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The Dialectic of Feminist Failure

Posted on | January 24, 2017 | Comments Off on The Dialectic of Feminist Failure

Friedrich Engels and the original German edition of ‘The Origin of the Family.’

One of the most predictable insults that liberals direct at their critics is “ignorance.” Liberals consider themselves intellectually superior, and so the fact that you disagree with them is interpreted as proof of your inferiority. Never does a liberal consider the possibility that his antagonist has examined the arguments for liberalism and rejected them.

No, it is only ignorant prejudice that can explain the conservative’s opposition, the liberal believes. Convinced that they are both intellectually and morally superior to others, liberals think of themselves as qualified to tutor the rest of us, as if we are simple-minded children.

 

Limo torched in DC protests
belongs to Muslim immigrant,
may cost $70,000 in damages

Washington Examiner

When we see headlines like that, we are entitled to ask, where is the evidence that liberals are superior to everyone else? The radical mob that burned that limo were convinced they were striking a blow against Trump’s right-wing agenda. After all, what could more perfectly symbolize “facism” than this luxurious Lincoln limo? But the owner is named Muhammad Ashraf, and the driver was Luis Villarroel. Exactly how did torching this car advance the “progressive” cause?

Well, how dare you ask such a question, you ignorant bigot!

It’s the same with feminism. No matter how well-educated you may be, if you disagree with feminists they will accuse you of ignorance. You’re just a dimwitted subhuman sexist pig, if you don’t support their agenda, and no amount of facts or logic can ever convince feminists otherwise:

How much feminist theory have you read? Probably less than I have. You’d have to be a Ph.D. in Women’s Studies to have read as many volumes of this stuff as I’ve plowed through since I started the Sex Trouble project in 2014. You want to talk Judith Butler and Monique Wittig? Mary Daly and Gerda Lerner? I’m thoroughly prepared. And yet at the end of the day, I return to a basic fact: Men and women are different, in ways that are socially significant.
You know who recognized this? Friedrich Engels. Karl Marx’s colleague and co-author of the Communist Manifesto, Engels in 1884 wrote a very important book, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, which is still worth reading today. Despite his anti-capitalist bias (or perhaps, because of this bias), his foray into anthropology forced Engels to confront the inescapable fact that women’s work as mothers is irreplaceable. . . .

Read the rest at The Patriarch Tree. Not only have I read more feminist theory than has the average feminist, but I’ve also read more Marxism than has the average Marxist. Being accused of ignorance by the kind of fools who voted for Hillary Clinton is a compliment, really.

UPDATE: Gotta quote Ace here:

A caste with pretenses of being superior does not actually become superior until the lower castes affirm the superiority of that caste by conceding to them the immunities and privileges they assert.

Brilliant. I have no problem conceding the superiority of someone like Ace, who obviously is several IQ points smarter than me. What I can’t stand is being lectured by some dimwit Gender Studies major like Jessica Valenti who (a) is nearly 20 years younger than me, and (b) could have titled her memoir My Pathetic Record of Bad Decisions: Why Only a Stupid Whore Would Make Such an Embarrassing Mess of Her Life.



 

Because She Doesn’t Like Blondes? @ahzimm Attacks @taylorswift13

Posted on | January 23, 2017 | Comments Off on Because She Doesn’t Like Blondes? @ahzimm Attacks @taylorswift13

When was the last time I paid attention to Taylor Swift? Almost a year ago, when those lesbian rumors were swirling around:

Every feminist on Tumblr is certain that Taylor is dating lesbian supermodel Karlie Kloss. As a Neutral Objective Journalist, of course, I’d have to see video proof before I’d believe that bizarre rumor, but if Cara Delevingne can be gay, everybody is gay, and in 2016, any self-respecting feminist would be embarrassed to admit she is heterosexual.

Just tabloid gossip, they said, but who knows, huh? Anyway, I went back to ignoring Taylor Swift and then today I saw this:

 

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Is this just some kind of cheap traffic-trolling trick? “Hey, let me throw a major celebrity under the feminist bus and see if I can’t get about 10,000 Facebook shares.”

The writer, Amy Zimmerman, is a recent graduate of Columbia University, so maybe she’s desperate to prove her traffic-generating prowess to her editors at The Daily Beast. Also — and there’s probably no delicate or politically correct way to say this — Amy Zimmerman is a swarthy Jew who seems obsessed with Taylor Swift’s gentile blondeness. This is not irrelevant to the content of Zimmerman’s attack:

As a pretty white girl who has written songs that rely heavily on fiddles, Swift undoubtedly counts a healthy handful of Trump supports among her fan base. In fact, the so-called alt-right has crowned Swift as the Aryan prom queen of their burgeoning neo-Nazi movement. The Daily Stormer—deemed a “neo-Nazi website” by The Southern Poverty Law Center—has published articles like “Taylor Swift, Avatar of European Imperialism,” “Aryan Goddess Taylor Swift: Nazi Avatar of the White European People,” and “Aryan Goddess Taylor Swift accused of Racism for Behaving Like an Ape in a Music Video.” Andrew Anglin, the site’s white supremacist founder, explained that, “Taylor Swift is a pure Aryan goddess, like something out of classical Greek poetry.” . . .
If you’re not overtly on board with the resistance, then you’re tacitly chill with being proclaimed an Aryan goddess. If you refuse to denounce your “alt-right” supporters, you risk alienating all of your queer, trans, black, Latino, undocumented, Muslim, and indigenous fans. Taylor Swift’s patriotic one-pieces might transition well to Donald Trump’s America, but her penchant for opting out of the political discourse is already passé.

WHOA!

Is it Taylor Swift’s fault she’s got neo-Nazi fanboys?

Or rather, is it Taylor Swift’s fault she’s a blue-eyed blonde?

These two phenomena are related, you see. The neo-Nazis like Taylor Swift for her blondeness, and it’s her blondness (“a pretty white girl”) that makes Taylor Swift suspect in the paranoid mind of Amy Zimmerman. Therefore, Taylor Swift must get “on board with the resistance,” or else she will stand accused of being pro-Nazi.

By the way, what’s with this “resistance” rhetoric? Ed Morrissey:

In a self-governing republic with established democratic processes, there is no honorable role for “resistance.” What are they “resisting,” especially before the new administration even takes office? Free and fair elections — the kind that this particular group hadn’t lost in twelve years. They only believe in elections when it gives them access to power.
Rather than take on the honorable and difficult task of the opposition party and rebuild themselves for future success, some on the Left have decided that they’re victims of oppression. To excuse that and their actions that have followed, they now wrap themselves in the mantle of the free French in World War II, or perhaps more relevantly, those few and brave dissidents in actual dictatorial regimes like Cuba. That’s not only ridiculous, it’s an insult to those who have had to fight true oppression and who had self-governance stripped from their hands, to the extent they had it at all. . . .
The “resistance” styles itself as anti-fascist, but they are the fascists. They don’t like the outcome of the election, and now they want to seize power by force and intimidation.

Yes, and here’s my hunch about Amy Zimmerman’s attack on Taylor Swift: It’s all about playing victim. She attacks Taylor Swift, poking at the “Aryan goddess” angle, and then waits for a deluge of anti-Semitic comments that she can then cite as “proof” that Taylor Swift’s fans are all a bunch of Trump-supporting neo-Nazis. All she needs is a couple of online death threats, and then she can do the Anita Sarkeesian/Zoe Quinn courageous victim-of-misogyny martyr trip — she’ll be giving TED talks and signing a book contract within a matter of weeks.

This kind of stuff has become tediously predictable. Feminists have become so accustomed to having everything their own way that any dissent is automatically condemned as “hate” or, as in the case of Taylor Swift, a feminist is condemned because she’s not feminist enough to satisfy the demands of some recent Columbia grad at the Daily Beast.

 

In The Mailbox: 01.23.17

Posted on | January 23, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.23.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
BattleSwarm Blog: Friday LinkSwarm
EBL: Marco Rubio Makes The Right Decision On Rex Tillerson
Twitchy: Liberal Berates Trump Supporter On Plane, Gets Escorted Off By Cops
Louder With Crowder: Disgusting Leftists Attack Ten-Year-Old Barron Trump – But They LOVE Children!


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Few Thoughts On Trump’s Inauguration
American Power: National Park Service Retweets Far-Left Inauguration Posts
American Thinker: Requiem For A Lightweight, also, From The Front Lines – Sharia Compliance In The U.S. Military
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Silicon Valley Monday
BLACKFIVE: Silver City By Jeff Guinn
Bring The HEAT: World Of Warships – Division Of Death
Da Tech Guy: JD Rucker – Mainstream Media Has Earned Every Ounce Of The “Trump Treatment”, And More
Don Surber: CNN Caved To Saddam, Now They Try To Bully Trump, also, Kellyanne Conway Tames Chuck Todd
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Too Moby For This Bunch
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Comedy Gold – Anti-Trump Nutcase Screaming “Nooooooo!” As President Is Sworn In
Joe For America: More Than A Vagina – What These Women Are Actually Protesting
JustOneMinute: Dark Night Descending
Power Line: Was Trump Right About His Inauguration Crowd Size?, also, Warren Isn’t Wowing Them In Massachusetts
Shark Tank: Trump Expected To Meet With Congressional Leaders Today
Shot In The Dark: All Roads Lead To George
STUMP: Kentucky Pension Assets – Trends In ERS, County, And Teachers’ Plans
The Geller Report: Stop Operation Soros – Massive Movement To Bring Down Soros Launched In Macedonia, also, Madonna Under Secret Service Scrutiny For Remarks On Blowing Up White House
The Jawa Report: From Missouri With Love, also, Worst. Hijab. Ever.
The Political Hat: Germany Goes Clockwork Orange
This Ain’t Hell: Guess Who Was Left Unpardoned?,
War Is Boring: The Not-So-Secret Way To Kill A Stealth Fighter
Weasel Zippers: Most Of 230 Rioters Arrested On Inauguration Day Could Face 10 Years/$25,000 For Felony Rioting, also, Senator Lindsey Graham (RINO-SC) Doesn’t Know What “America First” Means
Megan McArdle: Welcome To Trump’s America. Start Digging The Moat.
Mark Steyn: Dance Me To The End Of Love


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‘I’m Rubber, You’re Glue,’ and Other Childish Things That Losers Say

Posted on | January 23, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

Name-calling proves nothing, and sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Nevertheless, I am in the word business. George Orwell’s famous essay “Politics and the English Language” needs to be assigned reading for everyone who wants to understand our current situation.

Because I’ve already exceeded my weekly quota of fat jokes, there isn’t much more I can say about the Women’s March on Washington. Madonna is now claiming she was quoted “out of context,” which is what liberals always say when they’re caught saying what they really mean. However, words actually do mean things, as we have been reminded:

Friday night in Seattle, a man was shot during a riotous protest outside an event at the University of Washington featuring pro-Trump speaker Milo Yiannopoulos, an editor for Breitbart.com. Police say the incident is still under investigation, but a report by the Seattle Times indicates the gunman was part of the anti-Trump mob and that he claimed to have been assaulted by the man he shot, whom he believed to be a “white supremacist.” However, friends of the victim — who is reported to be hospitalized in critical condition — say the man is actually an anti-Nazi activist who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democrat presidential primaries.
The shooting in Seattle happened on the same day that mobs protesting President Trump’s inauguration rioted in Washington, D.C., where among other criminal acts they broke windows at a Starbucks and a Bank of America branch and burned a limousine parked outside the offices of the Washington Post. A day later, during the anti-Trump “Women’s March on Washington,” aging pop singer Madonna spoke of her violent fantasies: “Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.”
“Love Trumps Hate” and “Make Racists Afraid Again” are among the slogans commonly proclaimed on banners brandished by these violent mobs. This simplistic mentality, equating Republicans with “hate” and “racism,” has the effect of dehumanizing the 63 million Americans who voted to elect Trump. The rioters and their celebrity supporters evidently believe that any American who votes Republican is not merely wrong, but evil. Anyone who doesn’t hate Trump as much as Madonna hates Trump is condemned as ignorant and unworthy of respect. Who is to blame for inciting this dangerously divisive attitude? . . .

Read the whole thing at The American Spectator.



 

 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Inauguration Celebration

Posted on | January 22, 2017 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, that was quite the week, eh? Desperate, flailing folk trying to find a way – any way – to prevent the God-Emperor’s Ascension, a speech by President Trump that was mercifully brief and to the point, idiot anarchists rioting in the streets (and being indicted for same), and the “Women’s” March, another Soros astroturf effort coordinated by a sharia law advocate. Lots of stuff to appreciate, or at least point at and laugh. One of the things worth appreciating is the courage of Jackie Evancho, who sang at the inauguration despite threats to her life and career; in fact, her appearance may actually have boosted her concert ticket sales.

So, as usual, many of not all of the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW, and the management is not responsible for any ill effects incurred by those who fail to exercise discretion in the clicking.

Jackie Evancho

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns, while Goodstuff brings us some Blaze Starr, and Animal Magnetism has Rule Five Inauguration Day Friday and the Saturday Blondepocalypse.

EBL’s herd this week includes Lindsay Lohan, Cyd Charisse, Alanis Morrisette, Stay Chubby, Melania Trump, Ball Gowns, Stay Angry, and Ashley Judd.

A View from the Beach checks in with Alexandra HoldenHappy Inauguration Day!“Mojo Thunder”But Can She Hit the High Notes?Does London Pass the Paint Test?Vicky Beck Has Regrets, Reason #5394 Trump Was Elected, and She’s Not Kidding.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Marina Squerciati, his Vintage Babe is Bonita Granville, and Sex in Advertising is all about A Coke and a Smile. At Dustbury, it’s the long-awaited Zooeypalooza XXV!

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She’s Fat, Blame Patriarchy

Posted on | January 22, 2017 | 2 Comments

Emily Ward is a chubby 23-year-old Democrat feminist who hates men, Republicans and heterosexuality, not necessarily in that order. She is the kind of girl who thinks it is a profound achievement to “come to this understanding” that she’s bisexual her senior year at Michigan State. Except this is “bisexual” as a synonym for fat, lonely and desperate, not the stylishly decadent doing-coke-with-models-during-Fashion-Week kind of bisexual. While I am strongly opposed to sexual immorality, if you’re going to be a degenerate, you don’t want to do it with obese state university girls. No — get yourself to Miami or Hollywood or the French Riviera and indulge your sinful lust with glamorous deviants, or else don’t bother. Fat chicks from MSU are not worth going to Hell for.

Being “bisexual” gives Emily Ward an excuse to celebrate Gay Pride, but in practice this just means doubling her chances of being rejected. Men don’t like her, but women don’t like her much (not that way) so it’s not even improving her chances of going to Hell, either. Anyway, she hates Republicans, which gives her life some sense of purpose, and so Emily Ward and her friends protested Saturday in Chicago:

 

That’s Emily on the left, wearing a BuzzFeed “Failing Pile of Garbage” shirt and holding a sign with the slogan “Men’s Rights Is Nothing,” a line spoken by Amy Poehler’s character Leslie Knope in a February 2015 episode of the NBC series Parks and Rec. That line was considered a clever retort at a time when we were just a few months into the #GamerGate controversy and mere weeks after the Rolling Stone UVA rape hoax fell apart. In other words, feminists mocking their critics was a Hollywood laugh line in February 2015, but the joke had worn thin by the time the election rolled around in November 2016.

And that’s a capsule summary of what went wrong for Democrats, really. Sometime in late 2014, liberals decided that playing the “feminist” card was the best way to guarantee Hillary Clinton’s election in 2016. This meant that we spent two years being constantly bombarded with feminist messages — from TV sitcoms to cable-news documentaries to an endless outpouring of blog lectures from Amanda Marcotte, et al. Whatever the average American’s attitude toward feminism in early 2015, by November 2016 we’d heard the same messages repeated to the point of becoming a cliché: Everything a man might possibly say or do was wrong, because heteropatriarchy, “rape culture,” blah blah blah.

All this inchoate anti-male rage, of course, was ginned up out of nothing for strictly partisan purposes, to help elect Hillary Clinton.

Look, it’s like fat jokes, OK? If I occasionally make a fat joke, nobody cares. However, if I were to start throwing two or three fat jokes into every blog post, readers might object: “Hey, stop picking on fat people!”

Same deal with feminism. How many columns denouncing “rape culture” does any literate adult really need to read? Probably one or two would do, but during the past couple of years, feminists were cranking out scores of “rape culture” diatribes every week. In June 2014, George F. Will wrote a column that contained a couple of sentences that offended feminists, and from the reaction you would have thought that Will himself had been stalking college campuses and raping girls. With the repetitive intensity of  a voodoo zombie drumbeat — “rape! rape! rape!” —  the feminist tribe kept pounding away at the same theme, depicting all males as violent monsters on a 24/7 sexual rampage, and the only way to stop this merciless rape onslaught was to elect Hillary Clinton.

To which proposition the American people answered “no.”

No means no, as the feminists say, but having their candidate rejected by the electorate sent them into fits of rage. The message of Saturday’s “Women’s March” was, if you thought feminists were crazy before Trump became president, you have no idea how crazy they are now.

Ladies, the election is over. You lost.

Also you’re fat, but I don’t want to annoy readers with more fat jokes about you. Let ’em make their own jokes. That’s what comments are for.

 

Catholic Girls School Taught Bisexual Singer to Vote Democrat and Hate Men

Posted on | January 22, 2017 | 1 Comment

“F**K THE SYSTEM AND THE PATRIARCHY.”
Lauren Jauregui, Jan. 21, 2017

Anti-American left-wing teachers at an all-girls Catholic school in Miami taught bisexual pop singer Lauren Jauregui the radical feminist beliefs that inspired her outspoken opposition to President Trump.

A member of the group Fifth Harmony, the 20-year-old Jauregui denounced Republican voters as “racist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, a–holes” in a November rant in which she compared Trump to Hitler and declared her pride in being “a bisexual Cuban-American woman.” In that Nov. 18 message, Jauregui specifically cited her attendance at an all-girls Catholic school in condemning Republicans as “narrow-minded” and “selfish.” Saturday, Jauregui attended the pro-abortion “Women’s March on Washington,” obscenely condemning “patriarchy.”

Jauregui’s anti-GOP hatred shocked many Republicans, who have historically received strong support from Florida’s Cuban-American community, most of whom fled Cuba to escape the totalitarian anti-America regime established by Communist dictator Fidel Castro. Among Trump’s leading rivals for the 2016 GOP nomination were Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, both sons of Cuban immigrants.

In an interview with the feminist web site Nylon published today, Jauregui defended federal funding for Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion provider, and credited her feminist politics to attending Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart in Miami:

“I attribute everything that I feel and all of the passion that I have to that school. It’s an all-girls school, and it was instilled in me to be a confident and courageous woman. . . . And each individual girl was told how special she was and how much she could influence the world.”

In recent decades, many Catholic schools have emphasized a far-left “social justice” agenda influenced by Marxist “liberation theology,” a radical anti-American ideology that condemns capitalism. The role played by feminism in subverting the Catholic faith was exposed in Donna Steichen’s 1991 book Ungodly Rage: The Hidden Face of Catholic Feminism. Despite opposition from orthodox laity and clergy, left-wing feminists and militant homosexuals have taken over many nominally Catholic universities, including such schools as Marquette University, where the Gender Studies program promotes “queer feminism” and the administration threatened to fire a conservative professor for supporting Catholic moral doctrines. Lauren Jauregui’s condemnation of “patriarchy” echoes the anti-male ideology of feminists like Janice Raymond, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, and Mary Daly.

 

In her 1973 book Beyond God the Father, Professor Daly announced that “Christianity itself should be castrated,” describing “the Second Coming of female presence not only as Antichrist but also as Antichurch,” as a “rising woman-consciousness” destroying the “Christocentric cosmos” (see “The Radical Theology of Feminism”).

“With this new administration and all of the corruption fueled decisions they will make for their personal interest, it is so important for all of our voices to be heard. . . . I BELIEVE IN WOMEN and the Matriarchy and finding a solution for our dying earth. I believe that our radical ideas are the shaping of the future . . . the oncoming wave of a hard revolutionary fight for justice.”
Lauren Jauregui, Jan. 16, 2017

In her Nylon interview, Lauren Jauregui called the Trump administration “a fascist regime” and said there is “a lot of hatred in the heart of the country . . .because it was built on slavery.” She also claimed that anyone who opposes her feminist agenda hates women:

I think the whole stigma of the word feminism is such a problem. The only reason that anyone has an aversion to it is because it includes the word “fem,” even though it’s an all-inclusive term. I think that aversion in general is the reason why we need [feminism]. If the word “feminism” bothers you, there’s a reason why it bothers you, and only because it involves women. . . .
I think if I do anything political, it would be activism. I don’t believe in our government, currently. I don’t believe in the way that things are going.

Without any evident sense of irony, Jauregui praised her father, who “supported me 1,000 percent, all the way.” Her father paid to send her to the elite private girls’ school in Miami where annual tuition is $31,800 and she learned to support Marxism, abortion and homosexuality.



 

 

Victim Shot in Seattle Anti-Trump Riot Reportedly in Critical Condition

Posted on | January 22, 2017 | 2 Comments

 

There was a shooting Friday night during a riot outside an event at the University of Washington where Milo Yiannopoulos was speaking. Because the identity of the victim and suspected gunman were unknown, and we had no idea what motivated the shooting, I waited for facts to emerge before commenting on this incident. Seattle Times reports:

The man who surrendered to police in connection with the University of Washington shooting Friday night was released after telling investigators he fired in self-defense during a campus protest, according to two law-enforcement officials briefed on the case.
No details about any confrontation between him and the critically wounded man were available Saturday. But one of the law-enforcement officials said the man who fired the gun claimed he had been assaulted before shooting the other man, whom he believed to be some type of white supremacist.
The injured man, 34, was in critical condition Saturday at Harborview Medical Center, following surgery. His name was not released.
The shooting, which occurred during a protest of a Friday-night speech at Kane Hall by Breitbart News Network editor and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, remains under investigation.
Two people who said they are friends with the wounded man disputed the characterization of him as a supremacist. One said his friend supported Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary, and both said he sports an anti-hate tattoo that consists of a black swastika surrounded by a red circle with a slash through it.
Max Vohra of Seattle, who has known the man for seven years, said his friend got the tattoo more than a decade ago “when he was living in California, and had to deal with a lot of racists in the punk scene.” . . .
Daniel Herrera, who has worked and socialized with the man for three years, said he’s never seen his friend be aggressive.
“He has always been of the mind to be compassionate, empathetic and to educate. That’s his goal,” Herrera said.
UW police offered few details Saturday, saying in a news release that no suspects were being sought, and that the man who said he fired the gun was released pending investigation.
UW spokesman Norm Arkans defended the university’s handling of the event, saying that 80 Seattle police officers were brought in to supplement the 25 officers UW assigned to the event. . . .
Once the speech ended, police told audience members to remove their Donald Trump hats and other gear before leaving. Officers escorted the crowd out through an underground parking garage as a crowd of about 250 people remained outside the building.

So, it would appear, the shooter was part of the violent anti-Trump mob, who brought a pistol to this allegedly “peaceful” protest, and shot one of his fellow protesters — a Bernie Sanders supporter — in the mistaken belief that the victim was a white supremacist. This dangerous mob scene occurred on the campus of a state university, where a climate of violent hatred was instigated by soi-disant advocates of “social justice.”

 

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