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Feminism Is a Journey to Lesbianism

Posted on | May 6, 2014 | 45 Comments

“It became obvious that men didn’t want to interact with me or with women in general on an equal level, and that what ‘attracted’ them in women was subordination to them — as soon as we wanted to be their ‘equals’ they were repelled by it, lost interest or tried to thwart the feminist drive in me some way or another.”
— Radical Wind, April 28

(WARNING: Graphic language and mature subject matter.)

Radical feminists are both (a) insane and (b) basically correct in their understanding of the psychology of sex. Which is to say, a careful study of what is today called “gender theory” does show that inequality between men and women — collectively, under the systematic male dominance that feminists call patriarchy — is inextricably linked to heterosexuality. Even if every conceivable reform were enacted that could rid women of discrimination in education or employment, male dominance would continue to be expressed through sexual intercourse, through manipulation or abuse within relationships, through pregnancy and through women’s greater burden in parenthood. Women who desire long-term male romantic companionship of any kind must do what is necessary first to attract, and then to maintain, his sexual interest.

Radical Wind — the wacko feminist whose rant “PIV is always rape, OK?” inspired widespread mockery — is actually very close to an important truth when she describes how men were “repelled” by her “feminist drive.” We may suppose she was hanging out with a loutish crew of young left-wing idiots when she experienced this; therefore it must have been a shocking revelation when these allegedly egalitarian men expected her to enact the “subordination” of femininity.

News flash: Men are men.

“Male dominance is sexual. . . .
“A feminist theory of sexuality would locate sexuality within a theory of gender inequality, meaning the social hierarchy of men over women. . . .
“To be clear: what is sexual is what gives a man an erection. Whatever it takes to make a penis shudder and stiffen with the experience of its potency is what sexuality means culturally. . . . All this suggests that that which is called sexuality is the dynamic of control by which male dominance . . . eroticizes as man and woman, as identity and pleasure. It is also that which maintains and defines male supremacy as a political system.”
— Catharine MacKinnon, “Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: ‘Pleasure under Patriarchy'” (1989)

Yeah, baby — keep talking sexy like that and I might buy you a drink.

Isn’t it weird how we smile at such a discussion, even by an ultra-serious radical feminist like MacKinnon? Talking about the erotic nature of male dominance is enough “to make a penis shudder and stiffen with the experience of its potency,” you might say.

The arguments of radical lesbian feminists are, to me, preferable to the liberal “pro-sex” feminists like Amanda Marcotte, whose objective seems to be to defend women’s “right” to shame-free promiscuity. Radical feminists see the “pro-sex” embrace of heterosexual hedonism as a dishonest betrayal of feminism: How are women fighting the patriarchy by sucking cock? The paradox is self-evident.

The “subordination” of women in their traditional roles as wives, mothers and homemakers was the original target of the Women’s Liberation movement, but as soon as women divorced their husbands, aborted their babies and pursued careers, they discovered that this “liberation” subjected them to new forms of oppression. Made “equal” by federal laws that forbade discrimination, newly liberated women learned that the egalitarian regime did not improve the quality of their relationships with men. To the contrary, the “liberated woman” was subjected to harassment, insults and the selfish predatory sexual behavior of men whose “respect” for women as equals proved to be far crueler in practice than anything that the stereotypical 1950s suburban housewife had ever been expected to endure.

From this recognition — the misleading promise of “liberation” in a man’s world — sprang the radical feminism that identified men as the enemy, and made lesbianism a political statement, arguing that male sexuality was inherently harmful to women.

“Radical feminism has completely transformed me. . . . I have no male friends, and limit my interaction with males . . .
“With patriarchy, men are constantly dictating what women’s bodies should look like. . . . A woman’s body is meant for male viewing. He wants . . . to confirm his stupid beliefs that women are fuck objects.”
— Formulations of Oppression, April 16

Yeah, baby — keep talking sexy like that and I might buy you a drink.

The radical’s resentment of her status as “fuck object” and the perception that her body “is meant for male viewing” shows that her grievance is not with traditionalism, but rather with the hedonistic culture of “liberation” wherein women are expected to market themselves as sexual commodities. Her problem is not that men fall in love with her, want to marry her, take her to a 3BR/2BA ranch house in the suburbs and make babies together. Her problem is that none of these modes of traditional “subordination” are offered to the liberated woman, who is presumed to exist in a state of constant sexual availability, a woman to be had by many men, but never wholly possessed by any of them.

It is the absence of permanent commitment — of “happily ever after,” of complete uniting of herself with man — that inspires the liberated woman to resent not just the selfish indifference of men who desire her only as a “fuck object,” but eventually also to resent the sex act itself. And when she reaches that point, she will find feminist intellectuals ready to encourage and theorize her resentment.

“There is never a real privacy of the body that can coexist with intercourse: with being entered. The vagina itself is muscled and the muscles have to be pushed apart. The thrusting is persistent invasion. She is opened up, split down the center. She is occupied — physically, internally, in her privacy. . . . .
“There is no analogue anywhere among subordinated groups of people to this experience of being made for intercourse: for penetration, entry, occupation.”
— Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse, 1987

Yeah, baby — keep talking sexy like that and I might buy you a drink.

Most women are not radical man-haters like Dworkin and, after reading her description of intercourse — “of being  opened up, split down the center” — normal women reply: “Isn’t it awesome?”

Normal women are delighted to know they are “made for intercourse,” and if they are thereby “subordinated”? Awesome! And if her body is a delight to her man? Awesome! 

Radical feminists perceive everything, including happiness, as a zero-sum game: Anything that makes men happy can only be obtained by a process of subtraction from the happiness of women. This is even true — indeed, it is especially true — when it comes to PIV (penis-in-vagina, i.e., intercourse), as Radical Wind explains:

Separatism started for me in a crossroads of circumstances. It started in part when I decided that I wouldn’t date any men because dating with them had been so painful and traumatising and I wanted to protect myself from that. I was already feminist, had almost perceived that PIV was inherently violent and a way to humiliate women, and that all men wanted was to use us as receptacles for their dicks. So I first thought that if I wanted to date a man, a way to prevent being used by them as their dick-socket to be thrown away the minute after, I’d have to choose one I knew for a long time and could trust he wouldn’t abuse me, had already built an equal, friendly, respectful relationship with him which stood the test of time, and especially, they would have to understand feminism and i should be able to be feminist with them without feeling uncomfortable about it.
Well I very quickly realised that this standard was totally impossible! Once I held this standard for interacting with men, they all disappeared out of my life very quickly. It became obvious that men didn’t want to interact with me or with women in general on an equal level, and that what “attracted” them in women was subordination to them — as soon as we wanted to be their “equals” they were repelled by it, lost interest or tried to thwart the feminist drive in me some way or another. This was a major eye-opener. I’ve said this before in various comments but I found this experience really amazing — just setting the bar high for men made them disappear out of my life.
Also once I saw how everything men do is always directly or subliminally a rape threat and reminds us of our penetrable caste, I couldn’t bear being exposed to anything male, either in physical presence or in mediated ways (religion, ideology, media, art, etc, etc,). It re-triggers unconscious or conscious defence mechanisms to rape, PIV and sexualised invasion. It’s stressful and traumatising.

From this feminist perspective, men pursue intercourse strictly as “a way to humiliate women” by reducing them to the status of “receptacles for their dicks,” so that intimate relationships with men mean “being used by them as their dick-socket.” When she decided to avoid this “subordination,” the radfem found it made men “disappear out of my life.” She finds herself traumatized by exposure “to anything male,” because their mere presence is “subliminally a rape threat,” a reminder of her membership in the “penetrable caste.”

Thus does the experience of the liberated woman — often had, yet never possessed — lead her to radicalism, toward hatred of men who have treated her as just another “dick-socket.” Being unloved by men has destroyed her ability to love them . . .

“She had never been with another woman before, but Draga knew her attraction to women was real. So, she yielded her lovely, long-legged girlishness to a passion she had never before experienced.”
— Carol Emery, Queer Affair (1957)

A lifestyle once marginalized, depicted as strangely exotic — the steamy stuff of dancer Draga Hamilton’s “passion” with Jo Stanhope in the 1957 pulp novel Queer Affair — lesbianism is nowadays far more common, especially among young women who have grown weary of pervasive disappointment, exploitation and abuse in the “liberated” world of heterosexual hedonism.

Lesbianism as a political expression of feminist consciousness is less interesting than lesbianism as an exotic perversion. To be honest, radical politics doesn’t induce the kind of “shuddering and stiffening” reaction described by MacKinnon. Thus it is that feminists ruin everything: Having first ruined marriage by convincing women they were oppressed as suburban housewives, next they ruined fornication by their idiotic talk about “empowerment” and “liberation” until now, at last, they have even ruined lesbianism, which used to be weird, wild and sexy, but has become just another tedious political pose.

Hey, did I mention it’s National Offend a Feminist Week?

 





 

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Category: Feminism, National Offend a Feminist Week

Beltway Hypnosis Syndrome

Posted on | May 6, 2014 | 31 Comments

Larry O’Connor nails it:

I hear it from half the callers on my talk radio shows. I read it in the comment sections of my favorite blogs. I see it from some of the most well-respected pundits on cable news.
Every time the discussion turns to anything outside the Washington Beltway or to any topic not related to the Democrat vs. Republican horserace narrative of “Who’s up and who’s down” political gamesmanship I hear “It’s not important. We need to get back to the real issues America cares about.”
With all due respect, I have to ask, “Are you high?”

Read the whole thing. Having often attempted to persuade conservatives to take seriously stories outside the “horserace narrative of . . . political gamesmanship,” I know the frustration Larry describes. Part of the problem is the Right’s epidemic Obamamania, with which I have never been afflicted, understanding that a fixation on presidential politics means the trivialization of everything else. Here we are, in the fifth year of the Obama presidency, his 2012 re-election disappearing in the rear-view mirror and the crucial 2014 mid-term elections just six months away and . . . Obama! Obama! Obama!

Day after day, ad infinitum, ad tedium.

 

Category: Journalism

The #RapeCulture of Planned Parenthood

Posted on | May 6, 2014 | 33 Comments

Enabling rapists because . . . choice!

Planned Parenthood abortion clinics have come under fire countless times over the years for not reporting cases of statutory rape to authorities as required by state law. Now, in Arizona, officials says the abortion giant failed again to provide the proper report to authorities about a victim of a young man who is a serial rapist.
Not only did Planned Parenthood intentionally fail to report the rape but, in so doing, it allowed the rapist to rape as many as 18 or more teenage girls, authorities say, making it so the abortion company is partially responsible for victimizing them as well.

This is insane:

Tyler Kost, 18, is accused of raping or molesting at least 18 girls, most of them fellow classmates at Poston Butte High School. He is being held without bond in the Pinal County jail.
In forensic interviews with Sheriff’s Office sex crime detectives, a girl who says she became pregnant after Kost raped her last year visited a Planned Parenthood clinic with her mother on New Year’s Eve. According to the report, her mom told the staffer about the sexual assault during the visit.
“The counselor intentionally miscoded the assault as a consensual encounter,” the PCSO report states. “The counselor told them that they did not want the hassle of having to report the assault to law enforcement as they were a mandatory reporter.”
That’s a violation of Arizona law, which requires all suspected sexual abuse incidents be reported to law enforcement.

How did this kid become a serial rapist before he was old enough to vote? Maybe the backstory has been published somewhere.

If you can find the details on Tyler the Teenage Booty Bandit, please link/quote news articles in the comments.

 

Category: Abortion, Crime, Planned Parenthood, Sex

A. Ejaculating on a Fat Girl

Posted on | May 6, 2014 | 21 Comments

Q. What was Bill Clinton’s most famous accomplishment as president?

Monica Lewinsky has opened up about her infamous presidential affair to reveal that she turned down offers that would’ve amounted to $10million because she ‘didn’t feel like the right thing to do’.

(Perhaps if she had been worried about “the right thing to do” before she fellated the President of the United States . . .)

Lewinsky, now 40, has penned a tell-all essay for Vanity Fair . . .
‘Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any ‘abuse’ came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position,’ she wrote in the essay. . . .

(Being used as a taxpayer-provided semen receptacle? That was “a consensual relationship” and OK. Being exposed for doing so — and for filing a perjurious affidavit in a federal civil rights lawsuit — is, however, “abuse.” If Clinton had not been in “his powerful position,” Lewinsky would not have been so eager to suck him off, but when the administration’s defenders, including its hired liars in the press corps, predictably circled the wagons to defend The Big He, Lewinsky seemed surprised to learn that her fate was incidental to process. But I could go on all day about this. Back to the story . . .)

‘Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any ‘abuse’ came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position,’ she wrote in the essay.
‘The Clinton administration, the special prosecutor’s minions, the political operatives on both sides of the aisle, and the media were able to brand me. And that brand stuck, in part because it was imbued with power.’
She went on to say that she is fully aware of the impact of the relationship and she is coming clean with her full feelings. . . .

(Yes, “she’s coming clean.” He, on the other hand . . .)

 

Category: Bill Clinton, National Offend a Feminist Week

When Lies Succeed

Posted on | May 6, 2014 | 14 Comments

Has America become indifferent to truth?

The events in Benghazi seem to fit the description of a general-interest non-partisan disaster for the Administration. But, for now at least, as galling as it is, it’s hard not to give the Obama Administration (and the other villain of the tale, Hillary Clinton) points for managing the public’s reaction to the (possibly preventable) murder of a United States ambassador and the flurry of lies that followed it.
Why does this work? Or, alternatively, does it work?
My concern here is that our side tends to look at something utterly indefensible like this — “controversializing” a genuine news story — and say, “This won’t work.” Or: “This shouldn’t work.” Or: “This wouldn’t work if we all kept Tweeting about it.” But for now, at least, it’s working. Why? . . .

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

 

Category: Libya

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.06.14

Posted on | May 6, 2014 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Boko Haram Claims Credit For Kidnapping Nigerian Schoolgirls

A demonstration calling on the Nigerian government to rescue the captured schoolgirls

Leader threatens to sell girls into slavery

Supremes Split 5-4 On Approval Of Prayer At Public Meetings
Even dissenters admit the public forum “need not become a religion-free zone.” (Kagan)

Ukraine Moves Forces To Odessa
Loses helicopter to rebels near Slavyansk



POLITICS
American Legion Calls For Resignation Of VA Chief Shinseki, Two Others

Legion National Commander Dellinger: “[Shinseki’s] record…is a story of poor oversight and failed leadership.”


Concerned Veterans for America joins call; VFW withholds judgment until IG’s investigation complete


Sen. Schumer Calls For FDA Ban On Powdered Alcohol



Obama Uses Cinco De Mayo To Push Immigration Bill

Supremes Reject Challenge To Nebraska Town’s Ban On Renting To Illegal Immigrants

Texas Judge Under Fire For Rape Sentence

Fairfax County Proposes Limit On Size Of Gatherings At Private Homes

Occupod Convicted Of Assault On NYPD Officer



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Extends Losses In Thin Trading: NYMEX $99.43, Brent $107.64
Target Replaces CEO After Massive Data Breach
Apple Shares Top $600 For First Time Since 2012
US Service Firms Grow At Fastest Pace Since August
Tyson Earnings Fall On Bird Flu
Pepsi Joins Coke In Removing Brominated Vegetable Oils From Drinks
Sony Breaks Storage Capacity Record With 185-TB Cassette
AMD Emerges From Intel’s Shadow With Big Bet On Low-Power Chips
Microsoft Hints At Smaller Surface
Former Fugitive John McAfee Returns – With A Messaging App?
Pre-Orders Now Open For $500 High-End Aluminum NES



SPORTS
Kings Squash Ducks 3-1, Take 2-0 Series Lead

Ducks RW Corey Perry falls while the Kings’ Tyler Toffoli takes the puck

Quick makes 36 saves for LA, Gaborik scores his third goal in two games

Paul Scores 32 For Clippers In Rout Of Thunder

Fleury, Crosby Score For Pens As Rangers Fall In Shootout

Wizards Cruise Past Pacers In Opener

Giants Edge Pirates In 13th On Throwing Error

Raptors Re-Sign Coach Casey To Three-Year Deal

Semien Doubles In 12th, White Sox Beat Cubs

Nats Blank Dodgers After Over Three Hours Of Rain Delay, Take Lead In NL East



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Shailene Woodley: I’m Not A Feminist “Because I Love Men”

“I think the idea of ‘raise women to power, take the men away from the power’ is never going to work out because you need balance.”

“I don’t know how we as women expect men to respect us because we don’t even seem to respect each other.”

“The Comeback” Returns To HBO For Six Episodes This Fall

Kanye West – I’m The Simon Cowell Of The Streets

Demi Lovato To Rock Gay Pride Events In NYC, LA

Infamous Club Kids “Party Monster” Michael Alig Released From Jail

Rihanna No Longer With Def Jam

Katie Couric Eyed As Substitute Host For Today Show

Adam DeVine To Make More Treble In “Pitch Perfect 2”

Naya Rivera Rocks The Tiny Thong Bikini

Hayden Panettiere’s Wedding To Vladimir Klitschko Delayed By Ukraine Crisis



FOREIGNERS
Royal Bank Of Australia Keeps Rate On Hold Again
Egypt’s Al-Sisi Vows To Finish Off Muslim Brotherhood If Elected
Civilian Diver Dies In ROK Ferry Search
Thai PM Shinawatra Denies Abuse Of Power In Key Legal Challenge
Syrian Opposition Coalition Offices In US Given “Foreign Mission” Status
Libyan Parliament Confirms New PM
UN Torture Committee Grills Vatican On Sex Abuse
Human Rights Watch Accuses Venezuelan Government Of Rights Violations



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: Coming Full Circle
Michelle Malkin: GOSNELL – The Movie Hollywood Won’t Make, But You Can
Doug Powers: Imagine The MSM Headlines If Condoleeza Rice Were A Democrat
Twitchy: Progressives Of Pallor Alert! #DiversityWin For HuffPo’s So So So White Meeting In DC
American Power: Democrats Plan To Counter Criticism – By Outlawing It
American Thinker: The Veterans Administration Scandal Hits Home
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Joining The New Elite – A How-to Guide (Part 4)
Conservatives4Palin: Governor Palin Shares New Joni Ernst Campaign Video
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, May 5
Jammie Wearing Fools: Obstructionist Democrat Wants To Boycott Benghazi Committee
Joe For America: John Kerry Outdoes Himself In The Stupidity Department
JustOneMinute: Preemptive Props For Piketty
Pat Dollard: Americans Now Considered Racist For Waving The American Flag
Protein Wisdom: “Too Big To Audit?” Large Partnerships Avoid IRS Scrutiny, GAO Reports
Shot In The Dark: Rhetorical Questions
The Jawa Report: California Apartheid On Cinco De Mayo
The Lonely Conservative: We Still Don’t Know What Obama Was Doing During The Benghazi Attack
This Ain’t Hell: More About The Current Army Cutbacks
Megan McArdle: Rape On Campus Belongs In The Courts


Category: Live at Five

#NOAFW Kinder, Gentler Baby-Killing

Posted on | May 5, 2014 | 42 Comments

Cosmopolitan magazine celebrates the Sacrament of Liberalism: New Jersey abortion clinic counselor Emily Lett got pregnant and recorded a video of her abortion experience, telling her story to “inspire other women to stop the guilt.” Wesley Smith comments: “Ah. good times. Becoming irresponsibly pregnant and then having a birth-like experience of destroying a fetus — complete with pictures!”

You’re not a real feminist until you (a) kill your own baby and (b) become a lesbian. Of course, if you avoid heterosexuality altogether, this deprives you of the opportunity to get pregnant (and then kill your baby like a good feminist should), but lifelong lesbians can make up for skipping the otherwise necessary abortion experience by encouraging other women to kill their babies.

(Did I mention that this is National Offend a Feminist Week?)

 

Category: Abortion, Feminism, National Offend a Feminist Week

Gay Bishop’s Gay Divorce

Posted on | May 5, 2014 | 94 Comments

Oh, the heartache of homosexual matrimony on the rocks!

Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson, now retired, nearly prompted a schism in the Anglican Communion in 2003 when the New Hampshire diocese consecrated him as their bishop, despite his open relationship with partner Mark Andrew. Robinson and Andrew were joined in civil union in 2008, then wed two years later, after New Hampshire approved same-sex marriage. On Sunday, Robinson announced that, after 25 years together, he and Andrew are getting a divorce.
This is Robinson’s second divorce — he was married to his wife from 1972 until 1986, when he came out as gay. . . . “My belief in marriage is undiminished by the reality of divorcing someone I have loved for a very long time, and will continue to love even as we separate,” Robinson wrote Sunday in The Daily Beast. “Love can endure, even if a marriage cannot.”

So, after he spent a dozen years deceiving some pathetic woman in a dishonest sham of a marriage, Bishop Robinson then spent two dozen years with his “true love,” until that went stale and became tedious. What next? Will Robinson declare that he has been living a lie, as a woman bishop trapped in a gay male bishop’s body?

Tune in for the next episode of Days of Our Gay Episcoplian Lives.

 

Category: Gays, Marriage
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