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Murder, Lies and Feminism

Posted on | July 4, 2018 | Comments Off on Murder, Lies and Feminism

1994: L.A. police pursue murder suspect O.J. Simpson.

The word “mansplaining” was inspired (although not coined) by Rebecca Solnit, whose book Men Explain Things to Me became a bestseller. In this book, Ms. Solnit writes: “So many men murder their partners and former partners that we have well over a thousand homicides of that kind a year — meaning that every three years the death toll tops 9/11’s casualties, though no one declares a war on this particular kind of terror.”

Here we have an actual fact — that the U.S. annually records “well over a thousand homicides” in which women are killed by their male partners or ex-partners — supporting a dishonest insinuation, i.e., that “this particular kind of terror” is a pervasive reality of American life, a widespread form of oppression which our sexist society ignores.

It should not be necessary to say this: Murder is a rare crime, for which our criminal justice system metes out the harshest punishments.

Furthermore, criminal violence — including murder, including rape, including every species of crime against women — is disproportionately a phenomenon of the social and economic underclass.

This is not something that feminists like Ms. Solnit wish to acknowledge, because their political allegiance to the Left requires them to believe that members of the underclass (especially those who are black and Hispanic) are victims of systemic social injustice. After the Ferguson riots of 2014, for example, every feminist began hashtagging #BlackLivesMatter as a gesture of solidarity against allegedly racist police. It is asserted by feminists that the “intersectionality” of oppression in American society is such that women and racial minorities are both victimized by systemic injustice, thus uniting them in a common cause — the struggle against “capitalist imperialist white supremacist cisheteronormative patriarchy,” in the words of Vanessa Diaz, former executive director of the University of Southern California Women’s Student Assembly.

Feminism’s devotion to an “intersectional” concept of oppression serves to obscure the messy reality of American life, which does not conform to such tidy ideological categories. Blaming all social problems on systemic causes (capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, etc.) is a way of denying individual responsibility for wrongdoing, while suggesting that every problem is political and can be solved by left-wing policies.

If feminists wish to reduce violent crime against women, how did it make sense for them to support #BlackLivesMatter, a movement that demonized police officers? How can we prevent violence, without police to enforce the law and arrest criminals? Ideology triumphs over common sense among intellectuals, and Ms. Solnit’s comments about the murder of women are typical of how feminism produces confusion.

Who is murdering whom in America? According to the FBI’s Crime in the United States report, there were 15,070 homicide victims in 2016, of whom 11,821 (78.4%) were male. In other words, for every woman murdered in America, 3.63 men were murdered. The fact that male homicide victims outnumber female victims nearly 4-to-1, however, doesn’t fit Rebecca Solnit’s belief about violence against women as a “particular kind of terror” comparable to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Murder is a rare crime, as I say. While 15,070 homicides a year is a large number, the U.S. population is 325 million, which means that the average American has less than a 1-in-20,000 chance of being murdered in a typical year. However, murder in the United States is not randomly distributed over the general population; homicide is overwhelmingly an urban phenomenon that disproportionately affects African Americans.

Of the 15,070 U.S. homicide victims in 2016, more than half — 7,881 (52.3%) — were black. As to the perpetrators, the FBI reports: “When the race of the offender was known, 53.5 percent were Black or African American, 43.9 percent were White, and 2.6 percent were of other races.” Black people are 12.7% of the U.S. population, and are over-represented in murder statistics — both as victims and perpetrators — by a factor of more than 4-to-1. The reality of violent crime in America does not conform to the ideological beliefs of Ms. Solnit and other feminists, who insist that women, racial minorities and homosexuals are united in an “intersectional” struggle against the systemic oppression perpetrated by heterosexual white males. It isn’t white guys murdering all those black people in urban America, however, nor is there any reason to suspect that white men are disproportionately responsible for the murder of women by their partners and ex-partners; quite the opposite is more likely true.

 

The gun an Arizona man used to kill at least four of his six victims was a .40-caliber Glock that he was lawfully allowed to own — despite a 2009 arrest for domestic violence, a federal agent says.
Dwight Lamon Jones, 56, was not the original purchaser of the semiautomatic handgun that was found [June 4] in the suburban Phoenix hotel room where he fatally shot himself. . . .
Jones used that weapon to kill prominent forensic psychiatrist Steven Pitt, psychologist Marshall Levine, and paralegals Veleria Sharp and Laura Anderson, Mangan said.
But police have not confirmed whether the Glock was used in two other killings that have been blamed on Jones — the murders of Mary Simmons, 70, and Byron Thomas, 72, who were found fatally shot in a Fountain Hills, Arizona, home. . . .
Jones is believed to have been targeting people who played a part in his bitter divorce from his ex-wife, Connie Jones — a radiologist at a mammography center now married to a former Phoenix police detective — when he embarked on the deadly rampage [May 31].
Shortly before Connie Jones filed for divorce in 2009, Jones was charged with misdemeanor assault, threats and intimidation, and disorderly conduct. He later pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.
At one point, Connie Jones sought an order of protection from her husband, who acted as his own lawyer in a divorce case that was not settled until 2017.

Murder is a rare crime. It is wrong to pluck one story from the headlines and exploit it as anecdotal “evidence” for political purposes. Yet this is what feminists and their allies on the Left do routinely, seizing on statistically unusual incidents (e.g., police shooting an unarmed black man) as symbols in a “social justice” crusade. I’ve described this as the “Atrocity Narrative” method of propaganda, which the Left uses to portray America as a place where racism, sexism and homophobia are pervasive menaces. By selectively highlighting stories that fit this ideological narrative, media outlets like CNN present the public with a warped image of American society, distorted by a left-wing political agenda. The difference between those crimes that get 24/7 saturation coverage on CNN and crimes that are considered just “local news” is a matter of politics. Consider how the recent mass murder at a newspaper office in Maryland was covered by the national media.

CNN provided wall-to-wall coverage of the shootings at the Annapolis Capital, as liberals on the Internet ran wild with speculation that this attack might have been inspired by President Trump’s frequent criticisms of the “fake news” media. Overnight, however, the story changed. It turned out that the perpetrator was a man who bore a personal grudge against this particular newspaper, which had reported on his conviction for criminally harassing a woman. Not only that, but the suspect was (a) Hispanic and (b) a former federal employee. Had the gunman been a white Republican inspired by Trump’s anti-media rhetoric, the shootings in Annapolis might have dominated CNN’s coverage for weeks; as it was, however, the network dropped the story as soon as the facts about the accused perpetrator and his motive became evident.

Annapolis massacre suspect Jarrod Ramos.

Given the reasons why Jarrod Ramos had originally come to the attention of the Annapolis Capital, you might have thought feminists would find some sort of lesson in this story. The way Ramos had cyberstalked and threatened a woman is the kind of story that perfectly fits the feminist worldview, and his murderous rampage at the newspaper office suggests Ramos represented a real danger of “male violence.” Alas, because Ramos is Hispanic, and because “intersectionality” means feminists must never criticize Hispanic men, his crimes didn’t quite fit the narrative in which all evil is attributed to “privileged” white males.

Realism requires that our beliefs must conform to the facts, but feminists are ideologues who prefer unreality, persisting in their warped political beliefs no matter what the facts may be. Genuinely newsworthy stories of male violence — like Dwight Jones, who killed six people in Arizona because of his bitterness over his divorce — are just “local news,” if the suspect doesn’t fit the profile of “privileged” white male evil.

Who is murdering whom? Feminists don’t want us to start seriously researching this question, because the answers might not support the categorical identity-politics “oppression” narrative of the Left.

Nicole Brown Simpson could not be reached for comment.


 

Category: Crime, Sex Trouble, Violence Against Women

In The Mailbox: 07.03.18

Posted on | July 3, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.03.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it’s all in the balance, it hasn’t happened yet, it hasn’t even begun yet, it not only hasn’t begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it’s going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn’t need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose than all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago.
– William Faulkner, Intruder In The Dust

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Manslator (Women’s Language Translator)
Twitchy: Center For American Progress BUSTED For This Lie About Possible SCOTUS Nominee Amy Coney Barrett
Louder With Crowder: Broadly Publishes July 4th Recommendations For Leftists

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Feeding The Female Fantasy
American Power: Collapse Of The Never Trumpers, also, Democrats & Leftists Hate America
American Thinker: How To Read The News – A Guide For Truth-Seekers
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Tree Chicken News
BattleSwarm: Morgan Stanley Banker Who Wants To Start “Third Party” Donates Exclusively To Democrats
CDR Salamander: The Syrian End Game
Da Tech Guy: Intolerance of Opposing Views Has A Home Here, also, Tomorrow’s Cookout Invaders
Don Surber: New President Of Mexico Wants To Reduce Immigration To The U.S.
Dustbury: The Captain Still Kicks It
First Street Journal: As Independence Day Approaches, It’s The Trump Administration Defending Individual Rights & The Constitution
The Geller Report: Muslim Spy-Ring Leader Plea Bargains Treason Down To Bank Fraud In Deal With Justice Department, also, Is Anyone Surprised Obama Gave Citizenship To 2500 Iranians?
Hogewash: Gilmore v. Jones, Et Al News
JustOneMinute: A Big Win For The Department Of Hail Marys
Legal Insurrection: Merkel Strikes Deal To Avert Government Collapse, Agrees To Tighten Borders, also, House Democratic Caucus Server Vanished When It Became Evidence In Awan Probe
The PanAm Post: Socialists Debut New Justifications For Old Hypocrisy With Attacks On Free Speech
Power Line: Tweet Of The Week, also, Awan Walks
Shark Tank: Democrats Threaten Vote Against Trump’s SCOTUS Nominee
Shot In The Dark: Cultural Genocide!
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday, also, Mornings With Meep
The Jawa Report: America! Islamic State Of Losers Ministry Of Finance Thunderstruck!
The Political Hat: Freedom Is Slavery
This Ain’t Hell: Lonnie Crim Saving The World, also, Marietta Officers In Action
Victory Girls: Strike Three – Man Threatens To Murder Senator Rand Paul And His Family With An Ax
Volokh Conspiracy: The Case Against Court-Packing Revisited
Weasel Zippers: Rachel Dolezal Arrested For Welfare Fraud, also, Sidwell Friends Teacher Harasses EPA Chief Scott Pruitt In A Restaurant
Megan McArdle: Let Roe Go
Mark Steyn: Cloudy With A Chance Of Jewish Conspiracies


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Bisexual ‘Gender-Fluid’ 7th-Grader Leads Pride March in Maryland Capital

Posted on | July 3, 2018 | 4 Comments

 

Recent news you might have missed:

In steamy, rainy conditions Tuesday afternoon [June 19], a cluster of rainbows made its way through Annapolis.
The city’s first official pride celebration — a walk from City Hall to the Loews Annapolis Hotel — started with a seventh-grader.
Twelve-year-old Claire Drapeau has been out as bisexual since she was in fifth-grade at Crofton Middle School. This year after telling friends, family and classmates she also identifies as gender-fluid, Drapeau wanted to join in on a pride celebration.
Instead of taking a trip to D.C. Pride as she planned, Drapeau told her mom she just wanted to walk around downtown Annapolis waving her rainbow flag and handing out stickers, which she saved up to buy herself.
“I wanted to show no matter who you are, love is love. You can love someone no matter your sexuality or gender,” she said. . . .
When Drapeau’s mother posted on Facebook asking if anyone would join them, Mayor Gavin Buckley saw it and decided to join in.
Two weeks ago, Buckley declared June Annapolis’ first pride month in solidarity with national celebrations. He hadn’t planned an event until a parade set for 2019.
“We can’t let our ruling principles be fear and greed. We need them to be love and pride,” he said after the walk. . . .
About 50 people joined them in walking along Green Street, Main Street, Church Circle and West Street donned head to toe in rainbow colors.

Because the reader is now probably confused and dismayed, let me help you focus your mind on a short list of obvious points:

  1. She declared herself bisexual in fifth grade? Let any adult think back to when you were in fifth grade. In what alternative universe does it make sense to have 10-year-olds “coming out”?
  2. What does it mean to be “gender-fluid” in seventh grade? Shouldn’t such behavior be considered potentially symptomatic of abuse? Is it not self-evident that this child is emotionally disturbed?
  3. Who are this child’s parents? What sort of people think it’s a good idea for a 12-year-old girl to be a “gender-fluid” bisexual marching around downtown waving a rainbow flag?
  4. Anita Bryant could not be reached for comment.

We are through the looking-glass and down the rabbit hole here. Bizarre stories like this are a tip-of-the-iceberg phenomenon, evidence of a momentous cultural shift, which is a direct consequence of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

In 1975, the neoconservative author Midge Decter explained the youth upheavals of the 1960s (the so-called “Generation Gap”) in a book whose title summarized the situation: Liberal Parents, Radical Children.

Parenting is about personal responsibility, and liberalism is the antithesis of personal responsibility. It is contradictory to teach your children to become self-reliant while simultaneously basing your politics on a belief that everybody can rely on government to solve their problems. The messianic visions of 1960s radicalism — which went from the “Summer of Love” to Weather Underground terrorism in the brief span of a few years — were both a logical extension of FDR/LBJ-style liberalism and a rebellion against that liberalism. The false promises of liberalism inspire delusional hopes of “progress” toward a secular utopia and, when this vision fails to materialize, disappointment pushes young people toward the temper tantrums of radicalism. Liberal parents who encourage their children in delusional pursuits, as in the case of Claire Drapeau, probably think of themselves as being “on the right side of history,” but the careful student of history must view such a belief as foolish hubris.

In considering the issue of parental responsibility, however, we must ask how the curricula and policies of public schools contribute to the craziness in which fifth-graders (!!!) declare themselves “bisexual” and no one seems to be alarmed by such a declaration. My suspicion is that this is a logical consequence of “comprehensive sex education” and also reflects the influence of Obama-era “diversity” policies. It’s not as if Americans had no warning of what would happen:

The most disturbing trend of all in modern sex education is the influence of groups such as GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network). According to Marjorie King in the Spring, 2003, issue of City Journal, GLSEN is working with the National Education Association to bring Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) themes to public school classrooms. Sexual activities now considered controversial, painful and unsafe are already being taught to teens as young as 12 years old. The belief that heterosexuality is normal has been labeled “Heterosexism” and targeted to be systematically stamped out of our children’s psyches. And this, too, is starting young. Orlean Koehle, a California substitute teacher, reports knowledge of a third-grade girl asking, “Daddy, am I a lesbian? I like girls better than boys.” The LGBT advocates are attending our kids’ classrooms, and we were not even informed they had been invited.

So it was in 2003. Public schools have been engaged in this kind of indoctrination for more than a decade. People need to wake the hell up.



 

Category: Education, Gays

Late Night With Rule 5 Monday: Kaya Jones

Posted on | July 3, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This week our appetizer is fellow Las Vegas resident, singer, and outspoken Trump supporter Kaya Jones. Miss Jones is no stranger to controversy, having been hassled over her membership in the Pussycat Dolls band, her allegations of widespread sex abuse in the LA music industry, and whether she actually has Apache ancestry or not. This pic is from her 2015 album release party at the Bank nightclub in the Bellagio casino/resort.

At the release party for her album The Chrystal Neria

Leading off, it’s Ninety Miles From Tyranny with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #300, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism wraps up June with Rule Five Utter Horseshit Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL checks in with Pecan Pralines, Ali Watkins, Welcome Summer, Evan Rachel Wood (Freeze All Moral Posturing!), The Hussys, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, National Sunglasses Day, Tamra Maiochi, Vintage Hollywood 4th Of July, Oh Canada, and Happy Canada Day,

American Power returns with Kaya Jones, Lucie Watson, Charlotte Flair, Kate Upton with Alexis Ren, and Demi Rose.

A View From The Beach brings us A Few Minutes of Reverie, Wet Shirt Friday?, Crabs Down, But Authorities Swear Not Overfished, Model Bares Difference Between Arab and Israeli Justice, “Sultans of Swing”, “Puss in Boots”, Reasonably Sized Russiagate, Goal! and  You Know, There’s a Fix for That.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Halston Sage, his Vintage Babe is Lizabeth Scott, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Guess. At Dustbury, it’s Dolly Parton and Asma Al-Assad.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!


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Late Night With In The Mailbox: 07.02.18

Posted on | July 3, 2018 | Comments Off on Late Night With In The Mailbox: 07.02.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Oh Canada…
Twitchy: GQ Thinks Republicans Are “Terrified” Of Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Louder With Crowder: Violent Antifa Member Knocked Out After Picking Fight, also,William Shatner Perfectly Trolls Race-Baiters

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Reflections On My First Year In The Netherlands, also, Sunday Cigar Thread – Macanudo Inspirado
American Power: Alissa Quart, Squeezed, also, Gaping Void For The Democrats
American Thinker: Is Trump The Most Fun President Ever? also, POTUS Is Winning Over Blacks, Hispanics, And Gays
Animal Magnetism: Saturday Evening Culture, also, Goodbye Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Colion Noir On Bill Maher, also, Slimy Scumbags Rip Off Richard Overton
CDR Salamander: A Fleet In A Parallel Universe, also, Marines In The Offensive Against ISIS On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: Nomenklatura On The Rise, also, The Obama Cult
Don Surber: The Generic Editorial Against Trump’s Next Pick, also, She Won Because She Is Hispanic
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Time Enough To Cry
Fausta: Sunday Palate Cleanser – Hauser
First Street Journal: Lies, Damned Lies, And Statistics, also, The Insanity Of Tesla
The Geller Report: 4th Of July Jihad – Cleveland Muslim Arrested, also, #WalkAway Movement To Abandon Democrats Goes Viral
Hogewash: Weaponized Pouncing, also, Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
JustOneMinute: Back To School With BIG Tests Waiting, also, Heading To Court!
Legal Insurrection: Iranian General Accuses Israel Of Cloud & Snow Theft, also, ABC News Thinks Judge Willett Is WAY TOO FUNNY To Be A Supreme Court Justice
The PanAm Post: Mexico Condemned To Stagnation With AMLO’s Victory
Power Line: The Brennan Factor, also, The Collins Factor, also also, Chai Feldblum’s Term Expires, Yet She Lingers On
Shark Tank: Poll Shows Puerto Ricans Prefer Scott, also, Shaq Makes An Endorsement
Shot In The Dark: It’s Almost (But Not Quite) A Berg’s Law, also, July Daze
STUMP: Around The Pension-O-Sphere, also, Memory Monday – Fourth Week of June 1918
The Jawa Report: Where’s Dr. Rusty? Cat-astrophe Edition, also, Death Fatwa Issued Against Adelaide Imam Mohammed Tawhidi
The Political Hat: California Supremes Effectively Ban New Semi-Auto Handguns
This Ain’t Hell:  Andrea Mitchell Gunsplaining, also, The #WalkAway Movement
Victory Girls: Senator Dick Durbin And “The Group Of Incompetents”
Volokh Conspiracy: Qualified Immunity In State Constitutional Lawsuits
Weasel Zippers: Netherlands PM Stunned By Unruly Press, Asks Trump “Are They Always Like This?”, also, $4 Billion In SNAP Money Went To Improper Food Stamp Payments
Mark Steyn: Freedom And Soviet Operettas, also, La Vie En Rose


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Toxic Intersectionality Syndrome

Posted on | July 2, 2018 | 1 Comment

“Word salad is a ‘confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases’ . . . used to describe a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder.”
— Wikipedia

If you really want to know why Hillary lost in 2016, and why Democrats have descended into incoherent hysteria since Trump became president, look no further than EverydayFeminism-dot-com, a toxic stew of Third Wave “gender” madness that features headlines like this:

Asian Americans: 10 Warning Signs That
Show You’re Siding With Whiteness
— Sept. 22. 2017

Let’s Be Real, Mainstream LGBTQIA+
Organizations Aren’t Really Showing Up
For QTPOC. Here’s What They Need To Do Now
— April 3, 2018

Transgender People Are Not Included In Mainstream History. Here Are 5 Ways For Anyone to Combat Trans Erasure Everyday
— May 7, 2018

You probably never gave a second thought to whether you were “siding with whiteness,” or “showing up for QTPOC” (queer/trans people of color) and I doubt you noticed how transgender people were omitted from “mainstream history,” because you probably (a) have an actual life and (b) vote Republican. You’re a grown-up, with bills to pay and real problems of your own to deal with, which means you don’t have a lot of time to spend worrying about the LGBTQIA+ agenda and “whiteness,” with which EverydayFeminism-dot-com is so obsessed.

 

Do you see what I mean about why Hillary lost? Her core supporters were the kind of young feminists who take seriously the bizarre craziness of 21st-century identity politics. Third-Wave “intersectionality” means that feminism is about everything — from “fat-shaming” and climate change to transgenderism and “queer” sexuality — and a feminism that is about everything is also ultimately a feminism about nothing.

Voting for Democrats means handing over the government to the kind of wackjobs who blabber on endlessly in postmodern academic jargon that sounds an awful lot like the “word salad” symptomatic of schizophrenia. It’s frightening to think that 68 million Americans actually voted for Hillary, given her lockstep loyalty to the feminist movement.

The three Everyday Feminist headlines cited above are all for articles by Ayesha Sharma, who attended Bates College — annual cost of attendance $66,720, including room and board — where she (or “they”) was/were “Co-Founder and President of the Bates Feminist Collective” and a member of such student organizations as Bates Democrats and OUTFront, “an advocacy organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and questioning (LGBTIQQ) individuals”). Ayesha is “non-binary,” which is a feminist synonym for crazy. Her latest column for Everyday Feminism is to craziness what Baskin-Robbins is to ice cream, and Ayesha is serving all 31 flavors here, folks.

5 Things I Learned About
Holding A Predominantly White
And Cisgender Feminist Space
Alright y’all, lemme cut straight to the point.
If your feminist — or really any justice-oriented — space is predominantly white and cisgender (cis), chances are that it’s got a lot of messy unchecked dynamics at play.
I’ll tell you my story of how I came to realize this seemingly obvious truth and what I’ve learned from it.
My freshman year of college, I founded a feminist organization with two cis women. One of these women was white and American and other who was Brown and Indian. I’m South Asian and trans, but at the time I hung out with mostly white people and identified as cis — or, at least, not trans.
So, needless to say, I was messy myself.
The feminist organization turned into a space where we, the three leaders, would host discussions to delve into what we decided were compelling feminist topics. With all of us having the same majority white and cis friends, our attendance reflected that demographic—and so did the people who applied to be on the club’s board.
I’m a senior now and after having done a lot of self-growth, I’ve understood what troubled me so much about the club as the years went on. Obviously, one reason was that it was majority white and cis and it wasn’t what I needed to come into my own identity.
But another was that I was really confused about why other people of color (POC) and trans people weren’t showing up like I was. . . .

You can read the rest of that, if you’re a connoisseur of insane gibberish, but among the things Ayesha is “really confused about,” maybe the shortage of “people of color” attending her feminist collective isn’t at the top of the list. My hunch is that most of the “POC” paying $66,720 a year to attend Bates College probably have better things to do with their spare time than hang out for discussions of “compelling feminist topics.”

By the way, what’s up with Ayesha Sharma and “y’all“? As a native Southerner, can I object to her cultural appropriation of my dialect? Bates College is in Maine, and was founded by abolitionists, so where does a senior at Bates get the idea she can use “y’all”? But there’s no point complaining, especially when this Third Wave craziness — which we may call “Toxic Intersectionality Syndrome” — is helping to drive every sane person in America out of the Democrat Party.

 

Oh, yes! If you vote Republican, it’s because your “whiteness” is “toxic,” according to Everyday Feminism, and they want to teach you how to eradicate the “deeply normalized white supremacy” of American society, which “is built on a foundation of systemic oppression.”

You can buy a lot of “systemic oppression” for $66,720 a year, honey.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

Please Help My Brother Kirby: Strange and Savage Tales of ‘Backroads’ McCain

Posted on | July 2, 2018 | Comments Off on Please Help My Brother Kirby: Strange and Savage Tales of ‘Backroads’ McCain

Kirby as a senior at Douglas County (Ga.) High School, 1975.

My older brother Kirby is a legend to those who know him. Did I ever mention, for example, that he once dated Miss Teen Georgia?

Kirby was working at Six Flags Over Georgia, operating one of the trams that conveyed guests from the parking lot to the park entrance. In those days, there was a spiel that the operators delivered over the loudspeakers on the trams (“Welcome to Six Flags, ladies and gentlemen …”) and there must have been something about Kirby’s delivery, or perhaps it was his ice-blue eyes, that captured the attention of the beauty queen who was visiting Atlanta that day and the rest is, as they say, history.

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Kirby is a proud man, a hard-working long-haul truck driver, and it has been difficult for him the past few weeks as he’s been caught in a nightmare of medical bureaucracy, a Catch-22 situation.

Ten years after he underwent bypass surgery, he was diagnosed with another problem and the doctor refused to certify him to keep driving. Kirby had to undergo some very expensive tests and treatment, and still the doctors wouldn’t sign off on letting him get back on the road. When this first happened in April, Kirby hoped he’d be back to driving — he routinely earned $800-$900 a week — within a couple of weeks, and he feels fully capable of doing it, but the doctors said no. Well, OK, so Kirby had insurance that included short-term medical disability coverage, and he asked the doctors to approve him for that. They said no!

This is insane — a total Catch-22. The same doctors who say Kirby is not healthy enough to return to work nevertheless won’t approve him for disability under an insurance plan he paid for?

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Me (left) and Kirby as crew-cut boys in 1963.

Y’know, I hate the heck out of blegging. Rattling the tip-jar for my blog is just a necessary part of the business, but I regard that as honest capitalism, a fee-for-service arrangement with readers who enjoy the work I do. Rather than poor-mouthing hard-luck tales of self-pity — which I instinctively despise — my occasional direct appeals to the tip-jar hitters are always delivered with a Gonzo sensibility. So let me tell you about Kirby’s nickname, “Backroads” McCain . . .

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Category: Family, Fear. Loathing., Neutral Objective Journalism

Germany Silencing the Jews?

Posted on | July 1, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

The Merkel government is desperate to defend its policy of mass Muslim immigrations, and is apparently suppressing free speech to do it:

A number of my readers in Germany have emailed me in distress. The Geller Report has been banned in Germany. I do not know if this is a national ban or regional. I ask my German readers to advise me if they are experiencing the same difficulties. Here is what my German readers get when they try to access Geller Report.
This is Chancellor Merkel’s response to the catastrophic consequences of her mass Muslim migration policies? Ban truth. Ban freedom of free speech and freedom of the press. It is evocative of another Chancellor of Germany (from 1933 to 1945) who also imposed bans on elemental freedoms. How long before the book burnings begin? Don’t kid yourself, this is exactly how it begins.

This seems incredible, and we may hope it’s a misunderstanding, but just think about this fact: Pamela Geller has readers in Germany. That is to say, the facts are so completely suppressed in the German media establishment that readers in Germany must turn to a Jewish woman in New York to tell them what’s happening in their own country.

What is happening in Germany is that the government is classifying truth as “hate speech.” You’re accused of Islamophobia if you tell the people about the problems caused by Merkel’s immigration policy.

 

Category: Germany
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