What they promised is equality through order. But now all that remains is the order.

They have declared war against every code and standard, while replacing them with themselves as the arbitrators. The absolute judges of right and wrong. This is tyranny. Cultural tyranny swiftly leads to political tyranny and we have both of those today in the form of a political priesthood of organizers, activists and leaders who are determined to control every aspect of our lives. Without any accountability of their own, says the Sultan.

when everything becomes a reference... (a reference to what? power), there is no longer a principle. It's like a brand name without a product.

How the New York Times became the worst standard in News: Pinch Happened

Sulzberger's dogged misrule of the Times was first characterized by his ejection of established newsmen who had built the Times brand since World War II in favor of more ideological writers. In 1999, he took former Times executive editor Abe Rosenthal's column away, forcing him to retire. Rosenthal was a real newsman who had built a corps of reporters with a fierce desire to seek out stories. That creed conflicted with Pinch's vision of the paper's future.
In 2003, Sulzberger was embarrassed into firing executive editor Howell Raines when fabulist Jayson Blair's contrived stories were exposed. By then, as Raines later wrote in the Atlantic, the Times newsroom was so union-dominated (the Newspaper Guild's members are so work-resistant and hard to fire) that the reporters didn't want to travel to get stories: they sit at their desks and "report" by searching the Internet.
Sulzberger replaced Raines with Bill Keller, an established newsman. "Pinch" chose Keller over investigative reporter and Washington editor Jill Abramson, who had been campaigning for the job. But, as sources close to the Times told me then, Keller wasn't sufficiently liberal so Sulzberger invested Abramson (elevated to managing editor) and her close friend Maureen Dowd with the power to go around Keller's decisions.
Under Keller -- really, under Pinch -- the Times published several stories that damaged national security. The biggest was James Risen's 2006 stories on the top-secret National Security Agency terrorist surveillance program. The Times held the NSA story for almost a year while Risen wrote a book about it, then published the same day the book was offered for sale. The story and the book were published despite personal appeals from President Bush. Another, about the secret cooperation of the Belgian "SWIFT" consortium in tracing terrorist financing, was equally damaging.
This was pure Pinch: eagerly publishing top-secret information not out of traitorous intent, but in willful blindness to the effects on national security just to damage George W. Bush.
Risen, who should be rotting in jail until he discloses his sources for the NSA story, is now being subpoenaed to testify in the trial of alleged leaker James Sterling. In a sworn affidavit filed last week in support of a motion to quash the subpoena, Risen testifies that his reporting of the NSA stories drew personal praise from Sulzberger.
Paragraph 8 of the affidavit says that in 2007 Risen received a personal letter from Sulzberger. It said, "Your investigative reporting has been an extraordinary asset to the paper since the day you joined us…But it has now become a central reason that our Washington report is admired by our readers -- not to mention leaders around the nation and the world." High praise for reporting that damaged national security and falsely accused the Bush administration of acting illegally.
Sulzberger wanted to take no chances in 2012. He has pushed Keller aside in favor of the even more liberal Abramson.
Abramson is as committed to liberal dogma as is Sulzberger. In 1999, she co-wrote a front page story buying into Hillary Clinton's "vast right wing conspiracy" theory with "proofs" of a "small secret clique of lawyers in their 30s who share a deep antipathy toward the President." She and her long-time friend Jane Mayer wrote the book Strange Justice about Clarence Thomas. That book became famous twice: once for its assault on Thomas, and later for the sheer number of factual errors and apparent fabrications in it. (Her record of faith to the liberal media culture is too long to recount here, but the Media Research Center's Clay Waters reported a few of her "greatest hits" here.)
Abramson is a fan of the über-liberal Huffington Post. According to the Nation, feminism "has always been an explicit part of Abramson's career." That accounts for both the book about Thomas and the recent failed ethics attack on the sitting justice. Feminism is part of Abramson's persona as well as that of her close friend and Times columnist Maureen Dowd (who, as she proved redundantly in her Sunday column, is evidently the leader of the Times' anti-Catholic binge).
Before Dowd, the Times' anti-Catholic crusader was Anna Quindlen. And there will be others. Pinch finds Catholic women who are anti-Catholic and promotes them. more via Spectator

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UN Women’s Rights Commission Singles Out Israel for Condemnation, Ignores Iran

This is reaching the level of self-caricature. No sooner does Iran get a seat on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women than it uses it with tragicomic predictability:

[The] U.N. policy-making body dedicated to “gender equality and the advancement of women” adopted a resolution accusing Israel of holding back the advancement of Palestinian women, but it took no action on the emergency in Libya or the legally enshrined discrimination faced by women in Iran. The only country-specific resolution passed by the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at its recent session in New York was one condemning Israel over the Palestinian issue.

Iranian prison guards rape female dissidents before executing them, lest their victims go to heaven as virgins. Iranian men get to avail themselves of temporary marriages, de facto legalizing the institutionalized slavery and rape of prepubescent girls. Iranian women are consigned to the backs of buses, have to shroud their bodies from head to toe, and can’t wear anything bright or shiny.
That’s just what’s happening in a single CSW member state.
The greater hypocrisy is what was ignored globally so that the Commission could spend time demonizing Israel. It’s not necessary to belabor the second-class status that women are consigned to throughout the Muslim world, except maybe to note two things that diverge from the quotidian misery.
First, it’s worth noting what’s happening to women in ostensibly egalitarian Turkey, and for that Michael Rubin’s recent post is mandatory reading. Second, not calling out what’s happening to women in Egypt right now is simply unconscionable. A body charged with promoting women’s freedom can’t ignore when freedom in general comes at the expense of women’s physical security, even if horrific gender apartheid has been woven into Egyptian society for centuries. Nina Burleigh is instructive on that last part.
Turkey and Egypt have horrific records on women’s rights. Iran, a CSW member state, is worse than both of them. And yet again Israel got singled out for condemnation, because it’s the UN so why not?

via commentarymagazine.com

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The Islamisation of Nigeria comes with a feminist Streak.

...so Nigeria supports
Osama Bin Ladin

more then
any other country,

but they also
seem to have an

odd feminist streak

for a country dealing

with a strong
Islamic presence

"More than six-in-ten (63%)
Muslim men in Nigeria
favor the stoning of people
who commit adultery,
while 36% oppose it;
Muslim women in that country
are evenly divided,
with 49% saying they
favor and the same number
saying they oppose
the stoning of adulterers.
When it comes to the death penalty
for those who leave Islam,
Muslim men in Nigeria
are clearly supportive
(58% favor and 39% oppose),
while a majority
of their female counterparts
(54%) are against the death penalty
for those who
leave the Muslim religion;
44% of Muslim women
in Nigeria favor it.
Finally, while majorities
of Muslim men
and women in Nigeria
favor punishments
like whippings and
cutting off of hands for crimes
like theft and robbery,
men are somewhat
more likely than women
to say they favor these strict measures
(69% of men vs. 61% of women)."

In Nigeria:

"...Muslim men are considerably
more likely than Muslim women
to say gender segregation
should be the law;

57% of Muslim men in Nigeria
favor gender segregation,
compared with 41%
of Muslim women
in that country."

"Nigerian Muslims stand apart as
the only Muslim public surveyed
where views of al Qaeda and
Bin Laden are,
on balance, positive.

About half of Muslims in Nigeria
express favorable views of the extremist group(49%)
and say they have at least some confidence in its leader
(48%), while just 34% offer
negative opinions of al Qaeda
and 40% express little or
no confidence in bin Laden."

one can assume that countries
that go "fundamentalist"
(a bullshit word I admit)
go fundamentalist
in more then one way.

it is very
obvious from Nigeria:
that the women there
are just as rhetorical as
their Islamic hardline men.

The real solutions
to these wars
will not be resolved
until the
"Leftist Progressives"
realize that they
are part of the problem.

Feminism and Socialism
can be just as dogmatic
as any other world view...
but I doubt you will
see Gloria Steinem
owe up to that

Explains a few things about feminism:

very odd:

"Among Nigerian Muslims, nearly the same percentage favor making segregation of men and women in the workplace the law in their country (49%) as oppose it (48%)"

via pewglobal.org


sadly the West has proposed the fight vs. Islam to be allied with feminism, but the truth is that feminism is a polarity of a fundamentalist patriarchy

Chicks in Ads….Can You Dig It?

Today’s ads show the woman as the sensible strong type; however in these three ads, they’re used as sex objects and are just plain inept. See them in their hysterical glory here, here and lastly & lustily (for you guys) here.

So, when are the naggy girl’s groups going to go gaga over this, and start squawking about it?
Seen at YouTube via themadjewess.wordpress.com
image via BILL RANDALL via Anne T. Boleyn

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Staring at BOOBIES increases Heart Health:

So what will the feminists say about PORN NOW? Anything that is good is oppressive to women is my guess. I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for any sensible response.

There are Rumors circulating...
that this story is fake.
I have not seen any proof of that claim...

I also am fairly certain that
the girl on the left
is showing Natural Boobs,
but the woman in the video clip
might very well have fake ones...

Common sense will always defy those that reject difference or those who think they can stop difference through technology ....Gloria Steinem just did not get it. I understand she had her feelings hurt... and certainly we should not hurt women's feelings and even lie to them if they can't take the truth, but we can not let these non human ideas rule us. We aren't cyborgs! I would be willing to bet that breast visuals help. no public relations from Gloria Steinem and friends can convince me otherwise. it might be interesting to see if boobies can help women too. Though I would be willing to bet that in certain conditions that boobies can raise your blood pressure.

Porn Hating Feminists and their Bully Alpha Males Wrong AGAIN?: Five-hundred men participated in the German study. Half were told to refrain from looking at breasts for five years, the other half were told to ogle them daily.

The study found the men who stared at breasts more often showed lower rates of heart problems, a lower resting heart rate and lower blood pressure.
The authors of the study recommend that men stare at breasts for 10 minutes a day.

Response from WOMEN to the FACT that looking at BOOBS is good for your health

So the "Women's voices" at Cosmo are now saying that SHOPPING is healthy. Though the timing is suspect... they are probably right.

In a primate
where there is no monogamy
the burden of raising children
is on the women. 
What does that tell you
about single mothers?

see also USA Cheerleaders Wear Pants for Sharia

Study: Staring at breasts increases heart health: MyFoxBOSTON.com

I guess the leftists that run  snopes.com
got it wrong again.   And I'm willing to bet that this is how the study was attempted.  The irony is the feminists won the last presidential election because of SNOPES... and now we see how influential the site is on public opinion. SNOPES apparently had public opinion contained against common sense.  Of course women's boobs are good for men.h/t allamericanblogger.com

Egyptian Feminist Writer Calls to Not Exclude Youth and Women from Constitution Committee

Support Women's Rights. Not Power Based Feminism, but I salute the women in Islamic countries who struggle for human dignity. It is too bad you can not live in a Western Model

Birth of an Idea

Dr. Nawal Al-Sa'dawi, a prominent Egyptian writer and women's rights activist, criticized the absence of youth and women in the judiciary committee formed to draft changes to Egypt's constitution. In an editorial that appeared in the English-language online edition of the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram, she wrote that those who had participated in the uprising and risked their lives to ensure its success have earned the right to be represented in the committee. She denied that the right to amend the constitution is the exclusive privilege of lawmakers, pointing out that "there are hundreds of thinkers among the ranks [of the youth] who are qualified in every sector, including the law." She also noted that the committee includes representatives from various sectors that make up a far smaller percentage of Egypt's population than its women, such as the Coptic community and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Al-Sa'dawi called for the reinstitution of the Egyptian Women's Union, which was dissolved by the regime following Hosni Mubarak's rise to power in the 1980s.
 It should be noted that the U.S. has also expressed concern over the lack of women on the constitution committee

via memri.org

	Nawal Sa`dawi Feminist Leader and Novelist, Cairo, Egypt
Nawal Sa`dawi is a novelist, a psychiatrist and a writer who is well known both in the Arab countries and in many other parts of the world. Her novels and her books on the situation of women in Egyptian and Arab society have had a deep effect on successive generations of young women over the last three decades. Sa`dawi has been awarded several national and international literary prizes, and has lectured in many universities and participated in many international and national conferences. Her works have been translated into over 30 languages all over the world, and some of them are taught in a number of university colleges in different countries. Sa`dawi is.the Founder and President, Arab Women Solidarity Association (1992-Present); Founder, Noon Magazine, magazine of the Association (1989-1991); Co-founder, Arab Association for Human Rights, 1983-1987; Founder and Vice-President, African Association for Women on Research and Development, Dakkar, Senegal (1977-1987); Founder, Health Education Association and Chief Editor, Health Magazine, Cairo, Egypt (1968-1974); Founder, Egyptian Women Writer's Association (1971); the Secretary-General of Medical Association, Cairo, Egypt (1968-1972).

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Zestra women's arousal oil starts another feminist lynch mob against men

This article makes it seem like the media is not comfortable with woman's sexuality... and yet what it fails to identify is that these ads are being rejected because probably there are other factors... such as the people this company advertises to are very uncomfortable with public expressions of sexuality. How many times has a woman scolded a man for talking about anything sexual.... even if it was with sympathy for women's issues? It isn't the media that is sexist. It isn't men who are sexist. IT IS WOMEN WHO ARE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THEIR OWN SEXUALITY AND IT IS INHERENT. Men had nothing to do with it. The people who sell advertising are aware of this. They might not give their reasons, but they do the research and they find they lose female viewers when a female product is bluntly sexual to women. It isn't the men who are in the way of the advertising. 

via sfgate.com

When it comes to the bedroom, Viagra, Cialis and Levitra are all household words, thanks to TV, radio and Internet ads broadcasting information about erectile dysfunction around the clock, on all kinds of programming - even the Super Bowl.
So when Rachel Braun Scherl, 45, a Stanford University business school graduate, co-founded Semprae Laboratories, which developed Zestra Essential Arousal Oils, a product described as a botanical aphrodisiac, she thought bringing its message to the airwaves would be a snap. Research had shown that tens of millions of American women had sexual difficulty and no products to remedy it.
Scherl, 45, a married mother of two, and company co-founder Mary Jaensch, 58, a married mother of three, thought they had an answer for this unmet need, along with the cash to pay for ads on TV.
In an apparent double standard, many networks and some websites have declined the company's ads; a few will air them during the daytime, and others only after midnight. There is no nudity, sex, or mention of body parts, unlike ads for men's products referring to "erections lasting more than four hours."
"The most frequent answer we get is, 'We don't advertise your category,' " Scherl said. "To which we say, 'What is the category? Because if it's sexual enjoyment, you clearly cover that category. If it's female enjoyment, you clearly don't.' And when you ask for information as to what we would need to change so they would clear the ad for broadcast, they give you very little direction. ... And yet they have no problem showing ads for Viagra and other men's drugs. Why?"
Zestra's ads feature women of various ethnicities who appear to be in their 40s and 50s talking to the camera about how sex "doesn't feel the way it used to" before they had children and that their bodies "don't react" as they did when they were younger.
Zestra's website states that the oil (classified as a cosmetic) works by "heightening sensitivity to touch." The website contains endorsements by three medical doctors and the founder of a sexual health institute, and cites two clinical trials proving its effectiveness.
The oil has been featured on TV shows such as "Rachael Ray," "The Tyra Banks Show," and "Dr. Oz" and ABC's "Nightline," even though the network would allow a Zestra ad only during the late-night "Jimmy Kimmel" show, Scherl said.
A spokeswoman for Oxygen network, which accepted the ad from midnight to 4 a.m. and during "Bad Girls Club" and "Snapped," declined to specify what was objectionable about the ad during other daytime programming, citing client confidentiality.
Facebook initially ran an ad, but took it down and declined to run it again and WebMD.com declined to run ads, said Scherl.
Laura Grindstaff, an associate professor of sociology at UC Davis, said many cultures are uncomfortable with the idea of female sexuality outside reproduction and motherhood.
"When you see naked women bounding around in any music video or open a magazine and see ads for cars or cosmetics, half-naked women are everywhere," Grindstaff said. "That is not women's sexuality. What you see is completely bound up and constructed by male ideas of what women's sexuality ought to be. An ad like Zestra's, with no men in it, about women's pleasure for the sake of pleasure, is threatening, I guess. What other explanation could there be?"
Said Rita Melendez, associate professor of sexuality studies at San Francisco State University: "If they really can't run these ads, it's telling women they are not - or should not be - in control of their desire, or that there is something shameful about their sexual desire, and that has huge implications for their ability to control pregnancy, partner abuse and sexual health. You're putting something so core to women in the realm of male control, or at least outside of female control."
Industrial designer Ethan Imboden, founder of the 6-year-old luxury sex toy company Jimmyjane, said magazines and newspapers have been squeamish about covering the company's high-style vibrators, including the new palm-sized, $145 device, Form 3, often telling him they are fearful of offending readers and advertisers.
He said he has also found men to be intimidated by the thought of women's sexuality as independent of a man's involvement. Form 3, intended for use by couples, has been easier to pitch than products solely for women, he said.
"It's less indicative of any particular part of his or her anatomy, and as such, it's one step more abstract and comfortable," Imboden said.
Scherl, a consultant for women-driven businesses in pharmaceutical, beauty and health-related products, recently taught a case study at Stanford on female entrepreneurship, focusing on the risks and opportunities posed in creating Zestra, but not its advertising woes. The case study was developed before the ads were developed and rejected.
Even without widespread TV or Web advertising, Semprae's online traffic has tripled in recent weeks, Scherl said.
"It's not that we're saving the world," Scherl said, "but we are making a difference in women's lives, based on what we hear from them."

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of course they don't directly blame men.  They blame "culture"... code word for controlled by men.  But men have nothing to do with it.  These are female ads aimed at females whose entire sense of sexuality is based naturally on what other people think.  It isn't odd... it isn't sick... it is women's libidinal nature.





 

G-spot doesn't appear to exist say researchers and I am pissed at the ladies who said I could not find it

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California NOW Chief: Calling Whitman a 'Whore' is Accurate

The president of the National Organization for Women may have said it's wrong for anyone to call a woman a "whore," but the head of the California NOW affiliate says Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is one.
via foxnews.com

October 13, 2010
Last night at the California gubernatorial debate, Jerry Brown apologized for a member of his campaign staff suggesting Meg Whitman, his opponent in the race, be called a "whore." This overdue apology was a necessary step; however, it was accompanied by an assertion that these sorts of comments are part and parcel of what happens inside political campaigns. If so, that needs to change.
While our California chapter's Political Action Committee voted to endorse Brown on the basis of his support for women's rights, the National Organization for Women clearly and unequivocally condemns calling Meg Whitman, or any woman, a whore. This term is hate speech that carries with it negative connotations associated with women, and it has no place in contemporary society.
NOW calls on Brown, from this point forward, to fire any member of his staff who uses this word or any hate speech against women.

###

Update: NOW clarified this statement with the addition of "from this point forward" to the final paragraph.
For Immediate Release
Contact: Mai Shiozaki w. 202-628-8669, ext. 116, c. 202-595-4473

via now.org

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JELLO FIGHT! 

Code Pink

Because Code Pink is at war with men in the West. What goes on in the rest of the world is only a pawn in their strategy.  It might bring me great satisfaction for misfortune to happen to the members of Code Pink. I wouldn't push for such an event, but if it were to happen I am certain that it might put my mind at rest.

I do not deny I slept well last year the night I heard about the tragedy in the Vanessa Redgrave family concerning Natasha Richardson who never spoke out against her mother's words, but when I woke up in the morning and realized people were sad it didn't make me feel better. perhaps there is no satisfaction from stupidity. the greatest injustice is that these people are so annoying that they lead my mind to such thoughts. Perhaps sometimes silence and shaking your head is the best response... or you could blog.

I'm not sure why Vanessa Redgrave comes to mind... the post is about Code Pink. perhaps it is because we have allowed her to continue to represent our values in the media.  

On Oct. 12, the New York Times reported that Code Pink would stick to its position of calling for troop withdrawal. Even when the shrillest "antiwar" pseudo-feminists are caught in a direct confrontation with facts exposing the moral bankruptcy of their demands, they recoil from the duty of solidarity with Afghan women in struggle.

If western feminists who have staked out a "troops out" position remembered to ask Afghan women their views, they would find that rather than bristling at "masculine militarization," "cultural imperialism," or any other in-vogue sin found on the placards waved at rallies, many Afghan women are haunted by the memory of the Taliban's public stoning to death of women. They recall what life was like when you couldn't leave your home alone, when you could not speak aloud in the streets because your voice was deemed inhuman, subservient, inherently impure. It was not the West's interference that led to their collective misery, but the lack of it.
Afghan women might also tell you about the intensely empowering experience of watching 1,500 women gathered in Kabul's Loya Jirga tent in the historic "5 Million Women Campaign" where they mobilized to go out and vote. They might tell you about the exhilaration of watching women take their seats in parliament in 2005. They might tell you about the courage of the hundreds of women who protested the discriminatory Shia Personal Status Law that a fundamentalist mullah sought to push through parliament.via www2.canada.com

"We hope this means Code Pink will rethink what we see as a damaging position out of sync with the peace building and development priorities voiced by ordinary Afghans. But why did it take Code Pink so long to ask Afghan women what they think?"

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Socialist Unity advertises Respect leader Salma Yaqoob’s appearance on the BBC’s Question Time as the sole antiwar voice in a discussion on Afghanistan.

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Andrea Dworkin

in the end her friends betrayed her because she believed in Israel. she was crazy... but there was dignity and honor in her convictions. todays leftist feminist compromisers lack that strength. I'm not a believer in social and gender engineering, but I salute people who fight for something with integrity. We need to respect those who are wrong, but fight a righteous battle because of the pain they endure. it makes no sense for women to endorse cultures where women are not given any dignity. I can argue the difference between equality and equivalence as a man and also acknowledge that Islam gives neither to women.

What is Female Desire? POSTFEMINISM from the NYTIMES

"fantasies of rape. According to an analysis of relevant studies published last year in The Journal of Sex Research, an analysis that defines rape as involving “the use of physical force, threat of force, or incapacitation through, for example, sleep or intoxication, to coerce a woman into sexual activity against her will,” between one-third and more than one-half of women have entertained such fantasies, often during intercourse, with at least 1 in 10 women fantasizing about sexual assault at least once per month in a pleasurable way." "I had been thinking about three ideas from our many talks: the power, for women, in being desired; the keen excitement stoked by descriptions of sex with strangers; and her positing of distinct systems of arousal and desire. This last concept seemed to confound a simpler truth, that women associate lubrication with being turned on. The idea of dual systems appeared, possibly, to be the product of an unscientific impulse, a wish to make comforting sense of the unsettling evidence of women’s arousal during rape and during depictions of sexual assault in the lab." "Wearing goggles that track eye movement, her subjects looked at pictures of heterosexual foreplay. The men stared far more at the females, their faces and bodies, than at the males. The women gazed equally at the two genders, their eyes drawn to the faces of the men and to the bodies of the women — to the facial expressions, perhaps, of men in states of wanting, and to the sexual allure embodied in the female figures." "evidence involving rape has influenced her construction of separate systems. She has confronted clinical research reporting not only genital arousal but also the occasional occurrence of orgasm during sexual assault. And she has recalled her own experience as a therapist with victims who recounted these physical responses. She is familiar, as well, with the preliminary results of a laboratory study showing surges of vaginal blood flow as subjects listen to descriptions of rape scenes. So, in an attempt to understand arousal in the context of unwanted sex, Chivers, like a handful of other sexologists, has arrived at an evolutionary hypothesis that stresses the difference between reflexive sexual readiness and desire."

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