‘Supreme Gentleman’ Syndrome

Posted on | July 23, 2020 | 2 Comments

Everyone remembers the “supreme gentleman” Elliot Rodger, who “killed six people and injured fourteen others near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara, before killing himself inside his vehicle.” His deranged murder spree made him the idol of “incels” who have actually been deemed a domestic terrorism threat, because these losers keep going on copycat shooting rampages, usually after posting “manifestos” declaring their war against . . . Well, who? Normal people.

Normal people may or may not be very successful in the romance department, but they don’t turn their failures into a weltanschauung. Normal people don’t commit mass murder because they can’t get a date.

Crazy People Are Dangerous, as I’ve told you a few hundred times, and anyone who considers Elliot Rodger to be a hero is crazy. So, a therapist in Seattle has seen a few “incel” types as patients in his practice, and quotes the following account from one young loser:

“Imagine you are a 23-year-old skinny and hardworking guy. You were called “nerd” growing up. You are also shy and don’t know what to say to girls but all around your town, you see thugs, dealers, rednecks all with models?
“You ask out girls every chance you can but they shut you off. You cut your hair nice, shave beard nice, have a car, do your best to get ahead and you have a motorcycle and you’re kind and EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU ARE AROUND A WOMAN THEY ARE TREATING YOU LIKE THE WEIRD UNCLE OR LIKE A GODDAMN INFERIOR BEING and yet you meet the guys these women married and they are arrogant, crude, lying obnoxious pricks. So then you AS A NORMAL GUY sign yourself up for POF (Plenty of Fish), Tinder, Match, etc and you message HUNDREDS of women like 400 on POF and you swipe right on EVERY tinder profile and you wait a week or 2 and check back to see how many messages you got and you have ZERO messages on POF and one message on tinder.
“You just weren’t born with Brad Pitt’s face. That is your sin. You can be fit, make more money, etc but if you are deemed unattractive you are put in a corner of rejection.”

Notice that I highlighted a couple of qualities this guy mentions: He is skinny, has been called a “nerd,” and is “shy and [doesn’t] know what to say to girls.” As soon as I saw this, I knew what the problem was.

“Do you have any friends? Like, guy friends?”

That should be the first question any counselor or therapist asks a young man complaining this way. Because, you see, the fundamental problem is that the guy is an introvert with a lack of social skills. He complains aobut his inability to connect with women — he doesn’t know how to talk to them — but I’ll bet you $100 he doesn’t have any male friends, either.

The “incel” is not merely a loser, but also a loner. He spends too much time playing videogames and not doing “real world” stuff that involves social interaction because such activities make him uncomfortable. He’s made “shy” and “nerd” his core identity, a ready-made explanation for failure, and then blames his failures on women. It is wrong for women to prefer “obnoxious” guys (i.e., extroverts) when obviously they should prefer him, the Supreme Gentleman. Well . . . why?

What is it that women want from men? Or to put it another way, how does a guy supply value added to a woman’s life? What benefit do women derive from the companionship of guys you dismiss as “thugs”?

Are women’s preferences entirely irrational? Is there perhaps a reason why women treat this shy, skinny nerd as an “inferior being”?

He doesn’t have any friends. He is held in low regard by male peers and thus suffers from a lack of social status, whereas the guys he dismisses as “obnoxious” are more gregarious and, as a result, have more friends and greater status. It’s not really very complicated. There are plenty of guys who “weren’t born with Brad Pitt’s face” and yet nevertheless do not become pathetic “incel” losers. And there’s something else.

The age at which a guy should start worrying seriously about his lack of success with girls is not 23. I’d say 15 or 16 is more like it.

You notice this about “incels,” i.e., that they completely missed out on the dating scene as teenagers. Why? It baffles me, and I could speculate on this subject, but I think there is something significant about the lack of self-awareness involved. Like, I recall being enormously frustrated about not having a girlfriend as early as 13 or 14. There were a few girls with whom I got past first base by the time I was 15 or 16, but this only increased my frustration, IYKWIMAITYD. My point, however, is that I was aware of a need for self-improvement by the time I was old enough to get a driver’s license, and I never stopped trying to improve my game.

Why is it, therefore, that this guy keeps losing until he’s 23 before finally seeking help? He’s been following the same self-defeating patterns since high school without ever once consulting someone — a friend, a relative, anyone — who could give him a few pointers?

This is much easier to do as a teenager, when basically everybody is clueless, so that there’s no shame in asking for advice. Even if you’re such a pathetic loser that you don’t really have any friends, maybe you’ve got aunts, uncles, or cousins you could ask. Sure, it’s embarrassing to admit that you’re a complete failure in desperate need of help, but you’ve got to start somewhere, and it’s best to start early, because otherwise you’ll be national news at age 23: SEVENTEEN DEAD AFTER ‘INCEL’ MANIAC GOES BERSERK WITH ASSAULT RIFLE.

Don’t be that guy. Mass murder is not cool.

Category: Fear. Loathing.

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | July 23, 2020 | 2 Comments

Shane Green, 58, lives in Portland, Oregon, which for the past eight weeks has been the scene of Antifa/#BlackLivesMatter riots. Do the radical protesters actually want to help black people? Or are they just a bunch of anarchist scum who hate cops? Shane Green needed help, and by “help” of course I mean, confinement in a psychiatric ward:

A man is facing a slew of charges after police say he attacked two people in a Portland laundromat with a handsaw — and it was caught on video.
On the afternoon of July 17, several 911 callers reported a man with a handsaw was assaulting people and breaking car windshields near the 2700 block of NE Weidler Street, the Portland Police Bureau said.
Two of the victims were inside a laundromat. Security video shows the suspect march straight up to a woman inside and swing the saw at her head.

Officers found the suspect near the 2100 block of NE Weidler Street. Police said they told him to stop and drop the saw but he refused and told officers he was going to make them shoot him.
The man walked into the middle of traffic, then started moving toward the officers while yelling at them while still holding the saw, police said. After several warnings, police used a less-lethal munition and the man dropped the saw. Officers started talking to him to try and calm him down but several bystanders interrupted by screaming and taunting the officers, the PPB said. This only made the suspect more upset, according to police.
Officers said they kept talking calmly and listening to the man and he was eventually taken safely into custody.
The suspect — 58-year-old Shane Vordelmicha Green — was charged with three counts of second-degree assault, six counts of unlawful use of a weapon, first-degree attempted assault, strangulation, four counts of menacing, two counts of second-degree attempted assault, harassment, second-degree disorderly conduct, interfering with a peace officer and four counts of reckless endangering. He was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center.

When we understand this as attempted suicide-by-cop, we see the connection between Shane Green’s violence and the violence of the lunatics engaged in “mostly peaceful” protests in Portland.

Antifa is not a political movement, it’s a mental-health crisis.

And, as you know, Crazy People Are Dangerous.

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Category: Crime, Oregon

In The Mailbox: 07.22.20

Posted on | July 22, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1055
357 Magnum: Just Another Tuesday In The Windy City
Red Pilled Jew: Quick Take
EBL: The Honey Badger Responds To Democrats Encouraging Riots, also, Calling Out Antifa Racists In Portland
Twitchy: CNN’s Brianna Keller Has Conniption When Proven Wrong With CNN Reports
Louder With Crowder: Poll Says Most Americans Despise Cancel Culture
Vox Popoli: The Ideas Percolate, also, It’s Afraid

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Want To Fight Racism? Let’s Cancel Planned Parenthood
American Greatness: The Death Of Standards At The NYT, also, Common Sense About Red China
American Thinker: How To Spank The Establishment Media
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Remembering Cuban Martyrs Osvaldo Paya & Harold Cepero On The 8th Anniversary Of Their Assassination
BattleSwarm: Red China Perfidy Roundup For July 22
Cafe Hayek: Famous Flip-Flopper Paul Krugman
CDR Salamander: By 2030, Who Will Have The Largest Amphibious Force In The Pacific?
Da Tech Guy: All MLB Had To Do Was Play
Don Surber: Trump Raised $20 Million, Obama $7.6 Million, also, Trump Takes On Red China. Boy Howdy.
First Street Journal: The Editors Of The Philadelphia Enquirer Would Trade More Black Bodies To Defeat President Trump
The Geller Report: Jihad-Rep Tlaib Says Feds Will Have To Arrest Her If They Set Foot In Detroit, also, George Stephanopoulos’ Wife Says She Watched Porn With Her Teenage Kids
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, A Quick Look At Venus
Hollywood In Toto: Alan Pakula’s Paranoid Parallax View Remains Perfection
JustOneMinute: Who Is That Masked Man? (Ongoing)
The Lid: Writer Tweets Video Of Police Brutality, Implying It’s From The U.S., But It’s From Serbia
Legal Insurrection: Chicago Mayor Says She Won’t Allow Trump “Troops” To “Terrorize” The City As 15 Shot At Funeral, also, Dartmouth Students & Faculty Sign Letter Urging School To Fight “Systemic Racism”
Michelle Malkin: One Nation Under Anarcho-Tyranny
The PanAm Post: Argentina Truckers’ Unions Block E-Commerce, also, Why Orwell’s Warning On Self-Censorship Is More Relevant Than Ever
Power Line: The Left’s Never-Ending Purity Implosion, also, On The Google Blacklist
Shark Tank: Democrat Brenda Forman Posts Hitler Quote On Social Media And Botches It
Shot In The Dark: Governor Waaaaahlz
The Political Hat: Stalin Clapping Test for The 21st Century, also, When Intolerance Of Tolerance Becomes Tolerance Of Intolerance Against The Designated Evil Race
This Ain’t Hell: Kung Flu Cancels Marine Corps Marathon For The First Time In Its History, also, Manhandling Rioters – Not Playing Games
Victory Girls: Chicago, Where TDS Trumps Citizen Safety
Volokh Conspiracy: It’s Getting Harder & Harder To Distinguish Satire From Earnest Wokeness
Weasel Zippers: Joe Biden Wishes American Schools Taught More About Islam, also, Denver Police Union Head Says Stand-Down Order In Effect When Pro-Cop Rally Attacked By Leftists
Mark Steyn: Evil Lurks

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Fat Lives Matter

Posted on | July 22, 2020 | 1 Comment

How is it that we now have 25-year-old Instagram influencers lecturing the world about the “social construction” of “norms”? And why is it that everything — absolutely everything — in 2020 ultimately comes around to “white supremacy” as an explanation?

How “woke” are you? No matter how attuned you may be to social-justice ideology, you’re probably not as woke as Maxine Ali. She is the kind of young feminist who spells “women” as womxn while slinging around academic jargon about “normative gender binaries.” Ms. Ali does most of her “activism” on her Instagram account, which, until a few years ago, was a typical sort of “influencer” account about food and exercise. But that was before Ms. Ali got herself a master’s degree from King’s College London, where critical theory is a central component of the curriculum. Critical theory is to cultural Marxism what a hammer is to carpentry; Ms. Ali is now qualified to identify systemic oppression wherever it may be found, which is to say, everywhere.
“The social construction of the ‘healthy’ body promotes norms that preserve white supremacy,” Ms. Ali proclaimed last month in an Instagram post, which detailed at length how BIPOC (black, indigenous, people of color) are oppressed by the “white normativity” involved in “discourses of health” . . .

Read the rest of my latest column at The American Spectator.

Category: Racism

Blame New York

Posted on | July 22, 2020 | Comments Off on Blame New York

What counts as “success” in fighting a pandemic?

Last week, Dr. Anthony Fauci, made a controversial assessment of New York’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. “We know that, when you do it properly, you bring down those cases. We have done it. We have done it in New York,” he told PBS’s Judy Woodruff. “New York got hit worse than any place in the world. And they did it correctly.”
Fauci was thoroughly mocked for his praise of New York, and not just by me.
“New York did it right by forcing thousands of highly infectious patients into nursing homes and running the subways 24-7 with no cleaning and no masks for months,” said Phil Kerpen, the president of American Commitment and The Committee to Unleash Prosperity.
“These comments by Dr. Fauci are a slap in the face to the thousands of New Yorkers who suffered immensely due to the inept and fatal policy errors from Governor Andrew Cuomo,” said Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona.
“The media informs me repeatedly that Dr. Anthony Fauci has never been wrong about anything and is above criticism,” mocked Ben Domenech of The Federalist. “He just hailed New York for their response to coronavirus. Are we allowed to call out a degree of bulls**t that monumental?”

New York alone has more than one-fifth of all U.S. coronavirus deaths, and when you combine the tri-state area (New York, New Jersey and Connecticut), that’s more than 36% of U.S. deaths. Comparing the per-capita death rates, you find that Florida’s rate is 86% lower than New York, and the rate in Texas is 92% lower than New York.

Hey, did you know that The American Spectator still publishes a print magazine and that you can suscribe for $10.99 a month or $69.99 a year? I mention this because the most recent print edition includes my article about how badly Cuomo screwed up on COVID-19:

On March 2, the day after New York reported its first coronavirus case, Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared on CNN, where he declared that he was “mobilizing the public health system to contain the spread.” In an interview with CNN’s John Berman, the Democratic governor said his state was “ramping up our testing capacity,” but assured viewers that “we have no reason for concern” that the COVID-19 patient, a 39-year-old woman who had just returned from Iran, had spread the virus to anyone else in New York. Cuomo added, “What I am concerned about, if anything, more than a health issue, is the perception issue and the fear issue. I understand diligence and I understand anxiety and let’s do everything we can. But you can’t allow the fear to outpace reality, right?”
The grim reality of New York’s coronavirus outbreak soon outpaced the worst fears anyone might have imagined in early March. By mid-April, Cuomo’s state was reporting as many as a thousand deaths a day, mostly in New York City and its suburbs, with the city’s pandemic also driving up the death tolls in neighboring New Jersey and Connecticut. By late May, those three states accounted for 45 percent of all U.S. coronavirus deaths. . . .

Read the whole thing. The time-lag in print publication meant that the statistical comparisons were based on data from late May and June, but even with the recent “second wave” surge in other states, New York has still not lost its place atop the coronavirus death totals.

Category: Health Care, New York

In The Mailbox: 07.21.20

Posted on | July 21, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.21.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Chicago Continues Its Slide Into The Abyss
EBL: Greyhound – A Review
Twitchy: MSNBC Analyst Claims President Sending “Paramilitary Units” Into Cities Is “Trial Run” To Steal The Election
Louder With Crowder: The Mask Nazis Are Coming After Ric Flair
Vox Popoli: Betting On A Trumpslide, also, No [More] Anonymous Defamation

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Kristina Karen Keneally Just Misses Home
American Conservative: The Transgender Craze Is Creating Thousands Of Young Victims
American Greatness: Wicked Whitmer v. The Enchanted Land Of Self-Government, also, Soros Prosecutor Files Charges Against St. Louis Couple
American Thinker: No Longer Possible To Be A Democrat & Support Free Speech
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Racist Assumptions News
Babalu Blog: Cuban State Security Out In Force As Regime Opens “Dollars Only” Stores, also, Unemployed Kenyan Doctors Protest Hiring Of Cuban Slave Doctors
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm Jr. For July 19, also, Soros-Backed STL Prosecutor – How Dare You Try To Defend Your Home! Have Some Felony Charges! MO AG – Slow Your Roll
Cafe Hayek: Having Written A Book About The Scottish Enlightenment, He Should Know Better
CDR Salamander: If You Speak, You Can Be Heard
Da Tech Guy: Trust Our Pollsters, They Won’t Dox You Like Tucker Carlson, also, COVID, The Campaign, & A Conspiracy
Don Surber: Chaos Brings A Second Term, also, Congress Failed The Mom & Pops
First Street Journal: Surrendering On Language
The Geller Report: Chicago’s Mayor Threatens To Fight To Keep The Administration From Helping End Violence In Her City, also, Star Of David Deemed “Hateful Imagery” By Twitter
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, And In Other Election News
Hollywood In Toto: Nine Lessons Learned From Rewatching Classic Star Trek, also, Red Pill Promises Get Out On Woke Steroids
The Lid: Thomas Sowell – U.S. Past The Point Of No Return If Biden Elected
Legal Insurrection: ANTIFA “Moms” Provide Human Shield Against Federal Law Enforcement, also, Tucker Carlson Accuses NYT Of Doing Story On His House To Hurt Wife & Kids
The PanAm Post: Colombian Criminal Gangs Unleash Violence During COVID-19 Pandemic
Power Line: WuFlu Infections In The NBA & MLB, also, Blois Olson – The Line On MN-05
Shark Tank: Palestinian Media Praises Deutch, Occasional Cortex For Promoting Anti-Israel Policy
Shot In The Dark: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Back To The Same Old
The Political Hat: Social Justice – The Presumption of Guilt
This Ain’t Hell: Navy Says The First Of Its New Frigates Will Be USS Brooke, also, Fundraiser Part II
Victory Girls: Victim Of Chicago Police Is Hardly Innocent
Volokh Conspiracy: #MeToo, #TheyLied, & Pseudonymous Litigation
Weasel Zippers: “Peaceful” Portland Protesters Destroy Plywood Protecting Federal Courthouse, also, Dem Rep Blumenauer – “Portland Is Not Out Of Control”
Megan McArdle: Trump’s Jedi Mind Tricks Aren’t Working Any More
Mark Steyn: The Race So Far, also, Whisper If You Dare

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Category: Linkagery

A Little Chin Music for the NY Times

Posted on | July 21, 2020 | 3 Comments

Baseball fans are familiar with the term “chin music,” otherwise known as the “brushback” pitch. If a batter is crowding the plate, the pitcher brings a fastball “high and tight” — an inside pitch, aimed at about chin level — to convey the message, “Back the f–k up, buddy.”

In the etiquette of baseball, this is fair play, understood as part of the game by all players. And this is analagous to what Tucker Carlson did to the New York Times last night:

The New York Times is threatening Tucker Carlson with publicizing where his family lives. In his most recent segment of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News, Carlson announced The New York Times is set to release an “intrusive” story about where he lives to demonstrate that they “want this show off the air.”
“As a matter of journalism, there is no conceivable justification for a story like that,” he said. “So why is the New York Times doing a story on the location of my family’s house? Well you know why: to injure my wife and kids so that I will shut up and stop disagreeing with them.”
According to Carlson, the paper assigned “political activist” Murray Carpenter and photographer Tristan Spinski to follow him and his family and publish a “where are they now?” story after violent protesters harassed them and sent them death threats for a year after discovering their previous home address. Carlson attempted to talk with the Times about the potential danger that might come with the release of his home’s location, but to no avail.
“Editors there know exactly what will happen to my family when it does run. I called them today and I told them but they didn’t care,” he said. “They hate my politics. They want this show off the air.”
Carlson has good reason to fear. In 2018, his family faced a slew of attacks on their home after a “left-wing journalist” released the address to his house in Washington, D.C. One night, Antifa members “vandalized” Carlson’s home and “threatened” his wife while he was away. The Carlson family also received death threats via mail and more Antifa visits, which eventually forced them to move.
“It felt cowardly to sell our home and leave…but in the end, that’s what we did,” Carlson explained.
Despite his concerns about his family’s safety, Carlson made a point to call out the hypocrisy of the “soulless robot editors” at the Times for trying to call this “incitement to violence” journalism. He noted The New York Times would not stand for the same kind of action from him or other conservative journalists, yet they continue to pursue it.
“They would call it criminal behavior if we did it. And that tells you everything,” Carlson said.