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When It Rains, It Pours

Posted on | October 13, 2016 | 2 Comments

Five days ago, I said that the release of the “hot mic” incident with Donald Trump effectively guarantees his defeat in the election and was denounced by commenters for stating this obvious truth. Yet if we look back now, we see Oct. 8 as the beginning of a torrential rainstorm.

Physically Attacked by Donald Trump –
A PEOPLE Writer’s Own Harrowing Story
— People

Two Women Say Donald Trump
Touched Them Inappropriately
— New York Times

Palm Beach Post exclusive: Local woman
says Trump groped her
— Palm Beach Post

A Fifth Teen Beauty Queen Says
Trump Visited Dressing Room
— BuzzFeed

And here is yet another story along the same lines:

Donald Trump deliberately walked in on two young Miss USA 2001 contestants while they were naked and getting dressed for a rehearsal, one of the former beauty contestants has claimed in an interview with the Guardian.
The two women were putting on their outfits to rehearse the opening number, the former contestant recalled, when Trump, who owned the pageant at the time as part of the Miss Universe family of pageants, burst into the room without a word.
Just before he entered, the former contestant said, she heard the security detail outside the dressing room tell someone approaching the door that the women inside were naked.
“Mr Trump just barged right in, didn’t say anything, stood there and stared at us,” she recalled. Trump’s attitude, she said, seemed to be: “I can do this because I can.”
“He didn’t walk in and say, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry, I was looking for someone,’” she continued. “He walked in, he stood and he stared. He was doing it because he knew that he could.”
The alleged incident happened in her shared dressing room behind the stage at the Genesis convention center in Gary, Indiana.
The woman — who did not wish to be identified — is the second competitor from the 2001 Miss USA pageant to claim that Trump took advantage of owning the pageant, which he broadcast on NBC, in order to view the contestants naked.

This isn’t about “objectification” or “misogyny” or some other feminist buzzword. This involves issues of trustworthiness and character. The fact that Hillary Clinton is ultimately as untrustworthy as Trump is irrelevant in terms of the impact these stories have on undecided voters, and issues of policy are even less relevant in that regard. We simply cannot expect a majority of Americans to elect as their president a man who cannot be trusted with their teenage daughters. Therefore, they will elect Bill Clinton’s wife, which makes no sense at all, but that’s just the way it is.

 

Category: Donald Trump, Election

High-Priced Humiliation

Posted on | October 13, 2016 | 4 Comments

“Masculinity can be extremely toxic to our mental health, both to the people who are pressured to perform it and the people who are inevitably influenced by it. . . . Relevant to this discussion is how masculinity can harm our relationships with people and one’s ability to cope when relationships are difficult or end.”
— Claremont College, Oct. 3, 2016

Annual tuition at Claremont College is $50,945 and room and board cost $15,740, and the question is why any parent would pay $66,685 a year to send their son to such an avowedly anti-male institution. If masculinity — the normal behavior of normal males — is inherently “toxic” and harmful in its influence, why shouldn’t Claremont ban males from campus altogether? Well, the school’s football team is currently 4-0, so apparently masculinity has its uses in academia, and as long as parents don’t mind their sons being insulted by the administration of this elite private college, the cognitive dissonance will continue.

In a statement to the Claremont Independent, Sabine Scott, a leader of the “Masculinity + Mental Health” event, said it was “a productive conversation” which “empowered both the men and women.”

Exactly how it is empowering to men to insult them as “toxic,” Ms. Scott did not explain, but no one expects college girls to make sense nowadays. Daddy spends $66,685 a year to send his precious princess to one of the most expensive schools on the West Coast, where she learns to spew a lot of trendy jargon and nothing else is required of her.

If nothing else, this administration-approved insult to male students  — and the failure of anyone on campus to object to it — probably answers my question, “Why Does Claremont Need a ‘Queer Resource Center’?”

 

Claremont: They’re here, they’re queer, for $66,685 a year.

UPDATE: Oh, I guess there was at least one complaint:

“If masculinity is described as something negative — a mental illness — then this is sexism against men,” stated Will Gu [a freshman] in an email to the Independent. “Safe spaces . . . are supposed to make everyone feel comfortable. Criticizing masculinity makes males who adhere to traditional gender norms uncomfortable.”

Whining about “sexism against men” is weak sauce, Will. Male students at Claremont are being insulted by Sabine Scott and her feminist allies, and this insult — anti-male hate propaganda — is tacitly endorsed by the official authority of the college administration. Claremont collects $66,685 a year per student, thus requiring parents of male students to pay for these insults against their sons. Indeed, the anti-male agenda promoted by Sabine Scott is a regular part of the Claremont curriculum, thanks to the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program.

 

Do not whine about being insulted, Mr. Gu — do something.

If there is still any male student at Claremont who has any shred of self-respect, he ought to withdraw from the college, and publicly announce this in a letter to the student newspaper explaining that the reason for his departure is the vicious hostility toward males on campus fomented by hate-filled feminist fanatics like Sabine Scott. It would be better for a young man to attend a community college or a second-tier state university than to be expected to tolerate insults for $66,685 a year at a posh playground for Special Snowflakes™ like Claremont.

Hell, boy, I’d rather drive a forklift than to put up with that nonsense.

UPDATE II: It seems young Will Gu is a conservative troublemaker on the Claremont campus. He recently went to report on a “safe space” event hosted by Pomona College’s Asian American Resource Center (AARC), where he was told that journalism was not permitted:

The process of stifling free press begins right as a journalist walks through the doors into the safe space. While I was initially welcomed when I asked if I could record the event and take notes, further questioning revealed I was trying to cover the event for a student-run publication. Even then, the event facilitators extended their warm welcome, until it was brought to light that this student-run publication was The Claremont Independent, a conservative-leaning paper. No more warm welcome and no more recording allowed, but I was still permitted to take notes. . . .
I was told that taking notes made participants uncomfortable, and that I should respect the AARC as a “safe space.” . . .
Despite making it clear that speech at this event should make all participants comfortable, attacks on capitalism and “capitalist violence,” the “heteropatriarchal” society, and traits of the “model minority” (like working hard and obeying the law) were left unchecked, without the slightest consideration of whether I, with differing political views, would feel comfortable listening to endless assaults to values which I hold dear. Yet with free press dead, who dares challenge this hypocrisy?

Well, while it is still my opinion that no self-respecting man would pay money to attend an anti-male school like Claremont, if your parents insist on sending you there, I suppose you should get your money’s worth by raising as much hell as possible. Never let those social-justice goons have a moment’s peace, Mr. Gu. Keep a close eye on them and, whenever you get a chance, force them to account for themselves. Make them sweat with fear at your presence on campus. And then laugh at their fear.




 

Category: Education, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 10.12.16

Posted on | October 12, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Democrat Media Fever Dream Or The Real Thing?
Michelle Malkin: Obama Lied, My Third Health Plan Just Died
Twitchy: Hillary Flack Jennifer Palmieri Asked About Catholic-Mocking E-Mail – Cue Memory Loss
Louder With Crowder: Columbus Day Protesters Black Traffic, Threaten Driver, Get Run Over


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Why I Oppose Gay Marriage
American Power: Trump Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway Berates “Wishy-Washy” GOP Leaders
American Thinker: The Man Who Taught Hillary How To Shred Haunts Wikileaks Dump
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Da Tech Guy: Christopher Harper – To Russia Without Love
Don Surber: Still Like Protests At A Presidential Rally, Democrats?
Dustbury: Without The Brand Names
Jammie Wearing Fools: FBI Investigating Mysterious CT Plane Crash Involving Jordanian Student Pilot
Joe For America: Startling Footage Reveals Bill Clinton Calling Trump Supporters “Rednecks”
Pamela Geller: “Islamapalooza” Comes To The University of Florida
Power Line: On Catholics, WikiLeaks Hits Pay Dirt
Shark Tank: Big Gay Lobby Celebrates National Coming Out Day
Shot In The Dark: ‘Til The Lights Go Out
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Fairy Liquid Is Haram
The Political Hat: The Hugo Awards Ought To Go Psycho
This Ain’t Hell: 72 Years Ago Today, Conscientious Objector Desmond Doss Receives The Medal Of Honor, also, How The Navy Ended Ratings
Weasel Zippers: WikiLeaks – Podesta And Left-Wing Activist Plot “Catholic Spring”, Infiltration To Foment Revolution In Catholic Church, also, From Beyonce And Jay-Z To Chance The Rapper And Pusha T – Hillary’s Rap Star Supporters Spout Lyrics Far Worse Than Anything Trump Ever Said
Megan McArdle: Misbehaving Consumer Agency Gets Sent To Time Out
Mark Steyn: Never Mind The Prose Style…


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Category: Linkagery

Outrage After Emails Show Top Clinton Campaign Aides Insulting Catholics

Posted on | October 12, 2016 | 2 Comments

Abortion, Sodomy and Socialism are the three key components of the Democrat Party platform in the 21st century, and if you don’t like it, Team Clinton believes it’s because there’s something wrong with you:

Catholic groups are upset at the Clinton campaign after hacked emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta that were released by WikiLeaks showed top Clinton aides making offensive comments toward Catholics and Catholicism.
The Hill reports that in the 2011 exchange, a fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress, John Halpin, sent an email to Podesta and Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri about Rupert Murdoch.
“Friggin’ Murdoch baptized his kids in Jordan where John the Baptist baptized Jesus,” Halpin wrote. “Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic from the SC and think tanks to the media and social groups.”
“It’s an amazing bastardization of the faith,” Halpin continued. “They must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations and must be totally unaware of Christian democracy.”
Palmieri responded while Podesta stayed silent.
“I imagine they think it is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion,” Palmieri wrote. “Their rich friends wouldn’t understand if they became evangelicals.”

(Via Memeorandum.)

 

Category: Hillary Clinton

Dear @spacecrone …

Posted on | October 12, 2016 | Comments Off on Dear @spacecrone …

 

No, you were not “doxed” — I did not publish any private information — and no, I had no intention to “intimidate” you. As a matter of fact, I was very happy about the way you exploded Devin Faraci into a million tiny “male feminist” smithereens. What happened was simply that after you described yourself as a “Buddhist lesbian climate justice activist,” I became curious to learn more about you. My habitual curiosity has led me down many a rabbit hole over the years, including a trip to Kentucky to investigate what was claimed to be a lynching, but turned out to be a suicide. There are things called “facts,” Ms. Contillo, and I have an enormous appetite for them. So it was curiosity — “Who is this person?” — that led me to start click, click, clicking until I discovered that you had posted a poem you wrote in 4th grade that had your name on it.

 

Well, greetings from a fellow member of the Former Gifted Child Club. As you may be aware, membership provides exactly zero benefits, and usually is something more of a curse. “You’ve got so much potential, if only you would apply yourself” — heard it a million times growing up. The problem was, I loved learning, and therefore hated school.

Our nation’s public school system is a vast factory that specializes in turning captive children into Standardized Mediocre Adults at taxpayer expense. Ah, what an evil enterprise! But I digress . . .

How does an upper-middle-class girl from New Jersey, the daughter of a judge and the granddaughter of a state senator, end up in the East Village in 2004 at age 21, getting groped on a dance floor by a 30-year-old film critic? And how is it that a few years later, she’s part of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, identifying as a “Buddhist witch” and dreaming of a future living in an “anarchist lesbian witch commune”? Pardon my curiosity, but as a father and grandfather, I very much want to understand this process, so that I can make sure it never happens to any of my kids.

Back in the day, people sought professional treatment for severe mental illness, and so Buddhist witches were almost as rare as film critics groping lesbians in the East Village. Evidently, social media sites have replaced psychiatric wards as the place where crazy people seek treatment. Now the kooks control our nation’s culture and politics. Some readers may be surprised to learn how many Buddhist witches are out there.

Buddhist Witch: A witch or Wiccan who also identifies as Buddhist. These witches believe all life is sacred, they practice compassion and nonviolence, and their ultimate goal on their spiritual path is to find Enlightenment. Most witches incorporate meditation into their witchcraft and many Wiccans also believe in reincarnation like Buddhists. Many witches and Wiccans also believe in the philosophy of karma. Buddhism really works hand in hand with the already highly spiritual and natural Craft.

Here’s a Buddhist witch. Here’s another Buddhist witch. Really, it seems that Tumblr is overcrowded with a surfeit of Buddhist witches.

Where were the grown-ups when you were growing up, Ms. Contillo? What were your parents doing while you were watching TV and developing your “giant crush on Kelly Bundy”? Really, this kind of story interests me, and I would hope it interests other Americans who wonder how it is that a generation of young people — a New Jersey judge’s daughter, for example — could go so badly off the rails.

It’s not just you or only your personal “mindfulness” philosophy that arouses my insatiable curiosity about the bizarre alternative universe in which you live. Back during the “Occupy” movement, while you were busy teaching mediation to the smelly anarchist protesters, I kept looking at those mobs of weirdos and wondering, “Where are the grown-ups? Why are these young people throwing tantrums like 2-year-olds?”

Do I have theories as to why this is happening? Yes, I do. Could I engage in speculation about why so many young people find it impossible to live in the real world? Yes, of course I could. What would be much more helpful, however, would be for you to give an account of your upbringing, to provide us a case study in the manufacture of mental illness.

The fact that there are people on the Internet indulging your fantasies does not make your fantasies real, Ms. Contillo. Mass delusion is a thing, and cult mentalities are also a thing, and there’s a lot of that going around these days, what with the $19 trillion national debt and all. In a nation where many young people believe they can live as they please and send the bill to Uncle Sam, or pursue Idealist Careers that do not involve any any productive labor, there are many millions of deluded dreamers with the leisure to chatter away on the Internet about “social justice.”

 

Ms. Contillo, “social justice” is a mirage, as Friedrich Hayek explained, but the Nobel Prize-winning economist wrote for the benefit of people living in the real world, where facts matter more than feelings.

What disturbs me is that so many people think they can live in an alternative reality, where Devin Faraci calls himself a “feminist,” and you call yourself a “witch,” and everyone pretends that our $19 trillion national debt should not limit what we can pay for “social justice.”

So, please, Ms. Contillo, tell us how you became such a ridiculous fool, so we can prevent our children from becoming “social justice warriors.”

Or Buddhist lesbian witches. Or Democrats, for that matter.




 

Category: Sex Trouble

Meet Caroline Contillo (@spacecrone), the ‘Buddhist Witch’ Who Destroyed @devincf

Posted on | October 11, 2016 | 4 Comments

Caroline Contillo (photo via Twitter)

Film critic Devin Faraci’s career was destroyed when the “male feminist” was accused of sexual assault on Twitter by @spacecrone, who turns out to be New York-based Buddhist writer/teacher Caroline Contillo. She was featured in a 2012 article and video about “Occupy Wall Street”:

Caroline Contillo went to Occupy Wall Street on a whim. After staying the night with the help of some friendly anarchists, Contillo knew she’d found her call to action. Contillo grew up in a political family, with her father a judge and grandfather a New Jersey state senator, and she’d been politically active for much of her life. But she’d lost her enthusiasm for activism after years of feeling that it wasn’t accomplishing anything. Occupy Wall Street, with its community at Zuccotti Park and its lofty goals that would benefit everyone, reignited her passion. In her years off from activism, Contillo had picked up Buddhist meditation, so she naturally navigated toward Liberty Square’s meditation group, where she thought she could do the most good. The group members would go to meetings and offer to try and level off any tension before the meetings started.
“Caroline is a quintessential occupier, inspired to engage in activism after years of disinterest,” the filmmaker, Jackie Snow, said. “The meditation practice she brings to the movement represents just one of keeping the ways supporters do what they can to help.”

Caroline Contillo in 2012.

In her own article, Snow describes how her husband introduced her to Contillo: “Caroline is a Buddhist witch involved with occupy.” On her @spacecrone Twitter account, Contillo described herself as a “Buddhist lesbian climate justice activist and meditation instructor.”

She has frequently referenced this identity on Twitter:

 

Contillo writes for the Idealist Careers site, where her articles include “Without Judgement: How Mindfulness Leads to Being More Open-Minded,” and “What is Mindfulness?” In 2013, Contillo taught meditation at a restaurant in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N.Y.

 

A Williamsburg restaurant is serving up mindfulness sessions followed by a meal.
Leading the workshops is meditation expert Caroline Contillo, a graduate of the yearlong immersion and teaching training program at the Interdependence Project in Manhattan who said the culinary and consciousness combo is great for socializing.
“Something I always liked about classes I took at the Interdependence Project was the way we’d often go out to dinner afterwards, to continue the conversation more casually. I really love this part of the event,” said Contillo, whose monthly sessions at Isa are free with a fee for optional dinner. . . .
The sessions take place on the second floor of the restaurant, where there is an open space for participants to sit on the ground and let their minds wander. . . .
The meditation sessions are a great opportunity to escape the busy routine of living in New York City, which has a ton of activities and distractions that for some, in the end, amount to an overwhelming list of things to do. Contillo hopes her workshop helps participants forget all this and just breathe.
“It can be difficult to get ourselves to sit down and ‘do nothing’ for ten minutes a day, because we can always think of something we ‘should’ be doing,” she said.
“In a workshop, surrounded by other people, it can be easier to sink into the method and really start noticing how we relate to our breath and the present moment.”

Contillo wrote an article about her identity in May:

At a young age, I realized that the accepted story about how my life was going to go didn’t match up with what I felt at my core. I wasn’t going to fulfill that story — wouldn’t date a handful of boys, wouldn’t find the right one, wouldn’t have a family. I wasn’t thinking about boys at all. I was too busy with my giant crush on Kelly Bundy.
Questioning conventional narratives and explanations is part of why I was so attracted to meditation. I wanted to apply such inquiry to my experience. On the cushion, I noticed my mind vacillating between the extremes of trying to prove that I exist and wanting to disappear into the dynamic flux. Back and forth the relative and the ultimate: I’m Here, I’m Queer, Get Used to It! and Everything’s Fluid, Labels Are Restrictive.
For me, the key to the middle way is remembering that my identity as a lesbian is my individuated experience, but it is a relational identity. It’s the beautiful and very human paradox that we learn to sit with: we are individual, yet interconnected. . . .
I think my identity is a verb, not a noun: I queer into being when my girlfriend’s eyes meet mine.

Now 33 years old, Contillo’s accusation that Faraci, now 42, groped her more than a decade ago led him to step down as editor-in-chief of a popular movie news and criticism web site owned by a theater chain. Contillo described the incident with Faraci to the Hollywood Reporter:

The incident dates back to 2004, when Caroline and Faraci, who grew up in New York, were part of the same group of friends living and socializing in the East Village. . . .
Friday night was when they would get together at a dive bar to dance to a jukebox and let off some steam. On the night in question, it was an early-evening gathering for happy-hour drinks.
Faraci was tipsy, Caroline says, but far from obliterated. “I liked him and thought he was funny,” she recalls, adding that he was well aware that she was a lesbian and was “not interested” sexually in men.
“We were dancing and he stuck his hands down my pants, very blatantly on the dance floor. I said stop. He did it again. I kind of didn’t know what to do. I stopped him again and pushed him away,” she says. “There was no penetration. He just kept sticking his hands down my pants and into my crotch. Then he came in to do it again.”
“I think I moved away from the dance floor at that point,” she continues. “I had to get away from him. I was just so shocked that it had happened and kind of grossed out. I felt mortified for him. That was the palpable memory I had. I felt sad for him.” . . .
Two years later, in 2006, Caroline confronted Faraci about the assault on an internet message board. Just as in this week’s Twitter exchange, Faraci claimed not to recall the incident. “He kind of disappeared after that,” she says.

Faraci has been silent on Twitter since Sunday. Contillo continues tweeting.

 

Category: Sex Trouble

Rule 5 Tuesday: Birthday Edition

Posted on | October 11, 2016 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

As fate would have it, Stacy, Smitty and I were all born within about a week of each other, which probably means something to astrologers, Kabbalists, numerologists, and other Democrats, but as far as I’m concerned, it’s just a happy coincidence. It’s also an opportunity to post a pics of a beautiful woman jumping out of a birthday cake, which apparently is something not done as often as it used to be.
The standard disclaimer regarding NSFW images, links, and clicking at inappropriate times goes here, and you all should know it by now.

Well, it looks like a cake. Maybe its just her skirts.

Well, it looks like a cake. Maybe it’s just her skirts.

Leading off this week is Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns, followed by Goodstuff with Linda Evans, while Animal Magnetism contributes Rule Five Nuclear-Powered Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon. The Last Tradition chips in with Simone Villas Boas and Ashley Graham.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes Hillary Clinton sending in the clowns, Amy Turk and Vasilisa Lushchevskaya harping Bach’s Toccata & Fugue in D Minor, Debate moderator Elaine Quijano: Ready For Hillary! and The Girl on the Train.

A View from the Beach brings us Jennifer Esposito, the New NCIS Agent, ASMFC Nixes Shad and Herring Plan,Hurricane Swirls Around Clinton.com,“Salt and Lime”, She Probably Wasn’t Hired for Her Brains, Alaskan Beer Upsets the SJWs, Andrea Goes for the Big Score, Thanks, Hollywood Actors, Muddling along with Clinton.com, “Get Your $#!* Together”, O’Sullivan’s Law Still in Effect, Monday Morning Humor, CNN Fat Shamed Miss Universe/Piggy in 1997, and Feminist Proposes to Destroy Science.

At Soylent Siberia, it’s your morning coffee creamer’s Bistro Bonanza, a Monday motivationer worth waiting for, Tuesday Titillation, Humpday Hawtness, Nice Landscape Of Mars There Firebird, and Latent Lingerie.

Saving the best for last, it’s Zooeypalooza XXIV at Dustbury!

Thanks to everyone for all the links, even if Rule Five Sunday came in second to the Return of the Cabin Boy in this week’s FMJRA.


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Category: Rule 5

Never Trust a ‘Male Feminist’ (And Relevant Thoughts About @JayaSaxena)

Posted on | October 11, 2016 | Comments Off on Never Trust a ‘Male Feminist’ (And Relevant Thoughts About @JayaSaxena)

 

You probably never heard of Devin Faraci, who blogs about movies, and perhaps you never would have heard of him had it not been for the fact that Devin Faraci is (a) liberal and (b) stupid, but I repeat myself.

Being a liberal requires that Faraci hate Republicans and pretend to be a feminist, so when the leaked video of Trump saying he could get away with grabbing women by their private parts made headlines last week, Faraci started tweeting about it, causing one woman to be “triggered.”

 

The woman whose Twitter account is @spacecrone said that at a social gathering 10 years ago, Faraci forced his hands down her pants and then bragged about it, asking their mutual friends to smell his fingers. Faraci did not deny it, but claimed he couldn’t remember and apologized, then went silent, as the sinister shadow of guilt loomed over him.

 

The shadow of vagina-grabbing guilt destroyed him:

Movie blogger Devin Faraci has stepped down as editor-in-chief of the influential blog, Birth.Movies.Death, after being accused of sexual assault.
In a message to friends and readers, Faraci wrote, “This weekend allegations were made about my past behavior. Because I take these types of claims seriously I feel my only honorable course of action is to step down from my position as Editor-in-Chief of Birth.Movies.Death. I will use the coming weeks and months to work on becoming a better person who is, I hope, worthy of the trust and loyalty of my friends and readers.”
The accusations surfaced on Twitter after Faraci shared his views on video tapes of Donald Trump bragging to “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush about groping women. The movie blogger tweeted that he was “terrified” of the Republican presidential nominee and labeled his running mate, Mike Pence, an “ideological monster.” . . .
Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas owns Birth.Movies.Death, which offers up casting stories, reviews, and trailers for cinephiles. The company declined to comment.

The worst of it? Feraci was groping a Buddhist lesbian vagina.

 

Ladies and gentlemen of the Internet jury, there are some errors from which recovery is possible, but when a man sexually assaults a lesbian Buddhist? This is what we call an “unrecoverable error.”

Feminists have begun using the word “woke” as a slang synonym for enlightened, so that a “woke” man is one attuned to feminist consciousness. That bit of Third Wave lexicon is necessary to understand Jaya Saxena’s commentary on the sex scandal we’ll call “FaraciGate”:

Behind every performatively woke man is a dark past he’s desperately trying to make sure you don’t see. Such appears to be the case with Devin Faraci, film critic at Birth.Movies.Death.—and a man who’s garnered a reputation for being a “good” guy (if not a little holier-than-thou and obnoxious). . . .
The democratization of language has made it incredibly easy for anyone to appear liberal and open-minded. Call enough things “problematic,” ask for men to “do better,” or mention “rape culture” or “gender is a construct,” and you’ve strung together enough buzzwords you don’t have to prove you’ve got the beliefs to back them up. To really be woke, you have to learn to separate the performance from the person. And that’s a lesson marginalized people have had to learn far too often.

Permit me to say that I detest the ideology Jaya Saxena represents, which presumes that “liberal” and “open-minded” are synonymous with virtue, and that adopting the correct “beliefs” is sufficient to allow the liberal to claim moral superiority to others. What does the liberal mean in using “open-minded” as a term of praise? Read more

Category: Liberals, Sex Trouble
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