The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Wendy Davis Used The Roman Alphabet. Isn’t That “Honesty” For A Democrat?

by Smitty I’m starting to get this crazy feeling that Wendy Davis might not be a good person. I must be sexist. — Dr. Kanko Kreeper (@kankokage) January 20, 2014 I can’t see any level of prevarication in Wendy Davis’s history that has not been normalized by #OccupyResoluteDesk: [Wendy Davis] has admitted to the Dallas […]

Their Propaganda, and Ours

Michael Moynihan has a splendid piece at the Daily Beast: In the bad old days of the Cold War, those Americans sympathetic to Moscow could purchase clumsy Kremlin propaganda at various radical bookstores, stocked with glossy magazines and turgid tracts about collective farms and Stakhanovite iron output. . . . But the spread of capitalist […]

Word of the Day: ‘Transmisogyny’

Transgender feminist @papierhache reacted to yesterday’s notice exactly as predicted, by claiming victimhood, denouncing me as a bully “with sycophant minions” (that would be you, dear readers), and generally lecturing that I am the pluperfect example of how “people … use social media to orchestrate abusive behavior.” Remember: @papierhache jumped into my timeline in response to […]

Transgender Feminist @papierhache Volunteers for Twitter Victimhood

When the going gets weird, my Twitter timeline gets interesting. It is perhaps unnecessary to remind readers of these recent items: Jan. 4: Feminists Accused of ‘Transphobia’: Competitive Victimhood Derby Jan. 4: Everybody Hates Cathy Brennan: Troll Under the Bridge on the Crazyville Road Jan. 14: The Rocky Horror Dating Game: Translesbians Encounter Queer Hate […]

The Rocky Horror Dating Game: Translesbians Encounter Queer Hate

Radical egalitarianism is a sort of philosophical insanity, premised as it is on the idea that everything is equal, even things that are fundamentally different. When you begin with an obvious falsehood as the premise of your argument, the conclusion will necessarily be madness. Ten days ago, I brought you up-to-date about an emerging controversy […]

It’s Come to This: Plus-Size Models Just Aren’t ‘Plus’ Enough for Some People

Not big enough? Plus-size model Laura Wells Before we get to the latest lunacy, let’s ask an obvious question: Has anyone ever heard guys complain that the male models in GQ are “too rugged”? I mean, why must all male models be tall and muscular? Isn’t the male fashion industry’s insistence on using these mesomorphic […]

Everybody Hates Cathy Brennan: Troll Under the Bridge on the Crazyville Road

The unstable isotope of insanity that is feminism reached critical mass a few months ago when radical feminist Cathy Brennan threatened legal action against the socialist magazine Jacobin, which published an article by Samantha Allen that included this: A small but vocal band of activists known as “Radfems” see transgender women like myself as a […]

Feminists Accused of ‘Transphobia’: Competitive Victimhood Derby

“If gender is inherently detrimental as the radical feminists maintain and if trans identification occurs in part because gender is rigidly interpreted and represented through normative modalities of behaving, then there will be unceasing dissonance between these two groups.” — Julian Vigo, “The Left Hand of Darkness” Following up on last night’s post, “Mental Illness […]

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