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Never Trust a Bisexual

Posted on | September 13, 2016 | 1 Comment

Has everyone forgotten the AIDS epidemic? It sometimes seems that way. Now that effective treatment means that HIV is not an automatic death sentence, and Obamacare requires insurance coverage for “pre-existing conditions,” some people seem to think sexual promiscuity is now basically risk-free, as if the wake-up call we got during the 1980s never happened. This crossed my mind when I read a column by Joe Kort, a psychologist whose practice focuses on gay men, about bisexuality:

Think about this: If someone identifies as heterosexual, it’s as if they have won the lottery. In the majority culture, they are accepted and celebrated in songs and movies. Anywhere they go they can hold hands or kiss, and no one gives them a second look. They are not at risk of being arrested or harassed. They are not a threat. They are heterosexually privileged. . . .
As a longtime therapist, I know that there are so many shades of sexuality that they defy categorization. I have seen the myriad configurations of bisexuality — how sexual attraction and romantic love can exist for both genders; how someone can be romantically attracted to one gender, and sexually attracted to another, and on and on.
And I have seen in the therapy room the grief of my bisexual clients that comes from the loss of gay or lesbian privilege. In seminars where I have spoken I have asked for a show of hands of women who would marry a bisexual man, and been stunned by seeing not a single hand in the air. I have counseled men who remain secretive about their bisexuality because they don’t want to lose the woman they love to the misinterpretation that they are unable to commit to her. I have known men who unknowingly date and fall in love with bisexual women, then find out and flee from the fear of competition with other women. . . .

Dude. If women don’t want to marry bisexual men, or if men “flee” from bisexual women, who are you to question their preference? Isn’t it possible that this alleged “biphobia” may be entirely rational?

Let me explain to Dr. Kort, in case he doesn’t understand, that women tend to be very possessive about their husbands, requiring absolute loyalty, so that even the most casual acknowledgment of other women’s beauty — e.g., noticing Kate Upton’s breasts — can land him in the doghouse. Never mind that Kate Upton is a world-famous supermodel who is engaged to a major-league baseball star, and that she is therefore not remotely a threat to your relationship. No, the married man is expected to be so completely devoted to his wife that he is blind to the beauty of any other woman in the world.

As I say, Dr. Kort may not understand this because his practice involves gay men, and gay men certainly are not as possessive toward their boyfriends as wives generally are toward their husbands. I say this not out of prejudice, but on the basis of actual evidence:

In 1982, the CDC reported that that the “median number of lifetime male sexual partners” for gay men diagnosed with AIDS was 1,160.
Repeat: One thousand one hundred sixty.
To comprehend what that means, if a man was diagnosed with AIDS at age 30, after having 1,160 partners since becoming sexually active at age 18, he would have had 97 different partners in an average year, i.e., nearly two new partners every week, or eight new partners per month. This was the “at-risk” population among whom the epidemic was incubated in the late 1970s and early 1980s . . .

Of course, not every gay man is so fantastically promiscuous, but in general, gay men are less inclined to monogamy than heterosexuals or lesbians. This is why, since the legalization of same-sex marriage, about two-thirds of such marriages are between women. In other words, lesbians are twice as likely as gay men to seek long-term commitment with their partners. This is one reason why lesbians have very low rates of sexually transmitted disease — and why heterosexual women are understandably averse to getting involved with bisexual men.

Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea Is on the Rise.
Should Gay and Bi Men Be Concerned?

That’s the headline on a Slate article reporting about a CDC report that found rates of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea (ARG) are about the same in homosexual and bisexual men. The story included this quote:

“A lot of these things that we’re seeing now in increasing rates and also resistance are the warning signs—they’re sort of the clouds that are starting to come together on the horizon, telling us that there is a perfect storm brewing,” [Dr. Robert] Kirkcaldy said. “The question is what can be done and what are people willing to do now to prevent this brewing crisis?”

What’s sad is that people seem to have forgotten so quickly what the AIDS crisis should have taught us. It’s easy to laugh at silly feminists who think it is “empowering” to announce their herpes infections to the world, but their mentality — the belief that getting rid of the “stigma” of sexually transmitted diseases will make everything OK — is really quite dangerous.

There is a “stigma” about herpes for the same reason there is a “stigma” about promiscuity. These are very bad things — harmful and unhealthy — and disapproving of dangerous behavior is not an irrational fear. As for Dr. Kort’s claim that people are unfairly prejudiced against bisexuals, who gets to determine which prejudices are unfair? I mean, obviously gay men are prejudiced against vaginas and lesbians are prejudiced against penises, but does anyone expect them to apologize for their biases? At least homosexuals are not confused about their preferences, whereas the bisexual’s preferences are as ambiguous as a Rorschach test. Do you want to deal with that kind of perpetual confusion? No, you don’t, and it is not your fault that other people have problems you don’t want to deal with.

 

Category: Gays

The Objective Truth of @fmanjoo and the New York Times’ Partisan Bias

Posted on | September 13, 2016 | 1 Comment

What is the truth about Hillary Clinton’s health and why should Americans trust the media to tell us the truth? This was a question raised last month by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in an interview on Fox News Sunday with host Shannon Bream:

“She has an entire media empire that…fails to point out several signs of illness by her. All you got to do is go online.”
Bream countered that Clinton’s campaign has vehemently denied the unsubstantiated claims she is in poor health, releasing medical records last year to prove her fitness.
“Go online and put down, ‘Hillary Clinton illness,’ and take a look at the videos yourself,” Giuliani responded. . . .
Giuliani’s comments on Sunday came after a week in which Trump himself questioned Clinton’s “physical and mental stamina.”
The Democratic nominee’s campaign has accused Trump and his team of “peddling deranged conspiracy theories in a desperate attempt to change the subject – this time with absurd and debunked claims about Hillary Clinton’s health.”

In response, Farhad Manjoo of the New York Times took to Twitter to advocate that search results for videos about Hillary’s health should be suppressed: “Google should fix this. It shouldn’t give quarter to conspiracy theorists.” Is it Farhad Manjoo’s job to help elect Democrats?

Well, yes — yes it is. This is why New York Times pays his salary, because electing Democrats is what the New York Times is about. Sure, Farhad Manjoo is supposed to be writing about technology, but if you check his online archive at the New York Times, you find that this is very light work — he published exactly eight bylined articles during the month of August, and writing two articles a week isn’t what I’d call a full-time job. So what does Farhad Manjoo do with all his spare time? Check out his Twitter feed, and you’ll find an incessant barrage of anti-Trump, pro-Hillary messages. Basically, Farhad Manjoo’s actual job these days is to crank out Hillary Clinton campaign propaganda on social media, while occasionally contributing a tech article to the New York Times.

So, three weeks after Farhad Manjoo called for the suppression of “conspiracy theorists” who claimed Hillary Clinton has serious health problems, we now know for a fact that Hillary Clinton has serious health problems. Does anyone expect the New York Times to discipline Farhad Manjoo for this behavior? Of course not. This is his job, you see — everybody employed by the New York Times is expected to do everything they can to elect Hillary Clinton president. Citing Farhad Manjoo’s tweet, former CBS News reporter Cheryl Attkisson wrote:

Rather than reporting the facts, many in the media have taken it upon themselves to shout down the questions and to controversialize those asking them. . . .
[Farhad Manjoo] was advocating that a conspiracy be committed to stop people from researching Clinton’s health, which he labeled a conspiracy. Many others in the media also chimed in using the “conspiracy theory” moniker. It’s designed to convince the public to tune out the discussion, in much the same way as other common astroturf terms such as “debunked,” “bonkers,” “tin-foil hat,” “shoddy,” “discredited,” “quack,” “bogus,” “denier,” and “crank.”
Left-wing apparatus Vox chimed in with an article titled: “The bonkers conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton’s health.” The pro-Hillary Clinton smear machine, Media Matters, chided NBC News for “mainstreaming conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton’s health.” Vice picked up the theme writing, “How conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton’s health went mainstream.” CNN published an article “Debunking conspiracy theories” about her health. CNN media critic Brian Stelter urged the media: “Do Not Give Oxygen To ‘Conspiracy Theories’ That Hillary Clinton Is ‘Secretly Ill’.” HuffPost wrote, “Let’s call the conspiracy theories about Clinton’s health what they are…” ThinkProgress joined in with, “Trump campaign embraces conspiracy theory…” From MSNBC: “Trump, allies push conspiracy theory about Clinton’s health.” NPR: “Trump adds fuel to conspiracy theory about Clinton’s health.” You get the idea. Everybody’s on the same page.

Whatever the truth about Hillary Clinton’s health may be, the truth about the mainstream media is that they are partisan Democrats, and that their “news” coverage is actually Democrat Party propaganda, so that they are essentially being paid to campaign for Hillary Clinton. Maybe the reason videos by “conspiracy theorists” are popular is because journalists are so blinded by partisan bias that they can’t be trusted to do honest reporting.

This is why journalists get scooped by guys with cell-phone videos:

Video from the 9/11 ceremony, uploaded to Twitter on Sunday morning, appeared to show the Democratic presidential candidate being helped into a black van by aides and US Secret Service agents. The man who filmed the video, New Jersey resident Zdenek Gazda, 50, told BuzzFeed News he was at the memorial when he spotted Clinton being led away.
“I take two pictures before she passed me,” said Gazda, who said he moved to the US 24 years ago from what was then Czechoslovakia and is a Clinton supporter. “She looked like everything was fine and everything was good.”
“I just saw the secretary waiting for the van and the van came and she can’t walk inside and she gets helped,” he said. “She lost her shoe and everything.”
Campaign staff initially refused to tell reporters traveling with the Democratic presidential candidate what had prompted the early departure, after Fox News reported that Clinton had experienced a “medical episode.”
She arrived at the memorial at 8:18 a.m. and left unexpectedly after about an hour and a half, according to pool reports.

Zdenek Gazda has better news judgment than most reporters covering the campaign, who are apparently willing to write whatever Clinton staff tell them to write. If the Clinton campaign staff denounce questions about Hillary’s health as “conspiracy theories,” then we can expect a dozen headlines repeating that label, and no one in the press corps will bother to ask serious questions about Hillary’s health, because to do so would be to join the “conspiracy theorists.” If Hillary was suffering periodic seizures and episodes of delirium, so that she was only able to get through the day with the help of a doctor treating her with ibogaine, the one thing we know is that the New York Times would never report this news.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)




 

Category: Election, Hillary Clinton, Media Bias, New York Times

Rule 5 Monday

Posted on | September 13, 2016 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

It was one of those weekends when there was too much to do and not enough time to do it in, so you get Rule 5 Sunday on a Monday instead. Since the NFL season kicked off yesterday amid much controversy over players failing to stand for the anthem and Gutless Paul Goodell ignoring it – while threatening to fine Dallas Cowboy players who chose to honor their slain police officers – I’m going to lead off this post with rookie Redskins cheerleader Azusa Hashizume.

Azusa Hashizume in her Redskins cheerleading gear.

Azusa Hashizume in her Redskins cheerleading gear.

This week Goodstuff leads off with a massive Wallpaper Art Dump For Dudes, as well as the usual metablog, this week with Sybil Danning! Next up is Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns, followed by Animal Magnetism with Rule Five North Korea Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd of heifers includes Vintage Labor Day Rule 5, A Slight Chill In The Air, Lauren Lyster, Jean Arthur, Anne Francis, Coal People, and The Basket Of Deplorables.

At Soylent Siberia, it’s your morning coffee creamer, a Monday Motivationer bookworm, Tuesday Titillation Golden Girl, Humpday Hawtness Hardwood, Falconsword Fursday In The Wild, Latent Lingerie With Lace & Lesbians, and a Bath Night Weekender.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Clémence Poésy, his Vintage Babe is Barbara Bouchet, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Victoria’s Secret. At Dustbury, it’s Carly Fiorina and Nana Tanimura.

Thanks to everyone for all the links!


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Category: Rule 5

Hillary and the Clinton News Network

Posted on | September 12, 2016 | Comments Off on Hillary and the Clinton News Network

The great thing about having the media as part of your campaign team is that they willingly lend credibility to your most implausible excuses:

Hillary Clinton said Monday night she’s “met a high standard of transparency” about her health and didn’t think the pneumonia was “going to be that big a deal.”
Clinton said she felt dizzy and lost her balance Sunday, but did not lose consciousness, and is now “feeling so much better.”
“I was supposed to rest five days — that’s what they told me on Friday — and I didn’t follow that very wise advice,” Clinton told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in a phone interview.
“So I just want to get this over and done with and get back on the trail as soon as possible,” she said. . . .
“Obviously I should have gotten some rest sooner — I probably would have been better off if I just pulled down my schedule on Friday, but like a lot of people, I thought that I could just keep going forward and power through it. And obviously that didn’t work out so well,” she said.

Let’s face it — as long as Hillary Clinton has a pulse, CNN will consider her a viable candidate and continue acting as her public-relations agency.

 

Category: CNN, Hillary Clinton, Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 09.12.16

Posted on | September 12, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.12.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Go Home, Hillary! You’re Drunk!
EBL: 9/11 and The NFL – Why We Love Kate Upton
Twitchy: Brit Hume Thumps Hillary With Her Own Words, Two Flashback Photos


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Men Bad For Environment, Women Good
American Power: Apple’s New Headphones Aren’t Better
American Thinker: I’m Deplorable And I’m Proud
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Da Tech Guy: JD Rucker – The Last Thing The GOP Wants Is Hillary Dropping Out
Don Surber: Who Replaces Hillary?
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries
Jammie Wearing Fools: Hillary’s Campaign Now Claims “Everyone’s Been Sick”
Joe For America: Hillary Aides Threatened Reporters Who Asked About Her Health
JustOneMinute: Hillary’s Health
Pamela Geller: Seven-Year-Old Girl Slaughtered By Her Muslim Father After Mother Leaves Islam
Power Line: The Curious Case Of Ilhan Omar
Shark Tank: Rubio Reminds Americans Who Supported Obama’s Iran Deal
Shot In The Dark: Deplorables Like Us
STUMP: Public Pensions Primer – Time-Weighted Versus Dollar-Weighted Returns
The Jawa Report: Howie And Hamammi On Nova
The Lonely Conservative: ICYMI – Here’s Obama Trashing The U.S. (Again) While Overseas
The Political Hat: Karmic Infraction
The Quinton Report:
This Ain’t Hell: Rosa Brooks – Veterans Are Not Experts On Foreign Policy, also, Bradley Manning Starts A Hunger Strike
Weasel Zippers: Obama Wishes Muslims A Happy Eid, Spouts BS About Islam Uniting Us “Under The Banners Of Fellowship And Love”
Megan McArdle: If Business Is Open To Scrutiny, Government Should Be Too


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How Sick Is Hillary?

Posted on | September 12, 2016 | 1 Comment

The Democrat nominee’s health has become a legitimate issue in the presidential campaign. Her coughing fit at a Labor Day rally in Cleveland was at first dismissed as a random incident, but after she appeared to collapse Sunday after a 9-11 remembrance in New York, the Clinton campaign admitted the former Secretary of State has pneumonia, and she took a day off to recuperate. Now some Democrats are worried, and are wondering why the campaign hid Hillary’s problem so long:

As Hillary Clinton’s health moves from the fringes to the center of the 2016 presidential campaign, there’s a lot we still don’t know about her scare this weekend.
Here’s what we do know: Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday. During a Sept. 11 memorial event on Sunday at Ground Zero, she was unsteady and clearly needed help getting into a van after becoming “overheated and dehydrated.” And Clinton canceled a planned to trip to California for Monday while she rests at home. . . .
Clinton suffered a coughing attack last week during an appearance in Cleveland, which she dismissed as seasonal allergies. She received her pneumonia diagnosis on Friday, but the public was not told about it until hours after the incident at the memorial, raising questions about whether Clinton had any plans to ever inform the public. Between the diagnosis and the near-collapse, Clinton appeared at two fundraisers, ran a national security working session, and held a press conference.
Clinton’s campaign appears to have, at best, withheld information from the public and — at worst — misled them by aggressively batting down “conspiracy theories” that her coughing fit was anything more than allergies. Opponents are already seeing the incident as proof of their claims that Clinton has been hiding health issues. And others may now be more incredulous of the campaign’s statements on her health.

(Via Memeorandum.)

 

Category: Hillary Clinton

Greetings, My Fellow ‘Deplorables’!

Posted on | September 11, 2016 | 1 Comment

 

Speaking at an “LGBT for Hillary” gala in New York where the headliner was Barbra Streisand and the guests included millionaire entertainment industry moguls Barry Diller and Harvey Weinstein, Hillary Clinton made it clear she hates me, and she hates you, too:

The Democratic presidential nominee sparked an uproar late Friday when she described Trump’s supporters at a fundraiser.
“To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” Clinton said. “Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it.”
She added, “And unfortunately, there are people like that and he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric.”
Clinton then said some of these people were “irredeemable” and “not America.” . . .
“Isn’t it disgraceful that Hillary Clinton makes the worst mistake of the political season and instead of owning up to this grotesque attack on American voters, she tries to turn it around with a pathetic rehash of the words and insults used in her failing campaign?” Trump said in a statement. “For the first time in a long while, her true feelings came out, showing bigotry and hatred for millions of Americans.”
Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, forcefully condemned Clinton “in the strongest possible terms” Saturday at the Values Voter Summit in Washington.
“The truth of the matter is that the men and women who support Donald Trump’s campaign are hard-working Americans, farmers, coal miners, teachers, veterans, members of our law enforcement community, members of every class of this country, who know that we can make America great again,” Pence said.
“Let me just say, from the bottom of my heart, Hillary, they are not a basket of anything,” Pence continued. “They are Americans and they deserve your respect.”

There are two kinds of people in America, according to Mrs. Clinton: Democrats and “deplorables,” and I sure as hell am not a Democrat.

To just be “grossly generalistic,” Democrats suck.

 

Category: Election, Hillary Clinton

The Tragedy of Lesbian Divorce

Posted on | September 10, 2016 | 1 Comment

Excuse the cruel irony of the headline. You were correct in your suspicion that I quite literally laughed out loud at this story from England:

A mother-of-two who repeatedly posted naked pictures of her ex-wife on social media to “scorn her for finding a new partner” has been given a restraining order.
Alissia Wright, 32, posted a series of explicit images of her partner of six years on Instagram after they split as part of a revenge porn attack.
Wright captioned the naked images with offensive hashtags and deliberately tagged others in each post so they would see them. . . .
Wright was handed a three-year restraining order at Southampton Magistrates’ Court, Hants, and was given a 12-month community order.
Wright, of Southampton, admitted two counts of disclosing private sexual photos with intent to cause distress and was also fined £100 and ordered to attend a 30-day behaviour programme. . . .
The court heard Wright, a trained carer, shared the nude images after her split with her ex-wife as she found love with a new woman. . . .
Southampton Magistrates’ Court heard the couple, who married in January 2015, split up before the offences in March this year.

So, these two lesbians had been together about five years until they got married in 2015 and broke up barely a year later. But who, we are left to wonder, was the father of Ms. Wright’s two children? Were these babies the lesbian couple created through artificial insemination, or remainders from Ms. Wright’s heterosexual past? How does this affect the lesbian ex-wives in terms of visitation and child-support payments? So many questions, which nobody bothered to examine carefully before “marriage equality” was imposed on society by government fiat, must now be worked out in real life with real people. Someone should write a book: Heather Used to Have Two Mommies, But Now They Hate Each Other.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)

UPDATE: Checking the files, I see the same headline was used for the news of Rosie O’Donnell’s divorce in February 2015, and that last month, I headlined an article, “Lesbian Divorce: Comedy or Tragedy?”

 

Category: Gays
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