2014 Feminist Chloe Angyal: Our culture hates womenChandraSekhar AthF2014-12-12 | Chloe Angyal is a leading feminist at feministing.com White Knight "Raul" Sabrina Rubin Erdely Melissa Harris Perry2014 India: Its a Girl Child Moral Panic consequencesChandraSekhar AthF2015-07-10 | WATCH THIS FIRST: 2011 Propaganda Documentary 'Its a Girl' youtube.com/watch?v=ISme5-9orR0 takes a kernel of truth ..preference for boy-child in India.. and spins it with wildly exaggerated numbers ("200 Million Girls Missing!"), and uses rhetoric like "gendercide" and "femicide" to whip up a moral panic.
The use of often unsubstantiated numbers about millions of girl children being, in the hyperbolic words of one Western observer, ‘slaughtered’ in India, subjected to a ‘routine gendercide’, has helped to ravage Indian women’s rights, says Dalvie. One thing that particularly concerns her is the way that this supposedly feminist campaign to ‘save the girl child’ helps to rebrand abortion as murder through the use of the tag ‘cide’ – ‘gendercide’ or ‘female feticide’. ‘If you use the term “female feticide” – which unfortunately was made very popular by the women’s movement in India – what are you actually saying?’, she asks. ‘You are calling abortion feticide, you are calling it murder.’
Dalvie is disturbed that so many feminists have unwittingly joined with the religious anti-choice lobby in effectively rebranding certain forms of abortion that they don’t like as murder. Indeed, it is striking that one of the few areas in which feminists and religious lobbyists are in effusive agreement these days is on the issue of so-called gendercide, which they both view as a kind of murderous assault on girls which must be halted. The adoption of murder-like terminology to describe sex-selective abortion, and the enormous publicity given to the alleged problem of sex-selective abortion across India, has led to a situation where ‘we are sending out a message that somehow abortion is illegal or is a bad thing to do’, says Dalvie.2015 Appeaser feeds crocodile Feminist hoping she will eat him lastChandraSekhar AthF2015-06-18 | The White Knight has no problem with feminist cooked-up theory statistics (1 in 4 young men believe violence and controlling behaviour are signs of male strength. 1 in 6 12-24 year olds believe that women should know their place) He is One Good Man, and "the feminist statistics are damning AND ACTION SHOULD BE TAKEN,, BUT extreme majority of men are good and love their women like him, and SHOULD protect them. Men who hit women are NOT MEN. They are COWARDS, and should be jailed".
No analysis of why (vast majority of) DV happens (anger, etc in stark contrast to feminist theory of power & control). No mention of women who hit men.2015 MSNBC promotes College Rape Hysteria documentaryChandraSekhar AthF2015-06-02 | White Knights discuss the (propaganda & 1-sided) documentary Hunting Ground unskeptically., specifically the college Football player Jameis Winston's case FACTS UNCOMFORTABLE TO THE PROPAGANDISTS: The Cinematic Railroading of Jameis Winston http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415269/cinematic-railroading-jameis-winston-stuart-taylor-jr Director of ‘The Hunting Ground’: On Jameis Winston and His Accuser http://mmqb.si.com/2015/04/28/kirby-dick-the-hunting-ground-jameis-winston-erica-kinsman The MMQB spoke to the director of The Hunting Ground, Kirby Dick, about giving a name and face to Winston’s accuser and what he thinks NFL teams can take away from his film. When asked why Winston should still be scrutinized after three separate investigations resulted in no chargers being brought, Dick echoed criticism of the Tallahassee Police Department (“It’s been clearly established through our reporting and by other publications that the Tallahassee Police Department’s investigation was indisputably flawed.”) and Florida State University (“similar cases [at other schools] with much less evidence have resulted in the accused being expelled”), adding: “The most important reason we know Erica is credible is that when you sit down and speak with her one on one the overwhelming conclusion you come away with is that she is telling the truth"2015 Columbia U rape case.Sisterhood shows Cathy Young some loveChandraSekhar AthF2015-02-07 | Cathy Young's article on Columbia Univ rape case http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/03/columbia-student-i-didn-t-rape-her.html Feminist reaction to Cathy Young's article storify.com/AstrokidNJ/feminist-reaction-to-cathy-young-s-article-on-colu1999 MRM: Singing the Gender BluesChandraSekhar AthF2014-12-29 | Documentary shot for TV Ontario in the spring of 1999, during a (mostly) men's weekend retreat near Ottawa.
The past 40 years have turned male-female relationships inside-out. The feminist movement has allowed women to question, re-define and expand roles for themselves. But what about men? This documentary takes a look at how a group of men gathered at a weekend retreat are responding to a world changed by the feminist revolution and how they re-envision what it means to be men.
http://theagenda.tvo.org/blog/agenda-blogs/singing-gender-blues2014 White Knight does damage control: Jackie has PTSDChandraSekhar AthF2014-12-22 | White Knight Dave Zirin of The Nation: "Iam enraged at Sabrina Erdely. I am not enraged coz a frat was done wrong, coz they will be doing a Hey-we-are-back party by end of the semester" "Jackie clearly is traumatized, she clearly has some form of PTSD and so Rolling Stone should have stayed off, and not re-traumatized her"2014 NOW Pres Terry ONeill: Innocent until proven guilty is unfairChandraSekhar AthF2014-12-22 | Dec 8 on MSNBC's Ed Schultz show Zerlina Maxwell: "There WILL be discrepancies because of damage to hippocampus in the brain, and PTSD is common" "It is not common for women to make things up and lie about rape" "We hunt down the details of the victims accounts, but we dont do the same to the alleged rapists accounts" (LOL.. Where's the alleged rapists' account, Zerlina?)
NOW President Terry O'Neill: "Rape Denial machinery is moving in to destroy the victim, and rape denialism is part and parcel of rape culture" "The rush of Fight, Flight, Freeze hormones that happen during a trauma like sexual assault can interfere with the victims ability to tell a coherent story"2014 UVA Staff N Students out to pitchfork N torch the PatriarchyChandraSekhar AthF2014-12-12 | White Knights are everywhere. Staff, Police, Students2014 Feminist Ana Marie Cox: Women dont lie about rapeChandraSekhar AthF2014-12-12 | Bill Keller (ex-NY Times): "Idea that women make up this stuff is a pernicious myth"
Ana Marie Cox: "Just ask a woman you know if she would lie about rape, or ask her if other women would do that" http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/rolling-stone-scapegoats-rape-victim-makes-matters-worse2014 UPenn feminist prof: violence against women is institutionalizedChandraSekhar AthF2014-12-12 | 1) "Leaders (like NFL's Roger Godell, UVA's Teresa Sullivan) cover up violence saying they dont have enough info" 2) "Violence against women is in the Catholic Church, NFL, Military, and Higher Ed"
Salamishah Tillet is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She has a secondary appointment in the Department of Africana Studies and is a Core Teaching and Faculty member of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies.2013 BarbaraH Rape Hysteria rhetoric from Victorianism to FeminismChandraSekhar AthF2014-10-11 | 1.1) 1880s Moral Panic over Prostitution by Christian Revivalist and Feminist Josephine Butler via the Social Purity Movement.
http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/traitors-to-their-sex The purity crusaders used many propaganda weapons against prostitutes, but chief among these were disease scares and the “white slavery” hysteria. As several times before in history, whores were vilified as dirty plague-carriers, and this campaign of misinformation was so well-organized that the notion is still deeply imbedded in the public consciousness a century later despite ample evidence to the contrary. But the “white slavery” propaganda was even more effective; the unholy alliance of middle-class feminists and puritanical religious zealots managed to convince the public, the media and governments that there was a huge international trade in underage girls, abducted and forced into sexual slavery in foreign countries. The fact that there was absolutely no evidence for such a vast conspiracy made no difference whatsoever; the public devoured lurid stories of child prostitution, and throughout the Western world (especially in English-speaking countries) voluntary adult prostitution was banned under the excuse of combating involuntary prostitution of children.
1.2) As more women flocked to cities as a result of Industrial Revolution, and were vulnerable alone, Newspapers amped up the rhetoric. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maiden_Tribute_of_Modern_Babylon The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon was a series of highly controversial newspaper articles on child prostitution that appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette in July 1885.
Written by crusading editor W.T. Stead, the series was a tour de force of Victorian journalism. With sensational crossheads, such as "The Violation of Virgins" and "Strapping Girls Down", the Maiden Tribute threw respectable Victorians into a state of moral panic, and achieved, as a consequence, the implementation of the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885, which raised the age of consent for girls from 13 to 16, and also re-criminalised homosexual acts.
2) 1970s feminists developed the idea of victim enslaved from childhood and groomed for sex. Moral Panic of girls abused from childhood was popularized in the 90s book 'Courage to Heal', and there was a push to always 'Believe the Victim'. It is an ideology of sexual victimization, In 1997, the US sociologist Joel Best identified seven widely accepted propositions which, taken together, create this powerful ideology: 1) Victimisation is widespread; 2) Its consequences are fundamentally psychological, and long-lasting; 3) Victims are innocent, victimisers are exploitative, and there is no room for moral ambiguity; 4) Both society and victims themselves fail to appreciate the extent of victimisation; 5) People must be taught to recognise their own, and others’ victimisation; 6) Claims of victimisation must not be challenged, as this is ‘victim-blaming’; 7) The word ‘victim’ connotes powerlessness: the term ‘survivor’ is preferable.
The captivity narrative is a primal storyline in American culture. As early as 1682, settlers were publishing accounts of being held prisoner by Indians, establishing a formula that has manifested itself in tales ranging from cowboy novels to Vietnam movies. In Regeneration Through Violence, the literary historian Richard Slotkin described the archetypal captivity scenario:
"A single individual, usually a woman, stands passively under the strokes of evil, awaiting rescue by the grace of God....In the Indian's devilish clutches, the captive had to meet and reject the temptation of Indian marriage and/or the Indian's "cannibal" Eucharist. To partake of the Indian's love or his equivalent of bread and wine was to debase, to un-English the very soul."
This is by no means an exclusively American phenomenon. (Before anybody was producing captivity narratives in the New World, Englishmen were printing memoirs of their alleged experiences in the hands of the Barbary pirates.) But the story is well ingrained in our culture, and it is tied up—as Slotkin's reference to "the Indian's love" implies—with a bunch of sexual anxieties. One particularly lurid branch of the captivity-story family tree is the series of white slavery narratives that flourished in the early 20th century. These books, films, and articles offered sensationalist accounts of women coerced into prostitution, often by the agents of a vast trafficking conspiracy.2013 Barbara Hewson Rights of accused are trampled, victims elevatedChandraSekhar AthF2014-10-11 | LSE Debate 'Is Rape Different' Barbara Hewson explains how the rights are being trampled2013 Rape Risk Minimization and Blame Assignment are orthogonalChandraSekhar AthF2014-08-11 | LSE Debate 'Is Rape Different'
1) Woman in the audience says: "If you talk about responsibility, you are essentially blaming the victim" Helen Reece: Risk Minimization and Blame are orthogonal. Barbara Hewson: There is Legal Responsibility and then there is Moral Responsibility. Conversation about Moral Responsibility is being stifled now.
2) Woman in audience thanks White Knight Nazir for saying that Rape is about power and control, and says: "Only increased risk factor is being a woman", Barbara Hewson: "except that men also get raped". Feminist Jennifer Temkin : "Woman vastly outnumber men as victims" Helen Reece: "And young sexually active women outnumber older women".2013 Helen Reece Societal Blaming-the-Victim is a feminist fabricationChandraSekhar AthF2014-08-02 | Feminist Fabrication: People blame rape victims, even when they believe them. Reality: There isn’t good evidence that people blame rape victims more than other crime victims. Public opinion surveys such as the Amnesty survey ask people if they think rape victims are ‘responsible’ and then treat responsibility as equivalent to blame. It isn’t. In fact, there is evidence that people tend to blame rape victims less than other crime victims; http://blog.oup.com/2013/07/myths-about-rape-myths/#sthash.HxfkaVCP.dpuf2011 VAWA: White Knight Dr Phil Testifies before congressChandraSekhar AthF2014-07-31 | Women and girls are victims, men are perpetrators.
White Knight Dr Phil's testimony is loaded with emotionally charged terms, and a picture of a child put up while he speaks. "10 million children will witness their mothers and sisters being beaten by intimate partners and family". "red tape means red blood is spilled at home"2012 VAWA renewal Senator Franken sheds crocodile tearsChandraSekhar AthF2014-07-31 | The proponents of VAWA include cops, prosecutors, career politicians, neofeminists and the brainwashed followers of any of the above who can’t be bothered to read something before giving it their support; they are personified by a comic actor-turned-legislator weeping crocodile tears and Republicans targeting throwaway additions about homosexuals and immigrants in order to call attention away from the flagrant civil rights violations they so desperately want to pass. Neofeminists are useful idiots to whom lawmakers cater because their rhetoric provides a Trojan horse for anti-civil rights measures, like a gigantic My Little Pony with which silly, brainwashed women are too enchanted to notice its dangerous payload. Take “No-Drop” policies; these are programs authorized and funded by VAWA which render women powerless to stop the machinery of injustice once an accusation of domestic violence is made. As soon as the woman (or in some states, anyone at all) calls the police to report an incident, the husband is arrested (no matter what the wife says, in many cases even if she is the aggressor) and prosecuted.
See Maggie McNeil http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/greeks-bearing-gifts1990s Michael Moore mocks MRM via strawman and conflationChandraSekhar AthF2014-07-11 | He conflates the MRM (represented by Hugh Nations of NCFM and Gary Costanza of National Center for Men) with New York Rifle Association and "White Men".. presumably all the men on the top.. politicians etc.1994 Egalitarian vs Feminist on Domestic Violence shelters for menChandraSekhar AthF2014-07-05 | Founder of First Domestic Violence Shelter for men, George Gilliland takes on feminist who says men have been controlling women for centuries via DV. i.e Patriarchy Theory and Duluth Model Battered Men Sounding Equal-Rights Battle Cry http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/20/us/battered-men-sounding-equal-rights-battle-cry.html
This video clip from video montage prepared by MRA 'buck dharma' a.k.a Gary Costanza youtube.com/watch?v=p9wbcyUii_42014 AriseTV Campus Sexual Assault Hysteria MRA vs FeministChandraSekhar AthF2014-07-04 | Dean Esmay of AVFM vs Laura Dunn founder of Survivor Justice2014 MSNBC goes bonkers over AVFM Mens Rights ConferenceChandraSekhar AthF2014-07-04 | How can 5 of the speakers be women? The existence of Tara Palmatier, handmaiden of Patriarchy, baffles MSNBC2014 Arthur Goldwag of SPLC: MHRM not a hate group, issues are legitChandraSekhar AthF2014-06-30 | At 5:32, Arthur Goldwag says the MHRM is NOT a hate group, their issues are legitimate, but the problem is that they are "misogynistic". What I Learned at the First International Men's Issues Conference http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arthur-goldwag/mens-issues-conference_b_5543418.html2014 Fox News women discuss feminism vs MRMChandraSekhar AthF2014-06-30 | Given the feminist side is represented by Zerlina Maxwell, how come former Miss America Kirsten Haglund, born 1988, is worthy of representing the other side?
Hey Zerlina, here's some feminist hate speech for you. Does the MRM "hate speech" measure up?
"If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males." — Mary Daly, philosopher and former professor at Boston College (women's studies and others); "No Man's Land"; What Is Enlightenment? (Fall/Winter 1999)
"The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race." — Sally Miller Gearhart, author and former professor of women's studies at San Francisco State University; The Future - If There Is One - Is Female (1981)
"[The falsely accused] have a lot of pain, but it is not a pain that I would necessarily have spared them. I think it ideally initiates a process of self-exploration. 'How do I see women?' 'If I did not violate her, could I have?' ... Those are good questions." — Catherine Comins, assistant dean of students at Vassar College; TIME Magazine (June 3 1992)
"Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated." — Catharine MacKinnon, philospher and professor at three universities, presently University of Michigan; A Rally Against Rape (1981)2014 Fox News Detroit MRA vs FeministChandraSekhar AthF2014-06-08 | MRA Dean Esmay Gender Studies and Sociology professor Heather Dillaway of Wayne State University on upcoming International Mens Rights conference1992 False Allegation of Sexual Harassment: Feminists say its rare, OK coz historical oppressionChandraSekhar AthF2014-04-03 | http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/25/nyregion/daniels-wood-more-opinions-than-facts.html
0:30 GOSSIP of workplace harassment 5 YEARS EARLIER by accuser Barbara Wood forces accused Randy Daniels to withdraw from political race. Journalist asks: Why did you quit the political race if you were not guilty? 3:55 Feminist Attorney Cecil Wench says that he should have faced the investigation. 5:00 Defense attorney says "No specifics were ever mentioned by the accuser. What day, what was done" 6:00 Host says "Why were proto-accusations made 5 years earlier but not pursued further" 8:20 Accused explains how the accuser changed the story from harassment at workplace to harassment in subway, after counter evidence was provided. 9:20 Woman in audience says "He resigned, so he must be guilty" 10:50 Rabbi explains how any man in authority position can be undermined simply by accusation of sexual harassment. Randi Daniels explains that he bowed out of the race for multiple reasons, including impact on political race of his boss the mayor.
14:28 MRA Mel Feit talks about the new McCarthyism in SOCIAL CLIMATE of sexual harassment 16:15 Man imprisoned for 16 months in prison on false charges speaks out 18:40 "Typical male reaction" Feminist attorney says since time immemorial women have been raped. 21:20 Defense Attorney explains how the allegations may have been escalated by political rivals.
23:50 Woman argues that sexual abuse and harassment have been prevalent in society, and only now woman are beginning to raise charges. False charges are a minority and we should not be focusing on those. The 18 months of imprisonment a man underwent on false charges is bad, but MUCH WORSE are the decades women have suffered for harassment.
27:15 Anne from National Organization of Women says accuser has nothing to gain financially from leveling these accusations. So why would she do it? 28:30 Attorney explains ANOTHER TYPE of false allegations: (Faked) injuries allegedly caused due to assault by a police officer 33:00 Man accused of child abuse for it speaks up 34:30 Rabbi explains child abuse case against him and his wife due to accident that broke his child's leg. NJ State machinery is immune to being sued in this field.2013 Slut Shaming of Teens: Judgy Bitch vs Julie Bindel & other FeminazisChandraSekhar AthF2014-03-14 | http://voiceofrussia.com/uk/2013_01_29/Slut-shaming-valid-trend A trend known as 'slut-shaming' has emerged on the internet in recent years. Posting on social networking sites such as Facebook, Tumblr or Twitter, teenage girls -- and sometimes boys -- humiliate girls for the way they dress or look, which they say is 'sluttish'. Voice Of Russia UK's Tom Spender hosts a heated debate.
Sometimes these posts are accompanied by photos of the girl being targeted and attract scores of harsh comments, causing serious distress to the girl in question and leading to accusations of cyber-bullying. There are cases in which slut-shaming is said to have led to suicide.
So is slut-shaming an understandable reaction against the excessive sexualisation of young girls in Western culture, or is it a disturbing occurrence of girls propping up an age-old sexist order that seeks to control female sexuality?
VoR's Tom Spender discusses with Julie Bindel, a freelance journalist and co-founder of the group Justice For Women; Rhiannon Cosslett, co-founder and editor of Vagenda magazine; the anti-feminist blogger Judgy Bitch; and Soraya Chemaly, a feminist writer and media critic.2013 Camille Paglia: Feminism is moribundChandraSekhar AthF2014-03-09 | 1) Nature, not males or society, puts burden on women via pregnancy, nursing. 2) Women know who they are by puberty. Men must prove themselves again and again. 3) Feminism is propaganda, divorced from biology. Its a critique by middle-upper class women of middle-upper class men. Feminists dont recognize their own class bias. 4) Alfred Hitchcock had a better understanding of sexy women. Real Housewives demonstrates how beautiful women relate to each other. Women dress for other women, not men.1999 Helena Cronin vs Germaine Greer: Different outcomes for men and womenChandraSekhar AthF2014-02-17 | More dumbbells but more Nobels: Why men are at the top What gives rise to the most salient, contested and misunderstood of sex differences... differences that see men persistently walk off with the top positions and prizes, whether influence or income, whether heads of state or CEOs... differences that infuriate feminists, preoccupy policy-makers, galvanize legislators and spawn 'diversity' committees and degrees in gender studies?
I used to think that these patterns of sex differences resulted mainly from average differences between men and women in innate talents, tastes and temperaments. After all, in talents men are on average more mathematical, more technically minded, women more verbal; in tastes, men are more interested in things, women in people; in temperaments, men are more competitive, risk-taking, single-minded, status-conscious, women far less so. And therefore, even where such differences are modest, the distribution of these 3 Ts among males will necessarily be different from that among females — and so will give rise to notable differences between the two groups. Add to this some bias and barriers — a sexist attitude here, a lack of child-care there. And the sex differences are explained. Or so I thought.
But I have now changed my mind. Talents, tastes and temperaments play fundamental roles. But they alone don't fully explain the differences. It is a fourth T that most decisively shapes the distinctive structure of male — female differences. That T is Tails — the tails of these statistical distributions. Females are much of a muchness, clustering round the mean. But, among males, the variance — the difference between the most and the least, the best and the worst — can be vast. So males are almost bound to be over-represented both at the bottom and at the top. I think of this as 'more dumbbells but more Nobels'. http://edge.org/response-detail/106702000 Helena Cronin: Feminism argues for sameness, not fairnessChandraSekhar AthF2014-02-17 | Getting Human Nature Right http://www.edge.org/conversation/getting-human-nature-right This kind of thinking applied to sex differences has led to deep hostility to the very idea of evolved differences between women and men. And feminists in particular have led this opposition. Of course, 'feminism' covers a multitude of views. There's often not much in common between the unreconstructed Marxists of the British Left, the 'post-modern' jargon-generators and the CEO who's flicking shards of glass ceiling from her padded shoulders. But one thing on which most schools of feminism agree is that they're anti-Darwinian. Even the so-called 'difference' feminists, who 'celebrate' 'us' versus 'them', prefer to invent differences rather than defer to science. I find it all very dismaying — and, as a Darwinian and a feminist, doubly dismaying.2014 Wendy McElroy on Feminist research falsification, college rape hysteriaChandraSekhar AthF2014-02-07 | Individualist Feminist Wendy McElroy discusses Domestic Violence Research Falsification and Govt exploitation, on Dr Laura show.
1) Johns Hopkins RN Jacklyn Campbell allegedly falsified data that resulted in demonization of Black Males. http://ncfm.org/2014/01/news/uncategorized/update-on-eric-holder-and-the-false-information-that-remains-on-the-doj-website Attorney Eric Holder's false statistic is traced to several published journal articles, whose lead author is Jacquelyn C. Campbell, PhD, RN, and the Anna D. Wolf Professor in the School of Nursing at Johns Hopkins University. Her faculty website lists "intimate partner violence" as one of her main areas of expertise. In Professor Campbell's co-authored July 2003 article "Risk Factors for Femicide in Abusive Relationships: Results From a Multisite Case Control Study" in the American Journal of Public Health, Campbell and her co-authors make the statement "Femicide, the homicide of women, is the leading cause of death in the United States among young African-American women aged 15 to 45 years."
FEMINIST involvement http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/12/01/gloria_steinem_represents_the_worst_of_modern_feminism_120818.html The victimhood cult: In Steinem's case, the fixation on the sexual victimization of women and girls has led the activist into some strange places, such as the active promotion of "recovered memories" of sexual abuse. E. Sue Bloom's 1990 book, Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and Its Aftereffects in Women, which prominent journalist Joan Acocella termed "one of the most outrageous [recovered memory] manuals," bore a blurb from Steinem claiming that it could "set millions free" by encouraging them to explore hidden memories of molestation. She is also implicated in a particularly bizarre offshoot of the "recovered memory" movement, the panic over supposedly rampant satanic ritual abuse. In 1993, Ms., the magazine founded by and closely associated with Steinem, ran a lurid piece titled "Surviving the Unbelievable," a supposed firsthand account by a woman who had grown up in a Satanic cult.) Left-wing critics such as Alexander Cockburn and Debbie Nathan have identified the radical feminist establishment, and Steinem in particular, as major contributors to the ritual abuse hysteria of the 1980s and '90s.
Letter to Influential Feminist of the Time Katha Pollit for her complicity in the Hysteria http://www.counterpunch.org/1999/10/26/katha-s-silence Katha's Silence by Alexander Cockburn2013 Camille Paglia Feminism failed to see history fairly or clearlyChandraSekhar AthF2014-01-21 | From the Munk Debates2012 Parental Alienation & Child Abduction: Australian Govt in collusion with motherChandraSekhar AthF2013-12-25 | More details of the case from an Australian: http://masculistfeminist.hubpages.com/hub/Two-High-Profile-Cases-Of-Divorce-And-Family-Break-Up-Reported-By-Australian-60-Minutes1973 60 Minutes Rewind Runaway wivesChandraSekhar AthF2013-12-23 | Many women abandon their husband and children in the early days of 2nd Wave feminism. Some apparently didnt want Alimony, and even "split" the children.2000: Husbands thrown in jail by mere accusation by wifeChandraSekhar AthF2013-12-23 | Misuse of Domestic Violence Law. 1) THE CASE OF HARRY STEWART: Sent to jail for "violence" when dropping 5-yo son back at ex-wife's home and ex-wife wouldnt open the door for son, so he cracked open the door for him. He opted to go to prison rather than cop a deal that would brand him a "violent abuser" 2) The case of DENNIS WATTS: Wife took a new man, took kids with her. Filed restraining order by alleging that Watts "threatened to take away her kids"! Sent to jail 5 times for "violating" Restraining Order when waving at kids seen in the distance at Mall, etc 3) The case of (Emergency Physician) PETER DiMATTEO: Thrown out of House by cops coz Wife filed for Divorce and Restraining Order at same time, where she says "she is afraid how he may react".
RADICAL Feminist NANCY SCANNEL says "Fathers Rights activists are angry at women's new found power. Fathers want to hold on to Right to control wives"
Ross Jeffries PUA Mel Feit MRA Bruce Weinstein Feminist1992 Camille Paglia trashes Gloria Steinem wing of feminismChandraSekhar AthF2013-11-29 | Camille Paglia talks Gloria Steinem feminism vs 1920-30s Feminism, on Later with Bob Costas2006 Self Made Man: Norah Vincent chooses Female Privilege over Male PrivilegeChandraSekhar AthF2013-11-18 | Lesbian Feminist Norah Vincent lives as a man for 18 months, goes nuts and is happy to get back to life as a woman. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2006 Review by NYTimes 'Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again,' by Norah Vincent http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/22/books/review/22kamp.html?_r=0
Vincent's status as a woman is what makes her observations of male behavior fresh - introducing herself to some guys in a bowling league, she's touched by the ritual howyadoin', man-to-man handshake, which, "from the outside . . . had always seemed overdone to me," but from the inside strikes her as remarkably warm and inclusive, worlds away from the "fake and cold" air kisses and limp handshakes exchanged by women. But in its best moments, "Self-Made Man" transcends its premise altogether, offering not an undercover woman's take on male experience, but simply a fascinating, fly-on-the-wall look at various unglamorous male milieus that are well off the radar of most journalists and book authors.
That bowling league, for example. Norah-as-Ned commits to it for eight months, becoming the weak link on a four-man team of working-class white men. (Vincent has changed the names of the characters and obscured the locations to protect the identities of her subjects.) The resultant chapter is as tender and unpatronizing a portrait of America's "white trash" underclass as I've ever read. "They took people at face value," writes Vincent of Ned's teammates, a plumber, an appliance repairman and a construction worker. "If you did your job or held up your end, and treated them with the passing respect they accorded you, you were all right." Neither dumb lugs nor proletarian saints, Ned's bowling buddies are wont to make homophobic cracks and pay an occasional visit to a strip club, but they surprise Vincent with their lack of rage and racism, their unflagging efforts to improve Ned's atrocious bowling technique and "the absolute reverence with which they spoke about their wives," one of whom is wasting away from cancer.
The dating adventures are the most breathtaking. Ned is on the receiving end of women's boring, self-pitying monologues and endless tirades about what bastards men are. His dates all suspect he is as bad as the rest of them: 'They made every man they met into a wolf, even when that man was a woman.'
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Norah Vincent is a "conservative lesbian" journalist who for a year and a half, dressed as a man and to explore gender identity. Written in a very accessible and witty manner, Self Made Man is a fascinating, if problematic, read. While the anecdotes she shares of her experiences seductively draw you in to the story, the conclusions that Vincent draws based on her own observations and interactions are painted with far too broad of brushstrokes. Dangerously essentialist, she writes about masculinity as if it were a solid, eternal, and universal thing, rather than fluid and personal. She shoves aside the way it intersects with race, class, and other axises of identity. Bowling leagues, strip clubs, and first dates are interesting places to explore versions of masculinity, but it's not as if these can hold the truth about what it means To Be a Man across time and space and within different cultures.
The merit in this book is it's premise: masculinity is confining. But instead of dismantling gender stereotypes, it reinforces them. As someone who would never be able to pass as a man, I found it interesting to read about the experiences of someone who did, but it was not enlightening. I'd recommend this book with reservations. As long as you don't go lucking for The Truth about Men, it's an engrossing read. -------------------------------------------------------------------------
A few new details and callers including a transsexual detailing their experiences having undergone the switch. Norah initially believed that "women are more evolved than men(!)" LOL. She subscribed to gender as a social construct, but now thinks its also in the brain. She finally says that "men should express their feminine side more".Girl Writes What on Angel Clark ShowChandraSekhar AthF2013-11-15 | The Angel Clark Show With Girl Writes What Talking About Feminism And The Disposable Male -- Episode 186 -- 5/02/12
-uploaded in HD at http://www.TunesToTube.comShe wanted sex at 14, wrong to criminalize boys for her decisionChandraSekhar AthF2013-11-12 | If the State & Society is going to punish underage sex, then PUNISH BOTH. This video shows that girls are pushing for sex too.
PS: This is not me LOL I am just mirroring something I found on the internetAtheist Social Justice Warrior vs ChristianChandraSekhar AthF2013-06-30 | How Not To Defend Atheism Credit to: Brian Erwin who filmed this. His channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/beatz02 Barefoot jogging atheist takes on Christianity in Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley!