Robert Stacy McCain does a preliminary sendup of an article on feminist dating by a leftist woman.
The inlines belong to McCain As does the pic Lisa Bonos (@lisabonos) has published a column headlined “How to find a feminist boyfriend” that reads like an Onion parody:
“I find it really attractive how successful you are,” my date said, leaning in for a kiss.
Sure, it sounds like a line. But it also sounds like feminism. . . . (No, it’s a line. Trust me.)
[W]hat I want a partner to be: cute, smart, funny and … yes, feminist. So go ahead, alert Susan Patton, Lori Gottlieb and the rest of the get-married-already crowd: A 30-something single woman, eggs unfrozen, is telling other single women that they should dare to want it all if they ever hope to have it all. . . . (Hint: If you’re a “30-something single woman,” you’ll be lucky if you get to have any of it, much less “have it all.”)
But how do you spot a male feminist if he’s not at an abortion rights rally wearing a “This Is What a Feminist Looks Like” T-shirt?
It shouldn’t be hard. After all, as Aziz Ansari said on David Letterman’s show recently, everyone’s a feminist now. Unless you think Beyonce shouldn’t have the right to vote, should earn 23 percent less than Jay-Z and should be at home cooking rather than performing. And who would think that?
Few guys will proudly say no when asked if they’re feminists. . . . (Few guys who want to sleep with Lisa Bonos would say that, perhaps, but exactly how many guys want to sleep with Lisa Bonos?)
Instead it’s a wholehearted yes, a lukewarm maybe or Can you define what you mean by “feminist,” please? . . . (In some cases, it means “lonely bisexual English major.”)
Here’s how I’m defining it: Feminist daters — male or female, gay or straight — aren’t constrained by gender roles. Anyone can do the asking-out, the feelings-confessing or the initiating of any kind. (Perhaps you see why bisexual English majors are so often lonely.)
A feminist dater or boyfriend (and yes, feminists have boyfriends) is aware of the ways women have traditionally been held back, by others and by our own accord, and actively pushes against that. He’s sensitive to the fact that women’s bodies are frequently judged, abused and legislated, and takes no part in that. He gets it. . . . You can read the rest and “get it.” It’s really a Craigslist ad disguised as an op-ed column, a pseudo-defiant gesture typical of certain women who have wasted their 20s in a series of going-nowhere “relationships.” On Twitter, Kyle Smith offers an alternate headline:
How to remain single until you are Maureen Dowd’s age
Maybe I’ll come back with more snark later, but this column is just such a motherlode of nonsense, it needs a special touch.
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I tried to read it but realized it was one of the most selfish screeds ever written. It's almost pure Obama because it's real message is "ME ME ME ME ME ME ME"
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I'm thinking that if a lot of people hold the beliefs of Lisobonosmoonbeam, the culture will go the way of the Shakers. Men will just simply stop participating in the tripe and adopt a "flame is not worth the candle."
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I am so glad I met and married Warthog before a) online dating came about, and b) the meaning of feminism morphed from meaning equal opportunity to the degradation of the males of the species. Women like this Lisa person will never be happy. I love you Warthog.
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Frank, I requested data authentication of your comment about engineers with my wife, a summa cum laude science graduate of a major Midwestern university (4th in a class of ~850).
Your theory is confirmed (she didn't even have to use the Scientific Method).
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“I find it really attractive how successful you are,” my date said, leaning in for a kiss.
You fall for that one, honey, you deserve what you get. At least a couple of years of being a gravy train/second mommy to wussy boy.
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matt---you've been reading Day by Day Cartoon, too!
Affirmative Consent thread was a riot!
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Except, you know, she won't become a cat lady. She'll get artificial insemination and produce a couple of kids who, best case scenario, will need psychiatric help for the rest of their lives.
To combat the Great Recession and its long-lingering aftermath, leading central banks have pulled some $10 trillion out of thin air. Governments of the world’s principal economies have rung up almost $20 trillion in deficit spending. We often hear that the authorities have done too little. Perhaps they have done too much.
Not so long ago, the authorities did hardly anything. In response to the severe, little-known economic slump of the early 1920s, they virtually sat on their hands. It is an often forgotten episode that suggests the potential for constructive federal inaction—and underscores the healing power of Adam Smith ’s invisible hand.
Beginning in January 1920, something much worse than a recession blighted the world. The U.S. suffered the steepest plunge in wholesale prices in its history (not even eclipsed by the Great Depression), as well as a 31.6% drop in industrial production and a 46.6% fall in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Unemployment spiked, and corporate profits plunged.
What to do? “Nothing” was the substantive response of the successive administrations of Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding. Well, not quite nothing. Rather, they did what few 21st-century policy makers would have dared: They balanced the federal budget and—via the still wet-behind-the-ears Federal Reserve—raised interest rates rather than lowering them. Curiously, the depression ran its course. Eighteen months elapsed from business-cycle peak to business-cycle trough—following which the 1920s roared. More at the link
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Given the cooking of the books by the BLS, the Fed
and other agencies, I'm not all that sure the Depression is over. Given the number of people working two to three part time jobs to make ends meet, I believe that at best we are in a recession.
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Part of the problem is context. The popular image of the Great Depression is the gritty black and white pictures and film. Somewhere around three quarters of the work eligible population were employed. You didn't work, you went without the benefits of government food and housing welfare. Today, a lot of those people are dropped from the numbers the bureaucrats manipulate. So we're left with a false comparison.
[DAWN] THE traditionally secular nature of Baloch society has been under threat for some time, and things appear to be taking a turn for the worse. A report in this paper recently detailed the growing persecution of the small community of Zikris ? a little-known Islamic sect ? who are concentrated mainly in southern Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... . In July, several Zikris were maimed when a bus carrying members of the community was the target of a roadside kaboom in Khuzdar, and the following month their Khana-e-zikr in district Awaran was attacked. Six worshippers were killed and seven injured. Around 400 Zikris have moved out of the area after the incident. Members of the community have also been singled out in various cases of looting in Awaran and Turbat. These incidents have reportedly begun to vitiate the traditionally harmonious relationship between Zikris and other Moslem sects whose lives are often intertwined through ties of kinship.
Although the Zikris -- unlike the Hazaras -- are ethnic Baloch, there has been a consistent effort led by religious parties in the province to marginalise them on account of what are considered their unorthodox practices. These efforts gained further strength from regional developments, such as the Afghan war of the early '80s, which led to the proliferation of madressahs in the province churning out jihadis for the next-door theatre of war. Upon returning home, the governance void that has long been Balochistan allowed them to entrench themselves, and sow discord among the Baloch along religious lines. By doing so, they also served the interests of state elements cynically patronising ideologically-driven holy warrior groups to counter the Baloch insurgency which, like the society from which it arises, is secular in character. A people divided are, after all, easier to control. This provincial government, with its nationalist credentials and representative aspects, is better placed than many others to demonstrate a real understanding of the problems that bedevil the province. But it has yet to demonstrate it has the courage to do something about them.
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[DAWN] It has been more than six months now since the army launched operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... in North Wazoo, also described as terrorism's centre of gravity. But the fight to regain control of the tribal region is far from over as the winter sets in. The bully boyz are scattered in small bands, engaging the troops in hit-and-run encounters as Air Force jets continue to bomb suspected murderous Moslem hideouts.
Intense air bombing and heavy artillery fires have reduced Miranshah
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[Gatestone Institute] To prevent this Palestinian State that Europeans seem determined to push down our throats, many people are discussing a "Palestinian Spring" revolution. They simply do not know what else to do to protect ourselves from these "Goodists" of Europe.
Do they honestly think we will have better lives in a "Palestinian State"?
What we talk about is how the Europeans and their diplomats are paying our leaders to kill the Jews for them -- with their money but with our lives -- so that they can finish the job without getting their hands dirty and still keep on feeling good about themselves.
ISIS operatives are already in Egypt, ready to take over the Sinai Peninsula, and with their eyes set on Libya. Is this what the Europeans really want? Author Bassam Tawil, is a scholar based in the Middle East.
[Jpost] Many people were shocked when they first heard of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS), a small terrorist group that took over large parts of Iraq and Syria and declared itself a new caliphate in June 2014. The rise of IS-inspired terrorist activity in La Belle France, Canada and Australia has only enhanced this shock.
However,
P. 49 doesn't always cut off where I'd expect, darn it! List and explanation of myths will be found there, all 1300+ words of it.
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most of the obama admin still believes in those myths plus a few other doozies (e.g., that the Islamic State is not Islamic)
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I'd say to the writer: "No $h!t Sherlock." Indeed, most of the Obama administration suffers from terminal naivete and they do embrace these 4 myths. They tend to believe their own B.S.
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To combat the Great Recession and its long-lingering aftermath, leading central banks have pulled some $10 trillion out of thin air. Governments of the world’s principal economies have rung up almost $20 trillion in deficit spending. We often hear that the authorities have done too little. Perhaps they have done too much.
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