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Middle class white ladies and the ‘N’ word On hysterics.
I’m not a huge fan of the n word and while I can’t say I have never used the word, I can most certainly claim that I very infrequently utter that word, and I have never directed it at a specific person of any race. Typically, I’m a Gwyneth Paltrow user of the n word, singing along when my friends are in Paris and they’re going gorillas, but otherwise, I eschew the verbiage. Why? I’m perfectly comfortable with the original iteration of the n word, which would be negro. That’s simply the Spanish or Italian word for ‘black’ and it offends me in no way. I’m also usually quite delighted…
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It’s time to pay our best women to have children Here's how it would work.
One of the most obvious solutions to our declining birth rate across the West is to simply pay women to have children. Cash for kids. My main problem with this scheme is that it is also glaringly obvious we don’t want all women to have children, and we certainly are not going to pay cash money for all women to have children. We want the best women to have children, and we should be prepared to pay for that. But who gets to decide which women are the best, and what happens to the women who don’t make the grade? Let’s deal with the first issue: who decides which are the…
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The only person who can hurt your feelings is YOU Words can’t hurt you unless you let them.
Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me. It’s a familiar refrain to most of us, and within the sentiment is an idea absolutely vital to any kind of functioning democracy (or any functioning society, really): there is an irreducible distinction between being physically hurt and having your feelings hurt and this demarcation must be absolute. Physiological versus psychological. Objective versus subjective. The blurring of these categories leads to all kinds of terrible consequences, because totalitarianism, and a violent one at that, is the only possible outcome. Both the right and the left practice blurred lines to some degree, but I see the major impetus…
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Was Anthony Bourdain facing a #MeToo allegation? The very women he purported to love and respect would dance like banshee witches on his corpse if it turned out that one of their sisters had the fury of a woman scorned.
Even though I have never particularly cared for Anthony Bourdain’s swaggering, leftie, virtue-signalling persona – his holier-than-thou pretentiousness about how much he loved and admired and respected women while banging starlets half his age – and good for him, it’s the hypocrisy I resent, not the younger women – I was still saddened this morning to hear of his death, apparently by suicide. Bourdain was a well-kept, attractive man with a hugely charismatic personality and a great penchant for storytelling, as well as a formidable appetite for wine and women. It took my mind all of two seconds to wonder if Bourdain was not about to get slaughtered by his…
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It’s true: only men pay tax Men – all men – support women – all women – whether they like it or not.
A study from New Zealand shows fairly definitively that we (women), as a group, don’t pay any taxes. Sure, we file tax documents and have taxes deducted from our paychecks and pay out consumer taxes at the cash register, just like men do, but in the final tally, uh…well, look at this: GROSS TAX PAID + BENEFITS CLAIMED = NET TAXES PAID Let me explain. If you pay out, say, $100 every paycheck to the IRS, but every month, you claim $200 in benefits, you have not paid a single penny in tax. In fact, you have claimed twice what you have paid. You are $100 up, and the rest…
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Strange fruit: when women lied and men died History's interjection to the notion that #MeToo accusers are incapable of lying or being motivated by malice or financial gain.
From 1882 – 1968, an estimated 4,743 men were lynched in the United States, often after an accusation of rape, prompting the NAACP to claim ‘[w]hites started lynching because they felt it was necessary to protect white women’. We now know that many of these women lied, and men died. Emmet Till was only 14 years old when he was beaten to death for the crime of ‘whistling at a white woman’. Many years later, Carolyn Brant admitted that she lied, to protect her husband. They went on to profit financially from the boy’s death. Till was hardly alone. A mob of 1500 beat and hung three Black circus workers…
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Melbourne U limiting academic appointments to women is a disaster—for women It’s going to do exactly the opposite of what they hope for.
In an effort to promote the tired, stale and just plain wrong idea that women and men are equally capable of, and equally interested in university level mathematics and statistics, Melbourne University in Australia has limited three academic appointments to women applicants only. The head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Professor Aleks Owczarek, said the decision had been taken to promote change. “We clearly have an issue with attracting female applicants appropriately to our workforce,” Professor Owczarek said. “So this is an agenda to attempt to address that.” It’s going to do exactly the opposite of what they hope for. See, here’s the thing: in every occupational category,…
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The art of the deal, according to Kesha the ditz I can’t think of a better strategy to limit economic and social opportunities for women than what this dumbo is trying to pull off with Dr Luke and the courts.
Imagine being 18 years old. You’re reasonably slender, you have the blonde good looks popular culture loves, you have sufficient vocal chops to pass for a singer (thanks, autotune!) and a quirky, edgy, but not threatening persona to go along with those things. And then you meet one of the most astonishingly successful producers on the planet. And he signs you to a multimillion dollar album deal with Sony. He’s demanding. He doesn’t care what your musical sensibilities are. He knows what makes a great song, and he’s invested millions of dollars into making sure you deliver what he knows the market wants. Meet Kesha and Dr. Luke, at the…
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Bring on the sexbots Sexbots will increase the market value of good women. Here's how.
Economics is often called ‘the dismal science’, and having sat through graduate level courses in Economics as part of my MBA, I can verify that claim. I found economics to be incredibly frustrating because it can articulate grand concepts like supply, demand, consumption, distribution and production, but higher order analysis is founded on two completely wrong assumptions. First, economic analysis assumes that people act in their own self-interest always, and it assumes people have all the relevant information they need to make a decision. Clearly, these two assumptions are wildly, grossly incorrect: people do not always act in their own self-interest (which is why Donald Trump will be the next…
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Feminists don’t challenge radical Islam because real misogynists are terrifying Hypocrites.
Phyllis Chesler has a piece up at the New York Post demanding to know why feminists refuse to challenge radical Islam in any of its manifestations. The Middle East and Western Africa are burning; Iran is raping female civilians and torturing political prisoners; the Pakistani Taliban are shooting young girls in the head for trying to get an education and disfiguring them with acid if their veils are askew — and yet, NOW passed no resolution opposing this. What is going on? Chesler diagnoses rampant feminist cowardice, and she is quite correct. Feminists are largely spoiled, middle-class white girls unaccustomed to concepts like accountability or responsibility, and courage is a…