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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

A Lesbian Theory of the Penis

Posted on | November 11, 2014 | 98 Comments

“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)

“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)

When did I first encounter the feminist claim that rape is not about sex? It was during the 1980s, I’m pretty sure, and I recall being both startled and amused by this well-known element of feminist theory. Startled, I say, because rape so obviously is about sex, and amused at the naivete of anyone who could believe otherwise.

In the nearly four decades since Susan Brownmiller’s Against Our Will elaborated the rape-as-violence motif, it has become increasingly difficult to criticize that ideological claim without being accused of being “pro-rape.” Men who love women — not “love” as a matter of sentimental expression, but “love” as a consistent behavior of care and support — are required to be silent in reaction to the dishonest and deliberate insult that Brownmiller and other radical cadre have promoted as feminism’s truth. As males, we are not allowed to dispute feminism’s authority to speak on behalf of our wives and mothers, sisters and daughters.

As males, we are members of a demonized group of enemies, and everything we might say in our own defense is illegitimate. So when Brownmiller speaks scornfully of “the biological tool” — i.e., the penis — as also a “weapon,” when she implies that we as males derive a benefit from rapists who serve as “front-line masculine shock troops, terrorist guerrillas” in a war of all men against all women, we cannot dispute this hatefully insulting anti-male doctrine without being Kafkatrapped, where our claim of innocence becomes proof of our guilt.

Honest, decent and intelligent people rightly perceive feminism as a limitless doctrine of fanatical hatred. There can be no compromise with this totalitarian belief, nor can there be any “moderate” feminism. The problem, in the 21st century, is that the majority of Americans are neither honest nor decent nor intelligent. Barack Obama never could have been elected president twice in a nation of honest, decent, intelligent citizens. Clearly, our government now operates on behalf of the dishonest, indecent and stupid majority, and the consequences of this political reality should frighten us.

Feminism’s success in gaining hegemonic authority within academia — which the fate of Larry Summers at Harvard conclusively proved — has made it impossible to challenge the truth-making authority of these anti-male/anti-heterosexual ideologues. Every “educated” person under 40 has lived his or her entire life in a world where feminism controls our nation’s intellectual discourse about sex, so that to oppose feminism is to be “anti-intellectual,” no matter how fluent your argument or how prestigious your credentials. Deprived of intellectual prestige and institutional influence, direct opposition to feminism becomes first unfashionable and then nearly impossible.

You could probably count on one hand the number of university professors in America who have uttered a peep of criticism against feminism during the past decade, and the small number of anti-feminist books is buried amid the avalanche of feminist titles that spew forth from academic presses as commodities for taxpayer-subsidized consumption as textbooks in Women’s Studies courses.

So here we have Denise Thompson, author of the 2001 book Radical Feminism Today, a self-described “independent scholar” (meaning she never got a permanent professorship) in Australia, who worked for several years at the New South Wales Social Policy Research Centre. Now 74, Thompson could more logically be viewed as representing radical feminism yesterday, except for the fact that radical feminism is now what it has always been and must always be. While studying dozens of works of feminist theory, I have observed how the tone and terminology shift slowly over the decades. What was first termed “male chauvism” became “sexism” and more recently “misogyny.” What Adrienne Rich called “compulsory heterosexuality” in 1980 is now more commonly called “heteronormativity.” Criticism of “sex roles” or the “sex-caste system” has been superceded by talk of “gender,” and there are always little-noticed skirmishes around the periphery of feminism. What we might call “old-fashioned” radical lesbianism (e.g., Mary Daly, Julia Penelope, Marilyn Frye, Janice Raymond, Sheila Jeffreys, et al.) has for more than two decades been waging a counterattack against the insurgency of “French feminism” and poststructualism as represented by proponents of “Queer Theory” like Judith Butler (Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, 1990).

Nevertheless, feminism remains what it has always been, and Denise Thompson’s Radical Feminism Today is a clear and thorough survey of this ideology. I ordered Radical Feminism Today from Amazon after seeing her books articles repeatedly cited in the notes and bibliographies of other books, including Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed, edited by Diane Bell and Renate Klein (1996) and Rethinking Sexuality by Diane Richardson (2000). I was particularly intrigued by an excerpt, in the latter title, of a 1991 book by Thompson, Reading Between the Lines: A Lesbian Feminist Critique of Feminist Accounts of Sexuality. Richardson cited Thompson while endeavoring to refute the longstanding criticism of “radical feminist analyses as biologically determinist/essentialist.”

Do I really need to wade into the eternal feminist disputes over “essentialism” here? No, it is not necessary to subject the reader to such internecine quibbling over theoretical details, except to say that in these fights among feminists, it is the radical lesbians who stand firm in defense of the idea that “female” is a matter of biology — a scientific fact involving anatomy and chromosomes — and in this particular matter, I find myself nodding in agreement.

Here I must remind readers of 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.

Radical feminists are all crazy, but they are not always wrong.  The radical arguments of crazy lesbians expose the intellectual bankruptcy of so-called “pro-sex” (i.e., liberal heterosexual)  feminists.

If biological differences are irrelevant, after all, then there can be no basis for hating men and no way to identify “women” as an actual group suffering from oppression under male supremacy. Yet in order to avoid giving away the ballgame (because admitting that there are real differences between men and women undermines the androgynous egalitarian premise of feminism), radical feminists are required to tread a very narrow theoretical tightrope. With that in mind, here (from page 54 of Richardson’s Rethinking Sexuality) is the quoted excerpt of Thompson’s Reading Between the Lines:

To insist, as radical feminists do, that there are differences between the sexes, and that those ‘differences’ are the stuff of male domination, is not to appeal to ‘biology,’ nor to be pessimistic about the possibility of revolutionary change. In fact, it is to insist on that very possibility, else why would we bother? . . . Why is it not possible to argue both that female and male sexualities are different, or rather (to put it less essentialistically) that women and men have different interests, purposes, desires and needs in relation to sexuality, and that those differences are engendered by specific historical conditions, without positing any essential genesis or causality at all?

Thompson is splitting a fine red hair there, so to speak.

One gets the feeling that what Thompson wants to say is what all feminists really believe but cleverly refuse to say in so many words: Men and women are different — because men are inferior to women.

Anyone who believes feminism is about “equality” is so hopelessly stupid that I doubt they could read or comprehend this sentence.

Feminism isn’t about equality. Feminism is about hate. Read more

Category: Crime, Intellectuals, Sex Trouble

And Let All God’s Children Say ‘Amen’

Posted on | November 11, 2014 | 37 Comments

Jim Goad on @LenaDunham:

As the “brains” behind the inexplicably acclaimed HBO series Girls and the author of the #1 bestselling book Not That Kind of Girl, Dunham is hailed as a cultural pioneer for doing what has become as stale as a yeasty vagina — namely, she is a female who is congenitally incapable of writing about anything besides being a female. It’s the same way that black writers can only write about being black and gay writers can only write about rump-wrangling.
Since I was born on the wrong side of the tracks and then booted out of the house in my teens onto the tracks and forced to start running lest I get hit by a train, the fact that she was born into insane levels of wealth yet can’t shut the fuck up about being “oppressed” makes me wish that she would accidentally overdose on painkillers and wake up to find herself stewing in a cannibal’s pot somewhere in Swaziland where there is no iPhone coverage.

One hundred sixty-three words of pure truth there, Jim.

 

Category: Celebrities

In The Mailbox – Veterans’ Day 2014

Posted on | November 11, 2014 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Michelle Malkin: Make DC Listen – Voters Reject Illegal Rewards
Doug Powers: Jonathan Gruber – Obamacare So Awesome It Was Necessary To Lie To Stupid Voters To Get It Passed
Twitchy: NYC Changes Pot Policy, But Who Won The Battle Of The Covers?


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Women In Academia Angered By Sexy PhD Costume
American Thinker: Behind The Don’t Shoot Coalition In Ferguson
BLACKFIVE: Happy Birthday, Marines! (NSFW)
Conservatives4Palin: Dingy Harry Leaves A Legacy Of Wreckage
Don Surber: Play Glenn’s Game Of Laws Thrown
Jammie Wearing Fools: Former Obamacare Navigator And Convicted Terrorist Found Guilty Of Immigration Fraud
Joe For America: Hey Speaker Boehner, You Are Lying About Needing Amnesty
JustOneMinute: Kings Of Comedy
Pamela Geller: Jihad Rampage In Israel
Protein Wisdom: “If You Like Your Internet Provider, You Can Keep Your Internet Provider”
Shot In The Dark: The Muted Celebration
STUMP: Public Pensions Watch – Tell The Actuaries What You Need To Know
The Gateway Pundit: Texas Teacher Fired Over Racist Ferguson Tweet
The Jawa Report: Nigerian Islamists Murder 50 Nigerian School Kids For Being The Wrong Kind Of School Kids
The Lonely Conservative: Obama Thinks Democrat Losses Were Due To Bad Salesmanship
This Ain’t Hell: Nuclear Scientists Killed On Morning Commute In Syria
Weasel Zippers: How Delusional Are Libs On Islam?
Megan McArdle: US Voters Looking For A Better Job Market


Category: Linkagery

Rush Limbaugh Will Rape the DCCC

Posted on | November 10, 2014 | 79 Comments

Those lying bastards finally told one too many lies:

Radio host Rush Limbaugh has threatened to sue the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) for defamation, The Daily Caller has learned.
Limbaugh retained the services of lawyer Patty Glaser and demanded that the DCCC “preserve all records in anticipation of a lawsuit for defamation and interference” after the Democratic Party group led a campaign against Limbaugh based on out-of-context statements the host made about sexual assault. Limbaugh’s legal team delivered a letter to DCCC representatives Monday informing them of the legal threat. Limbaugh has also demanded a public retraction and apology.
The Limbaugh team is currently proceeding from the standpoint of litigating and has not yet made a decision as to whether the DCCC could make any concessions at this point to prevent the lawsuit.
The DCCC “has intentionally disseminated demonstrably false statements concerning Rush Limbaugh in a concerted effort to harm Mr. Limbaugh, and with reckless disregard for the resulting impact to small businesses across America that choose to advertise on his radio program” according to the GlaserWeil law firm’s letter to the DCCC, which was obtained by TheDC. “Mr. Limbaugh clearly, unambiguously, and emphatically condemned the notion that ‘no’ means ‘yes.’”
“Let’s be clear: Rush Limbaugh is advocating for the tolerance of rape” the DCCC stated in a September fundraising email after Limbaugh mocked Ohio State’s new mandatory sexual consent guidelines.

If Democrats couldn’t lie, they could never win elections. Last time I checked, it was Hillary Clinton’s husband who was pro-rape.

“Better put some ice on that,” DCCC.

 

Category: Democrats, Rush Limbaugh

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.10.14

Posted on | November 10, 2014 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
China, Japan Break The Ice At APEC

Shinzo Abe and Xi Jinping.
Don’t they look thrilled?

Meanwhile, Obama pivots to Asia again
Tony Abbott: China’s World Bank would spur competition
China, Russia sign natural gas deal at APEC summit

ISIS Leader Wounded
Not killed as originally claimed by Iraqi ministries

8000 Balloons Released To Commemorate Fall Of The Berlin Wall
Merkel: Berlin Wall’s fall an epic blow to tyranny



POLITICS
Scott Walker On 2016: “We’ll See What The Future Holds”

SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

“Overall, I believe governors make much better presidents than members of Congress.”

Lame Ducks Return To Deal With Temporary Spending Bill, ISIS Fight Funding


Federal Government Struggling Against Cyberattacks

Obama: “I’m Going To Do What I Need To Do” On Immigration

W Talks About Dad, Jeb, And The Iraq War

DeMaio Concedes Defeat In CA-52

Sen. Thune Calls On Senate To Wait Until Next Year To Confirm Lynch

Former Illinois Congressman Phil Crane Dies, 84



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Up On Ukraine Crisis Reheat, Libyan Chaos: WTI $78.97, Brent $83.85
Asian Shares Firm After Sound US Data
G20 Proposes Buffer To End “Too Big To Fail” Banks
Carlsberg Profit Hit By Weaker Currencies
Boeing Wins $8.5 Billion Order For 80 737s
Samsung To Build $3 Billion Smartphone Plant In Vietnam
Apple Releases Online Tool To Fix iMessage Problem
Unfollow, Don’t Unfriend On Facebook
Microsoft Offers Prorated Refunds For Office 365 Subscriptions
Twitter Teams With Womens’ Group On Anti-Harassment Tool
Microsoft Lumia 1320 Phone Leaked
Amazon Echo: A Siri-Like Home Assistant



SPORTS
Jets Get Four Turnovers, Stun Steelers 20-13

Jaiquawn Jarrett goes airborne to intercept a pass

Win snaps eight-game skid by Jets

Alabama Solves Tigers’ Defense, Wins 20-13 #rolltide

Lakers Beat Hornets 107-92 For First Win


Oilers Beat Rangers 3-1

Suns Stop Warriors Streak, 107-95

Leafs Top Sens 5-3

Bogdanovic Scores 22 To Lead Nyets Over Magic

Canucks Edge Ducks 2-1 In Shootout

2B Search Update: Does Jed Lowrie Make Sense For The Nats?



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Kate Middleton Hides Her Baby Bump On Wales Outing

What bump?

Returning from Scotland getaway


Andy Dick Arrested For Grand Theft


Matt Damon Confirms He’s Back As Bourne


Eva Longoria Visits “Brooklyn Nine Nine”


Ariana Grande, Jourdan Dunn On The MTV EMA Red Carpet

Aretha Franklin On Adele, Taylor Swift, And Divas

Angelina Jolie Buys Hemingway’s Typewriter For Brad Pitt

Jared Leto Eyed To Play The Joker In “Suicide Squad”

NBC Eyes Live Staging Of “A Few Good Men”

Robin Williams Autopsy Results: Suffered From Anxiety, Parkinson’s Prior To Death

Heidi Montag To Amanda Bynes: Come Stay With Us!

“Hunger Games” Stage Show Coming In 2016?

Jerry Seinfeld Tells Brian Williams “I Think I’m On The (Autism) Spectrum”

How Did Amazon Wind Up As Literary Enemy #1?

Natalie Morales Planning To Leave “Today” Amid Power Struggle



FOREIGNERS
US Faces Last Best Chance On Iran Nuke Deal
Suspect In HK Prostitute Murders Faces Psychiatric Tests
Egyptian Jihadis Pledge Allegiance To ISIS
China, ROK Reach Free Trade Deal At APEC
Taliban Bombs Kill Ten Police In Afghanistan
Putin Says Ruble Weakening Due To Speculation Should End Soon
Modi Expands Cabinet To 66 Before Reform Push
Spanish Yields Fall As Markets Shrug Off Cataloonies’ Symbolic Vote
“Rebel Reinforcements” In Ukraine Stoke Fears



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: The Self-Delusion Of President Obama
American Power: Salon Soils Itself With Far-Left Essay Attacking American Military
American Thinker: She Wore Pink Sneakers
BLACKFIVE: The SEAL Community And Fight Club
Conservatives4Palin: Sarah Palin – Hillary’s Bad Week
Don Surber: Why Ceramic Poppies
Jammie Wearing Fools: Deranged Obama Lies About Voter Desires In Midterms
Joe For America: Teachers Unions Dump $80 Million Into 2014 Midterms, Result Is An F+
JustOneMinute: Kennedyesque
Pamela Geller: Caliphate In Europe – Sweden Cedes Control Of Muslim Areas
Protein Wisdom: “We Should Stop Putting Women In Jail. For Anything.”
Shot In The Dark: Trulbert! Part XXI – A Drip In Time
STUMP: Elections Have Consequences – Phoenix Pensions
Gateway Pundit: Obama’s $1.6 Billion Ivanpah Solar Plant Can’t Pay Its Bills, Needs Bailout
The Jawa Report: Phoenix ISIS Supporter Begging For Hot Federal Pound Me In The A** Action
The Lonely Conservative: What A Shock – The Left Is Rewriting The History Of The Berlin Wall
This Ain’t Hell: David Masciotra – You Don’t Protect Me
Weasel Zippers: FEMA Asking Elderly, Disabled To Repay Hurricane Sandy Aid Received
Megan McArdle: Obamacare Courts Death Yet Again


Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Sunday: Flowtation

Posted on | November 9, 2014 | 22 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Good God, y’all!

This week’s Rule 5 Friday is adorned with the lead pic from theCHIVE’s Internet Cleavage Hall of Fame, which was brought to my attention by the morons of the Ace of Spades HQ Facebook group, and illustrates the general run of pics here at Rule 5 Sunday. As you can see from the pics in the linked article, our links likewise depict attractive women partially (or sometimes) completely undressed, so exercise discretion in your clicking.

Average Bubba kicks off this week’s post with Rule 5: Summertime Flashback, Goodstuff checks in with Gong Yue Fei and Gan Lulu from the Shanghai Auto Show, Randy’s Roundtable returns with Jennifer England, and Ninety Miles from Tyranny adds Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Girls with Guns. Animal Magnetism adds the Post-Shellacking Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, Blackmailers Don’t Shoot returns with Post-Election Rule 5, and (perhaps predictably) First Street Journal’s focus this week is on LTC/Senator Jodi Ernst.

EBL’s thundering herd this week included Kate Middleton, Google Street Cleavage, Mia Love, more Republican women, Rose McGowan, some underboob tattoos, Amanda Bynes, Keira Knightley, Hilary Duff, and some cheese.

Soylent Siberia checks in this week with the Monday Motivationer, Set the Snoochinator to 1987, Tuesday Titillation, Humpday Hawt Lisa Wells, Falconsword Fursday Brazilian, Corset Friday Fanfest, T-GIF Friday Scissors, Weekender Furtabulous, and Cocktail Hour Bath Night Baubles.

A View from the Beach offers Yasmin Bleeth, Wombat’s Friday News, “Do You Remember the First Time?”, They Like ‘Em Young in West Virginia, Some Powerful Fiddling, Brazilian TV Pranks, Darn it, I Forgot, “Let it Out”, Skrælings Attack Vikings, and Sunday Morning Coming Down.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Candice Swanepoel, his Vintage Babe is Betty Grable, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Babes for Viagra. Also, the obligatory 49ers cheerleader! At Dustbury, it’s Jayne Mansfield and Joanna Lumley.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next weekend’s Rule 5 roundup is midnight on Saturday, November 15.


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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Day Late & A Dollar Short, Pre-Veterans Day Edition

Posted on | November 9, 2014 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Absolutely 100% Lena Dunham Free
Batshit Crazy News
Average Bubba
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach
Ninety Miles from Tyranny

And @AlecMacGillis Misses the Bus
That Mr. G Guy
Enjoyment and Contemplation
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Conservative Hideout

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.07.14
Da Tech Guy
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach

Andrea Dworkin…
That Mr. G Guy
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

FMJRA 2.0: Astradyne
Batshit Crazy News
The Pirate’s Cove

I’ll Go With “Troll Of The Century”
Regular Right Guy
Political Hat

Election 2014 BREAKING: GOP Wins Senate Majority, @AoSHQDD Says
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy
The Lonely Conservative
A View from the Beach

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.03.14
Batshit Crazy News
Da Tech Guy

If Only We’d Smaller Political Units Than Congress. We’d Need A Lot, Though, Perhaps As Many As We’ve States.
Regular Right Guy
That Mr. G Guy

The #StreetHarassment Meme and #Feminism’s Kafkatrapping Tactics
Batshit Crazy News
Law of Markets
Regular Right Guy
Da Tech Guy

The Sweet Hangover of Victory
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
The Pirate’s Cove

GOP #WarOnWomen Results In 100 Female Representatives: We Blame Rule 5
The Camp of the Saints
Batshit Crazy News
Conservative Hideout

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.06.14
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

Harvard #SexWeek Punch Lines
That Mr. G Guy
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

‘Broken People,’ Cats and Prozac
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy
The Revision Division

UPDATE: @AmandaBynes Is Crazy
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News

Feminists: They’re Not About the ‘D’
Not Good News
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (15)
  2.  That Mr. G Guy (11)
  3.  Regular Right Guy (8)
  4.  A View from the Beach (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery, especially the folks who helped make Rule 5 Sunday the most linked post this past week!
Land of the Loops: Bundle of Joy

Category: FMJRA Award

Sum Ting Wong At CNN

Posted on | November 9, 2014 | 41 Comments

by Smitty

Via Zero Hedge, the CNN clown car is revved up to Full Tilt Boogie:

One has to wonder if this is an innocent typo, or a Freudian slip. There seems an interest in projecting violent acts onto conservatives and veterans. This blog doubles down on its hope that #OccupyResoluteDesk dies old, full of years, and acutely aware of what a no-talent rodeo clown he really is.

Category: Barack Obama
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