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Violence Against Women Update

Posted on | October 26, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

Feminists have not commented on this trial:

Surveillance video footage shown in court Wednesday shows the man charged in the fatal shooting of Kate Steinle at San Francisco’s Pier 14 throw something in the water and then leave the scene immediately after she is struck, according to prosecutors.
CBS San Francisco reports jurors in the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, 45, who faces charges including second-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon in the July 1, 2015 shooting, were shown surveillance footage of the shooting taken from a fire station located about a quarter of a mile away. . . .
Steinle, a 32-year-old Pleasanton native who lived in San Francisco’s South Beach neighborhood, was walking on the pier with her father and another family member following a meal at the Ferry Building at the time of the shooting, according to previous testimony. . . .
Garcia Zarate’s trial has drawn national attention because of its ties to controversy over Sanctuary City policies used by San Francisco and other cities that limit the cooperation of local law enforcement with federal immigration authorities.
San Francisco officials had released Garcia Zarate, a Mexican citizen with a history of deportations, from jail months before the shooting after a minor drug charge was dismissed without notifying federal immigration authorities, as is the city’s practice for most cases.

For some reason, this story doesn’t fit the feminist narrative.

 

Category: Crime, Immigration, Sex Trouble

The Case of @radicalbytes and the Suspiciously ‘Progressive’ Male

Posted on | October 26, 2017 | Comments Off on The Case of @radicalbytes and the Suspiciously ‘Progressive’ Male

 

 

 

In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, “male feminists” everywhere are understandably nervous, wondering if one of their ex-girlfriends or female acquaintances might be the next to jump on the #MeToo hashtag and accuse them of harassment or sexual assault.

Let me call your attention to Jonathan McIntosh (@radicalbytes on Twitter) who was once a partner in Anita Sarkeesian’s Feminist Frequency project until . . . Well, nobody knows why Sarkeesian kicked McIntosh to the curb, but he exited Feminist Frequency at some point after the #GamerGate controversy erupted. McIntosh then launched his own project, the Pop Culture Detective Agency.

 

Here is one of McIntosh’s videos, in which he criticizes “misogyny” in the popular sitcom The Big Bang Theory:

 

“Leonard, Sheldon, Howard and Raj all lack most of the traits traditionally associated with leading men in Hollywood. They’re not conventionally handsome, they’re not confident, and they’re definitely not athletic. What they are, are dorky insecure fanboys who are plagued with a wide variety of anxieties, illnesses and awkward personality quirks. . . . ‘Adorkable Misogynists’ are male characters whose geeky version of masculinity is framed as both comically pathetic and endearing. . . . And it’s their status as nerdy nice guys that then lets them off the hook for a wide range of creepy, entitled and downright sexist behaviors.”

Well, maybe so. But the whole thing about a situation comedy is that it is based on a particular situation from which comedy emerges. For example, The Beverly Hillbillies — backwoods simpletons find themselves suddenly rich, and relocate to a mansion among the Hollywood elite. Ellie Mae has her critters, Granny is making lye soap in the backyard, Jethro with his eighth-grade education is pursuing some improbable career — these are the situations within which the show finds its comedy, see? The situation in The Big Bang Theory is about four scientific geniuses who, while spectacularly competent in their career fields, are hopelessly inept in terms of their social skills, particularly in regard to the opposite sex. Are their behaviors “creepy, entitled and downright sexist”? Well, how else do we expect uber-nerds to behave? Insofar as the entire premise of the show (its title being a double-entendre on the word “bang”) is about geeks trying to get laid, isn’t the basic subject matter more or less inherently “creepy”?

Jonathan McIntosh turns this into a 20-minute Gender Studies lecture, using the methodology by which Anita Sarkeesian did the same thing to videogames, and his video sermonette about “misogyny” has gotten 1.7 million views on YouTube. As an exercise in Third Wave theory, it’s quite a success, but what’s the payoff of this critique?

“The Hollywood nerd is almost always positioned in opposition to the expected norms of macho manhood. This is usually accomplished through juxtaposition with the jock archetype. When contrasted with hyper-masculine guys who perform a crude, aggressive form of manhood, our geeky hero gets to be framed as the better, smarter, more sensitive alternative. He’s the misunderstood nice guy. . . . He was unfairly bullied and mocked by his peers. . . . He’s presented as the clear underdog in the manhood competition.”

Right — the underdog who overcomes his disadvantages to win is the theme of so many movies that we could scarcely begin naming them all. This particular “trope,” the Nerd who outsmarts the Jocks, is just one variation of a classic theme. Rocky Balboa, the hard-luck working-class guy who achieves immortal glory as a boxer, is another variation. Richard Gere’s character in An Officer and a Gentleman is another. But whereas Rocky is about athletic achievement, and An Officer and a Gentleman is about military achievement, what Jonathan McIntosh targets in the Hollywood nerd “trope” is the underdog’s quest for sexual achievement. As he points out, some of the behavior played for comic effect in The Big Bang Theory (and in other movies and TV shows about nerds) is arguably harassment, stalking or even sexual assault.

“Just because the performance of a geeky version of masculinity is markedly different from traditional Hollywood archetypes, that doesn’t necessarily mean that geeky guys are any less invested in sexism. The bottom line here is, there’s nothing cute or harmless about misogyny.”

Yeah, but the whole point of The Big Bang Theory — the situation that provides the comedy — is about nerds trying to get laid. McIntosh’s rhetoric about “sexism” and “misogyny” is about nerd-shaming, i.e., humiliating geeky guys for even wanting to have sex. McIntosh seems upset that the writers of The Big Bang Theory have succeeded in making audience sympathize with these geeks. Which is kind of weird, given that McIntosh is quite geeky himself — pudgy, pale, ill-shaven, and the kind of nerd who uses words like “norm” and “archetype.” Also, McIntosh appears to suffer from a severe humor deficiency. Everything is always political and serious to McIntosh, who is evidently obsessed with the idea that “social progress” is endangered by “reactionaries.”

 

 

 

 

 

Does this mean you’re a Nazi if you laugh at The Big Bang Theory? Trying to connect the dots, to comprehend Jonathan McIntosh’s “progressive” worldview as a systematic vision, leads to some bizarre implications. If the “hyper-masculine” jock is unacceptable as a model of hexterosexual male behavior, and the nerdy “misunderstood nice guy” is also unacceptable, is there any form of male heterosexuality that McIntosh approves? Good luck finding an answer to that.

 

 

 

 

 

Jonathan McIntosh seems to conflate heterosexuality with violence and “male dominance,” as if there is nothing that separates “straight men” in general from the Las Vegas shooter. The “patriarchy” is to blame!

Whenever we see this kind of rhetoric, which blames “society” for the criminal actions of an individual, we are witnessing a propaganda tactic I call the atrocity narrative. It’s the way the shooting of a robbery suspect in Ferguson, Missouri, was leveraged to create a false narrative of police “racism” so widespread as to be ubiquitous. Deliberately fomenting hatred of police for political purposes, the Black Lives Matter movement was false from its inception (the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” myth) and false in its larger claims as well:

Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, the police have much more to fear from black males than black males have to fear from the police. In 2015, a police officer was 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male was to be killed by a police officer.
Black males have made up 42 percent of all cop-killers over the last decade, though they are only 6 percent of the population.

You’re not going to see those numbers reported on CNN, however. The amount of black-on-black crime so vastly exceeds incidents of police violence against black suspects that the latter problem can only be portrayed as a major social issue by completely ignoring the former problem. Yet this is exactly what the liberal media did in promoting the Black Lives Matter narrative, which dishonestly smeared law enforcement officers as a threat to the safety of black people, and also demonized whites as complicit in this alleged police “racism.”

Likewise, by turning mass murderers into demonized symbols of “patriarchy” and “male dominance,” Jonathan McIntosh implies that all men are complicit in the crimes of such monsters. Yet while implicating all “straight men” in the Las Vegas massacre, McIntosh has never offered any explanation for the routine violence in Chicago, where more than 500 people have been shot to death so far this year, including 56 women. If violence is caused by “patriarchy,” what is Jonathan McIntosh’s explanation of Chicago’s murder epidemic? What kind of situation comedies are they watching in Chicago?

 

There is something suspicious about Jonathan McIntosh’s obsessive effort to obtain recognition as the ultimate “male feminist.” What motivates this kind of virtue-signaling “white knight” posture? Feminists have become increasingly critical of their progressive male “allies,” in large part because so many of these “allies” have been exposed as sexual predators. While I am not aware of any such accusation about Jonathan McIntosh, his departure from Anita Sarkeesian’s Feminist Frequency project is still somewhat mysterious. Was there a problem? Has Sarkeesian vouched for McIntosh’s bona fides as a “male feminist”?

No one should be surprised if Jonathan McIntosh’s crusade against “toxic masculinity” turns out to be a boomerang of psychological projection.



 

 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 10.25.17

Posted on | October 25, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.25.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #54
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: RIP Goodstuff
EBL: Fats Domino RIP
Twitchy: Epic Reactions To Journalist’s Anti-Trump Meme
Louder With Crowder: Fake Trump-Russia “Dossier” Was Funded By Clinton Campaign & DNC


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Noble Art Of Shaming
American Power: Poll – Majority Of Whites Believe Whites Suffer Discrimination, also, Andrew Lipman, The Saltwater Frontier
American Thinker: Mueller Investigates Podesta
Animal Magnetism: Hunting Season Totty III
BattleSwarm: NEWSFLASH – Texas Speaker Joe Straus Retires
Bring The HEAT: Agincourt
CDR Salamander: AFG – A Dozen Years Of…Well…Something
Da Tech Guy: Oh, You Mean THAT Honor Killing of My Daughter, also, Dirty Drawers
Don Surber: Apocalypse In The Swamp
Dustbury: I Give It Seven Weeks
The Geller Report: Jihad Germany – Police Seize Huge Muslim Weapons Cache In Berlin Raids, also, UK Christian Brutally Beaten By Muslims For Displaying Cross
Hogewash: RICO Remnant LOLSuit Appeal News, also, Fall Colors & Rule 5
Jammie Wearing Fools: Now Democrats Have A Russia Problem
Joe For America: Obama’s HUD Misplaced $500 Billion – Enron Scandal Was Over Just $63 Billion
JustOneMinute: Colluding With Russian Intelligence
Legal Insurrection: Goodlatte – “Smoking Gun” E-Mails Show Obama’s DOJ Steered Settlement Money Away From Conservative Groups, also, Federal Judge Refuses To Force Payment Of Obamacare Subsidies
Michelle Malkin: The Lib Enablers Of Perv Photographer Terry Richardson
Power Line: A Word From Victor Davis Hanson, also, Civil War On The Left, Part 51 – Sierra Club Vs. Sierra Club
Shot In The Dark: Lie First, Lie Always – Folding, Spindling, & Mutilating Statistics
STUMP: Kentucky Pension Battle – Reform Proposal Announced, And Nobody’s Happy
The Jawa Report: Jawa Hero Fats Domino Passes
The Political Hat: Governor Moonbeam’s Stopped Clock
This Ain’t Hell: 34th Anniversary Of Operation Urgent Fury, also, Mike “Doc” Simpson On Niger
Weasel Zippers: Alert The Social Justice Warriors! White QB Signed Before Kaepernick, also, Former Navy SEAL Cries When Recounting Death Of Military Dog During Bergdahl Search
Megan McArdle: Police Cameras Had No Effect. Why?
Mark Steyn: An Impostor For The Profit Of Another, also, Collusion Exclusion


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Late Night With Rule Five Tuesday:
Rebel Girls

Posted on | October 25, 2017 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Another difficult weekend, but not without its compensations; it looks like I’ll be heading back to college in the new year, starting to finish my accounting degree at UNLV. Therefore, some Rebel Girls for your delectation before we get into the links. Insert the standard disclaimer here.

UNLV Rebel Girls dance team

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box – Episode #48, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns; Animal Magnetism follows up with Rule Five Power of Tears Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL brings us National Pasta Day, Dee Dee Sharp, Bob Menendez’ Corruption Trial Rule 5, Eleanor Tomlinson, Heida Reed, and Evan Rachel Wood.

A View From The Beach has Kim Basinger, Fish Pic Friday – Pike, The Chick Takes On the Chief, “Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata II BWV 1003, Fuga”, But What About Polanski?, “When I Get Low, I Get High”, But There’s No Institutional Bias Against Conservatives at ESPN, Your Morning Rise and Shine and Hollywood is for the Birds.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Sasha Alexander, his Vintage Babe is Anita Colby, Sex in Advertising is covered by Victoria’s Secret Bralettes, and there’s also the Women of NCIS. At Dustbury, it’s Yvonne Craig and Marina Sirtis.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

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In The Mailbox: 10.24.17

Posted on | October 24, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: The Architect Speaks
Twitchy: Apple Or Banana? Sarah Palin Calls Out CNN On Fake News; Tapper’s Weak Response
Louder With Crowder: PLOT TWIST! Black Man Arrested For Racist Klan Graffiti At University


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Piggott Farm
American Power: In Paperback – Volker Ullrich, Hitler
American Thinker: Honor Killing Victim Jessica Mokdad’s Mom Leaves Islam, Apologizes
Animal Magnetism: Hunting Season Totty II
BattleSwarm: Scenes From The Continuing Democratic Suicide
CDR Salamander: Trumpism, NeverTrumpism, And Their Discontents
Da Tech Guy: Cop Killers, also, It’s Time To Vote Barry Bonds Into The Hall Of Fame
Don Surber: Flake Off, Flake
Dustbury: Quick Feedback
The Geller Report: SCOTUS Kills Refugee Ban Challenge, also, Trump To Kill Boeing Sale To Iran
Hogewash: NGC 4993
Jammie Wearing Fools: Michael Moore’s Dopey Broadway Show Dies In Darkness
JustOneMinute: Flake Out
Legal Insurrection: Kid Rock – “F*ck No, I’m Not Running For Senate”, also, Did Fauxcahontas Exaggerate Her “Me Too” Story?
Power Line: And Now for Some Real “Fake News”, also, Collusion Clinton Style
Shot In The Dark: Friends In Low Places
STUMP: Waiting For Hartford To Default While State Legislators Throw A Little Cash Around
The Jawa Report: Islamic Snuff-O-Gram Losing
The Political Hat: Modern Venezuela – Electoral Shenanigans, Bitcoin, And Hookers
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Thief Drops Out Of Mayoral Campaign, also, Florida Man Attempts Mall Bombing
Weasel Zippers: Professor Claims Math, Algebra, & Geometry Promote “White Privilege”, also, Number Of Americans On Food Stamps Plummets By 1.5 Million After Trump Takes Office
Megan McArdle: Be Careful Who You Call A “White Supremacist”
Mark Steyn: The Rubber Hits The Road


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The Sexual Harassment Bonfire Continues in the Wake of the Weinstein Scandal

Posted on | October 24, 2017 | 2 Comments

Famed fashion photographer Terry Richardson has been banned from working for Condé Nast publications including Vogue, GQ and Vanity Fair. Richardson “has been dogged for years by allegations of sexual exploitation of models,” according to the Telegraph.

Last week, one of Hollywood’s top talent agencies fired Tyler Grasham, who had represented many child stars, after he was accused of sexually harassing and/or assaulting young men. Also last week, Nickelodeon fired Chris Savino, creator of the animated series The Loud House, over allegations of sexual harassment, with at least 12 accusers referencing “unwanted sexual advances as well as threats of retribution after the end of consensual relationships.” The Los Angeles Times published a long article Sunday about a long history of alleged sexual harassment by writer/director James Toback. Meanwhile in Silicon Valley, multiple women have made accusations of harassment against Robert Scoble, a well-known commentator on the tech industry.

In London, British GQ correspondent Rupert Myers was fired in the wake of a woman’s accusation of sexual harassment:

Myers, who deactivated his Twitter account after [Karen] Leaver started tweeting her story, is a known feminist who has written stories such as, “Men’s rights activist are cave dwelling idiots.” In the 2015 story, Myers wrote, “There is a new, global group dedicated to undermining significant social change. They wear the mask of an online avatar and use technology to harass, threaten and silence their targets. Their cause? To prevent steps towards the equality of men and women. They are the ‘Men’s rights activists.’”
Daily Caller reporter Ian Miles Cheong had harsh words for Myers, tweeting, “Male feminists who claim the moral high ground, who turn their noses up at the ‘misogynists’ below, are the very demons they claim to fight.”

Amid this inferno of career-ending accusations touched off by the Harvey Weinstein scandal, Professor Ann Althouse sounds a note of caution:

What are the rules for going out for drinks with a co-worker? . . .
Let’s not fling ourselves headlong into a new era of sexual repression. . . .
Without knowing more [about the accusations against Myers], I can’t think of what else to say except that conservatives who’ve been crying out about the lack of due process for men accused of sexual assault should not be gleefully enjoying this man’s loss of a job. That would be hypocritical, and your glee is based on the notion that Myers is a hypocrite. That’s double hypocrisy!

This is an important point. The destruction of Harvey Weinstein was a consequence of feminist rage over the election of Donald Trump, whose words and alleged behavior in this regard were so offensive to so many. There was also apparently a “boys will be boys” environment at Fox News. Certainly, there are many Republicans who have not been paragons of virtue, and there is a clear line between (a) conservatives enjoying some schadenfreude at the downfall of liberals who claimed to be champions of “women’s rights,” and (b) self-righteous hubris.

Professor Althouse’s mention of conservative concerns over due process rights in campus sexual assault cases gets right to the point, because many of those cases involve a “he-said/she-said” situation between two drunk students, where it is impossible to know what actually happened. Furthermore, as I pointed out after Vox Media executive Lockhart Steele was fired, we may be witnessing an incipient witch-hunt:

When a witch-hunt hysteria takes hold, differences between minor and major forms of witchcraft soon cease to matter. Amid a paranoid climate of suspicion, any accusation of witch-type behavior will suffice to have the target burned at the stake before sundown. . . .
A witch-hunt has no statute of limitations, nor any standard of due process and, as for evidence, who needs evidence? If a woman says her ex-boyfriend did awful things to her in 2007 or 1997, feminists will applaud her for her “courage” in “breaking the silence,” and nothing that the targeted scapegoat says in his own defense will save him.

In the case of Lockhart Steele, there was allegedly a pattern of bad behavior that had continued for many years, but Steele was reportedly protected by Vox because he “had too many shares” in the company to be fired. This parallels the Weinstein saga, where the Hollywood mogul abused his power as a serial harasser of women, a perpetrator with a well-established modus operandi that involved inviting women to his hotel rooms, soliciting massages, exposing himself, masturbating, etc.

Habitual offenders, abusers of power, and institutional protection of such behaviors — this is the proper focus of sexual harassment concerns. The way the BBC covered for Jimmy Savile, the way the Catholic Church dealt with pedophile priests by reassigning them to new parishes, the way Arkansas State Troopers were employed to protect Gov. Bill Clinton’s womanizing escapades — these were all newsworthy scandals.

There is a danger, as Professor Althouse points out, that a witch-hunt hysteria could obliterate the distinction between such serious abuses and comparatively trivial incidents. Nevertheless, as we watch this bonfire immolate the careers of the famous and the obscure alike, everyone is put on notice that there is a zero-tolerance policy now in effect regarding “unwanted sexual advances.” As a father of teenagers, I’ve been cautioning my kids for years about this, especially when it comes to their online behavior. The Internet is dangerous. Online dating? No, never, period. “Sexting”? No, never, period. The fate of Anthony Weiner should serve as a scarecrow to warn young people against this stuff. And smart young people, now as always, should be instructed to pair up. Find a steady partner and avoid the hook-up carousel. My eldest three children married in their early 20s, and I expect my younger three to follow the same path. Whether or not our society is headed into “a new era of sexual repression,” as Professor Althouse warns, parents in every era have a duty to protect their own children — sons and daughters alike — by warning them against the perils and pitfalls of hedonism. Selah.



 

Category: Celebrities, Hollywood, Media Bias, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 10.23.17

Posted on | October 24, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.23.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Megyn Kelly Tries To Boost Her Ratings
Twitchy: MSNBC Segment Questioning Need For Border Wall Interrupted By…Guess What?
Louder With Crowder: Jenna Jameson Blasts Playboy Over Shemale Playmate


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Winter Is Coming Down Under
American Power: The Report On The Virginia Governor’s Race, also, George Saunders, Lincoln In The Bardo
American Thinker: Why Is Jeff Sessions Hiding The Uranium One Informant?
Animal Magnetism: Hunting Season Totty I
BattleSwarm: Ted Cruz On North Korea
Bring The HEAT: Searing Lessons – How The 2007 Wildfires Changed San Diego County
CDR Salamander: On To The Next Stage Of Foreverwar
Da Tech Guy: Illinois Math – Chicago Public Schools Have Fewer Students, But Taxes Go Up, also, Oh, Shut Up, George!
Don Surber: Bush Speech Was A Cry From The Swamp, also, Eighteen Times Jennifer Rubin Wanted To Impeach Trump
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Someone Is Wrong On The Internet
The Geller Report: Watch As Milo Slays Liberal TV Panel
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign
Joe For America: Jimmy Carter Breaks Ranks
JustOneMinute: Discouraging Saving In Order To Reduce The Deficit
Legal Insurrection: 25 Conservatives (Not Approved By Salon) Worth Following On Twitter, also, Mayim Bialik And The Politics Of Sexual Harassment & Personal Responsibility
Michelle Malkin:
Power Line: Liberal Visits South Dakota, Freaks Out On Seeing Guns, also, The European Revolt Continues
Shark Tank: New Poll Finds Las Vegas Shooting Doesn’t Alter Opinions On Guns
Shot In The Dark: Prioritization
STUMP: Meep Media – Wacky Mysteries
The Jawa Report: Trump Drones Umar Khalid Khorasani, also, Muslima Arrested For Inciting Rebellion
The Political Hat: Court Upholds Legality Of Objective Biological Reality
This Ain’t Hell: Masha Gessen – John Kelly And The Language Of The Military Coup, also, ISIS “Nipped In The Bud” In The Philippines
Weasel Zippers: Melania Trump Cuts Bloated FLOTUS Payroll, also, Chinese/Nork Relationship Reportedly At An End; Next Nork Missile Test Means War With China
Megan McArdle: We Libertarians Were Really Wrong About School Vouchers
Mark Steyn: Where The Blue Of The Night, also, Readying The Knife


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Corporation Promotes Lesbian Feminist Slogan Expressing Anti-Male Rage

Posted on | October 23, 2017 | 3 Comments

 

“The Future Is Female” originated in the extreme fringe of the lesbian separatist movement of the 1970s. By the time Alix Dobkin was photographed wearing this slogan on a T-shirt — promoting a feminist bookstore in New York — the so-called Women’s Liberation Movement that arose in the late 1960s had burned out and fragmented. Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it, however. In the aftermath of Hillary Clinton’s defeat, Third Wave feminists have repeated the error of their predecessors, doubling-down on their anti-male rhetoric and hurling accusations of “misogyny” at anyone who criticizes them.

 

Consider the case of Elise Williams, content editor for the online advertising firm Inuvo, who used their site Earn Spend Live as a platform for a “feminist rant” endorsing this radical anti-male slogan:

The other day, Earn Spend Live’s other co-founder, Meleah, rocked her “The Future is Female” tee. As someone who 1) knows Meleah and 2) knows the meaning and origin of this famous saying, I didn’t even bat an eye. I said “love it” and went about my business. But she later told me that at one point during the day, a woman took her to the side, hugged her, and told her that “with love,” she wanted to let her know that her shirt could be offensive. “What if little boys saw it? What if my 26-year-old son saw it?”
Meleah insisted that the interaction was overall a pleasant one — the woman was nice, Meleah politely told her that little boys had 45 presidents and a million superheroes to look up to so they’d be fine, and that was that. But no matter how “nice” this interaction was, it just didn’t sit well with me. And once I did a little reading on the internet, I discovered this is actually a fairly common reaction, especially for women with sons. . . .

Let’s briefly interrupt this “feminist rant” to point out that (a) Meleah Bowles has purple hair, (b) neither Ms. Bowles nor Ms. Williams has any children, so that (c) they are discussing a “future” that will include none of their own offspring. On her Instagram profile, Ms. Williams calls herself a “cat mom,” while Ms. Bowles’ Twitter profile describes her as devoted to “coffee, dogs, and TV.” No husbands, no children, no family — this is what “The Future Is Female” means, and Ms. Williams emphasizes that she “knows the meaning and origin” of this anti-male/anti-heterosexual slogan: “I love it.” Ms. Williams continues:

I only recently became a feminist. I can’t pinpoint the exact moment — it’s not like you get sprinkled with holy water or you get a free t-shirt — but I’d say it happened while we were creating Earn Spend Live. I had a super privileged upbringing (white, middle class, the works) and amazing parents; I was never made to feel like I was less than men. Plus, I only had a sister, so unlike most of my friends, I was never compared to my brother or told to do the dishes while he mowed the yard. . . .

Notice that Ms. Williams attributes her “super privileged upbringing” to her “amazing parents,” so that we may assume that her father deserves some credit for her good fortune, but never mind that:

But after becoming attached at the hip to Meleah (a proud feminist with blue, sometimes green, sometimes purple hair and t-shirts that say things like “The Future is Female” and “I <3 the Female Orgasm), entering the “real world,” and hearing the stories of older, more experienced female professionals via Earn Spend Live, I realized that I had actually been a feminist in the truest sense of the word my whole life; I just had never been taught the meaning of the word and I had no idea the struggles other women faced. . . .

You can read the rest of that. The point is that, in the process of “creating Earn Spend Live,” Ms. Williams became “attached at the hip” to the purple-haired feminist Ms. Bowles and, as a result, decided she “had actually been a feminist . . . my whole life.” She now endorses the lesbian separatist slogan “The Future Is Female” and is being paid to promote this radical anti-male ideology by her corporate employer, Inuvo.

Meleah Bowles (left) and Elise Williams (right).

Does Inuvo CEO Richard Howe know what he is funding? Are the stockholders, board of directors and customers of Inuvo aware of this? How did a publicly-traded corporation become a sponsor of radical feminism? Well, you hire one social-justice warrior (SJW) and then she’ll begin recruiting others, and next thing you know, you’ve got a feminist cult on your payroll — kind of the way SJWs took over Google and other tech companies. If a corporation is profitable (and Inuvo reported more than $71 million in revenue last year), executives may figure there is no harm in hiring a purple-haired English major and giving her a project like Earn Spend Live, whose mission is “to create a community of women helping each other grapple their finances, navigate their career, and live life to the fullest.” This could be social justice as a marketing strategy, a bit of corporate virtue-signaling to position Inuvo as a “progressive” company. More cynically, it’s a form of litigation insurance: if any female employees at Inuvo ever claim to be victims of discrimination, the executives can just point to the purple-haired SJW running this “community of women” and say, “See? We’re all about equality!”

What does Inuvo’s endorsement of “The Future Is Female” mean? The company’s hiring of Meleah Bowles cannot be an accident. Her senior thesis in college was a denunciation of weddings as a “patriarchal ceremony,” an analysis based on Third Wave feminist gender theory:

Feminist rhetorical criticism is critical to a feminist understanding of gendered institutions, such as bridal ceremonies. . . .
Like feminist rhetorical criticism, feminist critical discourse analysis is concerned with the construction of gender. . . .
Feminist discourse is, at its most basic, a way of discussing the gender dynamics of power particularly as they relate to and reinforce the patriarchal structure of society.

Because Ms. Bowles posted this radical feminist essay to her personal blog as a sample of her “professional writing,” certainly whoever makes the hiring decisions at Inuvo must have been aware of it. Nor has Ms. Bowles made a secret of her far-left politics — an Obama voter who supported Bernie Sanders in last year’s Democrat primaries and, of course, hashtagging #ImWithHer in October 2016.

 

What does such a hire signify about Inuvo’s corporate policy goals? Last month, Ms. Bowles wore her “The Future Is Female” shirt while she and Ms. Williams gave a presentation entitled “Unmasking Modern Day Workplace Discrimination” at a women’s networking event.

 

What sort of “workplace discrimination” do they propose to “unmask”?  Doesn’t the very fact that these feminists are employed by Inuvo, assigned to organize a “community of women,” more likely suggest that the company intends henceforth to stop hiring males? Certainly, young men seeking employment should be advised to avoid Inuvo, whose hiring policies connote the embrace of an anti-male agenda.

When the SJW handwriting is on the corporate wall, so to speak, intelligent young men seek opportunities elsewhere. There are no career opportunities for an ambitious young man in a workplace where slogans about “diversity,” “inclusion” and “social justice” replace productivity and competitive success as organizational goals. Look at how the NFL destroyed its brand by embracing SJW ideology. The league’s half-empty stadiums ought to be a warning to corporate America that “social justice” is a toxic formula for business disaster.

Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It. Corporate executives who seek to appease feminists are likely to be as successful as Neville Chamberlain was in appeasing Hitler:

Feminism is not just anti-male. Feminism is anti-marriage, anti-motherhood, anti-capitalist and anti-Christian. Feminism is destructive in its goals and methods, entirely negative in its purpose and spirit, defining itself by what it is against, i.e., basically everything good and decent in human life. The only things feminists can said to be for are abortion, socialism and homosexuality.

When I explain this in blunt language, people think I’m exaggerating, until I start quoting from the vast library of feminist books I’ve read in the course of three years of research into this subject. (You can view YouTube video of my presentation last month in Massachusetts.)

 

“Certainly all those institutions which were designed on the assumption and for the reinforcement of the male and female role system such as the family (and its sub-institution, marriage), sex, and love must be destroyed.”
— “The Feminists: A Political Organization to Annihilate Sex Roles,” 1969, in Radical Feminism, edited by Anne Koedt, et al. (1973)

“Women are a degraded and terrorized people. Women are degraded and terrorized by men. … Women’s bodies are possessed by men. … Women are an enslaved population. … Women are an occupied people.”
— Andrea Dworkin, 1977 speech at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, in Letters from a War Zone (1993)

“The first condition for escaping from forced motherhood and sexual slavery is escape from the patriarchal institution of marriage.”
— Alison M. Jaggar, Feminist Politics and Human Nature (1988)

“As those familiar with feminist theory know, feminists advocate lesbianism on a variety of grounds. . . .
“Patriarchy, although it takes different forms in different cultures, always depends on the ability of men to control women through heterosexuality.”
— Joyce Trebilcot, “Taking Responsibility for Sexuality,” 1982, in Dyke Ideas: Process, Politics, Daily Life (1994)

“Women’s heterosexual orientation perpetuates their social, economic, emotional, and sexual dependence on and accessibility by men. Heterosexuality is thus a system of male ownership of women.”
— Cheshire Calhoun, “Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory,” 1994, in Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives, edited by Carole McCann and Seung-kyung Kim (2013)

“[F]eminist scholars argue that heteorosexuality is a prime facet through which male power and dominance is managed and maintained . . . a patriarchal institution that functions to subordinate, degrade and oppress women.”
— Claire O’Callaghan, Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics (2017)

You see that this is not what I say feminism means; this is what feminists say feminism means. Third Wave feminists like Ms. Bowles and Ms. Williams believe the gender binary is socially constructed by the heterosexual matrix. In other words, feminists assert that there are no natural differences between men and women. Feminists believe all women are oppressed by “the gender dynamics of power” which “reinforce the patriarchal structure of society,” to employ the rhetoric of Ms. Bowles’s senior thesis. The family and marriage must be “destroyed” (Koedt, et al., 1973) because women are “enslaved” (Dworkin, 1993) by “the patriarchal institution of marriage” (Jaggar, 1988). Because “men . . . control women through heterosexuality” (Trebilcot, 1994), feminists are against this “system of male ownership of women” (Calhoun, 1994), “a patriarchal institution that functions to subordinate, degrade and oppress women” (O’Callaghan, 2017). And feminists condemn anyone who disagrees with them as a “misogynist,” a woman-hater.

Feminists have been saying these things for decades, but it seems that no conservative ever bothered to conduct a systematic survey and analysis of feminist theory until I took up this project in 2014.

Feminist rhetoric (e.g., “Smash the Patriarchy”) demonizes males as oppressors, treating all men as villainous enemies in a social-justice narrative based on a zero-sum game mentality in which male success is stigmatized as the result of unjust “male privilege.” The only way any man obtains professional success, according to feminist theory, is through the oppression and exploitation of women. The more men succeed, the more women are oppressed; ergo, feminists regard successful male executives like Inuvo’s Richard Howe as evil.

 

When Maleah Bowles says she is fighting patriarchy, what does she mean? Isn’t it reasonable to interpret this as a denunciation of her male co-workers at Inuvo as perpetrators of systematic oppression? Shouldn’t men be insulted by such an accusation? If we believe that incomes are earned by productive labor, then the more productive we are, the more valuable our labor becomes, and the higher our earnings. What is the value produced by Elise Williams’s “feminist rant” at Inuvo’s Earn Spend Live site? How does this “community of women” contribute to the profitability of Inuvo? Isn’t it likely that embracing this radical ideology will ultimately be harmful to Inuvo’s business? Well, that’s their call to make, and if the company’s stockholders are eager to fund feminism’s agenda of anti-male hatred, they are free to do so. However, if anyone at Inuvo were to complain about this, they’d probably be fired (like James Damore), because it’s discrimination to disagree with feminists.

Feminist demands for “equality” are actually a demand for uncontested power, especially including the power to silence dissent.





 

 

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