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In The Mailbox: 09.16.19

Posted on | September 16, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: I Got Second Place
357 Magnum: Those Unintended Consequences
EBL: Fear Of The Peanut
Twitchy: Vox Already Has An Explainer On how Justice Kavanaugh Could Be Removed Without Being Impeached
Louder With Crowder: CNN Is Fake News – Change My Mind, also, Brett Kavanaugh Did Nothing Wrong

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Don’t Let The Old Man In
American Greatness: Latest Kavanaugh Accuser Is Democrat, Clinton Lawyer, Trump Critic
American Power: Are Democrats Running For “President Of Twitter”?
American Thinker: The Left Hopes To Destroy Christianity By Changing It
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Republican, Cuban-American Wisconsin Doctor Considering A Run For Congress
BattleSwarm: Drone Strike Halves Saudi Oil Production, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Cafe Hayek: What If All Reality Were Optional?
Camp of the Saints: George Will, Getting The Basics Wrong
CDR Salamander: Afghanistan In Its 18th Year – At The Personal Level, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Sometimes DaTechGuy’s Laws Of Media Outrage Are Violated, also, How To Lose
Don Surber: Why Not Call Democrats Communists? also, Apologize, Mitt
First Street Journal: Kiwis Look To Pass More Gun Control Bills
The Geller Report: Top Dems Insist Kavanaugh Must Be Impeached As Uncorroborated Allegations Resurface, also, Migrant Subjects UK 11-Year-Old To Horrifying Rape
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, The Tarantula Nebula, and Truthiness
Hollywood In Toto: Film Critics Cancel Clint, Cheer Criminal Hustlers, also, Hollywood Ignores Avalanche Of Pro-Kavanaugh Facts
Joe For America: Valerie Jarrett Suggests America Owes Obama Debt Of Gratitude For Low Unemployment, also, What if Jim Acosta Held A Book Signing & Nobody Came?
JustOneMinute: Manhattan DA Issues Criminal Subpoena For Trump’s State & Federal Tax Returns
Legal Insurrection: Update – Mandy Nagy Five Years On, also, NYT Adds Correction To Kavanaugh Hit Piece Admitting Alleged Victim Didn’t Recall Incident
Michelle Malkin: #StandWithICE, Aurora Colorado – Part II
The PanAm Post: Hypocrisy In Latin America – They Recognize Guaido But Abandon Venezuela
Power Line: Gut Check, also, The Gun-Grabber Supercut
Shot In The Dark: Making Housing Affordable By Making It Unobtainable, also, Living In Stereo
The Political Hat: When Venezuela Terrorizes, Then Collapses, Will It Equivocate?
This Ain’t Hell: Marine Sees Two High School Kids Fighting, Intervenes In Most Marine Way Possible, also, Officials Say Attack On Saudi Oil Facility Launched From Iran
Victory Girls: The Real Reasons Democrat Candidates For President Want Kavanaugh Impeached, also, Cheerleaders Get Probation For Trump Sign Picture
Volokh Conspiracy: Imagining A World Without Qualified Immunity, Part I, also, 1st Amendment Protects Calligraphers’ Right To Not Make Custom Gay Wedding Invitations
Weasel Zippers: CBP Reports 65 Miles Of New Border Wall Built, also, Kamala Harris On Kavanaugh Smear – “The Fact That Something Hasn’t Been Proven Doesn’t Mean It Didn’t Happen”
Megan McArdle: A Vaping Ban Would Be Hysteria Masked As Prudence
Mark Steyn: Ulee’s Gold, also, Swingin’ On A Star

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Lesbian Sues Sperm Bank After Learning Why Both Her Kids Are Autistic

Posted on | September 16, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

Layers and layers of irony here:

[Illinois lesbian Danielle] Rizzo’s children, ages 7 and 6, were at the center of one of the most ethically complex legal cases in the modern-day fertility industry. Three years ago, while researching treatment options for her sons, Rizzo says she made an extraordinary discovery: The boys are part of an autism cluster involving at least a dozen children scattered across the United States, Canada and Europe, all conceived with sperm from the same donor. Many of the children have secondary diagnoses of ADHD, dyslexia, mood disorders, epilepsy and other developmental and learning disabilities. . . .
When she first found out about their many half-siblings, she consulted a genetic counselor, who she says told her the odds of so many blood-related children with autism occurring spontaneously was akin to all the mothers “opening up a dictionary and pointing to the same letter of the same word on the same page at the same time.”
“It was the donor,” Rizzo remembered thinking. “It had to be.”
A quick online search for the donor’s profile showed that sperm from a man matching his description was still being sold by at least four companies. . . .
Rizzo turned to a sperm bank when she was 27 years old and a business banker at a JPMorgan Chase branch. She and her partner, who asked that her name not be used to protect her privacy, had been together for eight years. They met while Rizzo was attending community college on a softball scholarship. Rizzo was the team’s pitcher; her partner was an assistant coach. In June 2011, when Illinois began issuing civil union licenses to same-sex couples, they were the first in line at the Kane County courthouse.
Rizzo says they were eager to start their family and decided that Rizzo, younger by two years, would carry the baby. For months, the couple scoured online profiles to find just the right sperm donor.
Donor H898 from Idant Laboratories looked like a winner.
He was blond and blue-eyed, 6-foot-1, 240 pounds, and appeared to be smart and accomplished. His profile said he had a master’s degree and was working as a medical photographer. His hobbies included long-distance running, reading and art.
And most important, Rizzo says, he had a clean bill of health, according to his profile . . .
[B]oth boys were diagnosed with autism. She soon found herself thrown into the frenzied world of special-needs parenting. . . .
“The screaming, the hitting, the yelling, the pinching, the punching, the pulling my hair when I’m driving,” she said, describing her days. After three nannies quit, Rizzo left her job, and her relationship collapsed. . . .
The house went into foreclosure. Rizzo went on Medicaid, and in July 2018 she and the two boys moved into her parents’ basement. . . .
Donor H898?s sperm was offered through multiple sources. . . .
His profile stood out in many ways, women who used his sperm said, citing the thoughtful answers in his essays and audio interview. “I dislike dishonest and wasteful people,” he wrote in one statement. “I have my own garden and go to the Met when I can.”
Rizzo filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in July 2017. In her complaint, she alleged that his online profile was a lie and that he was not an “appropriate candidate for sperm donation.” . . .
She says in the complaint that research, based on public documents and calls to his relatives, showed that the donor had no college degrees, had been diagnosed with ADHD, and “went to a school for children with learning and emotional disabilities.” . . . Moreover, her attorneys wrote in the filing, “Donor H898 is a prolific sperm donor who has fathered at least 12 children through sperm donation, and that each of those children has either been diagnosed with Autism, or suffers from signs and symptoms associated with Autism.” In court documents, other mothers corroborated the story.

So far as we know, then, 100% of this donor’s offspring are autistic and the question arises: Could he ever have conceived children otherwise?

In other words, this guy might have been an “incel,” and so low-status that he was unable to form any real-life relationships with women. Yet by falsifying his sperm-donor profile, he convinced Danielle Rizzo and other women that he was “smart and accomplished,” a “winner.”

“Donor H898” perhaps never could have convinced any woman he actually knew to become the mother of his children, but he had certain traits — tall, blond and blue-eyed — that women seeking donor sperm considered desirable, and thus sired at least a dozen offspring, all of whom seem to have inherited H898’s neurological dysfunction. Oops.

Do you see why trying to evade Darwinian selection might be a bad idea? The idea that Science (with a capital S, to denote its quasi-religious status in the secular mind) can solve every social problem has a rather spotty record in real-life application. Traditional institutions like marriage and religion, we are told by the progressive intellectual elite, are oppressive remnants of a barbaric past. Why should our lifestyle choices be limited by obsolete prejudices and superstitions? And so we cannot expect that Danielle Rizzo, who was still only a teenager when she became the lesbian lover of her college softball coach, would heed anyone’s warning about the potential downside of her experiments on the frontier of social “progress.” No, you’re just a bigot and a hater if you think perhaps lesbian motherhood might produce negative outcomes.

Danielle Rizzo doesn’t believe in any of that “Thou shalt not” stuff. No, she believes in Science! Her children didn’t need a father. All she and her lesbian “partner” needed was a sperm donor, and Science would take care of the rest. What could possibly go wrong? Only everything, it turns out, so that “her relationship collapsed” and now she and her two autistic sons are on Medicaid, living in her parents’ basement.

This story was brought to my attention by Rational Male author Rollo Tomassi, who has a saying: “Hypergamy doesn’t care.” “Hypergamy prompts women to seek out ‘winners’, they don’t care how the man won, just that he won,” as Rollo has observed, and we see how this applies even with lesbians choosing sperm donors on the basis of online profiles. Being tall, claiming to have a master’s degree and a professional career — H898 seemed like a “winner,” and it never occurred to Danielle Rizzo to wonder about H898’s motives for becoming a sperm donor.

Did she imagine he a selfless humanitarian? If so, she was a fool, and now she’s stuck with two kids with this lying creep’s defective DNA.

The Gods of the Copybook Headings have an ironic sense of humor.



 

Category: Gays, Science, Sex Trouble

2020: White Votes Matter

Posted on | September 16, 2019 | Comments Off on 2020: White Votes Matter

Ace of Spades calls attention to an analysis of white working-class voters and what happens if this demographic shifts farther toward Trump in 2020, which seems quite likely if, say, Elizabeth Warren gets the nomination. Dave Wasserman of Cook Political Report runs the numbers:

Wasserman is calling attention to something that certain Thought Criminals — chief among them Steve Sailer — have been saying for more than 15 years, namely that Republicans were stupid to keep trying to pander to Hispanic voters when it would be easier to increase the GOP’s share of the white vote. There were millions of blue-collar white people who either didn’t bother to vote or who voted Democrat because of bread-and-butter economic issues. And it was Sailer’s hunch that it was the open-borders/free-trade Chamber of Commerce wing of the Republican Party that was hurting the GOP with this constituency.

Now, as a matter of economics, I hate this trade-war game that Trump is playing with China, because protectionism is just bad economics, but if this is a negotiating strategy, intended to force Beijing to open its markets to U.S.-made goods, well, that’s OK. And the blue-collar voters in Michigan and Pennsylvania, who might not be as devoted to sound economic principles as I am (or who simply care more about their jobs than about principles) seem to like this get-tough-with-China talk, a lot.

So while Trump’s economic nationalism is, so far at least, a winner with the working-class voters he needs for 2020, what are the Democrats doing? Doubling-down on identity politics and über-woke “social justice” issues. Pandering to their base of non-binary genderqueer vegans — the piercings and purple hair caucus — Democrats have gone so far left the ghost of George McGovern is shocked by their extremism. Like, if you support “Drag Queen Story Hour,” banning plastic straws and giving free college tuition to illegal aliens, you’re a Democrat, but otherwise . . . ?

It was Rahm Emanuel, of all people, who pointed out that the 2020 Democrats seem to be letting “liberal Twitter” push them to the furthest edges of radicalism, and as Ace of Spades says, Twitter is not real life: “The Democrats think they can make up for losses in the White Working Class with gains in the White #WokeAF Class.”



 

Category: Election

Somali Gangs Target Whites in Beatings, Robberies in Ilhan Omar’s District

Posted on | September 16, 2019 | 2 Comments

In the past year, there has been a 46% increase in robberies in downtown Minneapolis, a violent crime wave that police blame on Somali gangs in a district represented by Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar. Police say the gangs focused on stealing smartphones, and released video of an August incident near Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins baseball team. That video showed more than a dozen Somalis — half of whom police say were juveniles — brutally attack a white man, continuing to kick him after he was already lying motionless on the ground.

Minnesota is home to the largest Somali immigrant population in the U.S., with more than 50,000 living in the state. This has made Minneapolis the No. 1 location for Islamic terrorist recruitment. Last year, the district elected as its congressional representative Ilhan Omar, a Somali Muslim with ties to pro-terrorist anti-Semitic organizations.



 

Category: Crime, Minnesota

What Is the Kavanaugh Smear About?

Posted on | September 16, 2019 | Comments Off on What Is the Kavanaugh Smear About?

The New York Time revived its smear campaign against Justice Brett Kavanaugh in an article that had to be immediately corrected:

The New York Times suddenly made a major revision to a supposed bombshell piece late Sunday concerning a resurfaced allegation of sexual assault by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh — hours after virtually all 2020 Democratic presidential candidates had cited the original article as a reason to impeach Kavanaugh.
The update included the significant detail that several friends of the alleged victim said she did not recall the supposed sexual assault in question at all. The Times also stated for the first time that the alleged victim refused to be interviewed, and has made no comment about the episode.
The only first-hand statement concerning the supposed attack in the original piece, which was published on Saturday, came from a Clinton-connected lawyer who claimed to have witnessed it.
The Times’ revision says: “Editors’ Note: An earlier version of this article, which was adapted from a forthcoming book, did not include one element of the book’s account regarding an assertion by a Yale classmate that friends of Brett Kavanaugh pushed his penis into the hand of a female student at a drunken dorm party. The book reports that the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident. That information has been added to the article.”
The update came only after The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway, who reviewed an advance copy of the book, first flagged the article’s omission on Twitter — prompting other commentators to press the issue.

Let’s be clear on who is peddling this tale:

The man telling the story, Max Stier, represented Bill and Hillary Clinton in the 1990s when Bill Clinton was accused of exposing himself to a woman in a hotel room.
Stier’s story appears in the forthcoming book The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation by Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly. “A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student,” the authors wrote in a New York Times article teasing the book.
As for Max Stier, he has a long history with sexual assault claims, but from the other side. Stier, a Democrat, represented President Bill Clinton after Paula Jones accused him of exposing himself to her in a hotel room. Clinton settled with Jones for $850,000 and lost his law license for five years.
Stier also worked closely with David Kendall, representing Hillary Clinton against allegations of illegally handling classified information in the Whitewater investigation. Kavanaugh worked with Ken Starr on the other side of the Clinton impeachment battle. During his confirmation hearings, Kavanaugh had accused his opponents of being motivated by “revenge on behalf of the Clintons.” This allegation seems to confirm that.

It’s a straight-up partisan hit job. Professor William Jacobson weighs in: 

Donald Trump was elected president. But it wasn’t over.
There immediately launched an attempt to pressure Electors to change their votes, then an FBI-Democrat collusive attempt to undermine the presidency before it began, and a slow-motion coup to prevent the administration from governing. It’s still not over, as Democrats hurl themselves towards the cliff of impeachment.
Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court after a brutal smear campaign which saw accusation after accusation fall apart when subjected to scrutiny. But it wasn’t over.
After confirmation, but before the midterms, Dianne Feinstein promised to reopen the investigation of Kavanaugh if Democrats retook the Senate (they didn’t). Soon after the 2018 midterms after Democrats gained control of the House, incoming House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler signaled an intention to impeach Kavanaugh.
There have been organized attempts by Democratic operatives to get him fired from a law teaching position, and by Democrats in Congress to dig up old National Archive records in an attempt to create a public relations campaign to get him to recuse from future abortion decisions.
Today’s NY Times hit piece, which left out key details about a new accusation and the old discredited Ramirez accusation casting doubt on the reporting, has ignited calls from several leading Democrat presidential candidates and the social media mob to impeach Kavanaugh.
It’s never over.

Well, what is this really about?

Elizabeth Warren Joins Harris, Castro
in Calling for Kavanaugh’s Impeachment
— Slate

Democrats call for Kavanaugh impeachment
over new sexual misconduct claims
— NBC News

2020 Democrats call for Kavanaugh
to be impeached
— The Hill

New Brett Kavanaugh sexual misconduct accusation sets off calls for Supreme Court impeachment
— CBS News

It’s about creating a new “scandal” to replace “Russian collusion” as an excuse for Democrats to run an impeachment inquiry. And also, it’s battlespace preparation for next year’s presidential campaign. Ruth Bader Ginsburg obviously isn’t getting any younger, and Democrats want to campaign in 2020 on the idea that allowing Trump to appoint Ginsburg’s replacement would endanger “a woman’s right to choose.”



 

Category: New York Times, Supreme Court

Rule 5 Sunday: Paulina Porizkova

Posted on | September 16, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, RIP Ric Ocasek of the Cars, who died this weekend at the age of 75. Turned out a lot of fine music with the Cars, produced a lot more, and most pertinently from our point of view, was married to supermodel Paulina Porizkova for 28 years. Here’s Paulina in a shoot for Victoria’s Secret.

You can see why they wanted her for their video.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny starts us off with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #741, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Relative Poverty Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL brings us Aishwarya Rai, Amanda Cunningham, Get Girls With Garlic, Caroline Callaway & Natalie Beach, Jolie King, Felicity Huffman 14 Days A Prisoner, and Jenny Agutter.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Nicole Weider and his Vintage Babe is Katharine Hepburn. Bacon Time serves up Rule 5 Crossing The Bridge.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

 

 

 

 

 

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Who Is Raping Whom?

Posted on | September 15, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

The feminist discourse surrounding “rape culture,” particularly on college and university campuses, claimed that sexual assault was so prevalent as to suggest all men were complicit. University administrators imposed mandatory “consent training” as part of student orientation, male students were demonized as predatory monsters, and subjected to a systematic denial of due-process rights in tribunals where the mere accusation of sexual misconduct was taken as proof of guilt. Inciting a climate of fear (and anti-male prejudice) among impressionable college girls created what K.C. Johnson and Stuart Taylor Jr. called The Campus Rape Frenzy, the focal point of a feminist narrative of harassment, misogyny, objectification, etc. Every form of male misbehavior was added to an indictment in which everything and anything a man did wrong was construed as part of the overall system of heteropatriarchal oppression, of which rape was the conclusive proof of universal male guilt.

Intelligent observers could see how politics was controlling this narrative, principally as a result of The White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, launched in January 2014. Obama administration officials partnered with feminist groups to sponsor campus activism that inspired such travesties as the “Mattress Girl” protest at Columbia University and the University of Virginia rape hoax. Central to this “rape culture” propaganda were two claims:

  1. That sexual assault on university campuses was an “epidemic” — an emergency, a crisis — requiring drastic intervention;
    and
  2. Approximately 20% of female students — 1-in-5 — were raped during their undergraduate years.

These remarkable claims attracted critical scrutiny, and were rather swiftly debunked by competent researchers. In fact, data from the federal Justice Department showed that the rate of sexual assault had significantly decreased since the mid-1900s, and the female students ages 18-24 were actually less likely to be victims of rape than non-students in the same age group. So there was no “epidemic” of sexual assault on campus, and as for the “1-in-5” statistic (promoted by Joe Biden, among others), analysis of available reports indicted that this was at least a tenfold exaggeration. It is certainly a bad thing if 1-in-50 female students are victims of rape, but to exaggerate this number to 1-in-5 is dishonest and irresponsible. Yet those who called attention to the actual facts about sexual assault on campus — including Ashe Schow and Christina Hoff Sommers — were attacked by feminists, who denounced them as “rape apologists.” Anyone who disputed the feminist narrative was treated as persona non grata in academia and journalism.

My own cynical suspicion was that the “campus rape epidemic” narrative had been orchestrated for a particular partisan purpose, i.e., to “energize” female voters in crucial 2014 mid-term elections (when Democrats were defending their Senate majority) and also to prepare the ground for Hillary Clinton’s widely anticipated 2016 presidential campaign.

What struck me as most suspicious about feminist “rape culture” claims (beyond the politically convenient timing of this crusade) was that they contradicted what we know about crime in general. Academic achievement is inversely correlated with violent crime, which is to say, the higher a young person’s SAT score, the less likely they are to commit assault, robbery, murder or rape. While this doesn’t mean that valedictorians never commit crime, or that all criminals are low-IQ dimwits, the general pattern is quite clear. Given this well-known fact, how could it be that male university students — the “best and brightest” of America’s young men — were perpetrating sexual assault with such frequency as to constitute a rape “epidemic”? And there was something else apparent in the feminist narrative circa 2014: The high-profile cases cited by activists, and the loudest outcry against “rape culture,” tended to be on elite university campuses, which are most selective in their admissions policies. This alleged “epidemic” didn’t seem to be happening at second-tier state schools, but rather at prestigious (and extraordinarily expensive) private universities like Columbia, Brown and Yale. Again, this would seem to contradict what we know about violent crime in general. Americans were expected to believe that our 18-year-old daughters were in more danger of rape at Harvard or Stanford than they would be in West Baltimore or the South Bronx.

There was something else missing from the narrative:

An Obama-era subsidy for clearing rape kit backlogs, combined with DNA testing, has completely upended the conventional wisdom on rapists and how they commit their crimes.
The first insight is that serial rapists are very common and very prolific. Police departments had assumed that rapes with different types of victims and different techniques were committed by different men, but it turns out that serial rapists aren’t meticulous and careful repeaters of patterns: they’re chaotic and impatient and even if they’re looking for a specific kind of woman to attack, if they can’t find someone who matches their desires, they’ll just attack any handy woman.
So rapists also aren’t very smart about their crimes: their poor impulse control leaves behind plenty of physical evidence that can be used to convict them (Former Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty: “These are not the Napoleons of crime. They’re morons. We were letting morons beat us”). . . .
They’re also not discriminating as to the kind of crimes they commit: as the old rape kits are subjected to DNA tests, we’re learning that many men who’ve been committed for petty property crimes or non-sexual assaults have also committed strings of rapes. . . .
Finally, though stranger rape is very rare (most rape survivors are assaulted by acquaintances), these rapists also frequently assault strangers: “When Cleveland investigators uploaded the DNA from the acquaintance-rape kits, they were surprised by how often the results also matched DNA from unsolved stranger rapes.”

Well, I don’t know whose “conventional wisdom” is being debunked here, because this data confirm everything I already knew about criminals. Of course, the typical rapist is not very smart; of course, the same criminals who commit rape also commit other types of crime; of course, sexual violence is mostly committed by men with “poor impulse control.”

Most of all, of course a disproportionate number of rapes are committed by serial offenders. This well-known fact was ignored or downplayed during the “campus rape epidemic” hysteria that erupted in 2014. Over and over, our attention was called to “he-said/she-said” incidents on university campuses, usually involving freshmen or sophomores (i.e., 18- or 19-year-olds) who were heavily intoxicated at the time of a sexual encounter which subsequently resulted in an accusation that the drunk female student hadn’t been fully consenting to whatever the drunk male student had done. Sometimes these accusations happened many months after the incident; in more than one case, a male student on the verge of graduation was expelled because of a boozy hookup that happened his sophomore year. Such cases were alarming to anyone familiar with American college life. If it’s “rape” every time two drunk teenagers have sex on campus, well, you’re gonna have to expel a whole lot of students.

Almost without exception, the male students in these “he-said/she-said” drunken hookup situations were accused only once, and had no other criminal history; that is to say, without regard to whether we believed any specific accusation in such a scenario, there was seldom any reason to believe that the accused student was a serial sexual predator. Yet in response to the Obama administration’s 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter, universities had enacted procedures that reversed the “presumed innocent” standard (which would have been extended to any criminal suspect in a court of law) and treated accusations as tantamount to proof of guilt, so that male students were expelled on the basis of star-chamber proceedings reminiscent of the Inquisition or the Salem witch trials.

When we consider what can be learned from DNA testing of rape kits about patterns of criminal behavior, we see that repeat offenders — who typically commit a variety of crimes, not just sexual assault — are responsible for a disproportionate percentage of all rapes, a crime which the vast majority of men never commit in their lives.

What is true of rape in general is also likely true of rape on university campuses. Contrary to all the “no means no” lectures and all the demonizing anti-male rhetoric of feminists, very few male university students pose any real danger to their female classmates. Instead, most of the rape risk on campus involves a small number of male students — a single-digit percentage — who exhibit personality traits (“chaotic and impatient . . . poor impulse control”) typical of rapists in general.

Last year, the city of Detroit finished DNA testing on a backlog of more than 10,000 rape kits: “So far, the kits have led to the conviction of 130 sex offenders. They’ve led to the identification of more than 800 suspected serial sex offenders alleged to have committed sex crimes across 40 states.” Among the serial rapists convicted:

  • Reginald Holland: Serving a life sentence; abducted and raped four women before being identified through DNA testing.
  • Shelly Andre Brooks: Serving a life sentence; raped and murdered seven women.
  • Gabriel Cooper: Serving a sentence of 30-70 years; raped three women.
  • Eric Eugene Wilkes: Serving a sentence of 32-75 years; raped four women.
  • Deshawn Starks: Serving a sentence of 45-90 years; raped four women.

In case you lost count, that’s 22 rapes by five perpetrators, but none of them were Yale-educated Catholic Republicans, so don’t expect to read about these serial rapists in the New York Times.



 

Category: Sex Trouble, Violence Against Women

Poulos, You Magnificent Bastard!

Posted on | September 15, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

James Poulos has perhaps forgotten our first email exchange, many years ago, in which I offered him some sage advice, but whether or not he remembers that exchange, he has certainly followed my advice, and has thus risen to become Executive Editor of The American Mind. Poulos has never written anything that the Thought Police could brandish as evidence of his wrongthink, and is indeed on friendly terms with many liberals. Poulos is ideologically opaque, and I think deliberately so, in keeping with my long-ago advice to him, so that his affinities are rather mysterious to all but his most intimate friends.

At any rate, Poulos has weighed in on the French-Ahmari controversy and, in doing so, accomplishes something remarkable: Lending intellectual credibility to the slur “cuck” as used by pro-Trump conservatives against such #NeverTrump types as David French. With a clever title — “Genealogy of Cuckery,” echoing Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) — Poulos coolly examines whether this psychosexual metaphor represents something true about the pathetic fate of #NeverTrump:

Because there is just no question that the aim of [the Left’s] institutional vanguard is to choke off America’s production of a certain kind of adult male and the architecture of social order that radiates upward from him toward the heights of authority. This project is out in the open and the reams of academic and ideological writing about its details and justifications are widely available.
The metaphor of cuckoldry is selected to the exclusion of all others because nothing else quite as effectively sharpens the charge that your obsession with the details of honor and principle has in fact become fatally abstract: you are being kicked out of your own house by a rival power actively working to take away everything that is yours, your children included. You are becoming the end of your line, forever, in every respect. Yet you won’t even evacuate from your breached defenses before it’s too late. Only the heights of spiritual snobbery can explain such a choice.

You can read the whole thing.

Ace of Spades points out that Poulos took from him the phrase “the shame is part of the kink,” and that is just so brilliant! Like, I’m sure Ace would have preferred a hat-tip, but what’s cool is how Poulos employs Ace’s language (e.g., “muh principles”) as if every Serious Political Intellectual is reading AOSHQ on a daily basis (which they should).

And yet his enemies cannot point to anything in Poulos’s work and say, “A-ha!” He is as elusive as the Scarlet Pimpernel. And if you have not read his book The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselves, you certainly should buy it now.



 

Category: Intellectuals
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