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The patriarchal race to colonize Mars is just another example of male entitlement

I could never make this up even if I had a gift for satire. The sheer bone-crushing level of narcissism on the part of people who produce this kind of fertilizer defies words.

Fred Reed: Note to a Generic Pentagon General (This post is rated PG-13)

I have just read in Army Times that, to my delight, the Army is making soldiers wear the prettiest red high-heels in the pursuit of gender-equality. Yes. They look like little girls playing with Mommy's shoes. It has something to do with understanding the psychological problems of women, a matter of importance in combat. It necessarily was done with the approval of the Army's generals in the Pentagon, particularly Chief of Staff Odierno, since they are in charge of the whole Army shebang. I write them in astonished admiration, thusly:

Dear General,

I see that on your watch the Army is turning into a transvestite marching corps in high heels, a Ziegfeld cross-gendered or bisected gay-bath sexual zoo vacuuming up every sort of erotic loony, not to mention becoming a home for unwed mothers and prostitution rings. I commend you. I have always wanted to be defended by a freak show.

I do not question your qualifications for command. You doubtless have a firm handshake, a steely gaze, an imposing presence, and a perfect grasp of PowerPoint. But a general who is so afraid of feminists that he forces his troops to play dress-up, well, I mean, what if there is a real war?

Warning: Language and grossly non-PC content.
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Fred Reed: Women in the Military - Fiat Equality

Sigh. I have just read that a young woman named Sage Santangelo has failed the infantry-trainimg course for Marine officers at Quantico, bringing the rate of female failure to 29 out of 29. As an old hand with thirty years covering the military, I can attest that this vu is getting more deja all the time. Women have never succeeded at physical things in the military becauese they can't. More on that in a moment.

Santangelo seems a most impressive woman. Any woman who would attempt the TBE course is necessarily impressive. We are not talking pampered Swarthmore brats in Women' Studies. She reports making her first solo lfight [sic] at fifteen, climbing most of Colorado's highest peaks, playing goalie on a boy's hockey team. She is Marine material, and has my respect.

But she washed out on day one. Even tough, fiercely determined, highly athletic women can't do it. It isn't their fault. We are born with the equipment we are born with.

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Crying Rape

In the emotionally charged conversation about rape, few topics are more fraught than that of false allegations. Consider some responses to the news that singer-songwriter Conor Oberst had been falsely accused of sexual assault. Last December a woman writing in the comments section of the website xoJane, going by the name Joanie Faircloth, claimed Oberst raped her when she was a teenager. The charge spread across the Internet; Oberst denied it and brought a libel suit against Faircloth when she refused to retract the story. In July she completely recanted, admitting that she had made it all up to get attention. Yet instead of showing sympathy for the ordeal of the musician—one known for being supportive of feminist issues—some chided him for taking legal action to defend himself against a false, career-damaging charge. In the Daily Dot, pop culture critic Chris Ostendorf decried the lawsuit, arguing that it could intimidate real victims of rape and that it promoted the idea of men as victims of false accusations—even though that’s exactly what Oberst was. After Oberst dropped the suit, Bustle’s Caroline Pate praised his decision and referred to the saga as “a roller-coaster for both parties”—treating the false accuser and the wrongly accused as morally equivalent—and called the revelation of Oberst’s innocence “crushingly disappointing.”

False rape accusations are a lightning rod for a variety of reasons. Rape is a repugnant crime—and one for which the evidence often relies on one person’s word against another’s. Moreover, in the not-so-distant past, the belief that women routinely make up rape charges often led to appalling treatment of victims. However, in challenging what author and law professor Susan Estrich has called “the myth of the lying woman,” feminists have been creating their own counter-myth: that of the woman who never lies.

More than a quarter-century ago, feminist legal theorist Catharine MacKinnon wrote that “feminism is built on believing women’s accounts of sexual use and abuse by men”; today, Jessica Valenti urges us to “believe victims en masse,” because only then will we recognize the true prevalence of sexual assault. But a de facto presumption of guilt in alleged sexual offenses is as dangerous as a presumption of guilt in any crime, and for the same reasons: It upends the foundations on which our system of justice rests and creates a risk of ruining innocent lives.

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And now for some comic relief

Stuff like this is all the more hilarious when you know that, incredibly, it is not satire.

Brother Fred pens a love letter to Maureen Dowd

OK, there is more than a hint of misogyny in here. But I won't lie. I haven't laughed that hard in a while. Sometimes it just feels so good to VENT. And nobody vents like Fred Reed. As someone who has fantasized about Maureen Dowd in the hands of the Spanish Inquisition once or twice, I am bookmarking this one for whenever I am dumb enough to read her column.

Caution: Fred pulls no punches, so if you have any feminist sympathies you may just want to move on. Otherwise you may read his missive here.

Radical feminist disrupts Christmas Day service in Germany

This is making the rounds in the blogosphere but for those who may have missed it...

One of Christendom’s most sacred days… in the main cathedral of Cologne, Germany: the High Cathedral of St. Peter. The setting is Gothic, dating from the 13th century. What can possibly go wrong?

Christmas mass is being aired live. Thousands of pious Catholics fill the pews. Then, shouting at the top of her lungs, naked from the waist up, 20-year-old philosophy student Josephine Witt shoots from the congregation and bounces up high onto the altar!

She is an activist with the feminist movement FEMEN.

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I think Putin had the right idea for dealing with this sort of hooliganism.

Fred Reed: Keep those women away from our sons!

It is time to get women out of the schooling of boys. It is way past time. Women in our feminized classrooms are consigning generations of our sons to years of misery and diminished futures. The evidence is everywhere. Few dare notice it.

The feminization is real. More than seventy-five percent of teachers are women; in New York state, over ninety percent of elementary school teachers are women; in the US, over seventy percent of psychologists are women, with (sez me) the rest being doubtful. This is feminization with fangs.

I have just read Back to Normal: Why Ordinary Childhood Behavior Is Mistaken for ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder, by a psychologist, Enrico Gnaulati, who works with children alleged to have psychological problems in school, usually meaning boys. I decline to recommend it because of its psychobabble, its tendency to discover the obvious at great length, and its Genderallly Correct pronouns, which will grate on the literate. (I mean constructions resembling “If a student comes in, tell him or her that he or she should put his or her books in his or her locker”) However, a serious interest in the subject justifies slogging through the prose. (The statistics above are from the book.)

The relevent content is that women are making school hell for boys, that they have turned normal boyish behavior, such as enjoyment of rough-housing, into psychiatric “personality disorders.” They are doping boys up, forcing them into behavior utterly alien to them, and sending them to psychiatrists if they don´t conform to standards of behavior suited to girls. The result is that boy children hate school and do poorly (despite, as Gnaulati, says, having higher IQs). This is no secret for anyone paying attention, but  Gnaulati  makes it explicit.

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Women Only Floors Make A Comeback In Hotels

Women-only floors at hotels — an amenity discarded by the hotel industry at the dawn of the feminist movement — may be experiencing a comeback.

In a focus group study conducted by the 812-room Hotel Bella Sky Comwell in Copenhagen, Denmark, more than half of the “influential and well-traveled Danish women” surveyed said they’d stay on a women-only floor because “it provides a sense of security; it feels more hygienic to know that the previous guest was also a woman and they prefer rooms tailored to women’s needs.”

Armed with that data, the hotel opened in May 2011 with a secure-access floor for ladies only. “Bella Donna” floors cost an additional DKK 300 (about US$55) and offer extra-large showerheads, extra clothes hangers for skirts and dresses and a minibar stocked with items such as smoothies, champagne and high-quality chocolate.

The Naumi Hotel in Singapore, the Premier Hotel in New York City, and Crowne Plaza properties in Washington, D.C., and Bloomington, Minn., are among the hotels that also feature floors strictly for female guests.

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Silly question, but where are the male only floors? 

Modern college life; women make further strides towards equality with men

Caution: This post is rated PG 13 and contains strong language and adult themes.

I was wrong. For pretty much my entire life I believed rather chauvinistically, that women were incapable of descending to the same levels of classless lowbrow behavior one typically associates with college fraternities, of which I have no personal experience, and drunken sailors, of which I do have some experience. The evidence of my error can be found in a recent news report, which I decline to name, quote, or link but which has made the rounds on the internet for those determined to find it.

It concerns a certain female student at Duke University who compiled (using power-point) a senior "thesis" on sex in college in which she recounts in graphic detail more than a dozen of her sexual "hook-ups" during her tenure at Duke. Not stopping there she named names and attached pictures of the alleged "subjects" of her 'study.' The icing on the cake is found in the conclusion of her report where she grades the young men (mostly college athletes) on such criteria as their performance, physical (cough cough) attributes, and other sultry details. Though she claims the whole thing was a joke it has been posted on the web and has gone viral.

One wonders what this young woman's father thinks, having likely coughed up in excess of $50,000 for her education only to discover that his daughter is a woman of easy virtue (I had another word in mind, which may yet appear) who has seen fit to advertise her numerous liaisons to the entire world. How proud he must be of the glass floor his daughter has shattered in her descent into the gutter.

It seems we live in an age where the internet has effectively replaced the bathroom wall and barracks room gossip I recall from my days in the Navy. But when considering the harm done to other people's reputations, even if she cares not for her own, this is shocking even by today's extremely low moral standards. Of course a very compelling point could be made that the young men who have been named to either their glory or humiliation brought this upon themselves. I have often lamented that English does not contain a male specific equivalent for "slut" (there's that word).

For my own part this reinforces a rather strongly held conviction that it is time to rethink the war waged so aggressively on single gender colleges and universities.

Language and the Feminist Agenda

WATCH (Women and the Church) a radical liberal and feminist group is presently charting their next moves after their victory in the CofE Synod where the consecration of female bishops was approved. This from the talking points on their website...

B2 Language: our continued use of masculine language for people and God is a stumbling block for many

• Language is a powerful tool of communication; it shapes the way people think of themselves, the world and God. There has never been a time in the English language when words like “he” were unambiguously generic. There was an attempt to establish this by law for certain documents in the 19th century – a sure sign that it was not the case in society at large or else why legislate for it?
• We know that God is beyond gender, but continual use of solely masculine images and pronouns for God suggest to many that, really, God is male
• If God is always referred to as Father or as “he”, then both women and men may infer that men are more like God in an essential way (their sex) than women are. This reinforces the historical view of women as the lesser sex, and needs to be challenged. It also impoverishes our understanding of God with implications for the way Christians relate both to God and to one another
• Men and women are both made in God’s image. The Church has been ambivalent about this down the ages, arguing over whether women have souls, or whether they are really “faulty” men
• Many bibles, hymns and prayers continue to use “he” to mean “he or she”, “brothers” to mean “brothers and sisters” and “mankind” for “humankind”. This is offensive to many, both women and men. If men are always named as the norm, many women of all ages feel inferior, invisible and even alienated from the Church
• Having women as bishops will to continue to raise the issue of language and challenge current usage

Hat tip to a comment by TACit @ T-19