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‘Social Justice’ Is for Homos

Posted on | February 12, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

Remember my post yesterday about Tumblr? How it’s a money-losing dumpster fire full of pornography and mentally ill LGBTQ activists? In the comments of that post, someone linked to Scott Alexander’s classic 2014 essay at Slate Star Codex called “The Toxoplasma of Rage,” which explains why Tumblr sucks so bad:

Tumblr’s interface doesn’t allow you to comment on other people’s posts, per se. Instead, it lets you reblog them with your own commentary added. So if you want to tell someone they’re an idiot, your only option is to reblog their entire post to all your friends with the message “you are an idiot” below it.
Whoever invented this system either didn’t understand memetics, or understood memetics much too well. . . .
I make fun of Tumblr social justice sometimes, but the problem isn’t with Tumblr social justice, it’s structural. Every community on Tumblr somehow gets enmeshed with the people most devoted to making that community miserable. . . .
Tumblr’s reblog policy makes it a hothouse for toxoplasma-style memes that spread via outrage. Following the ancient imperative of evolution, if memes spread by outrage they adapt to become as outrage-inducing as possible.

This was 2014, before Tumblr’s inherent stupidity-inducing qualities had made the platform a laughingstock. Five years ago, Tumblr was still considered a happening thing, especially because it was so popular with teenage girls, and social-justice madness was epidemic on Tumblr during the Ferguson #BlackLivesMatter excitement, Alexander explained:

If you’re not on Tumblr, you might have missed the “everyone who does not reblog the issue du jour is trash” wars. For a few weeks around the height of the Ferguson discussion, people constantly called out one another for not reblogging enough Ferguson-related material, or (Heavens forbid) saying they were sick of the amount of Ferguson material they were seeing.

This pressure-cooker of like-mindedness, with everyone seeking to one-up each other in demonstrating their commitment to #BlackLivesMatter, and denouncing anyone who didn’t show sufficient zeal for the sacred cause, did not appeal to healthy minds, especially teenagers.

A normal teenager doesn’t give a damn about politics. Even during times of societal crisis, the normal teenager can’t be bothered to care. When I was a freshman in high school, the Yom Kippur War produced the Arab Oil Boycott, and Watergate led to President Nixon resigning a few weeks before the start of my sophomore year. The next spring, Communists conquered Saigon, and the Khmer Rouge took over in Cambodia. And what was I doing during all this world-historic drama? Playing trombone in the marching band, trying to get to second base with a girl, smoking dope and listening to some awesome rock-and-roll. In other words, I was being a normal teenager, but we didn’t have online social-media then, so who knows what sort of mischief I might gotten into if there had been smart phones and wifi circa 1973-75? But even with the advent of all this technology, the vast majority of teenagers are still sufficiently normal that they are more or less indifferent to politics, just like I was back in the era of bell-bottom jeans, Led Zeppelin and $20-an-ounce weed.

If someone had tried to get us to care about politics when I was a teenager, we’d have called them a “homo,” which was a sort of generalized insult that wasn’t homophobic because the word “homophobia” hadn’t been invented yet. Circa 1974, “homo” (like “queer” and “faggot”) was just an insult slung around among a group of teenage friends, without any actual suspicion of homosexuality. Perhaps a sociology professor or a Gender Studies major would interpret the use of such slang insults as expressions of “toxic masculinity” or whatever, but of course all professors and Gender Studies majors are homos, by the standards of normal teenagers. When I was in high school, all the cool kids were completely cynical about politics and politicians, and considering that I attended high school during the presidencies of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, perhaps you can see why were were so cynical.

Also, we were stoned most of the time. Perhaps my adolescent association with dopehead hoodlums made me somewhat atypical, but there were a lot of teenagers who went through the 1970s in a state of altered consciousness. In high school, I sort of had one foot in the artsy nerd clique — marching band, choir, student theater, literary magazine, etc. — and the other foot in the long-haired rock-and-roll crowd. The prevalence of drug culture in the mid-1970s was such that some of the smartest kids in school also spent a good deal of time wasted on dope, including heavy stuff like LSD, PCP and mescaline. But I digress . . .

We most emphatically did not care about “social justice” when I was a teenager, and I suspect the vast majority of normal teenagers now don’t really care about that stuff, no matter how much Democrats get excited by the idea of young people being “social justice” enthusiasts. But the crew of #BlackLivesMatter maniacs on Tumblr in late 2014 calling each other out for being insufficiently “woke” were not normal teenagers. Scott Alexander quotes an SJW Tumblrina:

“If you’re uneducated, do not use that as an excuse. Do not say, ‘I’m not picking sides because I don’t know the full story’” because not picking a side is supporting Wilson. And by supporting him, you are on a racist side…Ignoring this situation will put you in deep shit, and it makes you racist. If you’re not racist, do not just say ‘but I’m not racist!!’ just get educated and reblog anything you can.”

 

That was posted in November 2014, after a grand jury investigation found that Officer Darren Wilson had acted in self-defense in shooting Michael Brown. The 6-foot-4, 292-pound Brown attempted to grab the officer’s pistol during a struggle that ensued when Wilson tried to arrest Brown, who was a suspect in a convenience store robbery. Round-the-clock cable TV coverage by CNN and MSNBC distorted the story in Ferguson to such an extent, however, that a false mythology of Brown as an innocent victim of racist police took hold in the minds of “social justice warriors” (SJWs) like the Tumblrina quoted above. This bogus narrative (“Hands up, don’t shoot”) led to violent riots in Ferguson.

 

A remarkable arrogance was required to denounce as “uneducated” anyone who didn’t take the side of the Ferguson rioters. The facts of this case, and the reality of race and crime in America, were examined by Heather Mac Donald in her 2016 book The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe. Considering that she got her B.A. from Yale and her J.D. from Stanford Law, Heather Mac Donald certainly cannot be called “uneducated.” Yet such is the climate created by the media’s social-justice propaganda that, unless you are sufficiently mature and well-informed to resist this kind of myth-making operation, you might easily believe that anyone who doesn’t share your belief is intellectually and/or morally inferior to you. So, who was this Tumblrina who declared, in November 2014, that anyone didn’t support the #BlackLivesMatter rioters in Ferguson was an “uneducated” racist?

Say hello to Abby, a 19-year-old lesbian who lives in New Jersey.

 

At the time she posted her Ferguson rant in November 2014, Abby was a high-school freshman, still a couple of months away from her 15th birthday. Abby was born on Jan. 20, a fact I know because she also had a sideblog about astrology, describing herself as a Capricorn/Aquarius cusp. So the person lecturing everybody on Tumblr on how “uneducated” they were was a ninth-grader who believes in primitive superstition about how the movements stars and planets control our earthy fortunes.

And also, perhaps not coincidentally, she’s a homo.

At the time of her ninth-grade rant about how everyone who disagreed with her was an “uneducated” racist, Abby still identified as bisexual. Having spent way too much time scrolling through her Tumblr blogging about her personal problems, I’ll spare you the details, except to say that Abby’s family seems to be so tolerant and progressive that, in order to obtain the customary adolescent thrill of teenage rebellion, she’d probably have to knife them in their sleep. Or vote Republican.

In 1975, Midge Decter wrote a book called Liberal Parents, Radical Children that explained how the extremists of the 1960s New Left originated in misguided permissive parenting styles that prevailed among who thought of themselves as “enlightened” in the Eisenhower era. (You can read Abby Schacter’s review of Decter’s book published on the occasion of its 40th anniversary in 2015.) Parents have to realize that children require structure and discipline, a system of rules and consequences, with no tolerance for disrespect or impudent resistance to parental authority. You cannot be an effective parent by trying to “be your child’s best friend”; this kind of absurd egalitarian approach to parenting produces spoiled, selfish brats. But I digress . . .

What sort of 14-year-old thinks of herself as qualified to lecture others about how “uneducated” they are for disagreeing with her? What is it that inspires teenagers to pronounce judgment on people they’ve never met, and about whom they know nothing? Well, consider that Abby mentions being in therapy, and her “coming out” as bisexual at age 15 didn’t seem to provoke any parental reaction, so that a year or so later, after deciding that boys were just too boring to merit her romantic interest, she declared herself a lesbian, and her parents actually invited Abby’s girlfriend to accompany them on their family vacation.

Without getting too deep into the etiology of homosexuality, permit me to observe that Abby is a familiar type — sexually precocious, she’d had both boyfriends and girlfriends before she was old enough to get a driver’s license and, while she’s reasonably attractive, she’s somewhat pudgy. Speculative discussion of why Abby (or anyone else) engages in homosexual behavior would be a waste of time, but what I wish to call to the reader’s attention is that Abby is a recognizable type, both in terms of her personal backstory and her physical appearance including (a) her purple-dyed undercut hairstyle and (b) her pierced nostril. When you factor in her Tumblr blogs devoted to (c) “social justice” politics and (d) astrology, Abby is a 21st-century stereotype.

There are a lot of things I could say about this observable pattern, but I’ll leave readers to draw their own conclusions, except to channel the voice of my teenage hoodlum buddies circa 1975, who almost certainly would have said, “Social justice is for homos.” Pass the bong.



 

Category: Gays, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 02.11.19

Posted on | February 12, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.11.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Democrats Omar & Tlaib – Jewish Tropes Are Fun To Tweet!
Twitchy: Matthew “Mansplainer” Dowd Has Some Really Bad Advice For The Ladies Running In 2020
Louder With Crowder: Chris Pratt Responds To Ellen Page’s Church-Shaming

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Time Warp Edition, also, You Went To College To Find Yourself, Now It’s Time To Pay Up
American Power: The Disaster Of Public Education, also, Extremist Democrats Boosting President Trump’s Re-Election Chances
American Thinker: Without Elitist Racialism, There’s Little Racism, also, Why The Radical Left (And Nobody Else) Touts Modern Monetary Theory
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Virginia Is For Lovers Friday, also, Goodbye Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Mike Rowe On Trump’s SOTU, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update

CDR Salamander: Behold The Fruit Of Thy Priorities, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Baseball Thoughts Under The Fedors On A Snowy Day, also, Experiment Fails Again
Don Surber: Trump Wins So Bigly Critics Don’t See It, also, Media Won’t Call Out Gay Black Actor On Hoax
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Back To The Forward Look
First Street Journal: Perhaps They’d Be Less Offended By “Learn To Pull Wire”?
Fred On Everything: John Bolton & His Codpiece Mustache – Examining The Freak Show
The Geller Report: California High School Hangs Nazi Flag In Classroom, also, Should NATO Help Sweden?
Hogewash: Looking Forward To A Great Leap Backward, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: “Deplorables Tour” Comics Punished For Trump Support, also, Lego Movie 2 Revels In Meta Gags (Between Woke Nods)
Joe For America: AG Kamala Harris Tried To Keep Convicts Locked Up Longer To Serve As Slave Labor Fighting Wildfires, also, Cory Booker Compares “Green New Deal” To Fighting Nazis
JustOneMinute: Green With…Laughter? also. Oh, THAT Green New Deal!
Legal Insurrection: CA Gov Newsom Recalls California Guard From The Border, also, Antifa Mobster Arrested For Assaulting Marines Was Go-To Democrat Activist
Michelle Malkin: End The “TPS” Farce – It’s Time For Ingrates To Go
The PanAm Post: Guaido – Intervention Is Justified To Guarantee Humanitarian Aid
Power Line: A Pedophile On The Reservation, also, Omar Goes Full Anti-Semite Again
Shark Tank: Defiant Democrats Refuse To Give Trump A Political Victory, also, Commerce Dept. To Withdraw From Agreement With Mexican Tomato Farmers
Shot In The Dark: NPR Bingo
STUMP: Chicago Mayoral Candidates – What Do They Say About Pensions? also, Mortality With Meep
The Jawa Report: Sasquatch! Total 100% Proof!
The Political Hat: Transing Labels – Gender Badges, Ally Badges, & Trans Puppets, also, Sheep/Human Hybrids Now Scientific Fact – Can Catgirls Be Far Behind?
This Ain’t Hell: Nathan Phillips To be Named In Lawsuit, also, God-Emperor Trump – Long Live The Great Orange Ape
Victory Girls: Rep. Omar Apologizes For Jew-Hatred, Promises To Make It Less Obvious
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Summary Of Recent Federal Court Decisions, also, Judging Neomi Rao
Weasel Zippers: Despite Guns In Schools Debate, Participation In PA HS Rifle Teams Increasing, also, Mumps Confirmed In Detainees At Houston ICE Facility
Megan McArdle: We Need A Single Standard For Northam, Fairfax, And All The Others
Mark Steyn: Infanticide & Minstrelsy, also, A Party Of Woke Mammy Singers


Category: Linkagery

‘Stephanie Hayden’ Is a Man Named Anthony Halliday, and Must Be Stopped

Posted on | February 11, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Stephanie Hayden’ Is a Man Named Anthony Halliday, and Must Be Stopped

Not a woman: Anthony Halliday (left) as ‘Stephanie Hayden’ (right).

Anthony Halliday changed his name to “Stephanie Hayden” and become a transgender activist in England who “regularly threatens gender identity disbelievers with civil or criminal lawsuits, or attempts to have them ousted from their careers.” Last year, Halliday/“Hayden” sued British comedy writer Graham Linehan for “deadnaming” (i.e., accurately identifying Halliday/“Hayden” as male, using his birth name). In December, I wrote about how dangerous Halliday/“Hayden” is:

Thanks to British laws on “gender recognition,” however, any criticism of transgender ideology is now treated as criminal “harassment,” and the law is being used to terrorize critics into silence. It’s like Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four being forced to say 2 + 2 = 5.
Americans should take notice of what is happening in England. If your state or local authorities attempt to impose transgender “equality” by law, your free-speech rights could soon be similarly infringed.

Over the weekend, I started getting a surge of traffic to that post, and discovered it was because Halliday/“Hayden” has made news again:

UK: Mother Arrested in Front of Children
for Calling Trans Activist a Man on Twitter
— Breitbart, Feb. 10

Mother Arrested, Spends Seven Hours
In Jail For Calling Transgender A Man
— Daily Caller, Feb. 10

Mom arrested, interrogated for disagreeing
with transgender about pronouns
— Lifesite News, Feb. 11

UK mom: I was arrested in front
of my kids, jailed for 7 hours after calling
transgender activist the ‘wrong’ gender
— The Blaze, Feb. 11

UK Mom Arrested for Calling
Transgender Activist a Man
— CBN News, Feb. 11

 

When the president’s son takes notice, you know it’s a big story:

A mother was arrested in front of her children and locked up for seven hours after referring to a transgender woman as a man online.
Three officers detained Kate Scottow at her home before quizzing her at a police station about an argument with an activist on Twitter over so-called ‘deadnaming’.
The 38-year-old, from Hitchin, Hertfordshire, had her photograph, DNA and fingerprints taken and remains under investigation.
More than two months after her arrest on December 1, she has had neither her mobile phone or laptop returned, which she says is hampering her studies for a Masters in forensic psychology.
Writing on online forum Mumsnet, Mrs Scottow — who has also been served with a court order that bans her from referring to her accuser as a man — claimed: ‘I was arrested in my home by three officers, with my autistic ten-year-old daughter and breastfed 20-month-old son present.
‘I was then detained for seven hours in a cell with no sanitary products (which I said I needed) before being interviewed then later released under investigation … I was arrested for harassment and malicious communications because I called someone out and misgendered them on Twitter.’
Confirming the arrest, Hertfordshire Police said: ‘We take all reports of malicious communication seriously.’s . . .
High Court papers obtained by The Mail on Sunday detail how Mrs Scottow is accused of a ‘campaign of targeted harassment’ against Miss Hayden, allegedly motivated by her ‘status as a transgender woman’.
The papers claim that, as a ‘toxic’ debate raged online over plans to allow people to ‘self-ID’ as another gender, Mrs Scottow tweeted ‘defamatory’ messages about Miss Hayden. . . .
Mrs Scottow denied harassing or defaming Miss Hayden and said she holds a ‘genuine and reasonable belief’ that a human ‘cannot practically speaking change sex’, but Deputy Judge Jason Coppel QC issued an interim injunction that bans her from posting any personal information about Miss Hayden on social media, ‘referencing her as a man’ or linking her to her ‘former male identity’.

Free speech is dead in England, and transgenders killed it. What was happening was a debate over public policy — the so-called “self-ID” proposal to allow people to legally change their gender at a whim — and Halliday/“Hayden” is an activist on one side of that debate. What Halliday/“Hayden” wishes to do, and what English police and courts evidently will assist him in doing, is to prevent any opponent from mentioning the highly relevant information that “Stephanie Hayden” is actually an obese man named Anthony Halliday.

Like I keep saying, people need to wake the hell up.




 

 

Category: Great Britain, The Transgender Cult

Tumblr: The Toxic SJW Dumpster Fire That Keeps Burning Up Corporate Cash

Posted on | February 11, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

When all the SJWs were crying about journalists being laid off at Huffington Post, none of them bothered to mention Tumblr, which is part of the same Oath Media division of parent company Verizon. Let’s recount the history of how HuffPo and Tumblr got combined:

During all the moaning about the HuffPo layoffs as the death of Democracy As We Know It, nobody seemed to remember Tumblr, a gigantic cash drain that has been losing vast amounts of money ever since its creation.  During the four years between Yahoo’s ill-advised acquisition of Tumblr and Verizon’s acquisition of Yahoo, it was revealed that Tumblr is “effectively worthless” — the site has never made money, nor will it ever. Until 2014, I had no idea that Tumblr even existed, but after I began researching radical feminism, I quickly became acquainted with a phenomenon known as the “Tumblrina”:

An often unattractive, butthurt, and obnoxious female user of the popular site Tumblr.
Someone who complains all day on Tumblr about how oppressed they are by men, when 99% of ranting cases were provoked would be meaningless or of utmost minute significance to the average person.
Tumblr addicted female who is defined by her sensitivities and adherence to popular tumblr feminist opinions and/or trends resulting in undue drama and walls of text.
A dramatic, self-righteous tumblr-er who exaggerates prejudice and injustice . . . and tries to make other people feel shitty about existing. Also known as a social justice warrior or sjw, the tumblrina may list ridiculous “triggers” and claim that anyone unlike them has “privilege” and should apologize for being born.

It was not an accident that Tumblr attracted these people. When I first encountered the phenomenon of Tumblrinas, a longtime observer of this scene explained that Tumblr is a low-skill platform, requiring absolutely zero knowledge, because any idiot could just hit the “reblog” button and create a site entirely of secondhand content. Tumblr’s user base is about 2-to-1 female-to-male and skews very young. In a 2016 interview, Danielle Strle, former director of community and content at Tumblr, expressed her enthusiasm for how Tumblr aggregates youthful stupidity:

I mean the Reblog is incredibly powerful. You can take something from someone else’s blog to all of your followers and onto your blog with one click. It allows information to spread in a way that no other platform quite does. . . . [I]t comes into your media stream and it’s just this magical river of internet awesome, of new ideas. . . .
I think that we live in an age when so many algorithms and so many platforms are just trying to serve up more of what the computer thinks we might want, based on what we’ve clicked on in the past, but because of the human element of Tumblr, your dashboard is just full of things people have Reblogged that you might not have bumped into on your own. You’re following this blog because you’re really into retrofuturist aesthetic and they post a lot of that good stuff, but then they also Reblog some politics thing because they care and are passionate about it and you’re bumped into that idea.

Tumblr’s “magical river of internet awesome” was attracting a “community” of like-minded young dimwits, Ms. Strle acknowledged:

Young people tend to be the most politically progressive, their minds are open, their hearts are open, they’re being thoughtful about things.
This young generation of feminists who are like high-school age, they are driving feminism to the top of people’s lips.

What happens when a bunch of open-minded progressive teenage girls are given an unsupervised “magical river of internet awesome”? Among other things, an infinite demand for LBGTQ+ “support”:

 

What does it mean to support “all sexual orientations and gender identities”? Do the more than 100,000 people who’ve “liked” or “reblogged” that post suppose that I, as a heterosexual male, am in need of their support? Do they actually support male heterosexuality? Don’t be silly! The source of that particular post declares: “I’m a queer, autistic nerd. 26, from Sweden. INFP. Pronouns: they/them.”

Translation: Mentally abnormal and deeply confused.

Do you suppose that all these thousands of Tumblrinas who endorsed this expression of support from the queer autistic Swedish nerd of indeterminate gender asked themselves what they were endorsing? No, of course not — the open-minded progressive teenagers just hit “reblog” to show their commitment to infinitely “inclusive” weirdness, because otherwise someone might condemn them as a hateful bigot.

 

Yet another demand for infinite “support”:

Dear straight allies: If you’re gonna support us, support all of us. Support trans girls, trans boys, non binary kids, ace and aro kids, pansexuals, bisexuals, etc. Support questioning people. Support lgbt+ people who don’t fit the stereotypes. Don’t just support us so that you can have a gay best friend or brag about your lesbian friend, and then turn around and laugh at “76 genders” memes or invalidate non LG orientations. Support us because we’re humans and we deserve human rights, too. You don’t get to pick and choose who you support.

Those who wish to be “straight allies” to the LGBTQIA community “don’t get to pick and choose who you support.” Basically, you must support any kind of identity or orientation, so long as it is abnormal, perverse and deviant. And I’m not sure that the 6,000+ people who’ve “liked” or “reblogged” that post have considered what manner of bizarre behaviors might be included in the rainbow-flag alphabet-soup to which they are “allies.” Nor do I suppose these Tumblrinas have reflected on whether anyone’s “human rights” would actually be infringed without the unlimited support of their “straight allies.” And gosh, what kind of people do you suppose might be demanding this “support”?

Elkhart man accused of uploading
child porn to Tumblr
— Jan. 3, 2019

Rock Hill man uploaded child porn images
to Tumblr social media, police say
— Jan. 14, 2019

Sarasota woman accused of uploading
child pornography to Tumblr
— Jan. 17, 2019

Abilene police track child porn
uploaded to Tumblr to computer
used by former ACU student
— Jan. 23, 2019

Florida man arrested for possessing
child porn downloaded from Tumblr
— Jan. 29, 2019

Local man sentenced to prison after
posting child pornography on Tumblr
— Jan. 29, 2019

Tallahassee man accused of sharing
child pornography on Tumblr
— Feb. 8, 2019

Those are just a few recent headlines, among the many stories about sexual predators and child pornographers using Tumblr. And this problem was the subject of bad news for the site last November:

The social networking service Tumblr announced [Nov. 19] that its iOS app had been removed from Apple’s App Store after child sexual abuse content had been found on the platform during a routine audit.
The platform first announced an undisclosed issue with the iOS app on Friday. Monday’s update said Tumblr uses an “industry database” to prevent the distribution of illicit content; however, the content that was discovered had not yet been included in that database.
Apple requires iOS apps to have content filters to prevent the distribution of child pornography, The Verge reported.
“We’re committed to helping build a safe online environment for all users, and we have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to media featuring child sexual exploitation and abuse … We immediately removed this content,” Tumblr’s statement read.
Tumblr has a reputation as a platform with a permissive attitude towards adult content. The governments of Indonesia and South Korea have sparred with Tumblr over its handling of sexual content, the BBC reported.

Is there a connection between (a) Tumblr’s “permissive attitude towards adult content,” (b) its popularity with “progressive” teenagers, and (c) its support for “all sexual orientations and gender identities”? One might easily theorize such a connection, and gather evidence in support of that theory, which might also explain why the idiots at Yahoo were willing to pay more than a billion dollars for Tumblr in 2013, despite the platform’s total lack of any profit-generating capacity: “Hey, a site crammed full of perverts, pornography and confused queer teenagers — let’s buy it!”

Everything was sailing along nicely for this toxic waste-dump of a site, however, until Tumblr’s kiddie porn problem got them kicked off the App store, and then they announced a change in policy:

Tumblr announced [Dec. 3] it will ban photos, videos, and GIFs that show “sexual acts” on its website starting Dec. 17.
The move comes two weeks after child pornography creeped onto its website, The Hill reported . . .
“If your post has been flagged as adult, it will be reverted to a private setting viewable only by you,” Tumblr’s website said.
Exceptions to the ban on adult content include exposure to nipples in relation to breast-feeding and gender reassignment surgery, erotica, nudity found in art and nudity connected to political or newsworthy speech, Tumblr’s website said.

Also in December, more bad news for Tumblr’s parent company:

Verizon just admitted that the brand value of its media company, Oath, is almost nothing.
Verizon (VZ) announced Tuesday that it would take a $4.6 billion writedown on Oath, which includes Yahoo and AOL.
Oath’s brand value is now just $200 million, according to Verizon. That’s a stunning decrease in value since it formed in 2017. Verizon said Oath’s brand was worth $4.8 billion when it last accounted for the company’s goodwill valuation. A goodwill valuation encompasses a company’s brand value and reputation.
Verizon snapped up a number of legacy media brands in recent years to create Oath. It bought Yahoo for $4.5 billion in 2017 and AOL, which owns HuffPost, for $4.4 billion in 2015.

Oh, the “magical river of internet awesome”! Verizon blew nearly $10 billion to acquire AOL and Yahoo, the value of which is “almost nothing,” including the porn-infested swamp of LGBTQ-inclusive madness that is Tumblr. Maybe those journalists laid off by HuffPo should just go start Tumblr blogs like that queer autistic Swedish nerd.

Otherwise? Learn to code.




 

 

Category: Uncategorized

Rule 5 Sunday: Pre-Valentine’s Day Pinups

Posted on | February 11, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

It’s that time of year again, when men check out the prices on chocolate and flowers, and their women wonder what sort of desperate expedient their men friends will show up with next weekend. Here’s a vintage pinup by Gil Elvgren suitable to the occasion.

A dozen red American Beauty roses and a box of See’s Chocolate, stat!

Ninety Miles From Tyranny warms up with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #524, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns; Animal Magnetism remembers happier times with Rule Five  Virginia Is For Lovers Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

I begin EBL’s contributions with an apology for somehow leaving Perdita Weeks out of last week’s post; there’s also Super Bowl Rule 5, Vanessa Tyson, Sophie Turner, Game of Thrones Dorne Rule 5, Loving Spoonfuls, Millennial Black Magic, Laura Harrier, National Pizza Day, and Priyanka Chopra.

A View From The Beach adds Jewish Model Called Nazi for Trump Support – Elizabeth Pipko, We’ve Been Saying This For Several Years, We’ve Been Saying This For Several Years, A Court Case Plumbers are Following with Great Amusement, I Hate Being Vegangelized, Russiagate Revived, My Dentist Would Approve, Russiagate, Baby, Then the Rains Came . . ., Now That Football Season is Over . . .,  I Hear Gisele’s Hubby Has a Big Game Today and A Profile in Courage Award for the Queen of Queens?

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Jaimie Alexander, his Vintage Babe is Jennifer Rubin*, and Sex in Advertising is covered by J-Lo. At Dustbuty, it’s Daisy & Violet Hilton and Margarita Levieva.

*Not the “conservative” Washington Post columnist. This is a classy joint.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: MORTAL KOMBAT!

Posted on | February 10, 2019 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: MORTAL KOMBAT!

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Apologies for the lank of linkagery this week – I’ve been stressed out and unwell, and these things make for an unproductive Wombat. Also, a reminder – the week for which we give credit extends from Saturday through Friday; for example, this week’s FMJRA recognizes links to posts from Saturday, February 2 through Friday February 8.

Rule 5 Sunday: Naomi Wu
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Married Homosexual Couple Accused of ‘Bareback’ Raping Man in Texas
EBL

Chad Allan & the Expressions
EBL

Ralph Northam Press Conference
A View From The Beach
EBL

Doom, Gloom and Bad Weather
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Destroy Everything You Touch
A View From The Beach
EBL

Another Victory for ‘White Nationalism’
EBL

‘Chaos’ in Virginia: Northam Besieged, Lieutenant Governor Denies Sex Assault
EBL

MS-13 Kills Man on NY Train Platform
EBL

Gavin McInnes Sues SPLC
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.04.19
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Left-Wing Journalist Hacks Email of Republican Billionaire Joe Ricketts
EBL

The Fetid Left-Wing Origins of @chick_in_kiev (Talia Lavin)
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.05.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Rich Liberals (and Why We Hate Them)
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Pushing Rubber Downhill
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Don’t Mess With the Grand Poobah
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Democrat ‘Rising Star’ Fading Fast
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The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved: Teaching Hatred at Yale University
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Top linkers for the week ending February 8:

  1.  EBL (19)
  2.  A View From The Beach (5)

Honorable mention to Proof Positive, 357 Magnum, Ninety Miles From Tyranny, and The Pirate’s Cove, who are in there every week linking up our new stuff and some old stuff too. Thanks to everyone for the linkagery!

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Mortal Kombat Double Feature!

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‘Gender,’ Envy and Self-Pity

Posted on | February 10, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Gender,’ Envy and Self-Pity

Ace of Spades summarizes a not-so-surprising discovery:

[F]emale-to-male transgenders are discovering that “Male Privilege” actually doesn’t exist, and that the actual privilege belongs to women. They’re saying that now as “men,” they are being accused of “mansplaining” for merely disagreeing or correcting errors, and are expected to defer to women in any social interaction.

The source is Carl Benjamin discussing a recent Washington Post story:

 

Incidentally, here’s something about me: I don’t watch YouTube videos. If you want to tell me something, write it. For any literate person, reading is far more efficient than listening to the spoken word. I am an extremely fast reader, and could fully comprehend the transcript of an entire 15-minute video in less than two minutes, and why should I waste that additional time? This is why I’m sometimes confounded by the fame, such as it is, of YouTube “celebrities.” There are people out there who have hundreds of thousands of YouTube subscribers and rate as “celebrities” within whatever niche of fandom they appeal to, and I’ve never heard of them, because I don’t watch YouTube videos. And when I see someone like Carl Benjamin (a/k/a, Sargon of Akkad) making a really good point in a YouTube video, I am tempted to yell at my computer: “WHERE’S THE F–KING TRANSCRIPT?” Like, you couldn’t even be bothered to write up your argument as a blog post? If you believe what you’re saying on your YouTube channel is important, wouldn’t it reach a wider audience and have more impact if you took time to publish a transcript, or at least a synopsis of your argument? But I digress . . .

The recent clash between feminism and transgenderism (see “The Rocky Horror Ideology Show,” American Spectator, Jan. 29) fascinates me because, as has been pointed out, feminists are to some extent being hoisted on their own petard. It was feminists who originated the claim that there are no meaningful differences between male and female, that all distinctions of social roles between men and women are a product of patriarchal oppression. If this is so — if “gender” is merely a socially constructed illusion — then why can’t men be women or vice-versa? But this wasn’t a consequence they considered back in the day when feminism’s utopian scheme of a gender-neutral world of “equality” was being theorized by radical nutjobs like Kate Millett, Shulamith Firestone, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Andrea Dworkin, Mary Daly, et al.

Today’s radical feminists insist (and rightly so) that transgenderism is threatening to erase everything that feminists fought to achieve, but isn’t it true that the theoretical basis of transgender ideology derives from feminist theory, in quite the same way that feminist ideology was derived from Marxist theory a half-century ago? And all of these left-wing ideologies are rooted in the worst of human emotions, envy.

Feminists in 1969 asserted that “male supremacy” was inherently unjust:

“Women are an oppressed class. Our oppression is total, affecting every facet of our lives. . . .
“We identify the agents of our oppression as men. . . . All men receive economic, sexual, and psychological benefits from male supremacy. All men have oppressed women.”

Keep in mind that in the year that was published, more than 11,000 American men were killed by enemy action in Vietnam and I doubt the “psychological benefits from male supremacy” were adequate compensation for getting blown up by a Viet Cong mortar shell.

But oh, these women were oppressed, you see — denied the privilege of being shipped overseas to die in a sweltering jungle. Envy is the worst of human emotions, I say, rivaled only perhaps by self-pity, which is what feminist claims of “oppression” are really about, trying to get people to feel sorry for them, as if American women in 1969 weren’t among the most fortunate people in all of human history, living in a time and place of remarkable affluence and opportunity. And the success of the feminist movement (“success,” at least, in terms of obtaining political power) has been so extraordinary some men now envy the superior social status of women, coveting the political authority exercised by feminists, and so now we have transgender feminists, e.g., Charles “Charlotte” Clymer.

 

Some have used the acronym “LARP” — live-action role-playing — to describe the pursuit of fantasy fulfillment involved in such preposterous impostures. As I wrote, in the case of a young mentally ill woman who committed suicide 18 months after beginning testosterone injections: “What madness inspires these people? How much of a sense of failure as a woman do you need to believe you would be better off injecting synthetic hormones and undergoing surgery to become a fake ‘man’?”

Transgenderism is being promoted, on the one hand, as the ultimate in sexual fantasy and, on the other hand, as a magic cure-all for whatever dissatisfaction anyone might have with society’s expectations of what it means to be male or female. The fantasy aspect reflects an envy of the imagined pleasures to be obtained as a member of the opposite sex, while the magic cure-all reflects a self-pity about the abject misery of being “trapped” in one’s biological sex. But as Carl Benjamin points out, women who “succeed” in transition to the point of being able to pass as male find that the “male privilege” so often denounced by feminists isn’t what they’d imagined when they were gazing fondly at the greener grass on the other side of the fence. We know that gender dysphoria has high rates of “co-morbidity” with mental illness, so that their irrational and disordered thought processes prevent these people from being able to evaluate soberly the practical consequences of their decisions. In my American Spectator column about Gavin McInnes this week, I noted his 2014 defense of “transphobia”:

We’re all transphobic. We aren’t blind. We see there are no old trannies. They die of drug overdoses and suicide way before they’re 40 and nobody notices because nobody knows them. They are mentally ill gays who need help, and that help doesn’t include being maimed by physicians. These aren’t women trapped in a man’s body. They are nuts trapped in a crazy person’s body. . . .
By pretending this is all perfectly sane, you are enabling these poor bastards to mutilate themselves. This insane war on pronouns is about telling people what to do.

What has permitted this madness? Consider how the “self-esteem” cult has taken over the educational system and mental-health professions. Years ago, researchers noted a correlation between (a) success and (b) feeling good about yourself, and instead of making the obvious inference that success leads to high self-esteem, reversed the causation, to suppose instead that high self-esteem causes success:

For thousands of years, traditional Judeo-Christian values emphasized modesty and humility as the measures of a well-lived life. In these times, the self was down-played for the sake of pursuing a greater collective goal. But in the mid 20th century, a new philosophy took hold: that each and every person is special, regardless of how talented they are.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the seeds of the Cult of Self were sown with the humanistic psychology movement. The famed Abraham Maslow was one of its earliest supporters, which lead to his proposal that humans have a hierarchy of needs. The higher-order need to achieve our full potential (which he called self-actualization) could not be achieved until our lower-order needs (like food and water, physical safety, and relationships) were met. . . .
In the 1970s, the fire of self-esteem began to catch. The mega best-seller The Psychology of Self-Esteem wildly claimed that there wasn’t “a single psychological problem — from anxiety to depression, to fear of intimacy or of success, to spouse battery or child molestation” that wasn’t the result of low self-esteem. 

This absurd theory has become the basis of the “everybody-gets-a-trophy” mentality which now prevails in schools. There can be no special reward for winners, nor any punishment for failure, because this might hurt the self-esteem of the precious little snowflakes. A similar idea underlies the “anti-bullying” interventions in schools, as well as the endless celebrations of “diversity” and “inclusion” as the highest moral ideals. These ideas derived from the Cult of Self-Esteem have influenced “social justice” ideology, which claims that any expression of thoughts that might hurt someone’s feelings are “hate” and “violence” which we are all expected to condemn. It is “hate” to speak critically of obesity or homosexuality, and this attitude of political correctness often takes the form of denouncing “stigma.” You must use slang terms when referring to the mentally ill, because phrases like “lunatic” and “nutjob” contribute to the stigma of mental illness. But doesn’t the stigma exist for a reason? Crazy People Are Dangerous, as I’ve often explained, and irrational behaviors are stigmatized because they are socially harmful.

 

 

When the herpes-infected feminist Ella Dawson launched the #ShoutYourStatus hashtag to fight the “stigma” of sexually transmitted disease, I warned about the consequences:

What we recognize is that feminism has become a quasi-religious faith, in which males are demonized as the satanic forces of patriarchy. . . .
What results from this Manichean dualism — feminism good, men bad — is that the current generation is coming of age in a cultural climate where young people are encouraged to disregard any adult who tries to warn them about the obvious dangers of trying to live out the “social justice” fantasies of feminist ideology.

I do not criticize feminism in order to defend “male privilege,” but rather because feminist ideology is demonstrably harmful to society, including young women who foolishly embrace it. By the same token, my criticism of the transgender cult isn’t about “hate,” but about rejecting a deceptive ideology that falsely promises happiness can be achieved by turning delusions into reality through synthetic hormones and surgery.

No one is “trapped in the wrong body.” This is a delusion. Someone’s unhappiness with the reality of their body as male or female may lead them to imagine life would be better if they could destroy this biological reality — their physical self — and replace it with a new self. Yet making this destructive suicidal impulse the basis of “therapy,” which is what the transgender cult has done, requires everyone else to play along with this bizarre delusion. In England, you can be investigated for “hate speech” if refuse to endorse the ideology of the transgender cult:

A 74-year-old retired journalist faced a grilling from police in England after she posted online comments such as, “Sex is real.” . . .
Margaret Nelson wrote in a post online: “Gender’s fashionable nonsense. Sex is real. I’ve no reason to feel ashamed of stating the truth.”
Also, she reasoned that if a transgender person’s body was given a post-mortem examination, “his or her sex would also be obvious to a student or pathologist.”
“Not the sex that he or she chose to present as, but his or her natal sex; the sex that he or she was born with,” she wrote. . . .
Nelson said she soon heard from officers “policing” people’s opinions.
“The officer said she wanted to talk to me about some of the things that I’d written on Twitter and my blog,” she told James Kirkup of the Spectator. “She said that some of the things that I’d written could have upset or offended transgender people. So could I please stop writing things like that and perhaps I could remove those posts and tweets?
“I asked the officer if she agreed that free speech was important. She said it was. I said that in that case, she’d understand that I wouldn’t be removing the posts or stopping saying the things I think.”

The transgender movement embraces a victimhood ideology based in self-pity, and therefore accuses critics of “hate” merely for speaking truth.

UPDATE: Breaking news today:

Sane people don’t sic the police on people this way.

UPDATE II: Oh, I thought this person looked familiar:

Not a woman: Anthony Halliday (left) as ‘Stephanie Hayden’ (right).

Anthony Halliday is an obese 45-year-old man who, in 2007, began “identifying” as a woman, calling himself “Stephanie Hayden.” Because so-called “self-identification” has obtained the protection of law in England, this has the effect of empowering deranged perverts like Halliday/“Hayden” to harass anyone who refuses to participate in their “gender” delusions. Earlier this year, Halliday/“Hayden” was granted a Gender Recognition Certificate, which means that anyone in England who doesn’t acknowledge his self-declared female identity is at risk of criminal punishment.

Giving mentally ill people a “right” to their delusions is a bad idea.



 

Category: The Transgender Cult

The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved: Teaching Hatred at Yale University

Posted on | February 9, 2019 | 3 Comments

 

After the 2016 election, Isis Davis-Marks published a column in the Yale Daily News in which she declared: “I cannot even function right now. As a queer, black woman, I feel unsafe in this country.” Despite her fears, Ms. Davis-Marks has somehow managed to survive in New Haven more than two years, so that she was able to publish another Yale Daily News column this week in which she indulged a sadistic fantasy about destroying the careers of her white male classmates:

One day, I’ll turn on the television . . . and I’ll see him sitting down for his Senate confirmation hearing. Yes, he’ll be a bit older, with tiny wrinkles sprouting at the corners of his eyes and a couple of gray hairs jutting out of the top of his widow’s peak. But that smile, that characteristic saccharine smile, will remain the same.
When I’m watching the white boy — who is now a white man by this point — on CNN, I’ll remember a racist remark that he said, an unintentional utterance that he made when he had one drink too many at a frat party during sophomore year. I’ll recall a message that he accidentally left open on a computer when he forgot to log out of iMessage, where he likened a woman’s body to a particularly large animal. I’ll kick myself for forgetting to screenshot the evidence.
And, when I’m watching him smile that smile, I’ll think that I could have stopped it. . . .
I’m watching you, white boy.

(Hat-tip: Cassandra Fairbanks at Gateway Pundit.)

One might suppose that Ms. Davis-Marks’s anti-white, anti-male rage — her limitless hatred of her white male classmates at Yale, whose future lives she fantasizes about ruining by obtaining “evidence” of their racism — might be something she’d hesitate to publish as a student newspaper column her senior year at Yale ($69,430 a year, including room and board). Certainly, it cannot improve her prospects of future employment for Ms. Davis-Marks to declare openly her anti-white malice. Yet the curriculum at Yale nowadays evidently encourages such attitudes: Everybody at Yale hates white people, especially including white students and faculty, who have internalized the kind of self-hatred that prevents them from objecting to the hateful sentiments Ms. Davis-Marks espouses in the pages of the Yale Daily News. While those of us outside the rarefied environs of the Ivy League may imagine Ms. Davis-Marks would harm her reputation and hinder her chances of landing a good job after graduating, however, this just goes to show our own ignorance. If it is her hope to pursue a Ph.D. and become a professor herself, avowing her hatred of white males is actually quite helpful to Ms. Davis-Marks’s prospects. Or she might get hired at the New York Times, joining Sarah Jeong in that newspaper’s roster of anti-white hatemongers.

Monica Showalter at American Thinker explains how Yale produces such superstars of hate: “Davis-Marks has been steeped in the culture of political correctness and identity politics, and it doesn’t take long for political correctness policing to start turning into the tactics of the Stasi.” In case you don’t know, the Stasi were the secret police in the Communist regime of East Germany, and the totalitarian climate at Yale University now arguably merits such a comparison. As I have been warning for many months, The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved, and the hateful attitudes expressed by Ms. Davis-Marks are aligned with those of anti-white Professor Ali Michael at Penn, anti-heterosexual students like Becina Ganther at Harvard and Noa Wollstein at Princeton, and the “Unlearning Toxic Masculinity” program at Brown.

So many institutions in our society — Yale, the New York Times, CNN, the Democrat Party, etc. — are now dedicated to the anti-white/anti-male ideology espoused by Ms. Davis-Marks that her “I’m watching you, white boy” column will likely enhance her career opportunities. No doubt she’s being flooded with scholarship offers to enroll in postgraduate programs at Harvard, Georgetown and Duke. An internship with Stephen Colbert or Jimmy Kimmel is hers for the asking, and Ms. Davis-Marks could get a full-time paid position on the staff of any 2020 Democrat presidential candidate merely by sending them an email. As a queer black woman, Ms. Davis-Marks has a bright future ahead of her as one of America’s most promising young anti-white ideologues, and we can expect to hear much more of her in coming years, as she goes from one triumph to another — her book contracts, her TV appearances, her congressional campaign.

She’ll be watching you, white boy, and you should be watching her, too.



 

 

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