The Other McCain

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

‘Unwanted Social Advances’

While working on a long piece today, I stumbled onto one of those quotes that gets endlessly recycled on feminist Tumblr and, although I’d seen it often before, this time I was struck by what was wrong with it. This is from D.A. Clarke’s 1991 essay “Justice Is a Woman With a Sword”: When a […]

Guys: Leave @Jindi Alone

  Jindi Mehat (@jindi on Twitter) is a radical feminist and digital project manager for the Vancouver-based web services firm YellowPencil.com. Ms. Mehat despises liberal feminists: Liberal feminists stop debate by crying “choice” when radical feminists unpack the context and impacts of choices — especially choices that reinforce male supremacy. . . . Unquestioningly celebrating […]

‘Entangled in the Homosexual Web’

“Homosexuality destroys a woman’s personal integrity. Little by little, she becomes more deeply entangled in the homosexual web. . . . She finds it easier to submit to homosexuality than to fight against it. . . . “She slowly deteriorates in character, losing her power of will, and her integrity. Thus the deterioration and destruction […]

Feminists Against Heterosexuality (@CarolineHeldman Edition)

Stop objectifying her with your male gaze, misogynists! Years ago, Professor Donald Douglas of American Power began a sort of blog feud with Occidental College Professor Caroline Heldman, and at the time I had no idea who she was. Back in the day (circa 2008-2012), I treated academic feminism as a joke, the way all […]

Rocky Horror Department of Education

“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” — Barack Obama, Oct. 30, 2008 Whatever you say, you can’t say America had no warning about this: WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is planning to issue a sweeping directive telling every public school district in the country to allow transgender students […]

‘Male Feminist’? Don’t Waste Your Time

  Feminists are women who hate men, and men who support feminism do so because either (a) they don’t realize feminists hate them, (b) they hate themselves, or (c) they think they can be an exception to this hatred. Feminism is a movement by women, for women, against men. Feminists regard the “male feminist” as […]

The Myth of the Masculinity Crisis

“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.” — Rick Blaine, Casablanca (1942) What passes for a “crisis” in 21st-century America usually reflects the peculiar concerns of pundits with too much time on their hands. Europe is being overrun by Muslims, 183 people have already been […]

Connecticut Outlaws College Sex

“Affirmative consent”: If you’re a college student in Connecticut and want to have consensual sex, you might want to leave the state to do it. The Legislature approved an “affirmative consent” bill Wednesday night that now goes to Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy, a proponent of the idea that sex is rape if one partner does […]

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