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In The Mailbox: 01.16.17

Posted on | January 16, 2017 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Elections Have Consequences – Clinton Global Initiative Shutting Down
Twitchy: Ben Shapiro Blasts Joss Whedon And His Vile Tweet About Paul Ryan
Louder With Crowder: High School Receives Hateful “KKK” Tweets – Sent By A Black Teen?


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Snow In Venice
American Power: Watch For The Left To Become Even More Ruthless
American Thinker: The Trump Dossier Puts The Deep State In Deep Sh!t
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye Blue Monday
BLACKFIVE: Duplicity by Ingrid Thoft
Bring The HEAT: Jets Fly Over Portland To Thank Life-Saving Pararescuers
Da Tech Guy: Why The MSM Fears Trump, Year 2 – Local Stories Vs. National Ones
Don Surber: Number Of People Who Will Lose Health Care Upon ACA Repeal Is Zero
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, The Last Big Top
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: Celebs Sing “I Will Survive” In Awkward Anti-Trump Video That Immediately Backfires
JustOneMinute: Asymmetric Unintelligence
Power Line: Trump Hits Back At John Lewis, also, Democratic Bullies Try To Scuttle Trump’s Inauguration
Shark Tank: Florida Speaker Corcoran Loads His Six-Shooters
Shot In The Dark: Yesterday’s Felony…
STUMP: Connecticut – Day of Action For Higher Education!
The Geller Report: Muslim Wife Of Orlando Mass Murderer Finally Captured
The Lonely Conservative: Fake News Is Old News In The Drive-By Media
The Political Hat: Obama Awards Himself A Participation Trophy
This Ain’t Hell: MGEN John Rossi’s Suicide, also, The Closet Monsters
War Is Boring: Erik Prince’s Mercenaries Are Bombing Libya
Weasel Zippers: Harry Reid Aide Questions What Valerie Jarrett Did At The White House, also, Samantha Power Warns Against Cutting U.S. Funding of UN
Mark Steyn: This Masquerade


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FBI Arrests Wife of Orlando Killer

Posted on | January 16, 2017 | Comments Off on FBI Arrests Wife of Orlando Killer

Mike Arroyo of Fox News reports:

The FBI on Monday arrested the wife of the gunman in the Pulse Nightclub massacre on charges connected to the shooting rampage, investigators confirmed to Fox News.
The June 2016 shooting, seen as the deadliest in modern U.S. history, killed 49 people and wounded dozens more. Police shot and killed gunman Omar Mateen after a three-hour standoff, during which he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terror group.
The charges against his wife, 30-year-old Noor Salman, included aiding and abetting his attempts to support ISIS, as well as obstruction of justice. . . .
In April 2016, Mateen and Salman took their 3-year-old son to Walt Disney World, but their behavior reportedly was alarming enough for Disney officials to have contacted the FBI to alert them that Mateen and Salman appeared to be scouting the theme park as a venue for a potential attack. . . .
During the attack that began around 2:00 a.m. on June 12, Mateen placed 16 calls, an FBI source told FoxNews.com, and communicated by SMS, a texting service.
At least three calls were to 911 and one was to a local news service, during which he pledged his allegiance to ISIS and expressed support for the Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
He texted Salman during his shooting rampage, made posts to his Facebook account proclaiming his allegiance to ISIS and pledging more attacks, and according to an FBI source, used the social media platform Snapchat to communicate with at least one other person.

(Via Memeorandum.) There can be no doubt that the attack in Orlando was an act of Islamic terrorism. It was not, as feminist Amanda Marcotte tried to claim, a crime of “toxic masculinity,” and yet Democrats tried to use the Orlando attack to demonize Christians and Republicans.

 

Category: Islam, Terrorism

Astrology and ‘Heteropatriarchy’: Two Things That Don’t Explain Your Problems

Posted on | January 16, 2017 | 3 Comments

 

“Mercury in retrograde” — as soon as you hear someone offer this as an explanation for something, back away slowly and quietly. You’re dealing with a dangerous kook, and sudden movements might set them off.

“Mercury in retrograde” is a dye-marker of belief in astrology, and you don’t want to be in the proximity of anyone foolish enough to believe such ridiculous nonsense. Belief in astrology is like theosophy or voodoo or Keynesian economics — a hallmark of poor judgment. Bad things happen when you start hanging around losers like that. Avoid them.

Go take a look at the Twitter search results for “Mercury retrograde” and you will notice that it’s almost entirely women. You can explain that however you wish, but doesn’t the unusual prevalence of belief in astrology among women also tell us something about feminism?

 

Like astrology, feminism is a quasi-religious belief system that tells people that their problems are caused by circumstances beyond their control. It’s not her fault she didn’t get hired for that job, feminism tells the young women — she’s a victim of sexist discrimination. The college girl got drunk at a frat party and did things she regrets? That’s certainly not her fault, feminism tells her — she’s a victim of “rape culture.”

Or maybe Mercury was in retrograde.

Feminism offers a ready-made excuse for anything a woman might be unhappy about, so the feminist movement attracts a lot of unhappy women who need excuses for what’s wrong with their lives. Read more

Category: Education, Religion, Sex Trouble

Rule 5 Sunday: Siren

Posted on | January 15, 2017 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

So here we are a few days away from the inauguration (The End of an Error, as various bumper stickers and T-shirts proclaim), and while there are a bumper crop of hot young female Trump supporters, I think I’ll save that for next week. This week, a tip of the wombat’s helmet goes to Justine Suissa, lead singer for the trance group Above & Beyond, most notably on their side project Oceanlab. I owe James Lileks props for bringing her to my attention through posting a video for her song “Autumn Tactics” off Chicane’s Behind The Sun album.
But enough blathering about music. As usual, many of the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW, and the management is not responsible for any ill effects resulting from your failure to be discreet in your clicking.

From the cover of Oceanlab’s “Sirens Of The Sea”

Goodstuff leads off this week with Tempest Storm and her huge memory storage units, followed by Ninety Miles From Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns; Animal Magnetism has Rule Five Bad Decisions Friday and (as a New Year’s change of pace) a Saturday Brunettenarok.

EBL’s herd of heifers this week includes the National Championship, Mocking ISIS, Juliet Huddy, Nicole Kidman, Ms. Puffernutter, Madonna, Amanda Righetti, Lola Kirke, Sofia Vergara, and Cowboys Vs. Packers.

A View from the Beach brings us A Neutral Swiss Girl – Julie Ordon, Reason #5392 That Trump Was Elected, “I Feel Good/Scuttle Buttin'”, “St. James Infirmary”, Morning Dance, If You Need A Belated Xmas Present, PSA: How To Rebuild a Hydraulic Cylinder, The Bag Law Menace and It Was a Helluva Funeral.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Corinne Foxx, his Vintage Babe is Ina Claire, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Guess. At Dustbury, it’s Octavia Spencer and Simonetta Sommaruga.

Thanks to everyone for their linakgery!


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You’re #WhyTrumpWon, Nancy Pelosi

Posted on | January 15, 2017 | 2 Comments

 

She’s a 76-year-old white woman whose father was the boss of the corrupt Democrat machine in Baltimore during the segregation era, and being married to a multimillionaire California real-estate investor, she’s one of the top 10 richest members of Congress. Democrats in Congress couldn’t have picked a more out-of-touch leader if they had tried. The geriatric liberal, whose political beliefs are like a fossil of the 1988 Dukakis campaign, apparently cannot understand why Democrats keep losing.

In 2010, Pelosi insisted on ramming ObamaCare through Congress: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” Eight months later, in the 2010 midterm elections, Republicans scored their biggest congressional gains since 1938. Four years later, Democrats lost the Senate, and their losses have been even worse at the state level.

“Republicans are now in control of a record 67 (68 percent) of the 98 partisan state legislative chambers in the nation,” as Barbara Hollingsworth reported. “In 24 of the 32 states with Republican-controlled legislatures, voters have also elected Republican governors.”

Pelosi can’t seem to grasp why her party has become so unpopular, and instead resorts to scapegoating rationalizations:

While giving a press briefing to reporters, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called the GOP’s push to defund the taxpayer funded Planned Parenthood a “manhood thing.”
During her press briefing, Pelosi fielding questions about Republican plans to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and remove taxpayer funding for abortion provider Planned Parenthood.
At the end of her remarks, Pelosi said, “Let me end on this note. Of all the things that they could be doing in a reconciliation bill — job creation, deficit reduction — no, forget that. What are they doing in this bill? Overturning the Affordable Care Act, undermining the health security and financial stability of America’s working families, and defunding Planned Parenthood. That’s their — that’s their manhood thing,” Pelosi said while shaking her hands.
“You know, defunding Planned Parenthood. How can they establish that as a priority unless they’re coming at all of this from a very ideological stand-point?” she asked.

Here, Ms. Pelosi, let me explain briefly: Planned Parenthood is America’s largest abortion provider. Many millions of Americans (who, not coincidentally, are eligible to vote) believe that abortion is morally wrong and should be illegal. However, even if you aren’t in favor of outlawing abortion, you may not think that giving federal taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood is a good idea. To repeat something that I keep saying, but which no Democrat seems capable of understanding: The national debt is now approaching $20 trillion — that’s trillion with a “T,” meaning $20,000,000,000,000 — and interest payments on the national debt cost $223 billion, or 6 percent of the federal budget, in 2015. So for every dollar the IRS collects from taxpayers, only 94 cents is available for current needs, and the annual budget deficit in fiscal year 2015 was $439 billion out of $3.7 trillion.

When you have a budget deficit of more than $400 billion, why spend half a billion dollars annually to fund Planned Parenthood, an organization whose business is about killing future taxpayers? Also, Planned Parenthood is a major donor to the Democrat Party, and why should Republicans in Congress give money to their worst enemies?

Despite the spectacular failure of ObamaCare, which has driven up health insurance premiums everywhere, Nancy Pelosi still can’t understand why anyone would want to repeal ObamaCare, and her propaganda phrase, “America’s working families,” is the exact opposite of reality. “Working families” — married people with jobs — generally had health insurance before ObamaCare was enacted, and have found themselves paying higher premiums because of the mandates imposed by ObamaCare.

ObamaCare wasn’t about “working families,” it was about mandating and subsidizing coverage for the kind of people who don’t have jobs or don’t have families, i.e., the typical Democrat voter. Republicans officials may not be rude enough to actually say this, but the people who vote Republican are not so stupid they can’t figure it out. What were Democrats really talking about when they invoked “pre-existing conditions” as an urgent cause to change our healthcare system? AIDS? Hepatitis? Cocaine addiction? “Gender dysphoria”?

During the first four years of the Obama administration, the government added nearly 6 million new recipients of federal SSI disability payments, more than doubling the number on the disability lists, while workforce participation rates fell to the lowest in American history. Democrats see nothing wrong with this, because moochers and malingerers tend to vote Democrat, whereas taxpayers with jobs tend to vote Republican.

Like I said, voters aren’t nearly as stupid as Nancy Pelosi assume them to be, and Democrats being the Baby-Killing Welfare Moocher Party is the fundamental cause of Donald Trump’s election. Yet the failure of the Democrat agenda, both as policy and as politics, is not something that the party’s elderly liberal leadership can admit, and therefore Pelosi is compelled by her partisanship to offer scapegoating rationalizations and counterfactual explanations, including blaming George W. Bush (who left the White House eight years ago) for the federal deficit under Obama.

You have failed, Ms. Pelosi. You have lost. You are personally responsible for the Democrat Party’s decline into political irrelevance.

You are #WhyTrumpWon. Congratulations.



 

 

Category: Abortion, Budget, Election, Nancy Pelosi, Planned Parenthood

Marxists Shut Down Campus Speech — Is Trump Inauguration Their Next Target?

Posted on | January 15, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

A Marxist-Leninist radical group that helped organize a violent protest to shut down a campus speech in California may be planning to make the upcoming inauguration of Donald Trump its next target, investigative journalist Lee Stranahan reports. The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), which has previously been investigated on suspicion of aiding terrorism, is directly linked to the radical campus group, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which was at the forefront of the demonstration Friday at the University of California-Davis (UCD).

College Republicans at UCD were forced to cancel Friday’s lecture by Breitbart.com tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos and hedge-fund mogul Martin Shkreli after “a large number of protesters blocked access to the venue, and it was determined that it was no longer feasible to continue with the event safely,” university officials said in a statement to the Sacramento Bee. Protesters tore down police barricades and even attacked journalists covering the event at UCD’s Sciences Lecture Hall, Allum Bokhari reported at Breitbart.com:

Video footage shows protesters jumping barricades and throwing them towards police. . . .
ABC-10 reporter Frances Wang reports that her photographer was attacked with hot coffee mid-interview. . . .
Protesters were chanting “no justice, no peace, no racist police.” . . .
“We were told by the chief of Davis police that they could not guarantee the safety of the students, the speaker, or the police officers if the event should go ahead,” said Gabrielle McDowell, vice chair of the UC Davis College Republicans.
“As the organisation hosting the event, we would have been held personally responsible for any harm caused as a result of its taking place. We were therefore forced to cancel the event” she continued.

The UC Davis SDS chapter celebrated this as a “huge victory,” and the protest was also highlighted on the national SDS Facebook page.

The protest at UCD “may be a preview of what to expect at next week’s inauguration of Donald Trump,” Stranahan reported, “because the national group behind it already has a nationwide planned protest against America’s next President set for January 20th.” He noted the connection between the Davis chapter of the SDS and FRSO which, Stranahan said, “is plotting the end of the United States as we know it”:

This group [SDS] is the new incarnation of the 1960s radical group of the same name that gained worldwide infamy when it split to become the Weather Underground, a terrorist group bent on overthrowing the United States through violent communist revolution.
The new version was formed in 2006 has . . . . connections to an avowedly Marxist group determined to destroy the United States in the name of “racial justice.” That group is called the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), who describe their connection to the new Students for a Democratic Society on their website: “Members of FRSO have been working in SDS since the first National Convention in Chicago back in 2006.”

Two years after the SDS was reformed, an activist charged that FRSO members were trying to impose their “Maoist” agenda on SDS. “I believe that Maoism is in opposition to a democratic society,” SDS activist Rachel Haut said in a 2008 interview, “and thus [FRSO’s] position or reason for being in SDS is opportunist. We are attempting to build a student movement not a Maoist movement.” This accusation prompted a response from three members of FRSO’s “Student Commission.”

“Freedom Road members work very hard to maintain Students for a Democratic Society as a strong, fighting organization that benefits from its ideological plurality while remaining united practically by radical, anti-imperialist activism,” the FRSO members wrote, citing their party’s Marxist-Leninist “three revolutionary objectives”:

  1. Harm the enemy and win all that can be won for the people.
  2. Raise the level of consciousness, organization, and struggle of the mass organizations we work in.
  3. Win the advanced fighters to Marxism-Leninism and build organization for revolution.

An article at the FRSO’s “Fight Back” news site last year boasted of the group’s role in SDS, quoting FRSO activist Chrisley Carpio: “As the youth and students of Palestine, Colombia and the Philippines rebel, many students in the U.S. are thinking about socialism. The FRSO Student Commission deepened our commitment to build the student movement and to recruit new members all over the U.S., whether in small town high schools, big universities, or community colleges in cities and border towns. Despite political repression, we are planning to grow.”

 

SDS and FRSO have already promoted anti-Trump protests. In March 2016, after violent protests caused Trump to cancel a rally in Chicago, FRSO official Steff Yorek called for repeating the thug tactics:

“We need two, three, many Chicagos,” said Yorek. “Trump is an open advocate of racism and national chauvinism. Forcing Trump to chicken out of his Chicago campaign appearance was a real victory. Chicago protesters of all nationalities sent a message to the world, that here in the U.S. there is widespread and militant opposition to his reactionary agenda.”

 

Yorek and her lesbian partner, Jess Sundin, were among the members of FRSO who were targeted by a 2010 FBI raid in Minneapolis. Search warrants showed the agents were investigating FRSO for suspicion of supporting foreign terrorist groups including Hezbollah:

The warrant for the raid on [FRSO member Mick] Kelly’s apartment, in the 1800 block of Riverside Avenue, sought notebooks, address books, photos and maps of Kelly’s travels to the Palestinian territories, Colombia and in the United States on behalf of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. It also sought materials on his personal finances and those of the group, on Kelly’s “potential co-conspirators” and recruitment efforts for the group.
The warrant also sought any information about efforts to support FARC, a guerrilla organization in Colombia, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [PFLP], and Hezbollah, the political and paramilitary organization based in Lebanon.

No charges were filed as a result of the FBI raid, but FRSO openly advocates the anti-Israel agenda of PFLP. Last year, at the Left Forum in New York, the FRSO’s Sundin spoke in defense of anti-Israel activist Rasmea Odeh. In 2014, Odeh was convicted of federal immigration fraud charges after it was discovered that, in her immigration application, Odeh had concealed her role in a 1969 terrorist bombing in Israel.

The day after Trump was elected, FRSO issued a statement in which Yorek called for a “mass movement” to shut down the country: “We need to do everything we can to drown his administration in a high tide of struggle and fightbacks. We should aim to make this country ungovernable. . . . We need to light a fire and fan the flames.”

 

FRSO frequently features SDS news on its “Fight Back” site including the group’s call for an Inauguration Day walkout:

On Inauguration Day, Jan 20th, SDS will hold a national student walkout, in alliance with many other student groups. We will disrupt operations on campuses everywhere. Whether it’s against segregation, deportation, or war, history shows that the fight for an education system based on peace, equality, and justice has always been spearheaded by students and youth, and never by the White House.
While we anticipate continued attacks on undocumented youth, we’ve already seen more deportations in the last eight years under President Obama than we’ve ever seen in US history. SDS has protested to end them every step of the way.

Stranahan quotes an FRSO statement calling for “the establishment of an independent African-American nation based in the South” as well as “struggles of national liberation for all other nations brutalized by imperialist oppression whose homelands are within the borders of the United States, such as the Native American nations of the US, the Hawai’ian nation and the Puerto Rican struggle for national independence.”



 

Category: Crime, Education, Election, Terrorism

FMJRA 2.0: (this space intentionally left blank)

Posted on | January 14, 2017 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: January Jones
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Berkeley Student Activist Pablo Gomez Charged With Homicide, Stabbing
Regular Right Guy
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Far From The Maddening Crowd
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

It’s As Though The Left Is Neither Creative Nor Pro-Creative
EBL

Democrat @MJB_SF Hates White Men, Denounces ‘Stupid People’ in Midwest
ThoughtOffense
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

3 Theses: PUAs, ‘Sexuality’ and Feminism
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.09.17
Proof Positive
EBL

Race Divides #WomensMarch as Black Feminists Tell White Women to Shut Up
Regular Right Guy
EBL

Berkeley Murder Suspect Pablo Gomez Harassed College Republicans Last Year
Regular Right Guy
EBL

In the Mailbox: 1.10.17
Proof Positive
EBL

Intolerance at Berkeley as Faculty Demand Gay Immigrant Stay Off Campus
The Pirate’s Cove
Regular Right Guy

In The Mailbox: 01.11.17
Regular Right Guy
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Or Maybe You’re Just Crazy
Regular Right Guy
EBL

Manhunt for Markeith Loyd, Accused of Killing Female Police Officer in Orlando
Regular Right Guy
EBL

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: Florida Woman Branded, Forced into Prostitution
Regular Right Guy
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Three Quick Thoughts
Regular Right Guy
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In The Mailbox: 01.12.17
Proof Positive
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‘These Discourses of Heterosexuality Which Particularly Oppress All of Us’
Rotten Chestnuts
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Frank Zappa Salute To A No-Talent Rodeo Clown On The Occasion Of His Departure
Regular Right Guy
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Why the Blame Game Doesn’t Work
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In The Mailbox: 01.13.17
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Top linkers this week:

  1.  EBL (20)
  2.  Regular Right Guy (10)
  3.  Proof Positive (7)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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Crazy Woman Who Caused #GamerGate Announces She’s No Longer Female

Posted on | January 14, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

Everybody with two eyes and a brain could see Zoe Quinn was crazy. Why did Eron Gjoni want to date that tattoo-covered, facial-pierced, mentally ill ex-stripper whose real name is Chelsea Van Valkenburg? I don’t know, but he did, and the consequences were world-historic.

However, the fathomless depths of Zoe Quinn’s craziness had never been fully revealed until Thursday when, apparently tired of people talking about that Trump guy, she said, “Let’s talk about me! Me! Me! Me!”

 

Exactly what did she “come out” as? As might be expected from a mentally disturbed attention whore, her Tumblr post is confusing:

My entire life I’ve not been a girl or a woman.
Growing up, I’d have hissyfits over being talked to or referred to as a girl. People have had to remind me that they see me as a girl or a woman my entire life, because it doesn’t exist in my head. . . .
I knew I loved women early in life. It wasn’t any major revelation, because to me, gender seemed to be such an arbitrary line to draw between what you were and weren’t attracted to. It was a non-issue, because I legitimately didn’t think in those terms. But there was an easy model for this, a name I knew, I was Bisexual and that was fine. . . .
I had dated trans people and while we could bond over some of the ways that our bodies felt like aliens to us, it felt like they knew how they would change themselves but I didn’t know where to start, and I didn’t want to add more gender-based exhaustion and work onto my partners so I just… never said anything about that part of myself. . . .
Looking at my gender presentation, my fashion, and my body as something to be worked on or decorated, to try to re-write it to say something, took a lot of the sting out of my hatred of it. In customizing it, it felt like something that was “mine” a bit more than the alien meat suit I had been trapped in. It was the power I felt the first time I dyed my hair an unnatural color when I was 13, but with more understanding. Departing from the “natural” body I’d been given and eschewing it for something that I had *created* let me start to see myself a bit more there, even if it was through a tattoo symbolizing something that mattered to me, or an outfit that I would design for a character who was feeling the way I was feeling that day, or makeup that had the color scheme of a poisonous animal whose intimidation I wanted to borrow that afternoon. So much of creativity and expression is rooted in empathy, and this outside-looking-in approach allowed me to empathize with myself. . . .

(Are run-on sentences a symptom of gender dysphoria?)

I bought my first binder two years ago, after asking a couple closest trans friends, awkwardly, where someone might buy something like that. I took a huge step and posted a picture of me in boymode for the first time ever. My dad even liked it on instagram, successfully making me break down and cry in public. . . .

(Of course — daddy issues. By the way, a “binder” is a sort of chest wrapping that women use to flatten their breasts and pretend to be male.)

I think I have the self-awareness now to realize that it’s only because of the repression and living in fear that gives others that kind of power over me. I hate living with this big secret, I hate not knowing who I have in my life now that wouldn’t be around if they knew it. I hate feeling alone, and not knowing how to figure myself out more and find other people like me. . . .
I don’t know what I am yet, but I know what I’m not.
I’m not straight. I’m not cis, and I don’t think I can keep pretending to be cis just to get by. I’m not a man. I’m not a woman.

Fortunately, there’s a word for Zoe’s condition: CRAZY.

Ethan Ralph: “Alex Lifschitz could not be reached for comment.” That’s a GamerGate inside joke about a dweeb who once dated Zoe. What kind of guy would get involved with a crazy not-a-woman like Zoe Quinn?

Also, why was it necessary for her to “come out” this way? She says she was “tired of hiding,” but what was she hiding? That she’s crazy? That was certainly not a secret to anyone who’s paid attention. She makes this announcement about “gender dysphoria” as if no one ever could have suspected that a purple-haired woman with a lip ring and tattoos might have some psychiatric issues in terms of her identity and sexuality.

Zoe Quinn is a smörgåsbord of weirdness, a buffet of irrationality, and her bizarre “dysphoria” — her alienation from her own body — is merely another symptom of her profound mental illness.



 

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