The Child Is A Mother's Anchor

In an essay for Playboy that should surprise nobody, "entertainer" Chelsea Handler writes about how she had two abortions in the same year, when she was sixteen. Chandler's personae is that of a boozy, promiscuous woman who delights in her own bad decisions.

The Playboy essay is accompanied by a provocative photograph of a woman's hand, with a bow wrapped around the extended middle finger. A little note is tied to the bow, which reads, It's an abortion!

Roe v Wade justified abortion on some heretofore unread constitutional right to privacy. Yet here we are, and people like Chandler won't shut up about their fabulous stolen motherhood.

The big "fuck you" tone that is conveyed is not offensive because one woman made a personal decision. It's offensive because her behavior is blithely modeled by millions of women. Abortion has become a sacralized rite of passage for aspiring female edgelords, like the first lesbian relationship.

It's not enough that abortion be seen as not bad (oh the stigma). Abortion is now supposed to be the moral choice. As Chandler herself writes,

"We have 7.3 billion people on this planet. Anybody who carefully decides not to become a parent should be applauded for making a smart and sustainable decision."

Follow that? Too many humans here! We're full! We really owe Chandler a debt of gratitude!

I can almost get behind this. You know, motherhood used to come with a revered status in societies all around the world. Nazi Germany, for example, offered a medal for motherhood, called the Cross of Honour of the German Mother. Women who had four or five children received a bronze cross, and women who had six or seven children, a silver cross. Women who had eight or more received a gold cross.

There was an inscription on the back of the cross, that read, Das Kind adelt die Mutter. The Child ennobles the Mother. How ridiculously outdated! Everybody knows that children prevent women from achieving their potential!

What we should do then, is borrow this idea from the Nazis, but modify it so it doesn't have that stink of Aryan motherhood to it. We should present medals of honor to women who get abortions.

First, get rid of the icky cross. Let's replace it with the symbol for recycling. This will symbolize the life cycle of the Chandler, from a clump of cells to slut to old hag and back to a clump of cells of soylent, to keep everything "sustainable."

Five or more abortions earns women a medallion of the recycle symbol in green with gold leaf.

Because Chandler did the world a favor by keeping her shit out of the gene pool.

Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates

Was checking out movie trailers the other day, and came upon one that looks pretty good. It's called, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates. There are a few observations of note.

First off, does anybody really get married anymore? Half of adults are unmarried, and more than one in five have never been married. Couldn't they have made it a gay wedding, at least?

The movie does look hilarious. But sort of hidden in the trailer is the sister's fiance. He doesn't have any lines in the trailer. Notice anything that stands out about him?

I know, who wears a v-neck argyle sweater anymore, right?

The fiance is played by Sam Richardson, and he is fairly dark-skinned. Will his character play to type? And just what is his type?

Judging from his manner of dress, his character stereotype is black nerdy guy. You know, like Theo, the computer hacker that wore glasses in the movie Die Hard. Our cultural influencers need to make the black folks non-threatening and/or smarter than everyone else.

An alternate trailer includes a friend of the sister asking, "you take all that?" Stereotypes that reinforce positive aspects of black people are deemed non-problematic. Stereotypes which reinforce negative attributes are studiously avoided. There won't be so much as a microagression ("no, where are you really from?" or "you really listen to Taylor Swift?").

One can't help but notice that the media is obsessed with race mixing, but they invariably show a black man and a white woman. Doesn't that reinforce negative cliches about black men who always choose white women when they achieve a desired status? It's probably not as messy as pairing a black actress with a white actor. Then you get into the black collective memory of the slave owner taking the flesh of his female slave.

So, why cast a black actor in the first place? I doubt it's to bring black audiences out to see the movie. No, casting Richardson is sending a message, that they are going to shove diversity down our gullet. Well that, and the likelihood this movie's target audience is wiggers.

Five Things Wrong With Sportsball

This morning on "America's First News," they did a story on Yasiel Puig circling the bases after his ground ball went through the center fielder's legs. It was Puig's second game back from the disabled list. The correspondent felt it important to notify us that he almost picked up Puig for his fantasy team.

If you spend more than one hour a week on your fantasy sports team, you have your head up your ass. And really, reporters who have fantasy teams or talk about their fantasy teams on the air are major league jock-sniffers. Confession: I had a fantasy football team. In 1986. After that it got a little lame.

There is no question that fantasy sports drives real sports, but it's really just gambling.

Another major thing wrong with sports is ESPN. You have people like Bomani Jones working there. When Jones isn't sporting a "Caucasians" jersey, he is lecturing people about why they should respect Cam Newton more, telling us, "America doesn't like black people very much."

ESPN tolerates Bomani Jones but not Curt Shilling. They fired Shilling for a social media post that read, in part, "men’s room was designed for the penis, women’s not so much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic."

ESPN then went full Stalin on Shilling, airbrushing him from history. The ESPN documentary, "Four Days In October," completely removed all references to Shilling's Game 6 "bloody sock" performance.

A lot of what's wrong with sports is just ESPN. They are going to give a special humanitarian award to the black players of Missouri University. These players went on strike and refused to play because they felt their administration didn't react strongly enough to a poop swastika. The racial tension around this has caused enrollment at MU to drop by 25%.

Last year, ESPN gave an award for courage to "Caitlyn" Jenner.

And this year, ESPN went full social justice mode when they launched an all-black sports commentary site, The Undefeated. To understand what the intersection of race and sports looks like, look at Reese Waters' take on Mark Fuhrman and O.J. Simpson.

"The LAPD owes all Black people of Los Angeles an apology for keeping Mark Fuhrman on the force," Waters says. Fair enough. Then, "And they owe Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown's family an apology for keeping Mark Fuhrman on the force, 'cause that's exactly why O.J. got off."

The reason O.J. got off was because the jurors felt like they needed payback for Rodney King. So Mr. Waters, after years of wisecracks about O.J., don't pretend that you are Nicole's white knight.

Sports reporters are just like all other reporters, in that they have a progressive bias. Straight-news journalists need to disguise their bias, to give off a whiff of impartiality. Sports journalists have no such reluctance.

Are we up to five yet? Well, another thing that is wrong with sports is the Olympics. The Olympics suck, and I hope they blow big-time this year.

Ban Assault Guns

The Whitehouse.gov petition to ban the AR-15 began on June 12, the same day Ahmed Goatfucker shot up the Pulse nightclub. Gun-grabbers never waste a good crisis. Never mind the fact that Mr. Goatfucker didn't use an AR-15.

Any program that ends with the government confiscating something is a bad idea.

But the President is totally down with the idea. Joe Biden responded to the petition by writing, "The President and I agree with you. Assault weapons and high-capacity magazines should be banned from civilian ownership."

Define "assault weapon." Anything that can be used to assault someone is an assault weapon.

Oh, but they just don't want "weapons of war" to be in civilian hands. Never mind that sidearms are "weapons of war." Hell, there is even the story of the Army Ranger who has a confirmed kill using an MRE spoon. Are we going to ban the spork?

Define "high-capacity magazine." California defines it as eleven rounds or more, and those are now banned. California also requires people to undergo a background check before you buy ammunition. The state now has a system to track ammunition purchasers.

These laws were pushed through the one-party state government, according to the Los Angeles Times, in response to the December San Bernardino shooting.

Actually, the attack was a just a convenient pretext to push laws they already wanted. California lawmakers were thoughtful enough to exempt themselves from the same regulations they force on citizens.

The Whitehouse.gov petition includes a quote from the family of the AR-15's inventor. They say, "We think he would have been horrified and sickened as anyone, if not more, by these events." This is supposed to be evidence showing the firearm's inventor never intended his firearm to be owned by civilians. It's possible to both be "horrified by these events," and still believe that civilians are constitutionally entitled to own these firearms.

Because the Second Amendment was explicitly written to ensure the people would be able to protect themselves from the government.

The same government that imports goatfuckers by the planeload. The same government that doesn't believe you are capable of handling Ahmed Goatfucker's 911 call, in which he pledges allegiance to Salafist terror groups. The same government that considers right-wing extremism a serious problem, but thinks that releasing a 911 transcript is giving our actual enemy a propaganda victory. Sending robots to kill people from a list is ok, but a transcript will get people killed.

Toxic Masculinity

Jerry Seinfeld once had a bit on his show, mocking his uncle Leo. Jerry goes on the Tonight Show, and tells Leno, "my uncle Leo, I had lunch with him the other day, he's one of these guys that anything goes wrong in his life, he blames it on antisemitism."

That's how it is with the neologism "toxic masculinity." It is used to critique any unsatisfactory male behavior, and, according to the geek feminism wiki, "refers to the socially-constructed attitudes that describe the masculine gender role as violent, unemotional, sexually aggressive."

"Socially-constructed." The key assumption is that males are born as some kind of blank slate, and the environment is responsible for shaping their behavior.

What if this were true? What institutions are shaping male behavior, that we may modify them? Well, the family has been rendered to the extent that most children are raised by single mothers. They must be teaching their boys to suppress their feelings! Perhaps.

What of our other institutions? Church membership is declining, so I don't think "the patriarchy" is conditioning boys anymore. Boys are largely socialized in public schools dominated by female instructors.   If toxic masculinity is being socially constructed, it's hard to find the smoking gun (must be the video games).

The concept of toxic masculinity is gaining traction. Amanda Marcotte's article in the wake of the Orlando massacre is titled, "Overcompensation Nation: It’s time to admit that toxic masculinity drives gun violence."

Marcotte first tries to placate the "whiny dudes" who will complain that "feminists are condemning all masculinity." Rather, she asserts, "toxic masculinity is a specific model of manhood."

As a thought experiment, ask yourself how you would feel if certain specific behaviors of black people were pathologized as symptomatic of "toxic blackness." This is the fallacy of composition.

This is a term straight out of critical theory. Anything that is traditional is malignant. This is why the term toxic masculinity is bullshit. It's used to otherize men and stigmatize masculinity. Sexual aggression is not a social construct. It's genetic.

Marcotte evokes some truth when she says that "insecurity is perhaps the most stalwart defining feature of toxic masculinity." I would argue that this is an innate masculine drive, that is, to protect others, with violence if necessary.

The rest of Marcotte's article is a deflection of stunning proportion. It's likely that Achmed Goatfucker was a homosexual who was conflicted about his attraction to men. The source of his conflict was with the Islamic faith and his Afgan heritage. If he can be born with a gay gene, then he can be born with a predisposition to violence.

Marcotte cites domestic violence as an example of toxic masculinity, like the "man who would rather kill his family than lose control." I wonder if Amanda has heard the story of Connie Foster? Perhaps Foster killed her two children during a custody dispute because of "toxic femininity."

Part of male dominance, Marcotte argues, is the need to demonstrate "control over life and death itself." Are the one million women undergoing abortions every year under the spell of "toxic femininity?"

Marcotte pushes back against those who insist on calling the Orlando massacre, "radical Islam," as if the "words they use will somehow be the magic ticket to ending the problem." When you are in a war, it helps to identify the enemy. Amanda must believe the tactic has some power, as she herself constantly employs the modifier, "toxic."

Perhaps we should move to a more "thoughtful, inclusive society." It might just be possible, once the feminists ditch their mugs that read MALE TEARS, stop using the #masculinitysofragile hashtag, and stop referring to men who disagree as "whiny dudes."

Blood On The Dance Floor

I was listening to Dennis Prager a few days ago, and he said something that stuck. "I prefer clarity over agreement."

A madman shooting up a gay dance club in Orlando is certainly a moment of clarity. All at once, the conflict between civilization and barbarism becomes apparent. The image of a pile of corpses is not agreeable but it does clarify.

Hillary Clinton has already called for a renewal of a ban on "assault weapons." She should just announce that there is a moratorium on scary things. I give her two more days before she blames the massacre on the "divisive rhetoric" of the Trump campaign. Without naming him, at first, and delegating this task to her subordinates.

President Obama said, "we’ve reached no definitive judgment on the precise motivations of the killer." Tens of millions of by-now red-pilled homosexuals have reached a somewhat different conclusion, Mr. President. And it doesn't need to be precise, because general will do.

This sicko believed he had license to kill homosexuals.

One of the first Twitter feeds I checked on yesterday was that of Sally Kohn, and if you are like me, it is hard to underestimate the level of gratitude that I felt upon knowing she was ok. She tweeted,

Last I checked, it's not Muslim religious extremists shooting up abortion clinics and killing abortion doctors.

— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) June 13, 2016

One abortion doctor gets killed and they never let you forget it.

Anyway, she's drawing comparison between Robert Dear and the Pulse shooter. Ok, that's fair. Robert Dear told police when he was arrested, "no more baby parts," and the Pulse shooter told 911, "no more butt darts."

Robert Dear, we are constantly told, was inspired to kill by an edited video. The actual practice of dismembering fetuses doesn't exist and couldn't have been his motivation. It's kind of like the Benghazi talking points were about jihadis being inspired by a video. They threw the video producer in jail, but let the terror mastermind walk around freely and give interviews to CNN at sidewalk cafes.

They could point to the Orlando imam who was recorded saying that killing homosexuals is the compassionate thing to do. But leftists treasure the free exercise of any religion that isn't Christianity. So that can't be it.

Could it possibly be because of the behavior of gays themselves? The way they have moved beyond a desire for acceptance into outright demands for endorsement? Consider the online push for more gay characters in media, like this one calling for a gay Elsa of Frozen.

Perhaps Sally Kohn could voice the dyke Elsa. In a surprise plot twist, Olaf converts to Islam and hucks her off a cliff. Another storybook ending!

You Have To Go Back, Larissa

I don't know if Larissa Martinez is going to wind up being a neurosurgeon like she plans. She was valedictorian at McKinney Boyd High School in Texas, and earned a full scholarship to Yale. It's certainly within her reach.

The only reason I know who Larissa Martinez is, is because she "came out" as "undocumented" in her graduation address.

I watched the video of her speech. I kept an open mind and hoped to find something nice to say about her. All I was looking for was a meager scrap of gratitude.

Didn't get it.

Martinez told fellow students that she "moved from Mexico City on a tourist visa six years ago with her mother and little sister for a better life, away from her abusive and alcoholic father."

An alcoholic father practically grants her refugee status. Just tell the official at your hearing that you have a legitimate fear for your safety if you return.

For Martinez' mother, breaking a family apart and moving out of the country is justified, as long as she can allege "abuse."

Martinez "has been waiting seven years for her citizenship application to be processed." That means her mother applied for citizenship, got tired of waiting, then applied for a tourist visa, fully intending to stay. Lying on a tourist visa and just staying is immigration fraud.

Larissa complained in her speech about "a wall built on hatred and prejudice," then gave a disapproving shake of her head and brought her hand to her face as if to wipe away a sniffle. She could have talked about how great it was to be in a country that literally turned a blind eye to her illegal status, and offers her unbelievable opportunities. Her adopted country has probably subsidized her food and shelter, in addition to her first-class education.

Instead she made a political speech, and "wants to continue to be active in political movements for immigration reform."

She made boilerplate emotional pleas, such as how she is "one of the eleven million undocumented immigrants living in the shadows," and the treacly "undocumented immigrants are people too."

Larissa proclaimed that she was "living proof that beating the system is possible." By "beating the system," do you mean that there are other forms of fraud you are involved in? Did your mother commit welfare fraud as well? Did you lie on your college applications? Does Yale know you are in the country illegally?

Somewhere out there is an honest, low-income American high school student who received a rejection letter from Yale. Because Larissa Martinez stole their spot.

I hope it is a snowy day next January in New Haven, and President Trump sends a deportation bus just for you, Larissa.

The War On Noticing

I walk our dogs every day. We have two purebred, standard poodles. They are great conversation starters. Not everybody can tell they are standards because they aren't cut to look like them. I let their hair grow out until they look like Portuguese water dogs, then have them cut to a uniform length. No pom-poms unless my wife brings them to the groomer.

People who know dogs invariably remark that, "poodles are so smart." They're right.

Left unsaid is the reason why poodles are so smart. That might be noticing.

It's not because they are born as some blank slate, and my household environment has somehow shaped them to be smart. Their intelligence is the result of centuries of careful breeding. The dogs with the most desirable characteristics are selected for breeding. And they're not inbred. Breeders' associations keep careful records of the lineage of every dog to ensure that breeding takes place well outside their direct line.

Our poodles get along really well with other dogs, but they have a special affinity for other poodles. They go wild with excitement when they see another standard, or even a poodle mix. If we are at the beach, and I see another poodle or poodle mix, I will try to get closer to them so they can all play.

There are certain extractions of dogs we avoid. If there is a pit bull at the dog beach, we will head straight for our car. If there is more than one, we double-time it.

Why are we afraid of pit bulls? Because pit bulls have been selectively bred for fighting other dogs. Even if a pit bull has been raised by the most gentle owner and trusts the whole world, they still possess that aggressive gene.

I would never consider telling a pit bull's owner, "those dogs are so aggressive." That would be noticing.

This is a good metaphor for human intelligence. For years I've been thinking about pathologies in black society, like the out-of-wedlock birthrate. Only one in four black children is born into a two-parent household. This has correlations for everything from school achievement, incarceration, and the job market.

I'm starting to realize that while environment plays a role in child development, it also plays a role in helping people select the tendencies they value, and will breed with. The cultural pressure against a black person "acting white" is helping to select the next generation.

A father who leaves his family is likely to produce children that are also likely to reproduce out-of-wedlock. This isn't just because the children were conditioned to accept single motherhood. The father's behavior, the nearly inevitable result of his genetic makeup, is passed along to his children.

Political correctness is a war on noticing. This seems like a WMD on the side of geneticists. And it troubles me, because I've always subscribed to the "all men are created equal," fantasy. It's not a value judgement to admit we are not.

Brock Turner's Slap On The Wrist

Did Brock Turner get away with a slap on the wrist? The headlines are troubling. Stanford swimmer gets jailed only 6 months for raping unconscious coed, cries the New York Post.

The victim deserves our sympathy. It must feel terrible to think that her victimization is only worth six months. But Brock Turner wasn't convicted of rape. He was convicted of sexual assault. Don't think that language-colonization of legal definitions isn't a marxist strategy.

Why do we incarcerate people, anyway? To keep them away from the rest of us, to punish the offender, to deter other people from criminalization, and to offer restitution to the victim.

The whiff of marxist dialectic is very strong with this case. Turner is constantly referred to as the "Stanford swimmer," because this conjures images of white, male privilege. The attack occurred after a fraternity party, which evokes more privilege, and exclusivity.

The victim read a statement describing how the attack has left her feeling, "closed off, angry, self-deprecating, tired, irritable, empty." Hopefully she will overcome these feelings someday. Part of that process is knowing that she didn't do anything wrong. This imperative will forever be in conflict because she acknowledged that she surrendered her agency prior to the attack, by drinking "four shot glasses of whisky," before the party, then drinking vodka there.

Her contributory negligence is not a license to anyone to violate her, but if she didn't drink that night, the attack would never have happened.

Brock Turner has shown regret over the assault.

When judges render sentences, they take factors like these into account. We've been told by Democrats that we have an over-incarceration problem in this country. And why is that? We have instituted mandatory minimum sentences for all sorts of crimes.

The solution, Democrats say, is to abolish mandatory minimums, and give judges discretion over sentencing. Well, this is what happens! You get results you don't like!

So it's really easy and tempting to demonize Turner, his father, and even his legal defense. Julia Ioffe shame-tweeted her disgust in this way:

May all these men have daughters. https://t.co/Buq0Kzr7qz

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) June 5, 2016

May all parents of boys have legal counsel to defend them against rape allegations. Because someday we will only have mandatory minimums for white sons of privilege who cross the line.

And if you think this is purely a case of white privilege, then you've never heard of Donny Ray Williams.

Out Of Fashion

The "Trump Is Literally Hitler" memetic engineering, while hackneyed, nevertheless winds up the little Trotskys out there.

Let's be clear: It's never a shame to storm the barricades set up around a fascist.

— Emmett Rensin (@emmettrensin) June 3, 2016

But who's the fascist? From Wikipedia, "Fascism rejects assertions that violence is automatically negative in nature." That puts little Emmett squarely in the camp of the fascists.

Fascism is dependent on so-called direct action, and political violence is seen as legitimate.

Fascism, again according to Wikipedia, "is usually placed on the far-right within the traditional left–right spectrum." Donald Trump has praised Planned Parenthood, invited Caitlyn Jenner to take a dump anywhere xe wants, and is in favor of universal health coverage. These are not right-wing positions.

Trump has nationalist tendencies, to be sure. This operates in tension with globalism, which is just another flavor of international marxism. Obama signs climate "treaties" at the UN that would hand over American sovereignty to foreign interests. Obama doesn't ask Congress for their opinion.

Trump has created a cult of personality. What's that? A cult of personality "arises when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods to create an idealized, heroic, and at times worshipful image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise."

An army of Pepe memes against the entire Media Industrial Complex? Not even close.

Trump's lack of familiarity with the Constitution bothers many. "I don’t think he cares about separation of powers at all," according to Richard Epstein.

Would that be worse than a Harvard-trained law professor who knows the Constitution, but ignores it?

Consider the opposition that Trump receives from his own party. Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse has announced that he will never vote for Trump. Under a Trump presidency, opposition from principled conservatives like Sasse would serve as a check on the executive branch. Republicans under Trump would check executive overreach in ways never attempted under Obama.

Obama's executive overreach hasn't met any resistance from Democrats, who should beware the precedent. The last person to break ranks with the President was Chuck Schumer, who opposed the JPCOA aka the Iran Deal. Schumer received coordinated brushbacks from Obama's echo chamber, like this one from Ploughshares-funded Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey's Jeffrey Lewis.

Lewis wrote in Foreign Policy that he was "not particularly interested in congressional views about the Iran deal."

It will be interesting to see whether Schumer still has a leadership post next year.

Remembering Harambe

The national anguish over the death of Harambe the gorilla continues. Jane Goodall wrote in a letter that "it looked as though the gorilla was putting an arm round the child."

Harambe was a seventeen year old gorilla that was just turning his life around. He recently accepted a basketball scholarship to Purdue University. And, he didn't do nothing.

President Obama visited Elhart, Indiana, to try to understand why the citizens there aren't rapt in adulation for Chicago Jesus. They don't seem to be giving him credit for the economic recovery. It reduced the President to a stuttering, muttering mess.

It must be racial, then.

While Obama seemed to be searching for the right words to understand Elkhart's lack of gratitude, he was eloquent in discussing Harambe.

Obama said, wiping a tear from his eye, "I don't have a son, but if I did, he would have looked like Harambe."

A few moments later, Obama added, his voice rising with indignation, "It's clear that the zookeepers acted stupidly."

The accounts of people who witnessed Harambe's tragic death are stunning. Jorge Zimmerman, visiting from Florida, was among those eyewitnesses. "After Harambe was shot, and his life was draining away, he looked pleadingly into the boy's eyes, as if to say, 'earn this,'" Zimmerman said.

The world of celebrities took the news of Harambe's death pretty hard, too. Debra Messing was taking a selfie when news of the shooting broke.

This was an excellent way to make the story of a silverback's death about Messing instead.

Hmmm, Debra's so dumb, she thinks Harambe was murdered at UCLA. Dumb broad.