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Thanks to @laurenstrapa, Canadians Are Now Dwindling Toward Extinction

Posted on | November 3, 2016 | 1 Comment

 

Lauren Strapagiel is a fat Canadian lesbian with a pierced nose and tattoos. This 27-year-old cliché of a Third-Wave feminist is social news editor for BuzzFeed Canada. If there are still any heterosexuals left in Toronto, Ms. Strapagiel is there to scornfully insult them, in keeping with BuzzFeed’s unofficial policy of ensuring that their site is only read by left-wing millennials confused about their sexuality.

Perhaps my hyperbole goes too far, but not by much. Over the past 15 years or so, liberal tolerance toward the LGBT crowd has given way to a ridiculous pandering, an attitude that resembles a religious zeal to convert the world to the Gay Gospel of Evangelical Abnormality.

Every digital publication striving to reach an under-30 readership seems to have adopted this attitude, as if they were being published under the auspices of the Metropolitan Gomorrah Chamber of Commerce. Anyone might easily suppose there is some kind of Online Journalism Bible, within which is compiled a list of commandments that includes, “Thou shalt pander to homosexuals, and shalt not offend them.”

 

Keeping in mind that all reliable social-survey data indicate that heterosexuality continues to be the preferred practice even among Millennials (no matter how badly confused they may be), we might speculate on the rationale of this pandering mentality. It’s almost certainly less a political agenda than a marketing strategy, but the key point is, the people inside the Progressive Online Media bubble don’t think twice about their pro-LGBT enthusiasm. As with other issues — feminism, the climate-change “consensus,” #BlackLivesMatter, etc. — the peddlers of digital content just assume that all the Smart People™ share their quasi-religious Gay Gospel zeal, and most under-30 readers have been subjected to so much propaganda in school (e.g., anti-“bullying” campaigns) that they would never openly criticize this.

 

Providing in-depth coverage of All Things LGBTQ, BuzzFeed Canada’s Third-Wave cliché found a crisis, the Lesbian Advertising Apocalypse:

When Sarah Warn founded AfterEllen.com in 2002, there had never been a lesbian sex scene on broadcast television. The site’s namesake, Ellen DeGeneres, and Portia de Rossi hadn’t started dating yet. And The L Word — still, perhaps, the most important title in the lesbian pop culture canon — hadn’t even aired.
“At the time, there were so few lesbian and bisexual women on TV that you could literally count the number,” Warn told BuzzFeed News.
She started AfterEllen as a place to write about the representation of queer women on our screens. It was a hobby, at first, but over the next 14 years it became one of only a shrinking number of publications produced by, for, and about queer women. By the time Warn left AfterEllen in 2009, it was owned by Logo, Viacom’s LGBT wing. In 2014, the site was acquired by Evolve Media. According to then Editor-in-Chief Trish Bendix, Evolve gave AE two fiscal years to profit alongside the company’s roster of women and mom-focused publications.
That deadline came in September along with an announcement from Bendix — she was let go and AfterEllen, at least as we’d known it, was no more. Bendix got the news in a phone call from Evolve manager Emrah Kovacoglu. “He said, ‘We can’t find the money for the LGBT sites, we want to put our efforts into growing the moms and fashion space where the money is,’” said Bendix. After Bendix announced the news in a Tumblr post, Kovacoglu countered with his own post on AfterEllen, titled “False Rumor: We Are Not Shutting Down!” While the site is still up, it appears to have become a shell of its former self, home to a few uninspired listicles. . . .

Probably 99% of people never saw AfterEllen.com, and didn’t notice when its new corporate proprietor pulled the plug, but this was mourned by young feminist Tumblr bloggers (a cult within which lesbianism is well-nigh ubiquitous) like the death of Lexa. And I’m sure 99% of readers are wondering, “Who is this Lexa person?” She was a gay character played by Alycia Debnam-Carey on The 100, “an American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama television series” that just finished its third season on The CW network. The series has a tiny audience in broadcast television terms. The second season averaged barely 1.5 million viewers per episode which, in a total U.S. population of 320 million, means that 99.5% of Americans have never watched The 100. However, because every lesbian with a Tumblr account was a huge fan of the “Clexa” lesbian romance between Lexa and the character Clarke Griffin (Eliza Taylor), the death of Lexa was an occasion of much online wailing and gnashing of teeth:

Viewers expressed their anger on Twitter, Tumblr, and other social media sites, with a number of them threatening to dox (reveal personally identifiable information about) the writers, others making death threats, and some stating they were suicidal after watching the episode . . .

Hey, it’s not like these people are emotionally unstable or anything, so obsessed with a lesbian character on a low-rated science fiction show on TV that they’re threatening to kill themselves. (If Alabama loses to LSU Saturday, I’ll be bummed out, but not in a violent or dangerous way, and college football is real.) These kooks become suicidal over the death of fake TV lesbians because . . . Oh, never mind. It’s complicated. “Queer representation” is everything with the LGBT “diversity” mob, whereas nobody cares about the traumatic damage to my self-esteem caused by the lack of positive role models for gray-bearded old hillbillies on TV.

Anyway, we now return to the more specific issue that concerns fat Canadian lesbian Lauren Strapagiel — the end of AfterEllen.com and its socioeconomic significance to the “queer representation” racket:

AfterEllen faithfully chronicled the massive changes in how queer women are represented in pop culture, but there’s one thing that hasn’t changed. Advertisers still aren’t interested in selling stuff to lesbians. . . .
“The Logo reps consistently tried to sell to both gay men and lesbians, but advertisers almost always only wanted to market their products to gay men,” she said. . . .
Gay men are stereotyped as an advertiser’s dream. Think of Will & Grace — the sort of gay men that sip vintage wine, their feet up on the reclaimed wood coffee table in their apartment in Manhattan, or San Francisco, or LA. They have theater tickets tucked away in their designer wallets and have plans to go island-hopping in Greece next month. They’ve got double income, no kids, and hit the clubs every weekend.
No one, however, seems to have assumed the same of queer women. Rather than the cosmopolitan socialite, lesbians are stereotyped as angry and introverted homebodies. We’d rather put on our Birkenstocks to pick up some kitty litter than go to a bar. We’re too busy protesting this or that to buy stuff we don’t need. We don’t wear makeup, we don’t shave our legs, we’re iffy on bras. So what the hell can you sell us?
Those are the stereotypes that have endured. They’re the stereotypes that have made it easy for advertisers to avoid thinking about queer women at all.
“I think the data didn’t fit their preconceptions about the demographic,” said Warn. “It came down to stereotypes: The gay stereotypes for gay men worked for them as consumers but worked against us for consumers. When you have the stereotypes and the data, the stereotypes won.” . . .

You can read the rest of that. Of course, Lauren Strapagiel is a stereotype, because the stereotype is true: Canadian feminists actually are fat lesbians with tattoos and pierced noses, except for the ugly heterosexual feminists like Meghan Murphy. Given my druthers, I’d prefer fat lesbians over Meghan Murphy. Like most American men, I would rather gouge my own eyes out with a rusty fork than to hook up with a Canadian feminist.

Canadian feminist Meghan Murphy is heterosexual, unfortunately.

Canada may become the world’s first all-LGBT nation. There are allegedly still a few heterosexuals in Toronto, but Vancouver is completely gay and as for Quebec, people speak French there, IYKWIMAITYD.

The Canadian population has been heading toward extinction for more than 40 years. Every year since 1971, the total fertility rate (TFR, or average number of lifetime births per woman) in Canada has been below what demographers call “replacement level.” Under modern conditions, for any given human population to maintain its current size, the average number of lifetime births per woman must equal 2.1 — two children replacing two parents, with a slight margin to compensate for those offspring who, for one reason or another, fail to live to adulthood and reproduce their own children. The current TFR in Canada is 1.55 — about 25% below the replacement level, and it’s basically been stuck in that range for more than 30 years. The current population of Canada is 34 million, so by the time the Canadians born in 1986 die off, there would be only 25 million people in Canada, and maybe a hundred years from now, there would be fewer than 20 million Canadians.

The future belongs to those who show up for it, as Mark Steyn observed, and the low Canadian birth rate — a predictable consequence of Canadian feminism — means that in the future, there will be far fewer fat lesbians with nose rings and tattoos. The question is whether anyone cares if Canadians become extinct. They’re not even a real country, anyway.



 

Category: Canada, Gays

‘Ima Kill Them Watch’: Woman Sent Video as She Killed Her Son, Police Say

Posted on | November 3, 2016 | 1 Comment

Christian Clark murdered her infant son, exactly as she said she would do in text messages to the boy’s father, according to police in a Pennsylvania town who say she also sent him a video of the baby she killed:

In the video, a year-old boy lies face down on a bed. His mother picks him up by his right arm, then drops him back on the bed. A child’s cartoon plays in the background. Mom is silent.
The clip came nearly 2½ hours into a sequence of texts, photographs and videos in which police said Christian Clark cataloged her fury, threats to harm her children, and descriptions of her efforts to smother them. The recording gave detectives an intensely close view of a killing and its aftermath.
“She was sending [messages] before the act, at the time of the act and following the act,” said Allegheny County Police Superintendent Coleman McDonough. . . .
Allegheny County Police used three videos, two photographs and a long-running chain of text messages Wednesday to charge Ms. Clark, 21, of McKeesport, with killing her 1-year-old son and attempting to kill her 2-year-old daughter.
Text messages outlined in an affidavit supporting the charges against Ms. Clark indicate she was angry with the children’s father, Andre Price Jr., because she thought he was seeing another woman. . . .

So, the alleged motive was selfish spite.

Think about this. A young woman has not one, but two children out of wedlock. She suspects her boyfriend, putative father of at least one of her children, of fooling around. Just because she can’t be bothered to get married, that doesn’t mean she can’t be jealous and possessive. People who are irresponsible are usually also selfish, and selfish people are usually also cruel. Enslaved by their selfish desires, they seek to evade responsibility for the consequences of their wrongdoing by finding someone else to function as a scapegoat onto whom they can place blame for everything bad that happens in their lives. Well, if you develop that kind of attitude, it is predictable that a lot of bad things will happen to you, and so your chosen scapegoat will become the target of infinite hatred — as I’m sure Andre Price Jr. could testify. Meanwhile . . .

About 8:25 p.m., police said, Ms. Clark began texting Mr. Price, who was at a friend’s house, about why he wasn’t coming to her home and “accused Price of cheating on her with another woman.” . . .
Shortly after 9 p.m., police said Ms. Clark texted Mr. Price: “Ima kill them watch.” . . .
At 9:19 p.m., police said she told Mr. Price his children weren’t safe, and about a half-hour later, she warned him, “So you better pray for your kids.” . . .
Mr. Price told Ms. Clark he wasn’t coming over and she should leave the children alone. Police said she responded by saying, “Im killing them” and sending a “laughing emoji with tears in its eyes.” . . .
A minute after that, Mr. Price received a text message with a picture: A little girl was lying on a bed, her face covered with a pillow. Then came a photo of a boy lying face down in a comforter. Next, police said, was a text from Ms. Clark to Mr. Price: “I don’t love them.”
The text messages continued — most sent by Ms. Clark without a response from Mr. Price. There was a video that showed two children lying face down. Then another video in which police said Ms. Clark grabbed her daughter, who cried, then grabbed her son, who didn’t respond. According to court paperwork, in the video, Ms. Clark says, “First of all she is clearly fine, because watch, see she is not dead. Him on the other hand, he doesn’t budge. So you might want to call the ambulance.”

Honestly, they should have called an ambulance long ago, to take this crazy woman to the lunatic asylum where she belonged. Alas, it’s 2016 and the world is so full of crazy women there simply is not enough space in our mental health institutions to house them all.

By the way, did I mention that Hillary Clinton is running for president?

 

Category: Crime

If Hillary Loses Ohio …

Posted on | November 3, 2016 | Comments Off on If Hillary Loses Ohio …

 

. . . well, finish that sentence however you wish:

Republican Donald Trump holds a 5-point lead over Democrat Hillary Clinton in Ohio, where her support among women is collapsing, according to a new poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University.
If the election were today, Trump would get 46 percent to Clinton’s 41 percent while independent Gary Johnson would pull 5 percent of the vote and Green Party candidate Jill Stein would get 2 percent, the poll found. Women voters are now split 44-44 in Ohio while 17 days ago Clinton held a 12-point lead in the same poll with female voters.
Peter Brown, Quinnipiac University assistant poll director, offered no explanation for the finding that Clinton’s support among Ohio woman is eroding, other than Trump is doing better overall in Ohio than he is in other swing states.
Quinnipiac reported on Wednesday that Clinton holds slim leads in other key states: One point in Florida, three points in North Carolina and five points in Pennsylvania. . . .
“No one has been elected president since 1960 without carrying two of the key swing states, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. And, this year, North Carolina has been added to the mix. All four of these key states remain close entering the final days,” Brown said in a written statement. “Florida, which has the largest cache of electoral votes, is a virtual tie and North Carolina is almost as close. Donald Trump’s strength is with independent voters.” . . .

The possibility that the Huma Abedin/Anthony Weiner email scandal could damage Hillary so badly in the closing week of the campaign that Trump pulls off a miracle comeback, is the sort of karmic payback Team Clinton richly deserves. The Clintons made a deal with the Devil long ago. Bill sold his soul to become president, lied his way through an impeachment scandal, and Hillary was this close to winning the White House just a couple of weeks ago. Yet now all the effort and money that has been poured into her campaign is on the verge of being lost because emails that weren’t supposed to exist — emails that Huma Abedin swore under oath she did not have — turned up on a device found by FBI agents investigating Anthony Weiner’s sexting with a 15-year-old girl.

Secret Recordings Fueled
FBI Feud in Clinton Probe
— Wall Street Journal

Bret Baier: FBI Sources Believe
Clinton Foundation Case Moving
Towards “Likely an Indictment”
— Real Clear Politics

FBI’s Clinton Foundation investigation
now ‘a very high priority,’ sources say
— Fox News

Once that Giant Wheel O’ Karma starts turning, you never know what might happen. Anything is possible. All bets are off with five days to go.



 

Category: Crime, Election, Hillary Clinton, Polls

Disease-Infected Queer Feminist @FYeahMFabello Is Smarter Than You

Posted on | November 3, 2016 | Comments Off on Disease-Infected Queer Feminist @FYeahMFabello Is Smarter Than You

 

 

You remember Melissa Fabello (@FYeahMFabello on Twitter), managing editor of the LGBTQIA site Everyday Feminism. She is the queer woman who hates white people, heterosexuality and men, not necessarily in that order. She is also notorious for being infected with human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually-transmitted disease otherwise known as genital warts.

 

When she’s not busy spreading hate and sexually-transmitted diseases, Melissa Fabello likes to talk, talk, talk about sex, sex, sex.

So you see that queer feminist Melissa Fabello likes talking to girls — young girls, in sixth or seventh grade — about sex. Because she’s a “sexuality educator,” and obviously it’s important to have professionals do this crucial job of, uh, talking to young girls about sex.

“Right now, today, as of writing this, I identify as queer. But I didn’t always. And no, I’m not referring to that awkward, uncomfortable time in my life where I knew that something felt ‘off,’ but I couldn’t quite place it, and so I paraded around in the charade of ‘straight.’ I mean that a few years ago, I identified as homoflexible. And before that, a lesbian. And even before that, bisexual.”
— Melissa Fabello

Melissa Fabello is an expert on lesbian sex — also bisexuality, “homoflexible” and “queer.” The one thing she’s absolutely against is “straight,” because that is a “charade.” It’s 2016 and nobody is heterosexual anymore, so we can just move along to Melissa Fabello’s next point, which is that you heterosexual dinosaurs — “breeders” — obviously don’t know anything about sexuality, and therefore you need professional queers like Melissa Fabello to explain it to your kids.

That’s right — you, Mom and Dad, are “uneducated people” who don’t know anything about sex, and therefore you need professional queer feminist sexuality educators like Melissa Fabello to talk to your daughter about her clitoris in sixth or seventh grade. Heterosexuals don’t know anything about sex, or the clitoris, or children, and it is therefore vitally important to have experts tell your kids about this stuff.

By the way, did you know Melissa Fabello hates children?


Melissa Fabello never wants to have children. She’ll just wait until your child is in sixth grade, and then talk to her about her clitoris. Because you’re “uneducated,” and you don’t know anything about that.

Despite your intellectual inferiority to Melissa Fabello, some of you heterosexuals still believe you have the right to disagree with her. However, you cannot disagree, because she is a “marginalized person”:

When you’re a human being of any combination of marginalized identities making your way through the world, a funny thing happens: People want to fight with you a lot. . . .
But these absurd arguments happen because there’s always at least one person who just can’t admit that they have no f–king idea what they’re talking about.
“Debating.”
Now, I find it fascinating that it’s most frequently the people with the most privilege in any given situation who want to engage in “debate” with me and others. And that’s not because I expect more of, say, straight, white, cis men – because I most certainly do not.
To the contrary, I expect this desperate attempt at domination because that’s how oppression works on an individual level: People with the most power and privilege believe their mediocre opinions to be of actual intellectual consequence, and then attempt to force their misconceptions onto everyone else to the benefit of (who else?) their damn selves.
What makes me so intrigued by it is, simply, that I have never known another group of people to be so unskilled, overall, at legitimate debating. . . .
Further, if any given topic of conversation is something that I experience day in and day out as a marginalized person, how does that make you the expert, exactly?
It doesn’t. . .

(Hat-tip: David Thompson.) In other words, Melissa Fabello is an expert on everything, because she is “a marginalized person,” whereas you have a “mediocre opinion” of no “actual intellectual consequence,” because you are heterosexual and therefore “unskilled . . . at legitimate debating.”

Also, you don’t know anything about the clitoris or sexuality, and Melissa Fabello really wants to talk to your daughter about that stuff.

 

She’s a real class act, isn’t she?



 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 11.02.16

Posted on | November 2, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.02.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: World Series Game 7 Rule 5 – There Can Be Only One
Michelle Malkin: A Fifth Clinton Presidency? Hill, No!
Twitchy: Room Full Of Reporters Covering Trump Rape Case Nobody Is Covering Told Presser With Accuser Cancelled
Louder With Crowder: Lil’ Wayne Schools Ignorant Reporter On #BlackLivesMatter, And It’s Perfect


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Kayaking Saved Me From Becoming A SJW
American Power: Black Turnout Falls In Early Voting
American Thinker: Russia, Comey, And Hillary’s Praetorian Guard
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Broken Trust by W.E.B. Griffin and William Butterworth IV
Da Tech Guy: Baldilocks – The Rot Is Bigger Than Clinton Or Trump
Don Surber: It’s The Message, Not The Messenger, also, How To Protect Reporters
Dustbury: As Originally Scheduled
Jammie Wearing Fools: FBI Investigating Illegal Donor Scheme Involving Florida Democrat Patrick Murphy
Joe For America: Carlos Danger Turns Stool Pigeon For Feds – Will They Be Forced To Arrest Hillary?
JustOneMinute: Still On Mini-Hiatus
Pamela Geller: 45% Say Media Primary Threat To Election Results
Power Line: Top Democrat Donor Compares Black Republicans To Nazi Collaborators
Shark Tank: Hillary Calls Trump Supporters “Dark” And “Divisive”
Shot In The Dark: Appropriate
STUMP: Happy All Saints Day And Happy 80% Funding!
The Jawa Report: Kid! Have You Rehabilitated Yourself?
The Political Hat: Venezuela – LOL, What Elections?
This Ain’t Hell: Hillary’s Server No Security Threat, But Russians Are Altering E-Mails?, also, WWII Vet Forgiven Overpayments By VA
Weasel Zippers: FBI Sources Tell Fox News Indictment Likely In Clinton Foundation Case, also, Mother Of Navy Sailor Wants To Know Why He’s In Prison And Hillary Isn’t
Megan McArdle: Global Chain Restaurants Are The Future Of Food
Mark Steyn: Hollow E’en


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Category: Linkagery

The Myth-Making of Academic Feminism

Posted on | November 2, 2016 | Comments Off on The Myth-Making of Academic Feminism

‘Rebirth of the Goddess’ author Carol Christ.

“We question the most unquestioned assumption of all, the notion that scholarship is or should be objective. . . .
“Feminists understand that the ethos of scholarly objectivity is in fact mythos. We know that there is no dispassionate, disinterested scholarship.”
— Carol P. Christ, 1997

“If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males.”
— Mary Daly, 1999

A basic rule of researching feminism is that if you ever encounter an author who cites Mary Daly as a source, you know you’re dealing with a person who is (a) dishonest, (b) insane or (b) both insane and dishonest. Any intelligent person knowledgeable of abnormal psychology can read Mary Daly’s first three books — The Church and the Second Sex (1968), Beyond God the Father (1973) and Gyn/Ecology (1978) — and conclude that Professor Daly suffered a complete nervous breakdown sometime in the late 1960s, and that her subsequent work was the product of a mind destroyed by chronic schizophrenia. Any psychiatrist could read Beyond God the Father and find symptoms of Daly’s dementia on every page and, in the “reintroduction” of the second edition, published in 1985, the symptomatic word salad typical of schizophrenia is clearly in evidence.

Anyone who attempts to read Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, or Professor Daly’s wretched 1984 book Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy, will discover how she produced page after page of deranged gibberish and called it “philosophy.” If Mary Daly was a philosopher, then Charles Manson is a philosopher, too.

‘Beyond God the Father’ author Mary Daly.

Only because she was a college professor, with a cult of similarly psychotic feminists willing to defend her, was Mary Daly able to continue teaching until 1999, when she was forced into retirement by a federal civil rights lawsuit over her policy of banning male students from her classes. No educated adult could take Mary Daly seriously, except as an example of how feminism (and particularly the academic fraud called Women’s Studies) serves as a breeding ground for dangerous antisocial lunacy.

Carol P. Christ, who has a Ph.D. in religious studies from Yale University, is arguably the most influential figure in “feminist spirituality.” Among other things, she is an adjunct professor of Women’s Spirituality in the department of Philosophy and Religion in the School of Consciousness and Transformation at the California Institute of Integral Studies. In 1978, at the “Great Goddess Re-emerging” conference at the University of California-Santa Cruz, she gave a speech called “Why Women Need the Goddess.” A search of Google Books shows “Why Women Need the Goddess” is cited in nearly 1,000 different books, and we find almost 400 citations in a Google Scholar search. This essay is cited in such diverse works as Professor Alison M. Jaggar’s Feminist Politics and Human Nature (1983), Professor Cynthia Eller’s Living in the Lap of the Goddess: The Feminist Spirituality Movement in America (1993), and Professor Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History (2005). In this influential essay, Carol Christ invokes the theological authority of Mary Daly:

In Beyond God the Father, feminist theologian Mary Daly detailed the psychological and political ramifications of father religion for women.
If God in “his” heaven is a father ruling his people, then it is the “nature” of things and according to divine plan and the order of the universe that society be male dominated. Within this context, a mystification of roles takes place: The husband dominating his wife represents God “himself.” The images and values of a given society have been projected into the realm of dogmas and “Articles of Faith,” and these in turn justify the social structures which have given rise to them and which sustain their plausibility.

Leave aside, for the moment, any consideration of whether what Professor Daly claimed is true, and instead note merely this: Carol Christ cites Professor Daly’s 1973 book as if it were self-evidently true, and thus rests her argument squarely on Professor Daly’s authority. And let it not be said that Carol Christ was alone in placing total confidence in Professor Daly’s authority. Practically every feminist in academia endorsed Professor Daly’s rejection of Christianity as a “patriarchal” religion. Professor Eller writes in Living in the Lap of the Goddess (p. 47):

Mary Daly . . . led the way for many women to matriculate into feminist spirituality after long years as the perennial freshmen of the established religions. In 1971, Daly was invited to be the first woman preacher in Harvard Memorial Church. Her sermon topic was “The Women’s Movement: An Exodus Community.” She ended her sermon by walking out of the church in protest . . . and inviting the other women present to do likewise. She defended this exodus in her sermon, saying: “We cannot really belong to institutional religion as it exists. . . . Singing sexist hymns, praying to a male god breaks our spirit, makes us less than human. . . .”
This feminist rejection of established religions saw women’s oppression in patriarchal religion occurring along many axes. . . . But the entire interlocking system of oppressions was finally summed up in a single metaphor: the maleness of God. Simply put, a religion with a male god is no religion for women.

If feminism is a religion, Mary Daly was its first Pope and, as Carol Christ says, feminists reject “the notion that scholarship is or should be objective.” Claims to objectivity are merely mythos, she asserts, and “feminist spirituality” — the anti-Christian religion of which Professor Daly can be considered the founder — aims not only to destroy the mythos of scholarly objectivity, but also to create its own mythos.

What does “feminist spirituality” require? In “The Radical Theology of Feminism,” I described how Professor Daly advocated “castrating God”:

In her 1973 book Beyond God the Father, Professor Daly called for “cutting away the Supreme Phallus” (p. 19) so that “Christianity itself should be castrated” (p. 71), because “the role of liberating the human race form the original sin of sexism would seem to be precisely the role that a male symbol cannot perform. The image itself . . . functions to glorify maleness” (p. 72). Daly endorses “an ethic which transcends the most basic of role stereotypes, those of masculine/feminine,” bringing about an “androgynous world” free from “the archaic heritage of psycho-sexual dualism,” a liberation made possible by women “castrating the phallic ethic” (pp. 105-106). As bizarre as all that may sound, Daly furthermore called for a “renaming of the cosmos” by a feminist sisterhood she called the “Antichurch . . . the bringing forth into the world of New Being” (pp. 138-139). Daly continues on pg. 140:

There is a bond, then, between the significance of the women’s revolution as Antichrist and its import as Antichurch. Seen in the positive perspective in which I have presented it, as a spiritual uprising that can bring us beyond sexist myths, the Antichrist has a natural corrrelative in the coming of the Antichurch, which is the communal uprising against the social extensions of the male Incarnation myth, as this has been objectified in the structures of political power.

Daly describes this as “the Second Coming of female presence not only as Antichrist but also as Antichurch,” as a “rising woman-consciousness” that “has an organic consequence in the rejection of sexist rituals” (pp. 140-141). Daly sees this “spiritual dimension of feminist consciousness” as unleashing chaos and terror by destroying the “Christocentric cosmos”:

This women’s revolution as Antichurch represents this terror of chaos and says it will no longer kept at bay. It rejects not only the myths of patriarchy but their externalization in ritual.

So, according to Professor Daly, feminism is Antichrist, rejecting the “myth” of Jesus as the divine incarnation of God. And it is Professor Daly’s authority, we recall, which Carol Christ invoked in justifying feminism’s rejection of Christianity. Having repudiated the God of the Bible — because “a religion with a male god is no religion for women,” as Professor Eller says — where does the feminist turn for spiritual and moral guidance? In her 1997 book Rebirth of the Goddess: Finding Meaning in Feminist Spirituality, Carol Christ describes her own search:

The God I met in church was, like my father and grandfathers, wise and powerful, the ultimate judge in whose eyes I hoped to find favor. . . . I suppose I decided to major in religion [at Stanford University, where she got her bachelor’s degree in 1967] in the hope that I could understand God well enough to make myself acceptable to him. . . .
Several years of graduate study in theology convinced me that there was something wrong with the traditional image of God. . . . Gradually, it began to dawn on me that the image of God as Father, Son, and Spirit was at the root of the problem. . . .
As I became increasingly alienated from God as Father, I found myself unable to attend church, sing hymns, or pray. . . .
[In Berkeley, California, in 1975], when I heard the name of the Goddess in a [witchcraft] workshop led by a woman called Starhawk, I felt the experience of my entire life affirmed. . . .
A series of mystical experiences in places where the Goddess had been worshiped in ancient Greece convinced me that I had chosen the right path.

Here we have, then, a first-person narrative of how feminism leads a woman to become “increasingly alienated from God as Father.” The farther she advances in the study of theology, the less hope she has of making herself “acceptable” to a “wise and powerful” God, whose “traditional image” her feminism requires her to reject, so that she is “unable to attend church, sing hymns, or pray.” Exactly as Professor Daly said, feminism requires the castration of God — the destruction of male authority, in heaven and earth alike. Feminists have no use for a “wise and powerful” God, just as they deny that any man can have the wisdom or power necessary to exercise the fatherly authority of judgment. Having denied that the God of the Bible could have any authority over her, Carol Christ says she found “the right path” through witchcraft, as taught by Starhawk (neé Miriam Simos), high priestess of a neo-pagan feminist witchcraft cult known as the “Reclaiming” tradition. Starhawk was one of the earliest disciples of Z. Budapest (neé Zsuzsanna Emese Mokcsa), high priestess of the Dianic Wicca cult of feminist witchcraft.

High priestesses of feminist witchcraft Starhawk (left) and Z Budapest (right).

Carol Christ would not accept the authority of the Bible, and she was “alienated” from God the Father, but she knew she had “chosen the right path” by following the Goddess of neo-pagan witchcraft. Keep in mind that Carol Christ turned to Wicca and goddess-worship after receiving her Ph.D. from Yale Divinity School. It should be noted that Yale University was founded by a group of Puritan (Congregationalist) ministers to train young men as clergy. Among the first alumni of Yale was Jonathan Edwards, who married the daughter of Yale’s chief founder, and whose most famous sermon was a classic of Calvinist doctrine, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Yale was an all-male institution, which did not admit its first female undergraduate until 1969. Scarcely six years later, however, immediately after getting her Ph.D. at Yale, Carol Christ became a convert to neo-pagan Wicca — rapid progress, indeed! Read more

Category: Education, Religion, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 11.01.16

Posted on | November 1, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.01.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Day Of The Dead, Democrat Style
Twitchy: Hillary Camp Denies Damning Info Bret Baier Discovered In Podesta E-Mails; Baier Trounces Dems With Truth Again
Louder With Crowder: TIME Gets Desperate, Claims It’s “Sexist” To Investigate Hillary


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Vetting Future Women By Using Social Media
American Power: Kimberly Strassel Explains The Intimidation Game
American Thinker: Don’t Be Fooled – Hillary Probe Now A Formal Federal Criminal Investigation
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily News
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Israel – A Concise History Of A Nation Reborn
Da Tech Guy: Hillary’s Hidden Past
Don Surber: Camp Clinton Collapses
Dustbury: Welcome To Post-Literacy
Jammie Wearing Fools: Five FBI field Offices Investigating Clinton Crime Family
Joe For America: Huma – “Hillary Still Not Perfect In Her Head”
JustOneMinute: Comey Versus The Slow-Walkers
Pamela Geller: Trump Campaign Unveils New Policy – Will Ask DOJ To Probe Anti-Israel Intimidation On College Campuses
Power Line: Bums For Hillary
Shark Tank: Pence Boldly Promises To Take NASA “Where No Man Has Gone Before”
Shot In The Dark: Berg’s Seventh Law Is Eternal And Omnipresent
STUMP: Good News! Alaska Pension Obligation Bonds On Hold
The Jawa Report: Seven Days Out, Even ABC Has Trump +1 Over Clinton, also, Ministry Of Irony – Google’s YouTube Censors Video On Left-Wing Censorship
The Political Hat: Nevada Early Vote Update, Day 9 Of 14
This Ain’t Hell: 10th Mountain Division Returns To Colorado, also, Hacksaw Ridge Opens November 4
Weasel Zippers: Hillary Warns Of “Another Civil War” If Trump Is Elected, also, FBI Knew In April Abedin Regularly Sent E-Mails (Including Classified Material) To Personal Account For Printing At Home
Mark Steyn: Times To Be Happy, Times To Get Through


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Real Gay People Don’t Vote Republican?

Posted on | November 1, 2016 | 3 Comments

Almost 15 years ago, after reporting on some dubious “research” funded by the federal government, I started getting tips from a longtime gay activist in San Francisco who was enraged by what was being done with federal AIDS prevention money. Michael Petrelis is radical, not liberal, and he despises the sold-out corrupt Democrat Party-controlled Official Gay Movement™ at least as much as most right-wing Republicans do, albeit for different reasons. So there I was, a conservative journalist working for the Washington Times, getting these excellent tips from Petrelis — his blog is The Petrelis Files — and turning them into news articles that stoked the indignation of professional operatives of the Official Gay Movement™ employed by the municipal government in San Francisco. Once, when I called to get a comment from the mayor’s office about some embarrassing revelation, the spokesman started screaming at me over the phone about gay kids committing suicide, blah blah blah.

Democrat operatives live inside a partisan echo chamber where dissent is never heard, and anyone who disagrees with the Official Gay Movement™ is condemned as an evil bigot who wants gay people to die.

Of course, not every gay person buys into this partisan propaganda:

Entrepreneur Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, said Hillary Clinton would be “much more confrontational” and “dangerous” with foreign affairs as president when compared to Donald Trump.
National Press Club President Thomas Burr asked Thiel if he is concerned about Trump’s “temperament” when it comes to the nuclear codes.
“I think he [Trump] wouldn’t even get us into a situation where it would be even close with respect to Russia, so I think if you actually look at the specifics, where might something happen, where might something go wrong, I would think that in some ways Hillary is much more dangerous than Trump. I don’t think Hillary would get us into a nuclear war, either, but it’s a much more confrontational foreign policy,” Thiel said during a “Newsmakers” event at the National Press Club today.
Thiel announced in mid-October that he planned to donate $1.25 million to Trump’s campaign. Thiel, who spoke at the Republican National Convention, said LGBT magazine The Advocate turned on him since the endorsement. Thiel argued that someone only counts as “diverse” if they are aligned with liberal political views.
“The Advocate, a magazine which once praised me as a gay innovator, even published an article saying that as of now I am, and I quote, ‘not a gay man,’ unquote, because I don’t agree with their politics,” he said. “The lie behind the buzzword of diversity could not be made more clear. If you don’t conform, then you don’t count as diverse, no matter what your personal background.”

See? Liberals believe they have the right to decide who is or is not gay. All any homosexual has to do is vote Republican, and partisan hacks at The Advocate will denounce them as being no longer gay, because the Official Gay Movement™ isn’t actually about helping people, or representing their legitimate political interests, it’s about electing Democrats.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)



 

Category: Gays
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