Hillary Is Madonna or Something

Everybody wants to play pundit nowadays. The New York Times unleashed its arts writers on the most over-analyzed election in history:

“I was called a whore and a witch,” Madonna said on Friday in a searing speech about the sexism and bullying that women face in the music industry and the culture at large.
“Such a nasty woman,” Donald J. Trump interjected in October as Hillary Clinton pointed out holes in his Social Security plan during their final presidential debate.
Madonna and Mrs. Clinton: both trailblazers, both polarizing figures, and both attacked for actions, choices and behavior that are broadly accepted — even applauded — when done by their male peers. Madonna herself made a connection between the two women before her speech Friday, saying it was “really important to make a stand and speak my mind” about women’s rights after Mrs. Clinton’s loss in November.
Our pop music editor, Caryn Ganz, and deputy Culture editor and former political correspondent Patrick Healy looked at how Madonna and her speech put Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy in fresh perspective. . . .

Go read the whole thing and ask yourself: Why?

Why does every liberal with access to a computer feel the need to share their “perspective” on this topic? Why do we care what Madonna says?

Isn’t the purpose of this kind of “journalism” essentially therapeutic?

Aren’t these New York Times writers basically grieving in public, and inviting their fellow liberals to console themselves about Hillary’s loss by saying, “All great women suffer the slings and arrows of misogyny”? By putting the whole election into “perspective” — a perspective where even millionaire pop stars and powerful politicians can think of themselves as victims of patriarchal oppression — the New York Times invites their affluent liberal readers to share in the sense of communal victimhood. Is the entire staff of the New York Times gobbling Prozac and Paxil? Are there any emotionally stable journalists employed there, or is the entire staff just one big group therapy session for depressed neurotics?

 

Rule 5 Sunday: Maid of Meat

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I don’t know for sure if I linked it this past week (and I’m too lazy to look it up) but Donald Trump stirred up the crazies by selecting Andy Puzder as his nominee for Secretary of Labor. Feminists and their beta male fellow travelers were immediately OUTRAGED since Puzder, as head of the Carl’s Jr. burger chain, has for quite some time been commissioning ads using lovely young women to flog his burgers. An example of one such, featuring tonight’s appetizer, can be found here.

Speaking of outrage and beautiful women, this is your weekly reminder that many of the following links are to pictures generally considered NSFW. The management is not responsible for grease fires, over/under-cooked meat, excessive mustard, onion breath, or other problems arising from your inability to click at appropriate times and places.

Kate Upton gets hot and bothered by the Southwestern Patty Melt from Carl's Jr. in this ad from the 2012 Super Bowl. Should've ordered the large soda, Kate.
Kate Upton gets hot and bothered by the Southwestern Patty Melt from Carl’s Jr. in this ad from the 2012 Super Bowl. Should’ve ordered the large soda, Kate.

Ninety Miles from Tyranny kicks off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns, followed by Goodstuff with noted EM Drive scientist Paula Abdul, Animal Magnetism with Rule 5 Reciprocity Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon. We also heard from The Last Tradition with Rita Ora and Miley Cyrus.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes Snow in Hawaii, Ingrid Bolso Berdal, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”, WWII Pinup Art, Phoebe Cates, Carl’s Jr. Ads, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and Emma Stone.

A View from the Beach contributes Rita Ora, Angelic or Devilish?, The Eternal Christmas Question: Real or Fake?, Tina Fey Calls Trump a Nazi, A Model Student Who Prefers Self Defense, SJWs: Is There Nothing They Won’t Try to Ruin?, Gidget Just Doesn’t Get It, Using Dark Matter to Explore the Stars?, Madge Not Yet Come to Terms with Trump Presidency, and This Boob Needs a Civics Lesson.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is  Michelle Dockery, his Vintage Babe is Veronica Carson, Sex In advertising is all about tax deductions, and there’s also Your Schadenfreude NFL/Niners Report. At Dustbury, it’s Susie Wolff, Rebecca Black, and Hailee Steinfeld.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

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Top linkers this week:

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Twitchy: Watch Tucker Carlson Mock George Takei’s Filibuster Buffoonery
Louder With Crowder: Sheriff Clarke Throws Down! Fake News? Let’s Talk “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot”!
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American Power: Hollywood Faces Identity Crisis After Trump’s Election
American Thinker: Public Schools – Not Education, But Social Engineering
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Reciprocity Friday
Da Tech Guy: Fausta – The Former Newspaper Discovers Cuba’s Apartheid System, Blames Embargo
Don Surber: Maureen Dowd Tells Trump Deniers Too Bad
Dustbury: The Gospel According To Warren Kinsella
Fred On Everything:
Jammie Wearing Fools: Trump Meets With Ohio State Terror Victims, Hero Officer; Obama Makes Plans To Go On The Daily Show
Joe For America: Texas Ranchers Ready For Battle As Feds Try To Steal Their Land
JustOneMinute: Godspeed, John Glenn
Power Line: Exit The Rancid Harry Reid, also, Branstad As Ambassador To China – More Interesting Than It Looks
Shark Tank: Planned Parenthood Funding – TBD
Shot In The Dark: The Arab Revolt
STUMP: Vladimir Bukovsky Makes The New York Times
The Geller Report: UK’s First Female Sharia Council Judge Defends Rape And Violence
The Jawa Report: Jawa Christ-O-Hanukkah Special
The Political Hat: From Sexual Privacy To Sexual Police
This Ain’t Hell: DAPL And Standing Rock Veterans, also, More Liberal Insanity
Weasel Zippers: Obama Says “I Absolutely Faced Racism In The Oval Office”, also, Chrysler Worker Says “Trump Has Done More For Me Than Any Democrat In My Lifetime”
Megan McArdle: High Prices Today, Effective Drugs Tomorrow
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‘This Is Why We Need Feminism’: @RoseMcShane Loves Male Tears

“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

Hannah Rose McShane is a senior in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program at Georgia State University in Atlanta and, not coincidentally, Hannah Rose McShane is also a radical feminist who hates men, denouncing males as “trash” and perpetrators of “oppression.” Ms. McShane expresses her delight in the “male tears” of “cishet white boys,” whom she resents for even daring to look at her. On her Instagram account, she boasts of “giving every guy looking at me a death glare.”

Ms. McShane here quotes from page 72 of Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression, a 1990 book by the late Professor Sandra Lee Bartky (University of Illinois-Chicago). It is from Chapter 5 (“Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power”), an essay that was originally published in a 1988 book, Feminism and Foucault: Reflections on Resistance, edited by ecofeminists Irene Diamond (University of Oregon) and Lee Quinby (CUNY). Ms. McShane’s tweet somewhat truncates Professor Bartky’s words.

“In the regime of institutionalized heterosexuality,
woman must make herself ‘object and prey’ for the man . . .
Woman lives her body as seen by another,
by an anonymous patriarchal other.”

Read in context, Professor Bartky’s quote condemns heterosexuality as an oppressive “regime” in which every woman is “prey” of the “patriarchal other” (i.e., men) whose “gaze” is imposed on her “consciousness.”

Ms. McShane, who was hired last year as a student assistant in the WGSS department and honored this year as “Outstanding Student” in the program, identifies as “femme lesbian” (“I fall a little in love with every lesbian I meet.”) and says that her sexuality inspired her feminism, an emotional topic she discussed in a class assignment.

 

Boasting of her ability to attract “dykes,” and publicly emphasizing her dedication to her identity, Ms. McShane posed for Twitter selfies wearing a necklace with a lesbian symbol.

 

Ms. McShane’s “femme” lesbianism is evidently the subject of her senior thesis, and she is a critic of other feminists who, she says, are “reinforcing heteropatriarchy” by their mistreatment of lesbians.

The interim director of Georgia State’s Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is Professor Susan Talburt, whose scholarship includes Thinking Queer: Sexuality, Culture, and Education (2000) and Subject to Identity: Knowledge, Sexuality, and Academic Practices in Higher Education (2000). The director of WGSS undergraduate studies at GSU is Julie Kubala, who teaches about “dominant structures, such as capitalism, imperialism, heteronormativity, white supremacy, and of course, sexism,” and who describes her fields of study as “Lesbian and queer organizing and communities; feminist and queer theory; the impact of neoliberalism on public/private spheres; personal narrative; feminist pedagogy.” Another member of the WGSS “core faculty,” Megan Sinnott, is a specialist in “sexuality and gender in Thailand, specifically female same-sex relations and gendered identities.” Professor Sinnott is author of Toms and Dees: Transgender Identity and Female Same-Sex Relationships in Thailand (2004). Another WGSS core faculty member at GSU, Tiffany King, describes her fields of study as, “Black gender and sexuality in the African Diaspora, Black Feminisms, Black Studies, Native Feminisms, critical geographies and settler colonialism.”

Left to right: Talburt, Kubala, Sinnott, King.

Such is the faculty of the department where “Outstanding Student” Hannah Rose McShane learns her lessons. She’s getting all A’s and planning to go to grad school and considers it “a work of art” to decorate her refrigerator with magnets spelling “F–k the Patriarchy.”

“This is why we need feminism,” Ms. McShane declares. She’s studying at a state university with an annual budget of $725 million, and obviously, she’s a victim of heteropatriarchal oppression.

 

Learning to live “that feminist witch life” — at taxpayer expense. Why do “people have a distorted perception of feminism”? Perhaps the Republicans who run the Georgia legislature should ask that question.



 

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Don Surber: Rolling Stone Writer Dishes It Out But Can’t Take It, also, Trump The Press Hits A Milestone
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Fred On Everything: Health Care Hither And Yon – An Invitation To Scream About Socialism
Jammie Wearing Fools: Liberal CNN Sued By Current and Former Employees For Racial Discrimination
Joe For America: Jihad Theme Park, Open For Business!
JustOneMinute: A Man With A Plan
Power Line: Too Many Generals?
Shark Tank: Biden Said He Has No Intention Of Running In 2020
Shot In The Dark: Come For The MNSure, Stay For The Corruption
STUMP: Jacksonville Part II – Public Pension Primer, Payroll Growth Assumption
The Geller Report: Obama Defends Islam, Blames America For Fueling “Terrorist Narrative”
The Jawa Report: Pearl Harbor Day 75th Anniversary
The Political Hat: Stopping White People, Belittling White People, Punching White People
The Quinton Report:
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Weasel Zippers: GA SecState Says Homeland Security Tried To Breach Department’s Firewall, also, Brian Williams Bemoans “Fake News”
Megan McArdle: Those Pesky Principles
Mark Steyn: A Gift For Christmas, And The Year To Come


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Study: We Don’t Hate Bisexuals Enough

 

“Never Trust a Bisexual,” as I have previously warned, and this is an important warning because bisexuality has been increasing in recent years among young people. You can blame the Obama administration’s policies or the plague of Third-Wave feminism on college campuses, but whatever the cause of this phenomenon, the danger is real, and those sneaky bisexuals are not suffering as much hate as they deserve:

Among LGBT Americans, bisexuals stand out
when it comes to identity, acceptance

Compared with gay men and lesbians, bisexuals have a different perspective on their sexual orientation and a distinct set of experiences, according to a 2013 Pew Research Center survey of nearly 1,200 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adults. . . .
Bisexuals are also much less likely than gay men or lesbians to have “come out” to the important people in their life. Only 28% of bisexuals say all or most of the important people in their life know they are bisexual. . . .
Relatively few bisexuals report that they have experienced discrimination because of their sexual orientation. . . .
There’s also a sense among all LGBT adults that society is more accepting of bisexual women than it is of gay men, lesbians or bisexual men. A third of LGBT adults say there is a lot of acceptance for bisexual women. Fewer (25%) say there’s a lot of acceptance for lesbian women, and fewer still see a lot of acceptance for gay men (15%) and bisexual men (8%). . . .

Let me interrupt here to say that “acceptance for bisexual women” is (a) a bad idea, which is (b) caused by the Internet pornography epidemic. The online tsunami of that nasty stuff has popularized all kinds of bad ideas, including anal sex, BDSM, transgenderism and, of course, the bisexual ménage-à-trois fantasy. This particular kinky idea was popularized in the 1970s by Penthouse magazine, and then in the 1980s by VHS porn videos, so that “lesbian” came to connote two really hot girls going at it for the voyeuristic satisfaction of a guy who, as spectator, imagined himself also as a participant in this scene. Over the past 20 years, the Internet has unleashed the hounds of hell in this regard.

Guys, wake up: There is a reason this is called a “fantasy.”

In reality, (a) lesbians have zero interest in having some weirdo guy participate in their intimacies, (b) most actual lesbians look nothing like those hot girls going at it on video, and (c) if you talk your girlfriend into fulfilling your ménage-à-trois fantasy, this greatly increases the likelihood of her becoming your ex-girlfriend. Maybe you think monogamy and normal sex are boring, but what if your girlfriend — pressured by you into doing a threesome to “spice up” your sex life — decides that she prefers a twosome, minus you? Being normal may be boring, but it’s better than being alone, and I could tell you about guys who learned that lesson the hard way. Now, back to the research:

Bisexuals are much more likely than gay men or lesbians to be married, and most have a spouse of the opposite sex. Roughly a third (32%) of the bisexual women in our survey were married, as were 23% of bisexual men. . . .
Only 9% of bisexuals have same-sex partners; fully 84% are involved with someone of the opposite sex.

See what I’m talking about? Bisexuals are less likely to “come out,” preferring to operate in stealth predator mode, avoiding “discrimination” by concealing themselves in ostensibly heterosexual relationships. My friend Cynthia Yockey, the Conservative Lesbian, was the one who originally warned me about what we may call The Bisexual Menace.

If lesbians understand this — bisexuals are untrustworthy, selfish and emotionally unstable — why do bisexuals suffer less discrimination? Mainly it’s their success at operating in stealth-predator mode, but it’s also because these sneaky freaks have allied themselves with the LGBT coalition, as opportunistic passengers on the bandwagon of “tolerance.”

My habit of sarcastic hyperbole may lead readers to suppose that I am being entirely humorous here, but aside from my jocular pose as a notorious hater — just ask the SPLC, which still hasn’t caught on to this — there is nevertheless a real danger of too much “tolerance.” Some of us have long memories, and it took about a dozen years to go from the Stonewall riot to the AIDS epidemic. That interval, which we might call The Disco Decade, was very tolerant of a lot of things that, in hindsight, never should have been tolerated. You can read Randy Shilts’ history of the AIDS epidemic, And the Band Played On, to get an idea of what the 1970s gay bathhouse scene was like. If you’re really serious about understanding this history, you might want to check out Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader, Chapter 9 of which is about The Catacombs, a San Francisco BDSM club that specialized in particularly dangerous practices that no sane person would ever want to imagine.

Knowing the actual history of that era — most of which was (and continues to be) concealed by the liberal media, and thus seldom given the kind of critical scrutiny it deserves — I am concerned about the consequences of current trends. (See “Sexual Anarchy: Progress, Perversion and the ‘Emerging Awareness’ Doctrine.”)

The liberal pose of enlightened sophistication — all the Smart People™ assuring us that there is nothing to worry about — is usually a precursor to catastrophe, and who knows what new varieties of wickedness we shall behold emerging from the shadows in years to come?

Who to blame? Al Gore. He invented the Internet, you know.



 

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