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It’s no secret that he’s posted on Nazi websites before, so I’m not surprised at his use of those terms. He’s the total package of racism and sexism.
DKM: History FAIL as well as reading comprehension FAIL.
First, women agitating for equal rights were active a CENTURY before the 1970s, you dithering dickhead.
Second, women who refused to leave jobs and who resisted Hitler’s rule were among those who were sentenced to concentration camps.
Basically, Hitler had much the same ideas about how women should act as you do.
And your drooling dismal displays of what you think women are “naturally” like (even though in no recorded history or culture does anybody act that way) match completely and naturally with all the other attempts to oppress, enslave, and exploit women, so that even if you don’t use those nasty cuss words, you are a violently misogynistic dickbiscuit.
Oh yeah, totally reassuring.
(Emphasis added) Not a sinister choice of argot there?
Are you suggesting Meller is a Reptilian?
Meller: Dude…
Government grew by attaching itself to this whole new pool of political activists, lawyeresses, propagandists, and eventually voters and bureaucrats…
Have you read any history… like the Aztecs, the Egyptians, the Hittites, the Tokugawa shogunate, most of Chinese History, the Assyrian Empire, Saudi Arabia…
None of them were created by taking advantage of the “desire” of women to have stronger gov’ts.
I have certainly in countless posts expressed disgust and loathing of rape for any reason, and in any form.
No, you haven’t, viz this continuation of your comment: , “if you REALLY had the situations that you cite, e.g. a husband forcing himself brutally upon his wife. For understandable reasons, however, both good sense, knowing how wives are to husbands when they bear spite and malice toward him, and the legal value of “presumption of innocence”, It is of utmost importance to hear BOTH sides before forming even an opinion, much less a conclusion.”
In that statement you show that you think consent isn’t really a woman’s to give/withhold, and only force =rape. So you don’t think any form, but only those forms which offend your delicate sensibilities counts as rape.
You don’t think women are entitled to be people. Look at the despicable way you lie about divorce. Women didn’t hate it because they thought it wrong, they hated it because it meant they would starve; because those societies forbade them the rights they, as people, are entitled to.
You want women to be slaves, and that honest love should be hard to find, and uncertain always.
I hate to disappoint you, but I am a very mild, quiet, easygoing (for the most part), largely solitary man who enjoys, among many other things, … likes the idea of enslaving women and keeping them in fear of being abandoned, or beaten; treated as chattel for all their days; denied the chance to be educated, enjoy the just desserts of their labor and the rights to which they would be entitled were I to think them actual human beings.
FTFY.
And that’s why you are a sinister (and pathetic) man. You would, gleefully, consign half the human race to dependent slavery.
To be fair to Meller I was the person who specifically used Kinder, Küche, Kirche,.
But I did it knowing 1: Hitler dropped, “Kirche” from it (he wasn’t fond of the messages in Christianity), and 2: the Nazis in America (to whom, at the very least, Meller seems sympathetic) have taken it to heart.
It is in keeping with his worldview.
He could be a Dalek, referring to women by using the word female as a noun like that.
“Human female has escaped! I have failed! Human female has escaped! I have failed, self-destruct!”
(Which is how a particularly lame Dalek melts down at 8:10 here.)
Also, now that you mention it, Meller, me and a bunch of other Rand-haters did all get in a discussion where we pretty much agreed that on the subject of women, and really, lots of things, she may have been pretty off, but she was way, way better than you. Lemme go find that, cause it definitely happened.
Also, I pointed out that I thought you could actually be improved greatly by adopting Objectivism wholesale, as a libertarian, human being, and all around everything, and that it was actually amazing to me that I really thought you could be morally improved that way. This seemed to make you angry, cause you went full bore” Rarrrgh nazi soviet chinese libertarian on me.” Good times, good times.
I still stand by that, actually. Really, go read Atlas Shrugged again.
You make me into Bizarro Zhinxy. 😉
I also told you before that I am not talking to you about the rise of progressivism and the development of the current corporate state, right and left and otherwise, until you read the not-feminist, libertarian, freely available work on the subject by Kevin Carson and John Taylor Gatto, or otherwise demonstrate some knowledge that isn’t squawking. You give reading lists all the time.
As for the influence of libertarian feminism, well, we suffer from a great deal of bad blood on both sides, there’s the problem of the match made in hell, but in general, this is a time of tremendous activity, turmoil, and real change within libertarianism, the likes of which I’m immensely proud to see. And which I’m sad that you, in your time warp alternate universe, can’t. A real Left is forming within our ranks again, and it’s fabulous. And not just the left, either.
As for influencing the greater mass of feminism, or anything, well, there aren’t very many libertarians, are there? Even if every libertarian became a feminist, and the movement engaged happily with us, we’d still be a smaller segment. Most people are statists, and our influence is small, on right and left. You know this as well as I. Stop squawking nonsense. People are taking up the ball and running with it. I’m one of them, there are many others. Things happen slowly, but things are happening.
AND IT’S AWESOME! REALITY ROCKS!
there’s the problem of the match made in hell,
meant to be a hyperlink to: http://aaeblog.com/2009/04/19/a-match-made-in-hell/
Also, seriously, Meller, please answer me this. Why is it that you only go on and on about books from the last century, yet you know where to find them online, and when I recommend more modern books, they are EVEN ON THE SAME WEBSITES, SOMETIMES. Heck, often.
Why the timewarp???
Right now, the task for libertarian feminists, the task for any left (well, not just left, but let’s make it about me, cause I like that) libertarian, is not gaining influence, is not convincing those on the left or right outside of the libertarian continuum to join us, is nothing but simply, first and foremost, ESTABLISHING THAT WE EXIST.
And while doing so establishing that we are not easily discarded as a fringe, or “not the real libertarians.” Because we may be a minority, but we are certainly not outcasts. Libertarian may be hard to define, but by any measure, the new vanguard of left libertarians are advisors at the Ludwig Von Mises institute, left libertarians write for Lew Rockwell ;), a left libertarian edits The Freeman, and etc. And down on the ground, where the non-famous networking happens, we’re getting together and noticing our numbers increase.
Whatever the precise definition of libertarian is, there IS a category that includes me, Gary Johnson, Roderick Long, Hans Hermanne-Hoppe, and Kevin Carson, right, left, and center.
And that category is meaningful as a political grouping. And the “New new left” are a part of it by the same measure as the pot-smoking republicans. And growing. We must avoid playing no true scotsman, but goddamit, we’re rhetorical scotsmen too, and it’s time to be heard.
Libertarianism itself is a fringe, but within it, the leftish influence is not a fringe element. And Feminism within that left libertarianism is growing, slowly and painfully and beautifully, whatever you say. Also, when it does reach what you would think of as “coming to anything”, will you even notice?
So yeah, we’re not super relevant like dudes who play with dolls, but hey.
Why aren’t your collectible doll harem collecting ideas catching on among libertarians, Meller?
So, yeah, I got back to you. Now read a dang book.
@zhinxy
I went to read the link you provided, and then saw the comments by some dude named Brandon being facetious…. I died
I KNOW, I JUST NOTICED THAT MYSELF! HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA! THEY ARE LEGION!!!
Actually, I think somewhere on that blog I had a run-in with that Brandon… HAH.
They’re like self-involved ‘splainin tribbles!
The trouble with tribbles is they can’t write a whole comment without mentioning themselves.
@Shora
I know this comment is very late and possibly derailing, but I was just excited about the bellydancing comment. I’ve been taking classes for more than 4 years myself and I am completely in love with it. 🙂 How about you? What styles do you prefer?
And yes, there are quite a few awesome male bellydancers too — I’ve been lucky enough to take workshops with Ozgen, for instance.
Zhinxi–and other “libertarian(?) feminists–
Feminism is, like socialism and democracy, a movement that emphasises EQUALITY, not LIBERTY. Every point of interest in feminism is one where the question is asked, does this further equalize men (as a class) with women (as a class)? If there are laws or statutes which restrict the further equalization of men and women, then feminist advocacy for these laws to be repealed is publicized, and this is where the–very superficial and often mistaken appearance of overlap with libertarians is taken as alliance–and an ineffective and perhaps even bizarre fusion of libertarian and feminist points and issues becomes public debate.
Liberty, in the sense understood by libertarians, is exclusively a negative concept:. Others are FORBIDDEN to interfere with your freedom of action, as long as you observe the prohibition of interfering with their freedom of action. It discusses only forbidden actions. It deliberately refrains from addressing the issue of “power”, to wit, does an individual (or even a class of individuals) have the means, e.g. “power”, to accomplish the desired goals even if the freedom to act in the pursuit, NOT the attainment, of said goals, is acknowledged?
Women have the freedom to be e.g. airline pilots, in the sense that there are no prohibitions against women–as women–being airline pilots. However, it is discovered that women as a class, usually have inferior abilities to pilot a plane then most men, or more precisely, most airline pilots ( to take one of countless examples) who are men. Women here are thus unequal–some may impolitely and inconsiderately say “inferior”–but we libertarians have NOTHING to say on the fact. The fact of their lack of ability relative to men is the operant issue!
Feminists, and other EGALITARIANS then start to demand all sorts of extramarket interventions, usually either by government directly, or by groups, such as trade unions, advocacy groups, etc. backed by government statute and courts, to eradicate the freedom of men, to be airline pilots, or their employers, until some measure of artifical observed equality is attained. Ditto for members of other “oppressed groups” and their so-called leaders!
If freedom, as we libertarians understand the term, is a negative concept, i.e. what action(s) are forbidden to obtain it; equality by contrast, is a chimera and a hallucination! There is no such thing as equality, by any possible metric, even between any two individuals, in talent, in taste, in judgement, in accuracy of space, color, or time perception, in drive and determination, and in all other human attributes.
Even attributes which could be described, or measured, as “equal’ such as height, weight, hair or eye color, etc. still manifest themselves altogether differently in different individuals–between any two men, any two women , any two blacks, any two Jews, or any two anybody else–that any reference to equality becomes meaningless!
How different two men of identical height or weight are otherwise in physcial type and appearance! If equality is meaningless even among individuals, how much more meaningless is it among classes of individuals, each one born with her own talents, abiltiies, or lack of them, capacity for learning, areas of ignorance, etc compared with every other one of her own group? Add to this, the egalitarian has to answer how equality would be obtained when even if everybody was identical (i.e. “equal”), they would each live different EXPERIENCES. Their LIVES, from birth onward, would be individual, and hence utterly unequal!
I don’t know how this will bear up to a would-be “alliance” between feminists and libertarians. Maybe some of these “mothers of invention” will come forward and design, build, and even sell ships, planes, tractor-trailers, spacecraft, and other transporation vehicles that CAN BE safely handled by women better than by men. I doubt it, but I simply don’t know.
There can be no rights–natural or otherwise–to what does not and cannot exist in nature. Men and women are UNEQUAL. We are unequal in our experiences, in our lives, in our talents, in our patterns of academic specialty or employment, and these differences manifest themselves unequally. Feminists, along with other egalitarians, decry outcomes arising from such inequalities as “sexism”, “discrimination”, and “elitism” but as long as this was the result of free choices made by participants in the market and social order, libertarians have nothing to say but “get used to it!
As far as K. Carson, J.T. Gatto, et al, they sound very interesting, and believe me, I shall read them at the earliest opportunity. However, you are correct, most of my reading is twentieth century (I just ordered three new books, Keynes, the man-Rothbard, New Deal in Old Rome-Haskell, and von Mises’ last major work, Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science, from Mises Institute). I am a rather fast reader, but, truth be told, I set no records there, so current works will probably have to wait a little while, no matter how deserving of attention that they are. There are also some works that I haven’t read, or understood as thoroughly even from the XVIII and XIX century (like our friends Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker) which I would like to go over before exploring more contemporary works.
Zhinxi, I am not doing this to avoid your suggestions, but I can only read one book at a time, just like everyone else.
Lastly, the all-too frequent “would you still oppose torture and abuse of women if it obtained the results you wanted?” is completely hypothetical and I won’t be drawn into it! I said many times that I regard such misbehavior as abominable, I could just as easily bait the feminists on manboobz.com here “maybe your problem is that a lover or husband never taught youall how to be proper wives and mothers…”
I, in my alternative to existing society, offered a number of ways to further forbid and discourage such barbarity, from acknowledging the right of the injured or abused woman to flee, acknowledging the right of her family to rescue her, to retaliate in kind, or failing that, to avail herself of her own or her family’s Conflict Resolution/Arbitration services to be made whole again! Try getting such justice from a government “court” in a modern democrazy!
Forgive the length of the piece, but this contains a number of points that have been on my mind for a long time, and I never had a chance to raise them before.
… says the same person who wants to kill all independent women and enslave the ones who are left.
Creepy weirdo is still a creepy weirdo.
I think we need a sci-fi short story about the dolls that were forced to live under the rule of the faux-libertarian oppressor, who douses them in nasty perfume, dresses them up in ridiculous outfits, and fondles them in disturbing ways, until one day they gradually begin to develop consciousness. After becoming conscious the dolls start to talk to each other when their creepy master is not around, and gradually they form plans for a revolution. One day when he’s vulnerable because he’s wanking while holding one doll all the other jump on him and overpower him, and then throw him out of the house and lock the door. Meller’s former lair then becomes a feminist doll utopia full of genuine justice and freedom.
Any time the former occupant of the house tries to return, driven to rage by the evil rebellion of the dolls and their refusal to accept their proper place even though he’s a gentle man, and attempts to regain control over them by means of violence (not his preferred choice of course but they drove him to it), he is easily and efficiently repelled by the feminist doll army, as unlike him they know how to cooperate to achieve common goals.
Sorry, Meller, I still want my silly insane equality.
Meller, my dear, my husband never had to teach me how to be a proper wife, because we love and like each other just fine. The analogy between that and you not answering if you’d use torture if it worked doesn’t hold up.
Nice try, snookums!
Well that was…. honest
Well that was…. honest
And all the creepier for it.
CassandraSays–January 7, 2012 @ 4:46pm
“,,,a faux-libertarian opporessor, who douses them in nasty perfume, dresses them in ridiculous outfits, and fondles them in disturbing ways, until they gradually begin to develop consciousness…”
Their “faux-libertarian oppressor” C-S, is a loving and considerate owner and keeper, they are “doused” (your word) with very nice, fragrant perfumes, dressed in lovely, really feminine, and beautiful clothes, (NOT “ridiculous” at all) that makes the most fashionable couture of today look like rags, and fondle, caress, and love them NOT in “disturbing” ways, but in ways guaranteed to give the bodies of women great pleasure and thrilling enjoyment!
They are in some ways much smarter than modern women; they know that they couldn’t feed, dress, or otherwise handle themselves without me, they love me, and for that reason, my dominance is assured!
Unlike you and your sisterhood from hell, my women KNOW how a beloved man enhances their lives, and equality be damned!! Maybe you, and women like you, will be driven out of the house, and your men will find replacements of real women. The Stepford Wives was only a fantasy in 1972, but in 2072 or 2172–one never knows–do one??