Amanda Marcotte Should Really Look at What She Writes, Her Words desribe her to a T.

Amanda Marcotte, the famous ex blogger for John Edwards, who is known for curse filled, hateful diatribes against anyone who is not in her small box definition of feminism, recently placed a quote on her blog that I find absolutely hilarious.  Hilariosu because the quote describes her and the people like her so well, that the irony is almost gut-wrenching.  Here is the quote:

“The most predominant mentality in right-wing discourse finds expression in this form:  “I am part of/was born into Group X, and Group X—my group—is better than all others yet treated so very unfairly.” This claim persists—indeed, is often intensified— even when Group X is clearly the strongest, most privileged and most favored group.  So intense is their need for self-victimization—so inebriating is their self-absorption and so lacking are they in any capacity for empathy—that, for all the noise and rhetoric, the arguments they make virtually always have this tribalistic self-absorption at its core.”

Obviously, Amanda is not a member of the right wing, but her Group X, women fits the description so well.  Women are the dominant performers in school and college, get all the cool scholarships, grants, legislation, and benefits that go with schooling that men are denied.  They are the rulers in the home, with the right to the kids and the finances if the marriage goes badly, have all the reproductive health options compared to only one for men.  Clearly they are the dominant, most privileged, and most favored group in many ways.

And clear is their need for self victimization.  They want the family, but the career too and wonder why the unmarried males who don’t have kids to take care of get the promotions in an industry that requires sacrifice to get ahead and be the leader.  They cry foul that its too hard to get a rape conviction when sexually based offenses are already becoming a one sides struggle where all the rights and rules of law for the defendent are thrown out in favor of the woman who is brining the charges.

They have centers, and councils, and research groups dedicated to their health, their causes, their gender, yet they are underrepresented everywhere and in everything.  Men live shorter than women, and yet we are told women’s illnesses are not funded enough, that men are simply weaker.  Try sayign that about the low black life expectency: “Blacks are just frailer than white people and thats why they die off sooner.”  That last quote is total racism, to say it about a male is empowerment.

They have six or seven centers and a major dedicated to them, yet they are victims on college campuses of everythign from bias to discrimination.  Yet there are no men’s groups or majors or support systems set up, and it shows.  Men are increasingly rare on campuses and if the trend continues the gender gap will have gone further than just reversing itself, men will be less prevalent on campus than when women were discriminated against.  Yet its women that are the victims at all times.

So maybe its time feminists take a good long look at themselves.  Maybe they be afraid of how they are simply the mirror image of crackpot conservatives, the leftist version of fascists and Bill O’Reilly.

Amanda Marcotte’s hatred is for more than just the Jeebus followers, Casual Dining is evil too!

Everyone knows who Amanda Marcotte is.  She’s famous for being a batshit crazy feminazi commentator on everything so far to the left even liberals like me cringe when they hear her name.  O’Reilly hates her, John Edwards had to dump her from the staff of his presidential campaign, and Glenn Sacks weblog has attacked her everytime here craziness has gone even further than the norm in feminist blogging.  She hates Christians of all walks of life, insults Jesus, who is an inspirationally figure to millions by calling him Jeebus, and anyone who is against abortion is just as bad as the terrorist that shot the late Dr. Tiller.

Her recent post on the restaurant business is a hilarious look into ther mind and thoughts.  She’s one of those completely radical leftists that can’t stand anything of popular culture.  Because of the recession, casual dining places like TGI Fridays and Applebees are on the ropes.  Economists are predicting that some of them will go done before this recession is over, which sucks because casual dining places employs lots and lots of people, most of them poor college students that rely on that income to pay for college and to get better careers down the road.

Ms. Marcotte couldn’t be happier though, because these are evil places that just shovel shit down your throat, and should just be replaced with hipster bars and clubs where the socialists and anarchists can come together and get a fifteen dollar a plate of chocolate dipped peppers and crazy techno music.  And then after the casual dining places go out, Ms. Marcotte hopes the nicer chains go too like Outback or Olive Garden or Red Lobster.  Because nothing is worse than a franshice to the cultural soul of America.

I am pretty damn surprised she didn’t claim that the casual dining experience was some sort of creation of the ever pervasive omnipotent and evil patriarchy.  I figured she would toss in something about how all the empty calories at Applebee’s is the patriarchy’s attempt to keep all the women fat so they need memberships to Anytime Fitness.  At least she didn’t go there.

Then again Ms. Marcotte really does not care about people, only the hot air that comes out of her mouth and through her keyboard.  The tens of thousands of men who lost their jobs in manufacturing and construction wa lauded by her and her bloggers on her site because then the ratio of men to women was lowered.  Never mind that families have lost either all or half of their income, her point is more important.  Same with the restaurants.  Hipster restaurants are populated by culinary school graduates not the part time college student crowd or single mother.  So Amanda gets here choclate dipped chile; everyone else is hoping and praying they can get another job.

Fucking psycho.

What is going on in Iraq?

What is going on in Iraq these days, or even Pakistan or Afghanistan?  This stuff doesn’t seem to make the news anymore.  Sonia Sotomayor, the recession and bailouts, and Obama’s dinner dates seem to be making all the headlines these days now.  But its been almost eight years since were bombed by the terrorists who hijacked the planes, and seven since we entered and attacked Iraq.  Where are we and where are things going?

This may seem weird, but I was reminded by this stuff after watchign an old archived version of Countdown the other night while putting around on the internet.  I was reminded of two years ago and the checklist in order to get out and have a stable Iraqi government and how the Iraqi government failed almost all of the checklist.  Then it got forgotten by the election and then the recession adnt he collapse of banking and industy here in America.

But what has been going on for the last two years in Iraq?  We still have tens of thousands of troops there.  Are they safe?  Are they being shot at?  Does Iraq have an infrastructure and beginning to rebuild after all the devastation or is the country going to be a devastated wasteland for all time? 

And then there is Afghanistan.  There has been more recent coverage of this since the election since this is the area Obama wants to focus on.  But whats going on there?  The Taliban moved out over the last eight years and moved into Pakistan.  Last I heard they were sixty miles from Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.  Did we stop them or only halt them?  Are we safe?  Is Pakistans military dictator still holding power or is he going to be put out by someone else less friendly to the U.S.?

I check lots of news blogs and read the papers and none of this stuff seems to be newsworthy anymore.  I realize eight years of war is a hell of a long time, but we should keep in mind where we are and what is going on with our troops.  I thought Iraq was a bad idea but I still hope the Iraqi government is doing all right.

Sexting, a Place for Feminists and Men’s Rights to Come Together?

The recent occurences of what people are calling sexting between high school students and the prosecution of these students has been covered extensively by both feminist bloggers and men’s rights bloggers.  On the feminist side, feministing.com and Pandagon have spent many posts covering these stories, while glenn sacks website and mensactivism.org have covered it from the side of the men’s movement.

Both sides cry foul.  The feminists cry foul that the the girls who send the texts are getting arrested for child porn criminal charges and being harassed for being ’skanky.’  The men’s sites take on the issue more from the side of the boys who are gettign charged as sex offenders and similar child porn criminal charges.  The men’s site also mention the problems the girls face, while the feminist sites glaringly leave the men out and make it sound like only female high school students are being unfairly persecuted and prosecuted as a result of these sexting cases.

This seems like an issue where the feminists and the men’s rights movements have common ground.  The men’s rights blogs and websites complain about the unfair treatment of both high school boys and girls, so it seems like they are aligned with the feminists on this issue.  Is this something that both sides can come together and find common ground on, or will the feminists continue the practice of ignoring the plight the boys face in these cases in favor of more face time for the girls?

All this DV Legislation has Increased Male Batterers and Caused Women to Suffer More? WTF?!?

There is a wordpress.com blog post about a recent Salon article on feminism and domestic violence.  The gist of the article is this:  with the millions and billions of dollars spent of the Violence Against Women Act, a court system that makes it laughingly simple to get legal sanctions such as restraining orders out on men, and a precedence in the court system that allows women to claim either physical or emotional abuse as a defense against committing violent crimes and even murder, women are worse off and evil abusive men are better off because of these things.

The argument is all these battered women’s shelters somehow keep the batterer safe just long enough for him to become a pathological beater and beat the living shit out of his wife or girlfriend or sister or whatever and kill her.  Somehow these shelters and programs that have millions of dollars and hundreds of social workers and legal professionals at their disposal is powerless to stop these abusive battering males from killing women.  Cuz that’s what us men do; we batter and murder cuz it is fun.  It’s what we talk about at the water cooler every morning before we have the women do all the work for us at the office.

Whatever.  The facts and studies speak for themselves.  The government has found that the number of women who go to the hospital and are killed by their male partners is so small and such a small percentage of the total that it isn’t even funny. The statistics that Salon.com references are ones where the impartial feminist study makers place all of the unknown cause of women’s injuries cases from hospitals in with the battered ones.  That’s abotu as statistically accurate as lumping deaths from unknown causes in with cancer to make the point that cancer is a deadly disease and needs more funding and effors to combat.

The real government and top studies, done with impartiality and no bias, show that women batter their male partners just as much as men batter women.  Gay men beat other gay men at the same rate as straight men batter.  Lesbians are the worst batterers with higher rates of abusive behavior towards each other.  Yet all the funding and all the noise on the airwaves and in the senate is that men are the problem, men are getting a great deal, men are evil, blah blah blah blah blah.  Total crap and a huge disservice to the male population and those who are actually trying to get DV down instead of furthering their own political agenda.

And the really big kicker in the article was the claim that feminism has kept abusive men alive.  Now what exactly does that mean?  Does that mean before feminism that abusive men were just killed by their wives?  Well that still happens.  Mary Winkler and others have gotten away with shooting, stabbing, running over their husbands and boyfriends with cars, and then saying with no physical proof that they were abused and got away with the murder or the assault.  So how is this protecting the abusive men and keeping them alive?

Personally I think the author is just insinuating how she wouldn’t mind the killing of men.  How many jokes have you heard the clique of girls or friends laugh their butts off about how they wish they could just off that man in their life giving them problems.  To me the killing of anyone, male or female, is serious and not somethign to laugh or joke about, but hey I’m just a male.

NDSU Professor uses classroom to further his own agenda.

In my last column of the spring semester and school year, I mentioned the case of communications professor Dr. Paul Nelson and his use of his classes and power in order to get students to push forward a politicla and ideological agenda that they may not agree with.  His actions violate the first ammendment, and the ideas and beliefs that NDSU supposedly stands for in academic and intellectial freedom and diversity.

In Dr. Nelson’s capstone communications class, a class all students must take and pass in order to graduate, he required his students to form and belong to an organization called Students for Education Equality.  This groups mission was to push for and creat propoganda against the mathematics department at NDSU which it seems Dr. Nelson had a problem with.  The organization was to push students to take alternative classes to the choices offered by the math department and push for lowered mathematics standards and requirements at NDSU.

Currently the mathematics department requires all incoming freshman and studenst that are not transferring any mathematics credits to take a placement examination in order to determine which level of mathematics classes the student can start at.  The minumum mathematics class allowed at NDSU in order to graduate is taking Math 104, and if you do not test into the class you are placed in remedial sections of mathematics classes.

The claim by Nelson and put forward through SEE was that it was improper for the math department to place students and test them prior to entering college since other departments do not do that, and that students if starting in really low level mathematics classes like Math 99 may have to take three or four mathematics classes in order to graduate and that this was a waste of students time and money and was just a con in order to get more money and funding for graduate students and teaching assistants.

Now I don’t agree with SEE’s assesment and complaints.  I feel that Dr. Nelson is essentially saying that NDSU should just lower its standards because other schools in the area have lower standards.  Never mind that Concordia and MSUM, which are the local universities in the Fargo-Moorhead area are no where near the level of academic rigor that we have at NDSu and therefore comparing their math requirements to ours is like comparing apples to oranges.

Like I said I don’t agree, but they have the right to argue their point.  I would hate it if the mathematics department had carte blanche to do as they will with courses and curriculum choices.  Eventually, the mathematics department’s quality and academic reputation would sour.  But I do think that it is reprehensible that Dr. Nelson forced and entire class to believe what he believed and act on beliefs that they may not share.  This is an abuse of power and violates the studetns rights to believe and act on their own beliefs.

I wrote about this over a month ago in the student paper.  I was scared because the paper is associated with the communications department and Dr. Nelson is a faculty advisor for the paper.  So far nothing has happened.  No one that I know of has even looked into my allegations.  If so, this means that any faculty and NDSU has free reign to coerce their students into doing their own political dirty work and forcing them to adopt their own beliefs and ideologies.

O’Reilly May be an Evil Gasbag, but he had the Right to Hate Dr. Tiller and Speak on His Beliefs

Bill O’Reilly is the Ted Baxter of television news.  He is a moron, a hate-filled arrogant prick who seems to think that he knows all and sees all and can therefore render judgement on everyone.  He obviously hated Dr. Tiller, calling him horrible things like Tiller the Baby Killer, and mentioning how there should be a special place in Hell for people like him after he was acquitted by the Kansas courts.

After the horrific and terrible assasination of Dr. Tiller by a domestic terrorist while the doctor was attending church services, everyone seems to think that its the people who didn’t like him publicly that are at fault.  I don’t get that at all.  If you become responsibly for someone’s death simply because you railed against them in public, then all the media outlets and commentators that say that Bill O’Reilly is just as much a murderer as the man who assasinated Dr. Tiller, should have been paranoid during the eight years that George Bush was in office as President.

They linked him to Hitler, fascists, called him a war criminal, a destroyer of the constitution.  I agree with most of those caricatures.  He did a pretty good job of destroying American Democracy, and I told peope I thought he was evil incarnate and should be removed from office.  But does that mean if some psycho went and killed the President, would I be just as culpable for the murder by inciting and driving someone to kill him? No!

If that was true no one could say anything nasty about anyone.  Michael Moore and Keith Olberman would not be able to do what they do because if someone assasinated Karl Rove or Dick Cheney or Bill O’Reilly according to their logic they would be responsible.  O’Loofah may be a jackass and a retard, but he never once said that Tiller should be murdered.  He wanted him prosecuted and his license to practice medicine revoked for being a late term abortion provider, but he never on his show hoped or asked for someone to shoot him.

I’ll be the first to say that I would dance for joy when Fox News and its reporters are off the air, but you can’t use faulty logic to fight them and their hate.  We are supposed to be better than them and by labeling their speech as criminal when it is really not just lends them credence and gives them support to continue being inciting and to continue lying.

NDSU Bias Reporting, Overreaching and Inflamatory

I wrote about NDSU’s bias reporting system earlier this year and about how these kinds of systems are the newest way for colleges to infringe upon the free speech rights of college students and professors.  These systems are making news right now as California Polytechnic Institute was going to implement a BIAS reporting incident in May, but after pressure from faculty and FIRE, they suspended the program and made a committment to protecting the free speech of their students and faculty.

FIRE commented on similar programs at the University of Minnesota Morris and the University of Minnesota Crookston and other public universities.  NDSU has had a similar bias reporting system to that of Cal-Poly for the last couple of years, secretly hidden and buried on the NDSU website.  Being bored today, I went perusing the NDSU webpages and stumbled upon one of the reports on the stats of the bias reporting system from the 2007-2008 school year.

The stats are surprising and disturbing in equal measure.    Surprising was how few ‘incidents’ were reported during the school year.  There were only 31 incidents mentioned in the report.  Disturbing was that NDSU acted upon 26 of those incidents in closed door secret hearings and reprimands for ‘biased or hateful behavior.  This proves that the bias system is beign used as a check on protected speech to chill and get rid of speech on campus the administrators of the program deem inappropriate.

Also disturbing was NDSU’s reach into off campus activity.  While only one of the incidents was classified as off campus and I can not tell whether the incident was acted upon or not, this opens the door for NDSU to reach into the speech of students and faculty even when they are not on campus and in the privacy of their own home or internet domain.  Such power is being abused at universities in Wisconsin and have met the full ire of FIRE and the news media.  Campus administrators should not have the power to punish and investigate your speech off campus or on the internet, but increasingly they seem to be trying to.

Also disturbing was the classifications in the report.  All but one of the classifications for bias, bigotry, and hate were protected speech.  Verbal comments were the number one form of protected speech reported and thus also the most acted upon and punished.  Biased posters were also a large proportion of complaints, as well as exclusion.  This last category would be hilarious if it wasn’t so serious.  Exclusion is now an actable offense at NDSU.  If you don’t hang out with that inernational student you can be reported for bias and probably reprimanded or punished now.  Hilariously disturbing.

This published report shows that NDSU is falling into the trap of political correctness and mandating behavior and attitudes on campus.  This should worry everyone who attends NDSU since limits on free speech hurt everyone and lower the academic quality of this fine institution.  Cal Poly’s illegal bias reporting system was effectively shut down, and two years of this crap at NDSU is more than enough.

For more information about FIRE and Cal Poly’s bias reporting system you can go here.  To read NDSU’s report yourself please go here.  And here is the website for the bias reporting system.

TIME Pisses Me Off

The latest issue of TIME magazine focuses on the workplace of tomorrow and how the workforce and workplace are changing due to the times and increase in technology.  TIME magazine also showcases how the culture of work is changing due to gender stereotypes, misandry, and downright sexism towards men, which seem to be the weaker sex in every situation these days. 

TIME proudly claims that the workforce of tomorrow will be taken over by women, for good reason of course.  Women are the perfect workers.  Compared the men they are the dream worker.  They don’t take risks, they think in terms of the big picture and long term investments, and have better managerial skills.  Plus they are smarter and better educated then us poor receivers of the Y chromosome.  Everyone wants a woman boss and a woman worker because unlike us lazy guys with our brandy and cigars they actually get work done.

TIME magazine praises that a lot more women than men are graduating high school and getting college degrees instead of wondering why men are not getting these degrees.  Who cares if male high school graduates barely have an eighth grade reading level or that the male half of the population is getting left behind in school while the number of minority and female only scholarships just continues to increase.  As long as we get more female managers and CEO’s out of the deal who cares because its women that matter, not men.

Of course we need more women managers anyways.  The TIME article is another in a long line of flawed arguments positing that if it would have been Lehman Sisters instead of Lehman Brothers everyone knows that the recession would never have happened.  I seriously think that in the deranged female author’s fictional perfect world men would have stayed at home while their wives did the work better than the men ever could have and the women would never have done shady deals or taken any bad risks. 

Total bullshit, but it is the new world order where men do all the bad things and women are perfect creatures.  I don’t like the Enron’s or the Lehman Brother’s of the past decades, but I seriously doubt having only female managers and CEO’s would suddenly eliminate all corporate corruption.  Remember Martha Stewart anyone?  If happy decorator lady can do shady dealing than so can anyone.

So this is the feminist future, one of total sexism.  Men are bad, weak, and just not worth anything so we should be proud that women are taking the role they should in the workforce, the dominant one.  No matter that this is the kind of sexism feminists were supposedly trying to eliminate for the last four decades.  Its okay to do it to us guys, because its not really sexism, its the cold hard truth. 

How is a guy supposed to handle when he learns that he is the unwanted sex.  I know it hurts me.  It makes we worry and wonder.  Wonder if I’ll be able to get the job I want so I can live the life I want.  Wonder if because of this gender discrimination I can live the life I want or do I just watch the women around me get the life I wanted but couldn’t have because I was unfortunately born with a penis and somehow am not a valuable leader in the new world order.  It just sucks reading this crap and knowing that its politically correct to repeat it and teach it in our schools and universities. 

Men are officially the ‘weaker’ sex.  I don’t wanna hear any bullshit about women beign oprressed anymore.

NDSU Student Government Violates the Freedom of Conscience of its Senators

Whats the difference between an elected government running a referendum on universal healthcare and implementing the people’s voices and a government that knows the people wants universal healthcare but doesn’t trust the democratic process and stifles it wherever it feels like it would get in the way in order to implement universal healthcare?  If you believe the ends justify the means then both of these scenarios are equivalent.  If you are like me and believe that the right thing has to be done for the right reasons and the right way then the meddling government of the second example is a problem and a big one at that.

Something similar happened with the smoking ban movement going on at NDSU recently.  The smoking ban ‘vote’ passed here at NDSU unfortunately and surprisingly more people voted on the smoking ban opinion poll than the election for the student senators and student body president.  Don’t mention this to the Student Government though because they get cranky when you mention that they can’t do their jobs well and write you nasty juvenile letters that you never actually get to see but hear about.  But hey at least SG managed to finally fill all of their elected positions for the first time in years, so they get a gold star at least.  Sorry, I am getting off topic here.

It seems though the chief architects of the smoking ban, one miss Alstadt, figured that the student government might get in the way of the smoking ban she wants to implement, and I guess some kind of resolution went forward sometime during this smoking ban issue about how student government is required to support.  I don’t know if this happened before or after the opinion poll/vote thing on the 6th and 7th, but if it was before the vote this kind of behavior really ridiculous, and if it happened after its still pretty ridiculous.

Because if it happened before the vote, it proves what I have been saying that members of the studetn government are willing to do whatever they can and want in order to get a smoking ban passed because they seem to know more than the rest of us.  If it happened after the vote it shows that those in charge of the smoking ban push don’t want dissent and probably can’t handle it.

Since the vote passed SG should implement a smoking pan because thats what the people wanted, I guess.  Remember that the ‘vote’ wasn’t binding it more like a survey and out of the 12,000 students on campus only 3,000 actually voted.  And the vote was pretty close, so if you do the math and I’m gonna do it fast and err towards the side of caution 2,000 said they were for a ban that affects 12,000 students.  I really don’t like 1 person decided how all six people in a group should act.

But getting back to the implementation thing, tying the hands of the senators now that a smoking ban is going to be implemented is pretty stupid.  Yes I know right now that there is that dick senator in the ND legislature who is pissing everyone off for neutering Measure 3 and stopping the smoking money from being used as the voters wanted, but the prophylactic solution to that scenario is not tying elected representatives hands and telling them how they are going to act.  It would be like the president saying, a poll taken by me shows that 60% of the people polled want free whoopie cushions.  If you do not support my whoopie cushion initiative, then I will hold you in contempt of your position as a senator and censure you and find a suitable replacement.

So why are the senators hands and voices and consciences being tied up?  Because the dissenting senators want to protect our rights.  If the senate is bound to honor the Alstadt vision of a smoking ban, then you don’t have to worry about little things like debate and discussion and even legalities.  Because all of those things tend to put a damper on your grand vision of running things your way because you are better and smarter than everyone else, even those that elected you. 

Then again this is prolly a good thing is disguise.  The Student Senate will ratify some crazy smoking ban plan that isn’t legal and the university senate will shoot it down.  And the smoking ban will be dead for another year.  Or until SG throws out so many opinion polls that the student body rises up and elects real representatives.