Thanks, #Manspreading! Now it’s Okay to Post Secret Candids of Women’s Crotches!

You might think that an egalitarian such as myself might be upset that #manspreading happened and that inequality feminists jumped on the bandwagon so eagerly.

You’d be wrong!  #Manspreading is the permission that creepy weirdos needed to come out into the open.  A year ago, you would be criticized if you took pictures of women’s crotches and posted them on the Internet under a single hashtag that makes them easy to find.  You might even be questioned by the cops, seeing as how you were being creepy and taking pictures of people without their permission for creepy purposes.

Not anymore!  Posting your secret crotch pictures is now perfectly okay!

Thanks, feminism.  We owe you for this one.

 

Takeaways from Jonathan Chait’s Brave Essay on Political Correctness

If you haven’t yet read Jonathan Chait’s “Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say,” go do that now.

Are you back?  Okay.  This New York Magazine article breaks down some of the biggest problems we have in society.  I’m not going to attempt to build on Chait’s commentary, but I do think it will be helpful to isolate what all of us should learn from the piece.

• Ideological purity is more important to non-liberal liberals than ideas.  The piece begins with a description of what happened to Omar Mahmood, a U of M student who had the temerity to write a brief article about the problems that have been introduced by P.C. Culture.  Mahmood was harassed in the interest of protecting what non-liberal liberals feel are privilege-challenged minorities and…you know, people like Omar Mahmood.
• “Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie” is a thing.  That’s right.  Non-liberal liberals are campaigning against free speech and skate dangerously close to terrorism apologia.
• The mainstream media feeds on this outrage culture.  Literally.  They make lots of money based upon this stuff.  They’re not going to undermine their own cash cow.  (Or even allow meaningful dissent.)
• There’s a chilling effect that keeps critics silent.  Even a woman and feminist as strong as Hanna Rosin has self-censored herself in an attempt to avoid the abuse she receives when she expresses an idea that non-liberal liberals don’t like.
• “Mansplaining” and “cisplaining” and the other “-splaining”s are silencing tactics.  The origin of an idea has no bearing on the validity of an idea.
• Ideas are often confused with action.  When a professor steals a protester’s sign, it’s a reaction to “microaggressions.”  The REAL problem, of course, was the protester demonstrating her ideological impurity.
• Non-liberal liberals are hurting the liberal movement and the country.  The Republican Party has been in trouble for a long time because they have moved so sharply to the right.  The silencing tactics employed by non-liberal liberals are precipitating the same slide to the extreme.  President Obama is barely a liberal.  Elizabeth Warren–a woman to the right of FDR–is the most liberal Democratic candidate we have…  Will Democrats be hurt by infighting that splits the left-wing base because we’re wasting time on these “microaggressions” instead of the real issues that confront us all?

Why Is Jezebel Stigmatizing Pro-Choice Discussions?

Big news in the celebrity “news” world today.  Rapper Ludacris has won full custody of his daughter.  I’ll admit to being a bit surprised in the light of the disadvantages men have long had in family court.

What’s the right thing to think about this development?  The vast majority of us shouldn’t care.  We’re not related to Luda.  The child is loved and is apparently in the best possible situation.  (And her father has plenty of money and privilege.)

Let’s take a look at a Jezebel article published on the same day Ludacris was granted custody:

 

Why does Hillary Crosley Coker hope that Ludacris was initially in favor of aborting the child?  After all, there shouldn’t be a stigma about abortion, right?  The decision to abort is a heavy conflict that weighs on any prospective parent, right?  People who do consider aborting a fetus shouldn’t feel any residual guilt, of course.

I’m not sure why Jezebel and Hillary Crosley Coker want to stigmatize abortion and to cram these kinds of decisions back into the pre-Roe shadows where they don’t belong.  Shameful.  I will never understand what leads fine left-wing people like those at Jezebel to seemingly abandon their dedication to their pro-choice principles.

Do you have an explanation?