trade changes the dynamic in Congress

What You Missed At Vladimir Putin’s Bizarre News Conference
Protests, a stuffed crocodile, and a bear in the woods



POLITICS
Colorado Vows To Defend Legal Pot Against Neighboring States

Weed on display at a Denver dispensary

Nebraska, Oklahoma petition Supremes to strike down Colorado weed law

Jeb Bush: Praised By Liberals, Drawing Flak From GOP


EPA To Issue Guidelines On Handling, Storage Of Coal Ash

Vermont Gives Up On Single-Payer Health Care

Review: Secret Service Needs Outside Leadership, Culture Change

$10 Billion UN-Linked Climate Change Fund Wants Immunity From Prosecution

Obama Sets Up Commission To Improve Police-Community Relations

Congressional Critics Ready To Block Obama’s Cuban Moves



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Rebounds In Volatile Trade: WTI $54.74, Brent $59.43
Eurozone Stocks Set For Biggest Weekly Gain Of 2014
BASF, Gazprom Scrap Planned Asset Swap
Wall Street Has Best Two-Day Gain Since 2011 On Fed Optimism
Jobless Claims Lowest In Six Weeks
Hellmann’s Maker Unilever Drops Suit Over “Just Mayo”
ICANN Hacked In Spearphishing Attack
Google Aims To Put Kibosh On Android Lawsuit
BlackBerry Launches New “Classic” Phone
Pot, Meet Kettle: MPAA Calls Google’s Defense Of Free Speech “Shameful”
“Minecraft: Story Mode” Spinoff Announced By Mojang



SPORTS
Jaguars Hold Off Titans For 21-13 Win In Home Finale

Jaguar RB Jordan Todman smiles after a 62-yard touchdown run

Clash between 3-12 Jaguars, 2-13 Titans generally regarded as unwatchable

FCC Dismisses Petition To Strip Snyder of Radio Station Over Redskins Name

Blue Jackets Fall To Caps In OT


Kemp Goes To Padres Despite Arthritic Hips

Celtics Ship Rajon Rondo To Dallas In Mega Deal

Canes Snap Slump With 4-1 Thrashing Of Leafs

Warriors Beat Thunder 114-109 After Durant Injury

Ducks Edge Habs 2-1

Davis, Pelicans Take Down Rockets

Nats Trade Souza To Rays In Three-Team Deal



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Ashleee Simpson Pregnant With Second Child

Her first with new hubby Evan Ross

Will join Ashlee’s six-year-old son Bronx by ex Pete Wentz

Jennifer Aniston “Cranky And Irritable” When She Stopped Exercising

Gamer Beats Out Jay-Z, Beyonce For Epic LA House


Brad Pitt Dismissed From Jury Duty: Too Distracting

Marvel Gives Spider-Woman A Modern Makeover

Madonna: Unfinished Album Leak “Artistic Rape”

Celebrities Lose Millions Of Followers In Instagram Purge

Former Fugees Star Makes $1.7 Million But Won’t Pay Child Support, Says Ex

Clint Eastwood Eager To See “Unbroken”

James Franco Cozies Up To Lady Gaga Amid “The Interview” Cancellation



FOREIGNERS
Eight Children Found Dead In Australian Home
Why Pakistan Won’t Hunt Down The Terrorists Within
Kurdish Forces Break Mount Sinjar Siege
Boko Haram Strikes Again
Britain Moves Closer To Allowing Women In Combat
Tusk: EU needs Long-Term Strategy To Deal With Russia
Nigeria Sentences 54 Soldiers To Death
Mandy Rice-Davies, Key Figure In Profumo Scandal, Dies At 70
Hamas Diverting Reconstruction Materials To Terror Tunnel Construction
ROK Constitutional Court Orders Unified Progressive Party To Disband For Pro-Nork Activities



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: Even When Obama Gets Something Right, He Gets It Wrong
Proof Positive: Blazing Diplomacy
Doug Powers: Dueling Headlines – PETA’s Person Of The Year
Twitchy: Obama, Bill Clinton Bid Farewell To “Court Jester” Colbert
American Power: Transgender Movement Upends Feminism At Womens’ Colleges
American Thinker: Can We Send Alan Gross Back To Cuba?
BLACKFIVE: Ironic Is One Word
Conservatives4Palin: “Amazing America” Second Season Debuts January 15
Don Surber: New York Returns To The 19th Century
Jammie Wearing Fools: Cuba Protects America’s Most Wanted
Joe For America: Michelle Obama – Short People Are Racist
JustOneMinute: Let Me Highlight Charles Blow’s Auto-Humiliation
Pamela Geller: Gaza Jihadis Bomb French Institute
Protein Wisdom: Legendary MAD Magazine Illustrator Jack Davis Calls it Quits At 90
Shot In The Dark: When Lies Are All You Have
The Gateway Pundit: Second Major Chain Store Shuts Down In Ferguson
The Jawa Report: Tinyish Minority Of African Muslims Take 185 Women And Children Hostage In Yet Another Isolated Incident
The Lonely Conservative: No Recession For Government Bureaucrats
This Ain’t Hell: That Crazed Vet Thing Again
Weasel Zippers: “Fast And Furious” Gun Used In Phoenix Apartment Shooting


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Category: Live at Five

Christmas…Christmas Never Changes.

Posted on | December 18, 2014 | 6 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


Between Obama sucking the Castro brothers’ toes and the pathetic behavior of Sony and Paramount, this has been a pretty miserable day. Yet, all is not lost – there are still a few brave (and funny) souls out there mocking the idiocies of the left for your entertainment. One of them, of course, is the International Lord of Hate, better known as SF/Fantasy author Larry Correia. For six years in a row, he’s delivered excerpts from his series of Christmas novels, The Christmas Noun, and this year is no exception. This year, though, can Tim save Christmas from the reality-warping horror that is…Attack of the Social Justice Noun? Features guest stars Darius Rucker and Wendell the Manatee.


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Category: humor, Linkagery

Rape Culture Update

Posted on | December 18, 2014 | 81 Comments

Rolling Stone’s @SabrinaRErdely has been so busy keeping us informed about how wealthy fratboys at elite universities routinely gang-rape 18-year-old girls . . . Wait, no. Actually, she hasn’t tweeted a single word in the past 18 days. We are nevertheless sure she’s been plenty busy, which explains why she hasn’t reported these stories:

We apologize for errors in the minor details we had to correct in these stories, but the “rape epidemic” on America’s college campuses is so rampant that Sabrina Rubin Erdley can’t keep up with it all.

 

Category: Crime, Feminism, Media Bias

Take A Bow, Frank, To A String Near You

Posted on | December 18, 2014 | 13 Comments

by Smitty

Category: humor

In The Mailbox, 12.18.14

Posted on | December 18, 2014 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Powers: Barred From Entering The US? Try Making Some Generous Campaign Contributions!
Twitchy: “Disturbing, To Say The Least” Something’s Very Wrong With This Picture of Alan Gross


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Val Prieto On Obama’s Cuba Normalization Debacle
American Thinker: Education As A Cause Of Mental Health Issues
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Asylum City
Conservatives4Palin: The Democrat Party’s Obamacare Disaster
Don Surber: 44 Officers Killed In The Line Of Duty Since Ferguson
Jammie Wearing Fools: Pathetic Obamas Complain “We’ve Been Treated Like The Help”
Joe For America: The Media’s Fear Of Muslims Is On Display
JustOneMinute: Raaaaacism!
Pamela Geller: Obama May Be Linked To Jihadi Child Massacre In Peshawar
Shot In The Dark: The People Called For A Hero
The Gateway Pundit: Sadly, There Will Be No Exam Delay For Traumatized Students At Oberlin College
The Jawa Report: Where’s Rusty? Epic Christmas Edition
The Lonely Conservative: Obama’s Executive Orders By Another Name
This Ain’t Hell: North Regional/East Regional Blue Falcon Stolen Valor Tournament
Weasel Zippers: Salon – “America Has Always Been Garbage”, Founding Fathers “Sadistic Slave Owners”
Megan McArdle: Russia’s Problems Are Everyone’s Problems
Mark Steyn: Norks Nix Yanks Pix


My book The Last Falangist is on sale for 99 cents through New Year’s.
A good stocking stuffer if you know folks with digital socks. 😉

Category: Linkagery

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
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