"Who Stole Feminism?" and "The War Against Boys."

Andrew talks about the meme on the Left that became their talking point after the Texas Shootings: people were praying in the church when they got shot, so what good does it do to pray?

Christina Hoff Sommers is a guest. She is the author of "Who Stole Feminism?" and "The War Against Boys." She hosts a YouTube blog called The Factual Feminist. She believes the war against boys is still going on in our schools, and boys are still falling behind. There are few efforts to strengthen them, unlike the efforts that were made to strengthen girls in math and science.

She says there is now a kind of vigilante feminism loose on campus where men are guilty because accused. S small but very vocal group of women see themselves as victims and have a very negative view of masculinity. They take one too many of the gender studies classes which are male phobic. "Fainting couch feminists" want protection from men. They will take the worst case offender and hold him up as though he is exemplary of the entire gender. Andrew describes himself as old-fashioned masculinity and he wonders why there were no boyfriends or husbands punching Harvey Weinstein's lights out! Christina agrees: "All the moralizers in Hollywood telling the rest of us how to live, yet they did nothing about this criminal predatory behavior!"

Andrew asks her as a parent what does she teach boys. She says "first of all, it is a mistake to think you can turn them into girls!" "Teach them to be kind and considerate and respectful."

Outrageous!

First YouTube restricted Prager University videos, now the same thing has happened to Christina Hoff Sommers.

Wow! YouTube has classified 19 of my Factual Feminist videos as "potentially objectionable." Did same to @prageru: https://t.co/sXwSOe9Ya7

— Christina H. Sommers (@CHSommers) October 13, 2016

h/t Aleister

Freedom Feminism

Mark Hemingway writes at Weekly Standard,

Lately, there’s a lot of talk among feminists about the need to keep women safe. The rape culture is allegedly inescapable, and trigger warnings are appended to college syllabi to protect sensitive souls from reminders of any past cause of pain, from “neuro-atypical shaming” to mention of “how much a person weighs.” But it turns out that if you dare to debunk feminist myths, you’re the one that really needs protection.
Christina Hoff Sommers speaks at Wagner College in New York, April 7, 2010. At

For years now, Christina Hoff Sommers, author of Who Stole Feminism? and The War Against Boys, has been promoting what she calls, in the title of her latest book, Freedom Feminism. This view, she writes, “stands for the moral, social, and legal equality of the sexes,” but also for women’s freedom—including the freedom to embrace traditional femininity. “Efforts to obliterate gender roles can be just as intolerant as the efforts to maintain them,” she writes, and “theories of universal patriarchal oppression or the inherent evils of capitalism are not in [freedom feminism’s] founding tablets.” Above all, Sommers’s approach is moored in reality, not utopian notions of social justice.

At Sommers’s speech in April at Georgetown University, multiple undercover policemen were placed in the audience. At Oberlin, also in April, uniformed police officers never let her out of their sight and after her speech escorted her in a police car from the campus to a dinner. In May, she was the guest of honor at a Washington, D.C., meetup of “Gamergate” supporters—video gamers concerned about radical feminism’s influence in the video game industry (more on that later). In response, Salon and Daily Beast columnist Arthur Chu started a social media campaign to pressure the bar where the gamers were meeting to drop the event and sent emails to the venue accusing them of hosting a “right-wing hate group.” Despite the pressure, the owner of the bar, Local 16, emailed Sommers to tell her they “would never keep any group out. This is America.” A bomb threat soon followed, necessitating a heavy police presence and a tour of Local 16 by bomb-sniffing dogs.

...By being poised, persuasive, good-humored, and scrupulous with facts, Sommers is exploding unhelpful feminist stereotypes. It says a lot about contemporary feminism that precious few who claim the feminist label also embrace liberty and reject victimhood—and for that, they’re the ones who are getting bomb threats.

Read more here.

Repudiate the victim propaganda!

Thanks to American Digest.

Are boys defective girls?

Christina Hoff Sommers offers four reforms that would make a very good start to reverse the current trends in our schools.
1. Turn boys into readers.
2. Inspire the male imagination.
3. Zero out zero tolerance!
4. Bring back recess!

She is absolutely right on!