The Schmuck-tacular Folderol Of Brooks
Posted on | October 18, 2014 | 26 Comments
by Smitty
Via Hot Air headlines, David Brooks continues to terrify rational people with the thought that this twerp is somehow a thought leader in our society:
Low idealism begins with a sturdy and accurate view of human nature. We’re all a bit self-centered, self-interested and inclined to think we are nobler than we are. Montaigne wrote, “If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.”
This invites the question of how Brooks got his drivel back in time to afflict Montaigne. Humans are overwhelming the scorpion in the tale of the hapless frog. That so many human frogs like to vote for scorpions can be seen as the passive aggression of Socialism bulldozing everything toward the mean.
Low idealism continues with a realistic view of politics. Politics is slow drilling through hard boards. It is a series of messy compromises. The core functions of government are negative — putting out fires, arresting criminals, settling disputes — and much of what government does is the unromantic work of preventing bad situations from getting worse.
Let’s be clear, Brooks: our homo bureaucratus infestation has metastasized into something worse, starting fires, employing criminals, engendering disputes. When Rahm said “You never let a serious crisis go to waste“, you’re a fool if you don’t think him perfectly capable of fomenting such.
Politicians operate in a recalcitrant medium with incomplete information, bad options and no sleep. Government in good times is merely dull; when it is enthralling, times are usually bad.
Hence the counter-Progressive idea that less government is preferable. Scope creep in the last century of our government has all of the appeal of scope creep in a software project. Except that, while Lois Lerner’s email can vanish in a puff of cyber-smoke, Lois and her ilk will continue to acquire and wield more administrative power until they are stopped. It’s their nature. Like the scorpion.
So low idealism starts with a tone of sympathy. Anybody who works in this realm deserves compassion and gentle regard.
Anybody who actually thinks that is a fool. Government is not parental in nature, and citizens are not children. Despite the efforts of Progress to paralyze our society with pap like your writings, Brooks.
The low idealist knows that rallies with anthems and roaring are just make-believe, but has warm affection for any politician who exhibits neighborliness, courtesy and the ability to listen.
No, Brooks: politicians are not the kindly figures you’re trying to sell here. I’m sure they put on a smile and toss out a Buckley quote for you when they pat you on the head. Nice Bobo, nice. You fling such pleasant poo in your column, Bobo. How is your ObamaCare policy doing, by the way?
The low idealist understands that those who try to rise above the messy business of deal-making often turn into zealots and wind up sinking below it. On the other hand, this kind of idealist has a full heart for those who serve the practical work of legislating: James Baker and Ted Kennedy in the old days; Bob Corker and Ron Wyden today. Believing experience is the best mode of education, he favors the competent old hand to the naïve outsider.
Aren’t you just a well-trained Bobo? That competent old hand feels good when it pats your head, no?
What we need is term limits and more frequent turnover. Ted Kennedy was not a sympathetic character. We need simpler systems that can be readily understood by competent outsiders. As Will Rogers put it:
Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
Bobo, your lust for aristocracy is unbecoming an American. But so is pretty much everything you write. We all need to be our own statesmen, to our maximal ability. Govern ourselves, and quit thinking we can offload the need to grow up onto the state. The disastrous results of that surround you.
Anti-Heterosexual #Feminism
Posted on | October 17, 2014 | 130 Comments
My #GamerGate coverage had only just begun when @streever — who obviously doesn’t know me from Adam’s housecat — made the mistake of disputing my authority to describe feminism as “anti-male and anti-heterosexual.” This is not necessarily @streever‘s fault.
The whole point of my “Sex Trouble” series about radical feminism’s war on human nature is that the vast majority of people, including many otherwise normal women who naively call themselves “feminists,” don’t know the truth about feminist theory — its esoteric doctrine, as opposed to its exoteric discourse. Your typical ordinary “feminist” is merely a liberal whose ideological commitment is no more profound than this: “Vote Democrat — because vagina!”
Understand what I mean when I say feminism is a journey to lesbianism: There are lifelong lesbians who aren’t feminists for the simple reason that they don’t need a theory to justify themselves and they don’t enjoy politically correct sex. Non-feminist lesbians include not a few stone butch dykes who refuse to listen to post-modern crypto-Marxist lectures about why their preference for masculine wardrobe, penetration and domination is the “wrong” way to be lesbian. Furthermore, there are many lesbians who just don’t hate men enough to be feminist. In fact, a lot of ladies who are “playing for the other team” (to use the famous Seinfeld phrase) have an ironic empathy for the problems of heterosexual men, as lesbians also have to deal with the typical woes of trying to get along with women. (Some ex-lesbians are “ex-” for this very reason: They can’t cope with the hormonal drama.) Anyone who looks at exit-poll data must realize there are more Republican lesbians than the mainstream media is willing to admit; if you’re pro-capitalism and pro-America, it’s kind of hard hard to be a feminist.
So, there are non-feminist lesbians and there are “heterosexual feminists,” but the latter category is rather timidly defensive within the field of Women’s Studies, where “raging lesbian feminists” prevail and gender theory necessitates problematizing heterosexuality. It is certainly no accident that the most widely assigned anthology of feminist literature — Feminist Frontiers, a common textbook for Introduction to Women’s Studies classes at American universities — is edited by three lesbians. The best and most recent research indicates that heterosexual women outnumber lesbian/bisexual women by a ratio greater than 40-to-1 (97.7 percent to 2.3 percent), but if you were to attend next month’s annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, you would find the NWSA Lesbian Caucus accounts for far more than 2.3% of the faculty and graduate students in attendance, and nobody in the NWSA would dare challenge the Lesbian Caucus directly. The heterosexuals in Women’s Studies “know their place,” so to speak, and their metaphorical place is in the back of the feminist bus.
“If you consider sexual desire and romantic love between men and women to be natural and healthy, you are not a feminist. . . . There is nothing natural about sex, according to feminist ideology, no biological urge that causes women to be attracted to men.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, April 10, 2014
Beyond this demonstrable phenomenon of the extraordinary lesbian influence on radical feminism as it is taught on our university campuses, however, beyond all the quotes I could produce to demonstrate that phenomenon, there is the simple truth: Feminist theory is incompatible with (and hostile to) the normal woman’s life of men, marriage and motherhood. A woman might be a heterosexual feminist, but she can never be a happy heterosexual feminist, because feminism’s core beliefs are that (a) all women’s problems are consequences of male oppression, (b) this oppression (patriarchy) is systemic and pervasive, (c) all women suffer from patriarchal oppression and all men benefit from it, (d) the nuclear family is the basic institutional unit of patriarchy, (e) both normal gender (i.e., sex roles, and our concepts of masculinity and femininity) and normal sexuality are “social constructs” produced to serve the interests and fit the prejudices of male-dominated patriarchal society, and (f) women cannot be equal until they destroy this system. Feminists must, as their slogan says, “Smash Patriarchy.”
“Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women’s bodies.”
— Andrea Dworkin, 1989
“Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual woman’s erotic attraction . . . Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices.”
— Marilyn Frye, 1992
“Male sexual violence against women and ‘normal’ heterosexual intercourse are essential to patriarchy because they establish the dominance of the penis over the vagina, and thus the power relations between the sexes.”
— Dee Graham, 1994
“Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice.”
— Sheila Jeffreys, 2005
Anyone with two eyes and common sense can see this, and every honest feminist must admit it. But honest feminists are rather rare, and I’m always grateful to encounter the forthright radical lesbian who speaks the blunt truth about the feminist agenda. Confronted with what feminism actually means, the normal woman’s reaction is no different than the normal man’s reaction: They’re horrified by the anti-human totalitarian hatred implicit in this doctrine.
- Essential Feminist Quotes: ‘Most Women Have to Be Coerced into Heterosexuality’
- Essential Feminist Quotes: ‘Rapists Serve All Men by Enforcing Male Supremacy’
- Essential Feminist Quotes: ‘Lesbianism and Feminism Have Been Coterminous’
.@SurveyingEvil Yep. #Feminism is anti-male, anti-heterosexual and — most importantly — ANTI-FREEDOM. #GamerGate
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 17, 2014
@rsmccain @SurveyingEvil how can something be 'anti-heterosexual'? That would require LGBT folks to be wielding authority while having a
— STREEVER (@streever) October 17, 2014
.@streever I'm sitting here surrounded by feminist books. Don't tell ME there's no anti-heterosexual feminism. @SurveyingEvil
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 17, 2014
.@streever Charlotte Bunch, Karla Jay, Marilyn Frye, Adrienne Rich, Monique Wittig, Janice Raymond, Teresa de Lauretis … @SurveyingEvil
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 17, 2014
.@streever … Jill Johnston, Mary Daly, Gayle Rubin, Sally Miller Gearhart, Dee Graham, Celia Kitzinger … @SurveyingEvil
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 17, 2014
.@streever … Artemis March, Kathleen Barry, Sheila Jeffreys, Pauline Bart, Dana Heller, Diane Richardson … @SurveyingEvil
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 17, 2014
.@streever … but of course, despite that tip-of-the-iceberg list, there is no anti-heterosexual #feminism! @SurveyingEvil
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 17, 2014
The naive liberal who calls herself a “feminist” in 2014 is much like the naive liberals who, in the 1930s and ’40s, joined Communist front groups because they believed the dishonest Popular Front rhetoric of “peace,” “justice” and “civil rights.” Ronald Reagan, who admitted that he himself had been deceived during his days as a bleeding-heart liberal, became the history’s most famous foe of Communism. Reagan liked to joke that the difference between a Communist and an anti-Communist is that the Communist is someone who reads Marx and Lenin, while the anti-Communist is someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
So it is with feminism now, and members of the videogaming community have rather accidentally been given an opportunity to understand feminism. Thanks, “Social Justice Warriors”!
Readers may ask, “What does #GamerGate have to do with #feminism as a journey to lesbianism?” Maybe not much. Or maybe everything.
Videogames are a male-dominated phenomenon, which is a bad thing, as far as I’m concerned. I lost interest in videogames more than 30 years ago simply because feeding quarters into a Pac Man machine was a waste of time and money. Our family has a little Pac Man console that we packed away the last time we moved and I haven’t unpacked it yet, but I occasionally used to plug in Pac Man and spend an hour or two racking up a high score, then toss it aside and dare the kids to top my high score. But I quit videogames before FPRP (First-Person Role-Playing) games became the norm, and so I never developed an appetite for “Mortal Kombat,” “Grand Theft Auto” or “Call of Duty.” My teenage son wastes hours playing “League of Legends,” much to my dismay. Time spent playing games is time that could be better spent on something useful and productive, and it is disheartening to see bright young people develop a habit of (or rather, an addiction to) time-wasting.
In her book Men on Strike, Dr. Helen Smith criticizes the stereotype of male gamers as stunted, puerile losers. However, (a) it’s hard to see how playing “Madden” all day is compatible with a fully functional adult life, and (b) couldn’t those endless hours of gaming be better spent on some income-generating activity, or at least something with real-life utility? But having spent my own adolescence in a haze of sex, drugs and rock-and-roll, maybe I shouldn’t be so harshly judgmental of the arguably less harmful recreations available via XBox and Playstation.
Yet if teenage boys (and adult men) would rather spend time playing “World of Warcraft” than working, educating themselves, or pursuing the companionship of females, why? Isn’t it a fact — as I believe Dr. Smith would agree — that the workplace and schools have become hostile to men in many ways, and that relationships with women are less satisfying to men because of the anti-male attitudes feminism has encouraged women to adopt? If universities now treat normal male sexuality as a sort of hate crime waiting to happen, if a man can lose his job for even daring to flirt with a female co-worker, and if any potential girlfriend would bring to a romantic relationship a towering stack of resentments against males, what options are left to the young bachelor? Why bother? Instead he spends all weekend in a “Call of Duty” gaming marathon, an emotionally satisfying activity he perhaps interrupts only to (a) sleep, (b) order a pizza, and (c) jack off to some porn.
This is sad beyond words, but there is obviously a reason that videogames are a multibillion-dollar industry, just as there’s obviously a reason a vast amount of the Internet is nothing but porn.
Now, however, as a result of #GamerGate, this poor fellow discovers that one of his few remaining pleasures in life — the games that occupy such a large part of his leisure hours — is threatened by feminists whining about the need for “diversity” and “inclusion,” complaining about “objectification” and “sexualization” and of course, THE MALE GAZE!
You expected these dudes to meekly accept your feminist lectures?
Not just no — hell, no. When you back men into a corner and terrorize them with threats, don’t be surprised to learn that the patriarchy knows how to smash back.
People told me for weeks, "Stacy, you need to write about this #GamerGate thing,," and I ignored it. Guess what? I just stopped ignoring it.
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 17, 2014
Feminists have finally pushed their bullshit too far. I’m as surprised as anyone that #GamerGate has turned into what it is, but somehow a worldwide army of geeks and nerds has been mobilized to fight the feminist menace. Better late than never, guys.
Dork-Shaming Hunter Biden After Dismissal From Navy Reserve For Blow
Posted on | October 17, 2014 | 26 Comments
by Smitty
Son of Uncle Choo-Choo does a fine job of covering the Administration with glory:
Vice President Joe Biden ’s son Hunter was discharged from the Navy Reserve this year after testing positive for cocaine, according to people familiar with the matter.
Hunter Biden, a lawyer by training who is now a managing partner at an investment company, had been commissioned as an ensign in the Navy Reserve, a part-time position. But after failing a drug test last year, his brief military career ended.
As a retired Reservist myself, allow me to guffaw. I mean, the only more phoned-in position going today is Amateur Golfer With Occasional Presidential Cameos. This is especially true with the Biden family tradition of plagiarism. He could be a Fareed Zakaria understudy par excellence.
Mr. Biden, 44 years old, decided to pursue military service relatively late, beginning the direct-commission process to become a public-affairs officer in the Navy Reserve in 2012. Because of his age—43 when he was to be commissioned—he needed a waiver to join the Navy. He received a second Navy waiver because of a drug-related incident when he was a young man, according to people familiar with the matter. Military officials say such drug waivers aren’t uncommon.
So this dork gets this commission handed to him–I was retired from the Reserves by the time I was 44 (just sayin’) and he can’t even bother to put down the nose candy and take the job seriously? Why was he even wasting everyone’s time, anyway? Did he want to get some cool duds to wear when trying to impress the girls?
Mr. Biden was commissioned as an ensign on May 7, 2013, and assigned to Navy Public Affairs Support Element East in Norfolk, Va., a reserve unit, according to the Navy. In June 2013, after reporting to his unit in Norfolk, he was given a drug test, which turned up positive for cocaine, according to people familiar with the situation. Mr. Biden was discharged in February, the Navy said.
I mean: dude. You couldn’t lay off the nose candy for 48 hours prior to your First. Drill. Weekend? That is precisely the sort of fine moral example needed. . .by a country that really wants to get its clock cleaned in its next military engagement. I have no experiential clue about cocaine, never having done anything heavier than get drunk (almost two decades ago) or burn a cuban while deployed to Afghanistan in 2011. But, seriously: what were you thinking?
Mr. Biden said in a statement that it was “the honor of my life to serve in the U.S. Navy, and I deeply regret and am embarrassed that my actions led to my administrative discharge. I respect the Navy’s decision. With the love and support of my family, I’m moving forward.”
Forward to what, you schmuck? The Ukraine?
I believe that my assistance in consulting the company on matters of transparency, corporate governance and responsibility, international expansion and other priorities will contribute to the economy and benefit the people of Ukraine.
Also: blow.
And there’s this other gig, mentioned at the bottom of the WSJ piece:
Now, Mr. Biden is a managing partner at Rosemont Seneca Partners, an investment company. He also serves as chairman of World Food Program USA, which calls itself “a humanitarian agency fighting hunger in the world today,” and he is an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University.
‘Adjunct Assistant Professor‘, eh? In just what worldly wisdom would Wankerness wallow?
MSFS-586 The Art of Advocacy Inside & Outside of Government
Spring for 2014-2015
Biden, Hunter & Norton, Robert
This course examines how advocacy influences political leaders and other stakeholders responsible for shaping international policy for managing global crisis and conflict. The course uses a case format to study examples of advocacy in five real world situations. The objective is to build a pragmatic understanding of the impact of advocacy on policy and the management of complex global problems, including famine, health pandemics war, and environmental disaster. The class will include interactive class discussions with policymakers and advocates who played principal roles in each case. The course will build practical skills, including: the ability to identify, evaluate, and formulate effective advocacy strategies and tactics; and the ability to develop common practitioner tools, such as concise briefing and messaging materials used in advocacy initiatives. Key requirements include a reading for each case, preparation of a discussion guide for one case study (to be completed in teams), a concise one page advocacy briefing memo for each case, and a short final paper.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
According to Wikipedia, Hunter is married. So one can presume that, should he be showing up for more than collecting a paycheck, it’s not just to cruise for chicks. I’m sure he’ll swap a few anecdotes, maybe talk about the great blow you can get in various foreign lands. It’s all so 1%.
There really is only one way to “move forward” for this piece of work:
Hunter Biden 2016
All the academic chops of #OccupyResoluteDesk, but now with Military Experience. And blow!
Higher Education Bubble-Head Update: Sweet, Sweet Progressive Dark Age
Posted on | October 17, 2014 | 25 Comments
by Smitty
As we know, the hallmark of the liberal ascendancy in the universities is the “celebration of diversity,” except when it comes to challenging secular humanism. The celebration ends where diversity of thought begins.
This blog is so diverse, and the threat to diversity so great, that we’ll cheerfully quote anyone telling it like it is. We can hang together with the Roman Catholics, or hang separately, if we permit the fascist takeover to run to completion.
LIVE AT FIVE: 10.17.14
Posted on | October 17, 2014 | 13 Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
TOP NEWS
WaPo: Ebola Presenting Health, Political Challenges For Obama

He’s canceling campaign trips. Shit just got real.
All the scrambling in the White House hasn’t calmed jittery Americans
Obama open to appointing Ebola czar, opposes travel ban
US lawmakers blast administration’s Ebola response, demand travel ban
Footage Of Beating Sparks Outrage At Hong Kong Police
Pro-democracy legislators call for investigation after savage beating of protester by police
Vladimir Putin Welcomed With Cheers In Belgrade
A hero’s welcome in Serbia
POLITICS
Congress Grills Health Officials Over Ebola Response

CDC director Thomas Frieden and NIH boss Anthony Fauci on the hot seat
Frieden, Fauci refused to admit mistakes, shucked and jived in response to questions about travel ban
Joe Biden’s Son Hunter Booted From Navy Reserve Over Drug Use
Libertarian Candidate Could Tilt IL Governor’s Race
Sen. Cruz, Houston Pastors Rally As Sermon Subpoena Outcry Intensifies
Obama Authorizes Guard, Reserve Callup For Ebola
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Rallies On Strong US Data, Still Headed For Fourth Weekly Loss: WTI $83.25, Brent $86.57
As Sea Change Sweeps Oil Market, Wall Street Slashes Forecasts
Google Profits Slide 5%, Missing Estimates
Profits, Revenue Slip At Capital One
Netflix Shares Tank As Fewer Subscribers Sign On
Unemployment Claims Drop To Lowest In 14 Years
Few Surprises In Apple’s New iMacs, iPads
Twitter “Audio Cards” Put Music In Your Tweets
Twitpic Really Shutting Down After Failed Acquisition
FBI Director To Citizens: Let Us Spy On You
Trailer For Disturbing Mass Murder Game “Hatred” Stirs Controversy
SPORTS
Giants Continue October Magic With Dramatic Walk-Off Win
Travis Ishikawa wins Game 5 – and the NL pennant – for the Giants with a three-run walkoff homer
Heading for the World Series for the third time in five years
Jets Drop Sixth Straight Game At New England
Pens Lose To Stars 3-2 As Dupuis Leaves Game On Stretcher
Habs Surge Past Bruins 6-4 To Win Home Opener
Islanders Edge Sharks With Shootout, 4-3
Sens Win Home Opener As Avs Lose Game, Two Goalies In One Night
Chris Webber Part Of Group Interested In Buying Hawks
Fear Factor At Talladega High Among Chase Hopefuls
Nationals’ Second Base Options: Cabrera, Espinosa, Or Trade?
FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Sadie Robertson “So Excited” About Brother’s Engagement To Her BFF

Looking forward to being a bridesmaid
Her partner Mark Ballas almost leaked the news prematurely
Body Of Missing Actress Misty Upham Found
Fifth Child On The Way For Jude Law And Catherine Harding
John Grisham: Men Who Watch Child Porn Not All Pedophiles
Ke$ha: I Spilled Sex Secrets About Dr. Luke To Rehab Docs
Shawn Levy Boards “Minecraft” Movie
Corbin Bleu Engaged To Sasha Clements
Jon Gosselin Evicted – Has Nowhere To House Kids
Maria Menounos Attacked, Car Vandalized
Halle Berry Wants Child Support Slashed
Hot Celebrity Lesbians Are Everywhere You Look
FOREIGNERS
Modi Names Rajan Ally Subramanian As Chief Economic Advisor
Kurdish Defense Of Kobane Enters Second Month
Putin Warns Western Leaders On Winter Gas Flow Before Ukraine Talks
New Zealand, Venezuela, Angola, Malaysia And Spain Named To Two-Year Seats On UN Security Council
Brazilian Confesses To 39 Murders
Blizzard, Avalanche In Nepal Claim 29 Lives
Britain On Alert For Flooding, High Winds
Abe Sends Offering As Over 100 Japanese Lawmakers Pray At Yasukuni Shrine
Modi Rolls Out Labor Reforms
Catholic Bishops’ Debate Over Gays: Lost In Translation?
Scotland Yard: Terror-Related Crime Stretching Police Thin
Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws In Spotlight Again
Genocide Trial Begins For Former Khmer Rouge Leaders
BLOGS & STUFF
Louder With Crowder: A Rebuttal To Islam
Doug Powers: Freudian Slip Of The Week – Mark Udall Calls Cory Gardner “Senator” During Debate
Twitchy: Chrissy Teigen Asks “Holy Sh*t, Can We Stop Ebola-Shaming, America?”
Sultan Knish: The End Of Columbus Day Is The End Of America
American Power: Polls Show Massive Repudiation Of Democratic Party On Election Day
American Thinker: Judges Are Changing The Meaning Of Marriage
BLACKFIVE: No Greater Love Hath Man…
Conservatives4Palin: Rob Maness – 4000 US Troops In Danger From Ebola
Don Surber: How NIH Wasted Ebola Money
Jammie Wearing Fools: When Alan Grayson Is The Voice Of Reason, Democrats Have A Major Problem On Ebola
Joe For America: Susan Rice Lies AGAIN!
JustOneMinute: Now ISIS Has Chemical Weapons?
Pamela Geller: British Imam Supports Islamic State Caliphate “We Can Start Having Slave Girls Again”
Protein Wisdom: “The Centers For Everything But Disease Control”
Shot In The Dark: Trulbert! Part XVI – The Tracer Dance
STUMP: How Not To Look Like A Total Ass
The Gateway Pundit: Ferguson Business Owner Says Protesters Are Terrorists, Wants Homeland Security Called In
The Jawa Report: Houston Baghdadi’s Terribly Terrifying Tour Of Terror Totally Terrorizes Texas
The Lonely Conservative: Pentagon Focused On Climate Change As ISIS Closes In On Baghdad
This Ain’t Hell: Bergdahl Investigation Complete
Weasel Zippers: 911 Operators In NYC Forbidden To Use Term “Ebola”
Megan McArdle: An Interview With The Repo Man
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The #GamerGate Hate Hoax
Posted on | October 16, 2014 | 62 Comments
Anita Sarkeesian (@femfreq) and Brianna Wu (@Spacekatgal) are feminist critics of the videogame industry who seem to be trying to cash in on the fact that they are feminist critics of the videogame industry. This involves portraying themselves as victims of horrific harassment and criminal threats. Who is engaging in this harassment? Who is making these threats? We don’t know, because it seems to be coming from a lot of anonymous online accounts, and I strongly suspect that some of these threats are fake. But whether it’s fake or real, the harassment is being blamed on the gamers who, using the Twitter hashtag #GamerGate, have been blowing the whistle on some of the sleazy tactics by which feminists have been trying to turn gaming into a Political Correctness Zone and — oh, just by the way — cut themselves in on a slice of the multibillion-dollar videogame industry pie.
Thursday, the feminists got themselves a front-page puff-piece in the New York Times, after Sarkeesian cancelled a university speech in Utah claiming she felt unsafe because of a threat. Click here to see the threat. You tell me if that looks legit. It looks phony as hell to me, but here’s the thing: I DON’T CARE IF IT’S REAL OR FAKE.
What’s important to me is that we learn the truth. I want an all-out law-enforcement investigation of these threats, I want some arrests and prosecutions, and I want to know the names of the responsible parties, because I’m sick and tired of this bullshit about “Oh, we’re courageous feminists and people say mean things about us on the Internet! Help! Help! We’re victims!”
People say mean things about me on the Internet every day, but that’s not a front-page story in the New York Times, is it?
Have any arrests been made yet? Why can't FBI catch people making these threats? @nytimes @femfreq #GamerGate
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 17, 2014
Has FBI arrested the CRIMINAL HATERS who threatened @Spacekatgal? If not, why not? WE DEMAND ACTION! #GamerGate
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 17, 2014
EXACTLY! @femfreq Why isn't the Justice Department DOING SOMETHING to arrest these people? #GamerGate pic.twitter.com/nmb4r1KbJJ
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 17, 2014
Brianna Wu and Anita Sarkeesian both CRIMINALLY THREATENED! In the SAME WEEK! The Justice Department must ACT NOW! #GamerGate
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 17, 2014
@rsmccain Quick thoughts from the other day… @CFLancop @AceofSpadesHQ @AdamBaldwin pic.twitter.com/qooCOdJ782
— Josh Smith (@ThisIsJoshSmith) October 17, 2014
This e-mail threat to Anita Sarkeesian? https://t.co/X2RWcDd0qF Looks TOTALLY LEGIT to me! @CFLancop @AceofSpadesHQ @AdamBaldwin #GamerGate
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 17, 2014
How dare anyone say a FEMINIST would FAKE A HATE THREAT against herself? Because that NEVER HAPPENS! #GamerGate
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 17, 2014
First, Obama can't stop ISIS. Next, Obama can't stop Ebola. Now Obama can't stop the haters who threatened @femfreq! #GamerGate
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 17, 2014
Either arrest some people, or else shut the hell up. But this Courageous Feminist Martyr act has become tedious and annoying.
Brother Of The World’s Youngest Blogger: It’s All Ducked Up
Posted on | October 16, 2014 | 7 Comments
Brother of the World's Youngest Blogger: Another One Bites the Duck (1of3) pic.twitter.com/ujUQsGMKN2
— 'Teahadist' h/t@DMat (@smitty_one_each) October 17, 2014
Brother of the World's Youngest Blogger: And Another One Gone, Anothoner One Gone, Another One Bites The Duck (2of3) pic.twitter.com/0pLmLOSPrG
— 'Teahadist' h/t@DMat (@smitty_one_each) October 17, 2014
Brother of the World's Youngest Blogger: Hey, He's Gonna Get You Too, Another One Bites The Duck (3of3) pic.twitter.com/C5xmBsSNqc
— 'Teahadist' h/t@DMat (@smitty_one_each) October 17, 2014
In The Mailbox: 10.16.14
Posted on | October 16, 2014 | 6 Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Live at Five has been missing these last couple of days thanks to the Extension Filing Crush in the tax mines, which is now over.
Sorry about any inconvenience.
OVER THE TRANSOM
Louder With Crowder: Real Culture vs. Rape Culture
Proof Positive: Starring Democrat Wingers And Shirley MacLame
Michelle Malkin: The Centers For Everything But Disease Control
Twitchy: “Irony Is Dead” – Matt Yglesias Has A Self-Awareness Problem
The Quinton Report: GOP Candidate Compares Maryland Economy To Ebola
Cathy Young: GamerGate Part I – Sex, Lies, And Gender Games
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: More Americans Support Ground Troops To Fight ISIS
American Thinker: New Cure For Racial Violence In Minneapolis – Crack Down On The Victims
BLACKFIVE: NYT “Discovers” Iraq Had Chemical Weapons
Conservatives4Palin: Democrats On Defensive Over Role Of Government
Don Surber: The Most Confused Woman In America
Jammie Wearing Fools: Dutch Bikers Join Fight Against ISIS
Joe For America: The Great Catholic Cave-In That Wasn’t
JustOneMinute: The Health Scare That’s Always There
Pamela Geller: The Battle For Baghdad Has Begun
Protein Wisdom: A Black South African On Israel And Apartheid
Shot In The Dark: Doug Grow, Narrative Policeman
The Gateway Pundit: CDC Director Says If US Bans Flights From West Africa Ebola Will Spread
The Jawa Report: Obama’s Coalition Partner Bombs The Kurds
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