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Yes, relying on a man to pay the bill, every time, is proof of Ms Drayton’s emancipation and empowerment… And so the proudly feminist author “completely rejects the premise” that “I have to pay my own way.”
These people have spent a fortune on being ‘educated’.

Most of that fortune comes from taxes paid by other people, the contribution they pay in tuition fees is a token. (And their cost of living while at school doesn’t count, if they weren’t idling away those years at university they -or welfare agencies – have to pay for their housing and food anyway.)

How am I supposed to pursue my anthropological studies into the sexual attraction and practices of young and attractive lesbians if the badly written stories have to use non-gendered pronouns?
It’s difficult enough knowing what’s going on at present without the extensive use of video. Will no-one think of the pervert?

Progressive she-person Silpa Kovvali insists that gendered pronouns are an “outdated linguistic tic” and must be abolished
Except when she gets pissed off at being laughed at and calls you a cunty bro. 🙂

#DaveSoBro

Regarding Miss Fabello:

Melissa A. Fabello is a body acceptance activist, sexuality scholar, and patriarchy smasher living in Philadelphia.

Yay, another “patriarcy smasher”. It is amazing that these pretentious twits have no clue how clownish they sound to anyone outside their clique.

I’ll be forthright: As a thin woman involved in body acceptance activism, I’ve had my moments when I’ve wished that conversations made more room for me and my experiences.

Allrighty then. Thin woman is oppressed by fat Wxmym of Adiposity, who are oppressed by the adipose challenged women. Next up – “How to Check the Privilege of Your Statistically Normal Height and Weight.” This, of course, will be followed by the Normal Size Acceptance Movement.
I am not a they.
Good point, it is interesting that these Punchinellos want everyone to recognize their individuality by reducing everyone to a generic. This brings to mind the F. Scott Fitzgerald quote:

The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

Alas, I fear these unfortunates would benefit from a prolonged visit with St. Mary Bethlehem as they clearly have failed the test.

“I too shall never attempt to have sex with Ms Hayek.”
But should the occasion ever present itself I trust you’ll contact me to stand in for you.

“Racial justice educator” Rachel Kuo tells us how to order takeaway in a suitably agonised and intersectional manner
In 30 years I’ve never been to a restaurant where the owners actually wanted me to worry about “food as a tool of marginalisation and oppression”. The restaurants I eat at want customers to have a good time and come back.

This appeared on Everyday Feminism last week: in this http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/08/myths-about-everyday-feminism/
Gems include:
And if you want a bit of a behind-the-scenes look at Everyday Feminism, here’s something that you probably don’t know: We actively prioritize people with lived experience writing about issues that affect them directly – and even have an accountability checklist to make sure our contributors stay in their own lane.
That is, unlike most other sites that value good reporting over lived experience, someone who grew up middle- or upper-class isn’t going to write about classism and the impact of poverty for Everyday Feminism.
We think that’s harmful – reifying oppression and the status quo by allowing those with the most power to dictate public perception of a marginalized experience.
Good journalists need not apply.
And:
Of our six full-time and three part-time core team members:
78% are of color. Only two people who work for Everyday Feminism – myself included – are white.
Two-thirds identify as trans or gender non-conforming.
Half are somewhere along the asexual or aromantic spectrums.
Over three-quarters openly live with one or more physical, psychological, or learning disabilities.
One identifies as fat.
Everyone is queer.
It strikes me as interesting that they obsess over lived experience and authenticity, yet the staff is flagrantly unrepresentative of women, though I’m quite certain they’ve performed enough mental gymnastics to overcome barriers like logical consistency and cognitive dissonance.

And another, because the folks at Everyday Feminism just can’t stop giving: http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/08/lies-about-activist-violence/
The violence that marginalized people face from police for example, especially those who are Indigenous and/or Black, is never comparable to any counter-violence.
And:
Myth #2: Violence Is Only Physical
Laverne Cox said in 2014 that “when a trans woman is called a man, that is an act of violence.”
(She’s right, of course.)
. . .
When people support the conditions that create violence, they are also committing violence. They’re simply ensuring that someone else will be doing the work of murder.

One identifies as fat.
Nearly every woman I know identifies as fat, so this one might be almost normal.

AnotherFred’s quote from EverydayFeminism:
We actively prioritize people with lived experience blahdi blah
In one of her videos on silly feminist language, Janice Fiamengo questions whether this particular phrase is helpful, saying in a wonderfully deadpan way) “surely all experience is, in some sense ‘lived'”
Wouldn’t want to suggest that feminist terminology is descending into the realms of nonsense or anything…

Her fatness is political fatness
Gives new meaning to pork barrel politics, eh?
(Full disclosure: I’ve lurked long enough to know how bonkers the “writers” of EDF are; I was making a sexist joke at the expense of helpless lunatics who don’t realize they are the but of every joke involving a stereotype ever told.)

Her fatness is political fatness, and therefore much more important than ordinary fatness.
This blog is a highlight of my commute home. 🙂

Of our six full-time and three part-time core team members: [&c]
I see, they are so diverse that straight, white, educated (real, not made up subjects), non-psychotic women, men (non-psychotic or otherwise) and Irish need not apply (especially the Irish). That brings us to #3:

We Censor People We created a strict comment policy for a reason – and no, it’s not because we’re an echo chamber. [rationization ensues] But that isn’t censoring. That’s us exercising our right to create a space to our liking.

Indeed, a space called an echo chamber. As GEN George Patton said: “If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.”
Speaking of diversity and their stunning, yet prideful, lack of diversity of thought:

That is, unlike most other sites that value good reporting over lived experience, someone who grew up middle- or upper-class isn’t going to write about classism and the impact of poverty for Everyday Feminism.

The whole mindset of this little coterie of intellectual lightweights and their strap hangers is appalling. Biff or Muffy Whitebread join the Peace Corps and spend two years in The Gambia living with the locals, Bobby Bob Culpepper III (of the Tennessee Culpeppers) takes his agricultural degree and puts it to use helping black farmers in the Mississippi Delta, but they are less qualified to report on class and poverty than some latte sipper who never left New York ?
That whole article is a colossal display of total failure of introspection and/or irony.

4. We’re Against Sex Workers Let’s start here: We have self-identified sex workers who write for us and some of them do pro-sex work activism. We 100%, without a shadow of a doubt, support the rights of sex workers to choose to work in the sex industry.

So, we are against them except when we aren’t.

We also don’t believe in clickbait…Titles like “7 Ways Social Justice Language Can Become Abusive in Intimate Relationships” and “5 Reasons Why Non-Traditional Rape Narratives Are Important” are pretty damn straightforward.

Yes, pretty much the damn straightforward definition of clickbait. Speaking of clickbait:

(So if you want to help us out, click around a lot.)

I suspect 90% of their traffic is either internal, or from here.

We’re actually an independent media organization, which a lot of folks don’t know!
That means that our income comes directly from our ad revenue. We’re bootstrapped (although we don’t support the bootstrap myth). That is to say, we run solely on the resources that we generate ourselves.

Yay ! We don’t believe in the “myth” that we proved is actually true.

Myth #2: Violence Is Only Physical…Laverne Cox said in 2014 that “when a trans woman is called a man, that is an act of violence.”
(She’s right, of course.)

She might not be. Let us see what the American Psychological Society thinks about that: Violence is an extreme form of aggression, such as assault, rape or murder. I’d add incoming mortar and rocket fire, but I digress. Regardless, the shrinks seem to have left “hurt feelings” out of their definition, so I guess she isn’t right.
However, damn near every word these charming ladies write does confirm that each and every one, not some mere 75%, has profound psychological, and/or learning disabilities. I include a degree in gender studies as a learning disability.
Finally, I think everyone who ever orders some food item “with au jus” should be thrashed with a buggywhip.

Dear Mr. Muldoon,
I have noticed that some people insert a space between the end of a sentence and a final question mark or exclamation mark. Have the rules of punctuation changed, or is that simply a current fashion?

As an aside: I learnt last week the General Patton, quoted above, competed in the first Olympic Modern Pentathlon at the Stockholm games. He finished 5 and might have won overall had 3 of his 20 shots not been registered. He claimed his missing shots went through previous holes, not implausible given he was firing a .38 which masked much bigger holes than the .22s most of his competitors were using, but the officials couldn’t find evidence to support his claim. He pushed himself so hgard in the swim he had to he fished from the pool and though he was first back into the stadium in the run he had again pusdhed himself too hard, slowing to a walk by thgthge last 50m, getting overtaken by a couple of competitors and collapsing unconscious in front of the Royal Box.

And still no bloody statue.
The henchlesbians will not let us get close enough for a good likeness to be made. Would you settle for an obelisk ?

The problem with a statue is it eventually winds up buried in the sand causing romantic poets some centuries hence to torment literature students with musings about the impermanence of civilization.
Better play it safe and send a case of some dry Bordeaux.

And still no bloody statue.
I hear the design issues are still being worked out, partly to ensure a steady flow of blood from or over the statue, and partly to figure out what part of the statue to pump the blood from.

I have noticed that some people insert a space between the end of a sentence and a final question mark or exclamation mark. Have the rules of punctuation changed, or is that simply a current fashion?
That happens automatically if you are writing with settings set to French. Lord knows why.

I have noticed that some people insert a space between the end of a sentence and a final question mark or exclamation mark.
Mr. Geezer,
First, is that a UK Geezer, or US Geezer ? I rather like the UK version better as I don’t have to denounce myself for being ageist. Unless of course the geezer was a geezer.
The reason I do it is because some website comment sections, like this one, use a monospace typeface for composing, yet display in a proportional typeface. The problem with the latter is that the letter and character spacing often sucks, and a space at the end of a sentence before an exclamation or question mark is a) more typographically pleasing because, b) it is easier to read.
I cannot say why French setting would do it other than, well, they are French.

None of us fit neatly or entirely into a traditional gender binary
Like all terms used by the SJW’s this is another slight-of-hand phrase that can be trotted out either to increase the numbers of the non-gender-conforming (are you a woman who wears slacks to dinner? You’re one of us! See how big a portion of the population we are!) or to shame those who dare stray from the dogma (are you a woman who dares to oppose a trans woman in your locker room just because she has a penis? Cast off your binary brainwashing!).
This deliberate shredding of language – where no definition is fixed – is Orwell on meth.

In another article from Tiffanie she bewails the fact that “For college-educated black women, the shortage of suitable black men is quickly becoming a reproductive rights issue, with many of these women opting out of motherhood all-together after finding their options in the dating market far less than desirable.”
I wonder what is limiting her options?

“shortage of suitable black men = reproductive rights issue”
Okaayyy…
Is the translation to this actually, “I can’t seem to find suitable black men who will put up with my bullshit”, perhaps? Just maybe?