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In The Mailbox: 05.04.18

Posted on | May 4, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.04.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: The Pooperintendent Of Schools
Twitchy: J.R. Salzman et al. Bust Vet, House Candidate For Lying About Guns
Louder With Crowder: Democrat Proposes Forcing Gun Owners To Give Up “Assault Weapons”
According To Hoyt: Heinlein Was An Optimist
Monster Hunter Nation: Further Examples Of Why, In My Opinion, Mike Glyer Is A Scumbag And File 770 Is Evil
Vox Popoli: A Bureaucratic Approach To Literature


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott:
American Power: The Redistribution Of Sex
American Thinker: Terms of Entrapment
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five CDC Lies By Omission Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For May 4
BLACKFIVE: James Phelan, The Agency
Da Tech Guy: Last Man Standing and The Hill
Don Surber: Sermon From Our Lady Of Never Trump
Dustbury: AAA Is Very Narrow
The Geller Report: 200 German Migrants Attack Police, Force Retreat, also, Parents Accuse CAIR Of Lying In “Islamophobia” Lawsuit
Hogewash: Europa Rising, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: Cornell U Offering Course On “Overwhelming Evidence” That Global Warming Is Real
JustOneMinute: Yet More On Trump And Campaign Finance Violations
Legal Insurrection: Manafort Judge Says Mueller Only Cares About Impeachment Or Prosecution Of Trump, also, Wanna Join Us For Cultural Appreciation Day?
Power Line: Our Deranged White House Press Corps, also, “White Privilege” And “Toxic Masculinity”
Shark Tank: Gillum Voted For A Coal Plant
Shot In The Dark: Nick Coleman Is Still A Monkey
STUMP: Alternative Assets & Pension Performance
The Jawa Report: The Forth Will Be With You Always
The Political Hat: How To Solve Britain’s Bladed Weapon Epidemic
This Ain’t Hell: Friday Morning Feelgood Stories, also, Hayden Says Jade Helm Hysteria Generated By Russian Bots
Victory Girls: Redskins Cheerleaders Are Boarding The #MeToo Bus, And I Don’t Care
Weasel Zippers: Federal Judge Allows Two Illegals To Get Married So One Can Ride The Other’s Asylum Application, also, CNN Writer Says Kanye Should Be No-Platformed
Mark Steyn: The Process Is The Punishment (As Always)


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Some Advice for You ‘Incel’ Losers

Posted on | May 3, 2018 | Comments Off on Some Advice for You ‘Incel’ Losers

 

Never give your enemy a reason to celebrate. Nothing gives a feminist more sadistic pleasure than making fun of guys who can’t get laid. For a bunch of pathetic losers to organize a “movement” on the basis of their inability to get laid is, to put it as mildly as possible, not helpful.

When that autistic Canadian plowed down more than 20 people, killing 10 of them, on a Toronto sidewalk last month, it inspired dozens of columns by feminists who seized upon the loser’s pre-massacre Facebook post: “The Incel Rebellion has already begun! We will overthrow all the Chads and Stacys! All hail the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger!”

How about not doing stuff like that? Because, as I say, it’s not helpful.

The autistic Canadian apparently didn’t expect to survive his rental-van rampage and, when a police officer confronted him, the loser was captured on video begging: “Shoot me in the head!”

Whenever we see a story about a mass-murder rampage that ends with suicide — the Columbine massacre, for example — the obvious question occurs: “Why mass murder? Why not just kill yourself first?”

It’s the go-out-in-a-blaze-of-glory revenge fantasy.

The loser considers himself a victim. He feels humiliated by his insignificance, and he wants to die in a way that will “make news.” So, rather than jumping off a bridge or swallowing a bottle of sleeping pills, the suicidal loser rents a van and runs over random people because, in his warped mind, this will avenge the wrongs he feels he has suffered.

Except, of course, these random people had nothing to do with why the autistic Canadian couldn’t get laid, and the same thing can be said for every other “involuntary celibate” loser on Reddit. The only person to blame for your problems is you. It’s not the fault of Sohe Chung, the 22-year-old student who was the youngest victim of last month’s Toronto rampage, nor was it the fault of Betty Forsyth, 94, the oldest victim. None of the people who got run over by that addled freak had anything to do with him or his problems. So how could this be counted as “revenge”?

This is sad testimony to how pathetic you “incel” losers really are. Your revenge fantasies are as ill-conceived as all your other fantasies.

‘Incels’ are almost always men, often young, who can’t find sexual relationships — but blame the behaviour of women for this. . . .
Incels blame feminists for having destroyed the chances of ‘ordinary’ men. The Reddit Incel group R/Incels was banned after becoming a haven for misogynist content. Articles posted to the subreddit included, ‘All women are sluts’, ‘reasons why women are the embodiment of evil’ and ‘proof that girls are nothing but trash that use men.’ . . .
‘Incels’ describe sexually active women as ‘Stacys’ who have sex with brainless ‘Chads’ — many blame feminism for their predicament. . . .
A ‘Chad’ is a sexually active ‘alpha male’ type who has sex with women — and is thus hated by ‘incels’.

Speaking as a “Chad” named Stacy, I would advise losers who actually want to solve their problem to begin by rejecting the “Alpha/Beta” categorization as useless for this project. Your problem is not Chad or Stacy, your problem is you. Unless and until you can accept the reality of your own incompetence as the cause of your failure, there is no point even giving you any further advice. You are the problem, not them.

And you know something? Confessing your own inept helplessness might be your best line. Think of yourself as a Harmless Lost Puppy, and try to convey that impression in your approach to women. Develop a way of talking that conveys a cheerful but clueless demeanor. Because every woman wants to help a Harmless Lost Puppy, right?

See, the thing is, there is no One Right Way to get laid. You can read a million blog posts at pickup artist (PUA) sites, but think about this: If those guys are really getting so much action, how come they’ve got so much time to write long lectures about how to get laid? Like, if you’re hooking up with bikini models on a regular basis, why even bother logging onto the Internet? And if your tactics are so perfect, do you really want to share your pickup secrets with the whole world? Heck, no.

My own success baffled everyone, myself included. Was I an “Alpha male”? Was I tall and muscular with a dominant personality? No, I was a akinny clown, as homely as the north end of southbound mule. But I have a few redeeming traits, and was keenly observant. The problem with losers, generally, is that they tend to get obsessively fixated on one girl (the “rifle” approach) rather than talking to every girl they meet (the “shotgun” approach), which is how you get the Law of Large Numbers working to your advantage. Also, stop being distracted by beauty. If you are a total loser, you can’t afford to be picky. Operate on the assumption that any obviously attractive girl is out of your range, and instead concentrate on finding an ugly girl who might actually like you.

Griselda Hoggface may be your only hope to avoid Darwinian extinction, and you should be nice to her. A complete loser like you should be grateful that any woman can even stand to be in the same room with you. You’re a disgusting excuse for a human being, and everybody hates you.

The basic problem with guys like “the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger” is that their self-esteem is too high. They are arrogant fools who don’t hate themselves as much as they should, and therefore fail to understand why they deserve to be rejected. Unable to accept the reality of their own pathetic condition — vile scum, deserving nothing but contempt — they engage in the exact same reversal rationalization that is the basis of feminist ideology: “I’m unhappy and nobody likes me and, because this cannot be my own fault, therefore I am a victim of oppression!”

 

Feminism is an anti-male hate movement, based on the belief that there are two things wrong with men:

  1. Everything men say;
    and
  2. Everything men do.

So-called “men’s rights activists” (MRAs) make the mistake of believing feminists are actually sincere in their rhetoric about “equality.” This is rather like Chamberlain believing Hitler would be content with acquiring the Sudetenland. Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It, and if there were only one male left alive on this planet, feminists would accuse him of “oppressing” them.

The good news is that most women aren’t feminists, otherwise Hillary Clinton would be president, right? Certainly the Chads of the world don’t bother kowtowing to feminist demands, and no “incel” loser should imagine he could benefit from a feminist regime of “equality.”

Feminists hate you and they want you dead. Or locked away in prison, which is where Alek Minassian will spend the rest of his miserable life.

Running over random people in downtown Toronto isn’t going to solve any problems and, as I said, never give your enemy a reason to celebrate, which is what feminists are doing in the wake of the autistic Canadian’s rampage: “See? We were right! Male violence! Misogyny!”

You idiot “incel” losers are your own worst enemies. It would be wrong for me to give you any useful advice, because if you ever got a clue, you might reproduce, and your DNA would continue polluting the gene pool. You’re a failed specimen, an error of evolution, a Darwinian mistake, and it’s probably best for you to delete your account and kill yourself.

“The Incel Rebellion has already begun!”

What a sick joke. You’re a disgrace, even by Canadian standards.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 05.03.18

Posted on | May 3, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.03.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Wobblies Take Over Oregon Burgerville
Twitchy: Ellen Pao Tweets Tech CEOs About Employing Incels And WHOA NELLY
Louder With Crowder: Rapper T.I. Comes To Kanye’s Defense


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Throwing Away A Perfectly Good Black Boy
American Power: When Old Left And Far Right Share A Bedroom
American Thinker: A Leftist Core Belief – Denying Evil
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Fusion News
BattleSwarm: Islamic State-Inspired Mall Attack Thwarted
Bring The HEAT: Here, Have Some Warthog
CDR Salamander: Aucoin Rediscovers His RIO Instincts, also, Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Saturday At The Defund PP Protest, also, Cecile’s Legacy
Don Surber: Kanye Just Doubled Trump’s Support Among Black Men
Dustbury: Help Like This I Don’t Need
The Geller Report: Swedish Toddler’s Mom Gang-Raped & Filmed By “Child” Refugees, also, Facebook Enlists Eric Holder’s Law Firm To “Advise” On Anti-Conservative Bias
Hogewash: Another Excuse, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: Trump To Cut “Family Planning” Money From Family-Killing Abortionists
JustOneMinute: Giuliani Indulging In Ex Post Rationalization
Legal Insurrection: Norks Reportedly Free Three American Detainees, also, We Can Now Conclusively Say The Iran Nuke Deal Was Induced by Fraud
Power Line: Caputo’s Complaint, also, A BRIDGES Too Far
Shark Tank: Police Union Endorses Putnam & Graham In Governor’s Race
Shot In The Dark: An Idea Whose Time Must End
STUMP: Happy Public Finance Story – The Detroit Bankruptcy
This Ain’t Hell: PR ANG C-130 Crashes In South Carolina, also, Navy’s Newest LPD To Be Named For WW2 Medal Of Honor Recipient
Victory Girls: CIA Wrong On Russian Pro-Trump Interference
Weasel Zippers: Students Across America Walk Out In Support Of 2A, also, Barron Trump Reportedly Bullied At School
Mark Steyn: Post-Boy Scouts And Forever First Ladies


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‘Big Brother’ Gets a Sex-Change

Posted on | May 3, 2018 | 3 Comments

 

The pervasive surveillance of the totalitarian police state — “Big Brother” as George Orwell described it in Nineteen Eighty-Four — has developed in ways Orwell almost certainly never imagined. Who could have predicted, after all, that the powers of the state would be mobilized to suppress opposition to transgender ideology by intimidating critics? British feminist Linda Bellos describes the tactics used against her:

On Saturday the 21st of April 2018 I drove to King’s Lynn to meet, voluntarily 2 Police Officers who wished to interview me under caution regarding words I spoke at a meeting on the issue of Trans Women in York on the 8th November 2017. What I found out during the course of the interview was that my brief contribution to the discussion was being broadcast on the Internet when I thought that my words were simply being recorded. The police implied that my statement implied or stated I would strike back if attacked are being interpreted as capable of being for a threat to Trans women, that is people who hitherto had been defined as men.
I did say that I would fight back, as I had had to do when I was a small child in London in the 1950’s and 60’s when racists attacked my brother and me. The fight back I was referring to was against those people who attacked Maria McLachlan, though I did not know her full name at the time but I had seen the recording of that attack in October at Speakers Corner and it had made we very angry and distressed, especially when I read the increasing demands that some trans young ‘women’ were making within the Labour Party and elsewhere to be considered women and to silence any biological women who are critical of the growing politics of ‘gender’.
On the 8th of November I had driven from my home just outside Norwich and had gone to what I believed was the venue of the Meeting I was to speak at, I found the venue at about 4pm and had given myself enough time to find a place to buy food and relax before the meeting was to start. What I found instead was that the venue had been threatened and that the organisers were about to travel around York to find an alternative venue. I parked my car and joined them in the trip this was necessary because I did not know York and would have found it almost impossible to know where to go.
We did find a Hotel Meeting room available for hire and we went back to the rendezvous point where attendees had been asked to gather before they were told of the new venue. If I was briefed about who else was speaking or that the meeting was being live streamed I did not register these facts. The only relevance was that I would not have spoken about Maria McLachlan had I known she was speaking at the event. As for the live streaming, I had no idea that this could be done. I say this because I thought that I was speaking only to those present in the room.
I make this latter point because the Police in interviewing me advised that I may have caused alarm to those not in the room who might have interpreted my words as a threat to them, or perhaps as an incitement to harm Trans women. What seems to be forgotten is that physiologically trans women have grown up as to be boys and men, with both male strength and sense of entitlement. I can defend myself if attacked and thankfully have not needed to do so for many decades, but it is important to my independence and autonomy that I feel free to be in any space and situation to express my views. That is what I believed our ‘freedom of expression‘ refers to. So my time and money are being spent on defending false claims against me and to taking not only my time but that of the police.

(Hat-tip: 4th Wave Now.)

Linda Bellos is a black lesbian radical feminist “who has committed her adult life to liberation politics,” but has been forbidden to speak at British universities — a policy called “no-platforming” — because of her criticism of transgender ideology. Note well that it is not right-wingers or fundamentalist Christians who are seeking to silence and intimidate Ms. Bellos, although she has advocated many things that conservatives adamantly oppose. Rather, she and other feminists find themselves threatened by their alleged “allies” on the Left who, having sold their souls to the cause of transgender “inclusion,” are thereby obligated to suppress all dissent. How bad has it gotten in England?

As radical as the transgender agenda has become in the United States, it’s gone even further in Great Britain, where the taxpayer-funded healthcare system now encourages “transition” for children as young as 12. The number of minors being referred to NHS gender clinics has quadrupled since 2012, raising widespread concern about “social contagion” as a factor in so-called “rapid onset gender dysphoria” among British youth.

This agenda includes vehement denunciation of feminist critics, as in the example of a 44-year-old Indiana man named Steven who calls himself “Sammy,” and was caught earlier this year posting transvestite selfies taken in his teenage step-daughter’s bedroom:

When confronted on Tumblr, “Sammy”/Steven responded: “F– your dead grandma,” and declared: “I owe little anti trans bitches no explanation or apologies. F–k off and die.” He/“she” then changed his/“her” profile to a slogan against “TERFs” (trans exclusive radical feminists).

 

The activists promoting transgenderism are dangerous perverts. Cynthia Yockey has explained the phenomenon of autogynephilia:

Autogynephilia is a self-induced, chronic, progressive disorder that is almost exclusively a male condition. . . .
Sexual fetishes occur almost exclusively in men, and men who have one sexual fetish usually have several . . .
The seeds of autogynephilia are sown shortly after puberty when a teenage boy realizes he is aroused by female undergarments, usually belonging to his mother or sister. When he has the privacy to do so, he steals the undergarments, strips naked, and masturbates while looking at himself in the mirror. This becomes a ritual and by his mid-twenties the effect is that his primary sexual and romantic feelings are directed at the thought or image of himself as a woman.
As the autogynephile continues his masturbation ritual and elaborates on it in his thirties and forties, he begins to think he IS a woman. Anne Lawrence, an autogynephile, psychologist, sexologist, and anesthesiologist, who writes about autogynephilia, calls this process, “becoming what we love,” since the autogynephile has both sexual and romantic feelings toward the image or thought of himself as a woman.

It should be obvious why the transgender movement is so intolerant of criticism. If their opponents have the freedom to speak the truth about who transgender activist are, what they do and what they believe, this will inspire public opposition to their agenda — particularly their efforts to promote transgenderism in elementary-school curricula. The truth is not on their side, and so transgender activists are anti-truth.

We return, then, to the situation of Linda Bellos. In September 2017, transgender activists made worldwide headlines when they attacked 60-year-old feminist Maria MacLachlan at a Hyde Park speak-out.

 

It was this attack which prompted the November meeting in York, with Linda Bellos and radical feminist Sheila Jeffreys leading a discussion entitled “We Need to Talk About the GRA,” i.e., 2004 Gender Recognition Act, a British law dealing with transgenderism. Proposals to update this law have included the suggestion that individuals be able to change their legal status from male to female (or vice-versa) simply by claiming they “identify” as the opposite sex. In other words, not only should transgender delusions be the basis of legal identity, but all it would take to change your legal status is the mere assertion of identity.

As I have said, this agenda is about “equality” for the insane. Feminists are understandably concerned about what this means for the safety of women and girls. Speaking at the York event in reference to the attack on Maria MacLachlan, Linda Bellos said she is willing and able to defend herself: “I play football and I box, and if any one of those bastards comes near me I will take off my glasses and thump them.”

The event was being livestreamed on video, and transgender activists quickly posted clips of this remark with titles like “Linda Bellos threatens violence against trans women.” These video clips, of course, did not explain that Ms. Bellos was speaking about self-defense in response to transgender activists engaging in violence against women.

Having seen radical insanity at close-range, when an enraged “Occupy” mob tried to storm a Tea Party summit in 2011, I understand exactly what Linda Bellos intended by her York remarks. If the police fail to protect the right of law-abiding citizens to engage in free speech, citizen have the absolute right to defend themselves against the violent mob. Anyone who says otherwise is not a friend of liberty, and is an enemy of truth.

Yet what do we see now in England? The police have taken sides, acting as ideological enforcers to intimidate critics of transgender bullies.

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



 

Category: The Transgender Cult

What the Democrat Party Wants to Teach America’s Children About ‘Gender’

Posted on | May 2, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

Say hello to “Ezra” Morales:

Towards the end of my sophomore year, when I first came out as transgender, I identified as gender-neutral or androgynous. Basically, I wasn’t a boy or a girl; I was simply genderless. Coming out felt as if the weight of the world had been lifted off my shoulders. At first, everything was fine: My friends accepted me with open arms, and I began to socially transition.
My understanding of my identity continued to evolve after I first came out. Later, I thought, “I know for sure I’m a boy.” And then even later, “Maybe I don’t identify with any gender.” Finally, after months of wrestling with how to articulate who I truly was, I discovered that I identify as a trans, gender non-conforming boy. To me, this means that I am a boy, but my gender expression doesn’t align to traditional gender norms for boys.
But it is important for me to recognize how my gender identity is intertwined with other identities that are important to me, like my racial identity. I identify as Latinx and Black. . . .
Since European colonization, white people have actively erased examples of Indigenous and other non-white cultures having various sexual orientations and non-binary gender identities and expressions. . . .
White people have used the gender binary to force white-focused gender norms on people of color — one of the many ways that white people have controlled people of color. This means that no matter how hard I try to fit into the label of “boy” or “girl,” I will never be afforded the same status as a white person of that gender.
Although I identify as a trans, gender non-conforming boy, my identity is rooted in a racist and binary system that is not made for me. To truly feel liberated, I cannot be confined by the gender binary, which means I’m constantly pushing back against white gender norms. To support me in school, educators and my fellow students must fight all ways white supremacy shows up in our lives. Because only through dismantling white supremacy can we destroy systems like the gender binary.

“Ezra” Morales is a teenager in Austin, Texas, who is a member of the National Student Council of GLSEN, an extremist group that seeks to gain control of the public school system to indoctrinate children with LGBTQ propaganda. How influential is this radical organization within the Democrat Party? In 2009, President Obama appointed GLSEN’s founder Kevin Jennings as Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education.

If you want taxpayer money spent to teach your children how to become blue-haired “gender-nonconforming” weirdos who don’t know if they’re boys or girls — and who think the solution to their confusion is “dismantling white supremacy — you should vote for Democrats.

 

 

Category: Education, Gays

‘Preying on Vulnerable Teenagers’?

Posted on | May 2, 2018 | Comments Off on ‘Preying on Vulnerable Teenagers’?

“Remarkable” is the word Professor David Bernstein charitably uses to describe a blog post by a University of Southern California Law School professor who argues that left-wing student protesters are being victimized by advocates of free speech:

“When students are goaded into tactical mistakes, journalists should ask themselves whether mean-spirited provocations by seasoned political operatives preying on vulnerable teenagers and inexperienced young adults genuinely deserve news coverage. The United States faces serious economic challenges which get far less attention than this stage-managed political theater.”

This is not merely remarkable, it’s astonishing, and not in a good way. These “vulnerable teenagers” are engaged in political activity of a very public and controversial sort, i.e., attempting to suppress dissent against their own radical ideology. For this professor to argue that journalists should ignore the riotous behavior of far-left campus mobs — as if intolerant extremists taking over our universities are not inherently newsworthy — is a dangerous attempt to deprive the public of valuable knowledge.  These universities are supported by taxpayer subsidies, and parents are expected to fork over tuition money to send their “vulnerable teenagers” to these schools. As such, what happens on campus deserves news coverage so that the public at large can make informed decisions in terms of how our children are educated.

By the way, who is the USC professor making this argument? Professor Michael Simkovic has been called the “‘Everyone Should Go To Law School’ Poster Child” for attacking anyone who dares suggest that a law degree might not be worth the staggering student-loan debt that many acquire in pursuing such degrees. The simple fact, which Professor Simkovic stubbornly refuses to face, is that the Internet (particularly LegalZoom) has significantly lessened the demand for lawyers. Simple contracts, wills, incorporating an LLC, etc. — a lot of stuff that used to generate billable hours for attorneys can be done competently by anyone smart enough to log onto LegalZoom. A smart, aggressive, hard-working lawyer can still land a job and make a career for himself, but the prospects for a mediocre law-school graduate are not so promising that going heavily in debt to get that degree is a smart move.

Profesor Simkovic doesn’t want journalists to tell the truth about student riots — enraged mobs of “vulnerable teenagers” — for the same reason he doesn’t want journalist to tell the truth about what a law degree is worth. He doesn’t want parents to get a whiff of the rotten stench of decadence emerging from American higher education. As Scott Greenfield says, Professor Simkovic’s “crazy polemic is complete bullshit.”

And also, remarkable.

 

Category: Education

In The Mailbox: 05.02.18

Posted on | May 2, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.02.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #243
EBL: Another Woman Accuses Tom Brokaw Of Sexual Harassment
Twitchy: Candace Owens Denies Upcoming Chat With Alex Jones; Warns Against Disrespecting Infowars
Louder With Crowder: NJ Teachers Union Prez Will “Bend The Truth”, Cover Up Child Abuse


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #82 – The Whole Lotta Heart Episode
American Power: Fear Of The Left Is The Most Powerful Force In America
American Thinker: The Sanders Plan To Impoverish America
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Austin Cops And Detroit Crooks
BLACKFIVE: May 2 In Military History
Da Tech Guy: Did Michelle Wolf Sign The Brokaw Letter?
Don Surber: Experts Gave Us The Korean War
Dustbury: Actual Qualifications
The Geller Report: Iran Ordered To Pay $6 Million To 9/11 Victims, also, Obama Administration Misled U.S., Promoted Iranian Lies
Hogewash: What’s Up For May 2018, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: States Say Enough Is Enough, Sue To End DACA
JustOneMinute: Take The Fifth (And Pass Another Over Here)
Legal Insurrection: Illegal Immigrants Block Traffic In Grand Rapids, also, “We Are Entering Revolutionary Times”
Michelle Malkin: The “Uncle Tom” Card Is Dead
Power Line: Is Facebook Institutionalizing Leftism? also, Four More Years!
Shark Tank: Grayson Makes His Comeback
Shot In The Dark: Benderisma
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Stupid Still Most Plentiful Thing In Universe
The Political Hat: The Presumptions Of The Left
This Ain’t Hell: Salt Lake City VA Apologizes, also, PX Ends Sales Of Chicom Cell Phones
Victory Girls: I’m A Bad Mom Because I Let My Daughter Appropriate Another Culture
Weasel Zippers: Muslim Group Calls Trump “Uncivilized” After Call To End Christian Killing In Nigeria, also, The End of The “Boy Scouts”
Mark Steyn: Last Laughs, also, Live Around The Planet


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Yes, America, Erynn Brook Hates You

Posted on | May 2, 2018 | 2 Comments

 

Erynn Brook is a Canadian feminist who recently graduated from Ryerson University in Toronto. In February 2017, after the Women’s March, she published a rant about “nice white ladies”:

Hillary embodies the lie white women have been fed for years. She was well-dressed, she was smart, she was prepared, she worked hard, she was well-spoken, she was polite, she never lost her temper, she was a good mom, a good grandmother, a good wife — she was a good woman. A Nice White Lady. . . .
She did all the things right, so she had to become president. White women have been told over and over and over again that if they just work hard, lean in, and don’t look too mean, they can do anything.
And then… well… We know what happened.
But what happened to white women was a shattered identity. All the work they’d done, all the lies they’d been fed. It’s one thing to learn that you’ve been complicit in the oppression of others through your whiteness, it’s another thing to learn that you’ve been betrayed; that you’ve been actively oppressing yourself and your friends every day for a lie. . . .
Whiteness is not real, it is an idea that is killing us. Whiteness is what causes white supremacy and Nazi ideology. Whiteness is what makes us afraid to take the bus late at night. Whiteness is what puts people like Donald Trump in the White House. . . .
All this time they’ve been telling us the lie that was keeping us in place. . . . We never stood a chance against the imperialist, capitalist, ableist, hetero-normative, patriarchal, white-supremacist machine that sucked us in and brainwashed us . . .

Why does this recent Canadian university graduate — an erstwhile actress and alumna of Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts who sings in a bar band in which her husband is the guitarist — present herself as an expert on racial politics in the United States? Mainly because the Internet creates the illusion that anyone can be an expert on anything.

If every fact is just one Google search away, then the only qualifications necessary to expertise are (a) an ability to write prose, and (b) “progressive” opinions. This pseudo-expertise phenomenon explains, for example, why Jaclyn Friedman is qualified to offer advice on what “grownups” should tell young women about sex. Only if you want your daughter to grow up to be an embittered obese cat lady would you encourage her to emulate Ms. Friedman’s example, but no one is allowed to point this out, because criticizing her would be misogyny. By similar operations, the phenomenon of pseudo-expertise qualifies “male feminist” Charles Clymer to declare that he is now “Charlotte” Clymer, and to rebut critics by accusing them of transphobia. As long as you’re a progressive with an opinion, you can be an Internet expert on anything, and silence criticism by labeling it “hate speech.” But I digress . . .

Erynn Brook’s expertise on how whiteness — “an idea that is killing us” — elected Donald Trump led her to create the blog Nice White Ladies, but more recently the ambitious Canadian (B.F.A., New Media) has more recently begun offering her services as an expert on “toxic masculinity”:

Toxic masculinity is a lot of things, things that affect you on an individual level because they are prescribed to you by society. . . .
Toxic masculinity is all the things built around not wanting to lose and not wanting other people to win. . . .
A lot of toxic masculinity is built on gaining women. . . .
What can you do to change toxic masculinity? Because it’s hurting you too. . . .

See? She wants to help you. If you believe that, let me tell you about this sweet deal my friend the former Nigerian oil minister can get you.

Ms. Brook’s assertion that “society” is harming men through “toxic masculinity” is a con, a three-card-monte hustle by which the feminist hopes to convince men that “not wanting to lose” is a bad thing, and that men can actually benefit from losing. Men should be happy to lose, because men losing helps “equality” and that’s good, see?

The object of this con, of course, is about politics. In her simple mind, Ms. Brook believes that “toxic masculinity” explains why, according to exit polls, only 41% of men voted for Hillary Clinton. In the same way, Ms. Brook apparently believes that “the imperialist, capitalist, ableist, hetero-normative, patriarchal, white-supremacist machine . . . brainwashed” a majority of white women into voting for Trump. You see that Ms. Brook thinks of herself as an independent thinker, whereas the rest of us are dimwits who don’t understand our own best interests.

Americans are too stupid to think for ourselves, which is why we need a Canadian lounge singer to tell us what to think — about “whiteness,” about “toxic masculinity,” about politics, about everything, basically.

Monday, Ms. Brook spent 12 hours and 37 minutes (from 10:09 a.m. until 10:46 p.m.) doing a 110-point Twitter rant about “toxic masculinity.” Permit me to share just a few of her assertions on this topic:

 

Is any of this true, valid or relevant? It doesn’t matter. The point is that, prior to Donald Trump’s election, Ms. Brook had no more status as a feminist commentator than any other singer in a Toronto bar band. Her expertise is a quite recent invention, jumping aboard the feminist bandwagon now that she’s finished off her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Ryerson University, and also after Hillary lost. Having evidently concluded that no American is smart enough to figure out why Hillary lost, the clever Canadian with 1,736 Twitter followers decided to share her enlightenment with us feeble-minded Americans.

 

The population of Canada is about 35 million. By comparison, the two largest states (Texas and Florida) carried by Donald Trump in the 2016 election have a combined population of more than 49 million. Where would you rather live? Toronto or Texas? Ontario or Orlando? No American kid ever grew up with dreams of moving to Canada and making it big. Canada is a mediocre country populated by mediocre people.

Did I mention that Canada is 89% white? Any place in the United States that’s as white as Canada is considered “segregated.” It’s mighty damned easy for a Canadian to lecture us about “whiteness,” eh? And as for “toxic masculinity,” it was a Canadian man who ran over people on a crowded sidewalk because he couldn’t get laid, which is pretty sad. I mean, a guy who can’t even get laid by Canadian women? What a loser. Despite its general second-rate status, Canada is a world leader in prostitution. There are hundreds of “erotic massage” brothels in Montreal, for example, and Toronto and Vancouver are both notorious for street walkers. What, this autistic maniac couldn’t scrounge up $50?

Erynn Brook hates “whiteness” and masculinity because she hates Trump, and she hates Trump because Canadians hate America.



 

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