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In The Mailbox: 09.29.16

Posted on | September 29, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.29.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Hoboken NJ Transit Train Crash
Twitchy: Man Attempts To Steal Trump Sign, Gets Shocking Surprise
Louder With Crowder: Ted Cruz Nails DHS For Accepting Refugees Based On “Their Word Alone”


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Entire Australian State Loses Power Grid
American Power: Angelo Codevilla, The Ruling Class
American Thinker: How Opiates Devastated The Heartland
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily News
Da Tech Guy: JD Rucker – Government Should Defend Our Flank And Let Us Make Things Happen
Don Surber: NYT Sour Grapes In Ohio After Trump Leads, also, Instapundit Suspends Twitter
Dustbury: Such A Different Deal
Fred On Everything: Undocumented Shopping – Legacy Of An African President
Jammie Wearing Fools: Washington Mall Terrorist Wasn’t American Citizen, Still Voted Three Times
Joe For America: Chelsea Blunders, Admits Hillary Will Give Illegals Obamacare
JustOneMinute: Beware The Demagogues On Crime!
Pamela Geller: Obama – I Won’t Say Islamic Terrorism
Power Line: GOP Leaders Set To Rubber-Stamp Obama’s Internet Giveaway
Shark Tank: Is Arizona About To Get High? The Prospects For Proposition 205
Shot In The Dark: La Generalissima
The Jawa Report: Fatwa This! Just Asking For It Edition
The Political Hat: Cleanlines Is Next To Sharia
This Ain’t Hell: Drip, Drip, Drip – 615 More U.S. Troops To Iraq, also, NJ Politics And Valor Thieves
Weasel Zippers: CA Governor Signs Bill Allowing Felons To Vote From Prison Cells, also, More Dead People Voting, This Time In Virginia
Megan McArdle: Pensions Fly Only If You Believe They Can


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Blame the Patriarchy!

Posted on | September 29, 2016 | 2 Comments

The core myth of feminism is that women — yes, all women — are victims of oppression under patriarchy, an unjust and tyrannical system in which all men participate and from which all men benefit. This claim of patriarchal oppression is used to justify the anti-male agenda of feminists who insist that every male is to blame for the injustice that all women suffer. Perhaps someone should explain this to William Marotta:

A Kansas sperm donor caught in the middle of a child support case says he wanted to help a lesbian couple when he made the donation nearly five years ago.
Instead, he may end up paying for his action.
A judge ruled that William Marotta must pay child support, even though he says he signed documents waiving his parental rights.
Shawnee County District Court Judge Mary Mattivi said [in January 2014] that Marotta failed to conform to Kansas law, which says a licensed physician must be involved in an artificial insemination process, court documents show.
The documents show that the lesbian couple whom Marotta helped conceive a child say they performed the artificial insemination procedure at home.
This story begins on Craigslist in March 2009. That was when Marotta noticed an advertisement from the Topeka couple, seeking donated sperm.
“Intrigued” by the ad, he says, he delivered three cupfuls of his sperm — gratis — to the women.
One of the women gave birth to a daughter in December 2009, according to court documents.
“I donated genetic material, and that was it for me,” he told CNN affiliate WIBW.
Or so he thought. That changed when the parents separated and one of the women stopped working because of illness and applied to the state for help, he said. The state contacted Marotta for child support.

If indeed our society were prejudiced in favor of males, as feminists insist, would such a ruling be possible? Here is Marotta agreeing to do these women a favor, and his “reward” is to be forced to fork over money for the support of this child, over which he exercises no parental rights, because (a) they deceived him about the legal status of their contractual agreement, (b) they couldn’t keep their relationship together, (c) one of them quit her job, and (d) the courts are in fact prejudiced against males.

A very similar case in England forced Andy Bathie to pay support for a child because he agreed to act as sperm donor for a lesbian couple who split up after the baby arrived. What you discover, once you clear away the propaganda, is that feminism’s claims of women’s perpetual victimhood function as a ready-made excuse to exempt women from responsibility for their own choices, shifting all the blame (and all the costs) for women’s problems onto men, collectively. In this way, men are compelled to subsidize failure, and blamed for situations over which they exercised no control: “Oh, look, a woman has blundered herself into a catastrophic failure — we must find a man to blame for this!”




 

Category: Sex Trouble

Campus Insanity: Why Does Claremont Need a ‘Queer Resource Center’?

Posted on | September 29, 2016 | 3 Comments

 

In a review of protests last year on the campus of the Claremont Colleges (which include Scripps, Pomona, Pitzer, Harvey Mudd and Claremont McKenna), I was intrigued by something in this story:

“We need to be less afraid of being called racists, classists, and ableists, and more afraid of actually being those things,” lamented one student at Scripps College’s BeHeard Forum. The subject we had gathered to discuss was Silencing and Tone Policing — two phrases I had never heard until the week prior, when several Facebook comment wars exploded over supposed racialized and transphobic event titles, descriptions, and surveys. People’s actions and intentions soon became irrelevant because only language, and those who got to wield it, mattered.
Such encounters do not come as a surprise. We live in a time when extreme political correctness and campus movements — started mostly by minority students in an effort to silence any speech that they find hurtful or offensive — are raging across the country. The BeHeard Forum, intended to be a forum for resolving differences, quickly became an opportunity for people identifying as “victims” to complain about their pain and suffering while stifling constructive discourse concerning what constitutes appropriate campus debate. The forum highlighted the desire of some campus groups to ensure that those individuals with whom they disagree not be heard at all.
This particular forum was held in response to a Scripps Voice poll. The writer asked, “Are you aware of any Scripps stereotypes? Do they affect you?” The stereotypes in question essentially boil down to “promiscuous student” or “earnest feminist.” Somehow, this too became an issue of race when students began questioning if “fitting in” to a Scripps stereotype meant belonging to a certain race.
And then there was the outrage over a feminist event which served cupcakes decorated with vulvas, at which a former employee of the Queer Resource Center became incensed, stating, “How dare you associate vulvas with being a woman. I feel so violated.” Despite apologies from the event organizer, the conversation devolved into accusations of insensitivity towards trans women. . . .

You can read the whole thing. Probably your initial reaction, like mine, is to wonder why Scripps College (annual tuition $50,983) employed someone so deficient in knowledge of basic biology that they don’t understand why vulvas are associated with being a woman.

 

We need not wonder why vulva-decorated cupcakes are being served at a “feminist event” at Scripps, a West Coast version of those pricey women’s colleges like Bryn Mawr and Mount Holyoke where rich parents send their lesbian daughters. Scripps made the lesbian blog Autostraddle’s listing of top “LGBT-Friendly College Campuses”:

The environment at Scripps is extremely safe and friendly for queer womyn and our growing number of trans students . . .
[The Queer Resource Center] is a friendly, welcoming, accepting and affirming space. Queer women of color should be on the lookout for Queer People of Color Brunches and monthly gatherings.
Nearby gay clubs include The Hookup, Oasis, Alibi East and Menagerie.

We may conclude that snacking on vulvas is a popular pastime among students at Scripps, if not yet a mandatory part of the curriculum. However, the known prevalence of lesbianism among Scripps students (and the “LGBT-friendly” climate at Claremont more generally) gives rise to the question of what purpose the Queer Resource Center serves. Given how famously gay Claremont is, one assumes that no student who finds homosexuality objectionable would ever enroll there.

If everyone on campus is already “LGBT-friendly,” what exactly is the Queer Resource Center’s mission?

The QRC has something for everyone
Whether you identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, asexual, omnisexual, pansexual, or as an ally, the QRC has something to offer you! Our space houses a great collection of over 1,200 LGBTQIA-related books and movies, which can be checked out for free and used as textbooks for classes or research material for papers. The QRC’s student staff members work hard every semester to hold a number of fantastic programs in addition to co-sponsoring many other events with various organizations.
Our lounge and lobby (aka rainbow ski lodge) can be used for organizational meetings, doing homework and studying, or simply hanging out with good friends in a safer and more welcoming space. The lounge also includes two computers for 7Cs student use. Come on by to write a paper, do research, check your email, or what have you, all in the relaxed and welcoming environment of The QRC!
In addition to the student staff members . . . and a graduate assistant from Claremont Graduate University, the QRC Director and Program Coordinator are both available for drop-in hours. If you are dealing with issues of sexual orientation or gender identity, coming out, research, or just to say hi — their doors are open!

Yes, their doors are open at the QRC, where the staff “strive to embody” such principles as “Using Social Justice as a Framework and Queerness as a Lens.” This is why parents pay $50,983 a year in tuition, so their kids can learn to think in terms of social justice and queerness. That the QRC may be superfluous at such an LGBT-friendly school is not an idea that is likely to occur to elite liberal arts students, who are accustomed to having college administrators and faculty indulge their whims. If Daddy’s paying $66,664 a year (tuition plus $15,681 for room and board) to send his daughter to Scripps, we may assume that he expects the school to pander shamelessly to whatever his precious princess demands.

When they’re not busy snacking on vulvas, the girls at Scripps College can pursue Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies:

We offer an interdisciplinary framework through which to explore the social construction of gender and sexuality and the material impact of these constructions. We offer historical, contemporary, and transnational analyses of how the formation of gender and sexualities emerge in different contexts such as colonialisms, nationalisms, and globalization. From our engagement with, and critique of, disciplinary practices in the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, we forge new critical paradigms and methods for generating feminist knowledges. Our creation of new critical paradigms relies on the linking of knowledge formation to activism and social justice movements. Our courses satisfy campus breadth requirements, develop critical analysis and writing skills, and transform students’ understanding of and engagement with the world around them.
A student who majors in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies will gain a strong liberal arts training in critical theory and social justice.

Critical theory and social justice — very much in demand at Scripps College, although not so much in the profit-making private sector where the student’s Daddy earned that $66,664 he’s paying to send his daughter “to explore the social construction of gender and sexuality.”

And also, eat some vulva cupcakes.




 

Category: Education, Gays, Sex Trouble

Miss Universe’s Reality TV Sex Scandal

Posted on | September 29, 2016 | Comments Off on Miss Universe’s Reality TV Sex Scandal

Hillary Clinton’s reference to Alicia Machado in Monday’s debate (“No, Miss Universe Can’t Be 170 Pounds”) drew attention to the Venezuelan beauty queen’s sordid past, e.g., the time she wrecked her engagement to a baseball star by having sex with another man on a reality TV show:

In a now infamous 2005 episode of ‘La Granja,’ [“The Farm”] Alicia apparently had sex in front of the cameras with Spanish TV host Fernando Acaso.
Machado was engaged to Philadelphia Phillies baseball star Bobby Abreu at the time.
He quickly called off the wedding after clips of the show appeared online.
The broadcast showed Acaso on top of her, with Machado whispering in Spanish about his manhood.

Ms. Machado is now a U.S. citizen, a Democrat voter and, according to Hillary Clinton, a role model for America’s young women.

 

Category: Hillary Clinton

In The Mailbox: 09.28.16

Posted on | September 28, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.28.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Hillary’s New BFF Alicia Machado Has Some Serious Baggage
Michelle Malkin: Hillary, Interrupted
Twitchy: Juanita Broaddrick’s Tweetstorm Rips Chelsea Clinton’s Statement On Her Father’s Affairs
Louder With Crowder: NFL Ratings Drop MAJORLY After Athlete Protests


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Fathers Guilty Until Proven Innocent
American Power: Shimon Peres, RIP
American Thinker: Uh, Hillary, Your Hubby Caused The 2008 Recession
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Da Tech Guy: JD Rucker – Free Trade, The GOP, And The Part Of 1984 That’s Usually Forgotten
Don Surber: What You Endorse When You Endorse Hillary
Dustbury: Life Has Indeed Been Good
Jammie Wearing Fools: New Clinton Mascot Alicia Machado Was Accused Of Threatening To Kill Judge, Had Baby With Infamous Drug Lord
Joe For America: Child Prostitution Legalized In California
Pamela Geller: Ohio Honor Killing – Father Shot Daughter In The Head While She Slept
Power Line: Lester Holt’s Blatantly Biased Performance
Shark Tank: David Jolly Attacks “Pro-Life” Charlie Crist’s “Credibility”
Shot In The Dark: A Heart-Aching Work Of Staggering Genius
STUMP: Get Ready For The Next Chicago Teachers Strike!
The Political Hat: Equity Vs. Essentialism
The Quinton Report: Maryland’s Crossland Banner
This Ain’t Hell: Nailing The Networks, also, Another Sailor Won’t Stand For Anthem
Weasel Zippers: FBI Says Three Times More Americans Were Stabbed To Death Than Killed By Rifles & Shotguns Combined, also, NAACP Says African-Americans Who Become Police Aren’t Black Any More
Megan McArdle: Affordable Housing Is Easy, In Theory


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No, Miss Universe Can’t Be 170 Pounds

Posted on | September 28, 2016 | 2 Comments

 

It should not be necessary to explain why a beauty queen is obliged to maintain her physique at or near her pageant-winning form during her yearlong tenure as the reigning Miss Whatever. She wins a local beauty contest, which qualifies her to compete at higher levels, on up to a national title and, perhaps, eventually to become Miss Universe. To be acclaimed the most beautiful woman in the world is a high honor, and those who wear the crown must uphold the prestige of that title.

Only in the Through the Looking Glass world of 21st-century feminism — and amid a presidential campaign where the media are Hillary Clinton’s propaganda squad — would former Miss Universe Alicia Machado’s claims of victimhood make it into the New York Times:

For 20 years, Alicia Machado has lived with the agony of what Donald J. Trump did to her after she won the Miss Universe title: shame her, over and over, for gaining weight.
Private scolding was apparently insufficient. Mr. Trump, who was an executive producer of the pageant, insisted on accompanying Ms. Machado, then a teenager, to a gym, where dozens of reporters and cameramen watched as she exercised.
Mr. Trump, in his trademark suit and tie, posed for photographs beside her as she burned calories in front of members of the news media. “This is somebody who likes to eat,” Mr. Trump said from inside the gym.
On Monday night, Hillary Clinton turned Ms. Machado’s pain into a potent political weapon on the biggest stage. . . .

Question: When did it become the job of the media to amplify, and give credibility to, the Democrat Party’s campaign themes?

Let us make no mistake about why the New York Times devoted 600 words to this story: To help Hillary Clinton win the election. This “news story” is in fact an unregulated contribution-in-kind to the Clinton campaign, written to reinforce the Democrat’s message. And what is that message? Well, apparently, the message was that Trump should have ignored the fact that the former Miss Valenzuela — who weighed 116 pounds when she won the Miss Universe title in 1996 — reportedly ballooned to almost 170 pounds within months of winning the crown. How much weight Ms. Machado gained is a subject of dispute, as she claimed at the time it was only 19 pounds. Trump discussed the controversy in a 1997 broadcast of the Howard Stern radio show:

Stern introduces the topic by saying, “The Miss Universe, it turns out, the woman who won last year, blows up to a fat pig. I mean, like obese.”
Trump can be heard chuckling in the background as Stern recapped the events.
“You whipped this fat slob into shape,” Stern continued. “I don’t know how you did it. I see all these diet plans, everything else. God bless you. You whipped her into shape, and you held the whole pageant together. Congratulations.”
“Well, that was an amazing one,” Trump responded. “She went from 118 to almost 170.”
“And you got her right down again to 118, didn’t you?,” asked Stern.
“Well, she’s going to be there,” replied Trump. “She’s probably 145 or something.”
Trump and Stern said Machado looked beautiful when she won. “Right,” said Trump. “She gained about 55 pounds in a period of nine months. She was like an eating machine.”
“What does a girl eat in less than a year to gain [55 pounds]?” Stern asked.
“I think she ate a lot of everything,” answered Trump.

Let me say this: I have never liked Howard Stern, a man who became a leading agent of cultural degradation in the 1990s, treating porn performers as legitimate celebrities. Calling a woman a “fat pig” is certainly not the worst thing Stern ever said, but this was “shock jock” radio in New York in the late 1990s, and Trump was just doing that circus as part of the usual publicity stuff he did as a businessman.

Ah, but now Trump is not just a New York businessman, and the Clinton campaign team (which includes the New York Times) is promoting Ms. Machado as a victim of “fat-shaming” and misogyny:

Ms. Machado, in a series of interviews this year with The Times, recalled the experience and its long-term effect on her life for an article about how Mr. Trump treats women. . . .
“Over the past 20 years,” Ms. Machado said, “I’ve gone to a lot of psychologists to combat this.”

Don’t cry for me, Miss Valenzuela! This bizarre idea, that a beauty pageant contestant’s weight problems are a political issue, shows how far the media is willing to go in its servile loyalty to the Democrat Party. Whatever Team Clinton decides is an “issue,” the media feels obliged to convince us really is an issue, no matter how silly and trivial it may be.

UPDATE: Huge hat-tip to Kathy Shaidle for pointing out Steve Sailer’s column on Ms. Machado, which includes a 1998 Associated Press item:

VENEZUELAN BEAUTY QUEEN ACCUSED
Associated Press
Jan. 23, 1998 6:39 PM ET
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Venezuelan beauty queen who made headlines two years ago for putting on weight after being crowned Miss Universe is back in the news.
A lawyer for a man who was shot outside a church in November said Friday that Alicia Machado, 21, was seen driving the car in which her boyfriend sped away from the scene of the shooting. Francisco Sbert Mousko suffered brain damage when two bullets punctured his skull outside a church where his dead wife was being eulogized.
Sbert’s family said the alleged gunman, Sbert’s brother-in-law Juan Rodriguez Reggeti, had accused Sbert of driving his sister to commit suicide.
“Our accusations against Alicia Machado are based on coinciding testimony from witnesses, who place her in the vehicle in which Juan Rodriguez fled the scene,” said Omar Arenas Candelo, one of three attorneys who presented the allegations to a criminal court late Thursday.

Steve Sailer details a lengthy list of scandals Ms. Machado has been involved in over the years. She’s a typical Democrat, I guess.




 


Category: Donald Trump, Election, Hillary Clinton, Media Bias, Rule 5, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 09.27.16

Posted on | September 27, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Post-Debate Musing
Twitchy: Howard Dean Hangs Tough (And Mostly Alone) On Charge That Trump Was On Coke During Debate
Louder With Crowder: OUTRAGE! LeBron James Says He’ll Stand For National Anthem – “All Lives Matter”


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Debate Mashup – I Told Ya!
American Power: Alan Taylor – The Internal Enemy
American Thinker: The “Refugee” Agenda
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Debate Recap News
Da Tech Guy: Another Debate “Win” Or Two Like That For Hillary And She’s Finished
Don Surber: What Trump Won Last Night
Dustbury: Dashing Dreams As We Go
Jammie Wearing Fools: Fresh Off Muslim Terror Attack, NYC Launches Ad Campaign To Fight “Anti-Muslim Rhetoric”
Joe For America: Media Research Center Slams Last Night’s Debate “Moderator”
JustOneMinute: Checking The Fact-Checkers
Pamela Geller: Clinton Reportedly Received Questions A Week Before The Debate
Power Line: Trump Wins Most Immediate Polls
Shark Tank: Divided Senate Pressured To Unanimously Pass Rubio’s Veterans Bill
Shot In The Dark: Near As I Can Tell…
STUMP: Texas Trouble – Pensions In Dallas And Houston
The Jawa Report: How Not To Win Friends In The Western World
The Political Hat: How The University Of Iowa Warns You Not To Hire
The Quinton Report: Maryland Students Miss School For Union Convention
This Ain’t Hell: A Few More “Private” E-Mail Facts Come To Light, also, Suicide News
Weasel Zippers: Obamacare Falling Apart – Another 131,000 Lose Coverage After Blue Cross Bails On Tennessee
Megan McArdle: Maybe Crime’s Not Rising, But If Voters Think It Is…


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Ask @HannahSmothers_: Is Cosmo Now a Lesbian Feminist Magazine?

Posted on | September 27, 2016 | 2 Comments

As LGBTQ Culture Becomes
More Mainstream, Queer Women Struggle
to Find a Place of Their Own

That’s the headline on an article published last month by Cosmopolitan magazine’s “sex and relationships editor,” Hannah Smothers. The Cosmo website features so much “LGBTQ” content nowadays that one wonders if the magazine has been taken over by lesbian feminists.

Girl Meets World Star Rowan Blanchard
Opens Up to Fans: “I Identify as Queer”
— Jan. 18

This Girl Sued Her High School
After They Sent Her Home for
Wearing a T-Shirt With the Word “Lesbian”
— Feb. 22

Does Your Sexual Identity Really Need a Label?
— April 30

These 50 Photos of Pride Celebrations
Around the World Are Beautifully Powerful
— June 13

16 Girls Get Real About the Moment
They Knew They Weren’t Straight
— July 9

After This Same-Sex Couple’s House
Was Vandalized, Their Neighbors
Fought Back With Love
— Aug. 24

Well, why do the editors of Cosmo assume so many of their readers are lesbians or “queer women” or some other “LGBTQ” identity? Perhaps this can be attributed to the fact that Cosmo has ceased to be a fashion magazine. It has been transformed into a political journal for feminists, and feminism is an ideology based on implacable hatred of men.

According to Cosmo “sex and relationships editor” Hannah Smothers, men are equally bad at sex and laundry, and no good for anything else, either. Males are entirely clueless about sex and incompetent at more or less everything, according to Cosmo, a magazine now devoted to promoting this feminist belief in universal male ineptitude:

Hannah Smothers gets paid to write nonsense as “sex and relationships editor” for Cosmopolitan, and she is certainly productive. To understand what level of expertise she brings to this subject, it helps to know that until last year, Ms. Smothers was a student at the University of Texas. Being an expert on sex and relationships at age 23 is rather a precocious accomplishment, but girls grow up quick down in Texas, I reckon. . . .

You can read the whole thing at The Patriarch Tree, a channel on Medium.com I created Monday, more or less on a whim.




 

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