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Transgender Dominatrix Speaks at Vancouver Women’s March

Posted on | January 23, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

As if Third Wave feminism hadn’t already jumped the shark, last weekend’s Women’s March in Vancouver was the ne plus ultra of postmodern gender theory gone mad:

Speaker Hailey Heartless recounted how she did not feel comfortable attending the march last year as a trans woman and a sex worker, as well as the hate she received for being announced as a speaker this year.
“Stigma is weaponized to keep us out of feminist spaces,” said Heartless. “[Sex workers] are not victims … Sex work is real work — we face stigma when outsiders call us prostitutes … and we face stigma from laws that take away our agency.”
But she is hopeful that this will not be the case for next year’s march.
According to their Facebook event, March On Vancouver “uses an inclusive definition of ‘woman’ that includes trans women, gender queer women, two-spirited and non-binary people.”

“Hailey Heartless” is a tall, stocky transgender dominatrix who charges $250 an hour for sessions in his/“her” BDSM torture “dungeon.”

 

We must keep in mind that (a) the Women’s March originated as a protest against President Trump’s inauguration, (b) Vancouver is in Canada, and therefore (c) WTF are they protesting about? Nobody expects logic from Canadians, of course, and if their “inclusive definition” can include “Hailey Heartless” as a feminist, protesting an American election in Vancouver is small change in their oxymoronic calculations.

Meghan Murphy, a Canadian feminist who is actually a woman, was enraged by the idea that “Hailey Heartless” speaks for women:

A little over a week before the Women’s March was to take place in Vancouver, BC, March On (the organization that put on the event this year) announced one of the speakers would be “Hailey Heartless” (legal name Lisa Kreut), a male dominatrix. Women everywhere expressed shock and anger at this choice — this was, after all, a march for women, initially stemmed by Donald Trump’s presidency, intended to build solidarity among women, support our reproductive and human rights, and challenge misogyny and male violence against women. Why on earth, then, would it be appropriate to have a male promote prostitution and sexualized violence at the event?
March On Vancouver promptly blocked all of those questioning this decision on Twitter, making very clear that not only was this not up for debate or discussion, but that women troubled by their choice of speakers were not welcome at the march.

The BDSM transgender dominatrix’s speech was . . . uh, interesting:

When you welcome us into your spaces, and allow us to be open and honest, you’ll find that we have so much knowledge to bring you, and not just about how to have amazing sex.
We can teach you life skills, like how to take amazing selfies, how to use bitcoin, how to build a following on social media.
We can teach you lessons about yourself, like how to practice excellent hygiene, how to do amazing contouring for low light venues, or how to practice radical self care.

Do Canadian women need hygiene lessons from “Hailey Heartless”?

 

WTF, Canada? You have a feminist protest against our President, and your idea of an “empowering” speaker for this occasion is a transgender weirdo who offers $250-an-hour sado-masochism dungeon service?



 

Category: Canada, Sex Trouble

Guys: Don’t Date Abby Nierman

Posted on | January 23, 2018 | Comments Off on Guys: Don’t Date Abby Nierman

 

When I wrote a long article about “Grace,” the 22-year-old who accused comedian Aziz Ansari of sexual assault, I guessed from textual clues that she was a student at New York University, an elite private school where the annual cost of attendance is $68,128. A rich girl, right?

Wrong. In fact, my guesswork was unnecessary, as “Grace” had already been identified as Abby Nierman, who attended a community college in northern Illinois before enrolling at the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2016. Also, I had guessed that “Grace” was very good-looking, because she attended the 2017 Emmy awards as someone’s date:

If you’ve got tickets to the Emmys, do you invite an ugly girl as your date? No, of course not. We can assume Grace is quite a looker, and one with lots of Daddy’s money.

Talk about getting it wrong! It’s embarrassing to admit how badly wrong I was, but let this be a lesson: Speculation is not journalism.

So instead of being a spoiled-rotten Daddy’s girl attending a $68,128-a-year elite school, she’s the ambitious small-town striver who worked her way through a trade school with a variety of jobs. And while I don’t wish to derogate her looks, she’s not magazine-cover beautiful.

 

Abby Nierman attended the Emmys as the date of Ibanda Ruhumbika, who plays tuba in the band on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” And that’s why guys should be warned: Don’t date Abby Nierman. She went to the show with Ruhumbika, but during the after-party, she was making eyes at Aziz Ansari across the room. She eventually gave Ansari her phone number, which is how she ended up going on a date with him a few weeks later. Mick Jagger wrote a song about girls like her:

 

All classic rock-and-roll songs are now “rape culture,” of course, but what are we to surmise from Abby Nierman’s behavior? Aziz Ansari probably figured, “Well, if she dates tuba players . . .”

Readers may have noticed that Ms. Nierman’s feminism is, as the Gender Studies majors would say, intersectional. Free-speech advocates might defend the use of some other adjectives (and perhaps a few derisive nouns) to describe Ms. Nierman, but really, why give the SPLC any further pretext to accuse us of Thoughtcrime? Let’s just say she’s a “composite” girlfriend and leave it at that. However, others haven’t been so reticent or tactful in criticizing Ms. Nierman’s intersectional feminism: “How a White Woman Destroyed a Brown Actor’s Name.”

You forgot to include the word “trash,” sir. I’ll notify the SPLC.

 

Category: Celebrities, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 01.22.18

Posted on | January 23, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.22.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Is Abby Nierman The “Grace” Who Accused Aziz Ansari?
Twitchy: Dan Bongino Slams Those Who Defend “Dreamers” Over Americans
Louder With Crowder: Hijab Hair Model Steps Down From L’Oreal Over Antisemitism
Reason’s Hit & Run: 14-Year-Old Girl Sends Racy Selfie, Gets Charged With Distributing Child Porn (h/t NeoWayland)


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Cathy Newman Demonstrates Exactly Why There Are So Few Female CEOs
American Power: Howard Kurtz, Media Madness
American Thinker: Wasting Away In Chuckschumerland
Animal Magnetism: Road Trip Totty
BattleSwarm: Sh0eOnHead Makes Drinking Game Of Feminist Videos, Dies
BLACKFIVE: Lauren Willig, The English Wife
Bring The HEAT: Cooking With A Coastie – Let’s Make Bagels!
CDR Salamander: Surface Readiness – History, Causes, And Cures On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: News Flash – California Shakes Often, also, Trump Year One – Yes, He’s A Conservative
Don Surber: Mexico Is Paying For The Wall, also, Who’s Complicit Now, Democrats?
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Application For Cheap Bastards Of America
The Geller Report: Muslim Teens Roam Swedish Streets With Rifles, also, 70% Of Belgians Say They’re Living Through The Muslim Conquest of Their Country
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day (Monday), also, (Sunday)
Joe For America: Illinois U. Professor Tells Students “Algebra & Geometry Perpetuate White Privilege”
JustOneMinute: Let The Blaming And The Shaming Begin!
Legal Insurrection: Time For Chuck Schumer To Step Aside, Let Women Run Senate Dems? also, Senate Democrats Cave, Government Reopens Today
Power Line: Clueless At CNN, also, Ohio’s Trump Democrats Are Delighted
Shark Tank: Shutdown Presses Curbelo To Donate Salary To “Dreamers”
Shot In The Dark: Never Gonna Fall For Modern Love
STUMP: Memory Monday – Third Week Of January 1918
The Jawa Report: Meanwhile In Kabul, also, Sandcrawler PSA – The Government Is Shut Down, And The Only Man Who Can Save Us Is Ted Stryker!
The Political Hat: Chicago And The Blue Helmets
This Ain’t Hell: Tammy Duckworth Feigns Concern For The Troops, also, Tnuza Hassan Terrorizes St. Catherine’s
Weasel Zippers: Sports Illustrated Celebrates Diversity With New WhaleSwimsuit Model, also, Former Military Lawyers Say Bradley Manning Could Be Prosecuted For Senate Run
Megan McArdle: Maybe Democrats Learned Their Lesson About Shutdowns
Mark Steyn: The Dawning Of The Age of Incompletion, also, Oh Happy Day


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‘A Reprobate Mind’

Posted on | January 22, 2018 | Comments Off on ‘A Reprobate Mind’

Emperor Nero (left); Aziz Ansari (right).

The Greek word adokimon can be translated as “depraved,” “unacceptable” or “foolish.” It is used exactly once in New Testament, in the first chapter of the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Romans, where the King James Version translates it as “reprobate”:

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient . . .”

In other words, those who reject God thereby bring upon themselves a curse of mental depravity which causes them to behave in ways harmful to themselves and others. The King James wording “things which are not convenient” is a translation of a Greek phrase that includes the word kathikonta. This word mean “duties,” and is significant in the Stoic tradition of philosophy:

From this view, man should live in accordance with one’s nature. Kathikonta are the appropriate or fitting actions and duties of our lives, in accordance with our nature, such as being kind to one’s parents, etc. When appropriate action is combined with genuine virtue and logic, such actions are viewed as perfect actions . . . the action of a wise man.

Paul’s use of kathikonta in his letter to the Romans suggests not only his own familiarity with Hellenistic philosophy, but also shows how he appealed to the sensibility of his readership, by employing terms they would understand. Thus, he told the Romans, those who reject God are cursed with a “reprobate” (adokimon) mind, and behave in “inconvenient” ways, i.e., contrary to moral duties (kathikonta).

Who was the Apostle describing here? Paul was not only a missionary evangelist and teacher, but also a prophet, and students of Roman history may find in this famous passage of his letter to the Romans a remarkably accurate description of the Emperor Nero. At the time Paul wrote this letter in about 55 A.D., he was in the Greek city of Corinth and had never been to Rome, so it would have been impossible for him to know anything about the character of Nero, who had become emperor a year earlier, at age 16. Yet when Paul writes of people so wicked that “God gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts” (Romans 1:24) and “God gave them up unto vile affections” (Romans 1:26), this is a near-perfect description of the immoral decadence of Nero’s reign. This famous passage of the Bible came to mind when I was pondering a more recent example of immoral decadence:

“I hate men. . . . He wanted sex.”
Those two brief sentences were texted by a 22-year-old girl during an Uber ride home from a date with 34-year-old TV star Aziz Ansari. Her account of their September 2017 date as “the worst night of my life” went viral last week, generating an enormous amount of commentary. Using the pseudonym “Grace,” she told her story to a website, Babe.net (motto: “for girls who don’t give a f–k”) where it was presented as part of the #MeToo feminist narrative about sexual assault and “rape culture.” Immediately, Grace’s story came under fire because her own behavior was so irresponsible. . . .
The breathless “worst night of my life” emotionalism of the story obscures the objective reality, which is that Ansari’s behavior, while crude and selfish, was neither violent nor criminal. He never forced her to do anything, and the real question is, what did Grace expect when she went to back to his apartment? It is clear from her story that Ansari presumed she wanted to have sex with him, but just as clear that she was offended by his presumption. . . .

Please read the whole thing. It’s more than 4,000 words long, and I spent an entire day writing it, so if you find it in any way useful or entertaining, I hope you’ll throw a few bucks in the tip jar.



 

Category: History, Religion, Sex Trouble

Rule 5 Sunday: Patriots Cheerleaders

Posted on | January 21, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Apparently the Eagles took out the Vikings today as well, which means it’s going to be the Pats & Iggles in the Super Bowl. Woo. In more important sports news, it’s 23 days until pitchers & catchers report to spring training! In the meantime, though, let’s enjoy some Patriots cheerleaders.

The Pats’ cheerleaders from December 2016. Quite festive!

Ninety Miles From Tyranny opens the dance with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #139, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns; Animal Magnetism follows with Rule Five Dynasties Ending Friday and a Saturday Brunettenarok!

EBL brings us the late Dolores O’Riordan, Gene Tierney, Mila Kunis, Freaky Fashion, Riley Keough, Maple Syrup Women, and National Cheese Lovers Day.

A View From The Beach has Rule 5 Saturday – Marzaan Kalis, Snowmobiling Into Frosty Friday, Emergency Morning Post, Morning Music – “Solid Potato Salad”, But To Be Fair, Writing Is Hard, Dolores O’Riordan, Cranberry Singer Dies At 46, #HerToo: Eliza Dushku’s Hollywood Horror Story, SJWs Rag On Emrat Over Hair Care Comment and Hawkish Fire Starters?

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Darby Stanchfield, his Vintage Babe is Joan Vohs, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Victoria’s Secret. At Dustbury, it’s Florrie and Karishma Kotak.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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A Jihad in Minnesota

Posted on | January 21, 2018 | Comments Off on A Jihad in Minnesota

Tnuza Jamal Hassan is charged with first-degree arson.

An Islamic terrorist has attacked a university in St. Paul:

A former St. Catherine University student charged with setting fires on the college’s St. Paul campus told police she did it because she’d “been reading about the U.S. military destroying schools in Iraq or Afghanistan and she felt that she should do exactly the same thing,” according to a criminal complaint filed Friday.
“You guys are lucky that l don’t know how to build a bomb because l would have done that,” Tnuza Jamal Hassan, 19, of Minneapolis allegedly told investigators after being arrested Wednesday afternoon in a campus dorm lounge.
Hassan was charged in Ramsey County District Court with a single count of first-degree arson. No injuries or major damage were reported in the fires, all of which occurred in the middle of the day Wednesday.
Ramsey County prosecutor Margaret Galvin said in court Friday that Hassan had “substantial ties” to the local community and added that authorities were investigating whether she had any international ties as well.
A spokesman for the FBI’s Minneapolis office said he could not comment on whether federal authorities also were investigating the incident. A call to the United States District Attorney’s Minnesota Office to inquire about whether Hassan might face federal charges was not returned. . . .
Hassan, appearing in court in a black and white hijab, gave only brief, one-word answers to questions from the judge.
According to the complaint, she told investigators she set six fires on the private Catholic university’s campus, though university and fire officials said there were eight.
The most serious fire started in Saint Mary Hall, a residential dormitory that also houses a day care. Police said there were 33 children and eight adults in the building when a chair was set ablaze — triggering the building’s sprinkler system, which prevented it from spreading. . . .
Hassan told investigators she was a student at St. Catherine but dropped out last fall because she and her family were planning a vacation to Ethiopia.
She told them, according to the complaint, that “her fire-starting was not as successful as she had wanted,” and “she wanted the school to burn to the ground and that her intent was to hurt people.
“Hassan said this was the same thing that happened in ‘Muslim land’ and nobody cares if they get hurt, so why not do this?” the complaint added.
Hassan told investigators she wrote a letter to her roommates about “bringing back the Caliphate,” an Islamic state. The letter scared Hassan’s roommates, who turned it over to campus security, the complaint stated.

This is radical Islamic terrorism. We ought to ask why St. Catherine University, an allegedly Catholic school, has failed at its institutional mission. Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch asks other questions:

Where did Tnuza Hassan learn Islam? Where does she attend mosque? What does that mosque teach about violence against unbelievers? Is that mosque being investigated? Why not? Is it being assumed that Tnuza J. Hassan was “radicalized on the Internet”? If so, why was the supposedly twisted, hijacked, violent version of Islam she supposedly learned on the Internet so easily able to overcome the supposedly peaceful, benign, tolerant version that everyone assumes that she learned at home and at her local mosque?

(Via Memeorandum, with more at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Powerline and Gateway Pundit.)



 

Category: Education, Islam, Minnesota, Terrorism

FMJRA 2.0: Walk Away

Posted on | January 21, 2018 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

No, not the James Gang song, though that’s pretty awesome too.

Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: Stacey Dash
Animal Magnetism
EBL
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
Ninety Miles From Tyranny

Anarchy in the @UKLabour: Party Will Put Trannies on ‘All Women Shortlist’
The Political Hat

FMJRA 2.0: Let The Good Times Roll
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL
A View From The Beach

Feminists Hate All Men, So Why Expect Them to Love ‘Male Feminists’?
Welcome To My Playpen

Illegal Alien Causes Mayhem by Threatening to Shoot Bus Passengers
A View From The Beach

Violence Against Women: Video Shows Confession in MS-13 Gang Murder
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 01.15.18
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 01.16.18
EBL
Proof Positive

The Tyranny of Bright Normal
Rotten Chestnuts
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.17.18
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 01.18.18
EBL
Proof Positive

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.19.18
EBL
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

Top linkers this week:

  1. EBL (9)
  2. Proof Positive (6)
  3. A View From The Beach (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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Replying To ESR’s Response

Posted on | January 20, 2018 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

First, thank you for a thoughtful and challenging reply to my objections. In re-reading your post, my reaction and “Three kinds of teleology“, it seems that I may have misinterpreted your “Sorry, Ansari” post somewhat. Specifically, on the point of whether you were
a) attempting to characterize the societal state, “as-is” or
b) attempting to offer a personal opinion on a “should-be” societal state.
I assumed b), and set about what may have been straw-manning you for what I thought were violations of a libertarian viewpoint. I am sorry, and thankful that you either didn’t notice or didn’t engage on that.

You responded to my point 1, Does “Grace” have free will, or is it the case that “she doesn’t have a realistic option”? by claiming that this is a false dichotomy. I think your school of fish analogy has some impact here, but I remain skeptical. While you offer a purely natural, aquatic example, it seems that your point may be more or less the same thing as GroupThink.  That is, you seem to say that if “everyone else is doing it”, then my liberty to dissent is diminished. Unless I missed something. I, of course, never fall prey to GroupThink. More than a couple hundred times a day.

On point 2, I then asked if the individual the unit of analysis, or is “Grace” a component of “women who do that”? and you (quite rightly) pointed out that “Grace” remains an individual (affirming my point) but that “she wants the reader to do this [judging whether she is bound by women who do that]”–I guess I was too busy being unpersuaded by the immaturity of the behavior in question on both sides to pick up the shift in emphasis.

Things got interesting at point 3:

“The lightning” would be sex having deep emotional/romantic consequences for both parties. This does happen of course, and you are greatly to be pitied if you have never experienced it yourself.
Your concept of “soul” isn’t even wrong, it’s meaningless – and will remain so until you give it meaning by providing an observable consequence of having a soul.
Your next paragraph suggests that you want “having a soul” to imply having a long ethical time horizon – not doing things for short-term gratification that are self- and other-destructive in the longer term. This is an important quality, of course, but there is no need to use a word as freighted with mystical spookery as “soul” to label it. I think you just confuse yourself when you do that.

If I’m understanding this correctly, I’m to be pro “romantic consequences”, and “pitied if [I] have never experienced it” (happily married father of two, thanks), but there is no need to “use a word as freighted with mystical spookery as “soul””.

A possible strawman argument would be: I may as well offload all that oogedy-boogedy “soul stuff” and go Full Charlie Sheen. Just maximize my hormonal utilization of whatever objects cause “lightning strikes”, irrespective of gender, age, species, status as “living” (how about them sex bots?). It’s all about the hormones, no? No larger “mystical” context to fret, unless I’m one of “them religious weirdos”.

Which brings us to your “Three kinds of teleology” link. As an intellectual matter, I am simply not bothered with there being any global telological point to reality. Within the scope of the body/mind dimensions of the “Grace”/Ansari exchange (or our communication on the behavior) the chief interest is the individual. Is the personal telelogical aim served by the behavior? From the praxeological perspective, the commentariat has had its pound of flesh, no?

It’s tempting for one to think that one has grokked the teleolgical point of life. Perhaps you did, in your Three Kinds essay. I don’t “know” in any final sense that I can explain in the body/mind plane of the three dimensional existential model I offered. You might object that I’m being coy, but I’m just not wasting time offering you goods in which you seem disinterested.

If anything, I’m unsure a mortal answer is possible. That is: were a closed-form, unambiguous, mathematical-style existential “proof” attainable by human striving.  Such an answer would need to be so objectively clear as to halt the vast spectrum of hand-wringing that has been going on these thousands of years across continents and peoples and languages. Don’t you think it should have already occurred?

Instead, we have the continuous parallel scientific and philosophical efforts to reverse-engineer reality. And we’ll continue. And it’s a Good Thing. But I lack what I perceive as your implicit faith that these strivings will do more than come up with more awesome models of reality, at micro- and macro levels. Because, for all the greatness of the human mind, it’s still a finite instrument. But I could be wrong.

Given that gloomy (within the body/mind bounds) view of reality, maybe “Grace” has the right of it. Satisfy the flesh. “Grace”, though, could invest in her soul, if she ever wishes to have an useful answers to those “why?” questions of life. “Because all the other bimbos you’re emulating are akin to a school of fish. Nice gills, Grace” seems as inadequate an answer as it is a wretched caricature of your example.

At any rate, thanks for the stimulating discussion.

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