Category: Men and Women
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Other Than Bring One Of The World’s Great Countries Back From The Brink Of Suicide, I Mean…
The Smartest Woman Ever and her daughter, Chelsea “The Ryan Winkler Of New York” Clinton, wrote a book about great women. And of course – you could see this coming – they left out “arguably” the greatest woman of the 20th Century. Hillary and Chelsea Clinton haven’t included Margaret Thatcher in their book of “gutsy”…
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#MeThree
This is from a few years ago – but the sentiment is growing, at least among our self-appointed idiot elite. It’s from Roxane Gay, a feminist professor who, for some reason, got a writeup in the NYTimes: Men can start putting in some of the work women have long done in offering testimony. They can…
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The New Victorians
140 years ago, VIctorian manners were deferential to women, as befits behavior toward a weaker sex that needed to be protected. Apparently, we’ve regressed: a Kansas woman charged with falsely accusing an ex-boyfriend of rape won’t be prosecuted, because… …well… The woman was arrested for making a false accusation, even though she told police she…
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What’s With All The Rhetorical Questions Lately?
Why isn’t Trump getting credit for this? Joe Doakes Heh. Along those lines: while I’m the Twin Cities’ best feminist, I am actually 104% male, so I have to wonder; do women ever feel patronized by all the “First Female…” <fill in the event> hype? Especially given that the event took place on the shoulders…
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Toxic Not-Masculine-Enough-ity
According to at least one bit of research (qualify accordingly), turns out testosterone isn’t linked with rage and other mood problems. On the other hand, this factoid is cited as an apparent part of the ongoing effort by Big Lefty Culture to erase the perception of differences between the sexes, so there’s that.
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Unintended-Yet-Inevitable Consequences
When I was in high school, it was generally (although not universally) known that making gay kids “act straight” – in other words, forcing them to be what they aren’t – could cause long-lasting irreparable damage. This was decades ago. Society spends thirty years treating “boyhood” as a pathology, often treatable (i.e. suppressible) with medication.…
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Monetized Feminism
“Feminist” attorneys Gloria Allred and her daughter Lisa Bloom – the Godmothers of woke law – managed to profit from silencing Harvey Weinstein’s critics. Amazingly enough, the NYTimes actually reports – unflatteringly – on a couple of feminist icons. I guess defending Weinstein voids the immunity…
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“Play Like A Girl”
As the Twin Cities’ best feminist, I have to ask my fellow, if lesser, feminists – do you all get tired of being pandered to in the guise of “equity”? New Monopoly game gives women a “head start” in the name of “equal pay”: Hasbro wants to take the conversation over the gender pay gap…
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Negotiation
If women’s soccer players don’t get equal pay, they’ll quit playing. Then people who don’t watch womens soccer won’t be able to watch womens soccer. That will show them!! Joe Doakes It’s fascinating, to me, watching people who clearly have no idea how the free market works, trying to engage in the free market. This…
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Statement On The Matter Of Megan Rapinoe
Megan Rapiinoe isn’t boring and irrelevant to me because she’s a women’s soccer player and a “progressive”. She’s boring and irrelevant to me because she’s a soccer player and a “progressive”. Glad we could settle that.
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An Intellectual 0-0 Tie
It’s the aftermath of the Independence Day weekend. It’s July, and the Twins are seriously in contention. We shouldn’t HAVE to think about Soccer. I’d hope that we are better, as a society, than that. Our forefathers fought and died so that we’d be *free* of things like Eurovision, parliamentary government, and soccer. And this…
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Mistakes
Women decry absent fathers, deadbeat dads, lack of male role models in modern families. Liberals don’t acknowledge that’s the cause of crime because a woman is just as good a man at everything, right?They forget that the massive rise in broken homes is due to no fault divorce, which feminists demanded so they could escape…
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Damned If The U Of M Does, Doesn’t
Program at the U of M helps transgender women…sound like women…: “Every time [“Alice”, the transgender woman who is one of this story’s subjects] called [her grandmother] in high school, she would say, ‘Oh, your voice is getting deeper, you sound like you’re growing into such a nice man, you’re going to be like your…
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Sprinting To Confusion
I’m a User Experience Architect. If for some reason I decided to take two years to become an abstract sculptor – well, Mazel Tov for me, but barring some pretty significant Contract-Fu on my part, I’m not going to get paid to be a User Experience Architect. Or sculptor, to be honest, but that’s skirting…
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Stomping Their Impeccably-Shod Feet
As I’ve noted in the past in this blog, I am Minnesota’s best feminist. Now, let’s be honest – I did it, back in blogging’s heyday (from about 2004 throug about 2009) mostly to troll lesser feminists; watching commenters at shriekblogs like “Mercury Rising” rage and thunder against a conservative guy declaring himself the “best…
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Question Authority
The one question people never ask about transgender athletic competition is why. Why do we have separate Boys’ and Girls’ sports? If boys and girls are identical in every way that matters, with lifestyle differences simply a matter of personal choice that can be changed at whim, why don’t we have one competition for all?Minnesota…
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Affirmative Consent
Minnesota’s New Puritans trying to make college sex “safe” might destroy it, instead. The proposed legislation says consent to a sexual act must be given by words or actions that create mutually understandable, unambiguous permission regarding willingness to engage in, and the conditions of, sexual activity. It goes on to say that consent may be withdrawn…
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The Black And Pink Cloud
Is it just me, or are people getting worse? I worked at a job once upon a time – decades before #MeToo – where the boss took a lot of indecent liberties, verbally if not physically, with the women at work. This was in the 1980s. And he wound up as the subject of seven…
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Somewhere, Bobby Riggs Is Smiling
I’m not the only one that figures that Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is setting back feminism half a decade or more: In mere minutes, Ocasio-Cortez managed to affirm nearly every negative stereotype about the female sex, from the trope that we’re no good at math to the notion that you shouldn’t trust us with a credit card. If…
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Disparity Of Power
Feminists have spent the last forty years convincing men thatn “no means no”. So far so good. They’ve spent a chunk of the last fifteen convincing first universities, then courts, that a “no”, even one applied retroactively and contradictorily, hours or days or months after the fact, really meant “no” even if it was an…
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Fet Ish
British “socialist dominatrix” claims to turn “white, right wing” men into socialists. For many of her clientele, who are almost exclusively white right-wing men because she finds herself unable “to be even fictionally cruel to any other type of man,” Of course they are, and of course she does. that fetish is serving a powerful…
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The Sixty Year Old Strawman
Liberal feminists seem to be perpetually lodged in battle with men from the Mad Men generation… …er, wherever they are: Feminist author Jessica Valenti was pretty impressed with a piece in Glamour about a woman who has sworn off cooking for men now that her divorce has come through. “I stopped cooking because I wanted to feel…
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A Plug
I’ve been reading “The Girls Are Gone”, by my old friend and former NARN co-host Michael Brodkorb and Allison Mann. Do I recommend it? Why, yes I do! This case goes over so much material near and dear to my heart – family court reform, the bizarre “Judicial Election” cult in Minnesota, Michelle MacDonald in…
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Dead Lock
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I now know as much as I need to know, to cast an informed vote in the governor’s race. Joe doakes The missive relates to this mailer: Leaving aside the Orwellian use of “Health” to refer to dismembering fetuses, I just want to smack Democrats for making up “rights”…
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Thoroughly Modern
SCENE: Mitch BERG is waiting for the train at University and Hamline. Suddenly, a group of 20 through 60-something women with protest signs and pink “feline” caps rushes across the street, waving signs and chanting chants. One of them is Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK, a twenty-something graduate of Saint Olaf, and of Camp Wellstone. She works as…