[Sonsowey]

Steve Sailer (Trigger Warning!) drops an interesting perspective on feminism:

We live in an era when females outperform males on average at a wide range of routine tasks, such as coloring within the lines, turning homework in on time, graduating from high school and college, not going to jail, pulling together marketing plans, not dying, and the like...

But 45 years into the latest era of feminist domination of the Megaphone, men continue to outperform women at most of the highest levels of achievement, which constitutes a crisis about which we need to be updated constantly...

Now, here’s a sensible suggest: that to do better at the highest levels, women need to respond to criticism more objectively. But of course, this nugget of good sense is buried under lots of feminism victimology and You Go Girlisms. Much of the appeal of feminism is that it encourages women to do what they always felt like doing anyway: take everything personally.


Looking back on a lifetime of feminism dominance of the media, I can recall distant eras when certain feminists tried to be logical, but those attempts alienated other feminists. So, today, feminism is whatever any woman is upset about. It doesn’t have to be consistent with what other feminists are upset about. It doesn’t even have to be consistent with whatever other things that particular feminist is upset about. All that matters is that whoever is bitching about whatever claims the mantle of Team Women.

http://www.unz.com/isteve/how-feminism-h...hievement/

[Basil Ransom]

Relevant:

"Sailer's Law of Female Journalism: The most heartfelt articles by female journalists tend to be demands that social values be overturned in order that, Come the Revolution, the journalist herself will be considered hotter-looking."

Although I think this is true of low status people of both sexes. I've long thought that MMOs like World of Warcraft are a way for the low status to build a world where they are high status.

[TheRookie]

Steve Sailer has posted some hilarious riffs on feminism lately. Here are a few of the latest.

Female Secret Service Agents Aren't Actually Buttkicking Babes Like in Blockbuster Movies

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From CBS News:

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The man who scaled the White House fence and was able to run through the front doors made it farther into the building than was previously reported, CBS News has learned.

The man, 42-year-old Omar J. Gonzalez, ran unobstructed for 70 yards across the front lawn of the White House before entering through the North Portico. On the way, he brushed by a Secret Service officer with a drawn gun, sources tell CBS News’ Bill Plante.

Gonzalez then proceeded to run through the entrance hall to the cross hall of the White House, past the staircase that leads up to the first family’s residence. He was confronted by a female Secret Service agent, who he overpowered

“Overpowered” is not good

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Wasn’t there a big feminist putsch a couple of years ago, using a prostitution scandal as a pretext, to turn the Secret Service over to female control? How’s that working out for the Obamas? Sounds like Michelle Obama’s feelings of feminist solidarity evaporated at the thought of her family being murdered in their home by some random male loony who can overpower a female Secret Service agent.

Feminism: "Feelings / Nothing more than Feelings"

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From The Nation, an article about how black feminists scream at white feminists and then other white feminists pile on those vicious racist white feminists. And how "trans" feminists can get very, very upset at the Vagina Monologues-type feminists who actually have vaginas.

Feminism Is Organized Not Getting the Joke

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What do women want? Women want two things:

- To be like other women (only better).

- For other women to be like them (not better).

The fashion-media complex supplies the means for pursuing the first objective, while various moralizing movements, such as Mrs. Grundyism in the past and the feminism-media complex today, supply the means for the second.

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For example, here’s another one of the shoes that Nine West suggests would be appropriate for a young mother to wear to the bus stop at 8 am to see her child off on his first day of kindergarten: the Angelica Gladiator Booties. Where she’s headed after she dries her tears is left unstated.

Obviously, like the entire campaign, this suggestion is tongue-in-cheek. But, “having it all” — a husband, a child, a home in a nice school district, and 4.5″ heels to maybe catch the eye of that hedge fund guy who drops his kid off for the same bus — is a fun fantasy for a lot of women that sells a whole lot of shoes.

The decline of wise women

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By now it should be clear that a large fraction of lesbians will always have obtuse and self-serving theories about what pretty girls need: Young women should stop wasting time mooning over boys and instead follow the leadership of strong women (perhaps into bed). As Betty Friedan lamented in the 1970s about the fate of her National Organization for Women, feminist organizations tend to get taken over by lesbian cabals.

[Sp5]

I feel sorry for feminists. What other doctrine tries to fight both God and Darwin?

[TheWastelander]

(09-30-2014 09:24 AM)TheRookie Wrote:  

The decline of wise women

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By now it should be clear that a large fraction of lesbians will always have obtuse and self-serving theories about what pretty girls need: Young women should stop wasting time mooning over boys and instead follow the leadership of strong women (perhaps into bed). As Betty Friedan lamented in the 1970s about the fate of her National Organization for Women, feminist organizations tend to get taken over by lesbian cabals.

Here's another good quote from that post:

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Mature female wisdom is a valuable societal resource. If you want advice on an interpersonal problem that is baffling you, the single most likely demographic segment to understand the various human perspectives involved is older women, especially ones who had fathers in their lives, brothers, husbands, and/or sons so that they have sympathetic experience with how males think.

Unfortunately, we're going to have the dumbest, most self-centered grandmothers in history.

Of course I disagree with his point about their wisdom being a valuable societal resource for men. For younger women in times past, maybe.

But the mental image of selfie-taking, tatted up, pierced old hags conjured up by that last sentence made me laugh.