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Professor Dee Graham: The Psychologist Who Drove Feminists Crazy

Posted on | February 14, 2014 | 83 Comments

Remember the radfem blogger who says all heterosexual intercourse (PIV, penis-in-vagina) is rape? Sure you do.

Well, it turns out that her insane theories are secondhand madness, as it were, and one of her main sources of lunacy is a book published 20 years ago by a trio of feminists, the lead author being Dee Graham, a professor of psychology at the University of Cincinnati.

How I discovered this: Wednesday, on a hunch, I rooted around in my bookshelves and found Daphne Patai’s 1998 book Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism. As I say, this was a hunch — hey, if radical feminists are declaring that heterosexuality is a myth and that all women are naturally lesbians, a book called Heterophobia might offer some clues. (Who says men aren’t intuitive, huh?) So, after briefly quoting Patai in a post Thursday, I continued reading and came across this on Page 174:

Dee Graham . . . claims to be able to explain the very existence of heterosexuality in women by invoking what she calls the “Societal Stockholm Syndrome.” In a 1994 book entitled Loving to Survive, Graham expounds her theory in minute detail. As in the famous Stockholm bank-hostage episode in 1973, in which four hostages bonded with their captors and came to see the police as their common enemy, women — so the argument goes — are eternally held hostage  to men. . . . The point of all male behavior is domination . . . Heterosexual behavior thus becomes a “survival strategy” for women, as do “feminine” characteristics, which result from women’s need to ingratiate themselves with their “captors.” . . .
Graham’s thesis makes it impossible to distinguish in a meaningful way between situations of genuine abuse and the ordinary life of heterosexual women. And that is precisely the point. Men are women’s captors. Women are men’s hostages. Heterosexuality is the form of their subjugation.

Bizarre as it may seem, Graham’s theory has been widely embraced by feminists, and is cited by the radfem at Radical Wind:

In other words, the strategy is to program us to respond to men’s violence through dissociation and trauma-bonding, and cloak/rename these responses as “love” or “attraction” to men — so on the top of it they make us believe we want it.
Let’s recall what trauma-bonding is: if we look at Dee Graham’s work (p.4,Loving to Survive), for a woman to trauma-bond to a man:

  1. she must perceive her captor — the man — as having powers of life and death over her
  2. she must believe that she cannot escape, and that therefore her life depends on her captor
  3. she must be isolated from outsiders so that his perspective is the only perspective available
  4. she must feel as if her captor — the man — showed her some kindness or attention.

This situation of captor-to-hostage is the situation of all women to all men. (This is also the point that D.G. makes in her book). That is, all men hold all women captive. All women are prisoners and hostages to men’s world. Men’s world is like a vast prison or concentration camp for women. This isn’t a metaphor, it’s reality. Each man is a threat. We can’t escape men. We are forced to depend on men and male infrastructures for our survival. Men’s perspective (and men’s language that names their perspective) is the only perspective available and we are isolated from other women and woman-centered perspectives.

And the radfem blogger concludes:

[H]eterosexuality doesn’t exist and our “urges” to bond with [men] emotionally or sexually aren’t natural drives but normal PTSD reactions to years of abuse and mind-programming.

There you have it, ladies and gentlemen: Lesbian separatism as the only alternative to being captive to male violence — “Each man is a threat”! — an idea directly derived from a single book published 20 years ago that you probably never heard of, but which has been far more influential than anything published by Graham’s critics.

This intellectual theory is so easily refuted by common sense that it almost seems a waste of time to do so.

Two words: Voluntary cooperation.

For the vast majority of human history, and still for many millions of people today, simply surviving required voluntary cooperation between members of families, tribes and communities. My own grandparents, Alabama farmers, had to work sun-up to sundown six days a week merely to have the basics of life. It is only under conditions of widespread affluence that anyone would have the inclination — or the luxury of spare time — to look at male-female relationships and accuse men of exercising domination through violence against women, or to imagine that the pair-bonding of husbands and wives was the result of “PTSD reactions to years of abuse and mind-programming.”

To quote Orwell: “One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.”

 

Category: Feminism

‘If It Was a Rape, It Was Good Rape’

Posted on | February 13, 2014 | 79 Comments

“One of the contributors [to a 1993 feminist essay collection], Doris C. DeHardt, a feminist therapist . . . thinks that ‘feminist marriage is, like military intelligence, an oxymoron.’ . . . [M]ost of the lesbian contributors took no pains to conceal their sense of superiority at living perfectly coherent feminist lives.”
— Daphne Patai, Heterophobia (1998)

Everybody laughed at the RadFem who said “PIV is always rape, OK?” But no matter how absurd feminist arguments seem to sane people, our laughter does not change the fact that radical lesbian baby-killers take their man-hating Marxist ideology quite seriously.

Despite her weird resemblance to Dustin Hoffman, women’s studies professor Bettina Aptheker was not joking when she said lesbianism is “the highest state of feminism.” On the one hand, caustic sarcasm is an entirely appropriate response to the Lunatic Lesbian Liberation Movement, but on the other hand, the lunatics are actually “winning” the argument, because normal people are afraid of being called sexist homophobes if they tell the truth about what radical feminism really is.

The consequences of this cowardice are evident everywhere:

At least 10 Catholic colleges and universities will be hosting productions of The Vagina Monologues or have officially recognized student groups that are performing the play in 2014, The Cardinal Newman Society has learned. Many of the institutions with connections to the play in 2014 have reportedly hosted the play in past years, and students from at least one institution are advertising 15 years of performances.
The Monologues seriously distorts human sexuality and celebrates sinful behaviors, including lesbian activity and masturbation. One scene even declares a lesbian rape of a teenage girl her “salvation” which raised her into “a kind of heaven.” The play’s production on Catholic campuses has been criticized by several bishops.

If lesbian rape is feminist “salvation,” women who have sex with teenage girls must be the Blessed Saints of Radical Feminism.

Left to right: Nicole Wooten, Tonya Drueppel, Andrea Cardosa.

It’s easy to joke about this, as I say, but what do we expect women to do when feminist academics and activists tell them that lesbianism is the only way to escape male oppression? Those who rallied to the defense of Kaitlyn Hunt argued that enforcing age-of-consent laws is homophobic if the accused offender is gay. (ABC will feature “Free Kate” again on 20/20 Friday.) And in case you haven’t noticed, there have been several recent cases where older lesbians decided to “liberate” pubescent minors from oppressive patriarchal heteronormativity:

  • Arizona physical education teacher Nicole Wooten was arrested last February on charges that she had sex with a girl in 2005 and 2006, when the victim was a 12-year-old eighth-grader.
  • Texas music teacher 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.
  • South Dakota 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.

In the most high-profile recent case, California teacher Andrea Cardosa, 40, was arrested after a 28-year-old woman said her former basketball coach began molesting her when she was 12. “You ruined my childhood,” the former student, Jamie Carillo, said in a telephone confrontation with Cardosa that went viral on YouTube. Carillo later told KTLA-TV how the molestation began: “She was kissing me, and then it turned into putting her hands down my pants. … She just completely manipulated me into thinking that I needed her and I wanted it.”

Gee, where do people get these ideas?

Such is the logic of radical feminism: All men are complicit in this system of violence they call the patriarchy. All women are victims of patriarchal oppression, and therefore heterosexual intercourse is always rape. Women who think they like having sex with men are actually victims of “brainwashing and mind-control” by men who “deliberately manipulate our responses to increase their control over us,” Radical Wind explains.
This is why feminists have made Valentine’s Day an annual occasion for the performance of Eve Ensler’s play “The Vagina Monologues” on university campuses. One of the most controversial scenes in Ensler’s original play involved a 13-year-old girl experiencing “a kind of heaven” after being sexually molested by an older lesbian: “If it was rape, it was a good rape.” That line was subsequently excised from the script and the girl’s age changed to 16, but the fundamental point of the scene remains: Lesbian sex is never wrong, and introducing young girls to lesbianism is a good thing. . . .

Please read the whole thing at The American Spectator.

Feminism may seem like a joke, but Marxist lesbians take it seriously.

 

 


Category: Crime, Culture, Education, Feminism, Gays, Sex

How to Hate Commies

Posted on | February 13, 2014 | 36 Comments

If American conservatism has a future, that future is going to look a lot like Gabby Hoffman. What is striking about Gabby is that, unlike some other young conservatives I have met, she shows a deep appreciation of conservatism’s history, especially its development in the context of the Cold War. While it is true that American conservatism has a long and respectable intellectual pedigree — as Russell Kirk demonstrated in The Conservative Mind — it was only in the post-World War II environment that this philosophy emerged as a fighting creed to challenge the liberal hegemony that had dominated our culture since the Progressive Era of the early 20th century. While it took many hands to build the movement that eventually elected Ronald Reagan president, three books are generally credited with inspiring the movement and providing it with a sense of philosophical coherence:

Weaver’s book remains a classic, but it is perhaps impossible for anyone who was not alive at the time to imagine what a publishing sensation Hayek and Buckley’s books created. The Road to Serfdom was republished in a condensed version by the Reader’s Digest and went through multiple editions. It gained immediate attention as an important work, and the same was true of God and Man at Yale. Young conservatives who think of Buckley as an imminently respectable intellectual have no idea what kind of hateful denunciations were heaped upon him after he boldly exposed the leftward drift in elite academia. Some two decades after FDR’s triumphal election, liberals simply were not used to being addressed in such a tone of confident disagreement, and Buckley was personally demonized for it.

All of three of these books were published at a time when armed confrontation with totalitarian power was the great crisis facing the American political order, creating a sensibility of existential threat that is absent in much conservative discourse today.

In the quarter-century since the fall of the Berlin Wall, it seems, many young conservatives have forgotten — or perhaps it is more accurate to say they never learned — what it was that originally inspired the modern conservative movement. The dread of dictatorship and the menace of totalitarian ideology was easier to understand for those of us who grew up under the shadow the Evil Empire, with the threat of thermonuclear annihilation constantly in our minds. Because her parents grew up inside the nightmare of Stalin’s conquests, immigrating from Soviet Lithuania to the United States, Gabby Hoffman gets it in a way that many other young people don’t really get it anymore:

Millions tuned to NBC last Friday night to watch the opening ceremony of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Despite subpar construction, dingy hotel conditions, and athletes trapped in bathrooms, the Sochi spectacle was masterfully executed — except for the Olympic ring that didn’t budge and the glorification of Soviet symbols.
To anyone with family members that escaped the Soviet Union — including yours truly — the opening ceremony brought back terrible memories of the Old Country.
The opening montage began with, “Russia overwhelms. Russia mystifies. Russia transcends. Through every stage of its story, it’s resisted any notion of limitation. Through every re-invention, only redoubling its desire to cast a towering presence.”
The narrator — Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage — continued by saying, “The empire that ascended to affirm a colossal footprint; the revolution that birthed one of modern history’s pivotal experiments. But if politics has long shaped our sense of who they are, it’s passion that endures…”
What’s so “pivotal” about centrally-planned government, food rationing, prison labor camps, a secret police, and millions of deaths? . . . .

Read the whole thing at Townhall.com.

 

Category: History

The #OccupyResoluteDesk School Of Leadership & Management

Posted on | February 13, 2014 | 5 Comments

by Smitty

It is slightly redundant to point and laugh at the useless tool, I know. However, we can be reasonably confident that he’ll never be held accountable for the damage he’s done here under the sun, so laughter is as good as it gets. We’re certainly paying for it.

As much as I love #OccupyResoluteDesk, it is starting to get a bit dated. The instantly classic “I can do whatever I want” does bring a certain South Park character to mind. Should we refer to BHO as ‘Jimmy Cartman’? Tying our previously worst president with a cartoon character seems to capture Obama about right. Thoughts?

Category: Barack Obama, humor

In The Mailbox: 02.13.14

Posted on | February 13, 2014 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Going to be mostly off the internet this weekend, as I have friends coming in from out of town to attend Katsucon, a local anime convention being held at National Harbor despite the horrible apocalyptic WINTER STORM that smacked the area last night. For those of you in the Upper Midwest, Buffalo, New England, etc., it would have been just another Wednesday night in winter, but the local news & weather people get themselves worked up into a lather about such things. So, no FMJRA this weekend unless Smitty takes up the cudgels, and Rule 5 Sunday is going to open March like a lion with a triple helping of the Lord’s handiwork. Live at Five will probably resume next Monday or Tuesday, depending on events.
Also, before I forget, thanks to everyone who hit the links in last week’s book post. You bought over three dozen books, both Kindle and dead-tree editions, which is very much appreciated not just by the authors (I got a thank you note from Casey Neumiller) but I appreciate it as well.


OVER THE TRANSOM
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: People Still Read The Onion?
First Street Journal: Economics 101 – Who DIDN’T See This Coming?
Proof Positive: Obamacare’s Grandmother
Michelle Malkin: Culture Of Corruption Postscript – The Hilda Solis Files
Twitchy: Democratic Congressman Finds A Regulation So Terrible, He Admits “These Tea Partiers May Have A Point”


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Faux Conservative Carl De Maio Releases Campaign Ad Featuring His Gay Partner
American Thinker: Gender Madness Taking Over The Military And Schools
Blackfive: Book Review – Code Name Johnny Walker
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – Fournier, You Can Stop Doing It Right Now
Conservatives4Palin: Wendy Davis On Post-Week Twenty Abortion Advocacy – Never Mind
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, February 12
Jammie Wearing Fools: Senate Democrats Urge IRS To Intensify Harassment Of Conservative Groups
Joe For America: Lieutenant Michael Behenna Wins Parole
JustOneMinute: “Capitulate”, Hell; We’re Just Winning In A Different Dimension
Pat Dollard: Zero People Attend An Obamacare Enrollment Event In Illinois
Protein Wisdom: A Pause In The Regular Programming, For A Brief Instant…
Shot In The Dark: Turning The Corner To Madness
The Jawa Report: Chechen Terrorist Supporters Now Big Fans Of John McCain
The Lonely Conservative: U.S. Now Ranks Just Above Haiti In Press Freedom
This Ain’t Hell: Questionable Choices – Why Pushing Through The DOJ Nomination Will Alienate Rust-Belt Democrats
Megan McArdle: Latest Obamacare Delay Is Probably Illegal


Category: Linkagery

“It just wasn’t right,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch

Posted on | February 13, 2014 | 51 Comments

by Smitty

What a stinking crock of ObamaCare (emphasis mine):

McConnell and top lieutenant Sen. John Cornyn (Texas) reluctantly backed ending debate after it became clear that no one in their conference wanted to cast the deciding 60th vote.

Sixty votes were needed to overcome a filibuster by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who complained that Congress was raising the debt ceiling without demanding any curbs on Washington’s spending.

With the upper chamber’s Democrats and Independents all voting yes, Senate Republicans needed to muster five votes to overcome Cruz.

Yet during an hour of tense floor conversations, it appeared they might fail.

The vote started late, as Senate Republicans huddled behind closed doors. After meeting for roughly an hour in private, the conference still did not know whether it could conjure up the needed votes.

On the floor, the procedural vote ran on for another hour, with Republicans slow to offer support.

Cornyn and McConnell, who is the most vulnerable Senate Republican up for reelection in 2014, then voted to end the debate, making it clear the procedural motion would be approved.

After their dramatic votes, another group of Republicans met in a room off the Senate floor. They returned, and several switched their votes from no to yes.

Some members said they switched their votes to give cover to McConnell and Cornyn.

“I didn’t want this to come down to just be a criticized vote for just a few of our people. It just wasn’t right,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who fought off a primary challenger in 2012 and is serving his last term.

What’s actually wrong here is that voters have tolerated such an egregious evasion of responsibility for so long. Our representatives, one might have been tempted to think, are elected to do mature, adult work on tough issues like budgets. And here we see a ‘clever’ system whereby the cloture vote is the one that matters, and the simple majority vote on the legislation is an afterthought, so that Senators can do their foul deeds while piously claiming to vote against them.

This pattern is not dissimilar from one a couple thousand years ago involving the Sanhedrin and the Romans.

Why is this November’s election not a sure thing for the GOP? Because it’s entirely unclear that, given majority power again, the GOP would be any less wretched than Reid, Pelosi and crew.

You are correct, Senator Hatch: this wasn’t right, it hasn’t been right for a very long time, and it’s high time we had some no-kidding reform. Would there was a party that could be relied upon to deliver it.

Category: Republicans

Pro-Obama Network Labels Washington @FreeBeacon ‘Anti-Clinton Website’

Posted on | February 12, 2014 | 10 Comments

If anyone remembers the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries, MSNBC and other liberal media shifted sharply toward Barack Obama after he won the Iowa caucuses. For the rest of the campaign, Hillary Clinton was fighting the pro-Obama media as much as she was fighting Obama himself. Now, evidently having forgotten their own anti-Clinton propaganda in 2008, MSNBC is refusing to name the Washington Free Beacon, instead labeling it an “anti-Clinton website.”

Their complete dishonesty is exceeded only by their utter shamelessness.

 

Category: MSNBC

#ObamaCare Buzzword Compliance

Posted on | February 12, 2014 | 42 Comments

by Smitty


Via Drudge:

Obama officials made clear in a press briefing that firms would not be allowed to lay off workers to get into the preferred class of those businesses with 50 to 99 employees. How will the feds know what employers were thinking when hiring and firing? Simple. Firms will be required to certify to the IRS – under penalty of perjury – that ObamaCare was not a motivating factor in their staffing decisions. To avoid ObamaCare costs you must swear that you are not trying to avoid ObamaCare costs. You can duck the law, but only if you promise not to say so.

ObamaCare is a river of lies, with headwaters in hell. You are now drowning in it.

Category: Health Care
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