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In The Mailbox: 07.31.2017

Posted on | July 31, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
First Street Journal: Hold Them Accountable!
Proof Positive: Spider-Man Homecoming – A Movie Review
EBL: National Avocado Day
Twitchy: FLAWLESS VICTORY – Ben Shapiro Debates Cenk Uygur, Vindicates Conservative Principles
Louder With Crowder: Lady Gaga Accidentally Defends Trump’s Transgender Ban


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Not All Women Are Like That
American Power: Paki PM Nawaz Sharif Toppled, also, Edward Gibbon, Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire
American Thinker: “Collusion” Collapses As Democrat Congressional Espionage Scandal Takes Center Ring
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: DA Tells Dukes – Resign Or Else
BLACKFIVE: Ron Kaplan, Hank Greenberg In 1938
Bring The HEAT: And Now, Hamburg…Konstanz…
Da Tech Guy: Don’t Abandon Scouting, also, The Bad News
Don Surber: They Signed The Paris Agreement – Then Bought Our Coal, also, Palin Lawyers Begin Siege Of The NYT
Dustbury: Strange Search-Engine Queries NUMBER SIX HUNDRED!, also, A Lid On The Sandbox
The Geller Report: Media In All-Out Push To Portray Killer Muslim Cop Mohammed Noor As The Victim
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also bonus LOL Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Sanctuary Madness – Illegal Alien Deported 20 Times Rapes, Beats Elderly Portland Woman
Joe For America: Deleted Benghazi E-Mails Recovered!
JustOneMinute: Legacy Media Not Quite AWOL On Awan (But They Want To Be), also, A Wake-Up Headline
Power Line: The Obamacare Drama Is Not Over, also, Princeton To “Re-Educate” Its Male Students
Shark Tank: Congress Comes Together To Oppose Venezuela’s Sham Election
Shot In The Dark: We, The People
STUMP: Mortality Monday – Suicide Rates
The Jawa Report: What Happened To Bilal Ahmed – Making It Big Edition, also, Where Is Dr. Rusty? Good Shepherd Edition
The Political Hat: Faith & Gender
This Ain’t Hell: CWO3 Jessie Rhymes Saving The World, also, Texas Judge Young Min Burkett Not A U.S. Citizen
Weasel Zippers: Damage Done, Stacy’s Crazy Cousin John Returns To Arizona For Cancer Treatment, also, Memo To GOP – Obamacare Shoved 2.6 Million Out Of Individual Market This Year
Mark Steyn: Has Anybody Here Seen Priebus?, also, Dunkirk


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Rule 5 Sunday: Burger Girls

Posted on | July 30, 2017 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

As you might imagine, I’m not too thrilled with the current crop of Carl’s Jr. ads, which deprecate the attractive models formerly used to help sell their delicious burgers in favor of some weird sitcom-like spots featuring “Carl Hardee Sr.” coming back to take charge of the company from his feckless supermodel-obsessed son. Well, we’ll always have YouTube, I guess. Today’s appetizer (belatedly helping us celebrate National Hamburger Day) is Samantha Hoopes, here seen chowing down on the Carl’s Jr. All American Burger.
As usual, many of the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW, and the management is not responsible for any ill results arising from your failure to click at an appropriate time & place.

All American Girl Eats All American Burger. ‘Murica.

We kick off this week with Ninety Miles From Tyranny and Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns; Goodstuff checks in with cosplay, cartography, and SCIENCE! Animal Magnetism also supplied Rule Five CCW Friday and the ever-popular Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd of heifers this week included Cara Delevergywobblethumpbrrbrr – screw it, we’re just going to call her Jane Smith from now on. Easier to spell are Sandie Shaw, National Tequila Day, Rule 5 Popcorn, National Hamburger Day, National Lipstick Day, Judith Durham, and Nancy Sinatra.

A View From The Beach offered A Tattooed Lady – Tori Praver, Shark Week Fish Pic Friday, Tanlines Thursday Meets Shark Week!, Way Back Wednesday, Tuesday in the Turks… , Scientific Publishing at Work, The Stars are the Limit, Reason #5617 That Trump Was Elected, Fighting on Social Media…, “Me and Bobby McGee” and The Road To Hell…

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe was Alyssa Miller, his Vintage Babe was Dorothy Burgess, Vintage Sex In Advertising was covered by Lilli Ann, and there’s also The Women of PETA IV*.  At Dustbury, it’s Paige Spinarac and Halle Berry.

*Admit it, it sounds like an episode from the cancelled fourth season of the original Star Trek, doesn’t it?

Thanks to everyone for all their linkagery!


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FMJRA 2.0: Outskirts

Posted on | July 29, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Early Morning Rule 5 Monday
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Diamonds & Rust
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.24.17
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Tranny SJW Claims Science Does Not Prove That the Penis Is a Male Organ
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.25.17
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.26.17
Proof Positive
EBL

Why Trump Won
A View From The Beach
EBL

Fat Feminism and the War on Sanity
The Pirate’s Cove
Rotten Chestnuts
Welcome To My Playpen
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.27.17
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Twitter Is Losing Nearly $40 Million a Month, and Still Banning Conservatives
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.28.17
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers this week:

  1.  EBL (10)
  2.  (tied) A View From The Beach and Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery!


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College Communists Collapse

Posted on | July 29, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

The Swarthmore Anti-Capitalist Collective has crumbled into “the ash heap of history,” Matthew Stein reports at Campus Reform:

A Marxist student group at Swarthmore College disbanded itself earlier this year after realizing that its members were too rich and too white to be real commies.
According to screenshots confidentially provided to Campus Reform by an individual with access to the group’s private Facebook page, the demise of the Swarthmore Anti-Capitalist Collective (SACC) came in the wake of a farewell letter from a member who had decided the group could never be an effective proponent of “unproblematized anticapitalist politics” due to its “history of abuse, racism, and even classism.”
“From my understanding SACC disbanded because they realized the makeup and tactics of their group was at odds with their espoused principles,” Swarthmore Conservative Society President Gilbert Guerra told Campus Reform. “Their main support base was middle-upper class white kids who enjoy jogging.” . . .
Arguing that “low-income people of color should never be an afterthought in a group whose politics supposedly focus on their liberation,” the author [of the letter disbanding the group] then went on to accuse SACC of having a “history of abuse, racism, and even classism that was never adequately addressed or recognized despite constantly being brought up as an issue.”

In January, calling themselves Swarthmore Marxists and Anti-Capitalists (SMAC), the college commie collective issued a manifesto in the student newspaper announcing a campus meeting:

We invite students disillusioned by the state of activism on Swarthmore’s campus to join our group and define our work. Fighting Trump requires an active and radical Left unwilling to compromise with the ascendant Fascism that is Trump and the far-right.

The annual cost of attending Swarthmore — tuition, fees, room and board — is $63,550, which amounts to $254,220 for a four-year degree. Rich white kids who hate themselves for being rich and white don’t seem to mind asking their rich white Mommy and Daddy to spend a quarter-million bucks for them to attend an elite private college.

For some reason, these young bourgeois Bolsheviks consider it beneath their dignity to enroll at, say, Penn State ($29,760 a year, or less than half the cost of attending Swarthmore). Of course, if they’re so concerned with “classism,” maybe the commies at Swarthmore could just drop out of college and get a job, but the vanguard of the proletariat can’t be bothered to get their hands dirty doing any actual work.

Marxism is supposed to be about revolution — the violent overthrow of the capitalist system. If Swarthmore’s Marxists wanted to strike a blow against the regime, they could go home and burn down their family’s 5BR/4BA on that quiet suburban cul-de-sac where they grew up. Or they could liquidate their trust fund, give the money to the Black Lives Matters movement, move to Pyongyang and enjoy the glories of socialism.

Along with the rest of the soi-disant #resistance, the Swarthmore commies are fundamentally unserious in their “anti-fascist” rhetoric. Like the college feminists who claim to want to “smash patriarchy,” but who don’t mind Daddy paying big bucks to send them an elite private school, these spoiled brats at Swarthmore call themselves “Marxists” as a sort of political fashion statement in an effort to win the campus virtue-signaling contest. Their parents’ wealth has purchased them a four-year holiday from reality, an academic vacation during which they can engage in juvenile gestures of make-believe Marxism that are no more radical than frat boys doing drinking stunts on Spring Break.

 

The pathetic failure of the Swarthmore Anti-Capitalist Collective would be mere comedy, were it not for the fact that these adolescent misfits are a perfect example of the dangerous ignorance that now prevails among so-called “elite” students. None of these college Bolsheviks has ever been required to study the real history of Communism. They haven’t read Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror, or The Harvest of Sorrow, nor do they know anything about the sordid history of the American Left. They’ve never read Destructive Generation by Peter Collier and David Horowitz or The Secret World of American Communism by Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov. Utterly ignorant of the tragic consequences of Communism in the 20th century, young fools want to revive this deadly idea in the 21st century.

The Left is always wrong, but never in doubt. Their bad ideas would be less dangerous, if they were not so fanatically certain they were right. Yet our college campuses are crowded with young fools, who are tutored in their folly by old fools who have spent their entire adult lives in the academic cocoon where intellectual abstractions are more important than real-life consequences and there is no penalty for being wrong.



 

 

 

Category: Education

In The Mailbox: 07.28.17

Posted on | July 28, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.28.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


YOUR LINKAGERY. SEND IT TO ME.
Deadline to submit links for tomorrow’s FMJRA is 5 PM Pacific Time on Saturday; links for Rule 5 Sunday should be in the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox by 3 PM Sunday. Thanks in advance!


OVER THE TRANSOM
First Street Journal: Republicans Won’t Get Rid Of Federal Health Care Guarantee
EBL: Ted Kennedy Still Living In John McCain’s Head & Calling The Shots
Twitchy: The Hero The GOP Needs? Kid Rock Leads In Poll 49/46
Louder With Crowder: Ben Shapiro Schools Democrat Congresswoman On White Privilege
According To Hoyt: I Aten’t Dead
Monster Hunter Nation: The Siege Book Tour Starts This Week – Complete Schedule
Vox Popoli: Cultural Enrichment In Germany


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Hawt Chicks, Links, And Updates
American Power: Senate Rejects “Skinny Repeal” 49-51, also, Thomas Sowell, The Vision Of The Anointed
American Thinker: The Forgotten History Of Britain’s White Slaves In America
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five CCW Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For July 28
Bring The HEAT: I’ve Waited A Long Time For This – Two Superfortresses In Flight Together
Da Tech Guy: The Great Co-op(ted) Farms
Don Surber: (John) McCain Embodies What Is Wrong With DC
Dustbury: Goodbye, Charlie
The Geller Report: FBI Too Lawyer Under Investigation For Leaking Classified Data
Hogewash: Blognet, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: California Lawmakers Pass 400% Gas Tax Increase, Then Vote Themselves Free Cars, Gas
JustOneMinute: If You’re Not Yet Sick of Health Care…
Power Line: Obamacare Lives
Shark Tank: House Passes Bill To Fund Wall, Military, Veterans
Shot In The Dark: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
STUMP: Updates On Vladimir Bukovsky And Yuri Dmitriev
The Political Hat: The New Holy Faith (Muggles Not Welcome)
This Ain’t Hell: SSGT Nicholas Davis Saving The World, also, Here Come The Lawsuits
Weasel Zippers: House Judiciary GOP Call For Second Special Counsel To Investigate Clinton, Comey, & Lynch, also, Reince Priebus Out, General Kelly His Replacement
Megan McArdle: RIP Repeal And Replace
Mark Steyn: Canadian Dreamboats, Lahore IT Guys, And Kiwi Apiarists


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Twitter Is Losing Nearly $40 Million a Month, and Still Banning Conservatives

Posted on | July 28, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

Here’s a number: $116.5 million.

That’s how much money Twitter lost during the second quarter this year, which is 9% more than what Twitter lost in the same quarter last year.

In other words, Twitter’s “burn rate” has increased in the past year, to the point that they’re now losing $38.8 million each month. Every day of the week, Twitter loses $1.3 million. The losing never stops and, at the current rate, Twitter will lose more than $470 million this year.

Did I mention that I was banned from Twitter in February 2016?

I’d been on Twitter since 2009 and my account had tens of thousands of followers, but the claim that I was “participating in targeted abuse” was offered to justify my banishment, even though Twitter never said what the alleged “abuse” was, who had been “targeted,” or how I had been “participating.” This act of censorship exposed how Twitter had decided, in an election year, to surrender control of its platform to a crew of feminist social justice warriors (SJWs) designated the “Trust and Safety Council.” This secretive group of Soviet-style commissars included the notorious anti-male hatemonger Anita Sarkeesian, and soon Twitter began purging conservative accounts.

Twitter stock, which was trading at $51 a share in April 2015, is now at $17, having lost fully two-thirds of its former value. Twitter’s response to declining value? BAN MORE CONSERVATIVES:

The Twitter account of Breitbart London editor in chief Raheem Kassam has been suspended by the platform, just days after he announced the forthcoming publication of his new book on Radical Islam. . . .
Kassam implied the sudden decision of Twitter to suspend his account just days after he revealed the controversial cover art of the forthcoming book which challenges radical Islam may have been more than just a coincidence when he took to rival social media Facebook to reveal the shutdown. Kassam also said that his account had never been shut down before.

Raheem’s account was restored after a 12-hour suspension — and pre-orders for his book made it No. 1 on the Amazon bestsellers list — but the point is that liberals are never targeted for such treatment. Can you name even one liberal journalist who has been suspended or banned from Twitter? Yet the known bans on conservatives — including me, Charles C. Johnson of GotNews.com and former Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos — continue in force, which is to say nothing of the numerous lesser-known account suspensions. Last fall, just six weeks before the election, Twitter actually suspended Instapundit — Professor Glenn Reynolds, a USA Today columnist — for a three-word tweet about the violent riots in Charlotte, N.C. Meanwhile, by contrast, Twitter provides blue-check “verified” status to transgender pornographer Zachary Antolak/“Zinnia Jones”/“Satana Kennedy.”

There is an undeniable pattern of bias at Twitter, whose executives consider their political agenda more important than profit. Does anyone imagine that a company staffed by social justice warriors (SJWs) is a smart investment? Twitter management has effectively yielded control of the company to socialists, anarchists and other enemies of capitalism. Are you surprised that they’re losing nearly $40 million a month?



 

 

Category: Economics, Liberals

In The Mailbox: 07.27.17

Posted on | July 27, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Hereafter.com
EBL: Imran Awan’s Arrest And His Disturbing Connections To Democratic Leadership
Twitchy: Joan Walsh Calls ICE Chief “Head of A Violent Gang”, Schooling Ensues
Louder With Crowder: Adam Carolla Nails Snowflake Campus Culture – We Need Adults To Start Being Adults!


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Transsexuals In The Military? Don’t Make Me Laugh
American Power: Why Ohio Just Gave Donald Trump A Hero’s Welcome, also, Ayn Rand, We The Living
American Thinker: What Has Happened To Minneapolis?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Icons Of Rock News
BattleSwarm: Imran Awan – So Many Questions
Bring The HEAT: British 24-Hour Operational Ration Pack, Part IV
Da Tech Guy: The Stupid Party Earns Its Name Again
Don Surber: Think Of Amazon As Sears
Dustbury: You Want To Write For Me?
Fred On Everything: Iron Horse Nights – An American Residuum
The Geller Report: Facebook’s Forcible Suppression Of Opposition, also, American Sharia – Google Bows To Muslim Pressure, Changes Search Results
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: Hookers, Lies, And Fraud – Snopes “In Danger Of Closing Its Doors”
JustOneMinute: Supplementing The Customary “Don’t Drink The Water” Advice, also, Nunes – Unmasking The Multitudes
Power Line: Understanding The Awan Connection
Shark Tank: Rubio Praises Sessions After Trump’s Criticism Of The AG
Shot In The Dark: Backward Schadenfreud
STUMP: Congrats To Keith Phaneuf, Eight-Time 80% Funding Hall Of Shame Member!
The Jawa Report: Things Jawas Want To Know – WTF Is Dr. Rusty Shackleford?
The Political Hat: The New Education – Teacher Illiteracy, Picketer Slogans, And Islamophobic Math
This Ain’t Hell: Reaching, also, Anthony Ventura Sentenced For Embezzling From DFC Society
Weasel Zippers: Why Did The MPD Search Justine Damond’s House After They Killed Her?, also, Lady Gaga Accidentally Gives Support To Trump’s Ban On Transgender Troops
Megan McArdle: How Bureaucracies Creep Into Life-And-Death Medical Decisions
Mark Steyn: Dulles Does For Debbie


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Fat Feminism and the War on Sanity

Posted on | July 27, 2017 | 4 Comments

 

Kaye Toal (@ohkayewhatever on Twitter) is a “creative producer” at BuzzFeed who has strange hair, lives in Brooklyn and hates Republicans. Her career as a human cliché began years ago when she started a blog on Tumblr — did I mention she’s a cliché? — called “Big Fat Feminist.” At the time, Ms. Toal was a Rutgers University student majoring in English and she was angry at “cis het dudes” who didn’t find her attractive. This was the subject of a blog post which I will fisk in italics:

On Being Fat and Romantically
Interested in Other People:
A Rambling Confessional, of Sorts
[TRIGGER WARNING: Rape]

(Let’s start with a trigger warning, because, of course.)

Look, it’s really f–king hard to be a fat person who happens to be romantically interested in other people, particularly when those other people are cis het dudes.

(It’s also really hard to be an English major who apparently can’t write a sentence that doesn’t include the f-word, but never mind that for now. Why did Ms. Toal feel the need to single out “cis het dudes” as an object of scorn? Why is she “romantically interested” in them, if she harbors such resentment toward them?)

It’s hard because when you grow up fat, you grow up believing that you’re not ever going to be attractive to anyone. You don’t even do this on purpose — the world does it for you. For me, they did it through fat jokes on Friends, fat jokes on Will & Grace, fat jokes on every single sitcom, ever, headlines on my mother’s Cosmo and Self telling me (I wasn’t supposed to be looking at them, but whatever) both that my sexuality only mattered as long as it was relevant to men and that being fat automatically made my sexuality irrelevant to men, “No Fat Chicks” bumper stickers, bullying in school, and rampant self-hatred and body-shaming in my family. I don’t think I ever had any agency in deciding whether or not I thought I was attractive until college. I just sort of knew, because the world knew, that I wasn’t. I was fat. How could I be?

(TV, magazines, bumper stickers, school bullies, her family — these comprise “the world” which Ms. Toal blames for her “self-hatred and body-shaming.” She blames “the world” for everything wrong in her life, including her attitudes about “sexuality.” Apparently, “the world” never suggested that maybe Ms. Toal should skip that second helping of mashed potatoes and maybe try a salad instead. She had no “agency” in her life, but was instead a victim of “the world.”)

This was a daily fact of my existence. It was never, ever something I questioned. It means that when I did get a boyfriend, at 15, I was actually surprised that he wanted to touch me. It means there was always a part of me that wondered if it was a pity thing. It means that when he cheated on me with a much thinner girl, and ultimately broke up with me for her, I assumed it was because I was no longer sexually attractive to him and never really had been. It means that when I found the fat acceptance movement and realized all this I’d been told my entire life was total bulls–t, I had to start unpacking some really toxic s–t that I’d internalized.

(Everything she had “been told her entire life” was wrong — this is what she learned from “the fat acceptance movement,” which Ms. Toal joined after her high-school boyfriend dumped her for a skinny girl. The possibility of skipping the mashed potatoes still hadn’t occurred to her.)

It means that now, when I ask people out, the answer I’m terrified of is not “No” but “Wait, what?”
Here’s why: a “no” answer means that you were actually considered to be part of this person’s potential dating pool, even as a negative. You were there. You counted for something. The idea of your sexuality was not erased simply because you don’t fit conventional norms of attractiveness.
“Wait, what?” means you were never there in the first place. “Wait, what?” means that everything the world told you when you were little was 100% correct.
Look, when you grow up fat you’re basically told that no one will ever want to f–k you. Not date. Not kiss. Not hold hands with you while walking through a park and eating ice cream. These things aren’t even considered, because if no one wants to f–k you, who would ever fall in love with you? Don’t you know the only thing that matters is how attractive you are to heterosexual men? No, I don’t care if you’re queer. The opinions of heterosexual men are the only ones that matter. Duh.

(Again, with the demonization of heterosexual men. When she’s not blaming “the world” in general for her problems, she focuses her rage on heterosexual men who are guilty of the sin of not finding her attractive, despite the fact that she is “romantically interested” in them. Once upon a time, deeply confused people would seek psychiatric help. Nowadays, they join political movements and demand “acceptance.”)

And you’re told — often overtly, particularly if you’re a fat feminist on the internet — that the only way you’d ever have sex is if you got raped, but ha ha ha who would want to rape a fat girl, and fat girls can’t get raped anyway because they’re so desperate for sex because no one would ever want to f–k a fat girl!! Am I right?!

(No, ma’am, you’re emotionally disturbed. But please continue . . .)

Of course, usually people grow up to the point where they can realize that none of this is true. It’s actually, you know, kind of nuts. But there’s still a part of you that believes, because there’s a part of you that has always believed. And so the scary thing, when you put yourself out there, isn’t “Oh sorry, I don’t see you that way.” It’s “Oh… I don’t even see you.”
I’ve gotten a lot of “Wait, what?” in my time. I’ve also gotten a lot — a LOT — of people who have told me that I’m amazing, and funny, and so intelligent, and so fun to be around, but that they can’t date me.

(Perhaps because they don’t want to deal with an emotionally disturbed fat feminist, but I’m just throwing that out there as a possibility.)

Sometimes there are legitimate reasons given for this; sometimes there aren’t. Either way, the surface reason is never “I can’t date you because you’re fat.” And I have no way of proving that the underlying reason is “I can’t date you because you’re fat,” probably because nobody in their decent mind would think of it in those terms. But I wasn’t the only one who internalized all that “No Fat Chicks” bulls–t when I was younger, and I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of other people haven’t taken the time to take that out, give it a once over, and decide it’s trash.

(How dare you refuse to date an emotionally disturbed fat feminist! Can’t you see that this makes you guilty of a hate crime?)

And you know what? Ultimately it doesn’t matter, because what another person ACTUALLY believes is completely secondary to the little voice in the back of my mind from my childhood. That voice will always, always be there. That voice is less audible now than it was when I was 15, but it’s a seed of doubt. And I have days where it’s all I can hear. I do not think I’m alone in this.
An amazing friend of mine said to me recently, “If a person says they ‘can’t’ date you for whatever reason, they’re right. You don’t want to be with that a–hole anyway.” She’s right, of course. It doesn’t matter why they can’t, and it doesn’t matter whether that little voice is right or not, because the funny thing about that voice is that it is always f–king wrong.
This is something I need to remind myself of, every so often: THAT VOICE IS ALWAYS F–KING WRONG.

(Do the voices in her head SHOUT IN CAPS LOCK?)

It’s wrong because no one falls in love with weight. It’s wrong because attractiveness is subjective; there is absolutely no one who is categorically, objectively “hot” to everyone, ever. 

(No, ma’am, you’re wrong. Beauty exists as an objective reality, and everyone recognizes beauty when they see it. However, you can’t make up for a deficiency in beauty by being obnoxious, resentful and angry. Or by dyeing your hair purple, for that matter.)

And most importantly, it’s wrong because the things and people who started it talking certainly did not have my best interests at heart, so why in God’s name should I take it seriously? 
No, really. Imagine if that voice was actually attached to a person who was telling you these things. You’d tell that person they were a f–king a–hole, you’d fume, you’d maybe slap it or punch it directly in the kidneys, or maybe you’d run home and cry on the phone to your best friend or your mom, but the point is that you sure as HELL wouldn’t think it was the voice of reason. Why does that change just because it’s the little voice in the back of your head?
It doesn’t. So next time that little voice starts yammering away, tell it to shut the hell up. It has no idea what it’s talking about.

Thus she ends her 1,100-word opus, talking to the voices in her head.

Ms. Toal’s resentment of male heterosexuals, who are guilty of the hate crime of not reciprocating her romantic interest, is like Zachary Antolak (a/k/a “Zinnia Jones”) telling heterosexual men that they are wrong not to be attracted to transgender “women.” Why is it that only heterosexual men’s preferences and opinions are subject to criticism?

Oh, that’s right — because heterosexual men are presumed to be Republicans, and everything a Republican does is inherently wrong, according to the kind of people who are employed at BuzzFeed.

Politics is everything and everything is politics to the kind of emotionally disturbed people who become social justice warriors (SJWs). If you’ve got purple hair like Kaye Toal (or if your nickname is “Queen of the Horse Dildos” like Zachary/“Zinnia”) then demanding that other people find you sexually attractive probably seems like an excellent idea. Because you’re crazy, and who am I to argue with the voices in your head?

And now, the ironic denouement . . .

 

That’s Kaye Toal at Hillary Clinton campaign headquarters in New York, a few days before last year’s election, and who’s that with her? Her new boyfriend Tom Van Buren. Apparently, “cis het dudes” who are Democrats don’t mind dating crazy fat feminists with purple hair because, let’s be honest, that’s pretty much the only option available to guys if you’re gonna date Democrats.

And Democrats still can’t figure out why Trump won the election . . .



 

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