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Special Snowflake Syndrome

Posted on | August 15, 2013 | 50 Comments

‘Troubled starlet’ Amanda Bynes, weeks before she got sent to the psych ward.

Last month, Amanda Bynes went crazy — no, wait, let me re-phrase that: Last month, it was recognized as an official fact by the state of California, that Amanda Bynes had been going crazy for a long time, and had finally reached her destination, Crazytown. Kookville. Nutsburg.

Her original 72-hour involuntary commitment was extended to 30 days, and the diagnosis is . . . Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?

Last week a California judge granted permission, at the request of doctors from the Hillman Psychiatric Center in Ventura County, to extend Amanda Bynes’s psychiatric hold for another 30 days. According to state law, such an order can only be approved if the patient is “gravely disabled as a result of a mental disorder” or “is a danger to others, or him or herself.”
But a source very close to the 27-year-old former child star tells us her prognosis is not all doom and gloom.
“Amanda has made significant improvements, she is doing better than she was,” an insider told FOX411’s Pop Tarts column. “There are no drug problems involved, it’s all mental. She has deep anger and PTSD, which tripped a psychotic episode. … She is very ill, but manageable. Amanda genuinely wants to get better and has wanted to get better for some time.”
We’re told the PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) stems in part from the pressures of her Hollywood career, in which she shot to Nickelodeon stardom as a child, before declaring that she was “retiring” a few years ago. Bynes also has very deep-seated conflict issues with her parents, with whom we’re told she’s not particularly close.

Uh, no, she doesn’t have Post-Traumatic Street Disorder, unless maybe she went to Iraq and watched her friends bleed to death after their Humvee got blown up by insurgents. And I’m pretty sure I don’t remember the “Amanda in Fallujah” episode on Nickelodeon.

Having your show-business career fizzle out in your mid-20s is kinda bad, but it’s not the kind of trauma that causes PTSD.

Maybe she had some stress, but trauma? I don’t think so.

Here’s my diagnosis: Special Snowflake Syndrome.

Since she was about 10 years old, Amanda’s life was nothing but success — All That,  The Amanda Show, What I Like About You — and she got used to thinking she was special because, really, she was.

Then, without warning or explanation, it stopped cold. She hasn’t done anything since 2009 — a washed-up has-been at an age where most other young people are just beginning their careers.

During the dozen or so years when she was a little celebrity, however, she never acquired any useful life skills or had to deal with anything more difficult than saying her lines and hitting her marks in order to be treated like a Special Snowflake.

And the loss of that status, while perhaps probably was traumatic from her perspective, but it was a status that most people never enjoy, so she wasn’t really worse off than most other people and, at least financially, was a lot better off than 90-plus percent of everybody.

Some people are emotionally strong and some people are emotionally weak, and Amanda Bynes wasn’t one of the strong ones.

So, over the course of the past three years, bit by bit, step by step, Amanda Bynes gradually went crazy, and by the time her craziness started causing serious problems — in April 2012, she got her first DUI — there was apparently nobody around who had a serious interest in helping her cope with her various issues.

What does “conflict issues with her parents” mean? I don’t know, but the fact that she got so far off the rails with nobody to stop her tells you that there weren’t any grown-ups around Amanda Bynes who were doing anything to help her solve her problems.

 

Category: Celebrities

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.15.13

Posted on | August 15, 2013 | 10 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Cairo Quiet After Deadly Crackdown

Curfew imposed on Cairo, other cities overnight

At least 278 dead as security forces clear pro-Morsi protest camps


Entire Crew Of Stricken Indian Sub Feared Dead
Divers find no signs of life


Wikileaker Apologizes For Hurting US
“I’m sorry that my actions hurt people. I’m sorry that they hurt the United States.”



POLITICS
Jesse Jackson Jr. Gets 30 Months In Federal Prison

Former congressman pleads guilty

Stole campaign money to support extravagant lifestyle

New Fallout Over Rodeo Act That Mocked Obama
#phonyscandals

Former Chairman Of JCS David Jones Dies, 92

Immigration Activists Descend On House GOP Whip

NJ Judge Under Pressure To Allow Gay Marriage

Clinton Charity Under Fire For Business Links

Tribe Votes To End Alcohol Ban On Pine Ridge Reservation

Seattle Police To Deal Doritos, Information At Hempfest

ACLU Irate Over Kansas Proof Of Citizenship Law

New ICE Nominee’s Background As Defense Attorney for Pedophiles, Murderers Raises Questions About Credentials

Federal Appeals Court Blocks Vermont Effort To Close Nuke Plant



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Oil Prices Rise In Asia After Egyptian Bloodbath: NYMEX $107.17, Brent $110.59
AMR Bankruptcy Plan Goes To Judge After Merger Suit
Cisco To Cut 4000 Jobs Despite Profit
Nikkei Leads Asia Lower By 2% As Yen Rises
Wall Street Falls On Uncertainty Over Fed Bond Buying
UK Unemployment Stays At 7.8% As Investors Eye New Rate Signal
Smartphones Top Feature Phones In Sales
NYT Denies Website Failure Due To Cyberattack
Is The Surface RT A Turkey Or Not?
Google Under Fire Over GMail Privacy Remarks
“Call Of Duty: Ghosts” Multiplayer Unveiled



SPORTS
Mets Blow Four-Run Lead, Lose To Dodgers In 12th

Dillon Gee’s fine start wasted

Bullpen can’t hold Dodgers

Patriots QB Tom Brady Sprains Knee, Injury Not Seen As Serious

Soriano Carries Yankees To Win With Two Dingers, Seven Ribbies

Sixers Owner Expected To Buy NHL’s Jersey Devils

Tribe Tops Twins In Twelfth, 9-8

Timbermutts Sign Pekovic To Five Year Deal

O’s Lose To Snakes Again, 5-4 In 14

Blue Jays Rally In 10th, Edge Red Sox 4-3

Span Saves The Day, Seals Nationals’ Fifth Straight Win



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
“Bachelor” Star Gia Allemand Dies, 29

Declared dead at New Orleans’ University Hospital

Hanged herself in apparent suicide attempt Monday

Simon Cowell’s Baby Mama Settles Divorce

Jennifer Garner Joins Halle Berry In Fight For Tougher Anti-Paparazzi Laws

E.L. James Named World’s Highest-Paid Author With $95 Million For Fifty Shades Of Grey

Jennifer Aniston Sued – Actress Allegedly Stiffed Contractor

Hard-Partying David Arquette Dumped From New Movie

“True Blood”‘s Sam Trammell Joins Shailene Woodley In Fox’s “The Fault In Our Stars”

Vin Diesel Teams With “Grace Of Monaco” Writer For “Soldiers Of The Sun”

Joel Edgerton To Play Ramses In Ridley Scott’s “Exodus”

NBC Nabs Comedy Produced by “30 Rock”‘s Tina Fey, Robert Carlock

Foster Flees Own Film Debut

Boy Drama: Taylor Hates Bieber

Kate Bosworth Tying The Knot



FOREIGNERS
PM Singh: Need To Improve Quality Of Education
Egypt’s Violent Crackdown Shows Limits Of US Influence
Turkish PM Erdogan Says Egypt Democracy Test For The West
PRC Butthurt Over Japanese Ministers’ Visit To Yasukuni Shrine On VJ Day
Car Bombs Kill 26 In Baghdad
Indians Worldwide Celebrate I Day With Gusto
Paraguay’s New President Was Targeted By DEA
MSF Withdraws From Somalia; Accuses Government Of Complicity In Attacks
Jewish Agency Secretly Brings 17 Yemeni Jews To Safety In Israel
Angela Merkel Supports Tories’ Plan To Devolve EU Powers To Member States



BLOGS & STUFF
Michelle Malkin: The Illegal Alien Murderer Of Vanessa Pham
Twitchy: MSNBC Misplaces Four Out Of Four Cities On Map
American Thinker: A Functional Psychosis
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Feminist Says Something Sensible, Other Feminists Go Insane
Jawa Report: Hammertime!
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard For August 14
JustOneMinute: The Times Vs. The Clintons
Shot In The Dark: Minnesota Political Haikus
American Power: Sick – “The Nation” Denies Harry Dexter White’s Soviet Espionage
Jammie Wearing Fools: Facing Steep Decline in Union Membership, AFL-CIO Seeks Partnership with NAACP and Sierra Club
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – State Exchanges Falling Short
Rep. Steve Stockman: Invites Missouri Rodeo Clowns Down To Perform In Texas
Rush Limbaugh: UK Telegraph Wonders If I’m Editing The New York Times
George Will: Obama’s Unconstitutional Steps Worse Than Nixon’s
James Pethokoukis: Is This the Chart That Proves The US Has A Structural Unemployment Problem?
Reihan Salam: Explaining The Openings-Hiring Gap
Ruth Simon: Student Loan Load Kills Startup Dreams
National Review: No Conference


Category: Live at Five

VIDEO: Sex-Positive Feminist Tearfully Explains: ‘You’re All the Man I Want’

Posted on | August 14, 2013 | 124 Comments

Earlier today, while researching male feminist Professor Hugo Schwyzer, I ran across a video in which a young woman read one of Schwyer’s columns and she had such a purty mouth that when I’d finished writing about Schwyzer I wondered, “Who is that girl?”

People sometimes ask me, “Stacy, where do you find all these kooks you write about?” And the answer is, random curiosity. So I checked this chick’s YouTube channel and found that she is a fairly popular personality, with more than 1,000 subscribers to her videos, although if she has a blog presence or a Twitter account, it’s separate from what she does on YouTube. Anyway, here’s how she describes herself:

Equality and liberation, no matter who or what you are.
Sex-positivity and much, much more!
Yes, I am a feminist. No, I don’t hate men. No, I don’t think sex is evil. No, I don’t hate girly things.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.

Last September, she posted a video entitled, “Why I Might Be Gone From YouTube For A While,” during which she went through a box of Kleenex in a 38-minute explanation of why she and her longtime boyfriend had recently decided to break up:

So I’ve been with the most amazing man ever for the past three years and that’s since I was 18. I’m 21 now. I just turned 21. I met him when I was 17, and we began dating about four or five months later. . . .
I fell madly, madly in love. And I still am. I still am madly, madly in love with this man. He’s about three years older than me, so he’s 24 right now. But recently, we decided to take what I guess some people would call “a break,” for our relationship’s own good, and I’m really conflicted about it, but I know it’s going to be best for us. . . .

Can I pick ’em, or what? If you thought being a “feminist” was about independence, let Little Miss Boohoo correct your misperceptions:

He feels like, these past three years, I’ve been tied down to him and . . . being in college, I should be free to go and explore and have all these experiences that I might not otherwise be able to have, you know, when I have a boyfriend. . . . He’s been saying this for a while, but after something that happened a couple of days ago, we’ve decided officially that this should happen. . . . I’ve been like this all day. I’m a mess. . . .
[She told him] “I like being tied down and I love you,” and he always thought that was weird, but I always told him . . . “You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me. You’re the most amazing guy in the world. I’m so lucky. I can’t think of anyone better.” . . .  He’s just absolutely perfect for me. . . .

He’s “the most amazing man ever”! She’s “madly, madly in love”! He’s “absolutely perfect “! And so, being on the receiving end of her worshipful adoration, Mr. Amazing is doing that passive-aggressive thing, avoiding commitment by saying that she needs to “go and explore and have all these experiences” because otherwise, she’s being “tied down to him,” see? She continues:

But he always felt like I’d never dated enough people. I haven’t seen enough people. And I always kind of just laughed that off and said, “What are you talking about? You’re all the man I want. Why would I go looking for something that, you know, I already have?”

Good Lord, man! Don’t you understand? She craves your seed.

A woman like this, she may call herself a “feminist,” but one look at her — crying her eyes out, pleading to the camera — and you can practically hear the sublimated urges of her inner hausfrau screaming: “Make me pregnant! Let me have your babies and suckle them to my breasts! Let me cook you bratwurst and sauerkraut!” Damn all this modern nonsense about sexism, this woman’s natural destiny is to be the mother of a large brood of nice young Lutheran children, fixing Jello salads for church potluck, and the truly cruel thing — what this guy’s doing — is denying her the fulfillment of her destiny. She continues:

But recently, I was presented with some temptation, and I didn’t cheat on him – I didn’t – but the fact that I wanted to was enough. . . .
I always told him like, the fact that I’ve never had, you know — I’ve never gone as far with girls as I wanted to, or explored enough of my sexuality with other women as I have always wanted to, but I didn’t care, because I had him. . . .

(WHOA! Is this getting good, or what?)

Last semester . . . I work at the Writing Center . . . and there’s this girl who works there. Her name is Maria and she’s an international student and she’s bisexual and she’s really pretty. . . . She and some of the other tutors . . . they invited me out — and I wasn’t 21 at the time, but they invited me out for drinks — after work one day. . . . I couldn’t drink . . . It was fun to see them get drunk, but Maria got really drunk, really drunk, and somehow we got on the subject of sexuality.

(We’re so surprised by this, aren’t we?)

I don’t remember how, but I mentioned the fact that I have a boyfriend, but I’m bisexual. And Maria was like, “Really? That’s so cool! So am I, and my boyfriend and I have an open relationship!” . . . At that point, when she realized I was interested in women, she became interested in me.

Isn’t it just amazing how this happens? Little Miss Boohoo just casually mentions her got-a-boyfrind-but-bisexual status to drunk Maria, and suddenly — surprise! surprise! — Maria’s really into her. So, the situation then comes up that Maria needs to go to the restroom, but is so drunk that her friends deem it necessary for Little Miss Boohoo to escort her, and guess what happens next?

She hit on me in the bathroom, and I had to turn her down — it was a moment of temptation, it definitely was – but I turned her down and I said, “You know what? We need to go back to the table, because you’re trying to kiss me and you’re telling me I’m really pretty, And you’re really pretty, too, and you know, if I didn’t have a boyfriend, this would totally be an option.” But I told her no. . . . And her boyfriend was with us, too, and he was totally cool with it, if anything was going to happen, but I just said like, “Dude, I have a boyfriend who wouldn’t be OK with this, and I wouldn’t feel right.”

See what’s going on here? Little Miss Boohoo isn’t really a lesbian, and her “bisexuality” is merely notional.

It’s just something she’s curious about, because with the way the gay thing gets pounded into kids’ heads nowadays — school, pop culture, peer pressure — unless you want to be regarded as a hateful weirdo, you’re supposed to at least experiment with the gay thing. And blondie here has indicated she’s messed around with girls a little bit, but not as much as she feels like she should, so she’s still . . . curious.

On the other hand, it seems, her friend Maria is enthusiastically into girls, especially when she’s drunk, and Maria’s boyfriend is cool with that, because maybe they could do a threesome and he could get some new amateur videos to share with his buddies.

However, while Little Miss Boohoo has this unsatisfied curiosity (really, you almost wish some hard-core diesel dyke would make a move on her, just to help her get over that ambiguity, one way or another) yet on the other hand, she still has this quaint old-fashioned sense of loyalty to Mr. Amazing, her passive-aggressive boyfriend.

So her reply to Maria is not, “Leave me alone, you pervert!” Instead, she turns Maria down almost apologetically, and yet feels guilty merely to have been tempted to stray from Mr. Amazing:

So that was, I guess, one of those opportunities that my boyfriend was talking about that he feels bad that he’s holding me back from experiencing, you know, thinks that I’ve always been curious about — all these “what ifs.” And so, yeah, that was the first time that I kind of thought, maybe there’s something to what he’s saying. Maybe I don’t know what I want. . . .

OK, is it just me, or has the decline of traditional “family values” left young people hopelessly confused, pondering existential complexities that Grandma never had to worry about? You don’t have to be Pat Robertson to deplore this poor woman’s situation.

No fire and brimstone sermons about lust and fornication and sin are necessary here. It’s more like one of those “21st-century relationship” problems that Instapundit is always noticing: Without the simple and predictable pathways of religion or custom to guide them, these kids just drift along in a fog of uncertainty. “Gosh, Maria is really pretty and I’ve always been curious about this, but . . .”

Meanwhile, there’s Mr. Amazing, toward whom Little Miss Boohoo feels this profound loyalty and almost comical adoration: “You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me. . . . I’m so lucky. I can’t think of anyone better. . . . You’re all the man I want.”

Having heaped so much ridicule on this silly girl — only because she’s a Sex Positive Feminist who thinks Hugo Schwyzer is profound — I’m tired of transcribing her pathetic rant and, honestly, I feel sorry for her. Not because she posted this video for our sarcastic amusement, but because Mr. Amazing refuses to let her fulfill her Teutonic peasant destiny of kinder, küche, kirche.

Dammit, son, take charge! Have her make you a nice dinner of bratwurst and sauerkraut, and then tell her, “Me Tarzan, you Jane.”

Get in touch with your inner patriarch, tell her to get rid of those silly birth-control pills, and as soon as she gets pregnant, take her down to the courthouse and get married. None of that expensive romantic Disney Princess Dream Wedding nonsense, with all the bridesmaids and rehearsals and stuff, just marry the girl and make babies.

Meanwhile, in case anyone wants to see the whole video, let me warn you about the scene where she goes to the male strip show with her girlfriends, and gets a free lap dance from the dancer with tattoos and piercings. (Turns out she’s curious about that, too.)

Not to spoil the denouement, but there’s kind of a happy ending: Her break-up with Mr. Amazing only lasted a week.

They can’t live without each other, and she returned to YouTube all smiley about it. But he still needs to let her do the kinder, küche, kirche thing. It’s her destiny — trust me on this — and I bet she cooks a wonderful bratwurst and sauerkraut casserole. Also, Jello salad.

 

Category: Feminism

OK, So This Happened: ‘Male Feminist’ Hugo Schwyzer Is a Psychotic Pervert

Posted on | August 14, 2013 | 89 Comments

“I was pulled away from the computer by the police because someone had called me in as potentially suicidal. . . .
“I am periodically suicidal. I have been hospitalized three times in the past month. . . .
“Before 1998 I slept with two dozen female students, somewhere in there, it’s a ballpark thing. That ended when I had a similar but not as bad a breakdown to the one I had now. When I got sober, I made amends to the college and swore off sleeping with students.”
— Professor Hugo Schwyzer

“I suspect he’s playing a longer game, and this is first class bullshit. . . .
“Confessing fraudulence is leverage toward greater sincerity. It feels like a feminist strategy.”
— Professor Ann Althouse

Pasadena City College Professor Hugo Schwyzer is famous for supporting the feminist agenda and, by “supporting the feminist agenda,” of course I mean banging fine young undergraduate poontang.

Some have accused Professor Hugo Schwyzer of faking his mental illness, of trying to get himself a taxpayer-funded “disability” vacation, or of attempting to establish the pretext for an insanity defense in advance of any investigation of his perverted sexual behavior.

Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt: Hugo Schwyzer is crazy.

He’s been crazy for years, and his madness took a form that, while increasingly common for women, is rare among men: Feminism.

Not all crazy people are feminists, but all feminists are crazy.

Psychiatrists attempting to treat these patients — alas, their madness is usually incurable — must ask themselves, “Is feminism actually the disease or merely the symptom of the disease?”

Let’s think about this: Suppose you are a young neurasthenic wimp hired to teach college girls. This position provides you with the opportunity to bang some fine undergraduate poontang, but the administration might object if you announce this in the course syllabus: “Gender Studies 201: Introduction to Professor Hugo Schwyzer’s Penis.”

OK, so you call it “Women in American Society” or “Humanities in the Social Sciences,” and if someone mistakenly get the idea that your class is called “Navigating Pornography,” so what?

Pasadena City College administrators met with instructor Hugo Schwyzer today and came to agreement to move an unauthorized scheduled public event that featured a male actor in the pornography industry. There will be no public event at PCC on Feb. 27. . . .
We support the instructor’s academic freedom within the classroom,” [assistant superintendent of Academic and Student Affairs] Dr. [Robert] Bell said. . . .
As with all classes at PCC, the attendees will be limited to properly enrolled students registered in Schwyzer’s Humanities 3 class. . . .
“The college also notes that PCC does not have any course titled ‘Navigating Pornography,’ ” Dr. Bell said.

What? Why would anyone have gotten the idea that Professor Schwyzer’s Humanities 3 course (“Humanities in the Social Sciences”) was called “Navigating Pornography”?

A California college professor said he will no longer teach his “Navigating Pornography” course after ending up in rehab because of the backlash it engendered.
Pasadena City College Professor Hugo Schwyzer — often referred to as the “Porn Professor” — announced this week he is dropping the course because the pressure from the college and members of the public drove him to psychological rehab . . .

Oh, that makes sense: The class was officially listed by one name in the course catalog, but Professor Hugo Schwyzer himself called it “Navigating Pornography,” and the actual course content was notorious enough on campus that Schwyzer was known as the “Porn Professor.” However, once it garnered widespread public attention (because Schwyzer invited a famous porn star to speak on campus), this flimsy deception was no longer sustainable.

Kind of like calling yourself a “feminist” as a means to gain opportunities for banging fine young undergraduate poontang.

Professor Hugh Schwyzer’s various deceptions led to cognitive dissonance, an unresolved conflict between (a) the person he actually was, and (b) the image he attempted to present. The motive for his deceptions was entirely selfish (to get laid), yet he presented himself as the spokesman for a popular ideal (feminism) and, when his perverse scheme inevitably led to trouble, the result was a psychotic crisis.

This is  Twitchy’s summary of Hugo Schwyzer’s feminist career:

However, he promoted “SlutWalk” and was pro-abortion, so therefore Professor Hugo Schwyzer’s “feminism” was acceptable to liberals.

Did I mention that Professor Hugo Schwyzer, 46, is now on his fourth marriage? And that his psychotic crisis followed the revelation of his (obscenely NSFW) text messages with a 27-year-old porn actress named Christina Parreira? Because maybe that’s kind of relevant.

Has this produced any meaningful discussion among feminists about why their ideology — which supposedly endows them with keen insights into the inherently oppressive patriarchal nature of maleness — failed to detect Professor Hugo Schwyzer’s bogusness?

Of course not. If they were capable of admitting error or taking responsibility, they wouldn’t be feminists, would they? Ace of Spades:

You know, we used to have a name for a male feminist, or a guy who just tells women whatever they want to hear and seems in thrall to them: Either Mama’s Boy or Guy Who Just Wants to Get Laid or both.
This is sexual dysfunction. I’m not saying women are supposed to defer to men — I don’t believe that crap at all.
But I also don’t believe that men are supposed to go about asking “mother may I?” to anyone in an Indigo Girls t-shirt.

Ace is “not saying women are supposed to defer to men”?

Damn, Ace, I’m kind of disappointed in you. Am I saying women are supposed to defer to men”? No, I’m saying, “Fix me a sammich.”

Since we are already digressing here, let’s examine a hypothetical scenario: What if a gullible young woman — slightly pudgy, but not entirely charmless — saw a Professor Hugo Schwyzer column and was so impressed she decided to turn it into a YouTube video?

OK, I lied. That scenario is not hypothetical:

Thank you, missy. You sure do got a purty mouth.

Excuse me, what were we talking about?

Ah, yes — now I remember — Professor Hugo Schwyzer wrote that column as a sort of weird psychological projection of his own twisted worldview, a sour-grapes rationalization offered as an “objective analysis” of other men’s objections to feminism.

Because (we now realize) Professor Hugo Schwyzer was by no means able to live his own life in accordance with the feminist ideals he espoused. Because (we now realize) the only reason Professor Hugo Schwyzer ever espoused feminism was to advance his own selfish interests, i.e., banging fine young undergraduate poontang.

Honesty is the best policy and, when people engage in elaborate deceptions — when, as in the case of Professor Hugo Schwyzer, their entire lives are a wall-to-wall monstrous lie — they tend to exhibit a vehement hostility to the truth about themselves.

Truth is truth, even if it is unflattering to us. The narcissist, however, can’t cope with his own faults and errors, and erects a system of defensive rationalizations and false personae in an effort to conceal (even from himself) the reality of who he really is. Because the truth and his false self-concept cannot be integrated, his personality disintegrates when the truth can no longer be evaded or suppressed.

Professor Hugo Schwyzer is suicidal. Is anyone really surprised?

If you were Professor Hugo Schwyzer, you’d be suicidal, too.

 

Category: Education, Feminism, Intellectuals

Tattooed Harlot Sydney Leathers: She’s Totally an Expert on ‘Self-Loathing’

Posted on | August 14, 2013 | 41 Comments

It is rather amusing to recall that when Sydney Leathers was first identified as Anthony Weiner’s sexting partner, some conservatives hesitated to name her, presuming her to be the victim of a predator.

Ah, but who was the predator and who was the prey?

Her 15 minutes of fame infamy have long since elapsed — Democrats are now like, “Anthony who?” — and her porn career isn’t likely to last much longer, so how can Sydney Leathers remain relevant? Declare herself a feminist and take a cheap shot at Fox News:

In an interview with The Frisky, the sexter-turned-porn-star lashed out at Fox News’ female stars and dissed Republicans as a whole.
“Yeah, I think conservative girls are really uptight,” Leathers mused. “It makes me think of, you know, the Fox News fembots who are obviously self-loathing, or they wouldn’t be Republicans and female, in my opinion.”

Sister Toldjah comments:

If being a “liberated woman” means embarrassing myself on an hourly basis [the link is to Sydney’s Twitter account] and allowing risque photos and p*rn video of myself . . . to be shamelessly taken/filmed and used for sordid financial gain by the likes of exploitative media outlets like the NY Post, Vivid, etc, then I’ll gladly stay an “uptight and self-loathing fembot” forever, thank you very much.

Of course, Sydney Leathers is correct about one thing: Conservative girls are “really uptight” — and Democrat women are down loose.

IYKWIMAITYD.

 

Category: Anthony Weiner, Democrats, Feminism, Fox News, Scandal, Sex

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 08.14.13

Posted on | August 14, 2013 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Egyptian Security Forces Move Against Pro-Morsi Protesters

Bulldozers, armored cars and gunfire

Two policemen, 25 protesters reported dead so far

Indian Submarine Explodes, Sinks In Mumbai
Unclear how many of eighteen-man crew are casualties


Justice Department Sues to Block American Airlines/US Air Merger
Antitrust lawyers claim deal would hurt consumers



POLITICS
Booker, Lonegan Dominate NJ Primaries

Republican Steve Lonegan after last night’s victory

The two will face six independent candidates in the general election; Booker heavily favored in early polls

Indian Reservation Awaits Results Of Vote To End Prohibition

Air Force Nuclear Missile Unit Fails Safety Test

Weiner Goes Soft In Polls; Di Blasio Leads

Detroit Police Mistakenly Release Officers’ Bra Sizes

Hooters Blackballs Mayor Filner


Boston Bomber’s Buddies Plead Not Guilty

Federal Appeals Court Demands NRC Action On Yucca Mountain

NM Court Affirms Right Of Non-English Speakers To Sit On Juries

Senator Hagan (D-NC) Requests DOJ Probe Of State Voting Law

“Duck Dynasty” Star Willie Robertson For Congress?



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Oil Falls Ahead Of US Stockpile Report: NYMEX $106.59, Brent $109.40
Germany Joins France With Faster-Than-Expected Expansion
AOL Boss Fires Executive In Front Of Hundreds Of Workers
Activist Investor Ackman Resigns from J.C. Penney Board
US Retail Sales Rise In July For Fourth Consecutive Month
Microsoft Unveils Sleek New Win8 Keyboard, Mouse
Apple Acquires Second TV Start-up Matcha.TV
Twenty Injured At LG Event As Publicity Stunt Turns Into Freetard Riot
GMail: You Weren’t Really Expecting Privacy, Were You?
Samsung Hennessy Is Official: A Dual-Screen Phone With A Quad-Core CPU



SPORTS
Montoya Won’t Be Back With EGR

Juan Pablo Montoya

Lack of results leads Earnhardt Ganassi racing to cut him loose

Snakes Edge Birds 6-5 In 11

Vickers To Race Full-time With Aaron’s In 2014


Rangers Release Manny Ramirez From Minors

Dallas Stars Deny Malkin Tampering

Cardinals Top Pirates 4-3 In Extras, Inch Closer In Standings

Tribe Takes Twins, 5-2

Tempers Flare, But Nationals Beat Giants For Fourth Straight Win



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Sandra Oh To Exit “Grey’s Anatomy”

“I really feel like I gave it my all”

Leaving after upcoming 10th season


Ben Affleck Reportedly Visits Troubled LiLo In Rehab; Talks Sobriety, New Movie Role

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“Twilight” Author Trades Undead For Well-Bred With “Austenland”

Soulja Boy Kicked Off Airplane For Being Un-American

Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley To Host 47th CMA Awards



FOREIGNERS
fatal Explosion Aboard Indian Sub Second In Three Years
Appointment Of Nineteen Generals As Provincial Governors Raises Fears In Egypt
Israeli Air Force Launches Early-Morning Raids On Gaza Rocket Launchers
Boko Haram’s New Tactic: Killing Muslims At Prayer In Mosques
Brazil Sues Samsung Over Labor Conditions
Sudan Reportedly Arming Syrian Rebels
Pakistan Violates Ceasefire Again, Targets 16 Indian Posts Along LoC In Poonch
Peru Drug Arrests: Women “Forced” Into Cocaine Trafficking
Narrow Lead By Merkel’s Coalition Holds As Election Approaches
One Killed In Bangladesh Violence As Strike Enters Second Day



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: The Purpose Behind The “Slut Walks”
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: The Golden Showers State
Michelle Malkin: Our Insane Asylum Policies Revisited
Twitchy: In Response To Rodeo Clown Crisis, Glenn Beck Declares #MockObamaDay
American Thinker: Scheindlin’s List
American Power: Obama’s Imperial Presidency
Jammie Wearing Fools: Lois Lerner Used Personal E-Mail To Conduct IRS Business, Investigators Say
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard For August 13
Jawa Report: Oprah Discovers Fastest Route To Publicity Is The Race Card
Shot In The Dark: Frequently Asked Questions, Part X
JustOneMinute: Delayed Impact
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch For August 13
Allahpundit: Bob Filner Responds To Recall Petition – “We’ll Go Backward As A City”
Hit & Run: Clapper Won’t Be Heading Intel Review Board, Though That May Be Small Comfort
Joel Kotkin: Entrepreneurs Turn Oligarchs
Power Line: Some Call It Law
David Bobb: Howard Zinn And The Art Of Anti-Americanism
NewsBusters: NYT’s Frank Bruni Claims Pro-Life Legislation Promotes Violence Against Women
Reihan Salam: Thinking Through Stop And Frisk


Category: Live at Five

‘They Were Lonely and Depressed; Their Symptoms Were Psychosomatic’

Posted on | August 13, 2013 | 62 Comments

In 2006, an Australian physician related his experiences encountering a certain type of female patient: Attractive, successful, mid-20s, complaining of rather vague symptoms. The patient had previously been diagnosed with and treated for a variety of ailments, but was still suffering from anxiety, cramps, etc. A pattern became evident, and the doctor described the typical reaction:

When questioning them about their unhappiness, a litany of loathing and tears, more sincere than any self penitent would erupt. They were fat, they were unintelligent and they couldn’t find a partner. They were ugly.
They were unlovable.
At first I was quite shocked at this complete disconnect between reality and self perception. As a young man, I would not have hesitated at once to try to make an acquaintance with any of these women. Indeed, they usually did not have a problem with meeting men at all. What they did have was a problem of meeting men who would treat them like a person instead of a means of sexual satisfaction. They were lonely and depressed; their symptoms were psychosomatic.
The pattern of their personal lives seemed to be the same. They usually had a string of liaisons more than relationships. The male leaving them after he became sexually bored, lured away by a more attractive mate or when “demands” were placed on the man. These “demands” usually usually took the form of a promise of commitment or exclusivity. It was interesting to observe that the many a woman would delay making “demands” on her partner for as long as possible as she was fearful of losing her mate. The imperative however was the biological clock, demanding that a stable relationship be entered for the good of the offspring. It was at this point that the relationship broke down. Time to start again: all men are Bastards.
Indeed their inability to “keep” a man was interpreted by themselves as a failure of attraction or, in a psychologically negative sense, proof of their ugliness. As the cycle repeated, the ideation was verified. A course of anti-depressant medication usually improved their symptoms if not their mental state. They were sad, not mad. They were suffering from a reactive depression with the consequential psychosomatic symptoms. Their existential situation was the cause of their problems. . . .

Please read the whole thing, because it is important to understanding the fundamental grievance that underlies most of modern feminism. Women are unhappy, and feminist ideology offers them a systematic explanation — a political analysis — for their unhappiness.

Having an explanation is not the same as having a solution, however, and the persistent unhappiness lends itself to a sense of rage: If the “patriarchy” is causing their unhappiness (as feminism tells them), then the more unhappy they become, the more vehemently they lash out at the personified scapegoat. This is really politics as psychotherapy, an acting-out of emotional problems.

It is not that I am unsympathetic to the plight of women, but I refuse to accept the rigid quasi-Marxist ideology by which feminists delude women into believing “the personal is political,” i.e., they can solve their individual unhappiness through collective action.

Dana Pico at First Street Journal has relevant thoughts on “SlutWalk” and the attendant feminist rage.

 

Category: Feminism, Marriage, Sex

Disagreement as ‘Harassment’? @StephHerold Says Tell the FBI

Posted on | August 13, 2013 | 134 Comments

“You are just an ignorant, inarticulate, hate-filled bigot — a typical American — and you are so insignificant that Sara Alcid can’t be bothered to notice.”
— Robert Stacy McCain

Talking back to a Queer Feminist is a now evidently a hate crime or something, and Badger Pundit chronicles how my reply to a “reproductive justice” activist made Sara Alcid a heroic martyr in the “War on Women.” Disagreement is hate, because feminism.

Let’s remember what happened: My editors at The American Spectator assigned me to cover Saturday’s “SlutWalk DC,” a sort of feminist festival in which women celebrate victimhood, and the syllogism can be simply summarized: “Shut up, because rape.”

My description of that memorably ridiculous event prompted Sara Alcid to denounce me as “disgusting.”

We are not allowed to reply to them, you see.

These people are Our Moral Superiors. We are inarticulate subhumans who have no rights, not even the First Amendment free speech right to express disagreement or defend ourselves against insults.

We cannot reply by pointing out that Sara Alcid is a disciple of “queer theory” feminist Judith Butler, or that Sara Alcid works for a 501(c)3 non-profit abortion advocacy organization, or that Sara Alcid views Valentine’s Day as a hateful occasion when “heteronormativity and gender roles … rear their ugly heads.”

We cannot point these things out, because disagreement is hate.

The flawed logic of their rhetoric, their enthusiasm for bad ideas, their fanatical desire to destroy all that is true, right and decent in the world — no, you can’t point this out, because if you do, some people might say mean things about feminists, and people who say mean things about feminists are evil hateful sexist harassers who are trying to silence and intimidate these courageous women.

On the other hand, when the Southern Poverty Law Center publishes a “hate map” that inspires a deranged pervert to go shoot up the Family Research Council — that’s not hate or harassment.

Progressive activist Brett Kimberlin’s attempt to have his estranged wife involuntarily committed — that’s not hate or harassment.

The obscenely vile things that liberals say about Michelle Malkin, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter and other conservative women — none of that can be condemned as hate or harssment and, in fact, feminists like Sara Alcid generally applaud and participate in the Left’s ongoing campaign to demonize and marginalize conservative women.

You can’t point this out, however, because pointing out the malicious dishonesty of feminists is “harassment and bullying.”

Also, never mention that Sara Alcid is in favor of killing babies, although I think some people might take notice of this.

If Stephanie Herold wants to keep digging that hole, I’m glad to help.

Please, ladies, never doubt your own monopoly on truth. Never consider the possibility that your philosophy is wrong. Never think of the blood of innocent victims you sacrifice on the altar of “choice.” Never waiver, never heed the “still small voice” of conscience, and please never repent your sins, lest you spare yourselves the torments of Hell.

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness . . .”
— Isaiah 5:20 (KJV)

 

Category: Abortion, Feminism
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