Gillibrand Demagogues Rape

What if they had a fraternity gang-rape pledge initiation and nobody showed up? What would Haven Monahan do?

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is cementing her reputation as a single-issue politician. Her issue is appealing to the emotions of female voters alarmed by the stunning lack of rapes rape epidemic on today's college campuses. Statistics from self-selected groups of females demonstrate that nineteen out of ten women will experience forced oral copulation before the end of rush week.

Gillibrand spoke in the Senate yesterday in support of CASE (Campus Accountability and Safety Act) and against H.R. 3403, the Safe Campus Act of 2015.

"The price of a college education," Gillibrand said, "should never be the risk of a sexual assault." The risk of sexual assault can never be reduced to zero. The best we can do is mitigate the bulk of the risk, and punish those who betray our trust.

Expulsion from school is perfectly acceptable as academic discipline, but that discipline must be subordinate to criminal jurisprudence.

Slate has eagerly carried Gillibrand's water. Contributor Christina Cauterucci writes that H.R. 3403 is "far more concerned with creating a safer university environment for alleged rapists than for potential victims." In other words, the sponsors of H.R. 3403 are rape-loving monsters.

Hey, if you are so interested in making campus safer, why not ban alcohol on campus and stop shaming any cultural efforts to restore women's virtue?

Cauterucci says that H.R. 3403 "would prevent colleges and universities from taking action to make their campuses safer." How? By requiring a victim of sexual assault to report to law enforcement, the "university would not be able to enact final disciplinary measures against the perpetrator until the police finished their investigation."

The key word here is final. The university still has a free hand to enact interim disciplinary measures, including "suspensions, no contact orders, adjustments of class schedules, or changes in housing assignments."

Gillibrand and her fellow rape alarmists claim that colleges are doing a poor job of handling sexual assault, because they are underreporting sexual assault in the hopes of avoiding bad PR. Yes college sexual assault is the most underreported moral panic in history, with even the president parroting bad statistics. H.R. 3403, Gillibrand said, "would worsen our understanding of a violent crime that is already drastically underreported."

The way we improve our understanding of an underreported violent crime is to justify not reporting it? Er, no.

Gillibrand supports CASE because it would "standardize university processes for addressing cases of sexual violence." Gillibrand claimed that this process would ensure that "the kangaroo courts that exist today will be over."

No, actually, they would become the national standard.

Altruism Will Now Be Mandatory

Hillary Clinton has had a decent week. Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee both withdrew from the nomination race, and Joe Biden announced he wasn't running.

I never thought Bernie Sanders was serious about being president. I believe all he wants to do is pull the Democrat party further to the left. Martin O'Malley doesn't stand a chance. The Democrat party may never again nominate a white male.

Just like that, all of Hillary's competition has been swept aside, and she has nothing but open field ahead to the nomination. The media will do everything possible to shepherd her candidacy all the way to the White House.

Media submission to Hillary's agenda won't just be reflected in direct advocacy, such as CNN's Carl Bernstein boasting that he was correct in predicting that she would "make monkeys" out of the Benghazi committee.

Subordination of journalism for the progressive agenda will also take the form of indirect advocacy, which will coincidentally approximate Hillary's platform. Her campaign is going to depend on large turnouts for women and minorities, so expect her to go full social justice warrior.

The Democrat Party is not only counting on broad demographic trends, media servility and their Electoral College advantage (dominance in large cities can carry whole states). The Democrats have also harnessed Silicon Valley's best and brightest, using technology to deploy data mining, targeted advertising, and confederated opinion pieces that will be focus-group tested and amplified across the media spectrum. A prime example is this Bloomberg article on paid leave, entitled, California Shows How Paid-Leave Law Affects Businesses: Not Much.

Notice how easily and subtly an analytic article becomes an opinion piece. The columnist just has to pick out one of Hillary's policy positions, then frame an article demonstrating how little impact it will have on businesses. A few carefully chosen anecdotes, full of emotional heft, show how desperately welcome these policy ideas are.

Bloomberg contributor Esmé E. Deprez states that "Papua New Guinea and the U.S. are the only countries to not offer cash benefits to women taking maternity leave, according to the International Labour Organization." I had no idea the United States was as backward as Papua New Guinea. Maybe more so! I believe their national currency is a fish bone that can be worn in a nose-piercing.

Mandatory paid leave is good, Deprez argues, because of California's experience. Since 2004, California workers can be paid for up to six weeks to care for a newborn or a sick loved one, and "California’s employment growth outpaced the U.S. average by 2 percentage points during that time." Er, last time I checked, California's unemployment rate is a full percentage point higher than the national average.

Mandating paid leave is a de facto subsidy on absenteeism, and the business will have to hire more people or pay existing people overtime to make up the shortfall. The decision should be left to mutual agreement between workers and employers.

Socializing paid leave puts America more firmly on the path to Sweden. If the money comes from the payroll tax withholding, then the worker is paying for it anyway. If the government helps the business offset the expense with a tax deduction, then it comes from the general fund. How is it moral to borrow money from our grandchildren to pay for the votes of a few more women?

The Farce Awakens

Star Wars Episode VII drops on December 18, and it will probably gross half a billion dollars. But will it be any good? The subtitle The Force Awakens implies that it will be a prequel. The trailer has an aged Han Solo, so the movie has to be set in the future. Shouldn't "The Force" be re-awakening, then?

Unless the movie is doing time-travel. That would explain why Han Solo is older and simultaneously existing at an earlier point in time. So maybe Han Solo goes back in time to warn Finn (John Boyega) and Rey (Daisy Ridley) that bad stuff is going to happen.

If it is time-travel, it's going to be too gimmicky. All time-travel does for a movie is allow it to fill gaping plot holes. But director J.J. Abrams got away with it when he directed Star Trek.

Abrams has cast a virtual unknown as the leading man. John Boyega has done some television (Being Human and 24) and not much else. Yes, I know he's black. I'm not colorblind. And J.J. Abrams is definitely not colorblind.

He once commented on his casting decisions for the television show Undercovers. Abrams said,

"We wrote these characters but when we went to cast it, one of the things I had felt, having been to the Emmys a couple times — you look around that room and you see the whitest fucking room in the history of time. Its just unbelievably white. And I just thought, we’re casting this show and we have an opportunity to do anything we want, why not cast the show with actors of color?"

Purposefully casting "actors of color" is diversity bean-counting. I don't know that Abrams is all that gifted at casting. Chris Pine as James T. Kirk is a disaster. Pine doesn't have the gravitas to play Captain Kirk.

Why not cast with the best actors available? Is Daisy Ridley the best female actor they could get? It doesn't matter. They need a ninety pound woman who can beat up storm troopers, fire a blaster, and wield a light-saber.

Lupita Nyongo? I have absolutely no use for her.

A good story goes a long way. But how much dramatic tension can they manufacture? Once you blow up a planet, and then two Death Stars, what else is there?

I am confident that the Family Guy rip-off will be much more watchable.

Confessions Of A Rape Survivor

There is much to ridicule about "yes means yes" consent laws. The most glaring deficiency in the law is how can a party prove the other party gave consent? Or how does a party prove they withdrew consent? It all goes back to a "he said, she said," situation.

I realize that this process only applies to the college campus right now. Punishments will amount to school suspensions and expulsions, and restraining orders, not incarceration. But that doesn't mean "preponderance of evidence" is any kind of fair due process.

There is no mechanism to force an accuser to go to the police, except in California. They only need to complain to their institution. These universities have the power to cancel financial aid and mark college transcripts on little more than a sexual encounter that the woman regrets. Because she felt ashamed afterwards, or saw the boy talking to another girl? Guess what? Women are hard-wired to ruminate, regret and rue sex. They forgot to tell this to the women's libbers. Sex always has consequences.

The Title IX Coordinators and Diversity Vice-Chancellors who act as prosecutor, judge, and jury will always find for the female.

Another weakness in the law, is that it states that someone who is intoxicated, cannot consent to sex.

Well, what constitutes intoxication? I have had sex while intoxicated, countless times. Does that make me a rape survivor? I don't feel like a rape survivor. Maybe it's my false consciousness.

And what if both the man and the woman are intoxicated? Are they both guilty of rape? Maybe it's like in football, where they have offsetting penalties.

I'm being silly. If both parties are wasted, then the female is the victim, and the male is the perpetrator. Women are the protected class.

What if both parties are male, or both female? Who is the protected class then? They will have to pull out the Progressive Stack Compendiary. A same-sex couple both complaining is like a dead heat. They will have to compare race, class, and ancestor oppression level to break the tie.

It's so confusing, and that may be why we haven't heard a single story about campus sexual assault, and it's almost Halloween. Those frat boys better be planning some gang-rape pledge initiation parties, and tout de suite!

Kendall Has Two Mommies

An anthropologist who studies the Kardashians and how they reflect culture would have to come to an indisputable conclusion. The thing that is beyond dispute, is there is no such thing as the "patriarchy." A patriarchy is a system of society in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it.

Family matriarch Kris was brought into negotiations between her daughter, Kim, Joe Francis (Girls Gone Wild producer and convicted statutory rapist), and Vivid Entertainment. Mom pimped her daughter out for $300,000 and a share of the profits.

Kris also endorses her daughter Kylie's relationship with 25-year-old rapper Tyga, which began a day after Kylie turned 17. Kris probably thinks the somewhat scandalous and highly illegal sexual relationship will help the brand.

This family uses men as supporting actors and their children as stage props. Every single one of them is a sharmuta, a whore, with no redeeming qualities or ethical considerations.

It was so bad for Bruce, that he decided life as a woman would be preferable to being a macho Olympic hero.

Kris told her only son, Rob, that he was a fat slob and that he’s losing out on business opportunities because no one wants someone as huge as him representing their products. A mother's love, huh?

Kourtney called her husband, Scott Disick, a "piece of shit," on television. Scott's substance abuse is Kourtney's storyline, and Scott recently entered rehab. Thoughts and prayers.

Lamar Odom, Khloe's husband, has made international news with his drug and hooker binge and subsequent hospitalization. What was most frightening about that, was that Khloe was making all his medical decisions. What a great storyline a comatose NBA star would have been. That would be an automatic renewal, at least another season.

I'm glad Odom is recovering. By many accounts, he has had to overcome many obstacles in his life. I hope he makes a full recovery, and doesn't need any money, because I want him to tell the world all the dirty little secrets the Kardashians hold so dear. I want him to rhetorically set fire to the whole fucking empire, and burn it down.

Halloween Xenophobia

Zillow Real Estate has released an index ranking the best cities and neighborhoods for Halloween trick-or-treating. San Diego came in eighth place nationally. Zillow's methodology is based on "areas with the greatest share of population under the age of 15, and where homes are closest together."

Looking at specific San Diego neighborhoods, it seems like the primary consideration is median home price. The neighborhood with the number one ranking, Del Mar Heights, has a median home price of $1,325,300. The other neighborhoods listed, Carmel Valley, Loma Portal, Carmel Mountain, and Mission Hills, have median home prices of between $628,000 and $1.2 million.

Zillow's list would make a handy reference for inner city parents shopping for the most affluent trick-or-treating destinations for their little goblins. I have some experience with this. I used to live in Normal Heights, north of Adams Avenue. Everything north of Adams is gentrified, and home values are higher. Every Halloween, parents would caravan to our neighborhood, and help their little spooks pick out desirable houses.

The houses south of Adams were just as close together as ours, and the demographics were probably even better. I wonder why these parents gave up on their neighborhoods. Whatever happened to the progressive bumper sticker wisdom of Mahatma Ghandi, "Be the change that you wish to see in the world?"

Maybe it's just easier to pick up and move, than it is to change the environment. The only problem with that, is once they get here, all their pathologies come with them.

Halloween has changed. The phrase "trick or treat," is an expression of a mostly benign, if coercive, social contract. If a homeowner didn't cough up the sweets, then the serenity of the homestead could be forfeit. People of a certain age remember going out on October 31 with shaving cream, eggs, and toilet paper. I am of that age, but I have never thrown an egg in anger. Plus, when I was coming of age, President Nixon's wage and price controls brought on a paper shortage. It took phone phreak John Draper hacking into the White House to get Nixon's attention to the problem. Meantime, we had strict household rationing.

As kids, we would buy or shoplift cans of Barbasol shaving cream, then weaponize the cans by sticking a pin in the nozzle and melting the plastic around the pin, to create a more focused nozzle stream. Mostly we just roamed the streets unattended and kept the shaving cream as self-defense. The only fights we couldn't pick would be with high-school kids, because they had cars.

Zillow's Halloween index brought to mind the stories about how the Mexican government aids and abets illegal immigration into the United States. The Mexican government publishes a pamplet that advises Mexican citizens how to enter the United States illegally and live [t]here without being detected.

I hate to be all xenophobic, but what contributions have Mexicans made to our society besides pico de gallo? If their society and culture is so great, why not work at making it the best it can be, there?

End Female Selective Service Exemption

Last weekend, the angry lesbian coalition staged another "slut walk." This was headlined by Amber Rose, aka Amber Levonchuck. A slut walk is a bunch of activists stripped down to their underwear, regurgitating obnoxious slogans in a determined effort to crush rape culture and the patriarchy.

Down the street they walked, chanting, "my pussy, my choice." They bore placards announcing that, no matter how scantily clad, they are "still not asking for it."

Amber Rose started stripping when she was fifteen. Her choice, indeed, but what choice would she have without the male gaze?

The slogan "still not asking for it," is a classic false equivalence. It asks the listener to excuse any and all behavior by a sexual assault victim. If an investigator asks her whether she was walking alone after dark, the investigator is guilty of blaming the victim. If a prosecutor asks whether she willingly went to a man's house alone and dressed in revealing clothes, he is guilty of "slut-shaming."

And victims of even alleged sexual assaults are now branded "survivors."

This is all done to elevate the moral authority of women above men. Women are to be believed, always, and in the case of rape, the severity of the allegation justifies suspending due process for the accused.

Rape activists want to convince people that we live in a culture that condones rape, and conditions men to expect to be entitled to sex. If anything, the opposite is true. Popular culture has been conditioning men to be sensitive, and understanding, and to sit still in class. Boys who fall out of line are punished or medicated until they learn to act like girls.

Boys aren't being taught how to be men by their fathers, since half of households are single-parent today. Which begs the question, then, of how exactly boys are being taught to exhibit dominance behaviors to attract women.

Women are teaching boys that they desire dominant partners by pairing off with them, and ignoring beta cuckolds.

The problem, then, is that women want all the rights of sexual liberation, without any of the responsibilities.

I have a simple solution. End the female exemption for selective service registration. If women really want equality, they should understand that freedom is not a luxury, it is a responsibility. I don't mean for the military to start drafting millions of women. But make them register.

If nothing else, asking a feminist if she favors ending the selective service exemption for women will reveal her policy preferences.

The Demoralization Of The Republic

I learned something this week, and it is utterly dispiriting. Most people know that the Electoral College elects U.S. Presidents, by allocating electoral votes to each state. The number of electoral votes is based on that state's population. That's why California has the most Electoral College votes, because it's the most populous state.

But those votes are not allocated by proportion of citizens. They are allocated by proportion of "whole number of persons." If California's representation were based on its number of citizens, it would have 50 electoral votes. But since it's based on number of persons, California has 55 electoral votes.

California is, like most other states, a winner-take-all state.

In essence, then, it's over. The great demographic transformation ushered in by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 is bearing fruit. That legislation ended the immigration quota system that favored Western Europeans.

If Western Europeans are so undesirable, why is everybody trying to get in there?

The net effect of the Immigration and Nationality Act is to change the destiny of America. Instead of celebrating the American experiment, progressives are determined to import every third-world hellhole here.

It's peculiar to feel the nativism and xenophobia in my veins. In this sense, I identify with people who hold pretty retrograde ideas about race and ethnicity. Lots of these people are open about being anti-semitic. The anti-semitism doesn't seem to bother me so much, for a number of reasons. Number one, being an ardent Zionist, I believe Jews are entitled to any moral authority they claim for preserving Israel. I believe Jews can and should defend themselves in any way they see fit, and today Jews are strong.

American Jews tend to be a different story. They bloc-vote and donate to the Democratic Party, which I could never accept. I believe this springs from the anti-anti-Communist inclinations of the Democrats. There are communists in my family, and it was accepted because the communists opposed the German National Socialists.

So when I see a right-wing nativist talk about how America is trying to devalue its European heritage, I get it. The Scots-English half of me has an uneasy co-existence with the Ashkenazi Jewish half of me.

My Scots-English mother once opined about my father that he was not a Jew though he could be nothing else.

Hillary Clinton, Transgender Activist

Hillary Clinton is calling transgender rights "the civil rights issue of our times." Having the world’s strongest military "doesn’t just mean having the best-trained forces or the biggest arsenal. It means, being a leader on issues like this."

The woman who wants to be Commander-In-Chief thinks the military is just another entitlement program. Protected classes of individuals are to be screened for quicker advancement. Then they can make policy.

It wasn't too long ago that a man with autogynephilia would have been considered 4F, unfit for military service, under the classification of psychiatric disorders. Even the current description of transsexualism, gender dysphoria, is a mental illness. No matter how loudly trans activists say otherwise, if a person requires medication and surgery to treat gender anxiety, then the source of that anxiety is a disorder.

In the long-running TV show, M*A*S*H, a recurring gag was the depiction of Corporal Max Klinger as a guy who would do anything to be discharged. In his case, he wore women's clothes as to demonstrate his lack of fitness for service. He was seeking a Section 8 psychiatric discharge for mental illness, but was denied in an on-going Catch-22 scenario. Anyone who wants to be discharged from military service is obviously not insane.

Good luck getting a character like Max Klinger green-lit today. Trans activists would target the network and their sponsors, camping out on their front lawns if necessary.

Why should the military accept open transsexuals? How does this make the military better and stronger? The answer is, it doesn't. It explicitly weakens combat readiness.

Special accomodations would need to be made to ensure autogynephilic men do not have their feelings hurt. And the majority of the soldiers being accomodated would be autogynephilic men, make no mistake.

Men who want to become women are roughly five times more common than women who want to be men. This might dispel the notion of male privilege. Men wouldn't want to change their gender unless they were receiving positive reinforcement for doing so.

Not only that, but women are twice as likely to identify as bi-sexual than men. The reinforcer in this case is being the recipient of sexual attention from both men and women.

How men and women gratify themselves sexually should have no basis for their induction into military service. Hillary Clinton's advocacy of special accomodations for transsexuals indicates her contempt for military tradition, and renders her unfit for duty as CIC.

Design Of Facilities For Humane Slaughter

Dr. Temple Grandin is a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. Dr. Grandin has designed slaughterhouse facilities, to help ensure humane handling of livestock. This helps to reduce the stress, pain and fear experienced by livestock, and maximizes the quality of the butchered meat. She even won a Proggy Award from PETA for her work.

Dr. Grandin's designs incorporate curved raceways that take advantage of the natural tendencies of cattle.

Dr. Grandin's designs came to mind when news broke of yesterday's mass shooting at Umpqua Community College. UCC is a gun-free zone. They do have a security guard, but he doesn't carry a firearm. That makes him worse than Barney Fife. At least Barney Fife had a wheel gun and a single round in his shirt pocket.

Oregon is a "shall issue" concealed carry state, and it so happened that an armed Air Force veteran was 200 yards away at the time of the attack. He was prevented from offering assistance.

President Obama eagerly pounced on the killings, and within hours was preaching about the need for new "gun safety" laws. Existing laws already infringe on the Second Amendment, so the options are a Constitutional Amendment, or a Supreme Court willing to uphold unconstitutional rulings. I predict the latter will happen within my lifetime.

I haven't checked Amanda Marcotte's or Jessica Valenti's timelines yet. I expect they will be making arguments blaming male privilege or male entitlement. As if "The Patriarchy" is the overarching cause of all of society's ills. Whoever starts talking about male alienation and psychopathy is closer to the truth on this one.

And before we start talking about "gun safety" laws, how about first hardening likely targets. The Israeli tactical model is used at schools, airports, and other public places, and there is very little gun violence there. It helps that everyone in Israel is required to serve in the military, so everyone has basic firearm training.

All public sites in Israel have armed security, and these people are usually trained in profiling and counterterrorism. Schools have perimeter fencing, roving armed patrols, and doors manned by armed security.

If the gun-grabbers don't want armed teachers, and refuse to arm their security officers, they shouldn't act shocked when a psychotic maniac comes in and shoots up the place.

This Charming Man

I follow nearly seven hundred people on Twitter. There are thousands more people that I want to follow, but I don't have to, because I see their outbursts retweeted anyway. My timeline fills to a thousand within an hour, and nobody could keep up with that. I've resorted to a mental list of people that interest me the most, and I make it a point to visit their profile and see what they're up to.

One of the persons that interests me a great deal is Milo Yiannopoulos.

Yiannopolous is this wonderful chimera, who by his very existence informs the utter lack of homophobia in the West. Andrew Sullivan wrote about what gay men and straight men have in common:

" ... a need for emotional commitment and stability as well as to get our rocks off from time to time; the desire and will to serve one’s country in the military; the commonalities of sports and drinking and the gym and dirty jokes."

Thus the aching excitement when I learned he was visiting Los Angeles. I wanted to tweet at him to be sure to visit Mijares for the best Mexican food, but I suspected he would be spending most of his time on the West Side.

Imagine my surprise to catch yesterday's live stream from Joe Rogan's Pasadena studio, which featured Yiannopolous's L.A. coming out. He could have walked to Mijares. Just as well, Yiannopolous seems to prefer endive to enchiladas.

Joe Rogan is a stand-up comedian and mixed martial artist/MMA announcer. He is best remembered as host of Fear Factor. Rogan's wheelhouse is the genre of "World's Stupidest Fucks." His interview style borrows from MMA, and though he can be a good listener, he shows very little finesse. Rogan's objective is to wrestle his subject to the ground, then repeatedly punch him in the face. It seemed a curious choice for Yiannopolous to be interviewed by someone so intellectually incurious.

On male circumcision, Rogan described it as "cutting a baby's dick." Straight to the ground. No, meathead, circumcision is trimming a foreskin, and your reflexive condemnation of the practice illustrates your intellectual feminization. Has Rogan never heard of labiaplasty?

Rogan's habit of continually glancing at his producer for validation is pretty grating. And Rogan's dismissal of the inherent morality of religion is obvious. At 44:30 of the podcast, Punchy unloads on religion, saying, "Any of these ancient systems that were established back when the world was completely different, and didn't have the internet, they are no longer valid today." Truth and human nature are eternal, Hammerhead Joe.

I wasn't surprised that Yiannopolous cut through the Newspeak of "Net Neutrality," correctly identifying it as an effort at governmental regulation of the internet. If there is an area where I disagree with him, I've yet to notice. Surely the majority of #GamerGate, so keen on stripping property rights from copyright holders and discouraging new capital investments by ISPs, will part ways with him on this one. That Rogan's distrust of the U.N. does not extend to distrust of his own government is revealing.

Rogan brought up the subject of fracking and contaminated drinking water. He mentioned that there are over a million fracking wells in the United States, as if this fact alone would shame anyone heartless enough to own a pickup truck. Somebody tell Palooka Joe that the EPA studied fracking and water pollution and found none.

Yiannopolous makes a point about how his anti-feminist arguments cannot be dismissed on the grounds of misogyny. "I love women, all my friends are women," he says. Okay, but I've always wondered about the emotional health of women who gravitate toward gay men. And, notice that there is no lesbian counterpart to the "fag hag." Because hetero men know that dykes despise us. I've long believed that gay men invented misogyny, but get along with women because of their common language. Maybe misogyny is another thing that gay men and straight men have in common.

So welcome to L.A., Milo. Where everybody obsesses about gluten even though they have no idea what the fuck gluten is.