{"id":68683,"date":"2018-12-03T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68683"},"modified":"2018-12-03T05:27:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:27:52","slug":"commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68683","title":{"rendered":"Fet Ish"},"content":{"rendered":"

British “socialist dominatrix” claims to turn “white, right wing” men into socialists<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For many of her clientele, who are almost exclusively white right-wing men because she finds herself unable \u201cto be even fictionally cruel to any other type of man,\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course<\/em> they are, and of course<\/em> she does.<\/p>\n

that fetish is serving a powerful woman. Maybury derives her pleasure comes from forcing those men to see the contradiction between their love of powerful women and their support for political parties that actively work to limit women\u2019s rights and empowerment. In her book,\u00a0Dining with Humpty Dumpty<\/em>, she detailed conversations with a man she said exhibited the \u201cdisgusting contradiction\u201d of claiming to be both \u201ca \u2018female supremacist\u2019 and a Tory.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A cursory Google search of Ms. Maybury shows no indication that she’s actually successfully “converted” anyone, but that she\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the sort of D-list pseudo-academic (but increasingly, academic) “celebrity” that does pop up on NPR “arts and culture” programming often enough to get talked about…<\/p>\n

…and this post would indicate it worked.<\/p>\n

Some of my “progressive” friends over the weekend were chortling over this one, naturally, the way they usually do over this sort of pseudo-story.<\/p>\n

My first reaction:\u00a0 it says more about the nature of socialist men than about “right wing white” guys; they make Pajama Boy look like Chuck Norris.<\/p>\n

The second?\u00a0 \u00a0This is such a complement to Berg’s Seventh Law that I am inaugurating a new one:\u00a0 The Maybury Corollary to Berg’s Seventh Law.\u00a0<\/strong> To wit<\/a>:\u00a0\u00a0When a “progressive” makes a mocking or defamatory pronoucement about the deviance, depravity, deceit, dissipation or lack of a conservative’s sexuality, it is invariably a combination of their own insecurities and what they desperately want\u00a0to believe about those who believe differently than them.<\/em><\/p>\n

Progs\u00a0want\u00a0<\/em>to believe that all it takes to convert a conservative male into a socialist…er, being is a little highly-stylized pseudo-sex from a modern pseudo-academic phrenologist.<\/p>\n

And perception is reality, among the “evidence-based” set.<\/p>\n

But it’s called Berg’s Law for a reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u201cto be even fictionally cruel to any other type of man,\u201d Of course they are, and of course she does. that fetish is serving a powerful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,387],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-the-sexual-cultural-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68698,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68683\/revisions\/68698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}