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The Only Good Commie …

Posted on | December 19, 2018 | Comments Off on The Only Good Commie …

Joseph Alcoff, a/k/a Jose Martin, a/k/a “Chepe.”

Did you know that Joseph Alcoff is a Communist who advocates the violent overthrow of the U.S. government? Did you know that Joseph Alcoff hates the police and advocates killing police officers? Did you know that Joseph Alcoff (a/k/a, Jose Martin, a/k/a “Chepe”) is employed by a tax-exempt non-profit left-wing advocacy organization? Did you know Alcoff is associated with “Smash Racism DC,” the radical Antifa group that harassed Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Sen. Ted Cruz?

All of this was news to me when I read the astonishing Daily Caller report about Alcoff’s activities by Andrew Kerr, and what I find most remarkable — not surprising exactly, but remarkable — is that this dangerous Commie’s mother is a feminist professor employed by the City University of New York’s Hunter College. Linda Martin Alcoff got her Ph.D. from Brown University in 1987, and her son has paid tribute to her:

“I was raised in a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist family that understands intersectionality,” he said at Left Forum 2015.

Yes, “intersectionality.” This reminds me of a historical intersection, between a bullet from a pistol and a Commie terrorist’s head.

 

Thank you for the inspiration, Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan!



 

Category: Terrorism

Woody Allen’s Jailbait Lover: ‘When Mia Was There, We’d Talk About Astrology, and Woody Was Forced to Listen’

Posted on | December 19, 2018 | Comments Off on Woody Allen’s Jailbait Lover: ‘When Mia Was There, We’d Talk About Astrology, and Woody Was Forced to Listen’

Babi Christina Engelhardt in 1977.

Everyone is trying to get their minds around the Hollywood Reporter‘s lengthy profile of Babi Christina Engelhardt who, at 16 years old in 1976, became Woody Allen’s lover (allegedly). Perhaps the most shocking revelation, from the 21st-century feminist #MeToo perspective, is that the former model and actress refuses to think of herself as a victim:

Like others among her generation — she just turned 59 on Dec. 4 — Engelhardt is resistant to attempts to have the life she led then be judged by what she considers today’s newly established norms. “It’s almost as if I’m now expected to trash him,” she says. . . .
She’s proud of her teenage self as an up-by-her-bootstraps heroine who successfully beguiled a “celebrated genius.” Even now, she holds herself largely responsible for remaining in the relationship as long as she did and for the frustration and sorrow that ultimately came with the liaison — one in which, by her description, she never held any agency. (Most experts would contend that such an uneven power dynamic is inherently exploitative.)
Even with hindsight, though, she’s unwilling to indict Allen, who declined to comment for this story. “What made me speak is I thought I could provide a perspective,” she offers. “I’m not attacking Woody,” she says. “This is not ‘bring down this man.’ I’m talking about my love story. This made me who I am. I have no regrets.”

In point of fact, it was the teenage Engelhardt who initiated the affair, boldly dropping a note with her phone number on 41-year-old Allen’s table in a Manhattan restaurant, and if “most experts” condemn the “uneven power dynamic” involved . . . Well, it was the 70s, man.

When the #MeToo crusade roared to life last year with the destruction of Harvey Weinstein — who certainly deserved to be destroyed — there was a brief moment when Weinstein attempted to defend himself: “I came of age in the ’60s and ’70s, when all the rules about behavior and workplaces were different. That was the culture then.” And indeed, considering that Weinstein entered show business as a rock concert promoter in the 1970s, at the absolute nadir of rock-and-roll decadence, it’s not difficult to understand why he thought he could get away with his predatory behavior. Stories have emerged of musical legends like Led Zeppelin and the Eagles partying with jailbait groupies in an era when nobody within the rock-and-roll subculture blinked twice at a 15-year-old girl with a backstage pass. Nobody in that scene thought of teenage groupies as victims of an “inherently exploitative power dynamic.”

Question: Why this Nietzschean obsession with sexual power?
Answer: The decline of religious morality.

Don’t argue with me. Don’t get me started. Once upon a time, sexual behavior was judged by a morality that involved the word “sin” and, under that standard, willful sinners — those who deliberately engaged in fornication — could not plausibly claim they were victims. No Christian minister of my acquaintance would assert that 16-year-olds are incapable of knowing the difference between good and evil, and if Babi Engelhardt chose to do evil, she was responsible for the consequences. New York laws regarding age of consent might make Woody Allen a criminal, but Babi Engelhardt did not consider herself the victim of a crime at the time, and refuses to rewrite the past to claim victimhood now.

Abandoning the clear distinction of right and wrong — “Thus saith the Lord” — inevitably leads us into the morass of moral relativism, a consequence Shakespeare once poetically described:

Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong —
Between whose endless jar justice resides —
Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Then every thing includes itself in power,
Power into will, will into appetite;
And appetite, a universal wolf,
So doubly seconded with will and power,
Must make perforce a universal prey,
And last eat up himself.

When “right and wrong . . . lose their names” we may all become victims of our own appetites, “universal prey” of that “universal wolf.”

So it was in the 1970s, in the wake of the Sexual Revolution that attacked our society’s ancient ideas of right and wrong. As someone the same age as Babi Engelhardt, I think back to my own youth and the girls I knew in high school who went partying in Atlanta discos before they were even old enough to drive. Back in the day, when the drinking age in Georgia was 18, it was possible for a 15-year-old girl with a fake ID to run wild in the nightclub scene. If she was good-looking, and physically mature enough to pass for 18, the bouncers and bartenders weren’t going to scrutinize her ID closely enough to tell it was her older sister’s license. Such behavior was sufficiently common that it was taken for granted, and I suppose we could also discuss the fact (which was universally acknowledged among teenage dopeheads back in the day) that no good-looking chick ever had to pay for her dope. If a chick wanted to get high, there was always some dude willing to supply her with marijuana, LSD, Quaaludes or whatever, and it was no secret what she was expected to provide in exchange for this. A girl I went to school with became the longtime girlfriend of the biggest cocaine dealer in Atlanta and, so far as I know, she has never complained that she was the victim of an “inherently exploitative power dynamic.” But I digress . . .

Whose interests are served by abandoning old-fashioned morality in favor of a Nietzschean obsession with power? This serves the interests of our decadent elite, who trust in their wealth and high status to protect them, so that their sins and vices will never be exposed. How frightening it must be for them to see all the careers and reputations destroyed by the #MeToo movement. If you never had wealth or fame, you can congratulate yourself on your comparative safety, since there is no real incentive for exposing the misdeeds of the poor and obscure.

Woody Allen’s reputation has been toxic ever since he married Soon-Yi Previn, the Korean orphan who had been adopted in 1978 by Mia Farrow and her then-husband, conductor André Previn. Farrow had been 21 when she married 50-year-old Frank Sinatra in 1966; he divorced her two years later and Farrow was still only 25 when she married Previn, then 41, in 1970. Farrow is something of a collector of children. Since 1973, in addition to giving birth to four children of her own, Farrow has adopted 10 children, three of whom are deceased. Farrow became involved with Woody Allen four years after he started dating Babi Engelhardt and (of course) they had threesomes:

Despite the initial shock of jealousy, Engelhardt says she grew to like Farrow over the course of the “handful” of three-way sex sessions that followed at Allen’s penthouse as they smoked joints and bonded over a shared fondness for animals. (“When Mia was there, we’d talk about astrology, and Woody was forced to listen,” she laughs.) . . .
“I used to think this was a form of mother-father with the two of them,” says Engelhardt. “To me, that whole relationship was very Freudian: how I admired them, how he’d already broken me in, how I let that be all right.”
As for Farrow, she explains, “I always had the impression that she was doing this because he wanted it.” Engelhardt recalls when the story broke about Allen’s relationship with Farrow’s adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn (now his wife of nearly 21 years). “I felt sorry for Mia,” she says. “I thought, ‘Didn’t Woody have enough ‘extra,’ with or without her, that the last thing he had to do was to go for something that was totally hers?’
“He had groomed Mia, trained her, to put up with all of this. Now he had no barriers. It was total disrespect.”

Now, keep in mind that Farrow started dating Allen after he had already been dating Engelhardt for four years. Marijuana and “three-way sex sessions”? No problem! And hey, let’s talk astrology, because what else do you expect two women to talk about when they’re having a ménage à trois in a Manhattan penthouse with a famous film director?

Babi Engelhardt says Woody Allen showed “total disrespect” toward Mia Farrow, but what did Mia ever do to deserve respect? She’d already been divorced twice before she hooked up with Allen, and was apparently OK with marijuana and group sex. When someone is scraping the bottom of the barrel, living an immoral life of illegal drugs and sexual perversion, they should not be surprised to be treated with “total disrespect.”

Mia Farrow is just white trash and so is Babi Engelhardt. There is nothing admirable about either of them, and the only thing praiseworthy about Engelhardt is that at least she doesn’t claim to be a victim.



 

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In The Mailbox: 12.18.18

Posted on | December 19, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.18.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: California’s Camp Fire – The Breakdown Of .GOV Communications In Paradise
EBL: Penny Marshall, RIP
Twitchy: Rand Paul Doesn’t Hold Back In Saying Farewell To The Weekly Standard
Louder With Crowder: Pure Class – Rep. Dan Crenshaw Called Pete Davidson After Troubling Post

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Special Christian Sodomite Club
American Power: First Couple’s Official Christmas Portrait, also, Far-Left Judd Legum Targets Tucker Carlson For Destruction
American Thinker: The FBI Manufactured 302s Before Mueller
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Taxifornia News
BattleSwarm: David Icke – Evidently I Was Wrong
CDR Salamander: DDG-1000, Our Mark Of Shame
Da Tech Guy: Last Days Of The European Christmas Markets, also, Non-Tweets Under The Fedora: Kaepernick Again, The FBI, Nuns, Jerusalem, & Cuba
Don Surber: Today’s Excuse – The Russians Made Black Voters Stay Home. also, Judge Sullivan Sold Our Country Out
Dustbury: A Sharp Stick From The Eye
Fred On Everything: Incoherent Thoughts From The Yankee Capital
The Geller Report: Two Female Tourists Found Beheaded In Morocco, also, Muslim Cop Murders Two Christians While Guarding Their Church In Egypt
Hogewash: Nothing To See Here, Move Along, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: HiT’s best Movies Of 2018, also, Disney Wrecks its Brand With “Ralph” Sequel
Joe For America: California Named Poverty Capital Of America
JustOneMinute: Build The Wall!
Legal Insurrection: Snipes Sues For Reinstatement As Broward County Elections Supervisor, also, Appeals Court Dismisses All Ethics Complaints Against Justice Kavanaugh
The PanAm Post: Colombia’s Marxist ELN Guerrillas Announce Year-End Truce
Power Line: They Shall Not Grow Old, also, Senator Martha McSally
Shark Tank: Senators Unite To Go After Teheran’s Finances
Shot In The Dark: Lie First, Lie Always – An Open Letter To The Rev. Nancy Nord Bence
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Witchcraft & You
The Political Hat: Twelve Posts of Christmas, Days Three, Four, Five, & Six
This Ain’t Hell: Berkeley Developing AI To Detect & Remove Hate Speech, also, Judge Says Cops & School Had No Duty To Shield Students In Parkland Shooting
Victory Girls: Adulting Is Hard! Congresswoman Occasional Cortex Needs Vacation From Job She Hasn’t Started Yet
Volokh Conspiracy: Everyone Is Misreporting The Texas BDS Lawsuit
Weasel Zippers: MSNBC’s Pathetic Joe Scarborough Praises “Obama Recovery” For Booming Economy, also, 11-Year-Old Boy Dressed As Drag Queen Dances In Gay Bar, Gets Money Thrown At Him
Megan McArdle: The Republicans’ Fruitless Quest To Kill Obamacare
Mark Steyn: Consulting & Colluding, also, Live Around The Planet


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The Hate Twitter Won’t Ban

Posted on | December 18, 2018 | 1 Comment

Laura Loomer was banned from Twitter last month, as part of the platform’s endless purge of conservative accounts. Before she was purged, however, she wrote something about the #MeToo hysteria that prompted this response from one of her young male followers:

 

With slight orthographic improvement:

“I am wearing a body cam from now on. I also am taking a vow of silence. Any time a woman is near, I am not saying a word. Thanks, feminism.”

Is this . . . extreme? Well, it’s sarcastic hyperbole, I’m sure, but it expresses an entirely rational male reaction to feminism, a movement that is predicated on, and which seeks to encourage all women to embrace, a limitless hostility toward men. (Yes, all men.)

It is impossible for me to imagine what it must be like for young single men in the climate of anti-male hatred that feminism has created. How the heck can a guy flirt with a girl without risking an accusation of harassment? And how can any man feel safe in pursuing heterosexual activity knowing, as has been repeatedly demonstrated in recent years, that young women are willing to make false accusations of sexual assault as a means of (a) expunging their sense of shame over their drunken hookups, or (b) getting revenge against ex-boyfriends they feel have done them wrong in some way? It’s genuinely scary, when you examine the details of some cases of false accusations that have come to light.

Better safe than sorry, and if young guys are being extra-cautious about their interactions with women, can you blame them? What called my attention to @KYCERO’s tweet was this reaction from a feminist:

 

This is a deliberately dishonest distortion. When young men say that the current hysteria over “rape culture” and “harassment” has caused them to limit their interactions with women as a means of avoiding potentially life-destroying accusations, they’re not doing so because they need any pious feminist sermons about “consent” and “respect.” No, they’re doing it because this anti-male rage (e.g., the smear campaign against Brett Kavanaugh) is symptomatic of a mass hysteria among young women which has made heterosexual interaction enormously risky for men. Under the #BelieveWomen standard, anything a man says in his own defense is either automatically dismissed by feminists (because no man can be trusted) or else twisted into proof that he’s guilty.

But wait, who is this @Legal_Feminista person? Her profile states she’s an alumna of Boston University ($69,668 a year, including room and board) and what else does she have to say on her Twitter feed?

 

 

 

 

 

Her Twitter account is a nearly constant anti-male diatribe, but has Twitter done anything about her hateful rhetoric? Of course not. Twitter only suspends conservative accounts, while permitting the most offensive insults against the Left’s enemies. They hate you and want you dead.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

‘Social Justice’ and the Death Gap

Posted on | December 17, 2018 | 1 Comment

“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, ‘social justice.'”
— Thomas Sowell

Whenever you encounter a leftist advocating “equality,” you can be sure you are dealing with a fool. No such thing as “equality” has ever existed in human history, and none of the policies suggested by the Left can ever bring about this impossible condition. This is why, as the Nobel Prize-winning Friedrich Hayek famously explained, “social justice” is a mirage. Any policy agenda aimed at achieving this utopian goal is doomed to failure, although it does usually succeed at inciting envy. Because envy can be so easily mobilized as a political force, however, the Left continually tells us that our misfortunes are the result of an unjust inequality: Rich people are hogging up all the money, white people are the beneficiaries of “privilege” and, of course, as every feminist knows, men enjoy the wrongful advantages of the “wage gap.”

Yes, it’s unfair that my son with a high-school diploma earns more roofing houses than the typical feminist with her Gender Studies degree can earn as a barista at Starbucks. On the other hand, being a roofer is far more dangerous than serving coffee (or writing term papers about the patriarchy), and this danger may explain the pay differential:

The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that, in 2015, men dominated the 20 most dangerous occupations in the United States. Logging is the most dangerous job in the U.S., followed by fishing. Mining is the 20th most dangerous profession. More men than women occupied these jobs by anywhere from 85.4 to 99.9 percent.
Still, very few feminists, or anyone really, make a stink about the gender gap in casualties on the job. Perhaps because men earn so much doing it? Or they don’t deserve recognition because the patriarchy discovered logging and it’s getting what it deserved? Whatever the reason, it’s rarely mentioned, certainly not by feminists. I didn’t see “safety at work” anywhere in the #HumanRightsDay memes or tweets — but I did see calls for healthcare, contraception, and awareness of global warming as human rights.
Jordan Peterson, America’s favorite Canadian psychologist and gender rabble-rouser, wrote about this recently on his blog. He said studies, and his anecdotal research (he’s traveled to Scandinavia several times this last year), show that all this work to make men and women more equal has actually had the opposite effect. “Societies become more gender-equal in their social and political policies, men and women become more different in certain aspects, rather than more similar,” he wrote. However, when it comes to work and safety at work, men really do fill roles that are not only dangerous, but essential for a functioning, safe society.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

 

As you will note from the chart above, roofing is one of the top 5 most dangerous jobs and the workforce is 97.7% male. Why do you think that feminists are more concerned about increasing the percentage of women in high-tech jobs than in helping women become roofers — or working in the logging or fishing industries? Isn’t obvious that these are jobs women don’t want to do? Toting heavy bundles of shingles up a ladder is rigorous exercise, but women would rather pay money for a yoga class or a gym membership than to get paid for the kind of exercise my son does, and yet feminists believe women are victims of discrimination.

What feminists want is not “equality,” in the sense of basic fairness — the equal application of recognized standards of merit — but rather they seek to impose quotas in hiring for certain categories of employment. Feminists use a rhetoric of “diversity” and “inclusion” to justify discrimination against males in certain occupational fields. For example, what percentage of degrees in sociology and psychology go to male students? Less than 20%, because young men have learned that they cannot get hired in those fields. Academic jobs in the humanities and social sciences have become practically a “no-go zone” for males during the past two decades. Because there are no employment opportunities for men as university professors of English or psychology, therefore male students don’t even bother enrolling in those majors as undergraduates.

It is only such jobs — sitting at a desk in a nice air-conditioned office — that feminists care about when advocating “equality” and, by filing lawsuits over dubious claims of sexist discrimination, feminists have succeeded in compelling universities and corporations to institute de facto hiring quotas that favor women. It has been alleged, for example, that Google implemented a policy of not hiring (indeed, not even considering for job interviews) white male engineers. A deliberate policy of anti-male discrimination is what feminists endorse in the pursuit of “diversity,” and the fact that women are now a sizable majority (57%) of U.S. college students shows how feminists have succeed in discouraging men from pursuing higher education. My son is working in an occupational field with an on-the-job fatality rate more than three times that of police officers, and do you suppose that any feminist (e.g., Jessica Valenti) would give a damn if he fell off a roof tomorrow?

Don’t be absurd. Feminists want all men to die. If Jessica Valenti’s husband committed suicide, she’d be celebrating his death.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 12.17.18

Posted on | December 17, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Obamacare Challenge – Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
Twitchy: New York Times Doing Their Part To Mainstream Raging Anti-Semitism
Louder With Crowder: MSNBC Uses Video From Obaam Years To Claim Trump Is Cruel To Illegal Immigrants

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Greasy Pole Podcast #9 – Aaron Clarey’s Twelve Rules For Life
American Power: Zito & Todd’s The Great Revolt Makes Foreign Affairs’ 2018 List Of Top Books, also, Singer & Brooking, LikeWar: The Weaponization Of Social Media
American Thinker: Gun Confiscation Begins In New Jersey
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Is Samuel Little America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer? also, Ex-Radical Says Wokeness = Misery
CDR Salamander: Military Ethics & The Profession With Pauline Shanks Kaurin On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: Illinois Is Only A Partially Free State, also, Non-Tweets Under The Fedora For December 16
Don Surber: Libs Brace For Another Humiliation, also, A College Where Men Menstruate
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Quote Of The Week
Fred On Everything: Intelligence If Any
The Geller Report: Amazon’s Muslim Workers In Minneapolis Demand More Prayer Time During Work Hours, also, NY Synagogue Hosts Jew-Haters Sarsour & Mallory To Debunk Accusations Of Anti-Semitism
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Don’t Know Much Biology
Hollywood In Toto: Disney Princesses Under Feminist Attack, also, Five Exhausted Movie Tropes That Need To Die
Joe For America: Farmer Sprays Poop On Greenpeace And Emma Thompson
JustOneMinute: We’ll Always Have Paris, also, Big If True
Legal Insurrection: Washington State Womens’ March Closing Due To National Org’s Antisemitism, also, IG Reports Strzok, Page Phones Wiped Clean – Thousands Of Texts Destroyed Before They Could Be Reviewed
The PanAm Post: How Long Will The World Turn A Blind Eye To Cuba’s Domination Of Venezuela?
Power Line: Will The Mueller Switch Project Collapse? also, A No-Nonsense Judge Looks At The Flynn Prosecution
Shark Tank: Rep. Yoho Blasts Red China In Support Of Taiwan
Shot In The Dark: Politifact – Smear By Association
The Jawa Report: Al-Kabaabs Roasting On An Open Fire
The Political Hat: A Socialist Boot Stamping On A Venezuelan Face, Forever
This Ain’t Hell: Trump Joins Wreaths Across America In Laying Wreaths At Arlington, also, Two Marines Testify On Harrowing Attack By Antifa Mob
Victory Girls: Melania Trump Spreads Christmas Cheer To Military Families, also, College Conservative Beats Chicago Machine
Volokh Conspiracy: Happy Saturnalia!
Weasel Zippers: A Year After Net Neutrality’s Demise, The Internet Is Faster, also, Left Eats Left – DNC Chair Tom Perez Goes To War Against State Parties
Megan McArdle: Who Should Decide What Topics Are Off-Limits?
Mark Steyn: A Frizzy Christmas, also, “Blue Christmas”


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Rule 5 Sunday: Eliza Dushku

Posted on | December 17, 2018 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I first became aware of Eliza Dushku (as I suspect most people did) from her portrayal of the “bad girl” Faith on Buffy The Vampire Slayer and its spinoff series Angel; I was aware that she’d gone on to other roles in other Joss Whedon shows like Dollhouse and Tru Calling, but I was too busy with other things to follow those series. Anyhow, she was in the news this week following a #MeToo flap on the set of the CBS series Bull, which EBL covered in more detail here. Anyhow, here she is in a shot from Dollhouse.

A programmable, disposable assassin…in leather.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #468, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Chicago Machine Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL offers Bronze Age Dystopia Rule 5, Dystopian Warrior Women, Mark Zuckerberg’s Scarlet Letter & Lillian Gish, Karen McDougal, Troy: Fall of A City, Nancy Wilson, Eliza Dushku, Titania McGrath, and Aisling Franciosi.

A View From The Beach brings us How Much Crazy is a Billion Dollars Worth? Ask Talulah Riley, Friends in High Places, Russiagate: Cohen Gets Three Year in the Clink, And I Thought Music, Like Sex, Is Better Under Socialism, Real Clear Russiagate, “Let It Snow”, If I Hear One More Celebrity PSA . . ., Bettors Bet on Political Correctness, Oh The Weather Outside is Frightful, The Left Hand of Sharkness and Teach Women Not To . . . Oh, You Know the Rest.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Natalie Coughlin, his Vintage Babe is Mari Blanchard, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Miss Microsheen. At Dustbury, it’s Brenda Lee and Nancy Wilson.

Thanks to everyone for their luscious linkagery!


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‘It Was Just Rejection After Rejection’

Posted on | December 17, 2018 | Comments Off on ‘It Was Just Rejection After Rejection’

After I began my deep-dive into radical feminism four years ago, I discovered the extent to which the movement’s ideology is rooted in the bizarre narcissistic belief that women have a monopoly on suffering. Many other critics of feminism have noted the victimhood mentality that emerges from the movement’s paranoid cult-like certainty that women — yes, all women — are oppressed by patriarchy, a systemic conspiracy against women in which all men are complicit. One of the major themes of feminism is that women are victimized by patriarchal beauty standards, compelled by “society” to conform to an unrealistic ideal. This theme is endlessly reiterated in memoirs (e.g., Sex Object by Jessica Valenti) that dramatize the agony of being an awkward or unattractive girl, and then relate how the discovery of feminist consciousness empowered the heroine to Fight Back Against the Patriarchy.

This is a rationalization of anti-male cruelty as revenge.

It’s not my fault that Jessica Valenti has a big nose. I am not responsible for how “society” made her feel insecure about her hairy arms or whatever other source of inadequacy inspired her childhood unhappiness. But this fixated claim to victimhood — her resentment of “society” as essentially unfair to her, and thus “oppressive” of all women — causes Ms. Valenti (like all other feminists) to believe she is justified in an attitude of infinite hostility toward males. The feminist therefore considers herself entitled to celebrate male suffering, and to mock the pain of any man who complains of his personal misfortunes.

 

Delighting in “male tears,” the feminist seeks to encourage other women to join her crusade of deliberate cruelty toward men. Feminism is not really about “equality,” it’s about a sadistic desire for revenge.

You see this, for example, in the way feminists habitually mock their male targets as sexually inadequate. Any man who criticizes a feminist, or who is otherwise identified as an opponent of their movement (e.g., Republican politicians) will predictably ridiculed by feminists as a nerd, a basement-dwelling “neckbeard,” a needle-dick loser who’s just angry because he can’t get laid. This kind of ad hominem is first and most obviously a substitute for argument, an attempt to discredit their antagonists and thus avoid having to defend their destructive anti-social ideology against intelligent criticism. However, these sexualized insults are also a revealing form of projection. SWJs Always Project, as Vox Day says and, by accusing their male critics of sexual inadequacy, feminists reveal the psychic root of their own grievance-based worldview.

The characteristic trait of the sociopath is a lack of empathy for others, and feminists manifest this trait in their indifference to male suffering. Because the feminist regards males collectively as perpetrators of oppression, she considers all men worthless and deserving of any pain or hardship inflicted upon them. (Jessica Valenti recently published a column entitled “Dear Men, Feminism Needs You,” and one wonders what sort of masochist would accept her invitation.)

Recently, Showtime produced a documentary about Brian “Head” Welch, guitarist for the heavy metal band Korn, who left the band after he committed his life to Christ in 2005:

In the film, Welch revealed that despite having it all — fame, fortune and a child he adored — he was still suffering from unhappiness.
“I think the root was the self-hatred that was going on due to unresolved issues growing up,” Welch explained. “I didn’t have the best relationship with my dad. I was bullied in school, picked on. I remember the first time of just trying to connect with girls. It was just rejection after rejection. So I always felt ugly. … Every time I looked in the mirror, it was like, ‘You’re not good enough.’ ‘There’s always someone more popular.’ ‘There’s always someone more gifted in music.’
“… I feel like I was too sensitive to things. And they would get to me. And I would let them just tear me down. And no matter how successful I got later on, I just felt like, if people really got to know me, got close to me, they wouldn’t like me. That’s the lie I believed about myself. And so I would just mask it with drugs and alcohol for years and years… It wasn’t until I found my faith that I learned to love myself.”

Here is what Welch looked like in 1999, at the pinnacle of his fame:

 

What a brutally handsome guy he was, but as a teenage boy?

“It was just rejection after rejection. So I always felt ugly.”

Show of hands: How many guys can relate to Brian Welch’s experience?

It escapes the notice of feminists that the vast majority of boys suffer the way Brian Welch did. Girls can be cruel and cold-hearted creatures, and boys are generally at their mercy. Watching my sons endure the adolescent ordeal of rejection and break-ups reminded me of my own teenage woes and, like Brian Welch, I understand that no amount of adult achievement can ever compensate for the youthful pain of unrequited love. What happens, too often, is that young men’s pain gets turned around into an attitude of vengeance against women — the mirror-obverse of Jessica Valenti’s anti-male ideology, rooted in her resentment of the “injustice” of being a big-nosed hairy-armed girl.

Thank God that Brian Welch found Jesus. The Christian must forsake the path of vengeance, learning to turn the other cheek, to endure suffering rather than to retaliate in violence. It always shocks me that feminists like Jessica Valenti embrace atheism and ridicule Christians, for what do feminists suppose would happen to women in an entirely godless society?

Well, “better put some ice on that,” eh?



 

Category: Sex Trouble
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