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In The Mailbox: 09.11.17

Posted on | September 11, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.11.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Rule Five Monday will be posted later tonight, possibly tomorrow morning if you’re on the East Coast.


OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The Ninety Miles Mystery Box #5
Proof Positive: UnAmerican Gothic
EBL: Remembering Those Who Fell And Fought Back On 9/11
Michelle Malkin: “Lan Astaslem” – I Will Not Surrender
Twitchy: Preet Bharara – Let’s investigate Ancestors Of DACA Opponents, Just Out Of Curiosity
Louder With Crowder: Dear Hillary – You Lost Because America Hates You


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Inaugural Comment Of The Week
American Power: Nearly 60% Of Florida Without Power As Irma Moves North, also, Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower
American Thinker: Fox New Buries Big Friday Night Changes In Wall-To-Wall Hurricane Coverage
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Pat Condell On Europe’s Suicide
BLACKFIVE: Tony Schumacher, <U>An Army Of One
Bring The HEAT: Steeljaw Scribe On 9/11, also, The Manhattan Boatlift
Da Tech Guy: Unwoke Irma Changes Path, Leftist Narratives Hardest Hit, also, Why Kamala Harris (Or George Clooney) Will Be The 2020 Democratic Presidential Nominee
Don Surber: Good Analysis From The NYT, also, Harvey Blows Away The Resistance
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Your Eyes Should Not Be Here
The Geller Report: Muslim Student Association Celebrates 9/11 With Bake Sale, also, September 11 – Sixteen Years Later, So Much Worse
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: NFL Opens Season With Terrible Numbers – Kaepernick Boycott Still Causing Chaos
JustOneMinute: Equifarce Reporting, also, Conservatives Pursue A Conservative Agenda
Power Line: Embracing Ancestry, Genetic Code, And Melanin, also, Almost Blacklisted By Google
Shark Tank: Are Americans Happy With Trump’s Presidency?
Shot In The Dark: RIP Jerry Pournelle
STUMP: RIP, Jerry Pournelle
The Jawa Report: 16
The Political Hat: Sixteen Years Ago Today – NEVER FORGET
This Ain’t Hell: 2nd ACR Gets New Strykers, also, Colonel Wilson Found Guilty
Weasel Zippers: Miss Montana USA Has First Transgender Contestant, also, Merkel Proposes Iran-Style Deal To End Nork Crisis
Megan McArdle: Don’t Pretend Your Dog Is A Service Animal
Mark Steyn: Settling Scores With Mother Nature, also, Songs In The Keys Of Florida


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Category: Linkagery

When Your Silly Haiku Tweet Turns Into An Impromptu Songwriting Session

Posted on | September 11, 2017 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

To put this mess in context, I was tweeting the G-File with a haiku, and copying @HaikuJonah. Then @Corduroyalist had to make everything weird. @HaikuJonah offers the perfect review. This is an example of how fun Twitter used to be all the time. It’s only an occasional pleasure anymore.


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Category: humor

The Death of a Dishonest Feminist

Posted on | September 10, 2017 | 2 Comments

 

A once-famous man-hating lunatic has gone on to her eternal reward:

Kate Millett, a feminist writer and artist who gave the women’s liberation movement its intellectual cornerstone with the 1970 tract “Sexual Politics,” and whose later works laid bare the subjugation of gay men and lesbians, the mentally ill, the elderly, and victims of political oppression, died Sept. 6 in Paris. She was 82.
Her death was confirmed by Phyllis Chesler, a feminist writer and psychotherapist who said she had corresponded with Dr. Millett’s spouse, Sophie Keir, and that the cause of death was cardiac arrest.

The mention of Millett’s lesbian partner highlights the essential dishonesty of Sexual Politics. At the time the book made Millett nationally famous, she was married to a man, but was carrying on clandestine affairs with women. This was not really much of a secret among her feminist comrades, who confronted her at an event a few months after her book was published, a scene described in Susan Brownmiller’s feminist history In Our Time:

Minutes into the panel a voice from the back of the hall rang out, “Bisexuality is a cop-out!”
Sidney Abbott, another panel member, peered into the audience and recognized Ann Sanchez, one of the Radicalesbians.
The persistent voice catcalled, “Are you a lesbian, Kate? What are you afraid of? You say it downtown, but you don’t say it uptown. Why won’t you say it?”
“Yes,” Millett wearily replied. “You think bisexuality is a cop-out, so yes, I’ll say it. I am a lesbian.
A reporter from Time was at her door the next morning. The story ran in December. Millett’s disclosure of her bisexuality, the magazine intoned, avoiding the word “lesbian,” was “bound to discredit her as a spokeswoman for the cause.”
Dolores Alexander and Ivy Bottini of [the National Organization for Women] urgently called a “Kate Is Great” press conference. Artemis March and Ellen Shumsky of the Radicalesbians composed a statement of solidarity that was read to the reporters. . . . Gloria Steinem firmly held Kate’s hand for a significant photo for the Times. . . But the show of support did little to calm the fraying nerves of the woman who stood at center of the media storm. . . .
Sexual Politics would never be dislodged from its place as feminism’s first book-length bombshell, but the making and breaking of Kate Millett as the movement’s high priestess had run its course in four months.

Why did this “discredit her as a spokeswoman for the cause”? Because in her book, Millett had hypocritically concealed her personal bias. “Her only mention of lesbianism was a single dismissive footnote near the end of the book,” as I wrote in my book Sex Trouble. While other feminists (notably Adrienne Rich) made interesting arguments about the social pressures that led lesbians into such shams as Millett’s marriage (her husband, Fumio Yoshimura, was a Japanese avant-garde sculptor), this wasn’t mentioned in the book that made Millett famous, nor did she disclose her lesbianism to Time magazine or in any of the other press coverage that accompanied publication of Sexual Politics. Millett’s anti-male arguments, which had been presented to the mainstream press as being made by a heterosexual woman with a husband, took on a whole new meaning in light of the revelation of her lesbianism. It was somewhat like the discovery that Rev. Ted Haggard was hooking up with rentboys.

If the personal is political, as feminist Carol Hanisch famously said, then Millett’s lesbianism was certainly relevant to her arguments. Her resentment of “male supremacy” was quite personal, and yet she deliberately concealed the circumstantial nature of her resentment.

When she condemned “our system of sexual relationship” as “a relationship of dominance and subordinance” (Sexual Politics, pp. 24-25), Millett presented this as a universal indictment of “patriarchy,” as though all women shared (or should share) her resentment. Yet the fact was (and is) that the vast majority of women have no political grievance against “our system of sexual relationship.” Whereas Kate Millett evidently never felt any authentic sexual desire toward males, most women do feel such desires, and feel no such sense of personal humiliation as Millett seemed to express in denouncing heterosexuality as “a relationship of dominance and subordinance.”

The biological reality of male-female differences, and the necessity of psychological adjustment to adult roles — as husbands and wives, mothers and fathers — can be analyzed rationally and objectively, without disparaging either men or women, and certainly without resorting to inflammatory rhetoric about male sexual “dominance.” However, the vast majority of people don’t analyze their own preferences and behaviors; they simply act on their feelings, without wondering too much why they feel the way they do. When a man experiences “a complex interaction of psychological, neural, vascular and endocrine factors . . . initiated by the parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system,” to quote Wikipedia’s description of the “physiological phenomenon,” he isn’t likely to subject his condition to critical analysis. “Me Tarzan, you Jane.”

 

If you don’t want to swing with the ape-man, stay out of the jungle.

This primitive understanding of human sexuality is perfectly acceptable to most people, but intellectuals always have to overthink everything. To examine sex from a perspective of politics — especially from a left-wing “social justice” perspective of radical egalitarianism — will inevitably give voice to the grievances of those who, for whatever reason, are discontented with their circumstances. People who are successful and happy with their lives, or who at least are able to cope with their disappointments, do not write radical manifestos denouncing “society,” nor do they join movements dedicated to revolutionary agendas.

This was the real issue with Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics — it was a lesbian’s indictment of heterosexuality, written from within the closet.

We might compare Kate Millett to another sexual revolutionary. Alfred Kinsey struck a public pose of a sensible Midwestern scientist, but in reality he was a voyeuristic pervert with all kinds of kinky fetishes.

Alfred Kinsey on the cover of Time, 1953.

It was not until decades after Kinsey’s influential “research” had normalized sexual deviancy that biographers revealed the startling truth of Kinsey’s perversity, along with the fact that much of Kinsey’s survey data was badly skewed, with reports obtained from serial child molesters cited as scientific “evidence” of childhood sexual responses.

Kinsey’s perversion obviously provided an ulterior motive for his advocacy of greater tolerance of deviant behavior, in the same way that Kate Millett’s attack on “our system of sexual relationship” was motivated by her discontent as a closeted lesbian unhappily married to a man.

Millett’s status as the “high priestess” of feminism (as some in the press had called her) was sabotaged by radical lesbians resentful of the high profile Millett had gained through her hypocrisy. In this, they were aided by a media establishment which wanted feminism to be “mainstream,” and believed that lesbianism would harm the movement. And the personal damage inflicted on Millett by “outing” her? This was considered irrelevant, both by her enemies within the feminist movement and by the media, for whom public figures are always more or less disposable. By the time it became apparent that Kate Millett was mentally ill — a story that her younger sister Mallory Millett told in 2014 — the media generally ignored this evidence that the leaders of the feminist movement were lunatics. Millett’s bipolar disorder, like Shulamith Firestone’s schizophrenia, was scarcely a coincidence. Malcontents and deviants are always attracted to radical movements, and sociopathic personalities are by no means rare among the leaders of such movements, as any student of Joseph Stalin’s career must recognize.

Like most other famous feminists, Kate Millett never had children, so that her death is mourned only by her lesbian partner and by elderly comrades in the movement of which she was once “high priestess.” Most young feminists have little knowledge of the true history of their movement and, not knowing history, they are doomed to repeat it.

 

Category: Sex Trouble

FMJRA 2.0: Day Late & A Dollar Short

Posted on | September 10, 2017 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Day Late & A Dollar Short

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Butts! Boobs! The Final OUTRAGE!!!
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Transgender Victimhood Narrative Sustains Further Embarrassment
EBL

Email to @betsyscribeindc
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: The One You Love To Hate
The Pirate’s Cove
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL

Taking Out The Laundry
EBL

Unintended Consequences or Not?
A View From The Beach
EBL

‘Too Cute to Be Straight’: Canadian Taxpayers Fund LGBT Message for Kids
PaleoCon
EBL

A Tattoo-Covered, Mentally Ill Ex-Stripper Whose Real Name Is Chelsea Van Valkenburg Publishes Dishonest Book
Welcome To My Playpen
EBL

‘The Least Worthwhile People’ and @The_Moviebob’s Darwinian Inversion
Adam Piggott
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.05.17
Proof Positive
EBL

Fear and Loathing at BWI
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.06.17
Proof Positive
EBL

Social Justice and Fake Hate Crimes
BattleSwarm Blog

Heading to Harvard Yard
EBL

Report From Family Fleeing Florida
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.07.17
Proof Positive
EBL

VIDEO: Kent Haeffner, President of Harvard University College Republicans
Granite Grok
EBL

Remembering 9/11: Friday Fiction Special
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.08.17
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers this week:

  1. EBL (17)
  2. Proof Positive (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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Category: FMJRA Award

Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It

Posted on | September 9, 2017 | 3 Comments

FITCHBURG, Massachusetts
Today I will be speaking in Leominster at an event hosted by Da Tech Guy blog, the Worcester Tea Party and Granite Grok. Friday, I had the honor to give a 10-minute presentation to the Friday Morning Group in Lexington, and Pete Da Tech Guy got this video of my speech:

 

 

I’m still hoping all my friends in the New England area will attend today’s luncheon event at Tang Dynasty restaurant, but if you can’t make it, you might want to chip in to the Shoe Leather Fund, because I’ll be visiting institutes of higher learning in the region, just to see what kind of lunacy is being promulgated on campus this fall. Please remember the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 09.08.17

Posted on | September 8, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.08.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


RIP Jerry Pournelle – scientist, soldier, science & SF & computer writer.
He did a lot of things so we didn’t have to.


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Hurricane Irma Is Coming, And She Is Very Bad
Twitchy: Kamala Harris Shames DOJ For Siding With Baker, Gets Fact-Checked By First Amendment
Louder With Crowder: Hillary Once Declared “DREAMers Have To Go Back” (VIDEO)
According To Hoyt: Where Have All The Heroes Gone?
Monster Hunter Nation: Back From DragonCon!
Vox Popoli: A Good Man Is Gone


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Friday Links & Hawt Chick Of The Week – There’s A Storm Out There Edition
American Power: The Rotting Soulless Moral Abomination That Is Ben Rhodes, also, Harry Turtledove, In The Balance
American Thinker: How To Dry Up Hollywood Funding For Democrats
Animal Magnetism: Lena Dunham, Nutcase, also, Rule Five Social Media Stupidity Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For September 8
BLACKFIVE: J.T. Ellison, Lie To Me
Da Tech Guy: I’d Rather be Thinking About Curtains, also, Democrat Outed As Furry Resigns
Don Surber: Under Trump, The Crime Rate Falls
Dustbury: Pretty Much Petered Out
The Geller Report: EU Court Rules Eastern European Nations Must Accept Refugees
Hogewash: Blogsmoke, also, Qapla’!
Jammie Wearing Fools: WFAN’s Craig Carton Arrested In $2M Ticket Fraud Scheme
Joe For America: EXTREME VOTER FRAUD! Over 5000 Illegal Out-Of-State Democrat Voters May Have Stolen New Hampshire From Trump
JustOneMinute: Gays, Bayes, And AI
Power Line: On The Cover Of Time Magazine
Shark Tank: Rubio Misses Key Hurricane Relief Funding Vote
Shot In The Dark: What’s The Only Thing…
The Political Hat: California’s Capitol City To Pay Danegeld
This Ain’t Hell: Vets Sue SC Lawyers For Bilking Them Out Of Pensions, also, Post-Combat Drunken Orgies Approved
Weasel Zippers: Talcum X Calls For Complete Boycott Of NFL Over Has-Been QB, also, Fox News To Part Ways With Eric Bolling After Harassment Investigation
Megan McArdle: Here’s Why Silicon Valley Loves Big Government
Mark Steyn: America’s Worst Nightmare, also, Hurricane Hosting


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Category: Linkagery

Remembering 9/11: Friday Fiction Special

Posted on | September 8, 2017 | Comments Off on Remembering 9/11: Friday Fiction Special

by Smitty

“Samantha?” she asked into the darkness.
“Mother?” answered the raw voice of her sophomore daughter.
“School?” she inquired, wondering why only the lamp was on in the living room.
“Yeah.”
“Tell me.”
“My Political Science professor went on a rant about 9/11. He said that capitalism is evil and that that ‘freedom fighters’ had courageously held America accountable for all the sins–he said ‘sins!’–we have committed and that, rather than get the message, we made things worse in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
“And?”
“Finally, I couldn’t take it anymore. I screamed ‘My dad died there that day, you sick bastard!'”
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via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

VIDEO: Kent Haeffner, President of Harvard University College Republicans

Posted on | September 8, 2017 | 2 Comments

FITCHBURG, Massachusetts
Thursday, Pete Da Tech Guy and I traveled to Harvard University, where we met with Kent Haeffner, president of Harvard’s College Republicans, and got this 18-minute video interview on Harvard Yard.

 

Kent was very gracious and joined us for dinner at El Jefe’s Taqueria on Harvard Square. I’ll have more about my Harvard visit later, including proof — proof! — that not all Harvard girls are ugly feminists.



 

 

Category: Education, Video
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