How The Hypersexual Trans Movement Hurts FeminismHmm. That's --
...These carpet-baggers to womanhood are trying to prove to all of us that what it really means to be a woman is to pose in a playboy bunny outfit and make kissy faces at men. They reinforce this idea to teenage girls: go put on the miniskirt, honey, celebrate Jenner’s beauty, and try to exemplify it in your own life.(Pause.) Let's try another story.
Bruce Jenner’s Transformation Is A Lose-Lose For Liberal IdeologyHuh. How ya figure?
...For years, a major aim of the sexual revolution has been to deconstruct gender differences as being “social constructs"...
This is the ideology that governs liberal sexual philosophy, and it collides head-on with major aspects of the transgender movement. Transgenderism is unavoidably based on a kind of gender essentialism...Hey, look at the time. Let's see what else:
Bruce Jenner: Selfie Culture HeroGreat! I could use some light reading.
....As he adapted, he still was treating his body not as his own, but like a shiny new midlife crisis vehicle that came with a great rack worth flashing to his son...Yikes.
Personally, I don’t care either way, and I wish him well, but I’d prefer we identify actions of bravery with real bravery...Oh, so we're making too much of Caitlin Jenner, huh? The obvious solution is to continue talking about her.
So is the best response to Mother Nature’s cruel visual inequity more surgery for everyone and glam teams ‘til their outsides match their insides? If that is case, Jenner just won another gold medal in the vanity Olympics...Aw snap.
Who knows, and who cares. That’s some silly discussion...Come into the light, Federalist author!
...one that will make “Jezebel rain hellfire down on” you. What matters is how it sounds, how it makes you feel, and if it’s attractive. Silence is easier and more attractive when roving bands of social-justice warriors vociferously silence dissent...Do these guys get bonuses when they work conservative persecution into stories?
Now that we dispensed with critical thinking and an honest debate of ideas, welcome to a world where what matters most is how you look. It’s a brave new superficial world that had no better launching location than the pages of Vanity Fair. We are a society that has fallen in love with its own reflection.Please, no one ever show her a magazine rack from the past fifty years; she'll run into the street screaming like Kevin McCarthy at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Let's move on:
Bruce Jenner is Not BraveOh for --
In a few days, we will celebrate the anniversary of D-Day, when men stormed enemy-filled beaches and died by the thousands...Jesus Christ, aren't there any stories in this conservative magazine that aren't about transsexuals? Okay, one more:
Taylor Swift Flirts With The Feminist Dark SideI'll take it -- oh wait, it's full of Lena Dunham. Have you got a copy of Field & Stream?
(*Titular reference here.)
"Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a cock, and the absence of the cursed thing will come to mind every minute."
ReplyDelete— Fyodor Dostoevsky
let's make the trans movement to hypersexual
ReplyDeleteIt's like all they know about the issue is that The Libs support her, ergo Much Bad Evil, so they just rush headlong into opposing it and improvise as they go. Insecurediana Jones.
ReplyDeleteNobody's talking about the real kontroversy, which is that she refuses to spell her name Kaitlin, thus defying the natural law of Kardashian Kontinuity.
ReplyDeleteIn a post-apocalyptic world, "roving bands of social-justice warriors" roam the earth, forcing men into corsets and carving out their tongues to stifle dissent. Led by their repulsive overlord, Lena VIII, they rule unchecked until a lone hero (clad in furs and waving a fabulous sword) rises up to reclaim the manhoods of manly men everywhere.
ReplyDeleteI like how the Federalist suddenly cares so deeply about feminist issues.
ReplyDeleteIn a few days, we will celebrate the anniversary of D-Day, when men stormed enemy-filled beaches and died by the thousands...
ReplyDeleteSure, on Omaha Beach but, hey, let's talk about Utah Beach where they died by the, uh, tens of, uh, ones. As in roughly 35 guys because they were faced with Polish and Russian conscripts who got the hell out of there.
Oh, screw it, they don't want to actually discuss bravery, Jenner or soldiers, it's just some more social whine.
Lena, warrior princess!
ReplyDeleteI don't see the problem here. I fully agree that the transgender movement is an existential threat to liberalism and feminism and its protection--from the feminazi social justice warriors who would silence such a freedom, obviously--should be enshrined in law. It's unfortunate, fellow liberals, I know, but who am I to stand in the way of the moral arc of the universe.
ReplyDeleteThat's no man... it's a space station.
ReplyDelete"...For years, a major aim of the sexual revolution has been to deconstruct gender differences as being 'social constructs'..."
ReplyDeleteGOTCHA! ... presuming your understanding of gender is as shallow as Daniel Davis's.
He also has no clue what "deconstruction" means.
Must be the insidious influence of Progressives* rising within their movement.
ReplyDelete(*Huckabee.)
"Quick, hide the 50 articles decrying 'rape hysteria' from earlier this week!"
ReplyDelete[Yakety Sax]
"Titular reference here."
ReplyDeleteHeh. You said "titular."
pose in a playboy bunny outfit and make kissy faces at men. They reinforce this idea to teenage girls: go put on the miniskirt,
ReplyDeletehoney, celebrate Jenner’s beauty, and try to exemplify it in your own
life.
Sure, I suppose there are some 16-year-old girls who look at Caitlin Jenner and think, Absolutely, this makes me want to put on a miniskirt and blow--WAIT, WHAT. NOOOO I do not think that. You know why I don't think that? Because I remember being 15 and exactly how much influence people over age 65 had on me when I thought about sex: Zero.
Z -- Goose Egg -- Naught -- Zilchberg.
(Also: I have not kept up with the Kardashians, but is this a thing Bruce or Caitlin Jenner is prone to doing? Wearing miniskirts and/or dressing like a rabbit and blowing kisses at men? I really do not imagine any of that to be the case.)
Are they not examining her conservative creds to determine whether she's a True Scotswoman? I am aghast. Like Meghan McCain and Megyn Kelly, she may have moist, traitorous, liberal crevices (heh heh heh).
ReplyDeleteRod Dreher has gone full frontal insane on this. 3 or 4 breathless, glistening, bedroom eyed essays in the last 2 days on how Caitlyn has destroyed his ontology and teleogy wiht one fell photospread that he cannot stop looking at.
ReplyDeleteYou give me pause, Tom. Omaha? That's a lot like Osama and Obama, isn't it? Let's blow up Nebraska today to keep Amurika safe tomorrow, y'all. We got the drones, they gots the evil.
ReplyDeleteRod getting some hot and heavy Caitlyn action:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/freedom-he-calls-it/
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/caitlyn-jenner-transabled/ http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-real-reason-for-the-caitlyn-jenner-freakout/ http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/caitlyn-jenner-in-chains/
Indeed, two generations of women in my family are fascinated by her C-section decision. They are also fascinated that she chose to become not just a woman, but to time it to become a post-menopausal woman. I cannot opine on the matter, but sense that there are deep unarticulated thoughts beneath the surface of SMS as cis het fem fingers tap the tiny keys.
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing they're referring to the Vanity Fair cover.
ReplyDeleteYeti sighted at 3 o'clock!
ReplyDeleteDidn't Huckabee make some mildly economic populist noises a few years back and incur some pushback from the brethren? No wonder he'd rather talk about "Uncle Sugar" these days. Still can't escape the dreaded "progressive" tag, though.
ReplyDeleteWhat the fuck is going on these days with the news? I have a bad feeling that the predominance of who-gives-a-shit stories is a harbinger of something truly awful on the horizon. Sharks! Gary Condit! Oh fuck!
ReplyDeleteThis is kind of miquetoasty compared to what Michael Savage had to say. The Savage Weiner's saying that Caitlyn Jenner is responsible for the rise of ISIS.
ReplyDeleteUmm, that's, uh, Looney Louie Gohmert territory, that is.
When Annie shot Lena...
ReplyDeleteIt happens every summer, doesn't it? The elite press corps is now focusing its attention on what's happening on Martha's Vineyard.
ReplyDeleteWe can forget about which countries the CIA has overthrown in literal and figurative darkness until September.
You never roll out a new coup in August.
ReplyDeleteWill no one think of the neoteny?
ReplyDeleteI mean it's NOT FAIR. He spent his youth jerking off to Wheaties boxes and feeling ashamed about that. Now what the fuck is Rod supposed to do?
ReplyDeleteHow The Hypersexual Trans Movement Hurts Feminism
ReplyDeleteOh sure, 65 years of living in America had no effect on how she or anyone thinks about womanhood, femininity, etc, it's just those durn hypersexual trans folks.
Silence is easier and more attractive when roving bands of social-justice warriors vociferously silence dissent...
ReplyDeleteSo they're just going to shut up? Bummer.
I was all ready to get the Democratic women together, put on the black pajamas and go wilding.
If Jenner had appeared on the cover of a magazine looking like shit, the "hypersexual" complaint might've been withheld, but golly, looking at Federalist link #1 makes me suspect that she'd still be accused of "parodying women." Talk about concern-trolling feminists ... it's like the real audience isn't feminists, and the goal is not to help their cause but to make them look bad.
ReplyDelete"Quick, hide the 50 articles decrying 'rape hysteria' from earlier this week!"It's all okay now, because Laura Kipnis is with us.**
ReplyDelete**Or so one would think, based on the suddenly "old-school feminist" right blogosphere.
Well, if you're the CIA, you DO roll out a new coup in August so in September the NY Times foreign bureau chaps are saying to each other, "Why isn't anybody in Mosaddeq's office returning our calls, dammit?"
ReplyDeletePoint: This is the ideology that governs liberal sexual philosophy, and it collides head-on with major aspects of the transgender movement.
ReplyDeleteCounterpoint: No it doesn't.
Point: Transgenderism is unavoidably based on a kind of gender essentialism...
Counterpoint: So?
He's on eBay at this very moment, looking for old Wheaties boxes.
ReplyDeleteSo he can feel guilty about that.
oh so you didn't know andrea dworkin was on the federalist's masthead
ReplyDeleteGender essentialism? What does that even mean?
ReplyDeleteDidn't Ms. Jenner come out as a Republican during her recent interview? No wonder that progressive Huckabee is spewing vile shit about her. But since she hates taxes and loves personal liberty, you'd think some of these other guys would have her back.
ReplyDeleteWhy Dan married that man, I'll never know.
ReplyDeletei telos runs cold
ReplyDeletemy ontology has just been sold
caitlyn in the centerfold
If there's one thing cons hate, it's gender essentialism. Don't get em started!
ReplyDeleteEvery time the pool of available 14 triple D stilettos shrinks, the baby Jesus cries.
ReplyDeleteThey CAN'T come up with a sensible observation to transexuals, so they just spew foam, sputter and spit in every direction. Cue Donald Duck.
ReplyDeleteAh, thanks for the tip -- I have now Googled it.
ReplyDeleteUh, okay, reminiscent of a bunny outfit, yes... which I would have thought these nitwits would like, if Caitlin wearing one inspires girl-next-door-ism in Our Nation's Teens. But what do I know? I'm just a guy who doesn't give a damn about magazine covers because I am an adult.
Does she talk, does she walk, does she come complete?
ReplyDeleteThe inside of the ruined conference center was black, save a sickly pool of light cast by a flame suspended far above their heads. Femme Maxia perched on her throne in the middle of the firelight, stroking the vicious barbed pleasure aid that was symbol of her authority. Before her knelt the target of her wrath - a conservative pundit, stripped of his manly authority and bound by the chains of the matriarchy. Tears leaked from his swollen eyes. He had been through hell, but the worst punishment was soon to come.
ReplyDeleteFemme Maxia stood and lifted her arms skyward. "You have made war on us, and you have lost. There is but one mercy that we grant those who fall before our lavender army - the right to choose the means of their own execution. However, when you broke the Covenant of the Crescent, you lost the right to that mercy. Instead, your entire clan will suffer beneath the firestorm."
The raider queen snapped her fingers. Somewhere in the darkness behind the throne, there was a dull hum as a generator sprang to life. From all around, hard-faced hirsute women appeared at the edge of the ring of light, surrounding the fallen leader. Each of them carried a laptop computer crudely rebuilt from whatever parts they had scavenged. Tables and chairs appeared as though from nowhere, and the hall was filled with the sounds of dozens of lids opening, followed by the haunting tune of mismatched OSes booting. The ritual had begun, and there would be no stopping it.
"And thus it is decreed, and thus it begins...Death by blogging!"
I think it's all supposed to be reduced to "these unfortunate lapses in personal responsibility and moral rectitude are the cause of the decline of the empire," instead of, well, the imperialists just fucked up and got very, very greedy.
ReplyDeleteIf the country is going down the drain because your friends are stealing everything that's not nailed down, and much of what is, of course you're going to start manufacturing scapegoats like they were Cabbage Patch dolls.
never forget
ReplyDelete"These carpet-baggers to womanhood are trying to prove to all of us that
ReplyDeletewhat it really means to be a woman is to pose in a playboy bunny outfit
and make kissy faces at men..."
Don't they realize that that's our shtik? That it's the job of actual Republican women (and their male "mentors") to pose in bunny-outfit-tight business suits and make kissy faces at men? Don't these carpet-baggers to womanhood even watch Fox News?
Yes, when will Jordan Owen plunge back in the bathtub to extoll her libertarian majesty?
ReplyDeleteTrue, Jordan's currently having an online meltdown re: criticism of the soundtrack he composed and performed for his long-awaited, much-financed "Sarkeesian Effect" documentantrum flicklit, but really, dudebro, give a sistah some props.
responsible for the rise of ISIS.
ReplyDeleteIt's boners everywhere.
you'd think some of these other guys would have her back.
ReplyDeleteOh, they would. They would.
It strikes me that every wingnut column, letter-to-the-editor, and blog entry makes a lot more sense if, when you read it, you pretend it's being shouted by some grizzled drunk in the midst of a lynch mob in some B Western. "We are a society that has fallen in love with its own reflection" only really "plays" if it's read as a combination blurt-of-raw-emotion and urgent plea for group agreement and validation.
ReplyDelete"In a few days, we will celebrate the anniversary of D-Day, when men stormed enemy-filled beaches and died by the thousands...Aw hell, we know what to do with this Jenner fella! Let's string 'im up!"
I'm trying to process this. A man has recently transitioned into being a woman. Okay; Caitlyn Jenner is a woman. Now this woman has been asked to pose for the cover of Vanity Fair. She therefore poses in the manner chosen by the photographer, which--the majority of the time-- involves posing in a Playboy bunny outfit and making kissy faces.
ReplyDeleteSo we see that Ms. Jenner is little different from most of the women that have posed for Vanity Fair.
What am I missing?
Y'know, I don't recall a single diatribe about the diminution of feminism from the sundry and assorted mouthbreathers when this little item appeared:
ReplyDelete"What am I missing?"
ReplyDeleteUh, raw conservative incensed spluttering outrage, for one.
You're missing The Federalist's deep concern that teenage girls absorb the right kind of pro-feminist gender-based instruction.
ReplyDeletethey just spew foam, sputter and spit in every direction
ReplyDeleteYou forgot the trigger warnings for Denny Hastert's former wrestlers.
The more they can huff and puff about trans celebrities, the more they can avoid talking about all the child molesters in their midst.
ReplyDeleteThe authors characterize feminism as being opposed to "antiquated, patriarchal, repressive [gender] norms" but (paradoxically, they think) accepting of an individual's "existential feeling" of being transgendered in such a way that "socially accepted norms" are then hypocritically honored in one's dress, behavior, or body.
ReplyDeleteAs Jay B. seems to suggest above, having some notion of what defines a gender -- its essence -- is not necessarily a bad thing. I'm more concerned that we be allowed to disagree, or to express gender (or not) as they prefer. This is really what conservatives have age-old problems with.
The day Caitlin appears dolled-up on a mag cover and then insists that *I* transition and try to look and act like Marilyn Monroe, I'll have a problem with her. Until then, I think it's the right that's cramping my manly style. A style which does little-no-harm and is as culturally valid and worthy of my preference as anyone else's ...
Which brings us back to cons. The essentialism that feminism rejects is not just "patriarchal," etc. It has generally been based on stronger claims: God's will, natural law, and so on. Trans-phobes are just the voices and hands of God, or nature's God, or nature; their repulsion is literally sanctified.
"..These carpet-baggers to womanhood are trying to prove to all of us that what it really means to be a woman is to pose in a playboy bunny outfit and make kissy faces at men."
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, let's have the bigots jump on board with the worst of the radfems. I know plenty of decent people in Maryland who would love for Cathy Brennan to be somebody else's problem.
I guess "65-year old Republican displays outmoded gender stereotypes" just doesn't pack the same scapegoating punch.
ReplyDeleteYou gotta admit, the phrase "carpetbaggers to womanhood" is frickin awesome
ReplyDeleteWith regard to Republicans, that would definitely be a dog-bites-man story.
ReplyDeleteHate me all you like but I think "carpet baggers to womanhood" is one of the funniest things I've ever read. I can't believe that Roy didn't write that.
ReplyDeleteThe only photographer worthy of the Blake Farenthold transition is dead,
ReplyDeleteRIP Diane Arbus.
The photographer's Leibovitz, so some conspiring is likely to have taken place. You can't shoot what they won't do...
ReplyDeletePsssst, does "carpet munching" still mean what it meant when I was in training?
ReplyDeleteI just don't know any more.
ReplyDeleteI feel the carpet move under my face. I feel the sky come tumblin' down.
When I think of feminism, I think of The Federalist.
ReplyDeleteBruce Jenner’s Transformation Is A Lose-Lose For Liberal Ideology
ReplyDeleteThe sincerity of his concern for liberal ideology... it bowls me over.
I noticed awhile ago that nobody demands I be attracted to everyone that identifies as cisgendered female. I don't even have to imagine everybody having sex with their various partners. Or become attached to some vision of their futures along these big ol' spectra.
ReplyDeleteMy wife hasn't suprised me yet in going-on 20 years, so I'm feelin' secure on the front where my business rightly lies. Although I'd support her in any case!
"Wot a lovely day! WOT A LOVELY DAY!!!"
ReplyDeleteI personally am reminded of Ignatius Reilly going to the movies every day just to find something to be offended about. I could totally imagine him shouting "So is the best response to Mother Nature’s cruel visual inequity more
ReplyDeletesurgery for everyone and glam teams ‘til their outsides match their
insides? If that is the case, Jenner just won another gold medal in the
vanity Olympics!" at the screen.
Yes! That, too.
ReplyDeleteWhen you put your hand down on the mushy breast implant on what used to be the chest of a former Oylmpic athlete, you'll know what to do...
ReplyDeleteWe are a society that has fallen in love with its own reflection
ReplyDeletethis actually sounds like an ultimate warrior promo to me
SKRONK!
ReplyDeleteThis goes right along with my old observation that all their blathering works great if you pretend it's from a really bad beat poet.
ReplyDeleteWOOO!
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/oESVMyJ20Ik
Really? Wow. She's definitely done better work.
ReplyDeleteJesus... didn't we just do a post on how fearful conservative university professors are of suffering social and professional ostracism and persecution for their beliefs? Come on, you pussies... take a lesson from those brave troops storming the beaches of Normandy and fight the Liberal Hegemony! It's a good day to die... or at least be mocked on Twitter and snickered at in the faculty lounge...
ReplyDeleteHow The Hypersexual Trans Movement Hurts Feminism
ReplyDeleteNow that is some real concern trollery!
Well, it's more the behaviours that are supposedly essentially connected to the genders -- so as a heterosexual cisgendered you're supposed to be a Budweiser drinking, sportsball watching, grunting dudebro...unless you're supposed to be a lofty minded, cerebral, Aristotle-and-Hemingway reading member of the cognoscenti, because thinking is more of a guy thing.
ReplyDeleteIt's all very confusing, trying to follow these traditional Simple Little Rules and Few...
Fates worse than death, to be sure!
ReplyDeletei have an ongoing conversation with a friend about what seems like a retread of some of the 1980s' worst excesses---ie the marriage of orange county reagan administration apparatchiks and anti-everything fundies with outlier, left-wing culture activists---now reimagined in spaces like click-baity websites, twitter and the blogosphere. i don't think i have convinced her yet.
ReplyDeleteThere was a time when I hadn't seen anything, so to speak, on account of not having ever been down on a muffin. After I was down on one, I changed my ways, such that I walked and talked noticeably better in terms of getting satisfaction.
ReplyDeleteThat Halcyon age is regrettably past. I can no more navigate this carnal bakery with aplomb than Odysseus could get home in good time with all his bros intact.
It's all about ethics in neoteny.
ReplyDeleteBoners all the way down?
ReplyDeleteYes. That's the punchline. Like the guys who would rather eat moose-shit pie than cook ("This is moose-shit pie!...........Good, though!"), the wingnuts are this close to withdrawing objection.
ReplyDeleteWingnut: Unnatural messing with God's handiwork! Bad example for teenage girls! Symptom of a selfie society gone mad with narcissism!
Sane Person: Caitlyn's a Republican.
W: ...exercise of God-given freedoms! Rugged individualism! Example of the wisdom of the market when untrammeled personal choice freedom of liberty argle bargle blah!
If Aurini would only carry that skull around with him everywhere, like some sort of hipster Hamlet, I would have a little more respect for him.
ReplyDelete(Granted, I have more respect for slime mold than I have for Aurini, so it wouldn't be difficult to increase it, but still.)
Who sez wingnuts don't recycle?
ReplyDeleteHow The Homoypersexual Trans Movement Hurts Feminism.
David French of course has a doozy of a piece where he pretty much explains what this is all about: "There is no single person who can shift an entire culture, much
ReplyDeleteless materially restrain cultural drift, but we can each do something." In other words, every transgender person and gay marriage is a little microaggression against traditional values, and every time you say something mean about them, you're fighting the good fight.
I do think there's something humorous about a certain variety of liberal pedantry - like Media Matters taking the AP to task; figuring out how to describe Jenner's past is tricky, and will take some adjustment of the language as we become more used to this (I'm guessing it'll eventually settle with referring to Caitlyn in the present and Bruce in the past, but it'll be a case-by-case thing). But conservatives are obviously doing exactly what they decry in liberals, convincing themselves of their own bravery and significance for the courageous act of being dickish to individuals.
The absolutist attitude toward gender is probably linked to the abortion monomania, though, since if we admit we're confused about what defines gender, we also admit we're confused about what defines a baby.
Thing is, they don't have to know what deconstruction means; like "postmodernism" or "multiculturalism," it's just an empty signifier used to flag a particular idea or concept as being just some kind of liberal egghead nonsense that doesn't need to be taken seriously. Admittedly this can be confusing to someone for whom words have actual meanings, but if you're that kind of person, you're probably outside of their target audience anyway.
ReplyDeleteLittle deux coup.
ReplyDeleteI would like to dance the ungainly spaz dance of Peter Wolf for the entertainment of this comment.
ReplyDeleteOther recent Federalist stories on feminism include "Modern Feminism Means Forcing Your Wife to Work", "There Is No Wage Gap: Feminists Want Equal Pay for Unequal Work", and (this one's really cute) "Taylor Swift Flirts With the Feminist Dark Side". So their concern for whether the "hypersexual trans movement" is hurting feminism would seem to be--from their perspective at least--akin to worrying that Freddie is playing too rough with Jason.
ReplyDeleteBesides Wolf, the J. Geils Band also had a Magic Dick. Just sayin'.
ReplyDeleteWhat, them worry?
ReplyDeleteI see somebody else attended a LAN party back in the day.
ReplyDeleteRichard Avedon knew how to deal with...unusual specimens. Unfortunately, also dead.
ReplyDeleteYeah, yesterday at the laundromat the third hour death march part of the Today Show was on and I heard Ms Jenner's fellow Republican Kathy Lee Gifford giving some kind of mushy testimonial. Not really the spokesperson you go to if you're reaching out to the Youth of the Nation.
ReplyDeleteI never can. The best I can do is compartmentalize.
ReplyDeletestealing this
ReplyDeleteLet's not be too Hasterty to judge.
ReplyDeleteThat's not love.
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Just ask Rod Dreher.
ReplyDeleteDevolution, well, we want to regress the world.
ReplyDeleteI'm kinda sure that "gender" is a social construct by definition.
ReplyDeleteThe concern, it's so touching.
ReplyDeleteExactly. What would a conservative be without a bloody shirt to wave around?
ReplyDeleteI'd love to regress the world, but I don't know what to do.
ReplyDeleteMakes one wonder why they didn't just turn the stage over to Camille Paglia.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking more Joel-Peter Witkin.
ReplyDeleteMe want snu-snu, out me way!
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's like this Davis fellow is groping blindly toward his own version of The Second Sex, in which he concludes that women should wear dresses.
ReplyDeleteDon't blame liberals for this. Ms. Jenner is a self-declared Republican. Perhaps this "outrage" is just part of the conservative agenda to undermine our family values by making Mommy into Daddy and Daddy into Mommy. Either that, or it is the Duggars. making brothers transforming into molesters.
ReplyDeleteHow quickly these people forget. Wasn't THAT long ago that it was revealed that the RNC was spending a small fortune keeping their delegates entertained with strip clubs that featured a lesbian bondage theme. with elaborate S&M scenes and two girls simulating oral sex in a glass case.
ReplyDeletewhat is the civil war, or the south etc. in this?
ReplyDeleteI believe Charleston is the clitoris of the south, while Richmond serves as the labia.
Rod's thinking about even when he's not thinking about it. Kind of dick processing in background.
ReplyDeleteInrection.
ReplyDeleteOh, those cunning linguists!
ReplyDeleteThey need a subscription to Chicks With Dicks magazine.
ReplyDeleteMadison's letters to Jefferson decrying Washington's cross-dressing, and pointing out that Washington's choice of puce instead of ecru for his leggings indicated a lack of faith in the nascent America, set the tone for all true patriots.
ReplyDeleteOh sure, 65 years of living in America had no effect on how she or anyone thinks about womanhood, femininity, etc, it's just those durn hypersexual trans folks.
ReplyDeleteCan't turn on the TV without seeing an ad for boner pills, or some slinky thing touting beer or whisky. Can't drive down the highway without seeing a billboard featuring a well-endowed women hawking jewelry or furniture. Can't open your Web browser without getting ads for Russian wives with their big breasts barely concealed or click-bait links to funny wardrobe malfunctions. Can't open your mailbox without finding catalogs for panties and bras.
But Caitlyn Jenner has single-handedly destroyed feminism by, well, existing or something. And the children--male and female--who never noticed any of the aforementioned stuff are now all busy masturbating to the Vanity Fair cover.
Show on the doll where it touched you...
ReplyDeleteA catalog of wartime bravery, just like the troops at Omaha Beach. From left:
ReplyDelete1. Abetted My Lai coverup.
2. "Other priorities," five deferments.
3. Deserter.
4. "No one could have predicted . . ."
5. Slam-dunk.
6. September roll-out.
7. Up-armored Humvees? Are you kidding?
Yeah, except it would be them who'd be closing their eyes and thinking of England.
ReplyDeleteThat's probably what counts for real feminism to most Republicans.
ReplyDeleteHow do they get "hyper" into that? if any other woman, hell any other human on the planet was wearing that, they wouldn't call it hypersexual. She's posing for a photo shoot in a pretty outfit. BFD. How repressed, how deeply invested in creepy fundamentalist ideas of "modesty" does one have to be to call that "hypersexual"?
ReplyDeleteWell, we can dream, anyway.
ReplyDeleteDon't like gender transformations?
ReplyDeleteDon't have one.
Having lived in the south for several years, there are several places that I could nominate as the taint.
ReplyDeleteRobert Mapplethorpe could have done suitable work with a certain prop, IYKWIMAITYD.
ReplyDeleteCaitlin? Damn... I had Brittany in the office pool...
ReplyDeleteSome years ago Leibovitz borrowed a ton of money to build her dream studio, buying three brownstones and connecting them internally, investing millions in lights and workstations and salaried staff. It didn't work out. She'd put up the copyright to all her past images as collateral, and lost them. After a setback like that...well, "best" is hard to define, but I know my work would certainly be different.
ReplyDeleteSo Caitlyn Jenner, who identifies as a Republican, is the liberals' fault. Just when will you guys learn to use your superpowers for good and not evil?
ReplyDeleteMaryland? Kentucky? Kansas? "'Taint south, 'taint north"?
ReplyDeleteIt's like the relatives on my Facebook feed who never cared much about the Espys, or could even tell you off the top of their heads who Arthur Ashe was, until Caitlyn Jenner got nominated for an Arthur Ashe award. Now they're signing a petition to have this college woman who died of cancer nominated instead, or an ex-athlete veteran who's missing a leg, or really anyone but the transwoman.
ReplyDeleteI want to ride to Valhalla with this comment, shiny and chrome. WITNESS ME.
ReplyDeleteRide, Lena, Ride!
ReplyDeleteIt's as if millions of transphobes cried out in anguish all at once, then went silent. No, they really didn't go silent, just wishful thinking on my part.
ReplyDeleteI'd read an article about that. Sounds like she really has to Nicolas Cage it now.
ReplyDeleteAs a totally unrelated comment, Leni Riefenstahl also did photography.
ReplyDeleteI had $10 on Flurgulax the Destructor at 1000:1. It was a sucker bet, I admit.
ReplyDelete"Modern Feminism Capitalism Means Forcing Your Wife to Work"There. Now all they need to do is tweak the text a bit, and it can be a lament for the days of high marginal tax rates, restrictions on the movement of capital, and strong labor unions.
ReplyDelete"There Is No Wage Gap: Feminists Want Equal Pay for Unequal Work" ...Okay, I'll confess, they've got me on this one, because I would pay Lilly Ledbetter extra if I could watch her repeatedly punch article author Matthew Cochran in his smug pasty white face.
Yes, yes, but did they give one another tax cuts?
ReplyDeleteWell, in fairness, it is kinda risqué for the cover of Vanity Fair.
ReplyDeleteYeah, "Know thy enemy." Works for the Enlightenment and the Magna Carta, too.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure these are the same people who were OUTRAGED!!!! by Chappaquidick in response to 9-11.
ReplyDeleteI want to march in a parade with this comment next Memorial Day and every Memorial Day thereafter.
ReplyDelete"There, there, Rod, there's still Mary Lou Retton."
ReplyDeleteoh so you didn't know andrea dworkin was on the federalist's mastheadWell, she needs to jump up and down harder, then.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's like this Davis fellow is groping blindly toward his own version of The Second SexIYKWIMAITYD.
ReplyDeleteCan I get this on pay-per-view? I'd subscribe over and over and over again.
ReplyDeletePsst! You misspelled "disappointed."
ReplyDeleteHave you got a copy of Field & Stream?I do, but it's full of master baiters.
ReplyDelete+1 great kid, don't get cocky
ReplyDeleteOh yeah? What about Fourier transformations, huh? Huh?
ReplyDeleteYa can't win if you don't play.
ReplyDeleteI love that line.
ReplyDeletePolitical incorrectness is the real political correctness.
ReplyDeleteSocial Justice Warriors turn me on.
ReplyDeletehttp://pre15.deviantart.net/7d44/th/pre/f/2013/228/9/f/warrior_women_by_kuhsor-d6ieh31.jpg
Camille Paglia, you say? Paging the ghost of Molly Ivins —
ReplyDeletehttps://stevenhartsite.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/passages-molly-ivins/
I just encountered another example of conservatives trying to claim the mantle of "true" liberalism for themselves while not in fact being in any way liberal, from a popup ad from "fixthisnation.com" whose About page has this bit of nonsense as a disclaimer:
ReplyDeleteThere was a time when America was proud of its liberal backbone, and Fix This Nation would have stood proudly beside the most liberal of the founding fathers. Conservatism in those early days meant adhering to the throne, paying taxes dutifully without questioning the nature of political representation, and affixing to a single way of worship that included no room for dissent. If the news and columns of Fix This Nation has been written in that far-away time, you can bet that they would be strongly anti-England, and powerfully pro-change.
Of course, we don’t live in that time anymore. Conservatism and
liberalism have changed tremendously, especially over the last century.
America discovered the truth of conservatism only when it appeared
obvious that she had lost something very important to her fabric. With
the attack on Pearl Harbor, the country lost her young innocence and
realized that it was no longer feasible to pretend that two vast oceans
could fully protect our independence...
Two Wetsuits And A Tax Cut
ReplyDeleteAt this rate he'll end up Evangelical, if he thinks he can make enough money in a crowded field.
ReplyDeleteWith the attack on Pearl Harbor, the country lost her young innocence and realized that it was no longer feasible to pretend that two vast oceans could fully protect our independence...Hey, I give them credit for noting that this realization happened long before 9/11, no matter what Dubya babbled. On the other hand, Pearl Harbor is in Hawai'i.
ReplyDeletei genuinely feel bad for everyone in this picture.
ReplyDeleteThanks, D.
ReplyDeleteWhat's that mean, anyway? I can squint but I still only count two. There might be some grey areas between them, but two is all I ever get.
ReplyDeleteI don't know... I've never heard any mathematical function expect social dignity or equal justice under law.
ReplyDeleteI seem to recall a foreign incursion or two coming across the Atlantic back in 1776 or so, not to mention another one in 1812.
ReplyDeleteStill, even given the actual fact of Soviet missiles and bombers coming over the Pole, nothing could arouse Yankee fears like visions Saddam's numberless squadrons of plywood drones and their hurricanes of poison gas. Oh, conservatives, your bravery in the face of the enemy has always been our inspiration!
"String 'im up!"
ReplyDelete"Anybody got any string?"
"Lynch him!"
"Anybody got any lynch?"
Just three or four? Dammit, why did I take the over?
ReplyDeleteThe exhibit would be called, "Triumph of the Wank."
ReplyDeleteI'm affixed to mah religion and I cain't get unstuck.
ReplyDeleteNow that'ssick.
ReplyDeleteStill,continues their obsession with white women. Maybe this is an observational error but every year they run nearly identical covers of the up and coming starlets of hollowood or hollywood's most beautiful woman and invariably its the same damned woman.I mean--they may have had a WOC once in a while, if she headlined an important movie or something, but generally speaking if the coverstory is about "beauty" full stop? Its going to be the same languishing, pearl skinned, ectomorphic women.
ReplyDeleteDouble points for obscene dialect pun.
ReplyDeleteMy religion has fallen and it can't get up.
ReplyDeleteO come now, this one must be HUGE at the all-night, Molly-infused raves!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZD33qq1yqc
Well they have been shouting "The Sheriff is near!!" on a daily basis since 2008.
ReplyDelete"It's a fap!"
ReplyDeleteNewsletter, subscribe, etc.
ReplyDeleteWhat's all this I hear about gender exceptionalism?
ReplyDeleteI seem to recall a foreign incursion or two coming across the Atlantic back in 1776 or so, not to mention another one in 1812.
ReplyDeleteHow 'bout 1492, fella? That was one bad foreign incursion. Fuckers wrecked the sitting room, drank all the fermented goat milk, and passed out on the continent. Shit, they still haven't left!
That's only because so many of them are either fully integrated or live a derivative existence. Some few are so traumatized by the whole thing that they have retreated and seem imaginary.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't get me started about the Vikings.
ReplyDeleteSuch barbed comments prevent the master baiters from wriggling off the hook.
ReplyDeletehaha, yes. They often wear less than Caitlyn. Very risque to be so covered.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to regret wading into this topic, aren't I? Me and my large mouth.
ReplyDeleteYeah, poor Blake. Unable to live down the shame, he decided he might as well get elected to Congress.
ReplyDeletemontag2 already posted a picture of Blake Farenthold and his ladyfriend.
ReplyDelete"Bring out the blankets!"
ReplyDeleteThe Santa-photograph industry could use an infusion of class and expertise, I am sure.
ReplyDelete"Obscene Dialect Puns for two-hundred, Alex."
ReplyDeleteDo teh yoots even read Vanity Fair?
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