In The Mailbox: 12.01.16

Posted on | December 1, 2016 | 1 Comment

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: #WAR – Boycott Kellogg’s & Buzzfeed Advertisers
Michelle Malkin: Narrative-Buster – Look Who Committed A “Racist” “Pro-Trump” “Hate Crime”
Twitchy: Chelsea Handler Hopes This Document Will Trump The Constitution On Hillary’s Behalf, also, Sally Kohn Suddenly Super-Concerned About Wasted Taxpayer Funds
Louder With Crowder: Shaq Tells Anti-Trump Protesters It’s Time To Move On, also, Mike Rowe Wants To Know Why Tax Dollars Are Funding Colleges That Burn The Flag

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Far-Left Protesters Accuse Jews Of Being Fascists
American Power: Perpetual Leftist Victims
American Thinker: Election 2016 – The Day The Music Died For American Jews
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily News
Da Tech Guy: JD Rucker – If Any Cabinet Position Can Use New Blood, It’s Secretary of State
Don Surber: President Trump and Mitt Romney Game The Media, also, Liberals Whine About Trump’s Success With Carrier
Dustbury: The One-Time Minister Of Munitions, also, Amid All The Gloom
Fred On Everything: Gun Control – Hawglegs And Hawgwash
Jammie Wearing Fools: Buzzfeed’s Hit Piece On Chip And Joanna Gaines Is Dangerous
Joe For America: Roger Stone Says Hillary’s Pushing A Recount Increases Her Chances Of Landing In Jail
JustOneMinute:
Power Line: Illegal Voting And What To Do About It, also, Professor Watching
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Calls Repealing Obamacare “Only Sane Path”
Shot In The Dark: Mark My Words
The Geller Report: Slovakia Passes Law To Ban Recognition of Islam As A Religion
The Political Hat: The New Acceptability – Treading, Raping, And Pedophilia
This Ain’t Hell: Colonel Daniel Wilson, Field Grade Tickle Monster, also, William Grobes IV – $4.5 Million GI Bill Fraud
Weasel Zippers: Was Buzzfeed Writer Trying To Punish Fixer Upper Couple For Voting Trump?, also, UC President Napolitano Tells Campus Cops Not To Enforce Immigration Law
Megan McArdle: Trump Tax Cuts – A Bad Idea With A Bright Future
Mark Steyn: The Donaldganger

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In The Mailbox: 11.30.16

Posted on | November 30, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through the Amazon links on my posts. Fees from those posts help keep your favorite wombat supplied with protein bars and fresh SF!

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: REPUBLICANS WIN BIG – Pelosi Stays On As House Minority Leader
Michelle Malkin: Justin Trudeau – Baby-Faced Commie Apologist Unmasked
Twitchy: “Tariq Wasn’t Expecting An Informed Interviewer!” – Tucker Carlson Invites Tariq Nasheed To His Show
Louder With Crowder: Even Jill Stein’s Own Running Mate Denounces Recount Scam

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Take Your White Ribbon Pledge And Shove It
American Power: Dakota Access Pipeline Protests Just Another Chance For Idiot Leftist Hijacking And Exploitation
American Thinker: Why The Democrats Can’t Stop Calling The GOP Racists
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Da Tech Guy: They Want A Recount? Let’s Give Them One In NH. NY, IL, CA And MN Too!
Don Surber: President Trump Will End Payoffs To Planned Parenthood
Dustbury: Presumably On Channel 15
Jammie Wearing Fools: Hillary Clinton Emerges From Woods To Attend Snowflake Ball
Joe For America: As Democrats Caught In Massive Voter Fraud, Hillary’s Campaign Imploded
JustOneMinute: Climate Change Alert!
Power Line: Dayton’s Stormy Tuesday
Shark Tank: Trump Announces He’ll Be Stepping Down As CEO Of His Businesses
Shot In The Dark: Good News, Bad News
STUMP: CALPERS – What Exactly Is an “Average Pension”?
The Geller Report: Mosque Near Ohio State Campus has Multiple Terror Ties
The Jawa Report: #PizzaGate
The Political Hat: Calling A Girl A Girl Is Now Considered Emotional Abuse And Homophobia
This Ain’t Hell: Congress Won’t Draft Women, also, Coast Guard Won’t Change Ratings
Weasel Zippers: Obama Blames Fox News For Dems’ Inability To Reach Voters, also, Fixer Upper Star Couple Are Christians, So They Must Be Destroyed
Megan McArdle: Don’t Get Your Hopes Up About Home Prices
Mark Steyn: All Berned Out And Doubling Down

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War on Women: Democrats Ready to Throw Nancy Pelosi Under the Bus?

Posted on | November 30, 2016 | 3 Comments

The irony here is rather delicious:

In the aftermath of Democrats’ demoralizing election defeat, Representative Nancy Pelosi’s bid to return as minority leader has been transformed into a larger debate about what has gone wrong with a party that eight years ago controlled Congress and the White House.
Ms. Pelosi, a 76-year-old San Francisco progressive, is expected to easily win re-election when her colleagues vote on Wednesday. But she has become a stand-in for complaints that Democrats have failed to offer a compelling, broad-based economic message to the working-class voters in the Midwest and South who helped them capture the House 10 years ago and made Ms. Pelosi the first woman speaker.
Representative Tim Ryan, who represents a blue-collar district in northeastern Ohio, has mounted an unexpected challenge to Ms. Pelosi and given voice to the message that House Democrats must broaden their appeal beyond the three liberal states — California, Massachusetts and New York — that now account for a third of their members.
Mr. Ryan argues that his party can only rebuild if it re-establishes itself as the party of the working class.
“We’ve lost that brand, and that’s the brand that gets you elected,” said Mr. Ryan, who is also thought by colleagues to be considering running for governor of Ohio in 2018.

Democrats talking about the popular vote — which Clinton won by a margin of more than 2 million votes — fail to acknowledge that this reflects lopsided majorities in a handful of ultra-liberal states. Clinton carried California by 3.4 million votes, New York by 2.5 million votes, Massachusetts by 900,000 votes, and Illinois by 800,000 votes. Pandering to liberal elites, Clinton ran up her totals in urban areas to gain a margin of more than 6 million votes in four states with 115 Electoral College votes. Meanwhile, Trump appealed to those who have spent the past eight years bitterly clinging to their guns and Bibles, to paraphrase a certain Harvard Law graduate’s putdown of Americans who have to work for a living. This “basket of deplorables,” to quote a certain Yale Law graduate’s description, turned out to include a surprising number of voters in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa.

Democrats have become a party for decadent elitists who cannot hide their contempt for the opinions and values of anyone who can’t afford to send their kids to Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Oberlin, Occidental, etc. Donald Trump got the votes of every ordinary American smart enough to understand that limousine liberals like Nancy Pelosi (who “is among the richest members of Congress, with an estimated net worth of approximately $58 million”) don’t give a damn about them.

“What difference, at this point, does it make?”

Noting quite so perfectly demonstrated Hillary Clinton’s absolute disdain for ordinary Americans than her willingness to lie to them about what happened to the four Americans killed in Benghazi. These “little old liberal white ladies,” as Kevin Williamson called them, get plenty of support from commies who burn the American flag, from college kids who love Fidel Castro, and from wealthy celebrity feminists like Gloria Steinem. Democrats are then shocked to discover that this does not endear them to patriotic Americans who work for a living.

“The American flag has represented this imperialist, white supremacist, hegemonic masculinity.”
— Isaiah Young, American University

Exit polls show Trump beat Clinton by a 26-point margin among voters who had served in the U.S. military, and his margin was 14 points among voters who attend church on a weekly basis. Nancy Pelosi received the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood, in recognition of her work to ensure that American taxpayers continue funding America’s largest abortion provider. Do you think that might have something to do with Democrats losing support among Catholic working-class voters in the industrial Midwest? I think maybe it does.

The 21st-century Democrat Party, basically. pic.twitter.com/HxD5yubTVs

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) November 30, 2016

A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. Democrats kill babies. Democrats burn the American flag. Democrats hate Jesus.

Democrats still don’t understand why they keep losing:

“I think a lot of people are unsure if we want the faces of the party to be Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi: liberals from New York and California. It was different with a Democratic president — he was the face of the party, but now they will be,” the Democrat said.
One Democratic member said that while they like and admire Pelosi, they thought the election results meant it was time for her to step aside: “I just don’t think you can look at the election and say we should keep doing what we’ve been doing.”

Fifty-eight million dead babies could not be reached for comment.

FLASHBACK: November 8, 2016
"What difference at this point does it make?" pic.twitter.com/sWCJLD7atO

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) November 30, 2016

Category: Abortion, Donald Trump, Election, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi

Notoriously Crazy Felon Barrett Brown Has Been Released From Federal Prison

Posted on | November 29, 2016 | 3 Comments

September 2012: Barrett Brown calmly explains his intent to ‘destroy’ an FBI agent

“You don’t need a lawyer, Barrett. You need a psychiatrist, or perhaps a priest to exorcise your demons. You are traveling a road to destruction, as harmful to yourself as to any of your chosen enemies. Get help.”
— me, to Barrett Brown, Sept. 4, 2012

“I got to find out, thanks to a hack — thanks to another f–king stroke of luck, thank God — that HB Gary, since mid-February, had hired an FBI informant . . . making up reasons to raid Barrett Brown and get his information.”
— Barrett Brown, “Why I’m Going to Destroy FBI Agent Robert Smith Part Three,” YouTube.com, Sept. 12, 2012

In January 2015, former “Anonymous” spokesman Barrett Brown was sentenced to five years and three months in federal prison after pleading guilty to “threatening an FBI agent, attempting to hide two laptops during the execution of a search warrant and offering to help another hacker.” Because he had been in custody for more than two years since his September 2012 arrest, I calculated at the time that Barrett would be out by 2017, but it looks like he got out a little early:

Dallas-born investigative journalist Barrett Brown was released from federal prison Tuesday morning after spending more than four years behind bars.
The 35-year-old was sentenced to prison for threatening an FBI agent and helping share stolen data, marking the end of a criminal case criticized by free-speech advocates. He originally faced charges that carried more than 100 years in prison, but Brown pleaded guilty to greatly reduced charges: transmitting threats, aiding hackers and obstructing authorities from carrying out a search warrant. Supporters say Brown, was targeted by the federal government after sharing data hacked from the Austin-based defense contractor Stratfor.

This “investigative journalist” bullshit is the hero-martyr narrative Barrett’s paranoid anarchist fanboys want to believe, in the same way some people want to believe Jim Garrison’s crackpot conspiracy theories about the JFK assassination, but it simply is not true.

Brown was an opportunistic famewhore who got in over his head trying to cash in on the “Anonymous” criminal hacking spree of 2010-2011. He appointed himself the unofficial spokesman for Anonymous, fooled quite a few clueless mainstream journalists into taking him seriously, hustled a book deal for himself and a co-author and then . . .

Oh, it’s a long, sad story. In March 2012, the FBI raided Barrett with a search warrant, but did not arrest him. Some of the Anonymous hackers had, by that time, already begun to distrust Brown. His publicity-seeking made him a target, and it did not escape notice that the FBI started busting hackers not long after Barrett began his “spokesman” duties. The logical deduction was that Barrett’s “opsec” was sloppy, that the feds had been scrutinizing his communications, identified his contacts within the hacker community, and thereby busted the perpetrators of various criminal escapades. Whether that was what actually happened or not, after the FBI raided Barrett in March 2012, he became radioactive, so to speak, and some suspected he had turned informant, ratting out his erstwhile Anonymous comrades in exchange for leniency.

Anyway, while all this was going on with Barrett, I was busy covering the 2012 presidential campaign, and only occasionally noticing the unraveling of Barrett’s “Anonymous” career. He had first crossed my radar screen back in the fall of 2009, when he belatedly tried to dogpile onto Charles Johnson’s ill-considered “white supremacist” smear against me. At that time, I had no idea of who Barrett was except that he’d once been involved in an atheist organization, so I sort of thumped him lightly and moved on. When he subsequently emerged as a the public face of “Anonymous,” I regarded him as a joke, but he evidently held a grudge against me. Then, after the Brett Kimberlin episode of May 2012, it seems that Kimberlin’s associate Neal Rauhauser decided to try to use Barrett in an attack against me and Kimberlin enemy Patrick “Patterico” Frey. This involved the fabrication of “evidence” that a former Anonymous supporter named Jennifer Emick had snitched on Barrett Brown, and a bogus theory that I was part of some conspiracy involving Emick and HBGary.

If this thumbnail version of the story sounds crazy and confusing, it’s because it was crazy and confusing, but Barrett was in such a state of paranoia (and also heroin addiction) that he took it seriously. So right after I returned from the 2012 Republican convention in Tampa, Barrett pops up on Twitter, insulting and threatening me, demanding that I call him within a certain time period — or else!

Certain as I was of my own rectitude — I had not “defamed” him or otherwise done him any wrong — I replied with a long email informing Barrett that he was insane, and that he was headed for serious trouble. Then I packed up and headed to the Democrat convention in Charlotte, forgetting all about the matter until a friend told me about Barrett’s YouTube meltdown, which I described as “13 minutes of absolute 100% bugfucking nuts,” and sufficient to get him arrested.

While in prison (and off heroin) Barrett actually did some excellent writing. He has a fine prose style, when he puts his mind to it, and if he were working with a good editor — someone to supervise his assignments and hassle him to produce actual reporting on a regular deadline — I don’t doubt Barrett could do good work. Of course, this would require him to recognize his shortcomings (e.g., laziness and arrogance), and I’m not sure he could handle that. Barrett Brown is a victim of his own grandiosity, as I have explained:

Once you understand paranoia as a narcissistic disorder, you see that Barrett’s fantasy of becoming a latter-day Sy Hersh involves a vast chasm between his grandiose ambition and his actual abilities.
Barrett Brown is not as smart as he thinks he is. More to the point, Stephen Hawking is not as smart as Barrett Brown thinks he is.

We shall see what becomes of him henceforth.

UPDATE: Forgot to hat-tip Donald Douglas at American Power.

Back on the outside for the first time in 4 years, Barrett enjoys an Egg McMuffin. #FreeBB pic.twitter.com/bLbX21ZcTJ

— Free Barrett Brown (@FreeBarrett_) November 29, 2016

Barrett Brown hasn’t had an Egg McMuffin since September 2012. Freedom is a trip to McDonald’s. There’s a metaphor there, I’m sure.

Category: Barrett Brown, Crime

In The Mailbox: 11.29.16

Posted on | November 29, 2016 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Tom Price For HHS
Twitchy: Senator Kaine Shows Newfound Interest In War Powers Act
Louder With Crowder: Baltimore Cop Rushes To Save Life Of Anti-Cop Protester’s Baby

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Trust
American Power: Justin Trudeau, Canada’s Laughing Stock
American Thinker: The States’ Trump Card Against The Fed
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Japan Arrival News
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Terminal Impact by Charles Henderson
Da Tech Guy: Baldilocks – The Hell Below
Don Surber: Recount Was A Great Gift To President Trump
Dustbury: Call Her Ramya
Jammie Wearing Fools: How Old is The “18-Year-Old” Ohio State Terrorist Who Spent Seven Years In Pakistan?
Joe For America: On Day One, Say Goodbye To These Cities
JustOneMinute: Cabinet Picks, Terror, And More
Power Line: Politico Asks, What If Trump Enforces The Law?
Shark Tank: Sentir Cubano Sells “Bigly” With “Viva Cuba Libre” Party Kit
Shot In The Dark: What’s The Matter With Paul Krugman?
STUMP: Around The World In Pensions – South Korean Scandal, German Pandering, And More
The Geller Report: CNN’s Alisyn Camerota Says We Should Wear Headscarves In Solidarity With Muslims
The Jawa Report: Somali Immigrant Killed In Attack On Ohio State University
The Political Hat: The Coming Confrontation In Venezuela
This Ain’t Hell: Ohio Spree – Anti-Gun Narrative Too Good To Ignore, also, NYT Says Obama Should Pardon Bergdahl Because “Trump!”
Weasel Zippers: KSM Says If Not For Ferocity Of W’s Response To 9/11, Al Qaeda Would Have Made More Attacks
Megan McArdle: Disputes Over The Election Don’t Serve Either Side
Mark Steyn: Don’t Say I’m Violent, Or I’ll Kill You

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The Intifada at Ohio State Proves the Immigration-Terrorism Connection

Posted on | November 29, 2016 | 2 Comments

William Jacobson describes Monday’s Islamic terrorist attack in Columbus in which a “Somali legal immigrant rammed his car into pedestrians on the sidewalk, then attacked with what is variously described as a butcher knife or machete.” NBC News reports:

An Ohio State University student posted a rant shortly before he plowed a car into a campus crowd and stabbed people with a butcher knife in an ambush that ended when a police officer shot him dead, a law enforcement official said.
Abdul Razak Ali Artan, 18, wrote on what appears to be his Facebook page that he had reached a “boiling point,” made a reference to “lone wolf attacks” and cited radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
“America! Stop interfering with other countries, especially Muslim Ummah [community]. We are not weak. We are not weak, remember that,” the post said. . . .
A police officer was on the scene within a minute and killed the assailant, likely saving lives, university officials said. “He engaged the suspect and eliminated the threat,” OSU Police Chief Craig Stone said.
Law enforcement officials told NBC News that Artan was a Somali refugee who left his homeland with his family in 2007, lived in Pakistan and then came to the United States in 2014 as a legal permanent resident.

Further analysis from Professor Jacobson:

When I heard the story of the car ramming and knife attack, my mind immediately went back to the recent so-called Knife Intifada in Israel, in which car rammings played a prominent role . . .
The Ohio State attacked reminded me in particular of [an October 2015] attack where a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem rammed a bus stop with his car then got out with a meat cleaver and started slashing a man. It took several shots from a passerby to stop the attack . . . .

(Hat-tip: Memeorandum.) President-elect Trump repeatedly during the campaign referenced the connection between immigration and the threat of Islamic terrorism. For this willingness to speak the unpleasant truth, our President-elect was condemned as a bigot by Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself). Let the record show that President-elect Trump was right, and his critics were wrong. And don’t forget:

Women’s Studies Professor Accuses
Trump Supporters of ‘Terrorism’

Would anyone care to remind Professor Siobhan Senier of her words?

Curious to know if Abdul Razak Ali Artan was ever suspended from Twitter. #FreeMilo #FreeRicky #FreeStacy @moreRickyVaughn #GamerGate #tcot pic.twitter.com/uG2D4DOpOo

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) November 29, 2016

Category: Immigration, Islam, Ohio, Pakistan, Somalia, Terrorism

Some Stereotypes Are True

Posted on | November 29, 2016 | 6 Comments

One of the favorite pastimes of liberals is lecturing the rest of us about how ignorant we are. Every common-sense belief about human nature is a “myth,” liberals say, and any generalization about various human traits and patterns of behaviors is a prejudicial “stereotype.” These accusations of ignorance and prejudice are, in fact, a form of character assassination — a way of discrediting anyone who refuses to go along with whatever agenda liberals are currently pursuing. We ought to resent these insults more than we do, but that might just be my inner redneck talking, because you know how Southern men are about being insulted, right?

Oh, but that’s just a stereotype. Rednecks are not prone to fighting, Asians are not good at math, women never gossip — all stereotypes are false, liberals insist, except when negative stereotypes can be used to demonize Republicans as intolerant bigots. If you voted for Donald Trump, liberals condemn you as a neo-Nazi who wants to kill all Jews and homosexuals. Why? Because you’re ignorant and prejudiced. Otherwise you would vote Democrat, like all the Smart People™ do.

Having majored in drama in college, and having once been the only heterosexual employee in the menswear department of a major retail outlet, I’m tempted to laugh when liberals accuse me of being ignorant about gay behavior. As for “homophobia,” what does that word mean? This is one of those slurs that liberals invent for political purposes which, on closer examination, doesn’t really mean anything.

If you’re my age, you may recall that the word “homophobia” suddenly burst forth into journalistic usage in the mid-1980s. This was not a coincidence, as it was during the 1980s that Democrats blamed Christian conservatives for the success of Ronald Reagan’s presidency and, also not coincidentally, it was during the 1980s that the AIDS pandemic aroused entirely rational fears about homosexuality:

Permit me here to recommend “The Origins of a Political Epidemic,” in the book Destructive Generation by Peter Collier and David Horowitz. This article was first published in 1983, when the AIDS epidemic was first making headlines, and when gay activists blocked the public-health measures which might have saved many thousands of lives. . . .
There is no such thing as “safe sex.” That phrase was born during the 1980s as a result of the gay community’s belated recognition that the AIDS epidemic had been spread by, uh, specific types of sexual behavior that resulted in the transmission of a virus through the exchange of bodily fluids, to explain this problem in the most polite way possible. . . .
In 1982, the CDC reported that that the “median number of lifetime male sexual partners” for gay men diagnosed with AIDS was 1,160.
Repeat: One thousand one hundred sixty.
To comprehend what that means, if a man was diagnosed with AIDS at age 30, after having 1,160 partners since becoming sexually active at age 18, he would have had 97 different partners in an average year, i.e., nearly two new partners every week, or eight new partners per month. This was the “at-risk” population among whom the epidemic was incubated in the late 1970s and early 1980s (a story told in Randy Shilts’s book And the Band Played On). Extreme promiscuity under conditions of almost complete anonymity (i.e., bathhouses, “glory holes,” nightclub pickups, etc.) had become so widely accepted in gay culture in the 1970s that when public-health officials first urged gay men to use condoms during the, uh, specific types of sexual behavior by which the virus was spread, these official recommendations were suppressed.

To say that the actual facts about the AIDS epidemic confirmed certain “stereotypes” about gay male behavior would be an understatement. The accusation of “homophobia” was used to intimidate anyone who expressed common sense on this subject, at a time when people were quite literally dying because they had ignored common sense. By the 1990s, the definition of “homophobe” had been stretched to the point that it meant anyone who disapproves of homosexuality. Well, as someone who disapproves of a great many things — modern art, the designated hitter rule, yoga pants and Auburn University, to name a few — I don’t see why I should be forbidden to express disapproval of sexual behavior, merely because this might hurt someone’s feelings. However, since the Democrat Party decided that gay people are victims of social injustice (and thus in need of assistance and protection by the federal government), we are now required to be enthusiastic cheerleaders for all things LGBTQ, or else we’re “homophobes.” On this, as on so many other subjects, liberalism means that you have the right to whatever opinion the Smart People™ tell you to have. But I digress . . .

All stereotypes are false, liberals tell us, and so you’re not allowed to call attention to certain facts. If you notice, for example, that women’s athletics is dominated by lesbians, don’t mention it too loudly, lest you be accused of ignorance, prejudice, misogyny and homophobia.

Jackie Simpson was an All-American volleyball player at the University of Wisconsin and, after graduation, was an assistant coach at Winona State, East Carolina, Marquette and Iowa before being named head coach at George Mason University in February 2015. Jordyn Kirr was a first team high school All-American in lacrosse before joining the team at Georgetown University, where she led the team in assists her freshman and sophomore seasons, and was second in scoring her junior year, helping lead the Hoyas to the Big East title with 4 points in the championship game against Syracuse. Ms. Kirr was the only player in Hoya history to record over 100 goals and 100 assists in a career, and later got her master’s degree at Marquette, where she was assistant coach of the women’s lacrosse team and met Ms. Simpson:

They were working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the time, so they met up at a Green Bay Packers game where both were eager to get to know the other better. By the end of the third quarter, they’d shared their first kiss, and an official first date over a home cooked breakfast later followed.

That’s from a story about the ceremony in which the couple tied the knot this past summer. Ms. Kirr is now assistant athletic director at an elite private school for girls where tuition is nearly $30,000 a year.

The five founders of Bryn Mawr School.

This school, not coincidentally, was co-founded in 1885 by M. Carey Thomas, an early radical feminist who condemned marriage as “a personal subjection for which I see absolutely no compensation.” Among Thomas’s co-founders were her “devoted companion” Mamie Gwinn and a wealthy heiress named Mary Garrett. Shockingly, in 1904, Gwinn ran off with a man. Thomas then became the partner of Garrett until the latter died in 1915, leaving a will which bequeathed to Thomas a sum that would now be worth more than $15 million. But, yeah, it’s a stereotype to say that radical feminists are lesbians, just like it’s a stereotype to say that women’s sports coaches are lesbians, and I’m sure there must be lots of heterosexual women playing varsity sports in college. Wait a minute, my eyes just rolled out of my head . . .

One of the consequences of political correctness is that it requires a hypocritical dishonesty, forbidding us to mention certain facts that everybody knows, but which no one can say aloud without being denounced as a bigot. Everybody who actually knew anything about gay male behavior circa 1980 understood that an astonishing level of promiscuity was commonplace, but there was an embargo on criticism of this promiscuity, especially in terms of specific types of sexual behavior that involved the exchange of bodily fluids, IYKWIMAITYD. The only people who were speaking out in the 1970s against the behaviors that led to the AIDS pandemic were those who spoke of “the wrath of God,” etc. Gay activists and their liberal friends vilified Anita Bryant for her 1977 “Save Our Children” campaign, and what a weird coincidence that so many of Anita Bryant’s critics died of AIDS in the ensuing decade.

Brushing inconvenient facts under the rug, while intimidating people into silence by the use of slurs like “homophobe,” is oddly reminiscent of the Victorian concern for propriety that forbade anyone from speaking aloud what should have been obvious about women like M. Carey Thomas, whose personal aversion to heterosexuality was plainly evident and yet off-limits to critical scrutiny. In recent decades, lesbian feminists have fought hard to illuminate the truth that Victorian prudery obscured, claiming M. Carey Thomas (and Jane Addams, Mary Woolley, et al.) as members of their tribe. Whatever the unknown details of these early feminist’s lives might be, we cannot deny that the dots form a pattern, one to which most opponents of Victorian-era feminism were reluctant to allude even indirectly. One finds critics of the suffrage movement denouncing the “mannish” attitudes of feminists, without daring to go so far as to state clearly what was insinuated by such criticism.

We are in a more . . . enlightened era now, and the winds of progress have blown away the obscuring fog of prudery, so that we need no longer pretend that the truth is concealed from our observation. In 1971, lesbian feminists Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love wrote:

Those threatened by or irritated with women’s liberation often dismiss the movement by saying, “Oh, they’re just a bunch of dykes.” The response of the women’s liberation movement to this charge is vital to the feminists, the lesbians, the many who accept both identities, as well as to the life and the meaning of the movement itself.
The words “dyke” and “lesbian,” especially when used by men, are charged words calculated to send shivers of horror up the spines of women who want a more independent life style. Men who pride themselves on their capacity for rational responses cannot keep a cool head on this subject. . . . “Let’s face the truth,” says one feminist, “the greatest threat to men is solidarity among women and lesbianism epitomizes that solidarity.”

Notice here the accusation of male irrationality, attributing fear to men who allegedly feel “threatened” by feminist “liberation.” Yet at the same time the authors of this essay, entitled “Is Women’s Liberation a Lesbian Plot?” must be understood as answering this question in the affirmative. It does not strain anyone’s “capacity for rational responses” to examine the facts and say, “See? We told you so.” In 1993, lesbian feminists Celia Kitzinger and Rachel Perkins wrote:

The word ‘homophobia’ defines fear of lesbians as irrational. . . . This is completely at odds with radical lesbian politics. We cannot think of lesbianism as a challenge to heteropatriarchal structures and values and simultaneously claim that there are no reasonable grounds for men (or heterosexually identified women) to fear us. . . If lesbianism is a blow against the patriarchy, the bonding of women against male supremacy, then it is entirely rational for men to fear it. Contemporary psychology evades these political implications of lesbianism and presents us as essentially harmless.

Anyone who takes feminism seriously understands that the movement is anti-male, anti-marriage, anti-motherhood, and anti-Christian. This is what “solidarity among women” is all about and, as Professor Kitzinger and Professor Sue Wilkinson wrote, it is “hard for heterosexual feminists to reconcile their political analyses with their chosen lifestyles,” because of “the perceived negative consequences of heterosexuality for women.” (See “Feminism and the Psychology of Fear,” Sept. 26.) My point is that we ought not tolerate the dishonest evasions by which some feminists seek to conceal what Professor Kitzinger readily admitted. The truth is obvious to anyone who is willing to pursue feminist arguments to their logical conclusion. Feminism “condemns heterosexuality as an oppressive ‘institution’ forcibly imposed on women by the social system of male domination known as patriarchy,” as I explained in April, summarizing the work of several authors:

Heterosexuality is “an institution of male domination,” as Sheila Jeffreys and her colleagues declared in 1981, and it is an “illusion that heterosexuality is the norm,” as Professor Shaw and Professor Lee more recently declared in their popular Women’s Studies textbook. The penis is a “weapon against women,” as Professor Graham explained, women are victimized by “the coercive power of compulsory heterosexuality,” according to Professor Jackson, and masculinity causes “sexual violence . . . a physical reaffirmation of patriarchal power,” according to Ms. Wooten.

If these eminent feminist professors say this, certainly we are not trafficking in stereotypes to say that feminists are “just a bunch of dykes,” because it is impossible to imagine that women who express such complete contempt for men could ever consent to any heterosexual relationship. And why would any man be interested in such women?

So pay $30,000 a year to send your daughter to an elite school founded by a woman who condemned marriage as “subjection,” and encourage your daughter to become a varsity college athlete, but do not accuse me of ignorance when I tell you where this pursuit of feminist “equality” is likely to lead. Some stereotypes are true, after all, and if you accuse a Southern man of ignorance, he’s apt to take your accusation as an insult. If you then add injury to this insult by imputing to him a cowardly fear, you have forfeited any consideration of courtesy by which he may otherwise have been constrained.

“One stereotype is that everyone at Bryn Mawr is a lesbian.”

Gosh, ma’am, I wonder why anyone would think so? The motto of Bryn Mawr is Veritatem dilexi, “I delight in the truth,” yet the school’s founder was less than truthful about her purposes. M. Carey Thomas despised men and marriage, but she expressed this disdain only in private, except for one occasion when, during a chapel lecture, she declared of Bryn Mawr’s students: “Only our failures marry.” This caused something of a scandal, and Thomas claimed she had been misquoted, but it is evident she did consider marriage incompatible with feminist “success,” even if she concealed this attitude from the parents of the girls she recruited to Bryn Mawr College. She established Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore as “one of the first college-preparatory schools for girls in the country,” and would no doubt heartily approve of Coach Kirr’s return to her alma mater as assistant athletic director. Mission accomplished.

Certainly we ought to congratulate Bryn Mawr School on their success in achieving the feminist goals toward which M. Carey Thomas aimed, teaching girls to avoid the “failure” and “subjection” of marriage to men.

Veritatem dilexi — “I delight in the truth,” and as for the truth about feminism, why pay $30,000 a year for your daughter to learn it? But maybe they still teach Latin at those elite schools. IYKWIMAITYD.

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