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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
Batshit Crazy News
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

Top linkers this week:

  1. Batshit Crazy News (13)
  2. A View from the Beach (8)
  3. Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Remember, links for Rule 5 Sunday are due to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox by midnight tonight. Don’t delay, do it today!

Category: FMJRA Award

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.




 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 08.10.16

Posted on | August 10, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.10.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Who Killed Seth Rich?
Michelle Malkin: Fonda & Redford – Hollywood’s New Welfare Mooches
Twitchy: Guess What Didn’t Happen After The FBI Recommended A Clinton-Related DOJ Probe
Commander Salamander: What I Saw At The Trump Rally


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Trump Is Not Running Against Hillary
American Power: Leftist Media Hacks Foment New “Furor” Over Trump’s “Second Amendment” Comments
American Thinker: Who Is Judge Ruth Neely From Pinedale, Wyoming?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Da Tech Guy: Baldilocks – Country-Jacked By The Driver
Don Surber: The Girl Raped By Hillary’s Client Speaks Out
Dustbury: Meanwhile In France
Jammie Wearing Fools: Bombshell E-Mails Reveal Clinton “Pay For Play” Scheme At State Dept., But Never Mind, Trump Said Something Stupid
Joe For America: Julian Assange Says The DNC Is Adding To The Clinton Body Count
Pamela Geller: Assange Says Murdered DNC Staffer Was Wikileaks Source, Offers $20K Reward
Power Line: Paul Ryan Easily Wins Primary; Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin Hardest Hit
Shark Tank: US Military Abandons Equipment To ISIS
Shot In The Dark: The Polls Have Been Closed For 90 Minutes…
STUMP: Followup On Actuarial Squabble
The Jawa Report: Gimme A Beat!
The Lonely Conservative: Why Shouldn’t We Believe Trump Is A Clinton Plant?
The Political Hat: The Food Justice Conference
This Ain’t Hell: When Will Black Lives Really Matter?
Weasel Zippers: Minnesota Court Rules No Sharia Civil Law For Muslims In America
Megan McArdle: The Olympics Don’t Have To Be A Disaster


Category: Linkagery

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

Posted on | August 10, 2016 | Comments Off on Following SJW ‘Ghostbusters’ Disaster, Next Feminists Will Ruin ‘Oceans 11’

The feminist desecration of Ghostbusters will lose $70 million for Sony Pictures, according to current estimates. The misconceived and badly executed political travesty opened at #2 at the box office its first week, but dropped rapidly to #5 the second week, #8 last week and is likely to fall from the top 10 by next week. Although it has made back its $144 million production budget, the massive publicity blitz for Ghostbusters made $300 million the break-even point and, with current estimates of a final worldwide gross of $230 million, that means Sony lost $70 million on this expensive, overhyped, hateful anti-male propaganda film.

There will be no sequel to the SJW Ghostbusters, but Sony’s feminist failure won’t prevent Warner Brothers from trying the same trick:

The “Ocean’s Eleven” reboot is getting even more interesting, thanks to the addition of more A-list cast members. Deadline reports that Anne Hathaway, Rihanna and Awkwafina are in negotiations to join previously announced Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter and Mindy Kaling in the female-led version, “Ocean’s Eight.” The picture is still casting the eighth person.
The film will be directed by Gary Ross and Olivia Milch is penning the script. No plot details have been confirmed by Warner Bros., but previous reports stated that the film is a continuation of the George Clooney-led franchise, with Bullock playing Danny Ocean’s ex-con sister. Blanchett, who will be the equivalent of Brad Pitt’s Rusty, is supposedly her right-hand woman. The premise is that they will form a team to steal a necklace from the Met Ball in order to frame a villainous gallery owner. There have also been talks of cameos from the stars of the original movies.
Warner Bros. confirmed that they would start production on the film in October in New York. “Ocean’s Eight” will be produced by Steven Soderbergh with Susan Ekins as executive producer.

Does anyone at Warner Brothers expect this to be anything other than a dismal repetition of the Ghostbusters failure? No. They are actively and deliberately planning to lose millions of dollars on this doomed turkey, just to appease the angry mobs of man-hating Marxist lesbians.

What bothers me: I actually like Anne Hathaway and Sandra Bullock, but their participation in such a project may make me hate them.




 

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