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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


Category: Live at Five

Priorities!

Posted on | June 12, 2014 | 40 Comments

Iraq is on the verge of becoming a failed state overrun by terrorists, and the Obama administration has nothing but empty words to offer.

At such a time of international crisis, it’s comforting to know that the Democrat Party has its priorities straight:

Four Democratic senators were so appalled by George Will’s widely panned arguments about rape statistics on college campuses that the lawmakers reached out directly to the conservative columnist to upbraid him for his “ancient beliefs.”
In a letter made public on Thursday, Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Robert Casey (D-PA) ripped Will for a piece that has been publicly denounced by one of the columnist’s own Washington Post colleagues.
“Having an ongoing interest in ways to reduce sexual assaults on college campuses, we read your June 6 column on campus sexual assault with particular dismay,” the senators wrote. “Your thesis and statistics fly in the face of everything we know about this issue.”

Yes, the most urgent business facing the United States Senate is a newspaper columnist’s thoughts about sex on college campuses.

 

Category: Democrats

Kimberlin Hearing Today

Posted on | June 12, 2014 | 16 Comments

‘Speedway Bomber’ Brett Kimberlin was sentenced to 50 years in 1981

“I have filed over a hundred lawsuits and another
one will be no sweat for me. On the other hand,
it will cost you a lot of time and money . . .”

ROCKVILLE, Maryland
More than nine months after convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin filed his vexation Maryland lawsuit, Kimberlin v. Walker, et al., we’re still wading through the preliminary motions. I’m here today for another hearing in these tedious proceedings. John Hoge has mentioned the hearing. We will update you if anything newsworthy happens.

 




 

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Police Arrest Teacher, Accused of Four-Year Lesbian Affair With Teen Student

Posted on | June 12, 2014 | 95 Comments

Rebecca Diebolt, 35, was arrested Wednesday.

Orange County, California:

PLACENTIA — A Valencia High School teacher suspected of having a sexual relationship with a student was arrested Wednesday, and police say they are looking for other victims.
Rebecca Eileen Diebolt, 35, was arrested on suspicion of sexual contact with a person under the age of 18, a week after a woman told police that she and Diebolt had a sexual relationship that began when she was a student and continued after she graduated, according to a police statement.
The woman told police that in 2004, at the age of 15, she first “formed a relationship” with Diebolt, who was her language arts teacher and swim/water polo coach.
Authorities allege that Diebolt had “multiple sexual encounters” with the student, both in her classroom and at her home after school hours and on weekends.
Investigators believe the relationship continued until 2008, after the woman graduated and began attending college.

“The Emerging Menace of Female Sexual Predators”:

  • Kelly O’Rourke, 42, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in October 2013 for having sex with a 16-year-old girl.
  • Andrea Michelle Cardosa, 40, was charged with 16 felony counts in February after two former female students accused her of sexually molesting them. One accuser said Cardosa started having sex with her when she was only 12.
  • Nicole Wooten was arrested in February 2013 on charges that she had sex with a girl in 2005 and 2006, when the victim was a 12-year-old eighth-grader.
  • Linda Wallace was sentenced to prison in September after pleading guilty to having had a four-year sexual affair with a female student that began when the girl was 13.
  • Sarah Blessing, 28, was convicted in 2010 of having sex with a 17-year-old Catholic school girl who was on a swim team Blessing coached.
  • Jaymee Wallace, 30, was sentenced to three years in prison in 2007 for having sex with a 14-year-old girl who was her student at a Florida high school.
  • Amanda Michelle Feenstra, 32, pleaded guilty in October 2013 to having sex with a 17-year-old girl who was a student at the Texas high school where Feenstra was a dance teacher.
  • Tonya Drueppel was arrested in January on charges that she had sex with a middle-school girl beginning in October 2012, when the victim was 13.
  • Nichol Marie Phelps, 30, was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison last week for having sex with a 15-year-old girl who was a student at the Florida dance academy where Phelps taught.

Not like there’s a trend here or anything . . .

 

Category: Crime, Education, Gays, Sex

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.12.14

Posted on | June 12, 2014 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Al-Qaeda Takes Tikrit, Thousands Flee

Iraqi refugees at a Kurdish checkpoint

US stands ready to assist, Cameron rules out UK intervention

Cantor To Quit As Majority Leader At End Of July
Supports Majority Whip McCarthy as his successor


Bowe Bergdahl, Coast Guard Washout?
What was he doing in the Army?



POLITICS
Polarization Dividing American Society, Not Just Politics

Partisan antipathy stronger

Partisans prefer to live, work and hang out with each other

NSA Intercepted Calls From Benghazi Attackers To Jihadi Leaders – On State Department Phones


CA Officials Debate Whether To Defend Teacher Job Protections

Hagel Admits Administration Bungled Aspects Of Bergdahl Swap

Federal Appeals Court Rules Warrant Required For Cell Phone Location Data

FBI Director Confirms Criminal Probe Of VA

WH Outing Of CIA Station Chief Results In No Punishments



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Gains As Stockpiles Shrink: NYMEX $104.61, Brent $110.40
Asian Shares Retreat As Oil Nears Three-Month High
Wall Street Ends Lower After World Bank Cuts Forecast
Budget Deficit Narrows As Economy, Jobs Boost Revenue
Why Amazon’s Local Marketplace Will Be A Consumer Win
Corn Trades Near Four-Month Low As Supply Seen Increasing
TweetDeck Wasn’t Hacked, And Everyone Was Silly
Starbucks To Offer Wireless Charging Pads
Beats Solo 2: Great Looks, Better Sound
AT&T Defends DirecTV Deal To US Regulators
Nintendo Announces “Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.” For 3DS



SPORTS
Lundqvist & Rangers Keep Hope Alive, Avert Sweep

Henrik Lundqvist makes one of his 40 saves in Game 4

Rangers edge Kings 2-1 in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals

McCarthy Struggles Again As Astros Stomp Snakes 5-1

Yu Got It: Darvish Goes The Distance, Blanks Fish 6-0

O’s Blank Sox Again As Boston’s Punchless Offense Hits A New Low

Rockies’ Matzek Dazzles In Debut, Defeats Braves’ Teheran

McCutcheon Leads Pirates To Victory, Cubs Scuppered 4-2

Peralta Shuts Down Mets As Lucroy’s Hot Bat Carries Brewers

Nationals Lead Giants 4-2 As Giants Bat In Bottom Of The Eighth



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Why Anna Kendrick Is The Smartest, Savviest Social Media Star Of Her Generation

Well, that’s what Elle magazine thinks, anyway.

The cover girl for Elle’s first Social Issue

“Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever” Coming To Lifetime

Lea Michele’s New Boyfirend Is A Former Gigolo

Adam Levine Apologizing To Ex-Girlfriends Before Wedding

Casey Kasem’s Daughters Pulling His Life Support

“Bridesmaids” Writers Team Up For New Comedy

Jason Aldean’s Kids See New Girlfriend Brittany Kerr As “The Other Woman”

“Sonic The Hedgehog” Movie In The Works At Sony

Netflix Orders New Childrens’ Show Based On “The Magic School Bus”

Vanessa Lachey Preggers With Second Child

A “Now And Then” TV Series Is In The Works

Pixar Breaks Silence, Offers Inside Look At “Inside Out” At Annecy

“Under The Dome” Executive Producer Exits



FOREIGNERS
Iraq Army Flees From Jihadis In Four Cities
Ukraine President Ready For Talks If Pro-Russian Rebels Disarm
Israeli Air Strike Takes Out Jihadi After Rocket Fire
Egyptian Activist Abdel Fattah Gets 15 Years For Protest
Uzbek Jihadis Behind Karachi Airport Attack?
J.K. Rowling Abused Online By Scottish Pro-Independence “Death Eaters”
Australia Agrees Japan Should Have Role In Fixing Asia Conflicts
PM Modi Says Stop “Psychoanalyzing” Rape
Will Ferry Crew Get A Fair Trial?



BLOGS & STUFF
Valley Of The Shadow: Wagging The GOP Dog
Michelle Malkin: Military Bases – Obama’s New Dumping Grounds For Illegals
Twitchy: Halfwits Want Metallica’s James Hetfield Killed For Role In Bear Hunting Show
American Power: Obama Tuned Down Requests For Airstrikes In Iraq
American Thinker: The Same Fatal Flaw
BLACKFIVE: Losing The Peace In Iraq
Conservatives4Palin: Why Young People Can’t Find Work
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, June 11
Jammie Wearing Fools: Failed President Hits Personal Poll Low After Freeing Taliban Terrorists
Joe For America: Obama To Unilaterally Enact Amnesty After Cantor Loss
JustOneMinute: Cantor Out
Pat Dollard: Horror On Iraqi Roads – Al Qaeda Killing Without Mercy
Protein Wisdom: SEIU Steals Personal Information
Shot In The Dark: “Unexpected”
The Jawa Report: Turkey Reportedly Hitting Jihadi Positions Near Mosul
The Lonely Conservative: Hillary Won’t Turn Over Benghazi Notes
This Ain’t Hell: The New Bergdahl Defense – Everyone Walks Away From The FOB
Weasel Zippers: Iran Rushes Elite Quds Force Unit To Iraq To Help Stop Jihadi Advance
Megan McArdle: Cantor’s Defeat Wasn’t About The Money


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