Rule 5 Sunday: Pyjamarama

Posted on | June 10, 2024 | 2 Comments

I’m not a big fan of girls in pajamas, generally speaking, but this lass is one of the exceptions. I’m sure our compadres at Flappr would have some great turns of phrase to describe this pneumatic babe, but I’m just going to say “Wow”. Thanks to Rule5Texan on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Milk truck just arrive…

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Defining A Woman Friday, also, the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Israeli Hostage Noa Aragmani Rescued, Sex Pistols & Queen’s Jubilee, Katie Melua As Mary Pickford, Air Superiority On D-Day, MAGA Stay – Fat Fani’s Trump Case Stayed, D-Day Girls & Nurses Of Normandy, Six Days In June, International Corgi Day, Jessica Alba Tuesday, Suffragettes Song, Caitlin Clark & The WNBA, Fires of Calais, A Room With A View, and “Transmission”

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Keilah Kang Killian, Maryland, My Maryland, Fish Pic Friday – Haley Dawn the Farm Pond Junkie, Tattoo Thursday, Virginia Watermen Want More Crabs, The Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tanlines, Gone Fishin’, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Palm Sunday and Judge Greenlights Virginia Offshore Wind Power

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FMJRA 2.0: Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad

Posted on | June 9, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Another good week for my Senators, who took two of three from the A’s and then another two of three from the Dodgers on a roadtrip through California. I credit the offense’s awakening to right-fielder John Lowenstein, whose batting average is a mere .220, but who draws a lot of walks, belted three homers against the Dodgers, and has a decent arm. We face Boston in a two-game series Tuesday, which I think I’m going to reschedule since I expect to be on the road back from Las Vegas that day. We end the week at 34-40, just 3.5 games behind the Twins and four games ahead of the hapless A’s. #NoSurrender
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Our manager in his happy place.

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Are There Any Innocent Palestinians?

Posted on | June 9, 2024 | 1 Comment

Why am I starting to think like this?

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed Sunday that all three of the male hostages rescued on Saturday were held by Abdallah Aljamal, a “journalist” who contributed to the Palestine Chronicle and Al Jazeera.
As Breitbart News reported Saturday, four hostages — Noa Argamani, 25; Almog Meir Jan, 21; Andrey Kozlov, 27; and Shlomi Ziv, 40 — were rescued in a joint operation by the IDF, ISA, and the Israeli police. One Israeli police officer, Arnon Zamora, was killed in the operation.
Aljamal and his wife and father were reportedly killed in the Israeli raid after soldiers entered his home.
As Breitbart News reported, he was revealed to have had another job, as the spokesperson for the Hamas-run Palestinian Department of Labor in Gaza.
But speculation also mounted that he had held one or more hostages, given that some Israeli sources said soldiers had only entered the two apartments where hostages were held.
The IDF announced:

Following the completion of IDF and ISA [Israel Security Agency] examinations of reports on the subject, it can be confirmed that Abdallah Aljamal was an operative in the Hamas terrorist organization, who held the hostages Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv captive in his family home in Nuseirat.
The hostages were held captive by Abdallah Aljamal and members of his family in their home. This is further evidence of the deliberate use of civilian homes and buildings by the Hamas terrorist organization to hold Israeli hostages captive in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli security forces will continue to make every effort to bring the hostages home.

Journalist, terrorist — to-may-to, to-mah-to. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. When “news” organizations are employing members of terrorist organizations, when the journalist’s family home is being used to stash hostages, when it seems everybody in Gaza is part of Hamas, why not just kill every single one of those Palestinian vermin?

Well, thoughts like that could start to cross the minds of a lot of otherwise peaceful and rational people, if they were as well-informed of the situation as the average Israeli citizen. There’s a reason why Netanyahu can shrug off all foreign criticism, because the Israeli people are sick and tired of all this “peace” noise, when they are facing an existential menace.

The fuck-around-and-find-out process must continue until every last one of those Palestinian sons of bitches have found out.

Fun fact: He was holding the hostages in his home ? pic.twitter.com/FtTTLad4eV

— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) June 9, 2024

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Israel Rescues Hostages From Terrorists; Guess How Media Are Spinning It?

Posted on | June 9, 2024 | 1 Comment

Yaakov Argamani hugs his daughter Noa

The Jewish world celebrated Saturday after a special forces raid rescued four Israelis held hostage by the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza:

Four Israeli hostages were rescued alive from Hamas captivity Saturday in a daring daylight operation in the central Gaza Strip, the military announced.
Noa Argamani, 26, Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 40, had been abducted from the Supernova music festival near the community of Re’im on the morning of October 7, when some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages in a murderous rampage in southern Israel.
Officers of police’s elite Yamam counter-terrorism unit, along with Shin Bet agents, simultaneously raided two Hamas-controlled multi-story buildings in the heart of central Gaza’s Nuseirat, a joint statement said. Argamani was rescued at one site, while Meir Jan, Kozlov, and Ziv were at the second location.
Hundreds more soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces participated in the operation, according to the military.
Israel Defense Forces Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the hostages were rescued by special forces while “under fire.”
Yamam Chief Inspector Arnon Zmora, who commanded the rescue team at the building where three hostages were being held, was critically wounded by Hamas fire. He was brought to an Israeli hospital, but died shortly after. The Hamas guards were killed in the exchange.

Heroic fighter dies rescuing hostages, terrorists killed — it’s the stuff of a blockbuster action film, and you would think everybody would be happy. But oh, not our “friends” in the media:

Israel rescues 4 hostages taken
in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, and
210 Palestinians are reported killed
— Associated Press

Israel rescues four hostages in Gaza
but scores of Palestinians killed
— Financial Times

Israel rescues four hostages in Gaza raid
that Hamas says kills 210 Palestinians
— Reuters

Gaza health ministry says
Israeli hostage rescue
killed 274 Palestinians
— BBC

What’s important to the media is that, no matter what the facts may be, only members of Officially Approved Victim Groups are deserving of sympathy. Arabs and Muslims are victims of racism, according to the media calculus and so, even when they murder or kidnap innocent civilians, the real victims are the Palestinians. Thus, the headlines of stories about hostages being rescued from Hamas terrorists must include whatever propaganda claim the terrorists themselves make about it.

Implied by these headlines is that Palestinians killed during this incident (whatever Hamas says the number is, the media will dutifully report as if it were a proven fact) were all innocent civilians. The fact that Hamas is at war with Israel, that Hamas started this war by deliberately targeting civilians, and that in a guerrilla-type war such as this, many “civilians” are actively involved in the fighting — never mind any of that. Also, never mind that Hamas is a brutal gang of killers who would not hesitate to tell any lie that advances their “cause” (i.e., killing every Jew on the planet).

Never mind any of that, if you work in the media, where everybody seems to assume their job is to promote whatever “social justice” narrative is in vogue at the moment. If the current thing requires them to gin up sympathy for terrorist murderers, that’s what they’ll do. And that’s how homicidal Jew-haters became the media’s new heroes.

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‘Underlying Psychological Co-Morbidities’

Posted on | June 8, 2024 | 5 Comments

School shooter Audrey ‘Aiden’ Hale

Thanks to The Tennessee Star, this week we learned a whole lot more about Audrey Hale, the deranged 28-year-old woman who wanted to be a man named “Aiden” and who killed six people at Covenant School in Nashville before being shot dead by police. Among the revelations this week, we learned that Hale had been a “patient of mental health professionals at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC)” since she was six years old! Heck of a job, “mental health professionals.”

At the time she perpetrated the Covenant School massacre, Hale was under treatment by both a psychiatrist and a therapist. The distinction is important — a psychiatrist is an M.D., who can write prescriptions, whereas a therapist is basically a counselor, someone with a degree in psychology, to whom the patient talks about their problems. So medication and conversation are, in such a case, handled by two separate “mental health professionals” who, we suppose, consult with each other.

The fact that Audrey/“Aiden” Hale was not healed by this treatment — to the contrary, she became a worst-case scenario of therapeutic effectiveness — is not unusual. Most people who are subjected to treatment by “mental health professionals” never really become healthy. With the assistance of anti-depressants or other medications, they may be able to get through life OK, but how can you say turning someone into a drug addict is “success”? Excuse me for speaking so bluntly, but if the goal is “mental health” and you require Prozac (Zoloft, Paxil, etc.) just to make it through the day? No, you haven’t achieved “mental health.”

Two packs of Marlboro a day — is that an effective mental health treatment? Well, I haven’t committed mass murder, so in terms of therapeutic effectiveness, maybe my track record isn’t too bad. Certainly, I would argue that my record is better than the “mental health professionals at Vanderbilt University Medical Center,” but I digress . . .

The Tennessee Star has obtained dozens of pages of Audrey Hale’s journals, which have been called (somewhat inaccurately) a “manifesto,” and have been cranking out a series of headlines like these:

Covenant Killer Audrey Hale
Used Federal Pell Grant Funds
to Buy Guns She Used in March 2023
Mass Shooting at Christian School

Covenant Killer Audrey Hale Claimed
to Call Suicide Prevention Helpline
Five Times, Denied Being ‘Bi-Polar’
in Journal Entry

Covenant Killer Audrey Hale
Declared Herself ‘Most Unhappy Boy Alive’
in Recovered Journal

Vanderbilt Search Warrant
Revealed Prescription List
for Covenant Killer Audrey Hale,
Confirms Fantasies About School Shooting

This steady drip, drip, drip of headlines ultimately makes the point, as Ed Driscoll says at Instapundit, “No wonder the FBI and Nashville authorities have been suppressing her manifesto” — it’s an absolute gold mine of insight into the craziness that inspired this homicidal lunatic, and the feds don’t want you to know about it. That’s confirmed by perhaps the most shocking story released this week:

FBI Memo on ‘Protection of Legacy Tokens’ Sent to Nashville Police in May 2023 Opposed Release of Covenant Killer Documents, Cited Destruction Precedent
The Tennessee Star has obtained the FBI memo sent to the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) on May 11, 2023 from a source familiar with the Covenant killer investigation.
The letterhead and heading used for the memo indicate it originated at the FBI’s Critical Incident Response Group in Quantico, Virginia. The opening paragraphs reveal it was sent by the FBI’s Behavioral Threat Assessment Center (BTAC), the home of the FBI’s Behavorial Analysis Unit (BAU-1). The memo was not signed.
The memo does not specifically mention Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who fatally shot three 9-year-old students and three faculty members in the devastating March 27, 2023 attack at the Covenant School in Nashville.
It was, however, sent two days after Star News Digital Media, Inc., which owns The Tennessee Star, and the company’s CEO, Michael Patrick Leahy, filed a lawsuit against the FBI in federal court to compel the release of Hale’s written documents, including those sometimes called a manifesto, and one day after Star News Digital Media, Inc. and Leahy filed a lawsuit against Metro Nashville Davidson County Government in state court for the same purpose.
The FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit has been involved in the MNPD’s investigation into the Covenant killings since the very first day, sources familiar with the investigation have told The Star. MNPD Public Affairs Director Don Aaron confirmed the FBI’s involvement in the investigation to The Star when asked about the FBI memo on Tuesday, though he did not specify the date at which that involvement began.
“As has been publicly acknowledged, the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit has assisted in this Homicide investigation,” Aaron told The Star.
“Any material related to that assistance that is part of the open case file is protected. As I referenced earlier today, our Homicide team is working to bring this matter to a conclusion,” Aaron added.
Addressed to Metro Police Chief John Drake, the memo “strongly discourages” MNPD from releasing “legacy tokens” left by a mass murderer.
The FBI memo explains those who commit mass shootings “often leave behind items to claim credit for the attack and / or articulate the motivation behind it.” The agency “refers to these items as legacy tokens.”
The term “legacy token” appears to be a creation of the FBI. A June 2018 FBI document studying pre-attack behaviors of active shooters defines “legacy tokens” as “a communication prepared by the offender to claim credit for the attack and articulate the motives underlying the shooting.” . . .

You can read the rest of that, but the upshot is, the FBI’s Behavioral Threat Assessment Center ordered a cover-up, deliberately seeking to suppress important information about this mass murderer.

That ought to make a lot of people angry. The basic argument for transparency about police proceedings is this — what the police do, they do on behalf of the public, under the authority of the government, at taxpayer expense. Because we are paying for the police, we have a right to know what they’re doing. There are, of course, many situations where maintaining the integrity of an investigation requires police to keep some information out of the public eye, so as not to hinder the apprehension and prosecution of criminals. We get that. But generally speaking, we want the names and mug shots of suspects arrested for crimes, and expect that such official court documents as arrest affidavits, applications for search warrants, etc., will be released to the public.

In the case of Audrey Hale, of course, the suspect is dead, and there is no argument to be made for protecting the integrity of the investigation of her crime, from the standpoint that it might prevent her from being convicted in court (which is the usual justification for investigative secrecy). Dead criminals don’t file appeals. However, given the fact that Hale was being treated by “mental health professionals,” there is some reason to think that the people treating Hale failed in their duty to report her as presenting a danger to public safety. It is being alleged that Hale told her therapists about her fantasies of shooting up a school, and the therapists neglected their legal obligation to report this credible threat. So there are some people who may be in legal jeopardy and, if Tennessee authorities are actively investigating that angle with an eye toward criminal prosecution, there arguably might be justification for keeping a lid on this stuff. BUT IT’S BEEN MORE THAN A YEAR ALREADY!

This slow-motion foot-dragging approach by Nashville police ought to be the subject of action by state authorities in Tennessee — the governor, the legislature, the state attorney general. Something has gone badly wrong in how authorities in Nashville are handling this case, and I think the FBI’s involvement is part of the problem. Merrick Garland and the powers that be at the Department of Justice have a political agenda, and I don’t think it’s a far-fetched “conspiracy theory” to suggest that the DOJ wants to keep the Covenant School massacre case from getting the kind of public attention it deserves. Here you have a transgender-identified lunatic murdering innocent people, including three children, at a Christian school, and hey, maybe that doesn’t look so good for the Democratic Party’s LGBTQIA+ agenda, ya think?

Of course, we knew the basic facts early. They hadn’t even started mopping up the blood at Covenant School when we learned that Audrey Hale was a “high-functioning” autistic who “relatively recently announced she was transgender.” And these two factors — autism and a transgender obsession — are related in ways that are more than coincidental. The American College of Pediatricians released a statement urging medical organizations to stop pushing transgender treatment “for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological sex”:

Instead, these organizations should recommend comprehensive evaluations and therapies aimed at identifying and addressing underlying psychological co-morbidities and neurodiversity that often predispose to and accompany gender dysphoria.

The American College of Pediatricians just put out a ??? statement calling out all the major medical associations by name for pushing the gender transition craze on kids.

They ask for these groups to “IMMEDIATELY stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers,… pic.twitter.com/Rba8HDLkoM

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) June 8, 2024

Well-informed observers have known about this for years: A very high percentage of young people who declare a transgender identity also have a documented history of depression, anxiety, personality disorders, autism or some other psychiatric disturbance. You can’t cure psychosis with mastectomies and hormones. As I keep reminding readers — and “mental health professionals” — Crazy People Are Dangerous.

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In The Mailbox: 06.07.24

Posted on | June 8, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.07.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

“I can’t be fired.” – Briahna Joy Gray

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Another Sparky Vehicle Company Fails
EBL: The Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, also, 7 June 1977: Sex Pistols Queen’s Jubilee Thames Trip
Twitchy: Does A Facebook Post Prove Juror Misconduct In Trump’s NYC Trial? Pulitzer Incoming – Spokane Reporter Rats Out Kids For Riding Their Scooters In The Street, and Adam Schiff’s Tone-Deaf Post Accusing Trump Of Prosecuting His Enemies Is Very Telling
Louder With Crowder: White actress attacks 50 Cent (well, kinda) for Trump support, wants rapper reminded “he’s black”
Vox Popoli: Immigration is Always Invasion, The Thumb on the Scale, and Leather at NDM Express
According To Hoyt: The Limits of Individuals, A Light In The Darkness, and Just playing With Stuff
Monster Hunter Nation: Swag Shop 5: Resurrection
Upstream Reviews: It Came From The Inbox!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Why Does American Folly March on in Ukraine?
American Greatness: DEI Programs Could Soon Face Supreme Court
American Thinker: Will the United States Become a Third World Nation?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Defining A Woman Friday
Babalu Blog: A glass of milk, so basic yet so elusive–for Cubans, Shocking! UNICEF Report Highlights Severe Child Malnutrition in Cuba, and Is Cuban dictatorship relying on Russia to back up its repressive capabilities with nuclear weapons?
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm for June 7
Behind The Black: Iran to build coastal spaceport, Red Chinese pseudo-company raises $207 million, A close-up of rocks on Mars, MetaBallStudios – Comparing explosive weapons used in war, and Today’s blacklisted American: Biden’s Justice Dept prosecutes doctor who blew the whistle on child mutilation at hospital
Cafe Hayek: On Biden’s Protectionist Measures
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: The Joys of a Quiet Life
Don Surber: It’s time for Biden to leave
First Street Journal: If journalists are not producing material for which people are willing to pay, they’ve no one but themselves to blame
Gates Of Vienna: Speaking of Knives, The Knives Have Migrated to Vienna, Miloud Maalmi Is No Longer French, Viktor Orbán: “Great Wars Do Not Come Out of Nowhere”, and Backwards Biden Sucks Up to Muslim Brotherhood
The Geller Report: Illegals March In The Streets of NYC – Blocking Traffic, Demanding to Abolish ICE, New Yorkers Get Furious
Hollywood In Toto: Good in the Woods Brings Bigfoot to Life, also, Is Torture Porn Making a Comeback?
The Lid: Google’s Doodle Celebrated Some Rando Lesbian on June 6, Instead of the 80th Anniversary of D-Day
Legal Insurrection: Federal Appeals Court Engineered ‘Judicial Jailbreak’ by Approving Mass Release of Criminal Defendants, Ithaca City Schools “Have Not Come Clean as to Their Past Practices” Segregating Students, Canadian Cancer Society Apologizes to Alphabet Soup Brigade for Using ‘Cervix’ Instead of ‘Front Hole’, Merchan Alerts DA, Trump’s Lawyers of Facebook User Claiming He Knew Jury Would Convict Trump, Florida Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Ron DeSantis Decision to Remove Soros-Backed State Attorney, and NY Dem. Candidate Declares That Trump Supporters Need To Be Put In Reeducation Camps
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday, also, Never, Ever, Underestimate stupid. It can be staggering
Outkick: There’s No Evidence Man ‘Harassed’ Chennedy Carter, WNBA Players Outside Hotel, Charles Barkley Says NCAA ‘Jacka**es’ Are Ruining College Sports, Tells Auburn To Stop Calling For Donations, Red Sox Owner Says Fans Shouldn’t Expect To Win Championships, Caitlin Clark Hits Seven Threes, Leads Fever To Win In Return To The Court, Randy Gregory Sues NFL, Broncos Over Fines For Medically Prescribed THC, ‘Tennessean’ Columnist Compares Caitlin Clark To Elvis Presley, Says ‘Whiteness’ Makes Them Marketable, and Olivia Dunne Is Fully Embracing Her WAG Era
Power Line: Brennan.CIA.Gov.Con, A Once and Future Prime Minister, At the Feeding our Fraud trial: Mostly guilty, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Rep. Bean Details Impact Of Illegal Immigration on K-12 Schools
Shot In The Dark: Top Of His Game For Sure
STUMP: Fraud & Embezzlement! How To Detect & Prevent Them
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Russia and the Food Crisis
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, Port of Call, Havana Cuba, Russian trial begins for US Soldier arrested on theft charges in Vladivostok, Bowe Bergdahl’s conviction dismissal to be considered by US Appeals Court, and Senator Tom Cotton’s proposed bill denies birthright to children of illegal aliens
Transterrestrial Musings: Admiral McRaven To The American People, also, David Boaz
Victory Girls: AP Finally Admits That The Gaza Death Numbers Don’t Add Up
Volokh Conspiracy: David Boaz, RIP
Watts Up With That: Natural Gas Fuels Prosperity of Canadian First Nations Communities, The WEF Denies Demanding the Arrest of Climate Deniers, and UN Chief Calls for Governments to Censor Fossil Fuel Advertisements
The Federalist: The Next POTUS Should Reclaim The Constitutional Spending Power Congress Stole, Foreign-Born Workers Dominate U.S. Job Gains While Native-Born Americans Struggle, How Critical Race Theory Bred American Leftists’ Jew Hatred, Arizona AG Launches Investigation Into Alleged ‘Pay-To-Play’ Scheme Involving Katie Hobbs, Biden’s Border Order Does Nothing But Insult Americans’ Intelligence, Indictment Of Texas Doctor Who Exposed Kids’ Transing Proves No One Is Safe From Biden’s Weaponized DOJ, and This Week In Lawfare Land: Was Jack Smith’s Appointment Unconstitutional?
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About That Book You Didn’t Read

Posted on | June 7, 2024 | 1 Comment

It is not my habit to criticize or argue with people in the comments, but I got a bit miffed by this today:

There’s a phenomenon called “political lesbianism.” That’s a situation where a heterosexual woman becomes so filled with feminist zeal, and political hatred of men, that she actually becomes a lesbian despite not actually being attracted to women. Her lesbianism is a political act, not a sexual or romantic one.

To which I replied curtly:

Dude, I wrote an entire BOOK about this.

This kind of thing makes me shake my head in despair. What is the point of writing about politics or culture, if your writing has so little impact that random strangers assume they are qualified to lecture you about subjects upon which your expertise is (or at least, should be) widely known?

There is, of course, a personal butt-hurt involved, an emotional pain in not getting credit for my work. But I understood, back in 2014 when I started writing about radical feminist and readers kept saying “you ought to write a book,” that such a book might be largely ignored. Why? Because everybody considers themselves to be an “expert” on feminism, even if they have never read a single book on the subject and cannot name even one important feminist author. Part of the problem that Sex Trouble was meant to address was the yawning gap between the public perception of what “feminism” is and the reality of what feminists actually advocate, especially in academic Women’s Studies programs.

That’s why I spent more than a year accumulating a library of feminist literature, including multiple anthologies used as textbooks for introductory Women’s Studies courses, books by leading professors of Women’s Studies, and hard-to-find early radical feminist tracts which — although long out of print — were foundational to the 1960s Women’s Liberation Movement, and frequently cited in footnotes of later feminist works. Let me share just this one relevant quote:

“[Charlotte Bunch’s 1972 manifesto] ‘Lesbians in Revolt’ argued one powerful and uncompromising principle: because sexism is the root of all oppression and heterosexuality upholds sexism, feminists must become lesbians and lesbians must become feminists if we are to effect a revolution. . . . To state that feminists must become lesbians assumes that lesbianism is a matter of choice and conviction, not biological conditioning or sexual behavior. Moreover, lesbians must also become feminists, that is, they must ground their sexuality in a political discourse if any social change is to occur. . . .
“Lesbian criticism of any and all varieties was constructed by flesh and bone lesbians starting in the early 1970s. For us, feminism was not a distinct discourse that spoke ‘for’ lesbians but an epistemology used by lesbians to speak for ourselves. . . . I believe it can be shown that, historically, lesbianism and feminism have been coterminous if not identical social phenomena.”
— Bonnie Zimmerman, “Confessions of a Lesbian Feminist,” in Cross Purposes: Lesbians, Feminists, and the Limits of Alliance, edited by Dana Heller (1997)

Does anyone dare dispute what this feminist said more than 20 years ago? Professor Zimmerman is rather important:

She became one of the founding members of the Women’s Studies College at State University of New York Buffalo (SUNYB) in 1970. She was offered a temporary position as a lecturer at San Diego State University (SDSU) in their Women’s Studies program (the first in the country), and used this opportunity to begin teaching lesbian literature in 1979. In 1983, she became Professor of Women’s Studies at SDSU. She was President of the National Women’s Studies Association from 1998 to 1999, and acted as the Women’s Studies Department Chair at SDSU from 1986 to 1992 and again from 1995 to 1997.

Professor Zimmerman was a pioneer and recognized leader in the field of Women’s Studies, and notice who she cites as an authority on the link between heterosexuality and the oppression of women: Charlotte Bunch founded and led a feminist group known as The Furies, and her 1972 manifesto “Lesbians in Revolt” was included in a 1975 book she edited.

Guess who bought a copy of that book in 2014? Me, because I considered it essential to understanding the subject. And it proved worth the cost, as it included an essay (“Lesbians and the Class Position of Women”) by Margaret Small, who was a member of The Furies and who, perhaps not coincidentally, was a colleague of Professor Zimmerman in founding the Women’s Studies program at SUNY-Buffalo. To quote Margaret Small: “In terms of the oppression of women, heterosexuality is the ideology of male supremacy.” Yet in 2015, this woman was actually employed by a public school system in Buncombe County, North Carolina!

Did I mention that Charlotte Bunch, who founded The Furies and edited the book that included Small’s denunciation of heterosexuality, became a distinguished academic at Rutgers University and in 1999 was honored with the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights by President Bill Clinton? From the introduction to Sex Trouble:

Those who would attempt to separate “mainstream” feminism from the more radical aspects of its ideology cannot avoid the problem that the faculty and curricula of university Women’s Studies programs — where feminism wields the authority of an official philosophy — are disproportionately dominated by radical lesbians. This hegemonic influence is not merely manifested in the fact that outspoken lesbian activists are employed as directors and professors in Women’s Studies programs everywhere, but also plainly evident in the textbooks and readings assigned in their classrooms. Even if a moderate heterosexual feminist were to become a Women’s Studies professor, she would find it nearly impossible to assign a textbook that was not crammed with radical anti-male/anti-heterosexual readings from lesbian feminists like Charlotte Bunch, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Janice Raymond, Judith Butler and others.

So when Disney hands over the Star Wars franchise to lesbians — in order to kill the franchise, of course — I can perhaps be forgiven for saying, “I told you so.” From the moment I began exploring this subject in 2014, it became obvious that the reason why everybody was suddenly talking about feminism was part of an orchestrated operation to mainstream feminism, in order to boost Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. It was not a coincidence, to cite one obvious example, that in 2014 “Harry Potter” star Emma Watson was recruited to be the United Nations “ambassador” for feminism, promoting the various slogans and hashtags to her millions of young fans. You’d have to be a damned fool to think #HeForShe was anything other than part of a Democratic Party propaganda campaign laying the groundwork for electing Our First Female President. Most people, however, did not connect the dots, just like they didn’t connect the dots between this pro-Clinton operation and the notorious 2014 rape hoax at the University of Virginia. (“Haven Monahan” could not be reached for comment.)

Do you see how events of 2014 are connected to what’s happening now at Disney? Once you make feminism “mainstream” — and many millions of dollars were spent to do that, circa 2014-2016 — certain consequences can be expected. “We must have more women directors!” And, “We must have more LGBTQIA representation!” Next thing you know, lesbians have destroyed the Star Wars franchise, deliberately. “At Long Last, ‘The Acolyte’ Gives Us a Star Wars Series Made by a Lesbian” is the review headline at the lesbian blog Autostraddle, celebrating the destruction of a franchise (for which Disney paid $4 billion — that’s billion with a “b” — in 2012) by making a series that includes exactly zero white men in the cast, and which has exactly zero heterosexual romance plot-points.

Was this specific outcome predicted in Sex Trouble? No, but as I kept saying: Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It. The destruction of your favorite movie? Not a coincidence.

Maybe now would be a good time to read that book.

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‘The Acolyte’: Disney Now Dancing on the Shattered Ruins of ‘Star Wars’ Franchise

Posted on | June 7, 2024 | 1 Comment

‘Gayest Star Wars EVER!’

You’re not going to watch the new series The Acolyte because it’s only going to be streaming on Disney+ which costs $7.99 a month. Disney+ is the third-place streaming service, behind Netflix and Amazon Prime, and trust me when I say The Acolyte will not boost Disney+ in the rankings, because the people involved in making The Acolyte are proudly boasting of its anti-white, anti-heterosexual agenda. Just watch:

“Gayest Star Wars ever!” *Cackles maniacally. They trashed what you love so they can brag about making it gay. You sold your baby to crazy vandals, George.
pic.twitter.com/cErZd64h1g

— Vonster (@__RiseAgain__) June 5, 2024

"White people crying was the goal"

Amandla Stenberg, lead actress for the new Star Wars series, The Acolyte: pic.twitter.com/b9gOhvYVRj

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 5, 2024

With avowed lesbian Leslye Headland as “showrunner” (executive producer) and avowed lesbian Amandla Stenberg as the star, The Acolyte could scarcely be more explicit in its intent. No doubt the executives at Disney greenlit this project as a political “gotcha” against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and an in-your-face gesture against Republicans in general. Basically, Disney is weaponizing Trump Derangement Syndrome as a business strategy, and the results . . . Just a quick Google search: “Reports show that The Walt Disney Company lost $123 billion in market value in 2022 alone.” How long can a company continue losing that kind of money? And yet the people running Disney nowadays seem to think they can keep turning out woke garbage, destroying once-valuable franchises, with no repercussions. Ace of Spades has much more on this, including this quote from a critic who’s seen previews of The Acolyte: “The third episode of The Acolyte will finally kill Star Wars for the vast majority of Pre-Disney Star Wars Fans. Based on LucasFilm comments of late, they are OK with that.” In the immortal words of Iowahawk:

1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.#lefties

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) November 10, 2015