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In The Mailbox: 02.20.17

Posted on | February 20, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.20.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Democrat President FDR Interns Japanese-Americans By Executive Order, February 19 1942
Twitchy: Milo Disinvited From CPAC After “Disturbing Comments”
Louder With Crowder: INSTANT KARMA – Illegals Skip Work For #ADayWithoutImmigrants, Get Fired
Status 451: Days Of Rage


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Dave Rubin Is A Gay Hypocrite
American Power: How The Southern Poverty Law Center Faked An Islamophobia Crisis
American Thinker: Elian Gonzalez Was A DREAMer Too
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BLACKFIVE: Racing The Devil by Charles Todd
Da Tech Guy: John Ruberry – If You Oppose Media Collusion With Political Campaigns, You’re A Conservative
Don Surber: Historians Sense Obama Failed
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Want With A Capital W
The Geller Report: As Enemedia Mock Trump For Sweden Comment, Swedish MPs Demand Billions For Police amid Growing Crisis
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Jammie Wearing Fools: Texas Governor To NFL – Sorry, You Need To Worry About Your Own Spousal Abuse Scandals Before You Go Dictating To Us That We Need Penises In The Ladies’ Rooms
Joe For America: LTC Tony Shaffer Says Obama Laid “Tripwires” In Intel Community To Sabotage Trump
JustOneMinute: LMAO Re-Reading IMAO
Power Line: McCain Drives Into The Ditch, also, Trump 4 Politifact 1
Shark Tank: Rubio Pushes For FSA/HSA Reform
Shot In The Dark: More Hatred Of Muslims!
STUMP: SC Pensions – Recent Rumblings Or Rumbles, also, SC Pensions – Investment Returns Recalc
The Jawa Report: Proud UC San Diego Hitler Youth Supporter Advocates Genocide, also, Sandcrawler Crusade! Free Nessie!
The Lonely Conservative: Barstool Eruptions As Public Policy
The Political Hat: News Of The Week
This Ain’t Hell: Vietnam MoH Honorees Challenge Senator Blumenthal, also, Opioid Theft At The VA
War Is Boring: Sending The Mexican Army To Fight A Drug War Has Been A Disaster, also, The Navy’s F/A-18 Squadrons Are Broken
Weasel Zippers: Homeland Security’s Kelly Proposes Hiring More ICE Officers, Fast-Tracking Deportations, also, Texas Legislature Advances Bill To Fine And Defund “Sanctuary” Cities And Campuses


Today’s Digital Deals

Category: Linkagery

Zaklog the Great Is Great Again

Posted on | February 20, 2017 | Comments Off on Zaklog the Great Is Great Again

After devoting so much time to the demented “Rain Lawless” — who is to feminist insanity what the Comstock Lode was to silver — I needed some relief. Fortunately, there is at least one sane person left on the planet, and he is known as Zaklog the Great:

 

Single mothers in America tend to vote heavily for Democrats. . . . Happily married women, on the other hand, tend to vote for Republicans, even more than single women without children. . . .
Now, how might this affect my decisions as a man? . . .
It’s clear: If you’re a man, and a conservative, find a good woman, marry her, and build her the best life you can.

You may remember Zaklog’s  argument for slut-shaming (“Because Sluts Should Be Ashamed”), and his argument here is likewise eminently sensible. Of course, trying to reconcile love with logic is always a challenge. How in the world did my wife fall in love with me? It was a miracle, an answer to prayer and, while no man could ever have a wife as good as my wife, if you want to marry a good woman, start praying now.

Also, go follow Zaklog the Great on Gab.ai.

 

Category: Sex Trouble

‘Anti-Feminists … Are F–king Evil. They’re Such Disgusting Human Beings’

Posted on | February 20, 2017 | 5 Comments

 

 

 

 

Her Tumblr blog announces: “I’m Rain. black. bi. woman. witch. vegan.. learning about radical feminism one step at a time.” She launched her YouTube channel in December, calling herself “Rain Lawless.”

The quote in the headline is from a video she posted last month (“Scattered Thoughts About Anti Feminists And Anti SJWS”) which appears to have been recorded on the bottom bunk of bunkbeds.

 

 

The commenters will be tempted to make rude comments about Rain Lawless based solely on her appearance, but politics is a war of ideas, and Ms. Lawless’s ideas are what truly deserve your rude comments, e.g., “if you spent more than five minutes speaking to me you’d know that I hate men just as much as any other feminist.” So the underlying rationale of her feminism is hatred of half the human race. You may want to watch her video about violence in which she says, “It is OK to punch homophobes, it’s OK to punch cops, it’s OK to punch people who are anti-human rights. . . . If they’re a bigot, feel free to punch them.” Violence against some people is acceptable, according to Rain Lawless, whereas feminists hating all males simply because they are male is not “anti-human rights,” and punching feminists is therefore not OK. The logic is impeccable.

 

Who is “Rain Lawless”? Before starting her current blog, her Tumblr account was called “Witchy Discourse” where, among other things, she issued curses: “This curse is meant to make a bad persons life TOXIC. Make this transphobic, ableist, and misogynistic f–k face get what they deserve for being so cruel.” She also used her “Witchy Discourse” blog for a fundraiser last fall, the description of which was this:

Help River Leave His Abusive Home
Hello! My name is River, and I live in an abusive home. I currently live with my father, because he manipulated me into thinking that he’s better now than he was before. He hasn’t changed at all. My father has bullied me, abused me, gaslighted me, and gone out of his way to make my already abysmal mental health worse. Every time I stand up for myself, he hates me more. I should not have to be afraid of living in my own home.
On top of that, I’m a trans man. It’s not safe for me to transition under my father’s roof. He’s very christian and so is my stepmother. The last time I tried to come out to him, he told me that I straight up shouldn’t tell anybody in the angriest tone possible, and he looked like he was seconds away from hitting me. I feel like that says a lot. There’s zero way that I’d ever be able to exist as a trans person underneath his roof.
And furthermore, he literally doesn’t care about my mental health. Not just because he uses me as an emotional punching bag every other day, but he won’t allow me to have access to therapy. I can feel my mental health deteriorating by the day, and he doesn’t even care. He has explicitly told me that I’m not allowed to have a therapist because “I’m not crazy”. Like, no. I have depression and I need help.
So, I need some money in my savings so that I can move out of my home comfortably. . . . I’ll need an absolute bare minimum of $8k to pay for rent, food, and transportation for a few months, as well as furniture. Hopefully, I’ll be able to reach $10k, but I’m starting at $8k for now just to be safe.

“River” asked for $8,000, got only $667. Not long thereafter, the “Witchy Discourse” blog was deleted, and then “Rain Lawless” arrived on Tumblr as a bisexual vegan radical feminist witch with a new hustle. Among other things, she has a “Feminist Witchcraft” shop on Etsy, offering such services as “Self Love Tarot Card Reading” ($6): “This five card spread will address what your potential insecurities are and how to achieve self love and be more confident in yourself.” Remember, this occult service is being offered by someone who is living in the home of her “very Christian” father and who, just a few months ago, was trying to raise money as a “trans man” who needed to move out and get a sex change. She can’t work any magic in her own life, but let her work magic for you! Also, if you need any curses to make a “transphobic, ableist, and misogynistic f–k face get what they deserve,” I’m sure “Rain Lawless” will be glad to conjure one up for you, if the price is right. Meanwhile . . .

 

 

 

 

 

Those screencaps are from the YouTube video in which “River Lawless” discusses her new “initiative” she calls #FeministsResist:

“I think we need to get our activism the everlasting f–k off
Tumblr. Arguing with liberals is doing absolutely nothing. . . .
Arguing with liberals and conservatives and anti-feminists
and who the f–k ever on Tumblr is making absolutely zero
real-life change and this little initiative will hopefully
get us outside into the real world making real change and,
you know, bringing attention to what we do.”

Well, congratulations, “Rain Lawless”! As of 11 a.m. ET today, you had 182 views on that video, but I hope that will soon go through the roof because I’m all about bringing attention to what you do. Read more

Category: Sex Trouble

Rule 5 Sunday: Valentine’s Day Pinup Edition

Posted on | February 20, 2017 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The annual Feast Day of St. Valentine, noted mainly for upticks in flower and chocolate sales, has come and gone, but since I would prefer not to scour the Internet for appropriate (or, more likely, inappropriate) Presidential pin-up art, we’re going to stick with the usual ladies for our selection of appetizers. This week, it’s a dame from the portfolio of Gil Elvgren.
As usual, the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW. The management is not responsible for any unfortunate consequences should you click on these links with a fine disregard for the time and place of clicking.

Women, like life, are like a box of chocolates…

Leading off this week is Ninety Miles From tyranny, with Morning Mistress – Leftist Body Shaming Edition, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Girls With Guns, followed by Goodstuff and former Charlie’s Angel Cheryl Ladd, and Animal Magnetism with Rule Five Asian Alliances Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL has Carla Howe, Making Grammy Dresses Great Again, Emily Ratajkowski, A Replacement For Bill Kristol, and Chrissy Teigen.

A View From The Beach brings us I Can’t Even Pronounce Lais Ribeiro, Mammoth Resurrection Plans Advance, This Morning’s Wake Up . . ., Reason #5444 Trump Was Elected, “Time After Time”, Interior Semidiotics?, She Ain’t Heavy, and Russian Kiddie Show?

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Lena Katina, his Vintage Babe is Barbara Britton, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Zoe Duchesne. At Dustbury, it’s Karen Valentine and Vanna White.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

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Category: Linkagery, Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: A Day Late And A Dollar Short

Posted on | February 19, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Standing In The Shadow Of The Master
Animal Magnetism
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
EBL

Woman Pretends to Be Man? OK. Woman Pretends to Be War Hero? Not OK.
EBL

Lena Dunham Declares White Women Need ‘Enlightening’ by Feminists
The Political Hat
A View From The Beach
EBL

VIDEO: @BenShapiro Destroys University Student’s Bogus Transgender Ideology
EBL

Canada: Psycho Who Beheaded Man Does Not Pose ‘Significant Threat’ to Public
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Garryowen
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

The Left’s Dystopian Future
EBL

‘She Told Me Her Teacher Was Molesting Her,’ Says Mother of Teenage Victim
EBL

NY Times Goes Full SJW
EBL

Airline Pilot Goes Full SJW, Ranting About Her Divorce and the Election
Regular Right Guy
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.13.17
Proof Positive
EBL

‘An Uncomfortable Truth’
The Ordeal Of Consciousness
EBL

Feminists: They Even Hate Love
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.14.17
Proof Positive
EBL

White People Are ‘Lazy,’ Immigrants ‘Work Hard and Really Want to Succeed’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.15.17
Proof Positive
EBL
Feminism’s Rhetorical Abracadabra
EBL

A Murder in Cleveland
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.16.17
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL

Feminism: Ignorance as Expertise
EBL

Oh, @Jack Dorsey and @SarahSilverman Sharing Coup d’Etat Fantasies?
EBL

Democrat Commits Violence Against Women That Feminists Will Ignore
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.17.17
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers this week:

  1.  EBL (21)
  2.  Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

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Category: FMJRA Award

@DavidAFrench: Up Your Game

Posted on | February 19, 2017 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

French has a fair cop over at NRO, (emphasis mine):

And just like that, in lockstep, the tough-guy Right pivots. The herd moos aggressively and goes to war. It’s just as big a joke as a Democratic party that once pitched its own fits about hackers and leakers and now casts leaking in the most heroic possible terms.
None of this is honorable. It’s low and partisan. I don’t care how many war allusions you use, how insulting you are on Twitter, or how many times you accuse your opponents of “pearl-clutching” and “bed-wetting.” Unless your argument is honest, principled, and consistently applicable to both sides, you’re just being tribal.

My next-door neighbor is a straightforward #NeverTrump admirer of Her Majesty. I was making the point to him the other day: “It’s not good when the one you don’t like is in the office with too much power; it’s not good when the one you don’t like is in the office with too much power: maybe someday we’ll realize that the fundamental problem is that the office has too much power.”
You can’t beat tribal behavior, Mr. French. Maybe a better question is how you set about minimizing the effects of tribal behavior. Talk to me, in practical terms, about how we’re to drive this system toward dispersing power. Should we:

  • Make the House more representative?
  • Nuke the 17th Amendment, so that States matter more?
  • Replace gerrymandering with a modern mapping algorithm, to weaken parties?
  • Apply pliers and a blow torch to the IRS, and craft a 21st-century taxation system?
  • Term-limit pretty much everything, and blow up the petty aristocracy of the Beltway?

I’m not an “expert”. But I’m moving toward the opinion that, if you’re not recommending improvements for consideration, it’s almost as though you’re accepting the status quo.

Category: Uncategorized

Social Justice vs. Heterosexuality (and the Problem With ‘Male Feminists’)

Posted on | February 18, 2017 | 2 Comments

“We must recognize that heterosexuality is also part of the structure of the oppression of women. Sexual repression is one of the ways in which women are oppressed and one of the ways in which patriarchy is maintained.”
— Jane Flax, “Women Do Theory,” 1979, in Feminist Frameworks: Alternative Theoretical Accounts of the Relations Between Women and Men, edited by Alison M. Jaggar and Paula S. Rothenberg (Third Edition, 1993)

“It is a curious fact that feminists who live heterosexual lifestyles — who are happily married to, living with or having sex with men — often find it difficult or impossible to accept the identity ‘heterosexual.’ . . .
“For some heterosexual feminists . . . the contradictions between political ideology and lived experience are acute and painful, and involve constant compromise. . . . No wonder, then, that the identity ‘heterosexual’ is hard to sustain.”
— Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson, “The Precariousness of Heterosexual Feminist Identities,” in Making Connections: Women’s Studies, Women’s Movements, Women’s Lives, edited by Mary Kennedy, Cathy Lubelska and Val Walsh (1993)

Oppression, repression, patriarchy — guys, if you ever encounter a woman who talks like this, just walk away. She’s deranged, and nothing you say to her is likely to cure her paranoid anti-male delusions.

Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It, and the only way anyone can hope to escape this destruction is to avoid being anywhere in the vicinity of a feminist. Why do feminists hate men so much? Perhaps because the only men with whom feminists ever interact are men too stupid to avoid hanging around feminists. Or even worse, they get mixed up with a “male feminist”:

I thought dating someone who called himself a feminist — who considered himself a “social justice warrior,” who was accepted in these communities, who was introduced to me at a feminist event by a trusted friend, and was sensitive — would be the safest choice I could make for a boyfriend. Instead, he was emotionally and psychologically abusive and manipulative. . . .
He bemoaned how predatory men can be. He was “concerned for me” — not jealous. . . .
He cried when I described my past rape. He hurt for me. He told me about how he hurts for all the women he knows who have been assaulted. I slowly found out that the women he has recently pursued are all assault survivors. . . .

You can read the rest of that, but you get the drift: Left-wing guys are sexual scavengers, always looking for easy prey, and their ostentatious concern for “social justice” issues is a three-card monte hustle that could only deceive a complete fool. However, complete fools are a dime a dozen in the kind of “communities” where feminists gather like wildebeests grazing on the Katanga Plateau, stalked by packs of “male feminists.”

Here’s a clue: Social justice is a mirage, as the Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek said. Anyone foolish enough to pursue the progressive fantasy of an egalitarian utopia is a chump, and getting involved with a political movement of chumps is always a bad idea, because bad causes attract bad people, and the worst get on top:

From the collectivist standpoint intolerance and brutal suppression of dissent, deception and spying, the complete disregard of the life and happiness of the individual are essential and unavoidable consequences . . .
To be a useful assistant in the running of a totalitarian state it is not enough that a man should be prepared to accept specious justification of vile deeds, he must himself be prepared actively to break every moral rule he has ever known if this seems necessary to achieve the end set for him. . . .
Yet while there is little that is likely to induce men who are good by our standards to aspire to leading positions in the totalitarian machine, and much to deter them, there will be special opportunities for the ruthless and unscrupulous.

The anarchist mobs of thugs who engage in vandalism and violence to protest the election results and to silence dissent on university campuses are symptomatic of this problem, and what kind of woman would get involved in such a movement? A fool or a feminist, but I repeat myself.

A woman who denounces heterosexuality as “the structure of the oppression of women,” to quote the Women’s Studies textbook, is free to avoid this oppression. If the feminist is not a lesbian, however, she must wonder if her politics can be reconciled with heterosexuality. In this, I agree with radical feminists, including Professor Kitzinger, who declare that feminism and heterosexuality are ultimately incompatible.

What does a normal woman want? The American Dream — a nice house in the suburbs, two or three kids running around in the backyard on a Sunday afternoon while her husband grills some burgers. Getting to that American Dream scenario in the 21st century may require different domestic arrangements than it did during the Eisenhower era, but a woman won’t get there through “social justice,” unless her husband happens to be a Democrat politician or a bigwig in some tax-exempt “progressive” foundation. No, ma’am, the way to the American Dream is capitalism. Smashing windows at Starbucks or marching around in pink “pussy hats” waving signs denouncing patriarchy isn’t likely to get you that nice house in suburbia. Reality does not conform to feminist theory.

 

 

 

While the progressive mob keeps marching toward their egalitarian mirage, the people who make America work are busy . . . well, working.

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money,” as Margaret Thatcher famously said, and how many anti-Trump protesters have jobs in the profit-making private sector? Not a lot, I’d bet.

Anti-Trump rage is an epidemic on college and university campuses, and why? Because so many of the students are living on borrowed money while they pursue useless liberal arts degrees, and are therefore part of a major economic problem in America:

The Department of Education recently released a memo admitting that repayment rates on student loans have been grossly exaggerated. Data from 99.8% of schools across the country has been manipulated to cover up growing problems with the $1.3 trillion in outstanding student loans. New calculations show that more than half of all borrowers from 1,000 different institutions have defaulted on or not paid back a single dollar of their loans over the last seven years. . . .
The policies of intervention haven’t stopped at federal aid, and loan forgiveness is now being offered to those willing to work in the public sector or at a non-profit for ten years. This perverse incentive only serves to drive those desperately in debt further towards government dependence. Productive jobs are created when the needs of others are met in the free market, not by joining the ranks of the state for self-preservation.
The idea that success comes exclusively through attending a university has created a stigma against some of the most valuable occupations. The lack of real skill sets has lead to a shortage of welders, electricians, carpenters, and other trade workers. Instead of learning through experience with apprenticeships, many students have embraced four years of sleeping in, drinking heavily, and getting an increasingly useless degree. While there are many fields that require specialized training, the surge in popularity of degrees like sociology, anthropology, and communications clearly illustrate a disconnect between the needs of the economy and the skills of the incoming workforce.

You can read the whole thing at Zero Hedge. How does anyone expect a Gender Studies major to repay her student loans? Isn’t the $1.3 trillion student-loan bubble directly connected to the totalitarian “progressive” mentality demonstrated by the anti-free speech riots at Berkeley?

“Well, that’s Berkeley,” you say. “Those left-wing lunatics have been in charge at Berkeley for decades.” The problem with that reaction is that the Left’s toxic ideology is on nearly every campus now.

What the hell is going on at Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va., that this public university has a department of Sexuality Studies which is hosting a lecture by lesbian feminist Professor Jane Ward? West Virginia is not a wealthy state that can afford to throw away taxpayer money on this kind of academic nonsense. The median household income in Huntington, W.Va., is only $29,873, and I rather doubt “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality” is high on their list of problems. “The Tragedy of My Pickup Truck Broke Down” is probably more relevant to their lives.

Imagine the West Virginia redneck — in his garage, trying to change out the busted water pump on his old Ford F-150 — when he finds out the state university spent his tax money to hire a lesbian professor from California to give a lecture on “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality.” He’s not going to smash any windows at Starbucks, but he’s damn sure not going vote for anybody he thinks is responsible for such foolishness.

Liberalism has become a luxury that only rich people could afford, were it not for the taxpayer subsidies for idiotic professors and administrators and students who sit around on college campuses constantly whining about oppression and inequality, blah, blah, blah. The good news is, all those vile left-wing scumbags are miserable now:

For some liberals in the United States, the presidential election results have been a total turn-off.
Normally in the first month of the year, the dating site Match.com sees an uptick in the number of active users on the site. January, after all, is a popular month for singles to get back out there.
But this January, Match.com noticed something surprising: a decrease in activity among the site’s more liberal users. In January, “people who call themselves liberals were far less likely to sign up with Match” and weren’t contacting potential matches or checking out new profiles as much, says Helen Fisher, the company’s science adviser.
Meanwhile, conservatives flocked to find new partners in droves. Users in counties that voted for Donald Trump seem to be more interested in dating than users in counties that voted for Hillary Clinton. . . .
The results suggested the election really did have an effect on users’ self-reported dating drive: 29 percent of liberals said they felt less like dating since Trump won. . . .
Fisher, a biological anthropologist by training, suggests a simple answer: “They’re depressed.”

Good. Liberals should be depressed, because they’re losers. And no liberal loser is more pathetic than the “male feminist”:

Male Feminism is a social disease, a gross perversion of a feminist movement which has evolved from the philosophical to the political. Do not fall into the trap of believing that Male Feminism seeks to empower women, when it actually does just the opposite. . . .
Instead of understanding that powerful women, just like powerful men, come from a vast range of philosophical and professional backgrounds, the Male Feminist believes that you have to filter your Facebook profile picture with a Planned Parenthood logo and dye your hair blue in order to avoid becoming a “gender traitor.” . . .
Perhaps most obviously, the Male Feminist loves nothing more than to explain how you’re “doing feminism wrong.”

Never mind whether you’re “doing feminism wrong,” why do feminism at all? In a world of freedom and opportunity for women, why not just go with the old-fashioned idea of “the pursuit of happiness”?

 

Yeah, “Love Trumps Hate,” but you’re probably not going to get that house in the suburbs, ma’am. Maybe ask your Gender Studies professor why you’re exempt from “the structure of the oppression of women.” Male feminists are losers, but they can’t be that desperate, can they?



 

 

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Category: Donald Trump, Economics, Education, Sex Trouble

A Modern Love Story

Posted on | February 18, 2017 | 2 Comments

On Valentine’s Day, Lenore Skenazy at Reason told the story of Zachary, who was 17 years old when he met a girl who was 13, who had a friend, also a 13-year-old girl, who “shared Zachary’s love of dragons and videogames.” An online romance flourished via Skype between Zachary and the dragon-loving girl and — this being the 21st century — she sent him five images of herself posing in her underwear. Meanwhile, Zachary had turned 18, and this made him a felon:

Zachary was arrested and charged with 20 felonies, including indecent liberties with a minor, using a computer to propose sex, and “child porn reproduce/transmit/sell,” even though he did not send or sell the pictures to anyone. All this, from five underwear pictures. If convicted, Zachary’s father told me, he faced a theoretically possible maximum sentence of 350 years.

Zachary accepted a plea bargain, and is now a registered sex offender, even though he never met this girl in person, and what can we say?

WARN YOUR CHILDREN! DON’T EVER DO THIS!

Kids growing up with social media — Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. — generally fail to understand the inherent perils of using these technologies in pursuit of romantic activity. This blindness to the dangers of online romance is not limited to teenagers, of course. Anthony Weiner destroyed his career and his marriage through “sexting,” and may himself face federal charges for his conversations with teenage girls. Some people have even been raped or murdered as a result of connections they made through online dating, e.g., “aspiring serial killer” Amy Brown.

Consider, for example, the fate of Sunil Patel, an author and editor in the field of science fiction and fantasy. Patel is also, evidently, something of a womanizer, and was allegedly exploiting his publishing connections to score with the ladies. According to one feminist author, Patel was a “serial gaslighter who hides behind his name to prey on the women within his community.” Feminists use the term “gaslighting” to refer to various tactics of emotional manipulation, and to “prey” on women as a “serial gaslight,” we may suppose, means that Patel was doing what used to be called “talking his way into their panties.” Well, this is Standard Operating Procedure for a lot of young bachelors, and Patel’s seductions (or attempted seductions) might have continued indefinitely.

Yes, women talk to each other, and online communications enable this kind of gossip in the same way online communications enabled Patel to posture as a “male feminist” and SJW opponent of #GamerGate.

When I encounter stories like these, my first thought is to thank God we didn’t have the Internet and smartphones circa 1979. How the heck could a guy get away with having three girlfriends — two in Georgia, one in Alabama — in the age of Facebook and Instagram? But I ask this question as a mere hypothetical, you understand. Anyone inquiring as to what or who I was doing in 1979 will require me to invoke my Miranda warning rights, and my friend Bert the Samoan Lawyer has advised me not to comment further on the matter at this time. However, what was (hypothetically) possible in 1979 would be foolish for a young man to attempt in 2017, because his girlfriend in Cobb County, Georgia, would be posting photos of them as a couple and tagging him, as would his girlfriend in Alabama, and when his girlfriend in Clayton County, Georgia, found out . . . Well, this could cause trouble, hypothetically.

All this text-messaging and online dating and so forth that goes on between young people nowadays is fraught with risk, because this activity creates an archive of digital evidence. A young guy has to think about what could happen if a girlfriend ever decided she wants to destroy him. What kind of foolish things has he said in emails or texts or DMs that she could screencap and publish as proof of what a selfish jerk he is?

Think like the CIA. Maintain plausible deniability at all times, so that if your girlfriend accuses you of running around on her, there is no evidence — no texts or emails or photos or videos — that can be used against you.

And, of course, you should never actually do any such thing. As a responsible citizen and a Christian, I am dismayed by the disgusting prevalence of fornication among Our Nation’s Youth. Nothing like that ever happened when I was a teenager, or at least you can’t prove it.



 

Category: Crime, Sex Trouble
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