FMJRA 2.0: Birthday Weekend

How much money has film producer Harvey Weinstein donated to Democrats over the past 25 years? Thousands upon thousands, and you can add it up yourself. But now Democrats are being urged to shun Weinstein’s money because, well, he keeps acting like a Democrat:

An investigation by The New York Times found previously undisclosed allegations against Mr. Weinstein stretching over nearly three decades, documented through interviews with current and former employees and film industry workers, as well as legal records, emails and internal documents from the businesses he has run, Miramax and the Weinstein Company. . . .
During that time, after being confronted with allegations including sexual harassment and unwanted physical contact, Mr. Weinstein has reached at least eight settlements with women, according to two company officials speaking on the condition of anonymity. Among the recipients, The Times found, were a young assistant in New York in 1990, an actress in 1997, an assistant in London in 1998, an Italian model in 2015 and Ms. O’Connor shortly after, according to records and those familiar with the agreements. . . .

You can read the whole thing. Among the women Weinstein reportedly harassed were actresses Ashley Judd and Rose McGowan. And I say “reportedly,” because Weinstein is threatening to sue the New York Times for libel. Here’s an interesting headline:

Former Obama Adviser Anita Dunn Helped
Harvey Weinstein Strategize Before New York Times Story

Democrats help Democrats, you see. In his response to the allegations, Weinstein says: “I came of age in the 60’s and 70’s, when all the rules about behavior and workplaces were different. That was the culture then.” Ann Althouse calls this the “Roman Polanski excuse.”

As Ace of Spades remarks, many people in the media must have known about Weinstein’s (alleged) misbehavior, but he’s a Hollywood big shot and a liberal, so they didn’t blow the whistle on him — the same way they covered for Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton and Anthony Weiner.

Well, the Clinton era is over, and it’s not the 1960s anymore and, amid the current climate of feminist jihad, Democrats are going to find it more difficult to get away with their customary shenanigans.

In The Mailbox: 10.05.17

Posted on | October 5, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.05.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #35
EBL: Harvey Weinstein And The NYT Go To War?
Twitchy: SCHLONGED! Conservative Twitter Copies Miley Cyrus, Sends Their Own #HillaryThankYouNotes
Louder With Crowder: Man Demonstrates How AR-15 Shoots 70,000 Rounds Per Minute!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Art Of Ceremony – Taking Your Sweet Time
American Power: Richard J. Evans, The Coming Of The Third Reich, also, Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
American Thinker: Don’t Tell The Left – More Guns Means Fewer Homicides
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Forced Pedestrian News
BattleSwarm: Gun Control As Charlie Brown’s Football
Bring The HEAT: A Little More On 2LT Spenser Rapone
Da Tech Guy: The Red Summit At St. Anselm College – Photos And Interviews
Don Surber: Every Black Adult Male Should Buy A Rifle
Dustbury: In Sickness And In, Um, More Sickness
The Geller Report: Muslim Murderer Of Lee Rigby to Sue Prison For “Gross Affront To His Personal Dignity”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Nancy Sinatra – “The Murderous Members of the NRA Should Face A Firing Squad”
Joe For America: While Celebs Lose Their Minds On Gun Control, One Pop Star Tells Hard Truth
JustOneMinute: Back In Korea…
Legal Insurrection: Beleaguered Rep. Murphy Resigns From Congress, also, GOP Lawmakers Join Democrats To Ban Bump Stocks
Power Line: Our Moronic News Media, Part 12176, also, Harry Reid’s Role In The Menendez Scandal
Shark Tank: Republican Congressman Apparently Not Brown Enough To Join House Hispanic Caucus
Shot In The Dark: The Time To Mock And Taunt The Star Tribune’s Editorial Board For Being Unthinking Stenographers For Big Left Is Now. Right Now.
STUMP: Illinois, Be Seein’ Ya!
The Political Hat: Intersectional Faith, Instersectional Liberation, Intersectional Pilgrimages
This Ain’t Hell: Stop Blaming Guns For What People Do, also, Lieutenant Rapone At West Point
Weasel Zippers: NYT Falsely Reports Trump Blocked Puerto Ricans From Buying Hot Meals With Food Stamps, also, Bump Stock Devices Greenlighted By ATF During Obama Administration
Megan McArdle: In Defense Of Adjustable-Rate Mortgages
Mark Steyn: The Empty Paddock, Continued

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‘High-Risk Sex Offender’ Using Transgender Identity to Pursue Teens?

Posted on | October 5, 2017 | 2 Comments

Another setback for the Transgender Victimhood Narrative:

Riley Byerly is a transwoman who authors the website ‘My Transgender Life: Sharing My Life One Moment At A Time’.
He also goes by the name Riley Lilian Grace Byerly. He is 27. His legal name is Brynner Phoenix Rennecke. . . .
Before his arrest at the age of 15, this transwoman had raped or sexually assaulted at least five children. From ages 18 to 26 he was confined under civil commitment in the state hospital in Jamestown, North Dakota as a sexual offender at high risk to re-offend. He was released last year.
Upon his release, he immediately began pursuing more child victims. He keeps a Flickr account here where he posts stolen facebook photos of his desired victims: Young boys and boyish looking young transgender females (FTM).

You can read the whole thing. Rennecke/“Byerly” was arrested last week on a charge of unlawful presence of a sexual offender near schools.

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

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Category: The Transgender Cult

Munchausen Moms: @LizFraserRM, Feminism and Gender Dysphoria

Posted on | October 5, 2017 | 2 Comments

What is causing the epidemic of sexual confusion among young people? Because I’ve been researching radical feminism for more than three years, I am deeply familiar with the feminist opposition to the transgender cult, and have frequently cited blogs like 4th Wave Now, which are critical of this phenomenon. The problem of “social contagion” as a factor in encouraging transgender identification, and so-called “rapid onset gender dysphoria,” are issues where radical feminists have led the way in describing and analyzing the sources of this growing trend of confusion among young people. However, it is apparent that feminism itself is part of the problem, because the movement’s attack “traditional gender norms” inevitably tends to destabilize identity. Indeed, anyone who has carefully studied the theory promoted by Professor Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble — the social construction of the gender binary within the heterosexual matrix — must expect confusion to result from feminism’s “success.” Because feminism is an anti-male ideology, and because schools are now controlled by women, it is common for teachers to punish boys for masculine behavior. Yet the same traits that schools punish in boys — e.g., aggression and competitiveness — are encouraged in girls in the name of feminist “empowerment.”

Beyond the anti-male regime within the education system, however, there is the problem of “feminist motherhood” — an oxymoronic concept, given the feminist movement’s fanatical pro-abortion activism. Nevertheless, there are feminists who have children, and they are committed to raising their offspring in accordance with the movement’s ideology, and this means discouraging their sons from being masculine. Canadian feminist Liz Fraser unloaded this Twitter lecture last month:

“If you’re advocating for girls to have access to masculinity
but not for boys to have access to femininity,
you’re reinforcing patriarchy.”

“I mean that we are increasingly comfortable encouraging girls to play traditionally masculine roles, be ‘bossy,’ enjoy sports, etc, which is good and important and we should keep doing it, but we’re much less comfortable encouraging boys to express their feelings, cry, like ‘pretty’ things, or adopt other traditionally feminine roles and behaviours. That reinforces the idea that masculinity is good and femininity is undesirable. Universal masculinity isn’t a solution to patriarchy, it’s another form of oppression.”

This is so absurdly misguided that only a feminist could possibly believe it. Encouraging your son to behave in the ways Ms. Fraser describes will result in him (a) being unable to fit in comfortably with his male peers as “one of the guys” and thus (b) being less successful as an adult male.

The most likely outcome, of course, is that by encouraging her son to embrace “traditionally feminine roles and behaviours,” Ms. Fraser will lead him either to be homosexual or to identify as transgender — and she must almost certainly be aware of this likelihood. It appears that some mothers now actively promote LGBT identity for their children:

Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy is a pattern in which a parent “fabricates, exaggerates, or induces mental or physical health problems” in their child “usually to gain attention or sympathy from others.” . . .
Toxic moms . . . have decided that having a Special Snowflake Rainbow Unicorn Child™ is a way “to gain attention or sympathy from others.” All it takes is to grab hold of some therapeutic jargon (“gender dysphoria”) and claim your kid is a victim of prejudice and — abracadabra! — you’ve changed your situation from (a) being the parent of a pathetic loser to (b) being the leader of a progressive social movement.

These “Munchausen moms” are clearly a factor in children now being labeled transgender in kindergarten or earlier, and the media celebrates this trend. Vanessa Ford announced that her 4-year-old son was her “daughter” (named “Ellie”) and got herself feartured in a Katie Couric interview. With both the news media and public schools encouraging this trend, we can expect that other narcissistic mothers will turn their children into freaks for the sake of attention.

Imagine that — deliberately dressing her son in a style that provokes people to think he’s a girl, while taking a “wait and see” attitude as to whether he is actually male. If gender is “socially constructed,” it would seem, Ms. Fraser is doing her best to ensure that her Special Snowflake Rainbow Unicorn Child™ does not become one of those dreadfully masculine heterosexual males that feminists so despise.

Why is childhood transgenderism increasing at such an alarming rate? https://t.co/mTeuBmsRJu

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) October 5, 2017

Parents and taxpayers: Are you aware that celebrating LGBTQ History Month is now mandatory in many public school systems? pic.twitter.com/lapRR3pMn4

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) October 4, 2017