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Part Of Recovering Western Civilization Is Just Saying “No” To Feminist Tripe

Posted on | January 18, 2012 | 29 Comments

by Smitty

The Last Tradition links to Lowry in the NY Post contrasting the Titanic with Costa Concordia, but I think this analysis overplays the hand by a long shot:

I’m not trying to single out Italian men because the same crisis exists in the United States. We have almost two generation of males in this country that hasn’t be taught what a real man is or suppose to act like. Because of Feminist propaganda, traditional gender roles have been blurred to the point where it’s politically incorrect to acknowledge specific differences between men and woman. Put simply, manhood has to be taught to boys in order for them to become real men. And that’s not happening anymore.

I’m far more in agreement with Cassandra over at Villainous Company, emphasis original:

Wow. Just wow. Six dead and 29 missing in a tragic accident that (so far as I can see) is attributable to the cowardice, negligence, and poor example of the captain and crew – note carefully: to *some* men, not *all* men – and the reaction is, “Up yours, feminists/women – you got what you deserved”?
If a little boy is elbowed aside by an able bodied man and drowns as a result, has he “reaped what he sowed”? Alternate form of the implied argument is, “It’s not the man’s fault – those horrid feminists and their mind control rays made him do it!” Allow me to riff on the ubiquitous Heinlein quote:
Any society that allows morality to be defined down to the lowest common denominator will not long survive.

The morality of the crew members is between them and the Almighty. What is going to matter is that they have behaved unethically in abandoning their duties. The Admiralty Court, affectionately known as “the long green table” is one of the closer brushes you can have with the judgement seat of God while continuing to draw breath. They’ll build a timeline and rake those Italians over coals in slow motion, pointing out every single error of training, maintenance, and judgement. Or not; maybe the Italian court is as capsized as the Costa Concordia herself, but I doubt it. The amount of money involved in crewing, maintaining, and operating ships is such that they are Just. Not. Fannying. About.

In contrast to the radical feminists.

We enjoy tossing the entire Postmodern exercise in idiocy that is radical feminism under the bus around this blog, and then backing up over it several times, just to test the steering. Radical feminism is so risible that it really serves no use other than mockery. Trying to hang any sort of excuse on these bimbos is an act of auto-beclownment.

The traditional, mutually supportive roles of women and men are as simple as 2+2=4. Just because Andrea Dworkin and company came along and contended that arithmetic was an oppressive patriarchal regime, and that 2+2=5 is every bit as emotionally satisfying as the correct answer, does not an excuse make.

Man up: reject radical feminism, and every other attendant Postmodern falsehood, for such all have “Made in Hell” stamped on them. Aside: For an interesting character study on this topic, check out Lord Jim. I hated that the first time I read it, because I didn’t believe such a jackwagon could exist. Then I met one. A couple decades later, Barack Obama was elected.

Category: Feminism, Italy

Comments

29 Responses to “Part Of Recovering Western Civilization Is Just Saying “No” To Feminist Tripe”

  1. Adjoran
    January 18th, 2012 @ 8:05 am

    Ugh.

    Just when I had finally eradicated the last vestige of memory of Andrea Dworkin from my memory . . . if beauty is only skin deep, why didn’t someone skin her?

  2. herddog505
    January 18th, 2012 @ 8:13 am

    Agreed.  Cowards and incompetents existed long before the feminazis showed up.

    As for Lord Jim… I’m not sure what you mean.  Is Jim the “jackwagon”?  That he behaved badly at the start of the novel when he abandoned the Patna is undeniable, but is not the novel a story of redemption and a man desperately trying to live down his Biggest Mistake… and dying to do so?

  3. Cassandra
    January 18th, 2012 @ 8:23 am

    Outstanding, Smitty. Just outstanding. 

  4. Anamika
    January 18th, 2012 @ 8:56 am

    Feminism is the reason I get to vote, the reason I can hope for a fair deal in the workplace, and informs human rights policy around the world. I agree, some seperatists, eg 1970s/ 1980s feminist Andrea Dworkin, may seem extreme in their views, and I really dont belive that feminist seperatists are much help, but most mainstream policy and a lot of what we take for granted as societal norms today came from ‘seperate’ feminist arguments first proposed by Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedman and other great gurus of feminism.

  5. Bob Belvedere
    January 18th, 2012 @ 9:03 am

    http://thecampofthesaints.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/troll-doll-01.jpg

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    January 18th, 2012 @ 9:10 am

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  7. Anamika
    January 18th, 2012 @ 9:20 am

    Andrea Dworkin’s criticism of pornography is well known. I wonder why
    conservatives, Christians and republicans are not so fond of her…

    NewScientist:
    Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers

    “Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of
    the very things they claimed to be outraged by,” Edelman says.
    […]
    Eight of the top 10 pornography consuming states gave their electoral
    votes to John McCain in last year’s presidential election – Florida and
    Hawaii were the exceptions. While six out of the lowest 10 favoured
    Barack Obama.
    […]
    Residents of 27 states that passed laws banning gay marriages boasted
    11% more porn subscribers than states that don’t explicitly restrict gay
    marriage.
    […]
    States where a majority of residents agreed with the statement “I have
    old-fashioned values about family and marriage,” bought 3.6 more
    subscriptions per thousand people than states where a majority
    disagreed. A similar difference emerged for the statement “AIDS might be
    God’s punishment for immoral sexual behaviour.”

    I guess that’s why.

  8. Anamika
    January 18th, 2012 @ 9:26 am

    Andrea Dworkin’s criticism of pornography is well known. I wonder why conservatives, Christians and republicans are not so fond of her…

    NewScientist: Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers

    “Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by,” Edelman says.
    […]
    Eight of the top 10 pornography consuming states gave their electoral votes to John McCain in last year’s presidential election – Florida and Hawaii were the exceptions. While six out of the lowest 10 favoured Barack Obama.
    […]
    Residents of 27 states that passed laws banning gay marriages boasted 11% more porn subscribers than states that don’t explicitly restrict gay marriage.
    […]
    States where a majority of residents agreed with the statement “I have old-fashioned values about family and marriage,” bought 3.6 more subscriptions per thousand people than states where a majority disagreed. A similar difference emerged for the statement “AIDS might be God’s punishment for immoral sexual behaviour.”

    I guess that’s why.

  9. Pathfinder's wife
    January 18th, 2012 @ 9:39 am

    It wasn’t just the feminists that created this mess — sorry, but a lot of men were more than happy to go along for the free love and the no commitment thing (after all, that’s a young man’s dream isn’t it?  being a man is a responsibility and work, and sometimes you fail and get called on it — this released them too, now didn’t it?).

    Women were stupid to have let this go from “equal in the eyes of our Creator, equal in the eyes of the law” (which is the only amount of equality anyone is lucky to get) to this other crap;both men and women sold their souls to have a little dirty fun (aka. we don’t have to act like adults all the time anymore, yippeee!).
    Now both are bitching because it has essentially ruined the society they live in, ruined them personally as well, or their families.  But instead of being rational about it, many are just swinging back in the opposite direction — sheer reactionary will and passions; it won’t turn out well.

    We owe our children many apologies, and we do not deserve any forgiveness for what we have done to them (and are still doing).

  10. Cass
    January 18th, 2012 @ 9:40 am

    Here is  the single best thing written about Andrea Dworkin. 

    Go ahead – you won’t be sorry.

  11. Cass
    January 18th, 2012 @ 9:41 am

    *sigh*

    2nd try. Need more coffee: http://blamebush.typepad.com/blamebush/2005/04/bush_murdered_a.html

  12. Anonymous
    January 18th, 2012 @ 10:22 am

    Thanks for the link. Also, good to see you blogging again!

  13. richard mcenroe
    January 18th, 2012 @ 10:55 am

    We call that “Alan Alda feminism,” after M*A*S*H*  “Yeah, baby, empower yourself!  Take control of your sexuality!  Here, I’ll help, let me hold your ankles…”

  14. richard mcenroe
    January 18th, 2012 @ 10:56 am

    Indeed, welcome back.

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  16. Anonymous
    January 18th, 2012 @ 11:39 am

    Someone had to bring up Dworkin!  

    Anyway Italian authorities do have a suspect in the Costa Concordia disaster…

  17. Anonymous
    January 18th, 2012 @ 11:41 am

    And Smitty, this is an Italian version of Lord Jim, but without any ambiguity, nuance or redeeming features.  

  18. Pathfinder's wife
    January 18th, 2012 @ 12:16 pm

    And this sad little story actually does have its bright spot:
    though there are many Schettino’s out there, we also have De Falco’s.

    Vado a bordo, cazzo! (yeah, I’m American of Italian extraction — some of my relatives are sailors, quite good ones too; of course, not every person in Italy is competent or brave…but some are, and when they are 😉 ).

  19. Anonymous
    January 18th, 2012 @ 12:19 pm

    I did a post about your post.  And the captain is now claiming he “fell” into the life boat. Hmmm, where have I read that before…

  20. Mike G.
    January 18th, 2012 @ 12:26 pm

    Quoted at http://thatmrgguy.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/what-hath-radical-feminism-wrought/

    Very good observation, I might add.

  21. Bob Belvedere
    January 18th, 2012 @ 1:29 pm

    Thank you, Jesus; thank you, Moderator!

  22. Cass
    January 18th, 2012 @ 1:41 pm

    Well, if there’s one true thing in life it’s that there’s no shutting up the female of the species :p 

    Seriously, thanks for the kind words.

  23. Adjoran
    January 18th, 2012 @ 2:45 pm

    Shut up and get me a beer!

  24. Anonymous
    January 18th, 2012 @ 2:46 pm

    No problem. You know where the tip jar is. 🙂

  25. Anonymous
    January 18th, 2012 @ 2:48 pm

    Oh, you can get the wimmens to clam up once in a while. But that’s usually a sign that you better have your back to the wall.

  26. Cal Martin
    January 18th, 2012 @ 3:15 pm

    I wouldn’t site Simone de Beauvoir as an inspiration; the woman viewed the very nature of the female sex as evil and a prison, a more or less direct philosophical translation from Sartre. The most she could ever be cited as contributing would be the development in the Modern Feminine Subconscious of severe cases of both self-loathing and penis envy.

  27. richard mcenroe
    January 18th, 2012 @ 4:18 pm

    Cassandra, we’re commenting on a Southern Reporter’s blog. I don’t think I’ve EVER heard Stacy clam up.  Oh, wait, when it’s time to say, “That’s my shout.”

  28. The Last Tradition
    January 18th, 2012 @ 6:56 pm

    Smitty
     Thanks for the link.  I hear what some of you are saying.  But, I just think it’s really hard not to take into account how gender roles have been blurred and not trace it back to the impact of Feminism.  The captain 11and crew really are the personification of what Rush calls the “new castrattotee”.  Does it explain it away 100%?  I would say no.  But, I think it explains 70% to 85%.    

  29. Mike F.
    January 19th, 2012 @ 12:11 pm

    Because, while beauty is skin deep, ugly goes right to the bone.