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The @emrazz Thread: Feminist Dreams of Eliminating All Male Life on Earth

Posted on | December 26, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

It seems likely that soon — perhaps within 72 hours — the crew at 4chan will have outed and doxxed “Feminist Next Door” (@emrazz), who will then have a conniption about this “harassment.” But you see she engages in behavior that is typical of feminists: They insult men categorically, and then claim victimhood when men respond with anger.

 

It should be obvious that “not all men” is never a proper reply to feminist insults. The way to deal with this kind of anti-male hate rhetoric is not to get up in her face on Twitter, spewing out whatever comes to mind, but rather to point out the rhetorical error. She asks her female followers to imagine the blessings of a male-free world as if males as a category are universally dangerous to women (yes, all women). This assertion is clearly false, as even she admits in another context:

 

Were we to stipulate, arguendo, that this “1-in-5” statistic is accurate, this would mean that 80% of U.S. women are never raped. Thus, despite the pervasive menace of “toxic masculinity,” “rape culture,” etc., the vast majority of American women live in comparative safety. Well, then, who are the victims, and who are the perpetrators, of rape and other forms of violence against women? That is to say: Who is raping whom?

Rape doesn’t happen randomly, as can be demonstrated by statistics provided by RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network), the largest U.S. anti-sexual violence organization. For example, females ages 16-19 are 4 times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault, and more than two-thirds of victims (69%) are between the ages of 12 and 34. Nor are the perpetrators of sexual violence randomly distributed in the population. More than half of all accused rapists have at least one prior criminal conviction, and nearly 40% have two or more convictions. Furthermore, according to RAINN, 27% of rapists are black, which is nearly twice their percentage of the overall U.S. population (14%). Feminist rhetoric about “violence against women” doesn’t acknowledge these realities, preferring to stigmatize males categorically. Merely to be male is to be complicit in “rape culture,” according to feminists who commonly assert that all women are equally vulnerable to what @emrazz calls “targeted violence.”

Because the vast majority of men are not rapists, they are offended by feminist rhetoric that implies they represent a threat to women. And because the vast majority of women are never victims of sexual assault, men perceive that feminists are promoting irrational anti-male prejudice — seeking to inspire a paranoid fear and hatred of men.

Feminists who demonize males, per se (as @emrazz does), are engaged in what would be called “hate speech” if it were directed against immigrants, racial minorities or homosexuals, and yet feminism denies that men have any right to object to this demonizing rhetoric. When men attempt to address the problem of sexual violence in a rational way (e.g., risk reduction), feminists will accuse them of “victim-blaming.” We know, for example, that female college students are most vulnerable to sexual assault in situations involving alcohol consumption. Because the legal drinking age in the U.S. is 21, and most college students are younger than 21, colleges might reduce the incidence of rape on campus simply by cracking down on underage drinking. To suggest such a practical solution, however, is to engage in “victim-blaming,” according to feminists, who are clearly more interested in stigmatizing male students (all of them, collectively) as rapists than in preventing rape.

Using deceptive rhetoric to demonize all men — imagining a world without males as a feminist ideal — will predictably provoke many men to make angry responses, some of which will be obscene, and these responses will then be cited by feminists as proof that men “just don’t get it.” This is a sort of game feminists like to play, and they don’t seem to understand that this is dishonest and unfair. But if they cared about honesty and fairness, they wouldn’t be feminists, would they?

Now, I have predicted that @emrazz will be doxxed as a result of her insulting rhetoric and I should hasten to add I am against doxxing. But I point out this likelihood in order to prepare you to see her doxxing cited by feminists as evidence that Twitter needs to do more to silence the opponents of feminism. The banishments will continue until feminists and other SJWs exercise totalitarian control of all social media.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

Worst Santa Ever

Posted on | December 26, 2018 | Comments Off on Worst Santa Ever

 

Elwyn Crocker Sr., 50, once worked as Santa Claus at the local Wal-Mart in Effingham County, Georgia, but that’s not why he’s in the news this holiday season. The bodies of two of his children, Elwyn Crocker Jr. and Mary Crocker, were found buried in the backyard of his home:

As expected by authorities, autopsies have confirmed the identities of two children found buried in their family’s backyard in Effingham County, though many questions remain about the deaths, coroner David Exley said Monday.
“The cause and manner of death is still pending,” he said, adding it could take weeks.
The trouble, he said, is partly that Mary Crocker and Elwyn Crocker Jr. had been buried so long ago — Mary for perhaps a few months, Elwyn for maybe as long as two years. The remains of the siblings, who were both 14 years old when they were last seen but hadn’t been reported missing, were discovered Thursday in the rural town of Guyton by the Effingham Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies went to the house after a tipster called 911 to express concern regarding the whereabouts of the girl. An interview with the father, Elwyn Crocker Sr., revealed information that sent deputies to check the backyard for the bodies.
The father, who turns 50 on Christmas and until recently played Santa at a nearby Walmart in Rincon, has been charged with child cruelty and concealing a death. The same charges have also been filed against his wife, Candice Crocker, 33, her mother, Kim Wright, 50, and Wright’s boyfriend, Roy Anthony Prater, 55. All lived in the home and could face additional charges, authorities have said. They remain in the county jail without bond.

Left to right: Candice Crocker, Roy Prater, Kim Wright.

What a classy looking crew they are, huh?

Of course, they’re all presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, but if ugly was a crime . . . Well, I rest my case, your honor.



 

Category: Crime, Georgia

Happy (High) Holidays

Posted on | December 25, 2018 | Comments Off on Happy (High) Holidays

Or perhaps Merry(juana) Christmas:

OAKLAND, Calif. (KTVU) — 73-year-old Judy gave the gift of pot to herself, unafraid to vape and smoke inside the lounge at the Magnolia dispensary in Oakland.
She said she has been smoking marijuana since the 1960s, and thought the perfect way to relax on Christmas Eve was to buy some marijuana.
“I just learned about this place a year ago,” Judy said. “I’m doing great now.”
Just like her, dozens of customers have been lining up and packing into Bay Area cannabis dispensaries to buy holiday gifts including gummies, chocolates, cartridges and flowers.
“From the moment we were open at 9 o’clock we had a line,” Magnolia assistant general manager Kysa Butler said. “We’ve been knocking the lines out quickly but they’ve been steady, too.”
Pot presents are pretty popular as many visited for the first time to get gifts. Christopher and his dog Frankie were picking up some edibles and said they make the perfect stocking stuffers. . . .
Many cannabis businesses report having five times as many customers or more during the days leading up to Christmas.
“People start stocking up,” Butler said. “Sometimes you need a little stress reliever from Christmas shopping or sometimes you need a little something when you meet your family.”

Grandma’s getting stoned for Christmas. Because it’s California.

 

Category: California

Democrats: Government Is Christmas, and Trump Is the Grinch or Something

Posted on | December 25, 2018 | Comments Off on Democrats: Government Is Christmas, and Trump Is the Grinch or Something

 

Their talking points are always so . . . original:

Several Democrats called President Donald Trump “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” during the government shutdown fight over wall funding last weekend.
During the government shutdown fight over Trump’s proposed $5 billion in wall funding, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) compared the president to Dr. Suess’s “the Grinch” on CNN.
Kaine, who was Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential candidate during the 2016 election, said, “Donald J. Trump is about to be ‘The Grinch that Stole Christmas.’”
“He’s the only person who wants a shutdown and he seems intent on doing it,” Kaine said.
In reaction to the pending government shutdown, the Virginia Democrat said, “I don’t negotiate with bullies, and I don’t think the Senate should negotiate with bullies,” implying that the president is both the Grinch and a bully.
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) tweeted a picture on Friday, implying that the president is the Grinch.
“To celebrate Christmas, [Donald Trump] is giving over 420,000 working families the gift of going to work but not being paid,” Merkley wrote. “That means law enforcement, air traffic controllers, and TSA agents are working one of their busiest times of year — with no pay.”
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti had a different approach, suggesting that it “would be offensive” to compare Trump to the Grinch.
“To call realDonaldTrump a Grinch to the countless Americans impacted by his threats of a shutdown would be offensive to the Grinch,” Garcetti tweeted on Friday. “This is a season to enjoy time with friends & family. Instead, the consequences of Trump’s disastrous leadership are on full display.”
Several of these Democrat criticisms of Trump arise as the New York Daily News released their Saturday cover, portraying Trump as the Grinch.
The headline reads, “How the Trump Stole Christmas!”

If you’re old enough to remember the 1990s, this is nothing new.

 

 

After Republicans took over Congress in the 1994 midterms, Time and Newsweek featured GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Christmas season covers as the Grinch or as Ebenezer Scrooge. In point of fact, however, it isn’t Republicans but Democrats who really hate Christmas, because the Democrat Party is against Christianity, per se. For decades, Democrats have advocated atheism, abortion and homosexuality, openly mocking both the faith and morality of Christians. Perhaps more perverse than this, however, is the way Democrats consider the oppressive force of government — the parasitic existence of which requires the use of coercion to obtain taxpayer funding — as an instrument of charity, as if federal bureaucrats are beneficent humanitarians and members of Congress are engaged in philanthropy, rather than politics.

Generally speaking, whatever Democrats say is the exact opposite of truth. How is it that, when then GOP was in control of Congress and Bill Clinton was in the White House, the government shutdown was blamed on Republicans, but now that a Republican is president, the shutdown is blamed on Congress? Of course, the responsibility for the 1995 shutdown actually rested with Clinton, who repeatedly vetoed the budget bills passed by Congress and, in fact, Democrats are responsible for the current government shutdown. Because the funding bill includes money for the border wall, it is being filibustered by Senate Democrats, who are against any measure to enforce our immigration laws, in the same way Democrats are against Christianity. The reason why Democrats tell such predictable lies, other than their own intrinsic dishonesty, is because they know that the liberal news media will “report” their lies as facts.



 

Category: Christmas, Democrats, Media Bias

#MeToo: ‘No Idea That the Famous Actor Was an Alleged Sexual Predator’

Posted on | December 25, 2018 | Comments Off on #MeToo: ‘No Idea That the Famous Actor Was an Alleged Sexual Predator’

Kevin Spacey (right) with Hillary and Bill Clinton.

One of the ironic consequences of Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016 is the #MeToo movement, which has destroyed the careers and reputations of so many prominent liberal men, including movie producer Harvey Weinstein, CBS chief Les Moonves and NBC Today host Matt Lauer.

Perhaps none of these famous men would have been exposed if not for Hillary’s defeat, which inspired a feminist fury seeking male targets to satiate their appetite for vengeance. In the summer of 2016, however, the homosexual actor Kevin Spacey still enjoyed liberal protection:

Actor Kevin Spacey is facing a felony charge in an alleged sexual assault of the teenage son of former Boston news anchor Heather Unruh at a Nantucket bar in July 2016, the latest legal entanglement for the two-time Academy Award winner over claims of sexual misconduct.
Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe said Monday that Spacey, 59, was scheduled to be arraigned on a charge of indecent assault and battery at Nantucket District Court on Jan. 7, after a Dec. 20 public show-cause hearing where clerk magistrate Ryan Kearney issued a criminal complaint. . . .
Spacey is being investigated after numerous sexual assault accusations, which began surfacing in the fall of 2017 and prompted his removal from Netflix’s “House of Cards,” the former popular political drama. His role in a Ridley Scott film was also cut.
The charge Spacey faces carries penalties of up to five years in prison or up to two and a half years in jail or house of correction and a requirement to register as a sex offender, according to court documents.
“I’m pleased that the case is moving forward in the judicial system,” Unruh, who had worked for WCVB-TV, said Monday. . . .
The case emerged during an emotional news conference in November 2017, when Unruh publicly accused Spacey of sexually assaulting her son.
Unruh said that in July 2016 her then 18-year-old son was at The Club Car, where the actor was among the late-night crowd in the dimly lit restaurant. Her son was mesmerized by Spacey and told him he was old enough to drink, Unruh said previously.
Unruh said Spacey purchased alcohol for her son until he was drunk and then stuck his hand inside the teenager’s pants and grabbed his genitals. During the encounter, Unruh said, her son tried to shift his body away from Spacey but was “only momentarily successful.” The actor urged her son to accompany him to an after-hours party to drink more, she said.
Unruh said her son fled the restaurant when Spacey excused himself to use the bathroom and a woman urged the youth to run. He sprinted to his grandmother’s house and told his sister what happened, Unruh said. The siblings then called Unruh, who traveled to Nantucket in the morning, she said.
“The victim, my son, was a star-struck, straight 18-year-old young man who had no idea that the famous actor was an alleged sexual predator or that he was about to become his next victim,” Unruh said at the 2017 press conference accompanied by attorney Mitchell Garabedian and her daughter, Kyla. “This was a criminal act.”
Unruh said her son reported the incident to Nantucket police in the fall of 2017 and provided evidence to investigators.

The important question is why the famous actor’s reputation as a sexual predator was kept secret for so long. Isn’t it true that, as with Bill Clinton, liberals were devoted to protecting men like Kevin Spacey from scandal as they pursued their predatory sexual habits? In the same way that Harvey Weinstein and other Hollywood liberals purchased protection by their support of the Clintons, Kevin Spacey was a loyal supporter who emceed the 2014 gala tribute for the 10th anniversary of the Clinton Presidential Library, and who described his friendship with Bill Clinton in a 2015 television interview:

“Well, we’ve known each other a long time. We’ve had a lot of different experiences over the years,” Spacey said. “Both in his first and second terms, I did a great number of things for him either at the White House or for the Democratic Party, hosted a lot of events, did a lot of things privately, did a lot of things on the campaign.”
Spacey said that he never doubted Clinton and was always there for him.
“And I suppose that perhaps I never waited to see which way the wind would blow in respect to him. I was always there,” Spacey said. “And I was a true friend. And never doubted him. Never stopped believing in him. Thought he was an extraordinary man.”
“Took him as he was?” Rose interjected.
“Took him as he was,” Spacey said. “And I think that may be part of the reason why we became close.”

Birds of a feather, etc.



 

Category: Celebrities, Crime, Democrats, Scandal

In The Mailbox: 12.24.18

Posted on | December 25, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: It’s A Wonderful Life
Twitchy: If You Criticized Talib Kweli Green For His Tweet About The Nazi’s Berlin Wall, You’re An Actual Nazi
Louder With Crowder: Actor Calls Fro James Bond To Be Played By Transgender “Woman”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Champagne Level German Propaganda, also, Podcast #98 – The Expectations Episode
American Power: Jonah Goldberg On Conservatism, also, Done With Disparate Impact Analysis
American Thinker: Did The Media Care When Obama Fired General Mattis?
Animal Magnetism: Merry Christmas Eve!
BattleSwarm: Sh0eOnHead Takes On Twitter Pedophiles, also, A Life Worth Celebrating
CDR Salamander: On Mattis
Da Tech Guy: Will People Care About Womens’ Sports If Transgendered “Women” Dominate? also, If Only The Knights Of Columbus Were A Muslim Organization Instead Of Catholic
Don Surber: Government Shutdown Impact, Day 2, Day 3
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Oh Snap Three Snap
Fred On Everything: Papua New Guinea Looks Better & Better
The Geller Report: NYT Propaganda – “What A Muslim Could Teach Trump Supporters About Jesus”, also, Canadian Imam Preaches “Wishing Christians ‘Merry Christmas’ Is Worse Than Murder”
Hogewash: Blognet, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Condescending Vice Trips On Its Own Propaganda, also, Into The Spider-Verse – Diversity Done Right
Joe For America: Remember When This Principal Said Parents Would Be Arrested For Walking Their Kids To School?
JustOneMinute: And A Merry Christmas To All
Legal Insurrection: Hamas Tunnel Engineer Dies In Workplace Accident, also, Even NYT Finally Acknowledges Womens’ March Antisemitism
The PanAm Post: On January 10, Venezuela Won’t Have A Legitimate President
Power Line: The Ellison Question – Just Shut Up, also, Schumer Digs In
Shark Tank: Scott Announces Senate Committee Memberships
Shot In The Dark: When You’ve Lost Moonbeam…
STUMP: Twas The Night Before Taxmas
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Government Shutdown And You
The Political Hat: Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! also, The Twelve Posts Of Christmas Day 9, Day 10, Day 11, & Day 12
This Ain’t Hell: Russia’s Reaction To US Pullout From Syria, also, 104 Years Ago On Christmas Eve
Victory Girls: LeBron James On Slavery, Jewish Money, And Other Flapdoodle
Volokh Conspiracy: Why Judge O’Connor Was Wrong To Allow Plaintiffs Standing In The ACA Challenge Case
Weasel Zippers: WaPo Reporter Tries To Shut Down Wall GoFundMe – DENIED! also, Trump Overhauls Wildfire Prevention – The Media Totally Misses It
Mark Steyn: The Mark Steyn Christmas Show, also, Christmas In The Trenches


Category: Linkagery

Kulaks of New York

Posted on | December 24, 2018 | Comments Off on Kulaks of New York

If you have studied Soviet history, you know that Josef Stalin waged a campaign of economic warfare against the kulaks — peasants who resisted the Bolshevik agenda of agricultural collectivization. The Democrats who control the state government of New York are doing something similar to their own “class enemies,” deliberately destroying the economy in Republican majority communities:

Since the start of the decade, a million people have moved out of New York.
For Andrew Cuomo, that’s not a problem, that’s a victory.
It has solidified his party’s hold on power, and it has reshaped the state and its culture in a fashion more congenial to his interests and agenda.
The subject comes up because of new Census Bureau numbers which show, yet again, that more people decide to move out of New York than any other state in the nation. Those move outs are so numerous that they outstrip population growth and leave the state with fewer total people. . . .
[M]ore than 40 percent of all the net population loss in America took place in New York.
Under Andrew Cuomo.
And that’s a win for him.
Because almost all of New York’s net population loss took place upstate, where values and party enrollment are in conflict with the governor and his progressive agenda.
Forty-two of New York’s 50 upstate counties have had a net loss of population in the last year. All of them were counties that voted against Andrew Cuomo in the recent gubernatorial election. . . .
There is a decade-long depopulation of upstate New York underway, and it is hard to conclude that that is anything other than a policy objective of Andrew Cuomo. In this dramatically bifurcated state, Cuomo’s efforts to make New York — in his words — “the progressive capital of the nation” require a weakening and suppression of conservative, rural and Republican upstate.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)



 

Category: Economics, New York

Transgender Rage: You Can’t Have a Women’s Symbol at a Women’s College

Posted on | December 24, 2018 | 1 Comment

Mount Holyoke College is a “prestigious” women’s college, in the sense that “prestigious” is a synonym for expensive ($64,658 a year, including room and board). It’s one of the so-called “Seven Sisters” colleges of New England, so if you’re rich and your daughter is a radical lesbian with a mania for social justice, Mount Holyoke is the place to send her. (When I jokingly called it the “Western Massachusetts Marxist Lesbian Indoctrination Camp,” some students at Mount Holyoke adopted this as an unofficial slogan and actually printed it on T-shirts.)

Recently, Mount Holyoke commissioned a design firm to create a new logo for the school, and one of the designs offered was this:

 

Very clever — when turned on its side, you see, the logo displays the female Venus symbol associated with the feminist movement. You might think this would be popular at a women’s college, but Third Wave “social justice” is all about inclusion, and this logo would not do:

A prestigious women’s college in Massachusetts has pulled the plug on a plan to include the Venus symbol, a traditional icon of feminism and women’s empowerment, on its new logo design.
According to a Tuesday press release, Mount Holyoke College recently commissioned an outside firm to design a new logo for the school. On December 14, officials released nine draft logos to the student body and encouraged students to provide their feedback.
While the majority of public comments on the proposed logos urged the school to “keep the old one,” the school marketing office was apparently also deluged with concern about the use of the Venus symbol in the new design.
Just two business days later, MCH officials issued a public apology.
“It is now evident to us that this symbol has a long history of exclusion connected to movements that, while trailblazing for some groups, represents the erasure of others,” wrote Charles L. Green, MCH’s VP of Mmarketing.
“The College cannot move forward with a word mark that references this symbol.… While it is always disappointing to realize that our creative work has not achieved its goals, it is deeply upsetting to realize that the work is seen as offensive and damaging.”
One alumna, Tessa Ann Schwartz, wrote on Twitter that the Venus symbol marginalizes LGBTQ individuals.
“Speaking as one of those trans alums, you all will not be getting my money until this is changed, and I am not alone,” tweeted Schwartz.
Historically, the Venus symbol has been used as shorthand to reference women’s issues, feminism, and female empowerment. While it may seem fine to use at a women’s college, MCH officials remind us that the school is a “gender-diverse women’s college.”
The school now accepts students of all genders, as so long as they are not men who were born men. As such, the school has a sizeable transgender and gender non-binary population, and offers a variety of services to support them.
[Mount Holyoke] professors are now warned against calling students “women,” “referencing the two genders,” and saying things like “we’re all women here.” Avoiding these terms and phrases is crucial to avoid perpetuating “various types of disrespect,” according to school officials.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.) The women’s college has insulted its “gender-diverse” students and transgender alumna (or alumni, as the case may be), and you see how the minority tail always wags the majority dog wherever the identity politics of “social justice” operates.

Years ago, I found myself discussing affirmative action with a long-time critic of such policies who explained why racial quotas are always a source of friction. When white people think of “equality,” my acquaintance informed me, they think in terms of equality of opportunity — everybody judged by the same standard — whereas many black people believe any standard is unfair if it does not produce “equality” in terms of outcomes. Furthermore, even if this were possible, the fact that black people are 14% of the U.S. population means that even in such a regime of “equality,” they would still be a minority in the student body of a “diverse” college, and yet some black activist types believe that “equality” should entitle them to a 50% share of everything. It is this 50-50 attitude toward “equality,” my acquaintance said, that is the real root of racial resentment among black college students.

We see a similar pattern has been replicated in other situations where the rhetoric of “diversity” fuels identity-politics demands. What percentage of Mount Holyoke students are “non-binary” or transgender? Even in such a “prestigious” hotbed of Third Wave craziness, the numbers are probably quite small, but whenever this vocal minority expresses their “concerns,” everyone is expected to genuflect in obeisance to their every whim. So the tail always wags the dog and, drunk on their own power, the transgender minority develop the attitude of a conquering army, accustomed to dictating the terms of their antagonists’ surrender.

So the all-women’s college becomes “gender-inclusive,” and guess who gets to define what “inclusive” means? Not the women, that’s who.



 

Category: Education, The Transgender Cult
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