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Mystery Solved–BHO Went To The Rodeo To See The Bull And Fetch Fresh Policy

Posted on | August 13, 2013 | 44 Comments

by Sissypuss the Blog Kitty

The seemingly bizarre story about the President of the United States going

to the Missouri State Fair — surely crawling with patriots, and people who “built that”, and thus the about last place that #OccupyResoluteDesk might seek to buy votes — has a clear explanation:

Obama was running low, and needed to visit the bull for some fresh policy ideas to fling at Congress next month.

[Left] Our good President stands poised, ready to return to the fount of his wisdom for a hot batch.

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) were among the politicians who condemned the rodeo clown who wore a mask of President Obama and asked the crowd if they wanted to see the president “run down by a bull.”

“Four legs good, two legs bad“, especially when your task is to slink about the farm or rodeo in search of the story.

It turned out that Obama has “run down by a bull” on a very regular basis these last five years, and bovine males have presented Barack their finest ideas by the shovel-full.

Or had the aroma of ObamaCare escaped you? Don’t worry, you’ll all soon be covered by it.

The incident took place at the Missouri State Fair over the weekend. Clay issued a statement saying the act showed “an ugly face of intolerance.”

While this blog rarely finds part, parcel, or pasture for agreement with the likes of Clay, one must admit that Obama’s commitment to dairy air these last five years has come at the expense of both mountain and sea breezes.

One bemoans the lack of diversity of thought on display, has to allow that the Martha’s Vinyard diversion with the .00001 % while making this heartland pilgrimage was as slick as a fresh cow pie.

Category: humor, Sissypuss the Blog Kitty

Our Moral Superiors So Seldom Condescend to Address Us Directly

Posted on | August 13, 2013 | 149 Comments

Sara Alcid: Infinitely superior to the typical American.

“And now apparently shocked at the ‘intimidation’ of being quoted on the Internet, Ms. Alcid has protected her tweets — a victim, no doubt, of ‘patriarchal oppression.'”
— Donald Douglas, American Power

Recently, I began referring to liberals as Our Moral Superiors, because that’s who they think they are. If you’ve ever read Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed, you understand that their policies are an expression of moral narcissism: By advocating liberalism, they demonstrate to themselves how much better they are than everyone else, and they expect to be admired for this.

Who could possibly be more superior than a Queer Feminist like Sara Alcid, who attended prestigious Bryn Mawr College (undergraduate tuition $42,870 a year), had the honor of associating with leading queer-theory feminist author Judith Butler — “superstar“! — and then became a programs and policy associate of the Reproductive Health Technologies Project, and a writer for Everyday Feminism, warning against the evils of traditional Valentine’s Day celebrations — heteronormativity, gender roles and systems of domination, you know.

Is it correct to say that Sara Alcid hates everything we hold dear? Wouldn’t it be more accurate to call her attitude contempt?

We are so far beneath her, she can’t even notice us enough to hate us.

Perhaps you see why, when this eminent young alumna of elite Bryn Mawr took time from her busy day to call me “disgusting,” I decided to reply with a little bit more than 140 characters.

Sara Alcid is better than you, because she’s a Queer Feminist who attended a prestigious college, and you’re not. She is so much better than you that you can’t even comprehend her vast superiority, her erudition, her knowledge of advanced philosophies that only the most sophisticated minds can ever hope to understand. 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.

Every day, Sarah Alcid and her Queer Feminist friends “work to critique and dismantle” those “systems of domination” — religion, marriage, family, free enterprise — that the typical American loves. They claim to do this in the name of “equality,” but what they’re actually doing is demonstrating their own superiority, their authority to take away from you everything that you hold dear and thus to arrogate to themselves complete power over you.

Sarah Alcid deserves this authority. Sarah Alcid is entitled to this power.

You deserve nothing and you have no rights, and if you dare to speak back to Sarah Alcid, this just proves you’re a hater.

Last night, Sarah Alcid switched her Twitter account to “protected” status, so  that no one who disagrees with her can see her messages.

Was it as good for you as it was for me, Sara?

 

 

UPDATE: Sara Alcid has now unprotected her Twitter account and, as Badger Pundit chronicles, her friends are telling her to report me to the FBI, because disagreeing with a feminist — “How dare you!” — is obviously some sort of hate crime.

 

Category: Feminism

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.13.13

Posted on | August 13, 2013 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
NC Voter Law Faces Court Challenge

North Carolina governor Pat McCrory

ACLU files suit over ID requirement, other allegedly racist provisions


Morsi Supporters Pledge To Die Rather Than End Protest
Thousands remain encamped at two Cairo sites

Israel Shoots Down Rocket Aimed At Eilat
Jihadis in Sinai launched missile to hit resort city



POLITICS
Booker Dominates Senate Race After Doing Oprah, Not Debate

Newark mayor Cory Booker

Avoids other contenders while raising tons of money

Administration Sets Up Intelligence Surveillance Technology Review Body

Holder Changing Charging Guidelines For Low-Level Drug Offenders


Judge Strikes Down NYC Stop And Frisk Policy

California Governor Brown Signs Transgender Student Rights Bill

Fort Hood Massacre Trial Moving Fast As Shooter Barely Cross-Examines Victims



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Oil Slips As Dollar Strengthens: NYMEX $106.10, Brent $108.96
BlackBerry Considering Sale, Other Options As Hardware Takes Back Seat To Software
Japan Shares Rise, Yen Slips On Tax Report; Gold Near Three-Week High
Facebook’s Sandberg Sells $91 Million In Stock After Surge
As Stock Momentum Wanes, A Caution Flag
Yum Shares Drop On Sour China Sales
Dole Food Agrees On Deal With CEO To Go Private
Facebook Buys Speech Translation Software Company
Kinect No Longer Required For XBox One
New Social Game For Google Glass Casts Players As Scavenging Ants
Facebook To Offer OpenTable Bookings Via Mobile
HTC Taps Robert Downey Jr. For Ad Campaign
Unlocked $80 Firefox Phone To Hit EBay Soon
Luigi Takes Center Stage In “Mario & Luigi: Dream Team”



SPORTS
Rangers’ Darvish Flirts With Perfection, K’s 15

Crushing.

Astros lose 2-1

Mike Trout: Ban PED Users For Life

Pete Rose On PEDs: “I Picked The Wrong Vice”

Dillon Replacing Stewart At Michigan

LeBron James Not Running For NBPA President

Reds Bring Ludwick Off DL

Brett Brown Agrees To Coach Sixers

Yankees Survive Robertson’s High-Wire Act, Beat Angels

Dodgers Rally, Beat Mets 4-2; Streak Reaches Six

Fan Dies After Falling From Turner Field Stands

O’s Jones Moving Past Banana Incident

Phillies Beat Braves 5-1 For Charlie Manuel’s 1000th Win

Rockies Rout Padres 14-2

Sale, White Sox Hand Tigers Third Loss In Four Games

Royals Roll Over Marlins 6-2

Twins’ Rookie Albers Posts Shutout In Second Start

Snakes Bite Birds Late For 6-5 Win

Lost Seasons: Where Did It All Go Wrong?

Wilson Ramos Holding Up Well Under Heavy Workload



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Race-Based Claims Thrown Out In Paula Deen Lawsuit

Where does she go to get her reputation back?

Racism charges thrown out but sexual harassment claims against Bubba Hiers, Deen remain

Lea Michele’s Teary Appearance Can’t Save Teen Choice Awards Ratings

Jennifer Lawrence Covers The September Vogue

Amanda Bynes Suffering PTSD, Wants To Get Better

“Teen Mom” Jenelle Evans Goes Back To Jail – With A Smile

Teresa Palmer Expecting Baby With Fiance Mark Webber

Brad Pitt, Paramount Get Last Laugh As “World War Z” Cracks $500 Million Worldwide; Now Pitt’s Top-Grossing Film

Swiss Sales Assistant Calls Oprah A Liar

Kanye West Just Got OWNED By The Housing Market

Chrissy Teigen Tells Joan Rivers “I Never Wear Underwear”

Teen Mom Shocker: Ex-Pal Claims Farrah Abraham Being Paid To Accompany Sugar Daddies



FOREIGNERS
Mexico Proposes Opening Up PEMEX To Foreign Investment
Norks “Launch Own Smartphone”
As Afghanistan Endgame Approaches, Indo-Pak Rivalry Acquires Deadly Edge
Militants Kill 44 In Nigerian Mosque
Mugabe: Tsvangirai Can Go Hang
Dutch Prince Friso Dies After Year In Coma
Peru Says Slain Rebels May Be Shining Path Leaders
Sudan Flooding Kills 36
“Young, Feisty And With Sex Appeal”
Kerry Visits Brazil To Shore Up Relations
Iraqi Kurdistan Ready To Defend Syrian Kurds



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: Eurosclerosis – Things Will Get Better For Greece
American Thinker: Obama Promotes Racism
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: This Stupid Week, SEO Edition
American Power: Missouri State Fair Bans Clown Who Mocked Obama
Jawa Report: Two Sentenced In “Taliban” Drug Smuggling Ring
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, August 11
Shot In The Dark: Chanting Points Memo – Why Yes, We Did Build It
Jammie Wearing Fools: The Obama Effect – Record Numbers Of Americans Renouncing Citizenship
JustOneMinute: Sentencing Reform – Bipartisan Cooperation, or Prosecutorial Indiscretion?
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Small Man Off Campus
Allahpundit: Hillary To Deliver Series of Major Policy Addresses This Fall
The Blaze: Media Matters President Thinks CNN’s Hillary Special May End Up With Rightward Slant
Weasel Zippers: Schumer Wants Countries To Wave Gay Rainbow Flag At Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Twitchy: Meet The Point Person For Obama’s “Independent”, “Outside” Intelligence Advisory Board
Legal Insurrection: New York’s Stop-And-Frisk And The Illusion Of Law By Statistics
NRO Corner: Wendy Davis Is Running For Governor
Gateway Pundit: 400 Missiles Stolen in Benghazi, Says Whistleblower’s Lawyer


Category: Live at Five

Why Does Lesbian @SaraAlcid Want to Help More Women Kill Their Babies?

Posted on | August 12, 2013 | 439 Comments


It isn’t every day that a “Queer Feminist” with a diploma from Bryn Mawr (undergraduate tuition $42,870 a year) decides she needs my attention, but I’m so grateful for Miss Alcid’s encouragement to expand on what I said this morning:

“Professor Aptheker is exactly right: If you want to be a
true feminist, you must be a Communist lesbian.”

The inherent radicalism of the women’s movement — its theoretical foundation in Marxism, its implacable antagonism to traditional marriage and other institutions of bourgeois society — is not generally understood outside such campus cauldrons as Bryn Mawr.

Feminism is a totalitarian ideology. It cannot be co-opted or moderated. You cannot negotiate or compromise with feminism, because the ambitions of feminism are without limit. They can accept nothing short of the complete overthrow of “hitherto existing society” (Marx and Engels) resulting in their own dictatorial authority. Halfway “reform” (to which the bourgeoisie may agree in its attempt to stave off this upheaval) can never placate the revolutionary, because the radical does not seek reform, but rather destruction. And the problem that most conservatives have, in trying to cope with radical movements, is that the typical conservative cannot imagine how fanatical — how rigidly unreasonable, how full of passionate destructive hatefulness — the radical really is. Notice how Sara Alcid illustrated her Valentine’s Day article:

“Heteronormativity and gender roles also rear their ugly heads on Valentine’s Day. Gifts for ‘him’ or ‘her’ are clearly divided and marked and it’s almost impossible to find cards that represent queer couples. . . .
“It’s not hard to see why Valentine’s Day is problematic for many feminists. Celebrated traditionally, Valentine’s Day magnifies many of the very systems of domination that we work to critique and dismantle.”
— Sara Alcid, “Valentine’s Day: What’s A Feminist To Do?” EverydayFeminism.com, Feb. 14, 2013

What does Sara Alcid mean by “patriarchy”? Well, if you live in a normal family — husband, wife, children — she means you.

Sara Alcid wants to smash your family, smash your faith, smash your community. This is what she means in denouncing “heteronormativity and gender roles” and “systems of domination.”

Sara Alcid hates you, she hates every institution you cherish and respect, and she considers your love for these institutions to be hate.

Sara Alcid believes this because she has been taught this. The fact that you cannot afford $42,870 a year to learn to think like Sara Alcid thinks is further proof of your inferiority, and your inferiority in turn justifies Sara Alcid‘s fanatical determination to destroy everything you love — in the name of “liberation,” of course.

This is Sarah Alcid with her radical lesbian heroine, acclaimed “queer theory” feminist Judith Butler, a notorious enemy of Israel:

Butler has devoted much of her academic career to the struggle to eliminate the state of Israel.  . . .
Butler denounces Israel’s “arbitrary state violence” and “state racism.” She has been a leader in the campaign to impose a worldwide boycott against Israeli universities. . . .
In February 2010, Butler went to the West Bank to demonstrate against the alleged mistreatment of women by Zionist “occupiers.” She denounced Israel at length for its “mistreatment” of Arab women.

This is not coincidental: Israel is America’s ally and because Judith Butler hates America, she must hate Israel, too. Because feminism!

Why does Sara Alcid love Israel-hater Judith Butler? Because Bryn Mawr taught her to love Judith Butler:

Preeminent gender theorist and philosopher Judith Butler holds the 2011 Mary Flexner Lectureship at Bryn Mawr College, joining the ranks of some of the world’s most influential humanists in presenting significant new work at Bryn Mawr.
During her three-week residency in November, Butler is giving a series of three public lectures titled Bodies in Alliance, the first presentation of new work by Butler that is to be published by Harvard University Press. Bryn Mawr faculty members and graduate students join Butler to discuss each lecture after it is presented. Butler has also visited class meetings of five undergraduate courses that incorporate Butler’s work and are being offered in conjunction with the lecture series this fall. Other activities associated with the Flexner Lecture Series include a film series, several informal opportunities for students to meet and talk with Butler, and “Preoccupations: Looking at Pictures with Judith Butler,” a colloquium sponsored by the College’s Center for Visual Culture.

Sarah Alcid wrote 12 articles about Judith Butler’s lectureship, including one entitled, “Judith Butler: A Superstar at Bryn Mawr“:

A flurry of extended excitement could be detected at Bryn Mawr from the moment Judith Butler’s Mary Flexner Lectureship was announced until many students had their parting words with the scholar at the book signing on November 21st. I shared this excitement with my peers and think it is certainly a testament to the intellectual curiosity and passion that makes the Bryn Mawr student body so unique. . . .
As one of the student coordinators and attendees of the “Coffee Hour with Judith Butler” and “Conversations with Judith Butler” dinner events, I was fortunate enough to witness the humorous and down-to-earth sides of the scholar we mostly associate with lofty theory and sharp intellect. . . . In fact, she told me that remaining engaged with feminist theory will help fuel my activism and advocacy work; she sees academia and activism as collaborative and co-supportive.

Indeed, Judith Butler is a “superstar” in academia. Her books sell thousands of copies every year because they are assigned reading in Women’s Studies classes across the country.

Butler is part of what we may call the Feminist-Industrial Complex, a campus-based intellectual machinery that indoctrinates elite students in these ideas. Every important university in America endorses feminism and “queer theory.” These are part of the de facto official belief system of academia. Anyone on campus who dared speak against such ideas (no one does) would be condemned for hate.

Do you understand why Sara Alcid considers criticism of SlutWalk “disgusting”? She was indoctrinated to believe that being a “Queer Feminist” is a heroic calling, in an environment where the presence of Judith Butler on campus caused “extended excitement.”

And now Sarah Alcid works for a 501(c)3 pro-abortion group, the Reproductive Health Technologies Project:

Sara Alcid – Programs and Policy Associate
Sara is responsible for assisting with RHTP’s reproductive health program areas, including health and wellness and contraception and abortion technologies.
Sara graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Gender and Sexuality Studies. During college, she founded and led a chapter of the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance and interned at Women’s Medical Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice New York and Cancer Schmancer, Inc. Americans for UNFPA named Sara a finalist for the Student Award for the Health and Dignity of Women in 2011. She is also a guest writer for Everyday Feminism and the State Department’s Women in Public Service Project.

Here is Sara Alcid advocating for the cause:

Full implementation of ACA [the Affordable Care Act, i.e., “ObamaCare”] contraception benefits and affordable access to abortion are LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] issues.

Uh, how so, Sara Alcid? One might think that such people have no need for contraception and abortion benefits. But you see, it is vital to the LGBT agenda not merely to advance their own issues, but to do everything possible to subvert any possible opposition.

Every abortion is celebrated as a radical victory by “Queer Feminist” Sara Alcid: Kill more babies, because feminism.

UPDATE: See? Quoting feminists = HATE!

What you discover is that radicals have two discourses: The exoteric discourse, used when speaking to outsiders, is about “choice,” “equality,” “health,” etc. The esoteric discourse, used among fellow radicals, is an entirely different vocabulary: “Smash patriarchy,” destroy “heteronormativity and gender roles” and “systems of domination.”

And when you pull back the exoteric mask to reveal the esoteric truth of radicalism . . . well, that’s intimidation, you haters!

Sara Alcid’s parents spent more than $40,000 a year to have her trained as a “Queer Feminist.” Guess they got their money’s worth.

 

Category: Education, Feminism, Gays, Intellectuals

FMJRA 2.0: Immolation For The Lord

Posted on | August 12, 2013 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Posting was delayed thanks to a glitch in the data extraction thingummy, and because of a subsequent field truncation bug in the file a lot of these links will point to the linkers’ home pages instead of to the actual post where the linkagery took place.

Ooh! Another Atheist Sex Scandal?

Rule 5 Sunday: Jump They Say

Primary Politics: Can the Grassroots Defeat the GOP Establishment in 2014?

Sen. Lindsey Graham May Try Out New Look To Fend Off Tea Party Challenger

World’s Youngest Blogger: MUST-SEE @TedCruz On Defeating Obamacare

FMJRA 2.0: Mental Door

They Should Print It in Red Ink

The Big Benghazi Secret

Colin McGinn (D-Philosophy): The New York Times Wants A “Debate Over Sexism”

Brain Molesters Spend $40,000 to Assign Smutty Comics To College Freshmen

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.06.13

Meltdown Monday: Does Bill Schmalfeldt Need a Brief Vacation at Spring Grove?

No Justice on Campus at Vassar?

America Loves You, Sama Elmasry!

We’re All Working for Jeff Bezos Now

Congratulations to @AlecMacGillis, Hacktastic Douchebag of the Day

John Kerry’s State Department Celebrates Sodomy. Polygamy? Eh, Not So Much…

Real Fall Guy for a ‘Phony Scandal’

White House: “Al Qaeda Is Like This Big Ol’ Bagel, All Gone In The Middle, And Stuff”

LOL! @NealRauhauser’s Demand to @Twitter: ‘No More Fun of Any Kind!’ UPDATE: Neal Deletes His Plan (Lulz)

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.07.13

From Russia, With Hate: Sodomy Lobby Now Dictating U.S. Foreign Policy

‘Distributed Internet Reputational Attack’? Charles Carreon’s Self-Evident Absurdity

Diana West Dissed by David Horowitz?

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.08.13

Bill Nye the Science Guy: Harasser?

‘Science Falsely So Called’: How Can You Prove Your Innocence, Professor Krauss?

Losers on the Romantic Demand Side

Slut Walk: Dumbed-Down Feminism and the Politics of Mindless Protest Chic

Blame Joan of Arc

Top linkers for the week:

  1. Regular Right Guy (16)
  2. Free Canuckistan (9)

…and as usual, a bunch of folks who missed the cutoff by one or two links. Thanks to everyone for the linkagery! Deadline to submit links for next weekend’s FMJRA is Friday, August 16.


Category: FMJRA Award

Your Vagina Is Sudetenland, and Other Helpful Advice for Young Ladies

Posted on | August 12, 2013 | 102 Comments

Pete Da Tech Guy calls attention to my comment yesterday about the totalitarian impulse of the boner: Young women who think they can negotiate with the erect penis are in a situation very much like Neville Chamberlain trying to appease Hitler.

All wise young ladies understand this and, with thousands of young ladies about to head off to college as freshmen, there is no better time to remember this valuable lesson. That nice well-mannered college boy you just met? He may seem harmless, but his penis is an SS Panzer division, ready to conquer lebensraum for the volksreich.

Unless a woman is willing to cede her territorial sovereignty — sexual anschluss, as it were — she must strive to avoid diplomatic isolation: Don’t ever let yourself be maneuvered into being “alone together” with any guy you don’t plan to have sex with. If you’re attending a college with coed dorms, either insist on off-campus housing, or transfer to another school. Coed dorms are taxpayer-funded rape factories.

A college girl might as well cuddle up with a rattlesnake as to assume she can trust a 19-year-old-boy to respect her. Are there decent and trustworthy 19-year-old guys out there? Sure, but they look exactly like every other adolescent creep, and the minute you get one of them aroused, there isn’t much difference between (a) the mild-mannered “nice guy” and (b) every other teenage rapist on the planet.

Here’s my advice, ladies: Don’t just play hard to get, be hard to get.

Be as fiercely independent as Switzerland.

Did I ever mention that my eldest daughter got married about two months after she graduated college? You could ask her (or her husband) the entire story of how that happened, but one Christmas he gave her pearls when she had been expecting a diamond, so she broke up with him. As much as she cared for him, she was willing to walk away rather than to be kept dangling on a vague hope of a promise.

They were married about a year-and-half later.

Think about it,  and don’t let those Panzers near your border.

 

Category: Crime, Education, Feminism, Sex

Kimberlin v. Kimberlin: Tetyana’s Lawyer Defeats the Perjuring Criminal Sociopath

Posted on | August 12, 2013 | 88 Comments

John Hoge has a brief preliminary account of today’s Maryland court hearing in the dueling actions between Tetyana Kimberlin and her estranged husband, convicted felon Brett Kimberlin.

Full transcripts of the proceedings and relevant background will be published in due time, but the most important lesson of today’s hearing is this: Kimberlin, a cunning and manipulative amateur “jailhouse lawyer,” is often able to get his way in court, not matter how wrong he is, but is generally unsuccessful against any client represented by an attorney who has studied Kimberlin’s legal tactics.

Zoa Barnes has beaten Brett Kimberlin before. Today, while the hearing could be called a draw — neither plaintiff got the protective orders they sought against each other — it was really a defeat for Brett in his persecution of Tetyana, who managed to put this in the record:

Zoa Barnes presented Tetyana’s case by calling her to the stand and having her explain how she met Brett at age 14 in Ukraine and how their relationship and marriage had flowed over the succeeding years. . . . When Brett tried to cross examine her, he kept stumbling over the rules of evidence and proper procedure.

Brett was a 40-year-old federal parolee when he went to the Ukraine and met the 14-year-old girl who became his wife. This is now a matter of public record, uncontradicted sworn testimony. How do Brett Kimberlin’s few remaining supporters expect to justify and defend such behavior by a “progressive activist”? Or did I overlook the part of the progressive agenda that endorsed Ukrainian child brides?

Do you want to see Tetyana Kimberlin vindicated? Do you want her to have the best possible legal assistance against Brett Kimberlin?

TETYANA’S FUND

Yeah, I’m pretty sure you do.

 

Category: Crime, The Kimberlin Files

Taking Feminism Seriously

Posted on | August 12, 2013 | 67 Comments

 

In 2009, we began National Offend a Feminist Month, which always ends on Mother’s Day (because feminism is about killing babies, that’s why) and which is generally celebrated with cheerful good humor, mocking the hateful humorlessness of distaff Marxism.

The jokes are fun, but this doesn’t mean that feminism is not a deadly menace to everything good and decent in America — it is.

Some of my fiercest arguments over the years have been with Republican women who argue on behalf of an oxymoron, “conservative feminism,” a thing that is as ridiculous as it is impossible. Real feminism is entirely a left-wing phenomenon, and Republicans who think they can cherry-pick seemingly inoffensive items from feminism’s radical agenda are deluded. “Me, Too” Feminism will win no votes for the GOP, while assisting the Left in its destruction of America.

Trying to disabuse Republicans of this “conservative feminist” delusion doesn’t make me popular with certain feeble-minded superficial people, but that’s OK. I know what feminism is, I know what conservatism is, and the two things are fundamentally incompatible, no matter what anyone tries to tell you. For the sake of enlightening certain fools, let’s quote a little information about an actual feminist:

[University of California-Santa Cruz Women’s Studies] Professor Bettina Aptheker is the daughter of a famous American Communist, the late Herbert Aptheker . . .
Professor Bettina Aptheker is by her own proud admission both a Communist and a self-described “lesbian activist.” . . . Aptheker’s course syllabus describes lesbianism as the “highest state of feminism” . . . In other words, change in sexual orientation is an inevitable final stage in the development of the socially conscious individual.

And who can disagree? Professor Aptheker is exactly right: If you want to be a true feminist, you must be a Communist lesbian. This is by no means a fringe view among feminists:

Allison Jaggar is professor of philosophy and a former chair of the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder  . . . Integrating Marxism and feminist theory, Jaggar describes herself as a “socialist feminist” and “activist,” who seeks to combat “the male-dominant structure of everyday life.” . . .
“The political economy of socialist feminism,” writes Jaggar, “establishes that, in contemporary society, women suffer a special form of exploitation and expression. . . . The distinctive social experience of women generates insights that are incompatible with men’s interpretations of reality . . . The validity of these insights . . . must be tested in political struggle . . .”

In other words: ALL MEN EXPLOIT AND OPPRESS YOU! REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM IS THE ANSWER!

Feminism is socialism, and is also lesbianism. If you are not part of this revolutionary Marxist-lesbian “political struggle” against the “male-dominant structure,” then you are not a feminist.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

Understanding feminism as inherently radical, a phenomenon of the extreme Left, is necessary to understanding that there can be no such thing as “moderate feminism,” much less “conservative feminism.” Insofar as it is possible to speak of “mainstream feminism,” this is only because the social/political mainstream has become so radicalized in the past 20 years that actual feminists (i.e., radical Marxist lesbians) have been accepted as legitimately speaking on behalf of all women. And insofar as Republicans have failed in regard to this development, it has been either a failure of courage or a failure of understanding: The GOP is either too stupid to recognize feminism as dangerous, or too cowardly to speak the truth about feminism.

Stupidity or cowardice, but quite possibly both.

A cheerful good humor in opposing feminism’s radical menace, therefore, does not mean that we don’t take feminism seriously. I have quite likely read more feminist literature than your average Women’s Studies major, but unlike those deluded fanatics, I have also read a good deal of anti-feminist literature, including Carolyn F. Graglia’s Domestic Tranquility, Wendy Shalit’s A Return to Modesty, and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead’s The Divorce Culture. (I doubt Whitehead would call herself an “anti-feminist,” but her valuable historical insights directly contradict feminist claims about marriage.) Idiotic adherents of “conservative feminism” find me arrogantly opinionated on this subject, but there’s a reason: I actually know more about this subject than most feminist do.

There are some people who have read a few books or taken a few classes who think themselves fit to tutor me on this subject, failing to realize I have studied feminism in depth for decades. Feminism is nothing but a variant species of radical egalitarianism — “boutique Marxism” — and is no less deadly in its effects than any other such philosophy. If other people don’t understand this, their ignorance is not my fault. And with that, let’s take a look at SlutWalk DC 2013:

We had turned the corner at U Street and were marching up 14th Street when the woman with the megaphone leading SlutWalk DC started a new chant: “We love consensual sex! We love consensual sex!” Well, OK, but who doesn’t? Is there any actual opposition to this agenda? Is there an Anti-Consensual Sex Movement that someone forgot to tell us about? Oblivious to the absurdity, about 400 women joined in shouting this slogan, which was at least better than their previous chants: “Blame the system, not the victim!” and “One! Two! Three! Four! We won’t take it anymore! Five! Six! Seven! Eight! Stop the violence! Stop the hate!” The “violence” to which that chant referred is rape, and “hate” is any discussion of rape (or any other subject) that doesn’t conform to feminist ideology. To distill their rhetoric to its totalitarian essence: “Shut up, because rape.”
The SlutWalk movement is about rape in pretty much the same sense Nazism was about the Versailles Treaty — it’s the legitimate grievance that empowers a movement of irrational hatred. We may laugh at the carnival sideshow aspect of women stripping down to their underwear to march down the street in broad daylight, carrying deliberately provocative posters and shouting nonsensical slogans. But the leaders of the movement have a radical ideology they take very seriously, and that ideology is sufficiently influential that anyone who criticizes it risks condemnation as being anti-woman, or even pro-rape. . . .

Please read the whole thing at The American Spectator, and don’t ever try to tell me I don’t understand what “feminism” means.

 

Category: Education, Feminism, Intellectuals
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