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John Hawkins and Self-Inflicted Wounds

Posted on | July 24, 2018 | Comments Off on John Hawkins and Self-Inflicted Wounds

by Smitty

Hawkins brings us “5 Ugly Truths About Women That Young Men Need to Recognize“, and the operator is “young”. You should read the whole thing, lads, but focus on growing up ahead of, rather than through, such self-inflicted wounds.

Let’s review:
1. Beauty fades
It transitions, certainly. but I have seen plenty of women continue to glow right on through wrinkles and grey hair. And it’s not about getting work done and war paint. It’s about taking care of themselves and NOT comparing themselves to the cover of Cosmo.
Men are grey/fat/balding/falling apart, too. Get over it.

2. After your relationship ends, you may be surprised at the ruthless treatment you get
OK, I lived this one. And all I can say is: keep your distance until marriage. The advice I currently give to the young men is to hang out, and have a blast IN THE CHURCH GROUP. There’s nothing perfect about anyone, but what a great noise filter the group can be to keep the actual fun high, and stress low.

Hawkins goes on to explore status, stability, and hatred of weakness. Read the whole thing.

I just don’t think you can make any useful generalizations along those lines. What we’re really discussing here is maturity. While I think I perhaps waited too long to settle down, the key is to ensure that one is morally and mentally mature before getting to the point of committment.

Because that’s what’s at stake: the seriousness with which the marital oath is taken. Now, obviously, skipping out on that oath does not preclude becoming President [Bill Clinton joke goes here].

But you know what’s more important that being POTUS? Having joy under the sun. Avoiding stress. Knowing that, no matter what Southern Poverty Law Center says, you’re an honorable man.

Category: Uncategorized

Radical Feminist Exposes #TransCult

Posted on | July 24, 2018 | 1 Comment

It is difficult to exaggerate how radical Natasha Chart’s feminism is. She is chairwoman of the board of Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), an organization that originated in Deep Green Resistance, which is just about as far left as you can go (without moving to Pyongyang).

It is therefore highly significant that Chart has joined the Hands Across the Aisle coalition, an effort to unite women across ideological boundaries in opposition to The Transgender Cult.

In a must-read article at The Federalist, Chart describes the harassment feminists have endured — including violence and bomb threats — for daring to dissent from transgender ideology:

  • Lesbian women have been pushed out of LGBT events and social groups, including groups they founded, for saying they wouldn’t consider male sex partners. . . .
  • Many women have been forced to resign, or were fired, like I was, or writers blacklisted, for dissent from a male-centered line on gender identity and the sex trade. . . .
  • During Pride month this year, a lesbian was beaten up outside of a drag show for being unwilling to lie about another woman’s biological sex. . . .
  • The weekend before London Pride, a small group of lesbians marched in the San Francisco Dyke March with gender-critical signs. They were assaulted, knocked over, their signs were stolen and torn. The march committee and the National Center for Lesbian Rights blamed the victims for the assaults. . . .
  • The Obama administration ended the effective right to single-sex accommodations for women in all crisis shelters, prisons, immigration detention centers, and publicly funded schools. . . .
  • A trans-identified male who protested the Michigan Women’s Music Festival, as a leader of “Camp Trans,” murdered two lesbians who used to attend the festival, and their son. . . .
  • All of us became nearly numb to the death threats, rape threats, directives to commit suicide, doxxings, and calls for women to be fired over gender politics, over social media. . . .

You can and should read the whole thing.

 

Category: The Transgender Cult

Offending the Easily Offended

Posted on | July 24, 2018 | Comments Off on Offending the Easily Offended

 

Do I want to defend Trevor Noah? No, he’s not funny and I hate his politics. On the other hand, who is offended by this 2013 joke?

South African comedian Trevor Noah is facing heavy criticism after a video of a stand-up routine from 2013 where he made a joke about Australia’s Aboriginal women resurfaced online.
Australians on social media are now calling for a boycott of his tour scheduled to begin with a performance at Melbourne’s Hisense Arena on August 23. . . .
“All women of every race can be beautiful,” the host of the Daily Show said.
“And I know some of you are sitting there now going, ‘Oh Trevor … I’ve never seen a beautiful Aborigine’ But you know what you say? You say, ‘Yet.’ Because you haven’t seen all of them, right?”

Is that offensive? To whom? Aborigines, perhaps.

According to the most recent Australian census, there are fewer than 700,000 Aborigines, about 3% of Australia’s 24 million population.

Because I’ve never been to Australia, and have no plans to go there, my opinion about Aborigine women’s beauty (or lack thereof) is moot. If you’re a world-traveler who greatly admires Aborigine women, OK, but opinions may vary. What’s so outrageous about Trevor Noah’s joke?

Isn’t it the suggestion that beauty is not distributed equally among women? That some women are more fortunate in this regard than others? And that beauty is a generally desirable quality?

Trevor Noah could have made Peruvian women or Mongolian women the punch-line of his joke, to the same effect, and the perpetually offended would still scream in outrage. The very idea that women vary in beauty, and that men notice this, is sexist objectification, according to feminists.

Pandering to the social-justice mobs is Trevor Noah’s stock-in-trade — he’s made The Daily Show about as funny as a Rachel Maddow monologue — and so of course, he rushed to apologize:

Henceforth, Trevor Noah will ask the SJW overlords for prior permission to joke about anyone who is not a white heterosexual male Republican.

 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 07.23.18

Posted on | July 23, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

“They don’t respect Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein anymore. They’re certainly not going to take long to forget about a mediocre, middle-aged white male.” – Vox Day, A Belated Discovery

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: So What “Severe Mental Problems” Did The Toronto Shooter Have?
Twitchy: “Don’t Use That Term,” MSNBC’s Katy Tur Whines About Fox News & The Daily Caller
Louder With Crowder: Radical Feminist Becomes A “Man”, Gets Accused Of Male Privilege

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Apparently The Way To Fix Immigration Is With More Immigration
American Power: Apply The Same Rules To James Gunn, also, Raising A Black Daughter In A Red State
American Thinker: Losing America
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Twitter Suspends Jim Treacher, also, Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez Overspends $200K To Avoid Obeying The Law
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, July Maritime Natsec Melee
Da Tech Guy: Washington Post Is Racist Against Mexicans, also, The History Of Democratic Party Failures On Russia
Don Surber: Welcome To The Trump Schadenfreude List, New York Daily News
Dustbury: Paying The Deergeld, also, Strange Search Engine Queries
Fausta: Sunday Palate Cleanser – Russia Russia Russia
First Street Journal: Good News! Bernie Sanders And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Want To Turn Kansas “Red”
The Geller Report: Toronto Police Finally Name Former Muslim Boyfriend In Brutal Murder of Alyssa Lightstone, also, Tunisia Muslims Hold BBQ In Jewish Cemetery
Hogewash: Trump Derangement And Losing, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
JustOneMinute: A Tale Of Two FISA Applications
Legal Insurrection: NY Daily News Goes Full TDS – Now It’s Laying Off Half Their Staff, also, #OccupyLafayettePark Protest – Another Clintonworld Subterfuge
The PanAm Post: The Sao Paulo Forum And The Threat Of Left-Wing Totalitarianism
Power Line: Devin Nunes Vindicated, also, The Associated Press Lies About The FISA Application
Shark Tank: Trump Stands Up To Iranian Threats, Threatens “Yuge” Consequences
Shot In The Dark: Is This The MPLA, I Thought It Was The USA
STUMP: Around The Pension-O-Sphere
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Mummy Mojos Don’t Drink Them
The Political Hat: “So, Just So You All Know: Trans. Girls. Get. Periods.”
This Ain’t Hell: FTC Cracks Down On Phony Veteran Charities, also, Iran Threatens US With “Mother Of All Wars”
Victory Girls: Dear Feminuts – You Asked For This!
Volokh Conspiracy: Abortion, Clarence Thomas, And The Commerce Clause
Weasel Zippers: Obama – “I’m The First Sitting American President To Come From Kenya”, also, Gowdy Says If Collusion Existed, Schiff Would Have Leaked It
Mark Steyn: Summertime, also, What’s Left To Say About Psycho?


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Category: Linkagery

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | July 23, 2018 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

Especially in Canada:

Canadian authorities identified the gunman who killed two people and injured 13 others in a lively Toronto neighborhood Sunday night as 29-year-old Faisal Hussain, whose family claimed had suffered from “severe mental health challenges.”
The Special Investigations Unit of the Ontario Provincial Police said a member of Hussain’s immediate family and a “family representative” confirmed the gunman’s identity.
Moments after Hussain’s identity was released, his family issued a statement to multiple media outlets saying he had been “struggling with psychosis and depression his entire life.”
“The interventions of professionals were unsuccessful,” the statement read in part. “Medications and therapy were unable to treat him. While we did our best to seek help for him throughout his life of struggle and pain, we could never imagine that this would be his devastating and destructive end.”
Authorities say Hussain fired a handgun into restaurants and cafes in Toronto’s Greektown neighborhood before dying amid an exchange of gunfire with police. A 10-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman were killed.

If the deranged gunman wasn’t named “Faisal Hussain,” feminists probably would have blamed toxic masculinity.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)

UPDATE: Christine Estima, a Canadian who has written for Vice (e.g., “The Friend Zone Isn’t a Thing and Women Don’t Owe You S–t” and “Men, Here’s What You Can Do to Stop Street Harassment”), didn’t wait for the Toronto gunman to be ID’d to hashtag #ToxicMasculinity:

 

Twitchy: “So by white men she means Muslim men, and by toxic masculinity she means psychosis and depression. But otherwise, dead on.”

 

Category: Canada, Crime

Four Illegal Aliens Kidnapped and Raped Ohio Sisters, 13 and 14, Police Say

Posted on | July 23, 2018 | Comments Off on Four Illegal Aliens Kidnapped and Raped Ohio Sisters, 13 and 14, Police Say

Three of the four suspects accused in the Ohio rape case.

There is still a nationwide manhunt for two of the suspects:

Four men accused of kidnapping and raping a 13-year-old girl and her 14-year-old sister at a local hotel were indicted [July 12] by a Wood County grand jury.
Juan Adiel Garcias Rios, 19, was indicted on three counts of kidnapping, four counts of rape, and four counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor for the incidents at an East Wooster Street hotel, which occurred between June 25 and 28, according to the indictment.
Arnulfo Ramos, whose age is unknown, and David Ramos Contreras, 28, both were indicted on two counts each of kidnapping, rape, and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, while Simon Thomas Simon Juan, 24, was indicted on one count each of kidnapping and gross sexual imposition.
Bowling Green police said they were called to Wood County Hospital just before 11 p.m. June 28 on a report of two sisters who said they had been sexually assaulted. The teens told police they were staying at a hotel with their mother when they were held against their will and raped.
The incident occurred at the Days Inn where the men were staying for work, Wood County Prosecutor Paul Dobson said.
U.S. Marshals later arrested Mr. Ramos Contreras in Lubbock, Texas. Mr. Simon Juan was arrested shortly after the incident and is scheduled to be arraigned July 20 before Wood County Common Pleas Judge Matthew Reger. The other two men are still at-large.

Two of the suspects “had fraudulent immigration paperwork or identifications,” police said, and all were believed to be in the country illegally. Ramos Contreras had previously been deported in October 2017.

Do you think this story will encourage Ohio voters to support Democrats calling for the abolition of ICE? Because I kind of doubt it.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)



 

 

Category: Crime, Immigration, Ohio

Get Woke, Go Broke: NY Daily News Cuts Staff by 50%, Fires Editor-in-Chief

Posted on | July 23, 2018 | 1 Comment

Ashe Schow delivers the schadenfreude:

For weeks now, staffers at the New York Daily News have braced for cuts. On Monday, those cuts were announced in an impersonal email. It doesn’t appear as though everyone who is being laid off even knows yet.
Tronc, which owns NYDN, sent an email to staff Monday morning announcing it would be “fundamentally restructuring the Daily News,” according to a copy of the memo obtained by the Daily Beast’s Max Tani.
“We are reducing today the size of the editorial team by approximately 50 percent and re-focusing much of our talent on breaking news — especially in areas of crime, civil justice and public responsibility,” the email said. . . .
Those who are laid off, per the email, will “be paid for the next 90 days and be eligible for transitional benefits after that.”
The biggest cut was editor-in-chief Jim Rich, who foreshadowed the layoffs in an ominous tweet Monday morning. . . .

(“If you hate democracy and think local governments should operate unchecked and in the dark, then today is a good day for you,” Rich wrote.)

He also changed his Twitter bio to read: “Just a guy sitting at home watching journalism being choked into extinction.”

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll, who somehow has not yet been “choked into extinction.”) If you don’t know why I’m happy about the slashing of staff at the Daily News, they went “all-in” on anti-Trump propaganda since 2016, and especially demonized the National Rifle Association.

They’ve been losing $30 million a year since 2014.

The ex-journalists “are now free to pursue their dream of submitting listicles for Buzzfeed,” as Ace of Spades quips.

 

Category: Journalism, Media Bias

‘I’m Literally a Communist’

Posted on | July 23, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

Ash Sarkar is a 26-year-old “senior editor” for a left-wing blog who was a guest July 11 on the Good Morning Britain program as part of a panel discussing the protests against President Trump’s visit to England. She and the show’s co-host, Piers Morgan, got into a shouting match when Morgan kept pushing the point of why there had not been massive protests against Obama, when he visited England, considering the similarities between Obama’s and Trump’s policies:

Morgan repeatedly asked Sarkar where her Obama protests had taken place, speaking over Sarkar’s efforts to answer. After Morgan’s cohost, Susanna Reid, pointed out that you don’t have to take to the streets over every issue, Morgan again refused to let Sarkar explain the work she had done to protest Obama’s policies, calling Obama her “hero.”
“He’s not my hero,” Sarkar replied. “I’m a communist, you idiot.”
“Have you ever considered chairing a debate without straw-manning your guests, Piers, to make up for your own incompetence?” . . . When Morgan again labeled her “pro-Obama,” Sarkar responded, “I’m not pro-Obama. I’ve been critic of Obama. I’m a critic of the Democratic Party because I’m literally a communist.”

This outburst earned Ms. Sarkar an interview in Teen Bolshevik, the journal of the fashion-conscious Marxist-Leninist proletariat:

If anyone wanted an encapsulation of the screwiness of our times just consider the following straight question being asked of an interview subject.
‘How does being a communist impact your view of the US presidency, whether it’s Obama or Trump?’
And then consider that this pleasant question was being asked by Teen Vogue.
It was posed to a young woman called Ash Sarkar who writes for an obscure blog named Novara Media. . . .
Teen Vogue decided that she was a suitable subject for puffery, and presumably young female emulation. . . .
Sarkar and her colleagues are now (and I refuse to link to this) even trying to monetise their communism.  They have already made t-shirts available for purchase with the hilarious slogan ‘I am literally a communist’ on them.  I suppose capitalism must have its uses after all. . . .
For alarming though it is, many people when they hear ‘communism’ do not think of the NKVD and the knock on the door.  They do not think of the graves of tens of millions of people all across the globe.  The millions of wasted lives, from the wastelands of Siberia to the blackened piles of human skulls in Cambodia.  They do not think of the witness of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.  Nor of Anna Akhmatova, whose husband was executed in a mass shooting and whose son was later sent off to the Gulag.

Communism being celebrated in teen fashion magazines? If that’s not enough to make you want to vote Republican, I don’t know what is.

(Hat-tip: Donald Douglas on Twitter.)



 

Category: Great Britain
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