In The Mailbox: 01.09.17

Posted on | January 9, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.09.17

There’s going to be a few changes to the blog list for the new year; some blogs which don’t update often, or have wandered off their original manor (I’m looking at you, BLACKFIVE) are getting purged and some new ones added. Hope you enjoy the changes.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: The Russians, James Comey, And The Dog Ate My Homework
EBL: Nat Hentoff RIP, also Calaveras Grove Sequoia Tunnel Tree RIP
Twitchy: Ben Shapiro Crushes Meryl Streep And The Other “Bullies In Hollywood”
Louder With Crowder: Denzel Washington Delivers Real Talk On Hollywood Arrogance

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Silenced Film Review
American Power: Race-Baiter In Chief
American Thinker: The Grapes Of Liberal Winter
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BLACKFIVE: Peter Swanson – Her Every Fear
Da Tech Guy: John Ruberry – Obama’s Chickens Coming Home To Roost As He Gives Chicago Farewell Address, also, Ten Thoughts Under My Fedora – Weak Democrats, Hate Crimes, Baseball Hall Of Fame, Dr. Who et al
Don Surber: An Example Of How Softball Coverage Has Hurt Democrats, also, National Review Supports Trump On Obamacare Repeal
Dustbury: Strange Search-Engine Queries, also, We Demand More Flesh
Jammie Wearing Fools: Democrats Silent As Israel-Bashers Get Louder
Joe For America: Homeland Security Suffers From Massive Corruption – Officials Took Millions In Bribes From Drug Cartels
JustOneMinute: I Blame Russian Hackers
Power Line: Judge Allows Case Against Marilyn Mosby To Proceed, also, Bureaucracy In The Age Of Trump
Shark Tank: Hillary Aide – She’s Not Running For Anything Ever Again
Shot In The Dark: Feel The Burning Of Inequality
STUMP: Setting The Stage For 2017 – Mortality Trends
The Geller Report: Administration Approves Uranium Transfer To Iran – Enough For Ten Nukes, also, Seattle Mayor To Spend Half A Million Dollars Teaching Illegals To Fight Trump
The Jawa Report: This Is Not The Total And Utter Failure We Are Looking For
The Lonely Conservative: The Lamest Duck Of All
The Political Hat: One Close Election Balances Another
This Ain’t Hell: Janos Loses Appeal, also, More Liberal Media Misinformation
Weasel Zippers: UN Ships 62% Of Mostly Muslim Refugees To US; Canada Second At 17%, also, Actions Have Consequences – Israel Announces Cut In Funding To The UN
Mark Steyn: Identity Politics And Dehumanization

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3 Theses: PUAs, ‘Sexuality’ and Feminism

Posted on | January 9, 2017 | 1 Comment

My work output has been irregular since Christmas, but I’ve got thousands of words in draft that I mean to finish. However, today I’m babysitting my youngest grandson, and there are a few thoughts that have been accumulating in my mind during my research recently, and so I want to just lay them out while the boy is taking a nap.

1. Confidence and Competence

One of the basic ideas of pickup artist (PUA) discourse is how the young man can convey confidence in his approach to women. While a man’s deportment — his mannerisms, his posture, his way of speaking — are certainly important in how he is perceived by women, his superficial display of confidence is not likely to matter much if this display has no underlying basis in fact. Confidence must be sustained by competence. That is to say, external manifestations of positive self-esteem are false advertising, if a man does not have the kind of skills and accomplishments necessary to elicit admiration. If the object of studying PUA method is for the young man to learn how better to display himself — basically, learning to perform the external mannerisms of a high-status male — this will be most effective if he actually possesses high-status traits and abilities. A man who is physically robust, who has a good job, etc., may yet lack confidence in his interactions with females, so that while he is winning in many aspects of his life, he is a loser with the ladies. In such a case, he may be able to learn elements of “game” from studying PUA methods which help him add confidence to his pre-existing competence. On the other hand, if a guy’s an all-around loser, no amount of “game” is likely to help him. This was Elliot Rodger’s problem in a nutshell. His personality deficits were so extreme that it was futile for him to turn to “game” in an effort to solve his problem. While I think feminists were wrong to blame the PUA community for Rodger’s murder spree, his case does help illustrate the absurdity of thinking you can solve every difficulty in your life by getting advice off Internet forums.

2. What Do We Mean by ‘Sexuality’?

Plowing through books of feminist theory — to say nothing of the online lunatic asylum of feminist Tumblr — one notices a tendency to speak of “sexuality” as if it were a tangible personal essence. We may observe in feminist discourse a habit of treating women’s sexual feelings as more important than their sexual behavior. By contrast, feminists tend to analyze male sexuality strictly in terms of behavior, which is always interpreted as having a harmful effect on women. Feminist discourse never portrays male sexual behavior in a positive way, and as for male feelings, feminists have no regard for men’s subjective perceptions and are profoundly hostile toward men’s emotional needs. Because this prejudice is inherent in all feminist discourse about “sexuality,” the result is that feminism turns all discussion of sexual behavior into a deliberately one-sided lecture, an endless litany of male wrongdoing, to which males cannot respond without being accused of an indifference to women’s feelings. If the feminist says she feels that her ex-boyfriend’s behavior was abusive, skepticism is impermissible, because how can we argue about her feelings? Likewise, if the feminist says she was “offended” by something — a TV show, a joke someone told at the office, whatever — no argument is possible, because she is the sole judge of what offends her. Because feminism treats normal male sexual behavior as inherently wrong and harmful to women, and because feminism makes women’s feelings the only standard by which male behavior can be judged, feminist rhetoric about “sexuality” is a form of anti-male hate propaganda.

3. Is ‘Feminist’ a Synonym for ‘Bitch’?

The vulgar epithet “bitch,” denoting a woman with a hostile or antisocial personality — angry, cruel, dishonest, etc. — is popularly conflated with the word “feminist.” This is quite often done by feminists themselves, who seem to take pride in being perceived as bitches.

Anti-male hostility, which is what this “proud bitch” rhetoric seems to signify, is thus further confirmed as a core feminist value. Insofar as feminism in the United States is politically identified with the Democrat Party, therefore, it is necessarily divisive. Meryl Streep’s angry feminist sermon during Sunday’s Golden Globes was celebrated by Democrats, who have interpreted Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the presidential campaign as evidence that “misogyny” is rampant among American men. Therefore, to rally their electoral base against Trump, the Democrats encourage the “proud feminist bitch” mode of discourse which, it might be argued, actually inspires misogyny. Feminists habitually treat men with hostile contempt, and Democrats celebrate such anti-male attitudes as “progressive.” Yet as more and more women embrace the “proud feminist bitch” pose, men will become less likely to support “progressive” causes, or to vote Democrat, because the messengers who deliver the Democrat Party message are so implacably hateful toward males.

This was one of the weird realities revealed by #GamerGate. In one of my first conversations with Adam Baldwin about #GamerGate, he explained to me that most of the young men (and women) supporting #GamerGate were not “conservative” in any conventional sense of that word. These weren’t guys watching Fox News or listening to Rush Limbaugh or reading National Review. Many of them were atheists and more or less progressive in their political orientation. However, they were fed up with the dishonest identity-politics shakedown racket which so-called “social justice warriors” (SJWs) were using against the videogame industry.

.@KellyannePolls: I didn't hear #MerylStreep use her platform to give a shoutout to the mentally challenged boy who was tortured live on FB. pic.twitter.com/hswzMWOPuF

— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 9, 2017

Well, my grandson will be waking up from his nap soon, so I don’t have time to connect all the dots, but if some of y’all want to post links to this article to your Reddit forums or wherever, I’d be grateful. Tonight’s the big game and we’ll be yelling “Roll Tide!” at the TV. Also, please remember the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

The cable company (through which I get my Internet hookup) hit me for $200 over the weekend, and I’m past due $300 on the electric bill, and “patriarchy” is really just a synonym for paying the bills.

UPDATE: Emilie Inman is believed to be victim murdered by Berkeley student activist Pablo Gomez. https://t.co/Yql3Lyj3C5 pic.twitter.com/Fk5dSl67gu

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) January 9, 2017

#MerylStreep speech is why Trump won. People are tired of being lectured by elitists who live in a bubble. pic.twitter.com/pSyGpJr8ll

— Luis Gonzalez ? (@CSMLuisGonzalez) January 9, 2017

Category: Democrats, Election, Sex Trouble

‘F–k Trump! F–k White People’ Suspects Denied Bail in Chicago Torture Case

Posted on | January 9, 2017 | Comments Off on ‘F–k Trump! F–k White People’ Suspects Denied Bail in Chicago Torture Case

Left to right: Brittany Covington, Tesfaye Cooper, Jordan Hill, Tanishia Covington.

Americans were shocked last week when video was livestreamed on Facebook of four black people torturing a young white man they are accused of kidnapping. A judge on Friday denied bail to the suspects:

A judge rebuked four black people accused of beating a mentally disabled white man and broadcasting the attack on Facebook, sternly asking, “Where was your sense of decency?” before denying their attorneys’ pleas to set bail so they might be released from jail.
“I find each of you a danger to yourself and society,” Cook County Circuit Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil said . . .
The beating was captured on cellphone video by one of the assailants and has since been viewed millions of times on social media. The footage shows the suspects taunting the victim with profanities against white people and President-elect Donald Trump.
Prosecutors offered new details of the assault, explaining that one of the suspects demanded $300 from the mother of the victim, who is schizophrenic and has attention-deficit disorder. They also said the beating started in a van when the same attacker became angry that the mother had contacted him asking that her son be allowed to come home.
A prosecutor told the judge that the suspects forced the victim to drink toilet water, kiss the floor and then allegedly stuffed a sock into his mouth and taped it shut as they bound his hands with a belt.
The four are charged with two counts of committing a hate crime — one because of the victim’s race and the other because of his mental disabilities.
On the video, the male suspects use knives to cut the victim’s hair and his sweatshirt. One of the females can be seen laughing. A female also laughs as she punches the victim. . . .
The four suspects were identified as Brittany Covington and Tesfaye Cooper, both of Chicago, and Jordan Hill, of suburban Carpentersville. All are 18. A fourth suspect was identified as Covington’s 24-year-old sister, Tanishia Covington, also of Chicago. . . .
All four have experienced brushes with the law, some for serious and violent crimes.
Hill, for example, was arrested as a juvenile in 2015 on allegations of armed robbery, possession of a stolen vehicle and residential burglary. Chicago police said they did not know the disposition of those arrests by suburban officers.
Tanishia Covington was arrested in 2007 on attempted armed robbery and aggravated battery charges. Police records do not show any convictions as a juvenile. As an adult, she was arrested on charges of battery and aggravated assault, but those charges were dropped.

The victim’s aunt, Janet Grant, told the Daily Mail that her nephew knew Jordan Hill from school: “They went to school together, they both had problems. He adores Jordan. I don’t know Jordan but [the victim] really liked him. It’s one thing if they didn’t know each other but [the victim] idolized him. . . . His mom didn’t like him hanging out but [he] would say, ‘that’s my friend, that’s my friend.’ He looked up to Jordan.”

Category: Chicago, Crime, Racism

Berkeley Student Activist Pablo Gomez Charged With Homicide, Stabbing

Posted on | January 9, 2017 | 3 Comments

From Chuck Johnson’s GotNews.com:

Pablo Gomez, Jr., the first murder suspect of 2017 in the city of Berkeley, California, is a transsexual or “queer”, pro-Palestine, #BlackLivesMatter-supporting UC Berkeley student and “social justice warrior” (SJW), who is apparently studying “Chicanx/Latinx Studies.”

Local news site Berkeleyside edited its story after a friend of the suspect contacted the editors to say Gomez uses “they/them” pronouns.

Gomez had been an activist with Alliance for Climate Education, but the group locked access to their pages about his activism after he was charged with stabbing a woman and murdering an unidentified person:

A suspect in a Berkeley homicide on Friday is in custody, police said Saturday.
A watch commander with Berkeley police received a call at about 1:30 p.m. Saturday from Burbank police who said 24-year-old North Hollywood resident Pablo Gomez Jr. was in custody.
Gomez is the primary suspect in the homicide and also a stabbing on the same day, according to police.
At about 11:42 a.m. Friday, police responded to a call about a stabbing in the 2600 block of Ridge Road in Berkeley.
Upon arrival, officers found a woman seriously wounded, as well as the person who called police on her behalf, police said.
Officers provided medical attention until the Berkeley Fire Department arrived and transported her to a hospital, where she is receiving treatment and was listed in stable condition Friday night.
During the investigation, officers were led to an address in the 2400 block of Ashby Avenue.
According to police, evidence at the scene clearly indicated a violent crime had occurred there.
Much later, the body of an unidentified person was discovered, police said.
Police have not released the name of the homicide victim.

Gomez began blogging at the site Tumblr.com in 2011, but archives for his blog show he has been inactive on Tumblr since March. In 2016, Gomez’s activism seemed to shift toward supporting “Black Lives Matter.” In July, he posted a rant to Facebook about how “infuriating” it is that people were “not getting” what he called “a legacy of anti-Blackness” in America, the causes of which he listed as “colonialism,” “cisheteropatriarchy,” “capitalism” and “imperialism,” among others.

That message was posted the same day Gomez posted this:

I am currently sitting on the Oakland Freeway with thousands of folks who are committed to staying here until the Mayor and Police Commissioner join us. Our demands at this moment stand to disarm the police and work to abolish our current police structure. Our demands will not stop at abolishing the police. We will transform every structure that is posioned [sic] by a toxic whiteness that threatens Black lives every day. No one is free until we’re all free.

Police in Berkeley have said nothing about the motive for the violent crimes with which the “social justice” activist Pablo Gomez Jr. is charged.

Yeah, the murder suspect had a Tumblr account — OF COURSE!

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) January 9, 2017

UPDATE: Police have not yet officially identified the victim in Friday’s murder, but it is reported that the young woman whom Gomez is accused of killing was Emilie Inman, who taught science to children at Sienna Ranch, an educational site about 15 miles east of Berkeley.

Ms. Inman majored in environmental studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz and believed “inspiring a healthy and sustainable connection to self and the earth through education is her life path.”

Category: California, Crime, Education, Racism

Rule 5 Sunday: January Jones

Posted on | January 8, 2017 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho
So here we are, halfway between New Year’s and the Inauguration, a month away from the Superb Owl, and most of the country seems to be buried under a couple feet of Goreball Warmening. Can’t do anything about the weather, but we can supply a little heat with the contents of this post, whose appetizer this week is January Jones, an actress probably best known for her work on Mad Men. As usual, most (if not all) of the following links are to posts normally considered NSFW, and the management disclaims any responsibility for the manifold ills liable to afflict you should you fail to exercise discretion in the clicking.

January Jones photographed for Vogue Italia, August 2014

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns, featuring a hot Israeli Army babe. Goodstuff presents Russian Hacking with Anne Hathaway, and Animal Magnetism has Rule 5 Blind Hogs & Acorns Friday with the Saturday Asian Invasion.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes Fat Shaming New Year’s Day, USC v. Penn State, Me-Again Kelly, Ellen Pompeo, the Sugar Bowl, Abba Dabba Honeymoon, Stay Gold, and Ivanka Trump.

A View From The Beach brings us Russia Hacks Rule 5 – Natalia Vodianova, “Gold Dust Woman”, Flashback to 1979, Bangin’ on the Bongos. . ., Heh!, A Reminder; Cold Kills, Let It Rain! and Happy New Year’s!

American Power returns after a long absence with Drunken Steplinks, Emily Ratajkowski, Genevieve Morton, The Sun’s Official Page Three Calendar, Rose Bertram (with a second helping), Kendall Jenner, and Nina Agdal.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Tiffany Fallon, his Vintage Babe is Debbie Reynolds, Sex in Advertising is covered by Got milk?, and there’s also Your Schadenfreude NFL/Niners Report. At Dustbury, it’s Victoria Principal and Ritu Barmecha.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

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Democrat @MJB_SF Hates White Men, Denounces ‘Stupid People’ in Midwest

Posted on | January 8, 2017 | 2 Comments

The Midwest is a “s–thole” full of “stupid people,” a place where “no educated person wants to live,” according to Melinda Byerley, a Democrat who lives in San Francisco. In a Facebook post and a series of Twitter messages Saturday, Ms. Byerley described residents of the Midwest as “violent, racist, and/or misogynistic” people whose “towns have nothing going for them.” The reason”the best and brightest” don’t want to live in the Midwest is because they would have to “sacrifice tolerance and diversity to do so,” Ms. Byerley said.

The full text of Ms. Byerley’s anti-Midwest rant:

One thing middle america could do is to realize that no educated person wants to live in a s–thole with stupid people. Especially violent, racist, and/or misogynistic ones. When big corporations think about where to put call centers, factors [sic], development centers, etc, they also have to deal with the fact that those towns have nothing going for them. No infrastructure, just a few bars and a terrible school system.
So if you want jobs, clean up your act and make your town a place that people like us want to live in. Add fiber internet. Make it a point to elect a progressive city council and commit to not being bigots.
I guarantee many of us would like to live a more rural lifestyle, or at least a less urban one, but we won’t sacrifice tolerance or diversity to do so. We especially don’t want to live in states where the majority of residents are still voting for things that are against their own interests just because they don’t want brown people to thrive.
the midwestern towns that fix this first, will attract investment in droves. It’s not just tax breaks and fiber. Corporations have to deal with the fact that the best and brightest would rather scrape by in SF than life in a huge house somewhere if it meant dealing with bigots and backwards ideologies every day.

Ms. Byerley is herself a native of the Midwest, who graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1991 and later got an MBA from Cornell. Her Facebook profile shows Ms. Byerley was a member of the group “San Francisco for Hillary,” and her Twitter timeline includes numerous disparaging remarks directed toward white males.

Democrats supported the “Black Lives Matter” movement which incited race riots in Ferguson, Missouri, in Baltimore and in Charlotte, N.C. Democrats’ anti-white rhetoric alienated many voters during the 2016 campaign, and may have provoked violence last week in Chicago, where four black people kidnapped and tortured a white teenager and posted video to Facebook yelling “f–k Trump’ and “f–k white people.”

Exit polls show whites are a majority (71%) of the U.S. electorate and 57% voted for Trump. Despite evidence that their hateful rhetoric has damaged the Democrat Party, liberals like Ms. Byerley continue to promote messages that stigmatize white voters as “stupid people” who are “uneducated” and “racist” because they do not support Democrats.

Democrat Feminist Playbook
1. Portray white men as inherently evil.
2. Lose election.
3. Blame evil white men for defeat. #tcot #MAGA pic.twitter.com/C9IQlJm1X4

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) January 8, 2017

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Category: Democrats, Election

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

Posted on | January 8, 2017 | Comments Off on It’s As Though The Left Is Neither Creative Nor Pro-Creative

by Smitty

Like an immune system gone mad, the Left can only attack the culture that begat it:

We wrote back in October about how people were mad that Hinton did not add explicitly LGBT characters to her writing, most of which she did in the 1960s and 70s. She now argues that pandering to a certain segment of readers in her writing would simply have made the novels worse.

Now, she’s being assailed again, this time for failing to adequately represent not only the LGBT world but also black characters. In response, Hinton tweeted out: “I am a heterosexual writer writing about heterosexual characters. Being attacked for being heterosexual.”

The future belongs to those who show up, and produce children to show up. In that sense, this madness is self-correcting.

via Instapundit

Category: Culture