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A Theory of Sex (and Feminism)
Posted on | March 13, 2016 | 47 Comments
Friday's post about feminist Ruby Hamad included a quote by Professor Sheila Jeffreys, asserting that heterosexuality is "a political institution through which male dominance is organised and maintained." This prompted the commenter Joe Joe to remark:
Does Jeffreys understand that all sexual relationships have some element of power relations? Butch/femme pairings are not accidental. And no, those women are not "imitating" heterosexuality: it's internal. We're born with different sexual charges. That's biology, not politics.
Well, here we ascend to the lofty plateau of theory, an area of philosophical speculation that is far above my pay grade. Some readers have been mystified, I suspect, by the way I have dealt with feminist gender theory — the social construction of the gender binary within the heterosexual matrix — in the Sex Trouble project. To me this theory (a terse summary of Professor Judith Butler's Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, which enjoys a quasi-scriptural authority among Third Wave feminist intellectuals) seems self-evidently wrong.
Notice that I say "wrong," rather than false.
Far be it from me to dispute Professor Butler's assertion that the "binary" social behaviors of the sexes are necessary to heterosexuality. Some men are more masculine than others and some women are more feminine than others but, however we describe these traits, they are highly correlated with success in terms of the natural biology of reproduction, i.e., heterosexuality. It seems to me that Professor Butler and others (e.g., "Queer Theory" pioneer Eve Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Eastern Washington University Professor Mimi Marinucci, author of the 2010 textbook Feminism Is Queer) begin their arguments by assuming certain basic premises of all feminist theory. The essential premise of feminism — the movement's sine qua non — is that all women are oppressed by men under a system of "male supremacy" otherwise known as patriarchy. This premise was stated most clearly in 1969 in the manifesto of the Women's Liberation collective Redstockings:
Women are an oppressed class. Our oppression is total, affecting every facet of our lives. . . .
We identify the agents of our oppression as men. Male supremacy is the oldest, most basic form of domination. . . . Men have controlled all political, economic and cultural institutions and backed up this control with physical force. They have used their power to keep women in an inferior position. All men receive economic, sexual, and psychological benefits from male supremacy. All men have oppressed women.
If you disagree with that, you are not a feminist. The Redstockings collective was co-founded by Shulamith Firestone, arguably the most important figure in the Women's Liberation movement (so-called "Second Wave" feminism) of the 1960s and '70s. Author of the influential 1970 book The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, Firestone had emerged as a leader in September 1967 at the National Conference for New Politics. At that gathering of the radical New Left, Firestone and Jo Freeman staged an insurrection, supported by women from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), taking over a women's workshop chaired by notorious atheist Madlyn Murray O'Hair.
This event (described in Susan Brownmiller's 1999 memoir In Our Time) led directly to the formation of the Chicago-based "West Side Group" which was, as Brownmiller says, "probably the first Women's Liberation group in the nation." Obtaining a list of addresses of SDS women, Firestone moved to New York City and began recruiting and organizing others. Among those recruited by Firestone was a veteran socialist named Anne Koedt, subsequently a member of Ti-Grace Atkinson's group The Feminists and editor of the 1973 anthology Radical Feminism. The history of the modern feminist movement can be traced directly back to the ideas, activism and organizing of a comparative handful of women associated with the 1960s New Left. What was the nature of women's "oppression," according to Firestone and her Redstockings comrades?
We are exploited as sex objects, breeders, domestic servants, and cheap labor.
In 1969, then, feminism condemned male admiration of beauty (women as "sex objects"), as well as women's role in motherhood ("breeders") and marriage (a wife's work within her own household reduced her to the status of "domestic servant"). This amounted to a complete rejection of sex roles, per se. If it was "oppression" for women to become wives or mothers, then by the obverse principle, feminism also condemned any man who might desire to become a husband or father.
Given the all-encompassing categorical scope of feminism's attack on every normal manifestation of human sexual behavior, is it any surprise that the movement soon attracted to its banner militant lesbians?
"Lesbian is a label invented by the Man to throw at any woman who dares to be his equal, who dares to challenge his prerogatives . . . who dares to assert the primacy of her own needs. . . .
"Until women see in each other the possibility of a primal commitment which includes sexual love, they will be denying themselves the love and value they readily accord to men, thus affirming their second-class status. . . .
"But why is it that women have related to and through men? By virtue of having been brought up in a male society, we have internalized the male culture's definition of ourselves. That definition consigns us to sexual and family functions, and excludes us from defining and shaping the terms of our lives. . . .
"The consequence of internalizing this role is an enormous reservoir of self-hate. . . .
"As the source of self-hate and the lack of real self are rooted in our male-given identity, we must create a new sense of self. . . . Only women can give to each other a new sense of self. That identity we have to develop with reference to ourselves, and not in relation to men. This consciousness is the revolutionary force from which all else will follow, for ours is an organic revolution."
— Radicalesbians, "The Woman-Identified Woman," 1970
You see how rapidly the inexorable logic of Women's Liberation advanced from its founding to the emergence of lesbian feminism. Calling on feminists to reject "the male culture" of "a male society," the Radicalesbian manifesto called on feminists to exchange their "male-given identity" for a "new sense of self," thus achieving a new "consciousness" that would be a "revolutionary force" against male supremacy.
This advance in feminist theory occurred in less that three years, from September 1967 to May 1970, when the Radicalesbians disrupted the NOW-organized Second Congress to Unite Women with their protest. The significance of this is explained in my book Sex Trouble:
The authors of "The Woman-Identified Woman" were not as famous as celebrity feminists like Gloria Steinem, but even if they were completely unknown, their radical manifesto would continue to be influential, because it is routinely included in the curricula of Women's Studies courses across the United States: Michigan State University, the University of Oregon, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of Minnesota, to name a few. It is not difficult to trace the influence of this early radicalism down to the present day, or to cite similarly influential treatises — e.g., "Lesbians in Revolt" by Charlotte Bunch (1972) and "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" by Adrienne Rich (1980) — commonly included in the syllabi of Women's Studies programs. Any attempt to separate this kind of explicitly anti-male/anti-heterosexual ideology from "mainstream" feminism would require us to argue that the most eminent academics in the field of Women's Studies (including the lesbian editors of the widely used textbook Feminist Frontiers) are not "mainstream."
What feminism actually means, as a political philosophy, is deliberately obscured when we see a celebrity like Harry Potter star Emma Watson enlisted to recruit men to support the feminist movement.
Today we are launching a campaign called "HeForShe."
I am reaching out to you because I need your help. We want to end gender inequality — and to do that we need everyone to be involved.
This is the first campaign of its kind at the UN: we want to try and galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for gender equality. And we don't just want to talk about it, but make sure it is tangible.
I was appointed six months ago and the more I have spoken about feminism the more I have realized that fighting for women's rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop. . . .
I decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word.
Apparently I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men and, unattractive.
Why is the word such an uncomfortable one?
This is not really a difficult question to answer, Ms. Watson. No matter how many beautiful young actresses are conscripted as celebrity feminist spokeswomen, you can never evade the problem of feminism's core ideology, the movement's theory of women's "oppression."
Why is feminism "synonymous with man-hating"? This should not be mysterious to Emma Watson, nor to anyone with two eyes and a brain. It is easy for an extraordinarily privileged young woman like Emma Watson, who became a multimillionaire long before she was old enough to vote, to speak of "gender equality" as if this were something that would occur spontaneously once we overcome prejudicial stereotypes about feminists being unattractive man-haters. Going back to the very start of the Women's Liberation movement, and continuing up to the present day, we see that it is always privileged women who achieve prominence as feminism's intellectual leaders and spokeswomen.
The secret ingredient of feminist ideology is Daddy's money:
Catharine MacKinnon, for example, is the daughter of a Republican congressman and judge; her family's wealth enabled her to attend elite schools (Smith College and Yale University) and to spend 18 years writing her grand opus, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State. It is astonishing to read, in the preface of her 1989 book (p. xiv), that the first chapter "was written in 1971-72, revised in 1975, and published in Signs in 1982." Only an extraordinary sort of financial security can explain how a writer could be able to wait a full decade between writing the first draft of an essay and its initial publication. During the intervening years, MacKinnon published The Sexual Harassment of Working Women (1979) just two years after graduating from Yale Law School. This Marxist daughter of a Republican father was able to make herself an "expert" on the problems of "working women" precisely because she never had to work a day in her life. . . .
It was her remarkable socioeconomic privilege that was the basis of MacKinnon's lifelong assault on "male supremacy," and we see a similar pattern in the lives of many other feminists.
We encounter this phenomenon repeatedly in the biographies of feminist leaders. Women who make careers attacking patriarchy and capitalism are almost invariably the daughters of privilege.
Ti-Grace Atkinson, 1974
Ti-Grace Atkinson, for example, was one of five daughters born to a prominent Louisiana family. Her father was a chemical engineer for Standard Oil, and yet she has never acknowledged the role of her father (or capitalism) in paying the bills for her education.
"Why do women keep getting married? . . . It's conceivable somebody could be happy despite being married, but never because they were married. . . .
"Sex and love is the dynamic that keeps women's oppression going . . .
"Motherhood is a heavily permeated sex role."
— Ti-Grace Atkinson, 2011
More than 40 years after she became a leader of the feminist movement, Ti-Grace Atkinson's hostility to marriage, love, sex and motherhood remained the same as in 1969, when she protested against marriage and declared to a Time magazine reporter: "Love has to be destroyed. It's an illusion that people care for each other. . . . It may be that sex is a neurotic manifestation of oppression." Has any reporter bothered to ask Emma Watson if she agrees with Ti-Grace Atkinson? Of course not.
Who pays the bill for Emma Watson's feminist agenda at the United Nations? In 2012, U.S. taxpayers provided $567 million — 22 percent of the United Nations' budget — and, as Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation explained, America's "assessment" is "more than 180 other U.N. member states combined and 22,000 times more than the least assessed countries." The vast majority of the world's countries are parasitic freeloaders, in terms of the U.N. budget, while taxpayers in the United States (which has only 4.3 percent of the world's population) provide 22 cents of every dollar the U.N. spends. Somebody at the U.N. got paid to "create a new symbol for our shared humanity," proving the platform from which Emma Watson could lecture the world about how men need to become "advocates for gender equality." This requires only that we ignore the actually history of the feminist movement.
So, what have I been reading lately? pic.twitter.com/L4FNXfoAZa
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Emma Watson has started a feminist book club, and I wonder if she would consider recommending Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left by Sara Evans (1979), Daring To Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975 by Alice Echols (1989) and Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation by Kate Weigand (2001). Perhaps it would help Ms. Watson's naïve young admirers to study how the modern feminist movement originated. If the subscribers to Ms. Watson's book club are curious why "Second Wave" feminism so quickly became associated with man-hating lesbians, right here on my desk, I have several books that Ms. Watson could recommend to her feminist fans:
Sappho Was a Right-On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism by Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love (1972)
Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution by Jill Johnston (1973)
Radical Feminism by Anne Koedt, et al. (1973)
Lesbianism and the Women's Movement by Nancy Myron and Charlotte Bunch (1975)
Female Sexual Slavery by Kathleen Barry (1979)
Rape: The Power of Consciousness by Susan Griffin (1979)
The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory by Marilyn Frye (1983)
The Social Construction of Lesbianism by Celia Kitzinger (1987)
For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology by Sarah Lucia-Hoagland and Julia Penelope (1988)
Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression by Sandra Lee Bartky (1990)
Willful Virgin: Essays in Feminism by Marilyn Frye (1992)
Heterosexuality: A Feminism & Psychology Reader by Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger (1993)
Loving to Survive: Sexual Terror, Men's Violence and Women's Lives by Dee R. Graham (1994)
Rethinking Sexuality by Diane Richardson (2000)
Radical Feminism Today by Denise Thompson (2001)
Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives by Carole R. McCann and Seung-Kyung Kim (2002)
Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal by Judith "Jack" Halberstam (2012)
Modern Feminist Theory: An Introduction by Jennifer Rich (2014)
Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism by Miranda Kiraly and Meagan Tyler (2015)
Let the members of Emma Watson's book club read that list of 20 books — a fraction of the feminist library I've amassed during my research — and tell me if any of these eminent authors has anything good to say about men, marriage or motherhood. Permit me to point out that among the names on this list are Professor Charlotte Bunch (Rutgers University), Professor Kathleen Barry (Pennsylvania State University), Professor Marilyn Frye (Michigan State University), Professor Celia Kitzinger (University of York), Professor Sarah Lucia-Hoagland (Northeastern Illinois University), Professor Sandra Lee Bartky (University of Illinois), Professor Sue Wilkinson (Loughborough University), Professor Dee Graham (University of Cincinnati) Professor Diane Richardson (Newcastle University), Professor Carole McCann (University of Maryland), Professor Seung-Kyung Kim (University of Maryland), Professor "Jack" Halberstam (University of Southern California) and Professor Jennifer Rich (Hofstra University). Let the reader ask,"Who pays the bills to promote feminism's anti-male/anti-heterosexual agenda?" And the answer is: "You do." Feminism is supported by taxpayer funding to higher education, and by every parent or student who pays a dime in tuition to the hundreds of colleges and universities that employ such professors in departments of Women's Studies.
The secret ingredient of feminist ideology is Daddy's money, you see.
Every year, some 90,000 students in the United States are enrolled in Women's Studies classes, where they are indoctrinated (at taxpayer expense) in the Cult Ideology of Feminism, and sent forth into the world as activists promoting this anti-male belief system everywhere.
All of this is by way of explaining why I say Professor Judith Butler's feminist gender theory is wrong, but not necessarily false.
If a woman feels nothing but contempt and hatred toward men, if she never desires to have a husband or babies, if the thought of heterosexual intercourse inspires in her only feelings of dread and horror, there is no reason why she shouldn't embrace Professor Butler's theory. Shulamith Firestone, Mary Daly, Catharine MacKinnon, Joyce Trebilcot, Gayle Rubin, Sheila Jeffreys, Amanda Marcotte, Jaclyn Friedman — one could recite a very long list of eminent feminist authors without naming a woman who had ever married a man or given birth to a child.
Does anyone imagine this is merely a coincidence? Of course not. As a rationalization of man-hating — or divorce, or abortion, or lesbianism — feminist theory is entirely valid. Begin with the premise that all women are "oppressed," and that all men are "agents" of this "oppression," and how else do you expect the argument to conclude?
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools . . . And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind . . ."
— Romans 1:22, 28 (KJV)
Just FYI, I aced Principles of Logic in college, and
that was in 1980, before the psilocybin wore off.
The logic of feminism is obvious enough. But when the commenter Joe Joe asserted that "all sexual relationships have some element of power relations," I felt obliged to offer my own perspective:
Let me say, first, that I do not like theory. Give me enough facts, and I'll come up with my own theory — or not. Could I theorize about the nature of sexual attraction? Sure, and I even dabble a bit in it ("Me Tarzan, you Jane") in my book. Heterosexual success requires that a man exhibit some quality of heroism, to elicit the admiration of a woman. She cannot love a man she does not admire. This is simple enough to understand, and also explains the fundamental problem of feminism — an ideology that takes a wholly negative view of masculinity, so that the feminist can never find any real enjoyment in a normal heterosexual relationship. Insofar as a man is worthy of admiration — possessing heroic qualities — the feminist must resent his success. This resentment of male success is so inherent to her ideology that the feminist must feel like a horrible hypocrite for admiring any man. She is always the protagonist of the drama, and he is a bit player whose only lines in the script are "yes." For this reason, to hear her husband praised for any independent achievement of his own always fills the feminist with envy and rage.
Well, that is one theory, anyway. If you don't like it, I could whip out another half-dozen by next Tuesday, but theory doesn't pay the bills.
Somebody's got to pay the bills, you see. Feminists do not want men to have economic success or career achievement that would enable men to pay the bills — to support their wives and children — because if women have husbands and children have fathers, this contributes to "the dynamic that keeps women's oppression going," as Ti-Grace Atkinson put it.
Lest anyone mistakenly believe that feminism has changed its tune, or doubt that young feminists subscribe to the same radical ideology that inspired Firestone, Atkinson, et al., carefully read the rant that Meghan Murphy published just last week, denouncing "capitalist patriarchy," condemning "gender roles that are rooted in domination and subordination (i.e. masculinity and femininity)," and describing feminism as a movement "to build a society wherein men don't feel entitled to sexual access to women." Is Meghan Murphy a marginal extremist "fringe" feminist? No, she is the founder and editor of Feminist Current, Canada's leading feminist website. She has a master's degree in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies from Simon Fraser University, and if Ms. Murphy insists that feminism must have "a real, radical definition" and "collective, agreed upon goals," who am I to say she is wrong?
Meghan Murphy is right: Men cannot have "sexual access to women" — that's rape culture, she explains — and masculinity and femininity must be abolished. Or so you must believe, if you are a feminist.
Professor Ann Althouse was intrigued by my rhetorical method:
This is an interesting form of argument, where you take a central term that people have infused with various meanings, adapting it to their preferences and purposes, and present evidence that the truest, most historically accurate meaning of that term refers to things that those who've been embracing it would find repellent.
Well, I make no argument, Professor, and I offer no theory. Such work is for intellectuals, whereas I am a mere journalist, and all I'm doing is reporting the objective facts here: Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It. Trust me on that.
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Category: Sex Trouble
47 Responses to "A Theory of Sex (and Feminism)"
M. Thompson
March 13th, 2016 @ 8:24 pm
Seeing your new account here has prompted me to get back on the Twitter Bandwagon. Curse you Red Baron!
Are you equating the phrase "not . . .false" with logical validity? That is, an argument's premise may be false, but the argument's conclusion may logically follow, being therefore "valid." This is, I think, your point, which is correct. What makes the Feminist foundation both false and wrong, i.e. untrue, is that the premise, "all men oppress all women" is, to be charitable, open to discussion. Feminists, however, view it as self-evident, and thus, does all the rest of the lunacy follow.
Fail Burton
The history of unpacking the paranoia and sociopathy of these women is an account of how they had an idea first and then cast a net to see what "science" they could find to back it up. Why should we be surprised it leads us to the wacky world of post-structuralist thought, the kingdom where anything can be anything if you only squint your eyes and wish hard enough. Faster than you can say Monique Wittig, in a surprisingly short period of time they came up with enough comprehensive gibberish to create French Queer Theory. This is enhanced by the "performative" notion where the only "real" truth is that which has not been made compulsory by society. Conveniently, within that paradigm, lesbianism becomes real and heterosexuality an illusion which exists only by virtue of the demands it makes of and pre-envisions for itself. Cease demanding it and it disappears on a puff of smoke, leaving behind only a far greater spectrum of gender otherwise known as "insanity."
Well done, ladies, and that includes Foucault. Now make me a Rolls Royce-Merlin engine and a sandwich.
robertstacymccain
Butler is "wrong," as in morally wrong. We are not supposed to make moral judgments about right and wrong, good and evil, because this might hurt the feelings of people who are wrong and evil. The only kind of judgments permitted in the 21st century are political judgments on the basis of a progressive theory of equality.
You should memorize this comment, because pretty soon it will be a crime to say this, and this comment will be obliterated by the Thought Police.
DeadMessenger
I wish I could've digitally captured the precise moment of my gobsmacking, so I could share with you my mouth flying open and my beverage drooling down my chin and down the front of my shirt: "Who pays the bill for Emma Watson's feminist agenda at the United Nations? In 2012, U.S. taxpayers provided $567 million — 22 percent of the United Nations' budget …"
What.The.Flippity.Hell??? Why???
I used to think that if I ever became President, sometime during my first and only month in office, shortly before my assassination, I'd pull the U.S. out of the UN. But now I can see that I'd actually do that on day one, right after I repeal Obamacare, and right before I close the Dept. of Education, the EPA, and the Dept. of Energy.
Obviously, I don't disagree with the position that Butler, et al. are morally wrong. See. e.g. Genesis 3:16. However, your exposé of feminism's origins necessarily must rely upon logic alone without appeals to morality, which is, in essence, and appeal to authority which not all will accept. Feminism as a view of reality collapses under the weight of its own lunacy without regard to moral imperatives. Perhaps inserting "morally" into your text above would make it more clear.
March 13th, 2016 @ 10:01 pm
… and that includes Foucault.
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Anita Sarkeesian is probably already on the phone with your internet provider.
It is no coincidence that as Feminism has become more mainstream, autoethnography has become ever more prevalent is "scholarly" "research" and writing.
NeoWayland
Not if I have anything to say about it.
Nathan Explosion approves!
Steve Skubinna
There's "wrong," there's "false," and then there's "flat our barking batshit deranged insane and stupid."
The latter is what you are discussing. Know your terms.
Back in the sixties and seventies I used to think my grandparents had gone off the reservation with their "Get US out of the UN" stickers on their cars.
Since then I have come to believe they were prescient. There is nothing the UN touches that does not become worse. It is a force for evil.
The crux of the matter is the "rush from judgement" which started in the 60's.
The armed extremists of the Black Panthers/Weather underground/red brigades werent judged like common thugs of other non-fashionable extremists were (the KKK for example), but allowed to flourish because their "cause" was just.
Extremism, and tolerance of it, whatever its stated objectives, is nearly always a bad thing, and its generally bad people who engage in it.
In a just world the Black Panthers/ Weather underground people would be excoriated like the KKK instead of rewarded with bullshit academic positions and a soft focus historical assessment.
By caving into extremists 50 years ago the current rot set in.
Build a Trump wall around Washington and impose a strict quarantine, nothing goes in or out.
Hell, sell the pay TV rights for the "lord of the flies reality show" and the wall would pay for itself
Adobe_Walls
I've always been opposed to leaving the UN before destroying it. Put another way "no I do not think it would be a good idea to give Iran a seat on the security council".
Joe Guelph
And of course there's Pauli's famous judgement on utterly useless theory: "That's *not even wrong*"!
Butler's a freak from Battlecreek. Is that wrong or false?
By the way, an excellent piece.
Many people have been mystified by what happened in Nazi Germany in terms of how hate speech and madness can be mainstreamed into a society as something noble and just. Stacy is showing you how that is happening in real time.
Let's have no talk of Godwin's Law or concentration camps; I'm not talking about anything like that. I'm talking about a mechanism – a con game – by which false histories are used to persecute a biological group of people via blood libels which don't wash off.
As always, I am mystified by so many journalists entranced by their own insightful natures who are failing to see what is right in front of their faces. It shows why you see so few good journalistic essayists. Improvisational pontificating off the top of one's head while speaking in bland generalities is a lot easier than doing research.
March 14th, 2016 @ 12:01 am
And yet, not a few of these nutjobs ARE actually calling for concentration camps for men.
Damn it Stacy, I almost choked on a bagel, when I saw that woman with the make me a sandwich sign. She looks like she needed one too. lol….
The past four or five years, it seems, there has been an almost manic intensity of hatred pouring out for the feminist movement. It's like nothing I've seen except, perhaps, the Left's anti-Bush madness during the Iraq War.
Daniel Freeman
March 14th, 2016 @ 1:12 am
The worst, IMO, is UN "peacekeepers". Arming men from actual rape cultures and sending them among the most vulnerable and defenseless. Reprehensible.
As we have noted in the past, there aren't any slices of bread large enough. And no one would want to eat her, even if it were legal. And if she has some kind of vore fetish, why not sandwich herself? A very confusing demand all around.
Destroying it works for me, too.
I stumbled across a website once – didn't keep the link, sorry – with links to actual news stories and pictures from all over the world, documenting their reprehensibleness (is that a word?)
What they've done in Africa, for example, is beyond anything I've ever heard of. And they get away with all of it. Not even a slap on the wrist, nor a harsh word spoken.
I'd buy a TV just to watch that. It'd be like the cult movie, The Warriors, only the gangs would be wearing business suits and blinding each other with their laser pointers.
The foundation of the one world government, can you dig it? See Revelation for details.
Turtler
First time commentator here and general nerd. And while your post is quite good, what really stuck out to me was this one part of one quote, and something not many people would probably focus on because of how pressing the other threats is.
But here it is.
"Lesbian is a label invented by the Man to throw at any woman who dares to be his equal, who dares to challenge his prerogatives"
Now, this is patently stupid and ignorant on many levels (especially assuming that Lesbianism is equivalent with equality- and thus nobody can be both a Heterosexual or Bisexual woman and equal with men/challenge their prerogatives, which would include labeling their idol Beauvoir as such because she banged another moron of the opposite gender).
But no, what this thing overlooks that REALLY Strikes me is that it effectively denies that the entire Greek island of Lesbos exists, has existed for millions of years, and has had human communities on it for thousands of them.
It was THESE PEOPLE- of both genders and presumably every sexual orientation known to man- the citizens of the ancient Hellenic Island-State of Lesbos- that were known as "Lesbians" and written about as such in countless sources from the period. So it's not like this is controversial.
Heck, the reason the word has the meaning it does today is because of the most famous classical Lesbian, Sappho. (Whose works are IMHO worth reading, and have a lot more scope and depth than just the cherry-picked parts they have for "Queer Studies" or whatever). But apparently they had to shaft her to, because admitting she was a proud citizen of Lesbos would categorically debunk this bullocks claim.
And apparently that would be too much for egotists like this. Before them, Nothing. After them, Everything. Admitting history did not start with them would be too much.
And apparently when you're over credentialed and nursing grievances, you don't have to do pitiful things like actual research.
Research is for suckers. Why research when you can make stuff up and useful idiots believe it without question?
But we won't, because we'll be in reeducation camps by then, dribbling into our drool cups while we wait for our next electroshock session.
They'll probably let us hum Kumbayah over our oatmeal and strained peas, though.
Finrod Felagund
For years I've advocated renumbering the interstate Beltway around DC to I-666, as a Warning.
Joe Joe
Three comments:
1. When I said that all sexual relations have an element of power relations, I was trying to point out that lesbian relationships ALSO have that element. If feminists are trying to get away from power relations by having sexual relations with only women, they are fooling themselves. I have memories of a certain butch lesbian who was particularly obnoxious to her femme partner. (They lived next door at one time.)
I don't disagree with your assessment of women needing to admire the men they're with. I've seen that often enough.
2. The woman with the sign that men (I assume) should make her a sandwich looks like she really doesn't need another sandwich. Perhaps she should consider carrying another sign.
3. You need to start making youtube videos. Twitter feminists are not going to come here, but they do show up in youtube comments. You might actually get some traction there. And young women need to hear you because feminism will corrode their lives and relationships with men.
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That depends on if people depend on "the system" to save them.
Let's not forget this is the 10th anni. of Duke Lacrosse. Some daffy feminist wrote about that and was more worried about the racism and misogyny of the frat party than a mentally ill stripper, huckster and now convicted murderer who set out to put men in prison for nothing.
The woman who wrote that piece made it fairly clear she considered the prison sentence for the murdered less than fair and the Duke lacrosse players men who had gotten away with something.
What would've happened had this current Title IX racket been in play at the time?
If they're not breaking the law, change the law until they do.
Our esteemed host wrote:
Feminists do not want men to have economic success or career achievement that would enable men to pay the bills — to support their wives and children — because if women have husbands and children have fathers, this contributes to "the dynamic that keeps women's oppression going," as Ti-Grace Atkinson put it.
Well, in that regard, the feminists have been amazingly successful: these days, wages have fallen to the point where a man is usually unable to provide all of the economic support a family requires, and his wife has to work outside the home as well, just to make ends meet. I suspect, however, that, for most women, this economic change hasn't exactly been how they wanted things to turn out once women were freed to be able to compete for all jobs, rather than a restricted few.
Nobody wants to admit it, but it was the increased competition from women and blacks which led to the downward pressure on wages. When only white men were allowed to compete for most good jobs, it had the same economic effect as unionization: it restricted the supply of workers vis a vis the demand for workers. Once women and blacks were allowed to compete for the good jobs, the supply of available workers for those positions increased dramatically, far in excess of the increased demand.
The result was totally foreseeable: with many more available workers, employers didn't need to pay as much to fill the positions. Less foreseen was the economic pressure on workers: once men no longer had to bear the burden of the total economic support of the family, they could accept and be satisfied with jobs which paid less than was required to support the whole family, because their wives could also work. Employers could get away with paying less than a family wage, because they could retain workers with less than a family wage.
The huge increase in the workforce led to the high unemployment of the 1970s and early 1980s: the economy simply had to adjust to the new conditions. And it adjusted in a way that no one ever talked about: as there was a vast influx of women and blacks into the workforce, there were new jobs created, but those jobs were primarily (not exclusively) in the fields which provided service to the new employees. With wives no longer having the time to prepare a lunchbox for their husbands before they headed off to work, fast food jobs for lunch, and eventually breakfast, proliferated, and food service jobs for women who now had to work a full day outside the home rather than being home, able to cook dinner for the family, were created as well.
There were industrial jobs created as well: since families now needed two automobiles rather than one, the automobile industry saw an increase. Unfortunately, this occurred at the same time as imported cars were surging, so many of those jobs were created in Osaka rather than Ohio! New demands for clothing were created, at the same time as foreign garment manufacturers were penetrating the American market.
What has feminism wrought? For some, and our esteemed host listed all of those feminist professors, with good university jobs, feminism meant great jobs and careers. But, alas! for far more women it meant having to work full time at WalMart or a convenience store. The left, never having understood economics, somehow thought that the entry of women into the labor force in large numbers would mean that families would be much wealthier, would have just so many more resources. Had they understood the most basic concepts, the Economics 101 concepts of supply and demand, they could have foreseen what a dramatic increase in the supply of labor would mean, but, if any of them did see it, it was far too politically incorrect to ever say out loud.
"Well, in that regard, the feminists have been amazingly successful: these days, wages have fallen to the point where a man is usually unable to provide all of the economic support a family requires, and his wife has to work outside the home as well, just to make ends meet."
This is a rationalization, and not an explanation, for the decline of the family. Over the years, I have heard variations of this "economic" theory of the decline of the family, but they simply do not add up to an explanation.
Ask yourself a simple question: What are the requirements of "success" in a society that is descending into degenerate chaos?
Three words: The Kardashian family.
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…hopefully, these monsters will become extinct by their own actions…
I assume you mean people other than us, because I don't depend on "the system" for doodly, and never will.
There are people who would not go willingly to a reeducation camp. They're very nice people, they'd invite you over for a BBQ before the big game, they'd take your kids to school, and they'd help you change a hot water tank if you needed it.
But they would never submit to a government that ran reeducation camps.
AngelinaPGay
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It would be interesting to see how much of the fall off in university enrollment is from men. Running gender studies is going to hit the bottom line for these institutions.
DukeLax
Women have always lied about rape, but what has changed over the last few decades…is State law enforcement are now getting "eztra federal monies" to persecute innocent guys on false accusations, while manufacturing the statistic that false accusations are one half of 1 percent ( which is a faulty and inflammatory lie)
Orwellian
But who is going to "fund" this new juggernaut paradigm???…Oh, thats right…..washington has the printing presses running day and night now.


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Windsor House Bed & Breakfast
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Stay In Our Period Former Farmhouse
Ian & Elaine warmly invite you to stay in their former period farmhouse, which has been lovingly restored into a cosy, comfortable guest accommodation. They have a variety of rooms to suit families, couples and single travellers with a delicious freshly cooked breakfast of your choice to set you up for the day. Windsor house is also the only B&B in Torrington to have a wheelchair accessible room.
This delightful accommodation is situated on the edge of the historic town of Great Torrington with ample amenities within walking distance. The towns of Bideford and Barnstaple are a short drive or bus ride from Torrington allowing you good access to explore plenty more shops, eateries and leisure activities.
Windsor House B&B Guest House is an ideal place to stay for walkers and cyclists to explore the North Devon countryside with good links to the tarka trail.
History of Windsor House
Windsor House dates from before the 1850s. The bricked up window was an attempt to avoid payment of the Window Tax which was in force until 1851. By the 1890s this was home to Josephine Penhorwood, a strong and resourceful widow. She was born in 1853 in Middlesex and after losing her husband she set up at Windsor House as a butcher and farmer. She had come to Torrington to live with her elderly aunt, Maria Ching, who was a well known local figure as her husband had run the pub on Well Street for many years. Josephine employed 36 year old Alfred Burridge who was from London to work as the butcher.
By 1901 her 72 year old mother, Elizabeth South, was the housekeeper here and was grateful for the additional help which their domestic servant Josephine Cox gave.
It was a busy household and Josephine had even more plans. In 1907 she entered into a 14 year lease of Hatchet Field in Little Torrington intent on expanding her farming. By 1914 it was a flourishing business with Mrs Penhorwood listed in the local trade directories as a butcher.
Josephine died in 1946 at the grand age of 92.
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 * @file display-spiral.js
 * displays a spiral pattern on micro:bit LED matrix that appears then disappears
 *
 * This was originally written in PXL block code (pxl.microbit.org)
 * using lots of for loops. By the time we'd made the first three lines
 * appear and disappear it was getting complex to read so I showed how
 * to put the repetition into a function.
 *
 * Credit to:
 *    F for the concept and initial coding
 *    A for the logic in the function
 */
basic.forever(() => {
    // Appear 1 Across
    ShowOrDisappear(0, 4, 4, true, false)
    // Appear 2 Sides
    ShowOrDisappear(0, 3, 4, true, true)
    // 3 Across
    ShowOrDisappear(0, 3, 3, true, false)
    // 4 Side
    ShowOrDisappear(1, 2, 3, true, true)
    // 5 Across
    ShowOrDisappear(1, 2, 2, true, false)
    // now disappear in reverse
    ShowOrDisappear(2, 1, 2, false, false)
    ShowOrDisappear(2, 1, 3, false, true)
    ShowOrDisappear(3, 0, 3, false, false)
    ShowOrDisappear(3, 0, 4, false, true)
    ShowOrDisappear(4, 0, 4, false, false)
})
/**
* Make a line of dots appear or disappear in sequence
* @function ShowOrDisappear
* @param {number} Start - Which X or Y value to start counting from
* @param {number} End - Which X or Y value to end counting on
* @param {number} Against - value to go 'against' the count (i.e. in Y if X is count, or vice versa)
* @param {boolean} Appear - true to make dots appear, false to disappear
* @param {boolean} Side - true to go up and down sides, false to go across top and bottom
*/
function ShowOrDisappear(Start: number, End: number, Against: number, Appear: boolean, Side: boolean) {
	// this used to be a simple for loop until we needed it to automatically count up AND DOWN
    let Count = Start
    while (((Start < End) && (Count <= End)) || ((Start >= End) && (Count >= End))) {
		// could simplify by assigning X1 Y1 X2 and Y2 values to plot
        if (Appear) {
            if (Side) {
                led.plot(Against, 4 - Count)
                led.plot(4 - Against, Count)
            } else {
                led.plot(Count, Against)
                led.plot(4 - Count, 4 - Against)
            }
        } else {
            if (Side) {
                led.unplot(Against, 4 - Count)
                led.unplot(4 - Against, Count)
            } else {
                led.unplot(Count, Against)
                led.unplot(4 - Count, 4 - Against)
            }
        }
        basic.pause(100)
        if (Start < End) {
            Count++
        } else {
            Count--
        }
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}

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The Walking Dead: Last Mile Announced by Skybound, Yvette Nicole Brown and Felicia Day to Host
By Dennis B Price
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'American Pickers': Mike Wolfe Mourns His Friend's Death
Mike Wolfe is mourning the loss of a close friend. Following the return of American Pickers on Jan. 4, and ahead of a new episode on Jan. 18, the History Channel star took to Instagram to pay tribute to Elmer Duellman, one of his mentors and the owner of Elmers Auto & Toy Museum in Fountain City, Wisconsin.
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The distance between Asuncion, Paraguay and Rome, Italy is approximately 10,370 km or 6,444 mi.
To reach Asuncion in this distance one would set out from Rome bearing 238.4° or WSW and follow the great circles arc to approach Asuncion bearing 224.5° or SW .
Asuncion has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa) whereas Rome has a Mediterranean hot climate (Csa).
Asuncion is in or near the subtropical moist forest biome whereas Rome is in or near the warm temperate moist forest biome.
The annual average temperature is 7.6 °C (13.6°F) warmer.
Total annual precipitation averages 495.7 mm (19.5 in) more which is equivalent to 495.7 l/m² (12.17 US gal/ft²) or 4,957,000 l/ha (529,936 US gal/ac) more. About 1 3/5 as much.
There are 265 more hours of sunlight per year in Asuncion. In whichever way circa 0h 44' more per day or about 1 1/9 as many.
The altitude of the sun at midday is overall 15.8° higher in Asuncion than in Rome.
Relative humidity levels are 3% lower.
The mean dew point temperature is 6.6°C (11.9°F) higher.
The table shows values for Asuncion relative to Rome. You can also view this comparison the other way around from the perspective of Rome vs Asuncion.


We are seeking a board-certified MD Orthopedic Surgeon to join three other orthos in a multi-specialty group on the coast of Florida. You will work 5 days/wk (two surgery days, three office days). Hospital (within walking distance).
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The various haunted attractions at NIGHTMARES at Liberty Ridge Farm will bring your worst fears to life! Located in nearby Schaghticoke, NIGHTMARES includes two haunted houses, a haunted corn maze, a haunted trolley ride, a haunted forest, and more. NIGHTMARES will be open in 2017 on Friday and Saturday nights from September 30th to October 28th, and also on Sunday, October 8th.
This tour is not for the faint of heart. Your nightmare begins with a corpse-guided tour along a serial killer infested forest to then be hauled into the trees among complete, utter horror. Once in the trees you will be launched in complete darkness ... alone, afraid and vulnerable ... along a screaming steel cable hundreds of feet along Mountain Ridge Adventure's awesome Zip Line Park. The terror occurs every Friday and Saturday night in the month of October from 7pm-10pm.
Explore the Great Escape during October and you can enjoy the rides and usual fun during the day, but beware of the ghoulish souls who wander the grounds at night! Once dark comes at Great Escape you can expect to see zombies, ghosts, mummies, mutant rats, and other terrifying characters whose sole mission is to scare you. This year, Fright Fest begins the weekend of September 30 - October 1. Then, it will take place on October 6-9, October 13-15, October 20-22, and October 27-29.
Meet the residents of the historic Jonesville Cemetery as undertaker Garret Van Vraken leads you on a tour of the tombstones. While the cemetery itself was built in the 1860s, its residents date back as far as 1799. The Tour of the Historic Jonesville Cemetery will happen on October 29th at 1pm.
Located in Troy, Field of Horrors has a number of different horror attractions for the price of one! From the Trail of Terror hayride to the catacombs of the Death Trap to the confusion of Insanity you'll be sure to leave the grounds shaking with fear. Field of Horrors opens for their Sneak Peak Weekend on September 29th and 30th, with the official opening on October 6th.
The Double M Haunted Hayrides have been spooky staple in the Saratoga region for 25 years! And, it's not just a hayride - you'll encounter the walking undead in a haunted prison, a torturous family in the nearby woods, an insane inkeeper at The Last Inn, and more terrors. The opening date for 2017 is Saturday, September 23rd.


WARNING: FULL SPOILERS FOR THE GAME OF THRONES SEASON PREMIERE FOLLOW.
Lord Ned Umber, aged 11, has died. The son of the late Lord Jon "Smalljon" Umber was found murdered in the ruins of his keep by northern patrols sent out from both Castle Black and the remnants of Eastwatch. Lord Umber was discovered in his keep, mutilated in a warning from the mysterious Night King and his White Walkers. In a situation becoming tragically common of late, Lord Umber would briefly return as a reanimated Wight, before being sent to his final rest by Lord Beric Dondarrion.
Believed to be named for the late Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell, Lord Ned was born in the castle of Last Hearth. He grew up as the noble son of the northernmost House in the Seven Kingdoms. When civil war broke out between Northmen, House Umber sided with House Bolton, leading to his own death during the Battle of the Bastards. Following Smalljon's demise, young Ned became Lord Umber and proved his honor by pledging his fealty to Jon Snow and House Stark. Sadly, he would not survive to reach manhood.
Lord Ned is preceded in death by his father Smalljon, and his grandfather Greatjon. Due to his age, young Ned leaves behind no wife nor heir, rendering House Umber seemingly extinct.
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Family Historian is a genealogy software program designed and written by Calico Pie Limited, a UK software company founded by Simon Orde in 1995. Family Historian has won numerous awards, including coming top in the two most recent group comparisons of top genealogy programs, by Which? Computing - one of the Which? stable of consumer magazines.  In 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 it received the highest overall score from TopTenReviews, in a group comparison with other leading genealogy software worldwide.

The program can be used to generate charts and diagrams, reports, maps, books & booklets, websites, and family tree CDs & DVDs.  Reports and books can be saved in rich-text format, suitable for editing in a word-processor.  Diagrams, charts, reports and books can all be saved in PDF format.  Pictures can be linked to all the people in them (each person is linked directly to their face in the picture).  The program also features a map window (with a choice of map types), web hints (automatic matching of data in databases on the Internet), an automatic source citation pane (to make adding sources easy), web clipping tools (for extracting data from web pages), internet search tools, interactive 'smart trees', multi-level undo/redo, and more.  Users can extend the program themselves by creating plugins using scripting tools which are included with each copy.  Plugins can be shared with other users by uploading them to the Family Historian Plugin Store.  All plugins are free for Family Historian users.

Platforms
Family Historian was designed to run on the Windows platform, however some users run Family Historian on Linux machines using Wine.

References

External links

Family Historian User Group
Family Historian discussion forum at Groups.io
Family Historian events
Family Historian mailing list archives
Dick Eastman's interview with Simon Orde, the Family Historian designer

Windows-only genealogy software

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The ravishing actress is single at 45!
The 41 year old producer may the reason behind many saas bahu sagas but in reality never walked down the aisle.
The 40 years old sizzling actress remains on of the most eligible women in Bollywood.
43 years old Uday is often linked up with Nargis Farkhri but despite all odds he has yet divulged any marriage plans yet.
The 44 years old actor is quite an eligible bachelor.
The star designer is happily unmarried at 50!
He is yet another celeb who is pestered quite a lot about his single status.
The rugby player and actor is 49 and all single.
The 41 years old actor never tied a knot.
Another singleton in bollywood who is 40 ant unmarried.
The favorite on the unmarried list, Salman is happily single at 50.
The super talented director never tied a knot. He is 53.
Another eligible bachelor of B town who is 40 and single!
The 44 years old talented director did not marry yet.


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Teen screen time linked to feelings of loneliness: The importance of spending time with friends
A new study found that teens spend less time interacting with friends in person.
ByDr. Ashley Knight-Greenfield andDr. Jamie Felzer
Setting screen time rules for kids in 2019
ABC News' Becky Worley shares some tips that can help parents and kids navigate social media in the new year.
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We've all heard the clichés "kids these days" or "back in my day." But while our immediate response might be to tune out or roll our eyes at those who came before us, new research suggests that maybe we should listen — at least when it comes to teens' use of technology.
That's because a new study has found that as digital media use has increased among teens who are part of Generation Z, aptly dubbed iGen, so have their feelings of loneliness and depression.
Young people are considered to be people born in 1995 and onward. The study, which looked at teens who were ages 13 to 18, found that after 2011, feelings of loneliness increased sharply, correlating with a rise in digital media use. Today, 95 percent of teens have smartphones compared to 23 percent of teens in 2011.
(MORE: Parents, take note: Kids, teen, college student mental health problems on the rise)
"Teens are on devices eight to 10 hours a day," said lead author of the study Dr. Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University and author of "iGen."
Twenge said that as a whole, teens are looking at their screens more these days and hanging out with their peers less. Studies have found that teens are using digital devices so much that they are interfering with their sleep, too.
For the study, Twenge's team analyzed data from the Monitoring the Future and American Freshman surveys on teens ages 13 to 18 who were in middle school, high school and entering their first year of college. The nationally representative survey, which has been conducted on teens since 1976 and contains data on over eight million students, asks teens about their daily activities, mood, screen time and feelings of loneliness. It's latest results showed that teens aren't socializing as much as they used to — they are going to parties less, dating less, and hanging out with their friends fewer times per week.
(MORE: Anxiety Rising on U.S. College Campuses)
Twenge's study found that high school seniors in 2016 spent an hour less each day engaging in face-to-face interactions compared to their 1980s counterparts. In-person interactions can protect against loneliness, which is a known risk factor for depression.
The study also found slight differences between individual reports of loneliness and the overall average of time spent on digital media. In teens who continued to socialize with friends, there was little apparent effect of digital media on their feelings of loneliness — possibly because they used social media as a tool to connect and hang out with their friends.
By comparison, those who interacted less with others tended to report more feelings of loneliness and higher rates of digital media use. Twenge said it's possible that the teens who reported being lonely might just be inherently less sociable, so they resort to their own devices for socialization, she emphasized that "online interaction is not the same as in-person social interaction."
(MORE: Teen anxiety and depression more likely in kids who don't trust or communicate with parents)
It's possible to balance social media use in a way that doesn't negatively affect a person's mental health, according to Twenge, who said that one to two hours is probably ideal.
Smartphone developers have already provided the tools to make this possible. For example, on many smartphones, you can produce activity reports that allow you to monitor screen time and set limits on the amount of time certain apps are being used.
"Parents should encourage kids to hang out with peers in person, as this is protective against loneliness and depression, and is good for mental health and developing friendships," Twenge said.
Jamie Felzer, MD, MPH, is an internal medicine resident from Scripps Clinic in San Diego, California, who is working with the ABC News Medical Unit. Ashley Knight-Greenfield, MD, is a diagnostic radiology resident and member of the ABC News Medical Unit.


How much do you pay each year to commute by bike ?
Takes all sorts - !
This driver should have been prosecuted for dangerous driving.
Justified being annoyed with Cheshire police?
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When I was in college, I worked just about everywhere that I could. I come by it honestly. My mom is in her 50s and has had at least a dozen jobs since I was born, maybe more. The last time I was around my in-laws, my mother-in-law made a comment about Bob Evans and I told her about working there in college, she proclaimed, "Is there anything that you haven't done?!"…Spelunking. I don't fit well in tight or small spaces due to my immense stature and current dad-bod physique. Plus, the idea of having a bunch of people in dark space with light bulbs attached to their head just encourages people that their "bright ideas" about searching even deeper in caverns for fish that glow in the dark are validated.
But cave-diving aside, I have done just about everything: dishwasher, cook, bookstore cashier, 6-dollar-burger extraordinaire, event planner, event set-up guy, server, host, plasma donor, gas station attendant, substitute teacher, professional football game usher, baseball game usher, ball bearing assemblyperson, and even a wire tester for a multinational company. (That last one isn't what it sounds like. You see, I take wires and I hook them up to other wires and see if those wires tell the wires that link the wires to a computer that those wires work…Okay, so it sucked and was boring, and I didn't get to blow anything up Wylie Coyote style, but it's what I had to do to make it through college.) But I thought when I graduated I was done with doing things like that to get by. I especially thought that 5 years into teaching I would be passed giving away the liquid that sustains my life for twenty-five bucks a pint. But that's what I felt like I needed to do last year on my way home from work 2 days a week. I still have reminders of my brokeness on my body. I look like a heroin addict with the permanent scars on my left arm.
I feel like my story is not one that is uncommon. As I have spent the last couple of weeks talking to people who work two jobs (or more) to make ends meet, I have found it is tremendously more than just a couple of us out there that feel that they need to work a second job. According to a statistic released by the National Center for Educational Statistics, 18% of teachers work a second job. That means that at least one person in your department unless you are in your own department has a second job. That means that if you work in a building of 50 teachers, about 9 or 10 of them have second jobs, not including extra stuff that they do at work such as coach or work events on the side. We are talking about second jobs that work people at minimum an extra 20 hours a week outside of their teaching job, which we all know is not a 9 to 5 kind of job.
It's an epidemic within the profession, and it's what may be leading to a teacher shortage in many states across the country. Teachers make about 20% less than people with an equal amount of education. This is where people start to say things like "teachers chose to teach" or "they are already overpaid, they only work 9 months out of the year". You have all heard it or read similar things in the comments of a Facebook story about teachers, which is what I imagine Hell will be like. Just reading books that read like circular Facebook arguments that are filled with ad hominem attacks that have little to nothing to do with the story that was posted. Seriously, the Facebook comment section is the Death Valley of the virtual world. Avoid it at all costs.
But many times, people I deem to be reasonable individuals will say a such and such teacher at such and such upper-class school makes six-figures. Usually, the person that they are referring to has been in that district for 30+ years and has at least a Masters Plus 30. I was speaking with a teacher the other day, for the episode tomorrow, about how her female relative (I can't remember if it was a niece or cousin or duchess or if they were related, but it was definitely a female that she was aware of)…who is graduating from college with a Bachelors in Business and will have a job out of college that will make over $100K… So it seems that maybe that those "affluent" and "wealthy" have put their time in. And as far as the summers off, teachers work an average of 53 hours per week, according to PEW. I have seen many people work tremendously more for no additional pay, and they aren't the exception. We are living in a society that demands everyone should be overworked; it seems almost the norm that everybody is working overtime, and to compensate for that, teachers put in more overtime into their overtime by working another job to support their comparably tiny salaries.
One thing I think people don't factor into why teachers want more money is because costs for life keep going up and teacher salaries remain nearly the same across the board. Food is more expensive than ever, if you want to live in a "decent" area of St. Louis, be prepared to spend 200k or more for a modest house. (We got ours on a steal. We bought ours for under 80k. But we are not in what people consider a "decent" area, although we couldn't imagine living anywhere else.) Education is more costly and more essential to get a job than ever before. My best friend, (or I think he's my best friend, this would be awkward if we weren't, but anyway an acquaintance of mine) didn't even get a formal interview in an extremely prestigious school district and was told that he didn't even have a chance to be a teacher there because he didn't have a master's degree. So, in order to find ourselves qualified for jobs, we must go into debt to get our next level of education that may or may not get a job. I know people that have had their administration certification for years and haven't gotten a job with it yet, not due to an apathy in their job search.
So, to sum up, you have all of these extremely qualified people with all of the living expenses of a normal person (bachelor degree student loans, food, a place to live, transportation, childcare, medical bills, utilities, and the occasional vacation or night out), then on top of it put those people in direct competition with each other, and you are bound to get people who are a part-time Instructional Aide with a Doctorate degree. A man that I worked with at the school I student taught at was that very thing. It was a great district, with high competition, and you had to do whatever you could to get a leg up if you wanted a job in the future. And apparently spending at least 8 years in school and getting 3 degrees does not qualify you to teach a job that pays you one-fifth less than people with the same degree.
Teachers are not trying to live extravagant lives. They aren't trying to spend every summer at their lake house or travel the world. They are just trying to put gas in their cars so they can drive the hour commute to a job, because that was all they could get, only to come home and put on an apron and work alongside some of their students waiting tables, or waking up extra early to tutor children in other countries, or to spend their weekend sitting at a desk crunching numbers at a company they have no future in, just so they can feel secure in their financial well-being. It isn't about getting rich. It's about, as one teacher I interview put it, "not having to tell my wife to keep my son awake so I can tuck him in at night." It's about living. Period.


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McConnell slams Bannon, others trying to unseat GOP incumbents as experts at 'nominating people who lose'
By Erin Durkin
"In order to make policy, you have to actually win the election. The kind of people that are supported by the element that you've just been referring to are specialists in defeating Republican candidates in November," McConnell said. (Olivier Douliery/TNS)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and others trying to unseat Republican incumbents from the right, saying they're "specialists at nominating people who lose."
Bannon is leading an effort to take on Republicans he sees as insufficiently strong supporters of President Trump's agenda with primary challenges — but McConnell dismissed the push as just the latest anti-establishment campaign that results in the nomination of unelectable candidates.
"In order to make policy, you have to actually win the election. The kind of people that are supported by the element that you've just been referring to are specialists in defeating Republican candidates in November," McConnell said on "Fox News Sunday" after the host played a clip of Bannon railing against him.
"That's what this inter-party skirmish is all about. Our goal is to nominate people in the primaries next year who can actually win. And the people who win will be the ones who enact the President's agenda," the Kentucky Republican said.
Bannon-backed candidate Roy Moore beat out appointed Sen. Luther Strange, who had McConnell's support, in a primary in Alabama.
But McConnell blamed the same "element" for Republican losses in 2010 and 2012, after anti-establishment candidates won in primaries.
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon speaks during a television interview on October 9, 2017. (Craig Ruttle/AP)
"We would have got the majority sooner, but for the fact that they were able to nominate people who could not win in November," he said.
The GOP leader also insisted his own personal unpopularity would not hurt Republican candidates on the ballot in next year's midterm elections.
"I'm not going to be on the ballot in any of those states, and I don't think the candidates who are running need to take a position on me," he said, adding he would not encourage candidates to commit to supporting keeping him as majority leader.
"I don't expect any candidate in America to sort of sign up on how they may vote for the majority leader of the Senate a year and a half from now," he said.
NY pol channels MLK with voting rights act to fight suppression


Although Saifullah did not manage to say more than a few sentences, his silence as well as the few thoughts he did articulate were a poignant reminder of the condition of the Muslim community: voiceless.
Is causing a blast necessary for one to be a "terrorist"?
The importance of 'difference of opinions' and 'principled or constructive opposition' is something else but dirty and stinking politics based on selfishness and malice is distasteful to every one.
Why are we indifferent to Pasmanda Muslims?
Will India learn a lesson from Australia?
For Congress, Islam out, Hindutva in!
Two years on Batla: where are the messiahs now?


Excellent news, KeMoN, "ET: Legacy" is just getting better all the time, it's definitely my favourite modification of the game .
I'm very interested in this new renderer too, anything that improves the graphical performance of "Wolf: ET" is a real bonus.
Par contre, je vois pas trop l'am�lioration de graphisme avec le renderer2 mais peut-�tre que �a marche que si on se connecte � un serveur legacy ?


Black Point. Where we came for a day, and ended up spending a week! It was a fantastic town with really friendly people who appear to really like the cruising community that sits in their bay.
Black Point itself is a settlement on Great Guana Cay. The town is along one vertex of an isolates triangle of land that was lifted up and away and in its place is the Black point harbor. The harbor provides protection from North to SE winds, so perfect for the weather we have. The town has, along with the laundry, three restaurants, a couple of grocery stores, bakers (for bread), a school, free water and a trash drop off point (which we need almost as badly as laundry). It is also the government center for the lower Exumas from Highbourne to Buck Cay.
Police station. We saw one policeman.
Our arrival is non-dramatic. The trip over is once again, great. Easy sailing day for the short trip and we arrive in the late morning. The anchorage is not crowded and we get fairly close to the town dock which shortens the two/three time daily trip for Lucky and I. We head into shore, drop off our trash, check out the laundry and find out that one of the local restaurants/bars has cruisers happy hour from 4-6pm on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Well. It is Thursday; seem like it is fate–we should stop by. We do, meet other cruisers and as an added bonus, meet a couple of kids (and parents) from Maine. We arrange for a gathering on Friday.
Friday dawns and we knock out school and after lunch head to an ocean side beach on the northern side of the island. There are four boat crews (including ours) there with eight actual children ranging in age from 7-12. So a day playing on the ocean side, seaweed covered beach, then all of us troop back the road to Lorraine's Cafe for some snacks.
And it is at this point that we start to get a feel for this island. We were sitting at the table at Lorraine's and we finished our round of drinks and headed inside for the next set. As we walked into the restaurant, Lorraine told us to go ahead and help ourselves and then settle up with her later. So back behind the bar we went, fishing out OJs, beer, wine from the coolers and heading back to our tables. No one there watching us, no one really caring. Lorraine assumed that we were honest, trustworthy people. We were–we settled up on the way out.
And while we were there, I asked where we could buy some fresh baked bread. I was told in the house behind the cafe. I couldn't grasp that concept, so Susan (from one of the Maine boats) walked me around the back of the restaurant to a house, and there was Peermon (who, she told me, also goes by "Lorraine's Mom"), sitting outside. I asked if she had any bread and she said she had some in the oven–if I could come back in an hour, it would be ready. No problem! So in an hour I walked back to the house and there were two nice ladies sitting outside. I asked about the bread and they told me to walk on into the house. So I did. Into a strangers house. I called out and Peermon came out of the back, wrapped up my bread, and sent me on my way. We are definitely not in Kansas anymore.
Saturday was a work day; laundry took the morning and boat projects the afternoon. Jan found a nice lady making baskets and bought up her inventory!
And on Sunday, we lost our friends from Maine, but S/V Schole was still in town for a day or two, so AJ got some more time with their three kids while Jan scoured the beaches for shells. The rest of the week was pretty much the same. AJ had school in the morning, then we would explore the island, work on projects, find kids if they were around.
Rum is ubiquitous in the Bahamas. It is produced here, much cheaper than beer, wine or any other type of alcohol. And, if you care for rum, is pretty darn good. And Rum punch is found on just about any menu. The ingredients are pretty straightforward: OJ, pineapple juice, maybe some lime juice mixed with rum and served over ice. Some places use two or three types of rum, some use one, but rum is the backbone. The two restaurants that we visited (frequently) on the island both had Rum punch and we sampled both. Lorraine's was described as 'famous,' but was the weaker of the two. Scorpios had 2 for 1 rum punch at happy hour and theirs was made with three types of rum in the glass topped with the best wishes from an orange and a pineapple. On Tuesday we met the crew of Mahi and Darwin at DeShauns for happy hour and the three gentlemen did an in depth analysis of the rum punch. The results of the analysis have been (thankfully) lost to history and at least one of us has sworn off the evil drinks. Through February. Maybe.
Which is true–we have no earthly idea what we are having for any meal, but we are very in tune with what Mother Nature is throwing our way. Priorities.
And the other one is that we have lost track of the days of the week. Not only lost track, but (at least for me) have lost the ability to keep the day of the week cemented in my mind so that I can remember it. Because it just doesn't matter anymore whether it is Monday, Wednesday or Saturday.
Love reading your adventures!! We're leaving Michigan to start our own loop with 3 kids this summer. I check back every couple of days to read about your trip–I enjoy your tips and outlook! Thank you for posting!!
No problem! Enjoy your trip–it is great!!