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Elite Consensus: How Transgenderism Became the New ‘Climate Change’

Posted on | December 22, 2017 | 1 Comment

One of the books that really changed my life is Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy. If you’ve read it, you understand why I call it the best single-volume analysis of liberalism ever written. If you haven’t read it, why not?

Sowell makes the point that liberals think of themselves as “anointed,” endowed with superior wisdom and virtue, and thus authorized to impose their policy preferences on the rest of us. Ordinary common-sense people are deemed the “benighted,” whom liberals dismiss as ignorant, prejudiced, and irrationally attached to obsolete beliefs.

Once you’ve read The Vision of the Anointed, you will cease to feel guilty about disagreeing with liberals. One of the problems in American politics is that, because liberals control the commanding heights of culture — in academia, journalism, the entertainment industry, etc. — conservatives often suffer a sort of inferiority complex, awed by the enormous institutional prestige exercised by liberals. What we often encounter in the discussion of public-policy issues is that there is an elite consensus in favor of the liberal position. To disagree with this consensus puts you in the ranks of those dismissed as dimwit rubes — the “basket of deplorables,” as Hillary Clinton notoriously described Donald Trump’s supporters. The effect of the elite consensus is to make us feel that there is something disreputable about disagreeing with liberals.

Consider the case of “climate change.” Having spent vast sums to orchestrate an effort to put all the prestige of Science with a capital “S” behind the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), the Anointed then set out to silence all criticism of this theory. One of the results was a lawsuit filed by Penn State professor Michael Mann against columnist Mark Steyn. Mann was principal author of the so-called “hockey stick” graph which purported to show that global temperatures had dramatically increased, and which was used to promote a Chicken Little sky-is-falling “emergency” attitude about carbon emissions.

 

Steyn wrote a column in National Review that debunked the “hockey stick” graph with such devastating effect that the intelligent reader had to conclude either (a) Mann was laughably incompetent as a scientist, or (b) Mann was engaged in a deliberate fraud. Mann responded with a lawsuit against Steyn which has been clogging up the federal courts for six years. Steyn has published a book ‘A Disgrace to the Profession’: The World’s Scientists — in Their Own Words — on Michael E Mann, His Hockey Stick and Their Damage to Science. What the book reveals is that, contrary to what some people would have us believe, the alleged “consensus” about global warming is subject to scientific criticism, and that even scientists who believe the AGW theory don’t believe that skeptics and dissenters should be silenced. The very fact that some AGW theory proponents do wish to silence dissent, however, should cause us to be skeptical of the climate-change “consensus.”

After all, the climate-change gang would have no fear of open debate with their critics, if the evidence in support of AGW theory was so clear. Yet because they have been able to recruit the elites in academia, journalism and politics to support them, Mann and his comrades seem to believe that their critics are guilty of immorality. If you disagree with Mann, he considers you not just wrong or mistaken, but evil.

Having “won” the climate-change argument (at least in their own minds), the Anointed have grown bored with it and have moved on to new ideological crusades, including the cause of transgenderism. Let the reader think back five years or so, to the time of the 2012 presidential campaign, and ask: Did anyone in either party signify that transgender rights were at stake in the re-election of President Obama? Of course not. If Obama ever mentioned the word “transgender” in 2012, I overlooked it, and I covered that campaign from start to finish. Nor did Mitt Romney (or any of his rivals for the GOP nomination) argue that Obama’s re-election would be interpreted as a mandate for the imposition of a transgender rights regime in American public life. Yet here we are, in 2017, and transgenderism is making headlines every day, with an especial push to promote this to school children, and the loudest opposition to this agenda is from radical feminists. What happened?

Well, in 2013, the Supreme Court issued its Windsor decision, striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, and in 2015, the court issued its Obergefell decision, mandating same-sex marriage in all 50 states. Having thus obtained “marriage equality” through judicial activism, the proponents of Sexual Anarchy needed a new crusade to rally their supporters (and raise money), and transgenderism was the ticket.

 

The emergence of the transgender issue caught many people by surprise, and no sooner had the issue become apparent than opponents of this agenda discovered that they were already facing an elite consensus. Little noticed, activists had been working for years to recruit support in academia and journalism for the transgender agenda, especially including “transition” for young children. The rhetoric of civil rights was deployed in favor of this agenda, so that if you disagreed or disapproved, you were a hateful bigot, analogous to Bull Connor siccing police dogs on unarmed protesters in Birmingham. Conservatives have long since become accustomed to such smear tactics from the Left — as Peter Brimelow remarked, the modern definition of racist is “someone who is winning an argument with a liberal” — but feminists have been shocked to find themselves accused of “hate” for opposing the transgender cult.

This week, Twitter imposed new rules targeting “hate” and, predictably, feminists critical of transgenderism are among the targets. One feminist, who describes herself as both a Ph.D. and a witch — ??? — pointed out that “gender identity” rhetoric is chiefly deployed by males who want to “identity” as women, and that actual women who oppose this are smeared as “bigots” and told to “shut up.” This, she says, is “Sexism 101.”

Excuse me, but no, ma’am. Sexism 101 would involve you making me a sandwich. That is to say, we traditionalists are not your enemies in the current controversy and your accusation of “sexism” is misguided. After all, a “sexist” believes that male-female differences are real, significant, and based in biology, not “socially constructed.” It is feminist theory which claims that such differences are an illusion, a product of the social construction of the gender binary within the heterosexual matrix, to summarize the argument of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. You can accuse transgender activists of hijacking and misinterpreting feminist theory, if you wish, but you can’t blame us old-fashioned sexists for this. We tried to warn you. Even if we never imagined the current transgender insanity — “Rocky Horror Elementary School” — conservatives warned that the feminist attack on the traditional family would have dangerous consequences, and there is a certain ironic logic in how this has worked out in the post-Obergefell era.

Pardon me for mansplaining all this, but conservatives have been doing battle against this sort of elite consensus for many decades now, and if radical feminists are serious about fighting the transgender agenda, they would be wise to take our advice into consideration. Merry Christmas.



 

 

Category: The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 12.21.17

Posted on | December 21, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.21.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Winter Solstice 2017
Twitchy: Democrats Who Blocked CHIP Reauthorization Hold Up Lumps Of Coal In Protest
Louder With Crowder: SLAY, QUEEN! Nikki Haley Spanks Spoiled UN For Dissing America
City Journal: “Suspension Reform” Is Tormenting Schools (h/t NeoWayland)


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Dore Gold, Tower Of Babble, also, Wildfires Aren’t The Only Threat To The “California Dream”
American Thinker: Marie Harf Defends Obama’s Aid To Hezbollah
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Well-Armed News
BattleSwarm: Tax Cut Passes, Millions Not Dead, also, BattleSwarm Blog – Now With Added HTTPS
Bring The HEAT: World Of Warships – In Clan Battles, Cooperation Is Key
CDR Salamander: So, You Want To Grow A Navy In A Strong Economy?
Da Tech Guy: GOP’s 2018 Agenda – Get More Stuff Done, also, The GOP Should Pass A Stand-Alone Mitt Romney Optional Corporate Tax
Don Surber: Is North Korea Collapsing?
Dustbury: The Machines Will Do Us In
The Geller Report: Muslim Plows Car Into Melbourne Pedestrians, 19 Injured – Police Deny It’s Terrorism, also, Muslim Migrant Stabs Minneapolis Woman 14 Times, Local Newspapers Silent
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Quote Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: DiBlasio Wants City-Owned Media Outlet That Would “Create More Balance” In Media, also, Sessions Wants Explanation From FBI On Clinton/Uranium One Evidence
Joe For America: “Worse Than Watergate” – Rand Paul Calls For Investigation Into Obama Officials’ Collusion Against Trump
JustOneMinute: Save On Taxes!
Legal Insurrection: Court Throws Out Emoluments Clause Lawsuit Against Trump, also, HuffPo Contributor Apologizes To Senator Scott For “Prop” Tweet
Power Line: Facebook Announces Suspicious New System For Combating “Fake News”, also, Next Biopic On Deck – Chappaquiddick
Shark Tank: Broward County Elections Officials Broke Federal Law
Shot In The Dark: When Liberals Ask “What’s The Matter With Kansas?”
STUMP: Federal Entitlements – Ghosts Of Promises Past And Benefits Yet To Be Paid
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Drug Use And Mental Issues Do Not Preclude Jihad
The Political Hat: Twelve Posts Of Christmas, Day Nine
This Ain’t Hell: William Jones Gets Jail Time For Stolen Valor, also, Guidance Issued For Recruiting Transgender Troops
Weasel Zippers: Rosie O’Donnell Could Be Facing Jail, $12 Million Fine For Bribery, also, Memphis City Council Contravenes State Law, Sells Parks To Remove Confederate Statues
Mark Steyn: We Are The Bollards, also, Steyn On Restoration And Revival


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Category: Linkagery

The Gorilla Is Correct

Posted on | December 21, 2017 | Comments Off on The Gorilla Is Correct

Oregon Muse’s “Morning Rant” at AoSHQ:

“It’s pretty funny when feminists stamp their feet and demand their safe spaces from guys whistling and catcalling them, because they’re not telling you what they really want. What they really want is not to be whistled at and catcalled by unattractive guys. In other words, they want a world where they can flirt and sexually banter with alpha male sports stars and multi-millionaires, but the lowly office geek who dares ask any of them out on a date will feel the full force of the law landing on them.”

If you want to understand human behavior, you must pay less attention to what people say and pay more attention to what they do.

A common complaint women make is that men are “superficial” in their judgment of women, placing a premium on beauty above all else. This is generally true, and I’ve tried to warn guys about the “pretty poison” problem, where they’ll put up with anything a woman does, as long as she’s good-looking. However, women are also quite generally superficial, but they don’t like to admit it. Women are seldom confronted about their own biases, because men have nothing to gain from such confrontations. A man can only damage his reputation — “What’s his problem?” — if he openly complains to women about their behavior, so most men wisely bite their tongues. The whole point of the feminist movement is to mobilize women’s complaints as a political ideology, and any man who objects to this is condemned as a “sexist,” but guys that stupid. We understand that feminism is basically a hustle, a scam, a fraudulent attempt to disguise petty grievances in “social justice” rhetoric.

Consider the case of Matt Lauer. His public image was as one of the “good guys,” a liberal in good standing, beloved by millions of adoring female viewers — and yet he was a serial harasser, a guy who had a “rape button” installed in his desk so he could lock his office door by remote control whenever he wanted to get jiggy with a female colleague. How many years did this go on, and why did no one at NBC complain? Because he was high status, that’s why. Whatever women might say about Lauer now that he’s been exposed, at the time all these shenanigans were going on, women at NBC were quite flattered to have Lauer make a move on them. A handsome multimillionaire TV star? You know the interns who fetched his coffee were bragging to their friends if Lauer ever flirted with them.

Women are very status-conscious and eager to be associated with whoever or whatever is considered “popular” among their peers. So when it was popular to flirt with Matt Lauer, he probably could have slept with any woman at 30 Rock who caught his eye. But then Hillary lost the election to Trump, and suddenly the wheel turned. It was now popular to destroy powerful men’s careers, and Lauer became one of the dozens sacrificed in the Sexual Harassment Apocalypse.

Look, I don’t have any particular sympathy for Matt Lauer, but you know he’s got to be mystified by how suddenly the wheel turned. It wasn’t as if he was Harvey Weinstein, a repulsive fat swine inviting actresses to his hotel room and molesting them. Lauer probably didn’t even have to try to get laid at NBC — the women were chasing him. But once the #MeToo hashtag went viral, and reporters started sniffing around for high-profile guys with a history of “inappropriate” sexual behavior, it was like a slow fuse burning toward an inevitable explosion, and Matt Lauer was a powder keg. All shades of gray within the spectrum of “inappropriate” behavior ceased to matter in the witch-hunt climate of hysteria, and Lauer was branded a loathsome predator, cast into outer darkness.

Pay attention to what people do and stop being misled by what they say. You can learn some valuable lessons, if you’ll pay attention.

 

Category: Sex Trouble

Let Trinity College F***ing Die?

Posted on | December 21, 2017 | Comments Off on Let Trinity College F***ing Die?

Trinity College is the second-oldest institution of higher education in Connecticut. (Yale University is the oldest.) Ranked in the top 50 private liberal arts colleges in the country, Trinity is an elite school, where the annual cost of attendance (tuition, fees, room and board) is $68,970. Founded by Episcopalians, Trinity’s motto is Pro Ecclesia Et Patria — “For Church and Country.” Despite its religious origins and conservative heritage, however, Trinity evidently has been taken over by left-wing atheist anti-America “social justice warriors” (SJWs). How else to explain why Trinity would employ Professor Johnny Eric Williams?

“It is past time for the racially oppressed to do what people who believe themselves to be ‘white’ will not do, put end to the vectors of their destructive mythology of whiteness and their white supremacy system. #LetThemFuckingDie,” Williams wrote in a June 18 Facebook post.
Two days earlier on the same page, he had shared an article titled “Let Them F***ing Die” in which the anonymous author suggests that “bigots,” such as the victims of the congressional baseball practice shooting, should be left for dead.
A few minutes after the first post, Williams elaborated that he is “fed the f**k up with self-identified ‘white’s’ daily violence directed at immigrants, Muslims, and sexual and racially oppressed people,” saying, “the time is now to confront these inhuman a**holes and end this now.”
As Campus Reform previously reported, Williams’ statements cost the college 16 students, “roughly $200,000” in donations, and led lawmakers to call for his firing. Trinity has decided not to fire Williams, however, arguing that his statements are protected by academic freedom. . . .
Williams later turned his attention to popular Fox News Channel host and former Trinity student Tucker Carlson, whom Williams mocked as an “idiot” and “moron.”
“That damn Tucker Carlson, man. Why did we give him a damn degree?” Williams asked. “He had the nerve to ask me to come on his damn show. I was like, ‘Are you out of your mind?’”

A Trinity alumnus, John Leisenring (Class of ’81) sent a letter to the college president, Joanne Berger-Sweeney, expressing his concern that “political tolerance and intellectual respect are no longer values that Trinity College accepts or instills in its professors.” However, Leisenring seems to understate the problem — Trinity has quite obviously abandoned any pretense to providing an education to its students. Rather, Trinity is now in the business of SJW indoctrination.

The question is why anyone would allow their children to attend such an institution, which has been captured by the radical Left and subverted to purposes contrary to the interests of its alumni. Trinity has become a place where the faculty teach students to hate their parents, and yet parents are supposed to pay the bills for this “education”?

#LetThemF***ingDie, indeed!

 

Category: Education

In The Mailbox: 12.20.17

Posted on | December 20, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.20.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #109
EBL: Meryl Streep – She Knew
Twitchy: AT&T Just Cracked Egg All Over Chuck Schumer & Dems’ Faces
Louder With Crowder: Rosie O’Donnell Offers Bribes To Senators In Desperate Effort To Stop Tax Reform
Reason: Trump And The NFL Agree – Taxpayers Should Keep Subsidizing Stadiums (h/t NeoWayland)


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #68 – The Women In Sports Episode
American Power: Trump’s Tax Cut Triumph
American Thinker: The Punk Rock President, also, What Might Civil War Be Like?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Charles Cooke Swats Flies With Howitzers
Bring The HEAT: “Bazooka” Given To SF Cop During Gun Buyback Event
CDR Salamander: The Navy’s Strategic Readiness Review
Da Tech Guy: Tax Cut Roundup, also, Hezbollah Drugs, Or, How Much Black Lives Actually Mattered To Obama
Don Surber: End The Participation Trophies
Dustbury: Not To Mention Boxing Day
The Geller Report: President Trump Threatens To Cut Off Aid To Countries Who Betray US At UN
Hogewash: Untrustworthy Verification, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: Scandalous Anonymous Video Exposes Huma And Hillary
Legal Insurrection: Male Sacrifice Al Franken’s Resignation Set For January 2, also, Protest Planned At FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s House On New Year’s Eve
Michelle Malkin: Time For A Trump Makeover Of Liberal NPR, PBS
Power Line: Tweet Of The Year, also, Germans Fear Tax Cut Will Spur US Investment And Growth
Shark Tank: Florida GOP Governor Race Continues To Shape Up
Shot In The Dark: Lie First, Lie Always – They Can’t Even Write Their Own Lies
STUMP: Puerto Rico – You Found How Much Just Lying Around?
The Jawa Report: Christmas Comes Early For David Wright
The Political Hat: Das Vierte Reich, also, Twelve Posts Of Christmas (Day Eight)
This Ain’t Hell: William Dunbar Pleads Guilty To Threatening VP, also, Marine Colonel O’Hora Canned
Weasel Zippers: Study Claims Right-Wing People Better Looking Than Leftists, also, Protests Rage In Sweden After Police Tell Women To Stay Inside To Avoid Gang Rapes
Megan McArdle: Tricks That Made A Terrible Tax Bill Look Palatable


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Category: Linkagery

Transphobic Violence Update

Posted on | December 20, 2017 | Comments Off on Transphobic Violence Update

Police say “Jessica” Winkler murdered “Rhiannon” Layendecker.

Earlier this week, I noted what seemed to be a case of “violence against women” that feminists would ignore: A lesbian in Florida who police say confessed to killing her wife. Turns out I was mistaken: “The two women are both transgender and neighbors say they kept to themselves.”

The reader who tipped me to this reports that court records show that the victim, formerly known as Richard William Layendecker, petitioned to change his name to “Rhiannon Winter Layendecker” in 2009, while the accused murderer, formerly known as Jason Christopher Wernet, changed his name to “Jessica Jaye Winkler” in 2010.

Neither one of them was actually a woman, in other words, and I apologize to the lesbian community for the inaccuracy of the previous report. As for the  transgender community, well, tough luck. But somewhere, I’m sure, a Gender Studies major is trying to find some way to blame this on cisnormative heteropatriarchy.

 

Category: The Transgender Cult, Violence Against Women

DNA Tests Identify 817 Serial Rapists in One County: Can You Guess Which One?

Posted on | December 20, 2017 | 2 Comments

Wayne County, Michigan — that’s metro Detroit:

Ten thousand rape kits tested. One hundred twenty-seven convictions won, 1,947 cases investigated, 817 serial rapists identified.
It’s been a long eight years for Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy.
In 2009, 11,341 untested sexual assault kits — the results of an hours-long process that collects evidence from the body of a rape victim — were found during a routine tour of a Detroit police storage warehouse, some dating back to 1984. . . .
A rapist rapes on average seven to 11 times before they’re caught. … Of our set of 817 … over 50 of them have 10 to 15 hits apiece.

That’s more than 500 rapes committed by a few dozen men — in one county — and if you read the whole thing, you’ll find that these Detroit criminals identified by DNA tests have been connected to crime scenes in 39 other states. Something tells me — call it a hunch, if you will — that the predators getting locked up as a result of these investigations probably aren’t the kind of “privileged” Trump-voting Republicans that feminists have in mind when they talk about “rape culture.”

UPDATE: One of Detroit’s serial rapists:

 

A man who faced nearly three dozen rape and home invasion charges across metro Detroit was sentenced [May 25] to 55-80 years.
Ikeie Smith, 33, was charged for crimes dating back to 2011 in at least five metro Detroit cities, including Allen Park, Dearborn, Garden City and Redford Township.
His trial ended early on May 1 when Smith decided to plead guilty to all the charges, leading to his sentencing Thursday. The prosecution and defense both had opportunities to suggest sentences to Judge Dalton Roberson, then the judge spent a lengthy amount of time reading through his sentences for each of the nearly three dozen charges.
After Roberson was finished and the sentences issued, Smith was taken away — but not before looking at the judge and saying, “f— you.”

Stay classy, serial rapist!

UPDATE II: Another recent Detroit-area case:

 

Floyd Galloway Jr. told a judge last month he attacked and tried to have sex with a woman in September 2016 while she was jogging at Hines Park in Livonia.
Galloway, 30, was sentenced Friday to 16 to 35 years for the attack and attempted rape. . . .
Galloway is considered a person of interest in the case of Danielle Stislicki, who has been missing for more than a year. He was a security guard at a Southfield building where Stislicki and her mother, Ann Stislicki, worked. That’s the last place the 28-year-old Farmington Hills woman was seen in December.

So, he attacked a woman in a park, and is suspected in the disappearance of a woman from a building where he worked as a security guard. Police believe Stislicki is dead, but her body has not been found.



 

 

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Category: Violence Against Women

The ‘Rage’ of @JillFilipovic: Feminism as an Anti-Male Hate Movement

Posted on | December 20, 2017 | 2 Comments

 

Jill Filipovic is a 34-year-old feminist who has never married and never had children, nor is it likely — given her advanced age and fanatical advocacy of abortion — that she ever will become a wife and mother. “The personal is political,” as feminists say, and Filipovic’s lifestyle is therefore relevant to her recent celebration of feminist rage:

Rage is a healthy reaction when a know-nothing woman-groping chump triumphs over an intelligent, hardworking, and much better-qualified woman. Rage is the only sane reaction when you start to put all the pieces together: That we wound up with Trump because we are a country in which the hatred of women is baked in; that this hatred, and the related objectification, is behind every ass-grab, every catcall, every attempt to regulate our uteruses and vaginas and ovaries, every rape joke, every online comment that we’re a bitch, every promotion denied because our actual work may be better but Steve shows so much promise.
American women have been the nice girls who waited our turn. . . . We assumed if we just worked hard enough and proved ourselves — if we were polite while we did it, if we smiled and remained helpful and magnanimous — we might find not only individual success, but success for this whole women’s-rights thing. Maybe we would get to the point where our daughters wouldn’t face the same problems. . . .

(Permit me to interrupt to note how Filipovic abuses first-person plural pronouns. She includes herself in a “we” of smiling, polite “nice girls” — a dubious assertion, to anyone familiar with her radical ideology — and she invokes “our daughters” when in fact she is childless.)

Maybe, if we went through the proper channels and made sound and logical arguments, we could stop debating whether birth control was health care and whether new parents should have the paid time to bond with a tiny baby; maybe we’d reach a moment when, finally, our bodies would finally be ours: our uteruses would be free of government intervention and our breasts and buttocks free of unsolicited grabs.
A lot of women, even those who didn’t previously and perhaps still don’t label themselves “feminists,” seem done with nice. And the explosions that come when nice girls let out years (or decades) of pent-up indignation are messy and chaotic. . . . A significant number of women are no longer worried about being nice or alienating men. . . .
Finally, a critical mass of women doesn’t seem to care what men think, and isn’t afraid of threatening their stranglehold on power. . . .

 

You can read the rest of that, but I think you see the point: Jill Filipovic hates men, and is encouraged by the anti-male “rage” she celebrates as “a healthy reaction” because she interprets this as evidence that her own man-hating ideology has now become mainstream. Whether this is true or not, Filipovic seems indifferent to the potential consequences of widespread emulation of her own rage. Filipovic has never “worried about being nice or alienating men,” nor does she “care what men think,” because she is a professional feminist who has devoted her life to the hatred of men. No husband, no babies, no concern for anything but her own career — yes, a woman can live that way, especially if her parents can afford to send her to elite schools like Filipovic’s alma mater, New York University ($68,128 a year for tuition, room and board). However, the vast majority of women can’t afford to attend NYU and, unlike Jill Filipovic, most women would like to have husbands and babies, desires which obligate them to “care what men think.”

Most women don’t have the luxury of devoting their lives to man-hating “rage,” just as most men don’t have a “stranglehold on power.” The average guy, working his crappy job to pay the bills, is insulted by feminist accusations that he unjustly benefits from “male privilege” because he possesses a “stranglehold on power.” The average guy is not Harvey Weinstein or Al Franken or John Conyers, nor is the average guy’s situation comparable to any of the other wealthy and influential men whose reputations and careers have been destroyed in the Sexual Harassment Apocalypse. The average guy is not a politician, a TV star or a movie mogul. The average guy resents being blamed for the wrongdoing of these rich men he never admired anyway. Perhaps the guys Jill Filipovic knew from NYU once admired Harvey Weinstein, but the average guy? No, he’s not surprised to learn that Hollywood is run by a bunch of creepy freaks, nor is the average guy shocked by stories exposing members of Congress as perverted psychopaths.

This is not to say that the average guy is innocent of “sexism,” but whatever his sins, they can’t be explained by feminist rhetoric about an alleged male “stranglehold on power,” since the average guy as an individual has little or no part in this collective “stranglehold.” Feminists like Jill Filipovic, who view themselves as guerrillas in an anti-male insurgency, have no interest in (or compassion for) the average guy working his crappy job to pay the bills. Feminists derive sadistic pleasure from imagining the hardships their hateful “rage” might inflict on the average guy. Jill Filipovic hates men, and delights in their misfortunes.

“President Trump ran a campaign of aggrieved masculinity, appealing to men who felt their rightful place in society has been taken from them. . . . Trump supporters didn’t just oppose Mrs. Clinton, they hated her with unchecked phallic rage.”
— Jill Filipovic, March 27, 2017

Feminism is an anti-male hate movement, and if Jill Filipovic is correct in celebrating 2017 as the year that feminist “rage” became mainstream, what consequences can we expect as a result? We can expect that more women will turn out like Jill Filipovic — unmarried and childless and permanently embittered toward men who, predictably, will continue to prefer the companionship of smiling, polite nice girls.



 

 

Category: Sex Trouble
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