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The O. Henry Plot Twist

Posted on | June 14, 2014 | 35 Comments

Readers will remember the case of Rebecca Diebolt, the California teacher charged with having a lesbian affair with a teenage student.

Now brace yourself for the unexpected plot twist:

Perhaps no one is more blown away by a teacher’s arrest for allegedly molesting a female student starting when the girl was 15 than the woman’s colleagues who just attended her baby shower.
Teachers at Valencia High School in Placentia speaking with the Weekly under condition of anonymity say 35-year-old Rebecca Eileen Diebolt of Brea is pregnant.

Actually, this plot twist should not be so unexpected. Many of the women arrested on lesbian molestation charges seem to be otherwise heterosexual, and some of them are married mothers. To cite one recent example, Florida dance teacher Nichol Marie Phelps was a married mother of two when she molested a 15-year-old student.

What’s wrong with these women? Are they “bi-curious,” and just happen to express their same-sex curiosity with underage girls? Or are they closeted lesbians whose “straight” marriages are socially-approved camouflage to create an appearance of normality they use to get access to young girls in predatory stealth mode? Could it be that such cases are just symptomatic of polymorphous perversity?

We don’t know. Female sex offenders aren’t as widely studied as their male counterparts, and most of the testimony we have from the perpetrators is offered in court hearings where the defendant has a motive to minimize or justify their criminal behavior. So we have very little guidance to answer the key questions, “What the hell were you thinking?” and “How did you become such a perverted weirdo?”

Meanwhile, in Orlando:

A Florida teacher and her 58-year-old boyfriend have been accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl.
Kimberly Honaker, 48, had been charged on [May 31] with child neglect for allegedly failing to intervene to stop Robert Pruitt sexually abusing a child.
But on [June 3] Honaker, who has been suspended from the middle school she worked at for 17 years, was arrested again over claims that she had also molested the young girl.
When the language teacher was arrested for a second time, she was charged with lewd molestation and the use of a child in a sexual performance. . . .
The couple were arrested after Pruitt’s ex-wife alerted police to Facebook messages, texts and emails that suggested an inappropriate relationship was taking place.
Pruitt had moved in with Honaker, who he has known for years, in May. Police described the house they shared as being filthy and containing 20 dogs.
Honaker, a mom to twin girls, has been banned from the school campus and is expected to have her pay suspended at the next school meeting, a district spokesman told the Orlando Sentinel. . . .
Police told Click Orlando that Pruitt’s ex-wife had kicked him out of their home earlier this year after suspecting him of having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old.
He then moved in with Honaker, who is accused of allowing the abuse to continue over the next few weeks.

A middle-school teacher accused of sexually molesting a 13-year-old girl in a filthy house with 20 dogs? What the hell were you thinking and how did you become such a perverted weirdo?”

Tucker Carlson could not be reached for comment.

 

Category: Crime, Education, Sex

Our Moral Superiors™

Posted on | June 13, 2014 | 36 Comments

You have to wonder sometimes how the intelligentsia have been able to maintain the myth of their superiority for so long, and how much longer they can keep it up in the face of overwhelming evidence contradicting this myth. For example, the American Studies Association (ASA) boycott campaign against Israel is led by New York University Professor Lisa Duggan, whose expertise is non-existent:

Duggan’s academic specialties are modern U.S. cultural, social and political history; history of gender and sexuality; and lesbian and gay studies. One course of hers at NYU is called “Queer Historiographies and Constructions of Whiteness in the United States.” Her claim to fame: Inventing the word “homonormativity” to explain how many gays now want to mimic straight people, in terms of “domesticity and consumption.”

This academic fraud can no more claim to be an expert on Mideast policy than any random person you might find on a subway train in Manhattan, and yet she is accepted as a leader of the anti-Israel movement, perhaps because anyone who hates Israel is acceptable.

Donald Douglas has more on Professor Duggan’s non-expertise.

 

Category: Education, Intellectuals, Israel

‘A Troubling Echo of Misogynistic Stereotypes of the Spiteful Ex-Wife’

Posted on | June 13, 2014 | 15 Comments

Just encountered that phrase in an article at The Atlantic and wondered: Are they implying that spiteful ex-wives don’t exist?

Assuming that the writer isn’t actually denying the existence of spiteful ex-wives, why is it “misogynistic” to acknowledge the truth of the old adage that “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”? Most women recognize this as true, especially because it is often women — e.g., the guy’s new girlfriend — who are targets of the fury of scorned women.

Stereotypes exist for a reason, and not merely because of bigotry.

 

Category: Feminism

Does the GOP Establishment Endorse Thad Cochran’s Bestiality Nostalgia?

Posted on | June 13, 2014 | 31 Comments

In a speech, the senile old fool distinguished Senator from Mississippi waxed nostalgic about his youth, when he did “all kind of indecent things with animals,” a practice he ascribed to the region’s “culture.”

Does the National Republican Senatorial Committee endorse this sort of thing? Are they pro-bestiality or anti-bestiality, or will they need to conduct a poll to determine their position on this issue?

Of course, it’s hard for the NRSC to condemn anything as unnatural or degenerate, when they’re spending millions of dollars to try to make Mitch McConnell Senate Majority Leader. I’d rather screw a goat.

 

Category: Mississippi

In Which @TuckerCarlson Encounters the Feminist Meaning of Equality

Posted on | June 13, 2014 | 31 Comments

Progressives insist that this is “sexism”:

Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Thursday lamented that Americans are “whiny” about statutory rape and that when it comes to rape, boys are different than girls.
While discussing the recent case in New York, in which a female teacher has been charged with rape for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old student, Carlson refused to believe that it should be considered rape.
“It’s ludicrous that we are calling this a rape. Are you serious?” Carson asked on Fox News’ “Outnumbered.” “I’ll tell you what’s wrong to this extent — he went and tattled to the police and destroyed her life. Are you joking? What a whiny country this is.”
Carlson went on to explain that underaged boys are not rape victims, especially if they chased after the older woman.
“You’re this boy, and all of a sudden you’re a rape victim? You pursue an older woman, and have a relationship with her, and you’re a rape victim?” he said. “It defies common sense. And anybody who’s being honest with himself knows exactly what I’m talking about. We all have to pretend.” . . .
When the female panelists on Outnumbered called out Carlson, arguing that he was furthering a double standard, he fully accepted that.
“Of course it’s a double standard! All standards are double standards,” he said. “Because it depends completely on the sex of a child. And if it’s a girl, it’s different from if it’s boy. And we have to pretend that’s not true?”

Tucker Carlson is actually expressing his own misunderstanding of the purpose of such laws. Why do parents send their children to school? What job are teachers paid to do? Certainly, I don’t want my children (male or female) to be molested by a teacher (male or female) and as a matter of law, it is irrelevant whether any particular minor in such a situation believes himself or herself to be a victim.

Furthermore, the advance of feminist “equality” and “liberation” means that women now are more likely to be aggressive perverts than was true 30 or 40 years ago. If a women’s studies major at Duke University can justify her porn career as feminist “empowerment,” certainly female teachers who crave the taste of boy flesh can (and do) find similar justification in the egalitarian rhetoric of feminism.

But maybe Tucker Carlson hasn’t been paying attention, eh?

 

Category: Feminism

#EndFathersDay: Is This #YesAllWomen Feminism or Another 4Chan Hoax?

Posted on | June 13, 2014 | 51 Comments

And does it matter?

Because I routinely check the #fem2 and #radfem hashtags, I noticed the #EndFathersDay hashtag early this morning and also noticed that some people called it a hoax by the gamer/hacker types at 4chan. But the hashtag was adopted by some actual feminists, who see it as a logical extension of the #YesAllWomen campaign — i.e., universal collective female victimhood, with all men as violent patriarchal oppressors — which therefore demonstrates how it is impossible to parody radical feminism.

Adrienne Rich, Mary Daly, Dee Graham — feminists have spent decades following the radical logic of their anti-male ideology to its obvious lesbian conclusion. The amazing thing is that in 2014 there are still heterosexual women who dare to call themselves “feminists.”

Because of the hegemonic influence of feminism among the intelligentsia, however, few college-educated women are willing to speak out against feminism, per se, so that many women who live non-feminist lives nevertheless think of themselves as “feminists,” but are shocked when they encounter actual feminist ideology. This was why so many people were astonished by Radical Wind’s declaration, “PIV is always rape, OK?” — a belief entirely consistent with radical feminism’s anti-male, anti-heterosexual doctrine,taught in Women’s Studies course everywhere, but usually concealed from the general public.

The logic that PIV (penis-in-vagina, i.e., heterosexual intercourse) is “always rape” derives from feminism’s Marxist origins, wherein women as a “sex caste” are collectively exploited and oppressed by men. (Friedrich Engels himself was the first to assert this in The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.) The Women’s Liberation movement of the 1960s and ’70s (so-called “Second Wave” feminism) began among women allied to SDS and the anti-war movement, many of whom were “Red Diaper babies” and, having grown up within the Communist millieu, eagerly applied Marxist-Leninist doctrine to women’s second-class status within the male-dominated New Left. Any bibliography of classic Women’s Liberation literature must include radical lesbian authors who understood that rejecting “male supremacy” required a rejection of heterosexuality. Yet between the career ambitions of female journalists like Gloria Steinem (who saw the “feminist” label as a ticket to fame and fortune) and the political ambitions of activists who craved “mainstream” influence, the meaning of feminism has been deliberately obscured so that nowadays “feminism” is whatever any woman wants to claim it to be.

Always, however, anyone who takes feminism seriously — either as a supporter or opponent of the movement — must ultimately understand that an ideology based on implacable hostility toward men is incompatible with any normal woman’s life of heterosexual love, marriage and motherhood. Do we have to wonder why Shulamith Firestone, author of the seminal 1970 feminist text The Dialectic of Sex, died a lonely schizophrenic? Was she a victim of the patriarchy (as feminists would have us believe) or was she a victim of feminism?

When feminists speak of “patriarchy,” “male dominance” and “rape culture,” they are not merely complaining of specific abuses by specific men, but are rather indicting all men as violent oppressors of all women. Because all men are thereby implicated in these patriarchal atrocities, it is impossible for any feminist to accept any male as an ally, so that feminists must not only reject heterosexuality, but must also condemn their own fathers as complicit in the oppression of women. Or at least, this is what feminists must do if they understand the logic of their own anti-male rhetoric. But logic and feminism have never really been compatible, and so we are required to accept intellectual incoherence as the essential expression of women’s identity.




 

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Category: Feminism

If Hillary Can’t Even Handle NPR …

Posted on | June 13, 2014 | 42 Comments

. . . how could she deal with genuinely critical media?

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got into a testy exchange with NPR’s Terry Gross on Thursday, as Gross tried to get Clinton to explain her views on marriage equality over time.
Gross attempted to get the former secretary of state to explain whether she had changed her mind over time on the issue of marriage equality or whether she supported marriage equality previously but felt she couldn’t say so due to the popular and political opposition.

She evidently didn’t think of the most obvious answer.

“What difference, at this point, does it make?”

 

Category: Hillary Clinton

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.13.14

Posted on | June 13, 2014 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Iraq Disintegrating As Jihadis Advance On Baghdad

Kurds seize Kirkuk; army claims to have retaken Tikrit

McCarthy Sole Candidate For Majority Leader After Sessions Drops Out
No obvious contender from Tea Party/conservative faction

Bergdahl Returns From Germany
Reintegration treatment scheduled at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio



POLITICS
Former EPA Official Goes Off-Grid, Evades Congressional Inquiry Into Alaska Mine Project

1998 photo of Phillip North in his Anchorage office

Did EPA collude with tribal and environmental groups to kill the project?

Hillary Defends Initial Resistance To Gay Marriage

Retired General Keane: US Created Huge Vacuum By Leaving Iraq

Former BP Engineer Wins New Trial In Gulf Spill Case

House Votes To Make Business Tax Break Permanent

US Marshals To Auction $18 Million In Bitcoins

Feds Pushing Local Cops To Stay Mum On Surveillance

Officials To Investigate Claims Illegal Immigrant Minors Being Mistreated



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
WTI Hits Nine-Month Highs As Inventory Falls: NYMEX 104.65, Brent $109.86
Asian Stocks Retreat As Oil Advances On Iraq News
Supremes Agree Minute Maid Can Be Sued Over Juice Label
Intel Raises Outlook On Strong PC Demand, Shares Jump
Beer Giants Reveal Ingredients After Petition Push
Retail Sales And Jobless Numbers Disappoint, But Hope Remains In Economy
Samsung Announces Galaxy Tab S Tablets
Starbucks New Wireless Chargers Won’t Work For Most Phones
Elon Musk Opens Up Tesla Patents
“Assassin’s Creed: Unity” Female Characters Take A Lot More Work
Mario Maker Could Be Amazing If Nintendo Gets It Right



SPORTS
Spurs Chill The Heat Again, Go Up 3-1

Boris Diaw: Let me show you how this works, Mr. Wade

San Antonio stifles LeBron & friends in 107-86 rout



Gauman Pitches O’s Past Jays, 4-2

Scherzer Tosses 3-Hitter With 10 K’s, Blanks Pale Hose 4-0

Pirates Wait Out The Rain, Wipe Out Cubs 4-0

Tempers Flare, Three Rockies Ejected En Route To 10-3 Scalping Of Braves



Brewers’ Lucroy Blasts Sayonara Homer In 13th, Sends Mets Down To Defeat Again

Lester Bounces Back, Big Papi Homers As Red Sox Top Tribe 5-2

Speed Skater Alvarez Launches Pro Ball Career With White Sox

Carter’s Homer Gives Astros 5-4 Win Against Snakes

Bench Comes Through As Phillies Beat Padres 7-3

Frazier Homer Lifts Reds Past Greinke, Dodgers

Longtime NASCAR Team Owner Junie Donleavy Dies, 90

Croatia: If That’s How The Refs Are Going To Be, Just Give The World Cup To Brazil Already

Sterling v. Sterling v. NBA

Hudson Pitches Giants Past Nationals



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
J-Lo And Maksim Not Dating, Just Friends

She’s not ready to start dating again yet

“Definitely not romantic with Maksim”



Harrison Ford Injured On “Star Wars: Episode VII” Set

Bill Murray Makes Another Engaging, Hilarious Appearance In Charleston



D.A. Rejects Justin Bieber Robbery Case For Lack Of Evidence

Robin Thicke Naming New Album After Estranged Wife Paula

Pink Stripped Bare: “I’d Rather Be Strong Than Bony”

Kimberly Perry, Rangers Catcher J.P. Arencibia Married

Blake Shelton Reveals Romantic Anniversary Surprise For Miranda Lambert

Jessica Rabbit Fan Has Boob Job, Corset Training To Get Extreme Hourglass Figure

Michael Buble: I’m A Dad First, The Rest Is Just Icing On The Cake

Actress, Civil Rights Figure Ruby Dee Dead At 91



FOREIGNERS
India Rocked By New Rape Cases
Blast Targets Self-Proclaimed East Ukraine Leader’s Car, Two Killed
Tanks Cross From Russia Into Ukraine
Israel Advances Plans For ~1100 Homes In Judea & Samaria
Use Of Indian Weapons In Karachi Attack Being Probed
Resumption Of Drone Strikes In Pakistan Raises Questions
Red China’s Top Taiwan Official To Make First Visit To Island
Why Were So Many Police Used To Raid A South Korean Religious Compound?
Pacific Presidents Speak Out Against Australia’s Stance On Climate Change
Fresh Fighting Erupts On Congo/Rwanda Border
NATO Chief Says Alliance Has No Role In Iraq



BLOGS & STUFF
Doug Powers: Dave Brat Makes Good On Term Limits Pledge
Twitchy: Hey, Looks Like Barack Obama Delivered On Iraq After All
American Power: Leftists Spew “Tolerant” Sexist Misogyny As Dana Loesch Releases “Hands Off My Gun” Book Cover
American Thinker: Some Inconvenient Truths About American Mass Murderers
BLACKFIVE: The Hubris And Incompetence Of Barack Obama
Conservatives4Palin: Mickey Kaus – Notes On Cantormageddon
Jammie Wearing Fools: Rick Perry Compares Alcoholism To Homosexuality
Joe For America: Bikers Head For Mexico To Free Marine
JustOneMinute: Baghdad Bob, Meet D.C. Sue
Pat Dollard: Al Qaeda Leader Behind Takeover Of Mosul Released From Detention By Obama In 2009
Protein Wisdom: NJ Threatens To Seize Child Because Dad Hasn’t Kissed Their Feet Sufficiently
Shot In The Dark: The Better Buzzfeed
The Jawa Report: Iran Deploys Forces To Fight Jihadis In Iraq
The Lonely Conservative: No Waiting List For VA Solar Panels
This Ain’t Hell: Administration Slow To React To Iraq’s Requests For Assistance
Weasel Zippers: Hypocrisy Overload – Barbara Boxer Calls GOP “Blame America First” Crowd For Criticizing Obama Over Iraq Crisis
Megan McArdle: Online Journalism Is Suffering Print’s Fate


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