Message to All Kids: Don’t Be a Weirdo Like Those Loser Freaks on Tumblr

Posted on | August 14, 2016 | 2 Comments

Would it be cruel to call attention to “Jakob” the teenage girl who thinks she wants to be a boy? Probably, but “Jakob” is the author of a Tumblr post with more than 100,000 notes entitled, “Message to all parents,” which keeps getting expanded to include all kinds of “messages” that cumulatively amount to the message, “PARENTS ARE TOTALLY STUPID AND DON’T KNOW ANYTHING! WE ARE SPECIAL SNOWFLAKES!”

Just a few pearls of wisdom from “Jakob”:

– Grades are NOT everything. You can get plenty of well paying jobs now without having to go to college.
– Really strict parenting leads to sneaky kids. Trust me.
– Let them be who they want. They can’t change who they are, whether it is sexual orientation, gender identity or anything else. They need someone to support them.
– ^ Never say “you’re too young to know”
– ¼ teenagers deal with a mental illness of some sort (in the U.S). Please make sure they’re okay.
– You can’t MAKE them chose an educational field. . . .
– Self harm is more common than you think amongst teenagers. It’s also not always cutting (or on wrists). Be aware.
– Sex ed. doesn’t teach them anything.
– Tattoos and piercing aren’t “unprofessional” anymore . . .
– School is much harder now than it ever has been before.
– Not everyone on the internet is a predator
– It’s normal to have internet friends now

Hey, “Jakob,” I’ll bet your “Internet friends” are all really encouraging about your “gender identity,” aren’t they? And on the other hand, I’ll bet the actual real-life human beings around you — your parents, the kids at school, etc. — probably think you’re a creepy weirdo, right? Do you ever wonder why there is this disparity between the disapproval you get in real life and the way nearly everybody on Tumblr is “supportive”?

Let me explain: There are 286 million Internet users in the United States, and if only 0.1% of these users have some kind of “gender identity” issue, that’s 286,000 weirdos hanging out online. Because the Internet enables all these weirdos to gravitate to each other, they form a “hive mind” — a cult mentality — where everybody’s “supportive” of weirdness.

This is why, for example, it’s easy for young people to believe that tattoos and facial piercings “aren’t ‘unprofessional’ anymore.” Believe whatever you want to believe, but if you show up in the Human Resources office looking like the cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, you might belatedly realize you have been led astray by your “Internet friends.”

And no, school is not much harder now than it’s ever been before. Quite the opposite, in fact. Public education has been dumbed down to the point where high school is really just daycare for teenagers, and I rather doubt you’re being required to learn Latin declensions or recite Shakespearean soliloquies from memory. This kind of boo-hoo-hoo woe-is-me millennial teenager self-pity trip is annoying, “Jakob,” and I think I speak for every adult in America when I say we’re all sick and damned tired of it.

Oh, but look at how the “supportive” Tumblr weirdo community of millennial snowflakes chimes in to extend the “Message to all parents”:

Don’t take their phones/computers away from them, as that is severing a link to what could be the only people that understand and care about them . . .
-Don’t say, “You don’t know who you’re talking to,” about their internet friends
-Don’t yell at them ever, especially if they have a fear of loud noises
Don’t react to everything with anger, dissent is not the same as disrespect and being a parent doesn’t mean only your opinion matters . . .

Message for all Tumblr weirdos: Don’t tell me how to raise my kids.

If you’re such g–damned parenting experts, you can have some kids of your own and raise them however the hell you want, but don’t complain when they turn out to be pathetic whiny helpless losers just like you.

It’s very easy for kids to think their parents are unreasonable tyrants, but if you grow up and have kids of your own, you’ll discover that being a good parent requires constant vigilance and a fanatical determination to protect your kids from bad influences, e.g., weirdos on Tumblr.

When I was a teenager, back before Al Gore invented the Internet, teenage losers mainly smoked dope and listened to Pink Floyd albums. This was far more entertaining than a bunch of Tumblr weirdos blabbering about their “gender identity.” It never occurred to us — stoned out of our minds as we usually were — to lecture our parents about how they should raise us. Our main challenge back then was figuring out how to get money to buy more dope and trying not to get caught smoking it.

What teenage dopeheads lacked, circa 1976, was a worldwide interactive communication system whereby all of us could get together to “discourse” about whatever, and form cliques based on mutual interests. What we had was FM rock radio and so-called “underground” newspapers, as the weekly alternative tabloids were then called, but 96 Rock and Creative Loafing (the Atlanta manifestation of these phenomena) weren’t the kind of interactive DIY platforms that a Tumblr blog provides to young weirdos nowadays. Were all of us teenage dopeheads entirely normal back in the day? Of course not. Issues of sexual orientation and “gender identity” are not recent inventions. What has changed is that abnormal kids now can (and do) spend hours a day obsessing over their weirdness in online communities that reinforce their fixations and fetishes.

Home, home of the strange!
Where the weird Tumblrinas are gay!
Where seldom are heard
Heteronormative words,
And the discourse continues all day!

Kids complain that their parents don’t understand this, just like our parents didn’t understand why my buddies and me were down in the basement playing Pink Floyd albums and staring at blacklight posters. Except, of course, our parents did understand enough to know that our behavior was abnormal, so they correctly suspected we were on drugs.

Few things in life are more predictable than this: Bad things will happen when teenagers get together without adult supervision. Parents are entirely correct to reject the assertion that it is now “normal” for kids to have “Internet friends,” for reasons that should be obvious, but which I apparently must explain for the benefit of the stupid:

Why don’t you and your “Internet friend” have any real-life friends?

How many kids are at your high school? Isn’t there even one kid at your school who shares your interests? Isn’t it usually the case that it is the misfit/outcast/weirdo kids who seek out “Internet friends”? Isn’t it also the case that the influence of these “Internet friends” generally tends to reinforce whatever personal problems led to the kid being a misfit/outcast/weirdo in the first place?

Parents are personally invested in their children’s well-being and future happiness, and one of the ways to safeguard our children is to monitor their friendships. “Stop hanging around that hoodlum,” my parents would say, and my hoodlum buddy’s parents said the same to him about me. With the benefit of four decades of hindsight, our parents were correct: We were both up to no good, which was the basis of our friendship.

The “Internet friends” phenomenon not only serves to enable the kind of unsupervised adolescent mischief that so often leads kids into serious trouble, but it also inhibits their development of the social skills and attitudes necessary to real-life happiness. As someone who has been blogging for more than eight years, trust me when I say that staring into a laptop screen all day has produced a noticeable degradation of my own social skills. I am a natural extrovert, but the effects of what might be called Online Isolation Syndrome are apparent to me, and I strongly suspect that spending too much time on the Internet is a significant factor in the psychological disturbances of today’s young weirdos, most of whom are introverts, and thus predisposed to such problems.

Well, I could lecture on this subject all week, but if I could say one thing to teen Tumblrinas, it would be this: STEP AWAY FROM THE ABYSS!

You may not yet be doomed to become a weirdo loser. It may still be possible, if you are strong-minded enough to assess your situation objectively, to re-evaluate your options and change course before disaster overtakes you, as it surely will if you keep going the way you are.

Consider this strange possibility: Maybe your parents are right.

Now that I’m a gray-bearded grandfather, I see the basic wisdom of my own parents’ intolerance of my juvenile rebellion. Sure, at the time, I thought my parents were stupid because they didn’t understand what I was going through. Life for a teenager in the 1970s wasn’t what life was like when they were teenagers in Depression-era rural Alabama. Yet having escaped the pervasive hardship of their youth, my parents knew a thing or two about the kind of habits and attitudes necessary to success in life, and when I started going off that path as a teenager, they did everything in their power to steer me back toward the way of success.

Until I started studying radical feminism, I never thought of “normal” as an achievement, as I have said more than once. Do any of these young weirdos on Tumblr have the strength of mind to think clearly about this?

Is it really “hate” — transphobia or whatever — for parents to become alarmed by their kids’ “gender-non-conforming” (GNC) behavior? Are parents wrong in believing that when their child starts acting out in certain ways (“Jakob” has a pierced lip, shows a preference for black clothing and dark music and blogs a lot about depression and suicide) this weirdness may reflect the influence of “Internet friends”? Read more

Category: Sex Trouble

FMJRA 2.0: Operation Chromite

Posted on | August 13, 2016 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This looks like a pretty cool movie, and I think I’m going to try and see it this weekend. Trailer here.

Rule 5 Sunday: Gold Medal, Ahoy!
Animal Magnetism
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach
90 Miles From Tyranny

FMJRA 2.0: The Rio Olympics
The Pirate’s Cove
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

Iran Executes Gay Teenager
Batshit Crazy News

In the Mailbox: 08.08.16
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Proof Positive
A View from the Beach

Narcissism, Nipples and ‘Social Justice’
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

In The Mailbox: 08.09.16
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach

Canadian Gay Child Pornography Merchant Reportedly Made $4 Million
Batshit Crazy News

Following SJW ‘Ghostbusters’ Disaster, Next Feminists Will Ruin ‘Oceans 11’
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 08.10.16
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive

Feminists Plan to Sue U.S. Education Department Over Title IX ‘Gender’ Policy
First Street Journal
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

In The Mailbox: 08.11.16
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach

In The Mailbox: 08.12.16
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive

The Intellectuals and Feminism: Why Do Fantasies of Sexual ‘Equality’ Persist?
Batshit Crazy News

Attention @MGTOW: Survey Question

Posted on | August 13, 2016 | 2 Comments

“Men Going Their Own Way” (MGTOW) is a segment of the so-called “manosphere,” the loose coalition of online resistance to feminism that includes also men’s rights activists (MRAs) and pickup artists (PUAs) and various advocates of what is known as “Red Pill” philosophy. There is a website (MGTOW.com) with a Twitter account (@MGTOW) specifically aimed at this niche of bachelors who, according to Wikipedia “believe that legal and romantic entanglements with women fail a cost–benefit analysis and risk–benefit analysis,” or who are “frustrated with the lack of incentives to date . . . and focus on taking care of themselves.”

In a cogent analysis of the MGTOW phenomenon, author Kay Hymowitz writes that such young men “find the young women they might have hoped to hang out with entitled, dishonest, self-involved, slutty, manipulative, shallow, controlling — and did I mention gold-digging?”

This is highly relevant to my two-year investigation of radical feminism, and I noticed the other day that someone on the MGTOW.com forum linked to my article about the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) threatened lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education over “gender identity.” So this leads me to ask, “Who are MGTOW?”

Taking this as a matter of sociology, therefore, I hope that someone at MGTOW.com will post this to their forum and add comments providing their basic biographical information: Age, race/ethnicity, location, height/weight, occupation, level of education, family/household background, etc. For example: “24, white, Michigan, 5-10, 160 pounds, retail clerk, two years college, apartment with two roommates.” Respondents might then describe their previous romantic relationships, how long they have been following the MGTOW path, and their basic impression of the problems affecting themselves and men in general.

My hunch here is that the negative stereotype of who MGTOW is rooted in a combination of political prejudice and lack of empathy. Critics of the “manosphere” have spent the past several years depicting the whole phenomenon as a monolith of dangerous right-wing misogyny.

According to this stereotype, every guy who complains about women on the Internet is a would-be Elliot Rodger, a potentially violent loner who might at any moment commit some kind of horrible atrocity. This reflects a political prejudice, as I say, because the journalists and bloggers who promote this stereotype are clearly associated with the political Left (Democrats in the U.S., Labour in the U.K., etc.) and so their ad hominem mockery of MRA/PUA/MGTOW discourse (looking at you, David Futrelle) is intended to create a mental association of the “manosphere” with the Right. This stereotype is about battlespace preparation, setting up a narrative, so that the next time some moody loner type goes off the rails, all the Amanda Marcotte types can say, “A-ha! We told you those MRA weirdos are dangerous! Blame Donald Trump!”

Having dehumanized their chosen Enemies, therefore, progressive critics of the “manosphere” have no empathy toward these targets. No effort is made to try to understand the real problems affecting the real human beings behind the handles on MGTOW forums, Return of Kings, etc. This is how it always is for those identified as targeted Enemies of the Left. Whatever real-life problems might lead men to become MGTOWs, or however much “Red Pill” philosophy may constitute a rational analysis of the actual facts and experiences of men’s lives, are dismissed by the invocation of feminist jargon (“misogyny,” “objectification,” “male privilege,” etc.) or by the use of ad hominem slurs — “neckbeard,” “geek,” “needledick,” “living in Mom’s basement,” etc. So, in order to clear away the misconceptions fostered by these prejudicial stereotypes, I am soliciting MGTOWs to comment here (or on whatever forums like Reddit you inhabit, linking back to this post) describing yourself, your situation, and your reasons for embracing MGTOW.

Thanks in advance,
— RSM

Category: Sex Trouble

The Intellectuals and Feminism: Why Do Fantasies of Sexual ‘Equality’ Persist?

Posted on | August 12, 2016 | 1 Comment

Men and women are different — biologically, as a matter of science — and the differences between the sexes are socially significant. Feminism seeks to impose a politically constructed regime of “equality” between men and women. This project is essentially destructive, resulting in the loss of social cohesion and an increase of sexual hostility. In fact, the “equality” imagined by feminists is impossible, for the same basic reasons that socialism is ultimately impossible (which Ludwig von Mises explained in 1922). Given the proof of socialism’s ultimate impossibility, why did this misguided ideal continue to be championed by many in the West despite the catastrophic failure of the Bolshevik experiment? Mises’ student Friedrich Hayek, who went on to win the 1974 Nobel Prize in economics, addressed this in a 1949 essay, “The Intellectuals and Socialism.”

If any reader is unfamiliar with Hayek’s argument, it is neither my duty nor my purpose at this time to remediate your ignorance. Neither do I feel any obligation to recite the case that Hayek made against the Rawlsian conception of equality in The Mirage of Social Justice. My purpose, rather, is to call the attention of the well-educated reader to the failure of feminists either to study or comprehend the arguments made by Mises and Hayek. We must begin, of course, by pointing out that there are libertarian women like Christina Hoff Sommers and Cathy Young who certainly do not consider themselves anti-feminists, just as no one familiar with Ayn Rand would label her an opponent of “women’s rights.” Nor, for that matter, do most conservative and/or libertarian men conform to the misogynist stereotype that feminists imagine us to be. As I explain in my book Sex Trouble, however, the feminist movement is controlled by adherents of a radical egalitarian ideology, propagated in university Women’s Studies programs by the intellectual heiresses of Shulamith Firestone, Mary Daly, Andrea Dworkin, et al. This anti-male belief system is implacably opposed to the principles of a free society embraced by Dr. Sommers, who in her 1994 book Who Stole Feminism? describes the radical view as “gender feminism,” which she distinguishes from her own ideal of “equity feminism.” More recently, Dr. Sommers has used Freedom Feminism as the title of a 2013 book, and produced a popular YouTube video series called “The Factual Feminist.”

Nothing is detracted from the tremendous value of Dr. Sommers’ research and advocacy by pointing out that feminists deny that she has any claim to be part of the feminist movement. Prominent feminists like Jessica Valenti and Amanda Marcotte absolutely despise Dr. Sommers, considering her to be an anti-feminist, a “neoconservative” stooge of patriarchy. And it has long been my opinion (influenced by the arguments of such conservative women as Phyllis Schlafly, Carolyn Graglia and Wendy Shalit) that we ought to let anti-male hatemongers like Valenti and Marcotte keep the “feminist” label to themselves, rather than trying to wrangle this term from their vice-like grasp and redefine it as a sort of Republican Feminism Lite™ brand. Disagreements about terminology (or rhetorical strategy, as I would say) can be left aside, however, for the sake of the point I wish to make here. If you consider yourself an “equity feminist” or a “freedom feminist,” do not consider what follows to be an expression of any antipathy toward your own views. Read more

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 08.12.16

Posted on | August 12, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Making Tacos Great Again – Salma Hayek And Sausage Party
Twitchy: The Media’s breathless Over Trump’s ISIS Remarks, But Where Were They When THIS Happened?
A Pius Geek: A Flight Of Dragon Award Reactions
According To Hoyt: Centrists

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast Episode #13 – The Climate Change Episode
American Power: Majority Of Canadians Think Universal Basic Income Too Expensive, Makes People Lazy
American Thinker: Democrats, Slavery, And The American Record
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Constitutional Friday
Da Tech Guy: JD Rucker – Proof That Conservative Activism Can Work, Even In California
Don Surber: Hillary’s Favorite Charity Is Hillary, also, Trump Macy’s
Dustbury: Getting Ziggy With It
Jammie Wearing Fools: Canadian SWAT Team Kills Would-Be ISIS Suicide Bomber In Dramatic Raid
Joe For America: CENTCOM Lied About ISIS To Make Obama Look Good
JustOneMinute: Help Wanted, Or At Least, Needed
Pamela Geller: “Historic” Muslim Primary Winner Married Her Brother While Already Married
Power Line: Guess Who’s Pushing Back On DOJ’s Condemnation Of Baltimore Policing
Shark Tank: Rubio At Odds With Trump Over Obama/ISIS Comment
Shot In The Dark: Welfare!
STUMP: Happy Friday! 80% Funding Triple Play!
The Jawa Report: Religion Of Peace Watch – Days Of Contiguous Peace 0, also, Sandcrawler PSA – Cynicism And You
The Political Hat: The New Feudalism of Venezuela’s Socialist Paradise
The Quinton Report: Could Trump Really Lose South Carolina?
This Ain’t Hell: $20 Million for Art? Pfft. Merely Peanuts., also, Monifa Sterling’s BCD Upheld
Weasel Zippers: Senile Accused Pedophile Calls Trump A Bigot, also, NC School District Uses “Gender Unicorn” For Kids To Color In Their “Gender Identity”
Megan McArdle: Every Place has Detractors. Consider Where They’re Coming From.

Category: Linkagery

In The Mailbox: 08.11.16

Posted on | August 11, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: John Nolte Has Some Excellent Advice For Donald Trump
Twitchy: Transgender Model Gigi Gorgeous Tried To Enter Dubai, And She’s The Only One Shocked By What Happened Next
According To Hoyt: Dark Fate
Monster Hunter Nation: Finalist For The Dragon Award – Son Of The Black Sword

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: My Lost Blue Pill Brothers
American Power: Some Democrats See Trump As The New Champion Of “Hope And Change”
American Thinker: Political Violence – Trump’s 2nd Amendment People Vs. Hillary’s “Activists”
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily News
Da Tech Guy: How Twitter Uses “Media Privilege” Tp Play Palace Guard For Hillary In One Image
Don Surber: Can Matt Drudge bring Hillary Down?
Dustbury: The World, The Flesh, And The Asshat
Fred On Everything: Hillary, Trump, And War With Russia – The Stupidest Idea I’ve Ever Heard, and I’ve Lived In Washington
Jammie Wearing Fools: Gawker Editor – Hey, We’ve Sacrificed Just Like The Khans
Joe For America: Will Black Churches Put Trump Over The Top?
JustOneMinute: The Ascent of Peak Crazy Was Meant As A Metaphor
Pamela Geller: Video – Man Plummets To His Death As Islamic State Throws More Gays Off Roof In Accordance With Sharia
Power Line: The Associated Press Campaigns For Hillary
Shark Tank: Rutherford Up By Double Digits In Race For Congress
Shot In The Dark: Bloodlust
STUMP: NY Public Pensions – Poor Returns And Rising Costs
The Jawa Report: ISIS Meets Sprockets
The Lonely Conservative: What Do You Expect From A Fake Conservative As The Republican Nominee?
The Political Hat: The Eight White Identities
This Ain’t Hell: Citizen Soldier
Weasel Zippers: Ford Foundation Funding #BlackLivesMatter To Help Train “The Next Generation Of Social Justice Leaders”
Megan McArdle: Early Returns From Seattle’s Minimum-Wage Experiment

Category: Linkagery

Feminists Plan to Sue U.S. Education Department Over Title IX ‘Gender’ Policy

Posted on | August 10, 2016 | 3 Comments

Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) is a radical feminist group founded in 2013, and they are furious about the Obama administration’s manipulation of Title IX to conform to demands of transgender activists:

Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) is suing the U.S. federal government in order to challenge the recent dissolution of Title IX protections for women and girls in education. (Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 protects women and girls from discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs or activities that receive federal funding.) Since its legislation, Title IX has formed the bedrock of equal educational opportunity in the U.S., necessitating countless reforms to raise the level of opportunity for female persons in an attempt to match what had in the past only been afforded to males.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (DOE) recently enacted a policy redefining the legal category of “sex” in Title IX to “gender-identity.” The DOJ and DOE was empowered to make this change based on the premise that it does not constitute a substantive reinterpretation of the original legislation. Women’s Liberation Front disagrees with this premise, asserting that the change presents a radical departure from the core of the legislation’s meaning and function, writing on their fundraising campaign page:

“This [redefinition] effectively renders Title IX meaningless, as females can no longer be recognized as distinct from males. Indeed, Title IX, the legislation used to champion the very creation of female sports, is now being used to dismantle them, as male athletes demand access to female teams, dominating the competition.
The reinterpretation of ‘sex’ to include ‘gender identity’ also means that girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms must be opened up to any male who ‘identifies’ as female. Girls’ rights to personal privacy and freedom from male sexual harassment, forced exposure to male nudity, and voyeurism have been eliminated with the stroke of a pen. Schools that do not comply with the demands of any male student to access protected female spaces will now lose federal funding.”

Two days ago, Women’s Liberation Front launched a gofundme campaign to cover the legal fees for bringing this challenge to the courts. The campaign has already raised over $5,000 in donations.

When I say WoLF is a radical feminist group, I mean hard effing core. They don’t just hate men, they hate God, capitalism, America and heterosexuality, not necessarily in that order. Their “principles”:

WE BELIEVE…
That female humans, the class of people called women, are oppressed by men under a male-supremacist system called patriarchy.
That patriarchy is organized around the extraction of resources from female bodies and minds in the service of men, including reproductive, sexual, emotional, and labor resources.
That gender is a hierarchical caste system that organizes male supremacy. Gender cannot be reformed — it must be abolished.
That we are enmeshed in overlapping systems of sadistic power built on misogyny, white privilege, stolen wealth, and human supremacism, and all of those must be dismantled.

Not just crazy, but kuh-RAAAY-zee!

Nevertheless, these radical man-haters are exactly right about the Obama administration’s “gender identity” scam. The transgender lobby — bankrolled by billionaires like James “Jennifer” Pritzker — has spent big money to get what it wants, and the Democrats are giving it to them.

However crazy radical feminists may be, they are right that the difference between men and women is about biology, not politics, and they know that America’s daughters are being sold out by liberal Democrats.

Maybe one day they’ll wake up and realize capitalism — freedom! — is better than being enslaved by an all-powerful federal government.