A certain type of "feminism" is synonymous with "mental illness"

This is what happens when you take feminism,  mix it with communism and a bunch of faddish, equity studies idiocy, then add a healthy dose of envy and resentment for a woman whose beauty and talent they can never come close to approaching:

"...When elements of the feminist community rise up to applaud your simplistic, pro-capitalist, structurally violent sampling of feminism, the metaphor becomes even more relevant. Moreover, we’re concerned that the capitalist ethics of mainstream hip hop has seduced feminist allies into flirting with bottom bitch feminism in their silencing of those who would critique Bey(once) and the systemic violence she represents."

Both people in this story are idiots

A stupid, masochistic, insecure, manipulative, shallow lefty woman recounts her relationship with a manipulative, lying, vicious leftist scumbag male.

Both are typical of the political class in which they were ensconced and it sounds like they deserved each other.

This may seem rather mean spirited...

There's a story here..  Blazing Cat Fur has more

Former Toronto mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson does a music duet with histrionic "Shut the F*ck Up! Girl"

For Real:

At the recording studio to record our #transit song #topoli #onpoli twitter.com/ThomsonTO/stat…
— Sarah Thomson (@ThomsonTO) May 22, 2013

Now aren't you glad Sarah Thomson has never won an election?



h/t Blazing Cat Fur  & Michael C.

The degenerates at feminist website Jezebel want to feminize men the hard way

Some things are just too stupid to believe they are meant to be taken seriously

UPDATE:  More on the headcase who wrote the Jezebel article

h/t Blazing Cat Fur 

Ugh...

Islamists upset with topless feminists of Femen

The values of Islam and those of the western world are in many ways in stark conflict with each other.

It explains a lot of why contemporary Islamists and Marxists often make common cause. Both have disdain for individual rights and freedoms, no respect for free speech (other than their own), and of course there's the whole 'killing people who don't agree with you' thing, of which those two totalitarian ideologies have long and storied histories.

In fairness, Islam isn't the only religion to have gone through such a phase. Christianity was much the same during the Middle Ages. But of concern is the fact that Islamists today are behaving the way The Inquisition did five hundred years ago.

If criticism of the totalitarian aspects of Islam is "Islamophobia", then Islamophobia is going to be a growth industry. But like Nazism and Marxism, Islamism is going to have its advocates. What makes Islamists particularly disgusting is the way they claim to be victims when they are criticized for seeking out and victimizing innocent people.

A "Muslim feminist," if that isn't too much of an oxymoron to grasp, has written a condemnation of the theatrical and rather ridiculous feminist group Femen. There is much to criticize Femen about in the idiotic way they behave during their protests, but the issues they address are legitimate concerns about women's rights. And nowhere are women's rights given less status than in countries ruled by Islamic law.

Hajer Nali's article Femen's Islam-Bashing Disregards Muslim Feminism in Women's Enews makes the disingenuous apologies for Islamism under the guise of "Muslim feminism" all the more apparent. Tunisian Islamists have called for the death of Tunisian Femen activist Amina Tyler for posting a topless picture of herself with "My body in mine, nobody's honor" written on her torso. What stood out in Nali's article about this was her comment, "Extremists called for her to be stoned to death, which is condemnable."   

Those last three words are indicative of Islamists' perfidy; "which is condemnible." In civilized countries, we don't need to make a special point that it is wrong to want to stone a women to death, particularly just for posting a topless picture of herself with a slogan asserting her own rights.

Why would Ms Nali feel compelled to add that, especially in a western publication?

Did she want to reinforce that, unlike other Muslim feminists who thought it was fine to stone Amina Tyler to death for her topless statement, she didn't agree with that sentiment? Was it to instruct those of us, or perhaps her co-religionists, who want to kill Tyler that we should not? Or was it an insincere but perfunctory nod to western, liberal sensibilities?

What is more of concern is that in a publication in a country where Sharia Law is practiced, "which is condemnible"  would likely be replaced by ":which is demanded by the honor of Islam, and should be carried out immediately."

That is something we should be afraid of, and we should do everything in our power to prevent from spreading over here.

Feminazis attack University of Toronto Men's Rights Lecture

As I've written before, I don't find the Men's Rights movement particularly compelling. It seems like more of a harmless oddity than anything else.

But what has made it interesting lately is the hateful vitriol it has inspired in Women's and Gender Studies classes in academia.

One of the significant things Men's Rights groups is doing is challenging the preposterous, self-interested, psudo-academic facade of the ideological-based indoctrination occurring in Gender Studies programs.

Faced with these challenges, the radical who are immersed in identity-politics react as they usually do - by trying to shut down the free speech of people who they disagree with. That approach, better than anything, illustrates the vapidity and dishonesty of their agenda. What other reason would explain why they are so fearful of criticism that they react violently to try to shut it down?

I passed by the protest on Thursday outside the University of Toronto on my way to another event, but stayed for a minute of two to listen to what was happening.

As I approached, the protesters were shrieking "women hold up half the sky!." That saying is a quote from Chairman Mao, which suggests the totalitarian mindset of the Marxist infused Gender and Women's Studies Programs.





From another angle:



The Ryersonian has a full report, including videos, of the events that night.

GenuineWitty also has details and insight into the motives of some of the protesters

Femen site hacked by angry Muslims

Femen, the protest group which stages nude demonstrations to make their point about sexism, has been hacked. In recent days Femen incurred the ire of Muslims following the posting of a topless picture by Tunisian feminist Amina Tyler.

Hacked Femen site

More here

Critique of Women's Studies goes on at U of Toronto despite threats

I didn't make it to the Fiamengo speech at the University of Toronto last night, but expected it would be well covered.

Josh Dehaas from Macleans On Campus was there and wrote up a good report:

Only one person really lost her temper, after making a thought-provoking query about the impact of Fiamengo’s assertion that “children need their fathers” on lesbian parents. Fiamengo responded by suggesting there’s research that children do better in two-parent households. She didn’t like the answer. “That’s heteronormative bullshit,” the woman screamed, before a dramatic exit.

I don’t know that Fiamengo made a sound academic case. What I do know is that she deserves respect for gathering evidence and calmly presenting it. She also offered advice all students should heed. “Educate yourselves so you can challenge [each other],” and, “do it will style, not hatred.”

She’s right on that. The freedom to debate unpopular ideas is something universities have a duty to protect. On Thursday night at the University of Toronto, that ideal was challenged but prevailed.

Uber-feminists at Jezebel pick the ideal "Male Feminist" - a clinically depressed junkie who blew his brains out

Jezebel Magazine is becoming an online epicenter of a lunatic, histrionic form of feminism.

Personally, I'm enthusiastically in favor of equal rights for women and encourage it, particularly as I've noticed how a lot of outspoken feminists recede from asserting their equality when a bar tab shows up.

But Jezebel routinely crosses the line from advocacy to idiocy.

The notion of 'male feminists' is a fairly stupid one. The men who self-identify as such tend to be noxious asses engaged in a lame, ongoing attempt to get into leftist women's pants.

It seems that's how Jezebel likes their men - stupid and emasculated...or as it turns out... suicidal.

In a new article called What Do We Want From Male Feminists? Jezebel lets us know their ideal specimen of that genus: the clinically-depressed junkie Kurt Cobain.

A self-loathing male married to the harridan Courtney Love, Cobain put a shotgun to his head and fertilized his greenhouse plants with his brains back in 1994.

Cobain was sensitive, he hated men and his very last act was to make sure there was one less man on the planet.  So who better to serve as Jezebel's archetype for the male feminist?



h/t Karen R

Kathy Shaidle's Adventures in Radio

...the Montreal Massacre is held up as proof that all (white) men are wife-beating rapists-in-waiting, and all guns are penis substitutes that should be banned. 

The nation’s flags—I’m not joking—are flown at half-mast. It’s a liberal High Holy Day, commemorated most seriously at college campuses.   

Hence the University of Western Ontario’s student radio station’s decision to ban male voices on the air this December 6.

This left Ontario libertarians Robert Metz and Robert Vaughan with a dilemma. Their show Just Right airs on CHRW every Thursday and comprises the only hour of the week devoted to non-Marxist programming. 

Banned from their own program, the Bobs asked me and our mutual vagina-having friend Mary Lou Ambrogio of the International Free Press Society to sit in for them. We agreed. I announced my guest-hosting gig on my blog.

That’s when Warren Kinsella tried to prevent me from going on the air.

Read all of Kathy's piece at TAKI'S MAGAZINE