The shock and awe of "feminists" over the demise of Roe v. Wade highlights their self-immolating priorities
Women are being raped by men in women's prisons, but keep flying those equality banners
The idea that Roe v. Wade would be under continual but ultimately fruitless attack was burned into the collective liberal mind of my generation. For whatever reason, people came to equate abortion with a literal irrevocable right, as if this one U.S. Supreme Court decision alone had and would forever possess unique powers of indelibility. I never worried much or even thought much about Roe v. Wade itself, not only because of this unearned, uneasy, yet solid trust in the law’s impenetrability, but also because I believed abortion itself would always remain accessible. (I still believe this. How else, to name one of a scow-load of florid examples, are members of U.S. Congress, lobbyists, and other shitbirds in that general social ecosystem supposed to take care of a pregnant-mistress problem?)
So, I should be surprised that Roe v. Wade has in fact been overturned. But my capacity to become startled or even mildly surprised by anything from the external world was eradicated sometime during the pandemic. It may have been when we* were under lockdown and under strict orders to social-distance even outdoors and being told in a score of ways the coronavirus was potentially lethal to everyone, which we could already see was false…only to be suddenly told this wasn’t true as long as you were at a George Floyd protest, rioting and destroying property, or both. A child can spot the lies behind this. Right then, it was clear that the lethality of coronavirus was entirely contingent on government narratives. I kick myself for trusting the government’s bullshit about covid even as much as I did in the first part of 2020, and I trusted it less than virtually all of my friends.
But rather than go on for paragraphs about why I can now believe any verifiable event reported in the news without a burp of cognitive or historical-context dissonance, I’ll explain why feminism as any kind of coherent or goal-oriented Western-societal project is absolutely dead—incinerated both from within and by precisely the people Twitter feminists claim to be most worried about: Male sex offenders, gropers, oglers, and other penis-bearers in the vast hierarchy of contemporary American creeps.
One of the stories that any outlet concerned with women’s rights, or basic human rights, or inmate rights, would be covering is Janine Chandler et al vs. California Department of Corrections, a lawsuit brought by an organization called the Women’s Liberation Front. You see, California recently passed a law called “The Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act,” which allows any prisoner who self-identifies as a woman into women’s prisons, including convicted rapists. You really should read Matt Taibbi’s story, “The World's Most Taboo Legal Case,” or listen to the audio version, if for no other reason to convince yourself my relentless and full-throated distaste for the corporate media is justified.
As Taibbi suggests, you probably shouldn’t read from the complaint to your young children at bedtime (emphasis mine):
Plaintiff Krystal Gonzalez (“Krystal”) is a female offender currently incarcerated in Central California Women’s Facility. Krystal was sexually assaulted by a man transferred to her unit under S.B. 132. Krystal filed a grievance and requested single-sex housing away from men; the prison’s response to Krystal’s grievance referred to her assault by a “transgender woman with a penis.” Krystal does not believe that women have penises…
Let’s say you’re a woman who believes that men are capable of bad, really bad behavior toward women, even rape. I’ll put Erin Strout, Alison Wade, Kara Goucher, Lauren Fleshman, Alison Desir, and David Roche into that category. If I asked each of these people, “Given that men can suck, is it really a reach that some men who have already been convicted of rape would serve their sentences in women’s prisons, given the choice?” In person, these ladies would all nod their heads, if someone besides me was doing the asking and the context was disguised. In fact, not one sane, decent person I know wants women TO BE FUCKING RAPED, IN WOMEN’S PRISONS OR ANYWHERE ELSE.
But the State of California, in its manic progressive wisdom, has just put thousands of female inmates in extreme danger. And it bears mentioning that, given liberal Twitter’s love affair with Pride Month and BLM, a disproportionate number of incarcerated American women are people of color, lesbians, or both.
I don’t think I should bother to add the disclaimer “Most trans people are not rapists”; subscribers and regular readers understand that this is baked in, while any harpies on literary field-trips pay no attention to clarifying language anyway. But this stuff is actually happening. Not in some faraway country with dungeons for prisons. Here.
We know that Strout, Wade et al. are keenly aware of things like men committing sex crimes. Strout’s Twitter feed is peppered with retweets about this or that diabolical creep gone wild someplace. Wade is more restrained with her Fast-Women account, but some her commenters have actual fangs, or at least exaggerated canine teeth, in their desiccated vaginas and do nothing but call for men to be somehow abolished.
Strout is also the loudest voice for the unfair “inclusion” of males in female sports anyone will find, and lately, she’s all about Roe v. Wade and deleting period-tracking apps, just in case. She calls herself a feminist in her Twitter mini-bio. Yet she and the rest of the members of the Sad Cow Disease herd are leaving it to me—a middle-aged male who uses “cunt” and “hello!” almost interchangeably—to bring Janine Chandler et al vs. California Department of Corrections to the attention of at least some people in the running “community.”
Meanwhile, the CEO of Outside, Inc., a greed-head named Robin Thurston who recently dumped 15 percent or so of his staff, is back with another knee-slapper of a progressive band-aid that Wokish people still convinced of Thurston’s overall sincerity can apply to the wounds inflicted by his latest “Too many employees, not enough profit!” move.
I have written many posts on this blog about the running media’s categorical support for allowing DSD people and transfemales—both of whom physiologically qualify as male to non-gender-cultists—to compete as females. I’ve stressed that while this stance is bad, its supporters’ rush to shut down and ideally ruin anyone who advances rational counterarguments is far worse. I have also explored the reasons college-educated women who have long identified as feminists, and who admire and even sometimes interview world-class women athletes, would suddenly be so keen on not only seeing women’s and girls’ sports upended, but seeing them upended by psychologically unstable (trans) or anatomically aberrant (DSD) males. I mean, weren’t these women all avowed man-haters who wanted nothing more than for their icons like Jenny Simpson and Alysia Montano to have their best possible shot at maximal glory?
I’m sticking with my facile, formerly somewhat uncomfortable, but extremely resilient hypothesis: Within whatever running Twitter consists of, a “feminist” is usually a white woman whose every snark about how much men suck is packaged with the implicit admission that this is because the right one hasn’t arrived yet. They only “hate” men, reserving their true hatred for the specific but unnamed males who have directly harmed them in some way. (Men can be very gross and, when prowling for ass, impervious to laws and social norms, as I’ll explain below.)
Their real, undisclosed adversaries are women they perceive to be more successful or desirable than themselves—say, 15:10 5,000-meter runners, or the kind of women who trounce them in the competition for male eyeballs. This is just the ancient core of the brain at work, ever seeking to derogate the competition. So, while these women enjoy yabbering about elite women runners because get money and attention for doing so, they themselves are joggers at best who have no stake in organized women’s sports. It doesn’t bother them at all that the women they openly cheer for have to race characters like Francine Niyonsaba in Diamond League races. They just want what’s theirs, and, driven at most every step by resentment, they’re happy to see things wrecked provided someone demonstrably better than themselves in some meaningful way gets knocked down a peg.
I’m convinced the women who do this are not consciously aware of it, or maybe they are. But the phenomenon is almost exclusively limited to liberals, who often have a tough time accepting that all the education and brains in the world won’t (usually) stop the man you want to marry from dating lunch clerks and waitresses assured of churning out beautiful babies. It’s an entitlement thing, and lack of access to hypergamy often engenders the sense of being cheated in its “victims.” Also, many of those “uneducated” lunch clerks are a lot more fun to talk to than the politically engaged.
Trumper/MAGA women are not like this. Go to any Walmart in the country, but especially in La Junta, Colorado. There you will see scores of straight couples happy (scars and ankle-monitors aside) with what they could get, usually with stark evidence that in no case was this ideal or representative of the childhood fantasies of either the man or the woman. But who knows? Body shame is not as much of a thing, is what most of this reduces to.
Anyway, I do think the loudest voices agitating for modified or merely declared males to be treated as biological females are driven overwhelmingly by this kind of resentment, which fortunately is not shared by the majority of adult American women. This is a “I want to Cornell and have run three marathons, so who cares if I’m mean and ugly and lie all the time!?” thing. But unfortunately, a lot of the push is coming from people who somehow honestly don’t understand how fucked up the whole “debate” is, because they continue to watch CNN and MSNBC. Some people can read my excoriations of figures like Rachel Maddow (the left’s Sean Hannity, but even worse) and whatever blonde is lying on CNN, and go on watching that shit, maybe telling themselves “Better put on my bullshit detector just in case.” If the fucking television is even on, your bullshit detector is as helpful as a thermometer to someone trapped in a house fire.
Why not? As Taibbi notes, this case—its horrifying facts as well the media’s refusal to report on it— essentially serves as feminism’s belated eulogy; nothing in anyone’s imagination could signal the death of any coherent women’s-only movement more clearly than silence about already restrained women being raped by men with nothing to lose. This is every woman for herself, and more broadly every Twitter libtard and Instagram grievance-grifter for theyselfs, and it doesn’t matter who or what gets hurt in the climb toward more status. To most of the women churning out dogmatic claptrap in publications like Women’s Running, Citius Mag, and other disposable word-vendors, trans people are merely handholds.
Finally, I won’t be affected by this shit, and I am all that matters. As I see it, God, Having just emerged from a multi-year drunken blackout, is now advising every American male who hasn’t had, and refuses to get, a vasectomy (artisans of which will all soon be driving new BMW 8-Series cars) to pull out and aim for the xyphoid process, no higher. He is emphasizing that with proper discipline and practice, a man doesn’t have to waste a single copulatory stroke. Sooth.