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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
EBL

Three Quick Thoughts
Regular Right Guy
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In The Mailbox: 01.12.17
Proof Positive
EBL

‘These Discourses of Heterosexuality Which Particularly Oppress All of Us’
Rotten Chestnuts
EBL

Frank Zappa Salute To A No-Talent Rodeo Clown On The Occasion Of His Departure
Regular Right Guy
EBL

Why the Blame Game Doesn’t Work
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.13.17
EBL

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.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 01.13.17

Posted on | January 13, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.13.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Stay Puffy! Ashley Judd Claims Yellow Emojis Are Racist
Twitchy: Six Hilarious Joe Biden Memes From The Medal Of Freedom Ceremony
Louder With Crowder: Switzerland Denies Vegan Citizenship For Being Too Annoying
According To Hoyt: Don’t Poke The Writer
Monster Hunter Nation: Straight Outta Tombstone
Vox Popoli: A Bundle Of Holding


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Ski Lift Phone Etiquette
American Power: What Next For The Donkey Dunderheads After The Obama Collapse?
American Thinker: No More Hyphenated Americans
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Bad Decisions Friday
Bring The HEAT: World Of Warships – A Quickie
Da Tech Guy: Fausta – YouTube Closes Legal Insurrection’s Channel – It’s Back Up, But Expect More Of This
Don Surber: They Sing For Real Dictators, Not Trump
Dustbury: Hungrier In The Wintertime
Hogewash: More Left-Wing Shutuppery
Jammie Wearing Fools: Failed President Laments Losing “PR Battle” Despite Having 99% Of Media In His Pocket
Joe For America: Ted Cruz Pounces On Senate Democrats’ Hypocrisy
JustOneMinute: Fake News (Ongoing Layup Drill)
Power Line: Federal Judge Denounces EPA As Rogue Agency
Shot In The Dark: The Alt-Right’s Secret Weapon
STUMP: Self-Driving Cars – Won’t Anybody Think Of The Poor, Revenue-Hungry Governments?
The Geller Report: Anti-Trumpers Vow Inaugural Anarchy
The Jawa Report: Live From Jamaica – Shaykh Abdullah Faisal Preaches Support For Islamic State
The Political Hat: The Resistance – Because Once Again, Dissent Is Considered Patriotic
This Ain’t Hell: More Liberal Metrosexual Self-Emasculation
War Is Boring: What Does Rudy Giuliani Actually Know About Cybersecurity?
Weasel Zippers: Dem Rep John Lewis To Skip Trump Inauguration, Calls Him “Illegitimate President”, also, Cali Senator Kamala Harris Has No Idea What The CIA Does
Megan McArdle: Trump’s Strategy For Cutting Drug Prices Is DOA
Mark Steyn: Where No Debate Should Exist


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Why the Blame Game Doesn’t Work

Posted on | January 13, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

Dalrock had an excellent discussion of a “reflexive tendency to denigrate men” as responsible for the decline of marriage, an attitude he says “comes not from a sincere fear of a shortage of good men, but from a sense of extreme and everlasting abundance.” In other words, we have a natural tendency to believe that the future will be more or less contiguous with the past. Suppose you are the married, middle-class mother of a teenage or young adult woman, you are probably at least in your 40s, which means you were a teenager yourself during the 1980s or early ’90s. Whatever adolescent sturm und drang you went through circa 1985-1992, this did not prevent you from attracting a mate and forming a family. Therefore, you expect, your own daughter will ultimately do the same. So, however unimpressed you are with the general quality of your daughter’s male classmates and/or boyfriends at high school and college, you are likely to assume that, a la Snow White, some day her prince will come. From this assumption arises the “sense of extreme and everlasting abundance” of good men that Dalrock describes. When the reality fails to match your assumption — if all your daughter’s boyfriends are lazy, uncouth and selfish — you are then apt to blame these young men, or men in general, for the loneliness and misery your daughter experiences.

You can read the entirety of Dalrock’s discussion, but what caught my eye was the headline on Adam Piggott’s response:

Your daughter probably isn’t that special

Ooh, that’s cold, man. However, this is a possibility that parents may not consider amid a cultural climate of feminist “empowerment,” where teachers and the media constantly tell girls they can all be rocket scientists or senators or software company executives, and therefore need not concern themselves with finding a husband. Well, fine — believe that if you will, and after you’ve spent a couple hundred thousand bucks to send your daughter to an elite school where she majors in Gender Studies (not rocket science), don’t be surprised when she’s past 30, living in a tiny Brooklyn apartment with her bisexual “roommate” and her cats.

Feminist “empowerment” rhetoric inspires hubris among young women, who are taught in their Gender Studies classes that marriage is an oppressive institution imposed on women by heteropatriarchy.

 

Because 21st-century feminism is not only anti-male, but also anti-religion, anti-marriage, anti-motherhood and, ultimately, anti-heterosexual, the young women’s middle-class, middle-age mother is unlikely to realize how feminist hate propaganda affects both her daughter and the men who might otherwise become her daughter’s boyfriends. By relentlessly inciting young women’s distrust and contempt of males, 21st-century feminism makes it increasingly difficult for young men to develop attitudes of admiration toward their female peers. If he consistently encounters hostility from young women — an attitude feminists encourage in young women — the young man is apt to interpret this as evidence that all women hate him and are his enemies.

And why shouldn’t he believe this, when feminists like Jessica Valenti incite young women to take pleasure in male suffering, so that the “empowered” young woman never speaks to any male except to insult him with accusations of “misogyny” and “rape culture”?

 

Politics is, proverbially, a war of ideas, but Ideas Have Consequences, as Richard Weaver said, and the Democrat Party’s constant promotion of this kind of anti-male hate propaganda, as part of its doomed campaign to elect Hillary Clinton, has had social and cultural consequences.

If a woman’s political beliefs are based on the claim that all women are victims of male oppression (e.g., “These Discourses of Heterosexuality Which Particularly Oppress All of Us”), how does that affect her daily interactions with men? And if young people are being indoctrinated into feminist politics by our education institutions (e.g., “At Yale University, Special Snowflakes™ Are Traumatized by Republican Victory”), should anyone be surprised that young women are full of anti-male rage?

 

 

 

Considering how prevalent radical Third Wave feminism has become on university campuses, shouldn’t we expect young men to resent being the targets of such irrational hatred? How do we expect men to react to feminist rhetoric that treats males as demonized scapegoats?

Adam Piggot conveys his own resentment toward this attitude:

To put it simply, women behave as if there is an abundance of marriageable men while complaining that there are no good guys out there. Which is true?
I am of the opinion that there are many more men who are quietly getting on with earning their daily bread and going about their business in a dutiful way than is recognized. Of course, this attempted shaming tactic by women for men to “man up” by getting married is ridiculous. You don’t “man up” by doing what a woman wants you to do. Making a woman the center of your existence is a recipe for disaster. . . .
Times have changed. It’s not the 1950s anymore. For all you fathers out there with daughters getting itchy feet, I’ve got news for you. What makes you think that your precious little snowflake is at all deserving of a good man to marry her? It’s no longer a case of suitors lining up to display their good manners in an attempt to gain the approval of your little darling. The reason is because your little precious daughter is a dime a dozen.
You don’t find many young men suitable for your daughter? Don’t make me laugh. I look around and I don’t see very many young women who even come close to being suitable wife material. Maybe we should all consider the possibility that the reason that young people are not getting married in their previous numbers is not from a so-called dearth of suitable men — it’s due to there not being many suitable women out there. . . .

As a father of both sons and daughters, I don’t like Adam Piggott’s reaction any more than I like feminism’s anti-male rhetoric, even though I completely understand why he sees it the way he does.

The young man who has overcome disadvantages to make something of himself, as Piggott has done, does not enjoy being told that men are always the problem in relationships, and that all women are helpless victims. When we say that young women are not getting married because there is a shortage of “good men,” a bachelor like Adam Piggott is apt to roll his eyes in disbelief: Really? Have you taken a look at the freak show of irreparably broken women that 21st-century feminism has produced?

“I have dated seven members of the same fraternity, which is both objectively a bad idea and classic slut behavior. . . .
“I have herpes and thus I am a degenerate slut.”
— Ella Dawson, Sept. 24, 2016

“To destroy systems of injustice. So the most marginalized among us have their voices heard. For the people we love to be able to take up space. To end violence against women — down to the last microaggression. To celebrate difference. For every woman, everyone who experiences intersections of oppression, to be liberated. This is why we need feminism.”
— Hannah Rose McShane, March 2016

When I call attention to these cases of Feminist Derangement Syndrome, some readers may suppose that I actually enjoy seeing women reduce themselves to clichéd stereotypes of lunatic man-hating absurdity. The feminist who blames “patriarchal society” for her ill-fated career as a stripper and camgirl may not be an entirely innocent victim, but she is nevertheless the victim of a culture that has failed to teach young people the importance of moral virtue. There are such things as right and wrong, good and evil, and it is not only feminism, but also the toxic cultural poisons emitted by Hollywood, which cause young people to imagine they can pursue a life of wrong and evil without paying a price for their foolish decisions, their selfish attitudes, and their degenerate behavior.

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.
— Deuteronomy 30:19 (KJV)

Turn away from the right path, and you can “be sure you sin will find you out.” We cannot evade responsibility for our own weaknesses and failures by blaming others for the harmful consequences of our bad decisions.

Do I take pleasure in seeing feminists ruin their lives? Is it amusing to watch Ella Dawson make her name a synonym for “herpes”? Is it merely a joke that Rose McShane is psychologically incapable of any sentiment toward males except hatred and contempt? Of course not. It’s frightening and sad. These are young women whose parents once hoped that their little girls would grow up to be happy and successful, and what a horrible experience it must have been for those parents to witness their daughters transform into deranged hate-filled monsters. Feminism’s consequences are tragic, yet this needless destruction and misery is celebrated as “empowerment.” Does this mean mental illness is “power”? Sexually transmitted diseases are “power”? Loneliness and confusion are “power”?

Go read Ella Dawson’s recap of her experiences in 2016, where she’s congratulating herself on her own awesomeness and then, just to remind yourself of the pathetic reality of her wrecked life, go read her account of her mental illness. When you’re 24 and taking antidepressants just to be able to function, that’s not awesomeness, nor is it “empowerment.”

What is it then? It’s the natural result of the blame game. By telling young women that they are never responsible for their own problems, because they are oppressed victims of heteropatriarchy, feminism encourages them to believe in their own essential helplessness. By denigrating morality, feminism encourages young women to engage in behaviors that are unhealthy and emotionally damaging and, when the results are predictably catastrophic, feminism says: “Not your fault! Blame men!”

Accusatory finger-pointing doesn’t “empower” anyone. Vindictive rage against male scapegoats may help her feel better as a rationalization, a defense mechanism, but when she’s finished ranting about “intersections of oppression,” she is still trapped in the wreckage of her life.

“How’s your daughter, Mr. McShane?”
“Oh, she’s a man-hating lesbian Gender Studies major.”

“How’s your daughter, Mr. Dawson?”
“Oh, she’s a herpes-infected degenerate slut.”

What a tragedy it is for parents to raise daughters who deliberately bring such grief and shame to their families, and call it “empowerment.”

When parents bemoan the shortage of “good men” as an explanation for why their daughters are not married, they simply are not taking account of the poisonous effects of 21st-century feminism. Young men coming of age amid this epidemic of lunacy are not living in their parents’ world circa 1992, when a college boy could flirt with a girl and expect her either to flirt back, or else give him a brush-off. That kind of pas-de-deux of romantic play is dangerous on the 21st-century campus, where boys are accused of “harassment” merely for talking to girls. Given the pervasive mood of anti-male hostility that feminists have created, smart young guys — those “good men” who seem so scarce — minimize their risk. They are exceedingly cautious in their interactions with women. It’s not that guys fear rejection, but rather that they fear the potentially life-ruining repercussions of making the wrong move in a climate where more than 100 male students have filed lawsuits saying they were falsely accused of rape and denied due process in campus kangaroo courts.

Maybe your daughter isn’t a vindictive man-hating Gender Studies major, and maybe your daughter isn’t a herpes-infected slut, but amid this epidemic of feminist lunacy, how can a young guy be sure? What if he takes a chance and makes a move and — BOOM! — he finds he has stumbled into a minefield of psychotic craziness?

There are still good guys out there, but they’re very careful nowadays. And the bottom line is still the same: Winners win and losers lose.

Young people still fall in love and get married — it happens every day — and if your daughter can’t find a husband, maybe Adam Piggott’s right: “Your daughter probably isn’t that special.” She’s a dime a dozen, not even close to being suitable wife material. Feminists would congratulate her on being empowered, resisting the patriarchal institution of marriage. And she can enjoy her empowerment alone, or perhaps with a roommate, in a tiny apartment with her cats, and a cup full of “male tears.”



 

Category: Sex Trouble

Frank Zappa Salute To A No-Talent Rodeo Clown On The Occasion Of His Departure

Posted on | January 13, 2017 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

Powerline captures something key about #OccupyResoluteDeskLivesMatter:

Obama is a man from nowhere, a citizen of the world. So where will he live, post-presidency? Washington, D.C., of course–his only real home. He isn’t going anywhere.

This recalls some classic Frank Zappa from Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch (itself probably not a Nancy Pelosi fantasy):
Like every conscious American, I can’t help but feel relief that we have nearly passed Stompyfoot McPointyfinger, and that he’s not succeeded by another Soros meat puppet like Her Majesty. Whenever the Almighty calls that Bond villain to account, the world shall heave a sigh of relief. And I think we’ll come to understand what a pervasive Commie conspiracy these last decades have been.

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